The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-08-26

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Longfellow has new poem in prep
aration, which is to be issued about the
holidays.
A HARMoNIoUs FAMILY. -Four
brothers named Reed are now incar-
cerated in the Georgia Penitentiary.
The Iowa annual State Fair viii be
held at Oskaloosa, on the 3oth of Sep
TENDER and lst of October.
There are now nine personsinjail az
Chicago, awaiting their trial for the
crime of murder $500
Burton, the noted comedian, adver-
tises his new theatre in New York for
sale, being about to retire.
The Republican State Convention of
Massachusetts is to be held in Worces-
ter, on Wednesday, Sept. 9th.
Hon. Thomas Cofwin was nominated
for Congress from the 18th District, in
the Ohio, on the 18th inst.
1t is proposed in South Carolina to
erect a monument to General Francis
Marion, the " Swamp Fox" ofthc Rev
olution.
The Republicans of the Fifth Con-.
gressional District of Maine have re-
nominated Hon. Isreal Washburne for
reelection to Congress.
The Republicans of the Fifth Dis
trict of Ohio have nominated Hon..
David Kilgore as their Representative
in Congress.
1t is stated that within the last three.
months no less than four thousand
Clerks heve left New York city for
want of employment.
The wife of George Snow of Arkan-
sas, gave birth to three children July
26th. A pretty brisk snow-squall for
the season. st
1t is current on dit that Miss Isabella
Cass is soon to give her hand to Mr..
Van Simburg, the Minister of the
Netherlands.
The Legislature of Oregon has cho-
sen two democrats to the United States
Senate, viz: Gen. Lane and Delazon
Smith. 20 ~
The Niagara Falls Gazette says that
the wheat crop of Niagara county,
heretofore noted for quality and guam
tity, will this year be an entire failure.
The late Rev. Dudley A. Tynge had
insured his life in London Office for
S., 900, and the amount has just been
paid over to his family. -
The Republicans of Albany and Sy-
racuse, N. Y, each fired one hundred
guns on-Wednesday, in honor CT the
defeat of the Lecompton Constitution
in Kansas. ~ =. j .--.-t
Mrs. Harrison, widow of President
Harrison, lies dangerously ill at the
residence of her son, Hon. J.. Scott.
Harrison, in Hamilton CO., Ohio. She
!. cannot, possibly, long survive.
The Republican Convention for the
10th Congressional District of Indiana,
assembled at KendallviIle, on the 18th
, and nominated Charles Case for re-
election to Congress.
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AT Savannah, Ga, last week, young
man died from pressure of fat upon
the heart. He weighed GAG pounds,
and was growing at the rate of pound
and half day.. 80 EzIak13
The editor of the Merican Extraor-
binary, a journal published in the city
of Mexico, in English, has been fined
81 900, and prohibited from giving any
political intelligence in his columns
The "eabIe," it appears, is to be
brought into the political arena, as Mr..
Cyrus w. Field is nominated by an
enthusiastic "cable-ite " through n.
Y. journa. as a candidate for Governor
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VIM. L. Dayton the Republicans
nominee for the Vice Presidency on
the Fremont ticket, is the prominent
Republican candidate for the Senate of
New Jersey, in opposition to Wright
the present Democratic incumbent.
The people of Tennessee will be
called upon to vote on the first Tues
day of September next, upon the ques-
ton of calling Convention to revise,
alter and amend the Constitution of
the State of Tennessee"
A distinguished Berlin professor has
lately produced a paper in regard to
the worlds population in which he ar
rives at the conclusion that the globe is
at present inhabited by twelve hundred
and eighty-thrce millions of people.
1t is estimated that there are Ios.-
sos, 600 laying fowls in the country. of