The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-14
'xo1TozIAL AND OTHER rrx,rs.

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hours.
Smallpox deaths in Philadelphia for the weel
humber $50.
elliott, the celebrated steel pen maker, died
| in London ON the 5th.
DR.. Newman has third volume Of collie oted
miscellanies in the press.
The State debt of Vermont has been reduced
to Sum but slightly over $780,
Gen. Halleck died ut his residence in Louis.
Vile, on the 9th, Of congestion Of tho brain.
The Academy Of France refuses to accept The
Bishop Of Orleans' resign alton of membership
Five hundred and twenty-five thousand six
hundred trains leave London in the course Of
ono year.
An attempt 10 being made to pass . bill
through Congress to admit six Japanese youths
to West Point.
Lady Herbert has opened in Mondon a home
for destitute Catholic girls, and called it st.
Elizabeths Home.
The route from Berlin to Moscow has Just
been shortened by l20 miles, by the opening Of
the Brest to Smolensk line.
The court in Salt Lake City has had to nd.
journ for the want of money. All criminal
cases have been postponed till March.
1t is said that Napoleon will soon publish q
historical work, with startling revelations re-
garding the French military system.
Madame Patti, before leaving Moscow for St.
Petersburg, gave a concert on behalf of poor
students, which produced sum of a., 300 francs
Paris mas now thirty -four political dailies
Tho latest accessions to the list are NJ. Gambet-
ta's Repu1lique Trancaisc and Gustave Chandeps
IIIme Steele.
The Coroner's jury in Cleveland, Ohio, found
verdict in the case of Martin. He died from
eating trochiRa sperolis pork. Martins wife and
child are sick-the latter hopelessly.
Eight hundred passengers on the Pacific
railroad were nearly starved and frozen to
death between Cheyenne and Lemarie, the
trains having been stopped by the snow for
five days.
Complete files of the Paris dailies published
during the war, can be had at Brussels for 500
francs, containing. in their varying shape and
quality, a vivid commentary on the facts por-
trayed in their columns.
Herald special from London says =" Napo-
leon, on New Year day, is reported to have said,
II will give Theirs three months of Presidency
of the French republic, when Gambetta will
have his place." This change will be favor
able to the Imperial cause.
"The Bible War;" at Hunters Point, Long
Island, has ended by the triumph of the Ca
tholics, the Board of School Trustees having
resolved, upon the petition of o mass meeting
of citizens, that no religious exercises shall be
allowed during the school hours.
Mrs. Ryves, whose name used to be familiar
on account of the claim she set up to royalty
as the daughter of Princess Olive of Cumber-
land, died on the 18th inst, ut her residence ut
Haverstockhill, in her seventy fifth year. She
leaves two sons and three daughters.
One of the old nuns of Santa Teresa, in
Rome, who had lived in cloister fifty years, has
just died at Santa Pudenziana, of grief at being
forced to leave her old cell and the Toce della
Terita also adds, of the hartships of her forci-
BILE removal from one convent to the other.
The annual report Of the Minister of Justice
Of the, Grand-duchy of Mecklenburg- Schwerin
contains the following edifying passage:
"Ninety-four men and tllirty-three women
were logged during the year. They received al
together twenty-six hundred and four lashes.,
1t costs nothing to record q mortgage in
Russia, one dollar in Germany, three dollars in
France, and five dollars in Italy. In Turkey
no property owner can give mortgage on his
real estate. When he borrows money on it, he
has to obtain permit from the magistrates of
his city or town, and they see that he pays his
creditor at the appointed time.
The New York Tablet announces the death of
Dr.. F. Holahan, one of Daniel O'Connelrs in
innate friends. He travelled with O'Connell
through Irelnnd during the Repeal movement,
and presided at many of the great meetings
He was born in County Kilkenny in 1914, and
died last Christmas morning, in Morrisiana,
Ny.
A late Chicago Post says: Our lynx-eyed
assistants report this morning that 1743 people
slipped down yesterday on the perfidous side
walks. Of these 1140 were men, 4O3 women,
and goo miscellaneous. The table shows that
over 300 landed on their elbows, the others sat
down. Of the entire number, 1742 of them
swore-131 audibly."
The total number of deaths from smallpox
in London during the last year was eight thou
sand. The average Of the thirty-one- years
preceding last year is six hundred The medi-
cal journals call attention to the alarming in
crease of the disease, and they warn the public