The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-16
eaornIne Star and Catholic Messenger.
EDITORIAL AND OTTER rrEx,.

suddenly on tuo L~th'
Yellow fever israginf In Rio Janiero' 'no
deaths averaging forty a day. ;.ooi
General Crook reports having killed ~
Indians since tina cssmpaign commences my
year. -t Ia,
The Mssouri Senate last week passed oii
authorizing jdrses to substitute hie 'npf'so"'
ment for the death penalty. Il
The oeus,,s of Brazil, just completed, shows
the population to BIO 100000, inciuaing near
" 9, O0a,8 es of slaves and $500 aboris'nees'
The Massachusetts Legislature has passed
a resolution cspgrntuiating Spain upon Aayins
adopted q Republican form OF aoverh"0H.,
Coffee lovers, will he sorry to near 'na'
twenty fve thousand sacks OF tue gram "eto
burned at sea on tho 18th, whist IN ua"s''
from Brazil to this country. .,.,.-.,i
The French residents of New York are on
deavoring to establish settlement IN 'na'
neighborhood for .A1sace and LORI aine 'onii'
grants, to be called New Strasbourg.
Tho Empress Eugenie 10 said to nave ao'
dressed letter somewhat cool In tone 10 niaf-
shall MaoAiahon in reply TO his offer OF excuses
for not attending the funeral OF Napoleon IA.
France will DO prepared to pay almost tno
whole Of the fifth miliard fthe war indemnify
in Nav, so that it may be expected that the
comDlete Liberation Oh Uuo totiisS'J was
effected in the course of the year. - 4,
1t is believed that the House bill requiring
prepayment of postage on newspapers nj the
Office of mailing, stands chance OF passing
Al. Senate "a an Administration measure, and
will curtail newspaper profit and circulation'
Several gentlemen, says the Columbus Sun,
told us that ten Thousand negroes had or
would be moved from Southwestern Georgia to
Arkansas. The agents, it is said, promise S4o
per month, clsthisg rations of flour, meat and
syrup. -A
MARSHAL ,CaNnopHRr.-This distinguished
soldier Of the Empire, who is in failing health
is stated to. have attended tho last soiemnities
at Chislehurst, in spite of the assurance OF Ill
physician, DIR. saville, that he could only do &c
at the imminent risk of his life
Two boys, aged twelve and sixteen years
were recently convicted of murder at Burling
ton, Iowa, for killing their mother. They
stabbed her seven times, each one of the wound.
being sufficient, in the opinion of the Doctor te
cause death in fifteen minutes. ..
A New York telegram says: "a private dis
patch from Rome announces the appointment
of tho Very Rev: DIR. NJ. A. Corrigan as Bishop
of Newark, n. j., and of Rev. VIM. II. Gross, q
Redemptionist missionary, as Bishop of savan
nah. Their nominations we're CONFIRMED by the
Pope on tho Cd nit"
few nights since, three prisoners confined
in the jail at Lexington, KY, attempted to
escape. They had cut an opening through q
stone wall two feet thick and had gained tho
outer ard. A quarrel then broke among then
and they returned to their cells, where they
were securely ironed.
W.. Adams, late Of the 1!cayune, but now
editing the Enterprise, Miss Courier, growls
because the debt OF his city Ia slo94, and thu
Mayors salary has been increased $40 month
Evidently he has forgotten the luxury of Mv
ing in city that owes $o3,ooo,eoo and q State
with debt of $45O00 900. "a 80.
Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, seens tt
have gotten into trouble with political leader
already, and has been compelled to call publ,
attention to his letter In acceptance of thenom
ination, in which he made no promise to be a
party candidate and says that he is not nov
to be swerved from that, position. l'F ~. ..
James Gordon Bennett, it is said, 20 oontem
plates publishing s;daiIy paper in London
after tho style Of the New. York RtsHd. He
is credited with saying that heis prepared to
invest one million dollars IN it, and to mako it
n model Of what q newspaper should be In en-.
terprise. Such sheet would wake up the
cockneys. va s9a',t''''' 800
The funeral ceremonies of the late Vicar
General STAIRS, took place in st. Patriok's
Cathedral New York, last Monday. The
church wass draped in black, and was crowded
to almost suffocation. A pontifcal high mass
was celebrated by Archbishop McCloskey, and
the funeral Grafton was preached by Bishop
Loughin, of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Ricbbonrg, we'll known resident of
Escsuibia county, Florida, died on the 18th
ult, at the advanced ago of one hundred and
seven years. The Pensacola Express of the 25th
nit, speaking Of tho above person, says: "shs
has, until the last two years, been in perfect
possession of her faculties, but of late they
have failed her, and che has been prepared fol-
death for twenty yeapa, having all of her gray,
clothes made.
The daughters of the late Chief Justio
fancy arc in straitend circumstances
being compelled to earn their subsistence,
by working IN copyists for lawyers in Balti
more. Members of tho legal profession
throughout the country are about startin,
fund to relieve the necessities of these ladies
the children of o man who for thirty years helt