The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-08-06
NEW NOR -'wEsTERs.
Tho Bodie Standard has suspended
mobilization

publication. .... -r,
Jay Gould freely expresses the belle
that Hancock and English will be elected
1t is thought that Mount Vesuvius
holding a very large convention with close
| doors.
III General Grant votes for Garfield
will be the very first time he ever voted 70
Republican Presid dential candidate.
The usual anxiety as to what Genera
Benjamin r Butler is q ,ing to do Is begin
ming to become audible in Massachusetts,.
Never point an unloaded gun at maj
for fun. 1t is twice as much fun to bit hin
over the head with it and 1t gives him SOM
chance.
Chairman JEWELS friends say be is no
candidate for United States Senator, bu
that bs will DO Postmaster General wner
Garfield is elected. . ..... .. ga.
The New York Sun, accidentally may.
hap, leaves out English. and with every ap'
pearance of contumely, for 1t Gays: Han
cock and Honesty. That is the ticket p
The Troy Times says that personal
friend of Senator Conkling remarked :
" You can look for hotter campaign IN
this State than ever before, If Roscoe Conk'
ling can make 1t hot"
General Hancock Is reported to be
rich man. Besides all his other property in
Missouri he has some excellent coal mines,
whice he refuses to sell, and does not at
present care to open.
When an Ohio man goes into the
woods for q couple of days on . fishing ex-
cursion, the first question he asks on his
return is! Have been nominated for any
Office while have been gone2 ?"
-" What did the Puritans come to this
country forp' asked Massachusetts teach
or of his class. ITO worship IN their own
way and make other people do the same" |"
was the reply.
-Sabethia is Kansas village with a
cemetery. There is a sign painted on the
fence opposite the cemetery reading :" To
keep out Of that place across the road, get
your medicines at the corner drug store"
The Democratic papers are making the
blunder of publishing the report Of the
fiattering condition Of the crops. They
will make no votes for the party by crea-
ting feeling Of oontentment and prosper.
ity.
Among the best arguments We have
heard for Garfield is that he would give the
country a quiet, common sense, business
like administration, like that Of President
Hayes. We think that is what the country
wants. - -.....~
The Graphic thinks that IL Fashion 10
hot weather would abolish starched collars,
bosoms and neckties on Broadway and al
low q man the privilege of wearing thin,
flannel shirt. .... thousands
"A Dutchmau who married his second
wife soon after the funeral Of the first. was
visited with two hours serenade IN token
Of disapproval.A He expostulated patheti-
cally, thus: /" ray, poys, you ought to pc
ashamed Of yourself to be making all dish
noise ven there was funeral here so sOon."
Hannibal Hamlin, whose term Of efAce
AZ Senator from Maine expires next
spring, announces bis purpose to retire, and
the Legislature win elect his successor next
winter. He has been in public life as leg
islator, Governor, Congressman, Vice Pres
dent and Senator since 1886 without inter
ruption-a longer period than that covered
BY the services Of any Of his present asso--
ciates. -,..r .......t ....-......
When We read in ., Democratic paper,
in the same column with structures upon
the unha andsome treatment Of! HaRckock BY
the Republican press, the cssual remark
thai /" Garfield 10 mercenary fraud, = We
are inssnsibly reminded Of the North Sto-
nington Justice Court when the venerable
Judge Pomeroy interrupted some offensive
remarks Of the opposing oainse
with: "Stop that, Squire Hall personal
abuse will avail you nothing, you double
witbered-up. superannuated. ma
lignant old scoundrel" .a.#fgy...a Hg.au
II wonder what there is iu mans being
. widower that peculiarly fits him in the
eye OF his country for being q vice. Presi-
dentP Henry Wilson was widower so
also 10 William p. Wheeler, as you know |;
and now Messrs. Arthur and English are
chosen from the same holy estste. The
vice President has no social duties attach
ing to his position. II any are assumed It
is q voluntary thing. After Mr.. Collar
married he and his wife entertained hand-
somely during the remainder Of his term !;
but vice-P President Wilson lived in . seclu.
ded, cheap way At the Washington Hotel.
an inn quite unknown to fame and vice.
President Wheeler lives very quietly at the
Riggs House when in Washington, abju-
ing evening parties, and, in the mann, din
,ar "a rsiaa az ~all = = f =