The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-09
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.


EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
The United States dept statement on the
lat. shows decrease of g., 125, 600 for April.
II in said that Gustave Dore is to receive
100000 for q series of designs for q now edition
of Shakespeare.
Hon BENJAMIN n. Hill, one of the most dis
t;non;sbed statesmen in the South, has been
slasted to Congress from Georgia.
Aman in Sacramento read on o sign: Oys-
tsrs in every style for Is cents" SO he went in
and had o raw, fry, stew, pan roast and fancy
roast, and when he got through he put down
quarter, remarking to the astonished caterer
"That's what your sign says"
The last Government returns show that the
population of Rome, which rose from 226 .022
in 1870 to PA ,4sl in 1871, has been gradually
falling since that year, the population in 1872
being 24l 500, and in 1873, 240,2 22. The returns
for 1874 are not yet published.
Judge Brooks of the United states District
Court, in charging tho grand jury at Whining
ton, N. c., on the 4th, decided that the civil
rights bill in its criminal aspect, which was
the only shcpe in which it could come before
the grand jury, was unconstitutional and void.
Two Engishmen in search of sulphur on the
leland of Dominica, West Indies, have discov
cred, eight ten miles inland, in the crater of
an extinct volcano, boiling lake. 1t is half
q mile wide and two miles in circumference,
and even at the shore the hand cannot be inn
mersed in the water without pain.
According to State statistics, there were in
Ireland, in 1872, "A ,79o persons between seventy
and eighty years of age who spoke the Irish
language only; there were 1864 between
eighty and ninety; 1908 between ninety and
one hundred years and 1893 upwards of one
hundred years old who spoke only Irish
The Catholics of Brazil are resolved that the
enemies alike of God and man shall not have
it all their own way. They are organizing
themselves in the different provinces of Rio
Janeiro Para, Pernambuce, Minas, etc, as o
distInctively Catholic party. The counsellor
Zacharie dc Goes Vasconcellos has been una
nimously chosen by the provincial leaders as
head and leader of the party.
The Shanghai Gazette, abiding to the death
of the late Emperor of China, conveys the in
formation that shortly before the Emperor's
death gigantic image-the Goddess of Small
pox-was paraded round the city of Pek,n in
solemn procession, and then taken into the
very bedroom of the dying youth, where il
was worshiped and honored with many pro
pitatory offerings. As, however, the goddess
continued obdurate, she was subjected to &
severe tbrashng and other insults.
The public funeral of the late Sir John Gray
which took place on Thursday, April 18th, il
Dublin, assumed all the features of great ma
tional demonstration of respect to the memory
of the deceased member for Kilkenny. There
were representatives present from every public
body in Ireland, the corporation of Kilkenny
taking pranedanca- The Rhnna in the streets
through which the corte0e passed were closed,
and the ships lying along the Custom House
quay displayed flags halfmast high. CitiEenl
of all oreeds and politics attended, and many
of the judges and nobility who were unable tc
be present sent their carriages. The corteg
took upwards of four hours to pass through the
city. The remains of the deceased were in
TERED in the O'Connell circle in Glasuevan
Cemetery.
The New York Mercantile Journal says tha
in view of the small amount of gold in tb'
world in proportion to the increased amount o
commerce, the effort to regulate exchange
and pay balances in gold is as fruitless as t,
endeavor to quench the thirst of an elephan
from tea saucer. Within the past year owe
S6O,oO0,oOo worth of gold have been shipped
from the port of New York, and about half q
much more from San Francisco This couutr,
is sending to Europe annually, about $3.50, 600,
900 in gold for interest on National aud Stat.
bonds held there, and for the balance agains
MS for gew-gaws, delicacies we do not need
and for the travelling and living expenses o
our snobs Who gothere and spend their money
because this country is too much of demo
Cracy for them.
A correspondent says: "In a local paper
the NeWburyport Herald, few days ago