The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-10-24
m,rnIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
SSTW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER "a 1875.

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NV ORLEANS. SUNDAY. OCTOBER "a 1875.
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EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
General Forrest has $50 acres of good land
under cultivation in Kentucky.
e. Come young men in Louisville have formed
an anti-lift-your-hat-to-a-wo man society"
The Spelling Bee" buzzed for the first time
IN Dublin on Sept. 26th, in the new Temperance
Hall.
arrangements for the building of ses-walls
i along the bay front.
The brevity Of human life is generally
recognised in the abstract by all men; and
vet nearly all of them act as if twould endure
for ever.
Professor Tice, the weather prophet, is fan
ming up another little zephyr. This time it is
to blow great guns on the 95sh of December
Christmas.
certain New York dry goods merchant in
want of boy, lately displayed the following
suggestive notice: "Boy wanted, that has fully
rested himself and is not too intellectual"
Ex-senator Lyman Trumbull writes 81 con-
slider administrative reform and the limiting of
the Federal Government to its constitutional
powers as the paramount issues of the day.
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Prussia in English. The void to be filed by
Captain Wyatt, who is writing q Prussan his
tory in eight volumes, the first instalment of
which will appear this month.
When the Canadian Government made
grant in favor of the veterans of 1912, it had no
idea that the number would be more than about
500 or 900, but the list has footed up over $500,
and consequently the gratuity will be cores.
pondingly small.
G. w. Childs is writing for the Washington
Republicdn now-at least we find this in that
While smoking on l the powder-keg
\ Then he rose like meteor
\Gone the fellow who struck glycerine with
b sledgehammer.
I 1t is officially announced at Madrid that in
&the Province of Burgos alone the decree of
= confscation against Carlists has been enforced
against 25s persons, the greater part of whom,
in addition to losing their property, have been
banished.
The English police have discovered that sew.
eral shop. keepers have cards indicating til cir
business and location, and that when a man
enters a tobacco shop or saloon he may return
to the street with one of these cards pasted, as
an advertisement, on his back.
The discovery of q subterranean forest, just
below the surface of the bed of the Thames,
near Cherry Garden pier, is of great interest.
The oak, the alder, and the willow are the
principal trees. These retain their vegetable
character, but other evidences show that the
forest belongs to the period of the elk and the
fed deer in the south of England.
New England fireman rose hastily at the
first alarm. Heran along the streets believing
"Fire" Hewas enthusiastically jumping the
old machine" and crying "Now jam her down
for our side, johnny when by the light of the
ascending flames, which were trying to toy
with the pale-faced moon, he discovered that
he had on his wife's velvet basque spangled
with bugles and beads.
One Of the provisions of the New Constitution
proposed for North Carolina is the following
''No person who shall deny the being of God, OF
the truth of the Christian religion, or the divine
authority of the Old or New Testament, or shall
hold religious principles incompatible with the
freedom safety of the State, shall be capable
of holding any Office or place of trust or profit
8 in the civil department within this State"
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Rosecrans said to st
Il Aloysius' Society, of Portsmouth, Ohio: I" 1t il
not your Catholicity which shuts you out from
= honor in this country. Honesty is fatal bal
to political aspiration. But your Catholicity
manfully avowed, and steadfastly adhered to-
will wiring respect from the American people il
despite of prejudice and calumuy."
The Giunta LiquidatricS has sold piece Of
ground annexed to the Church of the Crociferi
Rome, for over 10000 lire to the American
italian Methodists, on which they intend t.
erect a new place of worship. The building will
be completed in four or FIVE months. ALibera
newspaper expresses hope that soon in Rom
will be erected mosques and temples to all tn
gods and goddesses.
His Excellency Iwakura Tomowic, Chief OF
the Japanese Embassy to the United State
and England Eve years ago, has presented
book weighing over three tons, to the librar!
of the India Office, London. The work is a Sc
of the Chinese version of the Buddhist Scrip
lures, and fills room by ITSELF How any NOR
tai is to get time to convert himself to Bud