The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-16
Ao-uIng Star and Catholic Messenger
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.


at Selma, Ala, nominated Jere HARRISON, q ne
gro, for Congress.
The Conservatives carried North Carolina il
the last elections by 15 600 majority and electe'
seven ont of eight Congressman.
After the conservation of the new church o
Coralstown, Westmeatb, on the 10Th of July
Father oReilly, the pastor, entertained large
number of guests among whom were Father.
Allen and Kennedy, of this city.
One of the tendencies of the age is to build
great bridges. Brooklyn has just voted two
millions of dollars for the immense suspension
bridge which is to connect her with New York
and which is to be ak thousand feet in length.
The Project of Huanuco, Peru, has been or
dered to expel all Jesuits from his district
and the Bishop of Preno is to be tried by the
courts of the country, for sending his resigna.
ton to the Pope without consulting the Cen
trail Government.
The Treasury Department, since the adjonrn-
ment of Congress, has paid out $3.50, 900 on the
claims of Southern residents before the South
ern Claims Committee. The Commission
awarded over o million of dollars on the claims,
but Congress appropriated only 1888, 769, 50.
The new edition of the "Encyclopadia Brit
'anniCa" will contain more than half new mat
ter. The first volume will be out this fall
when the reading world will have a chance to
compare it with the new reissue of the cam
erican Encyclopedias" which has reached its
eighth volume.
farlsian ladies, according to the Pictorial
World, are wearing earrings representing mon
keys, S"inea-pigs, lizards, chandeliers with
candles in them, bird-cages with birds within,
tortolses, spades, spurs, tongs officers epau-
lettes, etc. The effect being, it is said, we'll
not pleasing quite the reverse!
The sugar beet planters near Brighton, ga
cramento, have 2400 turkeys in their fields
battling against the army worms Each turkey
eats on an average 600 worms per day, making
total loss to the latter of ,44O, 900 daily.
Notwithstanding this heavy loss their numbers
seem undiminished. The query now is, where
do they come FRONT
The Irish Benedictine Monastery, now being
established at Creston, Iowa, under the aus
pices of Very Rev. J. A.. Burns, o. 8. b., prom
Uses to be grand success. A house has been
already built for the accommodation of three
friars and two brothers, for the present. Much
of the 500 acre farm attached has been placed !
under cultivation.
young lady stopping in Bratteboro, VT, |
for few days, sent friend of hers to the |
store to get pair of shoes. She told her
friend to get number fves, but her friend, |
being anxious to secure good fit for her, Or
dered the storekeeper to change the mark on |
a pair of sevens. He did 60, and the lady said |
they fitted her better than any she had had in |
n long time.
Four members of the German Reichstag are |
now undergoing imprisonm emit for political
offenses, three others have been sentenced to |
imprisonment, two have been fined, and pro-
ceedings have been instituted against three
Others. They all belong to the Socialist and |
'Ultramontane parties, only four out of the |
nine Socialist members of the Rechstag being |
at the present time exempt from prosecution.
Tie German town of Cullman, Alabama,
fifty miles above Birmingham, on the South
and North Alabama road, though but twelve
months old, has population of 100 souls, of
whom 800 are Americans, the remaining 1900
being Germans. Z" The white settlers there ar Q
working people," says the Mobile Register,
" and they have no wards of the nation to live
off their kitchens; nor are there any carpet |
baggers or scalawags in this happy village"
At the beginning of. the present year the
Catholic hierarchy vas composed as follows
Sacred College 81 patriarchs of both rites,
~ ;Archbishops and Bishops of tho Latin rite
rite, SO Archbishops and Bishops with title of
Sees in pdrti6us infdelium, 24G patrarchs,
Archbishops and Bishops no longer with title,
81 retired bishops, , Abbots nullius 6iGceseos,
8. Total, 100.
The absence of Catholic voters at the ad-
ministrative elections at Rome has proved to
demonstration" says the Journal de Florence,
d" the superiority of their number. Out of 49,
0e0 electors, little more than 1000 approached
the electoral nrns, and of those 1000 no fewer
than 1870 were employees of the Government.
This" adds the Journal, may give some idea
of the number of real Roman citizens who have
taken part in these elections.
In Bern township, Pennsylvania, the other
day, little girl five years of age, with her
brother eight years of age, was crossing over
4 small bridge, when one of the boards gave
way, and tho little girl fell throurh Her ,