The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-12-11
NEW NoR.wEsTERs.
A breezy girl-The windlass.

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Butler Bitters-s. T. 1874-X.-N.s 7
Mail.
Waite is the only chief Justice not bald
just Waite.
A. H. Stephens weighs eighty, withou
his last speech.
"A good kick out of doors is better thar
a rich uncle.
AT late Indiana wedding the couple
footed up SOB pounds.
The Agassiz Memorial Fund in Bosto1
amounts now to $121, ,005.
Pepper Hill and Frog Town are village.
in the State of Georgia.
Thirteen millions is what we pay an
nually for postmasters and their clerks.
Good butter is made from goats milk
But the goat itself is better butter still
-Incongruous-Tha the only Republic
can Congressman from Kentucky is White
| .-Lynchburg asked Thurman for his
photograph, and he replied in the negative.
The government of Saxony has forbid,
den the practice of cremation at Dresden,
i A highly esteemed pipe-stem Is made
by sailors from the wing bones of the alba
| tross.
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They say the handsonlest man sent Ia
Congress this fall is Gov. Walker of Vir-
! ginia.
Business grows lively at Chicago. The
banks are in funds, having 81 200, 600
more ON deposit than at any time since the
panic.
1t is said that Tennyson has received
$500, 900 from his publishers for the sale of
his poems.
-Clergymen in Kansas visit their con-
gregations armed with couple of revolyers
and shotgun.
William Cullen Bryant is q wealthy" -"
his fortune crowding hard upon half a mil
lion dollars.
A Bayarian is said to have discovered
method of transmitting autographs by
electricity.
One marriage out of every eighteen in
virtuous Vermont is dissolved under the
| present divorce laws.
Smith, the Arkansas aspirant has two
VS. to his name, but that's probably two
more than he's got in his pocket.
The dome of the Boston State House
is bald-headed, and they've just covered it
with gold foil to keep it from catching
cold.
The body of q man murdered at Little
Rock had thirty-four bullets in it, and the
printers thought that the obituary ought
to be loaded.
A darkey preacher, lini out hymn
from memory, said:
Plunged iu gulf of dark despair,
Ye wretched sinners-c0nse out of ddri
--Alf. Chartz, carrier of the Eureka
Sentinel, has accepted challenge from w.
W. Bishop of Phoebe to run foot-race of
ten miles for stakes of 81, 800 to $4,000.
An inebriate man, walking along the
street, regarded the moon with sovereign
contempt: :" You needn't be so proud, =" said
he, "you are full only once month and
am every night"
AN English minister says that sif
Scripture said one thing and the London
Times another, five hundred Englishmen
out of every five hundred and ten would
believe the Times"
A vile wretch of man-a regular
monster III store clothes-residing in Ottawa
Canada, recently sold his wife for the sum
of $40. She says that's more than she'd
offer for him at any time.
-"Bill" King, Ex-Postmaster of the
House of Representatives, has been elected
to Congress from Minnesota, and his black
coachman, Sam Lee, has been elected to
Congress from North Carolina.
Some Massachusetts, men want Butler
- IL - l.a gone twenty years. 1ba1s5
promise to make it an object to him, but he
looks askance at the proposition.
While Capt. Drew, agent of the James
River line of steamers, was sitting III his
chair at City Point a day or two ago in a
state of profound sleep, some rascal stole
out of his mouth set OF artificial teeth.
-Gratz Brown, the tail of tue Greeley
kite, is now laboring to secure an election
to the United States Senate in place OF
Carl Schurz. 1t will be grand triumph
for the Cincinnati reformers to have Carl
shelved by Gratz.
The vote in New York State for Dix in
1874 was 164, 984 less than in 1874. The
Democratic and Liberal vote was 66,00O
less than in 1872. The Republicans who
did not vote, exceeded in number that Of
rilden's majority, by 1883.
-. That dog of yourn flew at me this
morning, and bit me on the leg, and now /
notify you that | intend to shoot 1t the first
time | see it." "The dog is not mad. :"
MAD! | know he is not mad. What's he
got to be mad about? It's me that's mad. :"
The ravages by the grasshoppers i'll
Kansas have not been exaggerated. There
are seventeen counties in which the aggre-
| rate of 158,0 900 acres of corn have been
| planted and not one bushel produced. At
least $4,000 people will need assistance
during the whole winter.
| Congressman elect Beebe, who lately
| threatened "to throw back his flesh, open
| his ribs, and squeeze every Democrat to
! his heart,n has been recommended by the
| ;,range County Republican Association to
the New York Medical College as a good
subject for vivisection.
We hear no more of Prentice milford s
| Octapod, which was to have been printed
as a weekly in little village on 4.Old Long
Island s..sea- -girt Shore Perhaps the good
people who were expected to subscribe
were mystified by the queer name, and
after a peep into the Unabridged concluded
/ they didn't want a devil-fsh in the house.
An Indiana editor who prides himself
on his descriptive powers says: " Mr.,
Weller, of Columbus, was playing with his
pretty little ivory handled revolver, when
the beauty went off with a loud roar,
and MIR. Weller began executing a frantic
pas de seal, with a bullet hole III his No
10 hoof lie now has q revolver for sale. .
I'm an Illinois town not long ago one o.
| the attractions of an evening entertainment
was 60 be u tableau Of the :. Prodigal Son, "
after Dubnfe's painting. But the best
4 looking young man III tile place had beer
selected lor the prodigal, aud every one o
the girls wanted to be the woman VIII,
should hang on his shoulder and look low
ingly at him, and that broke up the bust
i ness.
"A Portland man, standing on hote
piazza smoking, who had the cigar sho
out of his mouth, was not disposed t.
| grumble until a fellow with revolye
rushed up to him and offered to bet two t,
one that he could do it again. Then h
took off his coat and vest and mauled tlia
man, and stepped on him, and rolled hin
over, and finally jammed him into post
hole, before he felt just right.
Queen Victoria, who is new So, repre-
sents a long lived race, and may live twent.
years longer. George Ill, her grandfather