The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-07-26
MiscelIaueous items.

were killed ana partlaiiy easen ~ one
Of their W tribe last spring.
The population of the city of Vicks-
burg under the new census is 4,s46, be-
ing an increase of 1886 since 1850.
The proportion of twin births in
Philadelphia is one in seventy-five, &C.
cording to official statistics, and at
Dublin one in ffty-seven.
A colony of free lovers who left Cal
%ifornia to settle in Costa RIGA, has been
broken up by death and dissension, and
come to a miserable end. SO
Four children were poisoned in New
York by drinking water out of an old
ink bottle in which there was a resi-
dunn of blue ink.
The population of the Pixies Peak
country is increasing very rapidly. Six
or eight steam quartz mills are in oper-
alton.
The Wheeling Va) LnteAigencer
has hoisted the Republican flag, with
the names of Lincoln and Hamlin for
the Presidency and Weep Presidency.
A meeting has been held lately at
Indianapolis, to consider the question
of the alarming increase in the number
of positively vicious or good-for-noth-
ing young her
The agents of the Great Eastern
have reduced the price of admission
from 81 to half a dollar. The conse-
quence was that she had 5000 visitors
in a single day.
A landing of negroes has been effec-
ted at Mobile; 124 were brought by the
schooner Clotiide and taken up the
river. This is a practical revival of the
slave trade.
In consequence of the disturbances
among the Druses of Mt. Lebanon in
Syria, the whole silk crop amounting
in value to ten millions of dollars, has
been lost.
A thousand dollar carriage, made
thirty years ago, at Middletown, for
General Jackson to ride in, has recent
ly been sold for sixteen dollars and ff-
ty cents.
Nineteen papers in the State of I'LL
nois, eleven of them in Egypt, which
have never before espoused Republi-
canism, have hoisted the Lincoln and
Hamlin flag. The conflict progresses.
Hon. Carl Shurz, of Wisconsin, will
visit Indiana during the next month,
and will canvass a large portion of the
State. An intense interest is mani.
tested to hear him, and he will attract
large crowds wherever he goes.
Dr.. Aver, the cathartic pill man, OF
Lowell, Mass, takes nearly all the pa
pers published in the United States.
His exchanges, if laid one upon anoth-
err for a year, would make a pile four.
teen miles high.
The Prince of Wales, during his Wis
it at Washington, will be the guest oil
Lord Lyons, the British Minister, al
though he will be invited by the Presi-
dent to become his guest at the White
House.
1t is estimated by the journals of
that place that the damage occasioned
by the bombardment of Palermo will
amount to more than twenty millions
of ounces, or over Fifty millions of dol
lars.
The Australians are entering largely
into the cultivation of the grape vine.
More than a million of these trees have
been lately planted in Victoria, and last
year 5000 gallons of wine were made
there, and $4,000 cwt. of grapes sold.
Vice-President Breckenridge and
Speaker Pennington acknowledge, in
a letter just published, the receipt Of
an imperial quarto bible for each house
of Congress, from the American Bible
Society.
Farmers in Ogden, near Rochester,
N. Y, discover that their cattle, a mum
her of which have mysteriously died Of
late, are killed by black snakes tina,
coil themselves about the necks of the
sleepinghcrds, producing strangulation.
Forty illustrated weekly papers are
issued in Paris. Twenty-one are sold
for two cents, aud nineteen for one cent
a copy. The aggregate weekly sale is
estimated at nearly n million copies.
The journal du Dimanche is said to
afford a clear profit of about $685. oo
per annum. q
The Census Marshall has completed
the census of Niagara Falls Village.
1t shows that it has a population OF
about three thousand five hundred.