The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-05
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
By rELEGRAPH To DATE.

The death is announced of Edwar,
Arthur Wellington. second baron o
Kean, aged So.
The New York stock market is nov
being daily driven up by purchases b,
the outside public.
/ The alarming spread of smallpox il
Baltimore is reported, and an eoidemit
is expected next winter.
The British government has chartered
13 steamers plying to American ports tc
carry troops to Alexandria.
Journals Washington: There is pri
vate claimant named Kidwell to the
Potomac flats, and the president is likely
to veto the river and harbor bill on ac-
count of the large appropriation fol
them, for that reason, if no other.
The managers of the American iron and
steel operations at Crossen Springs
adopted a call for general convention
of all iron ore producers and iron and
steel manufacturers in the United States,
to meet in September to consider the
prepare report for the tariff com mission.
A steamer started for st. Petersburg
on the 9th with Engineer Melville and
two sailors lost on the Jeanette. Lieut..
Berry, Mr.. Glider, and another officer
of the burned steamer Rodgers, will re-
turn from Irkutsk to the Lena Delta. in
order to follow during the winter the
coast line as far as the frontier of Euro
pean Russia, thereby completing En-
gineer Melvilles search to Olensk.
| The Chinese minister with his suite.
took the 9 o'clock train On the Goth for
Washington. He was much pleased with
his visit to New York and intends to visit
some of the principal watering places.
His secretary denied the rumor alleging
| that 60, 600 of his countrymen, residents
of Cuba, are desirous of passing through
our country on their way to China. He
added, they are hard workers and had
made considerable amount of money.
The American steamship Illinois has
arrived from Liverpool. Among the
passengers is Rev. j. Griffin, from Alex
andria. Mr.. Griffin was sent as mission
ary to Egypt in 1874. He left Alex
andria June 23d, and said everything
then seemed quiet enough. His head
quarters we're at Asyoot, the capital of
Upper Egypt. Natives in that section
of the country, he said, were not able to
find out yet what was the cause of the
disturbance, while Christians feared
nothing but a religious war; Mr.
Griffin had no idea of danger until June
Is. when ne received a letter from Cairo
advising him to leave the country
Within an hour he was on the express
train on his way to Alexandria.
The Times Washington special says:
1t is certain from canvass of the house
made by Times correspondents that the
revenue bill must fail to become a law
this session. Democrats in the house
intend to oppose it, and without the aid
of some democratic votes it cannot be
passed. A quorum of republicans cannot
lsst quorum was obtained with q good
deal of difficulty and after pledges that
there would be no second call for mem
bers. When these facts are reported to
the senate, as they probably will be soon,
it is possible the revenue bill will be
dropped right there. If Senator Morrill,,
however, wishes to push it to a vote, this
point may be conceded; but the fact that
the house will not act upon it this session
is unquestioned.
The Tribune's Ogden special says:
wholesale persecution of gentiles has
been inaugurated and arrangements made
for testing the constitutionality of the
Edmunds' bill in the supreme court of
the United States. If adverse the Nor
mons have nevertheless determined not
to submit at any cost Every polygamist,
from President John Taylor down to the
distant apostles, bishops and elders in
the most extreme part of their domain
have separated from their wives and are
living openly with one only. All polyg-
amists have, under orders, resigned from
all official offices and monogamists as
strongly disposed in the faith have been
selected and commissioned in their
places. Every effort will be made to
beat the government in all sections of
the Edmunds' bill.
The substance of the attorney generals 8
opinion on political assessments, as pre-
sented to the cabinet on the Goth, is that
officers of government are prohibited
from soliciting or serving such assess
ments, and that members of congress, in
the broad sense of this term, are officers
of government, but that in strict con-
stitutional sense, under former rulings
of congress, they are not officers. He
! quotes from the constitution of the
United States and from the statutes in
various places, showing that the distinc-
| ton between the terms ssoffice' and
members of congress" are clearly made.
He holds the section forbiddlng receipt
of political assessment was intended to
apply only to inferior officers of the gov
ernment, and concludes: ST am of opin-
ion member of congress is not an officer
of government within the meaning OF
| that section"
Gen. Powell Clayton, formerly senator
| from Arkansas, thinks there is o fair
| prospect for break up OF the Bourbon
/ party in his state. He says there are nc
| factions in the republican party in Ar.
kansas. A full state ticket has been nom
mated in almost every case by acclama
ton, with no questions as to where 9
man was born or what his color is, The
only inquiries being, is he a republi
can? Is he honest? Is he capable?" The
result is an unexceptional ticket, or
which are the names of union and con
federate soldiers, white and colored men
all of good character and standing, ane
united party behind them determined
to poll every vote in the party. The
platform ignores all old issues, and look
only to the future. Then there is bitte
war in the democratic party, thinl,
veiled by seeming unanimity on the deb
question, with platform which is capa
bic OF being construed either in favor o
reputation or honesty. The Gazette ant
Democrat, leading democratic papers o
| the state will not r,r,bIia1 %6o !,