The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-29

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American citizen as clean and dry"
The Michigan Centrars new bridge
across the Niagara river is completed.
Three rats were found on the top of the
Washington monument the other day.
The Masons are to build hospital for
INDECENT invalids at Hot Springs, Ark.
Miles Cavanagh, q laborer in Brooklyn, |
fractured his wife's skull with glass.
A bear carried off a child at Cicero,
Shawane county, Wis, on December 9th.
A herd of 80 elks were seen last week
between Cooke City and Livingston, nj. L.
The Barker, M. T., smelter turned out
5000 bars of silver bullion tthe last run.
The Crown Prince of Germany was re-
ceived at Madrid with grand demonstra-
ton.
Fort Smith, Arkansas, was visited by a
heavy windstorm. John Mechans was
killed.
There are now published in Montana
eleven daily and twenty two weekly
papers.
Bergh says that if Sullivan tries to
knock down an OK in New York he will ar
rest him.
A letter from Greeley, dated August,
1881, endorsing Pike, was read before the
HroUeuS COurU.
The Utah Northern received last month
$115, 600 for freight shipments over the line
to Butte, M. L.
A telegraph line from some point on the
Northern Pacific to the Coeur dAlene gold
fields is talked of.
The Brooklyn Base Ball Club will play
in the American Association instead of
the Union League.
The New Orleans Picayune requests
some of it's correspondents to write on
neither side of the paper.
Harrison, the sboy preacher was sur
rounded by two generations of descendants
at his Thanksgiving dinner.
Officer Ryan, while attempting to arrest
a burglar named Patrick Brady, in New
York, shot and killed him.
The Stockgrowers' Association of Mon
tana is after Powder river cattle thieves.
Ten have already been arrested.
The subject of a bridge across the Mis-
sissipi at New Orleans is under discussion,
the estimated cost being $13,0O0,0OO
Ben Lands, of Logan county, KY, says
that he has 100 bushels of Irish potatoes
that will average two pounds to the potato.
The citizens of independence, Or, are
having quite serious time with scarlet
fever, which is raging to an alarming ex-
tent.
A man recently died in New York leav-
| ing an estate of $4,000, and his will is
now being contested by thirty-nine al
| legged heirs.
About $1,000 head of cattle have been
shipped East over the Northern Pacific
Railroad this year from points along the
Yellowstone.
| A guest of physician at Reading, Pa,
| turned the gas low and went to bed. A
Whit of air put out the light, and the man
was suffocated.
"a blind and armless beggar" in New
/ York was found at his home the other day
reading newspaper and carving roast
with both hands.
The Consolidated Paper Company, COM
prising fifty mills in the Northwest which
n1anufacture wrapping paper, is holding a
meeting in Chicago.
The Chinese Minister has delivered to
i Secretary Frelinghuysen a letter from the
Chinese Government stating that France
is the aggressor in the present troubles.
A deputy sheriff and special watchman
were caught in Detroit in the act of firing
a furniture store. They claim to have been
hired by a prominent business man TO
| commit the act.
James Davis, secretary of the London
and San Francisco bank, London, has alb
seconded with g50, 600, including gold bonds
of the Oregon and California Railroad to
the value of e30, GOO.
The first wife of Charles B. Thorne, the
actor, has sued the second wife for So, 600,
which the latter had agreed to pay the
former, when the negotiations for the
divorce were pending.
| A business man of Portland, Me-, sub
: scribed literally for church purpose the
= sexo aE I,xn 4lxn
wages of his employees sufficiently to cover
the amount thus pledged by him.
/ A rose farm is a new industry in Ala
bama. Two gardeners have three acres in
roset rees. This year they sold q, 600 rose
trees to parties at the North and had orders
for SO, 600, which they could not fill.
An Iowa man has figured out that the
dogs of that State eat enough annually tC
feed 100000 workingmen, and cost 80, 900,
GOO including the sheep they kill. The ed
ucation of the children of the State costs
100000.
The other evening i'm Dublin, while Barry
Sullivan was playing Hamlet" just as
he cried out in the closet scene, "A rat, a
rat, cat, who heard him, jumped in a
state of excitement on the stage to secure
its favorite prey.
There are but two water courses where
horse can drink between Valdosta and
Statenville, in Echols county, Ga. The
drought in that vicinity is almost unpre
cedented, and entails untold suffering, in
convenience and financial loss.
s At the late reunion of the Brown famil,
at Washington, Pa, there were present
four brothers who had never sat at a table
together, some of them having moved
away before the others were born. The
youngest about 35 years old.
Those holding Office in Utah, who are
polygamists, refused to give place to tht
Inonogamists who were elected last Au
gust under the auspices of the commits
sioners, and tbs newly elected officers vii
not contest. They claim the Edmunds Law
to be unconstitutional.
David A. Cloninger, the murderer oi
young Pierce was brought to Portland OF
the 18th inst, and placed in the count,
jail by Sheriff Dale of Columbia county
Mr.. Dale states that Cloninger was under
strict guard from the time of arrest unit
placed in the county Jail, reports to ths
contrary notwithstanding.
!. Geong Keoh Woo, meek-looking Celes
qial, has been wanted for some time II
Sacramento, CAL, on charge of felony
His whereabouts have been kept dark un
til a few days ago, when he was captured
Ed. Dewitt, a California detective who has
J been after Woo for some time, saw that hi
had free pass on the steamer which lef
for San Francisco last Friday.