The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-28
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The ship Atlantic has been seized
on the superstition of being engaged in
the African Slave Trade.
Prof. John H. Lathrop, LII. D., of
the Wisconsin University, has been
elected President of the Indiana State
University.
Victor F. Ward of Louisville-the boy
whose whipping by Butler, the school
teacher, was the first act in the Mat.
Ward tragedy-died on the 26 ult.
The Rev. Arthur B. Fuller has been
invited to take the pastoral charge OF
the Unitarian Society in Watertown,
Mass, and has accepted temporarily.
One hundred and forty-one candi-
dates for admissian to Harvard College
have presented themselves at Cam
bridge for examination.
The Rev. DIR. Bushnell, who has just
resigned his connection with the North
Church in Hartford, Conn.,, has been
for rs years its pastor.
There is a man by the name of Hyde
in Cincinnati, who is one hundred and
ten years of age, and has been married
seven times.
A statue of the first Napoleon has
been erected at Brienne. He is repre-
sented as pupil of the military school
there, and holds in his hand a volume
of Plutarch's Lives. t+
Mrs. Edwards, wife of the artist.
Thomas Edwards, was thrown from a
carriage at Westoorough, Mass, the
other day, and was slmost instantly
killed.
Lord Lyons with some members of
the British legation) is preparing to
leave Washington for the purpose of
visiting several of the most celebrated
Summer resorts in the Forth.
It is intimated that the Bar of Essex
County, Mass, will invite the Hon.
Caleb Cushing to deliver an eulogy
upon the life and character Of the late
Rufus Choate.
Mr.. Choate'slife was insured for s25,-
600 IS follows: $4,000 the New
England Mutual Co., and 5000 each
in the Massachusetts,, Charter Oak and
Connecticut Offices.
The Council Bluffs Btsgle says that
VIM. n. Byers, one of the editors of
The Rocky Mountain Neaos, arrived
at Omaha City, Nebraska, on the 9Th
inst, with $4,000 in gold dust
The Hon. II. Barnwell Rhett deIiv-
cred disunion speech at GrahamvilIe,
S. c., on the 4th of July last. He i.
said to be willing to occupy the seat in
Congress at present held by the Hon.
L. M. Keitt.
The Hon. Greene G. Chandler, and
the Rev. J. J. Daniel, INDUCED in a
street fight at Enterprise, Miss, the
other day. No heads were broken, as
we learn from the newspaper of the
town.
The owners of Copley's great picture
of skiing Charles the First demanding
the five Impeached Members" have
generously offered the painting to the
Trustees of the City Library of Boston
1t cost $4,000.
Philip Herbert, the California Con
gresham who murdered. a waiter at
Wizards, in Washington, has, with
many others, been forced by mob to
quit Hennaselio. An ex-Judge WAS s
leader of "the instigations.
1t is a singular fact that on the day
of the great battle on the banks of the
Mincio noble Spanish lady bearing
the titles of Duchess of Solferino anG
Countess de Fuentes and Centellas
died at Barcelona.
N. Theirs is now staying at ths
country house of friend near Char
leroi for the purpose of Collecting ma
terials for an account of the battle O
Waterloo in his next number of thu
"Consulate and Empire"
Mr.. Kollach, a German well-knowr
in Paterson, N. j., has been impressed
by the Prussian Government. This il
the second Patersonian delivered up t.
. foreign servitude by our Democratic
Government within the last few
months.
John Cobb, young man of Is, wa
hung at Atlanta, Ca, lately, for shoot
ing q wealthy libertine who had Sc
duced his sister. Cobb was convicted
and sentenced last year, but the feeling
in his behalf was so strong that Gov
: Ellis was induced to reprieve him TO
twelve months.