The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-09-17
gsrnIrg Star and Catholic Messenger.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

one needle almost daily for the past twenty
woyears.
The Winchester Arms Company. of New Ha-
yen turned out on Friday last 040, 600 shells
for the Turkish Government The next day
they packed and put them all on board the
King Arthur in the harbor. 1t required l3, ,ooO
lbs. brass, 81 tons powder, and "a tons OF leo TO
make the shells.
While in her European provinces Turkey is
sacrificing men and means TO maintain her au-
thority, cholera and the plague are decimatlng
her Asstie tP the tSs SS as o, tbree
months, twelve Thousand 1nhapltante, nanny
Mohammedans, have been swept away by the
cholera.
The work of restoration of the facade of the
Louyre in Paris-now drawing to olose-has
been executed with 30 much care that the col
umus have not been made to assume that brand
nav aDpearapco which is as Objectionable in
buildings as it is in leather portms teaus and
when q winter has passed over it the facade
will be as mag nifcent as ever.
An eminent English physician points out in
tho London Times that sourvy still prevails in
the British mercantile navy, although lime
Juice is abundantly used, while American
sells are comparatively free from it. Potatoes,
according to the above authority, are specific
against scurvy. and he strongly urges the car
ryipg of preserved potatoes on all long voy-
ages.
1t is o pleasant feature of the Bishopric of
tho Methodist Episcopal Church, that the Bieh-
ops can live where they want to, provided that
they do not interfere with other Bishops.
Bishop Wiley has been living in Boston, and
Bishop Foster in Cincinnati. But the climate
of Boeton is too severe for the health OF Bishop
Wiley, and 80, by mutual sgreement, they ex-
change places.
Count Pac. who died in 1895, bsqueathed
two-thirds of his personal estate to be divided
among Poles then living in the United States
who had been in military service. No applios-
ton has been made, and $6400 are awaiting
distribution. Applications must be supperted
by certificates from the nearest French Consul,
hH add tO Maifra
LATTE, Paris.
Sothern says, in the Arcadiam. that he never
plays Dundreary twice alike, explaining:
"When an audience sees the point of joke
towards which l am working, / always stop. i
never pursue q point after there has been a
laugh. Audiences differ very much in quick
ness of application. Some are so sharp that it
is positively painful to play to them they cut
me out of so much.'
Cleaning machinery in motion is described
by the Inspector of English Factories " contin-
uing to lead to very numerous and painful mu-
tilations.' In the halt year ending April 80,
1876, 126 persons were killed in England
through factory accidents alone; 4sS amputs-
tions were necessary; there were 260 fractures
of limbs or bonea, and 2l93 other injuries in
factories in all, 2497 males aud 769 females.
Israel Washburn who died at Livermore,
Me-, on Friday, aged nearly 90, was the father
of q famous family. Israel, the Oldest, is ex-
Governor of Maine Elibu, the second, is Min
lister at Paris; C. c., the third served ten years
in Congress. and is ex Governor of Wisconsin
fourth has, for q long time, been Minister to
Paraguay another is prominent in Minnesota
politics, while two others are less known citi-
Zens of Maine.
Rathef fine and novel Aw.point has been
invoked in court at Hamilton, Ont One
Sohooley stole $17 600 from the Adams Express
Company and fled to the United States, but
was arrested, brought back and sentenced to
fourteen years imprisonment. His counsel has
just discovered that the company is working
under q charter that had expired some years
ago, and so has no legal existence in Canada,
and has moved for o new trial.
In Spain the heat has been great this sum-
mer that the thermometer rose TO 166 degrees
in the sun at CadiZ. T0llow candles melted
and became useless at night hundreds of peo-
pie dropped senseless in the streets, and field Ia
bOrers refused to work in the scorching snp.
Owing to the recent disbandment OF 200, 600
soldiers, the labor market was glotted that
many workmen could only obtain about fifteen
cents daily for twelve hours work.
An excellent system of teaching cooking b as
just been adopted at the Watford schools in
England. kitchen hAG been erected in the
playground at a cost Of G1O0 or G13O, furnished
with utensils all within the reach of the work |
ingman and lessons are given twice q week to
a select number Of the pupils. A dinner is pre- |
pared, to which the teacher, the cooke, the |
cleaners, and as many of the children Is are
Deenso TO tnrnsh the table all sit down, each
Chllo VINO Dimes paying twopence. The cost of
tne olnner ls limited to threepence.
There is great scandal about the Protestapt
Episoopal Bishop of London. 1t is announced
InoI no AHS pAe5oubeO MS Son-ln-l6w, the Rev. |
w. Abbott, to the important and vaIurbie
living Of Paddington; This is by no means she
hrst Of Or. Jackson's sons 'in-law who have !
been we'll provided for in the London diooosas |
and this same Mr.. Abbott has already had one |
good living given to him since his father-in- |
laws trAnslatlon fIom Lincoln, the vicaFARe OF |
St. Johns, Holloway. But DIR. jackson is ONLY |
following the example Of the Archbishop OF |
Canterbury in looking we'll after the family.
Fancy @ man shot by hon Yet suoh an &C.
cident occurred at Pains Hill-house. near Cob
ham, England, the residence of Mr.. Leth. The
farm bailif, Mr. Heal, laid loaded gun on the
top of corn bin in the stable, and to his great
surprise he heard it some time afterward 60 off
4ne ane gun was fred by fowl which got on the
Gngger, and the contents entered the face Of an
aged man named Coils, who was in the stable
at the time, The sufferer was attended to by
Dr. Webb, who was obliged to remove one Of
mis- eyes. The poor old mRu had been employed
on the estate for upward Of thirty years.
=, An important notification has been Issued by
the Prime Minister of Japan which will have
he eheot of aboishing torture in criminal pro-
S%SHSoings; By the old law no criminal could be