The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-26
11orning Star and Catholic Ms.sens or.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


was inaugurated on the 21st.
Georeia's new four per cent bonds are sell
ing rapidly at par in New York.
Gen. J. p. McGowan, of the Confederate
Army, died of pneumonia at Little Rock, on
ehe 22i.
A papsrbox man ofactory in E'ca mond EN-, Hnn
allows three hundred hands and makes 10000
boxes per day.
Mr. Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
Cearior Journal, is about to make lecture
tour in the South.
Gen. Grant and family sailed for Indis, on
She French sseamer LaboaFdonnas' Whlcn leit
Msrseilles on the 23rd.
There's life in the old land of Virginia yet
iIast year there died in the State l3 CSC per-
sons and 30 514 were born.
There were buried in Turkey, in Europe,
1873 All Rlssisu soldiers, and OF the 10 93O sick
and wolnded sent home, AZ $50 died. Total,
l72 42l.
Mr. Justice Miller severely criticises the rule
of law which makes courts spend weeks in
andng o jaryman so Ignorant that be mas
never heard or formed an opinion of case that
has attracted public attention
Texas ranks third among the wool-producipg
States, having 3674 600 sheep, and 30 treadinE
closely on the heels of Ohio. California leads
Of course Nueces County, Tex, has more
sheep in it's limits than any other county In
the Union $50 900.
The English Board of Inland Revenue has
decided that in cases where an CHI ser prefers
riding on q velooipede to riding 90 horseback
OF driving, and where he can do his duty as
well. he may draw the extra allowance made
70 a ,ials that have to keep horses.
Referring to the preponderance Of 1rishmen
among British Colonial Governors, the Lon
don Times remarks: when Irisbmen can be
!ound who to sound sense, large information,
and liberal views add rich humor and unisil-
ipg good temper there are none better fitted
30 lead q nation with silken REIN"
The Mayor Of st. Louis is German so is
the Presd of the Merchants Exchange; 80
is one of the Federal judges; so is the Lieu
tenant Governor Of the st ate and it's represen-
tRtive in the Cabinet; 40 was the last Repub,
loan candidate for the governorship. And
of the seven morning dailies four are Ger
man.
st, Louis has o free lodging house, where
from 300 to 600 persons, me silly tramps, sleep
every night, new rule is that every lodger
must be vaccinated, and on the hrst night OF
!ts Enforcement the physicians operated on
nearly 400 arme. Many objected, but the al
tsrnative was u night in the streets, and as the
weather was bitterly cold, none chose it,
Wisconsin soldiers and sailors who fought
during the war and were honorabiy discharg-
sd are req ne sted, if they "are not dead, proud,
or gone TO Texas" to send on postal cards to
Mr.. Griff j. Thomas, Secretary of the Wisoon-
sin Reunion Association, Berlin, WIS.,, thelr
pAneP, particulars of service Companies and
regiments or vessels) and present address.
During the year 1873 fortv-eight American
railroads, with mileage of 902 miles and an
Invested capital Of $311 G3l 000 were sold or
passed into the hands of receivers. the totals
Tor three wears being 1872 roads, IL 62} miles
and 1928 AGA 900 of capital. lu that period one
seventh of the total mileage and considerably
more than one-seventh of the total capital IN
vestment have passed through the hual stage
Of bankruptcy.
The late DR.. Hook, Dean of Chichester for
twenty-five years Vicar of the great manufa
turipgCity of Leeds. thought that the workfng
cIasses cared very little for religion. There
hot nf
among the working people as an arlstocratlo
institution, but there is no love OF dissent:
The prevalent feeling with them ls that all
religion is humbug, and that we each supper t
i as party"
Ida Smith ohewed gum in Louisville ubttl
her jaws kept moving in spite of her effort to
stop them. She took the gum ont of her
month, bat her jaws continued to open and
shnt, with q violence that coutorted the who q
OF her face. physician applied bsndagesr
but it WAS only by making her insensible with
uhloroform that she was nieted' IL was q
case of spasmodio action of the RACIAL muscles
from overeXertion.
Weston started tom the Royal EnchanRe,
London, on the 18Th, on the 2000 mile walk
over the country roads Of England, havin
undertaken to walk this distance and deliver
dave Journey was to Folkestone, q distance OF
eighty one miles The jodRes travel in con
veyance. A bicyo ist is also OF the party. The
weather was and has been since he started
very cold and the roads very bad.
DIR. Mcbride, who called himself King OF
Pain, died in Chicago few days ago of con.
sumption. He was an educated phS slciSn, II
is said, bnt preferred a rowing life and the
methods of Quack. He travelled IN gaudily
painted wagon, and was known from Maine to
Me1ioo. He was tall and thin, his hair was
never cut, and o dress like that OF Western
bcout gave him a picturesque aspect. Thou
sands believed his pretentions IF almost mira
culous curative po wers, and he did profitable
Business but he spent money freely, and died
poor.
"While Germany is putting all manner OF
Jealous { raints on emf grafton" says the Lon
don correspondent OF the New York Times
writing at the end Of 1873. "the English Gov
srnmeut is rather inclined to encourage people
to leave the country than to stay in it and
supposiug trade looks mp in America next year
as every body thinks it will. the tide of emigra
4ion will once more set in from EnGlaud TO the
United States. What is more, we shall alst
experience Au emigration of capital, circu IN
stance which will have special advantages
A healthy manufacturing progress in Americs
will see capitalists as well as laborers emf
grating to the Uuited States"
a resident Of Minneapolis sent letter tc
Gen. Benjamin +. Butler asking if. IN the
Il C,Nr, fi,N, fnT TbarI affNr