The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-30
EpIToRIAI ANp oTuER rrElIs.
A. t. Stewart gave 5000 to the Stanton fund.
The music in Beechers church costs $1,000 q

for SOS back salary. t-''--
Thirty-two lords, temporal; and spiritual,
died in England last year.
The Cunard and Inman lines of steamers rel
fuse to carry the mails at reduced rates. "
A woman's suffrage paper in England bears
the somewhat sstirical title of The Home.
The Schenectady Star Gays that q certain
Justice of the peace in that county has decided
that a contract is not good without q stamp on
it.
A New York reporter says that ten Thousand
persons go to bed drunk every night in that
city. -
There were Ill cases of suicide in New York
city last year. OF these one-half we're Ger
man.
Drunkenness has so increased in Liverpool
that last year it was double what it was in
1861.
Mrs. Stoves new book is defined by the Bos
ton Times to be "the old one hammered out
thin"
There are one million people in London who
profess no creed, and never enter place of
worship.
The Orphan Asylum at Cumminsville, Ohio,
has received 800 in gold from the Hon. Geo.
II. Pendleton.
The late Col. Chambers, of GAINESVILLE, print
ed the laws of Ohio in 1910, on a wooden press
made by himself. ~
Gev. Flanders, of Washington Territory, has
vetoed 100 legislative bills this season. o for
such vetoesiin Louisiana!
A Mr. Cox sues the st. Peter, Mimi, Tribune,
for libel, in speaking of him as thegreatest po-
liticarCox- comb of the day.
Massachusetts contains a thief who stole the
oars and tow line of one of the life-boats be-
longing to it's Humane Society.
In Pittsburg, the milk men who ring their
bells after A. NJ, on Sunday morning, are to
be arrested for disturbing worshpers
French newspaper offers gold watch to
the subscriber who reads it's columns through
every day, but has had no candidate yet.
Garris Hamilton, living in Branch county,
Mich, is in his 104th year. He was IL years of
age when he came to this country from Ireland,
The census bill involves outlay to
special agents of 100000 The compilation, if
strictly carried out, will cost several million
dollars.
A mammoth wild cat, weighing AZ pounds,
and five feet in length, was lately killed in
Killngly, Conn.,, after it had killed three
| hounds.
Somebody has made the discovery that the
present high price of butter is owing to the
fact that farmers daughters generally prefer
| the piano to the churn.
Boston is calling aloud for reorganization
of its police force. New Orleans would call
with stentorian voice for u similar move, if
there were any use in it.
Gov. Padelford, of Rhode Island, thinks his
State needs a capitol. So does Louisiana. The
difference is, the former has money, the latter
none-neither has it credit
All suits have been suspended in Virginia, in
anticipation of its speedy admission. Butler
would sooner her people suspended" than
the realization of such an event.
DIR. Choate, Superintendent of the State Luz,
matte Asylum at Taunton Mass, says that the
excess of insane women over insane men is
becoming more and more marked.
Gottschalk, the composer, while giving a
monster concert at Rio de Janeiro, fell dead at
his instrument during the performance of his
favorite composition, " La Morte."
1t has recently come to light that many of
the high Washington officials drive carriages
hire servants and furnish their houses at the
public expense without sanction of law.
A Western editor, speaking of rogue who
lives in his vicinity, says: The rascal has
broken every bank, and jail aud Sabbath we
have had in tins county for the last five
years"
Gen Lee has been respectfully invited by
the committee of arrangements to attend2the
funeral Of Mr. Peabody, aHdt the college over
which he presides requests him to comply with
1.-THE invitation.
A Chicago husband advertises that he twill
pay no debts contracted by any person on his
account, except by his wife" The ladies ought
to erect a monument to him while living, as
model husband.
The lecture Of Father Preston, in New York,
OH 'fThe Catholic View of the Common School
Question" ON the 10th inst drew one of the
Iafe est audiences ever assembled in the hall OF
the Cooper Institute.
A Miss Gray, milliner, of Fort Edward, N. Y,
has become heiress of $l9,OOO,0OO, bequeathed
to her by an Englishman. This is no hoax, as
she has received a first instalment of $5,000,00O
from the British Consul.
The Hon. James Kavanagh, delegate from