The new North-west., 1884-03-07
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
Smallpox is raging in Khartoum.

1 S''s''foA ~ 'aS'ho AZ na@AsS1Lu.
Copper ore has been found in White Co.,
Tenn.
Nine of The New York aldermen are sa-
loon keepers. rr
| Montreal claims TO have made s., ,000, ,00O
| by her Ice carnival.
| The gross earnings of the Union Pacific
road last year were S29,761 900.
In Jacksonville, Fla, recently, 10000 Or
arge trees were sold for $4,000.
II takes $50 twists of the crank to wind the
clock in Trinity steeple, New York.
The Chesapeake q Ohio Railroad has put
| whistles on It's locomotives which can be
heard - miles.
War has broken out in the Utah Base Ball
Association. This casts the Soudan affair
into the most Insignificant of shades.
Fifty-nine thousand and forty seven pupils
| are enrolled in the schools of st. Louis. The
| expenses of the schools for 1888 amounted TO
| $S72, 900.
The Car of Russia IS said to be actually
| insane, occasioned by his terror of the Mill
lists. For the last month he has been in o
| deplorable state of mind.
A record kept of the number of unfortu-
mates who commit suicide at Monte Carlo
shows that the average is about five month.
Last year the number was G7.
The population of the State of Nevada has
dwindled since the census of 1880, when it
was put down at about G2,000, to about 30,-
600, of whom probably one.third are voters.
In
record In the Patent Office is one styled a
life saving coffin, which is so arranged that
any motion on the part of person accident
ally buried alive Is registered above ground.
To show the splendor of the offerings made
by the pilgrims at the grave of Victor Eman-
uel, writer instances wreath of gold set
with jewels which was brought by the Pal
ermo pilgrims. 1t is said TO have cost 1,000,-
600 francs.
An English judge lately refused the ex-
penses of three tradesmen who prosecuted
men for stealing goods from their shop doors
on the ground that by exposing their goods
in the way mentioned they held out temp
tation 10 steal.
The wrecked City of Columbus is rapidly
going To pieces, and no further efforts will
uc hdAc W IeSoseI plOpeIJ' NoIhtue VI
value has been secured. There is no hope
of finding any more bodies, as the wreck has
largely fallen apart and all traces of it will
be washed away by the next storm.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beocher was one
of the pail bearers at the funeral of Thomas
Kinsella. The presence of the great preacher
in that capacity in Roman Catholic church
marks an era of progress In Christian char
ity and that brotherly love which is superior
to creeds and sects.-Chicago Tribune.
What the Soudan is worth may be gath.
cred from some published statistics, accord
ing TO which there are IL, 900 Christians and
10000 Egyptians in the province; 1,0O0 COM
mercial houses owned by Europeans and
5000 by Egyptians, and the import and ex-
port trade is valued at fl3 ,000, 900 annually.
Carl Guthers, of st. Louis, has completed
large painting entitled "Farming in Da-
kota." This he contemplstes sending to the
Paris salon, which opens in the early part of
May. Tho painting is monster in size, and
represents Dakota scene--a vast level strip
Of land with towns away in the distance
from which smoke curls over the plain. In
the foreground is train of plows winding
along the field, turning up the black earth,
and still further back Is another train. There
are in all about eighty.two figures of horses
and men in the scene.
From Ayers newspaper annual for 1888 it
appears that Republican newspapers In the
Southern States are chiefly remarkable for
their scarcity. Mississippi takes the lead
with Republican and 9l Democrats; Ala
bama comes next with 2 Republican and So
Democrats; then follow South Carolina with
Republican and 81 Democratic, Georgia
with 5 Republican and 1873 Democratic,
Texas ii Republican aud l6j Democratic,
Arkansas with Republican and So Demo.
cratic. Gorham's suggestion that the crying
need of the South is "a greater variety of po-
ltical information," may not be far wrong.
Those who purchase the Swedish safety
matches at one cent per box, and wonder
bow they can be manufactured, imported
and sold at that price, may be interested to
know that In the Swedish factory there has
been put up, and in operation for about two
months past, a machine which takes in the
block of wood at one end, and presents the
matches completed at the other end, and not
only completed, but neatly put up in the
boxes, as they are afterwards purchased.
The capacity of this machine is said 10 be
one million Of boxes a day. Sweden, at this
rate, can supply The world with matches.
Isaac Maddy, aged thirty-one, was buried
at MidGletown, Missouri, the other day.
The cause Of his death was Addison's dis
ease, so rare that but few instances of the
same are on record. Five months since he
began TO turn black, aud became as dark as
any negro Of that peculiar color. The change
was the wonder of the community and the
puzzle of the physicians, until one better
versed than the others pronounced it Addi-
sons disease The last known case was a
lad at Greenville, Ohio. and II attracted the
attention of the entire Western medical fra
ternity. Mr.. Maddy has been frequently
examined by physicians, who were keenly
disappointed when be faded and died. fnd
no post mortem was allowed to be held.
Mr.. Maddy was highly respected citizen of
Middleton.
The blanks of the telegraph companies
read on the back, or on the top, that the
company will not be liable for mistakes or
delays in a message unless it is repealed al
an additional expense TO the sender. A
Georgia man whose message was so bungled
as to cause him serious loss, resolved TO sue
the company despite its printed regulations.
The Supreme Court of Georgia agrees with
him, aud says that the company Is response
BILE for the gross negligence of Its agents, no
matter what It may print on Its blanks. II,
in order to insure accuracy, IL is necessary
to repeat the messages, IL 10 the company's
business to repeat them at its own expense
1t undertakes to convey Information from
one point TO another, and IL is its duty to see
that 1t II information, not misinformation,
which It's agents transmit.
A curious article might be written on the
immunity from wounds in action of some
Generals. and the i'll. fortune of others In be-
coming billet for bullet. No commander
was ever more forward in the fighting line
than Sheridan, yet lie never got scratch.
Skobelef, who many time went at IL with
his own good sword, and In his white coat
and on his white charger, headed every
charge with q recklessness that men call
madness, had as complete immunity As If he
carried the charmed life that his soldiers
ascribed, and was wounded only In the quiet
trenches by chance bullet fred In the air q
mile away. Wellington was but once hit,
the bullet that carried away his boot heel
scarce giving him y confusion. Grant was
never struck. no more was Napoleon. OF
Sir Neville Chamberlain again, one Of the
most distinguished officers of our Indian
army, the saying goes that he never went
into action without receiving . wound, and
the gallant old man has been fighting pretty
steadily ever since the first Afghan war.
BszaiHe was man to whom fortune was
stinay lii the matter of wounds. Al Borny
there raraa N him The ieadpn rpyltuder that