The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-15
EVANGELICAL CORNER.

Nils. DoiAAdp AS staying at tIye beacn,
N. H.
Striped stockings are no longer fashion
able. .-s...-
Dress skirts are becoming longer and
tighter.
Extremely dark-colored silks will be
worn next winter.
Lace and ribbons are the favorite trim
mings just now.
Polonaises are intended to supercede
basques in the fall.
A widow has to dispense with brides
maids at her second marriage
Frosted gauze is new yelling used for
tying around the hat and throat.
/ Street dresses should measure three or
| three and quarter yards around.
| Red-headed girls in Baltimore use for
their hair lead comb, SO as to make tho
hair turn auburn.
Mrs Olphant, in the Cornhili, says -
"The real honeymoon is not always de-
! lightful moment"
Blue black or ink color seal brown and
myrtle green are the coIors most frequently
seen in the new silks.
A Vassar girl send her mite for the Gus
ter monument with these words: "Isend q
| quarter as my memory Of the man who
never asked quarter" Good pun.
The reigning belle at Cape May is red
haired girl from Cincinnati. The day is
coming when Milwaukee woman with
wart on her nose may be the heroine in q
novel.
A Virginia woman, who believes in cul.
ture and such things and has six daughters
to help her, has cultivated a farm of 200
acres for two years, and made handsome
living. Who says that culture doesn't
pay?
A few weeks since Chicago drummer
saw young lady plowing in field in Ma
coupin, Ill. He stopped and asked "When
do you begin cradling?" Not until tho
heads are better filled than yours" was the
sententious reply. --
A married man from L'Anse, Mich, at
/ Waupaca, Wis, arranged with o. pretty
Swede girl to elope with him, and gave her
5000 to purchase an outfit. She took the
money, told the scamp's wife about it, aud
went home and stayed there.
Mrs. Laura s. Webb, "widow of SOL
dier who wore the Gray" has written q
spirited and feeling poem on the death of
the gallant Custer. A brief account of
Clusters life and that of Mark Kellogg Is
appended, making tasteful little volume
which the author has entitled ''Custer's
Immortality"
Two distinguished New York lawyers
were trying a case before Justice of the
Peace the other day, when couple entered
to be married. The lawyers disputed as to
who should first kiss the bride, and agreed
finally to solve it by tossing penny They
did so and the winner kissed the bride first,
the loser having second choice. The JUS
tice and the husband had to bo satisfied
with looking on.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2.-The Globe Democrat
has letter from Rensett, Ark, detailing
some atrocities committed by a religious.
sect called Cobbites at Gum Springs, White
county. It appears that an old man named
| Cobb rules the community, and is regarded
| by his followers as Jesus, and obeyed ac-
cordingly. For some time past singular
noises have been heard at Gum Springs,
and few days ago c. D. Humphreys. of
Search, and Mr.. Blake, of El Paso, de-
telmined to ascertain the cause. They
therefore visited the locality, and as they
were passing the hut from which issued the
strange sounds, a man named Doren, and
one of the Cobbites, accosted them, saying
''God was in tine hut and invited them to
enter and see him. They alighted from
their buggy, and Humphreys was at once
seized by four men and Blake by four wo-
men. Blake broke loose from his captors.
and ran about hundred yards, when on
looking back he saw the men cutting Hum
phreys to pieces with long knives. He
| hastened town, reported the case, and a
party of citizens at once started FOR the
scene of murder On arriving at the
Springs, they found Humphreys head cut
off and stuck on the fence paling. A boy
riding by had been compelled to get off his
horse, bow to the head three times and ut
ter prayer A parley ensued betweenthe
leader of the citizens, j. C.. Black, and
Doren, of tie Cobbites, during which the
latter took Humphreys head fron, the fence
: several times, shook it back and forth and
, replaced it on the paling, at the same time
, ordering the citizens to leave. At last
Doren and his crowd advanced on Black
and his party in threatening manner, and
: the latter fred upon them, killing two men
+ and wornding others. The remaining four
! men, four women and two children were ar
} rested and taken to Jail. The other Cobb
i ties were arrested and taken to Search.
. There was great excitement among tho
3 people, and lynching was threatened The
!, next day preliminary examination was
1 held, and all the parties released. They
4 talked necessarily about their religion, and
t there seemed to be little doubt they were
n all crazy from the effects of religious ex-
: citement and starvation.
Sr. LOUIS, Sept 2.-Later advices from
Arkansas say the coroner's inquest held on
the body of Humphreys returned verdict
that L. B. and J. M. Dover Thomas, Gain
: ley, J. and Elizabeth Nelson, were principals,
! and John Clenentine and Lee Dover, ae-
{ cessories. L. B. Dover and Thomas Gain
:, ley were killed by the possee making the
'.l arrest Old Cobb escaped to the woods,
!. and at last accounts was not captured. To
z appears that Cobb came from Michigan
"a where he taught his atrocious doctrines un-
4 til driven out. He first settled in South
: eastern Missouri, where he made a ftsp
: converts, and it is said offered up i7lffstIs,