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miums, these will be paid in equal pro-
portions by the empire, the employers,
and the insured. II will be remembered
that in former insurance measures the
Government introduced the same prin-
pie OF State contributions, but the
Reichstag has hitherto refused TO adopt
it, The amount OF the contributions
is to be so fixed that the administra-
tive costs, the requisite payments to the
reserve fund, and two thirds Of the CAPT
tai value of the charge falling on the IN
surance establishment owing to annuities
may be covered. Each insurance dis
trict will have uniform rates, females
paying two thirds as much as males.
The annuities to he paid to men will be
100 marks yearly in incapacity. increas-
ing alter the first fifteen years of con-
tribution four marks for every year OF
contribution, the maximum being
go marks. The annuity for old
age will be 100 marks Females
will only receive two thirds as much as
males. The annuity for incapacity will
begin the day on which such incapacity
commences, and the annuity for old age
on the first day of the seventy-frst year
Of the person insured. Should persons
in receipt of parish relief be eligible for
annuity, the latter will be paid TO the
parish giving such relief so long as it is
continued. The organization of this
vast system Of insurance is TO be placed
in the hands of the bodies charged with
the administration Of the accident insu-
rance law.
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Alexandria.
rspecinl telegrnm to the Dispatch

lcpeclul tcitEtUu 10 the OlrpdVShi
ALEXANDRIA, VA, January 5.-The
Norfolk bank cases were continued in to-
days session OF Judge Hughes's conrt
and the case of the Government against
Sampson p. Bayly resulted in verdict
for the defendant. This was an item of
$3.50 for clerk-hire while Bayly was Con-
sui at Palermo. which Comptroller Dur
ham disallowed.
Thornbury's suit against the Midland
Railroad Company has been compro-
missed by the payment of $500.
Mrs. Julia Goodrich died to-day aged
sixty-fve years.
Two children of George Pickett, of
Fairfax, fell out of wagon yesterday
and one was perhaps fatally hurt.
While unloading guano at Shoots,
Rufus Robinson got his legs broken.
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FATAL. ACCIDENT.
A TRAIN DgRAILgD ON THE NEW.
RIVER RAILROAD.
The Engineer and the Fireman Killed-A
Complete Wreck-Cause Of the
Accident.
fspecIal telegram to the Dispatch. ]

LYNCHBURG, Va, January "a fatal
railroad accident occurred on the New
River division of the Norfolk and West
ern railroad just below Eggleston's, six
teen miles below New River Junction, at
"A. NJ. to-day. A freight consisting OF
thirty-fve empty coal-cars ran into rock
slide, and the engine and fifteen or
twenty cars we're thrown from the track
and wrecked. The engine was precIpi-
tated into the river, carrying down with
it j. G.. Abbott, the engineer, who was
instantly killed and partially buried
under the wreck. The fireman, +. John
son, was also killed, his body being fear
fully mangled. The front brakeman had
his ankle severely sprained by jumping
from the train.
The side came down OH the track just
in front of the engine, and no precaution
could have prevented the accident. The
railroad authorities here will send the
body of the engineer to his home, in
Pennsylvania, for interment
The tobacco season opened here, after
the holiday intermission. yesterday with
light offerings. Good prices prevailed.
The projectors of the cottonmill will
meet tomorrow to take some decisive
action in regard TO the enterprise. There
is reason to believe that the effort to
establish it will be successful eventually.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-06
DOWN BY THE SEA.
NorGoIk's Trade In COtton-Other
Notes.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NoprOrr IaDuor,, = 1899

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK, January ), 1888.
Cotton seems TO be still active, not
withstandinG the season is rapidly near
ing its close. The receipts from the
country yesterday were 1886 bales, and
local sales were good Cotton-men are
generally satisfied with the season. the
receipts, transactions, and shipments be-
ing fully up to what they expected at
the opening. The congresses continue
busy, but have ceased night work. A
number OF foreign steamships are yet at
the wharves loading with the staple.
The December report of the Cotton
Exchange shows that the receipts during
the month were 1907 bales, which was
about $500 bales less than last year.
Shipped to Europe during the month,
81, 1913 bales, which was over 25, 900 bales
less than last year.
A wrecking force left here this morn
ing to raise the sunken schooner Matte
Il. Hiles. at the head of Currituck
sound.
The quarantine officer of this station,
DIR. William A. Thorn, during last year
boarded and inspected 10 vessels and
examined 1852 men, mostly foreign.
He quarantined four infected vessels
and iumigated twelve from infected
ports.
Rev. DR.. Wharton, the well-known
Baptist divine of Baltimore, is here as
sistng Rev. DR.. Burrows in series of
meetings at Freemason-Street Baptist
church.
Rev. James r. Hubbard, Of this city.
formerly of Williamsburg, lett last night
for Baltimore TO take charge of the
Church Of the Holy Comforter, the pulpit
OF which was formerly filled by Rev.
Fred. S. Hipkins, of this city.
W. l.. Cowardin, Esq, OF Richmond,
was in the city yesterday.
DIR. IL. G. Laud, a well.known citizen
of Currtuck county, n. c., died sud-
denly yesterday morning at his residence
at Poplar Branch, in that county.
Captain William Echols, who left here
a few weeks ago as mate of a schooner
which was reported lost, has turned up
all right, his friends having heard from
him.
A number of changes took place to-
day among the naval officers of this sta
ton. q.
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ola Christmas Customs


But, nevertheless, ever since the fifth
century December 2jth has been our
Christday. And from Roman Satur-
MALTA, from Druids of Briton, from mys-
tical German legends and homely Eng
lish customs, we have drawn the charms
and graces and fantastical devices with
which We clothe orr tenderest thoughts
and hottest reverence for the entrance
of the Saviour of the world into human
life. From Scandinavians, who
in winter built immense fires on the
bill tops in honor of the suns re-
turn, we borrowed the yule log. And
it became an English custom to preserve
n bit OF one years yule log to light the
fire on the great hearth at the following
Christmas.tde, in token of warmth and
plenty to abide in the household
throughout the year. When the log was
ready to be brought in the youngest
child of the family was seated upon it,
and all the rest assembled to witness It's
entrance, drawn by the merry -retainers,
and to prepare it for the lighting.
The passing of the "wassail cup "a
DOWl OF Splceu ale-Wds sOnclhll-S
always expected, and he was niggard,
indeed, who would not take a hearty
"sup" from the huge common vessel
and leave a dOucCur in the hand OF tie
maiden who brought it, and often
enough another sweet memento on her
not unwilling lips.
The wassailing of the orchard trees "a
Devonshire cnstom)-
That they may beare
Full many plum,
Full many peare.
is sometimes wrongly quoted as a Christ
mas observance, but it was upon twelfth
night" in January that the trees were
made drunken with the dregs of a good
sop"
There are portions of Germany, Ire
land, and even England, where Christ
mas-eye is considered an uncanny time,
when superstition throbs in every fresh
sigh of the wind about the tree.tops,
and cries out from the sinister rattle of
sleet or the creak of loosened shutter.
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sIARRIsONBURG.
baltimore and Ohio shops-Personai
Notes.

NOttes
fCorrespondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
JANUARY 4. 1888.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad have
been prospecting for some time for an
available place in the Upper Valley at
which to locate its machine.shop for
the use of the Valley branch OF that
road, the nearest shops to this point
being,those at Sandy Hook, l0l miles,
and at Matinsburg, ". Va, ll8 miles.
Our Town Council having received as
surance from a gentleman closely con-
nected with the company that it was IA
vorably disposed toward the selection Of
Harrisonburg, o meeting of the council
was held and committee OF five APP
pointed 10 confer with the railroad Off
cials and ascertain what concessions
would be required from the corporation
to induce the company to locate these
shops at HarrisonburG.
Judge Paul is holding this week n
special term of The United States Court
for the trial of important land cases and
the transaction of other business There
have been no jury trials, but interest
ing legal questions are being discussed in
the. Shenandoah Iron Company case and
in the land cases.
Hon. John +. Lewis is again quite i'll
at his home at Lynnwood.
Mr.. G. W. S. Turner, of Harrison
burg, has been appointed clerk of the
congressional Committee on Mines and
Mining, of which Congressman Charles
7. O'Ferrall is the chairman.
Lieutenant d. W. Cofrman IA gradu-
ate from Rockingham, United States
navy, who has been in Alaska for the
past two years on the Patterson, has
been assigned to duty for three years at
the photographic Office in Washington.
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HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
An Eastern Shore Farmer Cuts Els
Wife's Throat.
[special telegram 70 the DIspatch.

Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
ONANCoCK, VA, January "a horri
BILE tragedy was enacted to-day in the
neighborhood OF Bell Haven, near the
dividing line between AccOmack and
NORTHAMPTON counties. William c.
Ducr, a former resident of Oman.
cock, killed his wife while riding
along the public road by cutting her
throat with large pocket-knife.
Duer's mind became unseated sew
eral months ago. owing, it is supposed,
to financial troubles, and he LETT Oman
cock and went TO reside temporarily with
his brother, who lives near Bell Haven.
He had recently gotten much better and
had made arrangements to return to
Onancock. This morning he took his
wife and two small children in a buggy
and started to visit some friends near
Wardtown, small village in Northamp-
ton, four or five miles distant While
going along the road through a
dense woods he drew his knife
and cut his lies throat from ear to ear,
killing her almost instantly. He then
drove on with his wifes dead body and
his little children in the buggy towards
town and surrendered himself to an OFF,
Ger. He EXPRESSES much sorrow and re-
greet for The terrible deed, but said he
could not help it. Strange to say he did
not attemptto hurt thetwo children he had
with him at the time. Both Duer and his
wife belonged to excellent Eastern Shore
families, and he has always been of good
habits and aniable disposition. Much
regret is expressed here that steps were
not taken to have him sent to an asylum
before he committed his terrible deed.
He has family OF six or seven small
children and Is about forty-fve years
old
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-06
ROANOKE CITY.
Improvemenss-The Years Work.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch

lCorrespondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
ROANOKE, VA, January 4. 1893.
The new year finds the people of this
energetic and prosperous city full Of
hope for the future and confident of a
large increase of size and importance in
the next twelve months.
The directors of the Roanoke and
Southern Railroad Company, at the meet
ing in Winston, n. c., on the 29th ulti-
mo, decided to complete the survey of
the road at once and begin the work Of
construction immediately thereafter.
The rolling.mill will be built this
year, and company Of Philadel-
phia capitalists has decided TO erect
a cotton-mill on the Roanoke river as
soon as possible. The Roanoke Land
and Improvement Company has donated
ten acres of land and the water right of
the river, and those best qualified to
Judge pronounce the mill certainty.
A large fouring-mill has Just been COM
pleted in the northwestern part OF the
city, and the foundation for large can
ming establishment has also been laid
of. The ice factory has been in opera
ton fot six months (although the efforts
of nature have lessened the demand for
its products to large extent for the
present., and in all departments of trade
and manufacture the past year has been
the busiest and most successful known
in the brief history of this thriving city.
An effort was made to introduce cleo
trio lights here, but the price Of gas is
so reasonable aud the need of invest
ments IN other directions so much greater
that the people defeated the proposition
at the polls 10y large majority.
About four hundred houses were
erected here last year, and it is expected
nearly double that number will be built
this year. New houses arc still in pro-
cess Of construction in various portions
Of the city, and contracts have already
been lot for the erection of large mum
Der Of Others.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company is enlarging the yards in the
western part Of the city, and will remove
the round-houses from points at both
ends Of the road 10 this place. About
hundred men are now at work there
grading for side tracks and preparing the
ground for the erection of buildings
The price of real estate has advanced
rapidly in the past week, although there
are as yet 10 evidences Of wild specula-a /
ton.
The City Council at its meeting last
night granted charter 10 the Roanoke
Street Railway Company, one ofthe con-
ditions Of which requires the company
10 have one mile OF road in operation in
the next eighteen months.
The mortuary report for 1887 shows
the total number of deaths to have been
PA, 1i6 OF whom were white aud 90
colored, or a ratio OF II in the thousand.
This is a sufficient reiutation OF the
charge OF enyious persons that Roanoke
is an unhealthy city.
The Hastings Court has been in SEES
sion since Monday, but no criminal cases
OF importance have or will come before |
the court this session.
We now have population Of over ten
thousand against less than eight thousand |
o year ago. lobe.
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NEWPORT NEWS.
The business OF the Last month.


Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
JANUARY 4, 1883.
The following business was transacted
at this port in December:
Entrances of Vessels Foreign, 5-tons,
6,237.
Clearances of Vessels: Foreign, So
tons, AZ, 1876.
Foreign Imports duty paid Coffee,
1872, 800 pounds, SO, 800 phosphate
rock, 140 tons, $500; plants, IS soda
ash, 673,991 pounds, S6,626; caustic
soda, 81, 146 pounds, 1881 earthenware,
81, l13; pig IRON, 155 tons, 81, G35 tin
plate, $500 pounds, 81, $50 4; salt, 55j,
S64 pounds, 81 ,229. Total, S40,204.
Imports entered for immediate trans
portation To Chicago, 81, 952 ; to St.
Louis, 81, 473-S19, 425.
Grand total, $50, 629.
Duty collected, SO, $50.
Domestic Exports: Cotton (24,042
bales). 81 40, 1870 flour 1868 barrels),
1856, $50; tobacco (602, $50 pounds,
500, 265 corn (S2, 155 bushels), $50, 789 ;
wheat $4,000 bushels), S22, 500; lum-
Der, 9l7,103 lard q 1856 pounds,
Sl0,3l6; car material, SO, 900; cattle
go head, $500; oil coke, "a, S2j ;
coal q 1881 tons, S5,9l3; beef (cured),
1863; bacon, $2,5l7; sundries, 81, $50
total, Sl,450, 491.
This does not include the coal for fuel
taken on board foreign-bound vessels,
estimated at 1900 tons, S27, 1000.
Grand total, 81, Al, 491.
A comparison of the business done in
1887 with that done in 1856 shows a ire
mendous increase all along the line in
favor of 1887. In the imports the in
crease is especially large.
The year 1887 was one of the best
years seen at this port in all branches
of business. More buildings were erect
ed than in any previous year, and the
building boom seems to suffer no abate-
ment. One big item for the year was
the commencement of the dry.dock,
which has given employment to large
number of men, and which will be com
pleted about the last of the summer. If
statement of the business done during
the year could be seen it would show that
the port is entitled to take rank with the
big ports of the country. PAUL.
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DANNILIE.
A Sick Health OGiciaI-Unaccomm 0.
dating Firemen.
Especial telegram to the Dispstch.l

Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
DANvILLE, VA, January 5.-Dr. b. B.
Temple, health officer, is quite sick at
bis residence, suffering from pneumonia.
The receipts of leaf tobacco were
again light to-day, but there is no per-
oeptible change in the price for stock
offered.
A lamp exploded early this morning in
the grocery store in the old Graves
Warehouse, but the department would
not Jet the builsing burn.
The Artesan well being bored here for
tho refractory has reached depth Of
q hundred feet.
The Circuit Court-Judge Whites
begins Its session here on the 10th. All
business in the Hastings Court was laid
over till tomorrow.
Mrs. Ann S. McCullock, living in the
neighborhood of Stony Mills, Pittsylva-
MIA county, was fonnd dead in bed this
morning, having retired last evening III
her usual health. She was about sixty
five years OF age.
II is said that the body OF Allen Will
son (colored), the man drowned in Dan
river Monday. was found this morning ut
South Boston, having been washed
ashore.
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Compulsory Insurance in Germany


Germany already possesses compulsory
accident and sickness insurance laws for
the working classes, and now the text
has been published of the long-expected
measure for the insurance of work peo-
pie of all classes against want through
old age or chronic incapacity. (Atters
und InUdiiden-Uersicherung der Arbei-
ter.) This measure may be regarded as
the most revolutionary of all mo-
dern social measures. 1t applies TO
some l2,000,000 persons. The object
is TO provide against incapacity through
old age, sickness, and accidents which
are not covered by the existing law.
The classes of work people to which the
measure is at present to apply ere (a)
persons who are employed as work peo-
pie, assistants, journeymen, apprentices,
or servants for wages or salary 10y man
aging officials, commercial employees,
and apprentices, with the assistants and
apprentices apothecaries whose average
yearly earnings do not exceed 1000
marks; CO.. persons belonging to the
crews of German sea-going vessels
employed for wages or salary. The
Budesrath can, however, extend the
insurance to independent tradesmen
in the house industry. Excepted
are officials of the empire and OF
the Federal States, as well as
officials Of communal bodies entitled to
pensions or in receipt of the same TO the
extent OF 100 marks yearly. The piovi-
sions 10 DO made for the aged and indrm
will take the form Of yearly annuities. to
be paid in monthly sums in advance. A
workman who has completed his seven
tieth year will be entitled to annuity
whether ipcapacitated or not. and per-
son will be regarded as incapable who
can be proved TO be perma-
nently unable to work. Eligibili.
ty for annuity because of old
age implies thirty years contribu-
tions, and eligibility for annuity because
of incapacity five years contributions;
but exceptions can be made at the option
of the insurance authorities. a year is
TO count 300 work days. As to the pre-
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bought in by the present owners, George
W. Pierson Il Co, OF Philadelphia, Pa,
for the sum Of s5l, 900. which will cover
the amount Of Indebtedness which caused
the sale. This property was bought
several years ago by the present proprie-
tors for $3.50, 900.
The Circuit Court begun to. day-Judge
II. II. Turner on the bench. The cases
Of interest-among them the Malone
Riddleberger suit-have been continued.
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A Scranton special says: The report
OF Mine-lnspector Blewitt, of the First
mining district, comprising principally
Lackawanna county, made to-day shows
the total lumber OF lives lost by accident
for the year 1887 in these collieries TO be
fifty-seven. while 224 persons received
injuries, thirty.two women were made
widows, and 40 children orphans. Most
of the accidents were caused by ex-
plosions of gas and falls of roof rock.
The total output of the collieries is es-
timated at not less than 100000 tons,
larger than any other district will show,
and the employment of 21,000 men and
boys in its production. Compared with
1886, there is decrease of three in the
fatal accidents, an increase of seven in
the injured, and a decrease in widows of
four and orphans seventeen.
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sudden Death of IN Alleged Crooked
Cashier,
by telegraph to tbs Dispatch

by telegraph to tbs Dispatch.l
CINCINNATI, o., January 5.-Mr. Ammi
Baldwin, late cashier of the Fidelity Ma
tional Bank, died suddenly at 3 o clock
this morning at his residence on Walnut
Hills. Mr.. Baldwin was indicted with
other officers OF the Fidelity Bank, but
for some reason his bond was placed ut
ten thousand dollars and he was able to
secure bondsmen and has not been in
jail. In the absence of specific informa-
ton as 10 the cause of his death the
theory of suicide is common among
downtown people who are familiar With
the family, and who know how much
mental trouble the man has undergone
within the past ten years. The theory
of suicide so prevalent down town has
no support whatever from the facts Of
Mr.. BaldFin's death. He died from the
effects OF stroke OF paralysis.
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Iron Furnaces sold.
Especial telegram TO the Dispsteh.l

IfptcIHI ItFKftH 70 NO DKpalth.I
wooDsrocK. Va. January b.-The
sale here to-day Of the Columbia and
Liberty Iron Works, situated some miles
from this place, and embracing two
charcoal and iron furnaces. III, 400 acres
of land, and other valuable real and per-
sonal property, resulted = its being
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Three Hundred Out.

PITTSBURGH, January 5.-The en-
ployees at Hubbard & Co. g works struck
yesterday against 10 per cent. reduc-
ton in wages. The works have closed
down and three hundred men are idle.
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DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS.
PHILADELPHIA, RICH alSFfR
a-EsssxEzs
MOND AND NORFOLK
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Appointed calling days: Every TUESDAY
and FRIDAY at IL NJ, and every SUNDAY at 5
\. n.
Freight for Tuesdays and Fridays steamers
received till 1880 \. a.; for sundays steamer
till P. NJ. Saturday. Freight received daily till
5PM.
Fare. &C..
For further information apply 70
J. ". McCARRICK,
General Southern Agent, ONCE Rockets,
". z. CLYDE Il Co.
no2 yGeparal Agents Pniisdel phia
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