The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-04-09
NEW NoR-WEsTERs.

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!, John G. Abbott is writing a history O
= Maine.
:. The Charley Ross hat-so called from
- containing picture of that modern Josepl
= is in market.
II One hundred and twelve of Georgs
1t Francis Trains lots have been sold by til,
d Omaha Sheriff.
n In computing mans age, Chiname1
70 always reckon that he was a year old at tht
/, time of his BIRTH
I If General Schenck's rumored resigna.
tion is tue, perhaps it's because he's tired
u ofFseeing one Queen
The Cheyenne News claims the honors
= belonging to metropolitan newspapers. 1t
: has been sued for libel.
The hillsides between Lewiston and
q Walla Walla are reported to be literally
covered with dead cattle.
e -"ExauguraP' is now the proper term
/ for the speech which a politician makes
! when he steps down and out.
S -Seaford, Delaware, forgot all about it's
town-election day, and the Legislature will
have to appoint another one.
-Thirty-two vessels were built in Cali
fornia last year-two in San Francisco
and the average tonnage was two thousand
three hundred and ninety-two.
A Cleveland man puts waste paper into
his letters, SO as to make them weigh all
that will pass for three cents He does
this to revenge ON Uncle Sam.
Under the head of personal" Geor-
gja paper announces that the .'beautiful
young stallion, Wash Morgan, owned by
Battles, of Dirttown, is in town this week.
The thirsty colored gentleman who ap-
plies for a cocktail in a Richmond bar
room, is quietly referred to a placard
reading ''Dri"ks' $5-subject to dis
count"
There are more than $3o0,00O,000 of
specie in the United States During the
last fifteen years over $1,000, 900, 900 of
gole and silver has been exported from the
country.
They do say that Brigham Young has
come to be very sour and grabbed in his
old age. Just think of it-he slung his
hat with an oath in it, right into Prophet
Smiths face the other day.
The telegraph editor of the Cincinnati
Enquirer has views. He calls Tracy's
opening speech "Hifalutin Legal Hogwash
and Slobbery, Sentimental Slugmullion
about that Whites -Souled Woman" /
The st. Louis Globe says that Grant
will soon visit that city and then go to !
Europe, where he will spend some time |
with Nellie Sartoris and her husband, liv- /
ing in absolute retirement until the fall |
when he will return.
Left Hand canon. He tore the family dog |
to pieces. He pulled the fiddle-strings out |
Of the family cat. He finally succumbed,
however, to the family rifle"
An imaginative lady, writing from st.
Petersburg at the time of the coronation OF
Alexander l., thus describes the ceremony:
seThe Emperor entered the church preceded
by tue assassins of his grandfather, sur
rounded by the assassns of his father, and
followed by his own.'
mo, Joe, no." said man of princi pie
and compassion, as, with his teeth chatter
! ing, he leaned against the bar; mo hot
/ Scotch for me. / couldn't swallow it while
! hundreds of wretched people are freezing at
! this moment. Gimme whisky-sour and
| plenty of ice. God pity the poor
The Pittsburg Telegraph brings for
/ ward Secretary Bristow as strong man for
the Republican Presidential Convention to
consider. The convention is some distance
off, but Blistow is good name to look at.
1t will bear turning over, and the more You
turn it over the better you will like it.
/ Fifteen per cent. of the gold produced
i'm the gold fields of the United States is
manufactured at home; thirty five per cent.
goes to Europe; twenty-five per cent. to
Cuba; fifteen per cent. to Brazil; five per
cent. to China, Japan, and india; the bal
ance, five per cent, remains in private
hands, and cannot be traced.
in the hymn-book of the United Pres
byterian church in Great Britain, in Mont
gomery's ssHail to the Lora's Amounted" :"
the phrase ssthe mountain dew" was
changed to heauesly dew, mountain dew
in Scotland signifying a glass of whisky!
Even the severest strickler for literary ac-
curacy win hardly complain of this altera-
f;on Gbrssfsnn TnSom
Some persons look into premature
graves at forty, and lament that their days
of usefulness are over. But there are a
few old gentlemen among us who manage
to make living. Governor Dix is 75
William Cullen Bryant over so, Peter
Cooper nearly 85, Commodore Vanderbilt
81, A. T. Stewart past 70, and Bancroft
the historian, rs.
The praise which is now given to Ed
) gar Allen Poe, the attempts which are made
n to put his life and actions in the best light
y together with the fact that several differ
q ent writers assign several different cities a
e his birthplace remind us of the old coup
l. let:
It ..Seyen cities claimed blind Homer dead
y Through which the living Homer begged his bread
10 "A gentleman in Washington is hayin
r. a floor constructed in San Francisco, cor
IA sisting of different colored woods, dove
ID tailed together so as to represent the Cal
% fornia coat of arms, and the strips $
M arranged that the colors will blend as
l. painting. The woods were obtained frol
e. Pacific coast timber trees, and the cost I
st the floor alone will be 81 900. The dimel
o. sions are IS by 80 feet, and will be sent
- Washington in sections.
It. Only two Speakers have been longer
m the chair than Mr. Elaine. Henry CT;
II sa,rad II, fhn Twalfth Thirteenth For