The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-03-18
wernsng Star and Catholic asssseager.
REW okL1AMs. SUNDAY. MARCH 10 isr7.
GENERAL MEL WIS ITEMS.

Anderson II. wsddsll Of Nash ille gave s5ooc
p the widow Of . man whom he bad killed. He
Ahd been acquitted on q charge Of murder.
Bald-headed men are 90 numerous In Chicago
shat an audience Id that city 10 ssid 10 look
4 when viewed from above, like oobblestone
pAsement.
Financially, the farmer is the safest man In
ere country. or 1ll2 bankrupts last year in
massachusetts,. only fousteen were farmers. yet
sno farming community Numbers folly half the
population.
The births in France during 1875. according
tles. numbersd $50, 975. The deaths were
81, o0S, and the consequent increase Of populs.
Sion wac l05 9l3.
Governor Colquitt, Of Georgia. has Dromio
Being somewhet Of wag. the Governors
double frequently complicAtes affairs By max
sng promises to applicants for Office.
Cnilmen, Ala, 10 advertising invitations to
Of the Cumberland mountains, and partly
Saken mp already by German families, who |
have made ifty dollar farms worth thousand |
since 1873.
n Alexander II. does not seem to have done his
great work Of emancipation a. thoroughly %
Ne might In the thirty seven governments Of
kasaio, where the Law for the abolition of serf.
ae be- ssea In force since 1861, there are still
70 the United States, where whisky shop, 4
binsksmith's chop, o grocery, and two or
three Residences, constitute many . city, il 10
strange 70 read that The English are only now =
yoel 70 civic dignity. Yet each 10 the fact, E
Liverpool b only town. %
The 0rieans princes have NO more fear of s
1ev9lutione than Peruviane have OF earth . .
eioE Belonging to the royal Orleans family, b
CnantiIly. ta proceeding rapidly under the di Il
rsosion Of HE Royal Highness the Duo d'Au- al
ma,e. Scuipsors and painters 40 we'll arohi- I'll
lima nha |
sume OF money. N
1ussie gained much influence, as we'll rs ter tb
nfory. In Central Asia during 1876. The an br
neIation of Khokand 10 her dominons 10 very ~ ~
md 10 has three large towns. The fret is Kho. eli
kand, numbering so, goo Inhabitants. The Sec WI
'' Aaughelsn. has 3 population of SO 600. th
be Third, was in the fifteenth century the OF
spital, but Possesses at present but little tb
~ 10 said that in Tasmania there il an insect lei
vegous plant which grows in the creviees of m,
ooky ground, To about six inches in height, ~,
ash eingle vertical stem, from which project rs
ne or two dozen small foot ssalks, carrying "a "a
nall disce about ons-half inch in ciroumfer- 90
lance exudes from the ends Of the tentaeles clC
nd hlaments, which eGeotually retain Q az 1t
NO as once convey IL to the centre of the to
ordlng TO the report, the ay is "digested." Ia
An aoeontrio Irish equire, who died last year. 40
nc an estate Of 5000 year to the yoanger .b,
~ Of Lord Longford, to whom be wac not in th'
~ way related. The will Was disputed and -.
Eidence adduced on the one side that he was | ay
cry queer and did not like his relations on fol
% ether: that undue influence had been ex- OF
tied. The decision was in favor Of Lord Or
ocgtosd'e son. Now it has been reversed on fin
lev TIA, and 10 nkeiy to be carried TO the iDf
'dinary interest, and the second trial lasted bs,
zenty days. na'
4 correspondent of one Of the Indian papers -.
IyB that the other day officer in q station lie
tnated 10 one Of the famine districts was ene
lPerintending the firing of company, whom "3
! old woman was seen to walk across the '
'nge, calmly ignoring tho bullets which were sm
Fing aeons- Every body shouted at her str,
q Meveo thsir hands 1T her without effect / or
10 continued on her way unmovsd Al laat vo
10 cficer sounded the Cease Hre,n and had 49,
. old woman brought before him. asking her - d,
BY ehe was foOlisb enough to rick her life in 10
ot much matter whether a bulIes ands ms por
day or whether die of hunger o week b
nee. old