The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-12-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The Howard Associat of Vioksburg re
oeived during the recent epidemic of yellow
fever $1ss. 1877, 63.
Itis the fashion among the farmers in Ma
oouPin, ILL.,, to paint their names on theiI
fences, TO save trouble to callers.
There are twenty. nine lawyers, thirty seven
mechanics, thirty.sx merchants and thirty
three mann fscturers in the newly elected Mas
sachusetts Legislature.
Scotland, says the Z iinburgb Daily Rsrie,c. ia
$75 900 600 poorer than it would have been es-
timated by an actuary O few weeks ago, before
the failure of the Bank of Glasgow.
Ninety per cent Of the oolored men of st.
Louis will be disqualified from serving on
eral law Of Missouri, jurors must be able to
read.
Large scale maps Of Afghsnistsn. print ID on
calico pocket and ksrchiefs, have been distri-
buted among the officers aud men who are
taking part in the campaign against the
Ameer.
Even the staid old Scientific american will
occasionally get on JOKE: Here s its latest
every hour. Som sbody says its great practical
utility is to kill time."
An English paper remarks that, although
the hunting season had set in but q month, an
Admiral has been half-killed, q member OF
Parliament has been badly damaged, and Lad y
Florence Dixie has been laid mp with q concus
eion of the brain.
The Haddington, Scotland, Courier says that
shire, has been lately let for $500 year. Its
last tenant paid $3400. and the tenant before
him seven years ago. $3575-a significant fact
as regards Scotch property.
During the first three of the ten years presi-
denoy OF DR.. MoCosh At Princeton, he received
gifts of money for the college amounting to
about $1,000 per week. After that, subscrip-
tions rose to $40 900 at o time; and altogether
there has been received 81 10000
Red hair is a positive disadvantage to wo-
men who work for q living. at least in Boston.
Jennie Collins, who conducts Befiu's Bower
q Boston institution for helping women who
most invariably decline to employ red haired
women.
On New Years Day the British railway COM
panies will inaugurSte o new express system,
and pence, to prepay to any point on their
lines packages of two and four pounds. Such
packages will also be insured to the amount Of
E1 eAch,
among the legal advertisements pu blished
20 Paris on the 81 was one announcing the
sale of three dwellings on the Rue de Pc ysee
for $472 300. the seller being "Mme Marie
Eugenie de GusDan. Comtesse de Tebs, widow
of Charles Louis Napoleon Ill, residing at
Chislehurst, England" -
More than three-fourths of the members of
Congress are lawyers. Perhaps this accounts
for the bad speaking Scarcely any lawyers
succeed in the House of Commons. Erskine
oven was q failure there. They speak in Par
Lament as though addressing jnries and the
House won't stand it.
Gne Good Templars, of Richmond, Va, had
been entertained q few days ago with inrid
description Of the last days Of Poe, when.up
rose DIR. Mason, who attended the poet in his
asst illness, aud said that for days before his
death Poe utterly refused stimulsnts of all
kinds to allay his nervous excitement, and
died sober man, truly penitent for his fast
career.
Awell- l-dressed m an on tered the Bank of Eng
.-8nd, the Other day, threw down penny for
the stamp. and asked for check. When 1t
was handed to him he filled it up to "self' for
GlO0, signed it, aud, receiving the money,
withdrew. As he had no account at the Bank
of England that institution lost G1c0 by the
transaction, whilst the Government gained one
penny.
Last Year in Massachusetts 12 737 couples
were Joined IN the bonds of wedlook. or these
there were 99l5 bachelors no chose maid ems
TO be their wives and GcS W who chose widows ::
while 1896 widowers married mAideus and SIS
married widows. From this il RppeaTs that
7S5 more widowers than widows we're married
again, and that 1896 maidens married widow
ers, when only COS bachelors merricd widows,
A curious transaction which occurred al the
Detroit Opera House month ago, has just
leaked out. A Young lady who is blessed with
. fine head CT hair, and generally wears it
braided at full length, one night attended the
opera, and on returning home discovered, to
her amsZement, that during the performance
some bold depredator had nicely clipped . full
half Of the append.ge without her knowledge.
Patient and quiet inyestiga CATION has 30 far fall
ed to discover the thief.
The Established PresbY terry of Glasgow have
passed 3 resolution, by 2S votes to 10, setting
Forth that in the present conditions Of socIety
it is desirable that public vehicles should run
on Sunday, alike for works of necessity and
mercy and to enable persons who live ont of
town to come into the city to attend pu blic
vorship. These reverend reformers justly re-
mark that there ought not, in the matter OF
Sunday Observance, to be one Law for the rioh
and another for the poor, the former beioG
able to use their own carriages, while the latter
are condemned to walk or stay at home.
General stolipine, who commands in Eastern
Roumelis, is credited with clever trick dur.
ing the recent war, when he WAS in charge oI
the feeble Russian garrison of town with a
largo and excited MussulmAn population,
which, it was believed, would rise on any pro-
vocation. suoh as the defeat Of the invaders.
After Plevns, reports that the RussiAns had
beer routed did not fail to reach the place,
but Stolipne promptly clspped the authors in
prison for circulating false news, got up Con-
oeIt and ball in honor of the great victory OBJ