The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-18
R,rning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEAMg, SUNDAY, MAY Is, 1873.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.


EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS
Forty thousand passports have been issu ed
by the State Department, Washington.
Oscar H., the new King Of Norway and
Sweden, was crowned at Stock holm, ON the
12th, with msgnifcent ceremonies. sL...
The Turkish provinces Of Boz aria are flooded.
A number of persons have boon drowned, and
the destruction of crops and property il heavy.
81 say, Bill; Jims got scrsgged for stealing
horse.n ''Sarve him right, why didn't he
buy one, and not pay for it, like any other gen.
tlemanr
white girl four years old was murdered by
negro boy seven years old, last week, near
Lynchburg, Va, because she would not give
him white marble.
DR.. Paddock was elected Bishop of the Epis-
copal Church at the Convention lately held in
Boston. DeKaven, his opponent, was defeated
because of his avowed belief in the personal
presence of Christ in the elements of the Holy
Sacrament.
The riot in Frankfort, Germany, last month,
was very serious affair. The troops who
were called out to restore order were pelted
with stones. Sixteen breweries wero wreck cd
by the rioters; 10 pers ons were killed, 81
wounded, and 100 arrested.
Admiral Green writes from Santiago de Cuba
that traffic with the interior is cut off by the
insurgents. Admiral Green believes the insur-
gents better supplied than ever with arms and
ammunition, and reports the instruction as
daily becoming more formidable.
By the off cial Russian stat ement the army
of the Caucasus consists Ore gulars, ISL ,735
men, 1872 feld,guns, AZ mitrailleuses; Cossacks
44,67e men, Sc ield-guns. In Turkestan-Re-
gulars, 81 ,6ss men, AZ ield-guns, 16 mitrail-
euses. Total, 21s O52 men, 296 feld-guns, and
Ga mitrailleuses.
The finest game of base ball ever played in
Philadelphia came off last Wednesday between
the Athletics and Philadelphia. On the ninth
inning the game stood to 3. On the tenth
inning each 81 de made one. The game termi-
mated with the thirteenth inning, the Pbila-
delphias scori ng one and retiring their oppo-
nents with a blank.
Bishop Wightman gave the good people at
Dresden Tenn, round scolding for having
such shabby church, but the Dresden Demo
c7at says; "Wo venture the assertion without
fear of contradiction that, if the Bishop had to
contribute as much money for cigars, whiskey
and tobacco, in order to keep these businesses
prospecting, as the members of his church and
for having no more money"
The Naples correspondent of the London
Times says that the Empress of Russia seems
to have been much touched by the way in
which his Holiness received her son, the Grand
Duke vladimir. The Pope being i'll in bed,
his Imperial Highness was admitted to his
room, and his Holiness, observing that the
Grand Duke carried his head rather awry, ask
ed him if he suffered. IT have boil on my
neok," was the reply; on which the Pope ex-
claimed, "Oh, that will soon pass" and, stretch
ing out both his hands, touched the boil, which
the Prince wrote, disappeared at once.
By telegram from Bombay we learn that Sir
Bartle Frere's mission was well received at
Muscat, aud the result of his efforts has been
that Syud Turk has signed treaty in which
the latter undertakes to forbid the importa-
tion of slaves, and declares free all negroes
and other bondsmen hereafter arriving in the
territory of Oman. BY the provisions of his
treaty he likewise agrees to put down all pub
lie slave marts, and any one who may be prov
ed to have imported slaves will be amenable
to the law. Similar engagements have also
been entered into with the sheiks at Makullah
on the Sadramaunt Coast. The political resi-
dent at Bushire will make all safe the
Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf. Sir Bartle
Frere will proceed to Mahabuleshwar, where
he will have an interview with the Governor
and then he will go to Smla.
"Ihe Roman Catholic Position"