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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
TIE PENSION OFFICE.
Annual Report OF the OmmissiOner
of Pensions.

The annual report of the commissioner of
pensions for the fiscal year ended June 80,
shows that there were at the close of the
year 49,, $50 pensioners classified as
follows: 2lS956 army invalids; 1886
army widows, minor children, and dependent
relatives; 2,GlG navy invalds; 1,93S navy
widows minor children, and dependent rela-
tives; 3,S9S survivors of the war of 1872 and
1912 widows of those who served in that
war There were added to the rolls
during the year the, names of 3D.
1872 pensioners, and the names
of ,22l whose pensions had been previously
dropped We're restored to the roll, making an
aggregate of 35,4l3 pensions added during the
year. The names of 61,3l5 We're dropped
from the rolls for various causes, leaving a
net increase to the number ON the roll of
1905.
The average annual value of each penson at
the close of the year was $lOG75 and the
aggregate annual value of all pensions was
S34, 456,6OO an increase over the pre-
vious year of S22l1, 1912 The amount
paid for pensions during the year was
$50, 9OS, 597, exceeding the annual value
of pensions several millions of
dollars which represents the first payments,
generally on new claims, and known as ar
rears of pensions. The amount paid during
the year to 81 ,2O7 new pensioners was S23,
4l3,Sl5, and there remained in the hands Of
the several pensions agents 1908 cases of this
class unpaid, in which there was due 81, 949,.
900.
The acts of 1871 and 1878 provided pen.
sion on account of service during the war of
1872. Since the former date Is, Jog claims Of
this class have been filed, 81, GAG by the
surviving soldiers and sailors and 49, ACC
by the widows Of those who served in
that war. OF this number 9,424 have
been allowed-25, 65S to the survivors
and 1896 to the widows. In the
aggregate, since 1861, 927, 922 claims have
been filed and $40, $50 have been allowed
The commissioner says that at the rate
claims have been filed for the past few years
the close of the year 1886 will undoubtedly
show one million claims filed for pensions:
since 1851 Since that year the total amount
disbursed is SG7S, 34G S34.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are 100000 Quakers in the United
States.
NEARLY 1000 watches are made every day
in New England.
A COLUMBIA county FLA. farm is making
vinegar from tomatoes.
MISSISSIPPI has increased in taxable wealth
over 81 600 since 1888.
FATHER and son are both under sentence
of death in Farmersville, La, Jail
AN ex-governor of Ohio once a man of
large property, is now selling cigars by sam
pie.
Two Boston houses send about GOO 600 GAL
Ions of rum to the Congo, Africa, every
year.
CHINA is the largest consumer of pig tin.
1t is chiefly used for the manufacture of
idols.
AN electric railway in full operation is
among the attractions of the Mechanics Fair.
Boston.
THE United States ship Monocac is shut
up in the Min river, China, by the French
blockade.
Naples by far the greatest number of victims
were women
IT is said that a first-class dukes title, in
good order can now be bought in republican
France for about $4,000.
MARY GARFIELD LARRABEE a sister Of
President Garfield, died at Scion, Ohio. re-
Gently, aged sixty years.
ENGLAND makes 90J,0)0,Ol0 gallons of beer
every year. Germany 800, 100000, and the
| United States O0,0OOOJ0
SINCE the cholera appeared in Europe
about five months ago there have been over
| $4,000 deaths from the disease.
! WITHIN the past ten years the clam, hith-
| erto unknown i'll that locality, has propa-
| gated itself on the California coast.
DRINKING habits increase so much in Ger
many that in many places there is liquor
shop to every thirty-one inhabitants.
A NINE-TON lump of coal, claimed as the
| largest ever mined, will represent the coal in
terests of Birmingham, at the New Orleans
| exhibition.
THE tramp nuisance is becoming very SER
ious i'll Germany. According TO one esti-
mate their number last year was about 700
600, and the expense they caused the commu-
nifty about 100000.
| A STEAMER loaded with live stock struck
on some rocks on her way from Iceland to
| Leith, and, to relieve her, over 5000 sheep
and some ponies had to be thrown overheard.
| Twenty-Five hundred of these sheep swan
ashore and all but one of the ponies.
THERE are in circulation in Boston coun-
terfeit silver dollars so finely executed as to
almost defy detection. They are of a whit sh
| color, dated 1884, and have a fine, clear and
almost perfect ring. The die is excellent,
and the size and thickness correspond with
the standard silver dollars.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

"IvANRoFF" is the name Of the new great
society melodrama.
Mary Anderson's Juliet has captivated
London, according to cable reports.
a GERMAN translation of Shakespeares
Coriolanusn was played i'll Munich with
considerable success,
HENRY CHANFRAU, son of the late actor,
Frank Cnantrau, has made failure as his
fathers successor as " Kit
OVER fifty combinations have already col
lapsed this season, and the large cities are
thronged with unemployed actors and ac-
tresses.
a FIvE-HUNDRED dollar diamond ring fast
ened to q boquet was thrown to Lolita by
Spanish lady who occupied box in Phila
delphia.
OWING to the subsistence of the comic opera
craze many good vocalists and other artists
are being forced into burlesque and sem-vari-
ETY. companies.
COLONEL MAPLEsoNS contract with Patti
for the London season limits her salary t.
$3.50 nightly, and that OF Nilsson to 81, 80
for ca n ptr,ormance,
Mr.. GLADSTONE, Englands premier. is
said to have II very sweet tenor voice, and to
sing English, Irish and Scotch ballads, and
even negro melodies, with great taste and
feeling.
CONTRARY to usage, all the witches in
Macbeth, as produced by Ristori, will b.
played by women. The repertoire consists OF
four plays. new one may be added before
the season Is over
VICTORIA MORo,INI SCHELLING, whose
elopement with her fathers coachman created
so much excitement in New York some time
ago, has signed an engagement to sing in
New York. Her husband will collect tick
cts
THE Conservatory of Music in Mexico has
over 1900 pupils, and high degree of must
cal talent, with all necessary means for its
cultivation exist; in that country. Nearly
every house has IA piano, music is taught in
the schools, and the military bands are un-
surpassed in excellence.
MARY ANDERSON will reappear in New
York, October II, 1883, and in Boston ON the
2id of the following November Her roper
toire will be Romeo and Juliet, '''Pygma-
lion and Galatea,' Comedy and Tragedy,
and " Ingomar,n and there is a chance that
CymbelineN will be added.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
A TRAIN WRECKED.
Ten Persons Killed Outright and
Many Injured.

A frightful wreck occurred near the town
of Hampstead, on the Houston and Texas
Central railroad in Texas, at about o'clock
in the morning. The story told by one Of
these men was to the following effect:
1t was the north-bound night express
which was going at speed of about twenty
miles an hour There is a bridge at the
point where the accident occurred. The en-
CINE passed over in safety, but the baggage
and express cars flew the track, going down
an embankment thirty feet. The smoking
car, two coaches and two sleepers followed.
The cars were crushed and broken into
kindling wood The wreck i'm
mediately caught fire, and it looked as though
all the passengers in the ruins would be roast.
ed; but the engineer and fireman, who were
on the engine and unhurt, worked like heroes,
and extinguehed the flames before they at
tanned much headway thus saving many per.
sons from a horrible death. As it was, ten
persons We're killed and seventeen injured,
some of the latter being manned for life.
As soon as the dead were taken out and
the wounded cared for an investigation into
the cause of the accident was begun 1t was
evident at the first glance that great crime
had been committed. Some person or per.
sons had drawn the spikes and removed two
fish plates evidently for the purpose of wreck
ing the train.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

POPE LEO is one of the busiest men in
Europe.
NoRDENsJoLD is preparing to lead another
expedition to the South Pole.
BANCROFT, the historian, has given up
horseback riding because it is too fatiguing,
PRESIDENT GREvY has published a decree
stating that a universal exhibition in Paris
will open May 5, 1889.
The mayor of London is a Methodist
preacher, and lstely delivered the sermon at
the opening of Methodist church.
KING ALFONSO devotes his DAYS to the
chase and nights to social enjoyments, not
outstanding he is not in robust health
LIEUTENANT A. W. GREELY has been pre-
scented with an elegant silver service by the
Greely Testimonial committee at the resi-
dence OF his brother at Newburyport, Mass.
w. w. CoRCoRAN, OF Washington, has
given Tor public purposes not less than So, 600
! COO, beside 81 ,00O.000 devoted to charities,
and he has at least $40, 000, 900 left, as he is
the largest real estate owner in Washington.
The father of General Custer lives in Mich
igan. He is described as being of very ven
cradle appearance, with long white beard and
hair. He is seventy-cight years old, and mag
be often seen driving horse that his gallant
son rode in the Black Hills.
The diary of Lieutenant Lock wood-one
of the victims Of the Greely expedition who
reached the point nearest the North Pole
which was written i'm shorthand, is now being
Transcribed by his fiancee, who is the only
one who understands his system.
JUDGE LIPPINCoTT, of Ulidia, Montana,
recently caught a mountain eel weighing
seventy three pounds and eleven ounces. He
has preserved the skim which he will have
stuffed, and he will send it to the New Orleans
exposition as representative of Montanas
| fisheries.
/
| The Prince of Wales is the greatest col
onel, in numerical sense the world has ever
known. To say nothing of his honorary col
onelcies in foreign armies, beside the leader
ship of the Butcher hussars, he is the colonel
of no fewer than sixteen regiments in his
mothers armies.
The chief of the Ojibway tribe of Indians
has arrived in London. He is an ordained
| clergyman of the Church of England, and has
been missionary Of the Colonial and Cont
mental Church society for over twenty one
years. The chiefs name is Ru Henry Pah-
tahquahong Chase.
MAJoR-GENERAL W. s. HARVEY was
married recently in st. Louis to his former
housekeeper, Mary l.. CyIs The groom is
eighty-four and the bride forty-fve Harvey
is the Oldest general on the retired list, and
his marriage is creating great deal of com
ment He is very wealthy The pair left for
/ New Orleans
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
MEXICAN ELECTION RIOTS.
Fierce Fighting, and the Towns
Filled with bead and Wounded.

A Monterey (Mex.co) dispatch says: State
and municipal elections were held yesterday,
Sunday, throughout the States of Nueva
Leon and Coahuia. Meagre reports from
Saltllo, the capital of Coahuila, bring in
telligence of terrible riots there at
the closing of the polls. Five men
were killed outright and over
twenty desperately wounded. Serious dis
turbances are also reported from the towns
of Santa Catarina, Bustamente and Sabinos
were killed or seriously wounded at Santa
Catarina. At Bustamcnte the riot was gen
eral lasting several hours, Sabinos is the
city where a mob attacked and killed the I'M
popular alcalde, Don Jose Santos, and the
chief of police on October |.
ct Sabinos the citizens rose en- masse and
attempted to drive the government troops
away from the voting places. A pitched battle
was fought in the principle street. The troops
sustained a serious defeat. Colonel Jose
Ranjel, commanding, was killed during
the fight, with twenty-four of his
soldiers. The number of citizens killed and
wounded is not known, but from the fact that
the troops We're well armed and drilled it is
believed the havoc among the citizens must
have been fearful District Judge Garcia,
fighting on the side of the people, is known to
be among the killed. Rioting is also reported
from several smaller towns in both states.
These outbreaks are attributed to the pres
ence of government troops at the polls,
where it is claimed they actively interceded
in behalf of government candidates. intimi
dating voters and openly preventing many
from exercising the right of suffrage.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
LATER NEWS

AFTER the Official canvass had been com.
pleted in the State of New York, the follow.
ing figures of completed election returns were
given by the Associated Press: The canvass
shows that Blaine's vote in New York city
was S9,977, Cleveand's 1873, 013, Buffers 1876
and st. Johns 1,160. The total vote in the
State was: Blaine, SCI 1888; Cleveland, &c.,
96l; Butler, 16,045; and st. John, 25,O75
This makes Cleveland's plurality in the State
LUIS. Belva Lockwood received about fifty
votes throughout the State.
KANSAS official returns show the following
Blaine, 1886; Cleveland, oO,03O; Butler,
1904; ST. John, 4,273. Baine's plurality,
1896. Martin, Republican, for governor,
has plurality of 3S,557. Congressman are
all Republican.
JOACHIM DENsLow and his wife, living
near Des Plains, ILL.,, were called out of their
house at night by unknown parties, who
dubbed them to death and ransacked the
building for money.
OHIo's Official vote is: Total vote, 7s5, 1T9.
Blaine, 4oO,OS2; Cleveland, 36S, 2s0; Butler,
BIO; st. John, II, 2G9 Blanes plurality
31,SO2.
JOHN WALDEN, town marshal at Belle
Plaine, Kansas, shot into a crowd, instantly
killing young man named Crouch Wal
den was taken to Jail but mob took HIM out
and hanged him.
THE naval advisory board has recommend
ed to the secretary of the navy that the navy
be increased by twelve new cruisers, to be
provided for in the appropriations for the
fiscal year ending June so, 1856 The total
estimated cost of the twelve vessels is 50,
| 1898.
| II is estimated that the November pay
ments from the Treasury on account of pen
sions VIII amount to $4,000, coo.
! The annual report of the second assistant
postmaster general states that the cost of in
land transportation was for l1,729 star
routes, covering 22G, 729 miles, S5,0S9,9H; Iii
steamboat routes, 1851 miles, S5965T3
/ 1913 railroad routes, III, 100 miles, $500 H.,
/ COZ.
SOME sixteen little children, all under ter
! years of age, amused themselves by lighting
a large bonfire in Chicago. To make a big
/ ger blaze one little fellow rolled up an empty
kerosene barrel and another secretly secured
/ his mothers can containing some four gallon:
of OIL These they put on the fire, and danced
/ about it singing and laughing. Almost in
/ stantly there was a terrific explosion, which
/ fairly shook the houses near by. Burning
slaves from the barrel knocked the little one,
| down and manged some beyond recognition
/ Seven children were killed instantly, anC
| four others were fatally hurt.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
ELECTION NEWS.
Revised Figures from Various Parts
of the Country.

Banes majority in California is close upon
10000. The Republicans elect a full con
gressional delegation of six,
The next legislature of Wisconsin will stand
Senate, 20 Republicans and Is Democrats;
assembly, 81 Republicans and 81 Democrats
The Republican plurality for Blaine in Hi
nois is 23,OO0. For Governor, o. 5lesby Ire.
publican defeats Carter Harrison by about
700 majority.
The complete vote of Massachusetts, for
President ard governor is us follows: For
President-Blaine li3, 1876; Cleveland, ~, 30;
Butler, 3,sG6 st, John, 1920: Blaine's
plurality. -, 1876 For governor-Robinson
Repl l55,U97; Endicott DEM los 26J; Nc
Cafferty Butler 23,552; Seelye pro- S,2i1 /;
Robinson's plurality, 1858
In Michigan the Fusionists have a ma jor-
ity in both branches of the legislature.
Official returns from all but II few counties
give Blaine a plurality of $1,000 in Pennsyl-
vania
The Democratic majority in North Caro-
lima is p, 900.
In Tennessee the last estimates from official
and unofficial returns show that Bates, DEM
ocrat, has majority for governor Of from
5000 to 1900. The Cleveland vote will ex-
coed this majority by few thousands.
Blaine's majority in Iowa, based ON the
vote for Congressman, will he $1,000. The
congressional delegation will stand seven Re-
publicans and one Fusionist.
In Missouri the Cleveland electors have
about 2O,OOO majority. Marmaduke, Demo
cratic candidate for governor, has 5000 ma
jority
A Chicago dispatch says; The present esti-
J mate as to the complex ion of the Illinois State
I legislature is that it viii be a tie on a joint
ballot the senate having a majority of one
Republican and the house a majority of one
| Democrat Contests are likely to ensue in
three districts which may reverse this condi-
| ton of affairs. The situation is made more
| interesting from the fact that a Senator TO
succeed General Logan is to be elected.
The Democratic majority in Florida is a
| little more than 900.
The Blaine electors have a plurality OF
$4,000 in Vermont
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South and West.

THE opening of the Worlds Exposition at
New OrleaRs has been postponed from De
cember until December 10 in order that Pres
ident Arthur and members of the cabinet
and of Congress may be pre- sent at the open
ing ceremonies. 1t is also expected that the
Mexican Congress will adjourn on December
10, so that President Diaz and members of
his cabinet and the Mexican congress may
be present at the opening of the EXPOSE
ton.
MAUD S., Bonner's equine Queen of the
Turf" has lowered her record, trotting n
mile at lexington Ky, in 209l4, which is
one-half second better than her previous best
time.
A UNITED STATES marshals posse had
desperate fight with Indians in the Indian
Territory Two of the Indians were killed
and others injured. Thirty prisoners under
arrest by the posse for various crimes es-
capped. The posse returned to Fort Smith,
Ark, with nineteen prisoners.
OWING to alleged acts oflawlessness among
the strikers in the Hooking valley, Ohio, Gov
ernor Hoadly ordered that three companies
be put in readiness to proceed to the scene of
trouble when ordered. The governor also is
sued proclamation to the people of the
counties in which the disturbances have oc-
CURED
A COMMITTEE appointed by the National
Bureau of Industry reports that there are
23,OOO 900 head of cattle west of the Mssis-
sippi river.
A COLLISION between two trains near Snow
Hill, Nd, resulted in the death of both engi-
neers and injuries to several passengers.
CORRECTED returns in the First congress
sional district of California, give Henley
DemocraD fifty-nine majority
MIsSIssIPPI's official vote Is: Cleveland,
7S,547; Blaine, AZ, IA. Cleveland's plurality,
o517S
The official plurality for Blaine in Oregon
is 2,100.
THE Alabama legislature is in session.
BLAINE has plurality of about G,OOO in
Kansas.
THE Nevada legislature stands fifteen Re-
publcans and five Democrats IN the senate.
and thirty-one Republicans and nine Demo
srats in the assembly.
OFFICIAL figures from Illinois show the
allowing: Blaine 337, 40; Cleveland, 3l2,
40 Butler, ,4OG st. John, II, 73l; Blaine :
plurality, 25,l1C
A TUB containing twenty-six pounds of
ritro glycerine exploded at a giant powder
t~ctory near Toledo, Ohio. The conclusion
at off magazine containing ten tons of giant
powder, and there was a terrific explosion,
head i'll Detroit, sixty miles away. The
fowder buildings and other property in the
vicinity were shattered to fragments, and
several persons were injured.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21

TRASHY music, the London Times declares,
has taken the place of their own beautiful old
melodies with the English lower classes. 1t
says: I'm out-of-the- way places which the
march of civilization has not yet reached,
and espec.a'ly in Scotland and the north of
England, this is different. There popular
song is still living force called into action
by cotton famines and other events of public
or domestic interest, and Lancaster more
especially can point 70 MIR. Edwin Waugh as
one of the few modern poets who, i'll Come
whoam to the childer and me- has produced
a genuine 'Volkslied.' In London, on the
other hand, folksong is as dead as the great
Pan; even its last echoes are rapidly dwind-
ing from popular consciousness
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
THE SIGNAL SERVICE.
Facts AMI Figures From General
Ha<en's Report

General Hazen, Chief of the United States
Signal Service Bureau, in his report to the
secretary of war for the year ending June
sc, 1884, says that an average of S5.4 per cent.
of the predictions of his bureau as to weather
in the country at large east of the Rocky
mountains were verified while the an
nual average of the Pacific slope
was S93. As many as 2.1i6 eau
tionary signals were ordered, of which 2,2S7
were justified by the results. The total ex-
pense of the bureau, including those of the
school of instruction at Fort Meyer and of
the Arctic explorations, were s., OPS, 24lSl.
a large portion of the report is devoted to
a history of the Greedy relief expedition.
General Hazen, speaking of the Hantic re-
treating south without cacheing provisions
at Littleton Island says: " This abandonment
of Lieutenant Greely and his party to prob
able starvation by officers whose only mis-
sion in those waters was to succor them dis
played a lamentable disregard of grave re
sponsibilltieS." He calls for an investigation
by Congress of the entire work of the explora-
ton which terminated so sadly, and, i'll con
necton with this part of his subject, says
tragedy that has appalled, the civilized world
and the responsibility of such dire result can
be traced with certainty
General Hazen concludes with further stric-
lures upon Lieutenant Darlington for failure
to kill the warus with which Littleton island
swaImed and cache them, aiding: THE tone
of this officers utterances upon these subjects
have impressed me with want Of efficient
effort or intent on his part to perform his
duties, dislualifying him for their loyal per-
Torrance"
General Hazen is confident that, had the
means OF relief suggested by him been car
ried out, 'the untold suffering at Camp Clay
last winter would have been prevented, and
the entire party saved