The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-04-01
Gezeman Blanco has been re elected
president of Venezuela.

| Gezeman Blanco has been re electe
president of Venezuela.
Specials continue to bring stories
great destitution of overflow sufferers.
Ten men are on trial in Santa Domine
for attempting to assass nate PresideI
Merino.
Smallpox RACES throughout Hayti. /
Port An Prince and environs alone AT
deaths have occurred.
1t is expected Governor Crittende
will call an extra session of the Missoul
legislature in few days, to redistrict th
state.
The cost of the county court house {
Chicago now nearing completion hs
been 81, 251 900, and there are outstane
ing claims of $515 900 more.
The trial of rebels at st. Marc, Hayt
has begun It is believed majority wi
be executed. Seventeen arrests have bee
made at Jacemel; "a others have fed.
Col. A. N. Freyer, commander of N
7, regiment during the war, was foun,
dead in his bed at Milwaukee, Wis,
supposed suicide on account of poverty
New city directory of st. Louis fo
1882 appeared on the 25th. It has I9 90
more names in it than last years, show
ing handsome increase in population
The jury in the case of Grow Dog, OF
trial for the murder of Spotted Tail, rem
dered verdict of guilty on the 9th
Grow Dog will appeal to the suprem
court.
81. V. Bemis will soon retire from tn
turf and dispose of his fine stable, com
prising Little Brown Jug, record 2:13
Sorrel Dam. 2:14; Silverton, 1907, ant
other flyers.
A Chicago dispatch says: The Neel,
elevators receipts being declared regu
lar throws 5000, 900 more bushels oi
wheat on the market, and the CLIQUE will
now have 8, SOC, 900 bushels to take car,
of by April LIST.
A petition for the pardon of Maso1
containing 5000 names was sent to the
president. Ons hundred dollars will be
sent from Philadelphia next week to b.
added to the 10 cent subscription funG
for betty and the Baby"
An explosion of gas in the Laurel Rur
mines of the Delaware and Hudson Coal
Co. occurred on the 25th. James Will
liams, fire boss, VIM. Scoville, VIM. Ash
ford and two unknown miners in the pii
at the time are supposed to be dead.
An engine on the Sixth avenue eleva.
ted road ran into the rear coach of the
regular passenger train at Cortland street
station, New York, on the 25th. Two
coaches careened and would have fallen
to the street had it not been for the guard
railing.
The secretary of the interior has sent
draft of bill to the house providing
that all railroads in whole or part con-
structed by grants of public lands, on
condition that such railroad remain a
public highway for use of the govern
ment of the United States free from toll
or other charge for transportation of any
property or troops of the United States,
will be authorized to receive fifty per
centum of the gross amount due for such
transportation.
About $4,000 in money and a large
amount of provisions and clothing have
been raised for the benefit of overflow
sufferers on the Mississippi river Capt
Lee, in charge of the government relief
up the Sunfower and Yazoo
rivers, states that the loss of hogs is total
in the Yazoo counties, and the loss of
cattle is fully 70 per cent. All fencing,
with many of the smaller houses, is de-
stroyed. He recommends the distribu-
ton of rations to continue at least two
weeks in Johnsonville, and three weeks
in the lower Yazoo counties, by which
time he thinks work may be begun in
the fields, and then the people can prob
ably take care of themselves. Seventy
thousand rations week, it is believed,
will be needed until the water subsidies
so that people can get to work.
Thomas NJ. Nicholl, the New York
banker, arrived at st. Louis March Goth.
In reference to General Grants denial
that he hud ever conversed with him
Garfield and Rosecrans, Mr..
Nichol1 reafirmed to Post Dispatch re-
porter most positively his former state
ments. Mr.. Nicholl saws there is moth
ing remarkable in the fact that General
Grant does not remember, as he was only
one of hundred who called on him and
had few moments talk, but he himself
would not be likely to forget the only
call and conversation he ever had with
Grant. He called on him in his room
in the Fifth Avenue hotel at Gen. Gar
fields request and gave him q letter from
Garfield. After reading the letter con-
versation ensued and then Grant made
The remarks about Garfield and Rose
Grams which have already been published.
Mr.. Nicholl concluded by stating that he
made the assertions with full realization
Of the fact that he might be called upon
10 support him.
The summing up in the contest over
5he will of DIR. Henry j. Phillips was
neerd In New York on the 25th by the
who reserved his decision.
Deceased married, in 1865, q niece of
Judge McAllister, of the supreme court
Of Idaho territory, and in his will he
leaves her entirely unprovided for, be-
lueathing the residue of his property
after making several small legacies, to
relatives in England. She contested on
the ground of undue infence and insane
lelusions regarding her. The case has
oeen on trial for over year before ref
cree. From the evidence it appears that
,he couple resided mostly at military sta
ions in the west and that he was sickly
md passionately jealous of his young
md beautiful wife. Letters written by
lim were offered in evidence, in which
1e states she led him an unhappy life.
Letters also written him by contestant,
we're offered, in which she accuses him
If gambling and OF trying to get fraud
1lent divorce, and if he should get that
The was engaged to be married, etc.
G. P. Huntington, in an interview re-
yarding railroad affairs, said there will
be no change in the policy of the st.
Louis and San Francisco railroad. The
'ailroad will be extended as originally
designed. He stated he intends building
! railroad from Eagle Pass. Texas, to the
Jity of Mexico, and believes it will be
he first one completed, as the route se-