The new North-west., 1881-10-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

There are 10000 boatmen on the Erie
Canal.
The present Governor of Minnesota has
served three terms.
Chicago is endeavoring to get up relig-
ious revival this winter.
Senator Joseph Browns rent-roll in-3v
lanta amounts to over S20,0 900 year.
The lady who used her husbands meer-
schaum pipe to drive tacks with is no gentle
man.
New York has had three Presidents, but of
the number only Van BuIen was elected to
the Office.
Rutherford b. Hayes has just been elected
road commissioner by the electors Of Fre-
mont, Ohio.
The railroads of Kentucky are assessed at
$3l 900 900, an Increase Of more than S5,0oo,-
600 over last year.
The Edison Electric Light Company has
received contract for lighting the Paris
Grand Opera House.
Only six States choose Governors this fall:
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio,
Virginia and Wisconsin.
hsaViS mas aU3nuOUeu lucA Vi
ing the capital to st. Louis. Alton, in Illi-
nois, Is his favorite now.
Water is becoming so scarce in New Jersey
that some of the saloon keepers are thinking
of running on half time.
It is estimated that half million dollars
will be needed for the Michigan sufferers
during the coming winter.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who is going to
Washington November /, is now better in
health than she has been for four years.
Georgia papers are saying that possibly
Senator Hills maladv may oblige him to re-
sign his seat In the United States Senate.
The newspapers all over the country are
renewing the recommendation to build
new Executive residence in Washington.
At Savannah, Ca, one day last week
ferryboat sprang leak and sank, and twelve
persons, chiefly market people, were drowned.
Archibald Forbes, the celebrated London
newspaper correspondent, arrived in this
country day or two since on second lee
ture tour.
In tussle at Philadelohia Morgan Will
iams bit Jeremiah Sullivan's thumb, and
and death is expected TO follow.
A. S. Niles, recently arrested in California
for numbering his neighbor, James Singleton,
four years ago, committed suicide in Jail on
the 26th ult. by cutting his throat.
The temperance Methodists of America at
the ecumenical council In London were
shocked at the idea of their English cousins
offering them ale and other wicked beverages
for dinner.
A friend calling on the late Senator Burn
side one evening found him writing out
speech with pot Of hot tea beside him for
stimulant and music-box near grinding out
lively airs.
Senior Don Francisco Barca, the Spanish
Minister to the United States, received and
transmitted a dispatch of coincidence ad-
dressed by the King of Spain to Mrs. Garfield
personally.
Two roughs named Mcdonald, cousins,
brutally murdered two brothers named Ket-
son near Menominee, Wis, last week. They
were arrested, and on the 18th ult. were taken
from Jail and lynched.
For a generation In England, says an ex-
change, Wellington gave name to top
boots so in this country McClellan's name
attaches to saddle, aud Burnside's to a GER
tain style of whiskers.
| Democratic political meetings in Iowa
were suspended during the week between
Garfield's death and his interment. AGreen-
| back meeting was changed into a semi-re-
| ligious non-partisan meeting.
A special train carrying journalists from
| the East to Cleveland, ran into u hand-car
| loaded with section-hands near Beaver Falls,
| Pa, Saturday preceding the Presidents
funeral, and five Of the men were killed.
President Arthur was 81 years of age Oc-
tober 5. II Is supposed that his sister, Mrs.
Mary McElroy, of Albany, will preside over
the White House. He has two children, a
son of II, named fer himself, and daughter
| of IL, named Nellie.
| During the time the wounded President
was at Long Branch daily average Of one
hundred thousand words Of press dispatches
were sent from the telegraph Office there, and
OH the day Of his death two hundred and
twenty-five thousand words were sent.
The evening before the last meeting of the
Society Of the Army of the Potomac, al
Hartford, Conn.,, Daniel Dougherty, of Phil
adelphia, the orator of the occasion, wa:
asked by friend the reason for his being sc
unusually quiet. Dougherty replied: "Be
cause have an Grafton simmering inside o.
me-"
John Sherman, United States Marshal fo
New Mexico, has been indicted for embezzle
ment Of public moneys, and passed one nigh
In Jail before he secured bondsmen. Th
young man is a nephew of Senator John an,
General W. T. Sherman. His father, Judg
Charles Sherman, during the latter part o
his life, had rather unsavory reputation TO
similar cause.
At Belleville, ILL.,, lately, girl of fourteen
and her foster-brother of five were gathern
scrap coal. The little fellow went upon
slack pile, which Is generally in a state Q
, smouldering fire. When he got TO the top tn
mass caved ir and the boy was enveloped il
, flames. The girl jumped into the fiery mas
and pulled the boy out, but not before he ha
received burns sufficient to cause his death
The girls clothing was burned off of her an
her recovery is considered doubtful.
Joseph d. Shields, of the Natchez, Miss
bar, has In preparation biography of s.
Prentiss. When Prentiss was q lad he mad
speech before debating society at Churc
] Hill, In that State. At the conclusion Of tn
speech Thomas Hall, q wealthy but unedu
Gated and very brusque farmer, sprang NJ
exclaiming: Young man, this is no plac
for you. Go to Natchez and read law. Go
Almighty intended you for big man and oil
] Tom Hall will foot the bills" And Mr.. Ha
, kept his word.
w. B. Horner, managing editor of tt
= Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, died Sept. 2
: He was stricken down from oveiwork the da
after President Garfield was shot. At ths
: time he coneeived an idea that his fate ~,
wrapped up in that Of President Garfield an
4 his condition improved or grew worse as tt
, late Presidents condition changed. On MOI
day night he heard the bells solling, kne
!. Garfield was dead, and, though his frlent
friad u Iriislaad him ha NOR.