The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-05
Morning Star and Catholic Messenssr.
aHQ JRLRAMs. SUNDAY. JANUARY 5, Is7s.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


tsvy for contributions 10 $40 . page. They give
Mr.. Gladstone $50.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided, in
suit brought by q ohuroh against o member,
that so bscri ptionB made on Sunday cannot be
collected by law.
An English noblemsn, who is in the habit OF
speaking to soldierstin an affable manner, wss
much amused lately when guardsman said to
my lord. There's nothing of the gentleman
about yon."
"Tramps now s.oop to beg, but it will not be
long ere they demand shoes and whatever else
haughtily q member of the oonfrsternity to g
Racine, Wis, clergyman, whom he asked few
days ago for pair OF shoes,
A magnificent sodality hall. which will cost
$50 600, 10 being erected by the Jesnit Fathers
attached to the Church Of the Holy Family in
Chicago. It will contain q library, reading
room, lecture hall, eto. and when completed
will be one of the finest buildings Of the kind
in the oity.
II is generally conceded by the Missouri
press that Gen. james Shields will be selects sd
to fill the vacancy ocoasioned by the death of
Senator Bogy. When Gen. Shields was defeat
cd for the position of doorkeeper OF the House
the country was promised that he should have
something better than that. The Missouri
Democrats intend to redeem this pledge.
The municipal indebtedness of the State of
Illinois is S5l 942 691, and $lO, 900 900 Of that
enormous cum has been contracted since the
passage OF law prohibiting the contraction
Of debts by cities sin any manner or for any
purpose to an amount, inc'nding present in
debtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five
per oentum on the value Of the taxable proper
ty therer."
There will be Ave oolored Democrats in the
next Texan Legislature. There are two color
and one of them has been arrested for stealth z |
from tho other. The Georgia Legislature con.
taips two negroes. one of whom was seated by |
the Democratic Houee over Democrat They
voted for Gordon, % most of the colored legis.
lators in South Carolina voted for Hampton.
Bostons latest tragedy, the killing by Will |
son Of himeelf and his wife, appears to have |
his superior intellectually. Not long previous
y they went to phrenologist to have their
heads examined, with o view to settling |
told them that the wife had the best brsin,
and wss fairly entitled to leadership In the
family. Wilson was greatly agitsted by this
Information, haS nd and weePnsly declared that he
in marrying o woman who knew more than
he did.
Mr.. soleillet who lately arrived ct Rouen,
from az exploration in central Africa, found
that many tribes regarded white men as supe-
rior beings and favorites of the gods. They
looked upon them with veneration, and, after
touching their hands, would rub their own
hands religiousy upon their faces. They
would ask Mr.. Solellet and his party to blow
upon them and to spit in their faces and upon
their breasts, At Kimiaksro, Daye and Dyalla
kings, whose residences were surrounded by
walls, pierced with holes for defepoe and
hanked by towers. r.
hot fght is going on in Toledo Ohio, be-
tween Christians and Jew 8 over little girl. j
Cooper Price, q wealthy Christisn phiisnthro-
pist. was told that child had b-sn abandoned
to cold and hunger in a,hoyel He went t" the
pretty, Jewish girl. Sabsequen ntly be adopted
her as his own, and had her baptized, all with
the written consent of her mother. Rabbi
Eyer was determined 10 prevent the turning
OF the girl from the religion of her people,
He sought ont her father. and through him
sued to get the girl. Religious feeling runs
high on both sides.
King Louis. of bavaria, is building on the
Isi3nd of Hsrreuworth. in Lake Chiemsee, =
castle which will cost % 600 600, and be the
most sumptuous royal residence in Germany.
It is to be Q reproduction of the Chateau of [
wings; tho court will be occupied with bRlue- | {
traded ssrraosS, covered with colossal statues
OF eminent b Avarians; the gardeus, laid out N
the French style, are to be oruAmented with
NEUROLOGICAL groupa of stAtuAry, massive mar
BILE seRts and vas - OF brouz' the famous Taps
Vert OF the Orangery is to be reproduced, and
she water works will be Oh the model of those
Of Versailles.
A monthly magazine published at Augusta,
Me-, gives az one of its premiums q chrome Of
the Flight into Egypt" which event is de-
and Mary's aigbt With the child Jesus as the
time that King Herod issued bis decree" "Iu
the distance is seen the City of Egypt, whore
they are going" As the msgazine says, "It is
one of those subjects that goes right home to
the heart Of every person in the Christian
world" The artist, determined not TO be ont
done by the editor who coufounded David
with Joseph and thought Egypt WAS oity, has
depicted the young child as boy Of twelve or
thereAbouts.
The Hartford Post advises each of the caudi-
dates for Governor In Maine to prepare q mes.
sage for the Legislature, and 80 not let the
sucoesafol one run the rick Of keeping that
body waiting while he writes it, as happened
in Connecticut in 1850. Mr.. Thomss II. Se,.
mour was elected by the Legislature, as the
result Of trade between the Democrats and
Free Soilers, the State cffo being divided be-
tween the two parties. committee sent to
notify Colonel Seymour of his election found
him in the back yard in the act of repairing o
dilapidsted barrel, and the military escort had
TO wait an hour or moro while he prepared tt Q
short message which he delivered to the As.
Sembly on taking the oath.
Overton was one Of the moet dsreputable
mon in Eliz abethtoHn. KR. II WA n common |