The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-07-28
LOCAL ITEMS.

We notice the lumber on Mr.. Smith lot
near the picture gallery, on jackson street,
| for the erection of a new buildine.
Wednesday morning twofoot pocket
rule was picked up on the hill east of Rose
burg. The owner can cali and get it.
Blow, oh blow. ye Umpqua breezes; sing
| oh sing, ye Umpqua muses., etc; case the
Eldorado water is good fer. the ''bluses."
H. P. Whitney, the principal butcher and
cattle dealer of Coos Bay came up this week
to dispose of few fat cattle that he had no
use for.
A social dance Will be given at Marks Hall
Thursday evening August I'd. The best Of
music will be furnished by the Roseburg
StrIng Band.
Barker Caros enterprising clerk is having
the Old meat shop into store room, and will
soon engage in the green grocery business on
his own hook
Gen. Francis Darr, of New York. was in
town Thursday and left Friday morning, af-
ter calling upon his old time Cincinnati friend
Judge Mosher.
Messrs. Barrows & Getchell, with ten ex.
perlenced fishermen from Astoria, passed
through Roseburg, ON their way to the CO.
guile river to operate the. new. cannery at
that place.
We neglected to state last week that A
F. Shultz had purchased the Touring mill at
Canyonville which formerly belonged to S.
Marks & Co., and that the reputation of that
brand of flour will be fully sustained.
The Overland Monthly for August is on
eur table. The contents are up to the usua
standard OF excellence Subscription $4O0;
single number, 35 cents. Address Samuel
Carson, l20 Sutter ST., San Francisco.
2. B. Adams, tourist, was in town this
week and remained couple of days. Every
| body knows Zed, as he has travelled this
State many years. He now makes his re-
ports to J. G. Johnson & Co., San Francisco.
Friday July goth, there was born near
Cleveland. in this county: to the wife of n.
T. Day, bouncing baby boy. 1t is need
less to say that Nick is the preudest old man
to be found anywhere in Southern Oregon.
Hardy Stanton is having the postofice
building reftted with new shelving and the
walls and ceiling newly painted, and we ex
pect fine display OF new goods. You should
call and see him, as a new broom sweeps
clean
| The property of n. H. Lace, on Coos Bay,
has been sold to the Southern Oregon I'M
proven,ent Company and the deed has been
recorded in Coos county. This Is another
guarantee that the Coos Bay railroad viii
soon be built.
| Capt. Tbomason, of Elk Creek, was shot on
! Thursday, at Canyouvile about 10 A. NJ. by
Nm. Eddings The wounds are likely to
prove fatal. Eddings was brought to Rose
burg by Esq Chas. Bealman. and will have
| his examination to-day.
/ The business is increasing here among bus
mess were in the matter of developing outly-
ing sources of wealth. 1t is the old story
that needs to be re-stated quite often. Rose.
burg must use the means at hand ii she
would retain commercial supremacy without
effort the natural advantages of her position
will count for naught.
F. 4. Smith, the we'll known photograph
er of Salem, and former resident of Rose
burg, has established gallery on Main
street, nearly opposite the Plaindealer Office
where he will remain for some time. His
prices are reasonable and all who want first
class pictures should embrace the opportu-
nifty. If
Mr.. John G.. Mcbride, representing the
hardware firm of Huntington, Hopkins & Co.
whe was in town this week. presented to
Mr. Asher Marks, Smith G Wesson self
cooking pistol, which is as pretty piece of
this kind of hardware as we have seen for
many a day. 1t is too handsome to carry
and too valuable to leave at home.
Mailed free, by DRs. STARKEY &c PALEN,
il09 Girard street, Philadelphia, their
"Treatise on Compound Oxygen, It's Action,
Nature, aud Results. A very remarkabl c
publication" All orders for the Compound
Oxygen Home Treatment directed to H. E.
Mathews, 606 Montgomery street, San Fran
cisco will be filled on the same terms as if
sent directly to us.
The democracy must be looked to for re-
dress of the wrongs of land monopoly. What
is the use to reiterate the stale platitudes,
so frequently heard from republican sources,
that America is an asylum for the oppressed
of all natiens, when in fact the conditions
existing under our present land monopoly
system, come so far from realizing this PHI
lnnthropic dream.
In recent article the London Economist
estimated the cash value OF the British mer-
| chant marine at two hundred million pound.
sterling, yielding net annual income of IF
teen million pounds. Another very careful
statistical publication, lie Cotton, of Brussels
insists that this estimate is much too Low
since the United States alone pays $40, 600,
600 year in freights to English ship-owners
The ladies of Roseburg have at last sue
ceeded in capturing enough men to organic
a branch of the Y. NJ. C. A. A meeting wa
held last Sunday evening at the Presbyterian
Church and the following officers elected
President, B. A. Cathey; Vice President
Mrs. S. c.. Flint; Secretary, S. G. Flint
Treasurer, Mrs. FL. P. Webb: A meetin
will be held at the same place next Sunda,
evening TO perfect the organization.
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