The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-09
LOCAL ETEMs.


| Election bets are being made.
! Have you fixed your sidewalk?
The bridge is progressing rapidly.
''Has it been hot enough for you q
Mumps and whooping congh prevalent.
City candidates are beginning to crop ont.
Eaat Portland hsd big fire Tuesday
night.
Pay your honest debts and remember the
printer.
These are the days of sunstroke and chol-
era morbus.
The small boy is happy as he takes his
evening swim.
Tom. GrisdaIe is preparing TO burn anoth-
er kiln of brick
Mrs. j. F. Barker has been quite ii the
past two weeks
We desire correspondence from every por-
tion of the county.
Creed Floed is express messenger on the
| West-sde railroad
Rev. c. H. Carson of Albany is a cousin
of Grover Cleveland.
The testimony has commenced in the case
of Phipps vs.. Kellogg.
Mrs. Emily Flocd is spending the week
at Snowdens Strings.
~Df. Saubert has opened an office one door
north of the plaindealer
/ Thes. Farquar is to establish city ex-
press and delivery wagon.
A three story brick hotel is to be built in
Eugene at cost of sl2. 600.
Bnrh Breckway has force of men at
work on the Coos Bay wagon road
The Oregon and Nevada railroad has re-
samed work under the new management
San Francisco has forty eight Democratic
clubs uniformed and equipped for business.
The hydrants are now eight and ..dry. >
So were several RoscburGers during the
week.
Thos Farquar and Tim Ford went to Sa
lem to atteul the funeral of the late l. H.
Moores.
Better than letter to your friends in the
States. A copy Of the INDEPENDENT sent
regularly.
; Mr.. Mccormack, the government lane
agent, is again in our city to remain u couple
Of weeks
The fence sign painter las again been il
our mi.lst. Does tar and feathers cure thes,
fe lows?
We hear of social drunk. fight anc
shooting scrape at Ten Nj c. No harm don,
. and no arrests.
James Sterling and deputies are busily
engage'l at the court house, preparing the
assessment roll.
Judge Mosher is visiting his brother il
Cin@inNatl and is not expected home fo
: about six weeks.
E. Dean, of the CcquIle Herald was i,
our burg looking alter the interests of hi
pc, er last wet *.
There will be basket meeting at the PIN
: Grove church, Oh Deer Creek, next Satarda,
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
The addition to the Metropolitan hote
gives plenty of room to accommodate th
travelling public.
= Salem only boast one hotel nov, the Che
meketa. The Reed House is to be made int
. stores and offices.
John Flock and family returned from
4 trip to the coast this week. AS also tn
$ family of John Rast
+ Roseburg had what might be termed
S clark horse blizzard Saturday last. |
! was not genuine boom.
. Harvey w. Scott, editor of the Oreeonial
, arrived home Saturday. after an absence q
several weeks in the East.
: Tom Reid, ofGardner. was in town owe
Tuesday night, en- route home from trip {,
: Portland and San Francisco.
Fred Earneburg, of Eden precinct. Jack
son county, sheared 1876 lis of wool fror
Q 375 graded Merino sheep recently.
Geo. S. Howard, of Jacksonvile,a 'stypo,
who has been visiting us the past few days
returned home Wednesday evening.
We acknowledge pleasant call from Nj
! Purkeypile of Myrtle Creek, Wednesday
Feis just home from jackson county
Henry Bowen received pa;nfal injury i
the right eye by spark from piece of re
3. hot iron flying into it last Saturday
o O. The San Francisco Chronicle predicts tn,
o the price of wheat viii be increased. "
hope so; but predicting is an easy busines;
@. Po; tland is having considerable troub
!. with petty larceny thieves Ten vagran
were conyictcd in one day in East Portlan
Slocums Hall is nearly completed ar
= is OF handsome proportions, we'll yent!Iate
securely braced, and fits long felt wan
Hon. 3. T. Dowell was on the train
rcHte to Jacksonville Que day this wee
He predicts the election of George as U. s
Senator.
Thermometers of late have been as rec
:" less In comforting degrees upon the comm
IN nifty as some one-horse college on medic
lse students.
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