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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20
Why the Prairies are Treeless.

The salvation of the great new prairie
empire OF America depends in great
measure on the feasibility of cultivsting
forests to serve its farmers as windbreaks.
usAe PstvaSy ~ > gr0ys VI asz1usa trcus
In shielding one from the winter wind IL
hardly credible. Its influence ON the
open prairie reaches houses mile dis
tant. The laws of all the northwestern
states favor the planting of forest trees,
and the subject employs not little of
the rattling rhetoric of their numerous
orators. The expediency of these laws
was never questioned until recently. A
few months since professor of Harvard
university, after ten years of study, pro-
nounced these laws useless and unscien-
tific. The learned professor announced
that trees will grow where they ought to
grow and will not grow where they
ought not to grow; that the great inland
prairie lacks trees because it has not q
large enough rainfall to support them,
and that the laws encouraging arboricul-
ture will be futile. In travelling through
Western Minnesota we explained this
theory with no little pride to our fellow.
traveller, a teamster. The teamster made
no reply except to quicken the pulse OF
ms pipe. At length, having made surs
that he had smoked it to the bottom OF
it's socket, he drew the pipe from his
mouth and pointed his hands toward a
clump of native trees that skirted one
side of large mud lake. "Do you
notice" he asked, ION which side of the
lake those trees stand? The southeast?
Well, that settles it," There are, as he
afterward explained, hundreds of these
lakes dotting the prairie land OF
Minnesota. Most of the lakes on the
southeastern shores have clusters of for.
est trees. The reason of this is not fal
to seek. There are two winds there
prevalent-uhe northwestern and south.
eastern. The southeast wind is the rain
bringer. The northwest is cold and dry.
The prairie fires are spread by the north
west, never by the southeast wind.
When the prairie fires swept over the
prairie they burned the young trees OF
all sides of the lake except the south
eastern, which was sheltered by th.
water. There could be no more conclu
siye proof of the power of the prairi,
fires to destroy the growth of forests thar
in soil favorable to their production.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20
PERSONAL.

Mrs. General Ord is at Fortress Mon
roe.
General Butler is worth two millions
of dollars.
Julian Hawthorne is going to live in
Sag Harbor.
Butler is strenuously devoting himself
to cattle shows.
Mrs. Frank Leslie will bring $25, 900
pair of earrings from Paris.
Henri Conscience, the French novelist.
died of cancer of the stomach.
Mrs. Van Cott has begun series of re-
viyal meetings in Lawrence, Mass.
Senator Don Cameron will be able TO
appear at the assembling of Congress.
Ex-Secretary Blaine and Mrs. Blaine
will return to Washington in November.
The widow of President Tyler will
probably spend the winter in Washing
ton.
The improvements which Mr.. Tilden
is making on Greystone will cost him
SAFE, 900.
Professor" John Lawrence Sullivan,
of Boston, is now said to be worth
Sc, 900.
Mrs. Garfield wisely pays no attention
to attacks upon her dead husbands mem
ory.
Rev. Stephen 81. Ting, Jr., has re-
turned TO New York after 3 long absence
in Europe.
General and Mrs. Mcclellan have re-.
turned to Washington, whore they will
pass the winter.
Queen Margherita, of Italy, greatly adj
mirss American women's faces, and she
| has reason to.
Dayy Crockett's youngest daughter.
Mrs. Matilde Field, is living in Tennes-
see, aged sixty years.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20

of stick cinnamon and of ginger root in
each bottle, and seal up. Made in this
way they are not too sweet to be O good
relish.
Citron, cling peaches, plums, pears,
and cantaloups make good pickles by
using the latter part of the recipe only.
Peaches and plums are picked whole
without peeling. The citron and canta-
loup should be cut into long slices an
inch wide after peeling and taking ont
the seeds. They are put into the vinegar
without putting them first in salt water,
and should not boil minute after they
are tender enough to let straw go
through them easily.
Care should be taken not to make
sweet pickles too sweet, and not 10 spice
them too highly. An overabundance of
cloves ana aI1spicS rs sure 20 give Dit
ter taste. Nutmeg and ginger go we'll
t0gether. and cinnamon can be used both
with them and with cloves and allspice.
It is good plan rot to put every kind of
spice in each pickle.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20
A Queer Divorce Complication.

AS an illustration of the workings of
the present divorce law We notice di-
vorce case which was up before the SUI
perior court yesterday. In November,
1878. Eleazer Horn, OF Oakland. married
Clara A. Horn. of Clinton. They lived
unhappily together for about year and
parted. She applied for a divorce at
Skowhegan. She went to that town with
her witnesses, but the court had adj
jeurned the day before her arrival. The
case was continued in the Somerset
court docket for several terms and finally
dropped. Horn knew that his wife had
applied for divorce, notice having been
served on him, and supposing that di-
vorce had been granted, married again In
Oakland. It turns cut, of course, that
the second marriage was illegal, and to
make the matter still worse, under the
new law, Horn cannot be legally married
to the second woman until two years and
six months after his first wife is divorced
from him. The first wife has obtained q
decree of divorce from Horn and accord
ingiy he cannot legally marry woman
No. until the two years and six months
have elapsed. d.-Kennebec. Me-. Journal.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20
A Land of the Dead.

China, almost wherever you see it, is a
land of the dead. For thousands of years
Cinnamon have been assiduously en-
ployed in burying each other. 1t is the
habit of the celestial mourner to "plant
his relative in grave that shall last. !"
In the north there are few graveyards,
that is to say, few places exclusively de-
voted to defunct celebrities. The per-
son who is dead is placed in the most
convenient and comfortable spot which
cffers itself, and that may chance to be
in the center of field of rice or on the
roadside. If his relatives be rich they at
ence raise a huge mound of earth over
him; if they do not happen to have a
great amount of disposable funds
they put the coffin down in the field or
on the roadside, thatch it with little
straw and leave it till the money for a
mound can be got together, or they erect
over it q little structure of loose bricks
and tiles. The wind and rain do their
work, and so the traveller sees all over
the landscape mounds of earth fianked
by exposed cofins. These coffins are
not fiimsy structures, as in England, but
substantial structures of wood, made to
last, and consequently it is no unusual
thing to count many scores of them at
any one point of the landscape in the in
terror. This does not lower the spirits
of the Chinese. It possibly gives them
typhoid fever; but that is another ques-
ton. On the stranger the effects are
novel and various. Ali the second day
of my journey looked out upon graves
and cofins. They clustered under the
hills; they lay on the waters edge; they
had been carefully placed under the lee
of houses; they occupied all the besi
parts Of every field. Deceased Cinnamon
surrounded me everywhere. How far the
distribution Of graves all over country
| in which the principal religion of the in
habitants is the worship of ancestors
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20

may delay railway construction even for
strategical purposes, leave others to de-
eide. But I learn that coffins can be
bought as they stand for consideration.
/ did not buy coffin by way of expert
ment, but knew man who had done
so, and he estimated the cost at SO per
deceased ancestor. So it is possible that
the difficulty which is said to surround
the making of railroads in China may
some day disappear.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20

A New York dispatch of the 10th says:
The Woman's Suffrage convention con-
tinued it's session to day. Mrs. Eliza
beth Chase presided. T 10 secretary's s
report set forth the work of advocating
woman suffrage. The year has been one
of unusual activity. Reports were read
from Oregon, Washington territory,
Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota, giving
accounts of the progress of the cause.
Mrs. Stowe gave her experience in the
cause. She believed they were gradu.
ally acquiring a foothold. At New
Brighton, Staten island, nineteen women
voted for school trnstee. aud elected
their candidate.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20

Hartford, Conn.,, is trying to adopt
some plan that will secure healthy
plumbing in houses to be built hereafter.
and talks about requiring the plan of
plumbing for every house to be submit
ted to board Of health committee for
approval.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
PardO ned by IN Q Governor.

For some time efforts have been made
to secure the pardon Of Orlando Rose,
who pleaded guilty to 'nanslanghter
about eighteen months ago, and was
sentenced to thres years imprisonment
and heavy fine. Rose has been sick
almost ever since he was sentenced,
and for the past three weeks has been
quite ILL., The application for the par.
don was signed by Chief Justice Come
gys, and Associate Judges Wootten,
Houston and Wales, the Attorney Ger
eral, Sheriff Martin, ex-Sheritfs Rich
ardson and Herbert, the Jail physician
DR.. J j. Black, prisOn wardens, jail
commissioners, and large number Of
citizens.
|; was granted last Saturday, but the
prisoner was too i'll to be removed
Rose was tried for the murder of man
named Galloway, on the night of the
Fourth Of July, 1881, on Church street,
above Fifth. There was fight, during
which he man was stabbed in the stom
acl, and died in few days. When
Rose was tried, he was indicted for
murder in tn" first degree, but after the
tria had progressed for a day or two
one of the jurors was taken sick and
had to be excused, and the State allow.
ed the prisoner, through his counsel,
Levi c. Bird, Esq, to plead guilty to
manSlaughter.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
Failure of q Carriage Builder.

The failure of Edward Darragh, rar-
riage manufacturer, corner Fourth and
Walnut streets, is announced, aud has
caused considerable surprise among
some of his creditors His Liabilities
are placed at about S24 900 and his cred
itors are numerous. The works were
closed on Saturday afternoon and the
Sheriff assumed control of the business.
Messrs. Garrett, Finley & Co., hold a
Judgment note for ST. 200, which will
more than cover their loss. Bel!ah X
Co. issued an attachment against
Darragh for 5000, and Philadelphia
par, les have filed claims amounting to
5000. F. f. Clymer, manufacturer
of carriage bodies, James Gould,
James Branford. VIM. G. Martin and
others, also have claims against Mr..
Darrarh. The cause of the trouble
arose from the fact that the proprietor
let two large notes 60 to protest on FRI
day, hence those interested had the
place closed. About seventy men and
BOYS are thrown out of work, but re-
ceived tn, ir wages this morning from
Sheriff Martin. AS no assignment was
made, il is not known what action the
creditors viii take, as some OF them are
provided TO, while others, under this
arrangement, would lose everything.
1t is proh;: bic, however, that meet
ing will be- held and efforts made tc
throw the case into bankruptcy, and il
that event each creditor will be made
to prove his lain and the effects vii
be equally divided or a satisfactory ad
iustlnent made. From the present out
look there is 70 doubt some crookednes
in the affair.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
BURGLARS ABOUT.
A HOuse Broken Into and Robbed
on Saturday Ni3 mt.

Sometime during Saturday night the
house of Benjamin kotf, at Eleventh
and Church streets, was entered by
burglars and robbed Of " in cash, and
i.welry valued al $50. The thieves ei.
tected an entrance by boring through
back shutter and pushing back the bolt,
The robbery was not discovered I'm.
til abont half past six o'clock yesterday
morning when the hired girl came down
stairs.
The money was taken from the bar
room drawer, which they carried in the
ward. They also took ont box of So
CARS, and after taking half dozen or
so, left the remainder The only room
visited up stairs was that occupied by
Mr.. Koh, on the second floor, and he is
under the impression that he was chic
reformed by the scamps, az he did not
hear them, and it was almost impos.
sible to wake him yesterday morning.
They also piled three chairs alongside
of his bed, in such position that he
would fall over them, if he should un-
dertake to get up.
A drawer in this room was forced
open, and the following articles taken
A watch and chain, an opera glass,
breastpin, earrings and locket Mr..
KOff valued these articles very highly,
az they were presents that had been
received by his wife, and for the pnr.
pose of recovering them, otfclsa reward
of 800 and no questions asked.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
FOURTH EDITION,
DEATH FROM SUICIDE.
John Denney, of Dover, Cuts His
Throat " 18th y Razor.

Notice was made last week of the
death of John Denney, formerly OF Do
yer, at Denver, Colorado, he being found
dead in bed, but no further particulars
were received. From special TO the
philade phia Times, dated June q, we
CLEAN the following The deceased
registered at the Washington House
last week, and stated that he had been
robbed III st. Loui, and telegraphed his
brother in Dover for money. After
waiting several days, but receiving no
reply, Mr., Denney became very restless
aud uneasy and commenced to drink
quite heavily, but not to such an extent
is 10 become drunk.
On Monday the clerk OF The Motel
asked him for sGme money on account,
and WAS assured that he would be paid
in a few days.
That night Denney sat up rather late,
drank freely and retired about mid
night This was the last seen If him
alive Failing TO put in an appearance
during the day, and on complaint of the
chanbermaid, who stated that the
room occupied by Mr.. Denney was not
vacated, an investigation was made.
Etfnrts wer. made TO arouse the sun.
nos.d sleeper, without success, and at
last the door was broken open when a
horribl. sight met the gaze of those
present.
Lying with his head over the edge OF
the bed, with distorted features, pro.
,rudlug ewes, his hands clcuched at his
chin, ms tbit,atrur from ear to ear and
lie he'd a mnl OF blood, was the cold
and ria,d form of John Denney. At tn.
side of the bed. covered with blood, was
a razor the blade of which had been
lied 40 securplv that il could not fail in
RECONNAISSANCE m. mission which tn,
victim had chosen it should perform
nea1h nust have h4en slow and painful
az the cnn,rart.d muscles and distorteI
features evidenced.
D4nnev had written on the wall -
6 pI..ya n,,:fv I,r .IGhn " And.r
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
The Delaware ExOreSa.

The new express train on the Della
ware Railroad will ere many weeks be
the best paying train on the road. 1t
has only been running one week, and al
ready is well patronized, and supplies a
long felt want among patrons Of the
road who desire to travel fast. The
train leaves Philadelphia at 3 p. NJ. and
runs through with but few stops. A
REPUBLICAN representative embarked
on this train on Saturday afteruC on, en-
route to Dover, and the distance, Az
miles, was made in one hour and TWEEN
ty minutes, with but four stops, which
is quite an improvement over the regu-
lar accommodation trains. Every one
whose business calls them to Whining
ton or Philadelphia are highly elated
over the fast train, and it is the opinion
of many that it will be literally patron.
lied and that the other trains will not
be very materially affected. The neces
sity Of an additional train on this road
has long been felt, and the efforts of the
Railroad Company are highly apprecia
ted
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
Item No. 4.
The six Dollar Blue
Flannel

Suits for men. The three
hundred that we offered on
Saturday week we're gone
by Wednesday. The four
hundred and fifty now max
ing are coming in rapidly,
but we cannot promise to
keep the counters full. 1t is
our hope to have at least.
One hundred suits to-day,
but hopes based upon promi.
ses of tailors are often delu-
sive. We are, however,
pushing them hard, very hard,
and will keep our promise,
up to the selling Of a thous-
and suits.
New dollars 60 out daily
on these goods, and our re-
turn is just 60 cents on each
dollar. On 1000 suits a loss
of $4,000. DO you call this
folly? 1t would be tor many
a clothier, but you must re-
member that a big concern
can often afford to give you
a bargain at a loss ; and also
that Oak Hall protects thl:
market by always offering
the very best bargain.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
THIRD EDITION
MUNICIPAL. COURT.
Oaau d~rs Re fore the Bar of ustice.

THIS mornings session of Municipal
Coun was opened with Judge Cum
Minis { II the bench Several prisoners
occupied the dock, and James Dennis
was he first called. Clerk Pennington
said, pennis, you were arreste' ana
are now charg, Il with being drunk and
Disorder y, are you guilty or NOT gull
ty %
The ~, isouer hssitated for moment
and then replied, " was drunk, and |
guess / cot in fight, for a fellow tore
nv coat" Judge Cummins beard the
statement OF the uthcer who made the
arrest, and then said 1.-The Court SEN
fences you TO pay fine o!$3 and costs. ,
Spence. Greenwood, colored, who is
well known to the police was the next
customer. He was charged with being
drunk and disorderly, and was defended
by Walter Bacon, ESD Special officer
Harkins testified that last Saturday
night he found Spencer fighting with
some woman at Tenth and Shipley
streets and when he undertook to per-
suade him to desist he bit him on the
finger and he was obliged to get two
other officers to arrest him.
One witness was examined for the
defense, but his testimony only corrobo
rated that of the officer. When be had
closed Mr.. Bacon said, Your Honor
l don't see there's much in this cast
either one way or the other. The prls
oner is willing to plead guilty to being
drunk, but he could not have been very
disorderly, as he has a sore hand, and
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
LIFE IN OAK HALL!
IT WILL PAY YOU TO READ
EVERY ITEM.
Item No. 3.
Clean Cut and Well
Defined.

Notice the Oak Hall way
of putting things. The on
ly art in it is that our news
paper talk should tell some
thing. 1t is never evasive.
Prices and goods are always
connected and general state
ment omitted. Nothing re-
mains to be explained. 1t is
so much money for such and
such a thing. 1t is such a
thing marked down SO much
per cent. An understanding
of this will put money in
thy purse" and bring your
trade to- Oak Hall.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
A Snake story.

Samuel Fry, a farmer living about
one mile east Of lseamstown, Lancaster
County, Pa, killed several large black
snakes H. 1t week The largest he killed
on Iao; lnday, when, on his way to
see his NE ther, he had occasion to cross
thp tel.u,, and when standing on the
upper nIIr and making ready to jump,
he saw Il ."rge black snake dying right
at the place where h" would have
u'igNted, moving its head from side to
side. evidently ready for battle. He
tl,n ,j,pp'd down from the fence,
procured ,Jrge stone aud let il drop
on IA, snake head, thus killing it. He
III u p.& II ne snakn on the upper raj
Of ~, Iru,r, and saw that il reached
doNu rp tnr ground on both sides. The
sAat7e measured niue feet IN length, aud
was III, thickness OF Il man 5 arm.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
FIFTH EDITION.
Base Rail Notes.

The Quickstep did not play any game
on Saturday, but will play champion
ship game this afternoon with the Har,
risburg club. Game called at 4 O'Clock
The following games were played in
this city on Saturday: Niolets, IL.
Nelson Monck, 3 Augustine, 9; Rock,
land, q Diamond State Iron Company,
10 Old Ferry, l2; Violets, IL; Water
Witch, 3.
Games elsewhere:
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 10; Phil.
ahelphia, l. Athletic, 0; st. Louis, 3.
AT Providence-ChicagO, IL; Proyi.
dencG, 0.
At Decentralization, 30, Detroit, s.
At Nav York-Bntfalo, 81; New
York, Z.
At Princeton, N. J.-.Dcmestic, q
Princeton, -.
At Pittsbrrg-Allegheny, 3; Eclipse.
AT Brooklyn-Cincithati, 8 Brook
lyn,l ,.
At Camden the Merritt defeated the
Anthracite by the following score:
Merritt 20 l 0 0 o.
Anthracite 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O-O
In the American Association chan.
p!onship the Athletic leads In the race,
with the Eclipse, Cincinnati and St.
Louis following. In the League cham.
piOnship the race lies between the
Cleveland, Chicago and Providence.
The Inter. State contest is as follows:
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
Registrars Report.

During the week ending at noon .as'
Saturday, there were thirty four births,
five marriages and twenty-fonr deaths
reported in this city.
Causes of death ; consumption, 4 F.;
smallpox, 3; angina p"ctorls, bright 5
dseaOe, bronchitis, cancer of the
stomach, commissions, diphtheria, ex-
haustion, epilepsy, gun shot wound,
general debility, h~maremesis, heart
disease, meningieti-, pIeuro pneumonia,
paralysis, perrtonitis, still dorm, one
each.
The number of deaths, "A, Males,
II temales, Il; white, II black, 1
Born in the United States, Is foreign, d
Total number OF deaths for the CORE
spending week of last year, TO-
Brought here for in'ermenf, ); sen
away, passed through the city, ).
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11

Thenew Catholic Churc at Smyrna,
Del. was dedicated yesterday morning
in the presence Of "A large congregation,
Bishop Becker officiating Father klr-
lev celebrated the mass assiste by
Father Bradford -. Peters choir, OF
this city had charge of the musical
p,rt of the program and won many
friends by their fine singing.
The choir sang Generals Mass mt;
For offertorium. Prof. Rhoadrs and
Miss Crumlish sang "Exce Pants" from
Donizetti, and the exercises closed with
the TeDeum by Lambelotte, In the
evening the choir sang the Millardcon
certed NeeprrS, in the Dover Catholi,
church and Bishop Becker preached
The church was packed both inside ant
out and the singing was considered
the finest ever heard in either smyrna
or Dover.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11

tumbled again to $3.50, this
time from $3.50 Never any
thing like 1t before. The
Warren Suits at $3.50 are
down from 5000. These
are emqhatically b y S
goods, they are so tough
In Auburn Suits there is
quite a variety at $500
These are not marked down,
but are an original bargain.
The price is only two-thirds
the value and theyare among
the cheapest of the whole
Bargain Line
Linen, Cotton and Mar
settles Suits are now ready
in large variety at from $2.oc
to S. co..
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
DEAIIiA,

ROE-On the 10th inst. Viola, daughter Of
James H. and Mary Roe, aged 2years and
SmOIths.
Relatives and friends are respectfully In
vited to attend the funeral from the residence
of her parents. on the Lancaster pike, Chris
tiana Hundred, on Tuesday afternoon, at .
O'Clock. Interment at st. Joseph's cemetery
|SPRINGER-At Mt. Cuba Station, on the
| 10th inst William Springer, in the 18th
| year of his age.
| The relatives aud friends of the family are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral
on Tuesday, the 18th inst. Leave the house
Mt go o'clock, p. m. Interment ut Rivervle"
Cemetery.
Daily Republican., 1883-06-11
Prof. Crabb'A Jubilee.

The tickets are already out for the Sh
annual jubilee, which will take place
at the Opera House on Tuesday eve,
June 10Th. II will br,to use mild tone,
an immense affair. The S-eader march
by 200 girls surrasses anything ever
undertaken by the Professor. A drama
entitled " Bitter Cold,' by several
adults, will I've played from $50 to $50
and during its rendition, snow will be
falling. The First Regiment Baud will
do the musical part. There will be ]?
tableaux, recilations, etc. The children
ar" now busy r"hearsing for The march,
at NJ French street, from which place
they vii! he conveyed in carriages with
u blaze Of red fire and music on tho
evening of the jubilee.