The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-28
@seslng Star ana Catholic Messenger
EDITORIAL AND orHR1 ITEMS.

EDITORIAL AND OfHRH ITEMS.
Secretary Belknap 10 described as brusqa
end busiuess-iike-" q man with head full O
pigeon holes, in which he has filed away il
their proper order every eveot in his memory.
The claret of 1875 promises to be q wine 0
exceptional excellence. Though the yield o
1874 was q large one, that of 1875 will be mucl
larger, and the viue-growers have seldom has
. finer year, the weather having been pro
pitious and the fermentation satisfactory.
Bad seed sometimes brings forth good fruit
a. was shown by case before q court in New
York. man named Van wyck sued on.
ALLEN for cabbages which he might have raised
had the seed Furnished by the defendant beer
good. The jury awarded Van wyck 81 0oC
damages.
The Secretary Of War has received the fol-
lowing:
PORTLAND, OR November 2 1875.
Dear Sir wss once in the service of the
6pited States, but now am in the service OF
my God. Enclosed fnd Post Office money
order Tor $40. 1 arD, sir, very respectfully,
From statistics published by the London
EsonSnist, it appears that Grea: Britain col
lects about ssl0. 900 900 year, interest, from
foreign borrowers, representing, a. per cent,
capital, however, is probably fully q. 5oo, 600,
700, IS some securities pay DO interest at all
and others only in part.
The colossal group of the Crucifxion erected
IN the berammergau has been uncovered in
the presence of enormous number OF
strangers, of whom a large proportion were
foreigners. Solemn services we're held in
hooor of the event, which was celebrated, at
he NJ eha 80
. TeTsaTy Of the Queen Dowager's birthday.
The Managers of the Catholic Orphan Asy.
lum Of New York city have COMMENCED the
erection of large building on the Boland
farm, near PeekskilI. owned by them, in which
they propose to put several hundred boys to
work, making boots, shoes, doing tailoring
and other light work. The structure will be
made Of brick, four stories high, and will be
100 feet long and ~ feet wide.
Apropos of the quartet of singing dogs in
Paris, history relates that dogs have been
orators as well. Leibnitz stated III l7l5 that
he saw at Zeitz deg which pronounced thirty
words. In go dog was exhibited in Berlin
which pronounced sixty words its master,
however, held the animal between his legs,
and worked the dogs jaws to assist the ennis
sion Of the sounds. The dog pronounced best
salad. . Bone" did not enter into i,s vocabu-
larry.
The st. Louis Tsst,rn Uatchn.an refers to The
decadence OF Protestant churches in that city
as follows: One third OF our 100000 people
hFe east OF Tenth street. Fifteen years ago
there were in that district thirteen Protestant
churches. To-day there is not one. One was
turned into livery stable, another WAS con.
sE1 fr,t< H.
An auction house, foQIth is a mammoth
secondhand furniture store, Ave others have
been torn down, while one has been bought by
the Italians for q Catholic church. The Pro.
sestAnt poor have no churches, neither have
they preachers"
re announcement is made that George
Bancroft will write four more volumes of
American history. The phraseology Of the an.
norncement, however, is rather Obscure The
Els: volume, which is soon to be issued. will
comprehend the period between the peace of
Paris, l712. to the inau guration of WASHINGTON,
He9. The epochs with which Mr. Bancroft
will deal after the first volume are: First.
IRON the inauguration of Washington to the
consolidation of the Union by the acauisi,ion
Of Louisiana-17s9 1903; second, vindication
OF the place of tie United States among the
Powers of the world-1503.lsI5; third, the
States and the United States-1s15le37 ;
fourth, the annexation of Texas and California
-1e37 l949; fifth, secession and Union, from
is49.
The Sisters of Charity, of Nazareth, KY,
with the appreciation of the 1t. Rev. Bishop of
the Diocese, and the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Loas-
VILE the Ecclesiastical Superior of the Com.
munity, have taken charge of the schools OF
the Most Holy Redeemer, Portsmouth, o. The
community Was founded by Bishop David, con
Secrated Coadjutor Bishop of Bardstown in
1919, and is entirely independent of the
Order of Sisters of Charity of Emmi ttsburg,
which is so we'll represented in our charitable
and educational institutions in this city. The
number of Sisters in the Society is about $40,
who are engaged in teaching, nursing the sick
in hospitals, and directing orphan asylums in