The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-04-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

| There are 100 seats at the San Francisco
| Stock Board, and since last year their price
has advanced from $4,000 till now $55. 600 is
! vsinly bid for one.
The gas companies at Cincinnati have agreed
to reduce the price of gas to two dollars per
thousand feet, with discount of Ave per cent
| for prompt payment.
| During the period of 1905 the population
of Kansas has Increased from 46s 437 to SOS 4s7,
| and in the latter year there were 100000
acres of ground under cultivation.
| 1t is estimated that there are now $40. 900
Angora goats on the Pacific coast, and quite
| an industry is anticipated in breeding them,
| as their skins make excellent lsp-robes aud
gloves, while their wool is very precious.
In India, in 1869, one tigress was reported to
have killed 127 people, and stopped public
road for many weeks. In another case in the
central provinces a single tigress caused the
desertion of thirteen villages, and $50 square
miles of country were thrown out of cultivation.
Mr.. Mackenzie the Canadian Premier, 10
breaking down in health. No wonder. He
works at his office in the Department of Public
Works from A. NJ. TO } NJ, and at 3 O'Clock
is in the House of Commons, which never rises
before midnight, and of late at his instance, to
secure an early adj ouru ment, has been sitting
till = and A.
The Japanese Government have promulgated
a law Introducing general compulsory service
in the army. Every male subject between the
ages of twenty and twenty three is to be liable
to serve for three years in the standing army,
at the end of which period he will be trans
ferred to the reserve force and undergo train
ing for four years longer
Earl Dntferin, according to an Ottowa tele-
gram, desired to attend the Centennial, and
wished Mr.. Mackenzie to Include an item of
S75, 900, for State visit, in the estimates; but
the Premier declined {" do this on account of
the depressed condition of business in the
Dominion and the necessity for economy in the
administration of the Government.
grand chess match by correspondence, to
last two years, is about to be played between
II, \ 4 oN,t- &c frut
The headquarters will be at the Cafe de la
Regence, where the principal players, under
the direction of Rosenthal, will form them selves
into committee. Three days will be allowed
for each move, which will be made by tele-
graph.
Mrs. D Ahlgren, of Washington, has purchased
the celebrated South Mountain House, located
on the summit of the South Mou n tain. on the
National Turnpike, not far from the battlefield
of Antietam. Although famous on this account,
the place had previously acquired a historic
name because of it's having been frequt mt
resort of Henry Clay, Thomas II. Benton, John
J. Crittenden, General Andrew Jackson and
many other celebrities. 1t will be handsomely
fitted up by Mrs Dablgren as her summer
home.
There has been a remarka able observance of
Lent throughout France. The religions devo-
tions prescribed for the peni tental season were
every W here we'll attended. The churches of
Paris were thronged. At Notre Dame immense
audiences gathered to hear the great Dominican
Pere Monsabre, who breaches in golden elo-
ouence the most terrible truths of the Gospel.
In the thrilling ring of his Apostolic sermons,
the wordy bubbles aud rhetorical froth of
Loysou are forgotten, or remembered only with
disgust. In Monsabre a true successor of La
cordaire has been found.
1t is stated that when that accomplished
young Catholic artist, Miss Elizabeth Thomp-
son, hes finished the battle piece on which she
has been engaged for the last ten months, "The
Return of the Six Hundred from Balaklava," she
intends to abandon the speciality in painting by
-; obo hoav a1ah for nd in hnf I'm k1ro
to devote her undoubted talent s to religious art
Her Balaklsva picture will not be completed
in time for this years Academy, although she
has been unremitting in her endeavors to have
it ready for exhibition, but those who have
seen the unfinished canvas cay that it will sur
pass the "Roll Call" both in coloring and
proceed to Rome for heightened course Of
study and preparation for her new field of labor
when her present work is out of hands.
The plague is once more threatening the
confines of Europe. The progress of the pesti-
Euphrates aroused some alarm, and the con-
tagion some weeks ago began to spread to
Mesopotamia, and since the beginning of
March it has reached Bagdad. The new out
break shows much of the old and mysterious
ferceness before which medical science for
many centuries recoled in despair. There is
no reason to expect that lite ravages will be
limited to the provinces of Turkey and Asia. |
Both in Egypt and in European Turkey the
conditions in which the plague breeds and
SpfeaGS are Stiii WV" 4'S"tS
ton since the time when Cairo and CUnstauti- |
nople were almost annually decImated by its
attacks. Happily, there is not the least ground !
for believing THAI the essential conditions for |
its reprod uction in Western Europe any longer |
exist.
1t is mistake to suppose that the Chinese !
in California are all unskIlled laborers. There |
are scores of Chinese manufacturing firms in |
San Francisco; there are hundreds of Chinese
tailors, shoemakers, cigar makers, tinsmiths |
plumbers jewelers., shirt makers, and workers |
at other trades there are numerous Chinese
merchants in al! lines of business and there |
are Chinese physicians and magicians, all that |
are needed. One of the Chinese com panies in |
San Francisco has q membership might |
say, of IL 900 men, ten-twelfrhs of whom are |
employed IN the trades we have mentioned, five
twelfths of the whole number being cigar |
makers The immigration to this part of the
United States from the various countries of
Europe has greatly diminished in these times, |
as compared with former years; but the i'm |
migration of Cinnamon to California is in |
creasing, notwiths landing the opposition to it, |
and about eight thousand have reached there |
this year, thus far.