The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

an Horace Gteeley's estate, which was inve
i'll toried at '2O6,0OO shortly after his dea,
SO yields little more than $40, 600 on the final 8,
ID tlement. ~ o.
er The Shaughraun" is being played in {
W american Theatre, Philadelphia, but ltbe W a.
scene mas been omitted since tho openi,
nlgnt. On that occasion a shower of eggs fl
on the actors from the gallery and the man
gers at once took the hint.
s proposition is being seriously considere
70 uam the Arkansas and Platt rivers, an
thus turn the waters into the great desert
the western part of Kansas and Nebrask.
whence, by tapping the artificial lake, streau
} may Dc secured for irrigating purposes.
American palace cars are now to be foun
the world over. When King Oscar opened
railroad in Norway last October, he travele
in carriage built by Jackson & Sharp of vii
min&ton, Del, on the model of one exhibite.
| Emperor of Brazil.
The annual income of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of England by law estab
lished is $50 100000: The church has Is OOt
| goo glebe houses, 81 Episcopal palaces, and
| 100 600 acres of land, much of it in good CON.
| dition for tillage.
bill for the suppression of tramps is before
any wandering, INDECENT, and unemployed
person may be sentenced by o Justice of the
Peace to six months' imprisonment. The tramp
thns dealt with is to be put to work !; but be-
fore tne commlGtal he may have, if he demands
it, trial by jury.
a., n: Dogue, Parisian dramatist had nearly
S2o.0O0 in gold in his deck, and beside the gold
was was sack full of bright, new sous that his
with the superstition that their presence
brings luck. 1t did for an enterprisinp bur-
glsr, taking the sous for forty franc pieces,
$4,000 untouched.
The career of the late Chief Justice Pearson.
OF the Supreme Court of North Carolina, is al.
most without parallel in the country. He was
ELECTED S . to the Superior Court January B. 1887.
ana to the Supreme Court December IL 1s4S
to supply the vacancy caused by the death of
Judge Joseph j. Daniel. In 1885, on the death
OF Chief Justice Nash, he became Chief JUS
forty-one years. The late William Hill was
of State for North Carolina for al
most forty six years consecutively.
The coldness of Canada ia one Objectionable
feature of life in that region but Capt, Gra-
lam, wealthy ship owner in Montreal saws
hat he can readily do away with that dis.
comfort. He finds that the chief cause of the
he Arctic seas that washes its shore, and he
proposes to tarn the icy water in another dl-
ectIon by closing the straits between New
'oundland and Labrador. The necessary
'reakWater would be eight miles long, and on
n average thirty fathoms deep.
Since 1859 there has been q net increase of
he United States debt of So SIS 349 973 81,
nd net decrease of SGlO 04S. .5Sl II, while
be present has been 81 COS $50 149 92 exceed.
1g by more than one half the principal of the
eot The total debt at the close of 1877
mounted to 50 205 301 1872 10, showing a net
lcrease during that year of S24, ,9O6 324 95.
hese facts do not appear in the report of the
ecretary of the Treasury, and are of interest
the country.
A bill has passed both Houses of the Penpsvl
anla Legislature providing that any director,
anager, or agent, or other officer of any
orporation who shall sign or otherwise assent
} the publication, either generally or private L
!, to the stockholders of such corporation of
~ untrue official writ en- or printed statement
tie business Or affairs thereof, which state g
ent shall have tendency to give to the
ares of stock in snoh corporation O greater =
less parent value than they should really
seess, or otherwIsa defrand-aay- -Pefsett-or
dy corporate, shall be deemed guilty of a
isu emeanor and be liable to penalty of not
IFe than So 600, and TO be Imprisoned in the y
unity Jail for "a period of not less than six -
'ntts nor more than two years. ~
The story is told how Hande! was a prodi. ",
'us feeder, how he used to order for three N N
en ne dlned alope, and how when having ou
zen this precaution, the waiter at an Eng ler
1 Inn deferred brinRiug up dinner until the cf
guests, as he supposed, had arrived, the
at com poser, on hearing the cause of delay,
npany." Mr. PappenheG, at Memphis
,ly, unwittinGly outdid this by ordering the I
Vt the opera, twenty-seven being the num- Bsrre Bre
of his and Madame Pappenheim's room tV, .tV,
head waiter accordingly ordered covers for met
nty- seven and the Pappenheims not be.
endowed with Handelian appetites, the C
nt 1T was that the whole company, which TC
pened to make mp just twenty.seven, sat -
n to supper, and no doubt agreed that :aIl's
that ends WE'LL"
Seaport" is the title of pamphlet about
o published by DR.. Strousberg According
The Investigations of the ingenious con.
tor, nothing could be more feasible than
'nnect Berlin with the Baltic and German
ns: There is everything in the nature of 81, s
oil to assist the rapid construction of
sea canals between Berlin and the mouth AMI
70 Elbe, and between Berlin and the mouth =
o Oder. There are only q few locks need To-
J. regulate the influx of insignificant tri-
ries. The scheme, according to the caIcu-
ns added, promises to be profitable
gh to encourage it's originator to offer to HA'
it through without any assistance on
art of the Government. If only half the
ary number of vessels plying between
orth sea and the Baltic prefer the towage w
5hrough the canal. the capital, fixed at
$40. 900 900, will bear an interest of 10 26 ar
ent. II the plan could be realized, Berlin
hn TniR To