The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A1i's Ou ACcOuub VI tu0 SOutOpnios
The Ohio Legislature has passed bill pro-
viding for the punisbment by hne and inpris-
onment of all peIsons who got on or OF railroad
trains that are in motion.
John Payne, the new President of Liberia,
is full blooded negro, and WAS born in Rich
moDd, Va. He has been a member of the Lii
berian Congress- for twenty years, and ia q very
intelligent man.
The medal presented by the Emperor of
Hayti to Charles Sumner. and by him given to
the State of Masssch usetts, has been found in
the safe of tho Treasurer-where no one
thought Of looking until after all the fuss over
its loss had been made.
Lieut.. Ertel of the Austrian army, who sold
official documents to the ambassador of
foreign government has been tried as o spy
and condemned to dismissal from the service,
loss of nobility. and ten years inpri sonrneut,
with one days fasting every mouth.
Almost every tourist includes Athens in his
round and imagiues he sees something of
modern Greece. The truth is that the capital
is q pale copy of third-rate French provincial
town, and presents nothing characteristic or
noteworthy aside from its ruins and assoca-
tons.
Three Missouri murderers were last week
sentenced respectively to ninety-niDe, forty
five and twenty -four years imprisonmeut. The
object of giving such singular sentences is to
prevent the culprsts from being psrdoned out
after serving fifteen years, as they would be if
committed on life sentence.
Not long ego q beggar was hanging around
q Michigan village, lodging in barns, ragged
and foriorn, hooted at by the boys, and denied
food by bousekeepers One day he suddenly
seized upon a respectable looking man, arrest
ing him for murder. The beggsr was St.
Louis detective in disguise.
Chicago boy who is addicted to going to
the theatre to see the heavy drama, called his
father to supper, the other day, by hawling
out, What, no, there, base crsveni Come
hither to thy vesperian hash" And when that
father and that son came together it sounded
as if the butt had slipped CT q twenty-foot fly
wheel.
The London Publishers Circular says that
no amount of "goody" religious books can
supplant the penny dreadful" style of litera-
ture like "Tyburn Dick " and "Claude Duval'
The true way is to fill it's place with some
thing fascinating and thrilling when the moral
purpose is made palatable by the interest of
the story.
Thomos Carlyle, in many respects only let
tered barbarian, has been elected an honorary
member of the Royal Irish Academy. The
bestowal of this gift upon man who once
said that the Irish race was toad in the path
of the English elephant, deserving only to be
crushed, is a polished insalt, bat an insult,
nevertheless, to the people of Ireland.
In London the new " Coffee Palace" for the
working classes is very popular. 1t is an i'm
rnense building, well lig hted, and having a hall
for miscellaneous entertainments, rooms for
talking, reading, smoking aud playing all sorts
of games, from dopi noes to billiards. There
are rooms for women also, and a hinge dining
room, where good food be bought very
cheap1y, but 10 liquor.
The London UorId mentions the theft of
several rolls of dynamite, which the thief pro-
| badly supposed tn be rolls of specie. Upon q
conjecture that, finding his mistake, the thief
may have thrown them aside as WORTHLESS, the
| World considers it an interesting addition to
miscelan knowledge to know that there
| is knocking about in London en- unconsid cred
triae containing within itself latent force
| sufficient to tumble down half London.
| Germany means to hold Metz if men and
| i.io do
| around the city by the Freuch have been en-
| larged, and four new ones built. The historic
name of Fort Saint Quentin, which CONNIE
! morates q famous battle between the Spaniards
| and the French, has been changed to Fort
| Frederick Charles Stores are going into the
Notifications 80 i,ieDt to sustain garrison of
40 0O0 men for several years, and IL. 600 troops
| are actually established in the defences.
To some pungent remarks of professional
brother, a lawyer ommepced his reply as fol
| lows May it please the Court, resting on the
couch of Republican equality as do, covered
| by the blanket of constitutional panopiy as l
| am, and protected by the egs of American
liberty as l feel my self to be, despise the buzz
zing of the professional insect who has just
sat down, and defy his futile attemp's to peue-
| trate, with his puny sting, the lnterstices oil
my lmperVious covering"
The British House of Commons is puzzled
what to do with petite from the city OF
| Boulug0e, pray ing to be permitted to remain
q BRITISH Consulate and not to be reduced to a
Vice Consulate. Tue Speaker has declared
| that the only similar precedent was in 1851,
when the Cretsns petitioped the House for
protection against Turkey, which was rejected
select committee has been appointed to in
vestigate the 1estiou whether Parliament can
| entertain foreign petitions.
Believing that the cities of Lima and Callao
Peru, will grow toward each other, Harry
Meigs has bought up all the land between
thu M and between the River Rmao, on the
north and the macadamized road on the south
amounting to nearly 1000 acres. Through the
centre of this tract, and extending in a straight
line from city to the other--a distance OF
six miies-ho has laid ont and donated to the
public a boulevard 27O feet wide, divided into
seven parts, each one separated from the othel
by row of blue gum trees.
Mr.. CorviD, of London, in his valuable
pamphlet on hydrophobia, endorses the theory
of DR.. Thompson, according to which it is
Vulgar error tina patients in hydrophobia are
mad. They are not mad, there is no suct
Tho Duke of Richmond, who, while Governor
General of Can ada, was bitten by rabid fox
and suffered from the most violent paroxysms
which ended in death, had 80 ficient fortitud'
and self controal in the intervals to give al