The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-02
Mornlng Star and Catholic Messenger.


A1w oRLEAHS. SUNDAY. April. ., lsn.
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EDITORIAL AHD OTHER TTENs
Alexander Dumas died indebted to hi,
publishers lO0, 900 francs.
1t Is said that "Nasebyn Locke realize.
$lS,OOO year by his lectures.
Rev, Father Buckley has collected in thii
country over 81 900 for the Cork Cathe.
dral.
The 1rish-Americans of Boston number
los,OOO-or nearly two-thirds of the whole
population:
A New England bee-raiser has evolved a
race OF queen bees, which he sells readily
for $25 apiece.
The New York Star says that James
Gordon Bennett "is in excellent health,
and worth ten millions.n
A Michigan pedagogue has been fined
forty dollars for whipping a boy who
chewed tobacco in school.
w. z. Davis, believed to be an American,
fell or leaped from the top Of the Pyramids
lately, and broke his neck.
1t costs New York $50, 600 nightly for
her amusements-the annual expenditure
9 estimated at 81, OOO, 900.
1t is stated that 10000 Southerners, who
took part in the late war, are now residents
Of New York city, and poor.
A Chinaman in Portland, Oregon, fol-
lowing the " Mellican fashion," has run
away with another mans wife.
At South Bend, Ind, one Jacob Methu-
saleh died of laughter, recently, at some
droll story told him by friend.
John Morrissey has given $500 to a
chambermaid at Albany who took care Of
$4,000 which he left under his pillow.
A Sedalia editor says that girl who is
now called beautiful blonde" would,
few years ago, have been termed tow
head"
Senator Stevenson, in a late speech, said
there were more crimes committed daily in
Cincinnati than in the whole State of Ken
lucky.
The Synod of Texas has published that
no man born in Texas, or reared on Texas
soil, has ever entered the Presbyterian
ministry.
A noticeable feature in the celebration of
st. Patrick's Day in San Francisco was the
appearance in the procession of two colored
companies.
Royal Briggs, who killed himself at Sher-
man, Conn, a few days ago, was the last of
six brothers who had laid violent hands on
themselves.
The Governor OF Massachusetts has ap-
pointed April 9th as fast day. Too late
by five days. The thing is misnomer in
Yankee land.
Wendell Phillips says, nothing short of
shooting half-a-dozen Southern millionaires
at the drum-head will awe the Ku-Klux
into submission"
In the Waterville (Maine) poorhouse last
year there was more money spent for tobac-
CO than for medicine, yet the inmates pre-
ferred whisky to either.
The steamship Europa, from Glasgow, on
her last trip, lost at once her captain and
first and third understanding unparal-
elled in ocean navigation.
An eccentric lady in Memphis gives an
nually to the poor the amount that she
supposes would be "wasted" on her funeral
in the event Of her death:
A French author has satirically addressed
a book to William l., King of Prussia by
the grace of God, and Emperor of Germany
by the effusion of blood"
Greeley consoles himself for the detection
of New Hampshire by the fact that its Col
lege, " Dartmouth, is hereafter to print its
triennial catalogue in English"
H. w. Cushman, late Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Massachusetts,, offers $4,000 to
the first town of not less than 1000 inhabit-
ants that should take his family name.
A Norwich (Conn.) woman, who ran
needle into her foot q year ago, by acct
dentally stepping upon it, recently had it
pulled out from between her shoulders.
Episcopal Bishop Nottingham, of Mary
land, refused to countenance the movement