The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-05-08
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.

xDuo1IAL AID OTHER ITEMS.
/, The Empress of Russia has intermittent
Fever.
Count Montalembert left a fortune of
$4,000.
Boards are going out of fashion since the
advent of "women's rights"
The Exchange Bank of Columbia, 8. c.,
was lately robbed Of 100000.
Nineteen out Of twenty-one past Mon
days have been stormy in Boston.
Alta Protestant Fair in New York, Pids
TX. received 40 votes for gold watch
Minnesota farmers find raising eets for
sugar making more profitable than raising
Di.r.en was offered ss6ooo for his new
novel, which some critics pronounce i'm
moral.
A subscription has been started in aid of.
tho orphans/of Capt. Williams, lost in the
Oneida,
SERVANTS Of any kind were never so
scdrce as they are in New York city the
Wesentstime.
In Bowling Green, KY, Democratic
School Board was elected, mainly by
colored votes.
An article in Lippincotfs Magazine for
! April had q sentence containing over nine
/ hundred werds.
q. 8. Senator Wiley says there are half a
Aaillion American voters who do not know
how to read or write.
A Jam OF logs Ave miles long has been
formed above Chippewa Fall, Wisconsin,
and is still increasing.
Arsenic-eating is alarmingly prevalent
among Cincinnati females, who take it to
whiten the complexion.
Ice has risen fifty per cent IN Boston.
Thanks to our /" domestic manufacture"
we're above their .cupidity.
Six amendments to the Missouri Consti-
tuition are to be voted upon next fall. Bet
ter make new one at once.
I Major Sigourney, who claimed the author
ship of +" Beautiful Snow p committed sui
eide last week in New York.
John Rassell Young's New York paper is
backed by Gen. Butler, and intended to
elevate him to the Presidency.
sse In ten days nearly 800 petitions were
presented to Parliament against Newde-
gates infamous convent inquiry.
Both political parties in Maine confess
that never before were they embarrassed
with SO many entanglements as now.
In q Vermont town dealers in kerosine
have resolved not to draw any oil after
sunset. Will that protect the CONSUMERS
Bloomer, husband of the lady who origi-
mated the costume so-called, was recently
defeated for the office of Mayor of Council
Bluffs.
The Iowa Legislature has passed bill
allowing railway passengers three dollars
for every days unreasonable delay of their
: luggage. q
All the compssitors in an Indiana paper
were lately baptized together. Not at all
surprising, as all offices have "chapel"
and 'font" too.
Greeley says of counsellor Spencer, WHO
denounced Mrs. Calhoun as all that is vile,
in the McFarlane trial, "his position is
that of q ruffian."
The Washington correspondent of St.
Louis.psper is a lady and n deaf mute. She
is said to be very accurate in reporting
what abe never hears.
It is proposed to put Greeley on the
commission to revise the Bible. Some
body willhave to be appointed to translate
his manuscript FOR the printer.
= Sheridan Knowles, who devoted the last
JesEs of his life to preaching against Ca
tholicism, has . -son-lately editor of the
London Rsrie,c-<vho is a. Catholic.
Four thousand unemployed men in San
Francisee lately marched to the Mayors
ofica, observation-disclosures unless furnished
with means of earning enough TO live.
AFrenchman has published a Chinese
grammar, which only takes ten years to
~ master. Hadn't our new School Board
better introduce it into the mixed -schoolsf
Ex- President johnson has just purchased
stgo-story brick shouse in Greeaville,
= Tenn. He means to live a half century
longer in his new abode to "spite his
enemies. y
The famo0s ,fnaacier, Fisk, jr., being
NOW King of Erie, Colonel of the Ninth
New York Regiment, says he Ambitions"
only one more ofice-that of deacon in an
Evangelical church.
George Wilkes, editor of the Spirit Of the
Al.