The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-07-16
NEW NOR -'WEsTERs.

General Grants income is reported to
be 30. 900 year.
Governor Williams OF Indiana has lost
his wife by death.
-Charlas Reads has been converted and
will write no more novels. aa
Little bowls cut from solid ice, are nice
inventions for serving raw oysters.
David Davis can consolidate his party
of one on the top of the fence for another
four years.
-"What makes the sea salt?" said the
teacher, and young America shouted, the
Goldfish that are IN it."
Educate your boy to be railroad
brakeman. There are seven Senators who
started life in that way.
Cats buried In gardens afford tho best
sort of nourshment for growing shrubbery.
The more cats buried the better.
Joseph Holman, one of the Oldest pie-
neers of tho State died at his home in Sa-
lem on tho 26th. He settled in Oregon In
1543.
-Gepsral Hancock maintains family
residence in the Caroudslet suburb OF 81,
Louis. His wife is b frequent visitor to
that city.
M. Phillipart, the French financier, fell
down a Hungarian precipice recently, but
lodging on shelving rock, gave seven men
who rescued him $500 apiece.
A Frenchman has on his estate near
Paris mule aged 73. goose aged 81, a
COW of 36, hog of a. a bullfnch OF 20 and
sparrow OF 81. He makes it his pastime
to give home to old animals.
1t Is said there ara 1880 watches man.
afactured daily in this country, divided
among tie different factories as fellows
WaItham, 75O; Elgin, 500; Springfield. ILL.,,
80; Hampden, 90; Howard, 20; Lancaster,
so; Rockford. 40.
George Merriam of Springfield, Mass,
the senior partner Of the firm OF g. u q.
Merriam, widely known as the publishers
OF Wobster's Dictionary, died st as bis res
idonce recently. Er. Merriam was in his
10 h gear, hcving been born in Worcester,
Mass. in January, 1702.
Marx Twain refuses to undergo the in
conveniences Of lscturing, He has two
books in hand. He works every day and
does not Jake any midday meal. He de-
stroys great deal of his own manuscript,
taking ss many as 200 ,ages from work
| In November be will be 45 years old. His
two little girls are six and eight years
| OLD.
| Governor Andrews, Of Cosn., has re-
ceived a letter from Chiot Justice Park, of
Norwich, urging very strongly that the Rev.
| III. III. Hayden be tried again for the mur-
der of Mary Stannard. In Difference to this
letter the Governor has appointed special
detective for new and exhaustive investi-
CATION of the case, and the examination Ia
now in progress.
| The aggregate steam power of the
world Is at present estimated at 3,50o,OO
horse power employed in stationary engines
and 10000, 600 horse power in locomotive
engines. This force is maintained without
the consumption OF animal food, except by
the miners who dig the coal, and the force
main aimed in their muscles is to the force
generated by the product Of their labor,
about to 1850. This power il equal tt
the working force of %, ,000, 900 horses and
one horse consumes three times as much
food as one man. The steam power, there
fore, is equal to the saving Of rs, ,0O0, 900 hu
man beings.
Secretary Schurz purposes making an
extended trip to the West this summer
Leaving Washington about the middle o
July, he will 60 to the Pacific Coast, stop
ping at the Western Shoshone and at th'
Pyramid Lake Indian reservations. Afte
spending about ten days in California b
will return by way OF Fort Hall and visi
the Bannack Indians in Idaho; theme
through the Yellowstone National Park
which 10 under control Of the Interior De
partmenr, to the Grow Agency in Montana
From the Grow Agency the Secretary wi
proceed down the Yellowstone and Nilsson
ri rivers to Bismarck, stopping at Fort
Custer, Keogh, Buford and Berthold. wher
he will give personal attention TO the di'
position of Sitting Bulls Indians, now rs
turning in large numbers, and inspect th
condition Of the Arickarees, Mandani
: Gros Ventres and other tribes. He expect
TO be absent from Washington about si
weeks.-Phil. Times.