The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-10-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

| dian cow, which ia the largest sum ever gNGIn ~
| except that for the Duchess OF Geneva ia
| New York, two years ago.
Pittsburg has 70 glass factories, 80 iron rolling
| mjlIs. steel rolling mills, whitehead facto-
ries, aod % oil refneries. aud the coal mines
| tributary TO this market number l5s.
dent of the French republic is you. ooo 'fancs.
$50, 900. He receives; in sddition' DiS pay
| and perquisites es Marshal Of France.
Rev. John A. watterson. A. NJ. for , some
time Vice Presdsnt has been nppoin1ea res.
dent of Mount St. Mary's College Emmitts-
| burp Md, in place of Rev. DR.. McCloskey, re
sigued.
The Rev. Father Charlie. Bogue, s. j as
Aistant pastor Of St. Jossph'S Church on Capt.
| toll Hill, Washington, died at the Providence
| Hosnital in that city on Monday afternoon, in
| tho eighty eight year OF his sge.
The Iowa methodist Conference resolved TO
! eHtFeat- -Ministera and mem hers who use
| tobacco to desist for copscience's sake: ana TO
| vote for the admission of no one to the confer
epce who uses tobacco, withouta pledge that
| he will abandon 1T.
In Ulster there are $50 600 Protestants and
| 800 900 Catholics, which is only majority OF
perity in Ulster 10 put down to Prosesfants.
labor aud Z good deal from Catholic skill.
| Tho coffin of Mgr. de Laval de Montmor-
ency, the frat Catholic Bishop OF Quebec. and
| indeed of North America, WAS discovered by
soue workmen recently who we're excavsting
| the basement of tina Bssilica of that city. He
| was born in Maine, France, in 1923, and died
| in l90S.
A.E. Ontbridge, in the Philadelphia Mint,
has obtained, by experiments in electro
| chemistry, films of gold thin that =. 500 900
| would be required to make an inch In thick
ness yet the films, when examined throngh
| the micr oscope, are seen TO be continuous.
They are transparent, and OF bright green
color; but by reflected light they resume
! the true gold color.
| A Methodist Church in Cleveland, is built,
| steeple and all. The people gathered to dedi-
cate it, The Bishop announced that there W as
u debt of So 600 the building. Subscri p
tions were taken up, and, beginning with
three of $500 each. grew to = goo alsogetheri;
the congregation, remsrking that the church
wonld be dedicated when the debt was paid,
and not BEFORE.
| Captain Julius d. Rhodes, who is to dive
| from the new Suspension Bridge at Niagara
. height of 1874 feet, is q native of Spriugville
| q medium-sized, sinewy man with Burnside
whiskers. He has made sixty nine high leaps
OF all sorts, dives for glory and i finaS nc nc
speaking during q trip in the air, and can
guide himself with his legs. The sensation
when falling is, he says. Understandable.
The survivors of the gallant Six Hundred,
about one hundred in number, will dine at
London, October 25, Lady Cardigan's mnnih-
cent subscription making it possible to have
| q private dinner without any speoulators ex'
llDltiDR the heroes ~ D BullllUR y uObu. by
the way, here are the figures of the famou.
| charge Fourth Light Dragons lost 79 of lis
men Eight Husssrs, to OF l04 Eleventh
Husssra, S5 of ITO; Thirteenth Light Drag'
| oons, 60 of 1870; Seventh Lancers, llO OF l45
total loss, 400 of COZ.
james T. Fields says that an ad1lirer OF
Shakespeare discovered among his friends q
| Bostonian who had never read the plays or
| the immortal William, and advised him to do
| 90 at once. Several months later the giver of
| the advice egain met his friend, asked him If
| he had read any of the plays, and what he
thought Of them. Yes, he had read them eli'
| and he added. with effusion, "They are glort-
| Gus, sr-far beyord my expectations! Why,
! cir, there uoJ twenty men in Boston who
! could have written Them
! Tee question OF the liability for damages
! fron tie fall of the staging at the monument
| dedication is exciting mdoh interest in Boston
! Leading lawyers say that The city Ii responsi
bic # the Monument Committee were Gun
| powered to build the ssats; otherwise The
committee themselves may be sued, the fac
| that the tickets were given away not remov
ing lle liabilities for damages. This, Is Il
| thought, will throw the burden on the CON
| ,uittee, tae only power delegated 70 them he
ing 10 make equitable preparation Hcr the ded
| icAtion of the monument They ale rich
| however and would thoroughly test in tn
coarts the question whether the nulloins
the seats Vas not inctoded as duty in III
vote.
q The site Of the petrihed fores of Csiiforni
is about Geo feet above the ecu level, and lie
in the same trend with the Geysers, Mount
Helena, and the thermal springs of Calistog
A recent visitor says that geolosically, 1t
one vast lava bed, in which the trees lie
they were thrown, probably Thousands
years ego, by some Oonvulsion of nature. II
trees are in Fragments, many OF which ha'
been converted into charcoal, otheTs in
. Ignite and others into beautiful specinsns
let, Where the heart q: tree bad decay
the cavity s filled WITH opal, form Of II
, trors Epcrystalized silica, containing Na''
Chalcedouy, another form Of the silica, L
n clear aud hmpid, is found In other cATsii'
No top has been PetriSed, and Only here -
Il there . root.
when tho Rn4sian war steamer H.&Eas'
| with tho Grand Duchess V!&ct9-:F 40 (
infant sop the Grand Dsks Cyril, Ut S2atS1 ("
. | on her way 70 SGstIin the 0;Ssg GAY iA+ Is'o'
was stopped at GWinsl1or6 IL: syL..s l.s.s
order that the condltlS:g Of as :1v y 49,. ~
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