The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-01-20
News and other Parayranb,.

! NEWS ana other Paragraphs.
CHANGE.-The jackson Patriot
e changed to semi-weekly.
5 20 Senator Fessenden, of Main
5 has been reelected to the q. S. Senat
Not more than half a dozen Sen;
tors are known to be favorable to tn
Pension Bill.
: The U. S. Senate has voted to allo,
old soldiers and old soldiers. widow
thirty dollars a month.
The losses by fire in the U. S. in 1856
excluding all losses less than $4,000
make an aggregate of $4,000, 900.
4 STATIoNERY.-sSo is the amount O
stationary, by law forwarded to eacl
member of the New York Legislature
An association has been formed !,
New York city to raise funps by sys
tenn to lectures, to build monument I,
DR.. E. X. Kane.
Some of the New Jerseyans are ure
ing the nomination of Hon. William I
Dayton as the Opposition candidate fol-
the next Presidency.
The House of Representatives Of
Georgia, have unanimously passed a
bill repeating all laws which authorized
lotteries in that State.
John A. Tucker, while canvasine as
democratic candidate for the judgeship
of the Southwestern Circuit of Georgia
has committed suicide.
"A RECEPTIoN.-After all the fuss.
about two hundred Irishmen constituted
the crowd which received Senator
Douglas at w ashington, on the news of
his reelection.
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, has selected
Gothic temple as the form of the
monument to be erected over the re-
mains of President Monroe, in Holly
wood Cemetery.
DEATH Ely LoCK-JAw.-John Shan
ahan, Detroit fireman, died of lock-
aw on Monday, caused by nail run
nto bis foot, at the burning of the
Tribune printing Office.
The United States Deputy Marshal.
Or. Matthews, who absconded from
Jhicago sometime since with $4,000 of
he public money, has returned and
,iven himself in charge of officers.
Five hundred dollars were contribu.
ed at meeting in Cincinnati on Sun
a.v last to the n. Y. Five Points Mis-
ION School, on presentation of its
laims by the agent, Rev. Mr.. Van
letter.
A bill to abolish the present mileage
sstem, after the present Congress, and
lat the members be allowed only their !
ctual travelling expenses, has been in t
oduced into the House of Represen-
tves. t
From recent report Of the Score
ny OF the Interior, made to the Sen.
e, 1t appears that the cost of Govern 3
ent buildings i'll Washington, includ a
6 statuary and paintings, has been e
4,7O9, $4,000. p
An unhung scoundrel residing in r Z
onroe Co., n. Y. having a grudge O.
alnst neighbor, threw part of a N
rse In the well of the latter. the
tier OF which was used until it be- g
me intolerably offensive. s
1t appears from the message of Gov.
organ Of New York that his prede- - -
'sor, Gov. King, has assumed per-
lally the debt incurred by retaining m
military on Staten Island, to sup DC
SIS the Quarantine troubles.
Pierce was a guest, In 70
'rence, at the Hotel engaged by the ~ ~
lg of Prussia. When the King IN,
he, the landlord told the Ex-Presi- err,
it ne must clear out; and he cleared
10 make room for King! on
Lieutenant Andrew Jackson, son of CO
N jackson, of Petersburg, Va, has COZ
n appointed assistant tutor in Span :
at West Point, with a salary of b az:
700. He is the first American to
nm the post has ever been assigned. too
Within the last three years the num- ]
OF unknown persons who have died 70
lew York has averaged 800 per an IN :,
!. This seems almost incredible. tive
' many tales of sorrow and suffer- tud
are connected with these mysteri- a
raw,
Stewart resides ON lea,
at Burdentown, N. j., and goes Gay Gay
y day to his duties at the Philadel- Ho
Navy Yard-a distance of thirty be s
'-no matter what the weather N
be. Although now over eighty proc