The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-15
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

There are 900 Communists still awaiting
| trial in Paris.
Edwin Booth, the great actor, went into
| bankruptcy last Wednesday.
The Emperor of Austria left last Wednesday
for st. Petersburg on q visit to the Gear.
The yellow fever continues to rage in Rio
Janiero, Buenos Ayres and Montevedio.
The Legislature of Mississippi by o vote of
81 to 33, has requested Senator Alcorn to re-
sign.
A lotter containing SIS, 900 in bonds but hay
ing no address, was dropped into the Brooklyn
post-offce last Thursday.
The Christian Union has decided, once for
ALL that no man who seven-story words
can take rank in literature"
The Tribune prints this as the only respecta-
BILE pun it has heard for years " One-legged
soldiers should be Remembered"
The Massachusetts Senate has passed resolu
tions resembling and annulling the resolution
of 1872 which censured Sumner for his action
in relation to battle-fags.
A dear, good old lady out West lost her muff
and jumped from the after it. But when
they backed up after her the local reporter
remarks, deaths clammy fingers had clntched
her throat"
The Gaulois states that all the European
Sovereigns, with the exception of the German
Emperor, addressed letters of coincidence to the
Empress Eugene on the anniversary of her
husbands death.
young lady of Lyons, Ia, recently said:
Some men are always talking about patron
izng their own town, always harping on that
duty, and yet they 60 abroad to get married,
while here we all stand waiting. I do hope
that some of these men who marry Eastern
women will get cheated"
The st. Louis Watchman gives the following
warning to the clergy of that Archdiocese:
" The Chancellor of the archdiocese has sent
to all the priests blanks to be filled up with
their names, dates of birth, statistics of mis-
slonary labor etc, etc. Look out! Be on
your guard They want to make Bishops of
you."
Senator Parson Brownlow has published
letter i'm opposition to the Civil Rights bill.
He decidedly opposes the mixed school feature
of the bill; says it would destroy free schools
in the South He advises the colored people
to tell Congress that they do not want mixed
schools. He also favors the issue of more
The North German Ga:ette has published an
article with tho object of warning German
electors against permitting themselves to be
Influenced in the exercise of the electoral
functions by the opinions of their wives. Gall
he qualities of woman" says the organ Of
'rince Bismarck, are made to disturb and
'ewilder the factors of political life, and to
'ring misfortune on the affairs of man."
In this longitude imaginary snakes in ones
'oOts are more disagreeable than fatal. But in
ndia the number of deaths caused by the real
eptiles holds prominent place in the NOR
uary reports, reaching as high as $4,000 in o
ingle year, according to a careful estimate, or
bout seventy in each million of inhabitants.
measures have been adopted
Dr. the determination of snakes in the colony
st. Lucia, where bounty of sixpence a
cad for the reptiles caused the killing of
!, 900 in five months.
Members of the st. Vincent de Paul, Total
bstinsnce, and other Societies will fud no.