The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-12-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


John @. ODounell, q talented young Irish
nan who 10 blind. Was elected to the Indiana
legislature at the late election, from Decatur
sounty.
Indian Territory, has been made Abbot OF the
Benediotine Alb Boy Of the Sacred Heart in that
territory.
A st. Louis Communist divided all his
property among the members of the Socialist
organization to which he belonged, but he
aidn't do it till his death.
The municipality of Paris having to make
Eome street improvements recently bought oil
ths property affected, completed the work and
then sold the lots in their new form. Profits,
5000 600.
People have fallen into the habit of consider
ing Spain "no account oonntry, but she
Stood we'll in comparison with England at the
French exhibition. Spain and her colonies re-
reived $500 distinctions of all kinds from the
lud9es of award, and Epgland and her colonies
received 2455.
The suspension of the Cornish tin mining in
austry in England has now become almost
sotal. The few mines'still working, with three
exceptions, have largely reduced their hands.
Wholesale emigration has but partially miti-
gated the distress, and Thousands OF penniless
women and children are left behind.
The Diocese of the Ri ght Rev. Bishop O'Con-
nor, Of Nebraska, 10 In . dourishing condition.
He had only twentysix priests when be began
years ego, and now he can number sixty-si1
priests. There over thirty thousand Ca
tholios in Nebraska, and new colonies are be-
ing formed.
away with by . lively team of horses in Ore
gon q few days ago. The course lay through
seld of wheat containing about one hundred
acres, and the machine kept toget her, binding
svery bundle that came to it With lightning
rapidity. When the team was stopped the ma
chine had out and bound $50 bundles.
A young lady Of Richlsnd, s. c. exhibited
at the fair q few days ego suit OF clothes of
har In Qha oh cd ha VI
sac yarn, wove and dyed the cloth, cut and
htted the clothes to fit her brother and sewed
ihem with q needle-not with base. me-
chapic sewing machiDe,) making as handsome
an outfit as tho back of man could desire.
From the Ist of May to the 1st OF November
203 l67 foreigners entered Paris and were
registered at hotels end lodging houses, forty
six natioualities being recorded, while there
were 1,647 "msoellan eous-" There were
HTS Germans. 10 573 residents Of the United
States, 55 9l5 English people, e5Ol Austrians,
lAsGs Italians, 5725 Russians, and 1880
SwiPs
Tho establishment of Celtic chair in the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, is al opt
an accomplished fact: at meeting o. the
university council few weeks ago Professor
BIackie announced that only 81 500 was want
Inn toward the sum Of $50 900 required for the
endowment OF the chair in question. On the
same occasion o committee vas loEmea 70
make such arran gements es will insure the ap-
Pointment of professor before next Deoem-
ber.
The statistical returns OF Methodsm for
1879 show that the number of Methodist con-
municants in the world 10 4 4S9 S77, with
lo4. 175 local and travelling preachers. The
Aethodiet population is estimated at 90 600 000
The, Methodist Episcopal Church reports
1858 1888 members, ~ $50 local and IL 3cS tin
Grant preachers. The gain of membsrs is
about II 900 for the year. Other branches OF
the denomination bring up the total in the
United States to 1896 900 members, 26 652
Il tti rharn
trnl as been made on the English coast
recently, and with quite satisfactory resnlts
il would appear, of Some detouating gun COZ
son rockets u late invention in thislIne. These
rockets are Intended as fog signals, for usc on
board ships and at lighthouses The effect of
:he density of the atmosphere, or of sonorous
fog, is said to be rendered apparent by these
rockets, " hioh are scarcely heard at q distance
OF two and q half miles at the sea level bpt
when they bursI ut su altitude OF 900 yards
the report Is heard ss n thuLder like peal for
ten miles
Mrs. Anderson is on trial before "a jnry of
ave members of the Trinity Methodist ChuIoh.
Chicago, for renting her property TO he used
as bser garden. All the forms of judicial
triAl are observed, but taere eecns to be no
ienial of the fact charged, the real question
pein2 " be' her she shall be expelled from the
church. o :e witness testites that be remon-
strated with her, aud urged her to lease the
premis g for q livery able; but she replied
ihat o stable wss, to her mind, more objection
able than "a ntue beer garden with music and
DO bad smell"
The will of Alexander McGilI, of Aueghany
City, Pa, has i1st been Fl ed. 1t is dsted jan
nary l, 1875 aud leaves his property, worth
$50 COO, to certain relatives for life, and to
Three aunts in Ireland, or the survivors of them,
when the American heirs die. II there no
heirs surviving in the old country, the money
is to 60 to the President of the United States,
TO be applied to furthering the interests of the
National Democratic party. II the President
10 not Democrat, the money is to remain on
deposit till q Democratic chief magistrate has
Seen inaugurated.
That King Humbert's assassin alton wss ut.
tempted is not 80 surprising when one learns
ahas o number of italian students have found
ed q Nobiling club, "to transmit to future gene
4atioDs the memory of great men who have
oonseorated themselves to the emancipation of
the human race by pen or deed" "lf," ssys
the inaugural, "the members have chosen the
name of the intrepid German philosopher,
CNoblinR is the name of the man who attempt
cd to kill the Emperor of Germany, o few
months Sgo.) it is to syntbesize by his name
the rim of the club. which pEonoaea to GOOD