The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1878-12-21
LOCAL NOTES.

LOCAL NOTES.
Times dull and money scarce.
60 to Floods for what you want in
his line
Mr.. s. C. Moore's condition is not i'm
proving.
The weather has been decidedly frosty
of late.
Shooting match for turkeys at the depot
on the Gath.
Hon. Binger Hermann has returned from
Washington territory.
We acknowledge q pleasant call from
Hon. James ChrDoweth.
Hon. John H. Mitchell has our thanks for
the Congressional Globe.
AS soon as he smiled we knew Pappy
Gildersleeve had returned.
C, Cohen is prepared to furnish you
goods of the finest quality.
Josephson has large stock of goods at
the New York Cash Store.
The turkeys are commencing to mourn at
the approach of Christmas.
Street improvements are going forward
with commendsble activity.
Considerable grain is still being shipped
flom this place to Portland.
A. The Indians east of the Cascades are said
~ be rastl. ss and diaaafiafihd
Mrs. VIM. Cardwell, Cleveland, is dan.
gercusly i'll with lung fever.
Langenberg Brothers are receiving ors
ders from abroad for their ine:toys.
A large and enthusiastic railroad meets
ing was held in Salem one day this week.
j. " Grow has purchased John Far
quar's interest in the restaurant business
The principal officer Of Rebekah Degree
Lodge, Portland, is lsdy-the first in the
State.
The Csiifornia stages are making regu-
lar trips. The roads are reported very
heavy.
The Medical Departm snt of the Williams
ette University opened at Portland with IS
students.
B. r. Dowell. It lie said, will receive hale
the amount OF the Judgment against VIC
GFiswold.
A few Christmas toys yet remain for sale
at Caro- Brothers. The rush there has
been very great.
The are one hundred and fifty convicts in
the penitentiary. About one for every
thousand people in the State.
Col. Whipple aud Lieut. Shelton passed
through town on Sunday last, 20 attend on
court.martial duty at Vancouver.
A very interesting letter is necessarily
out of this issue for want of time to put it
intype. 1t will appear in our next
A general invitation TO whitemen, Chi
namen and Indians is extended TO attend
the various neck>tie parties given in Janu-
ary next.
W. j. Harmon was in town this week.
It is wonder that the girls about Will
bur do not take in such 9 good look ing
man out of the wet.
The Willamette Farmer Is soon to be
removed TO Portland. It would not sur
prise us to hesr' that the State Far is to
be held there two years hence.
We have received the first number of
the Weekly Republican. published at juno
tlon. 1t is 90 neatly printed and so ably
edited that we cannot help wishing 1t sue,
cess.
There will be q Christmas tree and
general gathering of old and young folks
at the Cleveland school house on the even-
ing of the Gath, and general good time is
anticipated. Everybody should attend.
The Postoffice Department has notified
three bidders for the Coos Bay mail route
to send in further bids. A month OF six
weeks must necessarily elapse before SER
service is again resumed on the route.
The westside railroad Is to be completed
to Junction during the coming summer. If
the new railroad proves 10 be as much of a
blessing to the people of the westside as il
has to our county, then indeed they have
cause for general rejoicing.
VIM. Glover, for many years connected
with the overland stage company as stock
tender, departed this life in Roseburg Sat-
urday murning last, and on Su nday morn
ing his remains were inferred in odd Eel,
lows cemetery. Poor Bill
Thursday evening, after the arrival of
the regular passenger train from the south,
the locomotive was thrown off ths track by
switch bar failing to connect The loco.
motive was, however, on the track ready
20 take the train out Friday morning. Bill
Moore is chief in such work.
The people of Jacksonville will meet on
the 9th of January to discuss the feasibili-
ty OF building narrow gauge railroad to
the coast. The people of Douglas county
though we dislike to admit it, are not as
enterprising as their Jacksonville neigh
bors with this regard. We look for them
to do much in the future, howevor.
As we predicted, Bumgardner. the forger,
arrested at Coos Bay, will escape punish-
ment. There seems TO be nothing like havs
ing wealthy parents to interpose in ones
behaIf,.a land it appears that poor devil
must ALWAYS be sent up for miscondl lct.
The Bee thus speaks of Bumgardner's exs
animation: "In the absence Of prose cut
ing witnesses and the notes said to bave
been forged, the State moved for continu>
ance. We have been informed by reliable
parties that Mr.. Houck, wealthy citizen
of Albany. took up the notes There is
every indication that defendant will be dis
charged and escape the consequences of his
folly. Messrs, Delashmutt & Oatman have
recovered their lossef in part