The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-15
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS
1900 Immigrants arrived at Now York las
| week.
Rev. ]. Quinn, pastor of st. Mary's Church
Providence, r. l., died ON the 9Th.
| Counterfeit ten cent notes are in circulation
The counterfeit is we'll engraved and printed.
Stokes has been granted o new trial. $4,000
persons have visited him since his confinement
| in the Tombs.
| no penknives or other perquisites. Five dol.
| lars day must satisfy them.
There are nearly 5000 French Canadians in
Lewiston, Me-, and they have just completed
and dedicated q $4,000 church edifice.
A leading Baptist clergyman has written an
| essay in advocacy Of ministers having some
secular business upon which to depend.
A druggist in New York has been sentenced
| to one years imprisonment and fine of $500,
for sending obscene printed matter through
the mails.
A special dispatch from Rome, says that
many of the Monks belonging to monasteres
which are to be suppressed will go to Bolivia
and Chill.
Ten thousand persons witnessed the game
of base ball between the Athletics and Phila-
delphians, ct Philadelphia on the 10th. The
Philadelphians won. Score to5
The Mayor Of San Francisco vetoed the Or
dinance shaving the heads of the Chinese in
Jail. Such punishment would be infamous
and a violation of the treaty with China.
The Henry Clay Colliery at Shamoken, Pa,
exploded on the 10th. 90 men were in the slope
at the time, 35 of whom are known to have es-
capped. Eight dead have been recovered.
The Alexandria Palace, London, was de-
stroyed by fire on the sth. Loss $4,000, 900.
The large organ was destroyed; bat some
valuable pictures and works of art were
saved.
The steamer Cromwell, announced in our
last issue as overdue two weeks and unheard
of, has since been heard from, having put into
Alaco, in the Bahama Islands, with machinery
disabled.
Six prvates of Co. F. 3rd Cavalry were
drowned in a river in Omaha, recently, by
command saved their lives by climbing trees,
where they were compelled to remain eigh-
teen hours.
A Herald special, dated Constantinople,
June IL, says the Sultan has issued frmam
granting to the Khedive of Egypt an indepen-
dent internal government, and authorizing
him to augment the army and conclude for
eign treaties.
The Bishops of gland will assemble in coun-
Gil in the month of July. One of the principal
subjects of elaboration will be the inspection
Of primary schools and the adoption of q uni
formity of methods for religious instruction in
all the dioceses.
The Rev. William Brady, D. D.. formerly
chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of ireland,
and lately rector of Donaghpatrick, county
Meath, and a relative of the late Lord Chan |
cellor Brady, has been received into the
Catholic Church by Mgr. Kirby, of the Irish
College, Rome.
Even burglars are sometimes handy TO have
This was the case the other day at
the jail at Springfield, when it was found i'm |
possible to open a locked door. Locksmiths
were sent for and worked hours without sue.
cess upon it, and finally the sheriff called upon
an old burglar, who was in custody, to try his |
hand at it. He opened it in few moments.
Amovement has been started in Philadel- |
phia for the purpose of building four halls, |
one in each section of the city, for the accom-
mediation of the Catholic societies. The mon
By is to be raised by shares of $50 each and
in token of the earnestness of the movement
one hundred and twenty-five shares were sub
,cribed for at the first meeting, and persons
promised to take five, ten, fifty, or hundred
shares as soon as the charter was obtained.
The steamship Challenger, with the scien- |
,nttfc expedition, arrived at Bermuda from
Halifax on the goth. Soundings takeh tend
% show that the confguration of the bed Of
he Atlantic in this region will easily admit
aging telegraph cable, both towards the
states and Nova Scotia, the greatest depth
lever reaching 5000 fathoms, with an average
# about $500 fathoms, and q gradual rise of
ea bottom at both extremes.