The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-03

News and Other Paragraphs.
| "a Senator Henderson, of Texas,
is quite sick, and his recovery is con-
sidered doubtful.
An Irishman named Byrnes, was
killed near Ionia, on Saturday, by
kick from horse.
Copper ore has been found within
about twenty miles of Milwaukee Wis
consin.
The Governor of South Carolina has
appointed A. p. Hayns U. S. Senator
from that State, vice Evans, deceased.
An ordinance has been passed in
Norfolk, levying a capitation tax OF six
dollars on every free white male in
habitant over 81 years old.
Frederick Douglass, (colored,) Of
Rochester, N. Y, is to deliver two adj
dresses, during the present month, at
Constantine, st. Joseph Co.
There is no foundation for the current
rumor that Mr.. fancy thinks of resign
ing the Chief Justiceship. His health
is about as usual for years past.
A little child of T. w. Grover, of
Pulaski, Jackson Co., was struck on
the head last Friday with swing, and
died on Monday from congestion of the
brain.
The vestry of st. Marks Church,
Grand Rapids, have resolved to intro
duce congregational singing into their
public worship. A step in the right
direction.
The schooner Francis French, of
Union, N. j., was seized by an inspec-
tor at Norfolk, ON the 2Sth ult., fugi-
tive slave having been found concealed
on board.
CHEss.-Mr. Paulsen has again per-
formed the wonderful feat of playing
blindfold, ten games of chess, at Da-
venport, Iowa, pitted against the best
players of that place. He won eight
out of the ten games.
POPULATION OF NEW YoRK.-By
computation made few days since by
City Inspector Morton and several
other gentlemen, the present popula-
ton of the city of New York was set
down at s25 900.
A bill for a railroad through Penn
sylvania avenue, Washington, passed
the House on Friday last. The avenue
is five miles long, and the great thor
oughfare. In winter such road would
do a good business, which is now mo-
nopolized by single line of omnibuses.
Mr.. Mickey Free, of Newburgh, n.
!. Y, has made a match in Poughkecp-
sic, on the 18th of June next, at the ho-
tel of Calvin E. Marshall, to walk
1l2 successive hours. without rest or
sleep for $500. The feat will be per-
formed upon plank 80 feet long, 80
} inches wide, and 80 inches from the
, floor.
The largest bullock ever raised in
America if not in the world, was the
: OK known as George Washington,
5 whose stuffed skin may be seen in life
, like proportions in the rooms of the
/ Butchers Hide and Fat Association in
) New York. His live weight was 2 ,204
pounds. He was 9 feet inches long
and som 5 feet inches high.
A Havana paper publishes the order
of the Captain-G General, authorizing the
Submarine Electric Telegraph Com
pany to lay submarine cable to Key
; West, and thence by telegraph through
Florida, to unite the wires with the
telegraphs leading to all parts of the
United States. ~
/; The Washington Union exclaimed
when Lecompton passed, "The back
bone of the Republican party is
. broken" Next week came the election
news from Philadelphia and Indianap-
oils. The Union now sensiblv re-
, marks: GA little further reflection.
induce us to believe that we made a
slight mistake"
Mr.. Vanderbilt, seeing the discredit
into which the American mail steamship
marine has fallen by the discontinuance
of the Collins and other lines, and that
the ocean is fast becoming monopolized
by foreign steamers-has determined
to run weekly European line of steam
ships at his sole expense and risk be-
tween New York, Southampton, Havre
, and Bremen. He now advertises the
regular days of sailing of his fine steam
ers "V anderbilt," "North Star" Ariel''
and Northern Light" and is rapidly
driving to completion his magnificent
l new steamer "Queen of the Ocean. -
S to take a place in the same line"
From Washington. ~
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The sale OF
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