The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-20
EDuoR1AL AND orHxR 1rx1rs.

The Catholic population Of Massachusetts,
,, said to be over $4,000,
: A liquor saloon in Chicago paid out $500 4
, silver as change Saturday week.
The English Government has made an ute
failure in the business Of carrying on telegraph
ing
The Camilla Ursa musical entertainments q
. San Francisco resulted in the receipt of $50
600. -.
: The jacksonville Pajaronian is the name of
+ paper in California. What'll the newsboys d
: with it?
We see it stated that the Bishop of Nashville
st. Joseph and Santa Fe have been authorize,
, to leave Rome.
By Parliamentary returns it is found that til
cost of the late general election in England
was s9,oOO,OOo.
Horace Greeley delivered lecture before thu
Father Mathew T. A. B. Society of New Yorl
ON the 9th inst.
A Russian merchant named Gramof has late
ly died aud left his heirs the trifing fortune OF
22,00O,O 900 roubles.
An English company has offered 100000 fol
the gaming institutions at Saxon, in Switzer-
land. Moral England!
Washington hotel keepers are in Chicago ne
| gotiating for the lease of the new Pacific hotel
which is to cost 81, 100000.
| w. A. Robinson, q school teacher in San
Francisco, has been imprisoned for six months
for cruel punishment of pupil.
Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, has pardoned
200 penitentiary convicts, including several
murderers, since November, 1869.
| A shark has recently been caught between
Dover and Havre, which measured seven feet
in length and weighed 200 pounds.
Several ladies in Warsaw have been fined
S25 each for not rising from their seats durn g
prayer for the Russian Imperial family.
Mr.. Prossor, NJ c., from Tennessee, stated in
speech in Congress last week, that there
were 10,395,6G3 illterate people in the United
States.
The white laborers employed on the city of
Nevada, Cal, have driven off the Cinnamon
iaboring on a railroad, destroying their tents
and buildings.
Cairo has public library, and to remedy
this, Ali Pasha Monbarels, the minister of the
Khedive, has purchased 10000 volumes in Lon
don and Paris.
A death by trichina occurred in Bridgeport,
Conn.,, on Tuesday week. An examination
showed the presence of sc, 900 of the parasites
to the square inch.
. poor woman was recently refused adms-
sion into London hospital, although laboring
under serious disease, because she had not a
change of clothing
Michael, who was refugee, appears to have
orsani5A the great conspiracy recently discov-
cred in Russia, and which compromises a great
many students and women.
The Massachusetts spiritualists have resolved
that the recognition of Christianity in the Con-
stitution of the United States would be fatal
to the principles of religious liberty
The Montreal Gazette says that one of the
French Canadian colporteurs reports, that tae
people he visits SO poor that he finds it very
difficult to sell or lend the Scriptures
In the Sheridan-Sherman correspondents. the !
former says that in the last eight years 800 per-
sons have been murdered by the Indians with
in the limits of his present command.
The refreshments allowed the members of t
the Ritual Commission, now sitting in London,
are restricted to 1.-TWO bottles of sherry and a
shilling's worth of biscuits per diem"
There are 100000 houses vacant at the pre-
sent time in London. This beats New Orleans
a few-although We have plenty of empty
houses and not q few vacant minds and purses.
A boy named Evens, aged 10, committed sui
eide at his home in Davenport, Iowa, and gave
in note to his mother as the reason, "tbe
earth is hard and cold, and has no attractions
for me-"
A jewelers. assistant was recently robbed in |.
the streets of Paris of $4,000 worth of jewelry +
~ man and a woman-the woman throwing
ler arms round his neck while the man knock
I'd him down.
A Salt Lake paper says the missionaries re-
urning from the East report that the people
10 not care much to hear about religion. but
invariably ask if there is any chance to make
money in Utah.
In the investigation of the late enaeute at the 4
Ward Island Emigrant Depot, it was proved =
hat the food was bad and insufficient, and that /
here were only two towels and four wash
asins for GOO persons. 4
AT the Leeds police court publican was
ned for having music in his house without a
cense He pleaded that it was "a barrel ORGAN. p
nd only played Old Hundreds pious tune. :
hich he thought didn't require license.
New York Democrat was so rejoiced ut a
cent victory of his party in his town, that
| his JOY he set fire to his cow house. which n
'st him the lives of a COW and her calf. and
Ter $50 worth of hay and grain, besides the =.
Hiding. in Il,
The Queen of Spain lately paid a visit to the w
npress Eugenie who being an invalid, re- 10
wed her in her bed room, subsequently she