The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-02-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

(Mass.) Mercury to remark: Ten mills MAKE
| cent, but not any ten mills in this section.
young man. who asked why be did not
marry, promptly replied my dear sir, I've
been a salesman in dry goods store for ten
years."
Right Rev. Bishop Gibbons has lately pnr-
chased Methodist meeting house in Barris.
burg, Va, and the same will be remodelled and
dedicated as q Catholic church.
Mrs. Kirby, widow residing in Caldwell
county, N c., lost eight children last month by
diphtheria; four of then in snch quick sue
cession that they were buried together.
Sebastopol was declared a commercial port
inst one year ago. Now IT Is the second corn
granery in Southern Russia, and new buildings
and bonlevards have sprung mp az II by magic.
Fitz Hugh Lee, George B. Mcclellan and
Ambrose f.. Burnside will probably be the re-
speotive field officers of the Southern, Middle
States and New England battalions of the Cen
ten NAL Legion.
Forest planting is thriving in Minnesota.
The st. Paul end Pacific hyil.oad has set out
over 100000 Young trees, and altogether it is
estimated that 26, Gg0, dGh have been planted on
the prairie lands.
Benjamin Franklin introduced broom corn
into this country. While examining an i'm
ported corn wbisk he found q single seed, which
he planted in his garden. From that seed the
corn was propagaLed.
smoker. "Ha! there yon are" cred O lady who
surprised him one day with pipe in his nj outh,
at your idol again !" eyes, ma'am," replied
he, ooolly, burning it,"
Longfeilow's "Evangeine" has been trans
lated into Portugues blank verse By Don Miguel
Street d'Arriaga, a native of the Azores The
manuscript translation has been submitted for
correction to Mr.. Longfellow.
A gentleman from Washington, D. c., has
purchased $500 acres OF land in Alachus
county, Fla, which he is dividing up into
twenty, forty and eighty acre lots Five settlers
Effected purchases the first week.
Mgr. Dupanloup has entered the lists as q
prison reformer He has caused all the penal
to be carefully visited, in order to ascertain the
actual condition of their inmates.
In France the postal cards appear in great
| variety, because it is legal for any man to
make his own, the payment being by an adj
hesive stamp. The result is that some are or
| namented with elaborate designs on cardboard
| Of various colors and materials.
DR.. Bartle, the principal of the Freshfeld
Colleges near Liverpool, has been arrested for
| refusing to vaccnate bis two children. He said
| be bad conscientious scrnpes against vaccina
ton; bnt he was fined twenty shillings and
! coste in each case just the same
At lenst one man in indianapolis looks with
satisfaction upon the laws delay. He is the
tenant of house whose ownership is disputed,
aud each OF the parties to he suit to decide
the point has enjoined him from paying rent
to toe other, so that he is living rent free.
The fund raised for the sufferers by the
French overflow amounted to So, 100000. One
half of this was nsed for the reconstruction of
the houses, $600000 to replant washed away
garden produce, $50000 for furniture and
$4000 to assist employers to pay their work
men.
The list of distinguished failures of the past
year, published by the Lodon Times, exhibits
cat astrophea Of the most magnificent amount.
Those which head the list are L C. I'm Thnrn,
Sandersons and Collie each of which is over
G3 600 900. Then comes Young, Borthwick &
Co, t1.oCo'oCo; Robert Benson, El,OC00 600,
with many more almost as large.
Madame Gravier, sister of NJ Theirs, died
recently in France at the age of seventy-Six. 1t
was size Tho in 1S49 kept sort of eating house
with board at the entrance bearing the words:
Table Ghote kept by the sister of NJ. THEIRS"
The latter brought an action against her, AND
haViog gained the suit obtained an order to
have the obnoxious notice removed.
The brother of General J. Z. 3. Stuart has
ordered u monument for that great soldiers
grave, consequently the headstOne that the
Virginia Legislature contemplated erecting
will be set mp over the tomb of General Ed
ward johnson. Ex-President Tyler, whose
grave at Holly wood is unmarked will also be-
PAID the taTdy honors of q monument.
Negro sentiment is undergoing IA decided
change. The black people beginning to
nod out that tho was not made by the
North to free them yet it is rather strange
10 see them contributing so han tlsomely To the
monument of Robert +. Lee. The New York
Tribune notes the fact that Norfolk, Va. has CON
'ribnted $1,000 81 10 the Lee Monument Fund
q liberal portion of which was subscribed by
the colored citizens.
Mt. Porter, of Charleston, South Caro-
lima, has had a deserved success III his school
work in that city. AT the close of the war be-
proposed to establish o school for boys of re-
spectable but impoverished South Carolina
families. 1t is seven years since be made the
start In that time l,300 children have been
educated at his day school; 300 children, "the
| representatives before the war of parents pos
sessing $l5. 100000 property, but now reduced
almost to a6iect poverty" have been sheltered
and trained in his Orphans Home.
| The improvements in the interior of the Ca
thedral of Richmond, Va, are progressing.
ihere Will be two alooves, one on each side Of
the sanctuary, on which will be frescoed fine
paintings by master artist of Baltimore. A
marble altar will be placed on the Epistle side,
and fine marble statue of the Blessed Virgin
Mary will he provided by the Catholic Bennett
cial Society. On the Gospel side the old altar
will be retained for the present, but it is sug-
gested that the Knights of St. Joseph will pro-
vide a marble altar for that side before long.
sad commentary on the bitter fruit of ire
construction is found in the once proud and
rich state of South Carolina. Some of the
most valuable sea-island cotton lands near
Beaufort, O be sold ot anctio,,