The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-06
aernIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. AUGUST 1870
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

During the fourth week in June there we
ss773 were in the warehouses, land a. 675
the receipt of outdoor relief.
4H@ Eight hundred Icelanders arrived at Ouch,
on Monday, and proceeded to the colony q
+ apart in Manitoba for an Icelandio settlement
= Four hundred more are also their way
M Quebec, and will arrive in the course of o weel
Surgeon Major Colvill, of the English arm!
writes from Baedad to the British Medical JOa
vel that the true Oriental plague undonbted!
quinine, as an experiment, but not successfully
A set of wheels was recently taken from be
~ meath the baggage car of the California an
Oregon express train at Sacramento, which ha
= travelled in daily use 81 300 miles, nor wer
they worn out even then, but had become loos
on the axle.
The Sacramento spiritualist society has beef
:: been broken up by the return of man VIII,
bad been regarded as dead, and from whom thu
q fessed TO receive weekly messages to be read il
81 the meetings.
The bark True Love- just arrived at Edin
burgh from Norway with cargo of ice, is one
= of the oldest vessels afoat. She was built in
Philadelphia in 1894 and has been in sctive
service ever since then. At one time she was
successful whaler.
MIR. Gage, who lectures on the electric tele.
gragh, exhibits q pleasing experiment. He
Connects the wires Of his battery upon his lee.
Gure desk with piano, in some house remote
from the hall, and the music is sent over the
wires, and is audible to the assem- blage.
Two-thirds of the land in England and Wales
10 held by about 10000 owners. There are
s., 0l3 SID acres held by 972, s36 proprietors of
not being iucluded-7O3 2s9
hold Isl III acres and 121 9S3 own 47S679
acres, holding them in plots of from to 10
scres.
A horseman passed through Lafayette Mo-,
the other day, on his way from Texas to
Michigan. He was mounted on o mustang,
which bad carried him all the way. ], 500 miles,
along the wsyside. The mans entire baggage
consisted OF blanket and a lariat.
A little girl in Reading, Pa, recently saw an
old drunken man lying on q doorstep, the per-
spiration pouring off his face, and crowd of
children preparing. to make fun of him. She |
took her apron and wiped his face, and then |
looked up SO pitiful1y to the rest and made this |
femark, 80, say, don't hurt him. He's some
|body's grandpa"
H. Waddington, Minister of Public instruc-
sion has addressed circular to the principals
pf the lycees of France pointing out the ad-
gsntsge to be derived from the establishment
ions is simply to promote taste for pedestrian
Excursions among the youth of France. The
circular is generally approved of.
Benin s. Wagner, in their annual review of
'he population Of the globe, state that Europe
population of 303 600 O0O Asia, 10 600, 900
auare miles; population, 799 900 900. Africa,
700, 600; population, 100000, 600. America,
wv h1iiCoj pOpuibblOH, ca |
ustrallR and Polynesia 500 600 so uars miles
ppulation, 500 600.
AT a base ball game at Eau Claire, Wis. the
her day, ball was knocked into the out-field.
% the home plate as promptly as possible, to ,
went q tally. The fielder threw with great
nee to the young man on the second base, and
she ball passed through his hands and struck
him on the body. He seized the bali, threw it !
home, and dropped over dead.
A farmer residing in Beverly. Canada, has r
Uncovered . new method of getting rid of his :
'rassnoppers he Keeps fifteen pigs, and during I
no snmmer months they live on nothing but Z
rasshoppers. He keeps two of the summers ,
stter over till the next spring to teach the '
pung brood. Last summer for seven weeks =
ts pigs lived on the grassboppers, and came =
pit fat and ready for fall-feeding on grain. +
The case of Cordozo, the negro Superintend- r
pit Of Public Instruction in Mississippi under n
mes, who was indicted by grand jury for il
gal court the other day, but the accused failed q
put in an appearance. His bail was there ii
fe declared forfeited, and his bondsmen, who u
All prominent Republican politicians in tr
ssiEsippi, will each be mulcted in q round fo
p. d,
ix years ego safe in the American Express Ii
pc, Westfield, Mess, was robbed, and the
mt was arrested as the thief His friends :"
10 not believe that he WAS guilty. and snb NJ
bed money to pay the cost of q successful tn
ence; but he did not regain his former po- di
81 ~ ~ a. the community: Lately duplicate OF
$50 S@A0 VOC AOuuo ID G06 possession OF 81
led. N"o 700"
clever device for saving life from fire has he
been tried at Enghien, in France. Them W
zion has worked on the principal by which
ecrobrat strides down q cord BY wi1dip1 II si
mt his legs. Here the rope is passed round in
ron tube in such way that it can be nm Nd
ed only very gradually. One end is tied on VI
indow or piece of furniture, and the other So
Sened round the waste and the individual a
bends as gently as he would step off stool. th
society has recently been formed in Paris. "a u
members of which declare, by a special ne
1se in their will, that they do not wish to az
inferred after death, but they desire their tai
les to be delivered to the amphitheatres to wg
dissected. Their object, they state is to Gel
tribute to the progress of this important thu
nce, without which aprofound study of the On
ling art is impossible. They would also re- eb,
existing prejudices against dissection of 90,
e. A society of the same kind, it appears
Ady exists in Zurich. aar
10 idea of making Paris seaport-in other
Q, OF rendering the Seine nsVigable for sea- BET
9 VESSELS again coming to the surface car
river ct Paris is only between sixty and acc
MY feet above the level of the ocean, and vel
enee in straight line of 100 miles, al no