The new North-west., 1881-09-30
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Pompey the Great was born September 30,
1OG B. G.
See w. b. Miller's notice of auction sale of
work horses.
The sere and yellow leaf falls in the Sep
tember breeze.
| Lots in the new terminal town will be sold
at auction Saturday of this week.
Holland Il Estill offer somebody fine OPP
portunity to engage in the livery business.
George whitefeld, the celebrated Meth
odist evangelist, died just Ill years ago.
Twelve hundred cattle belonging to Con
X ohrs have been shipped from Glendive to
| Chicago.
| The Glendive Times, a neat little paper,
comes 20 us this week from the terminus of
the NJ.
Dan Berry sails into his Fourth of July
competitors with an invitation to come on
with their horse flesh.
Mr.. Hammond, of Missoula, has thirty-five
men and six teams already at work on the
wagon road starting at Pen d'Oreille Ferry.
The first snow-beautiful snow-of the sea-
son In Deer Lodge fell Sunday last. More
snow fell yesterday, but disappeared immedi-
ately.
The open well on the abandoned ranch
south of Estin g. Hollands is dangerous, as
It is near the road and very deep. 1t should
be filed or covered.
The Hamilton Northern Pacific party was
at the Hump Wednesday and will reach
Butte tomorrow. The line crosses the Hump
near the stage road. 1t is thought the grade
will not exceed 80 feet.
There are now fourteen pupils in the prin-
| cipals room of the Collegiate Institute, and
twenty taking music lessons. Four Of the
pupils are from abroad, and IL Is expected
ten or twelve more will be- in attendance be-
fore Christmas.
| While firing bombs on Monday as a salute
during the funeral of the President, Mr.. A.
| G. Wilhelm, of Pioneer, was badly burned
in the face by premature explosion. His
face is deeply powder-burned and an eye had
a close call
On Thursday last Chesbroughs engineer
ing party, on the Little Blackfoot, Were
within seven miles of the mouth, and locat-
ing about one mile day. The same day
Hamilton's preliminary survey from Black
foot TO Butte had reached the Deer Lodge
crossing, twenty miles south OF Deer Lodge.
All the boys know Ben yenor. He is In
Butte now. Inquiring Of him concerning an
old-timer few days siGc-, he replied ]:
"Were 1 Missourian as am an American,
/ might answer, he is cutting cordwood,
4 hus To- all uut1 La
cicnt to state he Is wrestling with the stately
tamarac.'" Ben "still lives"
Miss Dunlevy, the unfortunate young
lady who resided near Helena and was COM
mitted to the Asylum about three and a half
months ago suffering from alteration of the
mind, has been cured, and on Tuesday last
under an order fran DIR. Mussigbrod, she
was restored to her parents, who took her
home. 1t Is TO be hoped that restoration will
be complete.
During the present month FIVE patients
have been discharged nom the Insane Asy-
| lum. restored. Two more will be discharged
between the 1st and 10Th Of October. During
theft five years Drs Mitchell and Mussigbrod
have had charge of the insane nearly thirty
| per cent. of those committed have been re-
stored and discharged, only three cases hav-
ing relapsed.
On Saturday, October Sth, Mr.. r. 8. Kelley,
administrator of the estate of john s. Penn
berton, deceased, will continue the adjourned
sale, and dispose of personal property, con-
sisting of horses, wagons, buggy, farming
| implements, bedding, stoves, household
| goods, ETC.; also the ranches belonging to the
estate, subject TO confirmation of the heirs
after partition by the Probate Judge In De-
| cember. Sale in front of Murphy, Higgins
| q Co.'s store.
Rev. III. ID. Fisher, ID. D., agent of the
American Bible Society, preached In the
| Court House last Sunday morning. He was
quite eloquent, and his sermon was some
| what remarkable, he maintaining that lit
eral construction of the Old Testament is
| reasonable and worthy Of support; that
'.days" means days and not icons. We fear the
reverend gentleman has "hard lines" in these
degenerate days, for even Christians have
nearly abandoned the ideas he promulgated
Intelligence received from the Warner OBJ
seryatory, Rochester, N. T., announces the
discovery of new comet located In the con-
steilation of Virgo. It is a striking coinci-
dence chat this new and bright comet
appeared at the same hour President Garfield
was breathing his last. II was first seen by
Z. E. Barnard, In Nashville, Tenn, who has
made claim through Prof Swift for the War
ner prize of 500 in gold. This makes the
fifth comet since May LIST, and of this number
four have appeared from almost the same
spot in the heavens.
Thomas Smith, living near Emmettsburg,
while returning home from Deer Lodge last
Sunday with his two little girls, aged four
and seven respectively, met with quite an ac-
cident while going down the Pioneer grade.
The brake would not set on the wagon, and
while working with 1t he dropped a line. In
endeayoring to reach the line he was thrown
over the front Of the wagon among the
horses, which had started TO run. The little
rirls stuck heroically to the wagon, the elder
taking care OF the younger and holding her
in. although everything else was thrown out
The team finally ran off the road and stopped.
Smith was terribly cut up about the head
and body, but was able to travel next day.
The little girls were uninjured.
washington Dunn, Esq, who was In town
Monday, states tho oeou va"
not probably be completed to the station
half mile below Silver Bow (which will
probably be called Lakeside) until next
week The location for townsite Is excel
lent. being on table land with gentle slope
and high enough for good drainage. Between
the projected townsite and the Gassett ar
rastra there Is a pond Of pure water covering
several acres, and susceptible Of being deep
ened, ornamented and utilized for boating
in the summer and skating In the winter.
When the station is removed there, Deer
Lodge will be within about six hours easy
drive Of the railroad over our valley road.
This Ii NJ near ~ we are likely 70 have :
railroad Tor thu next SIX months. That, how
ever Is pretty good. when trip can Be m.de
between this and the Gtates without being
cut III ! stags coach more than ~ hours.