The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1872-09-15
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| Point, 10 dead.
Iron is now being exported from Belgium to
Canada via Great Britain
| DR.. Darwin's new book ON Expression in
Animals is ready for publication.
full glass Of water at bedtime and another
just after rising will often relieve dyspepsia.
The death Of Madame O'Coner, wife of the
OConor Don, NJ. P. for Roscommon is an.
nonnced.
Two craters Of vesuvius are still smoking
and slight shocks are felt at the foot of the
mountain.
During one night last week, in New York
three drunkards fell from upper story windows
and were killed.
AFrenchman contradicts, through the papers
the report published by the Figaro, that he in
tended marrying Nellie Grant.
One of the most destructive fres that has &C.
CURED in Memphis for years destroyed $2lO, ,00O
worth Of property there on the 9Th.
An extensive coal bed has been discovered
about two miles from Waterford. Great en-
thnsiasm prevails in the neighborhood.
1t is stated that the recently named Dufferin
Dock is showing evidences of falling to pieces,
the foundations being getting into decay.
| The British corvette Cossack has captured
several vessels engaged in kidnapping natives
of Navajatores Island, to be sent from there to
Sidney.
An enterprising Englshman has leased q
water-lot in Palatka, Fla, for ten years, with
the design of putting MP q moss and paper
factory.
The ex-Emperor Napoleon and Eugenie went
on board the American yacht Sappho, with
Nr. Douglas, on Monday, and sailed around
the Isle Of Wight.
A civel war recently broke ont among the
bees owned by an extensive apiarist in Illinois,
and ninety five swarms out of ITO were slaurh-
tered on the field of battle.
Crops throughout the Island of Cuba present
splendid appearance, and unless hurricane
occurs the coming crops will exceed by thirty
per cent. those of last year.
We learn that the trial of the Bishop of
Clsnfert and the priests inculpated in Mr. JUS
tice Keogh's judgment has been fixed to take
place in Dublin in January next.
According to q census just published, the
population of Greece in 1870 amounted to
l,457,s64, Of which number 23o, 333 belonged to
the Ionian Islands. Athens had 45. 10Y ipbal,-
itants
Aspecial dispatch from Constantinople states
that Mahommed Pasha has been condemned by
the Sultan to banishment, and his estate con-
hscated, for appropriating public moneys to
his own use.
Billy Forester, the supposed murderer of
Nathan, which crime excited SO much interest
a few months ago because of the remarkable
secrecy with which 1T was perpetrated. has |
been arrested. He says be has recently been
staying in New Orleans.
The Russian Ekoptz, or self-mutilators, are |
now extending their unnatural prosely tism |
into neighboring countries. Tho branch Mt !
Yassi, in Moldavia, is reported as progressing.
and . young Moldavian was lately mutilated
after having been made insensibfe BY chloraI.
The clerks in Havana have held o meeting
10 devise means to abolish the ystem requiring
hem to work Sundays. or on other days from
'ix in The morning t;ll after ten at night, and
'nly allowing them to be absent from the es-
ADJUSTMENTS in which they are employed for a
sw hours on alternate Sundays.
The discovery of au extensive deposit of sand
ully impregnated with petroleum, in Alsace.
creating some sensation in Germany. This
Promises to open a new aud important indus
ry. Tho petroleum is obtained by cutting
nto the bed Of sand, as into bed of coal. and
flowing the mineral oil to drain ont of it into
Tells dug to receive it. s
An announcement Is made that the ItaIiaps !
re to be favored with an "Americap Protest. Z
ut Mission" the members of which intend to c
avote their energies to the " evangelization - u
the Peninsula. DIR. Jeter, editor of the
edmond Religious Herald has, it is stated.
ut passed through London on his way to
ONE, for the purpose of assisting to organize o
lie new undertaking. p
large party of engineers lefs Toronto. q
anada, on the 11th, for Pembina, where they ~
pect to meet the American party appointed "A
determine the forty-ninth parallel the es
undary between Canada and the United v
ates, from the Lake of the Woods and the IL
'cky Mountains. 1t is estimated that the 10
'rk will occupy three or four years. !"
Two women in the city of Mexico. in love -,
tn sergeant in the army, and who were o.
'lous of each other, recently fought duel. ~
10 was armed with ordinary dagger. and ~.
3 other with a dagger made from horn. o.
o duel was fought according to the rules of -.
, code, with other women as seconds. The a.