The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-10
xpTroaIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

The Catholics in Kentucky number 13O,ooo.
The President has recently appointed forty
civilians to second lieutenaneies in the regular
army.
The Government surveyors In Northern anu
southw Western Nebraska report the discovery
of an immense tract Of pine lands In q country
supposed heretofore to be barren.
In the year 1872. the Right Rev Bishop OF
po.,or, administered confirmation to 2, 1923 per-
cons. During the months Of June and July,
1873 the number confrmed was 372S.
stsphen DILLON, Hudson river pirate,
caupht one day last week pillaging from aves-
aol. was sentenced in less than three hours at
forwards to Eve years in the State Prison.
On the 5th, Pratt's Oil Works, the Long Is |
land Oil Works and Lowenstein's Varnish Fac |
tory, were destroyed by fire at Hunters Point, |
N. Y. Loss, one life and $500, 900 Of property. !
Emigration from Russia to the United States
is increasing. Four hundred Russians sailed
on the 9Th in one steamer. The movement
threatens to depopulate some districts in hus-
sia. -
REPORTS from Onawa, Monona county, Iowa,
and points in the eastern part Of the State
say the grasshoppers descended about noon
Saturday, and have almost entirely destroyed
the corn and oats.
TI,uesletter reports unprecedented rain along
the coast of Peru. Roofs were destroyed, fur
aiture ruined and many houses undermined.
The Palace of Justice was thoroughly flooded,
and the great library drenched.
Intelligence from Holland pronounces that
the statement that the Jansenist Bishop, Mgr.
Heyhamp of Deventer, has declined to conse-
crate the newly elected :" old-Catholic" Bish-
CD, Professor Reinkens, is unhappily false.
great earthquake was felt at Valparaiso at
1922 O'Clock A. NJ, on July the 9th. Inc
shocks were worse than those OF 1857. A great
deal of damage has been done to many houses
and churches, though nothing to be compared
with the last earthquake at San Salvador.
Some few lives have been lost by falling walls
and one lady died from fear.
At Worcester, Mass, on the 9TH, fourteen
German beer esllers were summoned before inc
Central District Court, most of them for the
third time. Each was fined q hundred dollars
and costs or sentenced to the House of Correc-
ton for six months, and ordered to find one
thousand dollars bail not to violate the law
for year. They all appeared and found the
bail required.
Counterfeit half eagles of the coinage OF
1872 have recently made their appearance IN
New York and Boston, which SO closely initiate
the genuine as almost to defy detection. In
weight and color it corresponds with legal coin,
and is made of eight hundred and forty eight
thousandths gold, alleged with copper and a
minimum of silver. The Intrinsic value Is
four and seventy-one hundrdths dollars.
From mail advices received from parties in
the Russian campaign against Khiva, it would
seem that the soldiers of the Khan were SO i'm
pressed with tue invincibiHty of the Russians
fbo GalI fnll rranaral &c
-ruu. This they invariably did at the first
FIRE. Had it not been for the terrible physical
difficulties encountered in the latter part o.
this march, the expedition would have had itt
full share of the ludicrous.
The Seymour Times has information that al
old gentleman near Henryville, in Clarke
County, while working in his saw-mll one day
last week, stumbled and fell against running
circular saw, which cut off ono of his hands ant
the toes of one of his feet. He says that he
felt his toes being cut off, but not the cutting
of his hand, and did not know that he hat
lost his hand until, looking for his toes, h
discovered his whole hand lying on the grount
near by them.
Fort Scott, Kansas, has been seeing snnk'
in the sky. The Monitor says: The sky wa
clear and the sun rose entirely unobscured
When the disk Of the sun was about half-wa!
above the horizon the form of hugo serpent
apparently perfect in form, was plainly seer
encircling it, and was visible for some mo
ments." The editor declares that he has th'
abatement from two reliable witnesses, wh'
are willing to make affidavit to the above. 1
will soon be time for q national prohibitory Ii
quor law if this sort of thing is to continue.
Berlin newspaper proprietors have set al
example which is likely to be followed else
where One of the effects of the war indem
pity exacted from France has been to raise tn
price of almost everything in Prussia. Th
newspaper proprietors of Berlin, have en-
deayored to stand the changed state of affair
at great peouniary loss, but they have bee'
Obliged TO succumh, and now fourteen OF tn
principal Of them have published declaration
stating that they are Obliged to increase tn
terms of subscriptions and advertisements il
consequence Of the augmented price of print