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EAST AND sourRrAsr.

In Halifax County, Va, ON the 9TH, Mr.. p.
|. McKenny quarreled with his father-in-
law, Maj. Chas. P. w. Miller, The Major
drew 4 revolver, but McKenny was too
quick for him, and planted heavy load Of
buck-shot in his father-in- laws head and
Shoulder, killing him almost instantly. Nc
Kenny then fed. Major Miller was well
known throughout the State, and was
spoken of as a candidate for Congress on the
Greenback ticket, from the Fifth Congress
sional District.
The Delaware Democratic State Cenven-
ton, held on the 9th, nominated John w.
Hall for Governor, and adopted hard
money platform.
IL. II. Kimpton, the alleged defaulting
Financial Agent Of South Carolina, has been
arrested in Massachusetts, and locked up in
Westfield Jail. He claims that he is the sub
jet Of political persecution.
The South Carolina Republican State Con-
vention met and adjourned on the Sth with
out making any nominations. a platform
was adopted, declaring that the Democrats
Of the State had been unfaithful to the
pledges of 1876, charging them with violence
and intimidation during the campaign of
1876, and with the subsequent violent seiz-
IRE Of the State Government, and declaring
it ineXpedient TO nominate State ticket on
account Of the Republicans being unable in
many counties TO organize for the campaign
without mourning great personal danger.
The prisoners Kane, Durham and Moore,
confined in Jail at Greenville, S. c., upon the
charge OF killing Amos Ladd during reve-
nue. raid upon Illicit distillers, have finally
been turned over to the United States au-
thOrities.
WaliingfOrd, Connecticut, was struck by
q tornado or cyclone about o'clock on the
evening of the 9th, which, although brief in
duration, was terrible in its effects. Forty
dwelling-houses were instantly demolished,
burying their inmates in the ruins, and a
large number Of barns and other structures
were also leyeled to the ground or carried
of by the force of the tornado. From 20 to
so lives were lost by the disaster and as
many more persons were injured. The
ravages Of the tornado were confined
to a district of two miles in length and
about a quarter of mile in width,
the locality being what is known as the Sand
Plains, north of the railroad station. The
tract was covered with small wooden
houses, every one of which was swept away
or demolished. Some larger buildings were
also unroofed, and the Catholic Church,
frame structure, and the new brick school
house were both demolished. The storm
extended over nearly all of New England,
and was particularly disastrous along the
coast.
BY the explosion of boiler in a saw-mill
at Shamokin Dam, Pa, on the 9th, John
Gross, the proprietor, Charles Elliott, the
engineer, and Charles Freymeyer, boy,
were instantly killed, and Wess Freymeyer,
Isaac Fodder and another man were proba-
bly, fatally injured.
The funeral of most of the victims Of the
Wallirgford disaster took place on the 18th.
The dead numbered 30.
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Death of Missionaries in China.

A letter from Pekin, June A, 1878, an
nounces the death of Rev. p r. Hunt of
the American Boards North China
Mission, and of several missionaries con-
nee. ed with other societies. Mr.. Hunt
was seized with typhus fever on the 10Th
of May and died on the Both. He was
born at Arlington, VT, January 80,
1916, and, after learning the printers
trade, went in 1889, with his wife, to
Madras, where he took charge of the
printing establishment of the American
Board, and managed it with great sue
cess for q years. In 1866, on the re-
linuuishment OF the Madras Mission, he
and his wife returned to the United
States, and after a stay of few months
went to North China in 1868 as Mission
aries of the Board. Miss Dedricken,
who had been in China for about year
under the auspices of the Church Mis-
sion of London, and was preparing to
take charge of a girls boardiUg-school,
died of the lever on the 18th of May.
Her death was was followed on the 18th
by that of Miss L. A. Campbell of the
American Methodist Mission, who had
been in China two years, and was an in
dustrious laborer in the girls boarding
school of the Mission with which she
was. connected. Between these two
deaths came that of Rev. William N.
Hall at Tientsifi. Mr.. Han was a mis-
sionary of the English Methodists. New
Connection, and died on the 14th Of
May, also Of typhus fever. On the 25th
of May, Rev. j. S. Barradale ofthe Lon
don Mission at Tientsin, died Of the
same disease, his wife having been car
RED off by it during the December pre-
vious Rev. Albert Whitney of the
American Presbyterian Mission died on
the 25th Of April at Shansi, whore he
had gone to aid in the work Of distrib-
uting aims to the fsmine-stricken peo-
n1p
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GENERAL.

The situation along the Rio Grande is re-
garded by our Government as becoming
very serious. tits understood, from relia-
BILE sources, that Mexican force is being
organized for the purpose Of repelling raids
across the river by United States troops,
and as Gen. 0rd's instructions TO follow up
all cattle thieves TO their hiding -places on
the other side Of the river have not been
countermanded, it is not unlikely that col
liSion may occur before many days.
Mr.. Manton Marble, the confidential
friend and adviser of Mr.. Tilden during the
Presidential campaign, has published a let
ter stating that Mr.. Tilden never approved,
but rather opposed, the Electoral Commits
sion scheme, his advice being that the House
Of Representatives should stand firm in its
constitutional right to share in the count Of
the vote, no State to be counted except by
the concurrence of both houses, and each
State lacking the concurrence of the two
houses to be thrown out; in the event Of
failure Of either candidate TO secure ma
jority OF all the votes, the House to elect a
President and the Senate TO elect Vice.
President. 1t is understood that Mr.. Hew-
lit and other leading Democrats who sane
Toned the Electoral Commission plan vii
endeavor to show that Mr.. Tilden was either
non-committal, or tacitly favored the plan
adopted.
The National Association of Bankers, re-
Gently in session in New York, adopted reso-
lutions pledging the Association to sid and
support the Government in returning to
specie payments, which is to be hailed as an
event OF the highest significance to the pros
perity aud welfare Of the whole county. A
number OF Western delegates opposed the
adoption OF the resolutions on the ground
Of expediency, although approving their
character.
Gen. Howard telegraphs that he considers
the Indian war as practically ended. His
headquarters have been established at Boise
City, and his pursuit will be directed from
that city, as the Indians are scattered in
several directions. The main trait has been
given TO Maj. Green, who will pursue the
enemy with yigor.
Prof. Swift, of Rochester, y. T., states |
that he also discovered Vulcan at the recent /
eclipse Of the sun, and his account Of its ap- /
peSrance agrees with Prof. Wstson's.
Additional Congressional nominations: /
nlinois-Fifth District, r. N. Hank, Repub-
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races. which attend the college in al
most equal numbers. recite together and
have exactly the same privileges. Inc
last commencement exercises OF the In
stitution were attended by visitors
drawn aSout equally from each racs-
1T win be surprise to many 20
learn that there is at Pekin, Chinas a
college medeled after English institu-
tons. 1t has been in existence IA years.
Since 1869 its President has been A. +.
Martin, of this country, who writes en-
couragingly of its future, although II
hada struggling existence for the hrst
few years. At first it was regarded
with hostility and jealousy By consery-
atives about the throne, but Il nasal.
ready developed into an institution OF
Importance. A curriculum extending
over eight years has been established.
Its students. now upward of a hundred,
are educated at Government expense, to
fill official stations.
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If lightnin never strikes twice in the
same place, it nevertheless struck in
great number of places and played some
queer pranks, besides, during the cleo
trio storm last Sunday. At Toronto a
thunderbolt lit upon the belfIy of st.
Mary's Church, and passing downw ard
threw open the main entrance whereof
the doors were locked and bO;ted. A
man standing near by was slightly
touched up by the fluid and soon recOv-
ered from the shock, but it is II OF stated
whether he tarried in those parts long
enough to reflect up The striking invi-
tation he had received to enter the
church and worship there. The phil
Osophers in the villages around Hart
ford did not need any kites to perform
successfully Ben Franklin's experiment
of bringing down the lightning, for it
came down of its own accord, damag-
ing several buildings and killing sever
al head of cattle. During the afternoon
service in the Methodist church ut the
Connecticut village of Mapping the light
ming also made very strong and re-
markable protest against the vanities of
dress, especially in the matter of
couture. The young woman whose
love ola bonnet was torn into tatters and
whose back hair was neatly locked by
the lightning, was no doubt effectually
cured of whatever pride she took in her
headgear. The lesson of humility,
however, was not learned without q Sc
we're shock to herself and to some twen-
ty other young women who sat in pews
near by. At Manchester three barns
were destroyed, while at Haverstraw
one man was killed end one barn was
fired. Lake Mahopac escaped with
flagstaff splintered and a gas-house set
on fire, which was extinguished before
any serious damage was done. In Phila-
delphia, yet another church full of wor-
shippers was selected as a target for
heaveI's artillery, and five of them were
pretty badly scorched or shocked, one
fatally. This was full days work for
the lightning, and it is now in order for
the unlearned to inquire whether the
recent eclipse of the sun has any thing
to do with producing these and similar
potent electrical phenomena-an in
quiry to which many of the learned
might honestly answer that they don't
know. 1t is pretty well settled, how
ever, that certain conjunetions of the
heavenly bodies do produce some start
ling effects upon the earth we inhabit.-
Nea0 York San.
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135 90 8 . 3 6 8
16S 81 92 So 3
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67912 35 SO
80 0 IS 4
7245 6 I As
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OF course the surprise lay in the ra-
pidity with which the man drew his fig
ures and performed the addition, the
latter operation being apparently done
from left to right instead of in the usu-
al manner.
al have the whole secret in these
pamphlets, which contain, besides, a
vast amount of interesting scientific
NATTER" said the speaker, and pro-
ceeded to sell copies of his books at the
rate of 25 cents each, easily disposing
of large number within a very few
minutes.
The principle of the fraud, for it was
q fraud, consisted in the willy peddler
taking advantage of the peculiar proper
ties OF the number g. 1t has long been
known among mathematicians that this
figure is capable of many strange feats,
among them that of the itinerant ped
dler-being prominent. 1t can be east
ly explained. Put down two rows of
figures, the sum of whose respective
numbers shall be 9, thus:
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FASHION NOTES.


Velvet underskirts, with polonaises
CT delicate fabrics. are largely worn.
Black satin nantes, trimmed with
jet and lace, have just been imported.
An ivory brooch ia the shape of a
passlcn-Hower exquisitely carved, IS
new design.
The amount Of Swiss plating put
in the train of dress renders q long
white skirt unnecessary
Ball hinge continues in favor; n
new design has large end small balls OF
many-colored silk and beads.
-Walking-skirts are either very
few inches trained, and raised by the
hand, or quite clear the ground.
Pretty London women are divided,
according 10 the state of their hair, into
touzlers and pon-touzlers.
Killed skirts are much worn, the
plaits turned one way, and faced round
the hem with crinoline lawn.
When polonaises are made with
wash-dresses they are now quite short,
and are turned up in front in washer
woman style.
Wide belts, embroidered in gay
colors, like those worn . generation
ago, are now fashionably used with
black silk in greuadine dresses.
Dinner and evening dresses are
made with long sweeping trains; those
intended for dancing or for toilets de
yisite are not quite so long.
The fancy for vests enables eco
nomical ladies to remodel basques and
sacques that have become sOiled in
front, or are too tight across the bust.
The most popular shopping-bags
are square, and SIRE made Of black vel
vet edged with lace, or else they are
crocheted with steel beads in the
meshes.
The Paris thread gloves fashioned
like kid gloves, long in the wrists, yet
with regular seams, like those of Bal
briggan stockings, are excellent for
summer wear.
boots and gloves that fit, and .
pretty handkerchief" answered the
French woman when challenged to name
three essentials of an elegant costume.
Instead of bracelets, bangles-with
ornaments of emeralds, bugs. flies, rab-
bits and mice, formed of brilliants and
platina, others set entirely around with
diamonds.
Small white handkerchiefs, with the
edges scalloped and wrought with a
color, are formed in pretty plated bows
for the throat, to wear with morning
| dresses.
Knitting is in fashion again, and
ladies buy the heavy English silks for
knitting socks for gifts to gentlemen.
Crocheted purses of the English silks
are also in favor for gifts.
White dresses for afternoons at
home are made of finely dotted Swiss
muslin, trimmed with plaitings of the
same, simply hemmed, not edged with
lace. These have basque and elbow
sleeves, while the simply shaped and
bouffant overskirt has long-loOped bows
Of pale blue ribbon holding it up on the
sides.
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Han. and sfishaps.

lydia Berry, charming young Ia
DIV of Charlestown, near Boston, Mass,
was fatally poisoned, it is supposed, by
wearing striped stockings.
"A daughter of Thaddeus Frost, of
Boston, about q years of age, commit
ted suicide, while insane, by pouring
kerosene over her head and Clothes and
then setting fire to it.
"A Young man named Amos Greegor,
of Fredericksburg, o., was shot through
the head and instantly killed while
blowing into the muzzle OF his gun 10
see if it was loaded. -
Near New Paris, Ind, an S-year-old
son of John Brumbach, while foollng
with a revolver, shot an elder brother
through the head, killing him instantly
William Knickerboeker, Superin-
tendent of the Floyd Qa.) city schools,
shot himself with his revolver because
the mother of his girl would not let her
90 to church with him Sunday evening.
james Guam, a tramp printer, was
run over and killed on the railroad near
Vincennes, Ind, while intoxicated. His
foot caught in a frog and he was unable
to extricate it, before the train was up
on him.
Samuel Mesick, aged 81, of Dan
vile Junction, KY, shot himself through
the head because his girls parents OBJ
iected to his keeping company with her.
He is said to have been a young man OF
good habits and well connected.
AT Port Huron, Mich, John Holt
and his son were removing piece OF
machinery weighing 600 pounds down
a flight of stairs in his grist-mill, when
it slipped from their hold, knocking the
father to the floor below, striking him
on the head and smashing his skull.
Joseph Lewis, a farmer living one
mile north of Bronson, Mich, while
moving a marsh, met with an accident
which resulted in his death. While at
work on the marsh his team and mower
began to sink. Getting off the machine
to tighten it, he forgot to throw it out
of gear. His horses fioundering, threw
him down in front, the knife coming in
contact with and cutting off his foot
Just above the ankle.
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Foreign Notes.

-Engishmen are all dreaming of
going to Cyprus and making money
there.
The Spanish Government has just
secured the extradition from France OF
a mysterious lady of high rank, said to
have been engaged with several illustri-
GUS accomplices in atheft of $4,000, 900
The death is announced of the Mar
quis de Vibray, one of the leading agri-
culturists of France. He was proprietor
of the Chateau de Cheverny, near BloiS.
and reclaimed large tract of land which
was at one time waste; he was also a
very eminent geologist and great, pa
iron of art.
The Countess Iona, daughter of
the Austrian diplomat, Count Andrassy,
was lately betrothed to Prince Alfred
Montenuovo. The Prince is grandson
of the Archduchess Maria Louisa, who
married the first Napoleon, and, subse-
auently, the Austrian Count Neipperg.
From this second marriage the Prince is
descended. His father, the Prince Will
liam, IS still living.
1t was recently announced, appar
emily upon good authority, that mar
rage had been arranged between, Prince
Louis Napoleon, son of Emperor Ma
poleon III, and Princess Thyra, third
daughter of Christian TX, King of Den
mark. The report has since been con-
tradicted.
The Duke of Connaught, Victoria's
son who is about getting married, has
proved himself model prince, and no
shadow of reproacb has ever been cast
upon him. He has studied his profess
sion in all its branches, and has now for
several years steadily done military du-
ty precisely as any other officer would.
Much of his time has latterly been pass
ed in Ireland, where he has succeeded
in winning golden opinions from all
sorts and conditions of men, and he IS
commonly spoken of as the flower OF
the flock. ,"
Lord Beaconsfeld occupied with his
suite at the Kaiserhoff, during the late
Berlin Congress, GO rooms at $1,000
month, and his food bill was $4,000.
He gave $500 to the walters. The cor
respondent of the London Times took
So, 500 with him for expenses, and ex-
pended SO, 40, in addition to S2,410 for
telegrams., The wife of M. Blowitz OF
the Congress induced her husband to
obtain the signature of each member
upon fan which she intrusted to him.
She considers that she possesses a treas
ure of especial value. -
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A Peripatetic Teacher Of Arithmetic.

Gentlemen, this is the new science
of arithmetic, (" said short and POM
rpous individual, dressed in broadcloth
suit, white vest, and silk hat, who was
haranguing q curious crowd on Wash
ington Street yesterday afternoon. He
had a better makeup than the common
run of itinerant peddlers, and be spoke
from an open carriage, upon the back
seat of which was huge stack of pam
phlets. IA
Z" don't like to call myself q bene-
factor of mankind" continued the ora
tor, stbeeause it would sound egotistic-
al, and am only q. student, a scholar
of humble pretensions; but may say
without Boosting that have devoted a
long life to the pursuit of mathematics.
There are people who pretend to say
that arithmetic is an exact science, and
that there is nothing discoverable in its
certain and known quantities, but they
are poor idiots who are content to fol-
| low in the beaten track of their illustri-
Gus but common-minded forefathers.
Yes, gentlemen, am proud to say that
stand here to-day as the inventor or
discoverer of new system of mathemat-
/ les. lean show any man in few min
utes method of lightning calculation
that would astonish the oldsfogy savants
of former ages.
The silvery- tongued speaker here pro-
duced small blackboard, upon which
he traced rapidly with chalk the follow
/ ing figures:
S31O297646
al will show you how to perform a
sum in addition" said he, and continu-
ed chalking down figures until he had
enough to completely fill his black
board, whereupon he proceeded to sci
down the sum total without the least
hesitancy, to the establishments of the
lookers-on. The table when completed
was as follows:
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CURRENT NEWS.


A conference Of leading Greenback men
was held at Washington on the 9th. for con
su'tZtion regarding the best means FOR ad-
sSncing the interests Of the movement. A
declaration Of principles was promulgated
The principal featurss Of which are taxation
OF United States- bosftls, a full legal tender
currency to take the place Of National bank
notes, the repeal OF the Resumption act, free
coinage Of siiYer,and judicious expenditure
OF treasury notes in the construction OF
rStways and other internal improvements.
fhiiemon B. Hunt, Of Lexington, Ky, has
been appointed agent for the Indians Of the
hiowa, Comanche and Wichita Agency, In
dian Territory.
Washington City was visited by another
destructive storm on the 10th.
President Hayes win attend the Minnesota
State Fair at St. Paul, to be held the first
week In September,
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TIERS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. Tennyson, it is rnmOred, is busy
upon new volume of poems, which
win soon make its appearance.
Mr.. Writ Skies, us. Consul at Car
diff, is preparing book on the legends,
myths, fairy tales, and folklore OF
Wales.
-Longfellow's poem, "The Masque
of Pandora" has been set to music by
Mrs. Meadows White, and the overture
was recently played at the new Philhar-
monte Society concert in London.
The late Mr.. MacGahsn. tits said in
the London AthenG9nl, left behind him,
corrected for publication, as much of his
experience in Bulgaria and the Russo
Turkish war as will form memorial
volume.
Mr.. Kaneko, the author of the elev-
er Japanese story in the last atlantic, Is
ayoung japanese of great intelligence,
a graduate this year of the Harvard
Law School. He returns to Japan the
present month.
-Sojourner Truth, the old colored
woman who is somewhere about 100
years old-old enough to have been long
slave in York State two or three gen
erations ago-is still vigorous enough
to travel and give an occasional lecture.
Bob Ingersoll has sailed for Europe
with his family to collect material in
| Scotland for a lecture on Robert Burns,
and has contracted with Redpath for
| 100 nights, at S25, 900 and expenses, af-
ter his return about the 1st of October.
Anna E. Dickinson recently said to
friend IS had an illness a year ago,
but soon recovered; people will still
insist, however, that l ought to be an
invalid vet. As to the comedy, that's
been finished some time, and SO has the
tragedy. Now am deep in the melo-
drama. I'm very busy"
Charles Reade is Ga years old; ia
cob Abbott, IS; Edmond About, so;
William t. Adams (Oliver Optic, Sc !;
7. B. Aldrich, az; Berthold Auerbach,
&c; George Bancroft, rs; Robert Brown
| ING, &c; Carlyle, 80; S. L Clemens
! MARK Twain, AZ; G.. w. Curtis, 81 !;
K. II Dana, 81; Darwin, So; Disraeli,
/ 10; Hepworth Dixon, 81 Emerson, 10 I;
J A Froudc, 60; w. E. Gladstone, SO;
Bret Harte, 80; j. G.. Holland, So; DIR.
Holmes, So; Julia Ward Howe, So;
Thomas Hughes, So; t. H. Huxley, 80;
George Eliot, So; LOngfellow, II; Ben
son J. LOSING, 65; Donald G. Mitchell,
So; Max Muller, So; James Parton, So (;
Mayne Reid, 60; John G. SAKE, 81; Mrs.
Stowe, &c; Tennyson, SO; Whittier, II !;
Wilkie Collins, So; Swinburne, Al;
VIM. Black, 81; NJ. F. Upper, 68; Q.
D. Warner, 49; w. D. Howells, Al.