The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-08-24
ssornIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
s~-.,rr1.I. 80 onIrAMs SUNDAY. AUGUST "a, is7a.
rn1ToR1AL AND OTHER ITEMS.


.roatv of peaoe between Paraguay, Brazil ana
4ba Argentine Republic has been signed.
A party of American engineers raised the
American aag on tho highest peak OF the An
.ies on the 4th of July, in snow knee deep'
notwithstanding all they say against IL,
4bere is not AN editor in the State who would
refnse to accept "back pay from subscribers
Apassiz is getting up book that will make
4be monkeys sick, who thonght to claim re-
lationshp with mankind and handle the ballot
an O few years.
Bishop Hendriclsson, Of Providence, H. H.,
arrived home on the 21st, from Rome. He was
enthusiastically received by large gathering
Of people.
Efforts are being made to established line
of steamships between Savannah and Liver
pool. The municipal corporations and boards
of Trade in Georgia, are pledged to give sup
port to the line.
Bombay dispatches report that destructive
floods have recently afflicted the province Oh
Agra, $500 of the natives houses nave peeh
swept away by the waters. There had oeeh
some loss of lfe of the extent of which no
estimate is yet furnished.
A letter from the Yellowstone expedition re-
ports much ill.feeling between the infantry
and cavalry, owing to the arrest OF Gen. Gus
ter bv Gen. Stanley and the compelling MIN
to march one whole day in the rear of his COM
mand. No cause is assigned for this act.
At the arraignment of the Italian Padrone,
in New York, a deputy marshal testified that
in two houses in Crosby street he found one
hundred and fifty children in each room. Ten
or twelve boys were each tied by the wrists
with cord man was in charge of every
room.
Beetroot culture in the United States seems
TO be still discouraged, although we trust 1t
may be more seriously studied when it will be
discovered that it can be made to pay. In the
originally French part of Canada such an effort
Is being made, and the question is widely agi-
tated there.
Tho Indian chiefs Santana and Big Tree ar
rived in Houston on Tuesday, under guard,
from the Penitentiary, en- route for Fort Sill,
where q council is to be had between Secretary
Delano, Governor Davis and the Kiowa and
Camancbe tribes, with the view of establishing
peace in future.
The distinguished French physician Lourdat
of Montpelier after terminating with grea
success five years course of medical studies
was stricken with typhoid fever. On recover
ing from the attack no trace was left on hi
memory of all this intellectual labor, and
had to be performed over again.
When o country editor is exhausted for new
he puts in o paragraph telling how some bear
tiful ladies have called on him and cheere
his toilsome path with sweet flowers. The
his contemporaries revile him, and he answe
back and business becomes brisk again. Thu
are our Grecleys and Raymonds trained.
Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Chambers, of Mad
son, Ca. have fallen heirs to Sl2,0OO,oOO
France, and leave next Tuesday to claim Il
inheritance. The ladies are in receipt of
letter from the Hon. Judah 7. Benjamin,
London, to the effect tina there will be no @
stacle to obtaining possession of the propert
A report from the vessel in which Hen
Rochefort was shipped for New Caledonia, sa
his fellow convicts, considering his cour
reasonable to the cause of the CommuI
made an attempt to lynch him. The officers
the ship were obliged to assign him quartz
apart from the Communists, and to protect b
from them.
The following pathetic lines are supposed
have emanated from the obituary genius of t
Philadelphia Ledger:
The death angel smote Alexander MEG lue.
ne shsoies @ shs and shoe
And he had pI.T pink war. a1Snn on his N nose s:
Over there on tho evergreen shore.
His friends informed that HIS funeral takes p
Precisely at quarterpnst four!
Mr.. Kenealy the leading counsel for the
fence in the trial of the Tichborne claimant
England concluded his speech the 81
Mr.. Keneally commenced to speak on the 90
of July and has occupied the attention of I
Court every day since, with the exception
the usual adjournments from Saturday to Nc
day, and an extra adjournment from July 3
to August 5th, in consequence of the illness
juror
Late advices from Lima, Peru, report IL
serious accident occurred sixty miles FRI
that city. A body of earth estimated at
millions cubic yards fell from the mounta
side into the valley, seriously injuring nu
Der of persons and dammng up the river "
ter, which had risen los feet above its usu
height Engineers were of the opinion tn
the water would soon burst its barriers, VIII,
it would rush toward Lima, sweeping ever
thing before it and submergng the lower pc
tion of that city.