The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

II NooISias
Thirty women have been appointed pos|
mistresses within the past three months.
Through Omaha there passed last year 15d
cars containing 10000, 900 pounds of wool.
VIM. Pinckney whyte, Governor of Mary
land, was elected, on the Goth, to represent thu
State in the Senate.
We are panied to learn that the Par
Unirerse, Mr.. veuillot's able Catholic paper, hi
suspended publication.
There are thirty cotton and twelve woold
factories in Georgia-the former running 104
A62 spindles, and the latter 1884.
Sir Samuel Baker says that FIRE cannot ID
vance through grass, even when it is BLOWN
O gale, faster than six miles an hour.
Tho Commissioners Of Emigration, Ns1
York, contemplate paying the fares Of Lard
number of idle eble-bodied emigrants to pol
tions of the South whore workingmen al
scarce.
DR.. Cater recommends the use of Indid
meal, heated and placed in bags, as a subsd
tute for hot water bottles, etc. He says that
weighs less, retains heat better, and does nd
chill when cold.
The persecution Of the church in Brazil hi
commenced in earnest, the prosecution
Bishops Olinda before the Supreme Tribuna
having at last been decided upon for an allsg@
violation of the Constitution.
During the month of December there arrive
at Pensacola, from all ports, IA vessels, of d
aggregate tonnage of 1882 90, and 1,o5e sci
men. There were cleared 54 vessels, with %
470 IS aggregate tonnage, employing 6s1 sci
men.
o,,% ~ v,nlst NJ $uI
in Indiana thus addresses his subscribers: 81
you can't bring us wood remember us in yol
prayers. 1t is something to know as we sit an
SILVER that we are not forgotten if the stove
cold''
The death of Mr. james Knight, of Maco|
is announced. Mr.. knight came to Georg|
ninety years ago. His youngest child did
recently aged eighty, and he has graudchildrd
fifty years old. He was one hundred and I'd
years of age OF the time of his death.
There are seventy bald-headed men in Col
gress. No unprejudiced mind can look dow
from the galleries upon that Lake Superior
absent hair without feeling of regret that II
absence is thing with which the peculi|
skill of the aborigines had nothing to do.
Louisville Cousier-Jaurnal.
An anglo-Italian company has been formi
to drain the Ferrara marshes lying near II
mouth of the river Pc. The marshes cover q
area of about two hundred Thousand squaI
miles. 1t is proposed to use eight pumps, ea|
of which will discharge ffty-seven thousa4
gallons of water per minute.
The recent London fog was fatal to mai
persons troubled with cardiac or respirsto|
diseases. Tho toughest rhinooeros in Il
Geological Gardens also proved victim. ~
cattle at the agricultural show were inddo|
to drink ale, and so survived, while the pill
and sheep were quite Indifferent to the sufI
eating atmosphere.
The death is announced in late Irish papei
Of Sister Mary Francis Glare Hely, Present
ton Convent, Kilkenny, at the advanced a
Of eighty-one years. She had entered her 81
emn profession fifty-one years since, and almd
during all that period she had devoted hersd
to the education of the poor children Of b
native city, Kilkenny.
A threatening article in the North GERM
Gazette, laat week, on the policy of France vii
regard to Papal questions, excites uneasind
and indignation in Rome and Paris. LOpind
Natienale, of Paris, says that notwithstandid
their recent success the Prussians are still
ignorant of that nobleness of temper whic|
refrains from insulting the conquered.
The coal miners in Pennsylvania have d
struck. The men are well organized and hal
a full treasury, and are resolved not to yie1
one inch Of what they consider their right
The companies, on the other hand, are dete
mined not to make a single concession, and M
Gowen has begun policy which looks
though he would protract the fight indi|
nitely.
A demure citizen of Portland was waikiki
down town one morning last week, when
stranger addressed him; "Do you know whe1
the post-ofice is 2" EYES," answered the Por
lander, affably, and walked on without furth|
parley. After proceeding for about ten sted
he looked back, and inquired in his tur|
"WhyR Did you want to know I" mo-" n
Piled the victim, with great earnestness; AM
then, the account having been balanced, til
two shook hands gravely, and walked o|
toward the Falmouth.
The Governor of Wyoming Territory, in hi
message to the Legislature, says that the en-
pertinent ofwoman suffrage has now been trie|
for four years in that Territory with surpr1
DIV cyood Ta opnaaaI