The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-01-23
LOCAL BREvITIES.

The delinquent tax list win be published
next week.
The postofice at Red Mountain has been
discontinued.
The weather for a week has been as
balmy as the later spring. d.. g. z--- ~ --
W. A. Flanagan has been confirm ed
| postmaster at Fort Benton.
Butte has organized an Irish Relief Fund
and is meeting with success. Let's all
stand in.
MIR. V. Z. Hook, an experienced photog-
Iapher, has fitted up the Deer Lodge Gal
lsry and will remain about three week.
Call for pictures.
Daily mail service has been ordered over
the route from Butte ola Gable and Philips
burg to New Chicago. Stages win be run
three times a week.
The winter harvest is now being reaptd-
with i-cicles. The crop is fine, the only
difficulty being IN getting the ice loose
from the bottom Of the river.
Plasterers will find an item Of interest in
the advertising columns. The Trustees
propose to complete the Collegiate Insti-
tute building az the earliest day practical
BILE. ...
1t is now stated by the Miner that an
order has been issued for a reduction Of
stage TINA between Butte and the Termi-
nus. So our suggestion was NOT 20 little
too late" after all.
A telegraph Office on the U. s. Military
Telegraph line was established at New
Chicago last Friday While established
principally for repair station, it will much
expedite business between PhilipsbLrg and
other localities.
Mr.. Robert Harris will have an Eagle
brick machine here at an early day in the
spring. AS machine bricks are dried in
racks, the bad spring weather will not in
terfere with the making Of perfect brick.
Parties desiring to build can be supplied
early.
Trout fishing through the ice in the bea-
YER dams on Tin Cup Joe creek has been
quite a popular diversion for the past
month. AS many as 100 have been caught
by one fisherman in e day, and, we are sor-
ny to say, some Sundays there are dozen
seekers for the finny prey.
Remember the Firemen's ball tonight.
All arrangements are peri scted to make 1t
enjoyable. Dusseau's Qaadrille Band with
four musicians is engaged and will
furnish the music, the supper will be at
the Scott House, and the management will
spare no effort to please. Tickets can be
had of John Gerber.
Elder Brand, an anti-polygamous Nor
mon, which is the play Of Hamlet with
Hamlet lett out. posted his bills ana lee
tured to an incoming and outgoing assem-
blage of thirty or forty persons in the low
or room of Masonic Hall last Sunday even
ing. We did not have the pleasure Of
hearing the discourse.
A press of other work on our Autograph
ers delayed the NEW NORTHWEST calen-
dars again this year. They are at hand
now, but our purpose to add some matters
that we think will be appreciated will
probably prevent us from sending them
out with this weeks issue. Patrons will,
however, get them at an early day.
The Benton Record says: What has
become OF our valued contemporary, the
NEW NORTHWEST? Its familiar features
have failed to illuminate our sanctum Tor
several weeks. We have exchanges that
could very we'll be spared, but the Deer
Lodge paper is not one OF them" We
start it regularly, Bro. Buck. Hope you
will get it on time hereafter.
Mr.. Reed, Principal Of the Public School,
advises US q school exhibition win be given
at o'Neilrs Hall, Friday evening, July 30,
the entertainment consisting of tableaux,
Mrs. Jarley's wax works, songs, recitations,
etc. The proceeds will be used to purchase
an organ for the school. Tho hall will be
filled to repletion, as is the invariable Deer
Lodge rule on all such occasions.
On Monday last, Lanier, son Of Thomas
L. Napton, ESQ.,, astonished the paternal
head of the family by handing him box
OF two-thirds grown grasshoppers caught
| in the fields north OF town. He says
"there's millions in it," This Is every
thing tor fishermen, bit they will be an un-
happy visitation tor ranchmeD unless prov
identially their early appearance shall re-
suit in their being frozen out before vege'
tation starts.
We are favored by the publishers of the
San Francisco Chronicle with Autograph
of their splendid new building, with corner
scenes showing engine and press,
counting and composing rooms. They
have the finest establishment on the coast
and the best newspaper, but one of oul
com positors criticises theirs in that the en-.
craving has one of them setting type with
his eft hand and one with both hands
These things might be improved.
A number of gentlemen interested in the
establishment of Reading Room where
young and old can 60 and pass the evening
with advantage aud pleasure have canvass
ed the town for support and have already
pledged Sal per month. This can readily
be increased to $50. 1t is now desired
that the subscribers to and friends Of the
enterprise will meet in lower Masonic Hal
at z o'clock. Saturday evening next, to de
1 termine whether it shall be undertaken
and, IL it is, where and how it shall be con
Quoted. -e
B.F. White, Esq, in writing from th'
Terminus Jan. 14th says: "The weathe
liz very severe here and snow deep. lroI
for the extension is arriving fast and order
are at hand to push the read sirty mile
north Of Red Rock as early as possible mex
spring." This is different version OF tf'
| ordar from that we have had before.