The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-03-01
Miscellaneous Items.

MISCELLANEOUS Items
Letters from Hayti report consid-
cradle emigration thither of free color
ed men from the United States.
A severe gale prevailed at Louisville
on Wednesday last. unroofng several
buildings, and doing other serious dam
age. No one was hurt.
A man named Bennett, who resides
in Giles county, Virginia, whipped a
negro man so severely last Saturday,
that he died fifteen minutes after being
released.
Winter Davis, of Maryland, has
been elected by the Philopeuthian So
ciety of Hobart Free College. at Gene
va, as their orator for the next College
Commencement.
Theyouthful widow of Oliver Brown,
the son of John Brown, killed at Har-
per's Ferry, gave birth to daughter,
at North Elba, N. Y, on the Sd, but
the child of sorrow lived only three
days.
The Chicago Journal says, our ex-
changes from nearly. all parts of the
South say that the wheat crop is killed,
and the farmers are blowing and SOW
ing large quantity of Spring wheat.
Henry Ward Beecher, says The
Anti-Szavery Standard, is engaged to
preach to Theodore Parker's congrega-
ton on some Sunday during the ap-
preaching Spring.
Tom. Hyer arrived in Washington
on Thursday, and is quartered at the
National. He is run down with invita-
tons to sporting saloons, and will, in a
day or two, give sparring exhibitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson took an extra
train, on which he was the sole passen-
ger, from Lafayette to Chicago the
other evening, in time to lecture in the
latter city.
Mr.. Frederick Southgate Brown, has
petitioned the Louisiana Legislature to
permit him to leave off the latter part
of his name, leaving it Frederick South
gate, because Old John Brown has
rendered the name infamous.
The Westminster Recieac states that
Whitfield, the great revivalist preach
err, was at one time STAKEHOLDER in
Georgia, being, at his death, the own
er of fifty slaves, men, women, and
children, whom he left in his will to the
Countess of Huntington.
There are in Pennsylvania, IL ,4ss
public schools, 14,O7l teachers, and
634,651 pupils. Including Philadel
phia, the cost Of tuition was $2,047,
65l, 81; of building expenses, s531,
1881, and the whole expense of the
system for the year, S2,579, O75,77.
A red light is exhibited on the toy
of the high tower of the Smithsonian
Institute, Washington, on the evenings
of lectures. Should there be any fail
ure of lecturer to arrive, or if The
lecture for any reason be postponed
the people can always ascertain the
fact by looking at the tower.
A bill providing for the removal O
the remains of Gen. Jackson and those
of his wife from the Hermitage t.
Nashville, and their interment in tn,
Capitol Square, and for the erection o
a suitable monument over the same, t.
the memory of the old hero, passed
the Senate of Tennessee, on the thirt
reading, by unanimous vote.
Three dwarfs are on exhibition il
Paris, which are represented as NOR
wonderful even than Tom Thumb
They are respectively of Italian, Aus
trian, and Hungarian origin. One i
nineteen years old and measures thirt,
inches in height; the second is twenty
five, and thirty-one inches high; ant
the third is twenty-five, and thirty-fiv
inches high. They only speak Ger
man, but give five French songs, an,
are said to be very amusing and capi
tai actors.
The New York Tribune says: "W
are requested to state that Mrs. Brown
the widow Of the martyr of Harper
Ferry, is much embarrassed and an
noyed by the multitude of letters ad
dressed TO her, for one purpose or an
other, by entire strangers, who hav,
no claims upon her attention, aud wht
seek to promote their own interest OF
crafty their curiosity, regardless o
the restraints of delicacy and proprie
ty. Want of manners, in such a case
certainly indicates a want of sense, bu
we hope this notice may be generally
copied by the press and lead, at least
to some abatement of the evil alluded
to-" W