The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-04-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Spain. His name Is Augustine Luengo Capila. |
and he is twenty-six years old and feet 81 |
inches high. |
Rev. Father Wennger's recent mission in
Texas was a remarkable success In the small |
town of Brushy alone he converted thirty |
American Professionals.
The praries of southern Minnesota, since |
the stoppage of prairie fires, fast being
covered with q thick growth of willow, wild |
apple, oak and aspen trees, which spring mp |
spontaneously.
Fifty thousand of the sixty.two thousand
books drawn from the Cincinnati library last |
fiction, but the average Cincinnatian would
rather read about pirates and Indians.
T. ]. Megibben, of Paris, KY, has just lost
the short-horn bull Second Duke of Oneida. for
which he paid S12 600 at the New York Mills
SALE The COW. the Duchess of Oneida, for
which he paid SIS. 900, had died previously.
Mrs G. w. Whitman, the Oldest person in
Oregon, died in st. Paul on the sth of March
She was born in France in 1767. Mrs. Whitman
remembered many particulars of the great
French Revelation in 1885, and especially the
beheading of the unfortunate King Louis XVI.
In a lumberman's camp, in Colorado, dis
Anew foundlapd." The two contestants sent a
man ten miles after a dictionary, but while he
was gone the dispute changed to quarrel
One knocked the other down, aud was imme-
diately shot.
The London Court Journal says: "Last years
vintage in France has now been ascertained in
round number to have been 1,s4s 100000 gal
Ions. Taken at one shilling gallon, there is
a result of astonishing millions, showing how
| the German demand of money or your lie
was paid on
/ Pinchback's paper asks the following qaes-
ton, and pauses for reply Considering the
preponderauce of the colored vote in the Re-
publican party of Louisiana, is 1T not remark
able that soma of the many wise fellows who
announce candidates. for Governor haven't
| mentioned some prominent colored citizen T.
~ kha tapf% TO
| which Sebastopol was fred upon by the allied
armies and fleets, when it is stated that from
! tax of a sixpence per hundred weight, which
the Russian Govern ment levied upon the pro-
ceeds of old iron, sh OF and shell picked mp and
sold by the people, sum OF nearly va. ooo was
| realized.
From the Texas Catholic We learn that Rev.
Father j. Chaland is at work erecting Cath
| olic chapel at Belton with every prospect of
| having it completed at an early day. Father
| Chaland is one of the most thorough going
men in the State, delights in missionary work,
! and is just the man for carrying the standard
| to the frontier regions of Texas"
Since his inauguration Gov. Tilden has re-
duced the annual expenses of the State of New
| York S. 900 900. The tax of 1874 amounted 80
725 mills on the dollar, and through the re-
forms of one years administration it has been
NJ AIDE possible to bring down the taxation for
the present year to 8 625 mills on the dollar for
the same valuation, one-half what 1t was two
years ago.
The Judiciary Committee of the Massachu-
setts House has reported bill prohibiting
railroads from giving free passes to members
of the Legislature, judges of any court OF
county commissioner, under penalty of not less
than $500 nor more than $1,000, violators to De
prosecuted by complaint or Indictment, and at
all the members of that Assembly have free
passes, there is some curiosity as co "nab tneH
) action will be.
Mr.. Jones. an English gentleman, represent
ling $15,00o,0oO capital, is in Charlotte, n. c.
considering the expediency of establishing
A. g.. hat T0In
ment of sulphurets and refractory ores Ii IL
} finds that a sufficient quantity OF psylng or
} can be obtained in the mines Of North Caroina
he will locate an establishment costing $lC0,oo
, and employing six hundred hands, who will b'
. skilled operatives from England.
serious thunderstorm has passed over tn
island of Syra, in the Greeian Archipelago
vespers in the Church of st. Georges, tn
J building was struck by lightning. The electro
! huid passed from the tower to the vsult, ant
then entering the CHURCH ,9IoFeG iinS o1e
the priests on the spot. Ten persons were ais
seriously wounded.
r The inhabitants of the village Sarrancolin
: France, were lately startled from their siee
a of the church bell On Fastening thlther Tn
Q church door was found open, that OF the sacfls
o ty had been smashed, all the ornaments an
/ furniture had been piled in heap, and on thei
i top four chandeliers from the altar had bee
9 placed, and the tapers lighted. Nothing wa
:: missing, but the walls were piacaroso W!Cl
+. bills abusing the clergy and public authorities
n Piesish perversity was strikipgly exempl
81 fed in the recent wreck of the Kalorama o
3 the coast of California. On board of the yesst
l. were 500 hogs consigned TO Mr. Farley, OF Lo
lie Nietos Tae officers, anxious 10 save the poe
re hogs from q watery grave, or rather with du
e. sense of the coDmeFr' 5aine OF bsconI oroN
ID them ont on the shot, sice, and endeavored
,e make them swim towards the beach, I'M
at was enough for the porkers. The great ma
ID of them deliberately rnrued and swan out
sea, aud, through their hoggish oNstinacy, we
drowned.
The London Court journal says that an Am
- rican Professor has devised very formldao
% apparatus. 1t consists of o small dram, Wi
=, very deicately sensitive elastic skin stretc
r. cd over it. stream of gas passed throul
as this drum will burn as usual till some one o
As gina to Hipg near it, when the flame under d
- influence of the vibrating skin, commences
=. shake in a manner which is varied indehnitel
u according to the notes of the tune, 30 tbs
10 under certain conditions, it will be possible
~ photograph these movements of the hame, al