The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-11
EDITORIAL AND orxx1 ITEMS.

Ageneral outbreak of Indians ia feared in
the West.
A heavy earthquake shock was felt at Cairo
on the 9Th. .A. .t e.,
The snow blockade detans the Japanese en-
bassy from coming East.
w. NJ. Tweed has been reelected president
of the Americas Club, New York.
Ristori, the celebrated tragedienne was bad
~ hurt by a recent railroad accident in italy.
During the past year there sailed from tho
Mercy 155,s52 emigrants, against 153,7a5 in
1870
The Right Hon. John Evelyn Denison has
resigned the Speakership of the English House
Of Commons.
A wave of migration rolls steadily west
ward, settling the country at the rate of fifty
miles year.
Valuable plumbago mines have been dis
covered in Australia, and the yield of gold is
again increasing.
In tho United States Court in Mississippi 100
prisoners are to. be tried soon, as members of
the Ku-klux Association
Mining stocks are greatly excited in San
Francisco, over reports of the discovery of rich
ore on the Conestock river.
Imports to New York for the month of Janu-
AIRY 49, 900, the largest ever recorded for
one month, excepting in 1866.
In the Paris elections Vautrain was elected
to the Assembly by 121, 15s votes against 90 ,4as
for Victor Hugo. 22o, 900 voters abstained from
voting.
Duke Alexis left Memphis in the James
Howard on the 9TH. As the steamer will lay
up at night, he will not reach here before to-
morrow.
An expedition, composed of forty persons is
about to start in search of DR.. Livingstone.
Many thousand pounds have been subscribed
already to defray expenses.
"Nevsr mind the obituary. judge" said
Montana culprit when the court became pa
thetic in pronouncing the sentence. "Lets
ix the time for the funeral"
Emigration during the month of/January
from Liverpool exceeds December 1850. The
Chicago Ere seems to have stimulated the emil
grafton Of carpenters and masons.
Mrs. Fair has been granted new trial on
the ground that the court erred in not allowing
counsel for defence the closing argument and
lin permitting evidence to be taken of the for
mer bad,character of the accused.
Passengers on the Pacific Railroad run great
risks in attempting the passage. Tho trains
are often detained by the snow whole weeks
! A train which left Omaha on the 18th of Jsnu-
airy was six days in going fifty miles.
The Postoffice Department has agreed, at the
Suggestion of the United States Treasurer, to
Issue a circular to possmasters requiring them
to receive mutilated currency, under the new
regulations, in payment for postage stamps and
stamped envelopes.
Speaking of Christmas, tho Elizabeth City
IN. ny Press and Telegraph (printed on fools
cap, says: "The Oldest, most generally OBJ
served and Interesting holiday in the Chris
sians calendar hoated by on the wings Of the
icy air as soulful music trillcd BIZ unseen
fingers"
DR.. Schuyler allowed Quakeress to use his
pulpit in New York some weeks ago, for which
he tried before the Presbytery. They did
not censure the Doctor, but they resolved to
call the attention of the Presbyterian churches
to the resolution of the Synod of 1862. which
declares that women sho aid not preach IL their
churches.
The Marquis of Butte has vast possessions in
South Wales, including the land on which are
situated some of the largest iron works in the
world. The Marquis has spent s. 1000, goo in
building docks at Cardiff, and has invested
very literally also in lines Of steamers that
connect South Wales with the commercial ports
of the world. go
8 During the past year the Crita Cattolicd of
Turin has received 331 ,255 lire for the
Peters Pence fund. The total amount so col
iected by that sterling Catholic newspaper now
amounts to 4053,S20 lire, or nearly s135, 100.
This is a very sufficient proof that Catholicity
is neither dead nor asleep even in the oldest do
minions of the usurper of the Quirinal
The number of Catholic newspapers pub
lished in Germany has been increased by the
appearance of two new daily journals, the
Deutsche RcicAs-eitang of Bonnie, and the Cob.
Iea-cr ToIks-eitung of Coblenz. To judge from
THE early numbers, both journals are destined
to form worthy and lasting addition to the
already prolific Catholic literature of Germany.
Many railroad accidents are occurring at
present. On the 9Th, cars containing sixty
passengers were tumbled down e1nbank
ment on the Missouri; Pacific, half of whom
were seriously injured. On the 9TH, an accident
occurred near Alton, Ills, by which ten per-
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