The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-05-19

About 400 Danish Mormons, new
converts, have left Flensburg, Denmark
on their way to Utah.
A steamer has just been built at
Pittsburg to navigate the Kansas river
to within $50 miles of Pixies Peak.
DIR. A. Gerald Hull, one of the earli-
est homeopathic physicians in New
York, died recently in that city.
tits said that if Paul Morphy is can
didate for the Presidency, Mike Phelan
will be brought out against him.
The Chinese say: GA drunkard's nose
is like lighthouse, warning us of the
little water that passes underneath"
Quite number of the United States
soldiers in Utah have turned Mornons,
through the influence of crinoline, it is
estimated.
Irving has at last completed the Life
of Washington. This distinguished
writer attained his seventy sixth year
on the Sd inst.
Five of the largest commission hous-
es in Boston, have sold over s9,OOO,OOO
worth of domestic goods the past five
months.
The country around Pixies Peak, it is
said, is a magnificent one for stock, and
for grain raising it is also reported to be
excellent.
A large sized elephant" with vel
low skin, is now on exhibition in the
vicinity of Pixies Peak, and he is at
tracing many visitors.
The Arch Duke Maximillian d. Este
is loyal--he has given his whole fortune
10000, 900 of zwanzigers, to the Aus
trian cause
1t is said that our Government is
about to instruct our minister in Mexico
to use all his influence to maintain the
Juarez Government.
The number of miles of canals in the
United States now in use is about So
OsS; the total cost is about S175, OOO,-
900.
The Memphis Enquirer expresses the
confident belief that the Opposition viii
gain two members of Congress from
the Western division of Tennessee.
Mexico, since its establishment as a
Republic which is thirty-seven years
ago, has had tifty-six Presidents-an
average of one and half Presidents
annually.
Several rich guano islands have been
discovered north west of the Sandwich
Islands, and possession taken of them
by the commander of the steamer Fen
nimore Cooper.
A dramatic version of the Sickles
case is now being performed in Boston
under the auspices of those unlovable
females, "The Star Sisters Lucille and
Helen Western"
Mr.. Hawthorne has just completed a
work, the title of which no one knows.
not even his best friends. 1t will not
be published until he returns to Ameri-
ca. .,f rf.
Mr.. John Bivens and Miss NJ. A.
Turk were married at Prattsville,
Greene county, N. Y, at 4 o'clock p.
NJ, on the 10th inst, and at nine
O'Clock the same evening the bride
died. M ~
A letter from Constantinople states
that the first thing Nourry Pasha, did,
after he was married to the Sultan's
daughter, was to borrow $4,000 from
his father-in-law's barker. na
The Presbyterian church at Cortland
n. Y, has suspended one of its most
respectable deacons for attending the
meetings of Henry Ward Beecher,
Theodore Parker, and other sensation
clergymenl
The British fleet in the Gulf of Mex
leo will be employed to enforce the
payment of the British debt, by seiz.
ing upon the Custom House, and the
revenue from commerce at Vera Cruz
The amount of this debt is some forty
million of dollars.
Col. Tai. II. Shaffner says that "dur-
ing the coming summer, with engineers
already engaged, he intends to travel
over and examine the route via Green
land, Iceland, and Farce Isles, which, in
his opinian, is the only one practicable
for telegraph between Europe and
America.
| Postmaster Cook Of Chicago denoun-
ces Judge Douglas and excludes him
from the Democratic party. There will
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