The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-06
EDITORIAL AND OrHER ITEMS.

dred were booked from Cork.
Mgr. Losanpa, Bishop Of Bella, in Piedmont,
and the oldest italian bishop, is dead.
The Boston Daily Globe begins its New York
news with, Report of the Regular Daily
Murder"
Debt statement: Decrease 81, 625.o00; in the
Treasury; $69, SOC, 900 in coin, $2,625, 900 in
currency.
The bill abolishing capital punishment only
received twenty-nine votes in the Ohio House
of Representatives.
Fifty emigrants left Carriok-on-Suir, on the
3lst, for the United States, and will shortly be
followed by many more
Commodore Farrand, late of the Confederate
States Navy, died on the 18th lust, at his homo
in Alfalfa, Etowah county.
Count Leopold Ferri, of Padua, had q libra
ry consisting of $4,000 volumes, all of them
composed by female authors.
Out of four thousand plays written during
the past four generations, it is said that only
thirty five are now performed.
The maddest man in Camden, is Smith. He
wound up his clock regularly for fifteen years,
aud then discovered that it was an eight-day
clock.
a Pittsburg brides dowry lately consisted
ought to secure her reception by the ton any
where.
Sister Antonio, sister Of Bishop Lynch Of
melites in Baltimore, died in that city on tho
I'd inst.
The Democrats carried st. Louis by over
1000 majority, in the recent municipal cleo
ton. In Milwaukee also they elected their
entire ticket
The Missions of the Franciscan Order in the
world, exclusive of the Christian part of Eu-
rope, are divided into IFS colleges and CSC par
ishes, with 3,4OO friars. -
An eccentric, but observant English trav-
round the globe, and saw but two. classes of
people men and women.
There are one hundIed vacant cadetshps in
the Naval Academy. Members of the ap-
preaching Congress have the nominations
The examinations will take place in July.
Commissioner Douglas has appointed an
gineer to survey land in the South sold for di
rect taxes, with view of their restoration to
owners, upon the payment of taxes, costs, etc.
Professor Tenny, of Dartmouth College, has
discovered seventy new bright lines in the
spectrum of the chromospbere The practical
rent to every business man.
A literary curiosity, "The Poems of Mary
Queen of Scots" is in preparation. The verses
of this Queen, collected from original and OBJ
scure sources, will be prefaced with an Intro
duction by Mr.. John Sharman.
Surprising it may seem, eggs are among
the commodities of which large quantities are
imported into tho United states-the number
for the year being 1857 ,o7s. These, of course,
come from Canada, and pay no duty.
King Lunalio, now the monarch of the
Sandwich Islands, has made the tour of his
kingdom in United States steamship, on the
invitation Of Admiral Pennock. The King
will come to San Francisco with Gen. Scho-
field to make a tour of the United States.
The French Academy has lost its Oldest mem
Der, General de Segur, who died ON Tuesday
week, aged ninety-two. The gallant Count
took part in the Russian campaign, of which
he wrote the history. He was one of Napole-
on's aides de-carp in the Polish campaign
Deceased rose from the ranks which he enter
ed in 1893.
The following resolution will take effect at
the matriculation examination in June next at
the University of London THAT Greek be
no longer compulsory candidates at the
matriculation examination, but be ranked as
optional with French ard German SO that it
shall be sufficient for any candidate to pass in
any one of these three languages"
The son of Baron Anselm de Rothschild, the
head of the Austrian branch, has not only
married Christian, but has abjured his faith
for hers. He will succeed his father. and is,
indeed, his only and heir. His wife is
daughter of the Austrian Archduke Regner.
This is the first time that a Rothschild has
abandoned the faith of Moses for that of Christ.
The Jardin des Plantes has just lost one OF
its oldest pensioners, Mono, the parrot of the
Marquisa islands, brought over in 1776 by
Bougainville, and presented by him to the
Royal Museum, which has since taken its pres
ent name These birds, as is known, live for
more than a hundred years, and the age of that
now spoken of must have exceeded that age
According to the last report of Capt Ingram
Chief Of the Fire Brigade, Dublin suffered but
little from fires during the year 1872. The total
number of alarms was 1873, of which five were
false, Ill only chimney fires and 20 more eX-