The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-12

/ Zo,OOU head.
| All the Pacific C oast members voted fol
the river and harbor bill in it's passage
over the veto.
In a riot at Mckinney, Mo-. on the 2i
two negroes were killed and third NOR
tally wounded.
Rallroad construction on the mair
lines in the United States for the past T
months has been 5000 miles.
| The National Catholic total abstinence
union convened at st. Paul on the I'd,
The organization claims 30, 900 members
| The ship North America and yacht
America, the latter owned by Gen. Butler
left Boston on the I'd for a 500 mile race.
Turkish men-of-war strongly occupy
the Suez canal at Isnailia and Suez. All
Europeans have left Suez, and only four
French men -of-war remain in Egyptian
waters.
1t is reported that the powers are will
| ing to leave the Egyptian question sepa-
| rate from the question of the Suez canal,
to an arrangement between Turkey and
England, subject to the final assent of
Europe.
New York special: Over $3.50, 900
worth of property has been destroyed
through southern New Jersey by forest
fires. There has been great excitement
and much hard fire fighting. It was ar
rested on the I'd by showers.
The New York grain and produce ex-
change has decided not to change exist
ing grades of corn. A committee was
appointed to confer with railroads as to
what should be done with grain when
New York warehouses are full.
Gen. Sheridan anu party, including
John Mccullough, the actor, spent sew
eral hours in Omaha on the I'd and left
in the afternoon for trip to Fort Wash
axle and Yellowstone park. They return
via the Northern Pacific railway.
The Denver exposition is an immense
success. On the 24th inst, q monster
barbecue will be held to which all prom
inent business men in the country will
be invited. This promises to be one of
the most enjoyable features of the festi-
val.
The merchants exchange at st. Louis
have sent Chairman Page, of the commit
tee on commerce dispatch congratulate
ing him on baggage of the river and
harbor BILL and justifying congress in
passing it, and gaining gratitude of peo-
pie of all parties.
The mayor of Rio Grande City has
telegraphed the governor of Texas that
yellow fever had broken out in towns on
the Mexican side of the river and panic
existed. Rio Grande City being overrun
with refugees He established quaran-
tine, and the governor instructed him to
use his discretion until the health officers
of the state arrived.
-Four elephants escaped from circus
in Troy, n. Y. on the night of the Sd.
One entered rolling mill at the iron
works and cleared ont the mill. He
knocked over the bloom containing red
hot iron. but finding it too hot, left the
works and made for the river. Three
were secnred, but at midnight the most
furious was still at large.
French's hotel, New York CITY is
closed, and boarders and dodgers have
gone. All but one or two of the employees
have been dismissed. and yesterday the
trunks OF the last goers were carried
away. Since 1S49, when the house was
built to compete with half dozen famous
old houses in the neigh borhood, of which
only the Astor House remains, its doors
has not been closed and its business suf-
fered no interruption. It is closed now
because of a disagreement between the
owners of the estate.
Before the tariff commission on the
4th, CASTOR l.. Fenarden MADE an argu
ment in favor of placing on the free list
antiquities and like objects of collection,
plaster casts and photographs thereof,
whether for sale OF not. Vite, of Phila-
delphia wanted equality of duty on
statues. Argument was made in favor
of putting hatters' plush on the free list,
also in favor of putting on the free list
sulphur ore for the manufacture of sui
phuric acid for fertilizers. The effect of
this proposition would be to cheaper
fertilizers. They were 25 per cent.
cheaper in England than in the United
States.
The bark Chesapeake which arrived at
Baltimore on the LIST, from Demarara,
brought "a Chinese passengers en- route
for their native land. Among them was
Sin Chung, an unmarried man. aged 36
years, who, accompanied by his brother
and aged mother, was going home to live
on the fortune which the family had ac-
cumulated by shop-keeping in Demarara
He was sick during the voyage and when
the vessel arrived at Baltimore the man
died an hour or two later of hemorrhage
of the l1ngs. Sin Chung being in rea-
sonably good circumstances had seven
blouses, two white, four black and one
blue, all of which were put on the corpse,
the blue being on the outside His
pants, stockings and hat were put in the
coffin, besides his razor and small
wooden box which contained few coins.
The richest man in this company of Chi
nese is Lii A. Chow, and he is the head of
| a family of II persons, including his SON
| in-law and grand children. His children
have grown up in Demarara and all speak
English
The tariff commission pass Monday and
| Tuesday next in New York, observing
the practical working of the custom
| house. Communications were received
!, from II. III. Stephens, late manager OF
| Kentucky Mills at Frankfort, Kentucky
recommending uniform duty of 500 per
cent. on vegetable fibres, such as fax,
| lute and hemp, and that machinery for
the manufacture thereof be placed on the
| free list, and r. A. Robinson & CO..
chemists, of Louisville, KY, in favor Of
discriminating duties on sugar. wool,
cotton and woolen, fabrics, iron, etc.
but against the present excessive duties,
and suggesting, that plate glass, an infant
branch of manufacturing, should be rea-
sonably protected, and the genuine man.
ufacturers should have reduction of at
least 10 per cent At the afternoon ses.
sion Danford Knowlton, of New York
obtained hearing on the su gar question