The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

i've In cellar Tbe moftAIIIy among them TO
great. Half OF toe houses OF the city are ex-
Sessively crowded.
The price of some articles are eighteen per
sent lower than bsfore the war. Corn has not
Neeu SO low since 1S45 excepting in 1861, cot-
ton not so low in twenty-three years, and mees
pork not since 1sl4
There were 1CS murders last year in Swi Zsr-
land. in q population of less than 900 600.
Capt. al punishment has been abolished in tn at
sountry. There were 697 suicides, greater
proportion than obtains In any other European
sountry.
The South,cGstern Daily Netcs says that the
Marquis of Bute has determined TO revive to
rome extent the old Catholic institution Of
HOLIDAYS, and with this view has given instruc-
lions that all his servants are to have twelve
Aolidays in the year. This will be equivalent
TO Ave Sundays in q month instead OF four.
The fret holiday was given on All Saints
Day.
London boatman who had rescued girl
hom drowning asked for his expenses for loss
of time. The magis rate said there was no
fund available, when the waterman observed
that if she had been drowned he would have
received So. cd. for finding the dead body
The Justice said IL she wss worth 5j. cd. dead
she was worth n good deal more aftve, and Or
aered the expensts to be paid out OF the poor
So1.
Machinery for sAoemaking prod uces marvel
ous results One class of msohiI 90 sewed last
year 45 900 O0O pairs of shoes, while another
pegked 30 900 600 in the same time. Ten men
can make GOO pairs of shoes day. In New
England AGO bushels of shoe pegs are made in q
day, and one cents worth of pegs will peg
shoe pegs and peggers, and 1000 on shoe
machinery. Machinery turned out over two
million shoe lasts in the United States last
year.
An actual dialogue on Broad way: Polite
Euglisbmen to Gothsmitt-"Aw, I beg your
pardon, but will You be 80 good ss to infawm
me where the elevated road 10 7" Gothamte-
"Two blocks west and one block mp. If you
60, alto hat
Twenty.thiTd street." Polite Englishmsn--
"Aw, thank you, thank You; ever so much
obliged. Aw dye know your elevated roads
here amt at all like our elevated roads in Lun-
nun 2 !, not at all. Ours are all underground,
you know"
The hre wers Of Cincinnati have found il neo.
sassry t) combine against the demands of the
German singing societies, clnbs, lodges,
ehurohes and other organizations of that city.
The calls upon them from these quarters for
contributions of beer and the purchase Of tio'
Aets on the occasion of anniversaries, pcncs,
and fstes had grown, they say, to be entirely
intolerable, and since to refuse in some Gases
Roufd have given offence, they determined to
sombine and refuse in all instances. The lar.
Eec Sreweries found this tax on their resources
10 amouns 30 So 900 or $lO. 600 year each.
Some very curious provisions aeainet the
Chinese have been proposed in the Constitu-
tional Convention of California. Among those
tbst have actually been adopted by the Com
nittee on Chinese Is one that disfranchises
citizens who employ Cinnamon. Another pro
hibits Cinnamon from suing or being sued il
she oourts, aud declares that any lawyer who
Sppears for them shall forfeit bis lioepee 60
Ssnotise. 1t also provides that no business
license shall be granted to any corporation or
person employing them, and frbids public
i,ers from having them in their employ
nnder penalty of removal from m 20.
The Chinese authorities find their imperial
canal so c ssly to keep in repair that 1t Ia not
unlikely to be abandoned commercial
highway. This year grain was for the first
time since the canals construction sent from
SankiuR by sea with the consent of the Gov
srnmept. The length of the canal is 0
ni1es- 1t runs from nort1 to south, extending
from Canton to the extremity of the empire,
snd passes through forty large cities. 1t
las seventy five large sluices locks and
several Thousand bridges. Even the i'm peri al
pleasure grounds haze never been exempt
from having canals cut through them, and il
was formerly customary for the Emperor when
Ihe works reached his groaud to torn tue first
sod, with the words, This is to let oil know
shat privGts interests must give way to public
good"
A desperate in the County of Beauoe, Q Ie
beo, was recently tried on Eve indictments
for numbering an 9Th ,er sent to arrest him,
shooting at two other iii ,ers, ss'aulting an
other aud sending threatening letters to wit
ness. The charges were filly proven, the
Judge charged against the prisoner, and the
jury, in twenty minutes, acquitted him. The
Judge gave the jurors more enplioit instruo
lions ard sent them back same verdict in an
hour. Ho looked them mp over Sunday same
verdict on Monday. He then accepted it, with
she remark that such finding conld only be
attributed to want of intelligence or fear. "It
u to be hoped he said. that it is to the least
Dlamab,e of these causes that the verdict 10
due-.hat is, the want of Intelligence but in
sither case the verdict is no less dishouor
4bAn o disgrace to the district" Judge Mon
aelet was onoe credited with bulldo zing Que-
beo jury into convicting noted crimp, their
friend, by O very imperfeotly concealed threat
10 march the twelve good men and true into
the dock and put them on trial for perjury.
The late election contest in Argyleshire be-
RWeen Lord Colin Campbell and Mr. Malcolm
was the fret for some years at which any act
i've oan vassiHg had taken place. The land
lords aud horse owners made hay while the
sun shone The bills for "legap charges agAi nst
ihetwo candidates amounted to Gl6 600, which
aoes not inc nde wine, beer, whiskey, etc., bat
is strictly made mp of charges recoGniz I'D
auder the act. With few exceptions, the su ms
sharged have sen Rdj justed and paid, althou gh
-S5 day for the use of o horse was recognized
As being q high figure, especially % in one
sase where four horses were yoked together to
. carriage G20 day WAS the amount demand,
ed. One hotel keeper makes Q claim of E550
against he two oandi dates Ir the suit OF foor