The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-05-09
NEW NOR'-wE STERS.

The cholera Is making alarming ravages
In Calcutta, British India.
Over 100 steamers lie idle in the Tyne, aud
the British ports are crowded with destitute
seamen.
An English medical journal has calculated
that people live an average OF year and .
half longer this century than they did last.
There was falling of Of over $1,000, 900
In our exports of breadstufIs last month, Is
compared with the corresponding month las
year. g.. ....
In Salt Lake the sidewalks are twenty feet
wide. This, the Troy Times thinks, 10 to
| permit mans widows TO walk abreast In
stead of In couples when going TO funeral.
For tropical fruit, 81, 1857 was paid at
the port of New York during 1888, and 10
this statement the Mail and Express sees q
hint for fruit growers in the warmer parts OF
the United States.
There is a circus travelling in the West that
advsrtlses "The only coal-black sacred ele-
phapt ever seen in captivity" Sacred ele-
plants come high, but every circus must
have them this year.
A London journal has just been informing
its readers that "the preservation of the Adj
rondack forests Is At last agitating the people
of the West who wish to protect their valua'
BILE prairie lands from drought"
| An agricultural exchange warns amateur
gardeners against the common mistake they
make of planting their seed too deep. "Na-
ture does not SOW her seeds Deep" Ii the un-
answerable argument Of the writer.
The Japanese Premier, Prince Kung, ad-
dressed Gen. Grant, when he was in Japan,
in English, so-called. Endeavoring TO com.
pliment him by assuring him that he was
born to command, he said, "Sirs, brave Gen
eral, you vos made to order"
The New York millionaires raised several
thousand dollars for an operatic manager
who ran them in debt for opera last season,
but they want to give the Western farmers q
chance to raise the statue Of Liberty In their
harbor for them.-Detroit Free Press.
Virgins, the Canadian weather prophet,
declares that the English earthquake Is the
| American storm which he predicted would
come q week before the earthquake did. If
the earth should finally tumble into the sun,
as some Of the scientists say it will In the
course Of . million years, Virgins will claim
IL IS one of his cyclones.
Colonel Ingersoll Is building on his New
u
| Is Of logs, with the bark taken off and oiled.
| The interior 10 finished In mountain mahoga-
| ny and other hard woods, and no paint Is
used, all the woods being oiled. No two
rooms are alike. Towering above 10 an OBJ
servatory, from which the eye can view Q
ranch fenced by the round rim OF the
horizon.
An Illinois banker has been for months, If
fnr IN ne n m n
libertine, q man who scarcely drew . sober
breath. Yet bis fellow citizens continued
| calmly TO deposit their cash with him and to
show him every mark Of confidence and es-
TEEN. Although married, he has run of
with another woman, and $4,000 belonging
TO his customers.
William Jackson Carter, of Stanley county,
has been totally blind for twent mine years.
Notwithstanding his total blindness be can
take his axe In the woods and cut down .
tree and log it of into rail cuts and split 1t
into fence rails as correctly, If not as fast, As
q man can who has bis eyesight. He is the
father of large family Of children, nearly
oil of them grown and married, and be has
Lever seen the faces Of but Two Of them.
"Mr. Matthew Arnold, with his usual de-,
sire for mysticisn, will not" says the Lon
don World, "sive the world bis impressions
of the United 81 ates direct; but he proposes
putting together his ideas of some Of Ameri-
cas- giants Of thought and philosophy; aud
| in this way, by reading between the lines,
the world may at least get glimmering of
what the 'icicle' critic has TO say about our
American cousins"
| A clock at Brussels has been going for
eight months, and has not required to be
wound up since 1t was first set going. Ii
| fact, the sun does the winding of this time
| piece. shaft exposed to the sun causes an
up draught of air which sets fan in motion.
The fan actuates mechanism which raises
| the weight of the clock unlil 1t reaches the
top, and then puts on brake on the fan
until the weight has gone down . little,
when the fan is again liberated and proceeds
to act as before.
At the Edinburgh University banquet,
United States Minister James Russell Lowell,
responding for "Literature," said: "There Is
no country in the world that owes so much
TO literature IS Scotland. 1 bring with me
fluctuations OF three American Universities
and their godspeed to the older University
here. We feel strongly as ever that blood Is
thicker than water. warmly reciprocate-
and feel l am expressing the feelings OF
Americans In so doing-the expressions OF
friendship used at this banquet" The Uni
versity conferred the degree Of LII. ID. upon
Mr. Lowell and NJ. De Lesseps.
A Sturgis City correspondent of the Dead
wood Pioneer writes as follows, under date
of April 9th: "The long continued feud be-
tween the cattlemen and farmers on the
Belle Fourche has eliminated In the death
of all the dogs owned by the farmers on the
river, the burning Of the range, and the loss
| l. tnI. ID sk.A4 tE,f q ao
river. The stockmen poisoned the dogs To
keep them from running their stock, and the
farmers, being unable to fence, yet deter
mined to save their property from being
destroyed by range cattle, set the grass on
fire, and the cattle perished In the river
while endeavoring TO escape from the
flames"
Reports from various sections of the wheat.
growing districts Of the country state that
the winter wheat In Illinois, Ohio, Iowa and
Indiana 10 In excellent condition, injury by
frost having been confined exclusively to
scattered points In the two former States.
The plant in Missouri has evidently been
badly damaged by cold weather. Wisconsin,
reports falling of In the acreage OF spring
wheat, a. the farmers ere giving greater At
ten.ion TO the dairy. Dakota and Minnesots
have q larger acreage than last year, and
there is prospect Of the largest yield fol
years, no damsge from insects being reported
1t any point.
The United States Grand Jury, 1t Yank'
ton, ID. T., have found two indictments
against Governor Ordway, charging him
with corruption In the organization Of coun
ties. Governor Ordway 10 en- route from
Washington TO Ysnkton. He has letter.
aud p4pers which, It Is alleged, implicais ,
number of those who are now foremost In
pnshing his prosecution. He showed let
ter from Cynthia Cleveland, the female at
torney and temperance lecturer Of Dakota
offering him eighty acres Of land In High
more Il he would appoint Commissioneri
favorable to that point.
i King Leopold, Of the Belgians, 10 engaged
in IN enterprise having for It's object ths
founding of new route for ocean trave
between America and the Old World. Ths
route selected will be direct from New Yofi
TO about the fortieth parallel, and along thai
to the Portuguese coast, with the European
entry 1t Lisbon or Cadiz. The Portuguese
and Spanish Governments have both beer
sounded upon the subject, and win, it ID un-
dcrstood, do all In their power TO improve
direct railway communication from the se
lecled port TO Paris, and 10 improve she har