The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
LOCAL ITEMS.

uays GnS nTst uay vi Lent.
John Hall of Myrtle Creek, was on our
streets Wednesday, looking as hale and
hearty as usual.
Thomas Sabine of Belchertown, Massachu
sets, celebrated his one hundreth birthday
on the p of December.
Charles M. Stephens is prepared to do all
kinds of repairing of harness and sadd es, at
his harness shop in Drain.
Charles NJ. Stephens keeps on hand and
for sale harness and saddles of the best ma
terial. at Drain, Oregon.
The Rescue Hook and Ladder company
VII give calico ball at the skating rink, on
the night of the 18th of March.
Robert Newcomb, who has been i'll for
some time, we are pleased to learn is much
improved III health aud will resume his du-
ties as grand recorder of the A. o. U. w.
Our book-keeper, who has taken lively
interest in this Egyptian business, says that
| the accounts are balanced thus: England
all loss and no profit. Mahdi-all prophet
| and no loss.
/ Richard Smith, retired merchant of Oak
land, was in the city this week. He is now
Port and, for the sale of agricultural ma
| chinery.
WIN. Ir" in of Tenmi'e was in Reseburg
| this week, conspiring for the interests of his
part of the county. We do not charge Will
liam with being conspirator or. a politician,
but there is evidently something in the wind.
Four prisoners escaped from the Portland
Jail on the morning of the Goth. Their
names are John F. Black, Bill Barker, Chas.
Mclaughlin and Ike Lawrence. Lawrence
came back when lie got sleepy. The others
remained away all night.
The entertainment al. Wilbur on Monday
next will consist of select programme of
songs, recitations and dialogues, besides an
address by Hon. E. B McElroy. Admission
80 cents, proceeds for expense and improve
ment fund.
Pa, what is poetic license?" "Well, my
boy, as nearly as | can learn, poetic license
is something which enables man to say
things III verse which would iAcarcerate him
in a lunatic asylum if worked off at polit
ical meeting"
BY letter from Corvallis of February 25,
we are panied to learn that the wife of Rev.
j. r. N. Bell Is critically i'll OF the puerperal
/ favor hap lao ha ha;. I,,k Il
From late adviees it appears she is no better
and grave fears are entertained of the result
The leap-year ball which was gotten up
for the benefit of the fire department, netted
about S44, which the ladies turned over to
the Rescue Hook and Ladder company. The
company turn turned the money over to
the city, to all in thepurchase of a tire-alarm
bell.
Isaac Velzain and Robert Strother left
Roseburg last week for the Coeur dAlene
mines, They are both experienced miners
and if the gold is as plenty as reported we
expect them both back by Christmas loaded
with the precious metal. Our best wishes
for success will ever attend them
Count Chambord, who during his moder-
ately long life asked for kingdom and was
forced to feed upon the husks of royalty at
, his own expense is to be given memorial
monument in Brittany by the Bonapartists.
Another instance wherein man asked for
bread anu was given stone. -
Wizards affairs, after public rest of somt
weeks, are again discussed in various quar-
ters. The Philadelphia Press reports thai
he will go into bankruptcy. If half that ha
been reported concerning his losses is true
there seems little else for him to do at pres
ent The report that his financial wreck wa
so complete as to leave him no alternatlv.
but to retire to Europe for rest, has not beer
substantiated by events.
About dark Monday night fire was dis
covered i'll the basement of the State uni
versity at Eugene, by carpenter who wa
at work short distance from the building
He called to his assistance some boys ane
they succeeded in putting out the fire befor
much damage was done. The fire wa
started in pile of wood, about the middl
of the basement of the building. From tn
evidence of kerosene oil having been used
it showed unmstakably that the fire wa
started by all incendiary
The latest San Francisco decision on th
subject of gambling, we copy from tn
i, Chronicle of the 2lst: Charges of misde
8 maapor a0oinst foI,r ycuo0 man IN n+ura,l -,
: Sunday night in Market. street saloon, play
3 ing ''stud-horse" poker, were dismissed il
= Judge Wabb's court, yesterday. They wer
/ discharged on motion of the prosecuting at
r torney, who stated that he was satisfied tina
!; ''stud horse" poker was not banking game
and was as legitimate as straight" poker
a which is considered by all legal lumina. lie
to be only game of skill, and not OF chance
: The beautiful spring. time has come at last
at least We are led to so believe from th
. bright sunshine which has chased away th
bleak shades of winter and given new verd
ure to the fields and floral decoration t
our hillsides. The severe cold spell of tw,
weeks ago has done its work. Many of tn
!. red-breast messengers and merry songster
of the meadow lie dead upon the sward
whilst the pastures are strewn with tb
Wondering carcasses of the eve and lamb
kin. In meEy herds fully one-fourth of tn
q old sheep and large percentage of til
O. lambs died during the cold weather.
O.
9. 9. A. S. Jacobs, sheriff of jackson county
was in Rosehurp last Monday He cam