The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-07-19
NEW NOR -wESTERs.

than free schools.
Senator David Davis is now said to be
the real "Man on Horseback.
Grain has gone up 6 cents pound in
Silver City, Idaho, within week.
The salmon fisheries of the Columbia
river have met with poor success this year.
Hewitt contributed $fOo. 600 to Tilden's
bar'l in 1875, and Tilden hasn't paid it
back.
The first white woman who went to
Texas. Mrs. Jane Long, is still living in
that State.
The President, at the solicitation of
Senator Booth, is thinking Of California
trip for September.
Jules Verne, the biggest liar on earth,
when Eli Perkins is dead, is yachting on
the coast of Portugal.
Indians will never remain on peace
footing so long as they can ride on stolen
cavalry horses.-Picayune.
1t would have been money in Stanley
Matthews pocket if he had used the kind of
ink that fades after five days.
Augusta (Ga) Chronicle (Dem. ):-It
looks as if there was a formidable move
mept to organize third party.
The Galveston Neacs editor, it is de-
clared. sits quietly at home. smokes his
pipe, and edits his paper by telephone.
The Detroit Free Press says that sena-
tor Howe and Matt Carpenter are both in
the lists for Senatorial nomination in Wis
consin.
Hon. J. d. Cox, of Ohio, has peremp-
torily declined denomination to Congress
on account of the nature of his business re-
lations.
Fine printing paper is now made from
the white ends of asparagus. It will not
be so unpleasant to eat ones own words as
it used to be.
-" Neal & Pray, Publishers and Book
binders. A Speciality made of Religious
Publications. is the sign over the door of
a Williamsburg q. l. firm.
The man out of an Office thinks he can
hold it little better than the man who is
in. To make the people believe that is the
sum and substance of political science.
The new Pope insists on wearing scar-
let clothing throughout. and some wicked
newspaper will suddenly nickname him
"The Red Man of the Vatican"
DIR. James c. Aver, the celebrated pat
ent medicine proprietor, died at a private
asylum of softening of the brain. Aver |
was about so years of age. His estate is
probably worth from SIS, 900, 900 to $780,
900, 900.
The question of compelling employers |
to insure their servants against accidents |
incident TO the nature of their labor is dis |
cussed in England. This system has been
in operation in German mining works for
many years.
"A whist proverb "For want of a
leading trump the trick was lost, and for
want of a trick the game was lost, and for
want of a game the rubber was lost, and
and for want Of the rubber the temper was
lost, and for want of the temper the friend
was lost
A new publication, to be called the
Poets Journal, and devoted exclusively to
original poems, will make its appearance
at Burlington, VT, in short time. The
editor expects to make enough money to
keep his paper going by selling rejected
poems at two cents poand. fl
AS an evidence of the rapid settling up
of the country east of the mountains in
Washington Territory, the Walla Walla
Land Office shows that upwards of 100000
acres of land have been entered during the
past year. The great bulk of this amount
has been located in the Palouse country.
e. P. Ferry, Governor of Washington
Territory, has brought suit against H. L.
editor of the Democratic Press,
Tor libel, laying his damages at $4,000
The alleged libel was the publication of
charge that the Governor sold pardons.
The case will come on for trial in August
1t Port Townsend.
A target which,, by means of electricity,
shows instantaneously upon another target
vet up at the firing station the exact spot
where bullet strikes, and thus does away
With the necessity of employing a marker !
o signal the result of each shot, has been 4
'ecently perfected, after years of labor, by
| Swiss locksmith. Mall Gazette. III
The Campbell Press Company had al
Meeting the other afternoon at New York,
snd, according to the papers, broke up with
sort Of free fight. The police stopped
he row. Complaint was made against
Campbell, the President, for assaulting
Brown, the Treasurer, and Wait, Direct
,r. Campbell was taken to the station
louse, and also made complaint of assault.
"A correspondent of the Winnemucca
5iIosr State says that Chief Natchez is
dolized by the settlers, who are showering
PRESENTS ON him for saving their lives. De- II
'ine & Todhunter gave him fine horse,
Jon. Ryan gave him bride and saddle,
Tohn Dixon presented him with rife II
worth $50, J. F. Brown has given him a /
lorse, and Frank Burns and others have
promised HIM more horses. He is the hap
,iest Indian in the United States, and feels
hat his services have been appreciated by
he whites
D A Coon WoRD FOR THE CoDE.--I no.
ice an editorial in your paper of this date, q
the personal method of set
ling personal difficulties. suppose the