The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
DOMESTIC rE1EeRAfH1c NEWS.

The fast mail trains over the Central Pa.
ific are arriving on time.
In the Sharon Hill case proposed $l0O,- |
90 bribery is the latest development.
The Merrimac river is rising half an inch
n hour. 1t is seriously interfering with
york.
Queen Pomone V, of Tahiti, is now In
San Francisco. She viii proceed to Tahiti
Nay lst.
A reward of s25, 900 has been offered by
he United States for the rescue Of Lieu-
enant Greely.
Last week Senator Slater, of Oregon, ar
yued for the forfeiture OF the Northern
Pacific land grant.
By the collapse of the log jam in the
If logs broke loose.
A grand Jury of Gentiles has just been
at Salt Lake City, thing that
never happened before.
Two or three colonies of Chinese have
rented land and commenced gardening ad-
iacent to New York city.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
Women's Board of Foreign Missions met
in New York last week.
Summer. of California, has so far recov-
cred as to appear at the Capitol. He is
still weak, but is rapidly recovering.
Bateman. the New Yord banker, has
his letter of accusation against
General Swain, and the matter is ended.
The Chicago Riding Club, whose purpose
is to conduct riding school, was lncorpor-
ated last week with a acapital OF $lOO,OOU.
Furnace men at Newcastle, Pa, have
struck for an advance of wages from $I.oO
to 81 per day. Four furnaces are closed.
Governor Stoneman, of California, has
reprieved Lloyd L. Majors, the Lexington,
Santa Clara county, murderer, to May z1s1'
A disastrous cyclone swept over Harris
county, Ca, recently, Five or six persons
were killed and between ten and twenty
wounded.
A boat load of corn came to Chicago last
week by the Illinois and Michigan canal.
This was the first arrival of the season oy
that route.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has received
dispatch from General Adam Badeau ten,
der1ng his resignation as Consul General
at Havana.
D, w. Pratt, agent for the Mccormick
Reaper Company at ST. Louis, was indicted
last week for embezzlement, and warrant
was issued.
The Huguenet Society of America held
its annual meeting last week IN New ork W
and elected John Jay President for the
ensuing year.
The Comptroller of Currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank OF Peta-
luna, Cal, to begin business with a capl'
tai of 100000.
In the town of Black Hawk, twenty five
miles from New Orleans, many dwellings
were destroyed by a recent cyclone, but nc
lives were lost.
Harrington and Peacock, of Jersey City
on bail for conspiracy to defraud the
American Legion of Honor, were con
victed last week.
1t is reported that George Jones will re
tire from the active management OF tine
New York Times in June, his son Gilbert
succeeding him.
The will of the late Mrs. Valera G
Stone. of Boston, who left $z5U,UUU tt
charitable institutions, is to be contested
by the heirs-at-law.
The Lake Company's dam, near Laconla
N. H., is expected to give way, and ever!
dam and bridge on the stream to Franklin
will be swept away.
After three months strike the Mould
ers' Union, of Troy, N. Y, accepted re
duction of 20 per cent, and all foundrle
will start up at once.
| The National Convention of the 1risl
League of America, will be held at Bostol
on the second Wednesday in August
Parnell will be present.
| The PENNSYLVANIA Wool Growers Asso
citation convened in annual session a
Pittsburg last week. Delegates from al
parts of the State were present.
The New York Maritime Exchang
| unanimously adopted memorial to Con
gress asking for the suspension OF tn
coinage of silver dollars for two years.
An Annapolis telegram says: During
practice cruise of the steamer Standlsh
of the naval academy, six-pounder ex
ploded. Neither the cadets nor the vesse
were injured.
The House Committee on Education ha
decided 10 ask that Blair's education bill
which recently passed the Senate, be takel
from the Speakers table and referred t.
the committee.
The stockholders of the Franklin Mass.
Rubber Company voted an assessmenI 70
| so per cent on the capital stock of $75, ,OOC
owing to losses during the year, and tn
| large stock on hand.
Hatch & Barclay, San Francisco com
| mission firm who have wide connection
| in Oregon, are unable to meet their liabil
tiles, and will probably make an assign
ment in day or two,
There is considerable excitement a
Shelby, Oceana county, Mich, over reeen
discoveries of gold in that vicinity. Col
| in paying quantities was found on tn
bedrock to depth of thirty feet.
| Last week j. s. Herman, of Duluth
Mimi, started for San Francisco on foot
in an attempt to beat Weston,s time for
/ 5000 mile walk in England. He made tn
| first twenty three miles in four hours.
The report of the Pacific Mail Company
| of New York, for the nine months endin
February 29, 1884, shows: Earnings, $3
363, 600; expenses, 50, 663 600; increase Q
net earnings over the previous year, $4l2
| 600.
| Several expert doctors are upon tn
scene of the recent cattle plague in Kan
sas, and have commenced series of in
vestigations and experiments to satisf
themselves as to the nature and cause @
| said disease.
The biggest haul of striped bass in th
| Thames river, in Connecticut. was mad
| by George T. Bushnell and William Ora
per recently. Their catch weighed 2, 10
pounds, the fish running from three to tel
pounds each.
| The Philadelphia Press, New Yorl
| special says: The opinion grows that ia
| Gould and his associates will get contro
of the Oregon and Transcontinental il
June, and then of the Oregon Navigation
| and Northern Pacific.
Rellon, Hallock & Co., bankers of Buen
| Vista, Col, have assigned. Available as
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