The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-07-18
10 g. DEER LODGE MONTANA, JULY 18, 1884
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.

| NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
San Bernadino, CAL, had three earthquakes
last week.
The Tennessee Bar Association wants
fewer judges.
Bull fight boxes at the City of Mexico are
from "a TO $8.
The violin is now the fashionable instru-
ment In Boston.
Sunday week 25 900 boys athed In the fee
baths of New York.
Barnum has promised to give Jumbo to
TUFTS College when he dies.
Milwaukee is the last city heard from IS
an applicant for crematory.
The new Cunard steamer, Umbria, has
engines of 12,500 horsepower.
A bill to prohibit prize fighting was de-
feated In the Louisiana Legislature.
The sum of $4Os,5co has been paid for q
postoffice site In Brooklyn, New York.
Olive Logan writes from London that the
Prince Of Wales is getting more dissipated
every day.
At Convers, Georgia, John Mitchell shot
| himself In a room where four men had be-
fore committed suicide.
Capt. Bellot, q naval officer, committed
suicide at Marseilles, France, upon learning
that his wife had the cholera.
The Prince of Oranges fatal illness was
chiefly induced by the vitiated atmosphere
In which he lived. Sixty parrots were kept
In his bed room.
| The criminal lawyer In Cincinnati, who
was the indirect cause Of the riots there, has
prepared bis last brief, decree having shut
him out from further practice at the bar.
A six-inch fall of snow occurred In Maine
last week. As Senator Edmunds was In
| Washington at the time, and Prof. Vennor
Is dead, Mr.. Blaine hardly knows who to
blame.
Samuel Francis, of Jamaica, L. l., sues bis
father for $4,000. His wife confessed the
other day that Of fourteen children born In
sixteen years, all but the last were those Of
Francis the elder.
New York elevated railway companies,
since the opening of the roads to July !,
1884, they have carried the extraordinary
number OF 452 ,004. .305 passengers, and their
1
A watermelon, worn as scarf pin, would
make good badge for teetotaler.-Phild-
delphid Chronicle. Not now. 1t has just
been discovered that the juice of the water
melon can be made into brandy.
Senator Hoar takes the correct measure Of
the Boston College graduate independents,
when he says they are very young men to
| whom one slip In grammar looks bigger than
q whole breach OF the constitution.
George Westinghouse, Jr., the inventor Of
the air brake, has lately perfected system
of railroad switches and signals, aud whis-
| tie which is to do away with the bell-cord on
trains, all operated by compressed air.
Gen. Butler expects to be too busy this
1 summer to 20 yachting. He has placed his
| America ut his sons disposal, but the young
man IL also too busy to turn skipper, so the
famous craft remains out Of commission,
hauled up st the navy yards.
M. Louis Maiche, tn well known French
engineer, Is quoted as laying that the bottom
OF the river Seine GOLF aims deposit Of gold,
the cost of extraction would more than dou-
BILE the value of the gold extracted.
The following nominations made by the
President during the session just ended were
not confirmed: Commissioners for the dis.
trict of Alaska, John G. Brady, George p.
Ihrie and M. ID. Ball, all Of Alaska; Indian
agent, John +. Kinny, Yankten, Oak.
George w. Cable and his family have left
New Orleans for the North, where, In the
little town Of Simsbury, Conn.,, he will pre-.
pare series Of papers on facts In Louisiana
history and series of sketches on the "Aca-
diens in Louisiana" in harmony with his
"Creole Days"
A design has been submitted to the Aus
trian Minister for Water Supply of contriv.
ance for bringing down rain. IL 10 In the
form OF balloon, with charge Of dynamite
under 1t. The balloon Is to be sent into the
clouds, and the dynamite Is to be fired by q
wire connecting it with the earth. The in
ventor, E. s. Haines, of Richmond, intends
TO try IL in the dry district of New South
Wales.
The friends of Judge Advocate General
Swain say that he Is very much broken down
worrying over his approaching court martial
and predicts that he will resign rather thar
60 to trial. He used every possible infu
ence to prevent the appointment Of q court
aud being unable to do that will surrender
his commission and leave the army 10 avoid
1
the President would accept his resignation
The crowded condition of the bushes.
part of New York, on the lower end Of tht
island, Is leading to the construction of higf
buildings there. Down town q plot oi
ground large enough for Q respectable build
Ing cannot be purchased for less Than from
sec, 900 TO $T50, 900 now. Owners are com
n PEELED to economize in land, and gain capac
ity by going up into the air eight, ten, and
occasionally twelve stories high. There ar,
now about twenty tall buildings In the lowe
part Of the city.
Some Russian botanists claim TO have dis
covered that the silky fiber found within th,
J seed vessel Of the epilobium or willow hert
. possesses many of the qualities Of cottoI
fiber. This material has been ginned, spur
and woven successfully on . small scale
; An economic society In st. Petersburg ha
J petitioned the Czar to set aside some Stat,
lands fer the scientific cultivation of tb,
plant and for the continuation Of expert
nents for improving the fiber. There ar,
several species of willow herb and this coun
| try is provided with plentiful wild supply
. IL might prove profitable to some inquirinI
individual with time and money at his dis
posal TO endsavor to improve our native spe
ciss.
Secretary Chandler has written . lette
which promises to become naval classic
and has directed copy TO each member o
the court martial which recently tried fo
drunkenness and failed to convict Lieut.. ed
I ward A. Field, Of the United States navy
!. The Secretary tells them that their lenien
! Judgment seems incredible In officers whit
regard the honor and character Of their pro
} fsssion. He says that no head Of the depart
ment will ever venture to send Lieut.. Fielt
to sea, but should he be ordered to activ'
duty the ship In which he goes viii It ono
be put In peril and the lives Of all on boar
J constantly endangered. The Secretary fur
, ther tells the members Of the court martial
| In 20 many words, that they have failed II
their duty, and that II oficers will not con
I demn officers Of their own corps for drunk
. enness, the legislative branch Of the Govern
ment will, In some way, stamp out 1.-THE vic
Of alcoholism among officers Of the navy
4 Mary Anderson returned to London yea
/. terday, after m extended tour on the cont
nent. Speaking Of the countries she ha
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