The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-10-27
News and 01her Paragraphs.

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The King of Siam has named son
of his George Washington.
Potatoes are selling for Is cents a
bushel at Hastings, MINI.
Lady Franklin has spent all her for
tune in Arctic researches. She is in
the South of France in ill health.
The yellow fever has appeared in
New Orleans much to. the alarm OF
Northern visitors.
In the Cincinnati Jail there are now
fourteen prisoners charged with MUIR
der in the first degree.
Lola Montez, the notorious, arrived
at New York from Europe, on Tuesday
in the Hdnanonia.
AT Buffalo, on Tuesday, the new st.
Bridget's Church was blown down by
gale. The building was almost com
pleted for religious purposes.
Another installment of $4,000 has
been paid to MIR. Washington, within
few days past, towards the purchase
of Mt. Vernon.
1t is rumored that the late Senator
Broderick before the duel made a will
in which he leaves all his property to
George Wilkes, of New York.
A genuine "wooden nutmeg" was
one of the features of the Hartford
county fair, last week. 1t is said to
have deceived even Connecticut folks.
The propeller Troy foundered in
Lake st. Clair some days ago. There
were twenty-three persons on board,
only eight of whom are known to have
been saved.
Chief Justice fancy of the Supreme
Court of the United States, is in the
93d year of his age, and all his eight
associates, except one, are over go
years of age.
The monument to Henry Clay, at
Lexington, KY, lOs feet high, is pro-
nounced ready for the reception of the
statue. The top stone was set in its
place on Monday.
Philadelphia, heretofore strong
Democratic city, has wheeled into the
Republican ranks. At the late State
election, she gave the Republican can
didates over 5000 majority.
Mr.. La Mountains balloon, the Allan
tic, which was abandoned by him in
the Canada woods, has been secured
and returned to Watertown, somewhat
torn but servicable.
The deaths in New Yorh during the
year 1857 were 1898; in the year
1853, 23,693; the death reports for 8
months of this year will show mate
rial decrease in the mortality,
The property upon which is the
Natural Bridge, in Virginia, has re-
Gently change hands for the sum of
twelve thousand dollars. Next to the
Falls of Niagara, it is the greatest nat
ural curiosity in the United States.
Itappears from statement officially
made, that of about 9, 700 persons who
were inmates of the State alms-houses
of Massachusetts last year, six hundred
and thirty-six died. This ratio of NOR
tally is greater than that in most of
the great battles.
A reward of one thousand dollars is
offered in Lecompton paper for the
arrest of fugitive colored woman and
her five children. Will some of our
Democratic contemporaries tell us
whether slavery exists in Kansas.
Wise, the @ronaut, says that in the
234 balloon ascensions, he has only met
with two accidents, and two looses of
his balloon. Out of 113 times in which
he reached the height of three miles,
the balloon found an easterly current
in every case but one.
John F. Jackson, an opulent gentle
man ut Buena Vista, Tenn, finding
that his daughter had been seduced by
DR.. F. nj. Bunce, and that the doctor
would neither marry her nor leave the
country, shot the fellow down in his
office, last week, and yielded himself up
to the law.
Mrs. Stoves new novel "The Minis.
ter's Wooing," was sold by the As
signees of Phillips, Sampson & Co.,
to Derby & Jackson for mere nominal
price. The work will be issued shortly
Mrs. Stowe is now in London, super
vising its issue there, where two edi
tions are announced. 1t is said to be
the determination of the Assignees oil
p, S. & Co. to dispose of the "Atla,s
tic Monthly"
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