The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20
News Summary.

IahInS teSGlmoHy.
Alexander Thackery, Philadelphia
lawyer, is missing Defalcation is sus-
pected.
A meeting of 5000 Irishmen in Chi
cago, on the 10th, memorialized the
President Of the United States in be-
half of O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey,
the informer.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, American
counsel Cor oDonnell, advises the
friends of the latter to be on their guard
againstfalse and malicious reports, and
not to weaken in their sympathy.
A number of the survivors of the
battle of Bull Run visited the field on
the 18th. Among those present were
General Lorgstreet, General Ayers,
Colonel TansilI and others of the Con.
federate army, and General Rosecrans,
General Fairchild and others of the
Federal army.
An application by the prosecuting
attorney for ali injunction to restrain
the St. Louis Post Dispatch from using
certain shorthand notes of testimony
given to the grand jury was denied by
the circuit judge, who held that he
could not interfere with the liberty of
the press.
FL. Clay Myers, mayor of East Port
land, has resigned his Office on account
of some objections being made to his ac-
cepting certain public work. Mr..
Myers has served that city long time
and never did anything against its in
terests. II any one else can do better
| he does not wish to stand in the way.
Who says now that Oregon is not
advancing IN the way of civilization
Ii such such an obtuse a d stubborn
person exists, let him read the accounts
of the prize Eight and its accompanying
features" that took place somo nine
teen miles below Portland, last Sunday.
Details of the affair are about as dis
! gusting as those of like manly games
in the east, and will probably be up to
the mark after the game becomes prop
erly accliinated.
Very positively the Seattle Post In
telligencer says that the Chinese are
coming into the territory from British
Columbia, by way of New Westmin-
ster and Whatcom, is not to be dou bted.
Every week half dozen or more come
by that routs-that is, those who are
known to come, Willie many more
probably come of whom less is known.
On the Washington, last Friday, four
came who there was abundant reason
for believing were straigt from New
Westminster The fellows were afraid
to land here at first, and hid on arrival
Of the boat, to prevent discovery,
They afterwards shipped up town, and
now, as far as detection is concerned,
are undoubtedly lost to the law officers.
The strength of the New York rich
men can be understood when four OF
five of them loan $19,O00,0OO in sin
gle day to a railroad. But the men
who do this are almost all railroad men,
and the tendency is to concentrate all
valuable railroad property into few
hands. In ten years more, as the
country is progressing, all the trunk
lines will be substantially under one
management, and will be readily con
trosled by probably less than twenty
men. It will be a powermore tremtn
dous than ever existed in private indi-
viduals before, and will be as potent il
the rule of this country as was ever tht
East India company in India.
The lottery companies have seizet
; upon another lease of life. Whel
Postmaster-G eneral Gresham close,
the mails against letters addressed t.
lottery companies, and directed tina
letters addressed to agents of lotter,
4 companies be not delivered, it seeme'
| as if the lottery must go. But th
postal note appeared, and as it is mad
payable to "bearer," and postmaster
r have no means of Identifying the re
: cipient of the money, as they have i
the case of the money order, the lot
terry man gets the money. The post
master general is having hard time Q
B it in his praiseworthy efforts to suppres
:. these gambling affairs, but he Is deter
mined to exterminate them, and th
chances are that he will devise means
get over this new difficulty.
!; The Dallas Itemizer says: MIR. E. T.
Miller placed on our table specime
= of one of the greatest natural curiositit
it has been our privilege to witness Fl
i soms time. It consisted of fir boug