The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-23
Morning Star and Catholic MESSENGER.
Nxw ORLEANS, SUNDAY. MARCH % Io'a.
TELEGRApKIc SUMMARY.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
RoME-His Holiness gave audience on thu
18th, TO one hundred Canadians who served II
the Pontifcal Zouaves. He congratulated hi
visitors upon their steadtast devotion 10 th'
church.
the defeat of government on the University
Bill has terminated by the refusal Of Disrael
to take Office and the acquicscense of Gladston
in the request of the Queen and his supportor
to continue i'm office. The government will
remain the Same AS heretofore. riot anon,
English aud Irish coal-miners Mt Wolverhanp
ton occurred on tho lstb, 5000 mer being en-
gagged, resulting in bloodshed but no deaths
Indications arc that the distur bance will short
ly DO renewed. The demonstration by the
Irish population of London on the 18th, in
favor of Home Rule for Ireland and amnesty
for imprisoned Fenians, for which arrange
ments had been made for some time, took
place in Hyde Park, and was participated in
by very largo number OF people.
FRANcE.-The Finance Budget shows graf
flying condition of affairs. Half OF the SUN
due tho Germans is in tho Treasury, and no
loans will DO required to complete tho pay
ment of the war indemnity of the dates dcsiG-
mated in tho recent Convention. upfri endly
notes have passed between the French aud
Spanish Governments, owing to the alleged
killing of four Frenchmen by Carlists. Tho
Spanish government says that many French
men, including mobiles of high rank are serv ing
in the Carlist ranks The new treaty between
Franco and Germany, providing for the evacu-
alton of the French provinces, was signed at
Berlin, on the 10th. The German forces are 10
evacuate all tho places they now hold i'll
France by tho iirst'of July, with the exception
of Verdun and vicinity, from which they with
draw on the 9th of September.
SPAIN.-Conhicting reports of the annihila-
ton of Carlist bands, and at the same tine
of their increasing streRgth- aggressive
movements, continue to DO received. The As
sembly is now considering the bill abolishing
slavery in Porto Rico. Tho amendment pro
yilipV that an;d abolition ehnll he rrn ilual
was rejected.
UNITED STATES.
WORCESTERSHIRE A. Richardson, assistant
Secretary of the Treasury has been confirmed
as Secretary in place of Boutwell, Casey has
not yet been confirmed as Collector of New
Orleans, Senator West being violantly opl,o,-
ed to him. II il propable that he will be, rs the
Democrats will vote for him in the interests of
the business community.
MISCELLANEOUS rTEMs.
DIR. Deems authorizes the announcement that
Com. Vanderbilt has gwen five hundred
thousand dollars to Bishop Mcryre of the
Southern Methodist Church, to establish Il
university in Tennessee.
st. Patricks day was celebrated in almost
every city in the Union. In Washington the
President and Gen. Sherman review ed the
procession which is said to have numbered
20 900 persons.
In Boston fearful accident occurred -Four
horses attached to II barouche became unman-
over dozen persons
Pope Plus IN has decorated President Baez
with the Grand Cross of tho Order of ST.
Gregory.
The st. James Hotel Montreal, was burned
on tho 18th. The female servants asleep on |
the nth floor fpdlng escape by the stairway |
cut OF, fled to tho windows, and three of them |
threw themselves on The sidewalk, where their |
fall WIS partially broken by mattresses and
other soft material. Another girl named Ma
tilda Sayer, hung ont from window twenty |
minutes and finally was rescued by the fircmen |
who brought her safe TO tho ground amid
cheers from the excited crowd.
Twenty-Five buildings were burned in Macon.
Ca, on tho 18th.
The st. Petersburg, q magnificent vessel, tho
largest that over visited Bermuda, was wreck
Ell In that harbor on the 9th Besides other
cargo she had $4,000 chests Of tea worth 81
800, 900.
A Herald special reports serious trouble in
Porto Rico caused by the proposed emanici-
patton of the slaves.
The news from the Modoc war is uninpor.
ant. Gen. Canby's plan is to starve Captain
ack out. Six h1ndred troops are around tho
ava beds.
The United States fleet have left Rio dc
aheiro on account of yellow fever; seventy
asses occur daily The epidemic has extended
o Bahia and Pernambnco, where it was CON
ned TO the shipping. The cholera is very
atal at Para.
In the Portuguese Cortcs on the 10Th tho ,
ilnistcr of Foreign Affairs announced that ,
ne fortnSese Consul has been instructed to
emand Immediate satisfaction of tho Brazil
ian Government for outrngcs to the Portuguese
ag.
10 OUR FRIENDS WHO RESIDE OUT OF THE
iIi-lt may not DO generally known that tLere il n