The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-09-17
M,rnlng Star and Catholic Messenger.
TxW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER IT. 1871.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.


Typhoid fever is becoming epidemic in Paris.
The average number of deaths in London
per week is 1715.
The new Catholic Convent at Newark, N, j.,
will cost $3.50, 900.
Chief Justice Chase has entirely recovered
his health and strength.
The sum of E3750 has been raised for q
monument to Gen. Prim.
Great Britain only loss "a 600 letters out Of
94O, GOO, 600 posted in 1870.
The French Government is buying $4,000
chassepots of the Prussian Government.
It has been decided to erect q statue to SiI
Humphry Davy in his native place, Penzance
Longfellow beat Pilgrim in the two mile
heats at Lexington, Ky. Time, 1854 and S.34t
boy five years old is described on the Jer-
sey CITY Police docket as an "habitual drunk
ard"
The Mount Cents tunnel was opened on the
18th. and q train passed through it without
delay.
Joel Parker has heen nominated for Gov
srnor by the Democratic Convention Of New
Jersey.
The aggregate quantity of Irish feb deliver
ed in England last year realized at least
100000.
The beautiful Duchess of st. Albans, only
Twenty-Five years of age, died recently in
childbirth.
The magnificent abbey of La Trappe, neal
Montague (orne), has just been partially de-
stroyed by fire.
The British House of Lords is spoken of OF
a.chamber whose dultness is only equa1ed By
it's unpopularity.
great fire occurred at Minden, La, on tie
10th, destroying two blocks in the bushes por
ton of the town.
The Lo,relL Courier thinks the contest for tie
Republican nomination is really between Gen
Butler and Dr.. Loring.
The Archbishop of Cambria has sent 60,OCC
francs (s32, 00O) to the Pope as Peter Pence of.
fering from his diocese.
interviewing, as an epidemic, is nearly al
bad as cholera indeed, it's the same thing
this era of interviewing is the call isn't it
The highest farm in the world is on the Union
Pacific, and is eight Thousand feet above the
sea level. It raises good vegetables and grain
crops.
New York City, with all its expenditures i:
fairly eclpsed by the new government OF
Washington, which has contracted q debt in
100 days of $9,50o,000.
Stripped snakes eat potato bugs, which il
turn poison the snakes, and the people of Var
Buren, county, Iowa, are in high glee at thu
mutual benefit society.
A dead negroes at Louisville, KY, over whom
the last rites were being celebrated, astonishet
the mourners by rising in her coffin and asking
whats de matter darP' o.
A Hartford man advertises for sale cheap
rent-bill against short, thick-set, bald headed
sandy-whiskered, red-faced foreigner by TIN
name of A. B. John Stokes.
Dispatches state that there is a great diamond
excitement at Yankton, Dacotah. 1t is sait
that diamond worth $1OO, 900 has been fount
on the bank of the Jim river.
The work on the new Opera House, Paris, ha
been resumed o sum of 600,000f, voted befor
the outbreak of the war, having been places
at the disposal of NJ. GARNER for that purpose
Col. Rowland, the accredited American agen
to assist in the cause of emigration, has arrived
in London, and proceeds at once to Scandina
via and Germany, to commence the duties o
his mission.
Monthly returns from the Board OF Trad
show that the exports from Great Britain TO
the month of August were unprecedented i
her commercial history. The actual value wa
f22,22l ,245-an increase of 80 per cent owe
1870
The new estate which the Emperor Williar
has lately given to his trusty henchman, Bis
march, is valued at more than a million thalers
1t has an area of eighty square miles, and cor
tains twenty-three villages or collections c
huts.
The Feiee Islands have finally established
responsible government, and have set all il
machinery in successful operation. The fir
criminal court has been held, at which thre
natives were convicted of capital crimes an
sentenced to death.
The contributions to the new Strasbour
University Library are very extensive. I'll
Konigsburg University has contributed 4o,O(
volumes The collection at the opening nun
bered 120, 900 volumes, which, by the end
the year will be raised to 100000 volumes.
Eleven thousand persons attended the Exp
sition at Cincinnati on the opening day. Ne
England and the South contribute the iarge
part of the fabrics, Georgia and South Carolir