The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-03-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

,.ensnre for the emsncip patton of slaves in the
Island of 81. Thomas, Calf OF Guinea
ghrewd Sellows in Maine 6nd it more prohta-
Alo 20 raise bears than sheep, a. the state Peys
. coaeiderable sum per annum 70 pA'o nei VII"
ahinals killed.
The erection of monastery for French Car
melltss has been begun at Mount OhVss, near
terusalem M at the very spot where Onr saviour
tgught the Lords Prayer.
The Rothschilds advanced 10 tbe khediye OF
R0yps on behalf of the English Government
$40, 600, ,00O For their "trouble and Eisk, in the
1patter they ARE to receive from h1ginnd a1oo'
"a per cent. or, to be exact, Es9, 1ls Id.
The first State election this year occurs in
New Hampshire. II is on the second tueaoAy
of March. The State has been number Of
ysars close and doubtful Last year the Re
pabiieans carried 1t by only ANAL majority.
The correspondents following the Prince OF
Wales in India state that whilst visiting Goa
3 she Prince was much surprised at the magoi1'
4 Of 81 francis Xavier, the Apostle Of the Indies
who 10 buried in the Cathedral of Goa.
In the West this years peach crop promises
to be hut partial success. On trees that were
kent growing last year by cultivation quarter
Of the buds are alive, but on those that mace
their birth early and were not cultivated not
more than five per cent have been saved.
Governor Bagley. of Michigan, urges upon
: syery citizen OF his State who owns o piece of
ground, whether 1t be large or small, 10 plant
upon il, on the 18th of April next, tree which
shall be- yenerated in the distant future as one
planted by patriotic hands during the Centen-
AiAl year of the Republic.
The head of the Scottish house OF Murray,
generally known ss the Duke OF Athole,
young man Of thirty six, holds one dukedom,
viscount, and twelve as baron, twenty three
titles In all six more than any other noble
man in the United Kingdom.
ABBOTT a year ago E. A. Brigham, of Boston,
wa sent 70 India by an English firm to build
cotton mill near Calcutta. He reached the
mill site on the 18th Of April, and on the 18th
Of November delivered to the owners in Cal
eutta a complete thoroughly built mill, with
the II. 500 spindles in motion.
Twelve cedar planks, sawed from the old
Archbishop of ffaris. They are from the
Mhtonite Patriarchs, who say they are as old
as the wood of SooHnon's temple. They will
be used in building the Church of the Sacred
Heart on the Hill of Martyrs"
Col. Shaftner, of the Twenty fourth United
States Infantry, who recently made long scout
through the StAked Plains of Texas, reports
that their true character has been missppre-
hended, for wood, water and grass abound in
the sections he explored, sections that had
previously been regarded as almost uriuhabit-
able.
The advance OF civilization in Japan is in
Sieated by nothing so plainly as by the in
3 creased business in the law courts. Last year
OF Yeddo; and insolvencits are so frequent
that, 10 prevent business from accommodating,
the Judges dispose Of the suits in punches OF
swenty 0. thirty.
Tie grand jury Of Polk county, Ga thus ad
Nonish :wo editors : We feel it our duty tc
eensure the course and conduct of our two
3ewspapeTs towards each other, and urgent H.
request the two editors to cease wranglinf
about themselves aud branch off into aglicultu
raj articles or Others that will tend to devsioI
fhn iy4a md nd lfara rf
country.
The American Fish Cultnrist Association
intend 20 make remarkable exhibition at I'll,
Centennial. 1t will embrace not only live
iced, ard stuffed fish, whales, seals, POI poises
turtles, frogs. alligators crabs, HOLSTERS, corals
spoDges, alCN, and other marine creatures bu
prepared iish and roes, dried, sailed, smoked
picked. or corned, aud also oils, spermRceti
Gelatine, isinglass glue, leather, shell an'
whalehcre.
One Of the most curious things at the Phila
asiphia Exposition will be an architecture
plan OF The City of Mexico. Its dimension
are $50 BY POI feet. 1t will display all th
characteristics efthe city, and win be people'
by Go,CCO leaden figures dressed in appropriat
costumes. some for the opera, ball and soca
party, and others vending fruit and ice cream
carrying baskets and rolling barrels In tn
streets will be 300 coaches, an equal numbe
of other vehicles and o lot of artiller
pieces.
n. !e Due dAumale bought lately for 90 90
francs, as the Hotel Drouot in Paris, q super
book Of hours, on vellum, enriched wit
tweuty.:hree miniatures, and dating from tt
fifteenth century. The pictures comprise th
EyapGe,ists. the Entombment of Christ, tt
Saluta;iop, Visitation, Birth of Christ, Addre
of the Angel to the Shepherds announcing ii
Birth of Christ, the Journey of the Maef, tt
Presentation, Flight into Egypt, Coronation
the Virgin, Last Judgment, and Office of IL
The E.nth annual exhibition of the Wate
Color Society opened in New York last wee
Phe nomeer of pictures on view was COS,
which not moro than about fifty were the VOL
OF foreign artists. Great interest was man
tested a the exhibition, since the Rpirit
competition between oil and water is We,
keen al this time. The sales were brisk, az
all the large aud important works were bouc d
from the walls at the artists own prices ear
on the FIRST evening, that is, as soon as d
rich picture-lovers could get sight of them,
ship loaded with gifts received by Il
Prince OF Wales in India, is on it's wNy to E
gland. The petty kind OF presents distribut,
by hiE IA return is exciting astonishment al
dissatisfaction in the land of mAgnifcance al
pomp. Among the articles given in return I
presents (which Impoverished Princes, we
clasp knives drinking horns, opera glass,
and pencil cases. An Indian newspaper thip nj
GkRt tS'the purYeyor of this axtranrA;porx oor