The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-19

Hampton, Virginia, had SlUU,oUO hre
recently.
Penn Yam, N. Y, elected Blaine dele
cation to Chicago.
Buffalo, N. Y, Republicans have In
structed for Arthur.
Allentown, Penn, Democrats have in
structed for Randall.
New York city has whisky saloon
called the 'Morgue."
The West is now supplying New York
with hotel furniture.
Steamboats, are now running between
Dubuque and St. Louis.
The Fort Wayne, Ind, delegates go to
Chicago uninstructed.
Beaver, Penn, and Corning, N. Y, Re-
publicans are for Blaine.
Savannah, Ca, has the oldest opera
house in the United States.
Newark, N. J. delegates are supposed to
favor Edmunds and Lincoln.
The estimated reduction of the public
debt for March is $15,OO0.OOO.
What railway stocks are bought nova
days, are bought by investors.
the blind amounts to $11 ,15l.47.
Snow fell at Tomah, Wis, last week, to
the depth of eight or ten inches.
The Council Bluffs Qa.) Nonparea advo-
Gates Senator Allison for President.
Antlanta's Chicago delegates are unin-
structed. but are thought to favor Arthur.
Mapleson says he took in $1O2, 600 from
seventeen performances in San francisco.
A fast mail service from Chicago to New
Orleans, via the Illinois Central, is talked
of.
Orange and lemon trees in Southern
California are loaded with buds and bios
SONS.
A boy of IA, named Warner, hanged
himself in cattle shed at Monmouth,
Iowa.
Cheyenne Stock Yards has been changed
by the postal authorities to Haggart, Wy
oming.
Jay Gould will soon make tour of in
speetion over his Southwestern railway
system.
Serious charges have been made against
Comptroller Knox by leading Boston
bankers.
Daniel Hawn, of Huntington, Pa, died
recently, aged 81. He has been insane for
sixty years.
Fat hogs about Danville, ILL.,, have about
all been picked up, and stock hogs are
very scarce.
A fire at Calais, Me-, recently, destroyed
several buildings. Loss, $12.s09; insur-
ance, $8,2O0.
The Elisha Graves house, at Northamp-
ton, Mass, burned recently. 1t was over
200 years old.
Delegates from White Plains, N. Y, to
the National Republican Convention are
uninstructed.
Belford, of Colorado, says either Grant
or Blaine will be the Republican nominee
for President.
The Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Republican
convention voted down a resolution en-
dorsing Blaine.
A Gloucester, Mass, special says the
schooner Minnesota lost five men during
the recent gale.
| Twenty-six women were graduated re
Gently from the Woman,s Medical College
| in Philadelphia.
| The one-pound baby recently born al
Long Branch has died of cold from ex
posure to visitors.
The Illinois State Irrigation Convention
meets at Riverside on the 18th, 10th and
10th of May next.
A child in Philadelphia has been at
tackled by hpdrophobia from the bite of g
dog three years ago.
Indianapolis, Ind, Republican delegates
| have a preference for Harrison, with
Blaine as second choice.
Burglars who blew open the safe of the
County Treasurer at Greensburg, Pa, OBJ
tanned about $500 in cash.
The District of Columbia Republican
Convention held an all-night session an6
finally agreed upon Logan.
The wife of John Z. Sullivan, in Bosto1
recently, gave birth to bouncing boy. H'
has been named John L. Sullivan, Jr.
A majority of the delegates from Brook
lyn, N. Y, which chooses delegates to tht
Chicago convention, are anti-administra
ton.
Fifteen hundred miners of the West
moreland and Pennsylvania Gas and Goa
Companies at Irwin Station, Penn, are on
on strike.
Major Moore, of the Salvation Army
was arrested recently in New York on ,
charge of stealing $500 of the funds of th'
organization.
A test vote at Republican primary a
New Philadelphia, Ohio, gave Blaine I'll
votes for President, Lincoln q, Logan 4
and Arthur 2.
The earnings of the Northern Pacifi,
the first week in April were $317, 900, al
increase of 1852, 600 over the correspond
ing week last year.
The leading ipapers of New York prin
lists of the most prominent bankers anC
business men of that city who are pro
nounced Arthur men.
A glove contest of four rounds has beer
arranged between Charles Mitchell, th'
English pugilist, and Billy Edwards. ligh
weight champion, to take place at Madi
son Square Garden, May 18th.
The Philadelphia Press strongly urge.
the passage of the bill placing Genera
Fremont on the retired list. He has beer
in the army over half . century.
About 1,5OO persons were present at tn,
Confederate Home meeting in Coope
Union, New York, last week. Genera
Grant did not preside, as was expected.
Juan B. Patron, a wealthy and highl!
respected citizen of Las Vegas, N. NJ, wa!
assassinated last week by Mitch NANCY,
cow boy. Nancy will probably be lynched
i A novel feature in the dining room of
hotel at Nigara Falls is a colossal mirror
in which the falls are reflected in such
manner that the guests may admire Will,
they eat.
i The Seventeenth New York Congress
sional District elected Martin j. Town
send and Henry G. BurleiQh delegates Il
the National Republican Convention
Both are for Arthur.
i All the Missouri delegates to the Repub
lican National Convention have beer
elected, but none are specially instructed