The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-03-14
Miscellaneous Items.

MlSceU0neOuS ltemSs
Navigation is open on the Mississip
pi as far up as the Rock Island bridge
There are now nine Cardinals hat
vacant in the Sacred College at Rome.
!, Ulcer cases have broken out in
British vessel of war, built of greer
timber.
There is house in Parts which
sells annually half a million pairs Of
wooden shoes. bIiI
|. Near st. Paul, Mimi, on the 5tt
inst, six horses were frozen to death
in one stable. 2 Peg ! 7f'i' -,iali..is
A bill for the suppression of fortune
telling hasjust passed the Pennsylvania
House Of Representatives. no'
The city of Buffalo has authorized
its Fire Marshal to procure two steam
fire engines. yi3@9b ll'f 1ff7h faa Fl 7
Oil has been discovered in Kansas,
and preparations are making for extern
sive operations in that line. s eai
Prof. Wise, of @ronaut fame, is at
present engaged in selling apples and
candy at the corner of Jefferson and
Third street.-Memphis 4valache. !
.
A Mrs. Millington is under arrest at
Selma Ala, for whipping a female
slave to death. She is the wife of the
Superintendent of the Alabama and
Tennessee Railroad, and an English
woman. raotlsl seH 1 OH
When Yancey babe farewell to the
rebel convention in Alabama, he said
it was his " last speech" But he is
probably mistaken. Men ofhis stamp
ordinarily make their s'last speech !"
on the Drop" d
A new fashion in ladies' stockings
has come out in England. They are
of wooden or cotton, but are parti-col-
ored, as red and white, red and black,
mauve and gray. When harnonizing
in color with the dress, the effect is
said to be very pretty.
Some twenty-eight or thirty years
ago Hon. Horatio King, the present
Postmaster General, and Hon. Hanni-
bal Hamlin, the prospective Vice Pres
ident, were engaged in publishing
weekly newspaper in the small and
obscure village of Paris, on the little
Androseoggin River, Oxford County,
away down in Maine. -r-e a-2si4f-
The Harris County Enterprise (Ga.)
gives shocking account of the public
burning of negro there on Monday
week. He had been accused of an
outrage upon a white woman, and was
taken from the Jail where he awaited
trial, and was chained to a. tree and
burned, protesting his innocence to the
last. -
The Iri6,nae's Washington CORES
pendent says: l am able to say, au-
thoritatively, that it is not true that
Mr.. Lincoln came from Harrisburg to
this city in disguise. On the contrary,
he came in his usual citizen dress,
unaccompanied by any one except Col.
Lamon, who is one of his suite.
Mr.. Van Wyck is still suffering from
the effect of the injury received last
week. Unable to call on Mr.. Lincoln,
he recently sent him the following
note: +" To Hon. A. Lincoln G. III.
Van Wyck greets you. Just now the
spirit is willing, but the flesh is week"
Mr.. Lincoln returned his best wishes
and regards to him.
The Philadelphia Press, in abiding
to the movement of Mr.. Lincoln in
passing through Baltimore, states that
when "Mr. Buchanan left Lancaster,
four years ago, he was threatened by
the rowdies of Baltimore with person
al violence, in any number of anony-
nous letters. and it made such an
impression on him that, in company
with few friends, he took private
carriage, leaving his escort and a
dinner that had been prepared for him
behind. There were no newspaper
charges of cowardice against him,
although animadversions without num-
Der were uttered in private circles.
The Real Grievances of the Slave Holders.
l. The prospective development of
party among the non slave