The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-27
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

wine from the tea plant.
Paris has 5000 rag -pickers, whose aggregate
gains are about 81, 100000
The postmaster of San Francisco has appoint
ed two ladies as clerks in his Office.
The copious rains which have recently visit
ed Texas promise a fine wheat crop.
The public domain of the United States COM
prise more than 1887 ,5e2 square miles.
Alloy in Trenton, who killed valuable"
dog which bit him, has been fined $25.
J. NJ. Creighton, q colored man, has been ap-
pointed mate in the United States navy.
There are more Jews, it is said, in New York,
than in the Holy Land, or indeed in all Syria
The second reading of the Irish Land Bill
showed the following result; For, 442; against,
II.
The Catholics of Macon, Mo-, have purchased
n lot of ground ON which to erect new church
edifee.
The us. House of Representatives has voted
$6OO0-one years salary-to the widow of
Judge Stanton.
Capt. Eyre, of the Bombay, has been tried
by . naval board and suspended for six months.
A mild sentence.
A Boston court has fined man for attempt.
ing to kiss q lady in the street. The wretch
ought to be confined as we'll.
A St. Petersburg paper published a petition
signed by 100 English Protestants, who desire
to join the Russian Greek Church.
Rochefort is SO great an infidel that he will
not give his children Christian Names They
are numbered one, two, three, four.
1t seenis Burlingame, when he finished pleni-
potentiaryship, intended settling in one of the
Pacific States and running for President.
A Methodist paper is discussing at great
length the puzzling question, "Who were the
three wise ;nsn." We wish 1t d happy tinio
The new books published last year num- Der
10000, in this proportion Germany, 10000 ;
England, 5000; France, 6OOO; United States 1000.
st. Louis Irish citizens have organized a
joint stock company to publish q weekly news
paper devoted to the interests of the Irish race.
Already three candidates have announced
themselves in Kentucky as candidates for Col
laday's seat in Congress- and more are coming.
Greeley says Southern shareholders did not
quote Scripture when they whipped their
slaves, Sunless they were Cumberland Presby-
terians."
The message of the Governor of Wisconsin
is printed in six different languages-Ent,ish,
German, LowDutch, Norwegian, Welsh and
Bohemian.
Rev. Mr.. Bellew, an Episcopal clergyman of
England is playing 'Hamlet" in London, with
scenery and costumes, but with silent panto-
mimic actors.
The French historian Guizot is said to have
ruined his appetite by eating dates. How could
he be u reliable historian without dealing
largely in datesf
a woman in Chelsea, Mnss, to kill bugs, COW
cred her cupboard shelves with kerosene oil
setting the latter on fire. The fire department
finished the job.
One county in Florida has four negro voters
to every white. There are fourteen solid col
umns of advertised property to pay taxes in
that same county.
The appetite for DEPRIVED and cruel amuse-
ment is on the increase. At music hall in
England bull-fght has been introduced for
the diversion of the public.
Protestant paper says very few converts
are made in China by reading the Bible. The
women use them extensively for keeping their
silk thread and scrap work.
virginia City, Nevada, has only one church.
with twenty-three members, out of a popula
tion of 3oOO The reader will understand, that
this has reference to Professionals only.
Inc New York Tribune says Garibaldis novel
was got up for the English market"-that sit
mas neither probability, plot consistency, ar
rangement, incident, nor character
sensational preacher in Iowa conducts Sun
Gay services in billiard saloon, openinp
church with beer all round, and closing with
treat Tor the crowd. He draws large audiences.
Mr.. McLeary Brown, Mr.. Burlin games sue
cessor, is an 1rishman by birth, and a thorou OH
Oriental, and speaking Chinese with fluencv.
lie was for many years attached to the British
embassy in China.
New York will soon have the distinction or
owning the two most magnificent bridges in
Inc worid-one at her door, Brooklyn, and the
other up the Hudson. They are both to have
a span of 1000 feet.
The wyoming jury, of which half were wo
men, after four days and nights seclusion. was
AT last "eXhaustedn into an agreement. Were
no' 'he ay-at-home husbands glad when the |
stern matron-jurors returned to the duties of
domestic life!
The New York Tribune. in n column or+;o,o
condemning corporal chastsement of youth. |
says, lit is just wise and as Christian to |
nog man as to fog boy" Humane Horace {! |
he mas no scruples, though, when Sharp's rifles |
are used against both in the South
n man and his wife in Philadelphia agreed |
10 make will in favor of each other Mt the
same time; by mistake the man signed bis
~ie's will, and the wife her husbands. After
Sno husband died the blunder was discovered
An. 'he courts have the matter in hand.
an eioerly Baptist lady, according to the
41"'e''" he9'Sfer, writes to friend, We can't
So' W meeting this weather, but the minister