The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-26

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The. only church in IEsiand dedicated to
st. David is that at Mas.
The ''oyster war" has broken out again
between Maryland and Virginia.
Gen. Wade Hampton has bought plow
for ole, 600. He 10 reconstructing rapidly
Too much water and too much whisky
marred the fshing- party of the President
Bennett, who commenced the Herald on
p borrowed capital of $500, is now worth
los, O0O, 900.
In his will, Dickens leaves CAN the Year
Round to his son, with directions as to its)
management.
Over and above State, county and mum i
cipal taxes, tho Government will require
this year $393, 600 900.
The great result of the Grant Cameron
fishing excursion is pun-"A war of ,he|
Huns against the Fins"
The cause of Japanese opposition to|
christianity is said to be fear that theI
converts will prove disloyal.
The grasshopper has completely de-
stroyed the crops in Utah this season.
making the fourth in succession.
Irish journals say that lesson has beeDI
learnt by the failure of the Fenian raid
that will insure success next time.
Congressional candidates are very nu.
merous at the present moment. Ten for
each nomination is very moderate.
Constantine Delmonico, one of the pro-
prietors of the famous New York house So
called, committed suicide last week.
Twenty five persons die of consumption
in the city of New York where only two die1
Of that disease in the city of Mexico.
Since the opening of the house for found
lings in New York in October last, 700 in |
fants have been received in the crib.
In New York it is said there are IO17 lot |
terry Offices, 1853 faro banks, and not less1
than $50, O00, 900 are annually lost and won.
The Beethoven festival in New York isI
considered a success on the whole-9OOOI
One of the gifts of Charles Dickens isI
$1,000, to be expended in printing for the
blind copies of the "Old Curiosity Shop.'
Somebody stole $4,000 from the officeI
of Gen. Spinner, in the Treasury, lately.
Was he writing letters during the opera
toni
Red Cloud and his party visited Jerome1
Course, New York, and were so overcome|
by the heat and excitement that they fell
asleep.
The great volcano of Asamayana, in thel
island of Nippon, Japan, is in Violent
eruption, and whole villages have been de-
stroyed.
From the official death report for last
week we see that there were two betweenI
seventy and eighty, and two between'
eighty and ninety.
The English papers announce that Spur
geon intends delivering lecture to rich
men only none will be admitted unless bel
is worth $500, 600.
Gen. Sherman is indignant at the passages
Of the army bill, and threatens to resign.
Many will be resigned to receive his $12, OOO
b year and rations.
A Minnesota school board have ortleredI
|sidering that they attract lightning, and
are thus dangerous.
A couple named Steinberg, of Missouri,
who married q short time ago, each twenty
two years old, died few days since within
b few minutes of each other.
An American student in Berlin blew out
his brains because, having been there eight
months, he Couldn't strike one note on the
piano as it should be struck"
The grand Fredericksburg party in
resulted in-catching nary
fish. The Secretary of State, having other
fish to fry, was not of the party.
The Paris police report that there are al!
the present time in that city more impecu-
nious Americans than there were even
during the great exposition of 1867.
There is bill now before Congress pro-
viding for an increase in the currency of
S95, 100000. The South is shamefully
treated in its proportion of the currency.
In the game of baseball played by the
Red Stockings and the Atlantic Club ON the
l4th inst. in Brooklyn, in which the former
were defeated, there were &c, 600 spectators.
The Chicago Times publishes column on 9
q case of infamy in Marshalltown, Iowa,
between Methodist preacher and a mar
ried woman belonging to the same church.
The Empress Eugene lately visited the
work-room for young girls in the Maison
de Picpus, established under her patronage,
many of whom were suffering from small
pox.
3 A member of the Massachusetts Le0isla-