The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ne CeleuChtcN OS'"
bnny on the 1st.
The Cincinnati southern road will cost when
comp'e 'eted about go. 600 OUo.
Madrid adyioes state that in the adtumn
9pain will send 5000 moro troops to CUBA.
Cuban refugees continue to return home 10
large mum bers. Over 100 went BACK from hey
West last week in one vessel.
Mayor Jones, of Pensacola has resigned be-
cause of some disagreemeut with the CITY
Conncil and the Board of Health.
OF ten przes offered recently by the Golden
Club for examinations in political economy In
London, eight have been taken py women.
W. s. O'Brien, of the great house of Flood q
E1Brien died in San Francisco on the 2nd. he
was q be ,heor and leaves fortune OF from
<1S 900, 900 to $50 600. .O0o.
Moas large country houses in Great Britain
and Ireland are now brililantiy III py gas
made on the premises, ana 80 are se'efSi iatge
country houses in this country
After July ext Telegram throughout Franco
are to cost sous IA fraction less than
cent) o word, but those containing less than
ten words will be charged ten sous.
The towboat Warner, from New Orleans for
St. Louis, exploded at Memphis on the lst inst
Polr o. the crew, including Captain Dawson,
were killed and number wounded
Mr. R. A. Arnold estimates, IN sn article in
the Nineteenth Century, that were the Church
cl Englard disest ablisbed, it would retain
snrplus of fl20. .O00. 900 after all claims had
Soen met.
Special agents of the Government continue
10 7sert with great positiVepess that Lousi.
ana or d Florida negroes, have been kidnapped
and sold into slavery in Cuba. The matter ID
10 be fully investigated
The Southern Senators and Representatives
who vitited Boston on the 2sSh were treated
with the most distinguished consideration.
General Hooker, of Mississippi, made the great
speech Of the occasion.
Sam johnson sold the "Vicar of Wakefield"
Tor SEQ aud " brought Goldsmith the money"
Two letters of posr Goldy are now to be
seen in show window in st. james street,
and the price is 100 Ruineas.
Among recent failures are those of Ben
wood, In New York, for $500, 1000, asd Nathan
Matthews, of Boston, who was worth u, oOO,OO0
In 1870. Matthews lost his money by the tre-
mendous depreciation in real estate.
Gen. Mcclellan is q man of muscle. On
eeftain occasion, while conversipg with party
Of friends on the subject of physical strength,
hs took silver quarter of q dollar from his
pocket and bent it between his forehnger and
Ihumb.
The assertion is nade by the Rochester
Express that at a rifle shooting match in that
city spectators were able with the naked eye
80 see TIE bullets as they went from the guns
80 the targets. There was q high wind, and
Eain wac falling.
April 25th, 200 partisans of Lerdo, the
President of Mexico, attempted an invasion OF
Mexico near Lsnorias, on the Rio Grande,
hoping to instigate rising against Daz.
They were defeated by the Government troops,
losing = prisoners, killed, wounded and
drowned.
For ten years past u contractor Of Bradford,
England, has paid $500 annually for the ar
noniacal liquor produced ut the gas works.
The contract has now been reet for
years, ut l. 10, 359 per Rnnum. The holder of
che present contract put in q tender at $4,000.
The vast in ncreaSe in the value of the liquor iB
dne to tho discovery in it of q chemical sub
stance used in RnIline dyes.
three-uile ride Oh a frei ght train, sus.
pended by his clothing from hook On he side
af the car the experience of N tramp tho
ssher night a. Oxfbrd, n. Y. There was not
scratch upon him whom I, sOued, but his men
sal suffering was iuteuec, as he expected mo-
:Nentarily TO I've dasLad To pieces. He had been
stealing Tido, ard attempted 10 jump eff
While the cars w1re III motion.
Ihe actors in "rhe Shaug ghreui" travelling
scDpany are having tXPerler ces very stmliac
10 those of the CONT JJanHes. The causs Of
srolble ia the hnTlesque wake scene " hicb
SiYes offence To the Roman CATHOLICS. In the
Soath they were compelled, by tSe nightly
showo.J of m.asil.s from the gallery, to omit
shs part cf the plsy. In PruSidsnce u few
nights ago, the stage was covered with eggs,
and there was almost e Iiot.
Great labor and ingenuity expended on
ths production of the b INK of England notes.
They are made from pure new white linen, and
lpr fwo hundred years have been manufaot-
nEed in the shme family. The printing ia done
ny most curious process in the bank building.
There Is an elaborate arrangement Tor lnsurlnR
sbAt no note shall be like any other in exist
once consequently there never was dupli-
sate Of Bank of England note except by
forgery.
Thousands in San Francisco would starve if
charitable institutions did not give them their
daily bread. Last month one single such in
sSitution gave shelter to 4l6 persons, d..
tribu ed so 600 ratops, and wood, coal, shoes,
nlothes and medicines to 600 families; "
many were left without the neoessar es O. life.
KeAl estate has fallen so per cent; Communism
10 growing apace. On the spot these woes are
ahtrbu ed TO over-spcoulation md cheap
Chinese labor, which cute the grass from
under the feet Of Europeo-A AmertoAus, aud
lives on it in q luxury undreamed of In the
a1wery land.
Richmond, Va, never witnessed such q deli
rium tremeus of religious ert husiRsm as is now
going on among its darker citizens. AT mt
25oo of these of both sexes, though with a
FfG dominance of males, are going around day
ard night "!n snrch oh de Lord" at first they
appear sad, discouraged and overcome with
de- -pnr, bnt all at once, having found de
Go.d d." as they are pleased to remark, the ire.
pressible joviality OF their sunny IAoe is re.
Born in tho light Of their countenances, and
shey are happy as few are capable of being