The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-13
NEW NoR'-wEsrERs.
Steam on canals will soon be a fact.
Base ball costs the country S5. 900. 900.

| be let"
England spends s64, 900, 900 year fol
tobacco.
Il, 800, 600 watches is the annual product
at Berne.
Cicero is glad to see the srlmma cum
Boston Post.
"A California firm is shipping Cotswold
sheep to China.
The Troy lawyers have decided to shave
clean hereafter.
The heathen Chinee is making bricks
in Sacramento.
New York imports 81 ZOO, 900 worth OF
canaries annually.
The Singer Co. swear to sale of 232,.
444 of their machines in 1878.
Cremation by sun process is TO be tile
name for sunstroke, this summer.
Joe Jefferson is to drop Grip" and
take up Hamlet and "Toodles."
Sparks from locomotives did $1,000,00C
damage to forests last year by setting them
on fire.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been decided
to be the legal eastern terminus of the I'm
ion Pacific Road.
The proposed new constitution of Ohio
forbids State and county officers to accept
railway passes.
In Ballard county, Kentucky, where no
newspapers are published, there are 49 can
didates for sheriff.
The favorite songs of the British troops
in Ashantee were "John Brown aud
Tramp, Tramp"
The German army, according to the
official list, now numbers 1924, $40 men,
| with 2, 2,740 cannon.
About 250,0 900 pounds of cotton, the
growth of California last year, have been
marketed in San Francisco
-Spilkins says that our national growth
is, like that of tree, marked by the num-
Der of its rings.-Com. AdU.
Over 1000 men have been thrown out
of employment at Troy by the suspension
OF operations at the iron works.
General Buffers Massachusetts friends
are urging him to take sea voyage as the
only means OF restoring his health
"A Missouri editor has offered Bret
Harte fourteen dollars week to go out
there and write up the local column.
Three New York professional gentle
men had their photographs taken in Boston
on saturday-they were only thieves.
South Carolina exempts all newly-es-
tablished manufacturers from State taxation
for ten years after they begin business.
-Four kittens IN New Bedford, Mass,
! joined together like the Siamese twins, were
at last accounts alive, and tolerable WELL
One of our exchanges has q column
| headed "After Thoughts" The intention
is good, and if it keeps on may catch 'em.
A Western paper is dead In it's last
! gasp it gently whispered: "Two hundred
subscribers, and only thirty-one of them paid
up!''
The funeral expenses Of men killed in
/ the Hoosac Tunnel, and paid by the con-
tractors, have amounted to $4,000 in five
wears.
=" Arduously and consistently assinine
is the Chicago IrtbHaae's comment upon the
proceedings of the national labor reform
convention.
The present weight of the Hon. A. II.
Stevens is seventy-two pounds and three
quarters. tie is III Georgia, hoping to re-
cover his health.
1t is said that there is u marked falling
| off in the yield of the South African dia-
mond mines, and the diggers who remain
are much dicouraged.
the Wom0z's Journal, have come out in
! favor of Mr.. George L. Hoar for next Gov
ernor Of Massachusetts,.
Tho South Carolina Neacs declares that
universal amnesty will bring no practical
relief to the South" This does not agree
with the views of many Northern Demo
Gratis.
Wild geese are so abundant in Tulare
al hot L,
and with guns chase them off the culti-
waited crops, to which they seem especially
partial. ~
-Ashantee gold, which has just been an
alyZed in England, is found to contain about
a peculiarly rich color, partly due to red
oxide of iron. -
The Portsmouth Times says that Mr..
Richardson is lingering obtrusiveIy where
he is not wanted, like 'swinter in the lap af
spring." and suggests that n blast of nitro
glycerine may be found necessary to start
him.
| The ships with the new Atlantic cable
were announced to sail from England on
the 10Th inst, and they are expected to ar
rive at Rye Beach, N. H., the proposed
landing place, early in the second week in
June.
Prof. Patton, the prosecutor of Rev.
DR.. Swing, in Chicago, quoted from ser
mon by the latter, aud said II tell you there
is q standard. | can set my moral watch
by the sun of righteousness, and know that
it is right
"A Baltimore paper tried to say some
thing about "Churches and Skeptics," and
the writer of the article plead piteously for
some one to put him out Of his misery when
| he saw his pious editorial appear under the
head "Crutches and Sheeptics."
"A New Hampshire lady died recently
after having read the Bible through thirty
four times After this terrible example it
is hardly necessary ito warn readers not to
read the Bible through but thirty-three
times. if theua run,,ld 1t-.~ 1@--+e,- = WIG
i'm Truclee, New, the other day, a
group of five able-bodied individuals were
conyersing about fire arms. One offered
to wager the drinks that there were not
three leyolyers in the crowd. The bet was
taken. and the result was six reviewers,
three derringers, and a horse pistol.
The Buffalo Express q hopes the new
Pacific steamer Colon will not come to a
full stop until she reaches her destination"
/ She might not, if she belonged to the
French line. for the chances would be that
! she would spriug apart in the middle and
become two oselni-ColonS.-Detroit Ti.ibuRe.
some years ago u railway was con
! structed in Wales III connection with the
mines, in which tie carriages, instead of
running on the ground, were suspended
| from central rail overhead. This system,
[ which was once also suggested for the Cam
adian Pacific road in the region of the
snow. is reported to have been very success
/ ful.
/ The Little Rock Republseaa which did
all it.could to elect Baxter and then went
/ over to Brooks, in discussing Attorney
General Williams opinion, does mot hesi-
tate to declare that it is such an opinion as
would disgrace any fifth-class lawyer now