The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-04
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Sixteen railways of England own $500 loco
motives, X. et ~.
Eight thousand troops left Spain last week
for Cuba. y
There were III smallpox deaths in PhiIa-
delphia last week. sS.S
The Empress Dowager of Brazil has freed
| all her personal slaves.
Brick Pomeroy has been sued for So, 600 for
o breach Of marriage promise.
In Lincoln county, Nevada, there is q noun
tain of salt, pure, solid and transparent.
Forty new Unions of the International were
formed in this country during the past month.
The United States debt statement shows de-
crease of IS 100000 during the month Of Janu-
airy.
The journeymen carpenters OF Brussels are
on a strike. The masters have all closed their
shops.
The German authorities have prohibited tho
sale of French journals in the streets of Stras-
bourg.
The late Isaac Rich, of Boston, left his pro-
perty, worth 81, 100000, to the Methodist Col
! legiata Institute. Il
This country is the only that taxes
Matches and it is the only ono that cannot be
matched for taxes.
! schoolmsster in Ohio adrertises that. he
will keep sunday-school twice week, Tues
days and Saturdays.
Advices from the plains show that the tenn
perature has been much lower than reported,
and that many deaths from cold have occurred.
| On the LIST of January, American cotton afloat
for Great Britain was 49,, 600 bales against
376 600 last year Indian cotton 224 900, against
$780,
Returns received at the Bureau of Statistics
show the immigration at New Orleans, during
the past year, to have been 1892 males and 1857
| females. F--~--77%.
James Fisk's will has been admitted to pro-
bate, and the estate sworn to az not exceeding
q million of dollars. His widow is the solo
executrix.
OF the Communists captured by tho French
Government, 1922 have been liberated, 3473
are still confined in hulks at the naval sta
lions of the country.
Prof Agassiz told the late Teachers Convers
tion, in Boston, that he thought, in public
education, "too much was made of the mem.
DRY, and too little of the mind"
The spinal meningitis is raging among the
horses of New York city. The best constructed
and appointed stables are visited by it, and q
fearful death rate has been the result.
The number of marine disasters on the coast
of Florida, since 1887, is estimated at about
300 vessels, valued at nearly $50, O0O, coo,
averaging about forty vessels annually.
Enterprising circus men in sae..e;. reap
golden harvests by painting deformed cow
pea-green, and showing it as the famous Cum
durango from the South African mountains.
Gen. VIM. Thompson, who was a Quarter
master for Gen. jackson, and formerly q MIL
lionaire of New Orleans, died at Bellevue Hos
pital, New York, where he had been taken in o
destitute condition by the police. -
young man in Danbury, Conn.,, when told
by the editor of a local paper that the insertion
of the announcement of the death of his wife
would cost him nothing, feelingly remarked
that death for him had been robbed of half
its terrors.
Mount Hood, in Oregon, is<throwing out o
dense column of smoke, indicative of an active
volcanic action. The Bay coal mines are ON
fire. Fire is consuming houses, ETC., outside
the shaft. The sea will be turned in to extin-
guish the flames.
The Anti Kissing Society" formed by tho
fascinating damsels at Saratoga don't seem to
work very we'll, as fifteen out of the twenty
three members were fined the very first week.
There will be an OVERLOOKING treasury before
long unless the society disbands.
Here is Missouri papers notion of the high
calling of journalism 1--WE are compelled to
make this weeks issue almost exclusively q
local and advertisement, paper; bat look out :
next weeks. 1t will be one of the gayest,
fercest, hottest papers that ever went forth
from an American news raggery.
Schools of Typography are established in
most cities Of Germany, and SO great is the
excellence combined with cheapness, at
tanned in the Topographic art that null
titudes of English books, designed for
English circulation, are set mp and printed in
Germany, at the order of London publishers.
At the "Grand Hotel" Paris, the other
night lady, rather excited, rushed down to
the counting house," and asked hurriedly
ono of those small, tight clad boys. "Have you
the smallpox in the house Z" and the boy, who
perfectly understands English" replied "No;
but we expect it every minute. and when it