The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-02-06
GENBR4L NEWS ITEMS.


to eat with anything
The ladies of st. Patrick's psrish, Mobile,
will hold fair during the last week in this
month for the benefit of the school building
and the Sisters residence.
The Chinese Government Is about to
order ZOO 900 rifles from this country and
the Sharpe Company have begun their
operations at their new works at Bridge
port, Conn, hoping to secure the contract.
By recent amendments to the army bill
should it psas, General Sherman's pay will
be reduced from Sl6, 200 to SIS, 900
Sheridan's from S15. 600 to 9l1 900; Major
Generals from $9, 500 tn 81 800, and Briga-
diers from 81 500 to $3.50.
Last week a passenger train passed over
the Indiana section of the Pan Handle Rail
road carrying "red flag for special" and
at every station the intelligent Republican
population turned out and yelled, Nor
ton! Morton! Speech! speech J"
Fifty Catholic farmers from st. Jerome,
about forty miles distant from that city,
drew this week to that city fifty cords of
wood for the poor people. oue-third Of
which was dstrihn under the auspices
of the Protestant House of Refuge.
The present Republican Legislature of
Ohio is Distinguishing itself. Among its
noteworthy acts are the following: ~ Re
peal Of the Geghsn bill giving Inmates Of
otat0 pcUhI tuS.ltuLlouS liOS&by VI tSi&lous
worship; t2) providing for the incorpora-
ton of base bail clubs; (3) imposing fine
of $50 for taking the name of God in Wan.
In Boston, according to the Advertiser,
in the retail dry good trade, generally
there is fair amount of business, at mod
crate profits, in spite of the depression.
The large houses in and around Winter
street have daily array of customers ap.
psrently as large as ever, if not as lavish,
ard nj nf fhG.rn in hoo nd ND
condition. Most of these houses make
their purchases for cash.
The following are part Of the inscrip-
tions on the Confederate soldiers monu-
ment in Woodstock "This monument is
erected by the Ladies' Memorial Associa-
ton, in grateful remem brance of the gallant
Confederate Soldiers who lie here. They
died in the defense of the rights of
the South, in the war between the Statee,
from 1861 to 1865. The soldier died for
his country. Success is not patrio tism,
defeat is not rebellion"
A Washington special to the Baltimore
Gasette says:
Since the days when DoaglasA's speech
on the anti-Lecompton constitution was
widely circulated there has not been SO
wide a circulation of Il speech as that of the
perambulating personal pronoun of the
House, Sunset Cox. His reply to Blaine
goes upon record as the happiest effort of
his life, and the gentle sarcasm, loving
tenderness, and homeiy thrusts of little
Samuel will he treasured as the most
valuable contribution to campaign litera-
ture.
The Boston Post philosophicatly says ::
"Baltimore's growth imparts the whole
secret. Her trunk limo Co the heart of the
West, her capacious elevators, her model
terminal facilities for Il heavy and increa
Fro ,ikh
activity of trade and rapid growth of in
dustIial interests, the Increase Of her pop
ulatiOn and their general satisfaction and
contcntmens, are standing testimonies be
fore the country tn the wonderful power
THAI lies III ctty's outstanding its resources
for their Intelligent local concentration"
A Pennsylvania hns Taught canary
bird to eing Home, Sweet Home" in this
way He placed the canary III room
where it cOnld not hear the singing of
other birds suspended it's cage from the
| ceiling, so that it would see it's reflection
in q mirror, and beneath the glass placed q
musical box that WAS regulated to play no
other tune but Home, Sweet Home"
Hearing no other sound bnt this, and be-
| lieving the music proceeded from the bird
| it SAW i'll the mirror, the young canary sOon
| began to catch the notes, and finally got 80
that it sings the song perfectly.
elf Vesuvius is menacing," s-vs q com.
muncation from Sicily to the Osservatore
Romano, "Etna is not perfectly tranquil.
About seven on the evening of DeceW Der
10 people remarked that on the eastern part
of Mount Gibel a dense smoke, mixed with
reddish vapors, was issnlng fron secondary
crater. At Arcircsle the fact was further
observed that flames as we'll issued at
various times. The next evening, ar a
quarter past six. slight undulatory shock
of earthquake WAS felt. Aud what is very
remarkable in the aspect of the mountain
az this season of the year is that while the
giant ia emitting flame from his TANKS, his
head is covered with snow"
Turkey has fifteen immense ships of war
which cost nearly 90, OOO 600 apiece. They
lie idle in the BosphOrus ali summer, their
only use being to fire salutes every Friday
when the Sultan goes to the mosque. They
never go to sea, and if they did they would
be likely to founder in the first gale, for
they are very unwieldy, and the Turks are
miserable sailors. The only voyages
they make are when in the spring they are
taken out of the Golden Horn aud anchored
i'll the B0sphorue, distance of about two
miles and when in the fall they are taken