The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-14
DOMESTIC TELEGRApH1c NEWS.

DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Philadelphia is to have crematory.
Syracuse, N. Y, is driving out her gam
blers.
The apple crop promises to be unpre-
cedently large.
Girls in the New Haven rubber shoe fac
tories have struck.
A cremation company has been incor-
porated at New York.
The liabilities of Frederick D. Grant are
to be $2,215, 900.
The foot and mouth disease has been en-
tirely wiped out of Maine.
Two hundred and f1fty-four Gloucester
fishermen were lost last year.
There is an average of 843 people to an
acre living in New York city.
But three dollars has been subscribed to
the Ithaca Grant fund of honor.
Health officers destroyed q, ,5S5 pounds
of bad meat in New York last week.
During the past nine years nearly 800
churches have been burned in America.
The town of Ravenswood, Long Island,
has been almost entirely destroyed by fire.
There are 1868 practicing physicians in
Philadelphia. The homeopathists number
278.
Minnesota has no less than 1000 lakes.
which take up over z, TOO, 600 acres of terri
tory.
For some time past the Yale Medical
IL hoh nd
cially.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference of
the United States will send bishop to
Africa.
General Butler has accepted the nomi-
nation of the anti-monopoly party to the
Presidency.
Iowa had 148 physicians in attendance
at the National Medical Convention in
Washington.
In the single scull race between Conley
and Teemer at Pullman, ILL.,, recently, the
latter was victorious.
A moderate estimate places the amount
of solid cash invested in private cars in
America at $2,500,000.
General Grant is said to be utterly broken
down by the disclosures attending the fail
ure of Grant & Ward.
The railroad commissioners of Iowa
have the power to locate depots and regu-
late railroad crossings.
There are now 1000 growing trees in
Washington, placed at regular intervals
along l25 miles of fine streets.
A fire in the Atlantic Oil Works, at
Philadelphia, recently, destroyed property
aggregating 81, 600, 600 in value.
The business failures in the United
States for the week just closed number
148, against 1873 the week before.
On the South Park Railroad, in Colora-
do, is line of tree stumps of an unknown
kind in all stages of petrifcation.
A 3-year-old boy in Chicago has been
found to have his heart on the right in
stead of on the left side of his body.
An English and German syndicate has
purchased l, 100000 acres of land in Florida
for the settlement of small farmers.
The penitentiary of Missouri at Jeffer-
son City contains ,502 prisoners, the
largest number ever confined there at one
time.
1t is said that Russell Sage has lost from
$5, ,000, 900 to 81, ,0O0,0 600 within the past few
weeks, and has now only 81, 500, 900 left in
bank.
The steamer Aurani, which left New
York for Liverpool last week, took 4o5
cabin passengers, the largest number on
record.
In 1888 Chicago proliigates wasted over
SIS, ,000, 900 in their g. 100 saloons, and ], 300
of them languished in Jail for disturbing
the peace.
Baltimore, it is said, possesses master
of q vessel whe has acted in that capacity
for sixty years without losing either a
boat or man.
A Kentucky town named Hayesville, in
honor of President Hayes during his term
of Office, has been rechristened. Its name
is AndersOnville.
A paper read before the Foresty Con-
gress estimated the cost of the railroad
ties used in the United States every seven
years at $14, 7S4 900.
At Council Bluffs last week Ella Rowett,
carrying 1T pounds, won the handicap
race, one and one-eighth miles, in the re-
markable time of 1:551.
Since the suspension of so many railroad
hands and others at Reading, Pa, some
of their wives have been working in a
stone quarry in the city.
In the public gardens of Boston this
spring there are $4,000 pansies. $4,000
naisies, 500 forget-me- -nots, 1,500 Canter-
bury bells and 1900 tulips.
Since the establishment of the New
York Fish Commission in 1868 over 30, ,U0O, :
600 young shad have been Matched out and
placed in the rivers of that state.
The government has paid out since the
close of the war nearly $3.50, ,00O, 600 in pen
sions to the soldiers of the Union, and is
now distributing among them over $780,
co., 900 year.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway Company have given the required
three months notice of withdrawal from
the Transcontinental Railway Association,
which pools all business west of the Mis-
souri, river.
The shoemakers' union of Philadelphia
will order every shoemaker in Philadel-
phia and Camden out on strike, unless
the manufacturers revised the schedule OF
wages paid hand sewers, presented to
them few days since.
James D. Fish reiterates the assertion
that he was innocent of any wrong doing.
He declares he had not misappropriated a
dollar, and that he was ruined and penni-
less; that he may have been stupendous
fool, but he was not robber.
The New York Herald saws: Wall street
was fiurried last week over Jay Goulds
tinanciering in Texas Pacific. 1t turns out
that instead of that company paying the
interest as advertised, Gould paid the ad-
vance money to buy the coupons.
In the House recently a vote was taken
on the California and Oregon land grant
forfeiture bill, with the result of 145 yeas
and 6 nays. No quorum. A call of the
House disclosed the presence of 210 mem
bers, and the bill was passed-yeas 159
nays 10.
Tieutanant Rive auartermaster United