The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-08-11
NEW NOR'-WES1 ERS.

Bishop Gil Haven is going to Liberia
Nearly one thousand Indians still liYe
in Florida.
Moving for new trial-Courting a
second wife.
"A Western settler-The contents of a
six-shooter.
Gov. Tilden is bachelor, with mill
ions Of money.
Sitting Bulls pure Indian name is TIA
tonha Otehka."
"A Florida tramp fiddler drives his
rounds in a buggy.
MIR. Bristow will shortly resume the
| practice oflaw in Louisville.
Eighty tons of fresh meat from New
every, week.
| - Ge-srae~ uayss, vf OHIO, c1.s-s int :.
possession last year of fortune estimated
at $75o,oOO
When the campaign lie-nailer begins
his work, this country will resound like a
boiler factory.
August Belmont has accepted the Of
fee Of treasurer for the Herald Custer
monument fund.
-"Pa," said little fellow to his I'M
shaven father, "your chin looks like the
wheel of the music box.''
A small boy could not see the necessity
of repeating history lesson, having been
told that history repeats itself.
The swiftest regular trains between
Washington and Baltimore run forty-two
miles of the distance in fifty minutes.
The Chinese in the Sandwich Islands
number 1000, and they have introduced
leprosy, which threatens to exterminate the
Kanakas.
If you have anything to do it is better
to do it at once and take your rest after
ward than take your rest first and put your
duty off.
There are very few men in this world,
this naughty world, who as Wordsworth
says,
Can hear the decalogue and feel no self-rcproach.
An Illinois editor has struck upon
novel idea. When he finds ali item going
around without credit and he wants to re-
publish it, he gives credit to Shakespeare
and goes ahead.
"A very singular coincidence is reported
from Pulaski. New York. James Clark,
aged 70, and his wife, were born died and
were buried on the same days, both being
killed by cancers.
In Ireland only 6s, 75s persons out of
5, 409, 435 own any land at all, and of these
only 80, 614 have more than an acre, the re-
mainder owning among them all oEly 9,065
acres, chiefly house property.
The Paris Exhibition of 1878 will cover
Trocadero Heights and the Champ de Mars
and these places, separated by the river
will be connected by two bridges across the
Seine. Paris has voted $24, 900, 600 for i'm
provements.
In the river at Menominee, Michigan,
is to be seen pile of logs an eighth of
mile wide, fifteen to thirty feet deep, and
three miles long, which the water has
crowded into every conceivable position.
They are worth 81 log.
1t wasn't great feat for Bayard Tay-
lor to recite his centennial ode from mem
orY. The Cincinnati Commercial says he
has marvellous memory, like that of
Macauley, and could recite famous poems
all day, without reference to the books, as
perfectly as if reading from the printed
page.
We view with alarm and disgust
probable revival of the Beecher coDtro-
versy in all its revolving forms. While we
recognize the right to seek redress in the
courts for real or imaginary grievances, we
still regret that there is no secret tribunal
where the very dirty linen of modern soci-
ETY. can be washed out of sight of all who
admire the good and pure.-New York
Herald, July 23d
-" Look here, squire, where was yeou
born ?" said persistent Yankee to a five
minutes acquaintance. 81 was born"
said the victim, ''in Boston, fremont
street, No. "A, left-hand side, on the first
day of August, 1920, at FIVE o'clock in the
afternoon physician, DR.. Warren nurse,
Sally Benjamin" Yankee was answered
completely. For moment he was struck,
Soon, however, bis face frightened, and he
quickly said, g Yeas waal, calculate you
don't recollect whether it was frame or a
brick building, dew YEP"
General Sherman has replied in letter
to Mr.. Tappan, Indian Peace Commissioner
in 1868, to Wendell Phillips letter, which |
the General says was never aeceived by
him, only written at him and published in |
a new York paper. He calls the letter
fabrication, and impudent at that, there
never having been any acquaintance or cor
between them. The General
denies that he ever favored the extermina-
tion of the Indians, in whose behalf he has
often exerted himself, or that any officer or
soldier Of the army has desired the wanton
destruction of human life. However strong |
this statement may seem, it is easy to be-
lieve the closing one, that never were the |
Indians better controlled or nrOtectad than /