The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-01-02
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EDITORIAL AND oTHER ITEMS.


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In some parts of Austria the snow is nine
feet deep and in Vienna many accidents,
caused by the presence of snow, arc occurring.
Governor Hendricks has accepted an invita-
tion to deliver the opening ddress of the
Southern States Agricultural and industrial
Exposition, New Orleans, February 26 next.
In France the average salary of workmen
(witbont board or lodging) is sixty eight cents;
in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, thirty
eight cents; in England, eighty three, living
being thirty per cent dearer than in France.
The Paris theatres have been complaining of
hard times, but it turns out their receipts for
the year will amount to $500 600, against
$4,000 OG0 in 1873 and $4,000 in 1872. in
fsot, considerably larger thansthey have ever
been before.
In Providence, R. l., the other day a boy
pulled away chair that his sister was about
TO sit upon. She fell to the floor, hurt her
spine, and went into convulsions. and is likely
TO die as a consequence. That's the joke of
practical joking.
Aliens are not excepted from Jury service in
British Colombia, the old law, passed when the
colony was thiply settled, and it would have
been almost impossible to secure a jury if any
exemptions whatever were allowed, never
having been repealed.
Judge Myrick, of San Francisco, has adj
mitted to probate n will in pencil on two pages
of o memorandum book, to which the testatrix
had attached no signature, holding that the fact
of its being written in such book was pre-
sumptive evidence of it's being the draft of will
intended 10 be executed in more regular
form.
The death of the Duke of Modena makes Don
Carlos richer man than he was few months
ago. The Duke leaves seven millions sterling,
three of which will 60 to the wife of the
struggling for his rights. A couple of millions
fall to the share of the Countess de Chambord,
wife of Henry v.
In Prussia one-sixth of tho Protestant beue-
fol1 In,r tor
vacant fer want of candidates While the popu-
lation is Increasing, from one cause or another,
theological students in the universities of
Prussia rapidly diminishing. In 1879 at all
the eight universities there are only 74O such
students, while in 1881 there were } 2Q3
The Rev. John Quinn, of Piermont, N. Y,
died of heart disease on Wednesday night,
Dec. 22d, at the pastoral residence of that viii
lage, at the age of sixty seven wears, having
passed thiTty-seven years of his life in the
priesthood. The deceased was born in Ireland,
and was educated ut Montreal and NJ Fordham,
He was the oldest priest in the diocese, aud
was also the pioneer.
Though the schoolmsster has been abroad
for very long time in England, and though
we have been paying dearly enough for public
education during the past half decade of years,
ignorance appears to be still holding her place
very firmly. According to the annual report of
the postmas' err general one in every 220 letters
posted during the past year had to be returned;
10000 letters has been posted without ad-
dresses one of which obtained e. 600 in bank
notes-bondoR Jnirerse.
The Pope has been building in Rome at his
own expense u number of houses for the poor
They are called economical houses, and are for
the accommodation of operatives aud poor
people. Each house is divided into thirty-two
lodgings of two, three or four rooms Each
lodging has a kitchen. They are we'll ven
tilated and full of light; the doors have two
locks; there are bells, and the whole construc-
from twelve to twenty francs mouth, accord
ing to the number of rooms. The rent is paid
by the nj nth, aud without any demand of de-
post in advance or as security.
Tie compulsory education experiment is
giving r.se TO considerable troub III Boston
The pnhllc schools in that city are kept open
on Saturday until noon. The newspapers re-
port that some time since a little girl OF
AbrabAmic descent arraigued before a
police court on the charge of habitually absent
ing herself from school on Saturday. When her
case wss under confederation her father ap-
peared to plead in her defence, and stated that
as Saturday was the Jewish sabbath lie and
his family attended divine service en- that
day. Tbs, however, had no weight with the
dispenser Of justice who pronounced the girl
guilty of violation of the compulsory inca
tion act of Massachusetts, and sentenced her
10 undergo an imprisonment for three months
N . Teformatory. If this is progress it is pro-
gress backward, aud in the direction of the
blue laws and the dark ages.
The New York Financial and Commercial
Chronicle says that the New Orleans, st. Louis
and Chicago Railroad has given notice of n
stockholders meeting, to be held in New York
on the 18th of January next. Tie object of
the meeting Is stated To be To act an a PROPOSE
fion 10 ,ssue preferred stock for settling the
floating Indebtedness of the company, and re-
firing certain mortgage bonds of the M!Ssrs-
sippi Ceufra! company. and also upon pr"po-
si3ioD 20 .ssms mortgage bonds oi III" New
Orleans, =. Lnuis ard Chicago Railroad. lot
exceeding 81 COO COO. to provide the M for
improvement; and better equipment OF the r adj
and TO settle any Indebtedness of the comp any
or of the companies of which 1t was formed by
consoli0a' ION, and to take any other action
deemed necessary in reference 10 hnch indrbt-
0dness.
The e1 Re iment of planting the Eucalyptus
GlohulaE I'VE in the unhealthy CampaEua of
Rome, VIII The object of destroy ing the nnu-
ence OF The miasmAtic exhalatlons from the
ground, has been tried for several years, par
ticularly n the locality OF the Monastery OF
ST. Psu Trois Funtaines, where priest named
Gildas j as bad the plants under cultivation.
In some communications addressed TO the So
ciete a. c.,l.u8tIuu d" Paris, NJ. Gildas states
thaT the ;:tes have tbriven, and that he be-
ieves !hey have given indications of their