The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-29
EDITORIAL AND orHxR rrx1es

EDITORIAL AND oTE1R Tr1Hs.
Hon. Thos. Ewing, ST., 10 dead.
The Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky 10 for sale.
$500, 900.
Gen. Sherman visits Europe to inspect their
forts and armies.
A Police National Convention il now in sea.
sion in St. Louis.
Yellow fever in Charleston still carries off
three four persons day.
In single year the locomotives in the United
States consumed 90, 600 900 worth Of wood.
During three weeks in October there were
942 cases Of small pox in Philadelphia and ISL
deaths.
The temperance Banner, of Attioa, N. r, has
for its motto, Fight for the right and never
get tight"
A. T. Stewart gave $4,000 to the Chicago
| sufferers. This is the largest single donation
yet reported.
The second annual fair of North Louisiana
was opened at Homer on tho 25th. 5000 per.
sons were in attendance.
An English paper says that in 1869 no less
| than IL ,416 persons in the Bengal Presidency
died from the effects OF snake bite. ...
| One thousand persons were confirmed in st.
Patrick's Church, Liverpool, by Bishop Goss,
on Sunday evening, September oath.
Married people should study we'll each others
| weak points, IS skaters look out for the weak
parts Of the ice, in order to keep off them.
A Countess of Anjou, in the fifteenth Gen.
tury, paid for one book 200 sheep, five quarters
of wheat and the same quantity of rye and
millet
During the Orange riots the New York Sun
averaged 1872, 2A copies, and during the West
field explosion excitement, 157 900 copies daily
circulation.
Mstrimony is like Tammany, it has it's ring
The Tammany Ring will never be in danger of
having "nothing to wear" as long as they
have plenty Of 1sceed.
The Prince Imperial of Germany has, on be-
half of the Emperor, conferred on DIR. Russell,
the Times war correspondent, the medal for
service, with the black. white and red ribbon.
"Good morning." said q printer in search Of
female compositsrs; "have you any daughters
who would make good type-setters ~ No,
but / have q wife who would make o fine
DEVIL" said the monster.
The editor of the Unita Cattelica has been
sentenced to four months imprisonment and
fine This is another specimen Of the liberty
J guaranteed to the Catholic Press under the
rule of the "liberators" of Italy.
, ern Pacific Railroad Company for the second
, section of twenty-one miles. The commission
ers have reported it completed and 'fuly
equipped as first-class road.
The Abbe Listz has completed his grand
oratorio, "Christ." The manuscript is already
at Vienna, where the first performance will
take place. This immense work is divided
into three parts, composed Of fourteen selec-
tions.
Eighteen copies of the first edition of the
, Bible ever printed are in existence They
were printed in Metz between the years 144O
and l445. Mr. James Lennox, of New YORK.
owns one of the copies, having purchased it at
a cost of 5000.
A folding match between two newspaper
folders took place recently in the mailing-room
of the Boston (dass.) Journal. The winner
folded 1901 papers in one hours time, there
being four folds to each paper. The loser fold
ed 146O in the same time.
3 The new Dictionary of Biographical Refer
ence," by Laurence B. Philins, just out in Lon
, don, is complained of by the AthesGeHns for
, commemorating too many American names
1t contains brief biographical sketches OF one
hundred thousand persons.
In the colored convention ct Columbia an
. the denomination of President Grant; but the
y convention adopted substitute declaring 1t
: impolitic to anticipate the action of the ke-
publican party.
t Supervising Inspectors decide that cotton
carried in torn bales or bags, shall not be con
t sidered loose cotton, and hay carried for iced
ing stock on board shall not be regarded as
loose hay. The Supervisors decide against
carrying coal oil on passenger steamers
new kind of type for the blind has been
invented by Reuben Vose, q New York broker
; by the of which it will cost only 81 TO
print Bible, instead of $50, as at present, and
to further complete the system, printing
, press has been constructed by which the blind
= can print for themselves, enabling them to
t carry on correspondence with their friends as
r we'll as those with eyes.
Attention 10 directed to our special motto 9