The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-01-20
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! Many Of 1.-THE Massachusetts, legislstors are 20
fhycr of limiting free education to grammar
schools. aud q movement 10 abolish p0tlfe
sehvo Of = higher grade is TO be made
Les. year . Chicago dealer failed, ansoog hi.
! fsssss being 500 vog,h Il ice. TIE nrMssa'
key. ws.ch over the estate fs!l il melted array
| AID thea brouEht il bill for S6.4 fSr dOiHG
| 4 d.Gsition Of tankrnptey lately sivec -
| an Ecgiish Judge 10 reported to have be<c
When naE ores . los Of Eooey, AID Law
yer and accountant, divide the essa.e be.veez
| them"
Last year there were pckli.ted in EcxI1zd
ISL American pnblicAtioas were inpo<ie1- As
| usual theology lsSds. with SIS books bcoaEks
Oas-hssion. with +4S, beinE sscocd-
| The Lordon Gap,t+e of DecsRbsx =, ia pss
eitbsE in town OF soaItry- Isis is stated 30 he
| fke second tiE2s Of sseh coc7rVecee szoes
tae passing Of the BAsharsey Set Of lsss.
Tee Bank Of P-a-ee "a GIvirE ~ the -ssss Of
rosss tnd Ius4sis O. s.yiag i. Sna3 50 IA dis
gust oil. tie pa el.e- Tse reasas Il tAsi Tie g.
| TeesOrs dad is coes Eos Pay 30 issSe Rotes o.
vaieh lax of II Peg eaei- l. IMpo&ed, uhea
they can scarcely oblAla Fare thA1 tia cam
| for sisooas,s
Cosat Dasei Ass srissec 20 bake. 1t
Austin, Tsxas, tsat he proposes 70 divert tie
I'alis7 inaigrasion Eow goicg 70 Sosta
America 70 Is1ae, ASd ;sss iire Of sisal-
GA!veetos- bri1Sing over inniSraz,s asd ne
turnirg With cotton
The debt Of Savannah has nov been eoaa-
promised New bonds are TO be issued which
viii bear per cent Interest fog tie Srss tea,
per cent for the second ten ycsrs and per
cent tEsFeat:er, IN liquidation Of sceruinS in
terest, until the operasio1s of . sinking fcrd
shall sxtinguish the principal
10 1854 George B. Mcclellan and George h
Pendleton were Candidates for President aud
Vice President of tbe Caised States After
fourteen years they reSppesr in public life, the
one az Governor ef 6eS Jersey and the other
Ohio. Tbipgs have changed considerably eincs
1854.
few years ago Maine was the greatest
lumber State in the Union, bat now abe is
falling Of By reason of the wasting away of
the forests and the competition of Western |
men. ShipbuildeTs a. Portlsud ssy they can |
get pine masis and spare from the Paci &, coast |
cheaper than they can get them in their own |
woods.
The color lire 10 believed to interfere With |
tie administration of justice ct Washington |
where one day LAST week two juries disagreed |
that Of q negro. the two negro jurors held oat |
for acquittal against the ten whites in the |
other. that of a white nau, three of tie fout |
cofored jurors were fer conviction, while the |
other favored al acq initial.
mean man, who felt obliged to make q |
present to lady, saw etatuette 10 a crockery |
store broken into q dozen pieces and asked |
the price TIE salesman said il was worthIesa
bot that he could have 1t for the cost of pack |
ing in n box. He sent is 10 the lady With bis !
card, copgr0tulatng himself that she would |
imagine it had become ruined while on its way |
home. Tho effect was not What was ex pected, |
for the tradespan had carefully wrapped each |
piece In separate paper.
Capt. Roudaire. who has been surveying for
several years, by order Of the French Govern.
ment, the desert Of Sahara region, has discov-
ar hA of ~
province OF Constantine, and Gsbes, on the
coast of Tuuis, q depression of 2G0 feet exists.
This depression is divided by only two bar
rieTs, and the bifocks are bot 146 feet high |
aud eo vide at their highest points. The
question of creating 3 sea IN the great desert,
from the water of the Mediterranean, is thus
assumed to be practicable.
At the Paris Exposition the exhibition of
minerals by California will be exceptionally
hue. Their estimated weight is i've bnndred
tons. pyramid twenty feet square at the
cent tee seven millions CT cubic inches of gold |
which have been prod cuced on the Pacific coast.
This mass would be eq 1iv Alent 70 9 solid piece
of gold as large q room sixteen feet eu1are
and very nearly sixteen feet IN height. Around
this pyramid nifty plate lass show cases will |
be arrspged, in which the mineral wealth of
the country will be shown. Life under
ground" on the CoDstock Isde Will be exhi-
bited by diagrams, and the Sutro tunnel will
be folly represented.
The steam hammer recently completed ut
Creusot ls the largeat and meet powerful in.
Utrument of the kind in the world. The ham
msr in the Workshope of Herr Krupp, at Essen,
Weighs so tons, and deecends' through q maxi.
mum space of three metres but the hammar
of the Creusot engine. weighing between rs
and 50 tons, has O course of Eve metros
Special apparatus has also been provided for
the transport and keeping in position of blocks
OF steel Weie hlrg from 100 to 120 tors which
can be forged by the new hammer, and four
steam cranes are arranged round this istser,
three of Them capable of lifting and revolt ing
with q weight Of 1e0 tons, aud one able 10
carry $50 tons. Each crane, also, is provided
with special machinery for causing the weight
lifted by 1t to rotate shout it's own axis.
Jefferson Davis hos written some recollec.
tons of General Harvey as he appeared ia
leo. Harvey, be says. was physically the
hrest specimen of a man be ever saw. Tall,
straight, muscular, broad-chssted and gauut-
wasted, he was one of the class which Tel
sGuey describes as 'oat 1re's nobeuen' against
whom tie plague in the Eaet never made an
attack Had he lived in the time of Homer
he would have robbed Achilles of the sebresuet
of the 'swift-footed,' for be would run fas er
than white man and farther than an Indian.
HATney WAS also bold borsemaR, fond of the
ohAse, good boatman and sklfuli in the rse Of