The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-05
CURRENT EVENTS.

dered.
There are still 4ss street lamps in Paris
fed by oil.
A dozen negro Mormons arrived recently
at Salt Lake.
The Pennsylvania Legislature pays its
chaplain 50 q day.
The last bear seen at large in Connecti-
cut was killed in 1874.
The Hudson river is lower than the old
est inhabitant ever saw it.
More than 1900 homesteads have been
entered in Florida during this year.
The birds on the ostrich farm at Ana
helm will be plucked in few weeks.
A 400-pound cinnamon bear was trapped
on the outskirts of Nevada City recently.
a man in Bethel, Conn, gave a party on
the 102d anniversary of his birth, and died
the next day.
A Missouri man was sentenced to five
minutes Imprisonment in the county Jail
for hog stealing.
& John Armstrong, compositor in the
Dayton, w. T., Chronicle office, had foot
mashed recently.
Two conductors on the Southern Pacific
road have been suspended for carrying an
ex-eonductor free.
An Albany, N. Y, butcher figures he has
sawed seventy eight miles of bone in thirty
years at his block.
%There are 25,0O0 children in Philadelphia
for whom there are neither school houses
nor school teachers.
Within the last eighty years Congress
has spent more than $lO0, co., 600 ON the
city of Washington.
By the Mississippi overflow of last year
louisiana claims to have been damaged to
the extent of $60,000,000.
The steamboat Mary Garratt was slightly
injured by running aground during fog
at Port Costa a few days ago.
A contractor named Frank Wilson has
been arrested at Los Angeles for defraud-
ing his workmen of their wages.
An automatic dust and cylinder de-
fector, to be adjusted to the windows of
railway cars, has just been patented.
The men-of-war Pensacola, Richmond
and Lackawanna, which did valiant ser
vice during the war are now condemned.
The poultry inspector of Boston is ac-
cused of condemning fowls and then hay-
ing them sold to a canning establishment.
The committee engaged in soliciting SUBJ
scriptions toward pedestal for the Barth-
holdi statue at New York have secured
100000.
A letter mailed in San Francisco on the
afternoon of October 10th reached London,
Eng, October 26th-just sixteen days af-
forwards.
Oyster dredgers in Chesapeake bay re-
port that the bivalves are scarce and in
ferior in quality. Over 4,500 vessels are
now dredging.
About 100000 acres will be added to the
cultivatable lands of Arizona next year;
by canals and irrigating bitches at an ex-
pense of $500,
st. Paul during the year has erected
$500 residences and 443 business blocks,
the amount expended thereupon being
nearly $12,000,0 900.
After spending over 81 800 in fighting a
charge of keeping a house of ill-fame in
Nevada City, j. @. Pengree has paid the
$500 fine imposed on him.
William r. Vanderbilt, j. P. Morgan,
Miss G. L. Wolf, John Jacob Astor and
William Astor have each subscribed $10,-
GOO to the Bishop Potter fund.
Harold Bates, the eldest son of Rev. j.
Lockington Bates, railway millionaire of
London, Eng, is said to be dying in the
Charity Hospital at Cleveland.
The body of man, supposed to be that
of Shaw, who was SO brutally murdered
on the Madal1n plains, Modoc county, re-
Gently, has been found near Alturas.
A French lad employed in one of the
mills at Lewiston, Me-, wishing to have
half day off, cut the big belt and stopped
1,600 spindles before it could be repaired.
A vessel, which arrived at New Bedford
a day or two ago, brought an eagle which
alighted on the masthead of the vessel
when the vessel was 500 miles from any
land.
St. Louis had dark day recently. For
nearly an hour at noontide the sky was SO
black that it was too dark to read. Heavy
clouds had absorbed all the smoke from
the city.
At Rochester, n Y, lately, two young
people hired themselves out to a clothing
firm for the purpose of being married in
the show window in the evening, in full
view of the crowd.
The last observations indicate that we
are distant from the sun about 81, 100 600
miles. These are the figures obtained, as
near as may be, from the observations of
the last Venus transit.
Such is the location of Eagle City, in the
Coeur d'Alene mountains, that the sun
does not shine upon it until IL q. M, and
then only for an hour, disappearing behind
the mountains at noon.
Mrs. Laura Ormeston, of Morristown,
Ind, having declined to make public pro-
fession of pentinenee for horsewhipping
Elbert Tyner in a street in that village, has
The alligator will become extinct in
Florida waters, the Palatka Herald says,
as has the manatu (sea cow, once SO num-
erous there. Il is estimated 500, 600 alliga-
tors were killed in Florida last year.
A Philadelphia tailor says the knicker-
bockers will first be used exclusively for
full dress, with the regulation swallow-tail
coat. The material will be the finest
broadcloth and the stockings black silk.
At New Lisbon, o., divorce was
of the improper intimacy of the wife, sixty
years old, with her pastor. The evidence
that convicted her was given by her son.
More than 5000 snakes were killed with
in mile of Falls City, Neh., during a re.
cent overflow. They were driven by the
water from the bottom lands and swarmed
upon the embankments thrown up for
railroads.
A strawstack at the Sequel paper mill
was destroyed by fire recently. Fifteen
hundred bales of straw were burned, in
volving loss of $4,000 The fire is sup
posed to have been the work of an in
cendiary.
1t is rumored that G. H. Lord, postmas-
ter of Tucson, convicted at the last ses-
sion of the District Court of cutting gov
ernment timber and who was to appear on
the 18th of December for sentence, has alb
seconded to Mexico.
An illustration of the vigor with which
we are deforesting the country is furnished
by the note of preparation of the Maine
lumbermen for the winters campaign. Tt
is thought 150, ,000. 600 feet will be cut on
the Penebscot waters.
The people of Brooklyn, Conn.,, are so
indignant because the telegraph companies
wantonly mutilate their trees that they
have instructed the selectmen to secure
the removal of telegraph poles, and to