The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
by TELEGRAPH TO DATE.

+ Two bodies were snatched at Prescott
A. T., On the night of Dec. 1st.
During November the mints coined 81
81, 900 gold and s., ,300, 900 silver.
A corn corner is being run at st. Loui
and is expected to run the price TO 80 CT
Fifteen of the 95 collieries of the Phil,
delphia d Redding Co., have suspende
for December. Three thousand meE III
out of work.
A Creek delegation is here en- route |
Washington 10 work for Creek. India
interests and oppose the settlement
whites in Oklahama.
A Herald's special says that Presider
Hayes has stated especially that he is nc
a candidate for Office but will retire pei
manently to private life at Fremont
| The president has approved the sen
tence of the court martial dismissin
| Captain Andrew Geddis, of the 18th infan
! try, and mitigated the sentence of Is
Lieut.. Wallace Tear, 25th infantry. t
/ forfeiture ofrank and half-pay.
The Beckwith hotel at Oshkosh Wis.
burned last Saturday; loss, $50, 900, insur
anee, $2S,000. Mrs. S. B. Page, boarder
was suffocated by smoke. Mollie Holly
ran, waiter, is missing and it is believed
perished. Kerosene caused the fire.
A duel which was to haye been fouph
between Lawrence Trimble and Johr
Benton of Covington, Ky, was thwariet
by the non-appearance Of Benton. Trim.
Bile, accompanied by w. N. Wade, also Of
Covington, was at Niagara Falls but the
Benton party did not arrive
Land League people at Boston have
sent a telegram to Parnell asking if Amer.
lean counsel should be sent to ireland to
defend land leaguers If Parnell sends a
favorable response a delegation OF able
lawyers will be dispatched to Ireland of
once: Among those suggested are Jere
Black, Roger A. Pryor, Emery A Storr
and Matt Carpenter.
The one and halt millions of Ameri-
can oysters, writes German correspon-
dent, which were planted in "The Little
Belt" last spring were inspected short
time ago and found in fine growing con-
dltion. Within four months they gained
an inch in circumference, and German
professor of zoology gives assurace that
Tor oysters Germany cannot be excelled
Captain Frederick G. Cameron, who
commanded the ship Macedonia which
sailed from New York with provisions
and supplies for famine stricken sufferers
of Ireland in 1913, died on the 2d, inst.
captain Cameron also commanded the
ship Robert Bound, the first vessel that
sailed for San Francisco carrying first
class passengers.
The annual report the director of the
mint states that diminished production
OF gold and silver of the Pacific coast has
visibly effected both the amount of depos-
its and coinage at the San Francisco mint
and gives the following figures: Value of
deposits during fiscal year of 1880 S39, ,3S7,-
949; amount of coinage, $50, ,053 900; show
ing decrease as compared with the pre-
ceding year of little more than four mil
lion in deposits and alnost exactly six
millions in coinage. The coinage at the
mint in 1880 was $4,000, 900 less of gold
and S6000,000 less OF silver than in 1878.
The New York Graphic says: Wander
b1lt has entered into an understanding
with five of the heaviest holders OF Chi
cago Burlington and Quincy stock that he
shall buy S., 100000 worth of shares. and
this understanding contains a further
stipulation that the investment shall be
permanent and it shall be given represen-
tatlon in the next board of directors
contigent, however, upon the execution
of the scheme projected by Jay Gould. A
similar understanding exists between
Vanderbilt and the heaviest holders of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. Vans
derbilt does not care to enter the direc-
ton OF these lines unless it shall be nec-
essary as measures of defense against the |
hostile combination of Gould.
The life saving service has l79 stations.
139 on the Atlantic, 81 on the lakes and 6 |
ihf
any preyiousyear. The CASUAL |
,les were greater than ever before, the |
highest previous number being PIG and |
his year 300 o. the 1889 persons on
BOARD of these vessels only nine were lost.
treat reliefhas been afforded shipwrecked
persons and vessels, and warnings we're
gwen Which saved many vessels. 1t is
that the value of vessels inyo.-
Ted was s., ,616,000 and cargoes, 81, l95, 900. |
)f the total amount $2, $4,000 were saved.
Inadequate compensation Is fast driving
men from the business and threatens to
lestroy the efficiency the service. The
asks that the matter of
'ay he left to the discretion of the gem
raj superintendent. The present rate is
40 per month.
Washington special says: Garfield
las determined not to give the secretary
hip OF the treasury TO any New York
tate man. He explained that the ,ol-
sctor of the port holds an Office paying
l2,O00 per aunum, ana through whose
ands three -fourths of the customs rev
nue. is supposed to pass. The magnitude
f this position and its necessary relation
D New York politics is such that if the
ecre;ary was also from New York it
Tould give him personal influence that
'ouli be greater in his opinion than the
est Interests ef the civil service would
'arrant. 1t Is reported that Schurz dur
ng Garfields Washington visit told the
resident elect that the retention of Sher-
nan in the cabinet is very important to
ushess interests as well as to the future
t the republican party, and that other
MEMBERS of the cabinet would not feel
hagrined at the discrimination.
1t is announced that the second treaty
rawn up by the L. S. commissioners and
he PekiDg government proposes that the
.mericans shall not import opium or
AIRY the product coastwise or sell it, 1t
! not known positively, full report of
be treaty not having been sent by cable,
'hether this is true or not, but this is not
but it is thought quite likely, 1
ecause the Chinese government has been
,ng opposed to the importation of opium |
ito China. Anne. lean vessels were for.
lerly engaged in the business of opium
but very little is done by
merieans i'll that business nowadays. | I
he prohibitional clause will not affect /:
.mericans and was probably inserted in {
re treaty by the Chinese as compelling | {
le British to similar agreement, as a
rge proportion of the revenue of British |
ndia comes from opium and China is the
rea;est customer for Indian opium. III
le Chinese have granted to the United
tates any special privileges in the new !
eaty, the British will ask to have similar !
riviIeges granted them.
On last Friday the grand jury of New {
ork county indicted Josh Hart, Louis
ost, kennard Philip and Chas. A Byrne
the Truth for criminal libel on Garfield; &
Iart, Byrne and Post, charged, the first
AIMED for writing and the Others for I
Ibiishing on the 22d of October .a,t. an q
iitorial headed Lying and Sticking to /
p in the Truth newspaper, and also pub {
shing the alleged CART sld Chinese letter {
nd fac-simile of it, and by these means S
wick edly and nlaiiriously de- {
sing asmuch as in them lay TO injnre {
nd villify James A. Garfield anii to bring i
i'm into public scandal and disgrace. and l
deprive him of his good fame, credit /
"A ,.r,,fatto,x ri - tho .,p.,.f al I