The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-03
DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIc NEWS.

The Chinese bill will be considered by
Congress in the course of seven or eight
days.
City Treasurer Francis Smith of Ba-
yonne, n. j., is short in the sum of $4l 600
in his accounts.
The treasury of the United States has
purchased 324, 600 ounces of silver for the
different mints.
1t is now thought that John A. Walsh's
testimony in the star-route cases viii
create quite a stir.
The cotton mills owned by Providence
company at Fitchyille, Conn.,, were burned.
Loss, over 100000.
John H. Deane of New York filed an
assignment recently, giving preferences
amounting to about $5OO,OOO.
Among the novelties in the Philadelphia
silk exhibition is a North Carolina lncu-
bator for forcing the eggs of silk worms.
A leper named Charles Wilson has
escaped from the Tewksbury almshouse
and the state is being overhauled by the
authorities.
| Senator Miller of California recently re-
| ported to the senate bill to punish by
| line or Imprisonment the illegal issuance
of passports.
| Senator Pendleton, says the New York
| Times, made very earnest speech at the
Iroquois club banquet in support OF civil
| service reform.
j. C. Burrows of Michigan, recently
nominated and confirmed solicitor Of the
| treasury, has written the president, FORM
ally declining the office.
The total receipts of Irving's six months
American tour are about $500, GOO: His
| impression of America will be published
simultaneously here and in London about
June.
| H.. M. True, witness in the Sharon
| trial. died at Santa Cruz, of pneumonia,
| produced by cold. True exposed Wells
conspiracy and was quite an important
witness in the case.
| A fair was held in the guild room of the
| ST. Ignatius church, New York city, for
reducing the debt of the church and to
ultimately make the editice memorial TO
the late rector, DR.. Ever.
| Ocean freights are in most unsatis-
! factory condition SO far as stockholders In
the great steamship companies are con-
cerned. The dividends are microscopic
and rivalry is at white heat.
Philadelphia has 562 establishments de.
voted to the making of mems and boys
clothing, in which are employed 9l92 men,
10,2O9 women and 934 children, turning
out goods valued at $3l, ,220,96S
Frank Dewalt. defaulting president of
the Leadville bank, was arralgned before
the United States commissioners and
waived examination. In default OF $2O, ,OO0
bail he was placed in Jail at Denver.
The widow of William Morton. the
| Arctic explorer, who died in Alaska last
year and was buried in San Francisco, is
making strenuous efforts to remove the
body to the family tomb in Greenwood.
Heavy winds unroofed and damaged
buildings at Vicksburg recently, At
Shreveport terrific rainfall was followed
by brilliant sunshine, succeeded in the
evening by an unprecedented downpour.
The New York board of health's analysis
of thirteen samples of yellow mustard
showed that each was adulterated, three
examples containing napthal yellow, q
dangerous explosive and violent irritant
poison.
Residents of Quebec province continue
j to flock to the United States, but princi
pally to the New England mining centers.
A number of French Canadians are also
emigrating to acknowledgements districts
in Dakota.
Recent forest fires did SIC, 600 damage in
Dooley, Taylor, Webster. Sumter, Jeffer'
son and Glasscock counties, Georgia. The
winds have drifted huge sand piles over
the titled lands, making new preparations
for planting necessary.
Five thousand laborers have died in
three months on the Panama canal. This
is the report of Captain Wilbank, who re-
turned recently to Philadelphia from the
canal where he had been supervising the
work of a dredge for year past.
Col. ]. Fl. Haverly will sail for England
May 18. The Mastodon Minstrels, sixty.
five in number, will sail on the same YES
sci. The company will open at the Drury
Lane theater May 81, and travel through
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
France.
At the regular meeting of the executive
committee of the board of trade held in
Philadelphia. John Welsh in the chair,
Senior Raffel Varces, Mexican consul, read
brief and forcible address, urging the
encouragement of direct trade between
that city and his own country.
Captain Eads, who has just returned
from England, says his visit was to inte
rest English capitalists in the TehuantepeC
railway and was entirely successful. The
enterprise is in the hands of a wealthy
syndicate, which is furnishing funds fol
the preliminary work in Mexico.
Among the things to be exhibited at the
meeting of the inventors in Cincinnati is
the first patent ever issued in the United
States. It is dated New York, July 81
1790, and is signed by George Washington,
president; Edmund Randolph, attorney
general, and Thomas jefferson, secretary
Fortress Monroe, Virginia, is the largest
fort in the world, covering an area o1
twenty acres. 1t was built in 1917 and tc
the uninitiated looks almost impregnable
In shape the fort is an irregular hexagon
two sides fronting the water, while the
other four command the land approaches
The stockholders of the First National
bank at Monmouth, ILL.,. voted to pay the
assessment to meet Cashier Hubbard's de-
ficiency and resume at once, but the
comptroller at Washington telegraphed
that the appointment of a receiver will be
necessary. This last move the bank will
try to avoid.
A number of persons just returned from
Panama describe the condition of affairs
on the isthmus quite serious as relates to
public health. As the result of their OBJ.
servations they have addressed letters to
the order of the Red Cross, calling atten'
ton particularly to Colon as field for
special work.
Bills have been introduced in both
houses of congress authorizing the gov
ernment to loan the managers of the New
Orleans exhibition 81 100000 upon the
same terms as were made when it was
given to the centennial exposition, the
money to be paid before any other claims
before the managers.
Some interesting experiments were
made last week in Greenyille, Nd, to test
the possibility of firing dynamite from an
ordinary cannon, so that dynamite would
not explode before leaving the piece. The
experiments were declared satisfactory
/ Professor T. H. SNYDER the inventor is