The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-28
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

The best result ever yet attained with
any gun in existence was arrived at ON
Tuesday last with 3S-ton Woolwich gun,
at the proof butts in the Government marsh
es, and joining the Royal Arsenal, Wool
wich. The gun was being fired to deter
mine the proper proof charge for guns of its |
class, and when discharged with 15O pounds
| of powder and an s00-pound projectile it |
| recorded the extraordinary velocity Of
| 1,5O6 feet second, the pressure on the in
ner surface of the gum at the same time re- |
naming moderate. This result is due to
the use of the newly designed cubicai gum
| powder, the grains of which are cubes OF Ii
inches in diameter.
The Fargo Mirror says: We learn the
citizens of Bismarck were hard pressed for
the asuhstantials = when the first train ar
rived. They had consumed car load OF
borrowed Montana flour, fortunately in
store at that place. Gen. Custer of Fort
Lincoln had previously divided with them;
| tobacco had been total failure for some
time, and what was worse, only eight bar
| rels of whisky on hand. The whisky was
| Immediately sacrificed in celebrating the
| arrival s--
The English propose to move street car
riages by clockwork. It is said that all
practical difficulties have been removed.
The carriages, of course, labor under the
very slightest possible amount Of friction
that is to say, must go on rails. Also,
they should be as light as possible, and
cars of two tons are spoken of; but the in
ventors claim power to move car of five
tons, requiring force OF seven hundred
hundred and twenty pounds on the periPh-
cry of the spring barrel. Sheffield springs
having a force of nine hundred pounds have
been made. The springs are to be wound
up at intervals by stationary engines.
The great bell presented by Emperor
Napoleon Ill to the church of Notre Dame
near South Bend, Indiana, the largest IN
America, and which was raised to its place
in the separate tower erected especially for
it only last fall, is about to be eclipsed by
a greater. The Emperor William is about
to present one weighing over SO, 600 pounds
to the cathedral at Cologne. This monster
bell, which has just been successfully cast
at Frankenthal, ont of French guns cap
tured during the late war, stands twelve
feet high, is seventeen in diameter, and has
clapper so heavy as to require the strength
! of thirty men to swing It,.
The origin Of the portrait Of the Goddess
of Liberty upon our coins is of great inter-
, est. Mr. Spencer, the inventor Of Spencer's S
lathe, used by the American Bank Note
Company, was the artist who cut the first
die for our American coin. He ent an ex-
act medallion Of Mrs. Washington, and the
first coins were cut with her portrait.
When General Washington saw them he
was displeased, and requested the figure to
be removed. Mr.. Spencer altered the fea-
lures little, and putting cap op her cad
called her the Goddess of Liberty. Iffuture
artists will bear this in mind they will al
ways take Mrs. Washington's portrait for a
guide when wishing to produce goddess.
"Idaho Bill" the guide of Colonel Car
, penter's Missouri and Kansas expedition,
. which it is said will number from 800 to
900 men, has arrived at Cheyenne. He is a
: mountaineer, born in Oregon, 80 years old,
, talks four Indian languages, has acted as
Indian interpreter for the government, and
is familiar with the Black Horn and Vel
lowstone country. Col. Carpenters entire
} party is expected at Cheyenne soon. They
: are from St. Joe, ST. Louis, Fort Scott AND
, Chicago. The expedition will leave Chey:
enne with six months provisions and the
, necessary tools, arms and implements
' "Idaho Bill'' describes the Tongue River
country MS being very beautiful and fertile,
D and says he has personal knowledge Of the
0 existence of good gold diggingsin tributs
;. ry of this stream, called Goose Creek. The
l statement that Gen. Sherman has given this
' party permit to visit the hills is probably
E untrue. 1t is likely, however, that the
: country will be opened to crusaders within
q few weeks, as the pressure upon Wash
j. ington is very heavy just now.
t William G. Ralston has sold his interest
d in the Palace Hotel to William Sharon fo'
e the sum of 81, 75O,O Mr.. Sharon is alse
the owner Of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, ane
rumor says he was the bidder for the Llcl
a House at the time it was offered for sale
So it is evident that Mr.. Sharon is goins
into the hotel business upon somewha
i grand scale. Whether ne possesses tls
. requisite knowledge to keep hotel We ar,
t not advised, but he evidently intends Il
monepolize bookkeeping in this city. /
to do this it shall become necessary for hin
: to retire from the stock market no one will
% he sorry. II Mr.. Sharon will just let Ophi
a and Belcher and Crown point alone for
time, and turn his attention to caulifowers
J, asparagus, green peas, cucnmbers, egg
r and poultry, it will be an agreeable chang
for stock operators, but hard upon tn
g vegetable aud poultry dealers. We shal
9 hear Of corners in green corn and cabbages
wash sales in the fish market, puts ol
meats and dairy products, and shorts o.
everything sold by the dozen chicken
J will tremble on their roosts rs he walk
! through the poultry market, and each fisl
u will wiggie his tremulous tail in fear a
the hotel king sends his glance along tin
benches of the fish vendors. If he doe
not freeze ont the Occidental, the Gran,
"a and ftc RusS they wiIT fse Sr, arhfiYnA Is,Ctr