The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-02-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Dore has q big canvas on his easel-3Ox2o-
OF Christ entering Jerusalem.
Twenty-Five Sisters of Charity bsnished from
Germany have settled at Washington, Iowa.
Blood will tell. The butchers Of Montreal
are going 20 start O newspaper with $oo,ooo
capital
The United States debt statement on the LIST
| inst. showed decrease of 81 800 OOO during
| January.
The eight pin factories of the Uuited States
make about a 100000 pins daily, and yet we
import 2s 900 900 more daily.
Tennyson receives 500. 600 year from the
! firm of Henry King g. Co, for the privilege OF
| pm blshing his works in England.
Tho monument for the. priests who died
during the yeo w-fever epidemic In Memphis
in 1873 Is being placed In position.
| Tho Due de Ia Rocbefoucauld Bisaccia has
given the muniiicent sum OF l,2oOr 600 francs to
| the new Catholic University of Angers.
Under the Iowa civil damage law the wives
| of drunkards in Sioux City have sued liquor
dealers for sums amounting in all to 100000.
The editor of the Louisville Courier. Journal
pronounces hopeless the full-grown young
man who calls his mother NAV and his father
paw.
Speaking Of Shakespeare, Hallam remarks
that we know him personally only by the
reflex image of the bjootivity in which he was
manifested"
Rev. Thomas Walsh, of Florence, N. Y, has
published q pamphlet entitled Essays on
Gladstone and the Vatican, Liberalism, Free
nasonary and Carbouarsm."
The Tredegsr Works at Richmond, Va,
sumed last week, with nearly the same n Der
of hands that had been thrown out of employ
ment by their brief suspension.
There was never q man more completely sold
than the one who stole the travelling bag of
drummer for boot and shoe firm. He got
| boots and shoes in plenty, but not pair.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that it is 600
| tha and ri AuVn N
| the breeze" Not quite. Congress only adopted
the Stars and Stripes formally in June, 1777.
] There were 7740 failures in the United Ste$ap
lin 1875. of which the gross liabilities were
$2Ol, 900 1853 This is nearly treble the number
of failures in 1871, and 5000 moro than in 1874.
| the 9Th JAN, of James O'Mears, Ballymscadam,
Cabir county Tipperary, at the age of eighty
two. Four of the brothers of the deceased
| were priests.
court ut Hamilton Ont, where James Garvin
WAS sentenced TO the Penitentiary for two years
for attsmp pied theft within one hour after the
commission of the offense.
The members of the Ontario Legislature,
though the province has several millions in its
treasury and annually receives more than it
can spend, have refused TO increase their an.
nual allowance from 5000 to $1,000.
A young lady named Ada Patterson, accord
ing 10 the Sheffield (Eng.) Independent, has 8
concert she sustained with ease the fiat
octave above the ordinary soprano B fat, thi
being higher by three notes than has ever be
fore beeu cong in England.
Prof. Rudolph says that be has fonnd on
that the sun 10 o white, hot masa, $50 600 mile
} in diameter, having q surrounding ocean G
burning gass so 900 miles deep. with tongue
of flame darting upward 10000 miles. an
, volcanic forces that hurl luuinoue matter
I the height of 10000 miles.
- nl;-
! taxpay ors, who denounce the levy az illega
have refused to pay ta1es and appealed to ii
E courte, aud the city has been compelled TO di
charge it's fremen and policemen, to whom
was heavily in arrears. The public schoC
: will probably he closed next week.
The fsther Of the present Speaker of q
Honse of Representatives, Mr.. Kerr, never w
Il u rich man, but he had, at least, marie
y, near Tltusville, Pa, IN 1854 for $500; the ne
!, year petroleum was discovered on it. aud L
W long after it sold for over $3.50 600.
re- The Washington Chronicle asks why the Sou
10 does not manufacture her own cotton goo
at Because" says the New York Herald, "su
,y cient capital for the manufacture is alrea
=, invested else where But the South is SLOW
Il developing that industry, and We predict q
II in FIVE years few threads. at least, will
o spun north of the James River
~ There are some queer incongruities in
oi salaries paid to State officers in Michigan.
oy Governor draws q salary of but 81 600, vl
of that of the Railway Commissioner is q
IL The salaries of the Secretary of State, Conn
no soner of the Land Office, and Attorney Gene
nj are $500 each, and these are the only 81
N. functionaries drawing less compensation q
on the Governor.
r. The manufactures of Birmingham, Engls
,at turn out in one week II 100000 steel pt
.He 5000 bedsteads, 1000 Runa, 300 Oc0 600 out M
ne 100 600 900 buttons, 1000 saddles, 20 600 pair
ECO spectacles, Is tons of papier maohe wares, $50
seq worth of jewelry, 1000 miles of iron and g
Tue wire, 10 tons OF pins tons of hair pins
ga hooks and sea, $50 miles of wax for mate
the aud $500 bellows
lelr Five men can easily hold down lion, "
{ to it requires nine men TO control ii
Martial also states that the tigers alV
ton killed the lions in the amphthestre. The
.red is, III truth, g pretentious ,humbuG, and G
an his reputation to his imposing NAME an
will run away like whipped cur, under
cumstAuoes in which the tiger will boldly
roll tack and kill.-NatHre,
and Within twenty years the carrying caps
-rest of ocean steamers has been doubled, thei
nos penses halved and their speed greatly incret
55 Ho This has been done by the screw, the oompt
u'nS engine and superheated steAm. On land
locomotive has been wonderfully imprc
nd wit fha s;~As .