The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-18
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

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| Smallpox deaths in PHILADELPHIA last weaL
1 show an increase Of 1s3
The distinguished Brazilian statesman, Wis
count Itaborahay, is dead.
One brand of Cincinnati whiskey is war
ranted to contain 4s7 fights to tho barrel.
The latest ballad is, Bury your dog in the
garden, it will make your grape vines grow..y
| 1t is reported that the Americans in Liver
pool do not approve of the claims for indirect
damages.
Eight English fire engines have arrived in
Japan, and the railroad to Jeddo is nearly
completed.
The French residents of New York last week
| subscribed $4,000 towards paying off the Ger
| man war debt.
The English comic papers publish tho Ameri-
| can claims for indirect damages as the best
joke Of the season.
In the recent elections in Salt Lake City,
women and children voted, and the Mormon
ticket was elected.
Aparty by the name of Jones has written \
book to provo that 'Tho United States is the
Kingdom of Heaven"
A gentleman, who named one of his pigs
coming into the garden"
thousand strangers are said to have visited the
city to witness the festivities.
The deposits in the savings banks Of Massa-
chusetts averaged about eighty-ave Thousand
dollars day throughout 1871.
The most definite description o Lowistown
woman could give of her lost baby was
kinder fat, with . calico dress on"
Galveston has also commenced celebrating
Mar he kof< ~
the Pleasures of the Imagination"
The Leipzig Centrall Blah says that Germany
imports three times as many American illus
trated papers as English periodicals.
1t is said that the London Tablet announced
the very morning of his death that Archbishop
Spalding was to be made o Cardinal.
Five indictments have been found against
Mayor Hall for wilfully and corruptly neglect
ing to audit certain claims against the city.
Bail $4,000.
q circulation of over ten Thousand copies. 1t
is the MoscoV Gazette None of the St. Peters
burg dailies circulate over four thousand
copies.
A Minnesota sheriff kindly allowed q con-
ment to kiss his wife, and the family tie
provedso strong that he hss not yet re-
turned.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of it's
odor, and no man can tell what becomes of his
influence and example, that roll away from
him, and 60 beyond his ken ON their perilous
mission.
Eight out of every ton tobacco chswers in
the regions whore the plant is raised use the
natural leaf twisted up into hanks and free
Of honey, liquorice juice, or other modern
authorizations.
Seven trains. twenty eight days out from
Omaha, are at Summit, on the Northern Pacific.
Urgent appeals have been received for help.
Much sickness and suffering is reported among
the passengers and employees.
Of 1S1 Southern female writer's who have
attained distinction as authoresses, Georgia
furnishes 80, Louisiana 49, South Carolina, %,
Virginia "a, Alabama 10, Kentucky II, Mary
land IL, North Carolina 8, Tennessee 8, Mics
issippi S, Texas 5, Florida a.
A committee was recently appointed to in
vestigate the excessive chastsement of a pupil
in q Michigan public-school, and reported that
the punishment was not actuated by malice,
but occasioned by an undue appreciation of
the thickness Of the boys pantaloons."
In Rhode Island, any colored man, no mat
property or not, is entitled to vote. An adopted
citizen cannot vote unless he is the owner Of
freehold. An attempt was recently made to
change the Constitution by vote of the peo-
pie, bnt it was voted down by about the usual
Radical majority in that State The move
ment in question did not assume to changetbs
political rights of the colored man, but to en-
nance those of the adopted citizen, and it was
defeated by Radical votes.
According to the Prtnter's Register, the trade
organ, there are now 11s daily newspapers
published in Great Britain and Ireland, dis
tributed as follows: In London 2I-12 morn
ing, 9 evening; in the Provinces, 60 in Wales,
l in Scotland, IL in ireland, % and in the
Channel Islands, l. These statistics show an
increase of eight daily papers as against the
corresponding list of last year, viz, in Lon
don, l; in the provinces, 5 /; in Ireland, 81
while there has been q decrease in Wales of l.