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

ITALY.-The transfer OF the capital has ut
| length taken place. By the first of the month
| all the italian ministers had arrived in Rome'
and were installed in their MINISTRIES. Inc
ministers from Germany, Sweden, Turkey,
Holland, Russia, Spain, the United States,
Portugal, Greece, Brazil, Switzerland and ba-
| varia arrived between the LIST and ID. Inc
Official Gazette of the eGOvernment issued It's
first edition, dated Rome, on the I'd inst. Vic
tor Emmanuel reviewed the troops at Rome on
the 4th.
UNITED STATES.
MASSACHUSETTS On the LIST inst, at March's
Hill near Newburyport, the banking suddenly
| caved in, burying eleven men beneath an i'm
mense mass of earth Eight of them We're
soon recovered, little injured. John Tuohoy
| and james Cushman were dead when reached,
aud John Clifford badly injured. Cushman
and Touhoy each leave Il widow and six
| children.
| PENNsYLvANIA.-The bottom OF q canal near
Wilkcsbarre, Pa, fell out, on the 4th of July,
draining the entire level and flooding the
mines over which it was built. The holiday
| fortunately caused a desertion of the mines,
| otherwise the loss of life would have been
| fearful.
TENNESSEE. - FrighTal Railroad .4ccident.-
A telegram, dated from Nashville, ON the 4th
inst, says: "a train consisting of two
coaches and the sleeping car, hence at 800
| yesterday, the Nashville and Northwest
Railroad, after the locomotive and baggage
car ran over, went through the bridge at
Harpeth river. Fifteen persons were killed
and twenty-three wounded. The killed are
John Marshall, of Nashville; Judge Horn
berger, of GAINESVILLE; Charles Campbell, wife
and child, of Edgefeld three men unknown;
Mrs. VIM. S. Yeatman and Mrs. Thos. Dunn, of
Kingston Springs; Mr.. Pendergrast and Mr..
Wright, of White Bluffs; J. c. Brackett and
brother; VIM. and Wiley Howard, of Marshall
county. The wounded are w. W. Gee, brakes
man; V. Hale, Of Point Isabel, Ind; Mrs.
Heard, of Trenton, Tenn; j. w. Scott, Mr..
Witherst, Miss Glenn Leake and John Compbell,
Of Nashville; j. w. Thomson of Amherst
Courthouse, Va; Alex. Wright, of White
Bluff; w. Walter, Of Union City; A. E. Yeat.
man, of Memphis; Thos. r. Yeatman, of
Kingston Springs; Mrs. Brown, of johnson
vile; Jno. Pegram and brother; Conductor
Lands; g. 8. Brown, of Nashville; Robert
Daniel, of Bedford county, and Thos. Dunn, of
Kingston Springs. None of the wounded are
| q. W6E0
brought to Nashville.
v1RGINA.-A telegram from Wheeling. Va,
dated the 9Th inst, says: A terrible storm
passed over Moundsville this afternoon. The
stockade around the West Virginia Peniten-
| tiary was blown down and one prisoner es-
capped. Houses were unroofed, fences de-
molished, and great quantities OF grain de-
stroyed.
CALIFoRN1A.-The Pontiacal celebration in
San Francisco took place on the Sd inst, and
was o grand affair. The procession occupied
something over two hours in parading. Repre-
sentatives of thirty-one nationalities and the
military and civic organizations were in line
with music, banners, etc. The town presented
a very animated appearance. 1t is estimated
that II, $50 men, women and children, and We
hicles numbering 4O4 were in the procession
Gen. Rosecrans acted as Grand Marshal.
| NEBRASKA. During q storm the 5th, a
train on the Fremont and Blair road was lifted
from the track and blown twenty feet from
I it. An infant was killed, the mail agent
fatally wounded, and fifteen other persons
moro or less hurt. -
MISCELLANEOUS.
MExIco-Dates of the 30th of June have
been received. No doubt exists that Juarez has
received majority over his two competitor
ut the late elections, which secures the Presi.
4 dency for him. The elections were very quiet
and orderly. By tho fire in Quebradilla mine
ct Seaceates, over one hundred miners were
suffocated. Tho black votnit RACES at vers
Cruz.
II CUBA.-The revolution in Cuba seems to b.
fast approaching an end. Several prominent
leaders have recently been captured and thret
were killed.