The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-25
EDITORIAL AND OTHER IrElrs.

Emperor William, of Germany, is sick
Gales in the Island of Java have DESTROYED
the Glove crop.
Mrs. VIM. B. Aston, of New York, is dead.
She left an estate worth 100000.
All the courts in Memphis have been Obliged
to adjourn on account of tho coal famine.
| Archbishop McCloskey suggests the discon-
tinuance of PROFESSIONS on St. Patrick's Day.
| On dit, that Col. John w. Forney, of Phila-
| delphia. succeeds Mr. Creswell as Roatmaster-
General.
Every wooden leg which supplies the place
of a limb lost in battle is said to be q stump
| speech against war.
The marriage of the Marquis of Butte to the
daughter of Lord Edward George Howard is
| announced to take place soon.
Bismarck proposes an international congress
for cheap uniform postage to facilitate the
transmission and exchange of nails
The whole number of deaths the past week
| IN Philadelphia was Asa decrease of "a.
Deaths from smallpox 1854 decrease of A.
An imaginative Western editor informs his
| readers that mo jeering skeleton mocks him
from the battlements of melancholy's lofty
peak"
Ristoris inju from the recent railroad
accident are quite serious. Fracture of her
long time.
The railroad bridge over the Mississippi at
Council Bluffs has been completed. 1t is the
largest structure in tho world on the high.
bridge system.
The subscription committee in Nancy have
already received 1900, 900 francs, contribu-
tions to the voluntary fund for the payment of
the war indemnity.
The snow blockade on the Pacific Railroad
has been raised. One of the passengers died
from the fatigne and exposure experienced In
the trip over the road
Three police commissioners, three fire COM
missioners, and the chief of police, of Jersey
City, have been indicted by the grand jury for
misdemeanors in Office.
A lady, in accounting to a friend for her tenn
porary disappearance from society, said she
had been celebrating her wooden wedding,
having just married a blockhead.
Bishop Foley has announced his intention to.
commence early in the spring to rebuild the
Catholic Churches destroyed by the Chicago
fire. He will also rebuild the Bishops palace
| at once.
friend who did the Colorado mountains
last fall has informed us that he got as raven
ous as a raven among the ravines, and sat
down in one of The gorgeous gorges and gorged
himself.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg pays the Daheia
ZeitanJ a handsome sum for publishing his
poetry, besides which he buys, at retail rates,
| nearly the entire edition of such issues as con-
| tain his doggere
Major Mclaughlin, champion of America,
has challenged Wright or Jameson, English
champions, or any other person in the world,
to a wrestling match for 5000, aud give or
take $3.50 for expenses.
The population of the State of New York
has increased by 54s, 9s5, since 1865; and of
this increase 415,346 go to the credit of the
cities of the State. The farming population
has scarcely advanced at all.
The American Club has elected Tweed presi
dent. He made speech, saying he looked
forward to the time when, absolved from poll
tics and allegations, he could devote his whole
attention to the welfare of the club.
| Mr.. j. G. Bennett, Jr., declines to succeed
Fisk, Jr, as Colonel of the Ninth Regiment,
because it is said to cost $4,000 a year to be
"a liberal and philosophical Colonel" and he
doesn't love the military to that degree.
Rev Stephen Morgan, recently convicted of
purloning books from the Theological Library,
Cincinnati, made q confession of the offence
before his church at Chevot last week. Tho
The recent cold weather, as well as the sud
denncss and severity of the storms in the
Northwest, are without parallel. Ten per-
sons were frozen to death in Dixon county,
| Nebraska, and several wood-cutters in the
Winnebago Agency suffered the same fate.
The Los Angeles rioters, who murdered so
many Chinese in that place three months ago.
have been acquitted. A committee of the City
Council, to whom was referred the petition of
Chinese asking for compensation for the de-
struction of property, have reported against
allowing their claims.
Count de Larendau, while in the street, but
a few doors from his residence in the Place
F'rochat, Paris, was struck by falling Chin
ney pot, blown from a neighboring house dur
ing heavy gale of wind which swept over
Paris on January 9Th, and instantly killed.
His father, strangNto say, lost his life in pre-
csely the same manner in 1850.
Y, Some Michigan boys, feeling the need of