The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
EASTERN rELEGRApH1c NEWS.


Kate Field is in Salt Lake City studying
the Mormon question.
The Ohio river is higher than for thirty
years and is still rising.
Mrs. Langtry has signed contract to
play in San Francisco in May.
The postmaster of Abilene, Texas, has
been arrested. He was short 81, ,500
Six naval cadets are being eourtmar-
tailed at Annapolis, Nd, for hazing.
It is said that the pecu1ations of Lee, the
Cincinnati forger, amount to S722,OOO.
Frederick Billings declines to be the Re-
publican candidate for Governor of Ver-
mont.
Union Telegraph Company, died recently,
aged 10.
DIR. John r. Lee, who died in Hartford a
few days ago, was one of the first explor-
ers of Syria.
Six convicts, five colored and one white,
were whipped at the Wilmington, Del,
jail recently.
A fence-cutting party of twenty men,
mounted, destroyed an enclosure OF forty
miles in Texas.
The snow in Boston for the last four
weeks cost the city $4,000 week to keep
the streets clear.
A child was recently poisoned in Texar-
kama, Texas, by putting spool OF green
silk in its mouth.
Five men were killed and fifteen wounded
by a collision on the Chesapeake and Ohio
road in Tennessee.
Eleven people broke legs or arms BY fall
ing on slippery pavements in Philadelphia
one day last week.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is said to be
RAPIDLY failing. She has not been out OF
the house for months.
A lady of Havana, H., though now 30
years of age, has worked $1,000 yards or
lace in the last two years.
Citizens of Christian county, Kentucky,
claim to have lost $3.50, 900 in the Chicago
grain market during the past winter.
Adyices state that the entire peach crop
of the Mississippi valley will be a failure.
All small fruits are seriously injured.
The Texas Senate has indefinitely post
poned the bill to justify the killing of
fence cutters caught applying nippers.
It is reported that Congressman Ochil-
tree is engaged to be married to Miss Mac
kay, daughter OF the bonzana millionaire.
Red Jackets bones lies in the vault of a
savings bank in Buffalo, n. Y. Red
Jacket, Seneca chief, was famous as an
orator.
St. Louis is raising S27, 800 fund, and
Cincinnati has raised $4,000 for the pur-
pose of securing the Democratic National
Convention.
Two of Brigham Young's sons have died
drunk ards, two of his daughters are mar
ried to the same husband, and another son
writes poetry.
w, P. Dixon has been appointed by the
President as District Attorney for Utah.
The appointment gives universal satls1ac-
| ton to the Gentiles.
The president of the United States Gre
nation Society says that there are 5000
persons in this country pledged to have
| their bodies burned.
| There is great suffering among the desti-
tute in and around Cincinnati, caused by
| the floods. Railroad traffic is stopped in
some parts for miles.
Sarah Bernhardt will probably come
| to America next season. An American
manager offered her 81 200 per night for
herself and company.
Mrs. Susan Garfield, of Nashua, n. H.,
has mania for collecting buttons of odd
patterns. She has l, l60 buttons of differ
ent kinds on one string.
Captain Schuyler E. Wright, of the
wrecked steamer City of Columbus, is con-
| fined to his home in Boston with a low fe-
| yer and nervous prostratlon.
Rumors at the Nations capital indicate
| that Folger will become Attorney Genera,
/ Morton Secretary of the Treasury, and
that Brewster is to go to Paris.
The Humane Society of Massachusetts
has made awards of money and medals to
all concerned in saving life at the wreck
of the steamer City of Columbus.
The steamer Yaquina, purchased by the
Oregon Pacific Company, to run between
Yaquina Bay and San Francisco, was badly
damaged by collision in New York har-
Dor.
Mayor Edison, in his annual message,
saws that the net bonded debt of New \ ork
city, on December 81, 1888, was 800, $40 OBS,
being decrease during the year of $S3, ,595,
| 022.
In the libel suit of Joseph Hart, of the
Truth, against George Alfred Townsend,
dict was rendered in favor of Mr.. Hart
| for $50.
Depredations in oyster beds in Chesa-
peake bay have been renewed A steamer
and sloop, armed with rifles and revolyers,
have been ordered to proceed against the
thieves.
| A desperate fight took place near Con-
cho, Texas, between passengers on the
daily stage and road agents. The sheriff
of the county was fatally wounded and one
robber killed.
| Cannon. guns and other munitions of
war intended for the Haytian insurgents
and seized on board the schooner E. G. Ir-
win, have been forfeited to the United
States government.
| The Very Rev. j. B. Brinlett died re-
Gently at the Providence hospital in Wash
| ington. He was missionary among In
dians in Oregon and Vancouvers island for
more than twenty years.
A procession of 'searly closing" clerks in
| New Y ork paraded the streets recently and
smashed the windows of merchants who
refused to close their stores at o'clock.
| The leaders were arrested.
The steamship State of Nebraska arrived
recently at New York, from Glasgow, hav-
the steamer Nottinghill, London to New
York, which foundered at sea.
Five thousand men are thrown out of
work by the spinners' strike in Massa-
chusetts. The output of the mills in
volved in the strike is 1920 pieces of
cloth weekly with pay roll of $25, 400.
Judge Henry Cooper, formerly United
States Senator from Tennessee, was killed
near Culican, New Mexico. He was man.
ager of the famous Polk mine, where he
was going with $50, 900 to pay Off debts.
| In an interview recently Vice President
Oakes, of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company. denied the report that the COM
panys branch roads cost $40,0 600 per mile,
and explained that they cost but $lo, 1000.
The funeral services of Wendell Phillips
was held at Faneuil hall, Boston, last
An autopsy showed the terrible nature OF
the disease that had caused death His
sufferings must have been most acute.
! AIx-noo+oe ofr +olo ~rrn .,hv af w h.
| ington have received set back by the
published result of the experiment in Can
ada, where the managers report says lines
] are being operated at loss of 80 per cent.