The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-28
Hernjng Star and Catholic Messenger.
Nrw ORLEANS. SUNDAY, APRIL ~. is'a.
nn1TnpIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
PICTORIAL AND OTHER TIE

London will contain 100000 of inhaoitants
in 1900. =, A..
BURGLARS are so frequent in Dixon, ILL.,, that
the Teleoyaph classes them among the " local
industries"
The naners announce the death of b. Jacques
Felix. father of the celebrated Rachei, ageo
eighty-six years.
The French radicals ore rejoicing over the
evidence ef the growth of Republican ioeas IN
the departments. Deli,
The Emnress Augusta will leave berlin on
the goth for England, to visit Quee" 'i0'oi'"'
and be absent ten days.
Ariet among the Chinese laborers IN tne t.n
m;nes ut Tacoot in Northern China resulted In
the loss of many lives.
Army worms have appeared In Immense
numbers in Tennessee and are doing great
damage to the fruit trees.
An exchange prints q chapter OF the bibie
without credit. How on earth are puoiisners
to know where it came FRONT
The Irish American Central Reform League
of New York, has issued an address favoring
Horace Greeley for President.
Chinese advices states that on March 81 the
explosion of q magazine at Tfen Tsien destroy
cd eighty houses and many lives.
The indianapolis Journal says: "some cru
dite muttonhead is compiling Shakespeare.
for the columns of the Louisville Commercial
In only thirteen of the States do the receipts
of the postal service exceed the expenditures.
Two of these are in the West-lihnois anu
Iowa.
Fifty men equipped by the stock raisers' lett
Brownsville, Texas, on the gath, to follow cat
tie thieves, and will follow them II necessary
into Mexico.
ol,-,oo nf 10
the Emperor and Empress had returned. Guns
we're fred, bells rung, and the city oecora'eo
and illuminated three nights.
A witty editor, who had just failed, says he
did it with all the honors of war, and retired
from the field with flying colors, sherif's flag
Autterinr from two windows and the door.
-. The chair in which John Adams was sitting
when he signed the Declaration of Independ
ence will be sent to Cincinnati, to be occupied
nv the presiding officer of the Liberal Con
- vention.
The Attorney General has consented to tn
re,ease of the Tichborne claimant on bail, bu
the necessary forms Of law to secure the ibef
. alton If the prisoner have not yet been com
piled with.
The Chancery Court granted q charter to tn
Tennessee Construction and Contracting Con
pany, with a capital of S5,oOo,ooo Ihe pu
nose of the company is to bridge or tunnel tt
Mississippi river at Memphis.
Sir Edward Thornton, at q dinner given
the st. George Society, made speech
which he said No one apon signing the treat
of Washington imagined hatindirect damage
would be injected in the American claim.
Official returns made to the Bareau of stati
tics show that 9O2 emigrants arrived at Il
mort of New Orleans during the quarter endir
March 81, 1872. OF this nlmber 623 were male
and 279 females. Under fifteen years OF az
1s3 fifteen and under forty years 600; owe
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A fashion reporter describes some of til
toilets at o recent party at Cheyenne: "Ih
belle of the evening was Miss w. She drosse
faultlessly in a linsey-wolsey of the palei
shade of cafe au ldit, cut en- train, and trimme
with Chicago relics"
1t is now believed that the steamer 1spahar
which left Bombay in January for Lverpoo
and which has not been heard from since lea'
ing Malta, February 18th, foundered off Bres
France, during terrific gale. Fifty person
are supposed to have gone down with IL
steamer.
A telegram from Hong Kong brings INTEL
pence of q terrible marine disaster on the Oh
nese coast. The French steamer Avato cam
into collision Win the steamer MUM, huu u
latter vessel was sunk Sixty persons WI
were ON board the Roma missing, and it
believed that all are lost.
In many counties bordering on Pea
River, an insect commonly known as bu
falo gnats have attacked farm herses an
mules, and severely injured them that man
hundred animals have died W thin the past fe
days. There is great apprehension on the pal
of the farmers, very many of whom have not
team with which to cultivate crop.
An old bachelor, who had become melanchoI
and poetical, wrote some verses for the villnt
paper, in which he expressed the hope that tt
time would soon come when he should
rest calmly with shroud,
With weeping willow by my side.
but to his iuexpressible horror it came out
When ahall rest calmly with Shdrl
With a whopping 'cidoic by my side
The steamer Italy, from Liverpool, arriv
in New York last week with the first OF t
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