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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY FLshennan & Fanner PnhMng Co. PRICE $1.50 PER TEAR THE NATIONAL GAME. New York won the series from every club except Boston. Baseball, is fast becoming the popular sport in Australia. Cleveland won the series from Philadel phia, taking ten games to theslatter's nine. Almost every baseball club in the Ameri can Association is at daggers drawn with some or all of the other clubs. Umpire Hengle had to be escorted from Brooklyn's baseball grounds recently, because he called the game when the Brooklyn's were behind, by four policemen. A Bostox daily paper announces that it would present $1000 to be divided among the members of the Boston Baseball Club if they won the pennant this year. Ewi.ng, of N;w York, has caught in more games than any otbr League player, but he is closely followed Bennett, of Boston, Zimmer, of Cleveland and Farrell of Chic ago. Nixe well-known society girls Ln Baltimore have formed a base ball club. Twine a week they go out into the country to piay, and it is said that they are becoming very pro ficient at the game. Their ages vary from sixteen to twenty. According to information given out in Chicago the professional base ball players, aided by well-known capitalists, are to take the management of the National game into their own hands. Clubs are to be formed in eight leading cities. Axother ball player has joined the the atrical profession. W. H. Stewart, who is enacting the roll of the surgeon in "Held by the Enemy," is an old time Western t wirier. He was one of the organizers of the first club in Indiana, in 1864. Sixty-two games were prevented by rain this season in the League. There were thirty-one of those double event nuisances played, Pittsburgh playing the most eleven. Seven were played at Boston, six at Philadelphia, four at Chicago, three at Indianapolis, three at Washington, and two at Cleveland. At a meeting of the American Association the recent trouble between St. Louis and Brooklyn was discussed. The game which Umpire Goldsmith gave to Brooklyn by 9 to 0, because the St. Louis club refused to play longer when they were in the lead, claiming it was too dark, was given to St. Louis. The latter club was fined $1500 for refusing to play in Brooklyn on the next day, and the game was given to the Brooklyns by 9 to 0 while Goldsmith's dismissal was recom mended. LEAGUE RECORD. H'on. Lost, Percentaa- Boston si 43 .553 New York 79 4:5 Philadelphia (ir 500 Chicago 64 65 . "a'M Pittsburg ft) 68 .469 Cleveland m m 465 Indianapolis 56 74 .431 Washington 41 7j 343 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. Won. TM.ft. Percent ntjr Brooklyn 86 41 .677 St. Louis 81 44 .648 Athletic 70 52 .574 Baltimore 66 57 . 537 Cincinnati 6S (31 .527 Columbus 55 74 74 1 n .420 .417 .203 Kansas City 53 Louisville PB0MINENT PEOPLE. Joaquin Miller named the Territory o' Idaho. Wilkie Collins leaves a fortune of about $60,000. Cardinal Manning's dinner consists of a potato and one egg. The only stimulant now indulged in by Prince Bismarck is tea. Sir Henry Isaacs will be the third Jew ish Lord Mayor'of London. General Boulanger is now the fond grandfather of a little boy. General Lew Wallace has received $45,000 for his story, "Ben Hur.5 George B vncroft, the historian, spends all his spare time in tending to his roses. Senator Hoar's library is one of the finest private collections at the National Capital. General Butler has concluded the ar rangements" for the publication of his memoirs. The wife of ex-Senator Thomas Piatt is one of the best amateur photographers in New York State. President Harrison keeps a scrap-book in which he has a copy of all the speeches ho has ever made. General Daniel Harvey Hill, the well-known ex-Confederate General, died a few days since at Charlotte, N. C. Lord Salisbury has such an extreme aversion to tobacco that even his own sons do not venture to smoke in his presence. Henry Villard, the railroad magnate, is passionately fond of music of all kinds, and is himself a good performer on the violin cello. The Duke of Connaught, now in command of the English troops at Bombay, will visit the U nited States next spring on his way to England. George W. Childs is a plump, prosper ous looking, interesting, good-hearted man, with closely -cropped whiskers and the suav est of manners. H. M. Flagler, the Standard Oil magnate, who owns the finest private car on wheels, has just given orders for the most magnificent steam yacht that can be built. President Carxot, of France, is said to be very fond of Americans and greatly in terested in America. He takes every occasion that presents itself to learn something aboul the thriving Republic of the West. A correspondent who has just visited Samuel J. Randall, at his home, says thai the ex-Speaker is suffering now from gout ii addition to his old stomach trouble. He h improving, however, and expects to be in hi; seat when Congress meets. Tennysox has a horror of the biographer. He keeps no diary and has desrroj-ed his cor respandence and all records of it. He is re ported to have said to a friend recently "When I am, dead I will take good care thej shall not rin me up liko n Die." Not quite cme-half of the Manchestei UEng.) ship canal has been excavated, vet the whole of the original capital of $49,000,0X; has been expended within sl.oOO.OOO. At least $35,000,000 or 40,000.000 more will be re quired to finish it. It is expected that tbi icaoai will be opened in about two years. A TERRIBLE COLLISION. Frightful Accident on the New York Central Railroad. One Section of an Express Train Plunges Into the Other. A terrible accident occurred on the New York Central road at 11:40 o'clock, a few nights ago, two mil as east of Palatine Bridge, N. Y. The first section of the St. Louis express, which left New York at 6 o'clock p. m., had broken down, an accident having happened to the steam chest, when the second section, which was composed of eight vestibule sleep ing coaches, drawn by sixty-ton engine No. 6S3, in charge of William Horth, and run ning at the rate of thirty miles an hour, dashed into it. The first section was made up of Engine 714 (Engineer Weeks and Conductor Abel), a baggage, mail, and express car, three pas senger coaches, which were packed with people, one Wagner sleeper, and two private coaches. The rear private coach, the Kankakee, telescoped the Wagner car of the first section, which was just ahead of it, to half its dis tance. The only damage caused to the ordinary passenger cars, which were be tween the sleepers and the locomotive, was in the smashing of windows and lamps, After the crash the second section with drew from the first section, but left a hole in the rear portion of the Kankakee big enough to place a boiler in The first, third, and fourth tracks were littered with wreckage. Conductor Abel said his rear brakeman was sent back, but Conductor Horth, who was very badly hurt, said that he did not see him, and the first he saw were the lights on the train. When the crash came the New York Times' a correspondent was asleep in the coach nexi; ahead of the sleeper of the first section. Every seat in the car was taken. One-half of the passengers were women. They made a wild break for the door, but were deterred from jumping out in the darkness by the cooler-headed passengers. The wreck could not hare occurred in a more unfavorable place. On the left, in the pitchy darkness, and fifty feet below, was the roaring Mohawk. Not a light could be seen except those in the coaches. The lights in the sleepers had all been extinguished. One-half of the pas sengers were awakened from a sound sleep to find themselves wrapped in gloom. For a while the people were too dazed to do any thing. The train men were mute and re served as usual under such circumstances. The lirst thing that the correspondent did was to walk back to see if the rear lights of the first section were all right and the rear brakeman was in his place. Ten feet of the rear car had been cut away by the towering engine, which was hissing in the darkness fifty feet distant. Two of the pas sengers had got a light, and were searching about in the rain for the cause of the disas ter. The engine, No. 683, of the second section, one of the latest and heaviest ensrines on the road was wrecked beyond redemption. The ! roof of the express car immedi- ately behind it had sprung through the j cab and thrown the engineer to the ground. The fireman, Henry Anderson, had jumped and escaped uninjured. Beyond this the second section was not damaged at all, the heavy vestibule sleepers protecting it from telescoping. It was the three rear heavy Wagner sleep ing and private coaches of the first section that had sustained the shock and saved those three passenger coaches filled with men, women and children from desvruction. There was not a surgeon or a doctor on the tram, and it was with the greatest difficulty that stimulants were procured for the wounded. It was not till a large bonfire was built on the north side of the track that a real izing sense of the disaster was obtained. Al ready six wounded passengers, including one lady, had been taken from the W agner sleep ing car. It was a pitiable sight to see the passengers, dazed, with fear stamped in their faces, grop ing their way from the sleeping car. Gentle hands were ready to lead them aright, anil after the first terror of the shock had passed away the women in the coaches fell to and worked as only women in an emergency can. It was just a miracle that the disaster was not rendered tenfold more terrible. Within five minutes after the crash the meat express came tearing along on the fourth track at the rate of thirty miles an hour. It was stopped just in time, else it would have dashed into the debris of the wreck. Axes and saws were procured and willing hands set to work to cut away the sides of the cars that were telescoped. Among the first ! bodies recovered trom the rums, which caught fire and burned rapidly, were those of three men and one woman. Later iJolails. That the collision was not attended by a much greater loss of life is surprising to any one visiting the scene of the accident. That it was not more disastrous is due altogether to the massive and solidly-built car of Presi dent Ledyard, of the Michigan Central Road, which was at the rear end of the first section and received the full force of the shock. The second section escaped with very little injury. Not one of the vestibule sleepers was damaged a dollar's worth, anil not a passen ger in them was injured. But the engine was smashed beyond repair. The smoke stack lay by the track, the headlight was gone, the steamchests and cylinders were torn apart, the pilot was knocked into kind ling wood, the framework around the boiler was ripped open, the cab was demolished, and the driving rods were broken. The ten der had gone clean through a Boston and Al bany baggage car whose roof and sides were broken. The baggage master, Egbert Will cox, of Syracuse, had a miraculous escape. " I was sound asleep when the collision oc curred," he said, "and when I awoke I found myself sitting on top of the tender with my head touching the roof of my own car. The Lord only knows how I got there." Willcox was cut about the body, and the top of his head was gashed open. He filially crawled down and out through the door. He then saw the fireman. John Slater, on he roof of the baggage ear over the tender, and helped him down. Slater was unable to tell how it was he got up there, but it seems to prove that he remained at his post. He him self says he was firing, when he heard an ex clamation from his engineer, who at the mo ment shut oft' steam, reversed his engine, and applied the air brakes. The next thing Slater knew he was being helped to the ground bv Willcox. Horth, the engineer, was found alongside of the track. Both of his legs were broken. Slater Thinks Horth jumped from the cab, but the engineer adhered to the statement that he Was forced through the cab window by th. concussion. He was taken to his home in Albany, in the first Atlantic express, which came along within half an hour after the dis aster occurred. One of the ladies in the car had been ten dered a lower berth by the Rev. Mr. DeVeuve, Qf Par con. Ohi- m KSfeangg tor an upver onewhich she disliked, but rather thahp"ut the gentleman to any inconvenience she de clined his offer. Mr. De Veuve was killed instantly and she escaped with nothing mora than the shock. The list of casualties by the accident fig ures np four dead and eleven severely in jured. ' FEARFUL EXPLOSIONS. Men Killed and Injured in a Powder Mill and a Foundry. A terrible explsion has taken place at Laflin & Rand's powder works at Becksville, Penn., resulting in the instant and horrible death of three men and the injuring of six others. The concussion of the explosion was fe!r five miles away. Four buildings ere ut terly demolished and nearly all the glaas in the village was smashed. The men who were killed were all literally blown to atoms, and their remains had to be gathered up in bags and baskets. Portions of the limbs were hurled a hundred yards away from the factory. The glazing mill, corning mill, powder hous:- and another building belonging to the factory were blown to atoms and portions of the building were hurled 1;VJ feet into the air, and parts of the quivering remains of the un fortunates came down in the shower of the fragments that fell over an area of several squares about the wreck and ruins. The explosion is behoved to have been caused by a tack lying on the floor, which communicated a spark to the powder. An explosion occurred at Carnegie's Edvar Thomson Steei Works, at Braddock, Penn. Captain W. K. Jones, general manager of the immense steel works, and a number of workmen were seriously and some fatally burned. Furnace C, one of the largest of the blast furnaces, gave way at the bottom, and in an instant names shot forth, and the hot metal exploded and fell like sheets of water. Tons of the molten metal poured out of the furnace, and that any person near tho furnace escaped instant death seems remark able. Some of the men were so severely burned that their flesh peeled off with their clothes. Captain Jones is well known throughout the United States and Europe wherever iron and steel aro manufactured. It was he who took 300 men to Johnstown at his own ex pense, two days after the flood, and remained there for a couple of weeks directing the work of rescue. He is sixty years of age. VACANT OFFICES FILLED. A Number of New Appointments by the President. The President has made the following ap pointments : To be Registers of Land Offices' George A. Royce, at Marquette, Mich. ; L. M. Lange, at Marshall, Minn.; Charles R. Kingsley, at Boise City, Idado; Lee Monroe, at Wakee ney, Kan.; James K. Hudson, at Camden, Ark. ; Charles M. Green, at Harrison. Ark. ; Horance R. Mann, at Buffalo, Wyo. ; Alex ander L. Morrison, at Sante Fe, N. M. To be Receivers of Public Moneys--Charles W. Banks, at Saliua. Kan.; W. E. Griffin, at Eureka, Nev. ; Alfred A. Tufts, at Camden, Ark.; Felix Baker, at Harrison. Ark,; Joseph Perrault, at Boise City. Idaho; Henry E. Tarpley, of Salem. Oregon, to be Com missioner in and for the District of Alaska, to live at Oonalaska; (Dlislia L. Applegate, to be Agent for the Indians of the Klamath Agency in Oregon. AN INFANT FIREBUG. His Peculiar Weakness is to Bur Children to Death. A peculiar death has occurred at India! apolis, Ind. Mrs. Siler has four children whom she would leave at home when at he work. Among her children is a three-year old boy who, the Coroner says, is a verita ble Jesse Pomeroy. He has a mania for usin matches and setting fire to everything tha can be ignited. He set fire to his baby sis ter's clothing, and held a blazing paper t the infant's face, burning it so horribly tha' it died. When the crowd had gathered in the house the youngster tried to set fire t the clothing of a neighbor's little girl, an was only prevented by force. "If something is not done with that child.' remarked the Coroner, "when hegetsolde ha will lie dangerous to b at, lar"f." HUMANITY TO ANIMALS. Dehorning Cattle, Doctoring Tails and Shooting Pigeons Denounced. The American Humane Association at its annual Convention, just held in Louisville, adopted the following resolutions: "Resolved, That this association considers dehorning cattle a great and unnecessary cruelty, and therefore recommends to all societies to prosecute any cases coming under their notice. "Resolved, That this association requests every State or local society in the Union to endeavor to obtain from its Legislature a law making it a penal offence to dehorn cattle, to dock the tails of horses and to shoot pigeons and other live birds from traps." A SAWMILL FATALITY. The Boiler Explodes and Five Young Men Instantly Killed. One of the saddest accidents in the history of Somerset County, Penn., has occurred here at Berlin. The boiler at the sawmill of Yr.tz Brothers exploded. John Pritz, Ed ward Pritz. Oliver Ross, David Ross and David Baker, all well-known young men of this vicinity, were instantly killed. Two brothers named Brant, who were near the sawmill, were badly injured. The force 01: the explosion was terrific and the mill was completely wrecked. NEWSY GLEANINGS. A shock of earthquake was felt the other day at Santa Anna. Cal. It is said that diamonds are being found in the State of Guerrero, Mexico. The Corean Government is insolvent and cannot pay even its own officials. Fivk ex-Governors of Missouri attended the fair at St. Louis the other night. Trkee men died from thirst and starva tion on the Colorado desert last month. The grand total of property lost at Johns town. Penn., alone is now placed at $9,000,000. In spite of the exclusion act large numbers of Chinese yoiaen are smuggled into San Francisco. The Japanese Government has coined thirty thousand dollars worth of nickel five cent pieces. The coal fields of Hokkaido, in Japan, are estimated bv an American engineer to be worth $100,000,000. The Italian Government has ordered from defence of the Alps. j THE LABOR WORLD. The colored barbers of Omaha, Neb., have a union. The convict labor of Texas netted $65,000 for the State last year. The South's first bale of cotton of S9 Krniurhf 11 1 H mmU TMr nOHTIi i A kcmbsr of Chinamen are going into the 1 tailoring business in the West. Londoners complain of 'pauper' com petition of German workingmen. St. Paul (Minn.) salesmen are inducing labor unions to not buy after 6:30. Compressed air is being used as a motive power in some of the cities of France. Blacklisting of workingmen is an offense against the North Dakota Constitution. The fourth convention ot the American Federation wdl be held in Boston in Decem ber. Boston has 7000 organized tailors. They want New York tenement house work boy cotted. There is a greater activity in car building at all the large car works in this ccuntry than ever before. A silk factory which will give employ ment to 200 operatives will be started at Fredericksburg. Va. . Men stamp 3000 letters per hour. The New York Postoffice is trying a machine that handles 24,000 per hour. The lace trade gives occupation to almost 70,000 women in Normaudy, and to nearly 200,000 persons in France. New Hampshire compels working chil dren of from fourteen to sixteen years to go to school three months of the year. The wages of the agricultural laborer in the south of England at present do not, it is said, amount to six cents per hour. A shoe manufacturer at Lynn, Mass., has been fined $14,000 for bringing fourteen workmen from Canaua under contract. England has more looms and spindles in operation weaving and spinning cotton in fibre than all the rest of Europe combined. A cigar manufacturer can join the Cigar makers' Union, but a foreman or an employ er of cigarmakers is not eligible to member ship. Since the London strike has been settled a great boom in organization of labor has been started in the large cities and manufacturing towns. There are four women who run barber shops in Liverpool, England, and the trade is on the increase among women in all large English cities. Following the example of American unionists a delegation of Dublin mechanic;? went to the Paris Exposition to study th trades exhibits there. The Wyoming Constitutional Convention has decided to embody in the new constituv tion a clause providing for a board of arbi tration of strikes and lockouts. London boss bakers make from $5 to $15 per week; workmen, $3.50 to $6; cleaning-up bo3rs, $2. Each is allowed a loaf to bring home. Most of them sleep in the shops. Until very recently the French workman has had no Sunday rest, but a movement to make the first day of the week a holiday has begun on the railroad running between Paris and Lyons, and it is predicted that the inno vation will extend throughout the entire country. Two years ago the National Union of Cus tom Tailors had twenty-six branches with 2100 members, while now it has 100 branches with 5400 members. Of the fifty -one strikes of the past year, forty-six were won and five lost; and an increase of ten per cent, in ' EIGHT LIVES LOST. A. Scliooner Capsized and Only Two of Her Crew Escape. The schooner Erie Wave, commanded by Captain Stafford, capsized between Port Rowan and Clear Creek, Ontario, a id eight persons were drowned. The vessel had been aground for some days, and had an extra crew aboard to assist in getting her off. A squall struck her, and she capsized. Four of the crew were drowned, and also four landsmen who were on board. Two of the crew reached shore. The names of four oC the drowned are Captain Thomas Stafford, Robert Marlatt, Edward Soper and George Bell. The population of the Australian capitals has just been estimated in the respective colonies. Melbourne heads the list with 419, 490 inhabitants; Sydney has 357690; Bris bane, 85,800; Adelaide, 115,380; Hobart, 34, 419; Wellington, 30,590, and Perth 9,300. Sydney is the senior city and Hobart comes next in asm. THE MARKETS, 39 NEW YORK. Beeves -. 3 570) 4 CO Milch Cows, com. to good. . .30 00 &45 00 Calves, common to prime ... 2 60 (d 3 50 Sheep 4 00 5 00 Lambs ft 00 7 25 Hogs Live 4 SO 5 00 Dressed 6 Flour Citv Mill Extra 4 25 & 4 40 Patents 4 60 fS 5 50 Wheat No. 2 Bed 84 85 Rye State 55 ci 56 Barley Two-rowed State. . . 75 (1 80 Corn Ungraded Mixed 40 (d) 41 i Oats Xo. 1 White. (3 35 Mixed Western 24 28 Hay Xo. 1 70 80 Straw Long Bye 65 75 Lard City steam 6.00c Butter Elgin Creamery 24 25 Dairy, fair to good. 15' (J 20 West. Im. Creamery 12 (2) IS Factory 7 12 Cheese State Factory 7( 9 Skims Light 7 . 7;. Western 8 fr 9 Eggs State and Penn S13 22 BUflALO. Steers Western 3 25 3 90 Sheep Medium to Good 4 25 4 60 Lambs Fair to Good 5 50 6 25 Hogs Good to Choice Yorks 4 ' cc, 4 70 Flour Family 5 00 5 25 Wheat BTo.zr Northern 84 Corn Xo. 3, Yellow 36 36 Oats No. 2, White 253 26-. Barley Xo. 1 Canada g 74 BOSTON". Flour Spring Wheat Pat's.. 5 20 5 75 Corn Steamer Yellow 45 (( 45'- Oats Xo. 2 White 35 Rye State 65 70 WATERTOWX (MASS., CATTLE MARKET. Beef Dressed weight 6 i fl$g Sheep Live weight 3(3 5 Lambs 4)i4 6 riogs 3ortiierii fr4 PHILADELPHIA. flour Penn. family 3 90 a t c Wb-at Xo. 2. Red. Sep 81 n- Corn No. 2. Mixed. Sep 4C 40 Oats Ungraded White 26 r 26; Potatoes Early Rose 56 fc 60 Butter Creamery Extra. . .. 24 Cheese Part skims 5 C. S. VS(9, PR U DEN & VANN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, EDEN TON, N. C. Pracffee tn Pipqnotank. rernfmam. Cto iri Gates, Hertford, Wahtnetnr andTjrr. ;i Couat and la Supreme Court of the state. Keferet ces Chief Justice Smith. Ralatgfe, N 1 C. W. ;ramly Son. Kxch-wge Na koa 1 Rai Norfolk. Va: Whedbve St l'tcha'y. K. .ott r.r iialtimore, Md., and Win. Mowe, Boeion. Ma- SAM'L J. SKINNER. Attorney at Law EDENTON, N, C. Practice In the State and Fede-al Court. OFFICE, SECOND FLOOR, HOOPER BUILDING JDLIEN WOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, EDENTON, N. C. WillPractice in tie State & Federal Coar; t3TPrompt attention given to colli ct 0 as W. M. BOND, Attorney at Law EDENTON, N. C. OFFICE ON KING 8T&ERT. TWO DOORS WEST OF MAIN. Practice In the Super'or Courts of ri.owan and adjoining counties, a nd la the Supreme Court a; ha eigh. VCoiI Ctiom prompt'y martc. DR. C. P. B0GERT, Surgeon & Mechanical DENTIST pattfnts VISITED WHEN liEOUESTED C. H. 8ANSBURY, JR., Contractor and Builder, Edenton, N. C. BEST OP REFERRM 1 GIVEN. Parties having work would do well to correspond with him. WQODARD HOUSE, EDENTON, N. C. J. L. ROGERSON, Prop. This old and established hotel still offers first clas accommodations to the traveling public TERMS REASONABLE. Sample room for trarl(ne salesmen, and con reyances furnished when desired. tVFree Hack at ali trains and steamers. First clas Bar attached. The Best, Imported and Domestic Liquors always on hand. ESTABLISHED 18CS. J. W. 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