The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-05-03

M1eceLiane0uS 1temSs
The New York and Erie Railroad
has reduced the fare from Buffalo to
New York to 81.
There have been heavy frosts in
Tennessee. The cotton and other
crops have been seriously injured.
Edward Everett has accepted the
invitation of the United Literary Soci-
cites of Dartmouth College to deliver
the Grafton before them next COM
mencement.
The everlasting Burdell case is up
again in the New York courts. The
heirs are now quarreling among them
selves as to the division of the MUIR
dered dentists property. es4
Lager bier ,ciU intoxicatc. The New
York Court of Appeals has decided
that ale and beer are "strong and spir-
ituous liquors" in the sense those terms
are used by the License Law of the
State. hie e geeiil6 W 30
The extensive Paint-shop of the
Missouri Pacific r. r., at st. Louis,
together with two cars, fifty. cords of
wood, and a large quantity of paint,
was destroyed by fire Friday. Loss
$4,000. baas sai lai
Kansas has been making herself quite
conspicuous lately in the freedom with
which divorces are granted. One hun
dred and fifty couple have been un-
coupled in forty days. An exchange
thinks she is determined to be free
State. fiH
A Committee of the Canadian Par
Lament have declared the election of
Quebec void on the account of the vio-
lence and illegal voting, and propose
to declare the city DISTINGUISHED for
the remainder of the session as pun
ishment for tolcrating such abuses.
The old Stuyvesant pear tree, at the
corner of Thirteenth street and Third
Avenue, in New York city, is In full
bloom. This tree is one of the histori-
cal handiworks of New York. 1t was
planted upon Gov. Stuyvesant's farm
then long way out of the city, con-
siderably over two hundred years ago.
All the Georgia lottery grants are
forecloscd by prohibition of the draw
ings under penal enactment of the
State Legislature, to take effect on the
first day of June next. The act was
passed in November at the last legisla-
tive session, and the owners of legalized
grants are making arrangements to
close up the business.
The fire in Dismal Swamp, Virginia,
was still raging at the last accounts,
and the light and smoke were visible
from Norfork. The flames nearly
reached the track of the Norfork and
Petersburg Railroad, and at one time
the cars passed through the dense
clouds of smoke with difficulty.
The thieves who recently stole the
safe of Adams express Company, on
the New Haven Railroad, made an un-
lucky choice, us far as they were con-
cerned, in cjecting the safe containing
$4,000 from the car. For right by its
side was another safe in which was
deposited $4,000. They might have
had one Just as well as the other.
A brute, named Miscner committed
a diabolical outrage upon young lady
Miss Sampson, living near Hillsdale
a week or two since. He was tried for
the offence last week, found guilty and
sentenced to the State Prison fer life.
Served him right. Such brutes in hui
man form should not be allowed to
mingle with the world.
Z In a recent speech in Congress, Mr..
McClernand, of Illinois, comparing
Judge Douglas to an eagle, INDUCED
in this flight of rhetoric: " As be
scared far above the heads of his enc
mics, his tail quiyered IN the AIR, in
proud defiance of them" AS poetry
this is sublime, perhaps, but the atti-
tude in which the Judge is placed
would be very awkward in prose.
Eighteen Whalers have arrived at
New Bedford the present season, with
10, 44O barrels of sperm, 81 ,os3 barrels
of whale, and $50, $50 pounds of bone.
The aggregate of this oil and bone, at
the current prices, would be about a
million and half of dollars. About
sixty whalers are expected to arrive
this season, and little more than half
as many more at other whaling ports
Fred. Douglass, while in Newcastle,
recently made an application through
the American Minister in London to
enable him to visit Paris as an Ameri