The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-02-09


The scarlet fever is very prevalent
and fatal in New York. Last week
there were SO deaths from ii.
The Richmond Enquirer dressed its
columns in mourning on the occasion
of the election of Mr.. Pennington.
About 600 persons are constantly
employed in the great publishing estab-
lishment of Harpers in New York.
A physician of Milwaukee, Wis,
lately made partially new nose for
a man named Ward, out of piece of
flesh from the patients arm.
Cassius M. Clay, in communica-
ton to The Country Gentleman, states
that for many years he has grazed a
thousand cattle year.
A Miss Thompson, in Tennessee,
has recovered damages to the amount
of $4,000 in breach of promise case,
against man named Patterson.
Hon. William Pennington was
elected Speaker on the Forty Fourth
Ballot. Between the thirty fourth and
thirty fifth ballots there was an interval
of fourteen days.
Certain wealthy and public spirited
gentleman of New York city have
taken the initiatory steps towards ad-
ding geological garden to the N. Y.
Central Park.
Chevalier Wykoff, of the New York
Herald, was summarily elected, on
Wednesday, from the House of Rep
resentatives, at the instance of Hon.
Roger A. Pryor.
Francis Mitchell, porter of the steam
ship Marion, was on Saturday, SEN
fenced at Charleston, S. c., to be hung
on the I'd of March, for assisting a
slave in his attempt to leave the State.
The total expense of John Browns
raid at Harper's Ferry, will take $780,
900 out of the Virginia Exchequer.
A bill making an appropriation to that
amount has passed the Legislature.
In 1859 there died twenty six Brit
ish peers. The highest in rank was
| the Duke of Leeds, whose ancestor, is
so often mentioned in Macaulay's His
tory; and the greatest was Lord Ma
caulay himself.
Initial proceedings are being taken
by the Legislature of New York, to
pass law against the sale or use of
camphene or other explosive and dan
gerous compounds in use for lighting
purposes.
The Boston Traveller learns that the
owners of the Pemberton Mill have
made claim upon the Insurance Com
panies for the entire amount of the in
surance, some S4l5, 900, and have re-
tanned able counsel in case the claim
is resisted.
The Spanish war in Africa is becom-
ing unpopular at home. 1t has already
cost over 1000 lives and fifty millions
of francs, without being anywhere near
an end, and latterly the Moors are
gaining upon the Spanish troops.
The village of Greenfield, in the
town of Sandwich, Mass, is afflicted
with small pox and varioloid to fear
full extent. There are about forty fam
lilies in the village, and about as many
persons are sick with it, producing
great terror and CONSERVATION among
the inhabitants.
A young man, calling himself Davis
Ferguson and other aliases, has been
travelling recently through Wisconsin
and Iowa, and doing large business
in the way of marrying young girls
and appropriating other peoples
property. Within three weeks he mar
ried no less than six wives.
A mammoth lump of silver ore from
the Washoe mines, in Carson Valley
has been forwarded by Morrison
Walsh e. Co., of San Francisco, to the
Washington National Monument. II
is two feet six inches long, ten inches
wide, and eight inches thick, weighs
one hundred and sixty-three pounds
and is valued at 5000.
A young lady of Boston, who in
dulged in an afternoons sport on jana
ola Pond, during the extremely colo
weather, had her skates strapped or
SO tightly that the circulation of the
blood in her feet was stopped. Boil
of them, in consequence, were frozen
and it was found necessary, shor
time ago, to amputate one in order te
save her life.
The widow of Sauterre, the brewer
who played so prominent part in the
first French revolution, and presided
at the execution of Louis XVI. is still