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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
A Large Bolt.

One Of the largest leather belts in the
world was recently made in England FOR a
large cotton spinning mill in Bolton. This
belt, made Of the best English leather, is
8 feet inches in width, and 80 feet in
length double or two tliicknesses without
q single cross joint from end to end, and of
equal thickness throughout. The belt is
for driving direct from the fly wheel of Tho
engine. and to transmit $50 indicated horse
power. The same establishment recently
manufactured two other double belts, each
20 inches vide. driving eliress from the fly
wheel Of the engine. The driving pulley is
% feet In diameter. and feet on the face,
cron,ed or turned mp for the two belts,
which tfav. through 800 feet per minute,
transmitting Gu0 indicated horse power.
Sacli belting is claimed to be particularly
adapted for driving, and has the advantage
Of running perfectly straight.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
Hiram Woodruff's Advice About Driving
Fast Horses.

People talk about steady, bracing pull !;
but, in my opinion, that is not the right
way to drive trottcr. There is a great
difference between letting go of your horses
head aud keeping mp one dull, deadening
pull all the time. The pull should be sufi-
cient to feel the mouth, SO as to give the
horse confidence to get UP to his stride.
More than that is mischievous. To keep
the mouth alive the bit must be changed
occasionally. But this is not to be done by
pull of the hand on the rein. A mere
half turn of the wrist, or less than half
turn, by which the thumb is elevated and
the little finger is lowered, is sufficient to
shift the bit, keep the mouth sensitive and
rouse the horse. The reins are to be stead
lily held with both hands while this play
with the wrist is made and it is, of course,
only to be done with one wrist at time.
The hands should be well down; and the
driver ought not to sit all of a heap, with
his head forward. Neither should he lean
back, with his bodily weight on the reins,
which, in that case, are made sort of stay
for him. He should be upright, and what
pulling he must do should be done by the
muscular force of his arms. The driver
who depends upon the arms has command
of the horse; he who substitutes bodily
weight, with the reins wrapped around his
hands, has not half command of the horse,
or of himself either; and, if the horse is a
puller, he will soon take command of the
driver. The reason of it is that there is no
intermission of the exertion, no let-up
either for man or horse. Besides, in that
way of driving, it is impossible to give
those movements to the bit which seems to
refresh and stimulate the horse so much.
When horse has been taught the signifi-.
canoe of the movement of the bit, the shift
by the turn of the wrist, he will never fail
to answer it, even though he should seem
to be at the top of his speed. The mo-
nient he feels this little move of the bit in
his sensitive mouth, hc will collect himself
and make another squirt, and the value of
this way of driving is that the horse is not
likely to break when called upon, while a
high-strung generous horse if called upon
for a final effort with the whip is as likely
to break the moment it falls unon him as
not. have won many very close heat
by practicing this movement, and, therefor
have no hesitation in recommending 1t. It
is not difficult to acquire, and the horse
soon comes to know what it means.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
Disrae,i as a Peer.


The elevation of Premier Disraeli to the
peerage, with the title of Earl of Beacons-
field, has been briefly announced by cable.
In 1869 the Queen offered to make him
yiscount, but he declined the honor. A
coronet, however, was given to his wife,
and she is now known to history as the
first and only Countess of Beaconsfield.
The place from which the name of the
Earldom is to be taken is small town in
the County of Bucks, which Disraeli has
represented in Parliament since 1S46. The
elevation of Disraeli has an interest all its
own, derived from the antecedents OF the
man and the nature of the contest he has
SO successfully waged through life. He
entered life with an excellent education, an
acute mind, and a courage that feared
nothing. But he was not merely without
social influence and without great wealth,
but he was opposed by prejudice as old
as Christianity. His grandfather was
Spanish Jew, who accumulated compe-
tency in trade and died, leaving his name
and his money, but nothing more TO MS
children. Isaac Disraeli, the Earfs father,
added nothing to the fortune which had
been bequeathed to him, and, although
making for himself an honorable place in
the literary annals of England, did nothing
to advance his son among the politicians OF
the period. Without the aid of wealth or
family prestige, and by his sole unaided
genius and energy, Benjamin Disraeli has
made himself leader of the House of Conn
mons, Minister of Finance. and twice Prime
Minister of the British Empire and now,
in his seventy-first year, retires from the
leadership Of the House of Commons to an
aristocratic dignity which he is well calcu-
lated to adorn.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
GOING 70 THE BLACK HILLS.
A Montana Party Attacked by Indians.
Bismarck Tribune, Aug. 10Th.

| Bismarck Tribune Aug 18th.
Joseph Pennell, Chas. Thompson, the
Kittridge Brothers, Henry Dion, Julias
Hewes and about twenty others arrived
from the Black Hills, eight days out from
Crook City, yesterday. The train left the
Hills on the 7th. When in camp the first
| night about "A. NJ, they were alarmed by
MIR. Brackatt who was on guard, and noti-
fled that the Indians were in the vicinity,
and about this time the Indians turned
loose on the boys fearful volley of leaden
hail, evidently intended to at least stampede
the stock. Frank Fague, Minnesota boy,
was severely wounded in the feet at the
first fire. The fire was kept up for some
minutes, when they made dash for the
stock and stampeded team belonging to
Chas. Thompson, but the horses were after
wards recovered. The Indians were driven
off, however, and did not make their ap-
pearance again until about sunrise, when
they again fired few shots, but soon gave
up their attempt to surround the party, but
continued to harrass them for some time.
At the crossing of the Moreau, on the even
ing of the 9th, the party came upon an OK
team and wagon and two men belonging to
Montana party who had driven all night
in au effort to overtake the main party who
had gone ahead. They camped at the
Moreau about a A. NJ, and while engaged in
preparing their breakfast, three Indians
come upon them and pretending to be
friendly the boys admitted them to their
camp. Presently two others made their
appearance and laying down their guns
some distance off were admitted to camp.
Two others with rifles and mounted ap-
preached, when things began to look seri-
GUS, and Joe Russell, one of the party, OBJ
jected and ordered the Indians to leave,
particularly as they had been insolent in
their demands for gifts. Rose and Muggins
prepared for fight by forming barricade.
w. N. Phelps advanced to the knoll for OBJ
servations, when the Indians fred upon him
and killed him. Rose and Muggins stood
the party off until late in the afternoon
when, fortunately, Pennell's party arrived
and relieved them from their unpleasant
position and they returned to Bismarck with
them. Phelps was of the Travis mining
district, Montana. His body was buried
about two miles this side of the Moreau.
The Indians were dressed in army blue and
were evidently from the hostiles, and were
travelling in the direction Of the Cheyenne
Agency. They numbered about fifty and
had large number of horses with them.
The boys had no further trouble with the
Indians after this skirmish though they
were frequently in sight.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
A Stage Kiss.

The other night at the imperial opera,
Vienna. a handsome tenor, Bastiano Wild
mann, having to kiss the soprano, Signori-
ma Giovanni, in Lortzing's opera of the
z Armourer, THAT lady, the rehearsal re-
quested him to SNAKE believe in the cor
rect Viennese manner. When the proper
moment came at the first performance the
handsome tenor plumply and resonantly
kissed the astonished soprano upon her
rosy lips. Signorina after tine curtain fell,
went in pretty rage TO the manager and
complained. The manager sent for the
handsome tenor and requested him 10 re.
strain his ardor. When the second repre-
sentation took place, Signoiina Giovanni,
distressing him, exclaimed, loud enough fol
the house to hear,
II viii excuse you from the kiss. y
/ The handsome tenor, incensed at the in
suit, responded in a stage whisper,
Thank sod for that. Who wants Il
kiss such an old thing ~
The house sat appalled,. Sign0rina lio
yanni tionneed OF the stage aad the hand
some tenor has been bidden to apologize ii
abscond.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
OUI WEST.

Mrs. Mccormick, who murdered her hus-
band at Astoria, Oregon, on the 9th ult.,
was on Friday sentenced to the Penitentia-
ry for life. She made an open confession
and acknowledged having committed the
murder.
Louis Albisner paid $500 for the use of
the California theatre and its company for
oae night. He was an amateur, ,desirous of
acting g Hamlet" The house was crowded
and his venture proved pecuniary success;
but artistically he was failure.
Small pox has broken out in our town,
several persons now having the disease, and
new cases being reported every day. The
physicians say that it is mild and not
continent form, yet as contagious as though
Of the confident form. m.--DeGdsoood Pioneer
A dispatch from Albany, Oregon, dated
August 90, says: Americus Savage, an old
and respected falmer residing near Shedd
Station, arose early yesterday morning, left
on his table letter Of farewell and instruc-
tions to his family, passed into his orchard,
hung his hat and vest on an apple tree, lay
down. spread blanket over himself, placed
pistol against bis right temple and pro
duccd instant death. He wrote that dread
of consumption prompted the act.
Jack Langrishe's theatre at Deadwood is
proving very remuneratiye. It has seat
ing capacity for about $40 persons, com
modions stage and dressing rooms. The
company is playing ''The Streets Of New
York." and just as the charcoal burning
suicide scene is reached, and the heroine y
rescued Just in the nick Of time, young
woman, clad in yellow silk trimmed IN
bright green, and seated upon the front
settee. cleared her mouth Of its cargo OF to-
bacco Juice, and cried in disdainfnl tones
that were perfectly audible all over the
house, sOh, hill that's = put up JOB q
There was momentary lull, followed by .
howl Of laughter, Id which even the dying
actresses were forced to join.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
",DoLCE FAR NIENTE."

My friend, my chum, my trusty crony!
We were designed, it seems to me,
To be two happy lazzaroni,
On sunshine fed and maccaroni,
Far off by some Sicilian sea.
From dawn to eve in the happy land,
No duty on us but to lie
Straw-hatted ON the shining sand,
With bronzing chest and arm, and hand
Beneath the blHe Italian sky.
There, with the mountains idly CHASING
Their purple splendors in the sea-
To watch the white-winged vessels passing,
fortunes for buster fools amassing),
This were heaven to you and me!
Our merchants coloring cloudy brown,
Two young girls coloring with blush,
The blue waves with a silver crown,
The mountain shadows dropping down,
And all the air in perfect hush;
Thus should we lie in the happy land,
Nor fame, nor power, nor fortune miss;
Straw-hatted on the shining sand,
With bronzing chest, and arms. and hand
Two loafers couched in perfect bliss!
Charles G. HGlpln
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
THE LARGEST
First Class Hotel in the Territory

Having secured a lease for long term of
years of this large and commodious house,
/ have renovated. refurnished and embel-
lished it's roomy parlors and elegant suits
of rooms, and no expense or pains will be
spared to continue to improve and keep it
on first class principles. The tables are
supplied with the very best the markets
afford and the delicacies of the season. At
tendance unexceptionable. Terms, reason
able. 322.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
POETRY.
UP HILL.


Up hill-but up to light,
AS recompense for all the wayside toilr,
In climbing out of night
To win from struggling life immortal spoils.
Up hill-but up to peace,
The land forever tranquil and serene,
Where tears and sorrows cease
And no dark wave of troubling care is seen
Up hill--but up to bliss,
To be forever free from stains of sin,
When earth's last good night kiss
Becomes the seal of Heavens glad welcome in
Up hill but up to life
A life which never wearies nor grows old,
Unyexed by care and strife;
Immortal in the shining upper fold.
Up hill-but to my home.
To father and the dear ones of my love!
A stranger here roam,
But still press up to that high home above!
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
" Handsome Race Discovered by Stan
ley in Africa

In one Of his letters to the New York
Herald, II. III. Stanley writes From one
of the many spurs of Kabugo we obtained
passing glimpse of the king mountain,
Gambaragara, which attains au altitude of
between 13, 600 and Is, 600 feet above the
ocean. Snow is frequently seen, though
not perpetual. On its summit dwell the
chief medicine men of Kabba Rega, peo-
pie of EuropeaL complexion. Some half
dozen of these people have seen, and at
sight of them ] was reminded of what
Mukamba, King Of Uzige, told Livingstone
and myself respecting white people who
live far north Of his country. They are q
handsome race, and some of the women are
singularly beautiful. Their hair is kinky,
but inclined to brown in color. Their feat
ures are regular, lips. thin, but their noses,
though well shaped, ..arc somewhat thick
at the point. Several of their descendants
are scattered throughout Unyoro, Ankori
Ruanda, and the royal family Of the latter
powerful country, are distinguished, I am
told, by their pale complexions. The Queen
of Sasua Islands, in the Victoria Niyanza,
is descendent of this tribe. Whence came
this singular people have had no means Of
ascertaining except from the Waganda,
who say that the first king of Unyoro gave
them the land around the base of Gam
balagara mountain, wherein through many
vicissitudes they have lived for centuries.
On the approach of an invading host they
retreat to the summit of the mountain, the
intense cold of which defies the most de-
termined.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS,
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

ROUND GROVE, Macon Co., Mo-, Aug 0.
Please give us the correct popular vote
for the various candidates for President in
1860. J. r. w.
Asssoer. Lincoln, 1908. .725; Douglas,
1875, 157; Breckinridge, s47,95s; Bell,
500, 631.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-08
The Backward Habit of the Japanese

The Japanese habit of reversing every
| thing, if we may regard our own ways of
doing as the proper ways, is very curious
| and in some of its details very interesting.
Mr.. Griffis, in his work ON Japan, discusses
it thus:
"Another man is planning. He pulls the
plane toward him. I notice blacksmith
at work. He pulls the bellows with his
feet, while he is holding and hammering
with both hands. He has several irons in
the fire, and keeps his dinner pot boiling
with the waste fame. His whole family,
like the generations before him, seem to sall
get their living in the hardware line.' The
cooper holds his tub with his toes. All of
them sit down while they work. How
strange Perhaps that is an important diff
ference between European and an Asiatic.
One sits down TO his work, the other stands
up to it. Why is it that we do things con-
trariwise to the Japanese: Are we upside
down, or they? The Japanese say that we
are reversed. They call our penmanship
crab writing because, say they, it goes
backward The lines in cur books cross
the page like crawfish, instead OF going
downward properly In a Japanese stable
we find the horses's flank where we look for
his head. Japanese screws screw the other
way. Their locks thrust to the left, ours to
the right. The baby toys of the Aryan
race squeak when squeezed the Turanian
simoraeIzs omit noise when pulled apart. A
Caucasian, to injure his enemy, kills him !;
Japanese kills himself to spite his foe.
Which race is left-handed? Which has the
negative, which the positive of truth !?
What is truth? What is down? What is
up?''
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DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Authorized Capital. $500, ,ooo
Paid Up CAPITAL l................ 100, 900.
Permanent Surplus Fund ..........-..-.. $50000.00
Dividend maid March A. 1S74........... 10000 90
Average Deposits proceeding six months 4S5 900 W
Invested in u. S. Bonds. ................. sl40O0O0
We transact general Banking business, and buy, at
highest rates. Gold Dust Cein. Gold and Silver Bull
lion, and Local Securities; Sell Exchange and Tele-
States, the Canadas Great Britain, Ireland and the
Continent. COLLECTIONS made and proceeds remitted
promptly. Our facilities for handling
SILVER ORES particularly good, and this
branch of business will receive special attention.
Cash advances made upon Ores, and same shipped for
account OF owners. OR WE WILL BUY FOR
CASH at the very best rates allowable. Owners OF
mines will consult their interests by calling upon u.s.
275 ...
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WATERMAN, ILL.,, Aug. z.

/. Last fall copied an article from the
Dixon Telegraph which contains the follow
ing by Prof. Rudolph And thus he (the
sun) continues his restless march through
his mighty orbit, having period of more
than 1900, ooo years" What do you
think of his statement? 3. Describe the
great maelstrom off the coast of Norway |?
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-29

In November, of the year prior to
our visit, a cloud had burst upon the
summit of this mountain. Where it
struck, it excavated the earth and
stones to the depth of four feet and
to the width of thirty feet, and
scoped out track down the side Of
the mountain, plainly visible to the
naked eye = miles away. The wa
ter rushed down in torrents, flooded
the creeks and damaged somewhat
of the fences and other improvements
of the settlers in the valley. We
descended the track of this cloud
burst about 100 yards and then struck
out for the trail we had come up,
which, after an hours rolling and
tumbling and scratching in the chap
arral, we reached almost shoelcss and
exhausted. Once IN the trail, de-
scending was an easy matter. EN-
NETT, always slower and more delib-
crate than |, Jagged behind. I had
been at the hotel an hour or more,
when he came in. He had little
adventure. Lost the trail, got into
the thick brush and f1oundercd like
a small dog in high rye, finally max
ing an exit, he appeared looking as
though the gcnii of old Tamalpais
had been tod much for him. A
hearty dinner soon put his good-hu-
mored face on, and after we had
rested until three o'clock, took pas
sage on wagon for Saucilita. We
had had enough of foot travel for
once and felt thankful to the man
who invented wagons. We arrived.
at San Francisco at 6 o'clock, foot
sore, tired, hungry and tanned, and
the comforts or civilization wcic bet
ter appreciated on the following Sun
day than they had been since we came
off the Boundry Line Survey in Ida
no seven months before.
w. B. d.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-29
W.. B. d.

A Correspondent writing to tho
Portland JoMnal from the Big Camas
Prairie 90 miles above Lewiston, says
under date of December sS, 1875;
ave have bad one of the finest VIM
tcrs SO far that has ever been wit
messed i'll this country. Stock of cv-
cry kind are fat and look well. Stock
cattle are very cheap, ranging from
$S to prs per head by the band.
Horses are a grade higher" Quite
a number of stock raiscrs have settled
in the Big Cama> Prairie, which is
about forty miles long and eighteen
or twenty miles wide. Last June
the County scat was moved by vote
of the people from Lewiston to Mt.
Idaho, town on the cast side of the
prairie. At this time last year the
winter was unprcceslcntedly severe
on the prairie, as it was in every 9TH
cr part of the surrounding country.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-29

The JournMl furnishes an account
of a man calling himself Dennis Fchr
who committed suicide in the Eugene
city Jail by hanging with woolen
scarf recently. He had been COM
mittcd for obtaining goods under
false prctenscs. Seemed to be very
much afraid his past history would
be discovered, in view of which he is
supposed to have suicided.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-29

The recent notice of the death Of
Miss Mary +. Coombs of Portland
was forgery and fraud. The
young lady is alive and well, and it
is needless to say dcprccatcs this pc
culiar style Of notoriety.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-29

That was a vain ambition of those
San Franciscans who paid $I7o pre-
miums for the privilege of occupying
box seats on the opening night of
Wadc's new Opera house recently.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-29

Yakima City, w. r., has a popu-
lation of over two hundred. 1t has
two stores, two saloons, and the
other establishments that usually go
to make up small village.
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