The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-05
asrning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, NAY S. ls72
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, NAY s. 1877.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
Gov. Hoffman has vetoed the new New York
city charter.
Prince William Frederick Henry, of the
House of Nassau, is dead.
Bishop Fessler, Secretary of the recent
Ecumepical Council, is dead.
The greatest beer-drinking city on tho face
of the earth is said to be Munich, in Bavaria. !
1t is rumored that Bismarck has sent ma
terial aid to Amadeus to the amount OF lo,ooo'-
coo francs.
More than five times tho usual amount OF
grain has been sow this year in some parts OF
California. go
Seven days and seven nights will now serve
to take one comfortably from Boston to San
Francisco.
The Rhine is now crossed by the pontoon
bridges which connect Alsace with tho Srana
Duchy of Baden.
News has been received here of the founder
ing of the American schooner Brooks, in
longitude Co. All on board were lost
The island of Zanzibar was recently visited
bv a terrible hurricane One hundred and
fifty vessels were sunk. Loss ten millions.
If you have an earache, put funnel in your
ear, after the manner Of an ear-trumpet, aud
let the steam from boiling vinegar enter it.
A correspondent, who has been visiting Car
lyle's study, says that " an earthquake might
turn it upside down, but it could not add to its
disarrangement."
An Eastern exchange has this errdt"m In
our paragraph yesterday concerning thirteen
ministers who had been spanked in infancy,
for epdakcd read sprHtfed."
A rich old man in New York advertises to
Az fraC
showing tho iniquity of running street cars on
the Sabbath day, and riding in them, to church
otherwise.
4 citizen Of Gosport, the other night, mis-
took his wife's yeast bottle for his favorte
''Iittle brown Jug" and took "long pull and
strong pull" therefrou,. He is now regarded
n rising man.
Richard Wagner's " Tannhauser has proved
a perfect gold mine for him. His hmtiames
have thus far amounted to over sixty thousand
dolIars-ten times as much rs Mozart re.
ceived for oil his operas.
The New York Times states that not only
Bartlett and Graham, but Gerry also, have
abandoned Stokes as counsel. The result will
probably lie that the trial Of his case on it.
merits will soon commence.
Tho Tichborne claimant publishes n letter
to the public in which he returns thanks 70
their previous subscriptions in his behalf ant
asks for additional sum of $4,000 to enabl
him to continue his contest for the possessio
of the Tichborne estate.
Tho Cleveland saloon-keepers til
photographs of men whose wives do not perm
them to drink, and keep galleries of then
When q customer enters, the barkeeper look
through his album, and sees whether no
the customers face is good.
Mgr Guibert, Archbishop of Paris, Ii
caused two tablets in black marble TO be place
in the transept of Notre Dame, of whic
are inscribed tho names of the ecclesiastical
hostages, aud the other those Of the gen
darmes, sergeants- de-ville aud laymen mur
dered by the Communists.
Rev. DR.. I. ]. Hendricks, late of Waterbury
was, the 29th ult., consecrated Bishop O.
the new diocese of Providence, formed by
portion of the diocese of Hartford. Archbish
op McCloskey ohiciatcd rs consecratins
Bishop, and nine Bishops and seventy OF
eighty priests participated.
1t is announced that Mr. Bright will take
his seat in the House of Commons presently
but that he will not rejoin the Gladstone
Cabinet, nor take part in public business fol-
some time. Which really means that when
the political skies deemed clear enough,
Mr. Bright's health will be found all right.
Col. McComb has purchased the old Vicks
burg Cotton Press and considerable quantities
of adjacent real estate, to serve depot and
storage grounds for the enlarged railway traffic
anticipated soon-a -ths-railroad is COM
pleted between Jackson, Tenn, and Cairo
The cost of these purchases is said to be about
$eOO,OO0.
The mails having, for a week, failed to come
to time in an Arkansas town, the local paper
has hnn tn lr,,
almanacs for copy, and if commu mic ton will,
the outer world should be still longer cut off,
ave will be obliged next week to make ex-
tracts from the Bible, thus supplying some of
our readers, at least with matter entirely new
to them"
chap of an inqairing turu of mind writes
to q medical journal asking, " How long does it