The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-07-08
NEW NlL,.wEs ,Efs.
Little Rhody's population Is z76, ,53i, ac-
cording to the census report.

| tHouy PoPuiohioh 40 ~sot"'At ~
cording to the census report.
There Is balance Of S4,202, SCOTS In
the Philadelphia city treasury.
South America is sending large quaint
ties Of tongue in cans to the London mar.
ket.
-Beecher says that "stinginess In the
public schools Is damnation to the coun
try"
The Irish census shows a population OF
5,l59,s49, being decrease of 252,53s since
1878.
-Lubricaiing oil is said to exist In large
quantities in the northern portion of Wyo
oming.
A thousand stocking weavers are prepar
ing to emigrate from Chemnitz, Germany, to
America.
week, l0s of which were infants under five
years Of age.
Wisconsin has 1700 persons under pub.
lie care; 1850 being in poor houses and S5C
| IN poor houses and 1ails.
-Pennsylsanians are going to erect mon.
ument to the memory of Col. Drake, the
discoverer of petroleum.
There are now 1851 pupils in the Maine
schools, fewer than ten years ago, while the
population has increased 22,030.
Eight thousand Swedes, direct from
Fatherland, are expected to settle on the line
Of the Northern Pacific Railroad this sum-
mer.
Illinois had on the first of the month
/ 7,556,5I5 acres of corn, as reported by the
/ Secretary of the State Board of Agricul-
tura.
Affairs In the Ute country, Colorado, are
not at all encouraging for peace. The Meek
er murderers may take the war path at any
| time.
1t is said that a man who defers his char
tiles until be is dead is liberal with what is
no longer his own; what he gives away be-
longs to his heirs.
General Sherman says that he has col
lected all the data needed for correct histo-
ry of his military career and will leave IL
with his children.
The Pennsylvania Prohibitory Constitll-
tion Amendment Association Is to hold Its
first State Convention in Johnstown on the
2sth and 10th irlsts.
The damage from floods is over at Pitts.
burg. The less on lumber there is estima-
ted at S200,000, and on the Allegheny and
tributaries 100000.
Delegate PettIgrew, of Dakota, expects
that southern Dakota will be the next State.
He claims population of 10000, with
thousands swarmingin.
The natural bridge In Tonic Basin, Ari-
zona, Is certainly great wonder. The
can IN IL spans is 400 feet wide, aud the arch
is $50 feet above the stream.
The Directors of the Great Eastern
Steamship Company have decided to offer the
that steamship at public sale on October l,
unless previously disposed of at private
sale.
Three captains OF German steamers
have been arrested for carrying more immi-
grants than the law allows, and the sooner
| they are brought 10 trial the sooner the hui
man abuse will end.
The Paris correspondent Of the Lendon
| Telegraph says It Is announced that the
Panama Canal can be constructed In four
years at Gust Of million francs less than
the original estimates.
| Not only have all the Sunday shows IN
Cincinnati been stopped by the new mayor,
but he insists that Saturday night entertain
ments, including public balls, shall stop
promptly at midnight.
A wedding party in South Saltwater,
Minn., recently, broke up in fight. The
bride and groom were pounded and cut up
with knives because they refused to set up q
sufficient quantity Of beer.
The Brooklyn bridge trustees want ST..
00o,0 900 TO buy an approach to the bridge on
the New York side. The structure has al
ready cost sl3,000.00O, about the cost Of
Central Park and the court house which
Tweed built.
M. NJ. Pomeroy, familiarly known as
:" Brick " Pomeroy, is heavy mining opera.
tor at Denver, Col. He recently purchased
group Of twelve mines for $4,000. The
next day he sold two-thirds interest in one
of the mines for S20,000.
1T Is stated That the Canada Pacific Rail-
way Company has sold group of French
agrcnliuralisis 10000 acres Of land at Sl.2s
an acie, and that the buyers intend to colo.
nize the land aud promote Canadian compe.
titiun with the United States.
1 The spectacle of two policemen being
brought to the station house by citizens and
charged with intoxication and assault has
shown the citizens of Newark, N. j., how a
city is guarded when ward politicians are
trusted TO select men for police duty.-N.Y. z.
Herald.
The young man who pleads poverty and
| a tneagre salary as an excuse for refraining
! from marriage will do well to remember the
pluck Of Thomas A. Scott and Charles A.
Dana. The former embarked upon the mat
rimonial sea with a salary Of fifty dollars per
month, aud the other with salary Of five
dollars per week.
| An Indiana court has decided that q
subscription made In church on Sunday can.
not be collected by law, If the subscriber at.
forwards refuses to pay it. A church may
receive collections g cash down. on Sunday,
but pledge for future payment is an Illegal
contract and cannot be enforced, even If the
money was to save q heathen.
Governor Jarvis, of North Carolina, In
the course Of an address ai Randolph-Macon
College, Ashland, Va, AZ the recent com.
mencement. we'll said. Let me entreat you,
young gentlemen, when yon do engage 10
the service Of yonr country, no matter in
what capacity, whether il be as . maker OF
minister Of The law, or whether ii be in the
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