The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-01-16
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Mr.. George VI. Doll this week sold MS
saloon to Mr.. Switzer, Of Helena.
Missouia was four days without mail re-
Gently. Snow drifts on the Flint creek hills
was the trouble.
The bills are bare again and the cattle
Craze on o thousand or eleven hundred OF
them.
From letter of Superintendent ]. K.
Pardee we infes the Algonquin mill is run
ming by this time.
The gale Friday night unroofed Mr..
Phil E. Evans barn without injuring any
of the thousand head Of sheep in the yard.
Al Bsell was brought down from Butte
this week. If he burns down the county
Jail he will have to borrow blowpipe and
barrel of alcohol.
MIR. ]. w. Lowell, of Salt Lake City,
has made Kennon, Zenor s. Co. agents for
the Fish Bros. wagons and the Mccormick
agricultural machinery here this year.
The Central and Military Telegraph
lines between here and Helena have BEEN
''crossed" the past week. This freq uently
interrupts communication where wind
sways the wires.
Mr.. Hoyt announces another of those
very enjoyable social dances at the Race
Track House on st. Valentines Eve.
Their enjoyability is the fiattering theme
of all participants.
Loose hay sells here now for SIS aud
baled hay for $1s per ton. In Butte it
costs $25. It's all right poking fun at the
grangers in summer, but in hard winter
they hold the top hand.
The Madisonian says "she belongs to
one of the first families Of Virginia-as
you come into town." That is as good as
the statement of the hotel guest that he
had q room on the first foor-as you come
down stairs"
Me,srs. Aylesworth s. Mcfarland, Of
the McBurney House, are in receipt Of the
McBurney House Cigar" an excellent
brand, manufactured to order. Through
the courtesy of the proprietors we are able
to certify to their excellence.
While we have no doubt the solar eclipse
came off as advertised, 1t can't be proven
by amy body in Deer Lie ige. Those who
didn't forget all about it state that impene-
trable clouds concealed the glorions orb and
they have-sm 1ked glars for sale.
DR.. Hanks and travelling companion
were caught by night and snow while re-
turping from Philipsburg few days ago
aud tried the luxury Of vacant cabin at
the mouth of God creek. The DIR. says he
prefers supper, breakfast and softer bed
than bare planks.
Professor Davidson, in lecture In San
Francisco, January 5, in prognosticating
the eclipse of last Sunday, said "the sun
would set with tho moons lower limb on
the SUMS upper limb" This is very iT-
moral proceeding even for Celestial bodies.
The National Observatory ought to take
notice Of such things.
Henry Jones, demented person., who
was committed to the Insane Asylum July
l, 1878, and discharged restored Oct. 10,
1878, worked aud enjoyed mental health
until some two months ago, when be got
on prolonged spree and relapsed into his
former condition. He was again arrested
and committed to the Asylum this week
Instead Of being entirely burned out, the
Walla Walla Statesman Office was only
to the extent Of $6eO or 500,
and was out in three days with frll pa
per aud a supplement. From recent events
1t would seem
There's sweet little angel that sits up aloft.
To watch DER our " form" as they burn.
Or there will be some day.
The clerk of the weather is this winter
furnishing politicians plenty Of wind for all
necessary purposes next campaign. In
fact, there is not such a windy winter on
record. Any meek and lowly person who
wants to give ga kiss for blow " can be
Accommodated in Mont ma this winter. All
applicants, to insure attention, should be
of the Eve angelical persuasion.
The Independent "pied" four pages Of
last weeks weekly while lowering them to
the press room--the first accident OF the.
kind in twelve years In that Office. Four
pages of type "pi" gives printer worse
nightmare than as many pieces OF mince
pie does juvenile. Hope 1t will be twelve
more years before you have another Cpl"
ora fire.
Mr.. Morgan Evans estimate' that from
ito, ZOO to 10000 bushels Of grain were
raised in the valley above Deer Lodge In
1879, and about &c. 900 in the lower valley
-Hellgate and Flint creek. The average
of wheat was about 25 bushels per acre
oats, 35 bushels barley, 30 bushels.
There are nine thresb,ng machines in the
county. Mr.. Evans raised on $50 acres OF
land 5000 bushels Of grain. Of which $500
were wheat. He expects to SOW 800 acres
this spring.
In the matter of the application Of Will
liam ]. Parks for writ of habeos corpus "a
case carried up from Judge Galbraith's
district long after Parks was hberated) the
Supreme Court denied the application and
remapded the prisoner. The point involv-
ed was whether the Police Magistrate OF
Butts could act as Justice OF the Peace
under the Butte Charter act and appoint
ment by the Mayor and Council. The
question was presented fully at the time OF
the application.
The Eliza Newton Combination, con-
sisting Of Professors Sch wab, and Thom-
son and Miss Newton, arrived on Monday
from Helena and gave an entertainment on
Wednesday evening. Mr.. Schwabe as
pianist and Mr.. Thompson as q violinist
are first class artists. They may have su-
periors in Montana. but we have not heard
them. Miss Newton gave Ophelia's mad
scene from Hamlet, Little Buttercup"
from Pinafore and the " Topsy" song from
Uncle Toms Cabin. Mr.. Q. L. Hart, who
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