The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-05-05
New, and Other Paraeraphv.

SoiC Piioouci, Has Decu aCYuittcu.
Diocesan CoNvENTIoN.-This body
meet at Detroit on the first Tuesday of
June next.
The Peach crop of Illinois, this sea-
son, has been entirely destroyed by the
late freezing weather.
Accounts of the crops from Ohio, AL
ALBANIA, Georgia and Missouri, are high
ly favorable to good harvesters.
A philosopher being asked what was
the first thing necessaryto win the love
of woman, answered, an opportunity.
Mr.. Greeley, of the New York Iri-
buae the Euening Journal states, is to
start for California this week by the
overland route.
A large number of Pixies Peak ex-
plorers who went from Wisconsin are
returning. They have little to say and
nothing to show.
MILITARY ORDER.-The Adjutant
General has issued orders abolishing
annual elections in the different volun-
teer companies of this State.
DEATH FROM EATING ORANGE PEEL.
Two little girls in Cincinnati have
lately been poisoned from eating inor-
dinately of Orange peel.
They have rose grated on peach
tree at Pendleton, South Carolina, and
the tree being in full bloom presents a
beautiful appearance.
AGRICULTURAL ADDRESS. = Horace
Greeley has consented to deliver the
Address at the next State Fair of the
Michigan State Agricultural Society.
Posi- OFFICE RoBBERY.-Adam Ore
Dough, Postmaster at Hillsborough,
Ohio, has been arrested for robbing the
mail of money letters. He is out on
bail.
The Philadelphia Ece,aieg Journal,
says extensive preparations are being
made for the anniversary celebration of
the birth of Stephen Girard on the 21st
of May, at the College.
DEcL1NED.-Hon. ]. r. Giddings
who has been spoken of as Governor
of Ohio, to succeed Hon. S. p. Chase,
in letter to the State Journal posi-
lively declined to be a candidate.
Mr.. SUMNER IN RoME.-A note from
Paris, dated April 4, states that Sena-
tor Sumner has left Montpelier for
Rome. He was, at last accounts, in a
very bad condition of health.
ONO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
The Republican State Central Commit
tee of Ohio have called State Con-
vention for the nomination of State Of
ficers, to meet at Columbus, on the 2d
of June.
A Vicksburg paper says that card
playing among steamboat travellers in
the West has diminished fully one-half
within the last year, and its place has
been supplied by chess.
The freshet on the Mississippi has
done great amount of injury. In the
neighborhood of New Orleans alone
the damage It's supposed will amount
to million of dollars.
An Arkansas paper gives an account
of marriage in the Jail of St. Francis
county, of beautiful young lady, te
one of three brothers, who have re-
Gently been convicted Of murder, and
sentenced to be hanged.
The Dubuque Times says: "The
caliope, wagons, &C., belonging to l.
J. North's Circus, were sold by sher
. riffs sale at Burlington, few days
since, and have been shipped to Chica
CO."
! A Nebraska paper says that SLAYER!
is already established in the Pike
Peak region-that the Mexicans arr
there with poems, and that Southerner
are on their way there with slaves, from
every Southern State.
]. r. S. Bond, editor and proprieto
of the Mendoza ILL.,, Press, has beel
elected Overseer of the Poor. III
says his long experience in the printing
business gives him the most admirabl
qualifications for that Office.
Mrs. Julia French, who won som
notority by Free-Love speech at tn
Rutland Convention last summer, wa
married in Connecticut last week to
: Newly ork reporter, said to be som
| years her junior. The bride has burie
: two husbands.