The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-07
EDITORIAL AND OTHER 1rExs.

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liners has abandoned the project of removing
the capital to Paris.
.n.ers was printers devil in 1926. He
sui bothering the editors.
10 ply their larcenous business" " is New
York Tribune for thieving."
Inc income of VIM. B. Astor is $4,000 per day
and ne owns six hundred houses.
Inc national debt statement for March sh ow
decrease of sl5,5OO, 900 for one month.
Luther, the leader of the Paris inceudiarie
""uer the Commune, has at length been ar
rested.
'onh Whittle, lion tanner, was torn I,
pieces by lions in the Philadelphia menageri
on the Sd.
Connecticut people have sufficient faith /,
savings banks to ave>deposited therein nearl,
$50, 900, 900. =
The residenceof John Given, Newark. N. J.
was hurned7on the 3lst ult His wife ant
three children persisted in the flames.
lrreprtessibe Chicago is making efforts to-
WARDS having an airline railway to New York
ene wants the Government to build it.
A band of robbers removed the rails of o
spanish railroad last week, stopped the trair
and' after fight, captured it and SIS 900 in
gold.
Smallpox is spreading so rapidly in Brooklyn
.n"' 'he hospital is overcrowded, and addi.
tional wings are being built. l2G new cases
last week.
The Western Union Telegraph Directors have
voted to issue 81 100000 in bonds for the cree.
ton OF new building on the corner of Broad.
way and Dey street. NY.
The strike of the London compositors has
been successful. The demands for increased
wages, and the limitation of q DAYS work to
nine hours, has been conceded by 142 firms
Pittsburg, Pa, has gained 10000 population
ny the recent incorporation of the Sonthside
burroughs with it. This gives it 116, 900 popu.
latiop, making it the twelfth largest city in the
Union.
meeting of the stockholders of the Panama
Railroad have elected directors favorable to
the road to the Pacific Mail Steam.
ship Company The net earnings of the road
last year were $35O,OOO.
The negroes are to hold National Conven.
ton in this city on the 10th. The South Caro-.
lima Debates say that the Convention must de.
mand OF the Republican party that colored
man be put in the National Cabinet.
In California editors are exempted from
jury dnty.-A- similar provision should be
adopted hero, for if the man who only reads a
newspaper be deemed unfit to serve on a iury.
the man who edits it must he doubly so.
Boston dispatch reports that evidence is
being collected to show that, for years past,
prominent importing firms have been systema-
tically defrauding the revenue in completely
with Customhouse subordinates at New York.
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, is to be
renovated, and is to be set apart for the pur.
pose of exhibiting the portraits of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, and all
the furniture used by the Continental Congress,
Professor Watson, of Ann Arbor, Michigan,
reports the discovery, in the constellation of
Virgo, of new planet. 1t shines like st mr.
of the eleventh magnitude its position is in
the right ascension, two hundred degrees fifty
minutes declination. 1t is moving slowly west
in right ascension and north in declnation
The reporters have reached the highest notch
in the region of pure imagination, as will be
seen by the following brilliant paragraph {:
" A Connecticut boy swallowed three marbl,
and four bullets recently, and being somewhat
of a bony structure, is now utilized by tie
who borrow him as Il rattle box to
amuse their babes and suckl,ngs."
The greet pyramid, which is seven hundred
feet square aud five hundred high. and weighs
~ 100000, 900 tons, required, according to Hero
dotus, the labor of 1O0, OOOlmen for twenty wears
to build it; but DR.. Lardner affirms that 4sO
tons of coal, with an engine and hosting ma
chine, would have raised every stone to its
position.
Mr.. Richard Henry Stoddard the poet editor
Of Tie Aldnc, one evening found some difficulty
in flushing a poem that he had commenced.
and as he sat musing over it, his fancy wan
dered from the subject and found expl ession
in these lines, which we dare say possess more
simple grace and beauty than the verses to
which he gave SO much thought:
Birds are singing round my window
Sweetest songs you ever heard
And hang my cage there daily
But never catch bird.
So with thoughts my brain is peopled
And they eiGg there all day long.
Bnt they will not fold their pinions
In the little cage of song
DEATH OF WILLIAM MURPHY.-The notorious
anti Catholic "lecturer' Murphy died, near
England, on the 10th ult. He
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