The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-11-24
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REGULAR CoRREsroNDENoE New NORTH WEST,
ssar ssH NEW YORK, Nov. z, 1876.
,n s AUTUMN FASHIONS. 5s4gf
Forms of dress never were more graceful
and seldom more convenient than they are
| the present season. The old style of dress,
with waist and skirt IN one, is happily re-
turned, taking the weight of the. drapery
off the hips, and putting it on the shoulders
where it belongs, boon for which women
viii return earnest thanks. Then the style
is more becoming to all save very tall fig
ures, for it shows the length of the form,
and gives woman the advantage of her
full height, which American women at
least need, as tall figures are not so com
| mon here as abroad. Elaborate trimmings
are discarded-those used having some
meaning-as borders and relief to gar
Emeht, instead Of covering and hiding it's
Outlines. The nantes worn are long and
flowing, the heightened Dolman, the scarf
mantle and long circular for ladies past
youth, and close looking, easy-fittlng long
sacques for jauntier figures. yigf.lsss>ags
/ The long princess dress appears on the.
street with large fichu of wool, with deep
fringe in shades like the dress, crossed neg
ligently on the breast, the long ends flung
behind, making a most graceful addition
the close lines of this becoming habit.
Polonaises of the latest cut are gored in the
back without. fulness, the extreme length
caught in festoons low ON the skirt. The
long street7sacque, to be really, stylish,
should be worn without overskirt to the
dress. The most unpretending street suits
are pretty, with the graceful lines of the.
French sacque, hanging loose from the
throat, over silk vest, facings, pockets,
sleeves and cuffs, and Of the same silk
finished with dropping bows. The style of
having silk sleeves sistoo pretty, to begiven
up at the immediate dictate Of fashion.
Velvet sleeves, pockets and vests will be
worn in costumes for cooler weather, and
the jauntiest, little, old-fashioned bonnets
IN velvet are coming out to wear with them.
The business outlook is tolerably good, but
there has been lull which the jobbers do.
| not like. .a9aHrF s.g aIt 4a4baiaui tfya1Ea -
shoK es'Ii - STOKES. 59a9tua1 az,1a !,
/ I saw the murdererof Jim Fisk on the
street Yesterday. The last time I saw him
he was in the prisoners dock, a strong,
ark-haired, defiant young man, who looked
as though nothing earthly could break
him. But his years of imprisonment have
changed. him sadly. His hair is gray, his
form has lost the elasticity that made him
an observed man on the streets, and he.
looks twenty years older than he did five
years ago. He has not had much work to
do, and had as good fare in his prisons as
though Delmonico had supplied his table.
But confinement, the worry and fret OF
prison life has broken him, and it is doubt
full if he eversFegains Ibis impaired man
hood. Still, he is as gamey as man can
be. He proposes to 60 into business at
once, and rebuild his shattered fortunes.
While in Sing Sing he purchased the right
to manufacture an asphaltum pavement,
which he believes to be d necessity in all
large cities, and he has already conmeneed
to introduce it into New York. Possibly
he may yet ride the city as successfully as
Tweed did. It cost him $500, 600 to escape
tho gallows, which stripped him entirely.
His career makes very pretty moral lesson
for young men. An illicit attachment for
dspraved woman cost him the murder of
man and every dollar Of a large fortune,
and leaves him in middle life naked, with
broken constitution and reputation
that will bar every effort he can make
among good men. Stokes has paid. very
dearly for his whistle. a44H ~ ao.t
fia.agaA .ai INSURANCE. .Ala g5lt
The Continental has gone up hopelessly,
and as matter of course all the insurance
companies are feeling the effect of it.
Sharpers are taking advantage of the nerv-
BUSINESS of policy holders to blackmail the
other companies, and to some extent they
succeed, but in Others they don't. The
United States met them at the threshold,
and answered them by publishing to the
world their regular statement, and not only
refused to pay a dollar, but demanded the
most rigid Investigation of their affairs. ffa
9th sr sound companies did the same thing
and the result is the scare is nearly over.
Life insurance is SO widely diffused, and is
of so much importance, to- all classes Of
people, that the man who, would deliber--
.ately for his own purposes get up founda-.
tionless panic, ought to be hung 70 thn
nearest lamp-post.1 There are large nvln-
ber of shaky companies that never had any
claim to public confidence that these times
will take .undery and they ought to go.
under, but the deserving, honestly man
aged. sound companies, ought to be stood
by all the lcloser.H szsF rt5gi.. r. assQ1 j
--srq 500 5sA BRIDE ssoUTFIT. asfliI
IRA fashionable dressmakerl in this city is
now furnishing the bridal outfit for Mich
igan girl, which is something worth seeing
these hard times. OF course papa is very.
rich man. and SO he can afford his daughter,
on the occasion of her wedding, seventeen
dresses; the one she is to be married in is
of heavy white silk embroidered with,
white Jet, and decorated with fringes. of
orange blossoms. Then there are Inantles,.
and opera eloaksg and allthatsort of thing,
to say nothing of thea4 under clothing
which rivals the dress for elegance. Moth
Ing less expensive than silk ia used aud the
,,nf5eruaru,aysfs. dnvsa To the stockings and