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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-11-24
NEWS ITEMS.

If Charley Ross is living he is Il years
of age.
Silk culture is on the rapid Increase
along the Gulf coast from New Orleans
to Mobile.
A devil fish caught recently at Port
Royafe measured sixteen feet across AMI
weighed two tons.
The pearl fisheries of Lower Califor-
MIA have turned out pearl the size of
dime, one inch long and three fourths OF
an inch thick.
A man named Radclif, just dead at
Sheffield, had for years pretended to be .
bearded woman, and wGs great attrao-
ton to the curious.
The largest oyster shell in the world
is in the church of ST. Sulpice in Paris.
It weighs over 500 pounds and is used as
baptismal font.
Belgium has erected Palace of JUS
tice about half the size of st. Peters at
Rome, and one. fifth of the entire revenue
of the country will not pay for it.
Uncle Billy Sherman will find the
peaca of retirement disturbed by an Ohio
town, which has started off with q
Tecumseh club as presidential boom.
California is the second State in the
union in point of size, but her popula-
ton when compared with her area, is
that the best of her lands are held by
land-grabbers.
The dancing masters of the United
States are to hold convention at Phila-
delphia, December 9th. The position
of chairman will be interesting as all
will want for the floor at once.
The comet of 1912 is coming back
again. It is understood it will put
claim on the government for pension,
with arrears, on the ground of having
been present during the last war with
England.
Fifteen years ago an Alabama man
who killed peddler told his wife in
moment of confidence, and since then
has been splitting wood, building fires
and rocking baby. Now as relief ha
asks to be hung.
An old Nimrod down in Texas fired at
fine buck. This aroused another, anil
the two few toward each other undec
full steam. They collided. one of theDl
springing twenty feet in the air, and
then both fell dead.
An Albany peanut vender discovers
that he loses 400 peanuts day by thu
people who take one as they pass by. Al
members of the legislature have annual
passes to everything in Albany, the in.
ference is plain.
Poker has strong hold on Nashville.
One young blood bet his clothes on u
flush and his adversary demanded his
garments on the strength of straight
flush" He reached home looking like q
statue in the Louvre.
Pagan Bob Ingersoll at the close of.
the war borrowed 800 from confede.
rate surgeon for some new clothes. Last
week he paid it back with check for
$500. Bob may scout at eternity, but
he evidently believes in time.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-11-24
ALL SORTS.

NO." said the eloping woman; there
isn't the least likelihood that my hus-
band will discover our whereabouts.
He's New York detective.
''And the cloud welded the shadow, !"
sings poet. From which it would ap-
pear that the bard had just returned
from negro wedding.
A Philadelphia lawyer, toolproud to
all his friends to suppose that he prac-
tices in the divorce courts, advertises,
"Misit marriages a speciality"
A Chicago commercial traveller says
that in small village in northern
Michigan he found a notice pinned on
the door of store which read: ''Gone
to bury my wife; will be back in thirty
minutes.
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the roast goose had tendency to make
the obiiging gentleman quite careless
as to whether he attempted to carve with
the edge or back of his knife; aud, as a
matter of fact. he did try to dismem Der
the goose with the broad back of the
carver. He thought at the time that the
bird was "confounded tough not being
aware of his enleavor to slice it with the
back of the knife, but when the sharp
edge pierced the finger which he had
pressed upon 1t in his frantic effort to
cut. he knew that s'some one had blum
dered." The accident, however, was not
observed by anyone IN the company, and
Mr.. McCloud, who was swearing inward
~ and perspiring outwardly very freely,
was encouraged to renew the attack.
Break leg off him" was generally adj
vised, while young lady with terra
Gotta hat and an amused smile, who sat
next to the young man with the knife,
pleasantly remarked that the carver
looked more cut up than the fowl. This
young woman was one of the bridesmaids,
and should have been more seriously
inclined at such moment. The advice
rendered was accepted, and the now des-
perate man seized the goose with both
hands. Then began fearful struggle
for the mastery. In the wrestling match
which followed neither had the ad-
vantage for some moments. The wed
ding guests awaited the issue of the
contest and something to eat-in
breathless expectancy. They did not
feel hungry, for they were full of hope.
Their confidence in McCloud was not
misplaced, for in the third round the
goose was "downed." The leg came off
and SO did an event which was wholly
unexpected. Tue goose, in parting with
its limb. slipped from the grasp of its
opponent and dashed itself against
bowl containing gravy. The bowl was
upset, and its contents sought a fresh
resting place in the lap of the bride. A
shrek of dismay arose as large patch
of the blue silk dress assumed an es-
thetic gray. The bride. covered with
bushes and gravy, hurriedly arose and
left the room, and there were some at
the table who felt they would sooner be
enjoying a free lunch at bar-room
counter than awaiting the free spread at
that wedding party. AS for Mr.. Nc
Cloud himself-well, he was overcome
with a desire to sink into the cellar.
He promptly resigned his position as
carver for the company, and the resigna-
tion was accepted without loss of time
in discussing it. Some one, with great
er knowledge of the anatomy of a goose
was elected to fill the place, and at
length the guests were served. McCloud
fed to London, Ont, the following
morning Mail.
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Stranger Than Fiction.

On Monday evening, October 24th,
Mr.. T. G. Childers and Mrs. Lucinda
Phillips were married at the latter's resi-
Gence on Division street. This is their
second wedding with each other, and
the story of their separation and final
reunion after twenty years, is equal in
point of romance, to that of Enoch Ar
den.
Mr.. T. D. Childers and Mrs. Lucinda
Taten were first married in their native
county, Franklin, in 1856, and lived to :
gether until 1861, when the husband
joined the southern army in response to
a call for volunteers. Soon he was made
prisoner by the enemy, who kept him for
awhile in st. Louis, and finally sent him
to Alton, ILL.,, for keeps. After sixteen
months of captivity he was exchanged,
and resumed his duties as southern sol
dier, remaining in the army until the
close of hostllities in 1865, when, like a
dutiful husband and father, he returned
to his wife and little children; but sad
changes greeted him where all had once
been contentment and happiness.
The husband had been reported killed
in the terrible struggle of Vieksburg ,and
his wife. after long and fearful waiting,
was forced to give credence to the story,
and subsequently found solace in the
love of Mr.. Phillips, whom she had
known froms schildhood. True to VOWS of
long ago, she was 10th to bury the first
love. Still she was woman, and there
fore to be won, and so it was the soldier
husband returned from the dangers and
privations of war to find her whom he
had vowed to love until parted by deash
the wife of another. It was an ordeal
more tryingithan any he had experienced
during all the bloody conflicts through
which he had passed. Yet there was no
remedy save to suppress the affections so
fondly treasured and trust in time, whose
easy flight corrects all errors, softens
grief, and rocks sad memories to sleep.
He married again in 1866, but his sec
ond wife died three years later. In 1875
he marie third time, but was again
robbed by death of his consort one year
afterward. About year ago Mr..
Phillips died, leaving Childer's first wife
in widowhood.
Mrs. Phillips has a brother residing IN
Franklin, whom she visited not long
since, and at whose house she chanced
to meet Mr.. Childers, her first husband.
They met as friends, but their friendship
quickly warmed; the love of twenty
years ago returned, and though not so
fervent as in the earlier dream of youth,
it was not waiting in earnest devotion.
Their second marriage to each other oc
Cured on Monday evening, October Oath
in the presence of their families. respec
lively and collectively. The event was
celebrated with music and dancing, and
the bride and groom though sprinkled
| with the silver of time, seem happier fol
the sorrow they have known Spring
field Mo- Herald
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Boys aud Trades.

I believe in these schools where boys
can learn trades. Peter the Great quit
his throne and went off to learn how to
build ship, and he learned from stem
to stern, from hull to mast, and that was
the beginning of his greatness.
II know Young man who was poor and
smart, and friend sent him to one OF
these schools up north, and he stayed
two years, and came back as mining
engineer and bridge builder, and last
year he planned and built cotton fac
tory, and is getting large salary.
How many college boys are there In
Georgia who can tell what kind of nativa
timber will bear the heaviest burdens,
or why you take white oak for one part
of wagon and ash for another, or what
timber will last longest under water?
How many know sandstone from lime
stone. or iron from manganese?
How many know how to cut rafter or
brace without pattern?
How many know which turns the
fastest-the top of the wheel or the bot.
ground?
How many know how steel is made.
and snake can climb tree?
hoW maHy kuoW Guat uOI5o sote up
before and COW gets up behind, and tha
COW eats grass from her and the horsa
eats to him?
How many know that surveyors
mark upon tree never gets any higher
from the ground; or what tree bears
fruit without bloom?
There is power of comfort in knowl.
edge, but boy is not going to get it un-
less he wants it bad, and that is tha
trouble with most college boys; they
don't want it. They are too busy. AMI
haven't got time. There is more hopa
for dull boy who wants knowledge.
than of a genius, for genius naturally
knows it all without study. The closa
observers are the worlds benefactors.
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Couldn't be Expected To.

Two ladies entered Fort street car
one day recently and took seats beside
lady well known to one of them. She
gave her friend an introduction, and di-
rectly this one remarked:
81 think saw you at the street
church on Sunday, several weeks ago."
Yes"
"You seemed to be as much disguised
with the sermon as was, for saw that
you were terribly uneasy"
'Yes," again.
''Did you ever hear worse preacher
in your life?"
well, perhaps"
II never did, and haven't been there
since"
The conversation then ratified of on
some other subject, and by and by the
two ladies' got off.
wonder why she didn't agree with
me about that preacher queried the
one who had blasted HIM.
"Why, how could you expect her to5
She's that very minister's wife"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-11-24

A Mormon apostle by the name of G.
G. Rich, died at Bear Lake, Utah, Nov.
18th.
The attorney gen eral has decided that
the proposed change of standard time in
the District of Columbia cannot be eff
feeted except through congressional
action.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, dispatch of Nov.
18th says (: A naked light upon min.
er's head, at the West End mine this
morning, caused terrible explosion.
Michael Barconski, John Escolus and
John Voller were killed.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-11-24

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SpectacIes aod EyeRlasses,
And Full Line of
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The only reliable Optometer in town for the
proper adjustment OF spectacles; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFIGE-First door south of post once, Rose
burg. Oregon.
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Emerson's last biographer informs No
that the poet philosophers fayorits
horse was an animal named Star. Which
explains what Emerson meant when hs
advised his readers to ''hitch his wagon
to Star.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-28
AN AWFUL SEARCH.
THE sRAlDwooD MINE HORROR,
The Results aths s..reh.r, for the D.ad-rh.
Preparations for the eh-Hsartrsnding
Scenes DariAs the sProsrs,aofths Same.
Tho Last Sad Act ofths Drama.

BRAIDwooD, ILL.,, March 27.-There has
been no change in the situation at the
Diamond shaft since last night. Two
forces Of men have been have been at work
in the mine, one force clearing the track
in the main roadway, and the other trying
to make an entrance over or through the
distractions which block the way at the
fsrthest point explored. The officials oi
the mine state that 1t is barely possible
more bodies will be found tonight The
objective point Of the search is large fall
Of rock, about one hundred and ten yards
from the main shaft. At this place were
found most OF the bodies taken out yeeter-
day. It is thought number Of the victims
lie under this mass oi debris.
The explorations have extended 425
yards in one direction from the main shaft,
and 555 yards in another. About one foot
OF water still remains In the bottom OF the
shaft in spite OF the work Of the pumps,
showing that great body OF water still re.
mains in the mine. Car loads OF debris
have been hoisted to the surface and
dumped, and few men and women stand
listlessly about viewing the desolate scene.
The funeral train still stands near the shalt,
waiting for It's next load Of victims. The
body identified yesterday as that OF August
Poland, turns out to be John French. The
Coroner has returned to Joliet to await
further DEVELOPMENTS.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-28
INDIAN TERRITORY.
Chiefspieche and His BraSss-supposi.
lion That they Desire 10 Surrender.

tion That They Desire to Surrender.
ST. LOUIS, March T.-A Muskogee. In.
dian Territory, special says: General Por.
ter has disbanded his forces, and they have
gone home, with the exception OF few
scouts, leaving the United States troops to
capture spieche and his men. At last ac-
counts they had not yet reached his camp,
fifteen miles west Of the Sac and Fox
Agency.
No doubt he will surrender to them
without resistance, as he would have done
to Creeks, had he not been afraid he would
have gone tine way Of Sleeping Rabbit,
who was killed while trying 10 escape last
Wednesday. A detachment OF Thorp's
army discovered SPEECHES scouts and gave
chase, capturing one. They questioned
him as to the SPEECHES whereabouts and
forces, but as he would tell nothing, they
took him out and shot him dead. There
are rumors here Of more killing on the
same plan, but nothing authentic. News
reached here last night Of another killing
near Eufala last week. About twenty
Chicote men left that place and they dis
covered Spieche man named Echoely
Harge, and, without more ado, riddled him
with bullets.
The Globes Arizona special says man
was killed near STEMS Pass, New Mexico,
a short distance from the Arizona line,
yesterday, by two Apache Indians. 1t is
supposed he was killed to prevent his Civ.
ing information as to the direction they
were moving. The news was brought 70
Tucson by a passenger on the west bound
express, which arrivedat Tucson last even.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-28

WASHINGTON, March 27.-In answer to
the;assertion that Judge Thoman, one Of
the Civil Service Commissioners, owns the
Youngstown, Ohio, Tindicator, and Is re.
sponsible for the recent editorial in that
journal severely condemning the action oil
the convention OF laboring men, held at
Arbeiter Hall, Cincinnati, on the 18Th in.
slant, and stigmatizing them as "commu-
nists, !" because they refused to endorse the
civil service law, Judge Thoman makes the
following statement: "Since the 26th day
OF August, 1882, have had no connection
with the Youngstown Vindicdtor In any
way whatever. On that day sold
and transferred all my right, title and
interest to DR.. Patton, Of Newark, who
has been, to my personal knowledge, sole
owner and editor since that day. l have
neither written line nor dictated senti.
ment for any paper since that time. Think
l am 80 well known to the laboring men OF
Ohio, that they would not believe / would
be guilty OF insulting their manhood by
Extensively condemning their action, or
questioning their right 70 express opinions
In which they are sincere. ] refer 10 edi.
torialswhich / have written, and speeches
have made, In their behalf upon all Just
measures that have been advocated by
them, to fully sustain me in what | here
Ray.n
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-28
sCOrCH wORKIsGMES.
skilled Labarsrs Living In Poorly Fur.
nisiled nnd Ili.IentiIated HOuses.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 27.-Hon. Isaac
Jenkinson, formerly Consul to Glasgow,
editor Of the Richmond Palladium, and a
member OF the Republican State Central
Committee, corroborates Mr.. Porter's de-
scriptions OF the homes and conditions oi
Scotch workingmen. Mr.. Jenkinson's tes.
timony is OF the highest value. He esays;.
We have visited scores Of the homes oi
workingmen in Scotland-not these oil
drunken Irish, but OF the best paid skilled
laborers. We have rarely found such a
home to consist OF anything more than one
room in some great tenement house, poorly
furnished and i'll ventilated, and to ouI
eyes entirely without comfort. These peo'
pie were apparently contented, and prob
ably believed themselves comfortable, but
it 10 simply absurd TO say they possessed
anything comparable with the average
home OF the American mechanic OF the
same grade. We will also aod that, after
five years residence in Scotland, all The
time giving pretty close attention to the
condition OF the workingmen, and part oi
the time in personal investigation OF that
condition, we are prepared to endorse Mr..
Porter's statements as generally correct and
trnstwnrthy
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-28

FEASx LEsLIR's Hlustrated Paper an
nounces that It will make feature Of dis
CuSsions on the aspects oil capital and
labor, and free trade and protection, the
people against monopoly rights and the
restrictions Of corporate power, the future
Of the merchant marine, the profit and
influence OF the daily press and other
kindred topics OF national interest In
connection with this "new departure" the
names Of many prominent gentlemen are
mentioned who will participate in the dis,
cuSsion. In regard to capital and labor and
free trade and protection Mrs. Leslie could
not perform 3 greater act Of justice to the Re
publican party aud the scheme Of protec-
ton to home industries than to copy Mr..
RObert'P. Porter's lettern to the New York
TrituW, relating the III condition Of the
workmen who live under British iree trsde
rule, and illustrate the same In all It's do
fOtmities as depicted by that writer. But Il
may be sale to say that this will not be
done. Mrs. Leslle's paper Is not that kind
ola journal; but without the illustrations
which are always striking, We look iol
valiant and yoenanry work from several @
ne gentlemen who are announced TO par
ueipate In the discnssiop.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-28
WFIEEIING WEST VA, WEDNESDAY

spirits. The fear now seems to be that the
citizens reform movement will draw of
more Republican votes that Il does Dem
ocratic votes. The reform ticket was pub.
lished this morning, and Is made up ot
candidates selected from the two rPgu.
lar party tickets. The principles upon
which the selections, It is claimed, were
made, are the best, but there are
good people who disagree with the reform
association in theirapplication. For Mayor
no Recommendation was made, as It is be.
lieyed that either Of the nominees would
till the Office creditably. For Controller,
the Republican nominee Ia recommended,
and for member OF the Board Of Public
Works the Democratic nominee is selected.
Among the candidates for the less impor-
tant offices there were rather more Repub-
licans selected than Democrats, but the
Republicans think that their ticket Is so
much better than the Democratic ticket
that the reform ticket should have EN-.
braced about all the names upon 1t. The
reformers estimate that they can control
8 1000 votes.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-28
NON ARTJsHED AUGUST "a. 1852.

Presidents grave. About year ago, Will
liam Fogarty, an old and excellent soldier
Of Company K, was taken to Fort Wayne,
Detroit, court martialed, dishonorably dis.
missed from the service and imprisoned
for year for drunkenness. Not long after
Michael Fox, Of Company E, shared the
same fate, and was imprisoned for month,
with loss OF pay for another month, for in.
toxication while on duty at the tomb. Gen.
Hancock afterward removed Fogarty's dis.
abilities and he was reinstated.
Neither returned 10 Lake View Gene.
terry for duty, and thus got, by a hard road,
what they sought-to be relieved. Strange
to say, all three Of the men were Catholics
and foreigners. All dreaded the duty at
the tomb, and one or two have expressed
their dread to their comrades, and were
known TO mutter prayers and cross them
selves frequently whileat their lonely post.
0fcourse all this Is folly in the men, but as
an instance OF what superstition can do, is
startling. The old and American soldiers
laugh at the idea, while they acknowledge
the effect on their comrades.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-28

VISCESNEs, IND, March 27.-The village
OF Alvordsville, in Reeve township, Da-
yiess county, was thrown into tumult OF
confusion, on Saturday, incident to a
lamentable and heartrending tragedy en-
acted at II o'clock in the morning. John
Bingham, aged II, and Cooney Walls, aged
II, becume involved ia an alteration in
front Of the village postoflice. DR.. A. Bing.
ham, the fathero OF the 17.year-old boy, in.
terfered. The Walls boy retorted, where
upon both DR.. Bingham and his son John
abused the boy. At this stage Of the pro:
ceedings James Gould, a bystander, stepped
up and interfered, saying to DR.. Bingham
that he thought It unfair for two men to
impose upon a child in such manner.
DR.. Bingham and his two sons, John
and 0rvilIe, then turned upon Gould and
attacked him furiously. driving him into
the street, Gould retreated gradually to
the middle otthe street, and endeavored TO
ward of the blows, when he suddenly
drew an old knife from his pocket and
commenced striking right and left at his
assailants He stabbed john Bingham in
the region Of the heart, who, falling pros.
trate upon his face in the middle OF the
street, died in less than FIVE minutes. Doc.
tor Bingham was stabbed in the abdomen,
and his left cheek was frightfully cut. Or
vile Bingham escaped unipjured. The
dead body OF John Bingham was conveyed
to the home OF the deceased, where
the most heartrendlng scene occurred.
DR.. Bingham succeeded in reach
ing biz residence Just after the dead body
OF his unfortunate son arrived there, but
fell from exhaustion to the floor. Physi-
clans were called in, and bis wounds pro.
nounced mortal. Gould walked quietly to
the justice OF the peace and gave himself
up. Alter hearing the details Of the affair
tie squire denominated it homicide, and
placed young Gould under $1,000 bonds,
which he really gave. Dr.. Bingham is a
man OF middle age, brother Of Fl. s.
Bingham, editor cf the Indianapolis %ntt'
mel, being one OF the most prominent ply.
siciAns OF the county.