The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-19
Senator Hills death is looked for soon.
Official returns of the census of France
show population of 81 $40 048


- The treasury department has purchased
2Io, ,Ooo ounces of fine silver for the mint
Each regiment of artillery are to have
two new light batteries, making 10 bat
teries in all.
-Four hundred and twenty-five persons
were appointed to clerkships in tie pen
sion Office on the 10th.
Boston longshoremen have decided to
demand an advance in wages, and if it is
not granted to strike
dispatch from Tangier states holy
war is being preached throughout Mo
rocco against Christians.
W. NJ. Robinson was nominated by
the democrats of the seventh district for
congress at Raleigh on the 11th.
Clerks of the national board of health
were dismissed on the 10th. congress not
having provided for their salaries.
Bishop Lafeche. of Three Rivers, has
forbidden ladies of his congregation, un-
der pain of sin, from wearing curls.
Victor Leseure, one of the oldest and
wealthiest citizens of fDanville, Ills, died
on the 10th of genuine Asiatic cholera.
f. E. Mum, an extensive butter and
| cheese manufacturer at Belvidere. Ills,
has failed, with liabilities upwards of
| SIS, 600; no assets.
A negro was lynched in Charleston on
the 9th for an attempted outrage on a
white girl and one accused of like crime
was lynched on the same day at Atlanta.
Oregon stocks sold at New York on the
9th, as follows: Northern Pacific, COM
mon, 81 4 preferred, 92H; Transconti-
mental, 94H; Oregon Improvement Co.,
S5.
At the photographers convention at
of California, read paper on the infiu-
ence affecting the progress of American
art.
The twenty anniversary of the
battle of Wilson's Greek, at which Gen
eral Lyon was killed, was celebrated at
st. Louis on the 10th and largely at
tended,
Suit for damages against the owner of
the luckless steamer Sciota, to the amount
of $75, 900, by surviving friends of VIC
Tins of the disaster were brought at
Wheeling on the 18th.
The national education assembly at
Ocean Grove closed on the 10th with an
immense audience. In the afternoon
Bishop Simpson and q. S. Senator San
ders, of Nebraska, spoke.
The Louisville fair association has
issued a liberal programme for the five
days trotting meeting, beginning Sep
tember II. Special inducements are
offered for colts and fillies
Two men, while attempting to climb
h. 1g
during display of fireworks, caught
hold of the electric wire used in illumi-
mating the gardens and both were struck
dead instantly.
w. T. Campbell and VIM. Swisher.
arrested for participation in the mob to
lynch Holmes, the negro charged with
outraging a child, went to Jail, refusing
to give bail. The sheriff has armed
twenty-five men to prevent the friends of
Campbell and Swlsher from iberating
them by force.
The Tribune's Breckenridge special
says: Last Friday, VIM. Bird and son
who live on a ranch at Bear river, on re-
turning home from work discovered their
cabin had been burglarized. In COM
pany with five other men they started in
pursuit, soon overtaking the thieves. In
fight that ensued both thieves were
killed and also Mr.. Bird son.
The amount of $3.50 10000 in gold
certificates will be printed. The assis-
tant treasurer at New York states that
the amount of gold coin held by the as
sociated banks is $60, 900 900, and that
all the banks will probably make large
and rapid offering of their gold for the
new certificates, and that the banks are
anticipating their issue and are now
making proper application.
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland, through it's Garfield monument
committee, determined to give under
provisions of a joint resolution of con-
gress of August 5, 1882, a national fair
and bazaar Industrial and art exposition
in the rotunda on November and ending
the 3D. of December. the object being to
raise the greatest possible amount of
funds to aid in erection of q statue at
Washington, D. c., to the memory and
honor of President Garfield.
The large steamers Tacoma and San
Pedro, build by Cramp & Sons for the
Central Pacific railroad company, are
now completed, and Cramp has received
d COltfdCb AOI Two LAOT0 IRON St0HIuSUlpS
for the Oceanic S. S. company, to ply
between San Francisco and the Sandwich
Islands. The vessels are to be started as
soon as iron can be got ready. They are
to be 800 feet long, AZ feet beam, 26 feet
deep, and of $500 tons burden, and eapa-
BILE of making 141I knots an hour.
The second days examination of Lee
Pettils, John Montgomery and Emanuel
Clement, at Taylorsville, ills. on charge
of committing an outrage on Emma
Bond, the latter part of June, drew i'm
mense crowds in attendants. Miss Bond
is yet unable to. be out of her bed. The
state closed its testimony on the 10th
having catled 130 witnesses. Testimony
for defense began yesterday afternoon
Sufficient proof has been adduced to
warrant tie belief that the court will
hold the accused. Specials from Tay-
lorsville state the gist of evidence thus
far has been to render it almost certain
that if set at liberty they would be
lynched.
Feltville, the deserted village of Union
county, n. j. has been sold at masters
sale by the receiver of the Globe Mutual
Insurance Company of New York for
81 ,450. The village contains twenty
houses, two mills, a church, school
house, store and mill dam. In the sale
were included 800 acres of land, 200 acres
tillable. The village was first owned
and built by the Felt manufacturing
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