The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-16
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

| Justice Of Mexico.
New York is to issue o. sOO, 900 Of bonds n
widen and pave Broadway.
On New Years day there were 81, $40 post.
offices in the United States.
! Ex-King Amadeus has been appointed Lien.
| tenant general of the italian army.
Miller, the collector of Customs at Mobile ia
said to be defanlter to the amount of Gee, 600
The master printers throughout Germany on
the 10th, locked out all employees who belong.
| cd to Unions.
| Beechers church costs s43 900 year. of
which Beecher's salary consumes 10000, and
the Library 500.
| A recent philosopher discovers o method to
avoid being dunned. CHOW f-how f-how p,
! every body asks. Nerer run IN debt.
The Legislatures of Ohio and Indiana have
adopted RESOLUTIONS censuring Congressman
] from those States for increasing their salaries
The death of Right Hon. Henry Thomas
| Lowry Conery, member of Parliament for Ty.
| rome, is also announced the same day. He was
| 72 years old.
| The Portuguese journals ssy that at no time
in the history of their country have such efforts
been made to organize a Republican party as
| arc now making.
| bad materials. 1t may stand for time, with
care and attention; but. at last, down is comes,
probably burying its inmates in the ruins
The coil oil experiment has again been tried
| and, as usual, resulted in brilliant Success
This time twas in Baltimore by o negro W.
wan, who wanted to light fire in a hurry.
Boutwell, was elected on the 11th, to succeed
Henry Wilson as Senator from Massach usetts.
He received 124 out of 23e votes. Boutwell, has
resigned the secretaryship Of the Treasury
The Albany N. Y. Argus publishes . table
showing that of the thirty seven counties
holding town meetings, Democrats and Liber-
ais have carried twenty against Ave last year,
making. net gain their side of eighty.
three towns.
4 remarkable phenomenon was- witnessed "a.
Gently in the town of San Ignaeio, Sinaloa,
Mexico. There was shower of enickpilyer,
fine dyops of Mercury falling everywhere and
covering the plants. The nhabitauts COLLECTED
many samples.
Viscouns Ossingtop, John Evelyn Denisen,
died on thet tb, in the I'D year of hisrage. Hs
was q member of Parliament almoss' contEs-
xousIy from 1928 to 1879, and the Speaker Of
House of Commons from 1857 to the year Of
his retiremenS.
Apetition has been signed by many Of the
colsred citizens Of Pensacola and Forwarded to
their representatives in the Legislature, pray
ing Them TO secure The passage of q law max
ing 5wenty-si1 days a months work for all
house servants.
To use books rightly is to go to them 6r
help; 70 appeal to- them when our own know
ledge aud power foils; to be led by them into
wider sight, pure1 conceptions than our own,
and receive from them the tied sentence OF
the judges and coancils Of all time. against our
solitary and unstable opinjon.-RsskiH.
The Tnedegar Iron Works, at Richmond, Va.,
established. nearly thirty-sight years ago,
now have $1,000, GEO. capital and nearly 1000
workmea. A special manufacture is a freight
car Of great strength and durability, of which
large nambers are sent to every part of the
country. The buildings cover . space Of if
teen ac7ss.
meetipg was held in New York on the 9Th,
of large number Of Southern gentlemen, in
Guiding she most prominent business mon from
the South residing there. Ex-Gov. Lubbock,
of Texas, and Col. Hart of Georgia, delivered
addresses, Tho Object Of the meeting was to
form a Southern association for social, benevo-
lent and. other purposes which should include
all gentlemen COM scted With Southern trade.
Auo*her cable is soon to BIO laid under the
Atlantic. Already 2567 miles of the wire are
coiea in the oapacious hold OF the Great East
crn. Tbis colossal steamer, which is specially
ada p5ed' to the delicate work of cable laying,
is to steam out of her British harbor toward.
the end. of May, and the projectors of the new
oceanic telegraphic enterprise confdeutfTeh-
poet to have their submerged wire in operation
before the beginning of July. This cablsis to
be brought directly to our shores, via Halifax
1t is reported that Portland. Me-, gentle
man, who had heard unfavorable reports OF
the misobievous proolivities of the boys at an
| adjacent village, had occasion to visit the
village in question, aud, after making
| tour of it in safety, met an acquaintance, 70
whom he related his ill-founded suspioionS,
adding that be had not even seen q hoy. "Ah,"
said his friend, "thats because all the boys
are at the other end of the village, stoning
| funeral"
Ore day at dinner q scientific lady asked tho
late George Stephenson, What do you con-
slider the most powerful force in nature ~
| 4 t.T onTo