The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIC NEWS.

Modesto, CAL, had $35, 900 fire recently.
Weather in New York this summer is
very cool.
Lowell, Mass, has 5000 French Cana
1ian operatives.
Illinois has 255,741 farms, Ohio 247, ,189
md New York, 241 ,05S.
The first glass factory in the United
States was built in 1850.
Keene, N. H., makes 100000 pals, with
about as many tubs annually.
Eighteen thousand homesteads have
been entered in Florida during the past
year.
Grant & Wards exhibit provoked sar-
castle criticism from the leading New
Y ork journals.
A clay which can be utilized in the
of putty has been discovered
in Attala, Miss.
BY railroad accident near Needles,
CAL, recently, one person was killed and
several injured.
Colorado is compelled to buy $1,000, 600
worth of grain from outside sources every
year to feed its cattle.
During the last ten years eggs have
been imported in the United States to the
amount of $15, ,400,93S.
Duy Brothers, cattle dealers at North
ampton, Mass. have assigned. with liabil
itfes estimated at 100000
Vessels arriving in New York from
China report large quantities of pumice
stone off the coast of Java.
Dick Henderson, a colored murderer,
was taken from the Jail at Russellville,
KY, recently, and lynched.
The cotton crop of Texas last year was
worth more than the cotton crop of the
entire United States in 1843.
The total number of separate farms in
the United States is 1000, 900, and their
value is $4,000, 100000.
The stem-piece for the United States
cruiser Chicago, building at Chester, Pa,
by John Roach, weighs 5000 pounds.
Nebraska has 1855 miles of railway hav-
ing an assessed value of $17, III ,S96. The
increase in mileage over last year is 211.
In 1881 the cotton mills of the United
States were valued at 40,0O0,0 ,000 in 1870
at $41, ,O0O, 900, and in 1890 at $2O8, GOO, 900.
Recent returns show that the savings
banks of New Hampshire have SO, ,OOO, 900
more in deposits than they had one year
ago.
Of the 107 300 buildings in New York on
the 1st of January last, only sixty-five
dwellings were reported absolutely fire.
proof.
Sixty thousand people attended the first
Sunday concert given by the Seventh Reg
iment band in Central Park, New York,
recently.
The barbed wire factories are too close
for two months in order to curtail the sup
ply; %, 900 men will be thrown out of en-
ployment.
Statistics show that there is less crime
in the United States in proportion to the
population than in any other country in
the world.
The tax valuation of Chicago is, real
and personal, about $133, ,000, 600: that of
Cincinnati for the same year 1883 was
$169, 100000.
A Springfield, H., watch factory en-
ploys l 200 hands and sends out about 500
watches day, making total of about
160 900 year.
The harvest in the Virginia wheat re-
gions is now at it's height. Both in guam
tity and quality the wheat is unusually
satisfactory.
The exports of domestic cattle, hogs and
beef, pork and dairy products for May,
1884, were 81, ,554, 600, against Sc, Ala, 900 for
May, last year.
Since the Boston and Atlanta exhibit
tions there has been an active and grow
ing demand for southern woods from the
north and west.
The bondholders of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad have made application at
Denver to have that road placed in the
hands Of receiver.
The original term of the charter of the
Long Island Railroad Company expiring
on April "a, 1881, a renewal has been OBJ
tanned for a period of 250 years.
New York imports on an average about
come from Florida, which barely raises
enough for its own consumption.
Richard Heller, widower, was married
at Fonda, N. Y, recently, thereby forfeit
ing $l25, 600 left by his first wife on condi-
ton that he should not re-marry.
Sugar, which is the chief staple of Lou
isiana, employs in that state, it is esti-
mated, $9O, 200, 600 of capital, and is the
exclusive support of 100000 people.
The secret service division OF the treas
ury department at Washington has re-
ceived advice that new ten-dollar silver
certificate has appeared in the west.
A Connecticut com pany manufactures
II 100000 pounds of icorice annually,
cry and medicines, the balance in tobacco.
DIR. Moore has been arrested in San
Francisco, charged w ith having, through
malpractice, caused the death of Mrs. Van
Zandt. He was released on $4,000 bail.
If the United States increases in the
next sixteen years at the same rate as it
has done in the past thirtY-two years, it
will have population of 88, 900, 600 in 1900.
Another case of the ill-effects of cigar
cite smoking is reported from Long Island,
where, it is stated, young man has be-
come mentally disordered from using
them.
Mrs. Langtry brought East with her a
handsome Chinese boy of 13, son of a
trusted his heir to the actress to be edu-
Gated.
The Charleston Meas and Courier
says tnat Sull1VanS ISIand, SOuth caro-
lima, is destined to become the leading
summer and winter resort of the north
and south.
In order to put a stop to the increase of
pool playing, the board of aldermen of
Newport have increased the licenses from
S25 to $50. This has created decided
sensation.
South Carolina has 1868 flour, grist and
rice mills, employing 4,379 whites and
blacks, requiring capital of 81, 745, $50,
and turning out annually SO, ,288, 600 worth
of -four, feed, etc.