The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-16
Msrning Star and Catholic Messenger.
INV UHIHAHs, sUHpAx, DEoEMBER is ln4,
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Under the present ADMINISTRATION, Victor
Emmanuel has been bestowing honors and do
ooTations of the rate Of about two thousand
year.
Prince Bismarck's study ct VaIzin has been
connected with the Foreign Offoe At Berlin by
. telephonio apparatus. The demand Tor
these instruments is said 10 be immense.
A London dispatch says that the Marquis of
Bute has contributed one hundred and seventy
3housapd pounds sterling for the endowment
Of Memorial Hall t" she Glasgow University.
At n great auction sale OF bIeached goods in
New York last Monday, Lon sdale averaged 81
cents. good Blackstone, q fraction over ~
cents, Hope, q fraction over It cents per yard.
At tho municipal election in Charleston on
ihe 12 inst. the Democrats elected their entire
tiekst by large majority: 40 Beaufort eounty
ths Repu ublcans elected the State Seuator by
$500 majority.
Dutch doctors maintain that people would
live longer If they dtd not expeotorate SO
much. This is claimed to be merely repeti'
tioh of the great discovery of BoerhaVe, in re-
gard to digestion.
In the Baltimore Criminal Court last week
the Jedge sentenced twelve railroad rioters of
ths 29th of July last, two Of them to eight
months, one TO three, and all the Others to six
months in the city Jail.
-The superintendent of q factory in Canada
which manufactures paper from wood says
shat the process is nov 50 much improved that
Ahe paper can be made ready for use in six
hours from the cutting of the tree.
The French have very strict b ,ildng laws.
No hues are permitted in party wall. They
may be built against il, but q thickness of
about eighteen inches must remain iGtact from
she foundation to point some way above the
roof
Several wagons laden with i'm mmgrapts from
Illinois arrived Mt Lake City, Florida, on Fri.
day last. The people there extend hearty
Welcome to the strangers. aud render i,1s al ths
homes to those who come among them from
she cola North west.
Boston 10 to have Republican Mayor next,
ne having been elected to the office by vote
Of 25 033 against % $50 cast for the present
Democratic incn nmbent, Prince. This is net
gain Of ) 600 for the Republicans over last
year'e vote. The trouble with Prince seems to
have been that he liked the poorer classes OF
people too much.
Nothing go thoroughly pleases man who
Aaa learned that o collection is to be taken in
his church on Sunday morning, and who hts
consequently been nnaoie to be present, on
account of D severe pain in his back, as 10 at
tend the evening service, and hear the clergy
nar announce that "as many who desired TO
give were not present at the morning eoiieo-
zion, it will now be repeated.
brought profit to church treasury In
WifiouGhby, OHIO. The judges were farmer,
o physician, and baker, and each was re-
auiEed to eat . small slice of every pie. Ihe
hrpk prize was for frosted pie. aud the second
for one that had soolloped edges, 80 that the
disappointed exhibitors dsfhe cnarge ina!
pG4ekino9o EAteer tnan epOSkDutlhl ulSAle he0
been allowed to win.
General Miles says that Chief Joseph is th,
Aest specimen Of an Indian he ever saw, aoc
shat he conducted against the whites careiul
akflful and humane campaign. The Genera
Ohres in the opinion that the Neg Perces wer
defrauded and forced into war. Now the!
have lost everything bot their clothing, arm
and blankets. One of them, an old mar. ha'
$50 600 when tho war began, So eVo OF II II
cash.
Prince Bisw Arck likss to I'D every thing i
ais study in disorder and general topsy-turvi
ness, Just as he left iI--bolties, mugs, cigar
and cigar boxes, odd gloves, books, pamphlets
papers, letters, spurs, stray antiques, sWoFd'
Band mirrors, pistols. fiddle striogs, flutes
3heee are all articles he Wi ants TO put bis han
% ut short notice, and see lying around Ioos
eE the tables, Aoor aud sofas. Whenever
discovers any signs that bis wife or the sci
Vants hAve been trying 10 set thinGs to right
> terrible TOW is raised
France, after . long indifference to India
corn, is now awakening to its value as foo
for horses, in lien of the more expensive Whe1
and barley. Several horse rAitw sy companit
IN HAvre feed their animals on the corr
9Oarsely ground and mingled with ohoppe
straw and hay, aud q small proportion of root
l.ivery stables have also adopted the fee
One stable proprietor. who controls LOG horse
states that he saved 35 900 francs (T,oOO) Ia
year by using Indian corn. The example
HAyre is gradually being followed elseWher
Europeans are slow to change their customs.
In Kipgstree, 6. c., an aerOpaut propos.
EymnaStt0 exercises on uSpeEe DAT III ~
air. Two negroes consented to hold the rop
Whiie the balloon was being inflated. VIII
everything was ready, the aerouAut seated oil
Self on the bar aud gave orders to osst loo:
The h slloon shot upward. taking with it o
Of the ntEsces, whose feet had become {
tangled ia tbe ropes. The negro clAmbered
10 the bar and seated himself beside the aei
nAat. Instead OF, however, remaniug on
perch, he slid down the rope 10 the end, q
Shen, with q shrek of despair, let go and (
seventy feet to the earth, sustaining fatal
inries.
Russian hospitality is dsEziing. The eut
sainments which are given by the rich
aobles in Sc. Petersburg excel anything tt
saN he seen elsewhere, because nowhere e
sAn people afford to spend so much upon eho
Ehs rich elsewhere have claims upon their I
Sunes, and spend good deal in improvi
their estates; but q Russian draws ell he c
kon his land, aud gives back little or nothiI
He disburSes prodigally for vines. music, d
DOpdS, and Tich dresees for his wife; he ke<
n immense retinue Of servants ERmbles larl
H,Whatever may be his age or profession; .
the surplus of his income goes to defray jo
Dsys to Paris, Nice, Ard the German wateri
SlRces, where he Reems to set his ambition
snEichiug hotel keepers.
During the pendency of tho struggle in
Senate for the seating of Batter of South c