The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-06-18
NEW NoR.wEsTERS.

as being ON the decline.
Lick, of California, has only seyentee
lawsuits on hand as yet.
1t is announced that Surgeon w. J
Sloan is to be medical director of the De
partment of Dakota.
"A society bas been organized in Gal
weston, Texas, for the purpose of buying
home in that State for jefferson Davis
General Sherman, it may safely b
said, could never have had any Presidential
aspirations while writing his memoirs.
The packers of canned goods held {
national convention in Philadelphia on thu
9th of June. Object, uniformity of stand
ard.
Weston is walking against time agair
in New York. If he would only walk ur
very hard against barrel of nitro-g1ycer
inc
George Alfred Townsend, familiarly
known to the world as "Gath," has as
sumed position On the editorial staff oi
the st. Louis Times.
Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton,
and Bessie Turner ars fishing boats on
Chautauqua Lake. The Ragged Edge and
Down and Out are building.
The Virginia, Nevada, Chronicle has
again changed hands. Mr.. D. e. McCar-
thy, formerly Of the San Francisco CAroni-
Gle, is now the sole proprietor.
General Braxtou Bragg has accepted
the position of Chief Engineer of the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, for which
ground was broken May 1st at Galveston.
Everybody would have $175 if all the
property in this country were to be equally
divided. 1t is not to be divided, however,
until there is enough to give every one
$500.
The Los Angeles papers think the oil
wells of that section will some day rival
those of Fenango county, Pennsylvania, or
at least yield better profit to the pro-
ducer.
The fact that Henry Ward Bcecher has
rented a room in the New York Tribune
building has given rise to the rumor that
he is to become religious editor of that
paper.
1t is reported by the Post-otfice De-
partment that 33,000,0 900 worth of postage
stamps were sold during April-the largest
sales for any month yet. America licks
The world on stamps.
The largest lumber raft on record was
towed down the Mississippi river the other
lay. 1t was fourteen strings wide. sistecza
cribs long, and twenty inches deep, contain
ng over 100000 feet.
Somebody has written book entitled
'' What Shall My Son Be?'' Upon which
some one else frankly replies "If the
BOY is as bad as the book the chances are
hat he will be hanged"
Because the supervisors of California
county voted themselves pay at ten dollars
Der day while in session, the Taxpayers for
niles around bounced into town one night
md burned the court house.
"A Danbury man, returning from q
'uneral in New York last week, was asked
~ his wife how it passed off. "Splendid-
y, splendidly," he enthusiastically replied. |
8 By George, they ought to repeat it,
Robert NJ. and Stephen A. Douglas,
ons of the "Little Giant" have just been |
lwarded the sum of $3.50, 1000 in payment
or cotton seized by the Government on
heir mothers plantation in Mississippi |
Turing the war.
There was a man who crossed the |
'cean, then went overland to Asia, and |
'lew his brains out on the summit of the |
This shows to what length |
ONE people will go to accomplish their
nds
1t is to the interest of missionary
ocieties to diffuse the statement of M.
toca, French savant, that "the flesh of |
be Caucasian is bitter and salty, while
hat of the negro is of finer flavor, and will
eep much longer"
1t appears that the appropriation for
he pay of the army for the current fiscal
ear was inadequate, and that officers and
oldiers will receive only fifteen days pay
the end Of June, instead of for a full
,onth. The deficiency will have to be
lade up by the next Congress.
Judge Claiborne Snead, of the Rich
lond county court, Alabama, has this
broad him" +" posted in his office "The
of Crime-Statistics show
,at, Of every ten men who die in this
ountry, seoen are talked to death. Take
eed that thou no murder do
The Anderson school of natural history
,unded two years since with such flourish
trumpets, and under the auspices of
gassiz, at Penikese island has closed, cit
ay be for years and it may be forever"
NJ want of funds. 1t was not self-support-
g, and the students who attended were not
umerons or rich enough to Iiquidate it's
abilities.
The Viceroy of Egypt is about to as
'nish the world again. He has resolved
} build railroad along the valley of the
lie to the interior Of Africa, and as he
rs plenty of money and thousands Of serfs
! his command, he will no doubt accom-
lish his purpose. In a few years African
zplorers will be able to travel in sleeping
srs, and to write magnificent descriptions
the places which they will have passed
trough in the dark.
The Placer Argas Of May Goth says
ne following note was picked up on the .
rect, near the school-house, few days
90 We think it worthy of publication:
Dear ---: hope you haint mad because
never smiled when at spelling school last
lght. haint prowd dear -, but I've
Of bile on my ankle and can't smile like
used to, as God is my witness. I love
ou harder than ever. i
Your lovingest, JoE.