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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-07-11
President Folks Widow.
Nashuille Banner.

Right in the heart of Nashville stands q
large, old-fsshioned homestead of dull red
brick, It's roof projecting over the broad
piazza, supported by great futed pillars, and
its general aspect conveying an impression
of severe stateliness, in pleasing variance
with the distorted, would-be fashionable ar
chitecture in the same neighborhood. A
long lawn stretches in front Of the house,
and its pleasant green monotony is unbroken
save by plain and massive tomb of white
marble, which carries Its own best epitaph
in the simple Inscription, James K. Polk.
A ring at the bell brought to the door a
good.natured colored girl, who took our
cards to the venerable and venerated widow
Of President Polk. -.~.a " 81 e..-
Time, of course, has stolen the vivid col
oring and curved outlines Of youth, but he
has not robbed her Of the upright figure and
dignifed carriage, and has left brightness In
her eyes and vivacity In her voice, besides
lending an added charm in her faultless man
ners. .t ss .as.e- ---a- @a- Oh
From the library Of the dead President she
can gaze upon the tomb that marks his rest
ing rlace, and in that same library remains
his hat, gloves and cane just where he laid
them whom he came home for the last time.
The book he was reading lies open on the
table, and the papers Of the day beside 1t.
In society, and fond of II, Mrs. Polk has
never yet accepted an invitation since her
husbands death, though with graceful hOspi-
tality and tact she has received on the first
day Of each year the Tennessee legislature,
which adjourns In body to call upon her
and which, am told, Is the highest compli-
ment ever paid by State authorities to lady
-and the civil, judicial and ecclesiastical
bodies make 1t point to pay their respects
to her, M
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THE HUMBOLDT INTER- BEDS.
The Deposits Capable of Supplying 10000
Tons Year.

Col. Blrkedel, President of the Nevada
Niter Company, organized for the purpose of
working the inter beds in Elko and Churchill
counties, has been inspecting the deposits
near Humboldt Lake. On his way to San
Francisco few days ago, in answer TO an
inquiry as to how the deposits here COM
pared with those Of South America, he in
formed the Reno Gazette that there Is no re-
semblance. "The inter deposits of South
America" said the Colonel, "are generally
found in crust Of concrete called 'calishe,
covering the surface of the more elevated
spots Of rolling plains, while here the inter
Is deposited in trachite and limestone, form
ing cliffs and hills often tinted by oxide of
iron. You will understand by this that the
inter was originally deposited in layers of
heavy crust, and afterwards limestone was
deposited over 1t, thus forming a cap. The
inter beds of Nevada are far better situated
for development of its inter deposits than is
the inter region of South America, which is
a desert entirely devoid Of water and veget-
able life. The development of its inter beds
can therefore only be accomplished by sur
mounting difficulties. Provisions of all
kinds must be furnished from distant coun.
tries. The water supply for all purposes
must be condensed from ocean water and
carried to the inter fields at great expense,
while fuel has to be procured from the
mountains in the south of Chill at great
cost. While here the inter beds are In the
vicinity of rich farming coantry, with wood
and water right at hand. We are, therefore,
on an average, able to produce inter, landed
In San Francisco, at a much less cost than
they are able to produce It in South America.
We will be able to furnish all this coast re-
quires, say 10000 tons per annum, at price
that will net us $50 per ton profit" "How
long will it be before you commence opera
tions?" GAS ssoon as possible, sir; our plans
for machinery are all drawn, and everything
will soon be ready
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A TREE BY THE WELL.
JOAQUIN MILLER.

An Arab sheik, in deserts wide,
Once sorrowed so for thirsting man,
He led before the caravan,
And digging wells he, thirsting, died.
He died Of thirst! The wells remain!
Oh, daring, patient pioneer
Gods angels, what triumph here!
To know no well is digged in vain!
We led against the sunset gold,
We lifted hard In desert land,
Digged wells, and graves, in drifting sand
The Arabs piteous tale OF old.
We plant a tree beside this we'll
And all this vast vale teens with life,
Some brave souls fainting in the strife
May rest them here and speak us just;
May say we few through wilds or rime
Blazed out new ways for worlds to come
And murmured not but bravely dumb
So died full trusting God and time.
Life's lessons bid us bide its worth
With all its fruitage bound in toll
Trust God, and trust the generous soil
OF human hearts as trusting earth.
count It kindlier far to wait,
To work in faith, so wait in tears,
Aye, wait and wait thousand years
Than once to doubt, or challenge fate.
So here we set this little seed
And trust its tender boughs to Time;
To grow TO touch the stars sublime;
As grows and grows some small, good deed
Set deep where lilies ever nod,
Walled round by everlasting snews,
To grow as some great strong soul grows
When growing upward to its God.
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EVE-ANGELICAL.
Blue and gray are the most fashionable
combination colors for street wear.

Blue and gray are the most fashionable
combination colors for street wear.
Dresses of black and white silk used in
the composition of the costume are In high
favor.
Dog collars and bracelets to match, both
broad whenever the neck Is long enough TO
admit of broad collar, are the accepted
style.
The New York Mail and Express states,
without fear of contr ADDICTION, that no two
hats worn by the young ladies Of the period
are in any respect alike.
An old woman says of overnsat house,
keepers: "Some women are so pizen nice
that they neither take any comfort them
selves nor let any one else."
Pretty little baskets for sending flowers by
post are the latest novelty in England. They
fasten with a paddock, the person sending
and the person receiving each having key.
A large painting of Mrs. James X. Polk,
which was presented by the ladies Of Ten
nessee, been hung In the green room Of the
White House as q companion piece to the
portrait of Mrs. r. B. Hayes.
Leah Ashborn of the Royal Mint at Stock
holm is the finest die.cutter in the world.
She is TO make the dies for the medals of the
Washington monument in Wall street. She
also cut those for the Stanley medal.
White is to be the favorite color for water
ing-place wear, morning, afternoon and
evening; lawns, with comparatively simple
graniture of tucks and embroidery, or, sim
pier still, of tucks alone, for morning; sheer
nainsooks, with lace or fine needle work
some of them with merely enough of the ma
n.,n al 80 Ls1lI hn Ia
afternoon, and dresses all of lace, Of surah or
white pongee, or of fine woolens, for even
ing.
THE FUNNY YOUNG COLONEL.
A funny young colonel in Leicester,
Who is said to be quite = leicester,
Gave rousing big kiss
To pretty young Miss,
Before his own sweetheart, to leicester.
With eyes flashing sparkles like figher,
And gave him whack
Which tumbled him back,
And landed him into the migher.
Then clustered this funny young colonel
i'Tis very cold day; yes, infoIonel!
'Tis plain l am left,
or my girl I'm bereft,
So I'll go where the Spring is more volonel."
Boston Post.
1t remained for Chicago lady to set
queer fashion TO those who wear false teeth
and are troubled with weak eyes. This lady,
it seems, has an entire set of false upper
teeth, and she neither conceals the fact nor
pretends that they are preferable to real
teeth. She Is also near sighted, and wears
suspended to hook on the northwest sum-
mit of her dress pair of neat eyeglasses
which she puts on whenever she wishes to
look at anything. Some time ago II occurred
to her that it would be the part of common
sense to use her teeth only when she desired
to talk or eat. Accordingly she now carries
them suspended by cord around her neck.
When she meets friend she first puts on her
eyeglasses and looks at him, and then puts
in her teeth and INDUCES in conversation.
Similarly, when she goes to dinner she puts
in her teeth as soon as the soup has disap-
peared and the fish Is brought on.
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The Rowdy West.
Chicago Tribune.

How is "tbe Rowdy West" this morning ?
Pretty we'll, considering. e
What particular act of rowdyism has 1t
committed since the nomination Of Mr..
Blainep . So aaffra :
Well, the rowdy farmers have been run
ming their rowdy plows through rowdy fur
rows and raising rowdy wheat and corn, and
rowdy pigs, besides rowdy butter, eggs, and
chickens, with which to feed the United
States and part of the rest Of the world.
What further acts Of rowdyism are they
likely to commit?
They win put their rowdy ballots Into the
boxes next November, and give James G.
Blaine every electoral vote Of every rowdy
State from the Golden Gate to Lake Ontario.
Being only rowdy westerners they cannot 60
any farther |; but they will call on their
brother farmers In the East to do equally as
we'll, and they will not call In vain.
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Chicago at last has two features Of attrac-
tiveness which are genuinely worthy OF at
tention-her parks and her twin panoramas.
The eBattle Of fGettysburg,n painted by Phil
ippoteanx the son, and the "Siege Of Paris '
BY Philoppotsanx the father, on exhibition
In flre-proof buildings standing on opposite
sides OF WashinatoR Avenue at Hubbard
Court, are worth journey half across the
continent 70 see. They are nsrvels Of colos-
sal art and SO realistic - to make one take
his afidavit that be Is In the presence Of the
scenes depicted.
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Halls Journal of Health.

There Is common mistake regarding
house drains-that they are made too large.
1t Is incorrect TO suppose that very large
drain Is safer than one of moderate size, be-
cause the smaller the drain the more concen-
trated the low, and the more thorough the
flushing when larger amounts OF water than
usual are passed through 1t; as on washing
days. IL may be taken rs rule that no
private house, no matter how large, can need
for Its drainage, pipe larger than four
inches.
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office not.
g. The cunfts have decided that ,cfusing ~ TAKE
the papers or periodicals from the POstoicc, 81
removing and leaving them uncaled for, is prinna
facte evidence OF intentional fraud,
Papers ordered to any address can be changed to
another address ut the option of the subscriber.
Remittances by draft check, money order, or regis
tered letter may re sent at our risk AL Postmastcrs
required to register letters on application
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On Governor Stanford's ranch at vina,
Tehama county, large tree was struck by
lightning and literally riven into toothpIcks,
the ground being strewn with q shower Of
charred chips. The Cinnamon ON the ranch
could not be induced 10 pick up the debris,
as they considered II to be the work of an
evil spirit, a. there was not q cloud In the
sky when the event occurred.
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Ingersoll says be does not agree with the
doctrine OF future punishment, Perhaps the
doctrine of future punishment will not agree
with Iugersoll. Warm weather 10 dresdfnlly
trying on fat man. even II he has good
conscience. e.-Tcras Siftsngs.
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hing in General.

1t is proposed to organize, under the
auspices of the American Social Sci
ence Association, during its next annual
session at Saratoga, September S-12,
1884, an American Historical Associa-
ton, consisting of professors, teachers,
specialists, and others interested in the
advancement of history in this country.
The Philadelphia gas men agree with
those of other cities in this country and
abroad in saying that the use of the
electric light, so far from hurting the
gas interest, rather tends to increase
gas consumption. The brilliancy of the
electric light causes people who use gas,
to burn more of it to compete in ilIu-
mination. 1t is stated that this summer
there has been an increase of over 6 per
cent. in the consumption of gas in Phil
adelphia over the consumption of last
year.
An orchardist at Santa Barbara, Cal.
according to the Independent of that
place, has over 10000 fruit trees under
cultivation in a single fruit ranch, in
Guiding 1000 olive trees, 1920 ans
800 lemon, 500 lime, 10, 900 almond,
1000 walnut, $500 apricot, apple,
peach, pear, cherry, nectarine, and plum
with 200 Japanese p~ersimmon, besides
figs, loquats, and plums.
The Supreme Court of Ancona, Italy,
has rendered a decision by which the
Pope RECEIVERS 500, 900 francs, which
were seized in 1861 by the Bureau of
Grown Lands and the Department of
Public Worship. This decision will
compel the italian Government to pay
several millions of francs which were
arbitrarily confscated in a similar man.
ner.
Henry George in the nineteenth CEN
tury draws a terrible picture OF life in
Scotland. He states that women dc
the work of animals, children are stunt
ed in growth for waut OF n~ourishment.
and young girls are confined in factor
les or go prowling about the streets.
He describes their homes as small and
to live in, their farming imple-
ments of the rudest kind. He saws
there is an entire lack of progress.
The act of Congress to relieve certain
soldiers from the charge of desertion
will prove a veritable bonanza to the
deserters. The removal of these
charges will involve an expense of from
81, 900, 600 to $50, 200, 900.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-28
talk About Earthuuatss.

Maj. ]. W. Powell, of the geological survey
at Washington, talked thus about earthquakes,
Earthquakes in the eastern portion of the
United States have been comparatively infre-
quent and mild The most important was that
in the Mississippi valley known as the New
Madrid A late earthquake in Western Neva-
da made a fracture about two hundred miles
long, and the displacement varied from five to
seyenty-ive feet. The western portion of the
United States, from the farther border of the
plains to the Pacific, is a region of many
and great earthquakes. 1t has also been
in very recent geologic times a region
of great volcanic activity. Thousands Of
now dead volcanoes are scattered over
the country, and vast lava fields cover large
areas of the land Salt Lake City stands on
the margin of an earthquake fracture, and ge-
ologists have more than once prophesied that
1t will be destroyed by an earthquake. Geolo-
gists have concluded from the consideration of
a great variety of facts that the interior of the
earth is in a fluid condition, due to pressure
and great heat. We penetrate from the sur
face toward the interior of the earth by mines
and by boring for artesian wells and other pur-
poses. The temperature is found to increase
at such a rate that a degree of heat would soon
be reached at which all known rocks would
melt Secondly, a vast number of volcanoes
is distributed widely over the earth, through
the rents of which enormous quantities Of
molten rock are poured out on the surface of the
earth, showing that a vast reservoir of mol
ten matter exists beneath the crust Thirdly,
it is known, eXperimentally, that all rocks
would be crushed and caused to flow by the
pressure of a few miles of superintendent
rock. Now, to understand the cause of an
earthquake we must appreciate that a compar-
atively thin crust rests upon a vast fluid. The
next thing to be considered is that all the land
portions of the earthis rapidly being transport
ed to the sea by rains and rivers. Thus the
land areas are being unloaded and ocean Dor
ders are weighed down. This loading Of sea
borders and unloading of land areas upon a
crust which rests upon a fluid sets up enormous
strains, but they accumulate until at last sufi-
cient stress Is establishedto cause fracture and
displacement through the miles of solid crust
When such e rupture occurs an earthquake is
the result All earthquakes in regions where
volcanoes do not exist are thus caused by
strains due to the degradation of some portion
of the continent, and the loading Of the mater
ial upon some other portion Of the continent
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-28
A Brother Unknowingly Assaults His

Ayoung lady, the daughter of a highly respec-
ted merchant of Hackensack, N. J., had occasion
to visit some friends about three quartersof a
mile distant from her own home. Al about 8
O'Clock she started on her way home. When
about midway between her friends house
and her ewn, the young woman was suddenly
seized from behind, and while one of her as
sailants (for there were two pinioned her
arms, the other placed his hand over her
mouth to prevent an cutlery. Thus handi-
capped the girl was unable to defend herself and
was dragged into the bushes She had scarce
ly been thrown to the ground, when the moon
broke through the clouds and a terrible dis
covery was made. "Oh, brother, spare me! ."
the girl cried, and then tainted. SKY God"
calculated the horror-Stricken young man, sit
is my ~sister!'' Then he sank down beside her
on the grass and cried like a child. 1t was
some time before the young lady returned to
consciousness, and when she did a neighbor
stood beside her, and when she was able to
stand, accompanied her to her home. The
young woman, upon arriving home recounted
the particulars of the terrible ordeal through
which she had passed to her parents, but care
fully, in order to shield her brother, concealed
the facts of the horrible discovery she had made.
Both of the young men have heretofore been
highly respected, and it it is thought they were
under the influence of liquor at the time.
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swindled by Mesmerists.

Several weeks ago persons living in Chenan-
go county, N. Y, says the New York Tribune
were victimized by a couple of strangers, who
went about selling clocks and dress goods.
Whenever the swindlers found an old or in
firm person they invariably succeededin get
ting a promissory note in part payment Of the
goods. The people who gave the notes cannot
explain how they we're induced to sign them
and in no case are they positive as to the
amount. They insist that they were mesmer-
lied. On Thursday afternoon two men. whose
plans of operation are Identical with those Of
the Chenango county sharpers, made their APP
pearance in Rotterdam, a few miles from
Schenectady, and in some way in
duced al old German woman, who says that
they bewitched her, to buy some cloth, for
which she paid s14 in money and So worth Of
butter, and signed a note which one of the
men drew up for $40 as he told her. When
tho men had gone the old lady discovered tlAt
most Of the cloth which she had bought was
gone too. The woman is the owner of a farm,
and is much worried over the value of the note
which she signed, as she cannot read English,
and has no reason for believing that the note
was for SO other than that the stranger told
her so.
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Giving property to former Slaves.

Giving property to former Slaves.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Many of the owners of slaves that
were liberated by the war have kept
their former slaves as hired help. This
is especially the case in Fayette and
Bourbon counties, Ky. Now that the
s~lave-owners are growing old, and that
many of them are dying off, the cases
are numerous in which the former
slaves or their offspring are willed a
part or all of the masters property. In
some of these cases the colored heirs are
children of the white testator, but in
most of them, however, they are not.
This making negroes the heirs of white
mans property has given rise to litiga-
ton in which the validity of such an in
heritance has been tested. A case in
point has just been decided in the Bour-
bon county courts. The slaves of John
Morris has continued to live with their
former owners after they had become
freedmen. Mrs. Morris died three wears
ago, and left by will to a former slave a
house and lot which she held in her own
right. Some of Mrs. Morris relatives
declared their intention to contest this
will. Mr.. Morris, the surviving hus-
band, when he learned this, became so
much incensed that he changed his will
cut off from his surviving relatives al
most entirely, and willed the bulk of
his property to his former slaves. Very
soon after this he died. James Morris,
a brother, contested the will, and Judge
French and a jury, after full hearing,
bave decided it valid.
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-28
A Montana Mining Sensation.

Butte, Mont, Special Telegram:-A sensation
has been caused here by the sudden and secret
departure of Francis ". H. Medhurst, general
manager of the Lexington company, the biggest
silver mining enterprise in Montana. The i'm
mediate cause of his flight is that Judge Davis,
4 prominent mining man, some time ago at
taehed property of the Princeton Mining COM
pany, and Medhurst, in whose name the title
rested, could not raise the $1,000 necessary to
recover possession. Medhurst was heavily in
debt, caused by excuses at the gaming table
uefe and IN Salt Lake, where he once -four
.sned His gambling debts aggregate about
Gown He did not touch the funds of the
LeAhSI0n company. HIS salary was S12, 600 a
year baron Erlanger of Paris, who is at the
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The Earthquake at a Funeral.

New York Speeial-on Sunday, during the
funeral of Lewis Ingler Jr., the young man
who committed suicide at Amityville, L L,
an extraordinary scene occurred. As the min
lister was about to kneel in prayer, the shock
of the earthquake shook the house. A large
mirror which reached from the ceiling to the
floor was cracked into from the top to the bot
tom, and the walls of the room were bracked
in two places. The flowers were shaken from
the coffin and the silver handles at the sides of
the casket ratified. The minister and several
of the mourners tainted There was a
stampede to get outside and one lady jumped
through an open window and sprained her leg
so that she had to be carried 20 her home.
The minister was unable to go on with the serv-
ice, and the mourners and others remained
outside while the pall-bearers re-entered the
house and carried the coffin out to the hearse.
A broom handle can be laid into the creacks in
the wall