The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-05-27

band of horse-thieves is in the vicinity
of Lapeer.
There is to be . Sheep Shearing
Festival and Flowing Match at Ann
Arbor, June 9th and 10th.
A celebration of the Sunday Schools
in Branch, HillAdale and st. Joseph
counties is to take place at Elkhart,
Ind, June 18th.
Some of the Southern papers are
talking of Senator Green, of Missouri,
for President F-e-ra. 81 s -.
The British Standard states that the
income to be announced at the British
and Foreign Bible Society's May meet
ing is $775,Ooo. M
The grape crop of Indiana, it is said
viii be greatly lessened this year, in
consequence of the ladies having taken
most of the vines for hoops.
Hon. Charles Sumner sailed in the
steamer Vanderbilt, on Saturday, for
Europe, in accordance with the recon-
mendation of his physician.
Near Cleveland, a few days since an
infant was devoured by hogs in a field,
while its mother was lying near in a
state of beastly intoxication.
From recent census, it appears,
that Leavenworth city, although but
little over three years old, contains an
actual resident population of over eight
thousand souls. tsfe
The Louisville Courier says, there is
now an extraordinary stampede of
slaves in that state. Negroes are daily
escaping from their owners in startling
numbers.
The Ashtabula Sentinel announces
the arrival home of Joshua r. Giddings.
He will not return to Washington this
session. By the advice of his physi-
clan, he seeks rest from the excitement
of the capital.
A STRIKING FAcT.-The extent of
territory and variety of climate of the
United States may be realized in the
fact that in certain parts of Texas the
wheat crop is now ready for the scythe
while at the North it is just beginning
to grow.
Keep it before the people, that one
feature of the English ''bribe and
threat" bill, is that Kansas cannot
come into the Union at this time unless
she comes in as Slave State, and this
is applied as the distinct test of her
admission by the democratic party!
JOHN L. RoBINsoN, United States
Marshal of Indiana, has commenced
libel suit against the Indiana Suite
Journal The libel is founded upon
the report published by the Journal,
copied from Democratic paper, that
Robinson was insane.
MILK TRADE IN New YoRKCITY.-
In consequence of the recent exposures
of the swill-milk trade, joint stock
company calling itself the "New York
Pure Milk Co.." is organizing with a
capital of $4,000, under a charter
procured from the legislature.
DECISION Ionia Gazette says
that the recent term of the Ionia Cir
cult, Judge Lowell decided that the
time book, kept by mechanic or day
laborer, is, in legal sense, an account
book, and as such can be admitted as
proof in Court.
A barn of DIR. S. L. Andrews of
Romeo, was burned on the 7th inst,
with contents. Loss SIS. The fire
was caused by the carelessness of
boy, who had sprinkled powder near
wasp nest inside the barn, and attached
a slow match " thereto, which caught
in the hay.
The citizens of Buffalo, at public
meeting, have empowered the Mayor
of the city to appoint committee to
invite proposals for the erection of the
International Bridge over the Niagara
River, and to correspond on the subject
with officers of Canadian railways ter
minating at Fort Erie.
A judge at Evansville, Ind, has dis
charged Richard Webb, accused of
having three wives, because it was not
proved that one of the wives was over
fourteen years of age. According to
the construction the judge placed upon
the law, man may marry as many
wives as he chooses, provided they are
not over fourteen years of age at the
time. Great are the institutions of
Indiana.
The N. Y. Commercial Adyertiser
says: eve saw this morning in pos
session of friend a policy of marine
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