The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-23
A Merry Christmas TO All.
LOCAL BREvITIEs.


do other brick work If.
A breezy letter from "Nofnuh." now loca-
ted nj Superior City, arrived too late for pub
LEGATION this week.
According TO the almanac makers Wednes-
day was the shortest day of the year. The
sun has turned backward"
Messrs. J. H. Meyers and Wiley Mounioy
are delivering material on the ground for a
brick residence just south of that OF Mr.. Ed.
III. Irvine.
This should be great day with the Nor
mons. II II the sevenfy-sixth anniversary of
the birthday Of Joseph Smith, the founder of
the church.
Mr.. Van viiet's party of N p. surveyors is
correcting the line through the valley and
running southwark. A new line was run
this week west of the TOWNSHIP.
Yesterday afternoon II was thought that
Jensen. the escaped prisoner, was hiding in
the brush in Cariboo Gulch, and several Off
Gers started out TO search for him.
I Miller, who escaped from the Penitentiary
last September, has been recaptured and is
held by the authorities at Salt Lake. John
II. Cole has gone down to bring him 'home.'
Utah & Northern passenger trains began
running to Butte Wednesday and will run TO
and from there regularly hereafter. The
trains arrive about 10 p. m. and depart about
4:30 a. IN.
Wasn't there something said about one
Mother Shipton In connection with the year
1881? II looks az though the old dame was
little off the center of gravity about that
prediction,
A letter from Glendale December 10th says
Minnie Stager, aged ten years, died that day
of smallpox in the pest house. Enr father
and brother had the disease, the former hav.
ing recovered.
Within the memory of the oldest inhabi-
tants there has never been finer fall weather
thar this. There has been no winter as yet,
and even If it does come rough now il can
not he long.
Work on the Northern Pacific was begun
near the Hump this week. There are about
a dozen men on rock work for the U. q n.
In the canon south of the Hump. A force OF
graders may be- placed on the same road near
the Warm Springs soon.
Montana excursionists are not faring very
we'll this year. Three out Of the thirteen
cars In the train on which Mrs. Bien and
Mrs Hoffman went east were ditched and
an Iowa burglar went through the train
No harm done the Montanians.
The following pupils In the Collegiate In
l. pf nj TO-
five per cent for the month ending Deem
Der 1lth, are placed upon the roll of honor
VIM Cave, Frank Bein, Forbis Irvine, Liz
zie Steele and Lizzie Voolfolk.
The placer claim of Francis r. Bill and
John O'Rourke, 1878 acres embracing por
ton of sections 10, %, "a, 25 and 20, in town
ship ten north, range eight west, in Fences
district, unorganizrd mining district, Deer
Lodge county, has been patented.
A social dance will be given at ONeill'.
Hall. FRIDAY evening. December Goth, under
the auspices of the young men Of Deer Lodge
Music by Hartweil's band. Supper at the
Scott House. Tickets, including supper
$500. A general invitation Is extended. Il
Alexander l., who started Russia on its
modern forward movement among the ma
tons of the earth, was born December %
l777 As noteworthy idea of his life IL may
be mentioned that at one time he very much
desired to come to America and live as Q
private citizen.
The old adage "The best Is always the
cheapest" will apply to no other article will
greater force than to Seeds Nothing is quits
so worthless ~ poor Seeds. ID. NJ. FERRY &
Co., Of Detroit, Mich, seem to be one of thu
very few firms engaged in the Seed business
who have fully realized the Importance o.
putting up and selling only the freshest ant
best of all varieties of Seeds; a. a Legitimate
result their brand of Seeds has become ex
ceedingly popular all over the land. We taxi
pleasure in referring to their advertisement
in our columns, and would advise all gu
readers who will be likely to require seeds t.
| send and obtain their beautiful catalogue
giving prices, instructions for planting, et'
Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of thu
spinning jenny and of other machines for thu
manufacture of cotton, was born ut Preston
Lancashire, England, this day of 1882. Hi
life was remarkable one, showing the pow
er OF industry and energy to overcome al
difficulties. He was the youngest OF thirtecl
children, and his parents were too poor +
give him an education. He worked a. bar
beer until he was twenty-eight years old
| When he invented his first machine he wa
profoundly ignorant of mechanics. He nc
| quirrd the rudiments of learning after he wa
fiftv years old, was knighted in 1886, and &C
| cumulated fortune of S2,5oO,OO0.
II Is not deemed necessary this week to de
vote special article to the smallpox. Their
are no new cases reported In the town o
| county. Mr.. Manning and Mrs. johnson
child have recovered. The disease seem
spent and, unless through carelessness IL ma
again spread, the worst Il past. 1t behoove
| those who have had Ii to remain isolated I'm
| I'll the physicians say they may intermingl
| with the public. The pest-honse and chang
| ing house are completed, and If cases ar
brought here they will be speedily isolate
and well cared for. There has been geners
vaccination, the health officers are on tn
alert, adequate measures have been taker
and we may congratulate ourselves o
promptly warding of threatened scourgs
| When community IL prompt, united, an
determined, az Deer Lodge was, any publ
measure for the public good can be accom-
| plished To this spirit we owe exemption
| from threatened evil.
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