The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-11-08

NGiscellaneous Items.
The Worth monument, erected in
New York, is at last completed.
They are preparing to hold an Indus
trial Exhibition at New Orleans, which
promises great success.
The population Of Dubuque County
is 1884. The population of Julien
Township, including the city of Du-
buque, is Ia, S23.
Charlestown, Va, (whsre old John
Brown and his associates were hanged,)
has now population or J, 4es, or SO
less than in. 1850.
Metal 6nger-naiIs to protect Che en-
gers from soreness incident to corn
husking, are among the last inventions
chronicled. 8
There are said to be in London, 3d..
600 sewing women, who earn barely
81 a week, while working necessarily
sixteen or seventeen hours day. 49,. -
Andrew g. Curtin, Governor elect
of Pennsylvania, is six feet two inches
high Hannibal HamliD is sixfeet three
and Abraham Lincoln six feet four.
Leotard, the brilliant trapeze perfor-
mer of the Paris circus, has been en-
gagged in London for one year, at SAL
AIRY of $25, 900! Think of that, Mr..
Presidents of the United States.
An old Englishman, named James
Morton, has been discovered by Gen.
aus Martial in the town of Eldridge, N.
Y. Morton's age is 100 years. He
says he intends to go back to England.
The richest man in ST. Louis is James
Il. Lucas, banker, worth, it is said,
S., 900, 900 Peter LindeIps estate is put
down at $4,000, 900, and that of Be-
moist, banker, at 81 100000. -
The Prince of Wales opened the
ball at New York with Mrs. Gov. Nor
gan, and at Boston with Mrs. Gov.
Banks. In early life Mrs. Morgan was
a milliner, and Mrs. Banks factory
girl.
Mrs. Gen. Winfield Scott, who. has
for many years resided in Paris, is a
passenger for New York on board the
Adriatic. She has not been in Ameri-
ca since 1856. Mrs. Commodore Stew
art has also been permanent resident
of Paris for many years. ..11 ~.
A handsome young fellow in New
York, in great distress for want of
money, married last week a rich old
woman of 20. He was no doubt ruise-
rable for the want of money, and she
for the want of a husband; and 'misery
makes strange bed-fellows."
A small brass cannon has been found
at the bottom of deep well of the
Castle de Cluey, in France, with the
date of 1858 upon it. The date of the
invention of cannon has historically
been assigned to the year 1896
years later. ~ 81
They are already making prepare
tons for the skating season, in Detroit.
A company of twelve gentlemen have
bought three acres of land, which will
be excavated to the depth of one foot,
and filed up with water for the ice
king to freeze.
Hugh Forbes, whose bogus Kansas
exposures were bought by the New
York Fifth Avenue Democrats, and
who has lately been in Garibaldi's army
has been dismissed by the italian revo-
lutionists for his willfulness and mischief
making, and is now wandering through
Italy as Mazzinian apostle.
The New York Leader says it is ru-
mored that Prince Napolean, accompa-
MED by his charming young bride the
Princess Clotilde of. Sardinia, will Wis.,
IL TINS country sometime toward the
end of this month or the beginning of
next. His avowed object will be to in
spect our institutions and amusc him
self by changes of scene and society.
Many years ago, naval officer was
SO pleased with the pluck of bare
footed boy who rowed him across from
Staten Island to Bergen during a storm
that no one else dared to encounter.
that he got him situation on vessel.
The boy was Cornelius Y Vanderbilt now
worth $l3, 100000. e.a.s.
+ The business of cotton spinning in
British India is succeeding beyond ex-
pectation and English capital is being
drawn into it. Two new companies
have been started at Bombay with an
aggregate capital of over four million
dollars, and the English talk about