The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-03-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


salary of $2700 per annum.
| A mule II hands and inch high was on ex-
hibition in Nashville the 17th.
The q We family mansions of the Rothechilds
in Paris are valued ct 100000, 600 Francs.
The estimated value Of oigsrs shipped from
Key West TO New York for the month OF Jsnu-
ary is SPOT 900. .......-..
The executors of the late Duke of GAlliera
| have paid in one check the enormous sum OF
$500 900 probate duty on his properly In FRANCO
alone.
Nearly 100, 900 Germans are settled in some
| forty counties in Texas, particularly Comal
and Guadalupe, and they are highly suecessfui
as agriculturists.
The Montana Legislature has changed the
name of the Little Big Horn river to Custer
river, in memory OF the brave cavalry leader
| who met his death on its banks
The Austrian army is gradually to exchange
it's we'll known white uniform for blue. Half
of the infantry will receive blue tunios this
year, and the rest OF the troaps Will receive
them in 1873.
Seattle, q thriving settlement on Paget Sound,
was founded come four years ago by priest
| from Q 1ebec. 1t now has 5000 Inhabitants, q
daily paper, four churches and seven schools,
and on the 1ss of January there were six ships
| and three ocean steamers lying at the wharves,
| besides twelve other craft.
Two Baltimore men bet $1,000 on the result
of the Presidential election, and being unable
| to amicsbly agree which had won, the case
was taken into g court. Then the District Az
torney, under q law prohibiting betting on
elections, took possession OF the stakes and
turned the money over to the city treasury.
The bear and wolf bounty law has been re-
pealed by the Maine Legislature, it being
proved that guileless farmers were turning o
good many honest pennies by breeding wolves
and importing bears' ears from Canada, our
unprotected Wild beasts being unable to COM
pete with the psuper bears of the Dominion.
Financial distress rapidly increases among
the working Glasses of Germany, and the Gov
ernment is loudly called upon for employment.
New railroads and canals are suggested, but as
these require long preparatory surveys, work
cannot be imu ulediately comm enced upon them.
All that can be employed will be placed upon
the repairs of roads.
"A sheep raiser in Pope Valley, Cal, sold his
flock to a man living in the adjacent valley of
Berry assa, ten miles distant. Soon after the
fermer missed the dog which had always assist
him in vain. He was q valuable dog, and his
loss was duly mourned for q couple of days,
whep, to his m Aster's astonisbment, in he came
from Berryass with the whole flock of sheep,
which he had brought safely home again.
Prayers have been introduced into the Cana
dian Commons-tbe Senste always has devo-
tions conducted by it's Chaplain and Librarian.
As there is a very large Catholic minority in
the Commons, and Protestant members are
divided among ell sects, simple and non
committal form has been adopted, which 10
read by the Speaker. Mr.. Anglin is Catholic,
and crosses himself at the beginning and end
of his task, besides bowling 10 WY whenever he
has to pronounce the name of Christ in the
supplication.
The Benedictines of Mount Casino have be.
guu the pu ublication of an important work,
edited in their world-renowned monastery,
where they have o complete topographic and
ohro hromo-lithographio establishment. We refer
to the complete description of all the manu-
scripts comprised in their precious collection,
With fac shnile of the writings and miniatures.
It ia entitled Bibliotheca CSsuenss," and
may we'll be considered very gem of paleo.
h1 fhur riU lnFf fl1n
cations of either France, England or Germany.
Two volumes have been issued, with preface
from the pen of the erudite Abbot L. Tosti.
Not long after the stealing of Charley Ross,
was stolen. The father he'd but little property
and wss unable to pay the expenses of an ex-
tepsive search ; but he shrewdly hit upon a
plan for accomplishing the object efeotuslly.
He read the newspapers carefully, and when
ever he cav An account of the finding Of .
suppose Charley Rose he sent to learn If the
boy was not his lost one. At length. two years
after the kidnapping, he saw an account Of q
stray boy in Illinois, and on going there he
found what he had been 30 long in search of,
The child's hair had been dyed, and he had
changed much through sickness and depriva-
tion, but there was no doubt as to his identity.
He had been stolen by wandering beggars, who
had made his pretty face pre- fi5able in exciting
sympathy. The father is now prosecuting the
supposed kidnappers.
The Office of the Black Rod, the Incumbent
of which came into prominenb notice at the |
recent opening of the British Parliament, is so
old that its origin is all but lost in obsourity
The holder was originally servant about tho
court, his em blem dsnoting that he was to keep |
order, and see that people behaved with deco- |
run in the House of Lords. From time to time
his status improved and the emoluments in |
creased. His duties are now mostly COZ foed |
to summoniDg the House of Commons, in the |
name of the Sovereign, to attend at the bar Of
the House of Lords tO hear the opening or
valedictory speech from the Throne. rhe |
House of Commons makes it a point to shut its
doors in the face of the messenger, to show
that they are quite Independent of the Lords.
The Black Rod has to knock thrice at the door
of the Commons, when the Sergeant-at Arms
interviews him through email aperture in the
door, and keeps him waiting until the Speaker
is informed of the messengers pretence, and
says, admit him." Black Rod then advances
gravely along the floor, bowing to the Speaker
every three or four PAGES. After delivering his
message he retires backward, as he came, and
makes it great point in that most awkward
process to go over the same line on entering.
THE CATHOLIC CLERGY DEFENDED BIZ
MANCINI.-It is worthy of notice that no au
thoritative statement was given, although