The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-29
NEW NoR.WEsTERs.

Moody says he takes four or five years
to prepare sermon.
The President read his Des Moines
speech with spectacles on.
The sealed wives of Brigham Young
are only seals kin to him. m
-swinburne is writing Greek tragedy.
It begins" Och! Molly McGlone.'
A son of Dan Voorhees, has arranged
to make an early appearance as Hamlet.
J. Sterling Morton viii be editor of the
Chicago Times while Mr.. Storey is in Eu-
rope.
DIR. H. T. Hembold has been discharg-
ed from the Bloomingdale New York;
Asylum.
The title of Canadian newspaper is
the Kansinistiua Perambusator and ThaD-
der Bay Prototype.
This year is.going to be the best oyster
year for twenty years, and even Parsun
Brownlow feels good.
David A. Wells is already talked of as
the Democratic candidate for Governor of
Connecticut next year.
Bets are made in London that the
Prince Of Wales will be assassinated before
his visit in India is finished.
The first sovereign who adopted the
phrase q In the year of our Lord, " was
Charles ILL.,, Emperor of Germany, 799.
"A mighty cheese is being made in
Ashtabula county, Ohio, for the centen-
NAL exhibition. 1t will weigh fifteen tons.
The new capital to the Christian In
ion newspaper to the extent of $3.50. 900
has been raised, and the entire amount is
promised.
Among the :" conditions of sale by
an Irish auctioneer was the following
''the highest bidder to be purchaser, unless
some gentleman bids more"
When the Mexican authorities catch a
train robber the aforesaid robber lives just
six minutes. In case the gun hangs fire
he may live six and half.
There have been printed in Germany
so, 700, 600 blanks, upon which the census
returns are to be made, the taking of which
begins December 1.
The Dey of Algiers lives almost en-
tirely on cod1ish-balls and muddy coffee,
bnt when You get to be Dey you can al
so do as you are mind to.
Mrs. E d. E. II. Southworth, Sylvan
us Cobb, Leon Lewis and Ned Buntline are
all sick. Any one who says that Provi-
dence isn't around these days is mistaken.
The new census of Charleston, S. &.
shows that there are in the city 5, 622 white
voters and 1922 colored voters. This is an
since 1870 of nearly 600 in favor of
the negroes.
-Thirty-six thousand dollars q year is
what is paid for carrying the mails from
Portland, Oregon, to Alaska, and supply
ing about score of army officers with
their letters and papers.
Billy Emerson, the negro minstrel,
makes $25, ,000 year. Ralph Waldo En-
srson, the philosopher, makes 5000. The
after has frequently deplored the fact that
he couldn't get his head to hit a tambou-
line right in the middle.
The census takers of New Zealand
'ound no less than 1877 denominational dis
5inctions, among which were edible
Thumpers, "Unleavened Brethren of
Christ" Calathumpians, ''Old identi-
"" and Evolutionists.
A movement is on foot in Pittsburg to
erect monument in memory of Stephen
J. Foster, the composer of "Old
Folks at Home," Old Dog Tray My
Did Kentucky Home,'' ''Come Where My
Love Lies Dreaming" and other popular
.irs.
Stumbling into his room he sat down
IN the edge of the bed and soliloquized
hus: ''Feet wet, tight boots, a sore on
me hand an q feion t'other, n no boot-jack
II z house. Sings got to be dif'rent
E. thea mus get married or else get a
,oot Jack. Whishall l do 9''
The following resolution has been
adopted by one of the Baptist
associations eff Kansas: That in our
opinion the most beftting part which the
3aptists of Kansas could take in the Gen.
ennial movement would be one concentra-
ed effort to pay their church debts"
The Oldest nation in the world does
honor to the Youngest. The land of the
'haraohs shows it's respect for our people
" appropriating S65, GOO to pay the expen-
es of its representatives at the Centennial
exposition next year. All the arts, prod
lcts and industries of Egypt will be repre-
ented, as we'll as many things pertaining
o her ancient history.
There are ]. .225 Cumberland Presbyte-
ian ministers in the United States, who
re distributed as follows: Tennessee, 226;
Missouri, 174; Texas, 1853; Illinois, 1879: Ar
,ansas, 101; Kentucky, SO; Mississippi, 60
Alabama, 54; Indiana, 80; California, 30;
owa, 90; Kansas, 10; Pennsylvania, 10;
oregon, IA; Ohio, IS; Georgia, 70; WASH
ngton Territory, Z; Choctaw Nation, 6;
Nebraska, s; Colorado, 4; Louisiana. 8; Ne
ada, /. New York. 1.
During the time when Clayton was
uler of Arkansas, all justices of the peace
lad to be appointed by His Excellency.
)ne old negro, who thought he knew
nough to discharge the duties of the office
allied on the Governor to be examined and |
eceive his appointment. Several ques-
ions were given him, all of which he man
ged very well. But when he was asked:
What would he do in case where man
lad committed suicide ?" What would
do2'' said the negro. Well, sab, in a
ase like dat, de very least could do, sah,
would be to make him sport de child
Ie was appointed.
John Daley, the father, in-law Of Gen.