The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-26
Norning Star and Catholic Msssens or.
Rzw ORLEANS. SUNDAY. JANUARY as. 1870.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

TSb lnAuRurRJeO on INC Slst.
t3eorgia's new four per cent. bonds are sell
ing rapidly at par in New York.
Gen. J. P. MCGOWAN, of the Confederat
Army, died of pneumonia at Little Rock, or
the 22i.
A paper box man factory in Richmond EN-.
ploys three hundred hands and makes OoOC
boxes per day.
Cawi1.Journdl, Is about to make O lecture
tour in the South.
Gen. Grant and family sailed for Indie, on
she French steamer Labourdonnals, which left
Aarselles on the 23rd.
There's life in the old land of Virginia yet.
Last year there died in the State CSC per-
sons and 80 SID were born.
There were buried In Turkey, in Europe,
1879 AL Rlssisn soldiers, and of the l2O $50 sick
and woInded sent home, AZ $50 died. Total,
l72 421.
Mr., Justice Miller severely cfStcses the rule
of law which makes courts spend weeks in
finding a juryman so ignorant that he has
never heard or formed an opinion of q case that
has attracted public attention
Texas RAM ks third among the wool producing
States, having J, ,674 900 sheep, and 80 treadinH
closely on the heels of Ohio California leads,
of course. Nueces County, Tex. hos more
sheep in its limits than any other county in
the Union-6o6 600.
The English Board of Inland Revenue has
decided that in cases where an-o d ser prefers
riding on q velooipede to riding on horseback
OF driving, and where he can do his duty as
we'll. he may draw the extra allowance made
TO { III cials that have to keep horses.
Referring to the preponderanoe Of Irishmen
nmopg British Colonial Governors, the Lon
don Times remarks: "When Irishmen can be
found who to sound sense, large information,
and liberal views, add rich humor and unfail-
ing good temper, there are none better fitted
80 lead nation with q silken rein"
The Mayor Of st. Louis s q German ; 30 is
the President of the Merchants Exchange; SO
is one of the Federal judges; 30 is the Lieu
tenant Governor of the State and it's represeu-
tative in the Cabinet; was the last Repub
lican candidate for the governorship. And
OF the seven morning dailies four are Ger
man.
st. Louis has free lodging house, where
from 300 to 600 persons, me silly tramps, sleep
every night, A new rule is that every lodger
must be vaconated, and on the first night of
its enforcement the physicians operated on
nearly 400 armc. Many objected, but the al |
ternative 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 honorably discharg- |
sd are requested, If they "are not dead, proud,
Nr. Griff j. Thomas, Secretary Of the Wisooa-
ain Reunion Association, Berlin, Wis, their |
nOmss, particulars of service Companies and |
regiments or-Eessels) and present address.
During the year 1873 fortv-eight American |
railroads, with a mileage of 902 miles and an
invested capital of $311 G3l 600, were sold or
passed into the hands of receivers. the totals |
for three years being l32 roads IL l.62} miles
and 1928 463 900 of capital. In that period one
seventh of the total milesge and considerably |
more than one-seventh of the total capital in
yestment have passed through the hasl stage
of bankruptcy.
The late DIR. Hook, Dean of Chichester, for
tw wepty-two years Vicar of the great manufac-
turiDgCity of Leeds. thought that the working
olnsses cared very little for religion. There
u.s." sLid he. "much hatred of the Church
among the working people as an aristocratio
institution, but there is no love of dissent:
The prevalent feeling with them is that Gil
religion is humbug, and that we each support
is as party"
Ida Smith chewed gum in Louisville untIl
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
ahnt, with o violence that contorted the whoe
Of her face. physician applied osndages,
but it was only by making her insensibe with
uhloroform that she was qnieted. 1t was
case of spasmodio action of the facial muscles
from over-exertion.
Weston started from the Royal EnchanRe,
London, on the 18Th, on the 2OOO mile walk
over the country roads of England, having
undertaken to walk this distance and deliver
hfty lectures in one thousand hours His h"st
eighty one miles. The judges travel in CON
veysnoe. hicyo ist is also OF the party. The
weather was and hRs been since he started
very cold and the roads very bad.
Dr. Mcbride, who called himself King OF
Pain, died in Chicago few days ago of con-
sumption. He was an educated ply sictan, it |
is said, bnt preferred rowing life and the
methods of 8 auaok. He travelled in q gaudily |
painted wagon, and was known from Maine to |
Mexico. He was tall and thin, his hair was
never cut, and dress like that of @ Western |
scont gave him picturesque aspect Thou |
sands believed his pretentions IF almost mira |
cu!ous curative powers, and he did profitable |
business but he spent money freely, and died
poor.
"While Germany is putting all manner of
jealous restraints on emigration" says the Lon !
don correspondent Of the New York Times, |
writing at the end of 1873 1.-The English Gov. !
srn meut is rather inclined to encourage people |
TO leave the country than to stay in it and |
trade looks up in America next year. |
ls ever y body thinks it will the tide of emigra
ion will once more set in from Euglaud TO the !
United States. What is more, we shall also |
experience bu emigration of capital, circu m-
stance which will have special advantages.
4 healthy Misunderstanding progress in America
will see capitalists we'll lsborers emil
grating to the United States"
resident of Minneapolis sent letter to
1ep. Benjamin +. Butler asking if, in the
National Convention in CharleRton
IN 1860 he voted for Jefferson Davis as a osn-
lidate for the Presidency. Butler replied tn Rt
10 did, and added "Mr. Davis was not before