The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-04-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

An old Tombstone IN the burrying ground q
+ West Lynn, Mass, has this Inscription GO
a toos the good, too good to stay, and left tn
Q bad, too bad to take away Rather rough O.
o the mouruers.
80 much maple sugar has been sent tbroup 81
the mails from Vermont since the opening O
the season that the depart ment has had to issu
an order directing postma 8 5ers to refase to re
ceive any more.
Mr.. Edwards, of San Fraucisco has no it'll
natchet, but says that he gave away his cat apt
Kitten to a friend in Santa Clara, forty-nins
miles away, and that the cat came back the
next night carrying the kitten in her mouth.
The money for Calhoun's monument has al
been su bscribed, and the monument itself will
shortly be begun. According to the Philadel
pnia I,mes it will consist of "a foundation and
Peoestal OF native granite. surrounding which
Will be colossal bronze figure" of Calhoun
modelled after the statue by Powers.
Beauty and power combined are the charac-
teFistics of four pieces of ordnance Herr K rupp,
| the great gun manufactures, has presented to
the German Emperor. The guns are of cast
steel, upon the latest Prussian patent for field
artillery, and rest upon ebony carriages, inlaid
with mahogany, having gold rims and knobs.
Under a new law allowing women to vote for
school officers in Minnesota, about two hundred
and fifty of that sex went to the poles at
school election in Minneapolis last week. They
we're very courteonsly treated by the 10
attendance, and the ballot boxes were deco
rated with flowers TO celebrate the first exer-
| else of their new political right.
The Philadelpbia municipal government has
Just completed count of the population, and
the result ia a total of Sl7 ,44S gain of 143 1926
over the Federal census of 1870. The Mayor
In making proclamation of the returns ex-
pressed the conviction that if the enumeration
mad been as perfect as it ought to have been,
1t would have run up to round million.
Austin Statesman More than two and a half
millions of sheep are annually shorn of their
fleece in Texas, and but one factory of any
pFetensions can the State show to work up
these millions of pounds of wool. The euvia-
bic success of the New Braunsfels wooden
mills bears testimony to the possibilities to be
achieved by manufacturing skill and energy
in Texas.
The most valuable forests for ship building
in the world are those of Oregon, Washington
and British Columbia. The yellow fir, which
grows there in great lnxnriance, has no equal
for ship timber, nor is there any where supply
SO abundant and so accessible of even inferior
timber. There is no industry the Pacific
coast more certain of great development than
that Of ship building.
While Canadian temperance lecturer was |
proceeding along the road near Strathroy last |
week on his way to fiji an apoi tment he was |
assaulted by three toot-pads, who held hin and |
forced him to take a big drink of whiskey |
many otlthe people OF Strathr"y now go out at |
their disappointment, further ontrages
of the same sort have been committed
A merchant of Jackson, T.nu., asked two
men to keep store for him while he went ont
tor moment. They did SO, and sold each other
a large lot OF goods cheap for credit. When he
returned and was informed of what they had
done he was anxious to pass it all off as joke, !
onb they lnslst that they were his agents, |
hence that the transaction was legal one, and
The courts Will have to pass upon the question.
Prince Louis Napoleon is said to be better
endowed than most young men of his age. He
8 quiet and reserved in his manners but fond
If fun and gaiety when surrounded by those of
lis own age. He is we'll built, has physical
trength and muscular power, and, like his
ather, Napoleon I'LL, is firm believer in the
tspoleonio star, net having the slightest
loubt of the ultimate restoration of the impe-
iat dynasty.
A new departure has been taken in Hem
ECKER, N. H., where the leading men of both
srties are signing agreement, which is to
eman in force for six years, to the effect that :
sndidetes for representatives and town officers {
re to be taken equally from each party. This Z
done, says the Concord Patriot, on account of
ne disgust felt by honorable men of both +
arties in relation to the custom of bribery {
hlch has become alarmingly prevalent. Il
The trustees of Girard College, in Philadel- a
hia, have decided to erect Ave new marble !
1ildings on the college grounds, so that the
stitution will altogether accommodate 800
lplls The family system is to be tried in the n
ew buildings, the boys to be formed into d. n
slons of thirty, each under the care of a :;
rouse mother" assisted by teacher, a seam IL
ress, and two servants. If the experiment g
oFe7 successful, 1t is to be extended to the :
hole Institution.
c'al Mil. "oonsocket Rhode Island at u cost /
about $40 600. 1t is claimed the new gas q
yes n much brighter light from a smaller ~
rner than the coal gas did, aud the saving in 10
e6 ls about sixty Sin per ceht. Several ma
ines Tor the manufacture of this new gas
we already heen in trod uced in New York A
ID have been thoroughly examined and tested.
wing complete satisfaction, and the Herald Pr
edlcts that there will be ere long q radical
aDge in the matter of gas bills in that city.
he Police Magistrate of Hamilton, Canada, Ca
s delivered Judgment that puts him at sh
't on n par with Solomon in al his legal
Try: Two men disputed the ownership Of a Pc
luaole oarrier-pigeon, and each produced the
'st complete evidence to establish his claim
disprove that of his opponent. A happy
night struck the magistrate off it is your led
o., he said to one of the claim ants, it will mf
ow the way home" The sutor replied that W
would. similar question to the other party prt
! sne case evoked "a similar reply. Then alv
q q the Court to the Sergeant who bad the tin tin
q IN custody, let it go, and it will find its &C
nome" And the bird and the case were
iultaneousiy thrown out of court. =