The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-03-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEW IIbMS.
ace at Gen. Grants disposal, and accom- panied
him to the pyramids.
General Butler in the House on Tuesday
presented o petition two Thousand one hnndred
signatures, done D p in q reel, protesting against
the ansmission through the mails OF obscene
literature.
Montgomery Queens menagerie has been
sold in Louisville by sheriff. Al eland Ella vent
leopard, $50 byenas. $21 each wsrt hog,
$50; an elephant, 81 500: camel. $3.50;
royal tiger $500; and a rhinoceros, $500
Paris is to have an extensive underground
railway system, with four principal lines, all
meeting below the garden of the Palais Ro7 al,
where an immense depot will be erected.
Twenty one million dollars are to be furnished
for tho work by the general Government. the
department of the Seine, and tho city of Paris.
About 400 German immigrants, with their
wives and families, have just arrived in fsy-
lor County. Texas. from Ohio. They aaVe
bought al even hnndred thousand acres OF
land at 81 so an acre, cash down, aad have an
abuudanc nce of capital and improved sgricultH-
raj i'm plements with which to commence farIo-
ing operations at once. That looks AXE busi-
ness.
The newly begun emigration of farmers,
from Indiaua, Illinois and iowa to Mississippi
and Texas is attracting much attention in the
West. The movement is becoming very gen.
0rRl, ana GlOu9anO9 &r0 going III COlOL5cS "a
from ten to q hundred families Associations
and committees are formed, agents are sent to
select places for the ent, aud the emi-
grafton follows.
OF the 1884 officers serving in the active
army of Prussia 1T has been nsesrtsined that
! 3 594 belong TO tie State Church, ESQ are
| Catholics, 10 Protestant Dissenters, and nine
Jews. OF 800 military surgeons, 652 are mem
| b,rs of tbe Established Church, 13O Catholics
| and II Jews. or the "a So:s men 1G4 9S2 are
members of the Established Chnroh, 75.2Gs
Catholics, 20 Dissenters, and i,}t& Jews
! Died on SATURDAY, 2nd inst, in the Convent
! of the U;Bulincs, st. Msftin'a, Brown Co., Sis
! tor Mary o.. Charlea Gin the void Maria Lonise
I R9stCranO, eldest UGuG Ghter Of u G5nerai Rose
| GRAMS. She was happy to 3on-, crate At the 20
,f2i her rara talel's aul brilliant arcG Gnpiish-
! mont. to ttcir Givcr on the -Ih @! Deueu ber
! ttn III. :. r.-aaTy of her birth day, aud on the
| aamU elS Shta oI December received tie black
! vol.
! A scrG,,:oI fcnt in eogiaa ba1lipg was
rrcentIy aoeo apli.hed nj the Michigan Cen
! trel R4ilrC sd chops ct jackson. 'I~o gangs
OF fourteen meu erch began at seven O'Clock
upon two separate locomotives, the parts OF
| which lad oeen prov lousy lad 10 hand, ard
| "set up" the two machines, each employing e
thousands OF pieces, al d started them ont OF
the ward under steam, N exactly two hourt
snd fifty-fVe minutes.
The charming rapidity with which short
| sightedness is increasing among German stu
dents formed the subject of a recent debate il
the Prossian Parliament From extended OBJ
|
that the nu1aber OF Abe shoTtsighted increase
from - per cent, in the first yeAr to IS pc
! cent, in the ninth or last year. The too fire.
ouent custom in Germany of forcing lads t.
study during the evenings with ipsufRoien
light ia iN-ventilstad ROOMS, is undoubtedly
main eanse of this wide spread evil.
Fourteen English women are Studying med
> cine at the Faculty of Paris, and while d.
i Vulpian, the Deem Of the Faculty, speaks !
v | complimentary terms o. their behavior Nj
!, Chap plin Ayrton writes to the London 1Iu'
~ that it is only those, on the other hand, leadin
b a daily-almOst houTly-llfe of oomradesulp
J. | hospital, laboratory and school who can Jud Z
1t of aud sok uowlodge with deepest gratitude tn
If great kindness and gentle courtesy ever show
70 to them by the some six thousand your
le ESepchmen Who are their fellow students.
g We find tha following passage in the epest
In of an Elko (Nev.) lawyer to- jury: Here Y
De have o physician, a man who, from his hl(
or aud noble calling, should be regarded as o
ed who Uould scorn to stain bis soul with perjur
lie, But what did he testify, < nGlemenf lpat t
or question to him plainly, Where was this m
oi- stabbed And what was his reply Y
he blusbingly be replied that the ma was stabb
do about an inch TO the loft of the medal lii
and yet " 9 have proved by three unimpeac
n able whine sSes that he WAS stabbed last bell
err the Yoapg America hoisting works"
lte lte A novel discovery has been made in
Uu' library of Lyons, in France. 1t is map of
,nS entire system of the central plateau of Afri
ire which has been Of late years explored by Ora
oY 10 traced upon o globe which was ooustruo
f in l7O1 and contains in detail the sources of
[,S,. VI Nile and Congo. The map was executed
mp order of Fathers PlAoide de Saint AmC
\ ;P principal of the monastery OF the third orde
SnL d II St. Francis, by Crispurien of Toulon, and
.h IA the monks of BonaventuEe and Gregoire, b
nits s 49, Ut nentior tho nonos ~ the
. W plorers. The modern mspB place the sourc
0%n. to the two rivers slightly to the northward
". that just discovered.
IssAl Chicago has had laWsolt oetWeen On
-, - | man sued TuuR Lee for
the washermsn. Tho difficulty of intsrpreta
q re- was formidable, there being no disintere
our Chiuamap proourable who could speak Ems
al to iutoiliSibly. The Judge, therefore, made
Iy Of defendant interpret tho testimony oftbs pl
,oute tihS witnesses and ths ptSnSlh tnAt oi
Ands defendapts witnesses Lhls piani II IL olO