The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-04
News and other Paragraphs.

ELS 900 toward the endowment OF a
bishoprick in British Columbia.
The Memphis Bulletin says that
President Buchanan owns $4,000 OF
the stock of the Planters Bank OF
Tennessee.
st. Paul, Minnesota, is about to con-
meet with the rest of the world by a
telegraph to La Crosse, Wisconsin,
costing $4,000.
In estmoreland County, Va, there
was no rain for three months, this
season. Nothing of consequence has
been raised in the entire county.
We notice that Mr.. John Adams,
and Mrs. Mary Adams have just been
married in Tennessee, for the second
time
George Gillian is hard at work on
a volume of discourses on the sublimer
theme of the Old Testament, the Gre.
alton, the Fall, the Flood, DC.
Gray, the decapitated Postmaster Of
Cleveland, and the Douglas candidate
for Congress ran behind his ticket in
every ward in the city.
The annual assessment of property
for the present year shows that there
is now in St. Louis nine hundred and
ninety-nine slaves, valued at 6,905.
JOHN G. SAxE.-A letter has been
received from this gentleman, to the
effect that he will lecture before the
Y. NJ. L. A., at Grand Rapids about
the first of November.
The Rev. Francis Burns, recently
chosen Bishop of the Methodist
Church in Liberia, has arrived in Balti-
more, to undergo the ceremony of or
dination.
AT saw mill in North Troy, VT, a
few days since, piece of black silk
nearly yard long, in perfect state OF
preservation, was discovered embodied
in a pine log.
Among the attractions of a Camp
meeting at Reeding, Conn.,, was fat
girl yet in her teens, weighing six hun
dred pounds, and dressed in boomers,
low necked dress and bare arms.
The latest advices from Salt Lake
City state that the Mormons have or
ganized corps of 400 police, who per-
ambulate the streets night and day, and
keep sharp eye upon the movements
of the "Gentilcs."
We see that a reverend fire-eater in
Florida recently preached sermon to
prove that &c Africans have no souls >
He had better be careful. How car
he expect his disciples to go to heaven
if they can hope to have no niggers
there?
At the National Horse Show, held
at Springfield, Mass, Sept. l4-l7, 9
four horse team the combined ages Of
which, are one hundred and two
years, were on exhibition. The oldest
of the four is thirty years, and the
youngest twenty-five.
OFFICIAL VoTE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The official vote in Pennsylvania for
Supreme Judge, at the late election
was: Read, Opposition, 19s,11O; Por-
ter, Democrat, 174,o96. Opposition
majority 27,o23. Total vote, 369,215.
Increase of the vote in 1858, 601S.
Governor Kemble, who has been
nominated as the especial Administra.
ton candidate for Congress in the
Westchester District, repudiates what
has been represented tcc .5s the settled
policy of the President in regard to the
Commission of Kansas.
John Mitchell, the editor of the
Southern Citizen, announces that after
the 18th of this month, the place of its
publication will be changed from
Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington
City. John will find himself at home
among the broken down adventurers Of
the capital.
! According to recent statement the
money appropriated by Congress in
the District of Columbia, since 1900 is
about s24, 900, 900, or little over $780,.
900 year. This includes the building Of
the Capitol and several public build
lings, though not, We presume, the cos,
of the Capitol extension.
/ In the course of one of his recent
speeches in Illinois, Douglas is reported
to have said: eff God Almighty in
tended the negro for anything but q
slave, he was long time in bringing
it about" This blasphemous remark
was received, as it deserved to be, with
misses Of multitude.
/ The American Railway Times, state.