The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-25

fore he woke up.
All the citizens of st. Cloud, Mimi, re-
Gently turned out to hunt the only rat ever
seen in that region.
keeYSan.. Colt, Of revolver fame, is the
richest widow in America. If this is so, tits
curious she don't go off.
The Commissioner of Education reports
that there are nearly two million Of Ameri-
cans who are unable to read.
The Bots de ,Boulogne, which has just
been cut down for the better defence of
Paris, cost that city $4,000, 600
Strauss has written a profound letter on
German unity. Hist. Charles street
namesake takes for his subject, clayton
on Balances"
! A brutal fellow in Indiana, becoming
displeased with his mother, knocked her
down, breaking her collar-bone, and other
wise ipjuring her.
Baltimore has forty packing houses en-
gagged in the oyster trade that have over
SIS, OO0, 900 capital invested in it, and en-
pl6y 1000 hands.
New York capitalists propose to organize
a company to protect that city from fire by
supplying CdEOOllC uSiu gus CIVIL WhSlC
through street pipes.
Mr.. p. Field, of Menard county, Texas,
offers $1,000 for the return of his wife, who
was stolen some time since by the Indians
from Piedras Negras.
A newspaper is edited and published by
the convicts in the New Jersey State pris-
on, and though poorly gotten up, it shows
o. commendatle spirit.
The flow of the tide is SO great on the
coast of Maine, that with suitable wheels
the water power can be used sixteen hours
out of the twenty- four.
The lecture OF DE-. Brownson on infalli-
bility, recently delivered in Brooklyn for
the benefit of the Society of st. Vincent
de Paul, realized $1,000.
During the month of August 60 ,4s2 acres
of public lands were taken up, mostly by
braska and Wisconsin.
From Berlin itself comes the news, which
might otherwise be doubted, that band
of men have been arrested for intriguing
against the Prussian throne.
A well Uniformed writer says that it has
cost England s25, 900 600 year for the
last thirty years in preparing to defend
Belgium in her independence.
John Simpson, of Iowa, showed girl
how to fire a gun, and she succeeded SO
we'll that daylight showed through his body
by her aiming the wrong way.
The chaplain of the New, Hampshire
Penitentiary declares that not single
printer has been in that prison during the
nine years of his connection with it.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says that the flies
are so plentiful and troublesome that the
very best sleepcrs i'll that place are obliged
to keep awake during divine service.
| From the returns made to the United
States Marshal, it would seem that Ten
| nessee is the healthiest country on the
globe, and most remarkable for longevity.
Some Iowa regulators, to stimulate the
memory of man who was suspected of
being horse thief, hung him up, but when
he was cut down he couldn't say " beans"
| Prussian soldiers wear underneath their
shirts q piece of sole-leather, about ten
inches square, which is hard enough to
turn bullet, unless struck perpendicu-
larly. 80
At Clay county mo fair, on Monday
week, dozen babies were exhibited, and
all were SO beautiful that the lady mana
gers were perplexed in awarding the pre-
miums.
A San Francisco company has just ship
ned hook and ladder truck and hose
carriage to Yokohoma, Japan. To COM
plete the thing they should send the score
of New Orleans fremen's music.
A company is being formed in ST. Louis
with a capital of 100000, to furnish it's
citizens with pure milk. We would sug-
gest to our milkmen that they use pure
water in the commodity as the next best
thing to the reality.
! a Frenchman named Lavage is reported
| to have been recently murdered by Ger
mans at Pittsburg, Pa, willie returning
with some groceries TO his wife and chill
dren. He dropped into lager beer saloon,
and while there become involved in dis
mute about the relative bravery of the
! French and Prussian soldiers. He subse-
uuently left, and soon afterwards his dead
body was found by the police,