The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-11-03
News and Other Para.ranbs.


Thanksgiving is appointed in Con-
necticut on the oath day Of November.
Mary Howett, the distinguished Eng
lish authoress, has announced her belief
in the doctrines of Swedenburg.
] At Marquette, on Lake Superior
snow had fallen to the depth OF three
inches on the 10th inst, and it was
still showing.
] Dr. Wiles was shot in the head and
killed in duel fought with merchant
of Greensboro, Miss, on the sth
inst.
At the opening of the Court of Com
mon Pleas in Cleveland, last week.
there were fifty-five applicants on the
docket for divorce.
Two insane and idiotic persons lost
their lives on the 23d inst, by the
burning of the Weymouth (Mass. J
Almshouse.
Joshua r. Giddings is engaged to
open a course of lectures at Amster-
dam, Montgomery County, on the 2Sd
of November.
The young Prince of Orange was
lately at Baden, under the name OF
Count Van Buren,. He is youth OF
80.
An old man in Indiana recently cow
hided his daughter nineteen years old
for wearing hoops. Another father in
the same State turned his daughter out
of doors for the same offense.
Mr.. Ten Brock won race at New
market OH the 18th ult., with his two
year-old Pomona. 1t was sweep.
stakes Of 10 sovereigns each, seven
horses running.
Gov. Weller of California has for
warded $1,000 for tho Washington
Monument, and the State will appro-
pirate that amount annually until the
work is completed.
The Michigan State Normal School
building at Ypsilanti, with two libra
ries furniture and labratory, was con
sumed by fire on Friday night. Loss
$25, 900. Insured for $4,000.
Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt
has been singing in Dublin with Sig
nor Belletti. She is determined to re.
turn to public life once more. Otto and
the children are powerless against the
footlights.
The Shore Line Telegraph between
New Haven and New London was
completed on Tuesday of last week.
1t crosses the Connecticut river at Say
brook, by Submarine cable quarter
of mile in length.
The proposed amendment to the
State Constitution of Ohio, providing
for annual instead of bienniel sessions
of the Legislature, which was voted
upon at the late election, is probably
rejected by large majority.
Mrs. Stoves Minister'S Wooing ~
is issued in London in two editions
at IS Cd, and one at 2s Cd. The first
has 13 illustrations, and the second on.
ly one-by H. X. Browne. So far, the
sale of the book is said to be 5000
copies.
the railroad. Convention at Cleve-
land, last week, was the largest ever
held, forty-fiv roads being represented.
The winter timetable is to take effect
November l4th, and slow speed is re-
established, the time between Boston
and Chicago being SO hours.
At Utica, New York, last week,
Clarinda Jourdan plead guilty to the
charge of man-slaughter in the first
degree, and was sentenced to Sing Sing
for life. She poisoned her husband
about two years since.
The Sturgis Republican states that a
Mr.. Broyer was assaulted at his resi-
dence one night, by lot of rowdies,
among whom were two of his own
sons, who designed to administer to him
a coat of tar and feathers, for living,
as they stated, in manner not very
satisfactory. The old gentleman fred
on his assailants, killing one man and
wounding two others, one of the wound
ed being one of his own sons. There
must be rather low state of filial 'af-
lection in that latitude.