The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1878-11-09

to telegram. half of the life saving crew of
the station at Grand Haven took life boat
| to rescue the crew from the rigging.
Vessel sunk.
/ The steamer Depert yesterday encountered
the three-masted barge j. 81. Rutter, off
Ludington. waterlogged. and succeeded in
! getting her within one mile of Ludington
harbor when she could do no more and was
| obliged to leave her. During the night she
sunk in rs feet of water, about one mile
| from Ludington pier. The captain, crew
/ and some 70 men were in the rigging. 1t is
| impossible for the tug to get to her. The
| life saving station is doing all it can to res
| cue the men. 1t is reported this morning
thai the vessel is breaking up. She was
loaded with grain.
LATER-It is reported that one boat load
| of laborers were rescued. The crew is still
on the rigging and the vessel breaking up.
| Hopes entertained of rescuing the bal
! ance of the men before night.
Public Debt statement.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The public debt
statement for October shows decrease in
the debt for the month of $l,708, ,402, AMI
the following balances in the treasury: Cur
rency, $1,71l.244 special fund for the re-
! demption of fractional currency, $10,0 ,000,-
900; special deposit of legal tenders for the
| redemption of certificates of deposit, $780,
| $40, 600; coin, 1927, $3.50, 127, including coin
/ certificates, $35,516 270; outstanding legal
| tenders, $346. .68l ,0l6; outstanding fractional
currency, $l6,211, 1913.
shipping Coin by Mail.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The Tribune WASH
ington special says The scheme for the
| transportation of coin in third class mail
matter, which was made the subject of dis
| cussion at two cabinet meetings, and which
attracted the attention of the press and pub
| lie generally about two months ago, is such
theoretically, but practically seems not to
amount to much. Only two efforts have
been made to test the practicabiity of the
j plan. In one instance 81 900. 900 in gold
coin, put up in four pound packages, was
brought from San Francisco to the East, and
on another occasion a smaller amount was
transported shorter distance. No disposi-
ton is manifested by private citizens to take
advantage of the plan. The post Office de-
partment can not afford to put on the neces-
sary guards except when the treasury depart
ment has large quantities of gold to trans
port. Silver is never sent by mail, as the
/ cost would be about the same as express
charges, while the post office is not RESPONSE
BILE for losses.
Shipwrecks.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 2.-Capt. Monroe, of the
British bark Beaconsfeld. reports that on
/ October 10th he took off the crew and pas
sengers of the Portuguese schooner Julius and
Victoria, so tons. Capt. Julius yaxura, from
New Bedford for Cape de Verde with cargo
of provisions and merchandise, capsized in a
/ hurricane on October 18th. Five passengers,
three men, woman and child, were lost
The crew and the other passengers, fourteen
in number, were rescued after being three
days and nights on the wreck without food.
Their Liabilities.
New YORK, Nov 3.-The Mechanics and
Laborers' Savings Bank, Jersey City, tempo
rarily suspended payment and enforced the
so day rule. Assets, $200,000; liabilities,
$190, 900.
Lynch Law.
| FoRT LARAMIE, Nov 2.-Last night a
coach driver from the north reported that on
his trip north from here on Friday night he
was stopped at the Platte river ford, about a
mile distant from this post, by five masked
men, who took from the coach two prison.
ers, Mansfield and Mclaughlin, and hung
them on a large cottonwood tree on the river
bank. These men were charged with road
agency and had been in custody in Cheyenne,
and were en- route for Deadwood under
guard of Jim May and Jesse Brown, whom
the lynchers compelled to give up their arms
and surrender their prisoners. At daylight
this morning F. L. Green, deputy coroner,
rode to the scene and found the bodies still
there, one hanging and the other on the
ground. They were brought here and a cor
oners jury impaneled.
The Kelly Ring.
San Francisco, Nov. 2.-The Calls New
York special says the Times thinks the Kelly
ticket will be beaten by at least 20, 900 ma
jority on Tuesday, if the combination against
Tammany Hall is conducted with as perfect
good faith at the polls as it has been during
the canvass.
Our Currency.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 1.-The Calls New
York special says notable article by Horace
White in the November issue of the Inter.
national Review presents strong argument
to show how the law making silver legal
: tender may operate to make resumption il
coin resumption in silver only after a little
while, and how certainly an attempt to con
duct the business of the country upon
double standard must result in putting
premium upon gold, driving it out of circu
lation, embarrassing all business and heavily
I taxing the people. He urges as remedy
that the banks acting through the New Yorl
clearing house shall after January !, 1879
refuse silver on deposit and thus force re
{ sumption in gold, by making gold or it
J sound representative the only bankabl
: money. This, he claims, will make gold tn
9 only current funds of commerce, despite lie
e gal tender enactments by Congress. Fl
y urges that the banks will be compelled t,
r put silver into the limbo of concurrent fune
e SOONER or later, and urges them to do 81
d promptly, and thus render futile Legislation
: postponing gold resumption He points ou
s that the course will also make greenbaek
e uncurrent. as they are eventually redeemabl
in silver only, and so they will circulate onl
e for government disbursements and payment
n of taxes.
y They Protest.
n New York, Nov "a convention of th
s stone cutters of the United States and Can
T ada has protested against the further contin
uance of the convict labor system.
Treasury Notes.
n WASHINGTON, Nov 4.--The statement te
II eoraphed last week that no further issue c
g one and two dollar notes of the Treasur
d Department is incorrect. No orders hav
- been given in reference to the further issu
e of notes of these denominations, the propt
lie reauisitions for them being filled as usu,
( by the treasury. After January first the ii
sue of national bank notes of these demon
nations will cease, and it is probable thu
al in order to force the standard silver doll,
le into circulation the issue of legal tenders
is those denominations will be curtailed an
vs. probably discontinued
le Kearney ON the War Patn.
u The New York Worlds Boston speci
IS saws: After the close of Saturday night
Id meeting, Kearney said to the World corr
ce spondent that he meant business, and if BIZ
is Ter was not elected Beacon Street and Bat
o. Bay would run with blood. As the resol
ne tions had been adopted as proposed. he sa
all the military power in the United Stat
could not put down the Workingmen, al
i'd Massachusetts would never be safe until {
a. blue bloods were hanged to the lamp pos
We two on every post. Kearney said he W
N, willing any time to sacrifice his life in I
of cause.
IS The.Political Outlook.
he New York, Nov. 4.-Secretary Sherm
ls- and Senator Blaine spoke in Pennsylvan