The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-10-14
asrnIns s+.r and Catholic Messenger.
sxw CELKASs, sUauAT, OCTOBER II III.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


General skobelef, the hero of Plevna, is only
thirty.
within n month President Hayes visited
seyenteen States OF the Union.
OF the 3 COZ foreign residents in China. more
than half are British, and $50 Americans.
In Virginia and North Carolina the acreage
planted in tobacco is so per cent larger than
last year, and the yield promises to be better
in the same ratio.
The beach at Galveston is the largest and
broadest in tho world. extending twenty-five
miles, footing the uabFoken tide OF the COLI
of Mexico on the south and cast.
Wendell Phillips. the workingmen's csndi-
dste for Governor of Massachusetts,. is worth
quarter of q million. he Is one OF those WORK
ingmen who labors with his chin.
Henoeforth the British regiments are to be
supplied with the well-known spiked helmet
of the German soIdiery, and the sha ko is to he
discarded, except perhaps In the case OF riAe
regi ments, and, maybe, in that of the militia.
It is quite on the cards that Russia will be
compelled to suspend payment OF the dividends
on her debt, which will be one more blow 10
the much stricken British investor, VINO
doesp't know where earth to get o safe four
per cent.
The municipal dog tax Of Paris ia estimated
at $133 $50 for 1873. 1t has Increased IN
thirteen years fifty five per cent. "hlie the
love Of dogs that grows greater, the loVe OF
sport seems, to judge by the revenue from
shooting licenses to aoate.
Several cities in Georgia are fghting the
Central Railroad on account of it's extortions'
At Jonesboro cotton is being hauled to Atlanta
twenty miles, in wagons, and goods are taken
back in the same vehicles. Ihe railroad mas
thus been forced to come down, but the wagon
train still receives the greater part OF frelght.
The railroad strikers of New Jersey confined
in the Belvidere Jail have been kept In prison
many long weeks waiting for their trial. On
Monday last, the day appointed for the trial,
tho Prosecuting Attorney appeared IN court
uoiA hnr
which were consequently postponed to January
next, aud thereupon those of them unaple 10
furnish tho bail required, were sent bacs 10
Jail, for another three months of waiting, III
lhis ia New Jersey justice for poor non bne
advantages CT being n rich man IN New jersey
are very easily seen.
Dir. Il. Bond Moore, an English surgeon at
Adrianople, writes to o friend as follows
ADRIASoPLE, Sept. 3 -Dedr ". Awfci
work here. No time to write. No desire to
describe scenes of wounded m asses. Do get
some 80 subscriptions for Stafford House Fund.
Snleiman Pasha says ii it were not for Stat.
ford House surgeons he would have 10 shoot
his wounded men. We had two trains one
light $50 TO dresa by cand!elight, then AGO IN
daylight. No splints, bandaGes, no disin-
infectants. They are so close TO the russians
that they are simply riddied with bullets:
Very faithfully, &. BOND MOORE.
There has just been organized in PhiiAdei-
mia m assCciAtiou to foster and develop
direct lineo of trade between that city and
Central South America The organ'sl,on Is
entitled the "PhiladelphiA MercantIte AUG
Manufacturing and Commission Honse ano
Imnort Ageucs.n The fruP Interested repre-
cent an aggregate capital OF $25 COZ Coy, and
comprise snip aud marine engine builders
TYNE and stereotype foundries, paper mann
feoturors saw and Bteel works, who!eea"
nrocers, wholesale hard wHre men. boot ADO
shoe mar fActurers, liquor disti isrs, petroleum
dealers, wholesale dry goods hrns, iafatuI
Tnnkers deaiers in naval storee, manufacturer
uf hosiery, sheets, knit goods crackers an
bread confectionery, etc In short time To
Agency will be represented By oranoh SRen
cies in oil the principal cities of Central an
South America.
MANY stories are told Of the cleverness OF th
CossAeks In obtaining what they need 10
themselves their horses Passing throUg
the streets OF G alatz recently, tie thin, "eSr
looking hor-e of u Oosssck fell suddenly au
Joy apparently lifeless On the ground i
master began hewailinG the unhappy IA
which had not only deprived him OF hts raw
rite, but left him hnrseiess NJ the most II
terestirg moment of the war Gro"
rEthered around, aud in ii ore several M
who started Is subscription to enable Il
soldier TO procure auothor animal. Takir
the money, aud then removing the saddle tEo
the horse, the Cossack wiped 3ctuat Tea
from his eyes aud weat on ms way. AS /
crowd were bending in pure sympathy ov
the stiffened horse q whistle was heard at L
other end of the street, the horse spranR
his feet, and with aJoy1nl nei&n nSs'eneo
Join his S6TeWd master
The ambition to play joan of Arc repeats
self in all modern walls, 30 that the KOS
Turkish struggle forms no exception a Lie
don Times war correspondent, having {
scribed u charge of Ciroassian cavslry
Karsyal, near Kurukdarra, headed by Fatn
daughter Of an Arab Saeikh. tho Lond
NetcS correspo ndent caps this with the sse
that at Kszslevo a Russian officer, who v
killed while gallautly rallying the repuli
troops, proved so DO woman, who y
buried where she fell DISTANCES occurred
our civil war, both oa the Confederate and
lruion side, OF women serving as soldiers
male attire. thou Oh We rememO Der no AutheH
ones of their becoming commissioned of1ic
and leading cavalry charges. Similar instsn
are reported of the Franco German war l
at least three-fourths of the alleged pertoI
auces of this kind are the invention of ca
gossip, war correspondents, aud dime roveli
TIE GROWTH OF Neutrality-suspicious.