The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-11-11
segniaG Ssav and Catholic Messenger.
NTW ,rnr:rANR SUNDAY. NOVEMBER II. 1871.
gRNERAL NEWS ITEMS.

DCotiAno S,dSo, anu Afe's"e ~'A
since the Crimean war England bss reduced
her national debt from $500. .0Oo. 600 TO E7l2''
Oo0, 900.
In sandwich, England. the ouIfew 10 still
koiIed every evening, a. has been the practice
for seven hundred years.
The Ioss Of human life during the great
aood In Bengal, following the cyclone OF 1876,
has lately been Ascertaiped to have amounted
to leS 900. II was estimated at the time at
near 300, 600.
The Darlington, (s. G } soatherner sAya that q
citizen Of that place has already made GOO gal
Ions Of wine from one acre planted In wnmS naS
scuppernong grapes and expects to make 2oo
gallons more.
ireland and Scotland are only separated ct
one point by % miles of water. and l95 years
ago 1t was proposed to divert the si wa,sI o ron,
Portpatriok, and join .he countries together.
A Petersburg, Va. correspondent says she
great sensAtion of this community 10 the e1-
sraordinary progress OF nhrgs.;nr lsst Mav
Upwards Of 600 GOO have been invested IN
farms.
begin It's work by issuing circulars warning
people against such plays as are deemed in
moral. A leader in the movements CONSIDER
ateiy sage "We sball not dictate TO the
managers"
The steamer Glencoe, recently sunk opposite
yicksburg, had on board about fifty families of
white emIgranta from Indiana for Carroll Far.
ish, La. they were forwarded oy Saii and
wagon to their destination, v! ich 10 Floyd In
Carroll Parish.
In q recent speech Senator Hl!l of Georgia
said, " the child is born who will see four mil
lions of people in upper Georgia, with Atlanta
as the great central city, with over one hum
thousand MISUNDERSTANDING several hum
dred thousand"
The italian army Ia thoroughly equipped
and prepared for mobilization. and the coasts
and fortresses are in O state of defence. These
COMPLETED
nresent year. owing to urgent military advice
forwarded to Rome by the Berlin Cabinet.
high fnuctionary from Berlin. upon re-
gently entering q store at Strasborg. en-
deavored to CON nciliate Alsatan feeling by in:
quring OF the storekeeper's wife If she bad
not found the siege very long Sir" was her
reply, "much shorter than the days that bave
followed during the siege we had NO Prus-
SLAMS among us."
Europe has taken over S2 500 600 worth OF
American fruit since last Jane, compared Win
5000 900 in the same period the year before BET HGS
This country has exported over 120OoOOC
pounds of dried apples since last June, as com
pared with 522 600 pounds the previous year
1t 10 said that improved methods OF dryine
have been perfected, which have produced
this result.
The sxpediency Of opening up o trade witt
Japan had been moOted in England as far beei
as 1749, in which year q correspondent write
TO An English magazine, ,zpoiuting ont how pso
fitable the trade would be, and adding: 'tTb
Dutch have pProssed to themselvea the trad
of Japan by uleaus OF u ceremony which is r.
ouired of all who go to that conntry-th
Treading on the cross, thing >which no osht
Europeans have been as yet willing 70 do"
The msnufacturs of bottous islarRely ca
ried on at Bethel and Gsysville, Vt. TT
material used 10 tho vegetable ivory, which
an exceedingly hard fne grained nut, grow
ON the Isthmus of Panama. 1t Is about u
aize OF the average hens egg, and after tt
bur and shell sre split off 1t is white and eoii
1t is split by q circular saw into several piece
from each of which different sized buttons a
turned by maohiBes, wnioh pare both sides
once. Tce ivory nuts cost 500 per ton.
Col. Kings farm on the Rio GrAude consis
of 100000 acres, all fenced. He has BET
growing in wealth since the war with Msxic
and now owns. besides the land, % 900 horse
80 600 cove, as. 900 sheep, and o,o0O mule
He employs 300 AexiosDs ss herders. Most
the land mas been fenced at On enormous CO..
He despises book learnioR," but has becoE
educated In the ways OF the world, He liv
sxsFRVAgsptly, and is literally moSaroh OF
20 surveys.
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes at o windt
from which an extensive and interesting viz
rney be had; but that is practical disadvd
Saee, he says, for it leads his mind away TT
hia subject. His belief is that . range
vision which presents little or nothing to
tract the occult forces represented In the
tslliRenC ooBnsn ntratou of the gsze 10 beet c
oulaGed to- lead to good results, when the
dividual is engaged upon any task reqnlri
b uninterrupted Intensity of thought"
There is considerable comment IN Bos
upon she way in which new streets are
ont, the prospect being that they will be
oufkplicatea within q few years as those In
older part of the city. man has real est
& 20 seli and rama q street through 10 TO maks
muoh Of IL salabls as possible. Another u
toes likewise accommodating the street TO
I land 80 that iE IL doubtful whether the etr'
will form . continuous line II by any oha
they are ever brought together.
A singular rumor has geined currency
/ Limerick, Ireland, to the effect that the
Visconnt FttEEibbon, n gallant cavalry on
who was supposed to have fallen in the Q
brsted charge of the Six Hundred at Ba
lava, did not meet that fate, but 10 ut
| Traonent on his way home to claim his esta
nc is stated that when last seen he was le
ing, apparently wounded, on his horse
he was taken prisoner by the R1seians,
AhOrtly after, for some insult alleged to
been given to u Russian cfhoer, was tr
ported to Siberia, whence, his term of e
bAVing expired. no is returning to Ireland
statue of him Rdorns the Wellesley bridge.
z. A. Eberle, an actor of over twenty ye
experience, wac seen 20 be strangely at 4
Gn hia part in the Albany Theatre few nil
ago. He had the reputation of being " lie
pesfeot," but on this occasion he was at q
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