The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-11-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The British ship Melbourn, on her last voyage
to Australis, made the extraordinary running
of 5139 miles in seventeen days, being consid.
erably over 300 miles daily.
Miss Sallie Vail Washington, of Newb bern,
North Carolina, 2 relative of the "Father CT his
Country" recently took the veil ut the UIsuline
Convent in st Lonis. She will be known in
religion as Sieter Anna.
Paris hes @ grave difficulty to solve, what to
do with her deadi For ten years has this sub
ject been under consideration, and Baron
Hsusmann Complained that the dead gave
him far more trouble than the living.
Chill has L. 00, 900 acres under cultivation by
irrigation, IL being estimated that one third of
the value of the entire farming land of the
republic is expended 10 the enterprise. Where
ever irrigation has been introduced the land
has increased in value three'fold
The Countess de Montijo has brought action
against fifty-seven French payers for alleging
the illegitimacy of the ex-Empress Eugenie
and as all the damages are to be given to local
charities and the libel is clear one, the
managers OF tne CHARITIES In question are
greatly pleased
AIgiers, 500 miles south south west of Mar
settles, has now communication with it three
times week; the voyage lasts about forty
about zoe Fahrenheit; but the climate is va
riable. The invalid season is from November
to April inclusive.
The British Admiralty Board recently in
stituted an inquiry in regard to the number of
transport ships the Government had at COM
mapd in case of war. 1t was found that, with
the addition of sundry steamers belonging to
fifteen private companies. it had means of
transporting to the Mediterranean, within
thresTeeks, 3d. 600 men, with horses, cannon
and other war material.
1t is calculated that five hundred and seventy
six million francs passed through the hands of
Louis Napoleon during the eighteen years of
his reign. OF this there re mains fortune of
II. S44, 800 in France, and about %, 900 600 in
England, the United States, Spain, Switzer-
land, Italy, Algiers and Corsica. The ex.Em-
press and her son have therefore still nearly
eight million dollars with which to console
themselves.
trouble; the cooks claim dividend of the daily
pourboires. When the customer leaves his few
sous for the garcon the latter deposits them in
the pewter vase on the counter; when the
premises are closed for the night the vase is
opened and the contents distributed pro rata
the proprietor frequently has his part, and the
shareholders.
just before the election q miserable forgery
was sent broadcast over the country, purport-
ing to be secret circular from thel central
signed by " Brother Ignatiust Secretary" call
ing upon all loyal JesuiSs to use whatever in
huenoe they had or could acquire towards the
election of the National Democratic ticket.
The vile fraud originated in the office of the
washington Chronicle, and was f rst published
by that paper. The Chronicle has been for
years the recognized organ of Grant and the
Republican party.
Sir Stafford Northcote. who is now to- assume
the leadership of the British House of Com
mons, and perhaps very soon that of the Gov
family, and his baronetcy dates from the reign
of Charles I. His seat lie at Pynes, near Exeter,
Devon, in which county his family has been
seated for centuries. He is q kindly man, ex-
tremely quiet and domestic in his habits His
aspect 10 agreeable, but he lie very short-sighted
and almost always wears speosaoles, Sir Stat
ford has fortune of about $40 OC0 year.
The italians are initiating the French and
want double concession of land. go rs to cover
both sides of the Mediterranean. They have
been meditating seizure of Tunis, in Africa,
mean and close to the shores of Sardinia and
Sicily. 1t is about as large as Louisiana and
one OF the most fertile of the Barbara States,
and was one of the granaries Of Ancient Rome.
The eeizure of Algeria by France has ben Gifted
the world, and no doubt q colony of Italiaus in
Iunis would render equal service to the cause
of progress.
A Lieutenant of the United States revenue
marine named Maointire went to Colorado
abont year ago for his health. The climate
proving rather the reverse of italian, which
the natives claim that it ordinan61y 10, he be- |
gan abusing it in graphic letters to the Eastern
press. He was himself imm edately made tar |
get for oil the Colorado papers, for to cay aught
against the claims of the Centennial State as a |
sanitarium is g capital offence therein and no v
the word Maointiring" is used az a synonym |
tor gratuitons slandering and malicious cal |
of Colorado.
me ArAO tribes in Algeria, as if oheyipg a |
common oruer, nave set fire to the forests in |
the three provinces. In Coustaurina the tim
Der districts are threatened with complete de.
etruction, the flames having broken ont at a |
hundred points at once. In Orsn, all the large |
forests of Sidi Bei-Abbes, Ben-Yout at Sasei, |
Thirs at Daya, are prey to the fire, which |
covers an area of fifty miles by thirty. Not |
wood has been spared. The destructive eIe.
ments have also desolated the territories of
Tlemcen and Nemours, and on the eastern from.
tier of the colony the Mussulmans of Tunis
aided the Arabs in the malevolent work.
The carnonfa tree, species of the palm
which hourishes without culture at Bahai, Rio
Grande de Norte, Brazil, is of immense value.
The root possesses properties similar to those
of the sarsaparillR; the trunk furnishes q su-
perior fibre, as we'll as flower similar to
maizena,; the pulp of its fruit is very palsta-
BILE; and the oily nut, when roasted and pull
verified, lie g good substitRte for coffee. The
trunk, when young, yields wine, vinegar, q
saccarnine matter, and species of gum re-
gambling ago: the leAHaa nrndnna q Nar frnn