The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-01-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

See Tom Commit for Hot Scotch. s67tf
Warden McTague informs us there are
now $50 prisoner in the Penitentiary.
One hundred pounds fresh, strong.made
h~oarhound candy. at Charlie Kenyon's. $40 tt
FEED.-Fresh Ground Feed, in large or
small 3 quantities, now in stock at
Subscriptions and renewals for all the
leading newspapers and magazines taken ut
Eldred's News Depot. 962 tt
Neatly furnished and comfortably warmed
rooms for rent in the Buker building, Main
street: Inquire Of MRs. MARY SIMPSON.
Call on A. p. Winslow and have POUR eyes
tested with Julius Kings Optometer. A full
line OF spectacles and eye glasses just re.
ceived. ~.@#" 1854 tt
The Missoula papers report that Mr.. E. 8.
Paxson is to paint an entire new set Of
scenery for the Bennett Opera House at Mis-.
soula. This is assurance that the work will
be well done. M.
The ladies of St. James Guild of the Epis-
copal Church will give an "Art Social" and
oyster supper at the residence Of Mrs. O'Ban-
non on next Thursday evening, Jan. 18th, at
q O'Clock. Supper, SOC. 967 It'll
A subscriber thinks there was a slight error
in one of our locals last week. This is i'm
possible, as the item was written on a Rem
lngton Standard Type Writer, which is war
ranted to make no mistakes.
The candy festival At the Christian Church
last Tuesday evening was a very enjoyable
and financially successful occasion. Samples
sent us attest that muscular Christianity was
at its best on the occasion, and the "taffty" il
prime. . @"- /.
We acknowledge receipt from d. j. Hen
Messy & Co., Butte, of one of the hand
soonest advertising cards we have seen. It is
artistic enough to adorn any boudoir where
grace and beauty dwells and goes forth to
buy first-class dry goods.
MI. f. S. Paxon, the talented artist, has
been engaged the past week or two in paint
ing the scenery for Cottonwood Hall. The
plastering is now in progress, and although
the delay has been greater than expected, it
will soon be ready for occupany.
The thermometer rose GO degrees from 8
o'clock, Tuesday morning, to 8 o'clock, We'd
nesday morning, of this week. These little
caprices of the weather are enjoyable when
the weather moderates shat much, but they
are not healthy changes for all that.
The several secret societies meeting at
Union Hall have appointed committees to
procure a lantern fitted with transparent
slides, with the initials Of each order to be
displayed on the evenings of meeting, on the
balcony of the building. This will be- a
gentle reminder to the boys that it is s'Lodga
night"
Stockholders in the Cottonwood and Noun
in mind, the stockholders meetings of said
companies which are published for Thursday
and Friday evenings of next week. The
election of officers for the ensuing year will
then take place. Stockholders can be pres.
ent in person or by proxy.
It will be to the interest Of every intelli-
gent buyer to make purchases from our stock
now. We have marked goods do wn regard
less of cost, as we are anxious to get rid of
surplus wares before making improvements
in the spring. We want to open the new
store with an entirely new stock of merchan-
disc. A. KLE1NscHMIDr & Co.,
1868 If (Limited).
Treasurer Kennon desires us to state that
all property in this county advertised as de.
linquent for taxes, and on which such taxes
are not paid on or before February 10, 1883,
will be sold to the county under the provi-
sions Of section 36 Of the Laws of the Extra
Session of 1887. 1t will cost about fifty per
cent. to redeem them. It is we'll for delin-
quents to look after this matter.
We have made an Intellectual endeavor in
the past few weeks to get reliable statistics
of the grain product of Deer Lodge county
for the year 1887, but have been unable to do
80. For one reason and another so many of
the threshers were unwilling to give the sta
tistics essential to make up the aggregate
that we were obliged to abandon the project.
1t would have afforded us much pleasure,
and have been q good END off for Deer
Lodge county, if we had been able to con-
summate our purpose.
The Miner as good as acknowledges the
corn that its "Star of Bethlehem" yarn was
ajoke on the credulous. The Inter. Mountain
says the discovery was made by Judge
Thompson Campbell, and that he identified
it by its having q point broken of, and the
brand being dimly d%iscernable with a pair of
elf-registering opera glasses. The boys are
beginning to see the point even If it is broken
of. The objection we now make is, that the
discovery was attributed to a gentleman who
is abed at the hours named, and not a morn
ing searcher after stars. Why not lay it on a
policeman?
Mr.. Peter Walton, who was at Butte Tues
day, says Agent Lowe, at Stuart, asserts tho
coyotes have formed an unholy alliance
against the Montana Union Railroad. They
have got onto a racket now wherein the road
gets the worst Of it. Two or three coyotes
will drive one or more cows on the track
just ahead Of the train, and when the loco
motive has knocked the beautiful life out Of
the animal, the whole band of coyotes will
Jump on the carcass, send up a howl of
''Thank you's," and 60 for the feast, for
which the company is expected to settle
next morning with the indignant owner.
Too bad, Isn't it?
to affect vegetation? Deer Lodge, taking
heart of success, has thousands of big dollars
invested in trees, %shrubbery, bulbs and
plants, warranted perfectly hardy in any
climate, but some of us are beginning to
have doubts that are not becoming to the
faithful. If they survive the Siberian sever
ity of the past week or so, we will begin to
think there is some use in trying to make
pleasant surroundings to our homes but if,
instead of renewed life being manifest in the
spring, we find only dead trees and leafess
shrubs, it will be a poor field for nurserymen
next season and thereafter. Let us hope for
the best till the worst comes, anyhow.
It has been a convenient custom practiced
for years when one was in a hurry, or travel
ing, to mail letters on the postal car. This is
now a "lost art;;'' at least it is lost time, for it
has been decreed by the Postmaster General
that no letters so posted can have their
stamps cancelled on the cars. The letter SO
posted is carried to the next postofice, where