The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-02-13
LOCAL BREvITIES,

We publish in this issue notice Of eigh
applications for land in one neighborhood
near Race Track. Land il land in Dee
Lodge valley now.
The town turned out for rire alarm at
a. m. Monday, but the damage was con
fined to burning fue at z. s. Parsons
1t sooted J" everybody.
We are informed the Nowlan Tunnel,
which will tap the Cable ledge so or 20 feet
below any previous workings, Is now SO
near the ledge that it is drawing the water
from the mine.
The authority of the Vigilantes has been
defed. One man ordered to skip, didn't
and won't.-Hslena Corr. Courier.
What business has q skipper" thou
sand miles from tide water, anyhow?
We are in receipt Of an Iowa paper emit
tied the Cerra Gorda Noon. 1t is in its
first quarter, although it has kind of glib
Gus aspect, is full of news and sinks into
the northwest in a horn. In printers
parlancG it is dead matter.
The Chinese are enjoying their New Year
festivities this week and we understand
they will DO continued until next week.
Some heartIess son Of Confucius imported
here a lot of war drums or kettles of un-
earthly volume, and the Chinese quarters
sounded like young Babel Monday night.
Down east they talk about '.soiree dam
sante." Out in the Territories il is ''shin
Dig" which is fully as expressive, if not
quite 80 dainty.-Portags Ldks Gazette.
And up in Michigan IL is o "puncheon
punch" VIII ich tries mems soles il not es-
pecially poetic.
The Helena papers state that prominent
jeweler of that town is making two silver
spikes to hold the first rail of the Utah and
Northern laid IN Montana. We add the
suggestion that Col. Voolfolk and Col.
Sanders be engaged to "sit down on the
first tie. That would make things kind Of
solid, You know.
Father DeRyckere circulated paper on
Monday and in few hours collected $500
cash as a contribution to the Irish relief
fund. 1t was transmitted to Archbishop
McHale, Of Tuam, Galway, Ireland, with
the request that cit be distributed to the
most needy without regard to creed" Col
lections have since been made but not re-
ported yet.
The discontinuance of the Silver Bow
Bow postofice is a grievance. The NEW
NORTHWEST had thirty subscribers there,
50 it must have been an accommodation to
a considerable number of people. For the
present we will divide the list, sending pa
pers to those We think will be most conve-
nienced thereby to Butte and the others to
Pierse's Station. We trust Gal" will
hand them out to subscribers until post
office is established. Any other changes
desired by subscribers will be made on no.
tification.
Never since Boutwell, put johnson
through the hole in the sky has there been
else discovered so exhilarating as
fishing through the ice. Persons who had
been left "holding the bag" on snipe
shooting expeditions were skeptical and |
waited until the old sports had basketed a
thousand or so nice trout from the beaver
iams on Tin Cup Joe Creek before joining |
she expeditions, and still some of them re-
Gently caught nice messes of trout. 1t is
good exercise chopping through a foot or
two of ice, especially IL one is rewarded
with dozen half-poundsrs In the next ten
But the stock is running down
'ome. One OF the most inveterate Of our
ishermen has been catching what he calls
sardines T" lately, and they having become
,early exhausted he Is now fishing for the
in boxes.
The Miner infant says language was
Ised in Butte last week "that would bring
blush of shame to the callous cheek OF
Deer Lodge editor" Yes But until gov
rnment mules become monuments of mod
sty until crocodiles wear skins as delicate
s gossamer until dogs noses cease to be
old, and Hottentot women make good
models for the sculptor until water flows
Up grade and the Alice is dug out; until
urnips yield blood and church fair soup
stimulating; until lightning
trikes twice in the same place and persim.
lons are knocked with the shortest poles,
be callow compiler Of Butte trifies will
ever feel the flush OF consciousness or
now more about bushes than he can fpd
a the dictionary or translate from the
heeks of those who read his aporings.
We're it not that compliance with the sug-
estion would deprive the press Of his IN
aluable services we would recommend him
GREATER to choose themes he knows some
hing about. |,