The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-16
GBNBRAL NEWS ITEMS.

poet and journalist, died In New York on the
18th inst.
and tho law fxes tho size of thoso that need
not be returned to the water. Thus, salmon
wust be sixteen inches long, perch FIVE and
an eel fourteen.
married compile named Somers at Aiams,
Fountain county, Indiana, the bride was shot
and instantly killed by paper wad hred from
= musket in the hands Of one Of the serena
ders.
The Ere under the witches csuIdron in
SMacbeth" cot fre to the green cotton tarf in
the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia.
The witches went ct the flames with their
brooms, and Macbeth stamped vigorouely max
ing scene entirely new 70 the tragedy.
The recent gro With Of Paris 10 10 remarkable
esntrast With former years. 10 The reign OF
Hsnry IL, daring the sixteenth century, IT
esntaiIed asout lego noosSs nad So1i oniv inv ;n
oreaeed to % 600. In 1917. there were but
9675I; in 1884, 20 600. In 1873. after Q lapse Of
only forty -four years, there are IS ga.
Msjor-Gen Briuton, the officer who was In
command Of the troope Of P,ttsburg in July
last, when hssty volley killed thirty or forty
citizens, and led to the destruction Of millions
% dollers worth Of property, has resigned.
fer hin, and be seeks Oblivion in private life.
IL II believed that other resignations will
fnilow.
On the 22i of June some seven hundred car
Eier piegons will be started from Rome, which
- y60 miiss from their homipg point. Brussels.
Il 10 Supposed that the journey win occupy the
winner three days. Large reeuite are not ex-
Peeted, for et the last race OF this kind, which
az three hundred birds tossed only four reach
Cd home.
In the italian Chamber of Deputies on May
Ia, Signor Baccarini, the Minister of Public
Works, brought in bill for the construction M on Of
600. The expenditure for national lines IL
wholly to be borne by the State; and as re.
CARDS the local, provincial and intcrprovincial
eos proportions.
No American lady Of the day leads 90 brill
fan. 9 life 20 Madame Wsddington: wife Of
the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. A
uy Preeents. He is of naturalized British
parents, wss educated under Arnold at Rugby,
and roved in the Trinity eight et Cambridge:
his wife 10 daughter Of the late President King
Of Columbia College.
The ssatae of CervAntes. the suthor Of the
great Spanish work Don Q aixote' TO be ereo-
sd in Central Park, New York. will be of
bronze and Of heroic sizs The pedestal will
agnres In relief OF Don Qaixote and Sauoho
PanEa on hoEssbaek. On the other aides will
5ba n rapxeseutstion of the battle of Lspanto
and des1ripsion Of CeSvsntes' imprisonment
IN Ag;erA
Il 10 not often that man of John II. Will.
y
ties Of the Peace. he was one Of Chioago's
arss lawyers, for many years o Common Pleas
Jedge, aud AfterWArd Chief Justice Of the 8u-
peEiOr coort. BE retired from practice. and
He hae lost everything through shrinkage in
real estate values, and takes the once of jas
ties Of the Peace for living.
Tho eomplscency with which juries soue-
tines diareGerd the evidence 10 illustrated by
= trial in st. Louia. man who had fallen
Eso an uncovered 0ewer hole, sued the city
for damages. He had 30 clear case that the
o1ly question fairly open 70 the jury was what
sum TO award htm. The jurors retired, and
rom their rooE sAw open sewer hole into
Vhleh eoSo1y eQnld have fallen except through
ats owa SSOss eArelessneas. They Immediately
<NEf$s3 TO verdict against the plaintiff. Sob
ae1uently they learned that the seWer hole of
sAe suit was entirely different from the one on
which they had based their verdict.
Edmondo di Amici, an italian, in q book on
CSpstantinople, says that during the fast of
Asidge of the SultanA VAlide o few min utes
before the sun goes down. About q thousand
eOAtmen may bs seen, coming and going. or
sitting still in their caiques. They have fast
"a since dawn, and are wild wish burger
TAeie little suppers lie before tbem, and their
sSes constantly move from the food to the suu
and from the sun to the food. When the sun
becomes half hidden they take the food in
1Aoir hands, and all. with one accord, fx their
syss on the lnminAFy. At last the fiery point
vAnishes. the cannon thunders. and thousand
Gootse olGo enormous noE0ois from tnoosano
pieces of bread.
The English Derby remains a. much of .
national festival a. it was in the dAys when
Lord Clifford. . Catholic peer taking his seat
fog the first time after Catholic emancipation, J.,
apon announcing . motion for = certain day,
was greeted with shouts Of derby" and theFe-
sPOn hastily changing /: w0s greeted With still
1Aere vigorous ehouts of "Oaks," !" 30 that he waS
4nslly compelled to explain that he had been
educated out Of EnglAnd and hoped the peers
Doald excuse his Ignorance Of the feasts of
1As Anglican calendar" The party in ParliS-
0snt which began with Hr. tom" Hughes to
zaafntSin that horse racing wAa not 90 serious
= work Is law making, and consequently op.
Rosed the Derby adiourDment, was this year
beaten - usual, and by the very decisive vote
81 925 to 95.
Lord Rossbsry presided lately at the annual
meeting Of the Sunday Society, London, which
advocates the opening Of the national muse-
RrDs and picture galleries on Sunday. Two
oSnturies ago, he said, the PuritAns found Q
Sunday whore, after church, innocent reorea.
tOn was allowed. With the best intentions in