The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-12-05
NEW NOR W EsTERs.

A dentists sign-Drawing, music and
dancing.
There are now 14S narrow-gauge rail-
roads, altogether 4187 miles long.
, The Sultan has ordered the re-equip-
ment of the forts on the Dardanelles.
Jay Gould promises Denver an inn
mense rolling mill and a $3.50, 900 depot.
First Assistant Secretary Seward, who
has just resigned. is man of wealth.
The Local Option Bill has been killed
in the Washington Territory Legislature
Since General Grant landed at San
Francisco he has made eighteen speeches.
Some enemy of Minnesota sawmill
owner drove spikes into the logs, SO that
4 $500 worth of saws were spoiled.
4 - Flee like bird to your monntin',
as the boss remarked 20 the bod carrier
fing around tho brick pile
Is ohm Russell Yonng sails for Lv-
pool next week to resume his position at
the head of the European news service Of
the Herald.
According to estimates of Professor
Hayden, the geoiogist, Montana covers o
coal field of from $4,000 to $1,000 square
| miles in area.
james Gordon Bennett, John Russell
Young and George Alfred Townsend
should take advantage of the business
boom to dispose Of part Of their names.
"A Kentucky man was hit in the leg by
bullet while on bis knees in prayer, and
Peck's Sun says "Such thing might
not occur again in thousand years in
Kentucky.
A million feet of logs, recently seized
on snohomish river, Washington Terrific
ry, by special agent Of the Interior De-
partment, were sold on the 18th at private
sale to the Port Gamble Mill Company at
81 per Thousand feet, the highest price
now obtainable. This is the first instance
where such logs have been sold at the mar
ket value.
Democrats who sneered at Senator
Bayard for bis honest money principles and
were about to depose him from the Senate
Finance Committee therefor, are now turn.
ing to him as their most available Presi-
dental candidate. 1t pays for even poll
tcan to stick to sound principles. If
anybody doubts this let him ask Senator
Thurman.
-" Senator" SAID General Bayard to the
late Senator Chandler not long ago,
would like to see you President you are
the sort of man we !r9ad jjastt Low"
No, ae,'' he replied. :" hope I'll never
get the Presidential fever. It is sure
death. Men recover from the cholera,
small pox and yellow fever. but they never
get over the Presidential fever.
Artificial ventilation, says a Graphic |
dispatch from Washington, referring 10
improvements in the Hall of Representa-
tives, has been tried without success for |
twenty years and had to be given mp. The |
rear wall of that hall has. therefore, been |
torn out and extended fifty feet to the |
south, SO that it has now eight large win |
dows opening directly into it. Thisd
change, it is said, destroys the symmetry |
of tue hall, but it gives the members pure
air, something they need.
The Cunard Steamship Company has
long been favored as the embodiment OF |
conservatism. It is quite an event, there
fore, when it makes announcement that it |
has contracted for steamship which will |
be exceeded in size only by the Great East |
ern, while its speed is expected to be great |
er than any vessel now afoat. The Saba
ra, as the new addition to the Cunard feet |
will be called, will be of 1900 tons and 1O,-
600 horsepower, and will have accommo-
dstions for 450 first-class and 600 steerage |
passengers.
The other day q tenant entered the
Office of a Tipperary land agent, and,
throwing down a roll of notes on the table,
exclaimed " There's iv'ry penny | lave
in the world. It's half years rint, and
ye may take it or lave it; az ye take it Pll /
60 to che workhouse--av ye lave it I'll go
to Ameriky on it." The agent opened
the roll of notes and counted the money.
"Why, my good man, there is more than
years rent IN the bundle. The mis-
chief there is r. cried the tenant, putting
his hand in his pocket; "begorra, gev
yez the wrong bundle of notes afther all"
What Zulu discipline and rule were is
clearly evidenced by story told by Cete-
wayo himself while ON his way down to the
place of embarkation. Pointing to bush
which he designated by the name Of the
Cowards' Bush, he informed his conduct
ors that in the front of that bush Chaka
used to sit after battle had been fought
in order to hear accusations of cowardlce
against any Of his soldiers. If a man were
convicted on what seemed sufficient evil
dence, he was expected to stand still with
his left arm high above his head. while an
assegai was slowly and by degrees thrust
downward from the armpit till it reached
the heart.
Lord Odo Russell, while calling upon
Il
him how he managed to get rid of that
class OF unfortunate visitors whom he
could not well refuse to see, but whose
room be found preferable TO their company.
!. Oh" replied the Chancellor, 7 have
very simple method. Ny wife knows them
pretty well, and when she sees that they
are with me she generally contrives to come
in and call me away on one pretextor an
other.u He had scarcely finished speak
ing when the Princess put her head in at
the door and said, Otto, you must come
and take your medicine. You ought to
have had it tan minutes ago" Lord Odo
Russell had not till then any idea that his
room would be more welcome than bis
company.
Now that poor old Tilden has lest his
grip on the State of New York, there il
none so poor as TO do him reverence. Even
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