The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-08-28
MornIng Star and Catholic Messenger,
HEw ORLEANS. SUNDAY. AUGUsT "a Is7o
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

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EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
The bellows of an organ in Chicago is to
be worked by water power.
The Charleston phosphate trade now has
an invested capital of over 81, ZOO, 600.
Business is suspended in Madrid after
nine O'Clock, owing to the intense heat.
Archbishop Kenrick left Rome without
obtaining permission of the proper author
/ ity.
Baltimore is said to have large and
respectable colored Democratic organiza-
ton.
The Census shows that the ship building
towns Of Maine have greatly decreased in
population.
There are but two papers in London
(which show sympathy or even fairness to-
wards France.
William Cullen Bryant is preparing a
volume of his recollections, to be published
after his death.
Lemons are selling in Boston at s14 per
sbox. They ask fifteen cents apiece for a
poor article in this city.
q Five dollar cravats, emblazoned with
portraits of King William and Bismarck
Pre the latest Boston notion.
a A fatal mortality has recently visited
Chicago. In one week it lost 17O,O in
habitants-by the census.
EX The British Government has declined to
negotiate further with the United States on
the extradition of swindlers.
I'd A highly genteel Chicago woman lately
kEPbjected to having her name on the same
sfensus blank with her servants.
III Some one, with plenty of time, says that
Garibaldi uses "alas !" five hundred times
In one hundred pages of his novel.
The latest thieving trick in New York is
70 approach street car and snatch through
the windows hats from the passengers
heads.
The Duke of Holstein- Glucksburg, bro
Sther of the King of Denmark, has resolved
Ito take part in the German campaign against
France.
1 A ten acre meadow in Illinois was struck
10y lightning last week and completely de-
3btroyed. The grass was dry and ripe for
knowing.
I4 The price of substitutes to serve in the
ESFrench active army has risen from $3.50 to
|%@l 1900, and even at that figure it is not easy
ITO find them.
"a Mrs. Brunette, of Detroit, distributed
sher children among the neighbors, sold her
Husbands property, and ran away with a
shoemaker.
The war is very heavy on Belgium. Her
lie hoa Co.
way iron in Germany, but these are now
B eountermanded.
The Church of Notre Dame des VICTORIES,
Sc Paris, is daily crowded by the wives,
Naothers and sisters of the soldiers who
Nave gone to the war.
The trade ia fruit at the Washington
market, New York, averages fifty thousand
dollars day during the season-princi-
pally in peaches and watermelons.
The ice companies in New York are still
Keeping the people in hot water. The last
Bcrew is, after having raised the price, to
BELL not less than twenty-five cents worth.
81 It is said the reason of the ex-Empress
Earlotta has been re-awakened by the great
events now transpiring on the Continent.
She manifests the greatest interest in the
war.
~ As compared with the statistics of the
FIRST two weeks in August, 1869, the French
and German emigration has fallen off for
The corresponding period this year over
one half.
A Western paper says that farmer cut
his throat on account of the severe and
Nprotracted drouth, and that they buried
him in pelting rain storm, which lasted
twenty -four hours.
81 1t has been estimated that the amount of
property destroyed by fire in the United
I States during the last month exceeds by
kmore than five millions the losses for the
some month last year.
IA A dutiful wife in Lewiston, Me-, tore her
Husbands face and neck with her nails
lately, because he refused to permit her to
Ego out riding with a young man, the ac-
%quaintanc of a week.
= A widow in Newark recently found in
the coat pocket of her deceased husband q
book showing that he had placed in n
savings' bank of that city some $500, of
(which she had no previous knowledge.
"a A curious result of the war is the large
humber of simultaneous marriages in the
Prussian army. On the 31st ult. great
humber of military weddings were per-