The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01

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The English government derives
$4,000 per annum from the duty on
Eau de Cologne.
| LIGHT.-It costs $26 an hour to light
the new Hall of the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington with gas.
There has been some four or five cases
of sun stroke in Detroit during the past
week, two of which resulted fatally.
Hon. VIM. II. Seward is to deliver
the address before the Madison on. W
University, at its commencement in
August.
A man named Allison Richards,
committed suicide by drowning him.
self in the st. Joseph river a short
time since. a.g
The damages to the Wabash and
Erie Canal by the recent flood in the
Wabash river, amount to from $4,000
to s35, 900.
Horace Greeley has been invited by
the Allegan Co. Agricultural Society
to deliver the address at its next Annu-
al Fair.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad, now
in operation 232 miles, runs no cars on
the Sabbath, either for passengers,
freights or mails.
MINISTER TO ENGLAND.-There is a
rumor in Washington that Judge
Roosevelt, of New York, is to succeed
Mr.. Dallas as Minister to England.
A duel was fought in Mississippi last
month, by Mr.. T. Knott and Mr.. A.
Shot. The result was that Knott was
shot, and Shot was not.
There is a discussion going on in
New York touching the practicability
of connecting that city with Brooklyn
by means of a tunnel.
MATRIMoNY MADE EAsY.-By curl
Gus law of North Carolina, magistrates
are not allowed to receive fees for tying
the matrimonial knot in that State.
Henry M. Rice, q. S. Senator from
Minnesota, is native of Morrisville,
Madison Co., n. Y, and learned the
printing business in the office of the
Madison Observer.
WEvIL--We learn that the wevil
has made its appearance in some por-
tons of the State. 1t is said that
whole fields of wheat have been des-
stroyed by this insect. q
A very destructive storm passed
over New York city on Monday, tear
ing down buildings and uprooting trees,
killing two persons, and injuring some
dozen others.
The Great Western Railway bill III
the Canadian Parliament has passed,
enabling the company to raise money
by increase of stock, to complete the
Detroit and Milwaukee road.
A grape vine is said to be in exist
ance near Santa Barbara, Cal, the main
stock of which is ten feet in diameter.
The yield of fruit from it is estimated
at eighteen thousand pounds.
THE Moons ATMOSPHERE. The
Paris Mo,siteaw announces that photo
graphic experiments were made in
France during the eclipse of the sun on
the 18th ultimo, which established the
fact that the moon has an atmosphere
of about 25 miles in height.
VALUATION OF BUFFALo.-The total
valuation of the real and personal prop
erty in Buffalo is sS5 ,512, 900. There
is slight increase on real estate over
1857, Of $3.50, and the decrease in
personal property amounts to s2,o64,-
$50. ~ p tsaibei aai
A FAST MAN.-Wm. Simcock, of
Washington county, Pa, recently lost
his wife in the morning-married his
second wife before highland followed
the remains of his first wife, in COM
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pany with the second, to the grave the
day after! u so eno
Coon NEws.-George d. Prentice,
the editor of the Louisville Journal,
has enrolled himself as a member of
the Sons of Temperance. He Joined
them on the night of the 9th ult., and
made, it is said, some very touching
remarks upon his past life, and his
prospects for the future. i -.
VENTILATING CHAIRS. A mechanic
in New York has invented chair for
hot weather, by which the person who
occupies it is refreshed by an artificial
breeze, produced by two pair of side
bellows. The effort required to use it
is slight, and the relief afforded is said
to be effectual, under the most oppres-
siye heat. o E e
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