The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-27
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The Chinese admiral has arrived at
Shanghai with eight gun boats.
Three men and boy were killed by
a fallingswall at FIRE in Meddleyille,
Mich, on the 22d.
| Decisive action of the French forces
from Hanoi against the Black Flags at
Bacninh, is impending
| Butler and Robinson are making
three speeches day in Massachusetts,,
and the campaign is waxing hot.
| The French have discovered that the
is at Bacninh are mounted with
Krupp guns and too strong to be taken
by assault
The largest business block in Annap-
oils, Md, was destroyed by fire on
Monday, Oct. 22d. Charles Legg and
Miss Lizzie Watkins were burned to
death.
| Sir Geo. F. Bower, English governor
of Hongkong, left Pskin for Hong
kong, after a satisfactory interview
with the Chinese minister of Foreign
affairs.
! The steamship Heimdahl, from Co
penhagen. with 305 steerage and three
cabin passengers, arrived at New York
harbor on the 22d on fire. The fire
was confined to the lower main hold
and was finally subdued.
There is report of an approaching
war with foreigners circulating IN the
interior of China. People in Yuen
Nan believe the Chinese are preparing
for war of determination against for
eigners.
The spilitualists Of the south, in
session at Chattanooga, have adopted
resolu tions to organize an encampment
for their annual meeting, and for that
purpose have subscribed cash capital
of $4,000. The city is alive with
spiritualists from all the states, and
subscriptions in cash to the amount of
$4,000 were secured in twenty minutes.
The Times says: Daily mail between
Portland, Oregon, and New York is IN
operation, the time being about SIX and
one half days between the two cities,
by the Northern Pacific railroad.
This is better than the time usually
made between San Franciscosand New
York. Usually the San Francisco
daily papers reach us on the seventh
day after their publication. The Port
land papers, by the same mail, are one
day later
FROM Salem comes the story that
one of Marien county's most honored
pioneers, who accompanied the excur-
sion party to the east, to meet broth
er from whom he parted thirty years
ago, met on the train near Chicago an
innocent youth OF some seventeen sum-
mers who played himself off as the
Oregonian's nephew, roped him into a
bunko game and got away with all the
coin the pioneer had about his clothes
A large amount of land withdrawn
for the benefit of the 0. & G.. K. r. In
| 1871 has been restored to the public
domain on account Of the route defect
ing to the west and changing the limits
of the grant to said road. The land is
mostly situated in Douglas county and
is subject to pre-emption and home
stead settlement and to entry, when
surveyed, at $1.25 per acre.
N, The Bulletin says that the news of
the tragic ending of the life of John S.
Grifiing at Portland, Oregon, has been
received with surprise and sorrow by
his immediate friends and relatives in
San Francisco. The idea that he COM
mitted suicide is not entertained. The
shooting is believed by those who knew
, him intimately to have been accidental
He was young man of promise, hav-
ing peither bad habits nor bad associa-
l tions.
The New York Times, which rarely
applauds Beecher, commends heartily
5 his advice to young men to cross th'
:, Rocky mountains. 1t says: "Beeche
e appears before us in the character o
boomer for the great northwest
s. Beecher is entirely right There will
t. be great cities built on Puget sound
:. and large towns, depots and trade cen
;. tres in Oregon, Washington territory
!. Idaho, Montana and Daketa. Wit
a the expanse of the country, with its az
. ricultaral, mineral and grazing re
= sources, it scarcely yet feels the effec
:. OF emigration. But this advise to &c
is up early and possess lands, is weight
and wise"
). Parties having pork hogs for sale ca
obtain the highest mar ket price by cal