The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-02-16
News and Other paragraphs.

bers of the Legislature of that State.
The number of hogs packed in the
principal packing cities of the q. S.
the past year is estimated to be 1,569,-
320-a decrease from 1853 of 56,s76.
Governor Latham, of California, in
relinquishing the Gubernatorial Chair
for seat in the United States Senate,
will also have to give up $4,000
salary for a $4,000 one.
The Legislature of Florida has pass
ed an act compelling all free negroes
to leave the State between this time
and next October, or choose their mas
tiers. and become slaves.
William E. Burton, Esq, the famous
commedian, whose death has been daily
expected for some months past, ex-
PRED in New York on Friday aged
fifty-six years.
The Bark Emil, which was recently
brought to New York as SLAYER, es-
capped from Greenport on Saturday
last, and sailed again for the African
coast via Long Island Sound.
Lucy Stone once said: "There is
cotton in the ears of man, but there
is hope in the bosom of woman
Lucy made mistake and got the cot
ton in the wrong place.
There were 40 deaths in the city of
New York last week, decrease of ten
compared with the mortality of the
previous week. Of the deceased 200
were children under five years of age.
They have organized, in New Or
leans, Mechanical and Agricultural
Fair, similar to the st. Louis Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Associations.
S15O,O0O have been subscribed, and
Mr.. Slocumb elected President.
A little girl, one-sixteenth black, the
child of leading physician in Wash
ington, was brought TO Brooklyn on
Saturday, and on Sunday Mr.. Beech
er's congregation raised the money
$4,000 to secure her freedom
Delmonico, the celebrated restuura-
teasr of New York, has been compell-
ed to make an assignment. The cause
of his difficulties was the investment OF
large amount in the coal oil enter
prise.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, with her
child and servant, were thrown from q
carriage in Brooklyn on Wednesday
of last week. Mrs. B. was seriously
injured, but no fears for her life are en-
tertained. The child and servant
were but slightly hurt.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times says that the act
of mourning, on the part of the Rich
mond Enquirer, lover Mr.. Penning-
toms election,) is regarded there, even
by Southern men, as hypocritical and
silly.
: A british school-master at Board
man, Ohio, has been put under bonds
for beating young lady of eighteen
with an OK CAD, until her back was
black and blue. The girl was good
looking, and resisted the teachers adj
vances to courtship.
An alteration occurred at Memphis
on Friday, between Mr.. J. L. Webb,
of the firm of Webb & Rawlings, and
Thos. B. Mynatt, deputy sheriff, in
which Mynatt shot and instantly killed
Webb. In a conversation about bust
ness matters, Webb questioned Ny
natt's word, and the latter struck him.
Webb then retreated, when Mynatt
fired.
The destruction of the tenement
house in Elm street, New York, by
which twenty-five families were made
homeless, and score of lives lost, was
caused by burning fluid. A little girl
in bakery on the ground floor was
filling fluid lamp, the fluid caught,
and running over the floor, set the
building in flames, which, leaping up
the stairway, cut off escape to those
above.
The Rabbi Raphael, who opened the
session with prayer the day of Pen
nington's. election, is good Republi-
can, an accomplished scholar, and an
eminent divine in the Hebrew persua-
sion. His was the first prayer ever of
fered in Congress by a Hebrew Rabbi.
The clergy of all other denominations
have repeatedly officiated. The credit
of having the Hebrew religion placed
on an equal footing in the chaplaincy
is due to the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of
Indiana, who interposed with the
Clerk, and insisted that the invitation