The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1878-10-12
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The London silver market is very stag
nant.
Lord Chelmsford, formerly Lord Chan
cellor of England, is dead.
Consolidated Virginia and California
failed to declare dividend this month.
Three girls and q boy were recently
killed by raiding Indians near Galveston,
Texas.
Bosnia and Herzegovina have been sub
dued. The insurgents abandoned tents,
canon and ammunition.
The Indians are still raiding in Kansas.
The report that Thornburg had captured a
large number Of Cheyennes lacks contirma-
ton.
The Grand Orient. of France, of Free
Masons, nave sent to Minister Noyes 1000
francs for the fever stricken sufferers of the
South.
The failure of the Glasgow Bank carried
with it several other banks and colonial
merchants. Among the latter is Potter,
Winslow 81 Co., liabilities S3,000,000.
The walking match between O 'Leary and
Hughes was brought to close last Satur-
day night. O'Leary made 493 miles in the
six days tramp; Hughes 3ll. The latter
was used up.
The Servlan government has received
the Porte's reply to the request for the re-
storation of diplomatic relations. The reply
is most amicaDle, and desires q renewal of
friendship.
An 1mperlai decree mas been puDllS0eu at
Pesth. accepting the designations of the
whole Hungarian ministry, but ordering
them to continue the administration of
affairs until the appointment of their sue
cessorS.
A dispatch from Bombay says that troops
have been ordered TO advance from Dera
Ghazikhan, thus threatening Afghanistan
from new point. 1t is reported that di-
sensions have broken out among the great
Afghanistan chiefs.
In negotiations with England respecting
reforms in Asia Minor. the Porte has mani.
tested desire to incorporate reforms in a
scheme which shall be applicable to the
whole empire. Layard, the British am
bassador. has opposed this course through
out.
Ameers infantry regiments and six guns
are stated to have arrived in front of Ali
Musjid, short distance up the Klyber Pass
| and have advanced Within six miles of JAM
| rud, at which place detachment OF British
| troops have arrived.
A Constantinople dispatch says: The goy-
ernment has received intelligence that Saad
| Gelden Pasha, on Announcing that he had
received orders to surrender Podgoritza to
| Montenegrins, was killed by Albanlans
| and 1856 officers and men under his COM
rnand massacred.
! The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
a circular citing various sections of the re-
vised statutes relating to deposits of gold
/ cOlu anu DulIlOn aHq ISSUE Oh C6FtltlctibtS
therefor, the payment of import duties in
| gold and silver coin, and others as to the
amount to which subsidiary silver coiu
/ shall be legal tender; also the act passed at
the last session of Congress in regard to the
silver dollar.
The City of Glasgow Bank, which recently
/ failed, had 133 branches.
Very rich discoveries of gold placers con-
1 tinue To be made at Cassar.
During the month of September the pub
! lie debt was reduced So, 1864.
1 The Non-Partisans appear to be ruling
the California constitutional convention.
Yellow fever has broken out at Madrid,
having been brought from Cuba by sol
diers.
The total loss suffered by Austrian troops
in the Bosnia and Herzegovina war has
been about 1900 men.
The hostile Cheyennes have crossed the
| railroad and are moving north. They have
thus far killed II people.
Cyrille Dion, the celebrated billiard
player, died of congestion of the lungs
while en- route for the Courtney -Hanlon
race, Canada.
A dispatch from Bombay says the latest
news from Simla is that an opportunity has
been afforded the Ameer to make amends
for the affront offered the British envoy.
Herr Won Shell, Hungarian minister OF
finance, has declared that he cannot take
tH0 responsibility Oi CoHtIlDutfuR W tllo CA
penses of the occupation of Bosnia after the
lst of November.
lie 1elegraphe says that a rumor is cur.
rent in political circles that the French cab
met, on the reassemb bling of chambers, will
bring in a bill proposing plebescite for the
purpose of formally affirming the legality
of the republic.
The bark Lady Head loaded with salmon
bv Stahlschmith q Ward, has sailed from
Victoria TO London. She has Is 900 cases ol
Fraser river salmon, valued at Sl26 321 The
bark Marion, from San Francisco, has ar
rived and gone on TO Nanaimo.
Dumont, of New York, supervising in
speetor general of steamboats,, has gone tC
Norwaik to make personal investigation
into the cause of the explosion of the Adel
phi. Meantime the inspector at New
York. who examined the boilers, Is sus
| pended.
Henry White hurst who fortwo years wa,
treasurer of st. Mary's Catholic Total Alb
stinence Benevolent Society OF San Fran
cisco, was arrested and booked for forgery
: he having. il is alleged, drawn from the Hi
bernia bank the sum of $l,5S5 belonging Z
the society.
The Emperor has not vet accepted th,
resignation of the Hungarian ministry
Here, the crisis Is considered to be more ;
question of figures than of principle. Mucf
relies on tile ministry whether the occupa
ton of Novi Bazar shall be effected THU
year or next.
Safvet pasha, grand vizier and ministe
of foreign affairs, has sent circular TO Tn.
J | powers calling attention to the fact that thu
ureek Government ON the authority of re
ports fro1s its consu1s III TliessalY and Epi
rus, charging the porte with stirring up thu
4 fanaticism Of Aibanians against Greece an(
| providing them with arms. Safvet Pashi
declares these assertions calumnies.
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