The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The United States pays annually to other
Gsontries 800 900 900 for sugar and uiolasses
The Cassells. the English y Publishers, ad have
set apart for the year 1873 90 900 out of their
pro6ts, and propose to do the same every year,
foS . fund for workmen who remain long in
their service
Qyrhe steamer Seine has picked mp the lost At
iantio cable of 1866. which she wes sent out to
look for. Who would have ventured to predict,
Afteen years ago, that after twelve years men
4soald go ont to hunt for aud infslliby recover
. rope no thicker than ones thumb from the
depths OF the mid-Atlantic.
an English essayist named Edward Spencer
issesfy has recently published o volume where
Ia he endeavors to rescue from hist orical scorn
EAtiline, Clodius and Tiberias. The London
Eeviewers serve up his efforts upon hot plates,
and call ATTENTION whimsicslly to bis character
iuAtion OF Catiline rs o martyr and iiberiusss
q faultless character. Es.ayist Bees!y decides
chat the heather stntesmen "owe their bad
Eaputation in history to the inventive malice
of their political enemies.
The movement against the use of agricultu-
ral machinery IL reaching such proportions in
Ohio and Indiana as to seriously alarm the
farmers. Scores of reaping machines have
sissady bssn destroyed: and every day bring
yielding and discarding their machines Per
sons who have travelled in the rural districts of
Indiana during the last week say that very
large part Of the wheat n the State is cut.
thug by hHnd, and that there ia II soarctty Ct
iabor.
During the late war the Russians lost by
death 355 of their S39 surgeons or one in
every eight, a much heavier rate of mortality
than that among combataut "fficers, but not 80
remarkable when it Is remen. oered how ardu'
ogs are the surgson's duties, how heavy Is the
responsibility weighing on him and how great
fE his exposure to contsgion. The only instance
accorded wheTe the proportion II deaths
among the ocmoatant officers was larger than
shat OF the surgeons was in the Prusstan army
during the war OF 1901.
Polk County. Iowa, presents the most re-
EuArksble platf rm Of the season, as testihes
this specimen plank with foil confidence in
life of Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes, the great Re-
Ipuoliosn party of Lincoln and Grant conferred
npon him it's highest honor, yet within one
was found to be training In the ranks Of the
ensmy, and now marches step by step with the
advancing column Of our Cor f,derate foes,
Return, oh J wanderer, return
tRosten good people, who used to send the
s,tty's poor children down the harbo for days
qlOasure, now have o regular organ alton to
Rlaoe them in farm housts for week 10 at time.
Many young girls in well-to-do familiee spend
: th6ss people. saving girls and poor sick women
&s we'll as children, aud in raising money and
Andins conntry place fr them. Hundreds
country folks taking them for nothing, while
many accept the least they can afford.
The Buffalo Union denounoes the secret bal
z0k as essentially un-American, and an in.
aAcumsnt of evil ia the hands of q coward. A
w.
d. "a iSnobe creature, and unworthy to enjoy
tho free franchise of the Republic. The secret
system opens a. door for the t fouiess political
Shen sreely Fl 1w. The political triekster is for
aaias And m sry So ignoble bargain is struck in
6he secratSsallot darkness that wonld never be
:. ayTnaa|.n the open rivd roce vote OF freedom.
The Paris Figaro on the morning of the grand
rSSSSSG. priated in six parallel columns and six
different Languages. French, German, EnRish.
Gpanish, Italian and Creek, the programms OF
CNNa n InE ,ltahr inn lNh ia nj ~
sent of any punotua alton mark Of less impost-
Ence than period, sp axis of the Marshall"
-s4sr to ree7tr'sa aafiass "a a N beating
'IRod clarion ringing The whole force WIS
%SznSer the immeoIat command" 'f General
Aymord, who WAS 'Tecogpiz1ble by n fauon
hold behind him 10y horsemRn." Mos of The
tGSgades were commanded by btiS iSadeerS.'
As tne III s.ouri State Prison, at Jeffarson
City, during the last six months of their term,
Srisioners that have been well-bshgved
GsiiSwSd to go out aud work in the city ss team
gtors iaborecs, etc. Tdey are perfectly free,
aua are not under any supervision By guards
OF courCs at night they have to return to tue
Eeaitsntiary While in the city they are not
8Howed to enter any stores or Baoous; If this
ragolation is ipfsinged they are INN ediately
asouS ned to the prison. Attempts at escape
Ehile thos working free from all surveillAnce
S1re1 they have to serve double term Under
lore stringent rules and regulations
In the recent d oomsdsy Book Of England the
&ilbank family is put down as pc assessing es
eGEes In the north of England worth near
$50 900 year. There IL curious history
oOaneoted with this property. Lady Dorothy
hGilbauk YVES fsvorite Of Mary, Queen of Scots,
h0S got into disgrace in connection with the
&iAnie affair, i'll which her husband was also
Involved Sue bec Ime 40 reduced in oircum-
aeano's that so 20 sold gingerbread on the bridge
a. BerWick-on Tweed, by which, and the
6ounty If her ousto IN IRA. she saved $4 900, aud
Sought the estate of HAluAby, in Yorkshire,
aSld, living very penuriously till she was SO,
ssGrchPs I'D the property now held by the Nil.
Backs.
7Euris Kimata, of Toxic, formed company
50 lend money to the poor at low interest. 1t
prSved 9 { allure, for though there were enough
QoOr people anxious to borrow, few e them
Woold repay their loans. Muria Kimata there.
ESre had to abandon his project, having lost
heavily himself and involved many tf his
frieads with him. A large fortune, however.
still remained to him. On the anniversary f
dis fathers death he called the stockholders
aeGethor, and out of bis private m Sans paid to
sash sha amonnt Of his LOIS: then placing q cir