The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-06-17
Local Brevlties.


OK O'Clock" is improving in pungency
What are you going to do the Fourth Of
July?
The tax levy in Silver Bow county is %
mills.
1t is understood the Plunkett troupe is to
be here next week.
A full line of Justices Blanks now in
stock. Send in orders.
Our resume of Territorial items is unavoid-
ably shor1ened up to-day.
Rev. II. G. Hufchiugs will preach in Phil
ipsburg next Sunday, June 10.
Sheep shearing has begun and the gentle
shephe Dis are fleeing Davidson right aud
lea.
Merchants are receiving large invoices OF
goods ibis week. Full lines now and the
market low.
BY the way orders come to the NEW
NORTHWEST for " Location Blanks" there
must be quartz excitement in Missoula
county.
w ID. Knight, of the Yellowstone Journal,
is making splendid paper. The editorials
are well written and the locals are piquant
and bright.
The finest week of growing rains imagin-
able has blessed the farmer since last issue.
Vegetation is growing luxariantly and there
| is promise of abundant harvests. Thanks.
Dick Twell informs us there is a mile of
U. & N. grade completed where the ditch
crosses the Deer Lodge pass, and the graders
are ut work within six miles of Silver Bow.
Sheriff Tom Irwin writes from Miles City:
/" Jail full; 3 Indians, / negro, 3 white CIV
ilians and two soldiers. l am rustling now
for a Chinaman to complete the assortment"
Arrangements have been made for COM
plimentary Ball ia Deer Lodge July 4th, free
to ALL the necessary funds having been put
up by citizens. We will have some fun, If
not celebration.
Decidedly the finest piece of humor that
has OF ginated in the Montana press recently
is the article entitled Capital Anticipa-
tions in the Auant Courier of June 9th. 1t
has as many points az prickly pear.
Some of our valley farmers got fleeeed
roundly recently by couple of travelling
peddlers, who kindly took their notes in pay
mens Patronize your home merchants and
tell the peddlers to skip.
Some genius with n legal turn of mind, on
hearing that some of the Commissioners held
that Mr.. strang was not sheriff, and had no
| right to hold prisoners, said that in that case
Reeds escape was manifestly illegal and he
ought to come back. He has.
Mr.. J. I. Boland has bought out his part
| ner John Donlon, in the ranch next below
Thos. Starks, on the He'll Gate. Mr.. Boland
sold to g. w. Bell. OF Deer Lodge, this week,
the handsome 4-year old running horse, Red
Hawk, Jr., sired by Red Hawk, aud 1t is be-
lieved there Is speed and distance in his
| heels.
Warden Botkin has been advised by
| General Terry that an officer would be detail
ed from Fort Missoula to remove the U. s.
prisoner, Jesse Williams, sentenced at Boze-
man, from the Montana Peuitentiary to the
Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth. Lieut..
Avery has been detailed for the service and
will be in Deer Lodge to-day to receive the
prisoner
| Our March shipment OF paper having ar
rived promptly near the middle of June, and
having two other shipments close at hand,
/ we lcGi WhNdubsd- III hSpiuS ~ Wht hot NC
| necessary hereafter to intiict our subscribers
with the quality OF rubbish we have for two
moaths been receiving by express at three or
four times the cost OF good pape-. Why
didu't you lay in stock enough last fall p
Well, why don't people lay i'm years sup
ply of breadstu 1s before a famine?
Messrs. j. ii. st. Lawrence, baritone vocai.
| list and organist, aud Chas. Hines, violiuist
both middle aged blind men, educated at the
New York Institution, appeared at ONeili's
Hall On Monday and Tuesday evenings IN
musical entertainments to good audiences
Their method is to give free entertainment
and receive by collection whatever the audi
ence Is disposedto bestow. The receipts here
were large, than an admission fee would have
brought. Mr.. st. Lawrence sings his ballad.
very well, both are musicians OF merit and
their programme contains nothing offensive
They have gone to New Chicago, Missouls
aud other towns.
We owe an apology to our readers. Through
the adoption Of the metric system of weights
and measures by our astronomical corps ;
miscalculation was made of when the penum
bra o? the eassh would pass over the RICH
Emb OF .ae moon, &c, and the correction
were nos made in time 10 announce In tn,
las. Issue the Total eclipse OF the moon, which
look place Saturday night, Jrne ii and y. ]
! t.he ecIipse) was perfect success. however
in ali respec.s, add the eai Oh had 3e5 to spar
af.e. sbadowjng liz satellite. Tue duration o
The eclipse was over three bouss, and of to
. .aljty over bali IA hour. We have made Al
, raokemes.s TO coosuit au almanac hereaftei
believing that with the exception of Wed
nor's predictions, Josh Billing remark
about muleo aad the liver pad m;.acles the
are In The main accura.e aud consideration