The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-26

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has gone to Paris, and is to speak for
some time in the American chapel
The Comptroller of New York city
has submitted his report. The expendi-
lures last year, were upward of &c.,
100000.
The new code of laws recently adop-
ted by the legislature of Maryland,
abolished the sale of lottery tickets in
that State.
The total number of emigrants who
arrived at the port of New York last
year was 1892, ag inst 1859 for
1853.
There are in New York ninety insur-
ance companies, and the total capital
now invested in the business is over
eighteen millions of dollars.
Miss Agnes Strickland, the authoress
of the ''Lives of the Queens of Eng
land" has in the press small volume
entitled cold Friends and New Ac-
quaintances."
Benjamin d. Peck, the defaulting
State Treasurer of Maine, has been re-
leased from Jail in Bangor. The
amount of bail required was $50, 900,
which was furnished from Portland.
About 10000 tons of ice are being
packed this season at Peru, in Illinois.
Thirty-six hundred tons of it are loaded
on barges for Baton Rouge and other
places South.
The recent suspension of John n.
Genin, the celebrated New York hat
ter, is attributed to bad debts and en-
dorsing for other people. His liabili-
ties are said to be large.
Snow fell to the depth of four inches
in Marengo Co. Alabama, on the 3Oth
of December last. This is the greatest
fall of snow within the memory of the
oldest inhabitant of that section.
The New York Commercial Adyes-
tiSer says that lady Franklin will visit
that city within few weeks, and that
while there she will be the guest of
Henry Grinnell, Esq.
Chief Justice fancy has sufficiently
recovered from his attack of pheumon-
ic oatarrh to believe that he will be able
to resume his seat in the Supreme Court
very shortly.
A resolution has been introduced in
to the Virginia House of Delegates,
inquiring into the propriety of taxing
bachelors past thirty years of age, $40
per annum, for the education of poor
children.
The Washington correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Commercial says there
is rumor in "Court Circles" that Lord
Lyons, the New British Minister, will
shortly lead Miss Harriet Lane, the
Presidents niece, to the altar
On the 10Th ult., while on the route
to Austin, Texas, Gen. Houston met
with a severe accident near Walnut
Creek. His carriage was overturned,
and the fingers of both hands of his
wife were broken or dislocated.
A few days since the Pennsylva-
MIA delegation waited on Senator Sew
ard in body. The Massachusetts,
and Ohio members paid the distin-
guished Senator like compliment on
the 18th inst
The Minnesota papers complain oil
the Sioux Indians, who, to the number
of $500 are scattered through the s'Big
Woods" They have killed 1000 deer,
cutting off the supply upon which may
of the poorer whites relied.
Fears are expressed in New Orleans
that the orange trees of that vicinity
which for several years past have been
prolific bearers, are seriously injured by
the late cold weather. Ten years ago
they were victims to similar catastro-
phe.
The Masonic Register of 1860 states
that the whole number of lodges of
Free Masons in the United States and
Territories and other countries, is 6 800
and allowing an average of sixty-ive
members to each, the whole number of
Free Mason throughout the world is
413,4OO.
Several years ago the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts granted Mrs. Eaton
of Boston, divorce from her husband
on the ground of alleged cruelty. The
same Court has now given leave to
Eaton to marry again, it appearing that
his former wife had married the identi-
cal man who was the cause of the whole
difficulty between them.
Mr.. Price, of st. Stephen, in Maine,