The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-02-20
The New York Herdlds Irish Relief


The New York Heralds Irish Relies
Fund was $a03, 700 on Wednesday.
Speaker Randall is said to be working
for Tilden. "Love's Labor Lost"
"A heavy storm of wind and rain Wis
tied Tennessee, Kentucky aud Southern
Ohio last Friday. Considerable damage
was done.
The heavy advance in printing paper
mas led the New Orleans publishers to pc
tition Congress to remove the duty On
printing stock and material.
Owing TO the increased price of paper
the Salt Lake daily Tribune has advanced
its subscription rate from $40 10 zig per
year. 1t is worth it.
If the Washington people succeed IN
their plan the Democratic National Coz
yention will be In tho Market to the highest
bidder for the Presidency. The " bari
will boom.
The "phenomeual editor OF the
Butte Miner having been driven from DIS
ignominious attack ON Judge GaloraiJh,
kicks up cloud OF scurrility W coVer his
retreat. Scat
Charles DeYoung, Of the San Francis
co Chronicle, was in Leavenworth a Few
DAYS ago. 1t is believed he is looking up
Mayor KalIooh's re,Jrd with view to ma
king another attack on him.
The Senate Committee on Military AT
fairs has instructed Senator Maxey to re-
port for passage the bill extending to nol-
commissioned officers OF the army the same
privileges of retirement after 30 years mer-
itorious service as provided by law for COM
missioned officers.
The price of seats in the San Francisco
Brokers' Board has declined within the
past year from $4,000 to $4,000. The
prominent officers of the Boaid are going
to New York with the hopes Of receiving
prominent positions in Mining Exchange
to be established In that city.
General Grant and party sailed from
Havana for Vera Cruz on Friday Of las'
week. On returning by train from the in
terror the night before sailing, tue trait
carrying the General and party jumped TIT
track. The fireman was injured but TIA
passengers escaped without damage.
President Hayes has issued anothe
proclamation, similar to that OF last veal
forbidding trespass on the Indian Terrific
nv. Notwithstanding, strong movemeu
of immigrants, backed by capitals repor
cd from Kansas City, and the proclamatio
is ridiculed. 1t can only end in one way
the discontinue of the trespassers.
Opium smoking is receiving conside
able attention in the California Legislator
"Tbe latest bill in regard to the use I
opium IL that introduced in the Sena
February @ by Mr.. Davis. IL prohibits u
keeping of an opium den, the sale Of IL
drug or It's funation under penalty OF
Rne not to exceed $500 or by imprisomei
in the county Jail not to exceed six month
From all sides come reports OF the hea'
growth OF the vice which this bill, anon
others, is intended to check, IL not Grad
cate. IL has taken root in the small
towns as well as in the larger cities. M
Davis has letter from physician
Marysville saying that In that place your
boys and girls resort in plumbers to q
opium lens. This is but one example amor
many"
"A cable dispatch from ireland say
Three hundred thousand people are slow
starving. 1t is impossible to overdraw Il
situation, 10 rapidly do matters becou
worse. What might have been an exagge
ration yesterday will tomorrow be an
der-estimate. Three hundred thousal
49, ...v s,.--.py -sCaryruR, ana can oniy
kept alive by superhuman efforts on Z
part Of their fellow-creatures. Some
them are living on one meal day OF to
nips or of meal. Thousands more are o.
suming their last potatoes. Local effo
ara becoming feeble. The returns by cou
ties where the chief dttress exists sho
the number of those suffering to be as {
lows.