The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-04-09
NEW NoR-'wESTERS.

with the gout in New York.
Don Cameron has given $3.50 10 Gen.
Lees college at Lexington, Va.
Russell Hancock, Gen. Hancocks only
child, is planter in Mississippi.
-Daid Davis may be said to have greas,
ed his bosom with oleomargarine, but it
still refuses to bulge.
John Brougham will, on the 9th OF
May. be seventy years old, and will have
completed bis fiftieth year on the stage.
The number of men killed by accidents
in the st. Gothard Tunnel from the COM
mencenent of the enterprise to the end
amounted to 120; wounded, 400.
The wife of General Sherman has
written letter to Washington newspa-
per defending the Pope against the news
paper charges that he has given nothing
to the poor of Ireland.
DIR. Wynne proposes the introduction
of an automatic switch in telephone cir
cult, 30 that any one in connection with q
telephone exchange may communicate
with any other person similarly connected
without the Intervention of an assistant at
the central Office.
"A Kansas man bet $40 that with rifle
he could shoot an apple off his boys head,
la William Tell. He tried 1t with the
brave boys consent, but aimed badly, and,
instead Of merely piercing the apple on top
OF the boys head, the bullet took the life
of mule in the next field.
-Twenty-Rine newspapers are now pub
lished in this country exclusively by oolored
men-twenty-two In the South and seven
in the North. When it is considered how
lily fitted for either editing or patronizlng
public journals the colored race was at the
close Of the war, the progress it has made
is most encouraging.
In order to fully test his method for
economically utilizing gold and silver ores
after they have been used by the miners,
Edison has sent for a ton of tailings from
the mines along the Feather river, in Butte
county, Cal. He has postponed his visit
west until these arrive and he has an op-
portunity to work it over.
The famous Roman tenor, Father Gio-
vanni, Capuchiu friar, is dead. He was
in many respects the most remarkable ten
or of the century, and operatic managers
have vainly offered him large sums to re-
nounce his life of asceticism and 60 upon
the stage. When he sang the mass in
Rome the cathedral was always crowded.
1t is now definitely settled that the
Rev. DR.. William M. Baker, of Boston, is
the author Of "His Majesty, Myself"
This is the third In the second series of the
" No Name novels. The other two are
by writers already known-"The Colonel's
Opera Cloak" by Mrs. Brush, and "Sig-
nor Monaldini's Niece" by Miss Mary
Agnes Tickner.
jesse r. Grant, son of the ex-Presi-
dent, has been made a member of the new
Mining Exchange in New York, and Ulys-
ses s. Grant, Jr., is one Of the incorpora-
tors of the new Mining Trust Company,
the object of which IL to loan money on
mining stocks. The Presidents Of the
Banks of California and Nevada are also
among the incorporators of this institu-
tion.
"A story is retold by the Lewiston, Me-,
Journal of good old Father Sewell. of that
State, who, when once asked to lead the
devotions of the meeting in monthly
concert Of prayer for the conversions of
the world, arose, and, after fumbling in
his pockets for a coin, at last brought it
out and handed it to the presiding officer
Of the occasion, saying, as il to himself,
~ can't pray any till I've given some
thing"
-Apropos of the story told by London
paper of the death next morning of one of
the thirteen guests who happened to sit
down at dinner party recently given In
that city, Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, of the New
York Tribune, tells of dinner party he at
tended in Washington several years ago,
when the number of guests present hap
pened to be the same unlucky number, ev-
cry one of whom is Dow alive and in better
health than then. But what is a fact
worth when weighted against long cher
ished superstition?
AT dinner in honor of Emperor Will
liam's birthday, the Gear said "On the
anniversary Of my accession to the throne
the Emperor of Germany gave me renewed
proof Of his constant friendship by an off,
cial letter, which was Immediately pub
lished, and also by private letter, both of
which deeply moved me. I reciprocate
the sentiments and wishes expressed in
that letter, and count upon the maintenance
and consolidation OF the relations hich
have existed for more than a century be-
tween the two countries. drink to the
health Of the Emperor, my best friend"
"A Boston swindler advertised for "a
lady or gentleman TO address circulars eve-
nings at hone," and to the thousands OF
persons who responded by mail he said he
would pay "a thousand for addressing
envelopes, and added: "There are many
who answer advertisements merely for Gu
riosity to protect ourselves against such
bore we are obliged to insist upon de-
posit Of 81, which yoa can claim after the
delivery of the frst one Thousand circu-
lars" The pay offered was so liberal that
the dollars rolled into his postofice box &C
the rate Of two hundred day but he got
mono Of them, for the postmaster refused
to deliver them.
WOMEN VoTINe IN MAssAcHUsETTs.-
The following interesting account of
women's voting In Massachusetts, is given
by the Springfield Republican. The town
Was Westfeld, Mass. The first to vote was
Miss Belle Holton, high school teacher;
then followed two or three normal school
teachers. bat at o'clock in marched
body Of forty-eight women led by = police
officer. who cleared the way for them. We
are sorry to say that only two or three Of
all the men present were welLbred enough
to remove their hats or to stop smoking
when the women appeared, which proves