The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-06
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

The debt statement for July shows re-
duction of $s.2OO,OO0.
Felix r. Bunet has been appointed In
dian Commissioner, vice Parker, resigned.
A cannon bursted at the Scheutzenfest, I.
in Washington, on the odd ult., killing one ,
person.
The President has recognized Theodore
Wagner Consul for the Netherlands, at
Galveston.
Counterfeit $50 bills of the United
States National Bank Of Washington are
circulating.
An unpoetical youth described his
fiance's hair as frizzled in front, aud fri
casseed and scrambled at the back.
A bet of $4,000 side between the
owners of Longtelow and King Fisher was
| made at Saratoga for the October meeting. |
Mr.. Won Schloser, the new German Min
lister was presented to the president on the |
lst inst, when the customary speeches
| were made.
Arthur Guerin, notorious character,
was shot in the First District Court, Thurs
day evening by J. d. Houston. He is not
expected to recover.
| The immense porcelain factory at Sevres,
the work in which has been entirely sus-
pended since the commencement of the
siege of Paris by the Germans, is to be at
once re- established.
The steamer Perit, which sailed from
New York on the 9th, took $4,000 to
pay President Baez, Of ST. Domingo, the
second moiety of the lease of the Bay of
SANTANA. It also took arms for the Domin-
, lean Government. :
! Alexander Lovelot, a French Canadian,
residing with his family on Navy Island,
, and Edward Bogardus, of Chippewa, in at
f tempting to cross to Navy Island at
o'clock on Wednesday night, were CARR ed
over Niagara Falls.
3 The New York Post says that thirty
Q customhouse clerks were at work all one
- day, mailing 100000 copies of the New
9 York Times, containing what is called the
u "secret Accounts of the City," throughout
70 this country and Europe.
It On Monday last, Miss Bette Cox, an es-
If Unable young, lady, aged about seventeen
n years, residing on the Pontotoc road, COM
70 mitted suicide by hanging herself upon q
q. tree near her fathers residence. No cause
r, can be assigned for the rash deed.
q, A special to the Philadelphia Erenin.
N telegraph from Atlantic city, says abou
lis thirty persons, after eating corn starcl
pudding at dinner, at the Alhambra Hotel
w re recently, showed signs of having bee
ID, poisoned. 1t is supposed arsenic was pu
no in the corn starch by a discharged domes
TO- tic.
. DR.. Geo. Howe and Wife; Mrs. T. Tiltol
I'M
lc- taking a pleasure drive yesterday, j
n Charlestown, N. H., were run into by q
IN express train on the Vermont Central Raj
lot road, and the three first-named Instant
use killed. Miss Walcott escaped with sever
d. bruises
the The Louisville Courier Journal hopes
1t ia true shat Alexander H. Stephens h
w. gained nine pounds since he became edito
uld hut fears that when he weighed he had OF
unit of his heavy editorials in his pocket. st
t Is phens says that if the editor of the Journ
m would put one of his own editorials in
, to pocket he would go up like a balloon.
n There is growing uneasiness in Euro
,nst over the progress of the Asiatic cholera.
ring has not passed the confines of Russia
Their the regular route, and all possible preca
VINO tione have been taken. Regulations
+ to prevent it's progress by sea have be
her adopted, though some cases have appear
at Hull, which is on the route of emigrat
o a from North Germany to America.
nm During the month Of June over tn
r. hundred and thirty eight thousand lett
ntly, ,,,isd;rected or otherwise not delivera1
g OF ,...as
Bag were receiVeo az sne oes'o Ae'ee1 o1N'o'
ables these, one-half consisted of business
we'll, resnondepce; and eleven thousand sc
.,;v. hundred contained money, checks, recei
drafts or other documents of value to
Err. persons sending the letters.
r. d. MCGEE, q prominent either
Trenton, Tom, and prior to the
a. President of the Branch State Bank at
|. All i lin. place, has been arrested in Menu
on the ,r;x1, No mo