The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-02
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
aaW oRLEANs, SUNDAY, JUNE 2. 1873.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

10000, and Dallas Of 90 900
Alexander H. Stephens has announced hi
y determination to stand for reelection to Con
gress.
Secretary SohuTz has abolished fhe lunct
hour in the Interior Department. His clerk'
must work steadily from 3 to 4.
Nine thonsaud Turkish refugees have been
sent to Asia from Constsn tinople. An immense
number romain in u wre.ohed state Of destitu
tion.
Roscoe Conkling and Ben. Butler had Ion &
private con ferer cs last Tuesday. 1t 10 though {
possible til at this means trouble for Hayes. as
they are both opposed to the Administration,
and may help the Democrats in the inyestiga-
tion now progressing.
On the 9th ult, at Savannah, Gov. Colquit
reviewed the colored soldiers consisting Of
seven companies, which ibc!uded one COM
paDy each from Macon. Augusta ana AAa2ta.
prize was awarded to tho Chatham Light In
fantry OF Savannah. Ab)ut 5000 people wit
messed the contest.
Elan Potter is pushing a wheelbarrow from
Albany to San Francisco. He wears very
long hair and whiskers, and the wheel.
barrow IL gaudily painted, 30 that his arrival
in o village causes excitement. He goes to q
follows. io, Business % ss the bar is brisk while be
stays, and heget o share Of the profit.
Tho day after the papers had averred that
the damage done to Mr.. Gladstone's Windows
had been assessed ut G3 f0a., he received
olosing the exact sum. The writer said that
he and his family had felt 40 ashamed Of the
right honorable gentlemsn's ~indows having
wprkingman that they had sorAped together
the sum to pay for the damage.
More cooperative associations exist in Paris
than 10 generally supposed. AT recent ban
quet, twenty societies were represented, viz:
Furniture oarvers, ooachmnkers, shoemakers,
two societies of workers in tin, ,typographers,
musical instrument makers, laundry workers,
photographers, spectacle makers. stonecutters,
marble worke 8, joiners, opticians, house
painters, piano makers, talors, clothing Cut
ters, and two companies of file makers.
Some remarkably low prices were made on
the Produce Exchange, New York, on the 90 ID
of May: Mess pork sold at $40 per barrel for
Prime Western lard sold at Sc 10 per 100 pounds
for June delivery and Sc 50 for all the year.
The lowest price for mess pork on the 1st of
May during the previous twenty-three years
was in 1869 when it vas $l2 62 per barrel, and
the lowest price for lard in May. was in the
same year, when it was SO so per 100 pounds.
The French Society des Voyages d'Etudes,
which has among it's founders many of the
moment fitting out, for the second time. a
-cssel for o voyage around the world. The
object is to organize voyages of this kind for
instruction aud amuse -nent under snch advan-
tages as only few private persons would be
able to command. The duration Of the trip is
eleven months. The coat CT cabin occupied
by one person is 1920; occupied by two, $3.50
The numbers are limited to 60. The vessel
sails June 80.
The efforte to restook American rivers with
that excellent fish, the salmon, are attended
with most gratifying results A century ago
they were as common in the Atlantic coast
rivers they yet are in those Of the northern
Pacific slope, but being unprotected they were
gradually caught out until none remained.
Three yoars ago tho Delaware was reatocked
with them, and within q week dozen noe ones
hava hpon taken WEIGHING twelve DOuQJ0
. apiece The same result has been reached in
y6e Connecticut. Now let the law sg ainst tax
ing them in shad nets be enforced, and let
them remain unmolesfed for few years. and
salmon will become as plenty and Rs cheap ae
any other kind of fish,
'Suu1tUr b1vis OF w W est tvrrgtuia, u s1ys the
Baltimore GoStttO mnst he striking pay dirt ,
More than year ago he asserted in speech
in the preeenoe of Mr. Boutwell,, ex Secretary
of the Treasury, that for years forced bal
ance had been made to the books in the Trea
sury Department., and that o discrepancy Of ut
least two hundred million dollars existed. Mr..
Boutwell, made no reply. Mr.Davis was after
ward placed in charge If select committee to
overhaul the books and accounts of the Trea-
sury. On Friday ho arose in the Senate and
asked leave to have his committee sit during
recess. IL the course OF his remarks he said
That the fact would be fully established that q
) deficit of two hundred million dollars or more
did exist in the Treasury according to their
: own books. This is the kind of iuvestigatio
that investigates"
The Cologne Gasette estimates the army
which Russia can plaoO in the field at present
Ar 100000 mon. This strength may bs main
tained, but cannot be increased. The Russian
forces now in European Turkey and RoumSnia
Amount to. twelve and half army corps
312 900 men. About 100 900 men m1st be EN-.
ployed for the ooou upstion OF Asiatio Turkey
30 that only seven and half army corps
--lS7 500 meu-remain still disposable. In
case of war with England the Russian troops
could not be withdraw n from Turkey and Rou.
mania The disposable seven and half army
corps would then be employed for ooeupying
the coasts of the Black Sea aud the Baltic
Poland and St. Petersburg aud Moscow, where
recent events have shown the presence OF very
dangerous elements, would also require strong
Garrisops. Russia could therefore, in case Of
war with England, maintain her positions, but
would have no foroes-not to speak of an In
dian oampAigu-for taking precautionary
measures against Austria, st whose mercy she
would be, IL Austria resolved on warlike mea-
Bures.
By recent regulations it has been ordered
that every officer aud man of the Austrian
forces who shall form part either of an army
in the field or of garrison of q fortress situ-