The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-12-10
aernIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
N JHEKANs, sUNDAY, DHCEMBER 10. Is
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

well nigh destructive OF slavery. 90 many
1urar plantations have been burned, and hands
consequently withdrawn from their cultivS-
fion, that labor is verv cheap, and slave who
s4oo.
The King of 9elginm has offered q cop.
valued at I00 OGO fran"-. 90 that corporation or
private association which sball bring about
such an viii IL effect snS n GiTen sme
and at the lowest cost, the greatest reduction
OF the death rate.
Some boiler makers in Dubuque put aboy in
q boiler to hold banner head to the rivets as
they were driven in, and when they were all
completed be WAS found too big to come out OF
the hole He stripped and creased his skin,
but it was OF no use, and 1t took ak men an
hour and o half to cut him out.
Canaris, the Greek Admiral, who over fifty
years ago, with forty-two comrades. took the
sacrament and then devoted himself to death,
Turkish fleet Sco. succet ding in destroying
the Pacha's ship and hundreds of men, is living
j. in Athens, hale old man of e2 years.
A Toronto newspaper has just disgusted the
fashionable world of that city by inserting o
mysterious paragraph announcing stylish
wedding for q given morning. The church was
fairly jammed with the aristoorscy that
crowded to assist at the nuptials of q Pullman
oar conductor and lRundreSs-both colored.
Prof. Huxley, having, at London lecture, the
= other night, given some striking instances OF
the i'll effect on public health of the neglect Of
drainage, showed, by the case of the town OF
Salisbury, that consumption, which was more
fatal than all the zymotic diseases combined.
might be diminished as much as fifty per cent
by thorough drainage of the subsoil.
When Chief Justice Holt, in the time of
Charles H., was asked to authorize the calling
.out of troops to disperse mob, he refused. and
said that if the mob was fred upon and any one
was killed he would have the slayer tried for
murder and hanged. Whereupon he 80 mmoned
his tipstaffs, went at their head to where the
mob was, and as Justice of the Peace, COM
,mapded them to disperse, and they dispersed.
6 plriG ia
of Lincolnshire, England. His father was
lawyer, but became reduced, and his children
had to shift for themselves. Charles Frederick
went to Paris and learned to make dresses. he
married one of the young women OF the estao-
lishment. and together they have gradually de-
veloped the most celebrated toilet man factory
in the world. They now employ lUOO work
people.
The hens of Iowa have gained legal victory
over the dogs. In Webster county O dog
habitually invaded the hencoop of his masters
As he was TINS employed one day the hens
owner shot him. The dog man then sued the
hen man for damage, and the defendant was
given q verdict. That decision has just been
confirmed by decision of the Supreme Court.
Over 81 900 was spent in the controversy, and
she value put on the dog was only $40.
a tourist describes the sale of snails in the
town of Tivoli, near Rome, as o source of mnch
profit to the peasants of that district in rainy
weather, when this curious edible is abundant
IN the olive groves. The flavor is pronounced
When artistcally cooked, the reluctant for
eigner does not long decline this mu oh. despised
crustacea. The cooked snail is further said TO
possess the qnality of restoring tone TO the
coating of the stomach when badly Injured by
= strong drink.
Our Texas railroad now seems to be fully
assured, ss the proprieGors of the Western
branch of the Mobile aud Texas Railroad have
agreed TO complete at early day, az their
expense, the line from Bayou Ioula here the
Road at present terminates. The n: o. Pacific
Alexandria to Marshall. while the Mobile aud
Texas will run from Vermillionville to the
Triuity River, where it will connect with the
ROad from Houston. Ine complexion OF THESE
lines will give US two routes into Texas, con-
Meeting with her whole railway sy stem.
The Rev. w N Strdtham says in the London
- Quirer that, though not q teetotsler, he IL an
earnest temperance mau, and it staggers bin 10
shirk that the British public has in eight Yeats
&~SETdnk liquor to TIE value of tS0O 600 600
which is more than the national debt. SO uu-
popular, he RayR, is the subject, TINT "the lead
ing writer's of England touch very tenderly on
this dark spot in tie history OF the most
druukeu nation under the sun. To take The
very lowesJ ground, this expenditure is" he
says, extravaganza. and leads tn that mort
gage of the morrow which robs men OF their
peace of heart. ExtravaGanoe means begging,
borrowing, stealing, aud IL Is seen on all sides"
An Arksnb8s farmer, while ploughing, lost
his pocketbook. Next year he nneurtned II,
and sent the contents. which were q hundred
dollar nute a fifty and twenty, to the treasury
Mt Washington for identiti caIIoD. The pocket
book was Of leather, covered with mould, Dnt
the legal tenders within had Suffered fr"m
frost and rain, and there " ere only u few bisok
crumbs, instead of the fresh crisp bank note1
They were entrusted to y lady who is u great
expert AID VINO by her knowledge and Patlenc Ct
separated the PARTICLES and stuck them on paper
With mucilage, proving they were notes at th'
National Bapk of Baltimore. Maryland, The
notes were redeemed, and the farmer loet not I
cent.
Count Andrsssy, the able Minister and ad
wiser of the Emperor of Austria, comes OF avery
ancient family. 1t is related that the founde
of the Andrassy family won the coat o
arms now borne by the Co1nt at touTna
ment hold at Grsu by st. Stephen in th
year 1000, when he was crowned Kiog o
Hungary. The story is to the following effect
foreign knight bad nnhorsed many oomPet'
yors snd had sho y ed himself somewhat in 80
lent in consequences, when Magyar. of Scyth
ian descent, named AnduraA. challenged him I
mortal combat. The challenge having bee
\ acoepted AudurAs III the presence of the Who'll
~. nnrnr. 4 Z hn had and RIGHT ahomlhe