The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-03-26

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A San Antonio editor says there is not
b vacant residence in that city.
The smallpox and scarlet fever are pro-
nounced epidemic in New York. II.
IS A. st. Louis man has Insured his life for
100000. Expects csse Of suicide soon.
A North Carolina minister has invented
nouse trap, sold his patent for $11 600,
and quit preaching.
Some men have little coin in their purse,
in the countenance.
A manufacturer of rat poison in Paris
committed suicide on account Of the ami
hilation of his trade.
Sarah Wilson, aged seventy-three, hung
herself in Boston last week. Sarah was old
enough to know better.
Maine offers to every able-bOdied male
Swede farm of 100 acres, aud exemption
from taxation until 1876.
"A
delphia for nicking the tail of his horse.
that being construed into cruelty to ami
mails.
Out of forty practising lawyers in San
Antonio, Texas, eight only get beastly
drunk. The latter have got o bad "prac-
tice." @
The managing editors of the leading
New York daily papers receive 800 per
week. Some of the writer's receive $50
per week.
Dr.. Aver, of pill fame, has given his
name to Groton Junction, Mas. OF course
the town is now more attractive on account
of its pure Aver.
The heather ChiHee have q custom of
paying their debts ON the beginning of each
new year-a custom which Christians would
do we'll to emulate.
The present scrambled style of ladies'
head dress to be seen on Canal street, is the
identical fashion which prevailed before
the invention of combs.
The fish in Austisford river, Wis, were
so numerous lately as to interfere with the
running of the mills there, thousands of
them clogging the wheels of the machinery.
Lord Lurgan, previous to taking his dog,
"Master Magratb," to England, where he
won the Waterloo Cup, effected an insurance
on the animals life to the amount of $4,000.
A Mrs. Acker having died suddenly in
Montgomery country, Pa, hired man in
the house was so afraid of being accused of
numbering her, that he hanged himself in
the barn.
A Radical office seeker, on learning of
the recent accident to Gov. Warmoth's foot,
coolly recommended Spalding's glue. Of
course the unfeeling wretch was one of the
disappointed.
Wendell Phillips delivered lecture in
New York last week, in the course Of which
he faid that "every man of the city govern
ment ought to be hung" Perhaps he wants
the job of hangman.
A brakeman on an Ohio railroad, who
was caught under the chin by a telegre phi
wire, and thrown beneath the cars, sustain
ing thereby the loss of a leg, has recovered
10000 from the telegraph company.
"A bill 10 now before the Wisconsin AS
sembly, providing that whenever eleven
Jurors shall agree upon q verdict, such
agreement, duly announced in court, shall
be held to be q verdict of the whole jury.
The st. Adams Messenger says that there
is in that town horse whose upper lip
bears q heavy moustache, three inches in
length, which parts in the middle and curls
out ON either side, in the most approved
fashion. .s...s l.sef -t.#f
A preacher in the West seeks damages of
a journal which published q report of his
discourse Mind and Matter" under the
head of Milk and Water" His enemies
say that he will recover, if it be true that
the greater the truth the greater the libel.
A lad named Martin died in Elizabeth,
N. j., of smallpox, but the undertakers de-
clined their services, and no one could be
found to assist even in lowering the body
into the grave. At last Capt. Henning,
u ool%h ;nsnactnr dnV a hole in which he