The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-04-05

The local Spring Elections in New
Jersey show large Opposition gains.
The number of Mormons in Utah is
put down at $4,000. Of these, 3,67s
men have 26,5OO wives.
The Governor of New York ha.
vetoed the bill to prohibit Sunday
amusements in N. Y. city.
A fellow in New York offers te
match an American eagle in fgh
against any dog in the country.
Fanny Fern says there are two thing,
a woman cannot do, namely, " sharper
a lead pencil" "nor do up bundle u
Among the $500 cities, villages, &C.,
set down in the United States census
we have only $3.50 different names.
Not a day passes but the grave Of
Senator Broderick, in the "Lone Noun
tain Cemetry," near San Francisco, is
strewn with flowers.
The New York Central Railroad has
issued orders for the construction Of
one thousand freight cars, designed for
carrying wheat,
A Company is organized at Rich
mond, Va, to erect large wooden
mandatory, in answer to the demand
for homemade fabrics.
The King of Prussia is in a deplora-
bic mental condition, but his physical
health is so much improved that fears
are entertained of an excessive long
evity.
Two men, named Morrow and Pal
lner were Killed in Knoxville, ILL.,, the
day Of Gov. Bissell's funeral, by the
premature discharge of cannon
which they were engaged in firing.
An application for divorce is before
the Pennsylvania Legislature, ground
ed on the allegation that the wife habit
ually purloined thehusband's goods and
conveyed them to her relatives.
Nets for the hair, made of silk, silk
and bugles, and gold, or silver braid,
are all the rage among the ladies at
present, and from simple, yet elegant,
and becoming head-dress.
Twelve hundred operatives in Har-
mony mills at Cohoes, N. Y, have
struck for an advance of wages, which
have never been raised from the level
reached during the panic.
The war with Morocco is estimated
to have cost Spain s25, 5000, 900, and
1000 lives, for which she has con-
quered city not worth the keeping.
So declare her own journals.
The. Senate has passed a resolution
authorizing treaty to be made with
the Indians owning land in and about
Pixies Peak, and providing for extin-
gushing the title to the land.
The late Gov. Bissell's property con-
sists largely of lands along the line of
the Illinois Central Railroad, held at a
former valuation at from $4,000 to
100000. At present they would bring
about one half the smaller sum.
1t is rumored that Lieut.. Bartlett
has challenged Gen. Morris, one of. the
editors of the Home Journal, in con-
sequence of remarks in that paper re-
Gently, touching the Diamond We'd
ding.
Gov. Downie has transmitted to the
Legislature of California, petition
signed by several thousand citizens of
the interior, praying that the crime of
highway robbery may hereafter be pun
ished by the death penalty.
A bill has been introduced in the
California Legislature proposing to re-
lieve the general Government of the
charge of the Indians in the State !;
also to cultivate habits of industry
among the Indians.
A secret encounter occurred on the
18th inst, in Jefferson City, Mo-, be-
tween James Hughes, Deputy Warden
of the Penitentiary, and Mr.. Dozier,
formerly guard of the prison, resulting
in almost immediate death of both.
Margaret Dilleen, an Irish domestic,
who was looking at the Pemberton
Mill when it fell, was SO completely
paralyzed that from that time she lost
her power of speech, and though she
has attended to work regularly since,
she has not uttered a word!
A Brooklyn Representative in the
New York Legislature was met by a
young man, the other day, as he was
leaving the House, and knocked down
by severe blow. The cause is Stated
to be the discovery of an intrigue be-
tween the member and the assailant's
wife.
The latest news from Texas says that