The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-04
VOL. 6.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY rELEa AFM TO pATE.

ne NeGhlN Sttt611eIlb Of bIlo Dsitlk vi
France shows an increase of 5000, 600
francs in gold and 4, 300, 900 francs in sill
yer.
The house committee on naval affairs
| has agreed to recommend an immediate
appropriation of SIC, 900 600 to begin the
construction of new navy.
NJ. Rouzand, Mmle. Nilsson's husband,
| who became insane during the excitement
| attending the recent financial crisis, died
at Paris on the 22d in the asylum.
The naval committee have agreed on a
| favorable report on the nomination of
Theodore Nelson of New York for chief
| of the bureau of naval construction.
The treasury will have $33 900 900 to
disburse during the first half of March
on account of interest, unless it antici-
pates payment during the present month.
| Dispatches indicate that Washington s
birthday was generally observed through
out the country. The boards OF trade
closed and in number of places suitable
ceremonies were held.
Senator Bayard has offered substitute
for the bill to retire Grant, providing q
pension for all ex presidents equal an
nually to one-fourth the amount of his
annual pay while president.
The Presbyterian church at Chicago
! appointed a committee to confer with
other denominations with view of clos
| ing theaters on Sunday and putting a
stop to indecent performances.
Considerable surprise is felt in Berlin
that no successor has been appointed to
Minister White, and it is said Bismarck
will retaliate by postponing indefinitely
! the appointment of successor to Herr
Won Schlozer.
Officers of the steamer Dean Adams
arrived at Memphis and report break
| in the levee at Mound Place, Bolivar
county. Miss, which mandates large
area Of country, and will destroy many
cattle and other stock.
It is rumored that the nomination for
supreme court Judge will be made soon,
| and that it will be New York man. It
is said that the president had for some
| time decided to nominate Senator Ed
munds, but that the pressure from New
/ York has been so great he cannot resist it..
Herald's London: Wreckage contin-
ues to wash ashore on the Irish coast
from the City of London, which was
posted at Lloyds on February 1st as miss
ing. Our Kilkee correspondent tele-
| graphs that the cover of signal locker
marked ssCity of London" has been
picked up off Dunkineely.
An attachment has been issued at the
instance of Thomas Reynolds of London,
against the indianapolis and Evansville
railroad, to recover $40, $50, claimed on
| contract for steel rails. There is in the
custoiahouse here property valued at
| $40, 600, with unpaid customs of $780,
| 600, and the attachment was laid in the
hands of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Co., said to hold the bills of lading.
One provision of land grant charters
| is that railroads mnst pay the cost of
| surveying lands. Companies hold lands
throughout the west which they have not
veyed and patented and the courts
| have held that the state connot tax these
lands because the United States still
holds an interest in equity in them by
reason of the fact that under the condi.
tions imposed by the grant the lands
might revert to the government. through
failure of the railroads to comply with
these conditions. It is claimed that the
railroads leave lands unpatented to avoid
taxation and Van Wyck's bill releases
and quit claims to any state that proceeds
against these lands for collection oi
taxes, all interest in equity of the general
government. 1t is thought that this will
encourage the state to collect these taxes
A published statement of the amounts
allowed by committee to audit the ex-
penses and burial OF President Garfield
| to attending surgeons is pronounced in.
correct by member of the committee
The amounts allowed are as follows
Bliss. S25, ZOO; Agnew and Hamilton
S15, 900 each; Rey burn and Boynton
$40 900; Mrs. Edison, $1,000; Steward
Crump, So 900; and to other employees
of the executive mansion two month.
extra pay. The committee recommended
the appointment of Barnes to be majol
general, and his retirement on thai
ground, and promotion of Woodward t.
be lieutenant colonel. The committes
has also agreed to grant Mrs. Gartield
the remainder of her husbands SALARY
for the current year. Springer ani
Blackburn, in minority report, opposed
most of the items.
A Washington special to the Graphic
says: A vigorous crusade against the
LIQUOR traffic will surely be inauguratet
by Senator Logan, who has carfully pre-
pared o speech favoring the bill which
provided that all revenues of the govern
ment hereafter derived from the tax or
the manufacture and sale of distilled
spirits shall be divided among the state
and territories in prop 3rtion to their pop
ulation, exclusively for educational pur
poses. Logan will oppose both reduc
ton and repeal of internal revenue taxes
but urge most energetically that the pro
ceads Of manufacture and sale of hquo
be devoted to bearing the expenses OF tn
great system of free schools, and thu
relieve the people of that burden. Il
has been gathering statistics on the sui
iect and says they show that the expens
of carving ON the educational system {
the states and territories does not excee
S75, ,000, 900, which is just the same as
! is estimated will be received from th
tax on liquor during the present tisca
: year.
Tranquilana Luna, delegate from Ne
Mexico to congress, is now in New Yorl
He told reporter that Americans genel
ally believe that Spanish Mexicans are
very ignorant and degraded race OF pei
pie. This is o mistake. People CON
down to New Mexico and stay for pei
haps 30 days, travelling about from plae
to place and of course they are not q.
mitted into our best society. You coul
! not expect that they would be, and Il
consequence is they only see our roughe
and worst people, and they go home an
write about the degradation of Mexican
/ Our best families are intelligent and r
fined. aud. rs becomes q true Spaniars
hospitable. Then about education, Il
territory has appropriated ole-fouri
of the taxes of each county to be used
support of public schools, and you ca
see. as the population increases, th