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MGinty's Long Tramp.

The famous travelling printer John
t. McGinty, better known among the
fraternity as I" Texas jack" after more
than wears wandering in the West
and on the Pacific Slope, has again turn
ed up in this city. McGinty is the prince
among wandering printers. He has
walked from California to Quebec, and
to Boston and back again. He has
made several trips from Lake Itasca to
Lake Ponchartrain, and set type in ev-
cry town on the Mississippi River be-
tween st. Paul and New Orleans Not
content with wandering over the North
American continent, he has crossed the
Atlantic and tramped over q great part
of Europe
s'Texas Jack " is man of consider
able intelligence and keen perceptiye
faculties, and the incidents of his life
would make an interesting romance.
He has had his love affairs, the uncer-
tain running of whose current has had
much to do with his tireless travels for
nearly q quarter of u century. The Oh
ject of his youthful affections is still liy-
ing in his native city, Boston. He said
yesterday that in all his wanderings his
thoughts had ever been fixed upon Bos-
ton, his old parents, whom he had not
seen in eight years, and the object of
his youthful love.
He served as a Union soldier in the
late war. As drum-major of the Forty
ninth Massachusetts, under Ben Butler,
he was in New Orleans during Buffers
stay in that city. He afterward went to
Texas, where he obtained his nickname.
He is now on his way to Boston TO join
his old parents, marry his only and first
love, and settle down for the rest of his
days.-Nev York Sun, July 10.
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WEST AND souTHwEsT.

At Aledo, H., on the 14th, a young lady,
a daughter Of Mr.. J. Z. Harcount, while
handling a toy pistol, accidentally shot her.
self, the ball passing through her lung, caus-
ing instant death.
An investigation by Commissioner Hayt
Of affairs at the Crow Greek Indian Agency
is said to have disclosed a most stupendous
scheme of plumber on the part of DIR. Liv-
ingston, formerly agent there, in connection
with other agents and traders, by which the
Government and the Indians have both been
swindled out OF thousands of dollars worth
Of property. Livingston and the other
members of the ring owned two cattle
ranches and hotel, which were regularly
supplied with provisions from the Crow
Greek and Cheyenne agencies, and this is
but one Of a dozen schemes Of similar ma
ture. The ranches have been seized by the
Government.
New Orleans has projected great Ma
tional and International Commercial and
River Convention, to be held in that city on
the 18th Of November next. Representa-
tives are TO be invited from all cities and
towns interested in the extension and de-
velopment OF the export trade Of the coun-
try, the establishment of steamship lines,
improvement of navigation of the Mississippi
River and its tributaries, and the construc-
ton Of Southern Pacific Railroad. The
South American States and Mexico viii also
be invited TO send delegates.
The following is a comparative statement
OF disposal Of public lands in Dakota, Kan
sas, Minnesota and Nebraska for the fiscal
years ending June 30, 1877, and June 80,
1878:
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EAST Arp suurnsAsr.

Three fatal cases OF yellow fever had oc-
Cured on the 18th, on the United States
steamer Colorado, lying OF the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
At Harrisonburg, Va.,o the 10Th, Mr.. Abe
Richie and his son, young man, were both
killed by lightning while standing under a
tree in the harvest field, where they had
taken refuge during shower.
At Abingdon, Va, on the Goth, Walter
Preston, young man, shot and killed John
Styles, and then killed himself. Styles was
superintendent of Prieston's brothers. farm.
Walter had ridden favorite horse to death,
and, being upbraided by Styles, became en-
ragged and shot him. In 6t of remorse he
then shot himself.
North Albany, \. Y, was struck by cy-
clone on the Dist, which caused damage to
the amount Of 500, 900.
Miss Julia McPhee md Mrs. George By
ers were killed by liginning at Gloucester,
Mass, on the 21st.
The wife of James Trump, of Pittsburg.
Pa, kindled the fire with kerosene. Eight
hours afterward she died in great agony.
John G. Tappen, Treasurer Of the Boston
Betting Company President Of the McKillop,
sprague & Co. Commercial Agency, and q
heavy stakeholder in the Merriam Packing
Company of Texas, is a defaulter to the
amount of probably million dollars. The
loss falls principally upon the Boston Betting
Company which was considered sound fnan-
cially, and whose paper was used by Happen
in bolstering up the weaker concerns with
which he was connected.
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GENERAL.

Figures indicating the condition of the
cotton crop for July, compiled by the Ma
tional Department of Agriculture, are as
follows: North Carolina, e1l Soath Caro-
lima, 1O4; Georgia, los; Florida, 100; Ala
bama, 102, Mississippi, IS; Louisiana, So;
Texas, LOG; Arkansas, 81; Tennessee, 9S.
Reports Of crops have been received from
904 counties Of the cotton belt, OF which Us
report 100, lis above and 116 below.
Additional Congressional nominations:
Ilinois-Second District, J. R. Doolittle,
Jr., Democrat; Sixth District, General P. j.
Henderson, Republican (renominated) !;
Rev. J. w. Haney, National Greenback;
Seventh District, Alexander Camp
bell, National Greenbaek; Seventh Dis
triet, j. p. Demmett, Republican.
Missouri-Sixth District, M. Fl. Richie, Ma
tional- Greenback. Indiana-Tenth Dis
trict, Maj. w. II. Calkins, Republican ire
nominated). Ohio-Seventh District, Chas.
S. Foster, Republican (renominated). Mis-
sissippi-Sixth District, Gen. j. r. Chal-
mers, Democrat (renominated).
The President has appointed Gen. Badger
Postmaster at New Orleans, in place OF j..
NJ. G. Parker, suspended. Parker is broth
er-in-law Of Gen. B. T. Butler.
The name Of the Independent Order of
Workingmen has been changed to that Of
the Independent Order of Mutual Aid.
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Haps and Misbaps.

The mother of Rev, A. c. John
son, pastor OF Wesley Chapel, M. E.
Church, Madison, Ind, was killed by
being thrown from a wagon while the
horses were running away.
Charles Phillips, a farm laborer,
was instantly killed at Austintown, o.,
while unloading hay with a patent
horse-fofk. The tackle broke and Phil
lips was struck on the head by pully-
block.
"A 5-year-old daughter of William
Burns, residing near Salem, o., was ia
tally injured while walking beside her
fathers team, with which he was haul
ing a load of hay. A tug broke, throw
ing the singletree back violently against
her forehead.
"A span of colts hitched to a mower
belonging to Geo. w. Thwing; of FIRE.
donna, Mich, ran away, carrying Mr..
Thwing, who held the bits, across the
field, running into a fence, the machine
tongue entering his bowels and infiict-
ing probably fatal injuries.
Mrs. Daisy Thompson, the wife of
DIR. w. Fl. Thompson, prominent
physician in Russell County, Va, was
STOPPING over deep spring near her
house, endeavoring to get jug of but
tsrmilk from the spring, when she lost
her balance, fell in, became wedged in
the spring, and was drowned.
A son of Mr.. Samuel Athouser,
aged about II years, residing four miles
northeast of Upper Sandusky, o., was
assisting his father hauling in wheat
from the field when he was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. His
father was also stunned. The load OF
wheat was burned up and the horses
ran away.
Jas Duncan went to the large hay
shed of Langley & Son, at Nelson, KY,
where there is rugged a mammoth hay
hosting fork that works from the
ground to the roof by horsepower. Dun
can got upon one of the large prOngs OF
this fork TO make a short ascent, with a
view to jumping out when he become
satisfied, but in this he failed, and
was carried up among the rafters, where
he was squeezed powerfully, and injured
Internally.
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means of wire screens. In market the
frogs sell st 20 cents a dozen.


means of wire screens. In market the
frogs sell at 20 cents dozen.
Texas has produced new medii
cine, whichfrom its intoxicant qualities,
may yet be used as tipple 1t is de-
rived from bean growing on plant
known as the SophDriG SpecIosa. Pro-
lessor III. G. Wood Of university of
Pennsylvania has discovered it in new
alkaloid, which he proposes to call So
pboria. Half of one bean, it is said,
will produce delicious exhilaration
followed by sleep lasting enc or two
days.
The experiment of using superheat-
ed water for locomotives has been sue
cessfully tried on the tramway connect
ing Reveil and Marly-le-Roi, France.
The engines are charged with water
heated to 100 degrees c., which is al
lowed to vaporize as fast as required ;
and by doing away entirely with fur
naces in the locomotives, the dangers OF
explosion, as well as the cause of ter
rot to passing horses, are easily avoid
ed. A locomotive, propelled in this
manner, and attached to two carriages,
assembled gradient of five and hall
in the hundred at the rate of sixteen
miles an hour.
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CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

The War Department Us Of the opinion
that the Indian campaign in the Northwest
Is not yet over, and all available troops East
Of the Mississippi are being forwarded to
the scene Of conflict as speedily as pos
sible.
Secretary Schurz, in a recent interview,
says the disclosures OF fraud at the Crow
Creek and other Indian agencies have been
brought about entirely through the inyesti
cations Of the present Indian Bureau; that
the irregularities in some instances are the
growth Of years, and that in no instance
where theft and peculation have been prov
en- TO exist has the offender been spared.
The Secretary says that the humanitarian
policy of getting the Indians togeth-
CT upon reservations and making
them seif-supporting as far as possible by
agriculture, stock-raising, etc, is very diff
cult to carry out, but may be accomplished
in time if not only the Government but
white citizens will treat the Indians fairly
The continual conflicts between the inter
ests Of Indians and the greed of white peo-
pie, surrounding and erowding between
them, presents a problem Of difficult solu-
tion, ard no mere change in the organiza-
tion and control Of the Indian service can
dispose Of It.
President Hayes left Washington on the
Goth, for a visit to his old home at Column
bus, o.
Congress Hunton, Of Virginia, has chal-
lenged Columbus Alexander, OF Washing
ton, to duel. The trouble grows out Of a
bill which Mr.. Hunten, as member OF the
COMMITTEES on District Of Columbia Affairs,
pushed through Congress at the close Of the
session, legalizing some assessments made
by the old Board OF Public Works, which
Mr.. Alexander has fought long and earnest
ly. 1t is not believed that apy blood viii be
split.
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Science and Industry.

Rev. DIR. Capin, of Steubenville, O.,
has turned inventor, and astonished the
iron men with machine which, if sue
cessful, will do away with pudding fur
naces.
John B. Davis, brother of Senator
Davis of West Virginia, has 400 acres in
tomatoes on his farm near Richmond,
Va, the biggest field of the kind in the
United States.
Tea raised in South Carolina and
prepared in Baltimore was lately ex-
hibited in Washington to dealers, who
were unable to distinguish it from SINH
lar varieties of Chinese and japanese
growth.
The London Engineer comedies
that with all the care the English man.
ufacturer takes, he can not produce the
faultless light castings, such as iron
shelf-brackets, which the American
manufacturer does.
The largest four-mill in the world
is now being built at Niagara Falls. Its
capacity will be about 1900 barrels
day. The structure is placed on the
hydraulic canal, with perpendicular
fall of 100 feet.
New Jersey takes the lead in the
States in the manufacture of window
glass. 1t has 81 factories. Pennsyl-
yaHia has 80; New York, IL; Massa-
chusetts, Illinois and Maryland, each 5;
West Virginia and Missouri, each 2,
Indiana, 8; and Michigan, Wisconsin
and lows, apiece.
Frog culture has attained to some
dimensions as an industry in some parts
of Minnesota Very little labor is in
volved. The principal duty of the frog
raiser is to protect the eggs and tad
poles from birds, and this IS attained by
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School and Church.

"A convention of the educators of
Southern States will be held in Chat
tanooga the 9th, 9TH and 9Th of August.
Three Chinese youths have gone to
a Boston preparatory school with the
intention of eventually entering Harvard
College.
Three thousand teachers gathered
at the annual meeting of the American
Institute of Instruction, at the Fabyan
House, n. H., on the 9th of July. Sew
eral excellent papers were read and the
occasion was every way both pleasant
and profitable.
Seventy young men attended Colo
RADIO College, at Colorado Springs, dur
ing the past year. Several are studying
for the ministry. 1t is young and grow
ing and is described as being 500 miles
from any other Christian college and
1000 from theological seminary.
1t is the testimony of Sturgeon,
Tying, and all of those pastors who are
accustomed to receive many children in
to their churches, that they make more
symmetrical, reliable, and less trouble
some members through their lives than
those received as adults.
The Springfield (Mass.) Union
says: can earnest and able Christian
minister is now doing a good work in
town not many miles from Springfield
on a salary of $500 year, $50 of which
goes for house-rent, and all donations
from members of the society are charged
against this salary account"
The Presbyterian Church South has
declared war against the evangelists.
The General Assembly adopted report
strongly condemning lay preaching as
contrary to the Word of God, against
the peace and harmony of the Church,
and contrary to the Church government.
1t urges ministers not to allow them to
enter their folds.
The most remarkable results of
evangelistic work among the Jews are
found in Sweden. Great multitudes at
tend the public services of the Rev. Mr..
Wilkinson, of England, and Mr.. Adler,
at Gortenberg, the chief seaport of Swe-
den. Upon the Sabbath 1900 people,
many of them Jews, fill large Luther
an church. Drawing-room meetings
are also held with good results.
DIR. Willard, CT the Chicago High
School, declares that school-room walls,
for the sake of pupils eyes, should be
tinted with Il pinkish, greenish or blush
tinge, and the lesson-boards should be
green, brownish or drab in color. He
adds that it is mistake to think that
the board must be black to make the
chalk mark distinct, and that though the
relief and comfort to the eye may seem
slight, it amounts to a great deal, TAX
ing day after day.
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EOreign Notes.

Count Herbert Won Bismarck, the
eldest son OF the German Chancellor,
and his brother, have both become can
didates for the German Parliament.
According to the Rome correspond
ent of the London Globe, the Pope is
likely to accept the advice of his physi-
clans and spend part of the summer out
of the Vatican.
Immense scandal in Vienna. Jo-
ham Strauss, within two months after
his wife's death, has married again, his
second spouse being Angelica Dittrich,
pupil of Prock, the Yiennese singing
master.
None of the members of the Prus-
sian Embassy at Paris attended the flu
neral of the eX-King of Hanover, pro-
badly because the invitations to the fu-
neral describes him as George v,
King of Hanover by the grace of God"
The Berlin police have found it nee
essary, in consequence of DR.. Nobeling's
discharge of bird shot at the Emperor,
to prohibit the performance of Julius
Caesar in that city, and even Schiller's
William Tell has been withdrawn from
the Royal theater.
Less than 800 men in the English
army wear the Victoria CrOss-a scrap
of gun-metal inscribed "for valor, :"
and carrying with it an allowance OF
$50 a year to nOn-commissiOned officers
and men. They are of all ranks, from
drummer-boys up to Generals.
The Prince of Wales has organized a
scheme by which artisans will be sent to
the Paris Exhibition free of cost, on con-
dition that each man on his return sub
mits written report on his especial in
dustry. The scheme is warmly sup
ported in the manufacturing districts of
England.
AT the dinner given in Berlin by the
Crown Prince of Prussia to the members
of the Congress the table was arranged
with great skill. Before each plenipo-
Tertiary flowers were artistically placed
so as to represent the different national
colors of his nation. The bouquet plac-
ed before the Turkish envoy represented
q crescent in white camelias in hemidst
of scarlet roses.
-lhey nave queer PIOlessIOn III
Paris, that city of queer professions
guild of mashed, not of Washers. The
individual member loafs along the boule
ward till he sees a vehicle driven by
man who can afford to pay coming
along, then sets out as if to cross the
street, gets confused, and manages to
fall under the wheels, the art of the
thing consisting in managing to fall so
as to get hurt as little as possible.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.


-ssBill Arp has been lecturing be-
fore an Atlanta audience on "a Cousin
in Berlin" The Constellation speaks
highly of the effort.
Americas young contralto, Miss
Hattie Glenn, of Iowa City, Iowa, who
for four years has. been pursuing her
musical studies in Europe, made a most
successful debut at Malta recently.
The whole OF the unpublished man;i-
scripts of the composer Rossini have
inst been sold at auction in London.
They were purchased from Madame
Rossini, who inherited them under the
composers will.
Peter Cooper was first coach
maker, then a cabinet-maker, then a
grocer, and failed in all three. 1t was
not till his fortieth year that he began
making glue, and then laid the founda-
ton of his fortune, now estimated at
s10,000,000.
-Frederika Hallin, d Swedish girl,
has just received royal permit to pub
lish a weekly paper in that country.
She not only writes her articles, but
sets them up and prints them. Women
only are employed in her office. This
makes the third printing establishment
in Sweden carried on exclusively by
women,
When informed of Mr.. Bryant's i'll
ness Mr.. Longfellow said: "He was my
master in verse; ten years and more
my senior, and throughout my whole
life have had the warmest Teverential
regard for him. His first thin little vol
ume of poems, of thirty pages or so,
containing his Thanatopsis and other
youthful performances, lies on my ia
Bile to-day"
On a certain occasion Edward
Everett visited the composing-roon-e Of
the Boston Advertiser at late hour, to
read proof of an Grafton which he had
failed to see at an earlier hour. EX-
tremely particular about his style, he
was altering sentences and making ad-
diti6is while the forms were waiting,
which so irritated the foreman that he
roared out: "Cut it short, Everett
confound it, cut it short. There's no
time now for patching mp bad English. :"
Among Americans present at the re-
cent Literary Congress in Paris were
President Andrew D. White, of Cornell !;
Col. Thos. w. Hlgginson and Mr.. VIM.
Balch, of Boston. Russia was repre-
scented by NJ. Turgenief, and France had
Victor Hugo to preside over the sittings !;
but otherwise the Congress was remark
able rather for the absence of literary
lights. The principal question dis
cussed was that of international copy
right and the rights of authors gener-
ally.
The Rev. Joseph Cook was about
16 years old when he delivered his first
lecture. From earliest boyhood he had
passion for delivering addresses. He
was born near Ticonderaga, his parents
being plain country people. His full
name is Flavius Josephtis, and until he
grew up he was known as "Flave. ~
On becoming a man he dropped the
3" Flavius." nobody knew exactly why.
When he was quite a lad he wrote his
tory of Ticonderoga, which was pub
lished in the village newspaper. His
discourses are now more extensively
published than those of any other
preacher in this country.
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MURIA KIMATA, of Toxic, Jap an,
formed company to lend money to
the poor at low intsrest. 1t proved a
failure, for though there were enough
poor people anxious to borrow, few of
them would repay their loans. Muria
Kimiata therefore had to abandon his
project, having lost heavily himself and
involved many of his friends with him.
On the anniversary of his fathers death
he called the stockholders together, and
out of his private means paid to each
the amount of his loss; then, placing
their receipts, with all the obligations
and securities gived to the company by
the poor borrowers, in brazier, with
incense, he burned them before the
shrine of Hotoke Sama. Muria Kimata
is hetahen idolater.
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4 sinnArH MORN N THE COUNTRY.

cABbAih AohN IN The SObNHAf-
How stin the morning of the hallowed dayi
Mute IL the voice of ftifal labor, hushed
The plow boys whistle and the mtikmatd's
song,
And the wish is general that they might stay
hushed.
The scyttie lies slittering in the dewy wreath
OF tedded grass, with faded flowers.
That yestermorn bloom'd waving ii The
breeze;
And when the old man comes along
And finds 1t there, he will startle the quiet
of the hallOwed day with shouts and roars
and takings on of one kind and another
That will make a hired man sink into his
boots.
Sounds the most faint attract the ear-the
OF early bee looking for some one to sting.
The trucking of the (mountain) dew, glug,
glug,
Glug. gluEgerty, gluggerty, glug, glugi
The distant bleating, midway up the hill,
of the heartbroEen goat when he first dis
covers
That he can not climb a treei
oil CITY Derrick,