The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-01-26
EDITORIAL AND ornRa lrx,ss.

49, AA"a' cru report tho smallpox rag
ing In Lima and osher cities. .
Large quantities of iumbsr are now being
soipped from Psscasouia TO England.
In stretch Of s15 miles on the Texas Pacific
hailroad there win DO but six bridges.
The asoertained loss to the shoe trade alone,
in the Boston FIRE, amounts to 1850, 600 90.
There 10 talk Of building Nm extensive cot.
ton mill not far from tho town of Pass Christian
buiwer, the celebrated English writer, died
on the 18th. He was buried in Westminster
Abbey.
General John A. Dix and Thurtow Weed
draw pensions as soldiers of 1912, the latter
as ffer.
The congregation Of Father Allard's church
IN Key West has presented him with fne
carriage.
Gently landed, by rail, at McDade, Bastrop
county. Texas.
On the Susquebanna river there is an ice
gorge eight miles long, two broad, and ten to
fifteen feet high.
Seven thousand six hundred and seventy five
dollars hsroso far been coasrfbused toward the
Greeley monument, fEtttS "a
The Turkfsb government has hso1ght suit
against Che London Ismss for alleged libel ro-
gardiug the Gesnd Tsrk's flnances
1t costs Georgia three thousand dollars day
to run her present LsgislEfnre. Our Legisla-
ture, seoh year for the pest 6sur. has cost MS
81. 900 D day.. - - .ssts,s.- =
Adspaseh fsen asuea ssysSs slas HE Rev.
EdwaEa Rowxis Passy. .. III the %slLIrnown
English divine, is dangerously i'll in that city.
DR.. Pussy is now in his seventy third year.
The small-pox in Boston and vicinity 10 Gre
ating grave apprehensions. Three Thousand
cases are reported, and more deaths than from
all other causes. Victims are buried ut night.
General Harvey says he has worn the United
States uniform fifty-five years, and he never
knew an instance when the Indian was the
first to break his plighted faith with the gov
eminent.
Philadelphia had 20,544 deaths in 1872, an
increase of about 5000 over the previous year.
OF the whole number s, 500 were adults, and
11,044 children. There were 1854 fatal cases
Of smallpox.
Right Reverend Bishop verot received con-
tributions amounting to $1,s5s during his re-
cent visit North, for completing the repairs Of
the Old Cathedral at st. Augustine, and meet
ing the outstanding debts.
The people of Italy. as q proof that they hate
the Papacy, and have cast it off forever, have
sent to the Holy Father during the present
year, through the office of the Unita Cattolica,
over four millions of francs.
The Weather report on the Goth, at Sparta,
Wis.,, reports the mercury CONCEALED. Tho
spirit thermometors marked 43 degrees below
zero. At Lacrosse, Wis, 81 degrees below. At
81 Paul 81 below. At Minneapolis 81 below.
Twenty-Five thousand Eve hundred and
thirty four rag-pickers prowl the streets Of
Paris vice in twenty-four hours; they ell on
an avesage $4,000 or $4,000 baskets a day the
average value of each basket is thirty cents,
so that $50, 900 are daily found in the 1eavings
of Paris.
The nnproitableness of slowing gold away
in an old stocking has been illustrated in Nc
Lean county. Ill. An old man just sold to
bank $4,000 in thsprecious metal which he had
stored away before the civil war. If it had been
sold when the premium was high and the pro-
ceeds put at interest, it would have amounted
to $50, 900 now.
The will of Mrs. Mary Won Home q promi-
Episcopal lady, recently deceased in New
York, leaves nearly half million of dollars,
the bulk of her property, to the New York Or
phan Asylum, ST.. Luke's Hospital, Five Points
House of Industry, Society for seamen, Home
for the Friendaess Woman's Asylum and to
numerous other societies -
The Exhibition at Vienna will open in May.
The American Commission is very active in
securing space and providing accommodations
for exhibitors from the United States. Sharp
competition is expected between British and
American manufacturers of mowers, reap
ers, and other improved agricultural machin-
cry.
General Manteufel made a speech recently
at meeting, in which he defended Marshal
Bazaine from the attacks made on his military
fame. He dwelt in generous terms on the bra
very displayed by the Marshal; which he de-
clared was quite equal to any in the German
army. The passions of the hour prevent
impartial Judgment of this case, but he be-
Iieved history would justify Marshal Bazaine.
Once more the patriotic Alsatians have suf-
cred pecuniary loss from Indulgence in their
Gallo proclivities. Emperor William, of Ger
many, decided, by the advice Of Moltke, to