The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-26
asrn,ns s..r and Catholic Messenger.
sHw ORLEANS. SUNDAY. AUGUST a6 'ri7.
GENERAL NE WS ITEMS.

Between 900 and 10000 eyes are sold annu-
ally 10 the United States.
Samuel Warren, the author "Tsn Thousand
q Year" and The Diary of Late Physician
10 dead.
The autumn military marn 1vres are TO DO
carried out on n grand scale IN France, Italy,
and Germany, and the sovereigns OF each Will
assist ut them.
Tho works for fortifying the euvirons OF
Rome, the appropriat'o"s for which we're
voted nt the last session of Parliament, have
been commenced on the side nearest the sea
They are considered necessary as protection
to the new capital.
"Lon" Hubbeli. "the strong man of the
world,n once well known in the circus arena,
is in the Poorhouse. In his time he could bold
back two yoke OF oxen, and support weight
of 800 pounds resting on his arched hands
and feet with his stomach upwards.
The Mayor of St. Louis has just reported
that the total fund debt of the city is $23 067 !,
Gee and THAT It's bonds arc quoted IN tupton
at between seven and eight per cent. premiu M
The total receipts for the fiscal year just
CLOSED were s. 73i 70l. aud the expenditures
S5O67,7T7.
A New Hampshire Register Of Deeds recent
!. ly had occasion to trace the name of Rollins
back two hundred years. He discovered that
within that period the spelling had been
Rawlings. Rslins, Rallins, Rollins, Ralipgs,
Rallings, Rollings, Rollins.
They have introduced in Germany the novel
idea Of having bands to discourse sweet music
at auction sales. Large crowds come to hear the
concert, and are drawn into the vortex of bid
ding. Such an ingenious idea should have
originated in the United States and cannot
long lack of imitstors here.
Prof Philbrick, Superintendent of the Pub.
lilo Schools of Boston, in his semi-annusl re-
port Just issned, depreoates very strongly the
custom Of bringing forward little children
from the primary schools to speak pieces and
sfnR st grammar school exhibitions. He sup
kha iHaa In hOrrnvRd from the SUDdAV
school auniversaries, and claims that In both
instances, in the interest OF religion, morals,
and sound education, the practice should be 81
once suppressed.
name Implies the demand and supply being
far greater than the numbers of kid annually
killed. Rats and lambs furnish large pro-
portion OF the material used for ladies' kid
gloves. France has always taken the lead in
glove manufacture, but some firms Of England
ero fast growing in popularity and favor.
Glove manufacture in the United States Is
confined principally to buckskn. and driving
and gauntlet gloves, which closely resemble
kid, but are much heavier.
A correspondent of the NeHe Freis Presse of
4 Vienna contredicts the common Impression
that the Jews of Ronania are nearly all ira.
ders, peddlers. and dealers in money, fleeing
the poor artisan, etc. He says there Is even An
undue proportion of the Hebrew population
that belongs to the mechanical pursuits. They
are also seevedores and hackmen. They are
not farmers. because they cannot own land ex-
capt under very stringent conditions. They
are subjected to all the duties, liabilities, aud
burdens of citiz ,nsbp, and have hardly any OF
its privileges.
just recovering from n severe attack of sick
ness, was walking to Cairo, tramp of about
$50 miles, along the track of the Illinois Cen
trail Railway, when near Do Quoin, Ill two
men halted him and robbed him of his money
some $7-then took from him every article
/ of clothing he had on, down TO his socks ant
necktie. then tied him hand and foot AND
lashed his head to the rail. 50 that the frs
train passing would decapitate him. Fortu
nately hand-car came along, and ths section
men released the prisoner, gave him some rud'
articles Of clothing, and sent him on his wa.
10 Cairo comparatively rel ocipg.
A Boston gentleman of some literary pre-
tensions recenGly told an acq uaintance in thi
city the following etory, illustrative OF the al
leRed discrimination of magazine editors II
favor of contributors of note, and vice versa
He was discoursing some months since, h
said, to the poet Lowell on this topic, and in
sisted that con tributions to magazines were no
publisbed for their merit, but only whom the
were from friends of the editor or were tn
productions of famous pens. Lowell, on til
contrary, maintained that magazine, hk
newspaper editors, were DO respeotoTs of pei
eops, aud that they were entirely impartial /
theiE choice of contributions. To prove HI
case he wrote y short poem, on which, il is I
be presumed, under the circumstances he b'
stowed more thau usual pains which bis frien
own. IL Was reformed unworthy of publ
cation
Tho attachment laws of Connecticut an
other Easto.n States ara very remarkab
when cpatraHted with similar procedure
other States. Any man who choUscs to bIin
. suit Bg Ginat another can have the latter
property seized-house, horses, even perish
BILE property, such as fruit or meAf-or Gu
take possession of his store and close it u
without givipG any security for the dHDal
he NAV occasion, aud without any proof OF II
justice or even of the probability of the fai
mesa of his salt A beggar, utterly irrespons
bile, may thus proceed, or even q foreigner or
reeident of . different State. If the plsinti
after thus proceeding, is defeated in the sui
he cannot be compelled to pay for the damaG
4 he has caneed. If his suit was utterly wit
ont foundation, he can only be sued for mali
ions prosecution, and II without property eve
If Judgment were finally obtained again
him, it could, of ,oourse, not be enforced.
CHEAP AND Coon BooTs AND SHoEs.-F
many years there has lived in the Third District
gentleman greatly esteemed and liked for his reetitu
hh11lN eln al,. r.ln