The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-16
DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIc NEWS.

Trade in Paterson, N. j., is depressed.
Smallpox is epidemic in Hoboken, NJ.
The Hudson river grape crop will be big.
Since lS45 Arctic navigation has cost 100
ives.
The charter of Buffalo, n. Y. is to be re.
yised.
Gently.
The Texas cotton crop is suffering from
drouth.
Sankey, Moody's companion, is in New
York, sick.
Denver, COL, has sold $300,OO worth of
new bonds.
The Hazelton, Pa, striking coal miners
are still out.
The first Hawaiian Gotten is selling in
New Orleans.
Philasseipnfa.s Electrical Exposition
opens next month.
W. w. Taylor, son of President Taylor,
died in Salt Lake recently.
Twenty-Five Indiana .jails have been con.
demned by the health board.
five-mile race for 81 900 side.
1t is reported that gold and silver have
been found near West Point, N. Y.
Louis Blanding, prominent mining
engineer of San Francisco, is insane.
President Harris, of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad, has arrived in New York.
San Franciscans consider cdr" O'Don-
nell, the leper crank, quack and fraud.
The Hill-Sharon divorce case at San
FRANCISCO is now more complicated than
ever.
Italian laborers in New Jersey eat toads,
choleraic chickens, and even suffocated
sheep.
Mayor Bartlett, of San Francisco, has
ordered 1.-THE police to close all gaming
tables.
A train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
was derailed near Whitesboro, Texas, re-
Gently.
Amalgamated iron workers want John
Jarrett for chief of the bureau of labor
statistics.
Mrs. Silory, of Castleton, Ind, gave
plrtn TO healthy boy weighing seventeen
ounces recently.
Berliner & Strauss, dealers in neckties
and scarfs, New York, have failed. Pre-
ferences, $4,000.
Lieutenant Greely returns thanks to the
navy and the people of the United States
for their sympathy.
A corporation has been formed in Chi.
cago for the publication of the Current,
with $1OO, 900 capital.
j. Ii. Tomlinson, of San Francisco, has
been sentenced to two years in the peni-
tentiary for embezzlement.
The Central Labor Union of New York
reports the receipt of plenty of money
for the striking bricklayers.
But one New York official was present
at the laying of the corner stone for the
Bartholdi pedestal last week.
William Butler Allen was the orator on
the occasion of the laying of the corner
stone of the Bartholdi statue.
Admiral Schufeldt, u. S. n, who ar.
rived at San Francisco the other day, pro-
nounces the Panama canal a failure.
The New York Commercial Bulletin
estimates the fire losses of July in the
United States and Canada at $4,000, 600.
Hit, the transcontinental walker. has
arrived In st. Louis. He wore out seven
pairs OF shoes since leaving San Francisco.
The steamer America, which arrived in
New York recently, brought 100000 in
gold bars to the bank of British North
America.
The July statement of the Atchison.
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company
shows the gross earnings for July to be
81, ,254, 900.
A telegram from Washington saws that
the agricultural department estimates for
the wheat crop this year is about 4S5, ,000,-
600 bushels.
William Nelson, Miss Hills late attor.
ney in the Sharon divorce case, SAYS the
word "wife, in the ''my .dear.wife" letter,
is forgery.
Richard Mccormick, Ex-Governor of
Arizona, has been elected member of the
board of education of Jamaica, Long
Island, for five years.
Twenty-eight pauper emigrants were
landed in New York recently by the
Rugia from Hamburg, and were sent back
by the same steamer.
Baird, who recently drove Maud S in
2:O94, gets $4,000 for his performance,
half for lowering Maud s. record and
| half for beating Jay Eye See.
Fred Gruenwalder's baby at Amster.
dam, n. Y, has two tongues. Neither
the child might bleed to death.
Schedules on the assignment of L.
Christian Meyer, New York broker,
show liabilities to be $4,000, nominal
assets 100000, actual assets $5,S65.
Lieutenant Schwatka, on being inter.
viewed at San Francisco, says he did not
resign his position in the army for the
purpose of entering any foreign service.
| U. S. Grant, Jr., of New York, against
ltwhom judgment for $40, 600 was rendered,
damages to milkman. has appealed, on
| the ground that the horse was not his
own.
| Richard K. Fox offers purse of $4,000
| to match the trotters Maud S and Jay Eye
! See for trot at the Gentlemen's Driving
| Park, New York, next month, best three
| in five.
| A San Francisco dispatch says: The
| various roads in the Transcontinental As
sociation have affirmed their old agree
ment regarding rates, and adopted more
stringent rules governing the sale CT
/ tickets.
| BY recent explosion of benzine in
| Charles Franke's dying works, on Forty
ninth street, New York, Edward Linden
berg, engineer, and Peter Bretz were
| shockingly burned. The front of the
building, five stories, was blown into the
street, and the building and stable. with
two horses, burned. A beer saloon ad.
| joining was demolished.