The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-04-29
NEW NOE. .wEsTERs.

on graves.
The Senate is now called Mahone's de-
batting society. Ir
An exchange says that q Nevada minis
ter Is in the habit of taking up collections to I
pay his assessments on mining stocks. ..
The last words of E. l.. Davenport, the
actor, Our Father Who art in Heaven" are
to be inscribed on a monument over his
grave.
Gen. Sterling Price, the Confederate
leader, said one day during the war aid
rather capture that eagle, 'Old Abe than
whole brigade of cavalry"
The District of Columbia, which for
several years was an organized Territory
with delegate in Congress, is now governed
by Board Of Commissioners. /
The census of Utah, recently completed
reveals the fact that the Gentle population
has increased 200 per cent, while the Nor
mon increase has been onlyA5 per cent.
y. Armstrong, Acting Commissioner, has
decided "the fact that If a'locator OF
mining claim be under the age of twenty
one years does not render the location in
valid"
The inmates of the Soldiers Home, |
near Washington, have signed formal petit |
tion and presented It to President Garfield
asking him to make that place his summer
residence.
The new Secretary of War intends to
give the Indian fighters a chance to
learn to dance. The uniformed ballroom
pets will be sent to the plains and the men
on duty taken east.
! Mr.. Jefferson Davis Bill, Of Connecticut,
has Just completed his studies at Eastman
college, Poughkeepsie. He has two brothers
named Lecompton Constitution Bill, and
Kansas Nebraska Bill.
In regard to the suspension OF that queer
and savage sheet, the Okolona States, the
Burlington, On. J.) Enterprise says that
having "no back log on the iron this south
ern frebrand died out"
Fifty years ago Frederick Douglass was
almost mobbed in Vergennes, Vermont, tor
attempting to disseminate abolition senti-
ments. Now that town has a negro sheriff,
French mayor and young lady as town
! clerk.
The earliest recorded examples of sui
} eide are those of Samson, lit b. G., and OF
Saul, 1855, b. C. In 1870 two boys CON-
mitted suicide who were ten years old, and
nine boys and three girls who were under
fifteen.
Miners In the Sutro tunnel complain ol
the rats in the headers, and Of the numerou:
: bats at the junction of the two branches
The former persist in getting into lunch bas'
kets and the latter trouble the mules by fly
i ing about their heads.
Chief Chicopee, who took part in the
7 Fort Dade massacre, still lives in the swamp
| of southern Florida. He 10 hale old sav
age Of ninety years. He dresses in the cos
: tune Of his forrefathers, and is as happy as
: cainet officer or the Gar of all the Russias
d While Gen. Sherman was in Auburn
last week, he was accosted by veteran, VIII
F. extended his hand saying, "Let me shak
It hands with you, General, was with you II
4, the Shenandoah" EYES," said the General
~ that's all right but wasn't there" Th
DR. veteran retired.
l "A Mississippi planter wanted to turn h
j. land into a stock farm. His neighbors, wh
r stick TO cotton, applied to a court for an II
p. junction to restrain him from sowing gra'
I'd seed, on the ground that the grass woul
ck spread over adjoining plantations and uni
at the ground for cotton. The injunction WI
e. granted.
Il Col. S. C. Reed, a son Of Capt. 5.
ie Reed, who designed the American flag OF u
Ks present form and who now lives In Washin
ID ton, married niece Of Key, the author
X the "Star Spanglsd Banner" Yesterd
nc was the sixty-third anniversary Of the hoi'
= ing Of the flag for the first time over q
House Of Representatives, and in Washir
'0 ton there was a quiet celebration Of
event. .. ts.,'a~ W +" '#
The wonderful volume Of song viii
proceeds from the tiny throat Of cana
seems wholly disproportionate to its si
~ But iit has been discovered that I'm birds
81 lungs have several openings, communicate
' ~, with corresponding air bags or cells, Will
''' 'e Gll the whole cavity Of the body from
'n neck downward, and into which the air pa
.aa es and repasses. u....... .............r.
". The frigate Constitution Is the histori
an ship of the United States Navy. She Is
-, miliarly known as "Old Ironsides," fir
- her continued successes in the naval bait
. ., of 1912. Should she be lost, as is feared
=. tl,e Navy Department, there will be mi
e., national indignation at the vessel being sc
:. 81 10 sea in an improper condition.
nds Malone has two sons and daughter
nal enough to take their places In society at
ARE Capital, and his wife, . very accsmplisl
ced woman, who is the exact contrast Of her
,oks minutive husband physically, weighing Q
few 200 pounds, was the daughter of Mr.. But
lent formerly treasurer of Virginia, and is sale
: 20 have been beauty in her day. Senator
the hone is by all odds the most eccentric
,rtb noticeable man in the Senate, and, next
all Alexander Stephens, the smallest man
.llv has ever been in Congress. srsi
,,ds 1t is seldom that given number car
..a. found to repeat itself in so singular and
.,,o- nificant manner a. in the following q
vet On tine 10th day Of October, George
o Of Wheeler strangied his sister-in-law, Ad
der. j. Tillson, under circumstances unparall'
r,a In the annals of crime on this coast. On
the 10th day Of November he was indicted
New the grand jury. On the 10th day Of Dec
/. in Der he was arraigned for his crime. On
! II. 10th day Of January he was convicted
h e murder in the first degree, and on the
man day Of February he was sentenced 70
der hanged on Tuesday, the 10Th day Of A
= Il by the neck until he was dead. Eside
~ A 10 was an unfortunate and unlucky nun
the with Wheeler. gt W.
a,s y .-aThe sun do move" earnestly cont
ana. ed the Rev. John jasper, of the print
: for colored Baptist church In Richmond.
oula pesistxntly did the Rev. John stick to
ne !. views ON this subject that fame and for
Ont tave now followed his efforts ~ lectl
IAN His lecture 10 very fanny and all the !
l.,.d % because he IL - earnest - he h igno
! ma and has not the least idea that he Is. tal
!. q. 4 v,onsanse He has made 90 much by Il.