Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-08-28
ROSEBURG REVIEW
GENERAL NuTEs.

ished in Roach yards.
The outlook for the iron trade IN
Pittsburg is more favorable than for
years.
Rome is taking precautionary meas
ures to meet possible invasion Of
cholera.
It is rumored in financial circles in
London that a new Atlantic cable is
projected.
Gladstone, the ex-premier of Eng
land is travelling in Norway for health
and pleasure.
Bartholdi modelled his statue of
"Liberty" after his mother, who was
beautiful woman.
The German corvette Augusta has
been wrecked and 238 men lost. The
ship was valued at $l,75O,000.
It is stated that Mrs. Jefferson Da-
Wis drives six miles on Sunday morn
ing to teach colored Sunday-school.
Owing to the anti-washhouse ordi-
nance passed by the trustees of Mo-
desto, all the Chinese laundries have
shnt down
Investigation shows that there are
80, $50 Chinese in San Francisco inclu-
ding 722 children, of whom 8 attend
public school.
The train bearing the tea shipped
from Tacoma, made the run from ocean
to ocean In eight days, the fastest
freight time on record
Silver dollar makes satisfactory
weight by which to test letters under
the new rules, as it weighs within the
fraction of an ounce. Two halves will
answer
Secretary Whitney has purchased
the Graceland homestead, one of the
handsomest residences on Georgetown
Heights. The price paid for it was
$4,000.
Monroe was the only ono of the
Presidents or ex-Presidents who was
buried in New York City, and his re-
mains were removed thence to Rich
mond before the war.
From zoo to l,5OO men are re-
ported as out of employment on the
middle work of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad, and as full of threats as they
are short of money,
A tomahawk of tempered copper
was recently found by farmer near
Sanborn. D. T. This is very rare
relic The method Of tempering cop
per tools is said to be lost art.
The average Sunday plate collections
Of Rev. Newman HALLS Church, IL
Westminster Bridge Road, London, is
$175, and of Rev. G. II. Spurgeon's
congregation, in the great Tabernacle,
$345.
S. s. Cox, United States Minister,
has been specially instructed, it is re-
ported at Constantinople, to resume
negotiations with the Porte for mod
.ification of the Turkish tariffs on Amer
ican imports.
The robbers who fenced millions of
acres of Government land in order to
exclude settlers, are getting consider
ably cut up BY the press of the country
for their greed The universal verdict
is, served them right.
In length of life Gen Grant fell
sixteen years short of his father, and
twenty one years short OF his mother.
His father died in in 1873, his mother
in. 1888. Both are buried in Spring
Grove Cemetery, near Cincinnati
G. B. Stewart died at Montgomery,
Texas, July %, aged 81 years. He
was one of the two surviving signers of
the declaration of the Texas inlepen-
dence. He held many important posi-
tions under the republic of Texas
The coal miners at Shendoah, Penn
sylvania, are having pitched battles
HHngarlans and Poles against the
strikers. Several have been seriously
injured. Thus far the ''foreigners"
seem to be masters of the situation.
The production of steel rails is to be
reduced, based upon the capacity of
each mill, the same to go into effect
January lst, 1886, associated manu-
facturers having agreed that this was
the only way to overcome the depret-
sion that paralyzes the business.
NJ G. Flanders, the Kendall(N. Y.
astronomer, has moon theory Of his
own. He claims that during the re-
cent eclipse the semi-transparency of
the moon was made quite evident by
means of teiesc ,pe, san-spots being
dlscerned through 5he moons disc.
By use of "a simple and conveniently
worked device of coiled spring, an
English inventor has succeeded in dis
peusing with the need of driving sew
ing machines by hand or foot; a few
turns of handle winds mp sufficient
power to keep full speed over an hour.
It is completely under control as to
the rate of iching and stopping and
cOn be applied to any existing machine
at moderate cost.
The Hon. Horatio Seymour still re-
tains his interest in the National Prison
Association, of which he was for a long
tims President. Though unable to
attend its meetings, he keeps himself
informed as to all the doings of the
Association, and lends to its aims
helping hand in every way that he can.
Ha 1e still Vica President of tha Society