The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-04-07
News and other Paragraphs.

The canals of New York are to b,
opened on the 18th of April.
The army of Utah, costs this country
nearly five millions per annum.
The whole number of Indians Al
present in this country is estimated al
$4,000.
| Gen. Gee. P. Morris, the poet, ha,
been appointed by Mr.. Buchanan,
Consul at Havre.
Great floods have recently occurred
in the mining districts of Pennsylvania
doing great damage.
Senator Toombs of Georgia. has
been reelected for another term to the
U. S. Senate.
The first daily paper issued in Vir-
ginia was in 1880, the annual subscrip.
ton to which was fifty dollars.
The citizens of N. Y. city were eat
ing green peas, radishes and strawber-
ries one day last week.
The Hon. o. H. Smith, an old resi-
dent of indianapolis, and ex-United
States Senator, died on Sunday night.
The Legislature of New York has
passed a bill for the speedy enlarge
ment of the various canals.
The steamer Nat. Holmes loaded
with emigrants for Pixies Peak, had a
collision on the Ohio river, by which
about 40 lives were lost.
A woman in New York has been ar
rested for poisoning the inmates of a
boarding house. One woman has died
and number of the boarders are very
sick.
Samuel Yeager, merchant of Eas-
ton, Pa, visited New York last week
with money in his pocket, and has been
mysteriously missing ever since.
A Kentucky gentleman, Mr.. Robert
Barnett, of Lincoln county, freed
eighteen slaves at one time, in Cincin-
iii:a.ti last week.
James Stephens was sentenced on
the S1st ult., in New York, to be hung
on the goth of May, for the murder Of
his wife by poison.
The Legislature of Louisiana have
refused to pass the African Apprentice
bill, which was designed to affect the
opening of the Slave trade to that State.
Mr.. L. Mansfield, pioneer of Allie
gan Co. died in Otsego on the 10th
ult. He had been a resident there since
1888.
A vessel with $50 negroes on board,
from Africa, got ashore near Ponce,
Porto Rico, and the Captain immedi-
ately committed suicide.
AT New Orleans on the 18th of
March, three criminals were hung on
one scaffold. They all confessed their
crimes just previously to the execution.
The n. Y. Central Railroad have re-
duced the fare from Supervision Bridge
to New York to seven dollars. The
railroad convention broke up in great
tumult.
The comittee recently appointed
to watch Mrs. Hayes, the woman who
pretended to have lived two years with
out food, have reported that she is an
Rev. Geo. Willard, Rector of the
Episcopal Church, at Battle Greek,
was presented by his friends with
valuable gold watch, last week Tues
day evening.
A circular is being spread through
out Canada, advocating the separation
of the Canadas from Great Britain,
and recommending that Canada West
become one of the United States.
Mr.. F. HI: Underwood has returned
to his old post in the house of Phillips,
Sampson & Co., and his connection
with the Atlantic Monthly has been
resumed.
After a young man named Busch
was acquitted of murder at Chicago,
the other day, his father invited the
jury to a champagne supper, and with
one exception, they all went.
AT Boston, some 200 or 800 children
of the Catholic persuasion, refused to
chant the Lord'sPrayer and Ten Com
in one of the schools, and
considerable disturbance has been the
result.
The colored people of New York
and Brooklyn have made public gift
of fine American gold watch and
richly bound Bible to Mr. Giddings as
a testimonial for his anti-slavery SER
vices.
The Montour Iron Company of Dan
vile, Pa, last week, made in two days