The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-05-21


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Tho Afghan war cost England sixty
FIVE million dollars. And what was gained?
Secretary Sherman reports the daily re-
.ceipts of the Government exceed one mil
lion dollars per day.
Tho emigration from Europe to Amer
ica is enormous. One stea nship company
sent nearly 1000 last week and extra steam
crs are being placed on several lines.
in the next issue of the New NORTH
WEST Professor Nordensk jold's Report
will treat of the Magnetic Observations,
Aurora Boreals and the Possibility Of Nav
iRatiou In the g >srian and Arctic Oceans
topics Of great interest.
I'm the workingmen's State Conven-
ton, Tuesday, the fight came on the adop-
ton of the report of the Committee on
Organization and Order Of Business. The
anti Kearneyites carried their point 81 to
"a, hence Kearney is shelved as g. Boss"
-Downey, the Prickly Pear Poet, has
introduced in Congress bill which pro-
vides that when the owners OF mining
claims produce authentic certificates OF their
inability to bear the expense Of an assay OF
their ore, they shall be allowed assays free
of charge.
"Wednesday the Comstock was valued
at about $13, 100000. This Is lower than
in the great depression of 1877, when the
bonanza mines aloue were worth $l5, OOO,-
600. Theu, however. Sierra Nevada was
70 cents per share and Union $2.25. 1t
would be good time for some one to feel
in bis vest pocket and gobble up the whole
lode.-NsDs.
The Baptist State Convention at Sac
ramento tabled resolutions expressing con-
domination of the course Of Rev. !. s. and
l. NJ. Kalloch, and giving notice that pre-
liminary steps will be taken for hearing
between the aggrieved Church and the
Metropolitan Church, of which the Kallochs
are pastors. The vote was 40 to 80 after a
sharp debate.--S. IT. Chronicle.
The Union Pacific is now receiving
steel rails from three rolling mills which are
kept at work all the time to supply the
company. The steel rails are being used
on the main lines as fast as they are re
ceived, and the iron rails are taken up and
laid down on the branches. The iron rail-
that are In bad condition are taken NJ
and sent to the Laramie mills to be rolled
President Hayes says he not "darh
horse - that If the Presidential nomina
ton were rendered him on . silver platter
he would decline it. 1t is not presumed
the "silver platter" cuts any important
figure In the case. The President having
said he believed in one term and adherinl
to it when per Ional interests are involved
will strike the political world as something
new.
-" Senator Jones of Nevada will make
Q short trip to Europe in July In company
with Senator Conkling." lis stated wher
these two gentlemen heard o few day
since that Nevada had gone for Blaine
they wept. The trip TO Europe is suppos
cd to DO q Nepenthe in which to drown
their sorrows, butlmost people would be sat
isfied with the amount of gloom and dis
tress they will yield to. -1. .".
auaa-A dispatch from Walla Walla says
Francis b. Evans, formerly OF San Fran
cisco, who was duped into joining thu
Mormon colony located near Walla Walla
and subsequently left it, has secured
judgment against the organization for hi
services. The argument Of counsel vigor
ously condemned the relig :ous character o.
the colony. This Evans was ths one whose
blindness was to be cured by Davies new
Messiah when he reached the age of eleven
and who died before that time.
Col w. II. French, 4th Artillery Bre
vet Major General u. 8. A, after 40 year
active service, has been retired at his owl
request. He has never been Ill a day O
had leave of absence, or missed battl
In his vicinity, or received wound. Gen
eral French is, or was, very stout aud had o
nervous disease of the face that made hin
look AZ II he was winking with both eyes
and which on the occasion of Genera
Mead's advance with the Army Of the Pc
tomac to Mine Run. while French command
ed the Sd Corps, gave rise to story tina
set many camp mess laughing.
The Lewiston Teller, for q copy @
which we are indebted to e. B. Waterbury
Esq, in commenting on the Ska-ka-he Pas
says 1t has information the Union Pacif
Company Shave seriously in contempla
ton" the extension Of the Utah u North
crn up the Big Hole river and Uia the Ska
ka-ho Pass to the Clearwater, Snake an
Columbia. This tallies with the informs
ton from other sources that the project
DETECTING from Fort Hall across the Law
beds and ola Boise has been abandoned.
is not improbable the Utah 81 Northern ma
be extended as indicated by the Teller bu
the route liz not the most favorable one.
- Outside of Pennsylvania there prevail
notion that Don Cameron has been hois
cd up by his father into place and prom
nence, and that he has not the ability |
get along in politics without the parents
assistance. The Notion Is mistaken ON
The young Senator is as good o practic
politician as the old Senator was 10 Il
days Of his great successes; indeed, b
talent for managing party might
ranked higher, Cor hs lacks the genial, 9
cial nature which was Of such help TO b
father In his campaigns and is an inyalu
BILE qualification for politician Of an
rank. His circle OF personal friends
small, and he cannot be said to bs popul'
ut all In the sense the old Senator IL. In
stead of his father pushing him along
his political career he helped his father Il
the last ten years that tho old man remain
ed In public life and managed bis can
paigns for him.. Y. s., N. Y. 1ribsn
- "George Eliot, whom As writer .
readers of romance admire, has stirred u
another sensation ut the age OF sixt.
When Miss Marian Evans she achieved
brilliant reputation in the literary work
having an "George Eliot, /" taken fir
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