The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-12-24
Notes OF the Day.

Texas is to have capitol costing 81 800,
600. %
The cost of taking the census so far ha
been 81, 10000.
The railroad is expected to be completed
10 Waila Walla by the I'd of January, 1881
Gould last year bought great block o
Union Pacific at u. Now 1t Is worth 100.
Senator Blaine has prepared a bill to re
| duce letter postage from three to two cents
During the canal season the largest move
ment of grain ever made by the canals oi
New York took place.
In a recent sermon the Rev. Henry Ware
Beecher described a bass drum as "twc
sheep-skins spread over empty middleness.
Three hundred insurance companies with
$S7, 900, 0OG of assets have dropped out Of
sight in this country during the last ten
years.
The demurrer of the steamboat inspectors
to the Indictment for manslaughter in con-
nection with the Sewanhaka disaster has been
sustained. 7n d"
A subtle suspicion has crept into great
many breasts that Mr.. Edison is holding
back the electric light for the illumination OF
the milleninm.
The paper wheels on the new cars of the
New York, New Haven Il Hartford road cost
$lO6 each. Steel ones cost little more than
half that sum.
A st. Louis correspondent asserts that Miss
Ella Sturgis, daughter of Gen. Sturgis of the
7th Cavalry, is certainly going upon the stage
this winter.
Carl Schurz owns the largest share in the
st. Louis Westliche Post, and has no other
property whatever outside Of his interest in
that great German paper.
There will be but one Democratic Govern
or north of Mason & Dixon's line after the
LIST Of January. That will be Gov. George
G. Ludlow of New Jersey. sE-.%-r...-
The four largest States in the Union, all
Republican-New York, Pennsylvania Ohio
and Illinois-polled at the last election more
than one-third of the vote of the entire coun-
try. .. s...s ...- '.. ..r. --. .-.tr.
Denver, Colorado, is building grand
union depot, the finest west of Chicago, and
one of her wealthy citizens is putting up a
big opera-house. The city continues to grow
marvelously.
What is life? In infancy, battle with
collie; in youth, struggle to keep out Of
mischief; in manhood, struggle with indi-
gestion, and in old age, the prelude of o con-
tested will case.
Count Wilhelm Bismarck, the Chancel-
lor's second son, greatly resembles his faith
er, and Is said to have much political ambi-
ton. He made political speech lately,
which is not very fatteringly commented
upon.
South Carolina is going for duelists with
vengeance, bill introduced into the Legis-
lature providing the death penalty for the
survivor and Imprisonment and fines for who
ever carries the challenge or sees the fight.
The Northwestern Telegraph Company
has built 1900 miles of new line this season,
and is putting up masts IT'S feet high at Run
ming Water, ID. T., to get The wire across the
Missouri river out of the way of the steam
boats.
The fact that General Garfield is Camp
bellite, Is regarded by the New Orleans
Times (Dem.) as good evidence that he will
not be sectional President. That faith, it
says, is liberal, conservative and rational land
rejects all fanaticism and creedism.
A woman may talk "women's rights"
|" independence Of the sexes" Suffrage"
:" her mission" and all that sort Of thing,
but when her face lights up at the sight of a
baby and she calls 1t "sweet little ootsy
tootsy,n instead of an :. infant" you may bet
fifteen cents that woman's heart is in the
right place and that she will come out all
right in the end.-SteuGenpiite Herald.