The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-04-18
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.

Charlotte, South Carolina, Is besieged by
/ q colored Salvation Army.
1t costs $4,000 year to light the Wash
ington Capitol aud grounds. r
John Bright is better. BE has been suffer
ing from congestion Of the lungs.
Gov. Click will head the Kansas delega'
tion TO the National Democratic Conven-
tion. ...st.
| New York has smother crank predicting
/ the speedy destruction Of this mundane
sphere. 's.. 'te
Last year the Government paid for several
copies Of Puck, for the use Of department
| officials.
| II is stated that our army Of about rs, 900
costs yearly but half q million less than the
German army Of 100000.
General Butler has not yet despaired of
the Presidency coming to the old gentleman
with bee In his bonnet, and two Bs In his
| name.
The Postmaster General has ordered that
| no business cards, bills or advertisements
shall hereafter be allowed to be stuck up In
postofices.
Many leading Southern newspapers believe
| that q salted mackerel Is not more dead than
will be any party that plants itself on free
trade platform.
Mr.. John Walters. OF Detroit, born on st.
Patrick's Bay, ITO, attributes his good
health and long life to the persistent but
judicjous use of whisky and tobacco.
George L. Perkins, venerable citizen Of
Norwich, Conn.,, has carried In bis pocket
| for 7S years the same silver half dollar
| little feat not often done In this world.
The Great Eastern, the largest steamer In
the word, now doing service IN England as
coal boat, will be brought to New Orleans
and fitted up as . hotel during the worlds
fair.
Senator Fair has gone TO his home In San
Francisco. II Is said In that city Of Sena-
torial scandals that he will be remarked
soon to the wife from whom he was divorced
last year.
jefferson Davis is thus spoken Of by the
Little Rock, Arkansas, Gazette: "He has
chosen to sit down, bewail fate, and await
for the shadows to close over him. Yet the
world moves"
During the years 179s-1sO4 the volunteer
force of the British army attained the maxi
| mum number of 900. The force was
raised In consequence Of threatened inva-
sion from France.
Tho mind-curers claim that disease is, for
| the most part, q mental trouble, and that an
| invalid could cure himself were he sufh
| ciently strong mentally. They have un-
doubtedly effected many wonderful cures.
George Pen Johnston, the editor who died
| in San Francisco few days ago, directed In
a., haAy ha fn n
| . furnace. Mr.. Johnston was q man OF mark
In the politics Of California In the days Of
| Broderick.
| The be,ied buzzard continues to spread
| CONSERVATION In some Of the Georgia coun-
| ties. Ignorant people believe 1t is the devil.
| This dreaded bird was once pet. Children
tied to Its leg q small COW bell, which so
| frightened IL that It few away and never
| returned.
OF the 5000 Indian children now living
| In this country, over 10000 are being edu-
| Gated in Government schools. This fact Is
all the more significant when 1t Is remem-
bered that no systematic work had been un.
/ dertaken until the latter part Of General
Grants administration.
An English tourist says that most Of the
hard wood shipped from this country to Scot
| land Is converted into paper folders and
other trinkets, and sent back to us as souye-
Mrs from the house In which Burns was born
| or died, or the tree under which Walter Scott
wrote some of his most brilliant gems.
The Philadelphia Ledger questions the
statement of the Chicago Times TO the effect
| that nearly all building materials are shorter
| lived In the Western country than In the
| Eastern States. The Ledger suggests that
| all this may come from the fashion In the
| fast Western towns in these days Of using
unseasoned timber, manipulated by poor
workmanship.
| Speaking of alleged sea serpsnts, Prof. j.
G.. Wood, the naturalist, says that, granting
these creatures have been seen, the question
Is what are they2 He DOES not believe they
are serpents, but thinks they may be ceta.
ceeus animal living in the sea snd shaped
like fishes, but breathing air and having
warm blood; In other words, II is species
of whale which Is dying out, and may DO to
the whale what the eel is TO the fish.
General Boyntou is the Oldest correspond.
ent In consecutive service at Washington,
and Is generally respected and liked. He Ia
apparently about fifty years Of age. He Is q
nervous, wiry-lookiDg person, not above me-
dium height, with . full beard, which ID
| sprinkico Win gray, snaPPy cJoo, yoiAy no
ners and simple habits. He dresses plainly
and looks much as the average department
clerk Is supposed to look.-Chicdgo Netos.
The Carson City appeal has the following
letter from the CGur d'Alene mines: "Ths
camp Is the worst humbug that ever saw the
light. 1t is worse than the Lent Harpendine
diamond swindle. There isn't enough gold
In the diggings TO plate q spoon with, and
Il -lx~t Ia thar In nnt % ha
forty feet Of snow. ANY man who wants te
work like . niger and make about dollal
day will find this country just the place."
| Mr.. Gladstone recently gave an illustra
tion Of the methods Of faggot-vote manufac
turing In Scotland. He said 81 have In ny
possession photograph Of q hereditament o
! single structure, not very imposing In IL
self, occupied by Q single person, and con
ferring one ccupation-franchise, but held b.
forty five owners, every one of whom stand
upon the register In virtue Of his forty fri
part of the building, which only qualities
| single occupation voter" The building,
Is said, Is ct Parsons Green In Midlothian.
AT the signal service training school, Ar
I lington Heights, the student Of meteorology
baromeiers, and anomometers are compelled
TO leave their study tables In the exact cen
ter of the room, bunlrs In . certain position
In q certain corner, their coats hung upon cer
! tain nails, and their textbooks piled up In
!. certain manner before retiring for the night
these and hundred more singular regula
tions being prescribed "by order Of the Chic
' Signal Officer" Their Sunday dinner
, coffee, bread and dried apples stewed.
The frontispiece to Harper's Magazine fo
April IL Of more than common importance
. Some months ago Mr.. Cole went TO Europ
/, for the Century to engrsve some famous cl
!. pictures directly from the originals, and {
about the same time the Harpers sent M
: Closson on . similar errand. The latter ha
. given sample of his work first, and beaut
4 full work 1t is. It Is an engraving Of sh
!. little angels In the lower portion Of th
aImmaculste Conception" Of Muri!lo 10 th
Louvre, done with refinement Of fselin
Il and richness Of effect that no wood engrave
b In such work has ever surpassed.
!, The New York Commercial Aduertist
b informs us that the Scotch have sensibl
J. method in the adjustment Of lawyers fees;
: method which insures justice to the clisI
: and prevents the lawyer from taking u
y lions share. They have In all courts Z
9 auditor whose duty IL 10 TO revise, cxamin
a and adjndicate upon lawyers' accounts place
Ia before him. II client u dissatisfied With
l.uv.rss r1a ar~es al ha has In do n To hay