The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-27
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The last C0lleCtiODs III tDb oi NO"
York city for the Catholic Orphan Asylums
amount to SlI. 90.
Dodd, Brown & Co, the largest jobbers 10
She dry goods trade in st. Louis, suspended on
.he pad. Liabilities 100000.
Eleven thousand women are telegraph op.
orators in Great Britain, and it is said that
they keep the secrets intrusted to them.
On the 9Th inst, Bishop Gross conferred the
Holy Order of Priesthood on Rev +. II. mahon,
Of Savannah, Ga, and Rev. M. Rice, OF Al
Yusta.
The Pope has appointed his brother. Prof.
Giuseppe Pecci to be librarian at the Vatican, i,
and has intrusted him wit the reorganization
ofthe library.
The Gsor gia State Fair opens on the Is ID at
Msoon, Ga. The principal attractions M adyer
lised are o speech by Senator Thurman and an
exhibition of foe rifle shooting by the oelebrat'
ed DR.. Carver.
A bee. master at berwick, England, wanting
10 sell his hives, advertised Extensive sale
Of live stock, comprising not less than l4O, O00
head, with unlimited right of pastorage." The
trick succeeded admirably.
Although the London 7imes is stated to be in
aecadence, its advertisement cofumns show no
sigps Of this, and in the dullest month OF the
year average daily fifty columns of close print
Cd type, for which very high rates are
charged.
man and woman went into the d ,e of
Vermont Justice, and took an oath in this FORM
"What we say to each other shall be the truth
she whole truth, aud nothing but the TRUTH"
and departed, pres sumably to do the talking
truthfully.
ASt. Louis reporter, having occasion to re-
port procession, began as follows: "All has
been intense excitement and glowing Interest,
and the community has placed it's trembling
hand upon it's great and paipitating bosom
and whispered to itself softly, 'Slt stlll, my
heart, sit still!"'
of the 149 members f the California Consti-
tntional Convention 50 are lawyers, So farmers,
40 merchants, miners, 20 artisans, physi-
uisns, 3 clerks, 3 journalists and 2 teachers,
while there is only one capitalist. Sacramento
Comfy sends five delegates, averaging in
height six feet two and half inches, the
shortest man being six feet one inch.
The Japanese Government have agreed TO
grant loan Of 81 500, 900 for the purpose Of
Torking some of the GOAL fields which spread
over an immense area in the island of YaZo
Recent surveys by geologists warrant the eoti-
mate that there is " orkabie coal enough in that
island alone to produce yearly yield for
thousand years equal to that OF all Great
Britain.
Prince Bariatinsky, the vanquisher of
Sohsmyl, has fallen into disfavor with the Gear
toR having submitted a memorial respecting
the srfairs Of Poland, wherein q complete alter
Stion of the present sy stem of government is
Bmphatcally advocated. The Prince, who for
about Eve years past has lived on his estate
near Warsaw. has therefore left Russis, with
The intention of living abroad henceforth.
Cotton factories and cotton seed mills are
oonetantly increasing in the South. A little
the machinery only cost s. 500, turns out
About $27 worth of manufactured goods daily,
and employs eight hands at fifty cents a day
The village consumes the prodact, and the OWL
ers, who are also planters, obtain vastly
higher price for their cotton than it they
shIpped it.
Probably men ever stood closer against
wall than did the four IN iners who, working
in the shaft of q Nevada zine. heard the hoist
ing car break from j fAoterings far above
their leads They knew that there would be
;;esI foot Of space between the falling car
md the wall, but they were not snre nb at
their own thickness, aud there was 10 time
io1 calculation. They made themselves as Il ~
As possible, and escaped injury, although the
shirt of one Ias torn off.
"Sister Sophie" so.called Superior # the
Protest an, "Sistcrhood" in Albany. N. Y, under
hs patronage of the Protestant Episcopal BIZ
1hoP Doanr, has become Catholic. and 10
p7epArir z to jJia some Order in the Catholic
Chnroh. She formerly of the Russian
Chnrob, aud got tired playing Catholic in o
lohismntic body. Mise ChuIchiil, formerly OF
New York Pcnt3sta't S srerhood, and who
was some time Il noe received ipto the Catholic
Chureh mas recently joined tho Indies of the
S,creG Heart at Manhsttansille.
Mr HerdIicks laid ont the late campaign in
indiana NLtch was so successful In the can
yass wSlgh IS iescTi bed AS the most thorough
ever cr9auz ii, young men were largely en-
lated. correspondent says: Governor
Hendricks who suggested this infusion OF
yonpg blood into the conduct of the cam
psign two years ago, did not neglect to inspire
II with fresh life this year. 1n his com position
tbere is au uncommon Eympathy for young
men. 1t is as if in the loss of his only son be
Mad adopted the youth of Indiana, for his de-
votion is not COT ned to the young men of his
avn party"
An ed Chinamsn, Kwang Chang Ling,
Is writing letters to California jonrnals, in
which he contradicts many current ideas about
China. He says that the population is only
100 600 0Q0 or 100 600 600, instead of $50 000,-
300 (; that the courtry has reached the limit of
sgricult al development; that the population
and prosperity have been decreasing since
i76l that upltss improved machinery and
methods are adopted the people will not be
able to support l hem selves; that the wealth
of the empire is in the hands of the few and
that with diminishing population and in
cre0Siug wages at home, there can be no great
side of emigration to this country.
In the Alps recently Mr.. and Mrs. Vain
wright and ChtistiRn rsss, their guide, fell
down n preciploe. Hans Grass the other guide,
Vas q man of gigantic strength, and the rope
BY which the four corded together was
Etout, and throwing himself backward by sheer