The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-12
HOME NEWS.
Lemon sugar .. Floods.

Mrs Judge Fttznugn ls IN fOItianu.
All Summer goods at cost, at Floods.
Hon L. F. Lane has gone TO Portland
on business.
Those fashionat lie broad-striped dress
goods at Floed's.
Mrs ]. Bitter went to Portland on
Thursday to remain FIR short time.
If you want the celebrated Peruvian
Bitters, go to the Metropolitan Saloon.
Spool silk and twist, the largest and
best assortment, received this week. at
F1oeds.
Horace Greeley once remarked: .The
way to resume is to resume" The
way TO buy goods cheap, however. is to
patronize Fioed.
Mics Nellie Sloan, the heroine of the
I.awrsnce elopement and bigamist case
p nding at Astoria. returned on the
steamer Ca ifornia last Monday.
DR.. F. p. Geary. graduate of the JEFF
ferson NJ deal College, vas in town on
tn rsday. He will locate in the south
ern portion of The State, perhaps at
Ash land.
TIE Hon. L. g. Macarthur has tens
dered TO Governor 1hayer his resigna>
tion Of Judge ofthe Fifth Judicial pis-
triet of Oregon, to take effect on the
31si day Of the present month.
General Grant is again in the field.
The old ri never sulrenders. General
Gram and w. n. Trescolt have been
appointed Commissioners to negoti ate
commercial treaty with Mexico.
Mr.. Breckeniidge is in receipt of q
monument to be erected over the re-
mans of Henry H. Viii ", in Fair
Oaks cemetery. The monument will
be nine and one half feet in height,
A session of the State Te,cher's AS
sociaiion will be held in the Legislative
Hall of the Capitol building. in Salem,
comm enc ng MoLday evening, August
2lst, and ending Wednesday evening,
August 23. 1882
Appoin ments of Rev. NJ C. Miller.
At Canyonvill August Goth, at II
o'clock A. NJ. and 7.3o p. NJ Same day
at ow Creek, at 4 p NJ. August 21st
will comm nee protracted meeting At
Days creek schooi house. 7.30 p. NJ. TO
be continued over the following Sab
bath. / will be assisted at these ap-
pointments by Rev. B. J. Sharp.
Thomas Farqnar is selling l4rg4 guam :.
titles IF peaches at six cents per pound.
He info. ms US that it is no trousle to
raise p aches in this COUNTY If rr>
tain Varieties Q; trees are planted and
we'll cared for. These trees cost twenty
cents apiece and will bear well for ten
or twelve years It seems to US that it
woutd d pay our farmers to raise more OF
this kind of fruit.
A wolf and two cubs have been doing
considerable damage to f1ocks Of sheep
in the neighborhood of Mr.. Conn's
rarg-, but the other day Creed, son ot
Mr.. Conn. succeeded in killing one oi
them. The two are still at large and
sheep continue 10 suffer from their raw
ages. They appear to be too cunning
to take bait, preferring to kill their
own anne when it is so plentiful.
T: II. Cam, whose inefficiency. bluns
d.rs or venality brought the Grover
Chadwick administration into trouble
and caused so much odium whilst he
was Clerk OF the School board, has
moved to Seattle, changed to simon
pure Republican, been elected Just!c g
of the Pea"", aid Is now the acknowl-
edged leader ard bright and shining
light in that party of pure coral ideas.
You see it pays to be q Republican.
| Work. on the Cow creek tunnel
proper has begun ON the north en- I.
This tunnel is to be put thorough by
means OF team drills, or more pro erly
com pressed air drills The engine
which operates he one at Che north
end # Cow creaa tunnel is mile and q
quarter from I he entrtnce OF the tunnel
to which The compressed air is forced
through iron pips g. 1t was necessary
70 place it SD far way in order to obtain
supply of water
o.. Satur lay of last week there as q
large and well attended meeting OF the
Um qua Grange NJ. %. held at then
hall In this city A ter Transferring the
usual business. able and interesting ad :
dresses were delivered by several of the
members present. A com mite was
appointed to extend an invitation to the
Hon r. p. Boise to b. present and ad-
dress the Grange on the -econd Of Sep
temher. 1t IL hoped that he may accept
and that the address may be open tx
the puhli,, 40 that others, not member
of the order who Interested in the
material development of the country
may hav. an opportunity of hearing
this able expounder of the agricultural
interests of the coun ry.
Three or four of the boys who occa
sionally indulge in game they cal
draw" We're on last Monday arra.gn.
ed before his Hon. Justice Flint, on the
charge of gambling. They waived ar
examination and Were held to answ-l
to the Grand Jury. We are inform. &
that young gentleman of this p'ac
bad come out y heavy loser by hazard