The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-05-19
Eight thousand people attended the
dog show at New York recently.

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Minnesota meets at st. Paul June q.
The salmon catch in the Sacramento
river SO far this year is reported light.
The governor of Connecticut has not
yet signed the bill reducing railroad
taxes.
Alice, daughter of Lyman Havaland,
was burned to death at Palmyra, H., re-
Gently.
New York and Brooklyn have some
advocates for placing beth cities under
one government.
On May 9th the agent at st. Paul sold
the first through ticket to Portland over
the Northern Pacific.
The free trade club of New York has
appointed delegates to the Detroit con-
ference and convention.
The death of General Stonewall Jack
son twenty years ago, May 1eth, was
commemorated at Richmond, Va.
The citizens of Hanford, CAL, cele-
brated the third anniversary of the Mus
sci Slough tragedy on April 18th.
e. B. Hickman, late receiver of the
Lake county. Colorado, land Office. is
defaulter to the extent of SIC, 900.
The fisheries exhibition at London was
opened on the 18th inst. The Prince OF
Wales and sons were at the opening cere-
monies.
The Canadian Pacific railroad COM
pany reelected the old board of di-
rectors at recent meeting of the stock
holders.
The stallion Black Cloud was recently
sold to Mr.. V. Wagner, of Marshall,
Mich, for $4,000. The horse has record
of 2.17h.
At the sale of Jersey cattle at New
York recently, the cow Nancy Lee
brought $2100 and the heifer Darlington
Situate $1,000.
Prince Roland Bonaparte will take the
first opportunity to offer himself In Cor
sica as candidate for the French cham
Der of deputies.
The comptroller of the treasury has
granted charter for the establishment
of national bank at Union, Oregon.
Capital, $50, 900.
A. NJ. Mitchell, arrested at Leicester,
with explosives, has been discharged,
there being no evidence to connect him
with the dynamite conspiracy.
Lizzie Robinson, alias Ralston, said to
be niece cf Ralston, of California, was
picked up by the police of Chicago re-
GENTLY, and taken to the hospital.
Lawrence McCullug, associate justice
of the supreme court OF the Hawaiian
Islands, is revisiting old friends in
Maine. He will soon sail for Europe.
The body of rent collector was found
| recently in pond near Berlin. He was
undoubtedly murdered by robbers, as
| 25, 600 marks was stolen from his person.
Mr.. VIM. Henry Hurlburt, the recent
editor of the New York World, is ex-
pected to sail for Europe soon in the in
terest of the Jay Gould railroad syndis
| cate.
Bismarck is becoming daily more ema-
ciated, and his physicians have informed
him that the worst may happen If he
does not abandon all state work for the
present.
The editor of the Breslan newspaper
| has been sentenced to six months impris-
onment in fortress for having spoken
| disrespectful of Emperor William in a
| theater.
A collision occurred on one of the ele-
waited railroads in New York city May
10th, two trains running into each other,
severely injuring the fireman and others
slightly.
The act passed by the legislature of
Tennessee making gambling a felony
went into effect May 9th, and all gaming
houses in Memphis closed their doors
that afternoon.
The Tennessee legislature recently
passed bill forbidding gambling, and
on May 10Th $4,000 worth of gambling
apparatus was destroyed in the public
square at Nashville.
An Oxford dispatch of May 9th says
Yesterday afternoon City Marshal @. E
Butler shot and instantly killed Capt. s.
NJ. Thompson, editor of the Oxford
Eagle, who was resisting arrest.
At recent meeting of influential ship
owners in London, including representa-
ton of 5000, 900 tons of Suez canal
traffic they unanimously adopted resolu
tion favoring the construction of another
canal across the isthmus. and appointed
an executive committee to carry out the
plans of the meeting.
The Standard oil works of Jersey CITY
were struck by lightning May 10th and
entirely destroyed. Six iremen los
their lives by the explosion of one of tht
large tanks. It is estimated that 750, ,00(
barrels of oil have been destroyed, in
cluding 250, 900 barrels of refined oil
and the loss is estimated at 81 500, 900.
In the appeal case of Finnegan VS.. Hi
berDian bank, San Francisco, in which
tho appellant claimed that the earning
of wife may be taken for husband
debts, the supreme court decided other
wise, saying: Section 168 of the civi
code reads: The earnings of the wifi
} are not liable for the debts of the hus.
band.'"
A train on the Vanderbilt line in Ne
braska went through bridge about fou
miles from Norfolk May 9th, and JOSEPH
Fessenden is dead in the wreck, and En-
gineer Sam Reem will lose one leg, an.
perhaps his life. The wreck is ba.
one, the cars being piled in heap in tn
narrow bed of a stream. A washou
caused the accident.
The Chicago Rail way Age says: Th
first four months of the present yea
!, there were 1850 miles of main track laid
against $500 during the corresponding
period of last year The decrease
owing to cold winter and backwar
spring interfering with the work. MOI
withstanding this fact the mileage thu
far this season is greater than for th
Z same period of any previous year, exceI
1882. The work was done on seventy
? five different lines, in thirty one state
and territories. The states which lea
In construction are: California. II
miles; Utah. 156; New York. lis; Penr
svlyania 90: Montana Sc. Idaho 81