The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-10-26
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
Hayes is worth S750,00O
Ivan Ivanivitch is John johnson.

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Blue James William expects to suc-
ceed Hayes.
MIR. H. w. Longfellow, the poet, pays
So, ,653 as taxes.
The smallest of Mars moons is bigger
than David Davis.
Toy balloons in Paris are decorated
with portraits of Theirs.
The Indians now call Conkling the
Man-not-afraid-o of-his- MilIiner.
Gen. Babcock's real estate in Wash
ington is valued at a half million.
-Thirty-five hundred men are at work
on the extension of the Kansas Central
road.
From 1920 to the end of 1876 there ar
rived in this country over $500, 900 immi-
grants.
Edwin Adams is very low. He weighs
less than ninety pounds and his sight is
failing. -...--
Another negro has been sent to the
Kentucky Penitentiary for 90 years fer
murder.
Col. Robert E. Ingersoll, of Illinois,
will remove to Washington this winter to
practice law.
Swearing on the Bible was introduced
into judicial proceedings by the Saxons
1900 years ago.
The Pope has finished his " Memoirs -
and locked them up until he shall have been
dead for 10 years.
The Journals of Rome state that NJ.
Renan, author of the "Life of Jesus" is
staying in that city.
A Paris comic paper has been suspend
cd for printing a picture of Gambetta hold
ing his sides laughing.
= The Pope has been contemporary with
all the Presidents, being seven years old
when Washington died.
A dispatch says the Buenos floods
drowned 1o,o0o,00o sheep. We doubt
wether it's true though, don't eve?
Eggs are kept fresh for years in Scot
land by rubbing them with oil or butter
when newly laid, SO as to stop the pores.
Red River land thathas been in culti-
vation 100 years, produces ears Of corn
eighteen inches long and ten in circumfer-
ence.
The Dubuque Times thinks that the
abolishment Of the death penalty for mur-
der has contributed to the increase of crime
and of lynching.
Mr.. Dalrymple, the great Minnesota
farmer, cultivates 5000 acres of land He
raises nothing but wheat. His profits this
year will be $50,00O.
Senator Mortons father and grand
father are said to have died from paralysis,
and he has sister whom the same disease
has rendered perfectly helpless.
AN English writer says that the Rus
slams fill their commissioned Offices of the
army with men of high birth instead of
with humbly born ability.
1t is promised that Senator Newton
Booth, the George William Curtis of Cali
fornia, will make an attack upon the posi-
ton of Mr.. Gorham, the Secretary of the
Senate.
Senator Blaine, George William Cur
tbs, Governor CASTOR, Edward E. Hale, |
Senator Sharon and Wayne MacVeagh are
among wel-known men who have SONS at |
Harvard,
Major G. C. sniffen, who has been con-
nected with the Executive Mansion at i
Washington for dozen years, has been re-
lieved from duty there and transferred to !
the paymaster Generals office.
Martini, the Hungarian rifle inventor.
founded his idea upon an American inyen- I
tion. Henry, who made combination for |
the English. was the Edinburgh gun-maker. !
The Turks use the Martini Henry rife.
in the boxing matches Of the Russians |
each of the adversaries stands up and re-
ceives blows, the merit being ascertained |
by the number of bruises man may re-
ceive without asking for quarter. No skill,
but endurance.