The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-02-09

Louisville Journal, entitled PRENTICE
T ANA, Just published, and which will bt
sent, post paid on receipt of one Dol
lar, by Derby & jackson, publishers
New York:
A Buffalo newspaper announces thai
DR.. Brandreth has introduced bill
into the Legislature. Is the editor
sure that he minded his p's in his an
nouDcement?
A lady correspondent who professe.
to be Mortified at the indelicacy of ouI
paper, threatenes for the future to SET
her foot on every copy she sees. She
had better not. Our paper has is in it.
A writer in the Virginia paper de-
votes three columns to describing the
great Blue Ridge Tunnel. We hardly
know which is the greatest bore, the
tunnel or the description of it.
w. HI. Hooe, postmaster in Yer
mont, publishes that two hundred dol
lars of the public funds are missing
from his office, and he asks swho has
got the money! Possibly echo may
answer-HoOe.
The editor of an Indiana paper ays
more villaisay is on foot We suppose
the editor has lost his horse.
A party of our friends, last week,
!, chased fox thirty-six hours. They
actually 'ran the thing into the ground.
The New York Eyeni,1g Post says q
man cannot be active and quiescent
at the same time.' There may be some
doubt of that. Some fellows hustle
about terribly, and get tile still.
Messrs. Bell & Top, of the N. G..
Gazette, say that Prentices are made
to serve masters Well, Bells were
made to be hung, and tops to be whip.
ped.
Mrs. Charity perkins, of New Or
leans, came near dying of poison few
days ago. A sister Of Charity was
suspected of having administered the
dose.
A. X. says that he expects to be able
in short time to pay everything that
he owes in the world. Ay, but there's
heavy dept in the other world that
he has got yet to settle -ZHere'H 6e.the
devI to pay.
A Rocky Mountain correspondent of
the New York Post, who writes him.
self Henry E. Land describes Ore
gon as the most delightful country in
the world. Our citizens, if they choose
can go out there and see 'ho,U the
Land lies.'
We were considerably amused by an
account that we lately saw of a remark
able duel. There were sac men upon
the ground and sac misses.
The Ohio River is getting lower and
lower every day. 1t has almost ceased
to run. All who look upon it can at
once perceive that it exhibits very little
speed, but a great deal Of bottom.
A young widow has established a
pistol gallery in New Orleans. Her
qualifications as teacher of the art of
duelling are of course undoubted; she
has killed her man.
A woman in Florida, named Cross,
lately gave birth to an infant son that
weighed only one pound. That Cross
wasn't hard to bear.
Mr.. VIM. Hood was robbed near
Cornith Ala, on the 18th inst. The
Cornith paper says that the name of
the highwayman is unknown, but there
is no doubt that he was Robin Hood.
A Mr.. Bently has been indicted in
Alabama for striking a stranger with
an axe. He says he didn't know but
that the stranger was a robber. He
didn't know, and so he axed him.
Mr. J. s. Fall, Mississippi editor,
asks when we shall get wise. Undoubt-
edly before Fail if ever.
Mr.. Henry A. Rhule says, in Mis-
sissippi paper, that he has worked zeal
ously for the administration. Now let
him turn and work faithfully against it.
'Tis poor Rule that wont work both
ways.
The Beaver Ary1s records the mar
riage of John Coburn, only three feet
high. No wonder he wanted to get
spzicea.
A man named J. S. Bill has set up a
shaving shop in one of our western
cities, We know him Of old. When
ever he takes off his beard he shaves a
bad bill.
A handsome young fellow in New
York, in great distress for want of
money, married last week rich old
woman of seventy. He was no doubt
miserable for want of money, and she
for the want Of husband; and misery
makes strange bedfellows.