The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-16
Msraing Star and Catholic Messenger.
GEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER Is l,17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

In . letter to Cen. Toombs. Charles 0'Conor
highfy recommends the new constitution oi
Geoegia.
On August 10 the annual sermon provided
fcc in the will OF a Mr.. Chapman, who died in
e62i, was preached Ia London in Thanksgiving
for the destruction Of the Spanish armada.
Two young men. named Joseph E. Johnston
and FitEhugh Lee, are learning the macbinist
trade in the Pennsy vapiR machine ahops At
Altoona. They are n.phews Of the Confede-
rate officers whose nanes they respectively 3
bear.
The stGtue of Gen. Philip Kearney, ordered
CsVital az Washington, remains in an out.of
1hs way niche in the State House at Trenton,
where IL was placed when hnished. No one
seems TO care what becomes oft.
TIE Rhone irrigation canal is a great work
which is to afford the means Of submerging
ctre vineyards extending between the Depart
uJsnt Dn Gard by Montpelier, Narbonne, e.c,
howard Marseilles. and giving a water supply
90 various towns and villages en- route. 1t has
LSsss- -feasa-tSat- the PhF l!oxera- which has
sow for 40 many seasons ravaged French vine
Ss<ds. can ba destroyed by laying vineyards
under water for o month
The British House of Commons consists of
SIS members, 403 of whom returned by
English and Welsh, go by Scotch, aud los by
Irish Constituencies. Though it has varied in
the past. the membership has remained ct the
Myetieal number of 65S since the union with
Ireland at the close of the last century, in spite
of the numerous changes which have been
franchise by reform bills within the last fifty
Ye8rs.
Two thousand firms and individuals in San
EeAnoisoo have petitioned the Board of su-
wait upon the ak Chinese companies. who
9ootrol Chinese emigration, and those steam
snip companies in whose ships the Chinese are
eCought to Californis. and request them to
Geese from further importation Of Celestials |
11al the United States and Chinese govern |
sosnts shall have come to some understanding |
"a the subject.
ARhode Island woman who died recently
expressed dying wish that she should not be
b0ried or placed in q tomb. Her husband
consequently built q stone cottage on the shore
externally, in the cellar of which her body is
kept. The building has but one room, which
- fitted up with the furniture they bad in
ebeir parlor when first married, and the sur
viying members OF the family spend an hour
tr SO there in devotions every Sunday.
The Bnlgarians show remarkabie powers at
macy sorts of beudicraft. In the towns
:alar.us5 every well.t family has it's loom,
fahrics of great beauty are made: A gentle
sEsGn lately n the country saw dress fabrics
with patterns raised, or worked out in wool,
which would, he said, do credit to the hest
policy has, however, discouraged manufacture
tuith the view of getting revenue from import
Ntnties. The Bulgsrisns also excel in hligree
work
ia England who come under the distinction of
Irish political prisoners, namely, two in
Chatham Convict Prison-Sergeaut MCCARTHY
Oavitt. Corporal Chambers and Thomas
Ahern; one in Por,smouth-James CLANCY;
four in Spike Island Robert Kelly. Edward
Aud two in Portland-Captsin 0'Meara Con-
don and Patrick Melody. The unfortunate
EHsu have now been nearly twelve years in
prison.
The New Bedford and Billerica, Mass, two.
Eeo1 gsuge railroad. the first of the kind in
this country, has been completed, aud tho first
tIiPs. which were made Saturday, showed that
che road is in fsrIor to mono in speed, smooth-
usAA and safety. The road which is eight
miles long. has cost but $50 900, including
taiidipgs, bridges, and equipments. The lat
Cor nons!sts Of two locomotives and eleven
CAD. the former weighing bot eleven tons
tho pumber of the standard cars, cost but ooe
quarter rs much
G.. q srtaccini, the man horse, Is to appear at
SrGssels, on the Plaine des Mauoavres, where
tie Challenges apy pedestrian to run him twelve
and a half miles, or any mou nted man to q race
uf elk times that distance. He claims to have
EUn from Valerce to Lyons and back, about
Sne bundled aud twenty-f miles, in eleven
esc1rs, and a. Paris, Decem Der IS 1876, at the
Ss&sting Palace to have made sixteen miles in
in tonr and twenty i've minutes. At Mar
tue circdIt of the Hippodrome. and at Rome
was eoccessful in o similar match.
Before the drought of 1854 Los Angeles
aoanty, Cal, was renowned for the numbeE OF
har cattle. They literally covered Thousand
6&itG, and il was sometimes dangerous for any
body but vaquero to 60 out of town any CON
siderable distance. During 1864 huDdreds of
t61us auds OF hides of horned cattle were sent
JUt OF the county. These pslts we're stripped
froui cattle W rch had died of starvation and
ehoy were cNI!ed murrain hides. The dlsap-
uaarauce of these cattle inaugurated the era of
1aSming in Los Angeles. 1t was q blessin in
ftaGGise, and most of the Thousand productive
tAraas Of which the country now boasts owe
ShGtr existence to that drought.
Il steamship line to Brazilian ports is one of
the prime necessities of the present day; not
ouIy would our commerce with that country
pc vastly increased, but the Southern and
Western States in particular would gain new
Avouues of trade which would benefit the
Whole country. At the present moment the
aaaiIs from the United States to Brazil aud
oekeC Scnth American ports have to be carried
Ii1 Europe, thus preventing that close com
HeCeiAl union which should exist between the
i~O countries, and nothing but steam lines via
ta0 shortest route,-from this port,-will oure
'tHs defect and turn the tide Of trade to this
SOGntCy in continuous and ever-iucreasin9 :
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