The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Before the war the States of Mississippi q
{ Alabama were the largest cotton produc
regions Of the South. bat neither one ever G
eeeded the 6500 bales produced by Tex
last year.
In 1868 the Khedive created q National A
sembIy for Egypt. The body ran very smoot
, ly because none of the mem bers dared to r
up an opposition to the wishes of the roy
} ruler. The Assembly unanimously vote
every thiDg which the Khedive desired.
There are now In operation in New HAM
shire 900 miles Of railroad, which cost &3s
600 .OOO and their net profits are 81 600 900,
now is about el5 900 900, and large pr,
portion Of them do not pay one per cent. o
| their ooat.
Last week two non Catholic justices of Ne,
York oity, Chief Justice Shea and Judge Sir
mott. when applied to by q couple who desire
to be married, refused to perform she ceremon
| on the ground that marriage, being in thei
opinion of a ornamental nature, belongs to th
functions of the clergy.
Barning gas in this country is dearest j,
Ashland, Pa, where $40 per thousand feet j
charged, aud the lowest price is SO cents il
Detroit, where there ia O contest between riva
companies. Boston's rate is 81 25, and Phila
de1phia's Sc 80. The average in London i,
less than 81, and in Paris 81 SO.
Thirty or forty years ago salmon were
plentiful in the Moselle, but gradually disap.
pear ed. Five years ago the Government began
to deposit every spring quantity of yonng
0AlmOn from the ps8CICultural establish men
at H uningen, and now there is good salmon
fishing added to the many charms of the blue
Moselle.
The beo pastures of California embrace q
very large area of country, extending from
South Barbara, in @ narrow belt to Lower
California. This land Is very preciptous, and
the bee keepers are in no danger of being en-
croached upon by civilization for many years.
Ban Diego county alone shipped last year 100
tons of pure honey.
Fba A
is now in course of being laid ont and opened
and the engineer in charge, instead of allow
ing the multitude to gaze upon his work in
progress of compilation, has put up high board
His object is to prepare pleasant snr prise for
lis brother Parisians, and to let them feast |
heir eyes only upon the completed avenue,
Win the sidewalks newly laid and the macada-
nized road freshly rolled.
The blackberry industry in Georgia. North I
;arolina, and the other Southern States is
bout to open, and the local papers are show
ng what bonaDz "a is in danger of RAINING to
waste. The little town of Salem, N. c., CON
aiming only about 1000 inhabitants, has
hlpPed during three years over 5000 600
ounds of dried black berries, for which
early half million dollars was received.
MS was equal to over 1000 bales of cotton at
cents pound, and is resource certainly
OF to be despised.
a Philadelphia hotel is provided with An
iectric apparatus that, whenever the atmos-
here in any room becomes hotter than llOe
ngs an alarm in the Office. On the day
fter the fire IN st. Louis some young and TO-
ose guests held lighted matches under one of
hese contrvances, thus causing false alarm,
no the prompt employees turned a stop cock
aaG Immediately caused the thorough wetting
y all the people in the hotel bnt the fun
Ill cost them $3.50, that being the amount of
lmage done by the water.
The military row at Mayerce on the Empe- l
RS birthday was really very serious. A '
old ball in, and q Captain had been detail.
TO maintain order. The Hussars and |
randen burgers tried to enter, as they did last T
ear and hence the scrimmage. In a short +
me the adj icent streets were full of soldiers |
no. striking out in blind rage. hit friend and 8
% alike, and were quite beyond the ficers'
'ntrol indeed, two of these latter are re- ]
'rted Killed, and others seriously wounded. l
single regiment had forty killed and wound. c
men. q
Inc steam street cars in Paris are reported c
be unqnalifedly snccetsful although thew c
IN along the grandest boulevard in the city | I
10 thronRh some of the busiest streets, turn
& sharp angles and climbing and descending
'rceptible grades. The engines draw crowd c
cars from the Arc de Triomphe to the e
astlIe, distance of seven miles, at a speed
eight miles an hour, and no one has vet heen | I
lrt, nor are horses frightened by the sipbt NJ /
% engines. Ibe latter are like the dnmmies T
Market street, Philadelphia, noiseIess and .
lokeiesb' ana steam power is said to have I
owed much more economical than horse i
'Wer. '' 4
Leeches, like lancets, have gone cut Of =
shion' and some statistics given by ore Of :
o French papers a. TO the annual conspmn. :
On OF leeches by the hospitals in Paris for 4,
me years past show how great has been the ,
ling of in the medical demand for th,ss 4,
ptlles. From 1910 10 1894 tho number Of 4.
9chfs used actually was ls3 600 from l-3G !
I@42. - 900; from 1852 to 1850, 43O coo. =
ON $50 to 1855 PRS 00O from 1855 to las3' u
: 600 from 1863 to 1870. % 900 and from .
~ TO ~" $1,000. In l-:Ij the cost of Iescbes =
the year TO the Paris hospitals was 90 900 =
Apcs; whereas at the present tune IL does | "
I exceed 500 francs
he following statistics show a remarkable In
'rease in tho supply of certain fayorite
nedles since 1855 In that year the central
armaceutical Establishment of the Pari.iAn
spital furnished 2e2 pounds Of chIoroforrn Is
$50 the quantity had had risen 10 GlG t
nnds The increase of choral from ls,fy 10 b
, was from 10 pounds to 72O ponds. Bro. Ia
de of potassium, pounds In I4:t5 was coo a
luds Ia 1873 morphine, Poubd 6 ounces In 81
-, was ~ pounds in 1875. The proRre-s Of 81
ohol: considered as a tberaPeutica al agent il I,
eciaIly worthy Of notice. Between 1856 Z
1870 the consumption Of alcohol In the D.
pitsl- Increased from / go to ~ OOy y
.rs- andy does not appear on the iist d
lt-l-SI, when four quarts were supplied Y