The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-23
A Merry Christmas to All.
NOTES OF THE DAY

The Wyoming Legislature will convene in
Cheyenne on January 10, 1857.
There are twenty-one preachers In Rhode
Island who can't collect their back salaries.
Hugh DAVIS, a nephew Of Jefferson Davis,
IS a member elect of the Mississippi Leeis-
lature,
The authorities In Liverpool and Glasgow
are taking precautions against fires in their
theatres.
The Spokane Indians are suffering from
disease resembling dIphtheria. Fifty cas- s
are reported.
The number of patients in the insane aSl-
lum al Stockton is TIA males, and ST. f.
males; total, 1895.
The man who first wrapped tobacco IN
tinfoil made 100000 by it, and yet didn't
help the taste bit.
The paper on which the Message vas writ
ten had heavy black border and was fas-
tened with black tape.
An American jew. performing in a circus
at St. Pete,sburg,was ordered TO quit because
he professed the Hebrew faith.
General Keifer is the first Ohio man who
was ever elected TO the position Of Speaker
of the House Of Representatives.
The first day of the Chinese New Year will
fall on the II b Of February, but il is not
likely there will be any reception.
They say that money does not bring hap
piness. This is all experiment, however.
which every ore wishes to Try for himself.
The investigation of the prospect hole In
which Mast, the artist, invested $4,000 shows
that it was literally ''sated." Nast's in.
vestment is dead loss.
In Gar6eld's lifetime the Christian church
at Washington was crowded Sundays Now
| it is almost deserted. So soop are we for
gotten when we are gone.
In the past season Minneapolis has built
over mile Of business blocks, 1861 dwell
ings. and mills and other buildings enough
to bring the total cost up to nearly 5000
900.
Goetell is the name Of the Vienna gentle
man who contributed So, 800 for the relief
of the sufferers by the theatre fire. He is an
Austrian by birth, and naturalized Amerl-
can.
The Greenyile (Ohio) National Bank,
which suspended five years ago, did not, 1t
seems, make total failure. 1t has just paid
off its creditors. They got seven cents on a
dollar.
jay Cooke, it is said, does not age at all
He is as young, active, and energetic as he
was a dozen years ago, and, it is said, is re-
gaining the financial position that he once
held.
General Sherman has gone to st. Louis to
attend the funeral of the late General Tur.
ner. Gen. Sherman was at one time part
ner of Turner in the banking business in Sal.
Francisco.
The Marquis of Lorne will remain in Can.
ada another three years, having made Known
his desire to complete full term of Govern.
or Generalship, unless recalled to take up
another appointment.
The jockey Macdonald, who rode F"Sha'l
in the Cesarewitch race, is dead. He was
esteemed and trusted by many greaC men,
the owners If great horses, and bis death ie-
moves the only rival that Archer ever had.
The Baltimore Sun calls for glass ballet
boxes SO that the first voter can see that the
box is empty, so that voters generally ca
see their ballots fall INTO the boz, and so that
;. stuffing or false bottoms will be impossible
4 good idea
Eagle, Nez Perces Indian, well known
in Lewiston, is reported on good authority
to have dug his own grave and to have got
into it aud died from smallpox, the old mar
having been abandoned by his tribe through
fear of contagion.
Guns fred in water are novelty. Ye
the new field magazine guns, successfully
tested by General Hancock, are enclosed IL
J brass case filled with water To keep th,
barrels cool as five hundred cartridges ar
fired minute.
The morning after the Vienna theatre fir
, the New York Herald published fuller al,
, better account Of the disaster than any Eu
ropean daily outside Of Vienna, although
r the London, Paris and Berlin journals ha
every advantage that time and slight ex
pense could offer. The Herald is not as pro
found as Plato, but it is All immense news
paper.
D President Arthur is both good shot and
' good fisherman, and follows President Haye
. in that respect, who hunted all over the Sar
] dusky marshes when boy, aud kept at
: until he reached the Presidency. Mr.. Haye
e once joined the cod and mackerel feet of th
e Newfoundland banks. aud spent season /
: that tempestuous and dangerous occupation
5 Washington was one of the best sportsme
Q of bis day, and raced horses like Genera
e Jackson, and shot every description of biz
and beast IN Virginia.
A successful trial Of glass making with Ii
3 sand and natural alkali Of Morrison, not Fl
v from Denver, Col, has been successful. |
! that place there is ridge Of sand two mil,
a long, which is of most excellent quality; ais
n deposits Of alkali and lime covering All are
J. of 100000 acres, with all The materials
a hand fer the production If fine glass. L.
/. periments made with these materials result
e ed in the production Of an unusually clei
is and colorless glass. Pottcis' clay Of sup
rior quality is also reported in the same '
entity.
l. 1t is now proposed by some enterprise
a New Workers to build line of Americs
II passenger steamers Of unparalleled spec
!. which will have accommodations for 81
% passengers, aud each cost from ST 100000
n $780, o0. They will not run to Liverpoo
m but land at Milford Haven, IN Wales, viii,
% is 200 miles nearer London than Livarpoc
Ie Thousands Of dollars will be saved this 81,
by escaping wharfage assessments. as u
boats will anchor In midstream as do me
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