The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1876-07-06

4uS sOtCO Va SuO iSopCf Wiz SUN
be heard in the land.
Will the soft money tail waggle
che hard money dog?
The school bell is silent and schol-
ars and teachers are rusticating.
The ones who do not have head
ache to-day are the exceptions.
Brick Pomeroy gigs the St. Louis
nominees, and howls like maniac
"WeIl there. 1 never will 60 to
another Fourth of July" But next
year you will be as crazy as ever.
The st. Louis Convention should
have been posted in Scripture and
not yoked the ass and OK together.
The Hayes and Wheeler club did
themselves honor by electing Mr..
Samuel Johnson as their presiding
officer.
J. s. Smith keeps great variety
Of early vegetables. We noticed
new potatoes, peas, string beans, tur-
nips &c.
Mr.. E. L. Jones and wife, former
residents of this place, but now OF
Battle Greek, have been visiting in
town during the last week.
Mr.. A. w. Jordan arrived from
Kalamazoo last Wednesday and
spent the week among his friends,
returning Monday. Come again.
Whortleberries are getting ripe,
and owners of marshes are having
notices posted, warning off intruders.
The yield promises to be abundant.
The Benton Harbor Palladium,
came out last week with temperate
and candid endorsement of j. G. Bur
rows for Congressional Represents
tive.
Don. c. Rogers, a former resident
of Decatur, but now of Detroit, pre-
sented his native village with beau
tiful flag which was first unfurled
there on the Fourth.
There was a blind musician on the
street all day Saturday, and if he had
received a cent for every note played
he would have been in possession of
$4,000, 900 at night fall.
1t is pretty late now, but we for
got to thank the invitation committee
of Niles and Decatur for cards of in
vitation to attend the celebrations at
their respective places. Next year
we hope to return the compliment.
Owing to the fact that our type
stickers wished to celebrate, the pa
per went up with a rush this week,
crowding out all our correspondence,
for which we make this apology
Some Of them will appear next week.
Henry Monroe and Frank Patter-
son were tried in the Berrien Circuit
Court on the 9th inst, charged with
burglarizing Read & Posts store at
Miles, and sent to State Prison for
two years and eight months respec-
lively.
Berrien county journalists were in
mourning two weeks. The Three
Oaks Echo lit out and that. left only
eleven papers, but they now rejoice
muchly, as the advent of the Water
viiet Journal brings the number up
TO the even dozen again.
D. w. Clemmer wrote to our jolly
Governor to see about procuring a
cannon for our use, but he replies.
"Can't get gun for love or money
that's co." Had it been possible,
we would have been placed in pos
session Of . good cannon.
Friday evening there was quite a
gathering of the travelling basket bri-
gade, who came back to spend the
Fourth Mr.. d. r. Saunders came
from New York, d. Henderson from
Ohio, and r. C. Osborne from Ind.
They report fair sales but business
generally dull.
While poking around Mason, De
fendorf q Armstrong; the other day
we noticed in the cooper shop pref
ty good arrangement, said to be the
invention of friend Ham. A sheet.
iron cylinder is fastened to the bot.
tom of a Beckwith stove, this cylin-
der is divided by partition; the
fuel placed in one side, while the
pipe is at the losoer side of the other
opposite the draft, thus heating both
sides alike. The barrel is placed on
q platform surrounding the cylinder,
and can be heated TO any extent with.
opt danger Of burning. No patent.