The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

patent medicine IN an ufaCsOrers ana Otner 80
Vertisers, to cover oil the picturesque rocks
and big trees with Inscriptions.
On opening the will of the late T. J. Dunbar
Of Boston, few days Sgo, IL was found that
he had remembered all who were in his en-
ploy at the time of his death. To those who
had been With him seven years he bequeathed
g 600 each, three ysara- 81 900 and one year
$500.
vogue in England. People fit mp barges com.
fortsbly aud start up stream. When an elfgi.
BILE site 10 found they pitch tents on the bank
and sleep under canvass. Having seen what is
worth seeing in that place. they move on up
stream.
It 10 q deplorable fact that last year in the
State OF Maine, where Blaine, the moral GEN.
sor, holds forth. there was gain OF 10 per
cent. in the number of State prison oonvicts,
and the Legislature had to appropriate el5 600
to enlarge the penitentiary to accommodate the
increasing number of criminals.
The police made descent upon the butchers
at Ofenbach, Germany, last month, and of all
their number, twenty-tbree. found only four
who sold genuine sdulterated ssussges. Let
the epioure vi no despises the American article,
but loves this i'm ported sausage, think Of this
whom be recommends his dish TO others.
The San Francisco Chronicle comments on the
arrange fact that, althorgl in the last three
years the Bslcher, Crown Point Justice, Chot-
lar Potosi. and Optir mines bave produced
$l6 coo 600 worth OF ore. the stock holders have
nette6 not cert, bot have had to contri bD te
81 3l4. 600 in assessmeu to- and stiil have debt
Of 81 900 600.
Vicksburg Herald We are ;ati6ed to see
by our exchanges that the rearing of live stock
is receiving more attention from Southern
aericulturists than was ever known before,
and the thoughtful must accept it as another
sign OF the approaching dawn of an ere of
prosperity, such as q people onRhtto enjoy who
undoubtedly have the advantages of the beet
soil and climate in the world.
Shers Ali, the Ameer Of Afg hsnstan, q most
powerful prince. whose friendship is eagerly
rlN hxyh n nola nd o1A
neiIher Of tboee powers much encouragement
while placing his army on . powerful war
footing. As SbeTe Ali can command the ser
vices OF 10000 men. remarkably good 6ghters,
it 10 easily upderstood why England and Rus
sie are anxious about bin. His domiu
a5join both the Russian and British Indian
frontiers.
Alfred Jones, a oolored resident of Worth
county. Ga, bought credit in 1871 a farm
Of ITO acres, the price being Soo0. He owned
mule COW and calf In 1873 be had paid
for the place, and now be has torn down the
old house and built two new ones, has three
mules, two Wagons, seven cattle twenty five
hogs, one hundred apple trees and q peach
ehaId, farms leased estate of 200 acres, Is out
OF debt, makes about twenty bales OF cotton q
year, and plsuts corn, cane, chufAs and peas
literally.
On the 5.h of August last year, the three
Dasted iron steamship o Great Queensland left
London for Melbourne with q large cargo aud
siIty-nine passer & rs and crew on board. At
Gravesend she stopped 70 take on some thirty
Ions OF DlAck gum DER ana Two tons OF
patent gunpowder. After this Was laden, she
proceeded on her voyage, and has never been
heard from since August IL. 1876 name
belonging to her, however, and some life buoys,
have been " ashed ashore the south coast
Of England. The English Wreck Coumis.
sioner has just decided that the steamer must
have been destroyed by the explosion OF the
patent gunpo~der, which was proved TO have
been in bad ooudiuon and improperly packed.
Thirty.three years ago Nicholas Coyen,
Partisan merchant failed His SOD, Alphonse
Coyso, set himself to pay of bis fathers
debts and remove the stigma of insolvency
from his name, and now haa succeeded. The
requisite amount, some $25 600, for principal,
interest and costs, has been paid to the cred
itors, their represen tatiyes or heirs, and some
SSOOO additional have been paid into the
Court for creditors whose whereabouts are
unknown. In ordering the old mans rehabi-
htAtiou, the public counsel paid n high tr-
bnte TO the devotion of his son. and the act n
AL its details was ordered TO be inscribed in
the records of the Court aud published in the
JoaTRal OReie!
The London Uorjd tells this story from the
memoirs of LEferriere: "A young attAohe OF
embassy who now occupies n prominent posi-
hon IN diplomacy, WAS invited by Count De-
midoh When taking coffee be Inadvertently
iook piece OF sugar with his fingers when q
fcotmen presented the tray. The Count,
shocked by what ne considered a want of
SieHseaace, made n sign to the servant to throw
the basin out of the window. Tho attBohe,
although he took the lesson as Hn effront
would not allow himself to appear disconcert-
ed. he drank his coffee slowly, and then, look
ing AZ the Count carelessly dropped through
she window the spoon, cup and saucer, sAyi ing
i did not know that such was the custom
here'"
The French Exhibition OF next wear, saws
abe London WOTld, will have some specially
attractive features. There is to be n grand
central avenue. in which the buildings allotted
50 the various nations are to terminate the
frontage of each representing some remarkable
historical building of the country TO which it
10 assigned. Thus the facade of the BelOian
section will represent The splendid Hotel de
Vile Of Brussels. cascade will fow down
from the Palace of the Trocadero cross the
Seine in conduits, and supply water for the
machinery of the Exhibition on the Champ
de Mars. 1t will be suTroonded by four colos-
sal grOuPS of statuary, persOnifying by Groups
Of animals the four quarters of the world.
europe has been iutrusted to NJ. Cain, Africa
20 Fremeit, Asia to JAcquemArt, and America
90 RouillArd.
CoTToN TIEs.-The subject OF cotton ties is
that is Of the rSAtsst imPOrtAr our people
RsOs only must the tie they be secure bat it usS