The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-19
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The Coolest Marchn on rccord-Bonaparte,s
retreat from Russia.
Philadelphia reports fifty small pox death.
during the past week.
The untiring charity Of the French is won
derful. Three hundred thousand francs were
subscribed in Paris alone for the Mount Yesu.
vius sufferers.
The citizens of Crystal Springs, Miss., have
erected pole 100 feet high, to which is at.
tached magnificent flag with q white hat in
o blue ground.
;, The Boston Globe tells of an apprentice who
remarked to fellow apprentice, 81 don't like
a boss as is oilers round his shop interesting
with his own business"
The Tenn essee Democratic State Convention
renominated John c. Brown for Governor.
This action is regarded in effect as endorsing
the Cincinnati nominees.
The Italian Government has sent q commu
nication to the Government of Prince Charles
of Roumania, protesting against the persecu-
ton and oppression of the jews in that coun
try.
In few days the works for the re-erection
OF the Vendome Column will commence. It Is
said that the fall caused very little damage.
Three tablets only were entirely destroyed, the
others were but slightly injured.
In the Apachee country the Indians are said
to have become SO peaceable that it ia hard to
toll redskin from q white man; the only diff
ference being that the white usually has no
scalp and the Apachee has two or three.
The United States produce moro grain, in
proportion to population, than any other
country in the world. The Danubian Prinei-
pality, Roumania, is second in the ratio Of
production, and European Russia third.
New England paper calls attention to the
fact that the cotton mills in the Southern States
now have 10000 spindles in operation, and
are paying from ten to twenty per cent divi-
dends on capitals ranging from 100000 to
81 $50 900.
during the month of Match was as follows
double eagles, 5000 900; half-dollars, s65, 600;
total, S965, 200. The silver coinage has been
unusually light, owing to the excessive supply
at present in the market.
nation has been received of o recent
explosion of petroleum and gunpowder in Tri-
poll, in the sea of Greece, whereby number
of lives were lost, has BEEN received in this
city. Twenty persons were instantly killed,
and many received injuries.
Natives of Alsace and Lorraine, residing in
San Francisco, to the number of 300, have
elected to remain citizens of France They
marched to the French consulate with the tri-
color draped in mourning, and took solemn
oath of allegiance to the Republic Of France.
1t is stated that there are in the United
States two hundred and sixty-one soldiers who
lost both eyes, one hundred and eighteen who
lost both legs, eleven who lost both feet, FIVE
who lost both hands, thirty who lost both
arms, and sixteen who lost an arm and o leg.
Hon. Alfred Huger, a well-known Charles
tonian and o conspicuous Unionist in the days
of notification and secession, died in that city
last week of paralysis, in the eishty-fourth
year of his age. He was Postmaster of Charles
ton from the time of President jackson until
1865.
Cincinnati is said to be more densely popu-
lated than any other city in the country The
population is about &c, 900 to the square mile.
New York, the next most populous city, has
$4,000 to the square mile Cincinnati has
about fifty-eight buildings to the ACRE. London
has forty, and Dublin thirty-two.
The Archbishop of Paris has laid the founda-
ton stone of the new chapel of Loretto, at the
country house of the great Seminary of st.
Sulpice. Ever mindful of Alma Mater. the
chapel has been restored at the entire expense
of the former students of the establishment,
who look upon this spot as the cradle of their
9 lcerdotal vocation.
printer in the Metropolis Times Office, while
setting type during thunder shower, expert
enced a curious freak of electricity. The
played about his head and was plain
ly visible to the eye, yet, strange to say, there
was no shock, nor any feeling more than
pleasant sensation. The air at the time was
heavily charged with the vital fluid.
The Cincinnati hospital, for the year ending
March LIST, 1871, paid the Gas Company of that
city $1,000 for gas consumed. In the following
July the hospital constructed gas works of its
own manufacture. The result is that by this
process it will pay for its gas works and gas in
one year with less money than the gas alone
cost the company for the same period.
A SLIGHT MIsrAKE.-Mrs. Du Cane, the
wife of the Governor of Tasmania, recently