The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-11-10
LOCAL ITEMS.

b. NJ. Hawn of Coles valley. made as
pleasant call this week.
| ALI the latest novelties in smoking tobac.
CO. at 7. w. Morgan's.
There are now 2l7 prisoners in the Oregon
State penitentiary.
| Try some Of those bit cigars at Morgan'S
put up expressly for the fancy trade.
Tin ore is supposed to have been discov.
cred in Pacific county, W. T., recently.
The only genuine Henry Clay cigar in the
city, at Morgan's.
It is estimated that Pennsylvania has coal
enough to supply the demand for three cen.
! turies.
The fig is said to be sure crop in most of
the southern States. The cost of cultivation
is trifing.
Butte City, Montana. consumes ten car
loads Of coal per day and twenty barrels of
whisky.
New York is to have an underground
/ CAtSHoius CHS AOAkSA "a
Broadway. It viii have four tracks.
Miss Zabriskie, daughter of DIR. Zabriskie.
well known ON this coast, wasdrowned re-
Gently, at Silver City, Nevada.
Fresno county, California, is making a Ca
nal 100 feet wide, from Kings river, to irri-
gate $4,000 acres of dry and worthless
desert.
| At an elevation of two miles above the
level Of the sea, one may read by the light of
the stars. and many not seen at lower ele-
vation become visible.
Mr.. H. 0. Lang. the historian, left for
Jacksonville by Wednesdays train. and DR..
j. W. Strange has charge of the history Of
fee during his absence.
/ Fl. Fleckenstein, of the firm of Flecken-
stein & Mayer, of Portland, was in Roseburg
this week on business, looking after the
firms interests in southern Oregon.
J. W. Strange Esq, late Clerk of the
House of Representatives of Oregon, was in
the city this week. It is rumored that he
proposes again locating in Roseburg.
R. Newcomb of Portland, former resi-
dent of Roseburg, arrived Monday evening
and left Tuesday morning for Coos bay, ON
important business connected with the a. O..
u. w.
We met with father VIM. E. Weekly, on
his return from the east. He was one of the
pioneers who went east with the excursion.
He was at his old home for about Is days.
He reports the cold too severe for an Ore
gonian.
1t is reported that verdant youth from
the Calapooia while in Roseburg one day last
week, mistook the foundry for sorghum
works, and was observed explainining to his
chum the process of making molasses in the
smelling furnace.
ATT. w. Morgan's you will find the finest
assortment of holiday goods in the city, such
as dolls toys, tops, autograph albums, ladies
purses, picture books. picture frames, aud
fancy ware Of every description Do not fail
to give him CALL
Gen. James B. Steadman, major general
of the late war, who won his laurels at
Chicamsuga, died on the 10Th of October, in
the city of Toledo, Ohio, of pneumonia, in
the 9th year of bis age. He was chief ot
police at the time of his death and,a staunch
Democrat.
At Black River Falls, Wisconsin, October
3d. Miss Lena Richinon, who had been deae
four days, as was supposed, was about to b,
buried, when Or. Baxter of Milwaukee
looked in the coffin and seeing the face O
the woman asked to be allowed to try to re
sascitate her. He succeeded so well that il
short time she was able to set up in tn,
coffin.
The jury in the ease Of Miss Clara Woods
IS. DIR. G. II. Davis for breach of promise o
marriage. after balloting from 3 in the after
; noon until 10 o'clock last evening, finally
returned a verdict in favor of the pl aintiH
fixing the amount of damages to her lacera
ted feelings at $1,000. The defendant an
no0nces that he viii carry the case to the
Supreme court.