The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-09-23

News and Other Paragraphs
In Switzerland no less than twenty
thousand women earn fair livelihood
by making watches. III
b Itis said that Senator Benjamin, of
Louisiana, has been offered and de-
clined the missions to Spain. ~
It's said that Longfellow's new poem
Miles Standish's Courtship-will be
published on the 18th of October.
There are only two cities in Germany
or in the world which contains more
Germans than New York and its envi-
rons.
The Savannah Georgian, after an
existence of forty years as Democrat
ic organ, died last week, for want Of
support. i'eei go = sssa
The rot is making sad havoc among
the potatoe fields in Bristol county,
Massachusetts and in Bristol county,
Rhode Island. aiia 2 s'sT eria 9
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson viii de-
liver the annual address before the
Middlesex Agricultural Society,a at
!, Concord nextmonth. "a -, - Boa
4 Ray Tomkins and John c. Thomp-
son, the ringleaders 1.-The late outrage
4
/ at the Staten Island Quarantine, have
been arrested for arson r.-..T -
The Boston Atlas says that daugh-
| ter of the late Professor Webster was
married on the oath ult., to DR.. Thorn
as ]. Lathrop, of Taunton Mass.
Gov. Denver, of Kansas, has re-
signed, and will probably resume his
position as Commissioner of Indian
Affairs in the course Of few weeks.
The Lafayette Courier says, the
Hickory Grove church, on the Wea,
! was broken open during the past week,
and robbed of a Bible and two lamps.
The salary of John B. Cough, of the
English Temperance Leaugue is slo,-
4 600 per anuun. He is now leeturipg
with even greater success than ever
before. goo p 500 shol.',li' '5'.' I.
4 FRASER RIVER DELICACIEs.-rBy the
last accounts from Fraser River, pro
visions were very scarce and dear,
Dog meat was selling at so cents pei
pound. ;. -. ei'rE =. 4ae
J, Judge Veritt, resident for some
\ years of South Bend, died few days
ago at Saratoga Springs, whittier he
, had gone for the restoration of his
. health. a saf3a a5f q ,ln8c15
A man was arrested In Buffalo OF
Friday, upon whose person was found
twenty-five counterfeit 81 bills, purport
ing to be issued by the City Bank o
Montreal. ao
The English papers state that tn,
t health of Miss Florence Nightingale i
r such that she has again been obliged t.
: resort to Malvern for the benefit of tn,
4 water-cure. -li naz
The Hon. ]. r. Giddings, is engage
f in writing the History of the Ant
q Slavery Fight in Congress-" and hi
e retirement will enable him to finish tn
D work in due tine. 90 '-
Mrs. Ross, of Lancaster Co, Pa, tn
other day, walked a distance Of l
miles in four and half hours; staye'
over night and walked back the mex
: day. She is 81 years old!
: At a camp meeting in London county
|, Va, last week, the committee" seize
upon one hundred and forty gallons 9
y whiskey, being yended in the yicinit.
= and poured it on the ground., 3. safl
ii Extensive preparations are bein
made for the Pigeon-shooting tourn'
ment, commencing at Lafayette, on th
l. 22d. All of the. best shots of tn
\, country will undoubtedly be present.
It The Salisbury North Carolina
,, Watchnaan says that gold mine ha
IS been discovered, in that vicinity, whic
" worked by four hands, yielded twenty
!, five pounds Of pure gold in ten days.
4 40 ; 81 Hr.H . Is
+ A new Presbyterian Church is bein
I. built in Sturgis, and 500 has bee
q subscribed towards the erection of
y free church. A new brick block I
= contain a Masonic hall is also abor
: going up. =, -,i.e ~ ~ .-ao,
Il According to the last number {
- DeBow's Review, the estimated wealt
: of the United States is s22, oo0, 600, oot
: The value of farms, stocks, and ayr
, cultural implements, amount to snearl
!. one third the entire valuation. ,ga-
u A Haver journal states that Mr.
. Stowe has been some time at Rouel
. examining two private libraries of tn;
:: city for documents on Normandy DIR,
- paratory to the writing of a. romano
: based on the history of that country.
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