The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-12-08

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deposed Vilagrans, collector, and restored
Caballar, who was removed some months
ago. Many Mexicans have entered Lower
California from this State and taken the
side Of Moreno. ..r4s -r....r
The census of Massachusetts, just pub
lished. gives some curious and suggestive
| statistics. The excess of unmarried women
over unmarried men is not SO great as COM
monty thn,sght, the two classes standing
| males 449, 3U7 and females 45S, ,285, an ex-
cess of 8,97s females. OF married men
there ase 321, ,730 to 323, 515 married women
an excess of 1, ,785 in favor of the ladies, and
there are 20,624 widowers to 73, ,527 widows,
not including Gen. Butler. Figures like
these suggest the horrible possibility that
polygamy is practiced to considerable ex-
tent in what is certainly not the love, honor,
and o-Bay State. There are only 900 di-
vorced males to i, III divorced females, and
all this in State which has a population of
only /, ,651, ,912.
The remains of Baron Won Palm are to be
cremated at Washington, Pa, within the
next fortnight, by the Theosophists, and
this will be the second cremation ever wit
messed in the United States, although one
besides was attempted and interfered with
some years ago, the cremator being pagan.
Washington is fine little place for the
work, and they have there a high place of
ill-omen known as Gallows Hill, where
witch and warlock are said to hold reyel at
night, where the pyre might be erected
most conspicuosly. The body is to be
placed into reverberatory furnace, but
will become usedto jostling if the old stage
road is the only way of reaching the town
from Pittsburg, as it was very few years
ago. Graphic.
In this hour ofanxiety and national humil-
iation, when there is bitter controversy
over the question whether the people of
"the great Republic have elected Pres
ident, and if SO which one, our misery finds
company in the similar dilemma which af-
ficts our model Western empire of Dom
Pedro. In the absence of its sovereign, and
while the realm is being ruled after the
Catholic fashion by his devout daughter,
the people of Brazil have held an election,
and are now contesting the result. The
Liberals have gained on their adversaries,
the Church party, in the House of Depu-
ties but there are charges of fraud, recrim-
nations, disclosures of repeating" going
behind the ruturns, and every concomitant
of an election frenzy, even to battles at
three or four polls and the killing Of doz-
en- men. Here is our hand, Dom Pedro
Graphic.
The trial of the 100-ton Armstrong gun,
made for the italian government, was emil
nently successful. A ball fred with Bal
pounds Of powder attained the velocity OF
1900 feet per second, smashed solid wrought
iron plates % inches thick, and completely
pierced the strong 30-inch backing of the
target, the resistance Of which is supposed
to equal the sides of the great Italian IRON
clad Diulis, and had velocity enough re-
naming to have smashed the other side of
the ship, and would have carried complete
ruin into her interior. An equal charge
completely demolished the soft steel plates
of schneidar's manufacture, but did not
penetrate the backing, though it is stated
the shock would have SO shaken the struc-
ture of vessel like the Diulis as to cause
leak.
The brightness of the lamps in the light
houses of our coast frequently produce
great destruction among the birds. As
they fly along the beach in the gloom of
evening, or seek the shelter of the land
when the ocean breezes blow too strong for
their comfort or pleasure, they are dazzled
by the brilliancy of the lights in the towers
and frequently fly blindly against the glass
of the building, crushing and breaking
their bones, and often killing them instant
ly. On Wednesday evening vast numbers
flew against the tower at Maryport and
were killed, or SO badly bruised that they
erawled away to die. It is said one of the
swept off in the morning six
hundred dead birds from the top of the
tower, and that many others were scattered
on the ground at it's feet.-JacksonoSl1e
Union.