The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

wearing ofswords in public.
Tha v,dow of OF. President Polk has been
rendered the free nse OF palace car ron Ie
~ sbe wishes to visit the Centennial Exbipl'
ton.
Ascending TO q Paris correspondent, but o
faw women visit n THEIRS and the writer
gives q reason that the women 90 no. s sho.s
how to listen--except when you speak TO them
OF themselves.
The Philadelphia Methodist Conference has
declared against Damp meetings on ennaay,
which are held to encourage sunday pleasure
excursions aud to draw people away from tneir
regular places OF worship.
The population of Virginia is slowly but
surely more asing, the increase being greater
However in the towns than in the aHrlcu1tnrai
districts Danville. whose population IN ieyo
was 1000, has now 1000 people.
There are but two regiments of soldiers In
the British service permitted to wear shir1
oollars--the Seventh Hussars and the Forty,
fhird Light Infsntry. All Others are obliged
10 hide the collar beneath the stock.
The superstition of sailors was strikipgiy
illustrated in Chicago q few days ago. Inc
strait hts of Maskinaw opened on l RuiS Thy ny
news reached Chicago. but not vessel "ouio
leave port until Saturday.
The economy of the War Department under
She late Secretary is illustrated by the TACT
that 600 rifles and muskets were sold few
months ago to private parties at the Mare Is
land navy yard, for 25 cents api ece portlon
of the rifles cost Se5 each and tho balance
eighteen dollars. The arms were entirely new.
A computation of the time required for the
formation of . scam of coal has been made by
Mr e. A. Wausch, of the Glasgow Geological
Society, based upon his own observations IN the
Isle of Arran. He thinks that as many as
twenty generations of trees are compressed
into three or four inche, of coal there, and that
eighteen centuries are requisite for the torma-
ton of one foot of coal.
When the signers Of the Declaration of Inde-
hair mi
document, did they suspect that in one hun
dred years there would be emperors running
back and forth over this whole country, LOOK
ing Mt the water works and other objects OF in
terestf 7 If the Fourth of July orators dent get
off something tremendous this year, there's
nothing in the American eagle.
Some of the honest farmers of Western
pennsylvauia have been discovered in the
manufacture of wolf and fox ears from colt
hides, on which they collected large bounties
from the local treasury. The same result has
been reached in different way by the honest
farmers o. Central Illinois, Who before the
bear movement in bounties, used to purchase
wolves and breed them for destruction at - or
$40 per cub.
The Bishop of Nimmes has appointed, to
work in bis own diocese, n Commission OF
Christian Art" charged with studying the
origin, the history. the style not only of all
archives under the episcopal care but also OF
the statues pictures, vases, etc, of the various
churches. The appointment of the commission
has given great satisfaction, as tend ing to pre-
serve what is good and to eliminate what
offends taste or might possibly be injurious to
faith.
It having come to the knowledge of the
"GIood Tempiars of England" that the white
population IN the United States is antagonls-
tic to the association with the colored race
they have passed resolution at their last
meeting in London, to the effect that II
Americans are determined to establish dis.
tinctiou of races in works of humanity and
temperance, the order in EDglaud cannot
Anld int them
brethren.
The original Declaration of Independence
has been sent to the Centennial exhibition. 1t
is still fresh-lookipg, engrossed In q far hand
on parchment, aud bears the characteristic
sipnatures of the immortal rebels 1t has hung
for years in the Patent Office at Washington,
and 10 therefore in the keeping Of the Depart
mept of the Interior. 1t 10 gratifying to know,
SAYS the Baltimore Gazette, that it will not be
stolen by the Indian Bureau people for six
months at least.
Eleven years ago, John Mahony, then chief
of the Fepiaps in America, bought from Bel
mont g. Co bills of exchange to the amount
of S19, 500 As payable at the London branch of
the Rotbschiids to John O'Leary. OLeary
never drew the money, having been, preyi-
the English Government. The money re-
mains in the hands of Belmont & ca. O'Ma-
honey has all these long years souSnU N vain
to get his hands on the cash.
Gen. Kirkham, the Commander-in-Chief of
she forces Of Abyssinia, was originally ste
ward in the Peninsula and Oriental service,
then voluntecr unter Col. Gordon in China
wounded ae-nr"'y there, ne went home and
was .p.oyeG in the Commisssry Department
of the British army in the Abyssinian war.
A*the overthrow Of King Theodorus he otter
cd his services to King Johannes, and now, as
supreme commander. he is leading the royal
troops against the Egyptians.
A Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,, Judge recently
gave q curious decision in q case of Sabbath
breaking. An lsrae!ite was brought before
him charged with violating the Sabbath
by fishing. The accused pleaded that his Sab
bath was Saturday, which he always religiously
observed. The Judge fined him a small amount,
on the ground that while the statutes of the
State permitted him to transact his regular
business on the Christian sabbath, they did
not authoize him to go a-fishinG on that day.
Tho Florida orange crop for the present sea-
son is 25, 600 900, worth on an average at the
groves SIS per thousand, making S37S 900, 1t
is estimated that there arc now not more than
5000 acres of young trees from four to ak
years old from the bud, some bearing as many
% 100 oranges the past fruit season. For the
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