The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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for driving two horses to death.
| The enormous increase in the expectation OF
| English salt to Boston is due to the low rate OF
freight. It comes in lieu OF ballast.
TheJews are great merchants. Every eighth
building on Broadway, from Chambers TO
Fourteenth street, New York, 10 occupied by
Hebrew firms.
The Pope received on his semi cen tenary an
Offering of s. 625 from the diocese Of San
Giaoomo, in Chill. where many years ego he
labored rs missionary.
The steamer Wisconsin arrived in New York
Saturday with 1913 new Mormons The nation
atty of these unfortunate people IL given as
400 Danes. $50 Swedes, 81 Norwegiaus' liz
Germans, 80 English and 90 Hollanders.
The lannon's mare Flora Temple is yet living
although che in 30 years old. She is petted by
the hostlers at her home in Chestnut Hill, Pa 4,
but 10 little more than skin and bone, and Is
not expected to live through this summer.
The valuation of real estate in Eew York city
This wear ts placed at $S95 coo 600, and of per-
sonai properly at saO6 600 900; total. Sl.1Ol,-
os2 0s3, which represents about three fourths
valuation is 81 600. 900 greater than in 1876
and personal s12 900. 900 less.
There was @ jubilee at Allegheny, Pa, last
week, in which the school children portici
pated, but the eolored scholars were not al
lowed to mipgle with the whites, and were
confined to part of the park specially roped
off for them. Allegheny County 10 q red-hot
Republican stronghold, Of course.
The County Kilkenny, ireland. has produced
seven brothers, all of whom are over ak feet
without being corpulent. All of them have
become Jealous Roman Catholic priests, and
are serving in vHrious missions in both hemis-
chee, and the least tall of them is six feet two
inohes-N. z. Ssn.
A piece of good and wholly unexpected news
comes from Lunel, France. namely, that many
Of the vines which had been given I'D as
hnpa1asaly do auni hv the nh U ara av
gained their vigor, and even that others that
on being attacked had been abandoned with
out any eK1rt to save then are budding and
will bear fruit. The vine-growers are natu-
rally much encouraged at this hopeful state of
things.
Another of the Cardinals who took part in
the election of Pope Plus TX has passed away.
Filippo de Angels, Archbishop of Fermo, was
born at Ascol!ni in 1902, and was created
Cardinal July 8, 1889, at the age of AZ. His
death is announced to Us, therefore, on the
thirty. eighth anniversary, to O day, of his in
vestiture with the Roman purple His death
reduces to six the number of Cardinals still
living who voted at the election of Pope Plus
TX.
They order those things better in France
At the race for the Grand Prix quite haul of
pick pockets was made. One OF them played
the foreigner. and opposed the most perfect
dumbness to the CommissRire's questions. DO
you understand Frenchf 7" asked the official
No answer; neither any sign of Intelligence
" You can go-you are Free" said the Commis
saire. The man started for the door, aud in
second the handouts were on him, add he was
en- route for the cells
The railroad car of the Emperor of Russia
can be run on any track in Europe, whateve or
| the gusge may be, owing to peculiar arrange
ment of the wheels. 1t oop tains O parlor, O
bed room, and q dining room, all magn,foently
furnished. The Emperor sends ahead pilot
| locomotive. Half an hour after the imperial
| train starts o wrecking train follows, to be on
| hand in case of sccident. Twenty minutes be
hind tbisis u train with the imperial suite, and
| lastly an escort of 800 soldiers.
Marshal MacMshon's birthday was celebra.
| ted on the 18th OF June His age is GO. He
was born in the chateau of Sully, near
Autun, in 1905 His father, Maurice de Mac
| Mahon WAS faithful to the Bourbon cause
and, during the reign of Louis XVIII was
| created n Lieutenant General aud command.
| er of the order of St. Louis. His grandfather,
| Jean Baptiste de MaoMahon, born in Lime
rick, Ireland, was naturalzed and ennob!ed by
the French Govern ment in 1850. His ancestor
| fret visited France in the suite OF the exiled
james ii. of England.
Ina paper presented by NJ Nelson to the
| French Academy of Science, some interesting
| information 10 given concerning the use OF
sea water in bread making, in France and
| Spain, from which 1t appears that, along the
entire coast of the Cnspnel sweet water ia
used for the leavon only, aud pure salt water
| for the dough, the bread thus made having Just
| the necessary degree of snlinity. When, no ".
ever, sea water is used tor other culinary pur
poses, the result il disagreeable failure-Jhe
advantage in the case Of the bread being, APP.
parentIy, that it underGoes peculiar change
oaused by certain of tho salts dissolved in sea
water, which change would not, for chemics
reasons, he likely to take place in any dissimi
| lar admixture.
! No professional official men in the world
| have so 'eaey q time of it as the Irish Judges
The Lord Chancellor gets $40, 0eO year, aud 6
| retiring pension, no matter how brief q time
he serves, of so 600. The Chief Justice of Iro
land has $25, 900 salary, and $l7 500 retiring
pension, after fifteen years. service. The Chic
Justice of the Common Pleas has $23. 600
year, and the Chief Baron the same. Theil
retiring pensions $l2 500. The five puisne
Judges have over SI7 500 year, and retiring
pensions on tho like liberal scale. All the
other Judges of Inferior Courts literally
paid, and though the salaries are some thirty
| per cent lower than similar functionaries re-
oeive in England, this is amply compensated
| by the difference in the cost of living.
house which would cost $4,000 year in London
can be had for $1,000 in Dublin, and wages and
expenses are more than thirty per cent less in
most respects.
Ernest Whitehouss is an Indiana outlaw
and bis adventures of late have been interest
ing. He robbed impHdentiy 10 the neighbor
hood of Terre Haute, and the officers of the
L.. ~, IL, l.;