The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-07-18
NEW NOR wEsTERs.
Don't come a-Miss-A boy baby.

Don't come a-Miss-A boy baby.
Railways are aristocratio. They tech
i every man to know his own station ana tc
stop there.
In Maine there is new industry foI
children-the picking of potatoe bugs al
ten cents thousand.
Music hath charms to soothe the sayge.
This 10 why we occasionally see cross Jog
with brass band around his neck.
George G. Perkins, Republican candidate
| for governor of California, ran away fpHn
| his home in Maine when he was o boy ind
went to sea. -
George Fordham, the English Jockey. ire
ceives under Baron Lionel Rothsehild's vii
present of e2, 600, and an annuity DUNG
his life of esOO o year.
The gross earnings of 80 western raj
roads in may show an increase of $31A A,000
as compared with last year, about 8 per
cent on the business reported.
A dangerous counterfeit five dollar green
back has made its appearance. It is of the
series of 1875 and bears the names Of Ali
son as registrar and Wyman as treasurer.
Major General Wool's monument, now
being made, is said to be the largest stone
shaft of the kind which the world has seen
for 6, 700 years. Cleopatra's Needle is only
nine feet longer. eg
A young man got married the other day
against the wishes of his parents, and re-
questing friend to break it to them, said,
"Tell them I'm dead, old fellow, and gent
ly work them up to the climax"
There is romantic story about the Prin-
cess Beatrice and the late Prince Imperial.
It is said that he was in love with her and
she with him, and that he went to Zulu
land to melt the obdurate heart Of Queen
Victoria.
The Pennsylvania railroad company is
doing what it can to facilitate travel be-
tween New York and Philadelphia, by sell
ing rouRd trip tickets, good for. Ave days,
for $4, and fifty single trip tickets, good
for year, for 800.
The Blue Hen State now comes to the
front with 4,00o, 600 baskets of peaches,
the crop of the !" June fall" As result
of the severity of the season the fruit is a
week behind time in Delaware and the rest
of the eastern States.
A grandson of Henry Clay, who bears his
name, is the prosecuting attorney Of the
City Court of Louisville, Ky. The other
day he assaulted q reporter who had made
legitimate comments upon his Official con-
duct, and was fined $25 for the offence.
Twenty out of every hundred children in
Texas between the ages of eight and four
teen years cannot read or write, and of the
colored population sixty out of every hun
dred. Of Texas white children between
the ages above mentioned there are S0, 900
who cannot read.
g. Of the leading candidates for the Presi-
dency, Grant is 81; Hayes, 81 Sherman,
So; Conkling, 81; Blaine, 4S. On the
Democratic side Thurman is 66; Tilden, 65;
Davis. "a; Hendricks, 60; Bayard, 81.
Grant and Hayes were born in the same
year, 1922. The average age Of the Repub-
lican candidates is "a years, and that OF The
d DsmocratIc 81.
The 1850 breweries in the United States
are distributed as follows: New York, 400;
Pennsylvania, 1888; Ohio, 2o7; Massachu-
setts, 55; illinois, 154; Missouri, So; New
Jersey, So; Wisconsin, 24s; California, 218;
Maryland, SO; Michigan, 141: Iowa, 15o;
Indiana, 1O1; Kentucky, 81; New Hanp-
shire, 4; Minnesota, 14O; all other States
and Territories, 800.
Don Piatt, in letter to the Cincinnati
Commercial, says very candidly: II am
not financier, nor the son Of one. know
very little upon the complicated subject of
finance, nor have any great desire to be
instructed. In this differ with Ewing,
Cary and other vould-be leaders of the Ma
rionals, for they know nothing and have
not the capacity to learn.
Beaconsfield is a hard man to bulldeze.
Recently member of the Manchester
chamber of commerce advised him OF an
intended vote by the chamber of resolutions
condemning the eastern policy. Said the
premier: 81 have heard great deal OF
Manchester 'clayed cotton which is dis
gracing the English name in China. Tell
the chamber that il they attend 70 my busi-
ness will try and attend to theirs.