The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-03-31

"A uOTS6 ldlF ID III contemplation al
Grand Rapids, to come off July 5th.
A witness was asked if the defendant
stood on the defensive ?" "No, he
stood on bench and fit like the dew
il.
The present railroads in France cost
four hundred millions of dollars.
Their annual receipts are about five
millions.
A precocious youngster, nineteen
years old, John O'Donnell, is on trial
in st. Louis, for being married to three
wives at the same time.
1t is estimated that about IL, 900 per-
sons afflicted with the gold have ar
rived at ST. Louis, in the last three days,
en- route to the Pixies Peak mines.
GOoD.-The Chicago Journal calls
the result eff the New Hampshire cleo
ton, "the Morning Gun Of 1900"
That's about what it is. f
Mr.. BUrrKRwoRrH. "A despatch
from Washington says the Grand Jury
has refused to find bill against Mr..
Butterworth.
The London Illustrated Times says
that Charles Dickens has refused
100000 ($5O,OOO) to lecture for one
year in this country.
Asa B. Hutchinson, of the t" Hutchin-
son Family" has, with his wife, joined
company of negro minstrels at the
West.
The report that baronetcy was to
be conferred on the English Steamboat
King is confirmed, and Mr.. Cunard is
now Sir Samuel.
General William r. Haskell, the
well-known Tennessee orator and poll.
tician, died at the Hopkinsville, Ken.
lucky, Insane Asylum, on Sunday last.
William Chumasero, Esq, of Peru,
has received from Governor Bissell the
appointment of Judge the Recorders
Courts of LaSalle and Peru.
Rev. DIR. Ide showed some "eight
dollar brandy" at a temperance meet.
ing in Springfield, on Wednesday eve.
ming, which was manufactured at cost
of only ten cents per gallon.
The Methodists of Delaware have
refused the aid which the Legislature
had granted them, of $4,000 toward
the building of church, because the
money was to be raised by lottery.
The Legislature of Louisiana has
appointed committee to confer will
the city government of New Orleans
as to removal of the State capital tt
that city.
In Wheeling, Va, an old man named
McElroy, who has long been supported
at the public expense, has been dis
covered to have about $4,000 at in
terest.
At social party in Providence,
few evenings ago, lady thrust from
her a young man who attempted t.
kiss her, with such violence that he fel
and broke his wrist.
A large number of families, bot
here and in Europe, who had relation
on board the steamer Austria, intend
it is said, to sue the Company in who's
service she was running, for damages
1t is stated in Washington lette
that Mr.. Gordon has invited DIR. Bailey
editor of the National Era, to pas
the summer with him in England, am
that the invitation will probably b
accepted.
William Pugh, brother of Senate
Pugh, of Ohio, was arrested on tn
10th inst, in Cincinnati, and locked up
having in his possession a vial of lauda
mum, with which he contemplate,
committing suicide.
At the election in Augusta, Me-, o.
Monday, the Republicans carried every
thing before them with a sweenin
majority. The Democracy were beate
in six of the seven Wards, and tn
Republican Mayor chosen by one hun
dred and fifty majority.
One of Soulouque's great men, Ger
Dessalines, who left Port-au-Princ
with the fallen Emperor, has arrived
Paris with commission to prepare
house for the reception of his master
,, Some say that Soulouque is going t
live at Bordeaux.
The leading London journals all col
tain tributes of respect and praise t
: Prescott, the historian. The biograpl
: ical sketches of that eminent man ar
5 written with much warmth of admir-:
= ton, unchilled by the fact that he wa
, an American.
Joe Barker, the street preacher, VIII