The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-27
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger,
FEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, NovENBFR q. IsTo-
EDITORIAL AND or4xR 1rrrs -..-


George Francis Train made thirty-four
speeches in Marseilles in eleven days.
Gen. Cox is said to have been 50 eccen-
trio as to retire from office empty -handed.
Twenty-Five persons met their death by
their devotion to baseball during the past
season.
/: At Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Daniel Webster
and Henry Clay have been arrested for
robbing Wendell Phillips.
Six villages near Orleans, whose inhabit-
ants have made common cause with the
franc-tireurs, have been burnt. ~
The business men of Portland are making
arrangements to establish line of packets
between that city and New Orleans.
Russia's cotton manufacture amounts to
$50, 100000 annually. Before the war in
this country it did not possess one mil.
The Boston Post wants Greeley to rent
the Mammoth Cave. "By subsoil blowing
it might be made fine opening for straw
berries."
Over one hundred patents for perpetual
motion have been granted or applied for in
England and France within the present
century.
Gen. Grant is learning to play the piano.
He played the deuce with his party in New
York by sending the military to overawe
the voters.
The notorious Paul de Chassegnac has
efGected his escape to Vienna from the
SiIesian fortress where he was kept a pris-
oner of war.
DR.. Trip has raised in Alameda, Cali
fornia, from one grain of Norway oats,
thirty two stalks, which yielded over a
pound of grain.
The Detroit Post appeals to the Michigan
Legislature to pass law regulating the
size Of apple barrels. Why not -four and
potato barrels as welli
AT Lewiston, Maine, persons arrested for
drunkenness are let off on signing the
pledge. Some old soakers sign the pledge
regularly every morning.
Mrs. Maggie Bryant ia Q member of the
Chicago Board of Underwriters. Those
!, who insure with the ladies must have a
pleasant if not long life.
A German named Hirsch committed sni-
eide in San Francisco ~on the Sd instant,
because he failed to draw a prize in the
Library Lottery Of that city.
Alter the census of the United States is
finished, the officials are to be employed in
taking censns of the persons to whom the
English mission was offered.
,a"American DEVIL" is the name given in
England to "a steam gong, used to rouse the
operatives at S in the morning; it can be
heard at distance of two miles.
Acetate of lead is said to be a pretty
sure remedy for toothache. Apply from
one to three grains to the cavity for mo-
ment or two, and then spit it out.
Americans are dying of bilious COM
plants. Doctors bill-iousness, exhausting
the vitality of pocket-books, is one of the
most prevalent of the complaints.
A shoddy wedding in Poughkeepsie was
immortalized by the organist playing, by
request, "Those Tawsels on her Butes,"
instead of :the " Wedding March,"
man id Williamson county, Tennessee,
has been defeated three times for Office in
one year, and now announces himself as
candidate in the race two years hence.
We all eat too much. Sydney Smitp
said that he had eaten and drank, between
his tenth and SEVENTEEN year, forty-four
wagon loads more than was good for him.
They have hung all the ex-Mayors Of
Chicago in the council-chamber of that
city. Some of our ex- Mayors are flourish
on the Heath, though they are not without
gilt.
An Albany undertaken has invented a
folding coffin, which exposes the corpse at
full length, making it appear as if reclining
on sofa. He says it is great comfort to-
the corpse.
Mrs. Collins, of Haddam, N. H., is con-
tractor on the Valley Railroad, and is push
ing the work with great energy, superin-
tending it herself, and paying the men with
her own hands.
Notwithstanding the Prussians invest
Paris, bridal dresses are still received from
that city. This shows great courtesy in
the Teutons or great invention on the part
of the importers.
A newspaper in Iowa tells of a subscriber
who stopped his paper, and in less than
week was kicked by mule, and his life
desuaired of Moral e each person will
draw for himself.
A Chicago hotelkeeper gave game