The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-09-16
NEW NOR.
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general Of Jesuits, is dangerously Ill.
Mayor Bulkely, of Hartford, Conn, de
votes all the salary he receives from the city
to city charities.
Major Ilges has sent his adopted daugh
ter, an Apache maiden, to Germany, where
she will be educated.
The Pope has approved a series of tex
books to be introduced into the Catholic
schools of the United States.
There are 1877 prisoners in the Oregon
Penitentiary, nearly all of whom are ell
gagged in some kind of profitable employ
ment.
Mrs. Hannah Cox, of Plymouth, N. H.
| who is said to have reached the 115th ami
versary of her birth on June Is, is slowly
sinking.
Most of the teas in London, within the
last few weeks, have been packed in leave.
of "Endymion," which have been given
away by the publishers.
"A telegram from Tchesme, Asia Minor
| says the recent earthquake there and on the
Island of Chic was more violent than those
of last April. The inhabitants are in de.
spair.
There is an active demand for miners in
nearly all the districts of Utah, caused by
the increased value of lead, which brings
many otherwise dormant properties into
operation.
Canes cut from the battlefield of Chica.
maugs and Mission Ridge will soon be offered
for sale at 81 each, to raise funds for the
erection of a $4,000 Methodist church in
Chattanooga.
Alexander Burns, granddaughter Of the
poet, Robert Burns, died in Louisville, KY.
a few days ago, from injuries inflicted by 9
runaway team. He was seventy years of age
and leaves no children.
The Indians of Nevada are preparing fol
heavy crops of oily pinenuts and succulent
beetles. They will sell to the whites all the
nuts and bugs which are not consumed in
their own feasts of celebration.
1t is said that 1OO, 900 copies of the Crown
edition Of Tennyson's works have been sold
within two years in England alone, besides
what may have been sold In . more expen.
sive form and in other countries.
The Denver i Rio Grande Railroad
Company now have upwards of 5000 labor
ers employed in the Gunnison country. Five
hundred of these are at work in the Black
cakon of the Gunnlson on the main line to
Utah.
If you want to know just how you stand
In the community ask your worst enemy and
your best friend, and then strike fair aver
age. Most people make the mistake Of ask
ing only their best friends and taking that as
the fair average.
About 1000 wild goats have been killed
on Sauta Catalina Island off the Coast of
California, this season. They are hunted for
their Pelts, which sell for twenty seven cents
pound. 1t is estimated that there are still
about 1000 on the island.
Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, NJ. p, has been Or
dered by his physicians to maintain absolute
f"ics foi oho hAohSht hio bCAitu UCltS oCIi-
ously affected. HIS physicians are English,
and they believe it will kill an Irish NJ. p. to
keep " absolutely quiet for . month.
james c. Fargo, who has been elected
President of the American Express Com
pany, is brother of the former President,
the late William G. Fargo. The new head
of the company has been in the express busi-
iness since 1874, and he is reported to be q
man Of large wealth.
The late General Robert Patterson during
portion of the war commanded the Army
of the Shenandoah. Under him were his
son-in-law, General Abercombie, who COM
manded brigade, his son, Frank Patterson,
who commanded regiment, and his grand
son, Lieut.. Abercombie, who served as an
aid.
Official circumlocution prevented Capt
Charles p. Smith, the hero of the steamer
Seswanhaka, from receiving any recognition
Of his gallant service by the Government.
The live saving service awarded him .
medal, but delay was experienced in filing
the testimony necessary in such cases, and
when the medal reached the Captain, he had
been dead one day.
General Rosser, Chief Engineer of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, has returned to
Winn epeg from visit to the end of the sur
vey. He drove the entire distance with q
team, the journey there and back occupying
two weeks. He reports that the air line be-
tween Winnepeg and Portage la Prairie is all
under contract, and that it will be open for
traffic by the 1st of October.
"A correspondent wrote to the editor of
the st. Louis Post dispatch asking him TO
publish verse 20 of Proverbs xi., for the
benefit Of the grain speculators. The editor
sent out and borrowed bible, but found the
verse indicated rather rough on the corn
speculators. 1t runs thusly: "He that
withholdeth corn the people shall
curse him, but blessing shall be upon the
head of him that selleth it."
Complaints are made all the over the
West, particularly in Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa, that wire fences attract lightning,
which often results in the killing Of stock.
The stock imagine that the fence affords pro-
lection from the storm and accordingly hud-
die close up to 1t. One instance Is given
where IS head Of sheep were killed in Ne
braska at single stroke, and another where
10 head of cattle were killed. r""
Bert Harris camped out In Logan caIon,
U. T., one night last week. About IL O'Clock
ne awoke and discovered that he and his bed
were being dragged down the mountain side
by huge grizzly bear. Harris was almost
paralyzed with fear, but managed, finally, to
wiggle out Of the quilts, drop to the ground
and crawl away among the rocks. The
grizzly went some distance with the bedding,
but finding that his expected prey had es-
capped, he set up . dismal howl. Harris
stayed shivering in the cakon for the remain
der Of the night. ...s-. ..
Phoebe, New, is the possessor Of big
and well-filled graveyard, occupied exclu.
sively by the bodies Of gentlemen who died
with their boots on. In times past, when
such burials were common, the cemetery
was kept In some style, but now that all the
glory has departed from the mining towns,