The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-01
u Or, Ing Star and Catholic Messenger.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

the London Underground RAILROAD on WIN
monday, the largest nnmbt on record.
man in Warsaw, Ark. has killed -four mel
on ~ many different occasions In each cas-
he proved beyond question that be had aotet
in self-defenee. and was acquitted py jury
He IL not often assaileh now.
The chimea in St. Ma'k's Church, Philadel
pbia, the ringing of which the neighbour
stopped by mea ct an injunction, may nov
be rung for FIVE minutes on every Sunday
under q modi location of the Injunction.
One Saturday last month"; 600 bieyclis's met
at Hampton Court, near London. On the two
previous days Mir. T. II. Wilkinson performed
the uurvalled feat of covering 200 miles In x
hours aud 10 minutes. He is under - and
weighs 1876 pounds.
A landslide in Schodack, N. Y, filled o creek
and turned the water In different direction
The owner OF q mill further down sues the far.
mer who owns the land on which the slide oc'
Cured, to compel him to restore the stream to
its former condition.
Massachusetts railway superintendent are
about adopting the practice of requiring all
passengers TO enter the cars at the front ends
and leave them at the rear ends. The object
liz not only to save time but to avoid crowd
ing and conseq 1ent liability to accident.
The Richmond Enquirer wants the United
States to abolish slavery in Cuba. because, it
says, the negroes won't work unless they are
driven to il, and once they were free in Cuba,
the sugar crop would be nothing, aud suger
planting 10 Louisiana would receive an i'm
mense impetus.
Torpedo balloons are proposed by CORES
pondent of the Scientific AmOioan. The idea is
to float the balloons over the enemy, and drop
the torpedo by means of electricity sent over
wire. 1t is calculated that a city could be
totally destroyed in this way by dropping q
sufficient quantity of nitro. glycerine.
Six car loads of fine blooded stock were sent
from Kentucky TO the Government of Japan
recently. The stock consisted Of six thorough
bred stations, two Thoroughbred fillies, two
trottlng stallious, three trotting mares, one
Clydesdale stallion and mare. seven bulls,
zine heifers, aud twelve head of jersey cattle.
Carefully culled statistics are adduced to
show that the chances of life are greater in
France than elsewh here in Europe. or q mil.
lion inhabitants who reach their sixtieth year
Italy has II COZ England, 1920; Holland,
&c 9S4 Sweden, "a. lT; Denmark, 90 657 I;
Belgium, 80. 432; France, 1ol ,495.
One Of Sherman's soldiers cut q painting
from its frame in Que ofthe Rbett family man
sions in South Carolina. and sold il in Phila-
delphia for ten dollars Neither he nor the pur.
chaser knew that IL was over two centuries
old, and was valued high among the thousands.
It has just been discovered in Cincinnati And
probably the rghtful owner will get it back.
The German correspondent of the London
Guardian states that the Improvement in
Prince Bismarck's health is matter of general
remark His great ailment in Berlin was
sleeplessness. bat in the country he has regu-
larry taken five hours horse exercise. and has
got sleep back. He will now go to K,ssengen
for ak weeks then make q tour in the Bava-
rian Alps and return home.
England, whose field MARSHALL had been re-
duced by death 10 the Duke Of Cambridge and
the Prince of Wales, has now three new field
marshals. They EeGeu. Sir William Rowan,
an Irishman, sS years of age Gen. Sir Charles
York, 81 years old; and Hugh Rose, Lord
Strathnairn, who is only "a. and was distin-
guished as commander of the forces in Central
India during the mutiny.
1t is greatly to the credit of the French peo-
pie that their rage for equality has never
caused them TO run into personal e Z trsvaRsuo
A French peasant does not try to dress like q
her purse and plight In this country the
maid must have elk dresses. because her mis-
tress does, and thas the money which would
in France 60 to the savings bank goes to en-
rich the thrifty French.
Fishermen in China are called 6sh catcbers
and they make living by drawing ish will
their hands from the richly stocked lakes aut
rivers in the north of the kingdom. The ist
catcher wades or swims in water only deel
enough 10 enable him TO touch his feet at will
he strikes the surface violently with hi
hands, soaring the hSh to the bottom, then b.
keeping his feet moving he feels them in th
mud, and dives and brings up his prey.
Tho reports of the inspectors of miues il
England, for 1876, show that the fatal aoci
dents during the year in mines coming vi THU
the SCOPE of the Mines Regulation act wer
s39, and the deaths oooasioned tbereb
reached 9S3 The number of persons employe
stated that on the average there WAS durn
the year one fatal accident among every 81
persons 60 employed. and one death by acc
dent among every 55l persons employed. FC
each fatal accident III $50 tons of miners
were obtained, aud 1853 6cS tons for each deaf
by accident.
Old Marshal Valiant had horror of useles
calls, and so received his guests standing an
with much brusqueness. When asked tor a
interview he always fixed the hour as earl
morEiUg; at such an hour as, to use bis ow
words, DO one would attend who hadn't some
thing of real Importance to communicate. II
thus replied to tho Prince of Canine by maxim
an appointment--in winter time-at5A NJ Th
Prince sent two seconds to challenge the MAJ
shall for this lack of consideration for his ranl
and the Marshal kicked them ont. "Then
said he, negliSently, "poor Canine died befOT
had an opportunity of explaining matters I
him."
The late Duke of Wellington, writing b
name In the album of some children, wrote
in one with q single /. The little lady salt
''Why, You don't know how to spell your ow
namei' The Duke looked at it and laugh
(this vas in 1852. and said, my dear, 20
6ake care of that signature, for 1t 10 the onl
time in my life ever made such mistake
bat 1t was not, for he had 90 written 1t in tt
visitor's book at Elton. For many yeare of b