The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-15
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
Tabor and his Oshkosh bride are TO 60 to

Europe next ldil.
Connecticut is rapidly advancing in the
cultivation Of oysters. About 10000 acre:
planted.
Charles Scribner's Sons desire and expect
to establish a new magazine in opposition to
the Century.
Georgia will this year produce crop o
watermelons worth on the ground one and
half million dollars.
Red Cloud has discovered gold mine on
his reservation. He is one of the few clouds
which have golden llning.-Netc York Ad
rertiSer.
1t is estimated that upwards of 10000
Americans will take their flight for Europe
this season, but, like wild geese, they will all
return TO us.
The Suez Canal Company have announced
that they propose to commence the cutting
of parallel canal across the isthmus forth
with, and have applied to the English gov.
ernment for their support in obtaining the
necessary concession of land from the khe'
dive.
The deputy commissioner of internal rev.
enue estimates the value of outstanding un-
used internal revenue stamps at $500, 1000,
instead of $50, 900 900, as reported. He esti-
mates the value of tobacco rebate claims at
from S5OO,OOO to S1,OO0,O00, instead of S3,.
100000 to S4,000,000.
The lady managers of Mt. Vernon have
just made the discovery that the stars and
stripes have never foated over the historic
cupant. These ladies have therefore deter
IN al aioin af bn of
al colors at the close of their session.
1t is said that the Indians of Alaska do not
belong 10 the same race as the North Ameri-
can Indians, but that they are probably an
ofishoot from the Japanese or Coreans. The
missionaries who have been laboring among
them say that in many respects their concep-
tions Of moral law are better than those of
civilized nations.
Mr.. Smalley telegrsphs the New York
Tribune from London that in the Worlds
Fishery Exhibition. now open there, the
"American section elicits numerous encom-
iums, experts and the public agreeing that 1t
surpasses all others in historical complete
ness Of arrangement. Englishmen find
themselves beaten on ground that they
thought was peculiarly their own, conceding
American superiority in many kinds OF fish
ing tackle"
People who heard "a Life on the Ocean
Wave" sung to threadbareness quarter of q
century or more ago may not generally know
that the man, Henry Russell, who composed
it, and first sang it In public, Is still living,
hale and hearty; but he is, and he walks
London stress and Ramsgate pier and stands
like ghost of the past, albeit happy, gen.
ial, and substantial ghost. He has q COM
Portable fortune and lives contented in the
growing fame of his son, Mr.. W. Clark Rus
cell, the novelist.
Lamenting the sad fate of humorists,
Frank Beliew says: "Gilary died in a mad
house, Seymour committed suicide; Leech
died of breast pang in his prime, VIM. New
man, a teetotaller, one of the caricaturists on
Punch, was found dead in his bed in Brook
lyn; John McLennan gave up drinking and
died in six months. Ned Mullen stuck to
on Wards Island; and here comes poor,
kind hearted Jump to end the list with his
brains blown out in Chicago"
The commissioner of internal revenue has
issued a circular supplementary to circular
2J in regard to the redemption and cancella.
tion of the stamps imprinted Oil checks,
drafts, etc. 1t provides that imprinted
checks and drafts may be sent TO the inter.
nal revenue Bureau at once instead
of from July first next as originally intended.
Such as are received will be cancelled and
returned ifpossible by July 6rst. They may
be presented In sheets or bound books, and
will be bound in the same condition. Blanks
which have been compressed into blocks or
pads, must be separated before presentation
"General Brady" says a private CORES.
pondent, describing the principal characters
In the star route trials, sis big man of for.
ty-fve, with a coarse, beefy frame, and gross
animal features. His head is round, and
his forehead receding. His neck is short and
thick and, like bis face. as red as a lobster
That face is not prepossessing. Its eyes are
of cold blue, its nose is small and retrous.
Sc, and its jaws are heavy. He does moi
lock like great man, and he does look q.
though he might not be q good one."
Here is chance for J. W. Mackey, Mrs
Mackey, and the fifteen court dresses. There
is an island off the coast of Sardinia, In the
Mediterranean sea, which Is offered for sale
all except the port, which Is the property o
King Humbert, Of Italy. The price Is $3.50,
900, and the purchaser will be permitted tc
hooutuO tuc otyic, ohu titiO VI mug
Mr.. Mackey should lose no time in closing
this bargain, and then, as one good turn de
serves another, he should invite the Car and
Czarina TO his coronation. By all means lei
the Bonanza King and Queen wear genuine
crowns.
Three widows-Mrs. Rachel Stevens, borr
In February, 1856; Mrs. Mary FL. Gilbert
born in September, 1855; and Mrs. S. s
Mackey, born in 17s9-all natives of Glou
cester, Mass, are now living there within ,
few hundred yards of each other. Although
| older than the constitution of the United
| States, two of them can remember affair
that have taken place during every Presiden
tial administration Of the Republic, and still
retain their faculties to remarkable degree
Mrs. Mackey is actively engaged In attend
ing to household duties every day.
At Monmouth, ILL.,, last Wednesday even
ing, Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, encoun
tered commercial traveller who ate his bee
| raw and swore when his taste was called II
question, for which latter indecorum Mr.
Cook caused his election from the dining
| room. The man of samples thereupol
vowed vengeance, threatening to "cook Mr.
Cocks goose" Mr.. Cook, fearing danger
called on the city police force to escort hin
to and from the lecture-hall. Il is now as
serted that the drummer hailed originall,
| from Boston, and that his fondness for raw
beef was the reactionary result of pro
i Iinf # ha