The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-01-21
NEW NOR-WESTERS.

California had strawberries for Christ
mas.
General Logan is as convalescent as two
pair.
Superstition is spreading among the
freedmen.
The Khedive proposes new Eastern
route gia the Nile.
Bonner has more horse property than
any other man living.
Fifty million dollars in American prop
erty are annually destroyed by moths.
-Pere Hyacinthe now seems to be an
ecclesiastical explorer in search of be-
lief.
"A brittanna-ware mandatory at Meri-
den, Conn, pays $4,000 monthly for
wages.
Ex-senator Fenton is now staying In
Enterprise, Fla, where he expects to pass
the winter
The State Senate of Nebraska contains
thirteen members and employs fourteen,
officers, exclusive of the presiding officer.
When the Oodrypore Maharanah re-
ceived the Prince of Wales he wore a neck
aceless valued at 100000.
The Montreal court house is SO damp
thai the people want the contractor mopped
over the floors and then hung up to dry.
The Republicans of New Hampshire
have nominated P. G. Cheney for COVER
nor and A. Pierce for railroad commissioner.
Due notice is hereby given that we shall
pay all our bills on the 30th of FEBRUARY
this year instead of the Goth, as heretofore.
Inter- Ocean.
Richard Grant White suggests ''maris-
crpt" as good name for cable messages.
But that is needed as the technical name
of the moose paper, isn't it9
Winnie Ream pins her faith to Morton
as the coming man. She says he is already
stronger than Blaine and fast gaining on
Mr.. Brstow. Winnie is shrewd.
A New York coroner's jury has ac-
tually censured steret car company for
running over man. 1t may have been a
misprint in tho daily papers, however.
Port Huron, Mich, has furnished three
editors for Detroit.-Ralttmore Times. This
shows how things can get mixed. The tel
egram called for three hod-carriers.
Press. And got them.
So Charles o. Conor is TO recover Well,
when dozen big doctors say that fellow
must die it's aggravating to the profession
to see him sit up in bed and get away with
the leg of chicken.
The statement that Cassius M. Clay
will present his own name to the next Dem
ocratic National Convention as candidate
for Vice President does not appear to create
much of a sensation anywhere
1t was to have been expected that China
would choose her sharpest men to represent
her abroad, nor is it surprising, therefore,
that she sends one of the Pin family az
Minister to the United States.
The last words of the San Jose Aducr-
tiser were: : We entered the journalistic
field on a business proposition, and on the
same proposition we leave it. We know
when it is time to die, and we are dead"
William B. Thompson, the Arkansa
murderer, who was hung the other day, and
who kissed his hand to the ladies just pre-
vious to stepping down through the trap
was finished gentleman-in abcut two
miuutes.-St Louis Republican.
Nick Thompson, standing on scaffold
in Quitman, Alabama, with the moose
around his neck, sang the '' Ninety and
nine all through, and prayed for ten min
utes. Then he said g Let 'er CO." and the
drop fell.-Ceurier-J Journal.
The custom is that if MAIDEN proposes
to bachelor, and that bachelor declines to
entertain that proposition, that bachelor
shall buy or pay for dress to be selected
by that maiden. If it holds good, we know
of some maidens who will have dresses
boough this year to stock store as large
as Bonner's.
| The New York Times laughs at the
proposition to provide Territorial Gov.
ernment for the forty-hve white people Of
Alaska, which is the pumber it sets down
as the white population of that territory
It says it would be better to advertise Alas
ka to let.
The Chisum ranch in New Mexico. has
been sold to st. Lonis capitalist for $219,
600, the purchase including $4,000 head oi
cattle. The ranch extends from Fort Sum
ner, on the Pecos river, to seyem river, s
distance of $50 miles, and 200 herders were
employed upon it during the past summer
The Wisconsin papers are advocating
the early repeal of the law giving a bount,
of three dollars for every wolf scalp. They
allege that the sharpshooters in the far of
woods keep numerous wolf-breeding estab
lishments, and that the culture of wolves
pays better than horticulture.
The old Market Street Bridge in Phila
delphia, the destruction Of which, by fire, :
; short time ago, the people of that city wert
lamenting as national calamity, as it coult
not be rebuilt in time for the Centennial
has been rebuilt by contract by Thomas
A. Scott in jnst twenty days. The peopl,
have not recovered from their amazemen
yet.
The Legislature of Arizona made al
appropriation for representa- tion of th,
territory at the Centennial, with provision
requiring that all articles for exhibition
should be delivered at Tucson by the 1st o
December. No articles having been deliv
cred by that date, the appropriation is con
sesusntly unavailable.
The Right Center of the French Al
i sembly has nominated the Due d'Aumal
for the presidency in 1880. Five years vii
{ make a good long campaign, and, IS tht
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