The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-07-18
xDrsunrAI AND OTHER rrrnrs.

in Algeria.
In Nebraska more than IL, OO0, 900 forest fra.
were planted last year.
The Secretary of the Treasury makes n e,i,s.
for SIC, OOO, 600 coupon bonds of 1862 -
The Emperor of Germany arrived ut Iash,
on the 18th. He is the goest of tho Ernnero-
of Austria.
Our Western exchanges are still compla;n;no
of the scarcity of harvest banda, and the cite.
are full of half fed idlers.
Five cotton mills are now said to he Il, go
cessful operation at Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
within sight of the cotton fields.
A society for the promotion of sacred musa
in France has been created under the patronage
of the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris.
The cotton factory at Brownsville, Tenn.
turns out 4 600 yards of sheeting per day, and
its capacity will soon be increased to 5000.
A Prussion war ship has been secretly en-
gagged taking soundings and mapping the
coast of Jutland: An explanation will be de.
manded from the Berlin Governments.
The Lighthouse Board gives notice that on
and after the 3lst of July the arc OF Visibility
| of Barataria Bay, Louisiana, light win be in.
creased 30 it can be seen around the entire
horizon.
| An incidental expense of killing small birds
is shown in some parts of Maine, where the
worms are so multitudinous shat men cannot
be hired to go into the woods to build feneefo
$40 day"
Aconyention in the interest of the green.
back party, is called to meet at Dstreit
August IS, and B. F. Butler, w. D. Kelly, Moses
w, Field, and others, are expected to address
the meeting.
Gen, Lon gstreet last week asked permission
of Secretary Bristow to examine the archives
of the Confederate States, in order to make
nm his record of the battle of Gettysburg
Permission was granted.
Cotton came from India long while to be
spun, but now the mills threaten to 60 to India
to spin the cotton. Iron in America, Gotten in
India. At this rate how is England to main
, tain her industrial supremacy
8 Connecticut's native curiosity to know the
f news and it's acquired piety have been in con.
s flict at Meriden over the question of suppress.
n ing newsboys on Sunday. 1t is almost needles
q to add that curiosity carried the day.
T The Philadelphia Ledger drops sympathir-
: ing tear over the recital of touching scene in
L Mexico, where the remains Of matrsn l3
9 years old were attended to the grave by her
orphan boys, aged respectively 80 and 10O
The Bombay Catholic Examiner learns from
its German correspondent that of the Jesuit
- who have been driven out of Germany "a have
gone to settle down in Asia, 90 in Africa, 81 in
- North America, &c in South America, and "a in
Galicia or in Holland.
The business aspect of scientific journalism
~ is presented in the balance sheet Of TIL
- " Complies Rendus" of the French Academy o
Sciences, which shows, after forty years o.
fame, that the annual expenditures exceed th
!. receipts by 10000 francs.
" A series of interesting experiments haT
10 been made at Toulon on board the iron-sls1
Marengo to work the rudder by steam pOvS
By means of this invention one man can dom
~ ten seconds what it requires eight men to psf
70 form n a minute and half under the forms
- system.
40 They are conservative in England. GeOrs
Carpenter Hall died there the other day al
y left legacies to three servants. His hous
~ keeper had been with him fifty years, b
housemaid twenty years. and his man serval
:, thirty-fve years. To the first he left an incou
for life.
, man came out of the tax Office the 9th
IL day, and, exhibiting an empty pocketbook to
- friend, gloomily observed, Bill, where's &
- altar of countryi 1 want to find il
no "What for !" exclaimed the other in some
M Constituent. "Well, want to lay that pock
oo book on it."
NO OF two colored candidates for admission
At. the bar in North Carolina the Raleigh M
~. afirms that neither answered a single quest
n, correctly; but as the most brilliant ACHE
&C, ments of the law lie in defending the wrc
side of question, both were licensed to pr
:. tice by the Supreme Court.
- From Nature we learn th at the results Of
~ cent Investigations in the French Acade
~ "seem to prove that water in which amin
80 and plants of higher organization will thr
:. is fit to drink; and, on the other hand, va
.as IN which only the infusoris and lower er!
~ gains will grow is unhealthy"
az The Terrebenne Sentinel has the follow
. item: "In Terrebonne parish an acre
cts ground yields in value, round plumbers, if
Aka cultivated: cane $3.50; in corn $50; corn, ?