THE PEOPLE'S ONE DOLLAR TUESDAY AND FKIDAY VISITOR. fi5f)rrman & armcr. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BT THX 1 "Fisherman & Farmer PntlisMng Co. PRICE $1.00 PER YEAE. THE PENSION OFFICE. Figures From Commissioner Black's Annual Ileport. General John C. Black, Commissioner of Pensions,in his annual report.makes a number of suggestions as to changes in the pension laws. The report shows tat there were at the close of the year 405,007 pensioners, as follows: 204,445 army invalids; 85,010 army widows, minor children, and depan dent relatives: .",281 navy invalids; 1,075 navy widows, minor children, and dependent relatives; 1,0W survivors; -of the war of 1812, and 11,831 widows of those who served in that war; 7.503 survivors of the war with Mexico, and 805 widows of those who served in that war. There were added to the rolls during the .year 55,104 new pensioners, and 2,707 whose pensions have been previously dropped were restored. The names of 17,077 pensioners were dropped. The aggregate annual value of all pensions is 52, 824,041, an increase of like value for the year of 8,1 1(5, $3. The amount paid for pensions during the year was 7:J,4)5,581, an increase over the previous year of 0,009,750. The amount paid to 44,010 new pensioners during the year, upon first payment, was $25,100)00; 1,001,200 pension claims have been filed ince 1S01, and 070,948 have been allowed; 55,104 original certificates were issued, a greater number than ever be fore in one year. The Commissioner asks for two additional Chiefs of Division at $2, 000 each per annum, fifty additional clerks at $1,200, and fifty additional clerks at 1,000 ach per annum. following are the estimates for the next fiscal year: Salaries, $2,144,'JoO; inves tigation of pension claims, $525,000; repairs and improvements to build ing. $63,500: pensions. $75,000,000; ex amining surgeons, $1,000,000; pension ' agents and agencies, $312,400. 'lotal, $0, 045,2.'X). The appropriation for the last fiscal year was $78,701,250. THE NATIONAL GAME. Eight consecutive victories is Chicago's -best record this season. Charleston's three-fingered catcher, . Nicholas, has caught that town. Two hundred and eleven thousand people saw forty-nine games on the Boston grounds. The Eostons have played their last cham- pionship game on their own grounds this sea- - son. Detroit now leads the League clubs in batting and fielding. New York leads in - base-running. Daily, the one-armed pitcher, has been re leased by Cleveland, Gilks having shown up -well in the box. Dr. Macocx, pitcher for the Campbell ford (Ontario) Club, in a recent baseball match, broke his arm above the elbow while -delivering the ball. Clarksox, of the Chicagos, has pitched in 31 winning games, leading all the League pitchers in that respect. Keefe, of the Xevv Yorks, comes next with 29. The New Yorks won 21 games and lost 15 to the Western clubs on the home grounds, the Philadelphia? also won 21 and lost 15, the Bostons won 22 and lost 11, and the Washin . tons won 10 and lost 18. It is estimated that the "Washington Club will really clear about $23,000 on the season, and that, too, in spite of counter-local at tractions, bad weather in the spring and the uneven play of the team. The long lead of the St. Louis club makes its grip on the American Association cham pionship assured. The Detroit Club is in -nearly the same position in the fight for Xeague championship honors. Tub "Western clubs on their three trips East J)layed 130 games, of which they won 50 and ost 80. The Detroits won 20 and lost 15. the Chicagos won 10 and last 17, the Pittsburgh won 14 and lost 21, and the Indianapolis won 9 and lost 27. Before the season opened Mr. Watrous, then Managing Director of the Metropolitans, . said that each player of the club who had a batting average or over 300 would get a suit - of clothes. Only four of the players are now -below that figure. By the accident which crippled Short-stop Smith, the Brooklyns have leen deprived of one of their most valuable fielders and heaviest batters. In a recent game, King, of the St. Louis, in running to second base, came in collision with Smith and broke the small bones of two fingers. St. Louis leads the Association in club batting and fielding averages. The other clubs, in batting, rank in this order: Balti more, Brooklyn, Louisville, Cincinnati, Athletic, Mets and Cleveland. In fielding, next to St. Louis, the clubs stand: Cincinnati, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Athletic, Louisville, Cleveland and Mets. THE NATIONAL. LEAGUE. iron. Lost. ITon. Boston 58 New York .... 60 Indianapolis. ..31 Washington ... 30 ASSOCIATION. Brooklyn. 55 Athletic 57 Metropolitan . .37 Cleveland. ... .33 Lost. 48 48 78 67 Lost. 64 61 80 86 Detroit 71 Pittsburgh 47 Philadelphia.. 02 Chicago 01 38 50 48 43 THE AMERICAN iron. Lost. ,St. Louis. SO til 51 50 53 Cincinnati .... 72 Louisville 00 Baltimore 64 the international league. iron. Lost. S vraeuse . . . . -53 30 Hamilton 53 59 Jersev Citv. ..44 47 H Wilkesbarre..23 70 SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Won. Lost. iron. Lost. Birmingham. .16 40 I Memphis 55 41 Charleston 58 33 I New Orleans... 58 35 LIGHTNIffG FBEAKS. Mrs. Oscar Brown, of Fergus Falls, Minn., had just taken her infant from its crib when lightning struck the house and tore the - crib into fragments. When lightning struck Baxter Vaughan.of Strother, Mo., it cut a hole like a bullet in his hat, ran around the rim, then down his back clear to his heels, tearing off in its entire course a narrow strip of skin, and yet Mr. Vaughan lives to tell his queer experience. More than 100 children sat during a thun- der storm in a room of Green's Academy, at Albany,Ga. The sliding doors leading to an other room were op3n. Suddenly an im mense ball of fire appeared in the neighbor ing room, tore the window sashes from their frames, and threw the weights and splinters I -jII at0".it4 y -t r.?t a chitt was iujrsi I iron. Lost. . Newark. 58 35 Rochester. ....40 40 Toronto 50 32 Buffalo 61 3S Scranton. 18 40; NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and 31fddle State. The trial race to .ee which American yaht shall compete with the BritLsh representative, the Thistle, was won easily in New York bay by the Volunteer over the Mayflower, last year's winner in the great international contost. The Volunteer came in fifteen min utes ahad of the Mayflower, and was there upon officially selected to race with the Thistle for the Araei ica's cup. Joseph Cilley, the oldest ex-Umted States Senator and a veteran of the war of is 12. died at the age of ninety-six years in Nottingham. N. H., a few days since. A woman, who was a few years ago pri vate Secretary to Hon. James H. Blaine.and admired by " everybody, is now washing di-hes in a Haverhill (Mass.) restaurant. Drink and dissipation brought her to this condition. R M. Chamberlain having declined the Massachusetts Labor party's nomination for Governor, his place has been filled by Charles. E. Marks, the candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Seven persons were injured by a collision on the Elevated Railroad in Brooklyn. A great stringency in the money market has created considerable excitement in Wall Street, followed by quite a drop in prices of stocks. Appeals have been made by many business men to the Treasury Department to adopt a moi-e liberal ix'icy in the purchase of bonds, and thereby give relief. The Massachusetts Democratic State Con vention, held in Worcester, nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Hon. H. B. Levering; Lieutenant-Governor, Walter E. Cutting; Secretary of Stata, John F. Mur phy; Treasurer, Henry C. Thatcher; Attorney-General, John W. Corcoran, and Audi tor, Wm. F. Cook. The platform adopted endorses President Cleveland's administra tion; urges judicious reduction of the tariff in accordance with Mr. Cleveland's sugges tion to Congress ; expresses sympathy with Ireland, and saj-s all "offensive partisans" should be discharged. South and. "West. Dominick M. Messina, a New Orleans grocer, jerisheJ with his entire family of wife and four children in a firo which de stroyed store and dwelling. Friends of the condemued Chicago Anarch ists are getting up petitions in all parts of the country appealing to Governor Oglesby for mercy. A young Englishman named A. W. White housa, while hunting antelope in Wyoming, mistook his chum, George H. Gordan, for a bear, and shot him dead. Andrew Johnson, the most notorious desperado in Kentucky, has committed five murders, and is not yet twenty-four years old. Through fear no jury will convict aim. The jury in the second trial of FredMunch rath, Jr., the Sioux City (la.) brewer charged with the murder of the Rev. Mr. Haddock, the Prohibition leader, brought in a verdict of manslaughter. Other trials for participation in the murder are to follow. The George Weber Brewing Co., of Cin cinnati, has failed with liabilities amounting to $.500,000. Part of a freight" train broke loose near Canton, Dakota, and ran down a grade until it collided with a passenger train. Five per sons were killed and eight cars completely demolished. Washington. A pension check that had been raised from $2 to $2,450 was received the other day at the Treasury Department. The forgery was skillfully executed, but was discovered by the paying teller of the Treasury. Governor Ross, of New Mexico, says in his annual report to the Secretary of the In terior that the marked increase of residents during the past few vears will result in a pop ulation of 200,000 by IS-). During the first half of the fiscal year 1,141 entries of public lands, aggregating 152,500 acres, were made. The collections from Internal Revenue during July an 1 August aggregated $20, 950,030, an increase of $1,007,280 as com pared with the first two months of the last fiscal year. Land Commissioner Sparks has prepared a statement of the disposition of public and Indian lands during the past fiscal year. It apiears that the sales, entries and selections of public land under the various acts of Con gress embraced 2, 11 1,400 acres, and of In dian lands 740,037 acres, making a total of 25,858,037 acres. The receipts from the dis posals of lands aggregate 10,783,922; from sales of Indian lands $1,484,302, making a total of $12,209,224. Foreign. The British Parliament has adjourned until November 30. Mexico has been celebrating its Independ ence Day with great enthusiasm. President Diaz opened Congress with the usual cere monies. Twenty-four persons were killed outright and seventy injured, many fatally, by a collision between two trains on the "Midland Railway in England. The killed and injured belonged to a party of excursionists on their way to the Doncaster races. An immense meteor, described as large as a railroad car, fell the other night from a cloudless sky near Barrington, Nova Scotia. Its fall was also seen at Halifax, and was ac companied by a vivid illumination of the whole city. A severe riot between Nationalists and Orangemen near Belfast, Ireland, was quelled by the police, and ten participants were arrested. Five persons were drowned in Lake Gen eva, Switzerland, by a collision between the boat they were riding in and a steamer. King William has opened the States General, or Parliament of Holland. An advertised foot-race at Lillie Bridge, London, did not come off, and the thousands of spectators took revenge in partly demol ishing two grand stands, a large assembly hall and a dancing pavilion, setting fire to the debris. Four constables were injured while quelling the riot. Antonio Gayon, chief of one of the bu ureaus of the Mexican War Department, was fatally wounded by General Rocha in a duel in the city of Mexico. Official statistics of the damage done by the floods in Egvpt show that property was destroyed to the extent of $2,500,000 and 80J families were made destitute. ' The British Government has begun its work of suppressing the National League in Ireland. A proclamation which has been issued makes it criminal to convoke, hold, or publish meetings or to do anjthing in connec tion with the League. A riot broke out among the artillerymen stationed at Hilsa. India, because they were ordered abroad. During the melee many soldiers and citizens were s?riouslv iniured. Elijah Hayes and wife, of Warsaw, Ind., have given to the Methodist Board of Mis sions an estate valued at $130,000, reserving, however, a life interest in the family home stead and an amount of $1,000. Th9 prop erty -0 'W-'0- TRAIN ROBBERS. An Express Train in Texas Stopped by Four Men. The Express and Mail Cars Killed of Their Valuables. The east-bound Texas and Pacific train was robbed the other night near Benbrook, Texas, at the trestle over Mary's Creek, where the same train was robbed in J une. The circum stances are similar to tho of the last robbery. Just as the train pulled out from the station two men got into the cab of the locomotive cv.d covered Engi neer Baker with six-shooters. Ho was directed to stop when ordered, and when the locomo tive had crossed the trestle the order was given and Baker stopped the train. Two men were waiting here and the engineer and firemen were ordered out of the cab and marched toward the express car under guard. The doors of the car were closed and one of the men, a tall, slim, sandy-haired fellow, yelled out: "Open up that car."' Ex pre?s 3Iesenger Maloney paid no attention to the orders, when, after "raiting a few seconds, a hammer of some kind was brought and the door was vigorously pounded. About this time some ten shots were fired into the Pacific Express car and then pound ing began again. At last the door was opened and one of the robbers jumped in with drawn pistol and demanded the money. Maloney had hidden a con siderable number of packages and tho re mainder were taken from the safe. Order ing Maloney to keep quiet, the robber jumped out and the mail car was entered, but without any shots being fired. Mail Agent Griffin was compelled to give up the registered packages, and is it said that nearly all the registered matter was taken. There was no effort made to rob tho passengers, many of whom were con siderably frightened. There were one or two armed men in the coaches who were prepared to defend the passengers if the rob bers had attempted to enter. After finishing their work in the mail car the robbers escorted the engineer and fireman back to the locomotive and ordered the train to be pulled out. The four men moved off some distance, watched the train for a short time, and walked away. The train reached Fort Worth at 8:30 and the olficers were at once notified, and two posses, one headed by the Sheriff, the other by the City Marshal, were soon on the road to the s?ene of the robbery. The amount stolen is variously estimated from 12, 000 to $30,000, but none of the mail men or tho Pacific officers will say anything about the matter. The theory of the officers is that the same men who committed the' robbery in June were engaged in that of the other night, but this is the purest con jecture. MUSICAL AND DEAMATIO. New Orleans has a brass band of fourteen members that are all newsboys. Hank. Winters, who wrote "White Wings," is said to have made a fortune out of that song! ; George H. Jessop and Brander Matthews have finished a new American play entitled "Lynch Law." John Stetson proposes to build in New York a theatre to cost 1,000,000, and to open it in October, 188S. Howard P. Taylor has finished a new comedy-drama in six acts, entitled "Jac quelina," for Annie Pixley. Miss Flora Benjamin, of Cincinnati, is the latest musical wonder. She can play al most any instrument, and is especially" pro ficient on the piano, flute and violin. She never took a lesson in music. The municipality of Bologna has ffercd a prize of 6,000 lire for the composition ot tlie best new opera, which is to be performed next season with great splendor. The com petition is only open to Italian composers. Somebody has figured that the 40,000 peo ple who are classed as American actors draw about $33,000,000 annually in salaries less than 1,000 a piece and that the American people spend about $ 103,000,000 a year n theatres. Admiral David D. Porter has written a dramatic version of his novel "Robert le Dia- ble," and it has been jjroduced at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, in Isew York. A fashiona- I ble audience, wmch included many distin guished representatives of naval,militaryand social circles, was present at the first per formance. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 37 Beef, good to prime 6)2 Calves, com'u to primo 5 Sheep 4 lambs 6& Hogs Live 5 - Dressed &. Flour Ex. St., good to fancy 4 30 4 West, good to choice 3 00 4 Wheat No. 2 Red T0 live State 50 Barley State.. 00 Corn Ungraded Mixed 50 Oats White State 33 Mixed Western 32 Hay Med. to prime 80 (A 8 oo 00 SO 53 75 51K 34 35 85 70 6 SI 24 Straw No. 1, Kve 60 Lard Ci ty Steam . . C 78 Butter State Creamery.... tig Dairy 21 West. Im. Creamery 10 Factory 13 ( Cheese State Factory 10' Skims...'. -S Western S Eggs State and Penn Vjyj(A 10 20 BUFFALO. Steers Western 3 50 4 00 Sheep Good to Choice 4 25 4 45 Lambs Western 0 00 ( 0 30 Hogs Good to Choice Yorks 5 45 (5j 5 55 FJour Family 4 75 ( 5 15 Wheat No. 1 (ct 82 Corn No. 2, Mixed 4S1( 4S Oats No. 2, Mixed 2o,sVs SO Barley Stata 04 05 BOSTON. Beef Good to choice S 14 Hogs Li vo 5 6 Northern Dressed.... KJ-4:'Z Pork ix. Prin.e, rer bbL..17 00 (Z17 50 Flour Soring Wheat pat's.. 4 75 (q 4 00 Cora High Mixed. 5GK 57 Oats Extra White 37V, Rye State 60 05 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight 5 5 rneen uve weignt 3?X.a 4 a Latnoi Hogs Northern pmnnrT.pnii 5 (3 Flour Penn.extra family... 3 00 3 25 Wheat No. 2. Red... 7S 7Sf Corn State Yellow 54 Oats Mixed...... 31 31 Rve t?tate .vift y . ------ - - - Kr w Butter -Creamery Extra... 22 23 Cheese N. Y. FuU Cream.. 13. 12 NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Changeable velvets will be mucli worn this fall. Feathers will drive flowers from bon nets this falL Beaded materials continue as much in. favor as ever. It is said that polonaises and redinotc,T are to prevail in the immediate future. It is predicted that lonr velvet rcdin otes, with satin shirts, will be extensively worn. A Texas woman has a pet alligator that wags its tail when his name i called. Phloxes and lantanas are old-fashioned flowers, lately imitated in the fashionable floral jewelry. Beads about the size of a pea made of Swiss lapis lazuli are favorite necklaces for young girls. Brunettes should not wear pearls, but they have the exclusive right to ame thysts and rubies. New for bonnet trimmings arc bands of feathers, arranged for winding around the hat like braid. "White felt sailor hats, with a white band around the crown, are worn with rlannel dresses of any color. A Florida woman has made abed quilt containing 10,000 pieces, each less than the size of an average thumb-nail. Clusters of nuts intermingled with tulle are a novel of trimming sometimes seen upon Leghorn and Manilla hats. There are only eleven different sorts of point lace in existence, and several of these never find their way to this country. The women of the Presbyterian Church of this country have raised during the past sixteen years about 2, 150,000 for missions. Miss Minnie E. Folsom, a near relative of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, has become preceptress of the Brookings Agricultural College in Dakota. The Princess of "Wales and other Eng lish women of fashion are wearing Leg horn bonnets,trimmed with large flowers, poppies, artemisias or roses. The belle of "West Virginia is said to be Miss Nannie Reynolds, of Charlcstown. She is twenty years old, and a perfect representative of the mountain beauty. Mrs. Floyd, of Boston, has invented a waterproof bonnet, which is handsome and dressy enough for almost any occa sion, and is absolutely impervious to moisture. Military styles will predominate in the jackets ol next season. The will be adorned with Brandebourgs, frogs, fourageres and regular aiguilletes tagged with metal. Blouse waists are very popular, and a pretty firm belt for them is made by winding a ribbon two inches wide three times round the ' waist and tying it through a heavy antique silver buckle. Jet handkerchiefs are the latest idiocy. They are of net lace, with jet embroid ered borders. When the jet wears off they may be utilized as dusting cloths, but that" is all the use that can ever be made of them. French advices state that the polonaise increases in numbers and favor over all other styles of corsages. 3Iade of thin materials they are sometimes loose, crossed on the bust, the waist being defined by a pointed girdle. Low shoes are very generally worn; they have rounded, not pointed, toes are laced across the instep, and have medium high heels. Dull kid uppers with patent leather foxing, or at least tips of patent leather, are most used. Earrings, while not entirely out of fashion, are not worn nearly so much ?.s they were a few years ago, and unless one possesses a diamond set for state occasions there is very little interest toward earrings displayed. Small, short curls are again worn on the back hair, sometimes with a coil or a Psyche knot, and again forming all the back of the coiffure. Nets of beads and of silver or gilt cord for holding the back hair are worn by Parisiennes. Boston has a temperance club exclu sively for young unmarried women. Miss Julia Surpluss, Tieasurcr of the or ganization, says no member is permitted to accept the attentions of a man "who drinks, no matter how moderately. "When sashes are worn with basques they follow the outline of the front, and may be folded narrow and fiat, or left wide or loose, as is more becoming to the wearer. The loops pass under the position, making the back very bouf fant. Queen Victoria is mourning the death of her old nurse, Miss Skerntt, who re cently passed away at the mature age of ninety-four. Miss Skerritt had seen service under Queens Charlotte and Adelaide; and had nursed Queen Vic toria, the Prince of "Wales, and other roval children. North American Cannibals. Dr. Frank Boas, in a report on the Indian tribes of British Columbia, says that the principal figure in the mythology of several of them is a raven, who created all tilings, not for the benefit of man kind, but to "revenge himself." Can nibalism is practised by some tribes in connection with the winter darfces, and there is a Kwakiuti tradition that one of their ancestors descended from heaven, wearing a ring of red cedar bark, and taught the people the cannibal cere monies. The ceremonies have been adoped only in part by the Qomaks, who content themselves with eating ' 'artificial" bodies, which they prepare "by sewing dried halibut to a human skeleton.'' Boston Herald. Joseph "Watson, of Huntingdon, Pa.. ha3 a hickory rocking chair tha. has been in use for 118 jears. BAY VIEW HOUSE, Near Coart Square, EDENTON. N. C. F. A. WHITE. Proprietor. Ii. D. BOND, Clerk. Thi mznificnt boaM his jtit lately been finisbel and frnihed ntvr from lop to bottom and is now pubuc. 1U Iirge and elegant rooms FACING EDENT0N BAY, are an attrctm not fnrp?ed in Eastern Caro'ira. Tb!e will ho ?opp!ieI with tr;e txt the market af fords. Polile aud attentive erTant in attendance. Free Hack to meet Trains and Steamers. First-class Accommodation in Eiery Way 6epl4-T New Tin EDENTON, N. C. navlng just purchased a complete set of RSEW TOOLS, &c.f I am better prepared to do a'.l kinds of Rooliog, Glittering, Spouting and Tiwerk at very short notice. REPAIRING NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXE CUTED. GOOD WORK OK NO PAY. GIVE ME TIUAL. J. IT. T5I5LL, Shop at Bond's Bakery. nov2&-ly W. J. MOORE & CO. NEW STOCK Wines, Liquors a Cigars, IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC. California Wines, Foreign and Virginia Clarets. Agents for A. Werner's Celebrntetl Grape Milk iou alcoholic. Call a nil ejea m In c a t BAY VIEW BAR. Louis Tillery, FASHIONABLE BOOT & SHOE MAKER, Edenton, ftl. C. First-dass repairine done at short notice. Also keep a fall stock of Shoe Findings on hnud. Your orders solicited. Prompt attention given. ly DR. C. P. B0GERT, Surgeon & Mechanical TI ITDKNTON, IV. C PATIENTS VISITED WHEN REQUESTED. ESTABLISHED 18C. - J. W. WHARTON, WHOLESALE COMMISSION DEALER IN Fruit, Produce, Fish, Oysters, Terrapin, Poultry, Game, &c, &c. in season. No. 5 S. Delaware Ave. Market, FOOT OF DOCK STREET, flWfc PHILADELPHIA. Consignments solicited. Returns made promptly. StenciJa famished. ly SAMX J. SKINNER, Attorney at Law EDENTON, N. C. . 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