The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-02-25
VOL. 6.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY rELEa ArH TO DATE

Louis Joseph Martel, ex president OF
the French senate, isalead.
The National Starch Association met
in session at Chicago on the 14th.
Henri Auguste Barber, the French
poet died in paris on the 18th inst.
The trial of Sergeant Mason who shot
at Gaiteau will begin on the Goth.
Honolulu sugar is being shipped from
San Francisco to ST. Louis by rail.
The weather is very cold at Yreka,
mercury being down to zero on the 18th.
A second large ironclad has arrived at
Port Said and will be stationed at Ismai-
Liza.
The president has nominated Abraham
S. Patterson postmaster of Eugene City,
Oregon.
The senate committee has agreed to
report favorably on the house appropria-
tion bill.
Senator Vorhees, of Indiana, made a
speech on the tariff question in congress
on the 14th.
Six children of John Van Devan died
in four days OF diphtheria in Cleveland,
last week.
The grain commission house of George
Fl. Small 4 Co., Of st. LOUIS, suspended
on the 14th.
It is said in Berlin that the coronation
of the czar will be postponed until Sept.
next.
The president will not do anything with
the Fitz John Porter case but leave all
with congress.
Tamm Il Co.'S glue factory at Rock
Springs, Mo-, was burned on the 14th
Loss $50, 900.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says both Sargent and Chandler will go
into the cabinet soon.
The trial of Samuel Green for murder
court of San Francisco.
The chamber of deputies at Rome
adopted the scrutin de liste by vote of
200 to I43 on the 14th.
The provisions of the anti-polygamy
bill as passed by the senate, are regarded
as generally satisfactory.
The international billiard match spoken
of last week will probably not be played
as difficulty has arisen.
Advocates OF an ocean steamship sub
sidy are preparing to press the question
in the present congress.
The Mississippi levee is broken in sew
eral places at Helena, Ark, and railroad
traffic is seriously impeded.
A disease closely resembling the plague
has appeared in Persia and 40 deaths
have occurred since Feb. 9Th.
James Noonan, an employe of the Ris-
don iron works, San Francisco, fell dead
in a fit on the 18th.
The high water in Arkansas has de-
stroyed hundreds of cattle and hogs and
many buildings are swept away.
In the New York assembly the speaker
has announced committees. Organiza-
tion has not yet been completed.
The National Zietung Office at Neustadt,
Ontario, and the residence of the pub
Usher was burned on the I4th.
Daniel O'Leary was run over and killed
at the corner of Howard and Stewart
streets, San Francisco on the 18th.
The closing argument in the prelimi-
nary proceedings in straw bond cases was
begun at Washington on the 18th.
The czar of Russia and Giers. secretar,
of foreign affairs, are inclined to peace,
but those Immediately around the czar
want war.
General Kryshanofsky, governor of
Orenburg, and Private Councillor Dekli-
noff, of the ministry of domains, have
been dismissed.
The recent report that committee of
Dakota delegates had asked the removal
of Gov. Ordway is declared by the gen
tlelnen to be false.
The introduction in the Virginia legis-
lature on the 10th by readjuster Sena-
tor, of a resolution inviting Senator Ma
hone to leave Richmond and return to
his duties in Washington, creates consid-
erable comment there. The author of
the resolution is one of the senators who
bolted the readjuster caucus.
Notice has been received at the Mexi-
can and other legations at Washington,
that on the 14th of January Guatemala
accepted, freely ceeding to Mexico the
section of country about which there has
been boundary dispute, and agreeing
to establish the boundary according to
the claims of Mexico.
The exposure of the BOG medal project
| was premature. It was the intention to
have them delivered from Washington
and the announcement formally made,
while Grant was expected to write cir
| cular letter thanking the receivers for
| their support. It is said Conkling re-
ceived the medal several weeks in al
vance of the others and signified no mp.
proval of the design.
In the matter of the proposed admis.
sion of Dakota the committee have been
convinced that the proposed state has
sufficient population for admission, and
in their report, after saying that they are
convinced that the population exceeds
/ 10000, will present table showing the
population of number of counties in
! which the census of 1880 was taken, and
the population as estimated by citizens
of southern counties who have appeared
before the committee.
The secretary of treasury has sent tt
the senate the manuscript of the repor
| of the commission on cattle plague. I
is q most exhaustive history of the plague
and consideration of its canses and treat
ment for its extinction. The commission
consider it necessary that the authority
entrusted with that work be clothed with
the following powers of law: To abolish
or regulate the markets and store cattle
indemnitied; to prohibit all exposure ol
cattle on highway or in unfenced or in
secure places in infected districts, or o.
suspected cattle on a lot adjoining ont
occupied by healthy cattle or bordering
on highways; to prohibit the pasturage o.
more than one herd on one pasture, I'M
less nnder special license; to disinfeot al
premises, fodder and other articles tina