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About The Douglas independent. (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1882)
THE INDEPENDENT IS ISSUED Saturday Mornings, BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. OneTr Mat Months .. Three UonitM. ,3 so so 1 oo These are the term for those paying la advance i The Independent offer fin inM.f5.i.- .V. -T i Tertlsers, Terms reasonable. 7 SbJ.JASKULEK PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND OPTICIAN. ALL WCRKWARRANTEO. Dealer In WhJcIhk, Clocks, Jewelry. . Spectacles vd jrcla, And a Full Line of Cigars, Tobacces and Fancy Goods. The only reliable Optometer in town for the proper adjustment of Ppectsele : always ou band. Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec tacles and Eyeglasses. OFFICE F'.ret door south of postoffice. Roe pnrsr. Oregon fVIAHOftEY'S SALOON Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland Jas. Mahoney, Prop'r. The finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Docs' las county, and the beat in the State kept in proper repair: Parties traveling on the railroad will find this place very handy to Tlait daring the stop ping of the train at the Oak land, Depot. Giro me a call. ' J as. HAnONEY. JOHN FRASER, Home Made Furniture, WILBUR, OREGON. Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc. Constantly on hand. PIIRNITIIRr 1 bv tlie beat stork o I Ullltl I UIIU. lurnilure south of Portland And all of my own manufacture. No . two . Prices to Customers Residents of Douglas county are requested to give mo a call before purchasing elsewhere. figy ALL WORK WARRANTED.-8 DEPOT HOTEL- OAKLAND, - - OREUON, Richard Thomas, Prop'r. HPHI3 HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED for a number ot years, and has become very popular with the traveling public. First-class SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS. And the table supplied with the best the markot afTorda, Hotel at. the depotof the KailroadJ Furniture Store ! 7 JOHN GILDERSLEVE MAVING PURCHASED THE FTJRNI ture Establishment of John Lehnherr, is now prepared to do any wfr.k in the UPHOLSTERING LINE. He is also prepared to furnish In all styles, of the best manufacture, and cheaper than the cheaest. His Cliaii-H, A TnWos, BureauH, U-tlistealK, WtKliHtn.ntls, ETC., ETC., ETC. Are o superior make, and for low cr.st cannot be equalled in the State. The Finest of Spring Beds And the Most Complete I ofas Always on hand. Everything in ;ne line fur nished, of the bestfualily,on the shortest notice and at the lowest rates. COFFINS WUD A WD TRIMMED. And orders filled cheaper and better than can any other establishment. y Desiring a share of public patronage, the un Jersigned promises to oiler extra inducements to all nations. Give r.ca trial. JOHN GILDERSLEVE. H. C. STANTON, Dealer in Staple Dry Goods! Keejw constantly on hand a general assort ment of EXTRA FINE GROCERIES, WOOD, WILLOW ASD HLASSWARF, ALSO Crockery and Cordage A full stock of : KCIIOOL j B O O IS Sjtch as required by the. Public County Schools All UlmU of STATIONERY, OVS anil FAKCY ARTICLES To suit both Young and Old. BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures Drafts on San Francisco, j SEEDS I" farSEEDS! - v SEEbS'l.:-::- ALLKISDS-OF'BI.T.aVALITt -V 3L. 1 ) i: DER Promptly attended to and Goods shipped with care. Address, Hnchciipy & Reno, fort land. Oregon y at tec. Notice is herely given, to whom it .nay concern, that the undersigned" hag ' been awarded Ma contract for keeping .the Douglas county. Paupers for the period of two years. All persons iu need of atoUt-incc from aid county must first procure a certificate to that effect from any member of the County Board, and present it to one of the following named persons, who are author ized to, and will care tor those presenting such certificate W. L. Butten, Rossburg ; L. L Kellogg, Oakland ; Ir Wrown, Looking Glass. Dr. Scroggs is authorized to lurnigh medical aid to all persons in need of the same ' no nave been declared paupers of Douglas county. i WM. B. CLARKE, Supt. of Poor. j RoMstiao, Or.. Feb. 15, liJiO ' I ....... ... ....... v. ;, Ty- v ,, . . . .. . . .. . . ....... .. ' ' ' " . , ' ' ' -i-fe THE DOUGLAS IDEPEMEiT. VOL. 7. LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. BY TELEGRAPH TO OaTE. The porta will mobilize an army of 20, 000 wen fo- service in Egypt. The striking miners of the Cumberland region want to compromise. The striking freight handlers at Jersey City have returned to work at old rates Striking 'longshoremen at Philadel phia have secured an advance of $1 per day. Ex-Senator Spencer still fails to put in an appearance as a witness in the star route cases Wm. Watts, the inhuman mate of the ship Gatherer, has reached Sin Francisco and been lodged in.jail. The National Tube Works, of MeKees port, Pa., have sued a number of their former workmen for conspiracy. Thirteen dead bodies have been recov ered from the explosion of the steamer Gold Dust and 17 more are missing. Firzpatrick, convicted of an attempt to kill the recorder of Dublin, has been sentenced to five years penal servitude, The Irish constabulary still adhere to tbeir demand for increase of compensa tion and considerable excitement pre vails. The president, who has $100,000 avail able for suppression of epidemic, has referred the matter of yellow fever in Texas to the secretary of the treasury. The conference is still sitting; Italy, Germany, France and Russia have ac cepted the co-operation of Spain, but England's consent thereto has not yet been obtained. The tariff commission heard statements on the 9 th in f ivor of advance in duties on floor oil eloths, lignuins and linoleums and that canvass used in manufacturing be put on the free list. Under the laws of Minnesota suit will be entered by the widow of the late Gov. C. C. Washburn to secure to her her legal one-third of his estate. This will greatly reduce the residue of the be quest. Rhode Island's first case under the Fif teenth Amendment is that of a negro lawyer, who was refused admission to a skating rink on account of his color, and procured the indictment of the man agers. TheBufus Hatch party of heavy oper ators on Wall street were surprised by the great grain crop shown them by the board of trade on the 8th. Hatch said to a friend this crop would put $300,000 into his pocket as it would favorably affect stocks recently purchased. The secretary of navy has approved the design of the flag to Beknaron as the president's flag. It will fly from the mainmasts of every vessel used by the president. The hrst one to be used will fly from the steamer Dispatch when the president leaves on that vessel for New York. Little seems to be known in Boston regarding the proposed pool on Colorado business which was discussed at a meet ing at Denver. Dillon is not in Boston, and officers of roads seem non-committal. The only difficulty about formation of a pool seems to be the demand of the Union Pacific that the Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy promise to build no more roads in-Colorodo, and the latter refuse. It is probable another meeting in regard to the matter will be held in Boston next week. The following order will be observed in closing the star route cases; Kerr is to open for the government and he will be followed by two replies from the defense. Bliss will then deliver his address, to which the defense will be allowed three replies. The attorney general or Mer rick will next speak, followed by three replies from the other side, and then the attorney general or Merrick will close the argument. Kerr opened argument on .the 9th, but none of the defendants were present. Inter-Ocean Fargo special: Bufus Hatch and a party of English and New York capitalists have purchased 758,000 acres of grazing lands lying between Little Missouri and Powder rivers in Montana, from the Northern Pacific rail road, at $1 per acre on seven years time. As the grant to the road only takes alter nate sections, they will have a practical pasturage of 15,000,000 acres, as it will have the use of intervening sections of government lands. It is proposed to stock it with 50,000 head of cattle. The prosident of the Denver, Utah and Pacific Railroad Construction Company filed a petition in the district court for the appointment of a receiver for the Denver, Longmont and Northwestern railroad. The latter road is 11 miles long, running from Longmont to Mitchell's coal mines, and thence to Denver, 32 miles miles from Longmont, over the track of the Denver Pacific. A lengthy petition asserts that Longmont is indebted to the Utah road several thousand dollars for track hire, and that the former was bonded in Boston for $440,000, when in reality the road bed, track and rolling stock is altogether not worth over $90,000. It is thought the petition for a receiver will be granted. Bnssia is making extensive war prepar ations. Troops have been hurried down toward Caucasus, where it is Baid 200,000 men are now collected with all stores and munitions of war ready for a descent upon the Bosphorus should opportunity offer. It is said that delay in England in forwarding her army to Egypt has been caused by the knowledge of these facts, and the calling out of English reserves and acceptance of the services of some of the volunteer artillery are due to that knowledge. The internal state of Russia is such that any change would be for the better. Not only are the great bulk of the people discontented, but among the upper class there is consider able hostility to the present czar. Under these circumstances the emperor turns toward foreign affairs with the expecta tion that a war with England, which would be very popular, would unite nil Russian classes against a common enemy. Tba only obstacle to war is the attitude t.x Germany. Court Bismarck is 6aid to give his unswerving support to Glad stone's eastern policy, and in the event of a general European war Germany would be supported both by Austria and Italy. ROSEBURG, Senator Hill's death is looked for soon Official returns of the census of France show a population of 37,672,048. The treasury department has purchased 218,000 ounces of fine silver for the mint. Each regiment of artillery are to have two new light batteries, making 10 bat teries in all. Four hundred and twenty-two persons were appointed to clerkships in the pen sion office on the 10th. Boston 'longshoremen have decided to demand an advance in wages, and if it is not gran tea to strike A dispatch from Tangier states a holy war is Dtnng preached throughout Mo rocco against Christians. W. M. Robinson was nominated by me democrats or the seventh district for congress at Raleigh on the 11th. Clerks of the national board of health were dismissed on the 10tb congress not having provided for their salaries Bishop Lafleche. of Three Rivers, has iorbidden lathes of his congregation, un der pain of sin, from wearing curls. Victor Leseure, one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of Danville, Ills., died on the 10th of genuine Asiatic cholera. F. E. Munn, an extensive butter- and cheese manufacturer at Belvidere, Ills., has failed, with liabilities upwards of 15,000; no assets. A negro was lynched in Charleston on the 9th for an attempted outrage on a white girl and one accused of alike crime was lynched on the same day at Atlanta. Oregon stocks sold at New York on the 9th, as follows: Northern Pacific, com mon, 51; preferred, 92; Transconti nental, Oregon Improvement Co., 85. At the photographers' convention at Indianapolis on the 11th, M. C. Hall, of California, read a paper on the influ ence affecting the progress of American art. The twenty-first anniversary of the haftle nf Wilson'n f!rolr at xirlinli ftan- eral Lyon was killed, was celebrated at St. Louis on the 10th and largely at- it'uueu, Suit for damages against the owner of the luckless steamer Sciota, to the amount of $75,000, by surviving friends of vic tims of the disaster were brought at Wheeling on the 11th. The national education assembly at Ocean Grove closed on the 10th with an immense audience. In the afternoon Bishop Simpson and U. S. Senator San ders, of Nebraska, spoke. The Louisville fair association has issued a liberal programme for the five days' trotting meeting, beginning Sep tember 17. Special inducements are offered for colts and fillies. Two men, while attempting to climb over the railing of Tuilleries gardens, during a display of fireworks, caught hold of the electric wire used in illumi nating the gardens and both were struck dead instantly. W. T. Campbell and Wm. Swisher. arrested for participation in the mob to lynch Holmes, the negro charged with outraging a child, went to jail, refusing to give bail. The sheriff has armed twenty-five men to prevent the friends of Campbell and Swisher from liberating mem Dy iorce. The Tribune's Breckenridge special says: JLast riday, Wm. Bird and son who live on a ranch at Bear river, on re turning home from work discovered their cabin had been burglarized. In com pany with five other men they started in pursuit, soon overtaking the thieves. In a fight that ensued both thieves were killed and also Mr. Bird's son. The amount of $160,000,000 in frold certificates will be printed. The assis tant treasurer at New York states that the amount of gold coin held by the as sociated banks is $00,000,000, and that all the banks will probably mako large and rapid offering of their gold for the new certificates, and that the banks are anticipating their issue and are now making proper application. The Society of the Army of the Cum berland, through its Garfield monument committee, determinec to give under provisions of a joint resolution of con gress of August 5, 1882, a national fair and bazaar industrial and art exposition in the rotunda on November and ending tlie da of .December, the obiect beinc; to raise the greatest possible amount of funds to aid m erection of a statue at Washington, D. C, to the memory and honor of President Garfield. The large steamers Tacoma and San Pedro, build by Cramp & Sons for the Central Pacific railroad company, are now completed, and Cramp has received a contract for two more iron steamships for the Oceanic o. S. company, to ply between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands. The vessels are to be started as Boon as iron can be got ready. They are to be 3U0 feet long, 42 feet beam, 20 feet deep, and of 2800 tons burden, and capa- oie of making liyt Knots an hour. The second day's .examination of Lee Pettils, John Montgomery and Emanuel Element, at iaylorsville, jlJs. on charge of committing an outrage on Emma Bond, the latter part of June, drew im mense crowds in attendants. Miss Bond is yet unable to. be out of her bed. The " state closed its testimony on the 10th , having called lcJO witnesses. Testimony ! for defense began yesterday afternoon. Sufficient proof has been adduced to warrant the belief that the court will hold the accused. Specials from Tay lorsville state the gist of evidence thus far has been to render it almost certain that if set at liberty they would be lynched. Feltville, the deserted village of Union county, N. J. has been sold at master's sale by the receiver of the Globe Mutual Insurance Company of New York for $11,450. The village contains twenty houses, two mills, a church, school house, store and mill dim. , In the sale were included 800 acres of land, 200 acres tillable. The village was first owned and built by the Felt manufactnrinff company and was then very flourishing. They sold it to Townsend, the saraapa rilla man, and the latter borrowed $00, 000 from the Globe Mutual on a mort gage. ; The president of the Globe com pany once offered $250,000 for the prop erty. . i OREGON, SATURDAY, Shipping Guli An idea current in Wall street is that the Bank of America has a cooper shop attachment. This is scarcely true, how ever, though the great array of kegs which sometimes are rolled out all day long from the rear of the institution would seem to give color to the belief. The kegs are considerably smaller than those which usually ornament beer sa loon sidewalks, and they are always ner. But, to those conversant with the sub ject the interesting feature of these kegs is their contents. Each keg contains $50,000 in clear gold. It is from the Bank of America that most of the gold shipped to Europe from this city is sent. This does not mean, however, that the shipments are -for the bank s own ac count. They are not. At a first glance persons might suppose that . when the demand arises for gold to send abroad the shipper would have only to send in his orders for his hundreds of thousands to the Sub-Treasury, where millions of specie are on deposit. But there are sufficient reasons why this plan will not work. The Sab-Treasury can pay out its coin only to creditors of the Govern ment, and a Wall street man can not be come a creditor of the Government sim ply on his own option. He cannot pre sent a check upon his banking house and secure its acceptance by Assistant.Treas urer Acton. The laws interpose. The Sub-Treasury can pay out gold only to such an amount as offsets its debits. These frequently are comparatively un important. For instance, a couple of days ago the debits aggregated only $100,000, and this was to be distributed among a large number of creditors. But while tbey can place no dependence upon support from this quarter, the as sociated bank3 of the city have a means of their own contrivance for providing the needed gold. They have constituted the Bank of America a sort cf trust com pany for their advantage. And with the Bank of America the associated banks keep on deposit constantly an enormous sum in gold. During the past year this suna has ranged from $36,000,000 to $46, 000,000, never falling below the first named amount. To the members of the Bank Association the Bank of America issues its own certificates against these deposits, redeemable on demand. So, when there is an occasion for making a large gold shipment, the person desir ing to forward it secures from his own bank these certificates for the amount required, and, presenting himself at the Bank of America, soon has the privilege of looking down upon the gleaming wealth as it lies piled at his disposal in the rear office of that bank there, under his direction, to be bagged and kegged and made ready for shipment. It is not always the case the packing for shipment is done on the premises of the. Bank of America. One or two of the biggest houses in the street have "cooper shops" of their own and make their consign ments secure under their own roofs, but the rule is otherwise. Kegs in which gold is packed "specie kegs," as they are called- are made of exf.ra hard woods. They must have an, extra iron hoop, and their workmanship must be above the ordinary. Specie is not thrown loosely into a keg, nor, upon the other hand, is it carefully wrapped in tissue paper and piled up one coin upon another. The keg serves only for pro tection for canvas bags, iuto which the gold is placed in the ordinary hit-and-miss fashion of pennies in a Jersey farm er's wallet. The canvas of these bags is especially stout, and the ends are sewed particularly strong. Into each bag go $5000, and ten bags fill a keg; 60 that each keg which rolls out from the rear of the Bank of America is worth the round sum of $50,000, plus the cost of. the cask itself and the value of a yard or two of rough canvas. In the interests of se curity each keg is treated to what is technically known among shippers as the "red-taping" process. At each end of the keg, in the projecting rims of the staves above the head, are bored four holes at equi-distat intervals. A piece of red tape is run through these holes, crossing on the head of the keg, and the ends finally meet in the center. At the point of meeting the tape is sealed to the keg's head by hard wax bearing the stamp of the shipper. Any meddling with the keg must break the tape or wax. and so on the trip across the ocean it is an easy matter to watch the valuable consignment and detect any attempt to interfere with it. Gold crosses the ocean very much as does every other kind of freight. Years ago there were some shippers who detailed an em ployee with every consignment to act as a sort of detective and hold a watch as best he could over their kegs. No such care is ever taken now. As a rule, the gold shipped is insured. Safely watched until, on shipboard, the pre cious freight is then under the control of the vessel authorities and the marine in surance companies, and upon these parties is all responsibility placed. The average rate of insurance is about 350 something over $1700 upon a ship ment of $1,000,000. There are shippers who do not insure, or rather they insure themselves. One prominent house in Wall street, which sent some $30,000, 000 abroad last year, paid no tax to any insurance company. The savin? thus effected amounted to about $50,000. In maintaining this policy of no insurance, thece shippers say that their savings on this account since they have been in business have been such as would en able them to lose outright a (shipment of $1,000,000 or more and still i have a bal ance to their crxlit in the fund which they have set aside in their own house, instead of paying it out for insurance, Carefully choosing the steamers upon wnicn pjace consignments, they dis count all probability of disaster. As! a rule, however, the shipper who does not insure divides up . his consignments. Having to ship $1,000,000, he will give it in equal parts to four or five different vessels. It is a strict rule with some Wall street firms never to trust more than $200,000 at a time on any one ship. One of the singular circumstances con nected with the shipping of gold is that for the last twenty years or more every keg which has - been taken out of Wall street has been handed down to the ves sels by one man, "honest old John Barkley," who is said to have grown rich in the business. For each keg he takes on board his truok he is paid $ AUGUST 19, 1882. and the big. heavv nn haa haA VmiU xur me special purpose will carry $2, 000,000, or 40 kegs. A similar monop- UV eia oy uooper spier, who fur nishes all the kegs and packs them, get ting $2 for each one completed. In shipping specie there are many matters of detail which the experienced man knows to be of prime importance, but wuiun io a person unacquainted with the business seems valueless. For in stance, in making ready a shipment of ?i,uw,uw to luurope the ordinary mdi vidual would be quite as willing to bag five-dollar pieoes as double eagles. Not so the Bhipper who has his eye ontho juimu.cuance. tie demands the double eagles every time. Chief amonc tha ma. sons for this choice is th fa.nt. that Bhipped in any quantity for any consid- eruiue oisiance always, loses in weight, ana consequently in value, from aora sin. While a five-thousand dollar bag maac up oi nve-dollar coins would con tain onethousand jieces,the same sum in double-eagles would contain only 250 pieces. In the latter instance there is not much if any more than one-fourth the chance for abrasion which exists in me iormer. jight hve-dollar pieces buow a greater surtace and have much sharper coinage lines than do two double-eagles and the loss by abrasion on a long, rough ocean voyage, must, of course, be considerably greater than coins of lesser value. The uninitiated would be apt to smile incredulously when told that there is a loss and ,.one of cohsequence-by this abrasion of coins. Circumstances, varying on different voy ages, of Course. tirodnA variannA in t.ha extent oi the abrasion. "On an aver age, said a prominent shipper yester day, "a million of dollars sent across from London will lose will lose well.a few dollars." Pressed to estimata mom definitely, the shipper said: "A few dol lars. Oh, that is definite enough." What the Wall street man considered ' a few dollars" was shown by reference to the account-books of one of the heaviest houses in the street. Takini? shi of $1,000,000 recently made, one was found to have fallen short in the voyage a fraction more than nine ounces, another a fraction more than nineteen ounces. while in a shipment of $750,000 there was a loss of a fraction more than twenty ounces. The averasw loss nan Iia nnftdv estimated at sixteen ounces on $1,000,000 shipments. Gold being worth $16 an ounce, sends the "few dollars" up to about $250. Any movement will have a similar effect. In Great Britain it is declared that a shipment from the Bank of Edinburgh down to the Bank of Enc- land will cause the loss of an appreciable percentage, and a government officer said yesterday that a bag of coin cannot be carried down Wall street a single block from thA nh. treasury to the custom house without an abrasion which -is discoverable. The only protection to be found aoMinst abrasion lies in the shipment of gold bars, instead of in coin. Until quite recently, however, gold bars have not been readily obtainable. To secure them the shipper has been obliged to pay a premium, and generally so high was the premium placed by the bullion brokers commanding the situation, that the possible loss by abarision would not by any means balance it. But not lone " m O ago a change came over this condition of if . i anairs, ana a law has been passed re cently by congress allowing tlie sub treasury here to pass out fine crold bars from its vaults in exchange for national coin. This is to the govern ment 8 advantage in that heretofore specie has been obtainable without any charge for the one-fourth of 1 per cent, coinage cost. The issuance of the bars, moreover, will tend to keen the United States coin at home. This new law went into effect June 1st, and its appreciation in Wall street is shown by the fact that $1,800,000 in bars has been bought within the past fortnight. Another $5,000,000 has been molded and is in the vaults of the assay office readv for de- livery. The bars or "bricks" of gold average a value of $4500. Carefully assayed by the government, they are stamped with their weight, duality and value. The bars are packed in SDecie kegs, but the canvas bags are not used, sawdust being substituted, a further DrflVentativA of ftln-ftsinn Tt is nnnn. f v. h a V AW U arly supposed that all gold received from this side of the ocean by the Bank of England is reassayed there before ac ceptance. This is probably strictly true of gold shipped in bars, and also, perhaps, of coin which shows much wear or loss by abrasion. The Bank of V.ncr. land managers have tried to convince the woria mat tney assay every ounce of gold received: but the cresi.ient of a prominent Wall street bank recently characterized this assumption as one of me -pretty numnugs ' which fill the atmosphere breathed out from behind the counters of the Bank of England. "I always placed some faith in this statement of a reassay of all gold taken in by the Bank of Englnd," added he, "until a year or so ago, when there was a sudden influx of gold into United States from England. Fully two-thirds of that gold came here in the shape of United States coin, and this, too, in face of the fact that we had shipped no such quan tity of coin to England in a long time. This coin came from the vaults of the bank of England, where it evidently had been treasured, and not melted and as sayed, as the directors of that big institu tion would fain convince us poor Yan kees. Yes, indeed, there's a vast deal of humbug about the Bank of England's pretensions in matters such as these" There is occasionally an interesting item of expense of another nature, the mere entry 61 which on an account book would be ant t nuzzle the man not ac quainted with all the petty details of shipping. "Sixty basrs" is the eharcn ra a. j ' .j O cently sent from London to one big New York shipper. This signified that the cooper here in fastening the iron bands upon the specie kegs had driven his nails through the bags containing the coin. The result was that the London agents of the New York house were obliged to repack every bag so torn, be the note ever so slight, before it could be placed on the Engiish market. The cost of rew bags was a trivial matter, but it is of trivial matters that the man who handles millions is generally most care ful. Shippers of gold to Europe fre quently find it much more favorable to their interests to sell to bullion ' brokers NO. 19. than to deal with the Bank of En eland London bullion brokers very often are willing to pay as much as an eighth of. a penny, or even a larming, per ounce above the bank's rates. Under such cir cumstances the average New Yorker does not aeai witn the bank. Ask in Wall street at what rate it pays to ship gold, and in nine cases out of ten the answer will be "four-ninety." Some time ago ii to tne pound sterling was con sidered the safe shinnine noinfc? hnt. crnA has increased id value on the other side, and can be sold there now for 76s. 3d. per ounce, an advance of from Jd. to o lod. I'ractical operations have shown that a.shirment can be muk at. 4. 89 1 ' equivalent to buying here a three davs' sight bill for that amount. f New York limes. A Bold Idea. In a few davn TCnodaml will roooico tlia visit of a highly intelligent foreigner who win nave in nis pocKet a wonderful pic ture of a bridge across the channel be tween Folkstone and Cape Grisnez. Its twenty three miles of length will ex hibit many varieties of style. Some parts will be tubular, some iron framework open to the sky, and some again viaducts e t-. , , ... oi masonry, ueneatn these you will see (in the picture) ships in full sail "Great Admirals" bearing the Queen's flag gliding proudly under the central arches, and tiny fishing boats making their way ith equal ease through the lower aoorway in the shailows. The arches will rest sometimes on the sea bottom, sometimes on an artificial fnnn. dation of loose stone, or on a couple of suumanne laianas wnicn nature has most obligingly placed in this verv spot as a mnt oi ner views on tne question of com munication betwAAn Knrrlarx. anil Vmnna M. Verard de Sainte-Anne is the apostle Of this new idea of intereomTn..ninn.tion and his scheme is the alternative to the tunnel. Ihe tunnel is altogether out of me Question. It won In ha vArv osav in any case, and no one known what. soft. plsces in the chalk the boring might not reveai. xn .wuo could breathe down there? Unbroken railway communication with England, he says, alone stands be tween France and commercial ruin. Bis marok, far more dangerous in peace than even in war. ban heen nniet.lv nlottinrr a i j f---o sort of commercial Sedan to block France off forever from all share of the English trade. England, with her immense com merce, binds the Eastern and Western hemispheres as a main link. France con- uiuuco luo buaiu, uuii uiBuiarun ia deter mined to cut her out of it for the benefit of Berlin. The French chambers bavA &.1a a patriotic bnt useless attemnf. to mAt this competition by voting immense sums for the improvement of Boulogne, Calis and Dunkirk. They might just as well have thrown the money into the sea. The Dutch and Belgian ports abova all, Flushing will alwavs afford better land communication with Odessa. Berlin, in fact, lies directly on the line of th-" best existing route. No, the commercial command of the east of Europe mans me ultimate command of Asia, and this, with a due recard to America on t.l.A other 6ide, means the commercial com mand of the world. France, though, must build much more than thA ViriHo-o according to M. Veraru de Sainte-Anne. She must not only run a direct railway I -r-i . . . ..... . . line irom England to avoid the shipment which is the sole ilisndvantncro of tha German route, but as soon as the line roucnea Jt'aris she must carry it almost due east, avoiding Lvons and almost every city south of the capital, and run 1 i Hi.1 r.l a ucta-ouu-ueua race wiiu tjrermany in tne straignt lor uonstantmople via Trieste. This line, it will be seen. would leave even Brindisi far to the west. It would be as short as the German one, short r than it f jr many places, and where it was not it would still secure the preference of English exporters, by pre- vcuuug iue iuaa mvuiveu in iransier. Loudon News. Alexandria Bombarded. "I hear dey's bombardin' Alexan said 'old Cinderella, the ashes- Iria,' gatherer, excitedly, to a Critic scribe this morning. "les, the fun's begun, replied the reporter. "It tain t no fun, sah! I feel rale dig- nant ober it. I used ter lib in dat town and I baa a great deal ob feelin' for it, and furder dan dat, sah, if my mem'ry sarves me right, I'se got a family ob 'latiuns residin' dar now. What bizness has dem Inglish boats got to cum up de Putomack ribber and fling her bumbv shells into dat town, anyhow?"' Ion are slightly mixed. Uncle Isaacs," rejoined the reporter, "they are bombarding Alexandria, Egypt, not Vir ginia. Nebber mind bout tackin' on dem Greek words. De Critic sez djy is bumbin' Alexandria, and I feol highly demoralized ober it. I tell you. dem Inglish is too fresh, an I'm one ob de boys dat's a-goin' down on de ferryboat to de bumbin grounds to help salt 'em away. Now you hear me a-talking." and he waddled off shaking his head and muttering innuendoes against "dem fresh Inglish, dat dars to cum up de Putomack and fling der bumbs inter de town of Alexandria." f Washington Criti3. Another Escape for Grant. Last Monday General Grant startA.1 out from his cottaco at Tjonc Rranch to indulge in his usual afternoon drive. He " -i i m - . is exceedingly iond or. a good trotter, and seeks the back roads at the Branch to speed his animal, as well as to get away from the crowds that throng the beach drive. However, to reach the country be was forced to pass along the main avenue, and he was there stopped, with many other carriages, by a balky team. During the delay a saddle horse, which had been jammed in alongside of the General, became fractious, and kick ing up his heels, knocked away the dasher of the General's new carriage and broke a wheel. The occupant quietly bundled up his lines, chewed his cigar, and waited for the beast to come at him again. Folks who saw that splintered carriage lying on the roadside did not know how closely a horse's hoofs had hung around a hero's head. Philadel phia Record. . . THE INDEPENDENT HAS TUB FINEST JOB OFFICE IN POUULAS COUNTY. CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS And other printing, including Large and Heavy Posters and Showy Hand-Bills. - Neatly and expeditiously executed AT POIVTLIND PRICES. SEXSE AXD SESTlfflEXT. The supreme sin is the suppression of light. Men have sight, women insight. f Viotor Hmg. ; Men make laws women make manners. DeSequr. . Fortune does not change men, it only unmasks them. Triumphant shout in London: "Hal- exandria's in ashes." An obstinate man does not hold opinions; they hold him. He who waits to do a great deal at once will never do anything. Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old Swift. God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool. Victor Hugo. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Frank lin. 111 fortune never crushed that, man whom good fortune deceived not. I Rn Jonson. An evil speaker differs from an evil doer only in the want of opportunity. IQumtuian. Gratitude is a word that you will find in dictionaries, but you will not find much of it anywhere else. We should be more satisfied with our prayers if we worked a little harder to help the Lord to answer them. - Statesmanship consists rather in re moving the causes than in punishing or evading results. Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries. Burke. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lOBt without deserving. Shakspeare. I've never any pity for conceited . people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. George Eliot. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judges us by what we have already done. f Long fellow. ' If a man must be very economical, it will be found to be a good rule to eo without one's dinner and take tea with a -friend. The highest mark of esteeem a !woinan' can give a man is to ask his friendship; and the most signal proof of her indif ference is to offer him hers. ... James Russell Lowell once said that. "the Americans are the motit common. schooled and the least cultivated people in me world. Let no man indulge the deceptive thought that because the general spirit of his life is right his minor shortcom ings Bhall bear no bitter fruit. Nothing elevates a man so much as disinterested good will. We, for ex ample, most heartily wish that every man in the world had half a million and we ourselves a million. It is an old motto. "Be natnral." That depends. It is just what most people ought not to be, and if the saving doc trine of total depravity be true it is very bad advice indeed. The Methodist Conference Commit.! at Toronto has decided that the Rev. Mr. Wilioughby did not kiss sweet Georgie Graham five times against her will. Mr. Wilioughby will now have time to reflect on what he missed. FARM, G ANDES LSD HOUSEHOLD. Strong brine kills the near and clierrtr " - - J slug. Reno. Cal.. ranchmen sav that Mia grasshoppers will not eat parsnips, peas, nor onions. . It is said that about S60.000 was real ized in and about Santa Barbara. Cal.. last year by sales of Pamnaa n-aaa plumes. A farmer, for his brsinesa to nrosner must be an out-door. activA man Tt ia futile to expect, in addition to this, he will every dav so thronch thA Hnt.iea of city book-keeper. - , The Nadeau vinevard. Tioa A n iralas Cal., when completely laid out, will em brace two thousand acres of land, in stead of fifteen hundred. There are several hundred acres yet to be planted out. The V ue of millet seed as food for chicks is hardly appreciated. The vari ety in diet that should be sought for the chickens is much aided by feeding millet seed. It is nutritious and easily digested. It costs but little if any mora tn ra. clean the wheat as it comes from the separator, and is run over the cleaner all u uuc uncial iuu, luuu il does me oiu way of sacking as it comes from the ma chine. The California State Fair of 1882 will commence September 11th, and close September 16th. The directors have in creased the premiums some $5,000, so that they aggregate about $30,000 in cash, against $25,000 last year. The best crop thus far renortAd that, in thrashed in Butte, ia that of John M Ball, near Dayton, who has over three hundred acres in wheat, all harvested and weighed, and the return is fifty-one ousneis to tue acre. Charles F. Reed of Knight's Landing was a heavy loser by the flood of 1880-81. This year (1882) his crop has been a suc cess. , He says that' he will receive for the surplus $140,000. Of this at leas $100,000 is net profit. It is . altogether the largest and most profitable crop ever raised on such a tract of land about 6,000 acres. A Nantucket Ctmiosirr. One of the curiosities of Nantucket is a clock mada by Walter Folger, who died in 1849, at the age of eighty-four. This ingenious piece of mechanism was constructed be fore Mr. Folger was tweny-four years old, and combines a representation of the motions of the sun and moon with the ordinary timekeeper. It shows also the time of full tide at Nantucket, and Ihe chief phenomena dependent upon the obliquity of the moon's pain, as also the times of the hunter's and harvest moons. The wheel which indicates the year is so constructed that 4ta volition is not completed until it. has seen its 100th year, - . r ' .'--' -