The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


nations OF the earth.
In England in 1879 iron and steel rails wer
% selling at Els and f22 per ton respectively
1 now they may be had for G5 S.. and Ct &
Pig iron rs fallen to less than half it's rlce il
1873.
Several oharlatans who treat victims of the
2 opium habit have received The attention of The
Chicago Tribune, which says fha' their pre-
scrip'ions almost invariably consist of lessen
ing doses Of tue drug.
Six hundred million pounds sterling are in
vested in railways in the United Kingdom, and
, railway stock yields an anuusl Income of
| G53 Goo 600. Some go 600 persons are em-
pioyed in connection with the British rail Ways
The great diversity of sentences passed by
different judges for the same offence has long
excited comment in Eoglsnd, and q very ex-
perenced Jadge, Mir. Sergeant Cox, has lately
| published a work with the view of aiding
magistrates In their decisions on this head.
The agricultural show which opened in Paris
| February "a, was the most uccess full ever held.
| Immense progress has been made in France In
agriculture and stock Iaising since the begin
| ming of Louis Philippe'a reign, when it was at
very low ebb. Louis Napoleon showed great
Interest in agricultural Improvement.
The Hartford Conn Times says that a few
days ago sixteen children were on q
wharf, between four and eight years, all drunk.
Some were feebly trying to stab each other
with snch weapons as they could reach. This
spectacle appears TO be of regular occurrence |
In Hartford, as this 10 at least the third time |
Sho LH"es uan uOIiCeu IL Wlbuln &S many years |
Beaver hunters in California live in arks of
floating houses, in which they move from
place to piacs on the streams and ponds. The
one small room such craft contains
benches for several men, cooking utensils,
hnnting articles, and stock of provisions.
The hunters are lazy, card playing, and care.
less lot, but live comfortably and make the
business pay.
An association has jnst b. en formed in Lon .
Ion under the tile of the Society for the r.. i
aI Cat h,ii Dr;a |
no twot"d object being to afford laundry or | {
fher work for the women Immediately on |
heir release from imprisonment, and to assist E
loerated male prisoners with grants of money
T clothes, on it's being satisfactorily shown
hat these persons have no resources of their d
wn.
Tho first carpet man factory established IN r
10 United States was in Philadelphia. in 1871. ID
ne census of 1910, less than twenty years 6
ser. reported the whole product of the United &
Sates IN this class of goods at 10 600 yards of p
mon 800 yards were made in Philade phia r
he census of 1870 shows that there were then | a
" carpet factories in the United States, en- r
oying 10000 persons and $l3 900 600 capital. y,
ayipR annually $4,000 600 in wages and nro- u
lcing annually goods to the value of 922- u
10 000 w. b
The Court of Cass alton at Naples has at last v
onounced against the abolition of capital ff
ioish ment in that section, which amendment Of
81 been generally accepted by the municipal a.
q other bodies there. The vote of the Court q,
Cessation was unanimous, one member ONLY If
clining to vote. Also, the Faculty of Jnris. is
udence of the University OF Naples having -
en- consulted. declared absolutely against -
o abolition of capital punishment. IG now IL
pears that the new amendment TO the code Is
lioh come months ago passed the Itnperial N
rliament in Rome, will meet with great Vi
position In many of the municipalities of the I'll
slan peninsula. p;
The cost of the French Government ia fnr tt
~ at present than under Louis Napoleon In | tr
- u the Emperor, the Senate, and the Chamber re
Deputies absorbed 80 339 420 francs yearly.
1877 the President of the Republic the =,
nate, and the Cham Der req uire hnt IL 726 700 va
mos. In addition to the % 600, 900 a year 81
'eived by Louis Napoleon, there was also the a
eep walks of the State. which now revert. Ir
tirey to the State for public use. Each fo
nator in Napoleon's day had 80 600 francs n ,r
lr, and esch Deputy IL 600 francs Senators mr.
d Deputies are now paid but 600 france in
In receiving like sums.
There we're over $50 babies in the recent 90
wv in Cincinnati, and the entrprise was n "
'at snecess, the hall bsiog crowded several 'p
20 by visitors. Lines had to be formed, un-
the control of policemen. TO prevent CON II
ion. The babies, on their mothers lapa WI
re- ranged at the sides of the hall heh,nd or
linRs. There were twenty-five pairs of nj
lns and two sets of triplets. Prizes were il
'en, tho award in each class being ri ven by ro
D women and a physician, and the Mayor No
sided ut tho distribution. Health and ~
LUty, separate or combined. were the merits Ill
It won, except that the triplets trlumphed Sc
ough force of numbers. of
The English papers state that q little Girl ~
) been expelled from Boston Spa n ,tioual CO
lool for no other offsnse than refusing to
'rtsey" to the vicar's wife. The Cir, WHO is q
y seven years old, is under the gnardIanship tic
n person who is called a stGrdy Independent. or
having adopted her; aud the story is that O.
s person had told her, while she was TO be n
y particu'Nr Ia Obeyiug oil school regnla- au
MS not t. "curtsey" TO the clergyman or his Ia
10. On her being asked by the latter where 10
r manners wers," she assigned the true re
'son for emitting the usual mark of respect. no
d the vicar then desired the school master to an
nlsh her, which he refused to do. The mas fo,
subSeq entity refused request mads to him 49,
exPel tho girl. and the vicar thereupon ex- S'
led her himself OIL
The President of the Meteorological Society " ~
London pointed out lately, when referring
various theories adduced to account for co
anges of climate, that changes due in reality Gil
local causes may easily be erroneously gh
'ribed to secular variation. The climate Of w
ndon has thus been modified by the con hi
nption of fuel and the vast population He we
mated that the heat developed from tue fai
'sont annual consumption of 5 900 600 tons ~
GOAL on the Metropolitan area and from all ~
Ter Artificial sources, would suffice to raise "
temperature of q stratum of air 100 feet in III