The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-16
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

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The Unita Cattolica was sequestrated Biz
times last month for articles in favor of the
Pope.
One female clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment can count 5000 notes in an hour, and has
counted 1000 in twenty minutes.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis with her two daughters,
will reside at Shelbyville, KY, during the abb
sence of her husband in Europe.
Cresswell is quite confident of the adoption
of his postal savings bank system. he mas
encouraging letters from many Congressman.
The pilgrimages in Franco are almost all
over for the year, owing to the cold weather
which has already set in with unusual sever
ity.
Probably the oldest timber in the world is
that which is found in the ancient temples OF
Egypt. 1t is 1000 years old apd perfectly
sound.
| Milwaukee women entertains her husband
every night with oyster stews and egg-nog in
order to prevent him spending his evenings
away from home.
Robert J. McCallan lately died interstate in
South Carolina, and our Government il now
looking for an heir to his 500, 900 in his native
county of Armagh, Ireland.
Eleventh avenue, New York, six miles long,
one hundred and fifty feet from curb to curb,
laid in small stone three feet deep rolled into q
compact solidity, is the finest boulevard in
the world.
| Hard times don't seem to trouble some folks
| much. Miss La tennessee (Mme. Albany re-
Gently made an engagement in Paris to sing
i've weeks in st. Petersburg for the considera-
ton Of $4,000.
| The estimates of the War Department for
the next year show an increase of nine mil
lions This includes three millions for the
Engineers Department and one million four
hundred thousand for Notifications.
The sun is now working abont ten hours per
day bat proposes a gradual reduction of time
for the next Eve or SIX weeks, in order to help
the gas company and also the dealers in kero-
sene and tallow candles.-Procfdsnce Press.
A correspondent states that Queen Olga Of
Greece was recently mobbed by her enthus-
iastic subjects who are colonized at Galatz.
Her dress was torn from her and distributed
in fragments, as relics, among her rough Hell
lenic lovers.
William B. Taylor, the Governor elect of
Wisconsin, is fifty-fve years of age, was born
in New England, has lived in Dane county,
Wis, for twenty-five years, is president of the
Wisconsin Agricultural Society, is q rich farm
er, and was Copperhead =" during the war.
Maine, in the way of divorces, is rapidly
becoming the Indiana of the East. An An.
: gusta Journal says that the mazriage tie grows
less and less sacred, the bond existing between
man and wife is annulled for trivial causes
families are broken up and neighborhoods and
society generally demoralized. In Cumberland
. eighty divorces are pending, and in York
I county twenty-five separations have just been
granted.
The Boston advertiser of the 10th introduces
: an article on the business outlook as follows
"The reports from the manufacturing sections
: of the country, particularly from the New
:, England places, begin to be of q more cheer
I ing temper. This morning there is news of q
Q resumption of business in several instances
b and the running of manufactures on increased
d time. The exaggerated character of many
; statements is daily becoming more apparent
few days since, in Northern city, . man
Q was detected hurrying away from q butcher
Z stall with a steak, which he had stolen, under
: his coat. A policeman followed him to hi
home, and peeping through the window, saw
him give the steak to his children, who de
voured it raw. Upon report of this being
made to the butcher, his bosom go glowed with
benevolent sympathy, that instead of prose
? cutting, he sent the starving family large
Q basket of meat and little cash to buy wood
to cook it.
very distinguished Irishman died in Lon
? don on the 14th inst. We allude to Sir Robert
Mcclure, the navigator, who, as Admiral Sher
. rard Osborne writes, " in the years 1850, 1851
!, 1852, 1853 and 1854, led the crew of her Ma
jesty's ship, Investigator, by vessel and sledge
across the great aforementioned seq, from the
} Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, "riG Banks Land
and Melville Island, thus achieving what is
: known as the North West Passage" For thit
t great achievement he was highly honored and
3 rewarded by the London ParliSment and Gov
. eminent of the day. He was O native of Wex
/ ford.
f The Corpus Christi and Rio Grande Railroad
Company was organized on the 9TH at the
Q former place. The line connects Corpus
{ Christi with Laredo, besides controlling the
Rio Grande trade, and will exercise q power
full influence in checking border depredations
and in opening to settlement the rich lands of
the Nuecea Valley, Parkiea of IahOrera are