The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-30
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: Providence, r. L., have had large accession
u recently.
8 The oyster has become bone-or mus
cle-of contention between Virginia ant
!, Maryland.
: A Kentucky paper announces that gam.
. and fish, and fever and ague, abound il
Daviess' county.
The Rev. Mrs. Van Colt is about to fight
the devil in Chicago. Her motto is "attacl
the enemy in his capital"
Georgia, it is claimed, will grow SOC, 200
bales of cotton this year, while her wheat
crop is unprecedentedly large.
Miss Frances Rutherford was recently
sworn in as city physician of Grand Ra-
plds, Mich, by female notary public.
constant visitor of the ST. Charles
street saloons is so delicate that he takes
his food in liquid form out of tumbler,
The silk work coonery at Salt Lake City
: contains Ole million worms, which con-
sumo forty bushels of mulberry leaves per
day.
I Nilsson wore $4,000 worth of diamonds
at her Philadelphia concert. OF course,
the Shoddies pronounced her singing mag
nifcent.
Thomas Hughes, NJ. p, is about sailing
for England. Not bit too soon. He has
made a huge ass of himself while in this
country.
| The Governor General of Canada gets
$4,000 per month. President Grant gets
more than that, including presents and
I perkisits."
Chicago is discontinued at the result of the
census. But though the population is not
ness any place of its size.
The present season has been marked
with unusually severe storms, and the ex-
tent of the damage to growing and har-
vested crops cannot yet be estimated.
Washington paper says that :'in Mrs.
DIR. Newman's lecture there was nothing to
which the most modest man might not lis
ten without blush.'> Very gratifying.
The inventor of the adding machine, Mr.. |
Webb, has succeeded SO we'll that he is
now turning his attention to multiplication
having married a Miss Shipman, of
Brooklyn.
- Two iron-steamships are about being
built at Belfast, Ireland, for service be-
tween Liverpool and Baltimore, under the
auspices of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company.
In lecture recently delivered by the
Able Brasseur de Bonlbourg, in New York,
before the Liberal Club, he said that the
Island of Porto Rico is the most ancient
dwelling place of man.
A grocer in Dubuque, who was surprised
at the great demand for his vinegar, dis
covered that he had tapped the wrong
cask, and sold barrel of old Bourbon
whiskey at ten cents quart.
A gentleman in Boston has recovered in
The Supreme Court the sum OF 80 as
damages for negligence on the pa. + n &
iraggist III putting up a prescri ,.,,nn,
which caused the death of his son. 1
All the books in the Mazarine and RicLc- t
leu libraries in Paris have been deposited ]
or safety in the cellars of those inst, :
ions; and the windows of the buildings t.
ave been protected by sacks filed with g
arth.
The New York correspondent of the :,
soston Journal says that since he COM v
nenced his connection with that paper, he .,
nows of a dozen preachers who were "
thankful to accept places in the custom "
ouse. =,
The St. Paul, Mimi, folks are content -
18th the prospect of having public park il
the twentieth century. Their patience D
not greater than that of our own people. je
hose prospect for park on the. Ridge is y,
bout as near. G.
An Englishman last week stepped into OF
in Milwaukee and ordered "'alf a'
dozen holsters" Upon this is based the w
lmors that an English capitalist is nego- IN
atipg for the purchase of all the elevators az
Milwaukee. u. u,
The Bulletin and Republican are discuss
e the merits of the immense coming crop ia
cotton. Says the latter, I" Take out the a.: a.
'tton raised by the Republican party, and W.
hat would be left 7" We always thought je
e favorite crop of the Republicans was ds
DOL. VI
An immense smuggling affair has been
lded to Boston's other numerous sins.
he amount involves over a quarter of ~.
illion of dollars, and some of her custom 60
use and other prominent officials are inn his
icated. This is on a par with Rev. Full ho oi
MS beer guzzling. sta sta
Wilson, who has been sentenced to death G n