The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-20
Two hundred Oregon pioneers passed
Pittsburg on the 11th inst.

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Work begins at once upon the Cape
Cod canal. Five hundred men will soon
be employed.
The Free Thinkers of New England
States have made arrangements to hold q
convention in Boston October 9th.
The state election in Ohio. on the 9th
inst. resulted in electing the democratic
candidate Hoadley. by 12.ON majority.
Sherman, the republican candidate for
governor of Iowa, was elected on the 9th
inst. by over 10000 majority. Both
houses are also largely republican.
/ The steamer, sMaid of the Mist" ran
the lower rapids OF Niagara recently.
| She remained in the whirlpool ten min
utes. The feat was witnessed by about
200 people.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of Eng
! land, who is now visiting in this country,
was given magnificent banquet in New
York city, on the 11th inst. There was
over 1900 guests present.
The steamer Coptic, which sailed from
| San Francisco to Hongkong
on the 18th, carried 1900
! Cbinamen with her. Over 900 of these
were provided with return certificates.
It is reported that every Chinaman takes
with him from $500 to $1,000.
The cabooss of freight train left
standing on the main track at Wapahon-
eta. Ohio, recently, by the negligence of
the conductor, was struck by the engine
of passenger train, wrecking the Ca
boose, engine and baggage car, seriously
| injuring the fireman and slightly hurt
| ing the engineer.
The spinners' union of Fall River ap-
| pointed commissioners to wait on the
gubernatorial candidates, and candidates
| for the legislature from that district, to
ascertain what action they will take in
regard to the amendments to the trustee
| law and ten-hour law, at the coming ses-
sion of the legislature.
/ Sir Stafford Northcote, replying to an
| address at Strahan, Ireland, recently,
said: "We are on the eve of great bat
tie for maintenance of the union. The
tendency of the present government is
towards separation. Loyalists must
unite in the prevention of what would
destroy the country's interest"
Alexander Webb, treasurer of the ma
tional league Of Dublin. has returned
1885, donated by the Hibernia, brewery
destitute families of the men executed for
the Phonix park murders. The treas
urer says that to give the money donated
would be construed as sympathizing
with murderers and encouraging assas-
sinations.
| At a small town in Cattaragus Co., N.
Y, recently, postal telegraph men at
tempted to place poles in front of the
1e
who are wealthy residents. A fight
ensued, and Edward Napier struck
the foreman of the telegraph gang, J..
wound. Another man stabbed Napier.
Pistols were fred and riot followed.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
an interview with prominent wine mer-
chants of that city show that this years
wine crop will be 40 per cent. less than
supposed, the total yield not exceeding
10000, 900 gallons. The direct cause of
this is due to disease on the vines
known in France as "conleure," which
manifested itself there for the first time
this year. Mission grapes are held at
500 to $28, Zinfandel and Muscat $33 to
$40, being the highest prices yet OBJ
tanned.
The annual report of President Green
of the Western Union Telegraph com.
pany. shows the company to be in very
fiattering condition financially. The
company holds securities in various tele
graph, telephone and other companies,
: the marketable value of which is now
. over S10, ,000, 900, and. according to the
! report, the mosto the securities are ap-
preciating rapidly in value. These
securities do not represent stocks in
telegraph companies leased to the West
Z !srn Union company. Most of these are
owned by it, aggregating some So. .000,-
900 more. The company has 49,, ,72t
miles of wire and 2917 offices. Forty
: million six hundred and eighty.one
thousand one hundred and seventy sever
: messages were handled during the year
receipts from which were $l9 ,454 ,902 O8
against ST., ia, ,16492 last year. The
3 expenses for the year just closed were
81, ,794 ,553, leaving net profit of ST,
!, CSC, $40. SO.
Lieutenant Stoney, who went up on
. recent trip of the revenue steamer Cor
win, for the purpose of distributing
!, among the Tehuckchee Indians of Alasks
= the $1,000 worth of presents given then
! by the government, in recognition o
= shelter and food afforded the officer
and crew of the steamer Rogers, burned
: in 1881, reports the discovery of an i'm
mense river hitherto unknown t,
> geographers. The river had beer
:. vaguely spoken of by the Indians t.
= former explorers. and Stoney being com
PEELED to await the return trip of tn
Corwin, determined to see if there wa
anything in it. Accompanied by on
4 attendant and an interpreter b.
@ proceeded inland from Hotham inlet il
l. southeasterly direction until he struc
:, what he believed to be the mysteriou
n river. He traced it to it's mouth, dis
70 tance of about fifteen miles, where b.
If saw such immense pieces of floating
timber as to satisfy him that the strean
le must be of immense size. He retrace
> his steps distance 6f fifty miles, wher
ID he encountered natives, from whom h
al learned that to reach the headwaters G
ss the unknown stream would take severa
st months. The Indians told him the
y came down ii distance of 1900 miles t
D. meet fur traders, and that the river wen
n up higher than that. Having no time
OF go further, Stoney returned. 1t is hi
s. opinion, as stated by those on the Coz
p win, from whom this information we
N obtained, that the discovery of tn
er river accounts for the large amount (
D. floating timber in the Arctic. popuiarl
in supposed to come down the Yukon. Th
IT Indians stated that the river in som
n nlacas waS twenty miles wide II