The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-02
Morning Star and Catholic NIsssen1er,

"A base ball club in Jacksonville has
hired graveyard to practice in.
A cheese factory of two thousand cow
capacity is going up in Minnesota.
In several towns in Maine apples are
offered at ten cents bushel at the orchard.
The Germans in this country fear lager
beer famine unless the Prussian war ceases
soon.
Fihu Burritt reads the Bible in twenty
languages. Is he nearer the truth by the
process
=, A father in Iowa has had his own son,
twelve years of age, sent to prison for
stealing his grapes.
An organ grinder lately died without
heirs in San Francisco, leaving 100000.
This was grinding to some purpose.
Mr.. William Card, now ninety years of
age, has been fireman in Newport for
seventy years. He's trump card, sure.
A reservoir in West Rutland, Vermont,
was drawn off lately, and over q ton of fish,
half of which were pickerel, were taken
out.
her husbands clipping, the other day, that
she got drunk and drowned a litter of nine
pigs
Chalons is the great seat of the Cham
payne wine trade. One merchant there
holds 100000 bottles as his orndinary
stock.
The st. Paul's Press says the wheat crop
of the West is vast monopoly in the
hands of persons who control railroads and
elevators.
Some of the Western towns are employ
ing female ministers in self-defence, as they
never run away with the girls in the con-
gregation.
, A man lately committed suicide at Rails
ton, New Mexico, and left a note thus "I
!. committed this act for reasons best known
to myself"
sLogansport, Ind, was lately robbed of the
sacred vessels by o thief named Scott, who
was caught
A man and wife named Craig, residing
in Hendrick county, Indiana, between them
turn the scale at the point of 1000 pounds
avoirdupois.
During the year ending June Sd last,
Postoffce Department to the amount of
1874, 1854, O84.
A stone mason of Louisville, KY, blew
his brains out last week, considering that
there were too many of his trade in the
world already.
On the 2lst inst. 100 Chinese arrived at
Belleville, New Jersey, to take the place of
white men and women in large laundry
in that town.
Finapcier Fisk had a fisticutf bout with
musical Maretzek in New York last week,
but the manager of Erie didn't manage the
opera bOuffe man.
Rear Admiral Rowen, who has been
raised to the second rank in the Uritrd
States service, is, we have seen it stated, 2
native Of Ireland.
A woman in Windsor, Canada, has be-
come such an inveterate chewer that she
puts q ten cent package of "fine-cut" into
her mouth Mt once.
Elm Antithierquaelerverein is the brief
name given by German newspapers to an
incorporated company for the prevention
of cruelty to animals.
The newly discovered magnetic wells in
Michigan have put the people in ecstacies,
as well as given some of the visitors TO
them fts-of the ague.
A German named Landerman, in New
York, hanged himself last week, because
his son, a boy of fifteen, ran away from
home after stealing $50.
On the 21st inst. a large building IN
course of erection in Glasgow fell with
great crash, burying eleven workmen IN
the ruins, five of whom were killed.
tits estimated that the whole amount OF
money raised in the United States thus
far to alleviate the sufferings Of the wound
ed soldiers in France is not less than
100000.
Mile. Nilsson was robbed of diamond
ornament worth $4,000 while being dragged
to her hotel in her carriage by enthusiastic
swedes on the evening of her first concer
in New York.
Rev. DR.. Keller denounced before MS
confarence the loose views on marriage
now 40 prevalent, attributing to the woman
suffrage movement all the credit of causing
the looseness. 4,
yerdun, now prominently before the pub
lie, figured during the French Revolution IL
a badly pre-eminent way, by sending ni1ee'
GIRLS of that town, all under fifteen year