The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-06-11

y In the beginning the earth was covered
with mist You could not see before YOU.
The great spirit took his bow and arrow
and shot-shot so we'll that he scat tered the
mist The earth became visinl. TO him. !
but there were no men upon it, Then he
took clay, fashioned man and set him to
bake. Men came out white the first had
not been strong enough. The Great Spirit
began his work again. and this time the mall
came out quite black he had remained too
long in the oven 1t was necessary to trv
the third time. The experiment. at length
succeeded, and the man came out done to a
turn he was the redskin, the most perfect
of human types"
OF General Sherman's book the New
York Herald says: "Some military critics
think that it would have been wise for him |
to have ignored the subject altogether,
leaving to history the adjustment of his
own fame. Others recall the generosity |
shown by President Grant in restoring to |
him his prosperity after the attack of Vicks-
burg-an attack which was successful |
against Sherman's Judgment, and was the |
real foundation of the Presidents military |
fame-and contrast this with what appears
to be desire on Sherman's part to invite a |
controversy with the President. Others
regard the book of General Sherman as
simply "a tribute to the West Point saris-
tocracy' which was unfortunately DOM
inant during the war, and All attack upon
| tsa unlrl
erals. General Logan, i'll correspondence
with Philadelphia paper published yes
terdav, makes the apt point that if General
Sherman did not think him fit to command
after McPhersons death, General Grant
did think him fit to supersede Thomas,
a greater general than Mcpherson, and
holding higher command This point we
think aptly taken. The friends aud adj
mirers of Mr.. Stanton are preparing to YIN
dlcate the great Secretary from Shelman's
severe assaults. SO that we are really en-
| barking upon discussion that bids fair to
be more interesting than any we have had
since the war;"
| Our special reporter now with the Black
Hills Geological Exploring Expedition,
whick has just started from Fort Laramie,
sends a dispatch announcing that trouble
with the Indians is anticipated. Certain of
the young bucks belonging to the Sioux
and Cheyennes have become dissatisfied
since their head chief went to Washington,
and are preparing TO take the war-path in
order to harass the expedition. 1t will in
deed be surprising if these Indians do not
commence hostilities ; if they do not, it will
be their first peaceful season for years.
Many mining parties are reported to be in
camp near the hills, awaiting negotiations.
The indians will probably attack some of
them, and then pfospecturs will become IN
dim fighters, and the trouns viii be com,
PEELED to take sides with the scaip-ht,nteis
oi the gold-seekers.
Here is Mark Twain On the spelling
| mama: 8 | have u relative in New York
who is almost sublimely gifted. Sue can't
spell any word right. There is Il game ,
called Verbarium. A dozen people are each ,
provided with Il sheet of paper, across the
top of which is written u long word like
kaleidoscopcal, or whatnot, ard the game is
to see who can make up the most words out
of that i'll three minutes, always beginning r
with the initial of the word. Upon one oc-
casion the word chosen was cofferdam. ,
When time was called, everybody had built
from five to twenty words, except this
young lady. She had one word-calf We
all studied q moment and then said, why, ,,
there is no q in cofferdam.' Then we ex-
amined her paper. To the eternal honor ,
of that uninspred, unconscious, sublimely- .,
independent soul, be it said, she had spelt
the word caffn II anybody here can spell
calf any more sensibly than that, let him
step to the front and take his milk. The
insurrection will now begin.'
The Chicago Inter Ocean of May 21st is S
the largest daily paper ever printed. 1t {
comprises 18 sheets of paper, each contain
ing 1,736 square inches, making in the ag- |
gregate surface of 252 square feet of paper, +,
and about double that space of printed Y
matter. It took 30 compositors about SO
days to set up the type used in this Issue, {
and five proof-readers were engaged to cor s
rect the errors Of the typos. There are t
144 pages in the edition, and the reading |
matter is equivalent to that of several oc- {
tavo Volumes though it is not quite as in |
teresting as Websters big dictionary, i
bing the delinquent tax list of Cook county t
for the year 1874.
President Grant and family, including
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris, will spend the sum-
mer in the Grant cottage at Long Branch /
His nearest neighbors will be George W. :
Childs ex-Collector Thomas Murphy, and
Mr.. Seliglnan, the New York banker. Sec
retary Fish and family will pass the season |
at their country seat on the Hudson. Sec
retary Belknap and wife have engaged .
apartments at the Pequot house, New g
London.
How A MAN FEELS TO BE RUN OVER BIZ !,
TIE CARs.-On Monday last, freight =
conductor, L. Averiil, fell across the rails
at Wells river, and the wheels Of d car,
weighing 1890 pounds, passed obliquely
over his body and off the left leg, some six !,
inches below the hip. When the wheels /,
paased over, Averill listened for the crush
ing of the bones, but they did not break,
but the wheel of the truck almost instantly, :.
he felt sure, would cut the legs Off. But !,
the wheels passed over, and before the :
rear trucks had reached him he sprang out )
and was standing bolt upright. For five
minutes he felt no pain, but since then the
main has been almost uncomfortable, and he !
has been kept under the influence of opiates. !
Two jack-knives in his pocket were bent !,
nearly double. 1t is supposed the fiange
of these wheels struck upon these knives
first and passed up to the top of the leg,
and thus avoided the shearing effect the
fiange upon the rail- The skin upon his
person was not broken, but tho fiaiige :