The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-07-05
MisceIlaneous Items.

Counterfeit $2's on the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank of Camden, N. J.,
are in circulation in New York.
Tt is Stated that twenty thousand
Swedes and Norwegians are preparing
to embark for the United States.
In ten years, from 1850 to 1860, the
city of Memphis has increased in pop
ulation from $3.50 to $4,000.
The New York Day Book puts up
the names of Breckenridge and Lane,
and thinks that ticket can carry the
State. rat Bas ~. 80 ssh
The Boston Post puts up the Brock
inridge ticket, and comes out dead
against Douglas in its leader of Mon
day last. 5as as1
Humphrey Marshall, distinguished
Know Nothing chief, has gone over to
the democracy-which democracy, is
not stated. fas zis-saiu
Hon. Owen Lovejoy has been re-
nominated by the Republicans of his
District, for Representative in Con-
gress. He will be reelected. .aa
More than million of dollars have
been subscribed toward the Interna-
tional exhibition in England, proposed
for 1862. bsa
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company have lighted one of their
cars with gas, and are preparing to in
troduce it generally.
The European adviccs by the steam
ship Europa, which arrived Tuesday,
contain the announcement that G.. p. r.
James, the novelist, is dead.
The last news from Pixies Peak re-
ports three murders, one suicide, one
death by lightning, and one accidental
death by being run over by wagon.
The expenditures of England, in
1850, for military and naval defences,
will amount to sl50,OO0,OOO. This in
period of peace with all the world,
except China.
The Boston Musical Times says
there are nearly two hundred profess
sional musicians in that city, who are
out of employment-the effect of 'shard
times.n
Mr.. Hawthorne, James T. Fields and
Mrs. Stowe are on their way home from
Europe. A contract has been made
with Mrs. Stowe for novel for the
"Atlantic Monthly"
Giles Mosier, citizen of Jonesville,
Mich, committed suicide by hanging
himself on Tuesday of last week. He
was a strong Spiritualist, and the
spirits. drove him mad.
At the exhibition of the Tournament
in Sandusky, on the 14th, the balcony
of the West House crowded with peo-
pie, fell and six or eight persons were
badly if not dangerously injured.
Seventeen new Republican papers
have been started in central and South
ern Illinois since the nomination of
Lincoln and Hamlin. There is chance
yet for some light in Egypt.
Rev. Mr.. Harden, the New Jersey
wife poisoner, has made confession,
showing in the whole transaction a
degree of guilt seldom equalled. His
execution has been postponed to July
9th. =
The gentlemen employed in taking
the census find great many young
ladies aged sixteen or seventeen years.
In one family in Vermont there were
twelve, girls between ten and sixteen
years Of age. 71. .seSls
MIR. Breckenridge is the youngest
candidate ever nominated for the Presi-
dency. He is but SO years of age
only three years beyond the age re-
quired by the Constitution for that
office. Sc - aeisr
A State road is being rapidly bull,
from Lexington to Flint river. in SAM
lac county. The settlers in the back
part of that county have for long
time been almost shut out from civil
cation. a So
There is a lady living in Deerfeld
Ohio, aged 1ol years. For eighty
years she has kept 100 silver dollars
laid up.o defray her funeral expenses.
This sum put out at compound interest
for the time it has rmained idle, would
amount to $4,000.
The Republican National Conven-
ton met in a ."wigwam," the Bell and
Everett in a church, and the demo-
Gratis in theatre, where they closed
with a grand tragical performance of
UrTbo Rivols,' and tho faroo re &C =