The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-02-13
NEW NOE -'wESTERS.

-Parnell owns property to the value OF
s65O,00O.
There are said to be 5000 Germans in
Leadville.
-Orville Grant is In the leather business
in Chicago.
-Denver's Grand Jury indicted 140 sa-
loon keepers.
Frank Leslie was making sl2OOa week
at the time Of his death.
Bret Harte is in London end his health
is reported as very poor.
The State OF Texas in future In no
case pay any witness fees.
The railway up the cone of Vssuvius
is to be opened for travel this month.
The Northern Pacific is 1900 miles in
length from Duluth to Puget Sound.
The net cost of the Hoosac tunnel, up
to January /, 1880, was $19, $50, 579.94.
Although it is midwinter, 500 buildings
are in process Of construction in Denver.
DIR. Glenn's "Oregon ranch" covers
au area seventy-fve miles long by twanty
WIDE.
Presbyterian Scotland is surrendering
its opposition to the celebration of Christ
mas.
I'm card playing good deal depends on
good playing, and good playing depends on
good deal.
-Petaluma, California has COW with
80 horns. The horns are distributed along
the backbone.
1T has become the fashion for underta-
kers down east to issue photographs Of
themselves reposing IN luxurious caskets.
The age of Abraham johnson, who
lives Lear Scranton, Pa, is 10S years. His
health is good and his memory remarkable.
"A new Russian Church temple Is TO be
dedicated at Moscow in August next. 1t
was begun in 1888, and will cost over $l3,-
900, 600.
The State printing in South Carolina
has been awarded to the Office of relig-
ious newspaper, the Southern Presbyterian,
at Columbia.
Species of the cactus plant, ifty feet
high, that grow up like a cigar and bear
delicious fruit, have been discovered in Ar
izona Territory.
"A resolution has been introduced in the
Mississippi Legislature providing for the
consideration Of the question of calling
Constitutional Convention.
John b. Cough has wife, no children
four favorite nieces, 800. 1000, a nice farm
large collection of Cruikshank's carica
lures and is much given to ten-pius.
The Carson Appeal says: Thousands
Of dollars worth of bullion pass here daily
and are carted right by mint that is idl'
because 1t has no bullion to work on.
The number Of drug stores at Ho
Springs, Ark, is exactly the same as thu
number Of boarding houses, and the mum
Der Of clergymen is the same as the numbs
OF undertakers.
| The Rev. Ebenezeer P. Clifford, O
Wallingsford, Connecticut, eked out hi
salary last year by selling the skins Of fort
eight muskrats and twelve skunks whic
he killed.
-Briquettes, or compressed fuel Of sma
or waste coal, are now now manufacture
near one of the English mines at cost {
a shilling tor. They are an exceller
fuel and have long been used in France.
"A correspondent writing from Leat
Vile says: Not one mine in Ladville ha
never petered out not one fairly promi'
ing mine has, after producing ore, cease
to be producer.
General Grant has written to Admlr'
Ammeu that alter brief sojourn in Mex
a co he will go to Leadville and Denver ft
the purpose Of examining the silver fel
= of Colorado. He expects to reach Galen
1 by the middle Of April.
The Indian name Of Walla Wal
: mhaus "dry, sandy, barren. windy poll
a of earth the name "Poh Poh p" NEAR
q powder, -four or corn meal, and not wate
: water. In the Indian language "ceos "
: "choos" is water "coots COOS kee " lit
Q water.
The Cunard steamers carry small &
cases, the size OF an orange, full of chem
cal preparation, which ignites the momeI
it touches the water. When man fal
overheard in the night they throw or
over and the man is suppose to swim to
enabling the boats to pick him up.
Hon. Eugene Hale will probably
0 compelled to move from bis home In Mai
and rake up his abode in the State OF Mic
y igsn. The great estate left by his Ia
father-in-law, Senator Chandler, requir
q constant attention, and Mr.. Hale will
= forced to devote his entire attention to
perintend II.
1 "A Lockport man asked for glass
!. "suthin " at Chicago street-bar the 9th
= day. and, placing his ten cents on the cou
= ed his glass even full. This made the b
= behind the bar open his ewes, and he
= formed the resident Of Lockport that
: would give him twenty-five cents If
!. wouldn't drink 1t. The man replied th
!, a. he had no license to sell whisky
- guessed he'd drink 1t.
d Eugene Schuyler is said to receive y
s, 600 for the right Of serial publication
'g 5cribner's Monthly Of his "Life Of Pei
s, the Great" reserving all rights to publ
is in book forra on its completion In the ms
to zine. The value OF the copyright Of sucl
10 standard work can scarcely be estimated
r. the sale continues fer many years. IL 10
I'd be mentioned In this connection, on
r. authority OF the Scribners themselves, u
in the illustrations OF this serial will cost .
IL less than $25.0O0.
" A dispatch from Baltimore say
!. Messrs. Malster and Reaney have just 90
y pletcd contract with N. Henri Say, wit
- tour around the world in the yacht Her
: cite had such IN unexpected interruption
: few weeks ago By an UNFORESEEN