The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

News and Ofher Paragraphs.
Ice is sold in Shreveport, La, at
FIVE cents "a pound.
There are but three Revolutionary
Pensioners surviving in the State OF
Ohio.
New BANK.-The bank Of Geneseo
has just been put into operation at Gen
eseo, Illinois, with a capital OF $4,000
Kansas is nineteen Thousand square
miles greater than all New England,
New York and New Jersey.
1t is curious fact that every general
officer in the American revolution was
aFree Mason-except Benedict Arnold.
JACKSON A BABY DEPor.-Two in
fants have been found abandoned, in
the city of Jackson, within a few days
past. .s.
Tie steamships Hermann and Wash
ton were sold on the 18th inst, at auo.
i
ton for $4,000. Capt. VIM. Payson
was the purchaser. %
Mrs. Goldschmidt, denny Lind) re-
Gently gave birth to twins-one of each
sex. Here we have another edition in
two volumes of " Goldsmith's Animated
Nature" -. 1870
YALE CoLLEGE.-The whole number
of students of Yale College, who have
made profession of religion, the past
year, is said to exceed one hundred and
twenty. slrs - 49,
KANsAs.-Ex-Governor Stanton adj
dressed large audience at Lawrence
on the evening of the eth in opposition
to the English swindle. 1t is said he
will speak throughout the territory.
William B.Astor has bought Powers's
statue called g California, y for the sum
of 81 800, and the Hon. Hamilton Fish
has bought a third duplicate of the
the same artists :" Fisher Boy," for
81 900. = = ,'''.. -, .'.a'' 'sa'-''al
"RE-APPoINTED.nA Buchanan is car
rying out the doctrine of rotation most
admirably in Michigan. Out of eleven
Registers and Receivers in this State
confirmed the other day, eleven of them
were "re-appointed.' -
EcoNoMY.-Instead of hanging q
thousand dollar negro, at Paris, KY,
who had murdered another negro of
the same value, he was reprieved and
sold ont Of the State, The Institution
cannot afford to throw away two ne
groes worth $4,000. rIIat iEl- s9
The Chicago Tribune says. that the
article originating in the Bqffalo Rspu6-
Tic, and copied by the eastern press
relative to disease similar to that
which occurred at the National Hotel,
Washington, at the, Chicago Hotels, is
without foundation or truth. 81 .si..rL
THE LIQuoR LAW VoTE IN MAINE.
The returns from $50 towns show
the following result: For the Prohibi.
tory Act of 1853, IL SOL; for the Ii
cense Act of 1856, $40. 1t is evident
that large number of voters did not
visit the polls on this.occasion.
THE Sw1LL MILK BUSINESS IN New
YoRK-George w. Morton, City In
spector, has filed a complaint with the
Mayor of New York, representing that
the swilE milk establishments lin that
city are a nuisance, andrecommending
that they be abated forthwith,
/. Dennis Corcoran, who was among
the killed by the explosion of the steam
er Pennsylvania near Memphis, has
been prominent editor at New Or
leans for many years, first on the Pic
oyune and then on the Delta, of which
he was one of the principal founders.
DECREASE OF PoPuLAT1oN IN New
YORK CrTY.-According to the annual
census, as given in .Trow's New York
Directory, for 1889, the population of
the city is set down at 1000 families
less than it contained last year. The
fact is attributed to the commercial re-
vulsion. aaTs nseefK
The anniversary of the battle of Bun
ker Hill, was observed on Thursday
last by a military display in Charles
town and Boston, and Firemen's turn
out in Chelsea. sol3 s-i7s "a -zsis's
The Monument Association also held
its annual meetings and reelected the
old board of officers. 81 1919
A woman named Gibbons was crush.
ed to death by one of the. Chicago
draw-bridges on Friday last. She was
in the act of stepping upon the BRIDGE