The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-04-01
NEW Noa,-wssrass.

Inventor Edison has just obtained his
three hundred and first patent. Ele.
/ The Whitehall Times accuses Boston Of
spelling beans with capital B.
Gen. Joseph +. Johnston has permanent
ly fixed his residence in Washington.
The Masonic fraternity, according to the
latest figures, has 44,5O0 members in Ger
many. ai
Senator Malone Is saic to be worth q
million dollars, and Senator Davis, of Him
ois, about two million. @
The Manhattan Club banquet was chief
+, ly remarkable for the number of able Demo-
cratic statesmen who were not present.
Sir Garnet Wolseley, according to the
London Ne,cs, will probably take the title Of
Lord Wolseley ON being raised to the peer
age.
The subscription to the Worlds Fair In
New York is only about 500, 600, and all
but its most sanguinr friends have sbendon
ed hope of its success.
David Davis says the fence ID not so
| agreeable position as it might be. That is
why he gets down on the democratic side to
rest so often probably.
1t is tolerably safe to say that man who
hangs around Washington begging for an Of
flee simply advertises his unfitness for hold
| ing one.-New York Tribune.
In years when business is active in New
York the Register of Deeds receives over
| 100000 in fees. A very fat Office. but all
outrageous tax on real estate transfers.
-Ex-Attorney General Williams, who
went out of office poor, has made $4,000 at
his law practice. He will soon go to Oregon
and he may become United States Sena-
| tor.
-Ex-candidate Norwood, who ran against
Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, Gubernatorial
campaign In that State, is said to have made
fortune specializing in silver mines since
his defeat. ..
-Kalloch's defense for killing DeYoung
is "transitory mania" The Boston Globe
remal ks that the best cure for thar disease is
temporary suspension by the neck say for
about half an hour.
Louisiana has had three cabinet officers,
as follows: 1881, Edward Livingston, Secre-
tary of State; 1850, Charles NJ. Conrad, Sec
retary of War; 1881, William ii. Hunt, Sec
retary of the Navy. .aZ-s
Lieut.. Schwatka says that Lieut.. Com
mander Gorringe is the man 20 undertake the
new Arctic expedition, with George Kennon,
of the Washington bureau Of the Associated
Press, as chief Of sledge parties.
| Senator Fair is muscular man of medium
stature, with brown hair, blue eyes, ruddy
cheeks and . mat Of iron-gray whiskers.
| His manners are quiet, and his expression
that Of man Of strong discrimination.
-Leichardt, young botanist, set out
years ago to explore Australia. He went In
to the Blackail region, and no tidings of him
ever reached his friends. Recently BUSH
man named Skulthorpe found Leichardt's
ss.ara aud tho hot anist,s diaru Esn- -----.
John Gyrinbere, aged As years, went
into trance at Reading, Pennsylvania, five
weeks ago, and has remained in that slate
ever since. The only sign Of life he gives Is
an occasional yawn. At times he appears to
cease breathing altogether, but sooner or Ia
ter his respiratise organs begin operating
| again.
| Secretary of the Treasury Window lives
| In Washington in quiet way. His residence
| is q comfortable mansisn on Vermont aven-
| ue, a fashionable thoroughfare. His wife is
. modest and pleasing Massachusetts, lady
| who has blessed him with three children
boy, now of age, and two daughters, Of l3
and 10, respectively.
Chief Signal Officer Hazen Is said to be
unpopular with the employees Of his bureau
in Washington. He makes men who have
worked all night take part in the early morn-
ing drill, and, indeed appears to think the
drill the most important thing in meteorolo-
gy. The corps is thus being worn out, and
some Of the best men have sent In their res
ignations, saying they enlisted for clerical
services and not TO be marched aronud the
streets.
! Nevada railroad men, says the Reno Ca
zette, are the best paid in the world, except
ing, perhaps those on the lsthmus OF Pana'
ma. On the Central Pacific conductors gel
SIl5 month, freight conductors. $50; engi
neefs, $4.69 . day; brakemen, $40; firemen
Sl.sO day; Cinnamon, 81 and white mel
81. On the Virginia and Truckee railroad
engineers get S. day.
The dimensions of the new Cunarder
the Servia, which was launched on the CLYDE
March ], are: Length, $50 feet; breadth, 8:
feet; depth, A feet inches; gross tonnage
. $500 tons. A better idea Of the huge size o
vessel will be gained from the followin.
facts: Her cargo capacity will be equal u
e.5OO tons, with 1.SO0 tons Of coal and LOO
tons of water ballast, the vessel having |
! double bottom ON the longitudinal bracke
. system. h#
Yesterday morning James Devine, al
, aged negro w.od-cutter, was found dead b
, his room on the plantation of Mrs. Good
5 man, five mile from town. His toes ha
J been bitten off by rats and he was lying OF
. his face. A post mortem developed that b
= hal died from hyperrophy of the heart. ID
!: Knot, of this city, who conducted the exam
alton, pronounced the heart, which weighe
a five pounds, the largest he had ever seen.-
n Atlanta, Ca, Consultation.
Arzona Luck. :
= An Arizona correspondent Of the Los Al
y geles Herald gives something Of the romano
= Of mining In that country. He says:
Is aSix months ago . middle-aged man,
. former resident Of Gospel Swamp, bad
e borrow money TO buy burro to go prospec
Il ing In The Santa Katarina mountains pro
h pecting. He sold the other dav mine 4