The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-06-13
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

The ladies' fund in Richmond, Va, for the
erection of monument to General Robert E.
Lee, has reached the sum of $3.50
There Is o gentleman now in the British Par
hamens whose election expenses were 475, 900,
or about $40 for every vote he received.
Right Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, Bishop of
Little Rock, is at present travelling through
Ohio administering the Sacrament of Confirms
ton.
Carl schurz is mousing in the official archives
| in Berlin for documents relating to the early
| history Of the United States, which he proposes
to write.
It is said that in Mr.. Tenny sons for Incoming
drama will be found q smile derived from the
transit Of Venus. Poetry brought down to the
latest dates.
Alabama planters are determined not only to
raise their own bread but to "raise their own
meat" also, without having to depend on the
East or West.
The population of China is estimated by
Father David, q Catholic missionary, at three
hundred millions, instead of, as usually stated,
at four hundred millions
One of the modest little farming patches in
Illinois is laid out in 10, 900 acres of corn 500
| acres of fax, 900 acres of oats, and enough
grass to produce about eight thousand tons of
hay.
For the race horse Kangaroo the Marquis of
Hastings once paid IL 900 guineas-say $63, 600.
This horse now goes in front of a London cab
at sixpence mile. Vicissitudes of great fam-
lies.
Mr.. r. R. Springer, a well-knowp Catholic
gentleman of Cincinna att, has promised to con-
tribute $125, 900 towards the erection of a grand
music hall in that city. 1t will belong to the
musicians.
The Christian Brothers of Quebec propose
opening in connection with their com numerical
academy school of arts, industry, agriculture,
geology, physc, and mechanical science.
Honor to the Christian Brothers!
1t is proposed to spend some 81 900, 900 to
bring drinking water from the Caliveras River
! to San Francisco, and the Taxpayers, in view
of the present cheapness of whiskey and native
wines, naturally complain of the unnecessary
waste of money.
John Cuthbert, who was born at Savannah,
Ga, in l7ss, was elected to Congress in 1919,
and participated in the great debate on the Mis-
souri compromise, is still practicing law at
Mobile, and is said to be the Oldest ex- membes
of Congress living.
The papaw tree is said to possess the curious
property of rendering exceedingly tender any
kind of meat that is hung amid it's branches,
and Smith is very anxious to know what it
would cost to transplant q pspaw tree to the
backyard of his boarding.hous
Six hundred thousand dollars have been SUBJ
scribed to start a paper in Vienna, from the
editorial department. Of which all Jews or
persons of Israelitish extraction" are to be
excluded. All the other Vienna papers are in a
i Al
An absent-minded Connecticut schoolms-
tress recently locked a little ive-year-old pupil
in closet for the heinous offence of splitting on
his slate, and forgot all about hin when school
was dismissed, the result being that on his
ultimate release the prisoner was found quite
demented.
There is hardy fellow in Caen, in Nor
mandy, who has twice saved the lives of men
in the water at the peril of his own. No notice
was taken of these events. But recently he
saved the life of half drowned cat, and the
Society for the Protection" ETC., has given
him a silver medal.
An article in the Journal de st. Pefersbourg
calls Germany "the electrical machine" of
Europe, and Gays: "Let Germany no longer
charge her pile the Continent will then be no
more shaken by her experiments, and the
nerves OF the Ieutonlo people will be relaxed
in q very satisfactory manner"
The Duke of Edinburg is the only one of
Queen Viotorias sons who lie not o member of
the Masonic order. His wife, who has q very
strong will of her own, will not sllow him to
have any secrets he cannot share with her,
and bis father-in-law, the Emperor of Russia,
is one of the few sovereigns of Europe who OPP
poses Masonry.
A South Carolina paper announces that an
other English company has been formed for
the purpose of manufacturing in that State
The manufacture proposed is similar to that
which has been reported-of wood and timber,
for furniture, ship frames and general use /;
and it is stated that saw-mills and manufacto-
ries of different kinds will be erected at once |
This notice appears in one of the London |
morning papers "Mr. Peter Tate has left his |
home. His wife and children would be thank
ful to any one who can give information of his
He is subject to fits and re.