The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

and four in Market street.
Don Manuel de Laverde Custapza died
RECENTLY at Paris, aged thirty-two. He left q
fortune. derived principally from Mexican
Two women tainted and man shouted for
the police when q clothed figure tumbled down
u in front of Boston store. They thought 1t
was q case OF snbstroke.
Temperance is rapidly incre aspg among the
British troops ih India; 7.405 men are con,
nected with temperance ORGANIZATIONS: ana
1921 men are registered as "of canteen."
Hppophagy is on the increase in Paris,
where there were consumed during tne nrst
quarter of 1876 $50 horses, az against l,e2l
during the corresponding quarter Oh 1919.
The minority against the adjournment of the
British House of Commons for the Darby day
has been increasing 30 steadiiy year after year,
that it is doubtful whether it will ever be
moved again.
Bexsine. ex-Msrsha al of France, has published
at Madrid a narrative of the Franco. Prus sian
war, with long apologetic chapter justifying
the manner in which he misconducted the de-
fence of Metz.
A Florida paper says over $40 900 go out of
that State every year for baskets, and yet
Florida is the natural home of the willow,
together with many other species of valuable
basket materials.
General Changarnier is lying seriously ill at
his residence at the Rue de Beanie, in Paris
The veteran is suffering severely from govt
The last fit has been 80 violent that the doctors
entertain but small hope of his recovery.
The Paris exhibition in 1873 will cover Tro-
cadero Heights and the Champ de Mars, and
these places, separated by the river, will be
connected by two bridges across the Seine
Paris has voted Se4 600 600 for improvements.
The Sunday Democrat says that twenty of the
2S,29O persons whose death was registered in
Ireland in the frst quarter of the year were
centenarisns, and that three were log years
DID, one log, one woman ITO, and two men Ill
years of age.
A painting of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence was hung on the front of the
Boston City Hall. On Monday night q rain
storm blended the colors, 80 that the group of
patriots looked like bloated bummers, and the
picture was removed.
The deepest Atlantic soundpgs ever made
were about ninety miles north of the Island of
St. Thomas, in 3 .S75 fathoms The pressure
was great at this immense depth that the
bulbs of the thermometer, made to stand a
pressure of three tons, broke.
The omnibus drivers of Liverpool, who are
on a strike, have taken a curious way to bother
employers who have hired non-uniou men.
They have taken out summonses against the
new drivers for violating the old statutes of
Charles l. and H., which forbid work on Sun
day.
A Peruvian died in Paris two years ago, and
bis brother arranged to have the body en-
balmed but quit the city before the job was
done. The embalmer wrapped the remains in |
cloths aud sold it to a museum as q mummy. |
The trick has been discovered through the
return of the brother to get the body for burial.
n At the annual meeting OF The stock holders of
the Augusta, Ga. Cotton Factory, held on the
4 3Oth June, the President's report showed that
the balance of profit and loss int last year
and the gross earnings amounted to $S28,760;
expenses, taxes, ETC., sos 656; dividends $4S 600;
leaving a credit balance of $215 104. Since the
war dividends amounting to 1913 per cent have |
been paid, while $3.50, 900 have been expended |
in improvements.
of the English East Indian Company, which |
regarded the exclusion of mission aries as justi- |
fable. Thus Java, with q native population |
of over thirteen millions, has been allowed to |
become MohamDedan. Latterly six Dutch |
missionary societies began to labor on the |
island. There is however strong anti-mis-
sion party in the colony, and the missionaries |
find the heather thoroughly hardened against |
the gospel.
A Boston girl q visit to Lowell friend |
performed strangely as q somnambulst. She |
got mp, without the knowledge of the people of |
the house, and wandered about the streets in |
her night clothes for on hour. Halt a mile |
from the house of her friend she began ringing |
peoples door bells. and rambling about as if |
trying to get into some of the houses and some |
body fred o pistol at her. Partly Weakened, she |
ecreamed, and seeing policeman she mplored
bis protection, and was taken to Ter lodging
Less than two years ago Samuel J. Tilden
was elected Governor of New York. 1t was the
year after the panic. The people felt poor and |
they demanded a reduction in the expenses of
s6ne Government. The taxes of 1874 were SIG
ECO 900. The taxes for 1875 are SO OOOOOO |
There is no humbug, no sham, DO false pre-
fenses about tb az 1t is one of those solid, gu b.
Rtantial facts which touch the pocket and in |
luence the Judgment of every citizen of every |
ommunity in the State, for every man is tax
layer.
The lightning that killed man in Cincinnati
truck the back part Of his head, singeing off
be hair and raising large swelling, az though
. had been hit with red hot bar of iron. 1t
hence passed around to the right, blisteriDg
ehe right ear, travelled across the chest disgo.
pally from the right breast downward to the
groin, whence it passed along the inner side of
he left thigh to the knee joint, and skipping
pver four or five inches of skin, passed along
he shiDbone to the ground. 1t peeled off the
kin in its course, leaving broad, red streak,
Ike burn.
The sale of Circassian girls to Turks con-
Sinues. correspondent of the London Times
Pays that Moslem dealer makes choice of four
young, unsophisticated girls, imports them to
CoDstantinople, sells them, and then goes back
or more. If he can achieve four such trips in
year he can make good living out of the sale
sixteen women Many of the Circassisns are
ettled in Turkey, and there actually breed
ehildren for sale, having no more shame about
than a fashionable English mother may feel |
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