The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-02-25
The Merchants bank at Watertown, N
Y. has closed It's doors.

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Louis will be provided with good place.
In the parliamentary election at Taun-
| ton the conservative defeated the liberal
candidate.
The Texas Lumberman saysit will take
| a billion feet of lumber to finish the rail-
roads in that state.
Jos. E. Sheffield, founder of the Shelf
! field scientific school, connected with
Yale college, died on the 10Th.
The fire in the old World building at
| New York last week in found to have
| originated from defective fue.
The committee has reported favorable
ON the nomination of Major Rochester
for paymaster general of the Army.
Rain has been pretty general through
out California the past two days, and the
| Indications are favorable for the farmers.
The Irish members of parliament have
| decided to resist ahy attempt to remove
ParnelTs name from parliamentary COM
| mittees.
Nearly all the business portion of Rob-
inson. Kansas, including hotel and
fourteen buildings, was burned to the
ground on the 10th.
authorized the First National Bank of
Pendleton, Or, with capital OF $50 900
| to commence business.
Great distress prevails among the peo-
| pie of Sweden, the mildness of the
weather preventing the transportation of
| produce by means of sleighs as usual.
1t is stated among railroad men that
Mcintyre, of the Pacific railway syndi-
| cate, sold his interest in the company to
". III. Vanderbilt.
At Lynn, Mass, on the 10th, Kelly's
morocco mandatory, several stores in
the same buildings and adjoining dwell
ings were burned. Loss IS, 900; partially
| insured.
| county, Texas, is inundated by water
from the Brazos river. Many inhabitants
| fed and others have taken refuge in the
church and are supplied with food by
boats.
The Boston Transcript says that Col.
Mutt, president of tie Atlantic and Paci-
ic received notice from the Atchison
Company that its So SOC, 900 of Atlantic
and Pacific subscription had ali been
| taken.
The star route trial at Lincoln, Neb.,
was fizzle, the jury returning verdict
of not guilty. The Judge ruled that
Clary could not be compelled to testify,
being one of the partisans in the joint
| indictment for conspiracy.
| The Tribune's Washington special: A
| close personal friend of the late President
! Garfield said to a correspondent of the
| Tribune recently that he had talked with
| General Garfield several times about the
| projected inter-oceanic canal, aud Gar
| field said, In substance, on these occa-
! sions, that his administration would take
position add enforce it in SO far as it
| had power, that if French, English or
| German capital constructed the canal, in
| whole or in part, it should be used ex-
| actlv as it would be If it was invested in
railroad Or other international improve
| ments upon the American continent, and
| that European governments should not
| acquire any rights, either proprietary or
| protective, over the canal.
The ship Glenmorav arrived. She
| picked up boat with eleven of the crew
and two passengers of the steamer Ba-
hama from Porto Rico for New York.
John L. Scott, a cabin passenger, says
| the Bahama left ST. Johns, Porto Rico,
on the 4th of February. On February
| 9th she encountered hurricane which
threw the steamer on her beam ends. It
was concluded to abandon the ship and
| two boats were lowered. The captains
boat contained II passengers, but it was
| swamped shortly after leaving the ship,
and two or three were seen to swim back
to the vessel, but it was impossible to
tell if they succeeded in getting on
board. Three of the crew refused to
leave ship. preferring to take chances by
remaining, as the two boats were SO
| heavily loaded. Our boat contained
| Robert Williams, first officer, Robert
| Ross, second officer, Fl. j. Tear and my
self, three passengers, two engineers,
chief steward, q cook, waiter, messman
and fireman.
| The Posts Washington special says:
There are indications that opponents of
| Capt. Eads' ship railway project are en-
| deavoring to give new energy to the Nj
caragua scheme, with view not only to
| defeat Eads plan, but to advance their
own. The general subject of q maritime
company has been referred. in the senate,
to Miller, OF California, as sub COM
mittee, while In the house Rosencrans
has introduced a bill to incorporate the
Nicarauguan company with other form
! liable list of incorporators. Among
| the names in this list are those of U. s.
| Grant, E. d. Morgan, Hugh J. Jewett,
W. r, Garrison, Frederick Billings, Geo.
| b. Lorning, James r. Keene, Z. T. Beale,
Dan'l Ammen, George B. Baker, VIM.
FL. Barnum, A. G.. Menoaal and U. S.
Grant, Jr. These incorporators repre-
| sent some very large railroad interests
and include some very prominent capi-
| talists. They ask congress to guarantee
| to that company for period of twenty
| years, from the time of.the completion of
| the canal, the net proceeds of traffic,
| which shall not be less than B per cent.
| upon the capitol stock, which is to be
not less than $4,000, 900. In other
words, the incorporators request the gov
ernment to insure them from 81 500 900
to s., 3,0O0, 600 per annum. Notwithstand-
ing all these antagonistic movements.
Eads boasts that he will receive favor
able report from the committee
A Rock Rapids, Iowa, dispatch of
Feb. 10Th says: Before the corouer's
jury who are investigating the murder of
John Lanahan, who was killed while sit
| ting near a window recently, Maggie his
| oldest daughter, confessed that she did
the shooting. She also implicated her
mother, her sister Anna and the latter's
lover, young mau named Birch. The
| girl testified that it had been agreed be-
tween them some time ago to put the
old man out of the way" at the earliest
opportunity. Birch furnished the pistol,
and when her father came home from q
farmers club meeting and was about to
sit down, she stepped up behind him and
fired, killing him instantly. The three
arranged the body 30 as to appear as if
some one had shot him through the win
i dow. while her sister Anna went out and