The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-02-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

kseR GEN EHAL We VS. GIEMS.
sQharles O'Copor's present income is esti.
Nsated at $4,000 year.
The Washington Capitol says the Rev. B. A.
z1nEnire, S j. is one OF the ablest pulpit orators
IN she country.
a part of the etsff used by ST. Peter is still
kants ia the Cathedral of Puy, France. This
|1kRf Of very hard wood, was given to Saint
148S1Aal by the Prince of the Apostles. 1t is
D4ls4 that a companion of st. Martial was re-
.atnEed to life by II.
E1e Sanitary Record says lat the duration OF
.lk1e ID this couDtTy Is longer than in England,
land 9bat the immense profits of the insurance
.bnsiness here are ex planned by the fact that the
|EAtsg0f insurance are chiefly based upon Eng
tlgn 6Abular estimates of life.
7areading of the journal in the House of
REPRESENTATIVES on Monday showed that up to
sh19 DAY 1913 bills had been introduced, and
17snine joint resolutions, making ia the ag-
.&E4nte 1919 original measures introduced and
|E&a red 70 committees this session.
sbese are pretty hard times, I can tell you,
ssxS ok planned q tramp, drawing the back of
bic hand across his eyes while he shut the
.@Ez4ge upon q donation of ten cents. "Lots of
Asffies who'd never thought year ago that
shey eould mix up biscuit without cream now
.nse water"
A singular difficulty has arisen at a court
martial in Aldershott Camp, England. An
D63osr of the Twenty-frst Hussars reported
ainh6clf ill to the court, but was told by the
InilieAxy surgeon major that he was not siclz.
Ehe.eiiacer applied to three civilian physicians
.gh0 each granted certificate of sickness and
NADillty TO ate the conrt-martisl The
I9sTeo Of this med ico-mlitary conflict is looked
nfWard to with interest.
Tho Welsh colony at Chupat, in Patagonia,
saa proved, or, rather, threatens to prove, q
Iailn<e, owing to drought. In 1874 it num-
peyea 140 SOULS and after long period of
,Eigasion promised to be successful, but it was
Hwnnpod by the great increase of immigration
|rons Wales, aud now there are |, 200 OF 200
hf.1lv
.2epublc will, it is hoped, give them such as
|isfance will enable them to tide over the
winter.
The schoolboys of st. Llurentins' parish,
IEeVeB, were forbidden to serve Mass during
pltnpltime. On the following day, the day of
.ernetual Alteration, when ali the boys had to
"a school sixteen young men of the parish
ented themselves to the priest with the
Hhd of being admitted to serve at the altar.
4{gnity with which all those six teen per-
the ceremonies during Mass and Yes
eLS ST. that festivity filled those present with
ne eEAStest delight and satisfaction.-LMrem-
sTg SoDRtdJsblat.
One Of the most dismal features of Ohio vii
|bges Is the number of dilapidated meeting
Qnsea, with their broken windows, leaning
sgles and bent lightning-rods. The money
.eeEe on them was well spent, of course, be-
none 1t has gone to mechanics and laborers
|ut the structures make sad picture to the
. y 3pgry sky for a background. Youth and
.e9Ag together-dilapidstion without, and |
.Atlness withn-a type of the present stage
SO wild movement headed by the Saxon
| lenlS.-Cdtholic Columbian.
19 1,Uo Republics, an enterprising American |
pHper, now we'll established in Mexico |
ierately warns Americans who think of
to better their fortunes in that country, |
they are simply "clerks, business men |
9o9lroad men without means, or laborers |
- Aesire more than fifty cents day." they |
~ hstter stay at home. First-class mechanics
40 as well perhaps in Mexico as in the
stsd States, but no better" Neither
eng arms nor intelligent heads are lacking |
aexioo. What the country specially needs
| lapital to develop its resources.
Ghs Macon Telegraph says that near Column
- Mississippi, Mr.. G. D. H., whose father was
81 the vicinity of Athens, Ca, and married |
nrke county, recently sold his farm and |
shed residence to one of his former slaves |
he handsome sum of ten Thousand dollars |
down. Having occasion shortly after |
% to visit the premises again, his old |
pit provided an excellent repast for him,
% in days of yore, took his station, waiter
Id, at the back of his masters chair and
ed to his every want. In the same
orhood another servant purchased q
- ~ his employers plantation, paying four
ousend dollars in cash for it. Such clses are
% and should be recorded.
cme of the European nations are still
lied with the fashionable pest of duelling,
re Still engaged in devising expedients to
pate it from their territories. Hitherto all
GGempts have been aimed at that one of
9 81 lists who had the best of it in the field.
eoSSVernment has at last hit upon the very
|98Lnal ana novel plan of inflioting vipdic-
|vC punishment upon the body of the slain.
ats IL bne bavarian Government, which has
sfIeu ouG slgnally severe sentence upon Q
tam count kllied in a duel close to Munich,
an ohcer OF the royal army. The old laws
the country recognize in duels only q sort of
eide, and condemn the persons killed in