The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-02-18

Leander P. Richardson, the journalist,
sailed for Europe from New York on the
18th.
Antonio D. Poole was killed by cave
in his mining claim, near Eldorado, Cal
ifornia on the 10th.
A senator of prominence thinks Ar
thur will not confine his nominations to
stalwarts entirely.
Senator Lam@ was knocked down by
carelessly driven pair of horses in
Washington on the 10TH
The president agreed on the Sth to ap-
point Bruno Tzchuck, of Nebraska, as
consul to Vera Cruz. Mexico.
4 Mexican named Gaitan was hanged
at Brownsville, Texas, on the 10th for
the murder of another Mexican in dance
house.
The London lord mayors fund for re-
lief of Jews amounts to f43,00 The
widow of James Rothschild subscribed
e120O.
Sergeant Bust, of the 10th cavalry, shot
his head off at Galveston, Texas, on the
10th, because he had been sent to the
guard house
The coffee crop of Ceylon has suffered
seriously from blight. The crop is worth
but C., SOC, 900 this year against 96, ,000,
900 last year.
The official iquidator of the Union
Generate has gone to Vienna to learn
whether the capital of that bank and the
one in Vienna was the same.
A special grant of 10000 was made from
the fund raised in England for assistance
Of 373 Jews going from Hamburg via
Liverpool TO the United States.
L. NJ. Nicol late private secretary to
the martyred president has card in the
New York Tribune of the 18th in reply
to an attack by the Commercial Adver-
tiser in regard to the Cleveland Garfield
monument, uses the following language:
'All of you who glory in the name of
stalwarts. and who took part in the Will
hcation and abuse of President Garfield
last summer, who sought to control his
official action, or degrade or destroy his
character and reputation, are RESPONSE
BILE for his murder. His blood is ON the
garments of the whole gang of You, and
you cannot wipe it off. You have been
dealt with very tenderly touching your
grave responsibility tor the crime, but
everybody knows you are guilty, and you
feel it yourselves in your innermost
souls. It was your abuse and denuncia-
tion that INSPIRED" Guiteau to remove
the president as political necessity, and
you will not he permitted much longer
TO hide the stains on your hands or dis
tract attention from them by raising the
dust around the heels of Blaine, by
throwing mud at Sherman, or heaping
ridicule on me. Your crime was not
merely the murder of man, it was the
transfer of government by murder to
the hands of faction of the party, which,
if the question could have been submitted
to the people at the time it was done,
would not have received one vote in u
thousand. One would think that with
such a fact hanging over your heads in
the clear daylight of public knowledge
you would have sense enough, though
| destitute ofall decency, to enjoy the lease
of power the assassin gave you, while the
law allows, without persistently viliify-
| ing the chosen friends and associates of
| your victim, who was the nations choice.
Why, you are the most stupid fools in, the
| world to keep on provoking discussion of
| these old matters. You stand as ac-
| knowledge criminals, as. morally respon-
sible for and guilty of Garfeld's murder;
but against you, on account of your
| friends and the good name of the commu-
nifty, prosecuting witnesses are 10th to
| proceed. But when you treat mercy Us
coward'ce, and to guilt add insolence and
| defiance, you are no longer entitled to
forbearance. So now if you want recon
sideration aud full discussion OF the
whole subject proceed with your abuse.
Crop Lntist'cs
The Chicago Times of February 11th
has a review of crops in the northwestern
states of which the following is n sum
mary: An open winter and the probable
ity that spring will begin month or six
| weeks earlier than usual make agricul
tural prospects in the northwest most
encouraging. Reports differ in charac
ter as widely as in locality, but the gen
eral testimony is that hogs have beer
pretty thoroughly sold off owing to g
comparatively small crop of corn. II
but few localities is there much corn il
the hands of farmers beyond what they
will need for their own stock. What
wheat remains in most states is in The
hands of the local buyers, though in
good many parts of the country farmers
have considerable wheat on hand for the
coming year. Prospects are all that cal
be expected, winter wheat being in ex
cellent condition with hardly an excep
tion, and the area of spring wheat viii
generally show an increase. Return
made by millers and elevator men indi
cate that not much more than one thir,
of the wheat has been marketed i'll Mich
igan and Minnesota 1t IL estimated tina
farmers still have on hand 70, 1000 ,0O
bushels of wheat. In Indiana the posi-
BILE supply of wheat is considerabl
though not more than three -fourths o
what it was year ago, but large mum
Der of reports showing that farmers hay
sold most of their grain indicate that
greater part of the wheat in the State i
in the hands of local buyers.
In Illinois it is estimated the whea
acreage this year will show decrease Q
II per cent. but winter wheat Is now i
admirable condition, though receu
freezing and fhawing wheather in som
localities has created feeling of uneas
ness In some counties there will be
material increase in spring wheat acreage
but in others hardly any of this graf
will be sown. In the southern part c
the state corn is being bought by farm
ers, an.l in the state generally they hay
not much left beyond what they wi
need.
Wisconsin had rather bad luck wit
! wheat. and while what winter wheat ther
, is looks we'll, i'll most counties there wi
, be less spring wheat sown than last yea
In Iowa the tendency is to sow less an
less spring wheat, but winter wheat
very promising, and the prospect fc