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A PcrambuIating Printing Onice.

The Virginia New. Enquirer says: Some
printers of this city are contemplating the
fitting up of a small printing office which
can he moved from place TO place on wheels,
as are the travelling photograph galleries.
They intend making their start in CaliiOr-
mia, and will travel through the small towns
where there are no papers published and no
printing offices. Once they are anchored
in Il town they will send their devil flying
about the place with all the latest news of
the ncighborhoOd and the advertisements
of the business men. They will print cards,
bill-hcads, circulars, and all else required,
and when they have supplied the wants of
Il town in the printing line they will give
some ranchman or livery stable keeper Il
big puff and an aCroStiC on the name Of dis
fiNoritc daughter to hitch TO their Office and
to haul them to the next town, where the
devil will again be set flying about and
where the 'buglc blast Of freedom will
again be heard, Thus they will 90 from
town TO town, remaining from Il week To II
month or two in Il place making money
and friends wherever they 80 and having
Il Jolly good time at all the balls, parties,
weddings and funerals. They may even
work their way up to Arizona but what
they now think Of doing is to establish u
circuit of good towns for their business and
visit them several times in the course Of Il
year. The boys concerned in the enterprise
are confident that they will he able TO make
it success, as all three are good prntors
and writers, and their contemplated devil
is not only fair typc.scttcr, but also a gem
in other rcSpcct'-in flying around, for in,
stance. Their little paper will be called the
"POstal Card"
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The Situation since the Last Great
Battle.

London Dispatch to Chicago Times.
II is almost impossible to get at the facts
as 10 the situation southwest of Plcvna.
The Pcm correspondent Of the Chicago
Times tclcgraphs claiming a repusc of
Gourko with heavy loss and asserts that
the Turks hold the battle-ground on the
Sophia road near Dubrk. He says also
that the communication with Plevna is
still open, and that the Russian losses by
the recent engagement were over 1000.
The Bucharest correspondent of the Times
claims great Russian success, including
large capture of Turkish prisoners and
the complete interruption of communica-
ton between Plcvnaan Sophia. The Rus.
sian account seems the more probable, as
the Russians had II very large force of all
arms and have been two weeks getting into
position for the present movement
The most reliable accounts agree that
the communications with Plcvna have
been cut, and that the investment of Osman
is practically complete, although the Rus
sian forces west of the Vid have not come
near enough cooperate against the deionscs
of Plcvna If his communications are
cut, as asserted, Osman is unquestionably
most prccariOus condition, and will eth
cr have TO surrender or attempt to fight his
way out The best evidence of u Turkish
defeat and the loss of the line of supplies
is found in the depressed comments of the
Kondon Turcophie journals, They admit
that if Gourko has accomplished all that
is claimed in the Russian official reports
the fate of Plcvna will be settled within Il
| few 1nVS
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DEATH OF EDWIN ADAMS.
A sketch of the Life and Career of
the Great Actor.

L . llHltH'
Edwin Adams, the celebrated actor,
flied at Philadelphia on the 2Slh, aged
forty three years. His death has been
looked for almost hourly for the past six
or seven days. therefore the announcement
will cause no surprise, yet there will he Il
universal expression of sorrow both by the
profession and the general public. No one
perhaps on the American stage through
his kindly nature, was 50 highly esteemed,
and no at one time ever gave such prom
isc lie was born on February g. 1884, at
McdfOrd, Mass When lad he was ap-
prcnticCd in Boston TO maChinist but his
tastes did not run in the groove Of mCcha-
nism, and he entered the profession, max.
ing his first appearance ut the old National
thcatcr, Boston, in 1853. There seems
to be some dispute as 10 where he madchis
debut, but it is generally conceded that it
was at this house. There he played for
some time in minor parts, when he went TO
Philadelphia joining the company Of the
Arch Street Thcatcr. For year he remain
cd in that house, making considerable
hcadway in his profession He then join
cd the celebrated combination which trHv-
clcd through the South, consisting Of Bon
face the elder Wallack, i. l.. Davenport,
Joe Jefferson, and several other celebrates
actors. We next hear of him about the
wear 1859 in Richmond, Va, where he was
engaged in one of the stock companies for
a year lie made his first decided hit in
that city in Phillips play, "'Thc Dead
Heart Then he rcappcarcd in l'hila-
dclphia, and became recognized ms
one of our best actors. Allcrwarl he made
contract with Kate Batcman, and tray
clcd through the country adding to his rep
ulaion. Perhaps his most brilliant en-
gagcmcnt was at Booths Thcltcr in 1869.
20, where he played in Junction with Ed.
win Booth, appcaringaS as Raphael in "Thc
Marble Heart" aF Iago and Ohcllo, Enoch
Arden, Charles in Schillcr'S "fobbcrs, ~
NarCiSSC, and other great roles, all OF
which received the highest praise from the
press and undoubtcd recognition from the
public This engagement completed,
he began Ia star until about three
years ago, and was lavoritc whc'
ever he went. Then the disease from which
he INSTRUMENTATION To manifest
itself, and he travelled to Australia in the
hope of finding restoration To health. lie
was benefited slightly, and then went tc
California, remaining there for several
months last August he determine" ;
turn East. Upon reaching Chicav' an,
ing symptoms compelled his tay for sew
cral weeks, when he left for Philadelphia
arriving in very feeble condition, from
which he has never recovered.
Throughout all his sickness his wife In,
been the most devoted and patient Of wo
men, scarcely for eighteen months cycl
leaving his bedside. lIr leaves no chill
drcn. His estate does not amount TO ;
great deal. He had Il home at Philadcl
phia and another ut Long Branch. Boil
were heavily mortgagcd owing TO the gen
crosity Of his life, but it is 10 he hopct
that the proceeds Of the recent benefits vii
do much toward freeing the property o
membranes for the sake of his wife.
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A BIG BRUTE.
Description Of the Diu0Saurians, the
Largest Animals on Record.

Prof. o. G. Marsh, Mt amecting of the
National Academy of Sciences, at New
York, read an essay on "Somc Gigantic
Dinosaurian Reptiles from the Wealden
of the Rocky Mountains" On the east
crn flank of these mountains there is
belt of rocks known as the Dakota
group" Their strata lie between the
Jurassic below and wcll-mmkcd cretacc-
ous beds above. The fossils discovered
there, until recent date, have been
plants and few invertcbratc remains
which were not characteristic. Before
the present year no vertebrate remains
had been found in this strata. Some of
the government surveys had classified
the deposits as of marine origin. Early
last spring the remains of gigantic
dinosaurian reptile were discovered in
the beds, and since then numerous 9TH
CT fossils of the reptilian kind have been
found at several localities in the region
widely separated. The reptile was by
far larger than any land animalever dis
covered in any part of the world. There
is well-established principle in me-
chanics which limits the size, with or
dinary construction, of land or water
animals, and hitherto it has been claim
ed that the elephant and the whale OF
the present day had reached that limit
being supposed to be respectively the
largest of land and water animals which
have ever existed. The discovery OF
the HtanOSd,uuS, aland animal of more
than double the size of the elephant, is
therefore surprise.
The question is how could such M
animal sustain the enormous weight that
must rest upon its limbs? Would moi
its weight have prevented it from NOV
ing? Consider its size; it was fifty OIL
sixty feet long, and when erect, thirty
or forty feet high. Now comes the cur
ious answer to this question. Tho
bones of this animal were hollow; its
vertebr;u were constructed like those o.
birds, having cavities into which air was
admitted Thus light weight was ut
taincd, with great strength of structure
Some of the vertebu of this huge reptile
| WtIc VI SllllIll 'uppSiH w uhpoc VI WIN
ichthyOr1lis, crctaccous bird not larg
or than pigeon. These vertebrp wer,
biconcave; that is, each was hollow n
the end. Also every vetebrn had {
: large cavity on each side for the admis
sion of air. Some of these vcrtcbrn ar,
) sixteen inches in transverse diameter
: Another of these gigantic dinosaurs is tn,
dpolosd,u'tts; its distinctive character
were described by Prof. Marsh, Ncarl,
, in tho same geological horizon ther,
were found also tho remains of th,
smallest dinosaurs -i1d,,oSdtu1tS
bigger than cat. Along with thes
, dinosaurs was found crocodile of i'm
Q portance to naturalists, as it furnishes
D missing link between the crocodiles o
b the past and the present. There wer
y also various turtles and fishes,
The assemblage Of these animalsis re
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THE GARRISO LET LOOSE.
MN. Lloyd Garrison Opens Up His
Batteries OH President Hayes.

Wm. Lloyd Garrison has written the
New York Times a tw0COlumn letter
against the administration. The following
extracts will give nm idea Of the tone of the
caustic cfTusion: during my recent visit
to Great Britain was frequently asked in
different parts of the kingdom what was
my opinion, first, Of the character of Prcsi.
dent Hayes, and, secondly, of his Southern
policy. To these inquiries my answers
were uniformly that had never met Mr.,
Hayes, and consequently had no personal
acquaintance with him; that | was led To
regard his elevation to the Presidency as
against his Democratic competitor as
An EVENT OF TRANSCENDANT IMPORTANCE,
assured no less by the popular vote legiti-
matcly cast than by the Electoral Commits
sion; for, in the acceptance Of his nomina,
ton by the National Republican Conven-
ton at Cincinnati, in his inaugural address
at Washington, and when privately inter
viewed by cOlorcd dCputations and others
after his election, he cmphatically rccog.
nizcd the duty of the Government to
guard the rights and interests Of both
races carciullyand cqually,whilc aiming to
restore tranquility and order where dis
satisfaction still raised its snaky crest; /;
that as TO his Southern policy, was
constrained TO regard it as totally at vari-
ancc with all his iair.spoken words and
pledges; a dcplorablc betrayal OF II most
sacred tr>st; a discount upon inllcXiblc
loyalty, and bountyupon rcbcllious usur:
patton.
GIVING THE SHEEP INTO TIE CUSTODY OF
THE WOLVES,
on the insane assumption that the latter
would lose all their taste for blood, pro.
vidcd all shcphcrdly watchiulncss were
Withdrawn, making Il consolidated South,
wherein the virtual diSiranchiscmcnt of
every cOlOrcd citizen would bc ruthlcssly
enforced, and every white Rcpub-
lican be driven 10 the wall, and at the next
Presidential election Surrcndcring the
National Government into the hands of
those who still ostcntatiously glory in their
rcbclious uprising to destroy ii. further
added that considered President Hayes 10
have lost his head, being the victim of an
amiablc crcdulity and an halucination
whereby all power Of moral
vision and patriotic discrimination appeared
to have been lost Since my return home
| have been vigilantly watching all the
signs of the times, and SO far from seeing
any cause TO alter my judgment as TO what
has been done, or likely to he done, under
this administration as pertaining TO the
South, am more deeply convinced than
ever that it is possible that
We ARE BETRAYED
into the hands of the PhilisincS; that the
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LIVINGSTON CO., MO, THURSDAY,

markably like that of the Wcalden of
Europe, especially of the Tilgatc Forest
of England, where Mantcll discovered
the iguanadon. They indicate that we
have, in the so-callcd Dakota group, n
repes 2ntative Of the Wealdcn of Eu-
rope, not hitherto recognized in this
country. 1t is not improbable that
some of these remains come from low
or horizon than the Wealden; there is
evidence that part of them may be of
Jurassic age. In these gigantic dino
saurs We have animals capable of max
ing the largest of footprints of the Con
necticut valley. Though belonging TO
different geological period, the dino
saurs of Dakota were closely allied to
the Connecticut trackmakcrs; and if we
could find in the Rocky mountains
snales and sand stones of the Wcalden
age, we should undoubtedly find the So
called "birk-tracks" upon them.
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DeadwOOd Fun-An Emigrant Made
Himself at Home. and Wound Up
With n Fight

From the Black Hills Pioneer
The long, weary journey from Sidney
had come to an end; our hero, who had
persuaded "bull team" in advance of II
freight wagon to visit the land of gold,
had arrived, soiled and weather-beaten,
in the metropolitan city of Deadwood.
The weary march was forgotten and
Joy was unconfincd. A fervent admirer
of the fair sex, he sought the dance
house, where take your partner" is the
only'introduction needed. When the
exciting moment of gents to the right
was announced, his colossal cowhidcs
smote the floor like the stamps of a
quartz mill. When the welcome sound
of "balancc to the right" rang through
the crowded hall, our pilgrim uttered
ono long hoop-ce, and, shouldoring his
fair partner, absorbed tumblerful OF
burning fluid. partners for a quad
rille." Our hero sprang upon the floor
and cxtemporizcd n breakdown. Dog
my melt. am the tiger of the woods.
Come here, gal, let's have some more
tarantler juice" "All SET" shouted the
floor manager. "Scrape them cats in
nards and let's Goldfish around" In the
excitement of "all hands round, aheavy
weight unfortunately collidcd with our
pilgrim, and explanations were of no
avail. Il am bad," shouted our hero,
let me at him, let me chNw his manc
I'm coyote. Let go my harness; I'm
yellow-tailed wolf; let me pick his
eyes out; I'm woolly horse hard to
curry, hoop-ce; Tn an elephant, I'm
Just then he trod on favored corn of a
hurdy -gurder, who pasted our hero one
between the eyes, which seated him vio'
lently upon the floor AS he arose
blowing the ruby fluid from his nasal
promontory, he reiterated, I'm an clo'
plant, but my hides tore"
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Mormon Recruits.

One hundred and thirty-scven new
Mormon converts arrived ut New York on
the 3Otb, together with twelve missionaries
who made the 1,5O0 converts landed here
from Europe the past year.
The French Crisis Coming to Head.
The RepuJlique FrdncatSe says
"Thc crisis must be determined or We shall
be drawn into the most terrible of catas-
trophies"
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A SISTERS DEVOTION.
Both Thereby Terribly MangIed in n
Kentucky Mill.


From the Jcssaminc (ky.) journal.
Never have we been called upon 10
chronicle more hcartrcnding accident,
nor one which has enlisted a more general
and genuine sympathy with the afflicted
family, than that which occurred at Union
Mills on last Friday afternoon. Misses
Blacklord, Misses Bourne and Charley
Bourne composed party at Mr.. Clai-
borne RutherfOrds ON that day. In the
morning some of the company attended
the protracted meeting in progress at East
Hickman, but they all met at the dinner
table, when one of the young ladies pro-
posed TO 90 to the Touring mill, stating
that she had never seen one working.
Consequently the party named above, with
Miss Julia and Miss Annie Ruthcr
ford, went down TO Steele " Bro
naugh's mill, and Captain Steele, with
his usual urbanity, was showing them
around They had been looking at the
boiling cloths, and passed over some ship
stuff Miss Annie Rutherford shook her
hcred TO it, when il caught in a mitrc cog
wheel, about one foot from the floor, which
drew it into the machinery, and there was
a similar wheel about three feet higher, in
which her left arm was caught and was
taken clean off, together with the flesh and
bone off her breast Clinging to the shaft,
her skirt fast in the bottom wheels, she was
whirlcd round at the rate Of thirty-tOur re.
volutiOns per minute.
Frantic with excitement, Miss Julia
Rutherford rushed TO her sisters assistance.
Charley Bourne did his best TO keep her
from the danger she was exposing herself
TO, and at the same time doing his utmost
TO cXtricatc Annie, but Julia persisted that
she could not stand il to see her sister in
such Il place, and, putting her arm around
her, she had her right arm cut off by the
same wheel. Annic's clothes were so
twisted that it was impossible to pull her
away until the engine was stopped by Cap
tain Steele, which took about one minute
to do, and Mr.. Samuel Gosncy, percciving
there was something wrong, instantly low.
cred the stones. The scene ballcd
description. There were the cogs filled
with flesh and bones. An arm lying on the
floor, the glove still on the hand, two
lovely girls PROSTATE in their blood, and
Charley Bourne with his left thumb cut
of, from which he has suffered intensely
and was threatened with lockjaw, but he is
now probably out of danger. Mr.. James
Bronaugh, Jr,, took Julia home in buggy,
and Mr.. Steele fixed Annie on board and
presented her to her distressed parents,
Thus the company, who, few minutes be-
fore, were happy and joyous were plunged
into incxprcssiblc grief by shocking and
dcplorablc accident Drs, Jasper, Wclch
and Skillman have been indCfutigable in
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for liberty at o'clock last Saturday night
and were fired on by the guards. This inccns-
cd the prisoners and caused them to fire
the prison and the stockadc surrounding it.
This made everything as light as day and
brought out all of the guards, and they
opened fire on the prisoners, bringing about
twelve of them down. This had the effect
of suppressing the effort to escape. and
they were gotten under control inside of
two minutes after the break was made. All
was quiet at II o'clock, though the prison
and stockade were in ashes.
Foul.
E. H. Haywood, known rs the leader
of the free lovers of Massachusetts,, has been
arrested in Boston on the charge of circu-
lating obscene literature.
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CRLMLNALITIES.

The convict coal miners, about 800 in
number, employed In Montserrat, Johnston
county, NO., us coal miners, made break
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There is shop kept by an old maid in
New York in the window OF which ap.
pear these words; "No reasonable offer
refused"
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A dispatch from Sofia, dated Thurs
day the ID says: Fighting continues on
the Orchanic and Plovna roads. Chcvkct
Pasha occupies position commanding the
junction Of the Orchanic and Plevna and
sian advance has been repulscd with Il
hcuvy loss.
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nenth of Old Pete Lee.

There are but few printers in the
United States who will not recognize
the name of Old Pete Lee, the most in
corngiblo and persistent trump that
ever stole n ride on freight train
We'll, Pete is dead. He died in the
prosecution of his vocation. While get
ting passage out of Huntsville, Alabama
on flat car, the other day, he fell off
and was run over and killed. Pooi
Pete His autobiography would make
history as full of interesting adven
ture as David Copperfeld's tramp from
London to Canterbury.
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THE E1STERN WAR.
Stillat 1t.


An attack on Tehischa, simultaneous
with the capture of Dubukc, on the 2ith,
was rcpulscd, with the loss of 1000 men.
The loss of Duhuikc was 5000 men. Every
brigade and regimcntal commander was
killed or wounded. and as nearly all the ofll-
GERS of the guards are personally known at
headquarters, the fact that two hundred
officers were placed hors de combathas east
Il deep gloom over the staff ut Bogot. The
bombardmcnt of plevna continues In II
desultory way. special dispatch from
Shumla says Silistria is threatened with in
vasion, hut is exceedingly strongin defense
and full. The army garrison is command
ed by Sclami Pasha, one Of the ablcst Turk
ish general.
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Fun -Susan-"Why Nilliel have
you been visiting in that old fashioned
dressp" Nellie--"Yes, my dear; but
then, I have only been visiting old-fash'
ioned people,
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The account of the capture of the
President of the Revolutionary Cuban
Republic, Thomas Estrada, and the
Secretary of the Revolutionary Cham
bcr by Spanish columo under Col
Mazovicio, near Holguin, is officially
confirmed, with the additional informa
tion that several members of the Cham
Der were included in the capture. Thc
loss will probably not discourage til,
patriots but may add new bitterness t.
the conflict.
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TOPICS OF THE TIME.

Honor tells you not to hit man
when he's down, and Discretion warns
you against hitting him when he isn't
down.
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The religious sentiment in San An.
tonic, Texas, overwhelmingly orthodox
so that we would advise Bob Inger-
soil, III his pcrambulations, to give that
town wide BERTH An infdel deliv-
cred lecture before the people of that
town one evening last week. On the
following night he was whipped by a
mob, and warned that if he ever again
attempted to teach nfdclity in that
community he would he hanged.
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1t figures up this way, says the Salt
Lake Tribune: Fourteen prophets,
with six families each, and each family
containing five persons; total, 426. This
is the lazy outfit the Saints are compell-
ed to feed for Christ's sake.
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D. r. V. Pierce, the noble advertiser,
is candidate for State Senator, from
Buffalo, N. Y, and he L--T-1SG0-X
poets to be elected.
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New York City is dealing roughly
with its gamblers. Two experts of the
professional sort were sentenccdor Fri
day last to six months on the Island and
q fine Of $3.50.
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The people of Southern Colorado
want to be divorced from the State and
organized into n territory. The greater
part of the population and wealth is in
the north half of the State and as tho
area of Colorado is l05,575 square miles
quite good sized territory could be
formed of the southern half.
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Doctors are getting so designate all
kinds of attack that fellow has as
rheumatism" And the doctors are
right nine times out of ten.
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The sea-serpent comes to the front
again. This time the monster is seen
off the Maine coast, and is seventy five
feet long, with a head like Il whales and
two hippcrs that strike the water with a
loud noise.
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The breach between the cignr-makcrs
and the manufacturers seems to be get
ting wider, and the chances of com
promise appear at present to be very
slight.