The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1872-06-02
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

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The first sunstroke Of the season occurred
New York on the oath Of May.
James Gordon Bennett, ST., founder of Il
New York Herald, is dangerously ill.
y. d. Buckalew has been nominated f
Governor of Pennsylvania by the Democrats.
The consumption of spirits in the Unite
States is estimated ut two hundred and tbirt
thousand gallons per day.
Cont, the recently deceased private secretar
OF Napoleon ILL.,, left his very large fortune I
the French Relief Fund, for the victims of tn
| war.
1t is just 170 years since the first daily pane
IN England was started. This was the Dali
co"'a"t, begun in February, 1902. 1t was edite,
by a lady.
The Duke of Bedford, nephew to Earl Russell
Is dead. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, the brothe
OF Lord Lytton Bulwer the novelist, is ais,
dead. He was Minister to Washi npton from
1s49 to 1e52
Inc Fremde"dlatt, n German paper, devoted
to the interests of travellers and tourists. saws
that Germany is visited annually by twenty
thousand Americans, who spend there no less
than twenty million dollars.
Zen. Greaves, who was present at the battle
OF New Orleans in 1915, died recently in Eng
land. In proportion as the English veterans
ole OH, our free negro veterans who served
at this battle increase in number.
The report of the destruction of the entire
sealing feet and the loss of q bout 1000 lives,
published in the papers last week turns out to
De hoax, the loss amountingto to only three
vessels which were crushed by the ice during
a hurricane.
The great race Tor the Derby stakes was run
on the 10Th ult, at EPSON Downs, and was
witnessed by the largest crowd ever known to
have assembled. The number of spectators
was estimated at half a million. Twenty.
three horses ran.
At a session of the Grand Council of Orange
men in New York, resolutions passed for
Orange societies all over the Union to parade
On the 18th of July, and leave the route of pro-
session open to the dictation of the police au-
'horities of each city.
The building known as the Town Clock
store, in Dubuque, Iowa, fell on the 25th ult..
With terrible crash. The clerks had warpipp
y the cracking and succeeded in escaping
afely from the store. Two women who were
'oshing baby in a carriage on the sidewalk
Eere caught by q falling mass. One women
nd the baby were killed. The other woman
ad both legs broken.
The Atlanta and London crews have agreed
pom the 10th of June rs the day for their race
nd 4:3O p. NJ. for the hour to start. The new
oat ordered by the Atlantas is being made by
'ingen & Mills, and will be completed by
Wednesday. The Pail Mall Ga-ettc says The
mericap crew now pull in a style which is
imply perfection.
The California papers chronicle the death of
rnold Martin, who, in a business life of thirty
wo years, started eighteen newspapers i n diff
srent towns and States, two of which were in
Massachusetts. In single venture was he
nccessfu, although in several instances the
erson to whom he sold made money. He was
man of extraordinary capacity and energy
ut lacking in business tact and concentra
veness. He was New Highlander, and was
ffy-two years of age at the time of his death.
An irate country editor says: The lady (,)
ho yesterday called the attention of another
our patched breeches, whereat they both
'ughed 80 heartily, is informed that new ;
air Will be purchased when her husbands
little bill is settled; it has been due nearlv {
Year. Don't criticise a printers dress too ,
osely while wearing silks purchased with !
oney due him. Tell your husband to send , ,
S23 20 at once, and save the cost of an entire 6
lit.
1t is we'll known that Scotland was at one 9
NE peopled from Ireland, and it is from +
at island it borrows its name "Scotiav and
at its Inhabitants are called " Scott :" but it c
not equally so well known that of late wears +
e immigration of the Irish to Scotland has II
en- SO steady. that their immediate descend c
ts will, ere long, count man for man with the +
tive population in the cities and great GEN. r
"a OF industry of that province. 1t would e.
rtainly be novel genealogical fact if Erin q
ice peopled North Britain. g. e.
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DEATH OF THE SUPERIoREss OF THE SISTERS al
MERcY.-Rev. Mother NJ. Catherine Grant G
ID at the Convent of Mercy, in Vicksburr,
the morning of the 23d May, of consump-
n, in the fourteenth year of her relieious OF
'fession and the seventeenth of her entrance M
this Convent. She was a native of Booter,s oc
"n, county Dublin, Ireland. Her life and tn
b Ill