The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-09-30
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.

Florida's orange crop this year will foot up
50,000,000.
The Michigan fire fund in New York on
the 2lst amounted to S57, 900. #
Secretary Kirkwood mas ordered all terri
torial officers to proceed to their posts and to
stay there. .. .... ..... .......
Long Branch is also suggested for Guiteau.
A very long branch with . rope suspended
thereffom.
The land about the Elberon Hotel used to
be worth So an acre, and now 1t sells for
$50, 900 q lot. ea-4. ... .- ...
Mr.. Charles Nordbof while In Europe Wis
tied the field Of Waterloo, where his father
fought under Blucher.
The duel between Wise aud Lewis in Vir-
ginia was bloodless, Wise firing into the air
after being missed by Lewis.
It Is said that the handsomest woman who
has been at Saratoga this year Is Miss Kate
Stokes, a dashing rider in Coup's circus.
A reward of 5000 Is offered for the arrest
Of George A. w. Stuart, the defaulting Sec
retary of the Brooklyn Board Of Education.
Mr.. Ingersoll Is letting his hair grow long
and thereby acquiring strong resemblance
to Beecher. This Is one Of the mistakes Of
Ingersoll.
How can we look with confidence 10 q
heaven above when we do so little to make
heaven below around and about us.-Pdrson
Mackenzie.
Prof. Kings balloon trip from St. Paul to
the Atlantic coast was failure. The bal
loon would not move far from st. Paul ana
has now collapsed.
There is Sheboygan in Wisconsin and .
Cheboygan in Michigan with Chabogan In IL
linois, and II letters don't get mixed up It's
not the fault Of postmasters.
Half the fun of life Is lost in worry. Go
into a crowd Of excursionists, and you Will
find about seventy-five per cent. of worry 10
twenty-five Of pure enjoyment.
aWbat does encore mean?" asks an ex-
change. 1t Is only one phase Of q universal
desire among the sons Of men to get some
thing for nothing and get 1t right OIL.
A Philadelphia man vanished fifty big
watermelons 10 see how long they would
keep. They kept until the workmen In q
| carriage shop next door discovered them.
President Garfield died on the eighteenth
anniyerssry of the battle of Chickamauga,
| the last battle Of the war In which he took
conspicuous part and for his services in which
| he was made Major General.
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revolution Is past, perhaps TO return no more
to Spain. Impulses die away In proportion
as resistance slackens, and resistance 70 pro-
gress in Spain grows daily less"
The French picnlc in Tunis turns out 10
have very serious consequences. The frehcf
| have lost more than q thousand soldiers IN
campaigning already, and the Arabs are more
| troublesome aud defiant than ever.
4 A - md nd T.nr
Byron have just been eelipsed by Lord Clan
deboye, the eldest son of Lord Dufferin, who
swan across the Bosphorous In little ovel
an hour. The swim Is considerably Longer
than Byron's from Sestos to Abydos.
When Methodist preacher of any promi
nence In this State does or says anything o
note, half the papers In the Commonwealth
make local Of it aud say, "Rev. So-and-so
formerly OF this city," Such Is one bench
cent feature OF tue itinerant system.-LO
pell Courier.
A week or so ago Q crazy fellow "rur
amuckn through the streets Of Chicago
shooting five men, one fatally and two quit'
seriously. He emptied his revolver as h'
| was grappled by different men, and his wilt
career was only brought TO an end by sho
In The neck from policemans pistol.
The new Welland canal, connecting Lake
Erie and Ontario, has just been completed
a cost of xls 900. 900, and an American steam
er was towedth through Oh the 1Iih. The cana
Is lwenty-seyen and half miles long. Th'
old cansl was completed in 1870. ltdid goo'
setvice, but the traffic has become too grea
for IL.
The forest fires in lower Michigan were q
bad IL not worse than the first reports Ind,
Gated. A great tract in Sauilac and Huro'
counties, one hundied miles long on tn
shore aod twenty to sixty miles deep, Is most
ly burned over, involving loss OF life esti
mated al five hundred 10 one thousand, ant
Of properly to the e1tent Of millions.
| VIM. r. NJ. Army, a noted politician o
Kansas and New Mexico, died In Topeks
Kansas, September 10Th. He was once Sec
retary Of New Mexico and acted rs Cover
nor considerable time during that officer
absence. He also acted rs Indian agent q
Abiquiu, N. M. He was very earnest an
sctive In his efforts 10 develop the resource
of New Mexico, and made many trips acros
the plains when travel was not so pleasant q
In these days. His remains have been take
to New Mexico for interment.
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