The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-25
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.


The vonito Is increasing in Havana,
| Snow fell in the North of England on the
18th inst.
1854 immigrants landed at Castle Garden on
| the 18th inst.
NJ Meissonnier has sold picture on which
he is still engaged, entitled, "cbarge des
Cairassiers," for s12, 900.
John Poyntz, Earl of Spencer, and Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, is forty years of age and
receives 100000 year for his rslsable serv;.
COS.
IL has been discovered that many Londoners
mistake old and disused pumps, in which there
10 slis where the handles used to work, for
ietter-boxes. and put their letters il. them,
At the last Presbyterian Assembly in Balti.
more q resolution that baptism az admins
tered in the Catholic and all other Evanreli.
cal churches is not Christian baptism, was Ia
bled.
George Francis Train las been sent to the
Lunatio Asylum, the jury in the case against
him for circulating obscene literature having
acquitted him of the charge on the ground Of
insanity.
"A report has been read that marriage in
In course of arrangement between the Dnke of
Norfolk and Mdlle, Monta,embert, dauehter Of
the illustrieus Count, but the London Reo;st.r
denies its truth.
a church, dedicated to Notre Dame do
tloardes is soon to be built in Paris. The Pops
has already presented it With beautiful ohai
ice. and Madame de McMshon is one of its
chief benefactors.
A big fight il progressingin Pennsylvania for
the possession of1O00 acres Of anthracite coal
lands, valued at $50, 100000. Three houses
have been burned by one party and retaliation
is threateped by the other.
A great number of piigrimages will take
place this year in Belgium. The first of these
occurred on May 1, to the shrine of Notre
Dame de Waleourt, under the guidance of the
BISHOP OF Nau'urs. Some 5000 persons were
present.
The Archbishop of Cologne has excomuuui-
Gated the ex-curste of Gurzonich, now "old
Catholic" Pfarrer Of Crefeld. The "excommu-
niOatio major" was pronounced from the pul-
pits of three churches in Crefeld on sundav
morning, Goth ult.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad commenced
track laying from Jefferson, Tex, toward Mar.
shall on the Goth. On the southern division the
track is being laid Mt the rate of two miles a !
day. They expect to have tho line completed
to Dallas on or before July 1.
The corner stone of the Convent of st. JoaeDh |
and the Chapel was laid in Hartford, Ct, on |
the 18th, with imposing ceremonies by BishoD |
McFarlane. The various Catholic socfetiea |
with banners and music, and about ten Shou. |
sand people witnessed tho ceremonies.
The Court Of Appeals has sustained the de- |
cision Of the New York surrogate that thu
United States cannot accept bequests of real
estate the Gaze in issue being the win Of
Charles Fox, giving half o million of dollars To
The Government to help pay the national debt,
report Of the n. Y. Society for the Proven
hon Of Cruelty to animals shOvs that the 40.
ciety prosecuted 361 cases, investigated and
Eenodied evils in over . Thousand oages. ana
'0rned ont Of harness and sent to stableu 7sz
anne horSes. The treasurer's report shows the
'eeeipes to be 81, l9o-sxPsnsssA "a, 047..
The French Academy Of Fias AEts has RSven
his year Is the subject Of thS competition in
'Ainting for the Grand Prix dc Rsne.. $ha in
appreciation OF the 18th Psala :-srBv &ha
ivers Of Babylon there we sat dSvn
We hanged our harps on tho willows +.
low shall we sing tho LOrd's BOhg in q strange
sndf"
In will recently proved in England the !
estator, with an eye to his estate, his legal I
eirs aud his friends, directs as follows. AFT c
lay be thatsome few friends of mine NAV E
esire some little memorial of me. If 90, let
1em give the market price of the valuables, r
nd the proceeds may be added to and form T
art of my personal estate" There is no dis q