NEWS IN" BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 79, 31 October 1874, Page 7

NEWS IN" BRIEF.

A monument is to be erected to Horace Greeley manufactured from melted type metal. It is expected ifc will be in position beforo tne end of the year. It is the intention of Mr P. J. Smyth to bring in during the next parliamentary session, a bill to repeal the act of Union. Nicaragua discourages banditti, by administering two hundred lashes to those who are captured. The high price of coffee in Europe lias compelled many families m Europe to do -without it. • Over 20,000 people assembled at Hackney, London, not lon<r since, to promoto the -work of Catholic total abstinence. The Duke Decazes is said to have formally denied to the Madrid Government, the reports that France had favored the Carlists. August 4th was the coldest morning ever known in America The mercury m the morning registered 46. The French Government is building at Toulon two iron-clad cruisers which are intended to have a speed of 18 miles an hour, and carry 27 guns each. About a ton of ice is used every night to cool the air that is pumped mto the House of Commons. The air is filtered and rendered absolutely pure. A man travels round in England exhibiting himself at fairs who with his hands tied behind him, kills a certain number of rats within a given time with his teeth. The Bishop of Orleans has appointed an ecclesiastical commission for the purpose of taking preliminary steps towards the canonization of Joan or Arc. Mr Disraeli said in the House of Commons, on the night of August 5, that however tranquil may be the state of Europe, there are agencies at work preparing great disturbances. [We know other places far removed from Europe where the same tactics are in operation.] A new Catholic paper is projected in Chicago, United States. ~* Several canal boats in America have female captains, x. «£^ military expenses of Germany for the year 1874, is estimated at db34,000,000. A steamer on the Hudson recently steamed twenty-eight miles in one hour. nn ~ P rt aris hes 68 > 000 d °g s » and their owners contributed last year £25,000 to the city, by way of tax. * It has been computed that £1,200,000 worth of sugar was destroyed by the recent flood in Lousiana. The Italian police have discovered a secret deposit of arms in Ravenna, and seized five chests of rifles. Eighty one arrests were recently made in Marseilles of persons formerly connected with the Paris Commune. Large numbers of religious associations of Catholic workingnien called " circles," are springing up all over France. One of the last of the Iroquois tribe in Indiana was killed recently by being run over while in a state of helpless intoxication Arrangements have been made for a pilgrimage of English Catholics to the shrine of St. Edmund of Canterbury, at Pontigny, in Embarrassments between the United States ancl Chinese Governments are likely to arise from the action of certain United States I officers, who took part in the Japanese expedition against Formasa Ihe daughter of a Greek brigand, who had acquired an immense fortune m Ins profession has just completed her education in London and is about to appear in European Society as the Princess Petko ' Stockton, California, is afllicted by a plague of spiders They hang pendant from awnings, lattice work, trees and fences • they enter houses with all the confidence of invited guests, and at night insert their poisonous fangs in the sleeping inmates. Kochefort's paper 'Le Lanterne,' recently revived in London under the title of Kochofort Chronique,' has been slipping surreoti" tiously into circulation at Paris, through the Post office, in the folds of a journal called the 'Foresters' Journal.' A curious deputation waited upon His Holiness the Pope to con gratulate him upon his attaining his eiglity-third year. The deputa tion consisted ot eighty-three maidens, ranging from one year old Bells on sheep are said to have the effect of not only keeping off dogs, but wild animals. • l ° In Switzerland all smokers and snuff-takers vnder 18 years of aep arc punished by fine. ° 4?9nn^ fcasalc ° ff F short]j . or Iris1 ris recently in England, the large sum of £2000 was paid for an eight months' roan calf." The Japanese Government now has a mint, with all the lafcosh and most unproved machinery in operation. Over one million and a half of property has been lost on the American Lakes since the introduction of steam. England and Scotland are said to contain 600,000 habitual drunkards of both sexes. «*"-u.uhj. It requires the entire services of a clerk in the treasury demrt ment at Washington to attend to the applications for leave noV-a-days. t • i A , *?° cl< : dicafc i o 5 ) of * he sli S° Cathedral there were present 14 Irish, 1 American, 1 Canadian, and 4 English prelates Freemasons are gnashing their teeth at the Austrian Government on account of the latter having forbidden the establishment of Masonic lodges. or According to the last census the total number of deaf and duinH persons in the colony is 47, and that of blind 66 The New York ' World ' says :-'■ Mr Cashel Hoey, a journalistic English barrister, has been made a Knight of the Order of Pius IX " Domenico Governaton, foster brother of Pius IX. still lives in'h'i* native place. He is a poor, but intelligent peasant The Order of the Good Shepherd established for the reclamation of fallen women at present comprises about one h mdred and sixty houses, and fivd thousand sisters, who are actively engaged in thi good worK. ' °