The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-03-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

There are 14l newsnapers published in Ire
land, Of which only II ore daiiies.
According to O recent statis.icap, Sweden il
the drunkenrest of countries. but Scotland
comes in a very good second.
1t is stated on pretty direct authority thai
well known firm OF organ mannfectnres paic
$67, 600 commission last year TO r: r Bliss and
Sankey, the aiugers. Imagine hedemptor
ist selling parlor organs on commlsslenl
The Peabody Fund Trustees in England, in
their thirteenth ANIMAL report, state that dur.
NOUS donation natl exoeediDg s6o. 900. They have
purchased more property and have just COM
pfeted another set Of dwellings.
Daring the past year the experimental De
tributed over 90, 600 tea plants, grown in the
greenhouses of the Department.. Three hun
dred poands of the seed of this plant have
been lately sown, with o view of extensiye o
distribution in the Southern States.
In the hall of the Reform Ciab in London,
there are four pedsstsls, three Of which are
occupied by busts. G!sdstone's bust was TO
have held the fourth place bat q model be-
feeling was exhibited that, "to avoid >aoci-
dents," it had to be removed within an>hour.
The Journal dea Debats says THAT the con-
struction Of the Statue of Liberty, to be placed
in New York bay, js excl ting gront in terest in
Paris; and so nUmeryas are the appliostions
for admission, thsk>the Franco American Com
mittee bas decided to cell tickets, Tie proceeds
of which viii be devoted to The completion IF
the monument. -
In1673 there were 2O5 6l5 marriages in
England and Wales and So 634 men aud
so ,267 wcnan siTred the register with marks.
In 1874, ont of 2G2 110 marriages, 33 liz men
and As 9O3 women sigaeG with marks: and
in the following yeas, when there were 201,-
212 marriages, "a 66O men and 46 665 women
signed in that m6E3er.
One of the highest compliments Edwin Booth
ever received was paid him by an old negro
woman, q family servant, who went to see q
performance of "Richelieu" during Booths
vi ff, nh fxyn har r.
the play to her mistress next day, she expressed
the greatest concern for the health OF the
actor. Poor old man." said she, she can't last
long; dat cocgh1l carry him to his grave,
shnan."
The French have poor rate, the drOu des
pauvres, which is an indirect tax levied on
many forms of enterprise, including places of
amuseme't. The directors of theatres have
often complained that il is too high for theI
and one, II. Csstellano Of the Chatelet, iu
Paris. cites case in point. Last year he
S7G0 weLt in expeDses. Among the expenses
was payment ofS22,e77 for the poor.
At recent sitting of the German Parlia-
nent tho annual salary of the German Ambas-
eadcr in London waa raised from 100 COO marks
to 10000 marks S37 500. Prince Bismarck
said that IS rbe German Arrbsss 4dor in Lon
don now represented twenty five States, in
s;ead of orc formerly mis- expenditure bad
considerably increased. II the House insisted
on giving pbeir Ambassadors less than they
spent, they would bo making diplomatic poste
The prospect Of the present sugar crop in
Cuba partly explains the anxiety which the
Spanish authorities fell to conclude peace
with the Cnbans, or to maize the outside world
believe that they bad done The DiGrio de
Ia Rarnn of this oath nit publishes the fol-
lowing Agrees /:
stook of sngars in Hav.
Feb.
Stock date 1871. 6l ,a35 2sIy5 1899
Decrease in 1s7s... 315so IL 50o 5-717
preston of the print cloths market, and the |
Mann Ufac6urers' Boart of Trade of Fal1 River |
have voted To close the mills during tho two |
latter weeks of the preseDt month aud the irst !!
tRe%aaks of 4 ptil, oHided tha .nH esatia;,
in the same liue can be secured from G suffi |
cieptly large number of outside mills to insure
held in the country. 1t is claimed in Fall
River that leading manufacturers throughout |
New Englaud are in favor Of the proposed
action and will Join in it.
Queensland, in Australia, has entered upon
the 19th year of her existence. 1t was on the
10th of December, 1859, that the northern por-
tion of New South Wales, from the 29.h
parallel of latitude to the Gulf of Carpentsria
and Cape York, was proclaimed q colony, with
. Responsible Government The population of
Qoeensland has increased during the eighteen |
torial settlement, with which the colony start
cd, has been added agriculture; some 30 600 to
loo, 600 acres of land are now returned as under
CROP and sngar planting has been developed
into an important and permanent industry.
The number of pensioners now on the rolls
of seven Southern States is 4, ,446. distributed
as follows: Alabama, 7C5; Arkansas, s64;
Florida, 173 I; Georgia, 730; Loaisiapa, GIG;
Mississippi, 4s4; South Carolins, 3o1 +; Texas,
Az. Thess invalid pensioners who have
been restored 10 the rolls by virtue Of an act
of Congress, passed fince the late war. The
measure now under discussion in Congress is
to grant pensions to veterans of the Mexican,
Black Hawk and other wars prior to 1861,
whether disabled and needy, or able bodied
and well conditioned. The bill does not ex-
olude persons benanse of sympathies with the
late Confoderscy during the war which closed
in 1865.
Psris has twenty-eight barracks, exclusive
of Courbevoie, ST Clsud, Rueil, and Vincennes.
sts ifSTgesS fb Is rti tue mfary CSeS %hioh
accommodate 5 800 men and 500 horees. The
second ia the Prince Eugene, which was COM
pleted tweDty-three years ago. Then comes
Reuiliy. which can sake in 2 $50. Some of the