The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-12
M5rnlHg Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW oRLEAMB, SUNDAY. APRIL -. 1874.
81 KDuTORAL AND OTHER TTxMG

3. II. T. Hunter has been elected Treasure
of Virginia.
Last Thursday five inches of snow fell q
Memphis, Tenn.
Tho soyereignty Of the Fiji Islands has bee
formally rendered to Great Britain.
Cardinal Barnabo was the one hundred an,
second cardinal who has died since Plus TX
began to reign.
The Mayor of Pittsburg Pa, has been in
strncted by the Police Committee to ares
any woman crusading against saloons.
The Steamship Europe, valued at 81, 250, 00(
and having cargo worth million more
sunk in mid ocean last week. She had SOC
2pnssengers aboard all of whom were saved.
The Midland Railway Company of England
FOUND II, OBS umbrellas left along it's line, as
the consequence of one seasons business. And
was not good year for umbrellas either.
Gold and Silver in large quantities, have
been discovered near the north fork of the
Ouachita River, Arkansas. People IN that
neighborhood are greatly oxcfted over the
discovery.
The joint Committee of Internal Improve
ments of the Texas Legislature have unani.
mously adopted resolutions of instruction to
the Texas Congressional delegation to urge
upon Congress the justice of granting aid to
4 the Pacific Railroad, as means of frontier
defence.
The Mississippi legislature adjourned on the
9th, after passing o bill requiring q majority
4 OF males over 81 and of females over 1s years
old, in the city, town OF township, to sign q
petition for license to sell liquor, before such
license shall be issued. The Governor imme-
diately thereafter signed the bill.
The Students of Princeton College, N. j., de-
feline to accept Leonard W. Jerome's offer of a
prize to be given to the "first gentlemen in
leach class. The students claim that they are
all gentlemen, and that Mr.. Jerome's PROPOSE
Zion, If followed out, would place all but the
winner Of the prize in a false position.
The Paris Temps published on the 9th the
Full text Of q dispatch from the Austrian pre-
'nier, Won Beust, to Prince Metternich, the
austrian Minister at Paris, dated Jolly, 1870
paying: Eve consider the cause Of France as
pur own, but the alliance of Russia and Prus.
pie prevents the armed Intervention of Austria
Fon Beust advises Prince Matternich to sup-
Best that the good will of Italy may be OBJ
<ained, and the mediation of that Government
In the settlement of the Franco Prussian dfa. |
3ulties secured, If France win permit the &C.
eupation of Rome by tho Italians.
A. w. Clark, the well known fsh-propaeator |
g now engaged in stocking the various lakes |
u Michigan with white fish, having already |
emit out over 100000 spawn for this purpose. |
10 has some 100000 of the whitefish oya.
pther already Matched or in the process of
|atching, and most of these he will distribute
nrougnout the State, placing several thousand
i each lake in different sections. Whitefish
|ttain muturity in three or four years, and it
peiieved that in the course of eight or ten
ears, II the experiment of propagation proves
pccessful the lakes of Michigan may be made
, abound with this fish.
well known wealthy Partisan has had him
pr painted by an eminent artist. GAS he
las, as he is, and as he will be-" i" As he was,
presents him ut the age of twenty-fv a
por wretch in ragged garments, with his toes
eepipg through holes in his shoes, shaking,
elf famished, by the side of wall. GAS he -
figures him fat and jolly as an alderman,
en dressed, with gold chains decking his ;,
histcoat and diamond rings blazing en- his .
lgers. And in AS he will be-" he 10 made Q
pideous corpse. Not the least singular fea-
fe of such singular freak is the fact that d
mas the paintings hung in his drawing room.
letter from Washington to the Baltimore
p says that Bertha Gerolt daughter of the
ge Prussian Minister to the United States.
70 entered the Monastery of the Visitation, y,
the District of Columbia, about three years W
2, took the final vows on Saturday, Febru-
2, 1874. The same day nun died within
convent walls who had been immured
ire twenty-five years, and belonged in the
Ft to one of the respectable official families T.
numerous in Washington. Within the same re
! Is are daughter of the Emperor Iturbide tn
daughter of General Scott. A few weeks W
6te vail in +b;s ,o,,,,ot VIZ mi
i've of Maryland, and superintendent of
Naval Observatory.
10000 WAITING FOR BERNARD McMAHoN.-
New York Freeman's Journal, of the 5th, a tsa