The new North-west., 1881-09-30
NOTES OF THE DAY.

pistol is good thing to carry on Mis-
souri, train.
Surveyors are correcting the boundary line
between Wyoming and Montana. d ..
The gonfalon of the Ohio Prohibition par
ty should be wine-press on field of apple
butter.
About hundred live salmon have recently
been branded U. s. F. on the gills and placed
in the McCloud river.
Mr.. John Z. Owens, the actor, has relieved
himself of the burden of $4,000 in mining
operations in Arizona.
A London company Is about to commence
the erection of a forty-stamp gold quartz
mill at Gibbonyille, Idaho.
The emperors met and kissed. But mems
kisses are like ashes. They lack the fruity
taste which belongs to the feminine kind.
Garfield's official force in the White House
House will be retained. j. Stanley Brown
will aid j. G. Reid in the private secretary's
work.
Ham White, alias Burton, Colorado stage
robber who single-handed robbed party of
twelve men, has been sent to the peniten-
tiary for life. -......... -. -
The Legislature of Washington Territory
convenes In regular session next Monday.
The Council contains twelve members and
the House twenty-four.
Charles Henry Foster, the noted spiritual
ist, who does the great trick of reading note
compressed into pellet, has been sent to
Massachusetts, asylum for the insape.
Gulteau has been hung in efiigy at numer-
Gus places, including New York, Brooklyn,
Chicago, and St. Louis. Tne operation
should now be performed in propria persona.
Boston Corbett, formerly of the Eighteenth
Michigan Volunteers-the man who shot j.
Wilkes Booth-has applied for pension for
general disability, due to exposure in the
army.
Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston thinks there will
be a large vote in Virginia this year, but that
1t is too early yet TO predict results, though
he considers Malone weaker than he was six
months ago.
The Hon. Lionel Sackville West, successor
to Sir Edward Thornton as British Minister
to the United States, will sail from Liver
pool for Philadelphia in the American steam
er Pennsylvania October 18th.
A wealthy Italian who died recently In
France has bequeathed to the town of Elsie
ben the sum of forty thousand dollars as a
testimony of his personal veneration for its
greatest citizen, Martin Luther.
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White Mountains in New Hampshire to the
valley below, was stopped by Highwaymen
September 14th and the passengers robbed.
The operators are supposed to be tramps.
A ship canal across the peninsula of Mary
land and Delaware, shortening the distance
by water frem Baltimore to the Atlantic, is
an old project; but now it Is to be speedily
carried out, s., ,O00, 900 having been raised for
the purpose. rrsss rs. ...... al 10
The day succeeding the death of President
Garfield the Equitable Life Assurance Com
pany, through its secretary in New York, for
warded to the appropriate agent its check for
the full amount Of the Presidents policy in
that company, $4,000. -
Inter Ocean: 1t is due to the truth Of his
tory TO state that tie Union armies were
commanded by Murat Halstead, Fitz John
Porter, and Benjamin II. Bristow, except at
Shiloh, where Whitelaw Reid had charge.
This Grant business has gone far enough. /.
A train on the Iron Mountain railroad in
Arkansas was robbed last Friday, the thieves
securing $4,000 from the express safe and
much more than that amount from the pas
sengers. The Governor has offered $500
each for the five men engaged. The robbers
could discount that and have nice sum left.
Jean lngelow's life is more beautiful than
her poetry. Her face is we'll known among
the wretched poor Of London, and three
times week she gives dinner to the sick
poor and the discharged convalescents from
hospitals who either are unable to work or
have not yet found employment. She once
said: 81 find it one of the great pleasures of
writing that 1t gives one more money for such
purposes than falls to the lot of most
women"
Lord Lorne, wishing to get real Indian
legend from Indian lips, told an interpreter
the other day to take down in writing one Of
those related about the campfire and to
translate 1t for him. The man accepted the
commission with great alacrity, foreseeing,
as II was afterward discovered, what Silver
Islet II would be to him. Luckily, he was
questioned later on as to how long the legend
would be, and was forced to confess 1t would
take year or so to tell, at the rate Of three
hours day. The first commission was with
drawn, and he was strictly limited to the
supply of half dozen sample sheets.