The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Tho famous tl6Du6bo buERcOus D4EOu
aneky, whose death was recently announced.
| 10 declared by local paper TO have "dissected
80 900 corpses"
An influx of Mennonites Is anticipated be-
tween this aud 1880. in which year their ex.
Russia, where they number 200 600.
Among the SO, ,0O5 exht bitors at the Paris Ex-
position there will be distributed - 500 priZss
$500 gold me dals. $500 silver medals, 10 600
bronze medals and 10, 500 honorable mentors. j.
The Augusts, Ca, Ne,cs says that sixteen
negroes, who returned from Liberia on the
Azor, passed through the city last week on
their way to Mississippi. One OF them said ne
had carried away $1,000 some years ago and nov
brought back nothing. All said they had bad
enough OF Liberia
In Cyprus, house rent, provisions, and other
necessaries have risen enormously in price In
anticipation of the wants of the British troops.
A telegram ,ys tb at for houses formerly worth
{ Is, f250 are now asked. Other things are in
proportion. AS there are no hotels, every body
IL obliged to trough it."
There has lately been published in London,
under the supervision of the English Commit
tee or Holders of Alabama eight per cent gold
State bonds of 1870, and of the directors Of the
railway company. a pamphlet entitled the
Hill CouEtry Of Alahama," earnestly adVocat-
ing English emigration thither.
Kearney's expenses on his orstorioal tour in
The East are not paid by himself. He is not q
btoated capitalist, though the owner OF several
trucks. Shortly before HE departure from San
Fcapcs, 30 coccert W as given for his benefit
that was, in point of attend auce and peoupla-
rily, one of the most successful ever witnessed
in that city. The amount netted was sohcfens
to pay all the cost of q three months trip to
the East, and will leave something over.
The hard tirles in Great Britain are shown
by the last semi an nnusl report of Richard Seyd,
q leading authority in business afAlrs in Eug-
land, from which it appears that for the first
six months of this year the failures in the
United Kingdom were SIG. According to
Dunn, B Arlow & Co., the failures in the United
were only a25 These were out of list of
700 coo persons or firms engaged in business,
and it is claimed thas there are not 30 many In
the United Kingdom.
The Democrats of iowa never elect any of
their didates, but they alwsys have loJs of
fun making their nominations. In the First
Con gressonai district convention q few days
ago o majority of the delegates bad concluded
to nominate the Greenbaek candidate. which
was sach q shocking change from the Bourbon
regulation that 3 dozen or so OF the Dem moorats
got mad enough 20 refuse to vote, one voted
for Andrew Jacfson and two were so dread
fully worked up that they voted for Eliza
Pinkstop. This was very amusing, Of course,
but funnier things have besu known 70 hap
pen when statesmen were assembled segether,
even in Iowa.
and breeding had secured all the spesd posi-
BILE to be made by horse when "Gsldsrnith
Maid" trotted p mile in two minutes and four
| teen seconds, find Themselves disappointed by
Maids beat time by three. q narters of o second
This puts "DeXter's" time of 47t and Flora
Temples time of 2;l4 qnite In tne oaek,
| took place many persons thought that they
| would never be equalled. We do not care tc
reason that horses will in time be ao,e to oct
run locomotive engines, but it would be very
rash to accept Rsrus's speed as the lEoit o
equine rapid transit.
The great bopapza miEee that have PlaJet
so stirring part in recent Calitosnia history
/ a6 ord nhn n
| from the scene, Notwithstanding the tensa :.
With which their leading owners try to keel
, mp TIE belief that there is still-pnying CSe II
| them. The Sutro tunnel, ttat bas just heel
| completed st enormous expense, after years o
, labor, lock like a wasted achievement. Share
in the GztTforuis mine, that at one time weF
worth in the market nearly a thousand dollar
each, have fallen TO nine dollars and
s eighth and Consolidat I'd Virginia, that wa
| nearly as valuable, Co eight dollars and
quarter. Many have grown rich throug
= tsese mipes, bat loussnds have been bsgGa
II ed by them. Their wealth has been euEt
IS and not blessing to California
rs G P, Sanderson, the officer in charge Of tt
ID EuRlisb elephant catching establishments
lie Mysore, says that elephan's travel IN mere
q and in strict Indian fle When calf is Dor
the herd remains wits the mother tvs day
the calf is then able to Darch and oan GRO
az r,vers and climb bills with the assistance
- irs dau. They are fine swimmers. MIR. San
- erson says that herd of seventy-pine whl'
)" be sent sent across country had the Gang
or aud several of its large tidsl branches to crot
ch 10 the longest swim they were six, houEs wit
ed out touching bottom. After a rest Oh sal
of bank they completed the swim in three mol
w. Not one was lost. Twice around an elePhan
foot is said to be his height, and general
shis measurement is correct. Their size
%. generally exaggerated. The largest MI So
~ dsrson ever saw was nine feet ten inches hi
s I've ct the shoulder.
sst One of the drops of gall in the oup of I
,si. German Chancellor is the defeat Of his 81
ion Count Herbert Won Bismarck, at bnneberg.
w. Berlin correspondent, writing to the Jour-
In IN dee Debats before the election, mentions tt
m iIn the young mans first idea, or his fathers Il
Am idea for him, had been to contest Meining
the with Herr Lasker. But it was finally decd
lily that the risks would be less in Lunebe
the and to Luneberg he was sent to win his pol
iy1l cal spurs. In his maiden speech to the 81
len tors, he dwelt on the recent attempts NJ
der. the life of the Kaiser; the Importance
"a the passage ct the laws proposed by
Dn I. father for the repression of t1e Socialis
AnS Ios and for augmentipg the imperial revsD9e
'red aud upon the feet that his opponent, 81
>Oe | TJo, a6 nnDafYioticallV vOtad