The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-06-23


News and other Paragraphs.
The population of Burlington is 9,
oss, Of which 4,917 are males and 4,
lle females.
g The venerable Mrs. John G. Calhoun
is now at the house of her son-in-law
Prof Clemson, at Blandeburg.
Gen. Pierce and his wife were a
Vienna, May2l. He was well, but Mrs
Pierce's health was not improving.
Rev. Francis G. Woodsworth, 70
many years the Editor of The Youth
Cabinet, and popular juvenile writer
is dead. ~
One of the Boston Knight TempIars
who went to Virginia, bought negr,
man for $500 for a free colored woma,
in Boston, who furnished the money
and is to marry him.
N. p. Stanton, President of one o
the La Crosse Railroad Companies
has sued Newcombe Cleyelandfor libel
He estimates the ravages perpetratet
upon his character at $4,000.
The Utica Herald reports that Mrs
Daniel E. Sickles has taken rooms fol
the season at the Clifford Springs Ho
tel, and that she will resist any appli
cation of her husband for a divorce.
A Locofoco paper in Mississippi says
that since the days of Jefferson " we
have never had more popular Presi.
dent than James Buchanan-with, pos
sibty, the exception of Andrew Jack,
son.
Hon. c. Sprink, Republican member
of Congress elect from the Lorain Dis
trict, Ohio, was stricken with apoplexy
las week, and died. His place will be
filed at the October election. His ma.
jority last October was 2,l2O.
A returned Pixies Peaker, (says the
Rock Island Register. of the 9th inst,
who was broken-hearted by his ill-suc-
cess in the pursuit of gold, committed
suicide on Saturday last, by jumping
from the Minnesota Bolle, short dis
lance below Muscatine.
Rev. Jacob Fowler, agent for the
North Illinois Institute, at Henry, Hi
nois, has been in New York city lately
raising money to meet its exigencies.
The amount needed was $4,000, OF
which the citizens of New York gave
LOCO.
DIR. Carter, respectable physician
and School Commissioner of Gentry
Mo-, was shot and mortally
by painter, named Evans,
IN the charge of having debauched
Evans wife. Carter denied bis guilt
put Evans had full confession from
lis wife.
Hon. Scion Borland, Ex-United States
Senator from Arkansas, has purchased
IN interest in the Memphis. Eagle and
That papar will henceforth
DC conducted by Jerre Clemens, ex-
of Congress from Alabama,
md Scion Borland, Ex-United States
Senator.
Col. Fuller, Of New York, learned,
while on visit to the Bank of Eng
and, that g mot single piece of Amer
can paper which laid over during the
ate paric now remains unpaid. This
says Mr.. Elsey, the Governor, cannot
De said of any other nation on the
EARTH"
Nearly all the brave men have been
If finely organized and therefore ner-
yous temperaments. Julius Cesar was
so was Napolean, so was Mel
ION. The Duke of Wellington saw a
nan turn pale as he marched up to a
battery. That. said he, is brave
nan; be knows his danger and faces
t."
John Underwood of Virginia, who
vas fined $3.50 for speaking agains:
slavery, was supported by some of his
leighbors in the late election as a can
lidate for the Legislature, and in the
own of Occoqua received Sc votes
,gainst-5f for the Democratic candi-
lates. The fine has been RENTED by
he Circuit Court, on appeal.
The principal operator in the Deliv-
cry department of one of the leading
ournals in Richmond, Va, is slave
owned by the proprietor of the paper,
Who only requires him to perform that
service each morning. He is very
intelligent fellow, and has invented a
method for mailing papers, which is a
decided Improvement on former modes.