The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-09
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

AmorlC8.
Gen. Joseph E. johnson is said to Ibe
looking in better health and younger by
ten years than he did seven years ago.
In the New Hampshire Legislature there
arc hVe Catholics who are ineligible under
Inc constitution on account of their religion.
Gen. Robert E. Lees gray war horse Ira
veier died recently in Lexington Virginia of
iochJaw' caused by running nail into his
foot.
Work on the Illinois aud MICHIGAN Cana,
mas been completed. The City of Chicago
expended $a,50o,00o on the work. 1t was
begun six months ago.
Gen. RosecraDs acted as grand marshal
i'll San Francisco at the celebration of the
twenty-tftf anniversary Of the pontifcate
of His Holiness Plus TX.
|. The total debt of Brazil is now s67..
oooo 900, of which Gig, 300 is foreign.
The floating debt of the empire is s3,s32,-
6oo, representing treasury notes.
Inc Bonnet Care crevasse is now 1900
feet wide, but the water in the river ia
falling rapidly. and in thirty days the great
crevasse will be ga thing of the past"
During the year ending July 30, 1871,
there were built at Louisville seventeen
steamers, of which seven were for New
Orleans owners (; five freight boats and four
towboats.
There is at least one good reason why
the negro ought not to be educated. When
he gets 80 he can read newspapers he will
no longer be eligible for q juror.-Louisuille
Courier Journal.
The water is fast receding from the
Jackson Railroad, and there is now only
about one mile this aide of the trembling
prairie submerged. By the first week in
August trains will be running through.
1t ID estimated that the internal re-
venue receipts for the fiscal year ending !
June 3O,le7l, will fall short of those last
year GAO, 600 900, but that the customs
duties will exceed last year by S2O, 0OO, 600.
A passage can be obtained from New
York to Troy, just at present, for nothing.
Tho competing steamboat lines are making
it lively for each other on the river, and
the travelling public gratefully appreciate
the situation.
Samuel Rainey, late Of the Arm of Aiken
& Raincy, and more recently general book
keeper at tho New Orleans National Bank,
was shot last Thursday, in the bank, by
William Boyd, nephew Of Col. Sam. Boyd.
Mr.. Rainey died fifteen minutes after the
fatal shot was fred.
The Greeley colonists recently refused to
allow q circus company to pitch their tent
in the corporation limits. The circus fell
lows consequently pitched it one foot be- 4.
yond the limits. While the circus remain
ed the town Of Greeley was deserted and
the circus was crowded.
The Cuba sugar crop for 1901 is esti-
mated at 2, 5s7 ,433 boxes, against 3,593, 772
boxes in I669-70, 3,527 ,26I in IS6S-69, and
3,725, 026 in 1s67-68. The crop of molasses
is estimated at 233,222 hogsheads for
1901, against 800 e6l hogsheads in 1869
20, and 367, 243 in 1860. &
The colony of Swedes in Aroostook--
county, Maine, is declared to be o great
success. There are now six hundred and
thirty Swedes there, who were brought
over through the exerti0ns of the State i'm
migration agent, and one thousand more
arc expected during the present week.
A return asked for by Admiral Erskine
gives the length Of passages from New
NGASVsCsVwA
ships daring the last year. The average 10
about nine days aud eight hours. The
shortest run was made by the Scotia in
July, when the time was eight days six
hours nfty-soven minutes.
One Of the grandest toilets worn at re.
cont drawing-roOm Of the Queen, ut Buck
ingham Palace was that Of Lady Poltimore,
which attracted peculiar interest by the
fact that the magnificent point d'Alencon
veil her ladyship wore was worn by Marie
Antoinette ON the occasion Of her marriage
to Louis XVI. It 10 q priceless relic.
The Philadelphia Post says that abeut
year ago child in that city, eighteen
months old, swallowed an open-tOp thimble,
snd that it has since swallowed nothing
but Liquids. 1t is Supposed that the tbimble
'aught somewhere in the sesophagas, but
'ighteen doctors have searched I'm vain for
L. The child IL represented to DO healthy,