The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-16
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Over $4,000 emigrants passed through Col
umbus, Ohio, during 1869.
st. Louis is eudeavoring to raise 80 100000
for its proposed Worlds Fair.
Rosa Bonheur has received $50, 900 during
her career animal painter.
Dividends from Massachusetts, manufactur-
ing stocks smaller than usual.
Prim is said to have made fortune of So
100000 out of the Spanish revolution.
Nine children of a man in Pittsfeld, N. H.,
We're down with typhoid fever at one time.
A convention of fat men, not to weigh less
than 200 lbs, is to take place soon in Maine.
BY comparative tables it is found that the
Swedes are&enger-lived than any other people.
Chicago is in debt over ten millions. Can't
she repudiate, orget diyepeed from her burdenP
Chicago courts 1astye divorced 500 couple.
Two-thirds of the suits were brought by wives.
-It-is said Gris constantly sung the Casta
DtyaR during the delirium of her last illness.
Mexico pays interest her debt, and
buys up at auction her deprecated principal.
Although Virginia raised 100000 bushels of
peanuts this year, it is still considered a short
crop.
Somebody in Providence advertises a lost
umbrella. Something verdant about that
body"
Ladies, "without regard to SEX are invited
to attend woman's rights meeting in West
ern town.
Twin brothers, II years old, have just been
sent to the Massachusetts State Prison for five
years for burglary.
The Choctaw Indians resist the payment of
Internal Revenue tax. Civilization is n costly
luxury, they'll find.
The number of English Bishops is %; the
average salary being about $4,000, ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The town authorities of Blackstone, Mass,
have arrested and bound over parties for
cealing cases of smallpox.
Scotland, with population of only half that
of ireland, consumed 687, 496 gallons more
whiskey in 1868 than ireland.
M Chicago bride deserted her husband the
morning after marriage because he refused to
send breakfast up to her room.
Horace Greeley says that American young
people, through foolish indulgences, the
worst hammered in the world"
woman ran away from Fenelon, Canada,
lately, taking with her eighty, bushels of pota-
toes belonging to her husband.
The late heavy gales on the English coast
have caused the death of many persons and the
destruction of much property.
The conduct of successive Secretaries of the
Treasury and solicitors has been pronounced
infamous by New York judge.
The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is
said to be the first Christian sovereign who has
visited jerusalem since the Crusades.
R. G. Milne, Il Congregational minister, has
recovered $4,000 damages from an English
railway company for,injuries received.
President Grant has been chosen umpire by
Great Britain and Portugal, in their dispute
about the ownership of the Island-of Bofamo.
What between smallpox among adults, and
scarlet fever and measles among children st.
Louis is not the most healthy city at this time.
In San Francisco the roofs are now builysep-
arate from the walls on account of earthquakes,
so that if the walls fall the roofs may stay
A Nevada merchant advertises that he will
take old rags of greensh hue, embellished
with Glasses photographs, in payment for
stock
The Central Pacific Railway Company have
erected hospital at Sacramento, at a cost of
$4,000. No dou't they expect host of pa
tients: -
Signor MarioS the great tenor of few years
ago, committed suicide at st. Petersburg, by
taking prussic acid, on learning the death of
Madame Cfrisi. :
The writ in railroad case in New Hamp-
shire is sixteen feet seven inches long and will
take longer to read it than the whole trial of
ordinary cases. -9
Krupp, the great Prussian manufacturer of
cannons, has gathered SO much wealth that he
intends putting up a family residence WHICH is
to cost s., DOC, OOo.
A miser maiden named Leehy Ortrom re-
Gently died in Poughkeepsie. N. Y. and on in
vestigating her affairs property to the amount
of $4,000 was found.
An English gardener, in the service of Lord
Role for thirty years, has been awarded $500
by jury, for injury to his reputation by a
letter written by Lady Role.
A Massachusetts popcorn peddler has made
100000. Poor Nugent, our whilom itinerant
friend of the Academy, was toe~bonest in his
dealings to reaiize that sum.
The Oregon Indians captured mail rider
near damp Mcdowell, recently. The soldiers
pursued, and although eleven Indians were
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