The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-06
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

car load of horses recently arrived in Gin
cinnati valued at $4,000. -
Three bears recently killed at Huntingdon,
VT, netted the hunters $1,000.
New York has nearly 1910 shoe clerks, whose
weekly earnings are about SIS.
The famine in Rajpootna, India has caused
the death of half million people.
The Maine Fat Mems Convention, held at
Lewiston, lately, was largely attended.
On boxing day, the attractions at the Crystal
Palace drew 10000 persons to that institution.
bridge recently improvised over,the
Kennebec, at Waterville, Me-, out of a cake of
ice.
One hundred and ninety-two persons were
killed in the streets of London last year by
horses or vehicles.
At Keokuk, thief was sent to Jail for thirty
days, and on their expiration stole the Jail
keepers revolvers.
Dizziness in manufacturing business has
caused the discharge of great many opera
| tives in New Haven, Conn.
merchant of Portsmouth, N. H., has had an
advertisement in every issue of the Portsmouth
Journal for twenty-five years.
Harpers Ferry has a population of only 200,
and houses can be had for the taking. John
Brown gave it its-death blow.
Chinese quack doctor has lately purchased
property in San Francisco worth $4,000.
! Quackery thrives in that burg.
bill has been introduced into the New
York Legislature to sell Sing Sing prison and
| locate State prison elsewhere.
Every citizen of France has the right to adj
dress petitions to the Senate, and the average
number sent each session is 600.
lady who fell from step ladder on to a
steel fender, in Newark N. j., recently, was
saved from all injury by her waterfall.
young man has been sent to the New York
penitentiary for selling cat for a rabbit,
| which was eaten by the family-"sold."
The London Directory for 1870 contains the
names of 800 Browns, 900 Joneses, while the
Smiths, Smyths and Smythes muster 1900.
At Constantine, Michigan, society has been
formed which forbids its members, under pain
of expulsion, from playing billiards smok-
ing.
Mayor Halls lecture, in New York, on the
"Prism of Charity" for the benefit of the Con-
vent of Mt. De Chantal, at Wheeling Melted
$1,000
1t is said of Hoboken editor that when
challenged he sent word, "When want to die
| l can shoot myself Hoboken! Who is the
editor7
| The postmaster at WATERFORD, Me-, has alb
| seconded after obtaining many thousands of
dollars by forging the names of substantial
| citizens
| Dom Piatt says that any possessed of a
whole coat and clean shirt, and who is a
member of Congress, can go into Washington
society at once.
The house of Mr.. Motley, the American min
lister, was lately robbed in London of jewelry.
They didn't steal the documents relative to the
| Alabama claims.
A man in Kentucky lately married an old
maid of 20 for her money, and finding he could
not get it, he hung himself. The last act was
as foolish as the first.
| "A man in London advertises for school
where his son may receive education with
out any humbus donations dead and buried
thousands of years ago.
Chicago papers announce that five Thousand
marriage licenses were granted in that city
last year, but they refuse to publish the divorce
record for "lack of room"
The French ministry about to send NJ.
Berthemy, former French Minister, to Wash
ington, to adjust postal treaty and settle
the French cable difficulty.
| A young man who sportively threw axe
Through the window of railroad car, filled
with passengers has been indicted by the
| grand jury of Oswego county.
| A. T. Stewart & Co. have discharged sixty
of their clerks since the LIST of January, and
Clafin s. Co. have been obliged to dispense
with ffty-six of theirs-all owing to the dull
lfimes.
In the report of the Special Agent of the
Treasury Department for Alaska it is stated
that the whole white population is not over
300, and that the purchase will cost in all $43,-
100000.
Upon the acquittal of Jacob johnson, n ne
gro, who was tried for rape in Louisville, Mrs
Henderson, the victim, fired at him in open
court, the ball grazing his head and taking of
q part of his ear
At Pawtucket, r. l., Saturday week, a
boy named William Daniels IA years old, was
hanged in factory by playfellow, who
placed rope about his neck in sport, and
threw it over shaft in motion.
The British Post Office yields net profit of
1913 OOO, 900. The Queen herself cannot frank
letters in the English mails. Our Congress
men not only do that, but send their soiled
linen home through the same means.
st. Martin, whose side was shot away in 1922
in such manner to expose the action of the
digestive organs, is still alive and well in Ca
vendish, VT. He was exhibited to the medical
faculty in this city fifteen years ago.
A Roman correspondent notes the exploits OF