The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-01-30
NEW NOR rERs.

jeff Davis Is ~ years old.
Jack, the Ute chief, is Mormon priest.
-Parnell has been in America twice be-
fore.
Denver is erecting q SITS, 600 Court
House.
The Pope signs himself "Leo p. P.
Kill"
The Presby terians gained 1900 MEM
bers in 1879.
Secretary Thompson smokes ten to fif-
teen cigars day.
-Gambetta is growing thin and his hair
IS getting white.
Vanderbilt gave about $4,000 in
Christmas presents.
Charles Francis Adams pays a tax on
STAT. 900 in Boston.
The present property valuation of
Deadwood is $4,000. --ssg
Deafness is seldom or never known
among the American Indians.
China claims to have tanned and sub
dued the bicycle 200 years ago.
-Thurlov Weed saw the first steamboat
and rode on the first railway car.
-Eperson defines weed as plant
whose uses have not been discovered.
The Washington Star notes defect
iu Ed,son's lamp-it won't light cigar.
The oldest timber in the world used
by man is found in the temples of Egypt.
ALL the gold in the world make a pile
only % feet wide, As feet long and 25 feet
high.
The bullion product of Dakota for
1879 was 5000, ,1S3 greater than it was in
1878.
"A Denver tailor is reported to have
made $3.50, 600 in the Leadvills miues re-
Gently.
ANY man pays too much for his whistle
when he has it wet fifteen or twenty time
a day.
He shall be immortal who liveth till
uo oo seoneu Wy ohc "ibnous iauis.< 's"s'
Falier.
Horace White. editor of the Chicago
Tribune, made $780, 600 by the rise in Kan
sas Pacific.
If there be no enemy, no fight no
fight, no victory; no victory, no CROWN
SdUonurola.
"A regular tidal rise aud fall has been
observed in the waters OF certain wells in
North Carolina.
Wade Hampton has been invited to
Pittsbuig TO deliver an address before the
Graud Army posts.
Sir Arthur Guinness, the rich Dublin
brewer, has sold his interest in the brewery
business for 100000.
Edison was born near Digby, Nova
Scotia, his parents removing to the United
States when he was very young.
The Increased usa of arsenic in the
manufacture of paper collars and cuffs will
biiug these articles into disrepute.
1t is estimated that the tailings frot,
-ths aiaes controlled by the bonanza firm
will yield in bullion at least $50, ,000, 600.
| The officers OF Christ Church at Alex
| andria, Va, are endeavoring to sell the Bi-
BILE used by Washington to help pay a debt
of the Church.
-Beceuse Fulton, New York, ferry
boat pilot fell dead at post, the company
ordered that henceforth two pilots shall &C
company every boat.
In the last four years about one-fiftt
of the entire railway mileage aud capital Of
the United States has been compelled tc
change ownership by forced sale.
Virginia City, New, had big gale re
Gently. The Butsrpriss says that pigeon
had its head taken off by being blowr
against telegraph wire.
William FL. Vanderbilt distrib ited
$20 900 among his poor relatives on Slater
Island aud gave 81, ,00o to the pastor of ths
old Moravian Church there on Christmas.
General Grant has ordered his ELhar
Allen colt, now on the farm of Gen. Beale
near Washington, to be sent on the mex
steamer as present to the Mikado OF ia
pan.
Ex-senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, il
using the 81 ,Co0,oC0 he made in mining
operations to calLy on sheep raising on
grand scale in New Mexico. He was nearly
bankrupt when be left the Senate.
The Yellow Jacket shaft has now at
tanned vertical depth of $500 feet. Not
withstaading this immense depth the ain il
the lowest level leading f,om 1t is so COO
that some of the miners work with thei
coats on. In the Belcher, at depth o
5000 feet, tine men work with greater com
fort than they did On the upper levels.
George Fl. Stuart, the well-known phi
lanthropist of Philadelphia, has lost al
his fortune by the failure of person TO
whom he Endorsed. He has surrendered
his entire e,tate to his friends creditors
and now, at the age OF more than sevent.
years, he lives in rented house, but meet
his friends every day with pleased self-sat
isfaction.
A drummer for q New York bous,
called on merchant recently aud handed
him picture of his betrothed instead o
his business card, saving he represented
that establishment. The merchant exam
iped il carefully, remarked that 1t was !
fine establishment. with the hope chat h'
would soon be admitted into partnership
The last seen OF the drummer and mer
chant they were talking OF the outrage n
Maine.
The London World says that the rea
son Why express search has been ordered tt
be made IN Zululaad for the Prince Impe
rfsps watch is that. attached to the chain
his Highness wore that rslic--a fragmen
Of the true cross-which belonged to Char
lemagne, came into the hands OF the Firs
| Napoleon, and was always worn BY the lat
Emperor, who regarded II in that curious
J semi-supsntitious way Of his, a. some