The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-15


Dale Owen, one of the great teachers
of infdelity, has been converted.
Nine. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt
has sold her residence at Dresden, and
settled finally down in villa near Lon
don.
A fire occurred at Fond du Lac, Wis,
on the night of the 18th inst, which
destroyed 16 buildings, supposed to
have been the work of incendiaries.
Leavenworth is the largest town in
Kansas, and contains some 10000 in
habitants. 1t has three daily newspa-
pers-the Ledger Journal and Times.
The Albany papers announce the
death of Powers L. Green, cashier OF
the Commercial Bank of that city.
He expired on Friday morning.
Robert McMahon died suddenly al
Ispwich on the goth ult., after eating a
few raw CLAIMS. The bivalves are fire.
quently poisonous in hot weather
Cough, the American temperance lee
turer in England, obtained verdict
of five guineas against DR.. Lees for
SANDER.
1t is stated that Louis Napoleon has
been preparing for possible contingen-
cies, by making investments in Eng
land and the United States,
1t is noted in the letters from Havana,
that there is a great tendency to sui
eide among the coolies. The victims
are very numerous.
During thunder storm, Sunday eve
ming, the house of James Post, Roslyn,
L. 1. was struck by lightning, killing
one daughter and badly injuring anoth-
er.
Geo. w. Harris, of Knoxville,
Tennessee, is the author of the " SUIT
Lovengood Sketches" at present so
popular with all lovers of the purely
original humors.
A Pittsburg paper says that Vice
President Breckenridge is preparing to
enter the field as candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the Presi-
dency at the Charleston Convention.
An antidote to strychnine is said to
be milk. The Baltimore american
states that the life of Newfoundland
dog was saved by pouring milk down
his throat after he had been poisoned
Two million two hundred thousand
of the new cents were coined at the
Mint in May, and about four hundred
thousand of the old ones were re-
turned.
Miss Mary Horris Hamilton, the
granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton,
has been appointed Vice Regent of the
Mount Vernon Association for the State
of New York.
1
THAT CONFERENCE.-THE late Rail
road Convention in Buffalo was a mon
ster. Twenty-seven Compapises-w er
represented, Involving capital {
two hundred and twenty-five million
1 of dollars.
III. G. Gilbert, Commercial Editor Q
the Buffalo Commercial Adcertise,
and the commercial reporter of the n
Y. Associated Press, was instantl
killed on the 9th inst, by the falling o
a scafold at No. IA Central Wharf
. SEVENTH YEAR FLooDs. The west
\ ern waters were very high in 1886 AM
: 1887. Seven years after, in 1874, AM
o in seven years again, in ls41, and theI
again in 1858, we have had grea
9 floods.
r The American Express Compan,
n have just completed new building OIL
a the corner of Jay and Hudson streets
: New York, which cost 100000. I
: is 600 feet square, 6 stories high ant
r made of Winchester marble. c.a. 81
S From statement prepared by thu
( general Post-Office, it appears tina
5 1909 letters addressed to bogus lotte
/ ries and other spurious concerns sine,
the lst of April, have been returned t.
Washington, the cash inclosed in tn
: same amounting to upwards Of $4,000
!. 1t is reported that Breslin, the de
faulting Treasurer of Ohio, now in Can
: ada, is soon to make full expose o
, the whole transaction, which will Great
a great fiuttering in Ohio, as it will i'm
plicate the right parties in the transac
tiou-not before known. 81
The editor of the Bath (Me.) Organ
I says that the premises of Mr.. Givan, il
q Brunswick, have been struck by light
j ming twcnty-seven times within the las
fifteen years. 1t was on these premise
that the pair of oxen was killed by light
/ ming last week. m 81.
DECREASE OF POPULATION IN Critics
Buffalo, in common with other larg
, cities, shows marked decrease in tn