The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-04
Herman Balzen & Bro, Of New York

Corhiil, editor of the Lienster Leader,
has been arrested under the coercion act.
A dispatch says there is no doubt of
Conkling's appointment being reported
favorably.
AThe appointment of M. Roustan, as
minister to Washington from France has
been gazetted.
Good harvest returns are reported and
large shipments will be made from
Australia to England.
Rose Eytinge has applied for divorce
from her husb md, Geo. II. Butler, on
the ground OF adultery.
Grand preparations were made for the
Garfield memorial services, which were
held at Washington on the 9th.
Two Mormon emissaries, Barton and
Easton, have been preaching in two Ohio
villages, and have 30 converts.
It is now said that the land committee
of the ho use of lords cannot arrive at
any useful conclusion.
A bill has passed the chamber of
deputies prolonging the present CONNER
cial treaty with England until May 10Th.
The Washington Post says that Gar
field intended to appoint Conkling to the
supreme bench. Doubtful.
Judge Charles Mason, an old and
prominent citizen of Burlington, Iowa,
died recently.
The Virginia general assembly has
elected the five judges of the supreme
court of appeals nominated by the read
justers.
Elk District Attorney Murphy, of San
Francisco, will probably recover from
the effects of his wound received by
would-be assassin.
Capt. Hall, of Burlington, Iowa, has
been appointed inspector of the office of
delivery service by First Assistant Post
master General Hatton.
The Southern Pacific and other roads
extending west have come to satisfac-
tory arrangement and made combina
tion of their interests.
Hargrave's cotton mill at Patricroft,
Lancashire, burned on the 25th, with
loss of ESQ, 1000. Five hundred hands
are thrown out of employment.
A Belgian, who landed at Castle Gar
den on Saturday. has a pair of horns an
inch long protruding from his forehead
and seems proud OF his peculiarity.
The st. Paul and Grand Forks rail-
road company has been incorporated, the
road to extend from st. Paul to Grand
Forks, Dakota, tapping the great wheat
fields of that territory.
At the needle factory of Crabb & Co.,
at Newark, recently, Adam Leet, Doy
| 13 years of age, was passing coil of
wire through when the wire broke, cut
ting the boy in two.
4 Vicksburg dispatch says that the
steamboat Bessie Claybourne has been
burned with her cargo of cotton and cot
! ton seed. Loss $50, 900. One negro
man aud three children were drowned
The senate has confirmed Bruno
| Tzschuk, of Nebrs ska, consul at Vera
| Cruz; Thomas Wilson, of the District of
| Columbia, at Nantea; Theo D. Wilson,
| of New York, chief of construction and
| repair in the navy.
| 1t is understood the cabinet has
changed the Gladstone press resolution
declaring an inquiry into the workings
of the land act would be injurious to the
workings of good governmental Ireland.
Preparations for the hanging of Eskit-
sha, Dandy Jim and Dead Shot, the three
Indian scouts who revolted at Cibicu,
1 dTO COu DIGLeu NJ Il OTt NTTaub. Il6 GA1Cu-
| tion is fixed for Friday next.
| Robert H. Pruyn, minister to Japan
under President Lincoln, died suddenly
at Albany, N. Y. on the 9th. Mr..
Pruyn at the time of his death was presi-
dent of the National Commercial bank
and Dudley observatory.
Tiffany, OF the San Carlos agency, tele-
graphs the Indian Bureau that Indians at
that agency are uneasy and excited in
connection with the approaching execu-
tion of the three condemned Indian
scouts, fixed for the Sd of March.
House committee on militia have
agreed upon bill to amend the military
law in accordance with petitions of the
National Guard to increase the annual
appropriation to 81 ,000, 900 and disburse
it to the States in proportion to the num-
Der of militia they maintain.
| A gang of roughs at Omaha recently
attempted to destroy the office of the In
dependent The editor declares the
attack was instituted by member of the
town board, whose conduct has been
criticised by the paper. 4 majority OF
4 citizens sustain the paper.
Secretary Hunt Has received cable
from Hoffman at st. Petersburg as fol-
lows: Your orders of January 10Th have
reached Melville. He answers as fol-
lows: On the road to the Arctic ocean
January 31st. Telegram of January 18th
received. Am now on my way to Arctic
ocean. People will be found.
4 A Richmond dispatch OF recent date
says that last night the western bound
pay train on the Richmond aud Albany
railroad was ditched by a land slide.
The engine, tender md pay car rolled
into the river, and the train was badly
wrecked. David McMinn, paymaster's
clerk, was killed, and five others injured
Jane B. Mantrope was in the Toomb.
police court of New York charged witt
disposing of $4,000 worth of bonds o
the Peruvian company belonging t.
; Peter Vavener, and approrriating the
money. Manthrope says his arrest is
charges against certain persons largel,
, interested in the Peruvian scheme.
Mr.. Bradlaugh's expulsion is now ad
mitted to have been a mistake. 1t wa
due to Bradlaugh skillfully but un
scrupulously playing on and exasperat
, ing the house of commons feeling. Nc
securing what the house previously re
fused, he has made fresh appeal to hi
constituency. Nobody defends Brad
laughs surreptitious oath making, bu
many doubt whether the house has no
! got the worst of this disereditable cor
: test. There is strong popular feelln
J that Mr.. BradlaBgh has not had fair pla
!, in being expelled unheard.
A dispatch from Mineral Park, A. T
!. !. saws: At Hackenbury, thirty-o mile
from this town, j.. o.. Weldon, despel
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