The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-12
DOMESTIC rE1rGRApH1C NEWS.

The debtof the city Of Boston amounts
to S43s278,670.
STwenty -four hundred cows are stabbed
eNew York.
New York rents are Is per cent lower
than last year.
The United States has one clergyman 10
every $50 inhabitants.
A citizen of New Orleans is making a
fortune selling iced tea.
California has more suicides than any
other state in the Union.
Broadway, New York city, is lighted
throughout by electricity.
Allen Pinkerton, the famous detective.
died in Chicago last week.
Three children were burned to death at
Youngstown, o., recently.
Is 1t is estimated that there are 10000 BIZ
Fegcles in the United States.
The liquor dealers of Philadelphia pay
| 1915, ,U00 in licenses annually.
G. w. Dean, of Omaha, committed sui
eide in Helena, NJ. T., last week.
The New York police are cleaning out
the opium smokers at fan tan games.
| Another baby farming establishment
has been discovered in New York city.
A cheap Republican morning daily pa
per is soon to be established in New York.
The nation receives about $780, 600, 900 a
year from the New York Custom House.
| Two cannons, buried since 1872, have
been dug up in South street, New ork
city.
The growing of sunhowers is said to be
preventive of disease in malarial dis
| trictS.
Thomas j. Churchill, ex-State Treasurer
of Arkansas, is defaulter in the sum OF
$4,000.
Boston has 1856 electric lights on her
streets and squares burning at the city's
expense.
There are in the present Congress only
two mechanics. The lawyers number
nearly 200.
| The Senate has passed the river and
harbor bill, after increasing the amount
appropriated.
G. P. Huntington says that rumors con-
cerning his financial embarrassment are
without foundation.
i Eighty Indian children, pupils of the
Carlisle, PENN, school, are with farmers
in different parts of Bucks county.
Counterfeiting the paper money of other
countries is now made punishable by an
act which has passed both Houses OF Con-
gress.
Alex. P. Moore, owner of Santa Rosa
Island, near Santa Barbara, Cal, shot and
killed Chinaman named Gee You, re-
Gently.
The United States District Court has de-
eided that Brooklyn is simply a part OF
New York city, and is within the limits OF
its ports.
The resignation of Bradford Dunham,
as general manager of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, took effect
last week.
The newly discovered river in Alaska
will probably be the innocent cause OF
trouble between the navy and the treasury
departments.
A Michigan justice is in trouble for hav-
ing turned over to the complainant in an
assault case the fine which. was imposed
on the prisoner.
i At Mud Springs, Cal, last week, a Chi
naman murdered little girl named Bessie
Eldridge and was Immediately lynched By
avenging neighoors.
| The man who shot himself and wife at
Fruitvale, Cal, recently, has been identi-
: fed as August SCHNEIDER, formerly bar
keeper in San Francisco.
Twenty brass bands have been engaged
for the semi-centennial parade in Roches-
ter, n. Y. Among the number is the Sal
amanca Indian brass band.
The Sullivan Mitchell fight at Madison
Square Garden last Monday night, was a
, complete swindle. Sullivan appeared on
the scene too drunk to fight.
Daiz, the Cuban who returned to Key
, West, has been convicted of violating the
neutrality laws, by aiding an armed expe-
) dition against friendly power.
The President has ordered a courtmar.
tial in New York, September 14th, for the
l trial of Judge Advocate Swain. General
} Schof1eld will be president of the court.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
has discontinued the fast mail train be-
tween Salt Lake City and Cheyenne, Wy
oming, on account of a lack of appropria-
ton.
There are now more than 900 Indians in
Montana without rations, starving, with
! out anything to subsist on except range
cattle, which they are killing in large
numbers.
The decrease of the public debt for June
was about $9,000,000. The reduction for
the fiscal year just ended, was $101 ,0OO, 600
, The reduction for the last fiscal year was
= $137, ,023, ,253.
Mrs. Eliza Blakney, of Cincinnati, O.,
has obtained a judgment for $4,000
against saloon keeper of that city fol
|, selling liquor to her husband after she
! had notified him not to.
| TS Ia ,r~f4 h1
San Francisco Daily Examiner, died al
/. the residence of his mother in Santa Rosa
Cal. last week. Deceased was 25 years OF
, age, and leaves wife and little daughter
Richard Lalor, who died in New York
, recently, was once associated with Thorn
as Francis Meagher, in the publication OF
4 the Irish Citizen, and was an officer OF
the Sixty-ninth Regiment during the late
war.
By new system of telegraph line just
opened between Boston and Providence
, I|seventy-two messages may be sent out at
, lIonce over the same wire, all in one direc.
ton, or part one way and the rest the
Iother.
Captain Clark, of Boston, has sued
James Gordon Bennett, of New Y York, for
/ $75, 600 damages, claiming that in 1882
Bennett engaged him to assist in forming
caDIe company, lOF WHICH He IeCelfeu no
compensation.
The House committee on foreign affairs
has informally agreed to report resolu-
ton expressing the sentiment of the
House as favorable to the negotiation of a
, reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Canada.
,l The sundry civil appropriation bill, as
reported by the Senate committee, in
creases the appropriation, as compared
with the House bill, in round numbers.
! S., SOC, 900, making the aggregate appro
priation a little over $50, 100000