The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-09
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

some five thousand inhabitants.
The Kansas papers are. complaining grieEous-
ly of the depredations on the mails.
a stocking mill in Belmont, n. H., turns out
about 400 dozen pairs of stockings per day.
\ Calvert, Texas, has grown from n town of 80
houses to one of 1Oo8in the past six months.
1Nf9re than twenty per cent of the deaths i'll
| Providence r. l., caused by consumption.
Screeehing and bowling at Chinese funerals
have beck prohibited by many California
towns.
A new Church for ''poets, freo-thinkers- and
men of letters, is advertised in an English
paper.
A railway train Mas recently struck by an
avalanche on Mount GEMS, and thrown into a
precipice. x
1t is~found that by feeling horses on corn in
the British cavalry a saving of 100000 year
is effected
Thirty-two thousand NortRern "drummers"
are engaged in selling goods I'm the "reber
Southern States.
interviewing has got to be such ap institu-
ton that it is proposed to apply it to 6Eiminals
as punishment.
To show that there is nothing like leather,
the shoe towns in New England are thriving
above all others. .
A young man has just died in Chicago from
the mistake of druggist, who gave him AGO
mite instead of iron.
The oil yielded by the olives cultivated i'll
Florida is represented fully equal to the best
quality of French oil.
Mrs. +. l.. Howell, of York, S. c., aged 60,
has spun, during this year, yarn sufficient to
make 200 yards of cloth.
Jenny Limbs daughter is said to have inner
tied her mothers voice. Perhaps that's the
reason Jenny has lost hers.
Mrs. Smith c. Becbe of Attama, Canada, has
sued her father for SANDER The only wonder
is she didn't challenge him, too. i
One hundred and ten Mormon missionaries
have just been sent by Brigham Young to the
various cities of the United States.
Since the late-aetion of Congress, Georgians
are more disgusted than ever. Now they
leaving their State in large numbers
The Superior Court of North Carolina was
recently occupied whole day in trying case
involving the theft of a loaf of bread.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is credited with do
ing right thing, for wonder. She has kept
out of the way Of interviewing reporters.
Our street cars have advertisements on top.
In Savannah the dogs trot about the streets
with printed advertisements on their backs.
Lightning-struck wine is said to be much inn
proved by the operation. Would it be an i'm
provement if the imbibers were struck also?
Dogs and paupers are on an equality in Eng
land Bit no-dogshavc a meat dinner every
day, the paupers only \ scant one once week.
Calcraft the English hangrnan, who has just
retired on account of old age has hanged sew
eraI hundred criminals during his professional
career.
tfrrr f9rrrt t4rrrrrt l7r1tfrcr-iil2law who was
poor when he went to the White House, has
just bought house on Georgetown Heights for
$4,000.
A convict in Auburn, n Y, State prison, hav
ing two years to serve, has just come to an in
heritauce of $50, OG0, bcqueathed to him by his
mother.
young woman of Sioux City, Iowa, whose
father was shot, dipped her fingers in his blood,
swearing not to wash it off till she bad avenged
his death.
y The irrepressible G. F. Train has sued the
Cooper Institute, New York, for $4,000 damages
because the building not opened to him to
lecture in lately.
The franking privilege costs the Government
annually 100000, and the printing of much Of
the matter Transmitted costs 100000 more
Let it be abolished. =
Eleven Of the London theatres open this
season~for Sunday services. Cumming, Spur
geon and the notorious Murphy are stars in
that theatrical horizon
There is talk of a new denomination having
sprung up in Massachusetts,. They believe
that the good will go to Boston when they die
and the bad to Chicago.
4 beautiful young girl WIS run over and
st;tutly killed by the Harlem Railroad, New
York, on ChEistmas Eve, while returning home
with Christmas presents. -
Hon. John MorEisscy, who towers morally
ahoyc his Congressional brethrcuin Washing
t9fT. is building # residence in Saratoga which
viii have no equal there.
Miss Harris, Who shot a clerk in the Treas
ury Department some time ago, has got posi-
ton in the Philadelphia Post once. Her fel
loyy-clcris had better keep their distance.