The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-03-12
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

in one Of our large mercantile houses.
DR.. A. Fl. Mitchell has purchased the
Thornton ranch of 100 acres situated north
vest OF town.
Rev. r. DeRyckere few days since re-
mited ell to Ireland, making $3O5 sent
from this town.
The superintendent Of the U. s. Militia
ry telegraph line has ordered that no more
free /" specials be transmitted over 1t.
A professor of pruning was doing good
work on the Court House Park this week
until the Clerk of the Weather objected.
Mr.. Joseph Mcdonald has purchased
from, the county the northerly building OF
the Wilcox block and is fitting up the front
for furniture store.
The firm Of Keunon & Zenor has been
dissolved by mutual consent, Messrs, Ken
non & Zenor purchasing the interest OF
Mr.. Thomas Strang, who retires from tue
firm.
Mr.. J. Is. Stevens is canvassing the coun-
ty for subscribers to the fiue steel engraving
entitled king Solomon and the Iron
Worker" 1t is an elegant engraving and ID
especially attractive to Masons.
as" in Deer Lodge letter to the IHds-
pendent says Drs. Mitchell IL Massigbrod
own l6, 900 acres of land at Warm Springs.
Sixteen hundred will cover the original
purchase, subsequent purchases frem set
tiers, and locations on railroad and desert
lands.
The weather has been quite cold and
stormy the past few days. The coach
leaving Helena tor Deer Lodge on Tuesday
only reached Sweetland's at nightfall and
came in on Wednesday. The coach leaving
Wednesday has not arrived yet. Both
Missoula coaches are out. The snow drifts
are very heavy.
Mr.. w. E. Hook, who gave very enter
tanning exhibition with his stereopticon on
Thursday evening of last week, announces
another entertainment on Wednesday even
ing of next week, at which time will be
presented views oil Bismarck, the Missouri
river, Fort Benton, the North West Terri
tory, including Forts Walsh. Macleod and
Garry, scenes among tie Indian tribes, and
Montana scenes from the Falls Of the Mis-
souri, to Helena, Yellowstone National
Park, etc. Tickets, so cents, children half
price.
One of our local politicians, who devotes
more times to politics han he does to his
Bible, is making bets like the following
He wagers that Grant will receive sufii
Gent number Of votes in the Chicago Con-
yention, on first ballot, from Northern
States alone, to give him the nomination
for President. We took one Of these and
offered TO wager him that if either Grant,
Sherman or Blaine fail by ten votes to re.
ceive the nomination on the first ballot that
neither of them will be nominated. He de-
clined.
The Morning Capital, Helena's new daily
Republican paper. comes regularly as an
exchange. Its editor is good writer
and its city reporter an industrious news
gatherer TIE Capital is published at the
very low price of 25 cents per week, or SlC
per aunum-the lowest price at which a
daily has ever been published in Montana
The publishers, four in number, are all
practical printers, which is considerable
advantage In starting paper with limited
capital against established opposition. We
wish the enterprise success.
The Reading Room was removed thi'
week to the old Bowie bniloipg opposite
the Bank. Among the periodicals nov
provided are Harper's Weekly and Maya
cine. New York daily Graphic and Irts'
World, and Lsslie's Weekly aud Popular
Monthly, illustrated New York Tribune
ST. Louis Globe Democrat. Burlington
Haukeys. San Francisco Chronicle, Toled
Blade, New York Sun. AdDance, Eclectic
Seri5ner's and 81. Nicholas Magazines
YOUTHS Companion, Young Folks and Ter
| rtorlal daily and weekly papers, etc.
We publish in this issue the report
receipts and expenditures of Deer Lodg
county tor the fiscal year ending Februar
| 90, 1880. The figures correspond W.T.
| those we took as basis for mention las
week. We neglected to state, however
that the tax ivy was two mills less las
year than the year preceding. 1t was fear
ed when that rate was fixed the curren
expenditures would exceed the revenues
bat the increase in property more tha
! CON pensated the reduction As 1t IS no
reasonable to anticipate so many and expen
| siye trials this year. as no extraordinar
| expenses are to be incurred, and as th
tax rate il maintained with certainty
vast increase of property, it Is not too sar
guine to predict reduction of $780,
debt the current year.
| A correspondent at Blackfoot requests d
to publish Mother Symptoms prophecy,
ending with the lines
"The world TO an end shall come
| In eighteen hundred and eighty'one
We regret We have not a copy at hand
we would be pleased to comply. Perhal
our correspondent overlooked in the NE
NORTH WEST some time since verihe
expose OF the above prophecy. Our recc
lection of the expose is that there was
the olden times Mother Shipton in En-
land who acquired some celebrity for b
predictions. A few years since, after
she Is alleged to have predicted, except Il
| last two lines, were accomplished fact
some Yankee Bohemian wrote up the prop
ecy in Mother Symptoms style, accredited
to her, stated it was first published son
hundreds of years ago, and set 1t adrii
The whole thing was fraud or JOB
\ just as people see fit to classify it. II
above facts were proven beyond contr
versy.
Consumption Cured.