The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-11-11

have determined to organize paid fire
department.
J. w. Geary, Ex-Governor of Kan
sas, was married in Philadelphia on
Tuesday.
Ex-President Pierce was at last ac-
counts at Rome, in good health but
Mrs. Pierce was not improving.
M. Donati, the diseoveror of the
comet lately visible, has been Assistant
Astronomer of the Imperial Museum
of Florence.
The bequest of Judah Touro for the
establishment of the Touro Almshouse,
in New Orleans, has increased to $685.
600. 1t was originally $4,000.
The North american estimates the
population of Philadelphia at 100000
to e25, 900, showing an increase of five
per cent, per annum since 1850.
At the late Hebrew festival in New
York in aid of the Jews Hospital, the
Rev. Mr.. Isaacs read a list of dona-
tons amounting to t,ceEve thousand
0olldrsi
1t is stated that Morrissey's wife,
who is said to be the daughter of a
wealthy man in Troy, won $4,000 on
the result of the fight, and his father
in-law Won $4,000.
The Freestone (Texas) Pioneer says
that large lion was recently killed on
Noland's River, in Johnson county, In
that State, which had killed nine horses
in that vicinity.
1t appears from the British game list
that no less than six cIergynen of the
Church of England have taken out
" certificates licensing them to spot
this year.
A writer in the Troy Budget says
that one dollars worth of sulphur
thrown upon the fire in the forecastle
would have saved the Austria and her
living, precious freight.
The Philadelphia, Press gives tab
ular statement of the number of Penn
sylvanians upon whom diplomatic and
consular offices have been bestowed by
Mr.. Buchanan. The number, exclusive
of Clancy Jones, is twenty-six.
Of two hundred students at Gambler
Ohio, about sixty are known to be look
ing forward to the ministry of the
Episcopal Church. At Nashotah, Wis.
there are forty-three preparing for the
Ministry.
A Kansas relic, the veritable candle
box in which the stolen returns were
found, concealed under wood-pile in
the Surveyor Generals Office, has been
conveyed to Boston by Mr.. Lewis M
Tappan. 1t is exhibited as curiosity
| ATLANTIC CABLE Across THE Ono
IA section of the Atlantic Gable pur
chased from Tiffany & Co., N. Y, ha
been successfully laid across the Obi,
from Evansville, Ind, to Henderson
KY, and works admirably.
BY singular coincidence, Charlie
Francis Adams and Arthor w. Austin
rival candidates for Congress in tn
Third District of Massachusetts, wer
classmates incollege, both having grad
uated at Harvard University in 1925.
| When Eli Trayer announced his pro
ject for colonizing Virginia, every pa
per in the State opposed him. Nov
fourteen papers favor his scheme, an.
it is at the same time strongly backe,
by Gov Wise.
William II. Rarey, the oldest of tn
horse-taming brotherhood, declares tina
his system is equally eficacious in sub
DUNG women and children as horses
Being widower with ten olive branch
es, he has had ample opportunity to ties
the truth of his theory.
DECREASE OF PoPULAT1oN.-Th,
Dubuque Times says by recent census
of that city, made by the district boart
of directors, under the provisions O
} the school law, it appears the total pop
ulation of Dubuque is six hundred ant
seventy eight less than last year.
Should the Japanese Government
send Prince to Washington as it
representative, as it is rumored it in
tends to do, the event will mark new
era in diplomacy. To the Yankees viii
belong the honor of introducing tina
most exclusive of all people to free in
tercourse with Christendom.
Mademoiselle Piccolomini met will
serious loss as she was returning from
early mass at the Twenty-eighth stree
Church, New York, few days since