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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09
FeminIae Celebrities.

The Baroness Burdetie-Coutts has the
smallest pony in the world. It is only
thirteen inches high.
Miss Catherine L.. Wolfe, of New
York, will have the finest villa in New
port. It is in course of building, and
will be of brown stone
The Princess Louise is a member of
the royal society of painters in water
trice are members af similar societies,
and the Princess Alice was o sculptor of
considerable talent.
Mary Clemmer, writing of Mrs. Lin
coin sirce her death, says she was a
greatly misiudged woman. That she
was physically and mentally strong, but
that her mental forces had never sbeen
thoroughly developed and became
warped in later life. No lady who has
ever occupied the White House with the
exception of Mrs. Garfield, could and
did more habitually write an elegant
note than she, not only in English but
French. She had keen perception. but
peculiar fancies which sometimes inter-
fered with her judgment of people. Her
sympathies were strong and steadfAst, but
did not extend to people in general. y
Her circle of real friends was small.
Like the great Napoleon. she could not
endure rival. and never invited as i
continuous guest any woman younger OF
fairer than herself. She was perfec,
mimic and would have made her fortune
OIL the stage. Her sun set in her hns
bands grave, and thenceforth she lived
at odds with the world that could no,
console her.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09
Bill Nye's Engagement. Broken.

Th6 following is the latest from the
Laramie Boomerang:
/ have just received q letter from my
friend, Bill Nye, of the Laramie City
Boomerang, wherein he informs me chat
he is engaged to the beautiful and ac-
compiished Lydia E. Pinkham, of 'sVeg-
etable Compound" fame, and the we'd
ding will take place next Christmas. To
be sure am expected at the wedding,
and 1 will be on hand If I can secure a
white shirt by that time, and the roads
amt too bad. But I am loss what to
get as present, as Bill informs me in a
postscript to his letter that gifts of Bibles,
albums, nickel plated pickle dishes,
chromos, with frames, and the like will
not be in order, as it will be utterly i'm
possible to pawn articles of this kind in
Laramie City, The Bohemian.
We are sorry that the above letter,
which we dashed off in careless mo-
ment, has been placed before the public
as later developments have entirely
changed the aspect of the matter, the en-.
gagement between ourselves and Lydia
having been rudely broken by the young
lady herself. She has returned the SOL
taire filled ring, and herceforth We can
OO AA0ehiAAS ihSiO w C1SA OtuCA VHat
friend. The promise which bade fair
to yield so much joy in the future has
teen ruthlessly yanked assunder, and
two young hearts must bleed through
the coming years. Far be it from us to
say aught that would reflect upon the re-
cord of Miss Pinkham. 1t would only
imperil her chances in the future, and
deny her the sweet satisfaction Of gather
ing in another guileless sucker like us.
The truth, however, cannot be evaded,
that Lydia is no longer young. She is
now in the sere and yellow leaf. The
gurgle of girlhood ard the romping,
careless grace of her childhood are mat
ters of ancient history alone.
We might go on and tell how one
thing brought on another till the quarrel
occurred and hot words and an assault
and battery led to this estrangement, but
we will not do it. 1t would be wrong
for great strong man to take advantage
of his strength and the public press to
speak disparagingly of young thing
like Lyd. No matter how unreasonably
she may have treated us, we are dumb
and silent on this point. Journalists
who have been invited and have pur-
chased costly wedding presents may ship
the presents by express prepaid, and we
will accept them, and struggle along
with our first great heart trouble while
Lydia goes on in her mad career.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09

Bobs marriage, to which she had looked
forward with happy anticipations all her
life, should be like thisi
The whirl of carriage wheels, hurrv-
ing of forms through the evenings mist.
the opening of doors, haste and laughter
lBob's peculiar laugh of delight-how
well she knew i'll, and gentle arms
clasped her; lovely, familiar face bent
q fair cheek for kiss of welcome.
"Effer'
8 Nelly, Nellyi Oh, Bobl is this your
my wife? It is, madam repeated
Bob, proudly. as he divested himself of
his cvercoat, and prepared to divest
sweet Mrs. st. Charles of her wrapping
with an unmistakable air of ownership.
why, Effie," catching sight of his sis
ter's face, didn't you know"
mo; | thought it was some horrid-
horrid-"
Mrs. Dick came very near fainting.
but they bathed her forehead, slapped
her hands. and coaxed her to laugh in
stead.
'tThe ribbon" she began.
"Was Nelly's."
"The letters"
"Were hers
"And YOU"
Il fell in love with her at first sight
but everything was SO awkward, I made
myself late going for the flowers which
were for her, and
And I never received your letter tsaaffHH= safH=
til few days ago. Efie, +" pat in Elinor.
Instead of returning 10 town I went
down to Nantasket fer few weeks more;
The weather was>so fine, and Bob wrote
to me there. Il thought he had told you
OF our engagement, and wondered you
didn write after ] got home
'Oh, never mind p broke in Effie,
incoherently. II never was SO happy in
all my lifeT'
Nor I" exclaimed Bob.
Nor IT. said Nelly, softly.-Saturday
Night.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.


Langtry draws better than Bernhardt
but she does not act so we'll.
sBlood will tell" SO be careful
how you make confdants out of your
relations.- Elk.
Children are like boils. Everybody
knows how. to salk of those that belong to
other people.
A man is very poor when he cannot
find enough whisky and tobacco to sup
ply his daily wants.
The swells of New York are all iel1ous
of poor Oscar Wilde because Langtry
and Nilsson pet him.
A mans aims in life should always be
high, but not too high if he wishes to
hit the bull's-eye of success.
The Mexicans are growing to like
Americans and American bottled beer
better every day Picayune.
Engineer Melville will not lecture.
He is o man of more character than was
at first supposed.
Now is the time when the greedy man
helps himself first to celery, in order to
secure the heart,
People who know least about oysters
poor quality this season.
The Springfield Republican speaks of
Mr.. Blaine as ''an uncanny ghost wan
dering on the presidential shore"
Whom the Lord Ioveth He chasten-
eth" is the Hayerhill Bulletins pious
reflection on the election of General
Butler.
stMannikin Washers" is the name given
to silly swelis and jackanapss who, from
the perches of the hotels, ogle pretty
female passers-by.
A Cleveland man has invented eva
cuum gun" This is bad. It is always
the empty gun that kills the small boy.
New Haven Register.
I A st. Louis man has had sixteen diff
ferent attacks Of delirium tremens, and
has got so used TO seeing snakes, he's
really lonesome when none are in sight.
In Philadelphia, when they want to-
break up crowd. somebody mnkes up q
pun and the people at once start for
home to consider what ought to be done
TO the offender.
We are curions to know how many
feet go to make mile in the estimation
OF the ladies, for the reason that we
never met lady who didn't wear shoes
a mile too big for her. The Judge.
The Jersey Lily" will go into hys-
terics when she reads The following as
sertion of the Philadelphia Times: Our
girls are too large-minded to be jealous
of England's second hand beauty
A Michigan newspaper speaks OF a
man who got on the top of barrel to
| fix hammock on his porch. The bsr-
| rel head caved in under him; then the
barrel upset and rolled down the steps
and clear across the yard with the man
| in it. When this trouble began 1t was
only common salt barrel, but when the
man got out of its inside 1t was SO we
| lined with hair. pieces of skin, ciofhing
and profane language that 1t Is 1nougns
petroleum oil wouldn't leak through 1t.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09
PnngenI Paragraphs.

The modern pie-rate- ten cents
piece.
The best thing to take before singing
breath.
There's very little or no opposition TO
rcd-hot poker.
The right kind of dog in a yard is
terrier to evil doers.
II dog loses his paw, and rooster
loses his NAV. does it make orphans of
them?
When a man gets into stocks nova
days he is very like the culprit of old.
times, and suffers in a corresponding
degree.
Eyes" said the farmer, "barbed wire
fence is expensive, but the hired man
doesn't stop to rest every time he climbs
it..
An exchange contains an article on
"Women Who Die Early Those who
light the fire with kerosene in the morn
ing are apt to die early.
Clara looking at the bonnets, etc.
Don't you think they are very hand
some?" Amy (whose thoughts are on
the other side of the street) very,
specially the one with the black nous
tache."
The man who will invent some prac-
tical substitute for the ordinary wooden
knob for drawers, desk doors, and the
like, or some way of keeping the orli
nary knob on, will make fortune and
die respected.
Perhaps the casual reader has never
sat down on buzz saw and felt himself
gradually fading away. If so, he doesn't
know what it is to form the acquaintance
of somnambulistie bulldog in the prime
of life.
"What are the nine muses., pa?" asked
little boy who was reading mythology
cal lore in the lower class. ''It is when
the home nine is beaten in a game of
base bali, then the nine muses. over it, F"
was the reply.
A lecturer wants to know swhat shall
we do with our girls?" How would it do
to give them three square meals day
and try to raise them up to help their
husbands?
A new nursemaid has been engaged
for the family of John Leech On her
appearing in the nursery she was thus
addressed by Master Leech: Nurse,
papa says I am one OF those children
that can only be managed by kindness,
and I'll trouble you to fetch some sponge
cake and oranges at once.
In dangerous proximity to meanness:
eyes, said Bnrkenstein, II cane pretty
near doing mean thing to-day. I had
counterfeit half and was about to give
it to poor blind beggar who asked for
aims. but ] resisted the temptation and
got an old apple woman to change it by
buying five cents worth of fruit.
When California panther sees
poodle and q young woman he eats the
poodle and leaves the young woman. He
probably reasons in this way: Fl I eat
the girl and the poodle, that will be
only one meal; if I only eat the poodle
the girl can always get another, and
then can always be certain of another
meal
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09
TWO EPITAPHs,

-"Memento morto." "Gedenke gu Leben."1
"Think of Deathl' the gravestones say
"Peace to Life's mad striving r
But the churchyard daisies may,
Think of living t''
'Think Of Life?'' the sunbeams say,
Ger the dial flying;
But the santing shadows--"Nay,
Think of diving p
'HThink of Death p the night birds say,
On the torm-blast driving;
But the building swallows--"Eay,
Think of living r
"Think of Life /" the broad winds say,
Through the old trees signing;
But the whirlng ieaf-dance--"Nay,
Think of dying p
"Think of Death - the sad bells say,
Fateful record giving
Clash the merry Yele peal--"Nay,
Think of living !"
Dying, living, glad, or loath,
On Gods Rood relying;
PRIV He fits us all for both---
Living, dying r
--[Chas. w. Stubbs.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09

A Woodstock man swallowed wasp
when he took drink of water. II he is
u temperate man he can now appreciate
the feelings of the man who drank Jer-
ssy apple-iack for the first time.- N. Y.
Com. Adv.
Another iconclanst has arisen to in
form the world that there were no apples
In Switzerland at the time Tell shot the
fruit off his sons head. Perhaps Will
,liam's alleged apple was a pumpkin.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09
Notice.

Notice hereby given, to whom il may concern tnal
the undersigned has been awarded the contract 10.
tw" years All persons III need OF assistance from aia
county must first procure certificate to that enect
from any member OF the County Board, and present
t one OF the following named persons who are author
lied to- and will care for those presenting such
W. l.. Butten, Roseburg L. l.. Kellogg, Oakland, mfs
E,rdvn Looking Glass DIR. ScToggs Is authorized 70
furnish medical aid to all persons in need of the same
Sho have been declared paupers Of Douglas county.
WM B. CLARKE, Supt Of Poor.
RnskBURa, Or. Feb Is. 1880
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-09

The theory that violins get tired by
constant use is one that cannot be too
industriously circulated in the interf st
OF those who suffer from over-practiee
by their amateur neighbors. Lowell
Citizen.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
Discoveries in Gunnery.

The power of great guns has been devel- oped to an extent hitherto unprecedented in the course of experiments which have taken place at the Royal Arsenal proof butts this week, and, were continued yesterday. Of late the attention of ertillerists has been di- rected to the spacing of cartridges as the probable key to the secret of high velocities, and some of the private manufacturers have devised methods of introducing the air and regulating it's precise quantity, which meth ods they have jealously guarded against imi- tations. At the Royal gun factories, how
 ever, the superintendent, Colonel Maitland, R. A., has taken a new departure by giving up air-spacing as unproftable expedi- ent and trying another system. Having found by repeated trials the description of slow burning powder best adapted to his requirement., he has designed contrlvance for retaining it in the chamber of the gun until the powder is sufficiently fired to set up q pressure of about two tous per square inch upon the base of the shot, which then starts at bound, the speed of which is accelerated
 by the pursuit of the powder gases until it
 leaves the muzzle. The retention of the shot
 is accomplished by ring of metal fixed
 around it near the base, and so regulated as
 to size that it will, when placed in the breach,
 be trife larger than the bore through which
 it has to pass. According to the resistance which it affords, will be the period of reten- tion It has been demonstrated by experi-
 ments with fired gunpowder, that in very strong vessel the powder may be ignited and converted into gas, but yet held under sub lection for an unlimited time. The retention
 ring is made of such strength that it will sur
 render at a given pressure, and the l requisite conditions for the attainment i of maximum velocities thus appear to have been realized. With the 10. inch gun ! 462- pound shot has been fired at a muzzle velocity of 2,275 feet per second, the equiva-
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
Personal.

The portrait of General Nathaniel Lyon, painted by H. I. Thompson, and recently presented to the State by his sister, Mrs. Sophronia B. Haslett, of Webster, Mass, has been received by the Secretary of State and hung temporarily in his office at the Cap itol. 1t will be placed in the State library IEmes.
 William B. Osgood, after seven years ser vice as teacher of penmanship in the public schools of Hartford, has resigned to accept of business arrangements in New York.
 Mir Charles T. Howe, much to the regret of its members, has resigned from his posi- ton in the American band.
 Hon. Marshall Jewell gave his lecture on Russia in Southington recently to large au- dience.
 Dr. Hubbard, of Bridgeport, has returned from Richmond, Virginia, where he was called to see Hon. o. H. Perry, of Southport who is sick in that city. Mir. Perry is get
 
 ting better
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
ting better.
Police Notes.


 . Yesterday afternoon the police were noti- fled that rape had been attempted on the person of epileptic, feeble, wasted and almost imbecile young woman 27 years of age, named Cunningham, who lives with her mother, hard working woman, who has small grocery in East street, few doors be- low Grand Chief Webster procured a de- scr1ption of the man accused and started Policemen Murphy and Stewart in pursuit. The officers learned that man who filled the description passably well k&d been seen to pass over Tomlinson's bridge by Captain Hill, the toll taker, and the roads to East Haven were followed out to Frank R. Mum sons place at the Four Corners. There they learned that a man had been in the place and begged drink The officers pushed on and caught up with the man in South Haven. He was walking in the shore road. He was taken to the station house. Or the way back Policemen Mcbride and Doherty, who had been sent out in the police team, were met. At the station house the mother of the gIrl at once identified Ryan as the man who had committed the assault on her daughter. Mrs. Cunningham told the police that she was temporarily out of the house yesterday morn ing at neighbours, and when she returned heard her daughter talking with some one and went up stairs to see who it was and dis covered to her horror that was about to outrage her daughter. She shouted "Oh, you murdering villain" and he fled, but she grasped him by the throat, but he being the stronger broke from her and escaped to the street. She pursued him shouting for help and kept after him as far as St. John street. where she lost sight of him near the Clock shop. Mrs. Cunningham recognized the man at her daughters bedside a stranger who had applied at houses in the neighborhood for boarding place. Ryan at the police office claimed utter ignorance of the charge brought against him. He admitted being at Mrs. Cunningham's, that he boarded at Quinlan's on the east side, and as he intended to go to work for the Steam Sawmill company he thought he would change his boarding place. He went to Mrs. Cunningham s and knocked on the outside door and woman's voice up stairs said "Come in," and he went up and found a woman lying in bed. He stood in the doorway a minute and fat woman rushed up and asked him what he was doing there, and at the same time took hold of him. She made so much noise that he ran away rather than to be arrested for assault and battery. He denied what he was told was charged against him, but contra, dicted himself. Ryan denied being drunk, and admitted to having had but two drinks during the day.
 Before Ryan was arrested another man had been arrested in Fair Haven, he answering the description given by Mrs. Cunningham. He was taken to Mrs. C., who said he was not the right man, and the man was released, looking greatly relieved.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22

son New York, Hiscock North Carolina
 Hubbs; Ohio, Mckinley; Oregon, George
 Pennsylvania, Fisher; Rhode Island, Aid rich South Carolina, Mackey Tennessee, l Houck; Virginia, Desendorf Wisconsin, Pound. Members from Louisiana, Colorado, 1 Nebraska and Vermont have not been elected. | States having no member or contestant will not be represented. The committee is called to meet Monday night to effect an organiza- tion
 The report hat Senator Teller will be given a Cabinet position is discredited The popu- lar slate is Chandler for the Navy and Chaffee for the Interior
 Cabinet action in the Whitaker case was that the finding of the court be set aside, owing to certain Irregularities, and he be released from arrest but dismissed the service on recommendation of the academic board
 There were two deaths from smallpox to- day No new cases
 The President has had many calls and has read many petitions to pardon Sergeant Ma son. Now, too, Judge Advocate General Swain makes a report to Secretary Lincoln that he holds that this is a case for civil court. It is probable that the sentence will be commuted to dismissal from the service.
 The report of the board which examined the Jeannette previous to her departure has never till now been published. It shows a lack of confidence of the members of her adaptability for the cruise After examination before her repairs, alterations and trial trip, the board said: "For an extended cruise in the Arctic regions it is not possible, in our opinion, to make her practically adapted for such service" but after repairs, &c., the same board, without commenting her seaworthiness, said: "So far as practi- cable, we of opinion that she has been re. paired and placed in condition for service in the Arctic Ocean,"
 General Grant and wife arrived at 4:3O p. m., and were met at the depot by Mir. Phil lips, the Presidents secretary. They dined this evening at Secretary Frelinghuysen's
 The agent of the Quebec steamship line from New York to Porto Rico informs Post master General Howe that the line will be discontinued April 1st.
 Agent Tiffany at San Carlos Indian agency in dispatch dated March 20 to Indian Agent Price says: ''No Indian troubles"
 Representative Blacks condition remains unchanged.
 Seventy clerks were appointed in the gen eral land office today.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
THE WEST.
Illinois.

tLong Tom'' the ROSecrans Affair.
 CHICAGO, March 21-Hon. Thomas M. Nichol, we'll known as Long Tom. personal friend of General Garfield, seen by a reporter in this city where he is spending a few days, and said he believed the Garfield letter concerning Rosecrans genuine. He thought it gave true account of the Army of the Cumberland after the battle of Stone River and there was nothing improper in it's writing. He also stated that Grant once told him that Rosecrans was not fit to command an army and was pig>headed, obstinate who would not obey orders. Rosecrans would have really destroyed the Army of the Cumber. and or had it destroyed had it not been for the intelligence of the army itself.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
THE FLOODED DISTRICTS.
Relief for the sufferers-VhOle Families Slowly Starving to Death-Terrtble Tales of Distress.

Relief for the sufferers-WhOle Families
 Slowly Starving to Death-Terrible
 Tales of Distress.
 MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 21.-The steamer General Bernard passed down the river to- day with 50, GOO rations for the sufferers by the overflow. The officers of the boat report having found nine families at landing forty miles above here on the Arkansas side They were without a mouthful to eat and were slowly starving to death. A child had just died of pneumonia and another of scarlet fever. Others were suffering with disease None had any money to buy supplies, and a nished from the boat At some places cattle were seen in the second stories of houses The water has fallen eighteen inches at Os- ceola, nine miles above here, and two feet at Council Bend, fifty miles below here. The flood here is about over. The water is gen. erally receding and dry land is beginning to appear all the way to Arkansas City, three hundred miles south of here. It is expected that in ten days the water will have run off sufficiently to allow blowing the western edge of the flooded country. In St. Francis the river bottom is being rapidly relieved. Elf forts are now directed to YaZoo Basin and below there where there is the greatest dan ger The steamer Paris c. Brown, which has just passed up, reports having moved several destitute families and much stock to place of safety. Persons on board saw five corpses of white men floating together in an eddy in the river.
 LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 21.-Terrene at the mouth of the White river caved in last night. All the business houses and saloons in the town, which were not many, tumbled into the river. Terrene is coaling point for Mississippi river and other steamers. The coal barges are safe. Terrene was built after Napoleon tumbled into the Mississippi thir- teen years ago.
 The river is falling an inch every twenty four hours at Arkansas City Colonel Wood son, general manager of the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas railway, has sent large force of men to repair the submerged portions of the road and expects to run trains to Arkansas City by Saturday night.