The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-21
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 81, 1s7a 60
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| UNITED STATES.
CoNGREss.-Senate, Jan. l6.-Several petit
| tions were presented asking for the enactment
of constitutional amendment excluding oil
persons addicted to the use of liquor from
| holding Federal offices. Mr.. Sherman reported
the House bill repeating the duty on coal and
salt, with amendments, with o request that it
| be printed and recommitted. The discussion
which followed developed the fact that the
| amendments involved the entire revision of
| the tariff, which Trumbnll asserted were in
tended to defeat the measure during this $685.
sion. i7th:IThe entire day was vas oeeupied in
Wilson introduced bill allowing women to
| hold Office and vote in the Territories on the
| same conditions as men. Referred. House
| into the troubles in Louisiana consists of
Messrs. Schofeld (of New York), McCreary,
VOORHEES, and Marshall. 15th.-The house has
ting daH sxsune
of Congress who loft, and army and navy Of
ficers who abandoned the service for the South.
Mr. Morey introduced bill appropriating
$4,000 for public buildings at Shreveport,
La. and presented petitions from the citizens
of North Louisiana for the establishment of
United States Court for that section.
NEW YoRK.-Stokes, who killed Fisk, was
brought before court on the oath. The defence
asked for postponement till the 18TH. which
was allowed. The run on the Third Avenue
Savings Bank continues. About two millions
have been paid ont. Judge Barnard's man
elected delegates-Henry Genet President.
This is considered q triumph over the sachems.
Berlin letter states that the German govern
ment has received q circular from Count Gorts-
chakoff relative to some incidents arising from
the recall of Catacazy. This circular is said to
have been found necessary from the following
circumstances. The American Minister Krs-
mer, during a dinner ut the house CT the Ger
man Minister at Copenhagen, proposed reading
letter from the American Government ex-
Planatory Of the cataeazy affair, but the Rus
Minister said that snch a letter must not be
read in his house. Subsequently Kramer went
to each Minister in Copenhagen, and read the
reporting it to their governments: The Russian
Cabinet feels veXed over the affair, and ru-
mors are afoat in Berlin that GOODNESS be-
tween Russia and the United States has arisen
therefrom. The same letter states that advices
from st. Petersburg represent that the Em-
peror and all society there consider that Alexis
has been slighted by President Grant not re-
allow Alexis to return to Washington. Attic
hast meeting of the Union Republican General
Committee, the resignation Of Horace Greeley
to succeed him as President. A woman. giving
her name as Mrs. McCarty, of Albany. shot
Milton 81. Thompson, of Utica, through the
nose and cheek, and II. H. Hale, coal dealer
eft Ogdensburg, through the heart. The wo-
man got on h car near the head of tennessee
street; Thompson and Hale (who was rela-
tive of Tbompson's) got on the car ut Thomp-
sons residence; some words passed between
Mrs. mccarthy and Thompson, when the wo-
man drew a revolver and shot ut him. The bail
went through Thompson's face and struck
Hale in the heart. The latter jumped from
his seat and fell dead IN the bottom of the car.
vIRGINIA.-DeaM of Bishop McGiH-Con-
corning the death and funeral of this distin-
guished prelate. the following kilograms were
received: Richmond, Jan. 14.--Bishop McGill
twenty-five years bishop of the Virginia do
cese, is dead aged sixty-two. Richmond, Jan.
16.-The funeral of Right Rev. Jno. McGill,
Catholic Bishop of Virginia, took place to-day,
ing. Bishop p N. Lynch, of Charleston, S. c.,
delivered the funeral discourse. The cere-
monies were of the most impressive and solemn
character, and were witnessed by an immense
congregation, while thousands were unable to
gain admittance to the cathedral Bishops
Becker, of Wilmington, Del, and Gibbons, of
North Carolina, together with number of
mains were inferred in the chapel under the
cathedral.
ILL1NoIs.-On the 10th party of citizens of
the north side, Chicago, mostly Germans and
Scandihavians, to the number of two or three
thousand, marched in o procession to the
city buildings, to protest against the pass
age of an ordinance establishing the limits
of the city as fire limits; they denounced
the ordinance as an effort to crush ont the
poor for the benefit of the rich. The crowd
pressed into the Council Chamber and were so
demonstrative that the Council hastily adj
journed.
MISSOURI large meeting of Irishmen has
been held in st. Louis to protest against the
unfair distribution of Offices by the party in
power.
SAN FRANCIsco.-The steamer America, from
China and Japan, has arrived, and brings an
Imperial Japanese embassy, consisting of
Twokura. Prime Minister of Japan, coming rs
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary to treaty powers, Kedo, member of his
Imperial Majesty's Privy Council and assistant
| ambassador; Akabo, Chief Minister of Finance
| and assistant minister of public works and
| ambassador of the second rank and Hama
| Gnlki, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs