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

Cherry furniture is in style.
There are about Toe, 900 kernels ef
wheat to bushel.
At last the old city Of Petersburg, Va.
has street railroad.
The American maccaroni is said to ex-
eel the imported article.
New York girls of the period drink
goats milk for the complexion.
It is estimated that about 600, 900
freight cars are in use in this country.
OF the 300, ,Oe0 people in New York
city only 81 .052 own real estate.
It has been discovered that Portland
cement. when A-r~-~a - si.a -;--.--sil
No other large city in the country has
so small q debt and light taxes. as
Chicago.
The Yellowstone valley needs irriga-
ton to give it high agricultural deyel-
opment.
Since 1861 conscience. stricken persons
have paid $186, ,459 OF into the United
States treasury.
The people of Mobile have found Ala
bama granite to be cheap and excellent
paving material.
It costs $272 ,291 year to maintain
the water works Of the city of Brooklyn.
The water is all pumped.
A Pennsylvania lady, ninety three
years of age, milks, washes and bakes for
family of three persons.
Cleveland ranks as having the lowest
death rate, with 1877 per 1000, and
Charleston highest, with 42.91.
The bankers of New York believe
there will be an influx of $40, 900 600 to
S95, 900 900 in gold during the fiscal
year.
OF 5000 children who enter the public
| schools of Cincinnati annually only
ninety graduate from the high schools.
Mr.. Gresham pronounces the new
postofice building in Philadelphia the
| inest structure of the kind in the United
States.
| The women of the United States have,
within the last year, given the sum of
5000. 600 for the spread OF the Gospel In
foreign lands.
The public water works of Philadel-
phia earn clear profit of 81 ,000, 900 q
year, which goes into the city treasury
for general purposes.
The New York water department is do
| ing everything in its power to enforce
economy IN the use of water. Over 5000
water meters are nov in use.
/ Here's pretty fix. The government
doesn't know what TO do with the
Weather Bureau, and the people don't
know wiIat 10 do with the WUzst1sTs
It is said there are 5000 bookkeepers
looking for situations in New York, and
that the average pay of bookkeeper in
that city is from $15 to $18 week.
The city of Philadelphia has So. 500, :
600 invested in gas works, and some OF
the newspapers favor selling the entire
property to private company at cost.
The once famous tribe of Cherokee
Indians is now reduced to about 1000
persons, and they suffer steady decrease
which will extinguish them by the mid
die Of the next century.
The convicts in the penitentiary in 10.
liet, ILL.,, receive over 5000 newspapers
and periodicals every month. One earns
$40 month by overwork, and with it be
buys costly books.
In the Old World the number of pas
sengers which can be carried by horse
car, or rather public conveyance, is linz
tied by law, and the conveyance once
full, no more passengers are admitted.
The New Orleans Christian Advo
cate believes that if the negroes of the
South have made progress since
their emancipation sit is no doubt dus
almost entirely to the discipline o.
slavery"
The funded debt of the city of st
Louis is So, ,230, ,O00. A~ainst this th.
} city owns water works worth 81 ,0O0, 600
public parks worth over So, ,000, 600, ana
! public buildings valued at more than
Sc, ,0O0, 900.
A newspaper correspondent, who hal
been sampling the cities of the far west
says: Helena, the capital of Montana
is accented orally and morally on th'
first syllable. It is probably the rich
est and wickedest city of its size in tn
country"