The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-11-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

| The census or Brazil has just beeu taken. 1t
| indicates population of $50 900 souls. in
Guiding $50 600 slaves and 243 900 foreigners.
dispatch from Paris says the French misis-
| ter in China hiss demanded the punishment of
| the Mandarin who is respon 81 BILE for the mas
| sacre OF Catholic priest at Ming Kone Ton.
The surplus of women in Massachusetts,, or
rather OF women and girls which was so 600 in
1870, was last year something me re than GO 900,
| the whole number of males in the State being
794 1888 and of females S57, $50.
Almost every where throughout tie Union the
Gas Companies are reducing the price of GOAL
gas, our city, SO far being prominent excep-
| ton although why we should not also have
cheaper gas. if every body else has it, is hard
| to understand.
An Australian has taught a canary bird to
sing Home, sweet Home, by suspending it be
fore a looking glass near music. box which
performed that melody. Snpposing the bird in
the glass was making the music, the bird
finally caught the notes, and now arbles the
whole tune.
One of the largest droves of cattle ever seen
in any place was driven from Texas few
| county, to Kansas. The herd numbered 80 600
horned cattle and was attended bS 200 drivers.
The outfit alone cost 10000, and the herd
| brought $4,000.
The population of Constantinople, with the
| suburbs, is now estimated at 800 600, and the
burden of vessels clearing the port at about
1000 tons. The Roumelian railroad connects
! the city with the northern provinces, passing
GUILTY. ated country.
After reading Gov. Chsmberlain's proolama-
tion to rifle clubs, demanding the surrender Of
their arms, the club at Rock Hill, s. c., pro-
cured box. placed in it an old horse pistol, o
flint look rifle. and an army mnsket. and ship
ped it to the Governor marked &C. O. D." The
expressage was $1S.
The fresh meat trade from the United States
mer prejudice against this food having given
way completely, so that at present there is
hardly any appreciable difference in price be-
tween home-slsughtered beef or that which
arrives in the refrigerator vessels.
There are 119 life-ssvirg stations on our
coast from Maine to Florida, thirty on the
lakes, and eight on the Pacific, employing HOO
men. The coasts of New Jersey, Long island
and North Carolina are the most dangerous.
Each keeper gete 5000 q year, and they have
saved 1858 lives in the last fouP years.
A young girl, now living in the Rue Voltaire,
in Bordeaux, France, who was born without
arms, uses her mouth in the most extraordinary
manner. She can write with the greatest faci-
lity, can thread the finest needle, embroder,
knit do crochet work, mark linen, etc. with
marvellous regularity, and can even with her
mouth tie q sailors knot.
The body of Charles Emory, n soldier who
died in Washington, d. c., in 1868, was taken
up the other day for the purpose OF rearranging
the family lot in Jaffrey, N H., and was found
to be petrified. It was estimated that the
weight was from 600 to 700 pounds. when
alive his weight was 1875 pounds. His fea-
tnree, clothing, and the flower wreath around
he was buried.
In the cool of evening during the bathing
season at Brighton, England, q man with red
dish complexion, very heavy moustache and
eyebrows, tight-fitting blue body coat, and an
expression of Dolidlty on his face that some
might take for grimness, rode out reg nlarly on
q stout chestnut hunter. This was the Easl of
dred ct Balaklsva, exolaiming, he spurred
his horse, Here goes the last of the Csrdi-
gans"
The Emperor of Brszt is about to publish
an account of his travels in the Old and New
World. The first volume is complete, and con-
tains an account of the Emperors travels in
the United States. The book will be printed
s
story in Portuguese, but it has alreaf y been
translated into English, French and German,
and is to be published in the four languages
about the close of the present year.
As an example of the almost incredible prices
paid for good building sites in London trans.
action just completed is cited. The demolition
of NorGhu N berland House and the formation
of new approach to the Thsmes embsnkmen
at Chsribg Cross have left two plota of eligible
land vacant. The plot on the east side of the
new avenue has been let on q building lease for
ninety years at a rental of G5S, OC0 year. The
land comprises nearly an acre, and is triangular
in shape, though only two sides could at best
be used TOR shops.
In !the Kennebeo river engineering work
bne Improvement Oh naFlBaIlOD Is going on
which is somewhat similar, though upon a
smaller scale, than that at He'll Gate. "Dry
Rock" near Richmond, is being removed under
the direction of Gen. Thorn. In the neighboc-
hood of this rock there is very strong tidal
current. In one blast, recently, there were
four holes drilled seventeen feet deep, and
filled with vulcan powder. The mine was ex-
ploded by means of battery, aud the dig
charge removed Il mass of rock weighing about
$40 tons distance of thirty feet.
Notwithstanding the School Boards in Eng
land, of which we have of late read 80 much,
the schoolmaster doesn't seem to be much
abroad yet, to judge by an incident in a "home"
q g., adj AGENT TO LondoD) county. The revising
barTster, in the course of his revision of the
list of voters in Surrey, remarked upon the I'M
ineligible manner in which one of the lists
was written The overseer stated that he |
wrOte we'll as he could, and that the other |
overseer could not write at all, In reply to a |
suggestion that the aid of scholar should be |
called in, the overseer intimated that there was |
not scholar in the parish.
A letter from the French party exploring the |
desert Of Sahara describes the village of Cha |