The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-23
Rornlng Star and Catholic Messenger.
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HEW oRLEARs, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER g. 1873.

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xDu0RIAL AND 0THKR ITEMS
Three thousand Communists are still in
prison awaiting trial in France.
It is officially announced at Madrid that the
effective Spanish force in Cuba numbers "a 900
men.
The trade in coffee at Rio Janiero 10 at
stand-still, and en- immense stock is accumu-
lating there.
The barge Belle of Alton was burned oppo-
site Delta, La, ON the 10th, with 200 bales of
cotton and 1000 packages.
A daughter of Con. Rosecrans has been re-
oeived into she Ursuline Order at the hands of
Bishop Rosecrans, Of Columbus, Ohio.
A serious riot occurred at Damascus recently,
during which an insult was offered to the
British Flag. Instant reparation was de-
manded and refused.
In Montreal sleighs are now used instead of
oars, by the city railways. Nearly all the
merchant fleet have left the port and naviga-
ton will soon close
Intelligence has been received that o famine
prevails in Greenland, caused by the failure of
the fisheries. In one village alone $50 per-
sons had starved to death.
large meeting held by the Chicago Cham
her of Commerce has taken favorable action
regarding the proposed railroad from that
city to Charleston, South Carolina.
On the 18th inst, High Mass was celebrated
by Bishop Fitzgerald, of Little Rock, at st.
Peters, Memphis, for the repose of the souls of
those who died there of the yellow fever.
A new comet has been visible for several
nights by aid of the powerful telescope at the
Roman Observatory. 1t is described as most
brilliant, with a tail of extraordinary splendor
The experts employed to investigate the
books of the N. Y. State Treasurer, report an
imbezzlement of $4,000. There seems no
chance of recovering any of the stolen funds.
In May, 1874, there will be in Germany
1900 Catholic parishes without parish priests
all of them having been deprived of their le-
Ultimate pastors through the persecution of
Bismarck.
At Berwick, Ohio, fine schoolhouse was
lately blessed, and the pleasant news was
given by the pastor that nearly every child
within q distance of four miles attended school.
Would that every other place could say the
same.
The Chinese have taken to largely adultera-
ting their teas. In London there are 1O,OOO, 900
pounds in bond which have been condemned a.
unfit for consumption, and notices have been
given to merchants in China that all spurious
teas will henceforth be destroyed.
Tho National Trust Company. Of Pittsburg,
suspended ON the 18th and posted the follow
ing notice on it's doors: "Closed in conse-
quenoe Of the unexplained absence of our
cashier and the consequent difficulty in ascer-
tanning the exact condition of the bank"
The advertiser of new liniment mildly
calls attention to the fact that his notice should
read, There is no pain this liniment will not
relieve" an idea suggested to him by the freak
Of compositor who had taken the precsution
to substitute the word " revive " for relieve"
The Minneapolis Tribune says that there
never before was such o reckless scratching of
tickets in the history of Minnesota politics as
ut the last election. For several hours after
the closing of the polls no estimate could be
made of the result in any county by compari-
son with other elections.
The Cologne Gazette states the German EN-
peror's letter to the Pope to have been penned
by his Majesty himself. A few additions we're
made by his Ministers, but none of them
amounted to much, and, on the whole, the let
ter may stand for the Emperor's own mind ex-
pressed in his own words.
A Richmond (Va.) woman has brought suit
against two saloon keepers of that city for
$4,000 damages each, for selling liquor to her
husband and causing him to waste the means
to which his family were entitled. The suit
is causing great interest, as it will test the
strength of the new liquor law.
farrier in the country lately made out q
o bill to farmer whose Christian name was
Jacob, which he contrived to spell without
using one single letter contained in the werd
Jacob. 1t would puzzle some people perhaps
moro learned than the farrier to put five letters
together, none of which are in the word
jacob, and mako it sound so we'll as Gekub.
An arrangement has been entered into be-
tween the United States and Germany for an
exchange of postal cards between the two
countries, to go into effect ON tho LIST of De-
cember, 1873. The postage on postal cards
sent from the United States to Germany is
fixed at two cents each, the prepayment of
which is to be made by afixing to the United
Statea DoRtal card an ordinary ono cant TIpita5