The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-04-15
ALL SORTS.

General Garfeld's son Harry is re.
4 ported to be nlatrimonally engaged to
Colonel Rockwell's daughter Lulu.
The ode on Prince Leopolds nuptials
which is being written by Mr.. Tennyson.
will. it is understood, appear in the Nine
teenth Century.
There are now in the three southern
provinces of Ireland as many troops as
| lord Raglan had when he landed in the
Crimea to fight the Russians.
Washington correspondents talk about
1.-THE elegant comfort of the White
House. and glorify the social tact, grace
and knowledge of President Arthur.
Haters of the Chinese at Ell Paso.
Texas, raised money to defend woman
who had shot saucy Chinaman, and.
after seeing her acquitted, presented
her with silver cup.
At a recent ballot for the Oxford and
Cambridge Club, according to the Lon
don Truth, Mr.. Ashmead- Bartlett
Burdett Coutts achieved the unprece-
dented distinction of receiving twenty
black balls.
and enough of them are sold to keep a
They are cut out of green basswoOd,
smoked and dried like hams, and sold at
80 cents a pair. :
A Chinaman ran wildly through the
streets of Cleveland, crying: Ny WHEY
died-my WHEY dead" She was white
woman, and had committed suicide be-
cause seeing her former husband pass by,
she surmised that he was about to have
her arrested.
Mr.. Gladstone has recently expressed
the strongest desire to see Mr.. Goodwin
Smith in Parliament. In all probability
he viii Be brought forward as minis
terial candidate CT the first available
opportunity in ireland.
Nine. de Balzac has sold her famous
house in the Rue de Berri ito Baroness
James de Rothschlld for half million
francs. No visitor has ever been allowed
to enter the suite of rooms Ehich were
formerly occupied by the great novelist.
The fance of Prince Leopold, accord
ing to the London Truth, has made
very favorable impression on those who
have seen her She is fair height with
beautiful figure, dark hair, fine fore
head, good eyes and mouth, and charm
ing manner.
1t is said that Just before the crush in
the Union Generate the Pope sold out,
through his agent, the banker Merighi,
all his shares, at the pleasing price of
$500 a share, thus realizing q nice profit
and proving again the truth of the s'Non
possumus errare."
In Duval county, Florida, dwells q
polygamist with three wives. A negro
deemed it his duty to prosecute him and,
after gathering the requisite proof, he
started for the court house to make q
complaint. He had gone but few miles
when the polygamist overlook and shot
him. -
Leila J. Robinson, .Boston's woman
lawyer, is said to have acquired fair
Office practice, but is denied the right to
argue cases at the bar. In order to let
her voice be heard in public, she has de-
liyered lecture beforea large audience.
She maintained her cause in way that
made the newspapers praise her.
A curious wager was decided in Lon
don at midnight few days since, when
the son of noble duke undertook to
run along the embankment, from the
Houses of Parliament to Waterloo
Bridge, while Big Ben was striking L.
The lordly athlete won easily, reaching
the goal at the ninth stroke of the
hour.
A yoang woman got free railroad
pass at Jackson, Mich, by telling the
poormaster that she was a stranger in
distress. Next day she reappeared. and
said that she had lost the pass and
wanted another. An investigation
showed shat she was married woman,
residing in the city, who desired the
tickets for herslf and lover to use in
eloping.
The New York Herald Paris CORES
pondent gives the particulars of Sarah
Bernhardt's recent illness at Genoa. She
fell back on the stage while acting in La
Dame aux Camellias," vomiting streams
of blood, and had to be removed to her
hotel Immediately. This is not the first
time that similar accidents have hap
pened to Dona Sol, but it appears that
the attack on this particular occasion was
most serious than ever before, and the
many admirers of the actress genius are
very anxious about her. She was look
ing forward with delight, when takan
i'll, to returning to returning to her
pretty villa on the cliffs of st. Adresse.