The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-08-04
News and other Paragraphs.

Aho = ietSuurS l'OSt mas formally re-
nominated Mr.. Buchanan for the Pres
idency. -
It is said that Sam Houston has writ
ten a letter announcing the extinction
of his old hobby, Americanism.
The st. Joseph Gazette announces
that telegraph line is to be construct
ed from that city to Leavenworth with
out delay ~
The Board of Aldermen of Boston
have passed, in concurrence, the reso-
luton thanking Mr. George Summer
for his Fourth of July Grafton, which
gave so much offense to the slave
breeders. The vote stood o to 8. m.l
Mr.. Greene, better known as the
A" Reformed Gambler" has settled
down quietly at Christiansburg, Iowa,
where he is discharging the duties of
Postmaster for that not very populous
neighborhood. =
MIR. Francis J. Grund, the Swiss
mercenary who has been acting as the
secret spy of the Government, has ar
rived in Washington. His movements
towards the United States were accel-
Grated by the lie Cleo letter. -
The St. Joseph Journal announce
that Kit Carson, the renowned noun
taineer, trapper, guide and Indian
Agent, is now en- route to that city
from Taos, New Mexico, and expected
to arrive in few days.
The Secretary of the Interior has
under the act of March 3, 1859, max
ing appropriation preliminary to the
eight census, appointed Mr.. Joseph c.
G. Kennedy to take the direction of the
work.
A dispatch dated Washington, July
25, says it appears that certain South
ern members of Congress are pledging
themselves to bring in a bill at the next
session, repeating all the statutesa against
the African Slave Trade.
A Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Tribune says: There is posi-
tive information here that Mr. Hunter
will carry all the Virginia delegates,
and will probably be the nominee at
Charleston"
The National Confederation of Y Dung
Mems Christian Associations was in
session last week at Troy, N. Y. The
attendance was large, delegates being
present from all parts of the United
States and Canada. The next Annual
Convention is to be at New Orleans.
Two women of Cayuga, Canada
West, went into the forest TO cut ma
tcrial for hoops, being resolved to keep
up with the prevailing fashion. They
selected the stem of the "poison IVY
and after wearing the hoops few days
were so dangerously affected as to re-
quire medical treatment.
y young woman named Virginia
Stuart, was shot dead by her lover
Robert Mcdonnell = on Broadway
near canal street, New York City, on
Saturday afternoon. Mcdonnell then
tried to commit suicide, but the attempt
was frustrated, and he was lodged il
Jail.
The Secretary of the Interior will
transmit by the Pacific steamer of the
9Th August, S264,O0O to Oregon and
Washington, to satisfy the recently au
dited claims on account of advantage.
for restoring and maintaining peacea
bic and friendly relations with the In
dian tribes.
| The Louisville Courier states. thai
Col. Humphrey Marshall declared tina
if he were in Congress, with partie.
organized as at present, he would vote
for the Democratic candidate for Speak
er, and that if the next election O
President were thrown into the House
and he were member of it, he would
vote. for the Democratic candidate.
The most distinguished man living
in Christendom, probably in his line o
business, is one Johannes Schlootten
beck, aged IS, living at Markheidenfelt
Bavaria, who is the father of. SO chill
dren half boys. and half girls. 1t ha
taken three mothers to raise this abund
ant family, the last of whom, still liv
ing, has given birth to Is of the chill
) dren. .f
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