DAILY CHARLOTTE OBSERVER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1883.
CHAS. R. JONES, Edi tor and Prop'tor.
BKV. G. D BEBNHEIM,
Agent and Traveling Correspondent.
entered at the i'ost-oitice at charlotte, n.
0., as Second Class Matter 1
SATUKDAY, FED. 17, 1883.
Tho new nickels, when washed with
gold, are said to 1b readily passed for
$5 pieces,
A Chicago man killed a foot-pad who
attempted to rob him, and received a
vote of thanks from the coroner's jury.
Ex-Governor Morgan, of New York,
who died Tuesday was twice tendered
the position of secetary of the treasury
rirst by Grant and afterwards by Ar
thur, and in both instancees declined,
The New England bookmakers are in
favor of free books for the people.
They believe in popular enlightment,
but they want to do the enlighting and
get paid for it.
Talk about unrecontructed Southern
ers! The New York legislature only
two days ago 6nally passed a bill re
pealing the provisions in the revised
statutes allowing the purchase, holding
and sale of slaves in the State, and it
has not yet received the signature of
the Goyernor!
The Pennsylvania House of Represent
atives passed a bill granting a pension
of $40 and an annuity of $120 a year to
soldiers and widows of soldiers of the
war of 1812. It is asserted that these
pensions will cost the State at least
$200,000 a year.
Leon Hartmann, the Russian Nihil
ist, Ilerr Most and three members of
the International Society of New York,
held a conference in Philadelphia last
Thursday in relation to the coronation
of the Cz ir. Ilerr Most sent a cipher
dispatch to German Secialists, and
Hartmann declared that the coronation
would not be allowed to take place.
Another place where stealing public
money has been going on is the Potts
ville, Pa , almshouse. Many thousands
of dollars, spent ostensibly for outdoor
relief of the poor, went to reward per
sonal friends of the commissioners and
make political capital. Orders for
whisky and cigars often amounted to
8200 in a day.
PROBABILITIES OF AN EXTRA
SESSION.
There is but a short time now left
for the Legislature to Qnish up its work
too short in fact to do all or nearly all
that has been "mapped out. The mem
bers at lialeigh are already discussing
the question of sitting over the time
prescribed or of an extra session. Ihey
do not fancy tho idea of remaining in
Raleigh, working for the State, receiv
ing no pay and paying their own ex
penses. It should not be expected of
them. The truth is a sixty day session
is too short to accomplish much in the
way of general legislation, especially
when so much time is taken up in the
consideration of local bills in which
the people at large have not a particle
of interest.
Unless our memory is at fault theie
is a statute in existence, passed eight
or ten years ago, to remedy to some
extent this evil, which authorizes local
corporations to file articles of incor
poration before the register of deeds,
which will be valid in law as if regu
larly chartered by the Legislature. We
may, however, be in error about this.
There should be such a law if there is
not, authorizing private corporations,
local in their nature, to file the articles
of association, or such papers as tht y
desire, in the records of the county in
which they exist or propose to operate,
and let this suffice in lieu of charters
granted by the Legislature. Something
of this kind would dispose of the larger
portion of the work which now con
sumes the time of the Legislature to
the delay of more important matters
and to the detriment of public interests.
CONGRESS YESTERDAY.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
Stock at all United State ports. 031.830
Same time last rear 1,1 12 709
men
star
new
and
In the star-route trial Wednesday,
Mr Ingersoll having questioned the be
lief of a witness Judge Wylie remark
ed that some people did not even be
lieve that we exist. "Yes," replied Mr
Ingersoll, "some people even doubt ex
istence. I believe that people doubt in
proportion as they have brains, and are
positive just in proportion as they do
not know."
THE STAR ROUTERS.
Now that Rerdell, one of the
convicted at the first trial of tho
routers, and who was granted a
trial, has withdrawn his plea
pleads guilty, also announcing his in
tention to testify as to all he may know
if the counsel for the government desire
it, we shall probably hear some impor
tant developements. Rerdell was a
clerk to certain star route contractors
and while he was convicted, by some
hocus pocus, the true inwardness oi
which the public has not yet penetrat
ed, the jury failed to agree as to the
guilt of his employers. This left him
in durance vile while they for the time
being escaped. It seems that he has
stood all this that he cares to stand and
now to save himself proposes to turn
State's witness. He knows a good deal,
doubtless, and possibly now we may
get at some solid facts.
The extension cf the Enterprise cot
ton factory, at Auin; ,ta, Ga, doubling
its capacity, has been completed and
operations in the i.ew portion have
commenced. It now has 25,000 spin
dles, and it is proposed to increase this
number to 40,000 spindles in a short
time, making it one of the largest mills
in the South. The new King mills in
the same city will commence opera
tions next week, with a capacity of 25,-
000 spindles.
The Reform Mood was conspicuous
in the Pennsylvania House of Repre
sentatives Monday, that body by a vote
of 130 to 34 having placed on the cal
endar a bill making it a misdemeanor
for State officers, judges and mem'bers
of the Legislature to accept or use free
passes on railroads. Both parties seemed
anxious to get on the record as favoring
the bill, whilst the small negative vote
came principally from the republican
side.
THE END NOT YET.
The signal service bureau at Wash
ington give3 notice that the Mississippi
river between Cairo and Memphis will
be flooded, and warns the people along
the river to make preparations for it.
The immense volume of water pouring
down from the Ohio from its tributa
ries, rushing into the Mississippi, will
spread devastation along its banks, and
it is feared may do even greater dam
age than the flood of last year. As the
people have had warning, however.they
can prepare for it, and save much prop
erty that might be swept away, or
rained.
The contract for building the York
town monument, at Yorktown, Va.
has been awarded to the Hollowel
Granite Company, of Hollowel, Me.
for the sum of S36,927. The monument
will be constucted entirely of Hollowell
granite with raised letters. Thi3 is in
accordance with the recommendations
of the commission of artists. Maine
granite, while in Virginia, within easy
reach, are unlimited quantities of as
fine granite as was ever taken from the
quarries of Maine.
The bill "to punish drunkenness,"
which the Alabama House of Repre
sentatives passed on Saturday, imposes
a penalty on persons drunk and disor
derly in any public place, of a small
fine for the first offense, twenty dollars
for the second, and five days imprison
ment for the third, and gives jurisdic
tion of such cases to justices of the
peace. As it first passed the House
it imposed these penalties on persons
drunk or disorderly ; but the vote was
afterwards reconsidered and the word
and substituted for "or."
So many people are petitioning the
Ohio legislature to change their names,
that a law is likely to be enacted pro
hibiting that sort of thing altogether.
A day or two ago it was proposed to
change the name of two minor chil
dren, whose father wa3 dead those
asking it being their mother and her
second husband. The objection urged
against the change was that it would
set a precedent which would cause
great annoyance in settling estates and
titles. If a general prohibition of
name changing is enacted, it will be on
the ground that the matter belongs to
the courts, and beyond the reach of leg
islative power.
A charter has passed the Florida leg
islature for a steamship company to
run vessels direct from Florida ports
to Liverpool, the incorporators being
Sir Philip Hampton Clarke, of London,
and Mr A B Linderman, of Ihiladel
phia. The company proposes to enter
into arrangemements with railroad
companies owning large bodies of tim
ber land, by which the timber will be
cut shipped and the lands colonized,
the ship3 carrying the timber to Eng
land, where there is a demand for it,
and bringing back emigrants to settle
upon the lands, the lands to be furnish
ed them at nominal prices. England
demands about 6,000,000 railroad tie3 a
year and it is proposed to draw as
much of this demand as possible frem
the Florida forests.
A Connecticut manufacturer is said
to have made seventy-two thousand
dollars last year, and had little boys
from eight to twelve years old working
ten hours a day for fifteen cents a day.
PAILURES NOTWITHSTANDING
PROTECTION.
The following, which we clip from
the Baltimore Sun, has point in it:
The prosperity of the iron interests
of Maryland and other Southern States
at a time when the air is full of stories
of failures and suspensions, actual and
prospective, in various Northern States,
is an exemplification of the doctrine
enforced by Mr. Abram S. Hewitt in
his recent letter to Mr. Cox, namely,
that iron, like other things, is manufac
tured under conditions of competition,
and that under such conditions the
iron works so located as to produce
most cheaply must in the end drive
their competitors to the wall. All man
ufacturers are not supremely wise.
Some locate their works too far from
the ore beds, too far from cheap fuel,
and too far from their market. Others
lack sufficient capit..l to tide over the
periods of depression inevitable under
a high tariff, which confines them to
the easily glutted home market, and
while advocating "protection," like the
eagle in the story, perish from the
wound inflicted upon them by a wea
pon they themselves have plumed. It
is not a little difficult for high protec
tionists to explain, after twenty years
of protection, the present bad condition
of the iron industry on their theory
that "protection" does protect manu
facturers. If so, why so many failures ?
Both House Still Working on the Tariff.
Washington, Feb. 16. Senate.
The committee on foreign relations this
morning agreed to recommend the rati
fication of the Mexican reciprocity
treaty and will report it to the Senate
with that recommendation at the first
executive session.
Bayard presented a conference report
on the Japanese indemnity bill and ex
plained it.
Hampton this morning reported to
the Senate from the military commit
tee a bill to reimburse the State of
Florida on account of expenses in the
Seminole war in 1855-6-7. The amount
claimed to be due was over $700,000,
but the committee has figured the
amount down to $92,648.
After some discussion the report of
the conference committee on the Jap
anese Indemnity fund was agreed to.
Butler read an engineer's letter in
relation to the condition of the works
for the improvement of Charleston
harbor and asked the committee on
commerce to consider and report in
dependently of the river and harbor
bill introduced by him to appropriate
$500,000 for the works. The letter read
was referred to the committee on com
merce. At 2 p m the tariff bill was taken up.
The pending question was on the
amendment offered last evening by
Coneer orovidiue for a dutv of half a
cent per pound upon charcoal iron ad
vanced in manufacture beyond iron in
pigs in addition to the duty on iron
uiade with other fuel. This amend
ment was lost as were several others
naming various rates of additional
duty. Three dollars per ton was finally
agreed upon.
The jute paragraph was amended by
changing the rate on jute from fifteen
dollars a ton to 20 per cent, advalorem.
Sewell explained that the effect of
this would be to make the cost of the
raw material les3 than the manufac
tured goods, which would not be the
case at $15 a ton.
Several amendments were offered to
the internal revenue portion of the bill
repealing the tax on tobacco, molasses,
whiskey, bank deposits, circulation and
capita), but all failed.
House. Immediately after the read
ing of the journal the House went into
committee of the whole on the legisla
tive appropriation bill. I his was done
with the consent of the ways and
means committee, which, through its
chairman agreed not to press the tariff
bill until 3 o'clock unless the legislative
bill should be passed at an earlier hour.
Darrell, of Louisiana, moved to in
crease the appropriation for office of
surveyor general of Louisiana, from
$12,000 to $15,000, agreed to.
The amendment was adopted making
office hours in the executive depart
ment from 9 to 4 in winter and 9 to 5
in summer. The committee then rose
and reported the bill to the House.
The final amendment voted upon was
that reducing the number of internal
revenue collection districts to 82 and
it was agreed to, yeas 136 nays 99. The
amendment makes a reduction of 44
districts by an error it was stated Tues
day that an amendment reducing the
total number of districts to 46 was
adopted, that amendment was lost ; and
the amendment now stands at 82. The
present number i3 126.
The amendment increasing the hours
of clerical labor in the departments
was agreed to, 124 to 32. The bill was
then passed ; yeas lu7, nays 59.
Kelly immediately moved to go into
committee of the whole on the tariff
bill, and at 4:35 the motion was agreed
to, 100 to 51, the negative vote being
cast by those desirous of taking up the
"bonded spirits bill."
The Deuding amendment was that
offered by Candler as a substitute to
the first clause of the sugar schedule.
Lost.
Bayne, of Pennsylvania, moved to re
duce the duty on all sugars above No
13 Dutch standard, and not above No 16
Dutch standard, from 3 to 2 cents per
pound.
Pending action on this amendment
the committee rose.
Skinner, of New York, introduced a
bill appropriating $500,000 for the relief
of the sufferers from the floods in the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and Wheel
er, of Alabama, introdu-ed a bill appro
priating S100.000 for the same purpose.
Both measures were referred to the
committee on appropriations.
A recess was then taken until 7 :30.
The House took up and passed a bill
for the allowance of certain claims
known as the 4th of July claims reput
ed by the accounting officers of the
treasury department. The bill appro
priates $298,000. Adjourned.
FBBBUABY 16, 1888
DOMESTIC.
NAVAL STORES.
Charleston -8plrlts Turpentine nominal and
no sales. Hosln. auiet and unchanged; strained
and good strained 81.40,
WrurmeTOH Spirits Turpentine firm, t49c
Rosin firm, at $1.82Vi lor strained; 81.37 lor
good strained. Tar steady, at 81.80. Crude
Turpentine firm, at 81.50 tor hard; 82.60 lor
yellow dip.
PRODUCE.
Louisvtlle On account of the flood the market
was quiet to day, and only a small loctl business
Is being done.
t. Louis -Hogs, strong and active; Yorkers
86.30e$rt.50; pa klng8tf.40e86.80; butchers to
extra 8tf.708t5 0. ueeelpts 3,500; shipments
none.
Cincinnati Floor, firm and nominal; family
85. 1CS85.40; fancy 85.503)86.00. Wheat eas
ier, at 8 l.l 2 for spot. Corn dull and nominal,
and held at 65; Ear 55. No other grains offered.
Pork held at 818 259818 50. Lard strong, at
SI100S11.05 Bulk meats-firmer; shoulders
7Ui: clear rib ttSfc. Bacon-firmer; shoulders 8tfe.
clear rib 10. clear lll&. Whiskey no market.
ougar- nrmer ana uncEaugou. nugi uu aaica.
Baltimore noon Flour, firm and higher;
Howard street and Western super S3 62S84 50;
extra $4 620)85.25; family 85 37$fl.37; City
Mills super. S3.75S4.50: extra 84.7fta86.75;
mo Brands 86.60S86. o; rowpsco iamuy -uu,
Superlative pat- nt 87 . 75. Wheat Southern high
eraud strong; Western easier; Southern red 81. 23
81.28. amoer $1.25fi81.30; No 1 Maryland,
Si-261 asked: No 2 Western winter red spot,
Sl.23igi.23Vb- Com Southern firmer; West
em firm and higher; Southern white 70374;
yellow 70074.
Baltimore night Oats, dull and firm; South
ern 48351: Western white 50S51 ; mixed 47S49;
Pennsylvania 48351. Provisions-very firm; mess
pork, 819 50. Bulk meats-shoulders and clear
nb sides ; eked, 8t4it. Bacon -shoulders
HA; clear rib sides 1 lib; hams 1414. Lard
refined Cofl e lower; Rio cargoe ordlnaj f
to fair 8Vs . 9ia. 8uwir firm; A soft 8. Whiskey-quiet,
ai $1.17S$1.171. Freights quiet.
St. Louis -Flour, firm and better; fancy 85.25-
085.60; family 8450ffi$4.65. Wheat opened
hlerher. nrivanv1 and closed a fraction off: No. 2
red fall 81 18$1.13 tor cash; 81.18 for
February; No. 3 red tall 81.0881.09. Corn
opened higher, advanced and closed a shade low
er, at 55a557fe for cash; 56a5H for February.
Oats slow but higher, at 88te39 for cash; 38
for Februa y. corn meal higher, at 81.28.
Whiskey st-ady, at 81.14. Pork-higher, at
818 25 for enh: Sl8-l7Vb tor March. Bulk
meats-firm and better; long clear 89-40: short
rib S9.40a$W 50; short clear 89 62VaS9 664.
Bacon - slow and strong; short rib 810 37tyr short
clear 810 63ffiS 10.70. Lard-nomlnal, at 1 1.
Chicago Flour, quiet and unchanged ; common
to choice string 83.50384 75; patents 85.50
87.25. Whiat active firm and nlnher; Regular,
$t.l0lf2'SMUi for February; No. 2 Chicago
spring l.09a$l 10&: No. 8 Chicago spring
95S9.5I&; No. 2 red winter 81.11. Corn-unsettled
and generally higher, at 57i for esh: 58t6rx
5814 for March. Cats -active, firm and higher, t
89 for cash; 891039 for February. Dressed
Hogs-demand faii and prices higher; light 87.50
87.55; heavy 87 7037.80; good mixed 87 60
87.65. Porn active, firm and prices higher, at
818 203818 25 for cash; 818.253818.30 for
March. Lard active, firm and higher, at 81 1 40-$1-1.45
fcr cash: Sll.47VfeSSll.50 for March.
Bulk meals strong and higher shoulders 87-25;
shr-rt rib 89 6r; short clear 89 85. , Whiskey
steady and unchanged, at 81-16.
COTTON.
Stock at all interior towns 163.917
Same time last year 183.115
Stock at Liverpool 836,000
Same time last year 700,000
Stock of American afloat for Great
Britlan 285.0C0
Same time last year 222,000
FUTURES.
BURGESS NICHOLS
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALEB IN
ALL KINDS OF
Nrw Yobk Net receipts 475; gross 3,021.
Future closed easy; sales 42 000 bales
February 10 213.22
March 10 303.31
Anrtl 10.44300
May 10683.00
June 10.723.73
July 10.853.88
August - 10.963.00
September 10 663 67
October 10.803 32
November 10.173 19
December.
January
The TCve.nlnflr Post s Cotton Report says: Future
deliveries were neglected and up to 2 p. m only
30,000 bales wwe turned over, and fluctuations
ai-a trivial, v rices had declined 3 to 2 points. The
inq was recovered, but after the receipt of the
last Liverpool telegram sales were made again at
the lowest rates of the day. The comparatively
small receipts at Interior towns had no effect: they
am arnntnd for bv I he bad weather in the west..
At the third call only 1,000 bales of August found
a business at 10.9s.
Il l I! M I I: I!
BEDDING, &C.
A FULL LINE OF
CHEAP BEDSTEADS,
LOUNGES,
PARLOR and CHAMBER SUITS. COF
FINS of all kinds on hand. No. 5 West
Trade street, Charlotte, North Carolina.
FINANCIAL.
NSW YORK
Exchange. :::::: 4.8254
finvprnu flntfl nAnk and lower.
New fives. ::::::: 1 031
Four and a hall per cents, : : : 1.13
Four per cents, : : : : :
Money. ::::::: tda4
Sub-treasury balances Gold, : : 8119.170
- ' " Currency, : : 6,981
t&osed offiwi a,t 8
Nrw Tori 11 A. X The stock market opened
weak at a decline ot Vfe 1 per cent frcm yester-
dav'a eloalnr figures, latter for Illinois Central
Hannibal ft St. Josenh nreferred. however. wa9 1
Der cent hleher The market continued weak In
aarlv trad. and a further decline ranging from
Vi 3 per cent took place, In which Ontario Min
ing. Michigan Central and Wabash were most
conspicuous. At 1 1 o'clock, led by Michigan Cen
tral and Rochester & Pittsburg, the market rallied
to the extent oi Hi pr cent
Stocks Irregular :
Alabama-Class A. 2 to 5. : : : 82
Alabama Class A. small. : : : 84
Alabama-Class B, 5's, : : : : tl-00
Alabana Class C. 4's. s : : : 83
Chicago and Northwestern, : : : 1-291
Chicago and Northwestern, preferred, 1.43
East Tennessee, : : : : : 8V
Illinois Central, :::::: 1.42V
Lake Shore. :::::: 1.07
Louisville and Nashville, : : : : 521
Memphis and Charleston, : : : 36Vi
Nashville and Chattanooea. : : : 67
New York Central, : : : : : 1.24
PitUburg, ::::::: 1.41
Wallace
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(Jaltbstok Steady; middling lCc;low mldJllng
91Ac; food ordinary 8Qc; net meelpts 4,073;
gross 4,073; sales 1.827; stock 84 280; ext'orts
to eoaiwie ; Great Britain ; to conti
nent ; to France : to channel .
Weekly net receipts 17.2B5; gross 17.811; sales
13,977; exports coastwise 1.681; to Great Britain
11,9X5; to continent 6,88b"; to France ; to
channel .
Norfolk Dull; middling 9 3-16;; uei receipli
8,000; iivsx 3,()u0; sIocn (17,033. exports coast
wise ; sales ; exports to Great Britain
; to continent .
Weekly net ree'ru 1 rl. 019; gross 19H19: sales
6 4-SK; coastwl.se 11.H4H: (Treat Britiiln 4 903;
channel ; continent 2.700; France .
Baltimork- Steady middling lOVfec. iovt mid
dling yskc: 0,,a ordinary 8ic. net receipts
390; Kr... 533 sales . stocs 3J.068
coastwise . spinners : pnrt 10 Greht
Britain ; to continent .
Weekly net receipts 3,3i7; gross 8,140: sales
1.4(; spinners 1.100; exports Great Britain
2,ut50; coastwise 3ro; continent ; Fr-ince
B03TO3 -Steady; widdilrui 10?bc io lascirns
97jjo; Oi!'1 ordnian 9lge; net iw-ipts 1,073;
g oss 4.2"J2; JJiles ; tfock 4,tff0 exports to
Sr-at Britain ; to France .
Weekly net receipts 4.178; gross 18.334; sales
; exports to Grt;at Britain 3,301.
WELMINSTOS-Firrn. middling 9 13-16 ;.'to mid-.
dUng (J'"sc- eood ordinary BSfcc. net receipts
322; grow 322; sales ; stuck 17,440: ex
ports eomtwiae : to Great Britain ;
to continent ; to channel .
THE RIVER
FALLING AT
NATl.
CINCIiS.
Philadelphia Press : The privilege of
selling liquor ought to be a costly one ;
and, haying made it costly, the State
ought also to guarantee the quality of
the liquor sold. A high rate of license
and a careful inspection of liquor would
keep the business in reputable hand?.
The pririlege of getting drunk ought
also to be made a costly one. The state
of drunkenness is near enough to the
condition of lunacy to make it desirabl
to restrain the liberty of the drunkard
Where drunkenness is habitual the
drunkard should be divested cf the use
of his property. The policy of the law
should be to make drunkenness a
shameful crime.
Laws of this kind would do more for
temperance in a twelvemonth than
prohibition could effect in a lifetime.
The Flood at Cairo and MemphisThe
Upper Mississippi Rising.
Cairo, February 16. The river meas
ures 45 feet 6 inches, and is rising rap
idly. It lacks 6 feet 5 inches of being
as high as last year. No serious dam
age is apprehended from overflow un
less a heavy rise comes from the Upper
Mississippi.
The Wabash and St Louis and the
Narrow Gauge Railroads have sus
pended business on account of tracks
oeing overflowed. There is an ice eoree
at Maple Island in the Mississippi and
heavy rains have caused a rise of 10
feet at St Louis to-day.
MEMPms, February 16. The river at
noon to-day marks within 2 feet seven
inches of the danger line and 4 feet 9
inches of the extreme point reached
last spring. It is rising at the rate of
10 inches per day and will surely go
over the banks below here in many
places where the levees broke last year
and were not repaired. The planters
are making preparations for the worst.
bo iar tnere nas been no interruption
of railroad travel on any lines leading
out of the city.
The Highest Flood in Half a Century.
Loss Half a Million -Generous aid
to the Sufferers.
Cincinnati, Feb. 16. The water
seems to recede at the rate of lj-a inches
an hour. At 9:30 a m it was 04 feet
4 inches. This is still an inch above
the highest previous flood, that of 1S32.
Brisk winds rising this morning gives
cause for serious alarm to owners of
barges of all descriptions. From the
first they have said that a heavy wind
would wreck ana sinK every barge in
the river. Nowhere has the fall
ing of the water given greater
joy than in Lawranceburg, lnd. It
is estimated that 200 houses have
been overturned or washed away
and that 3,000 people were driven from
their homes with nothing but the
clothes they had on. The loss must
reach $500,000. Generous relief has
been sent to them from Indianapolis,
Shelby ville.Cincinnati.and other places,
which has been received with unbound
ed gratitude. No Iops of life has yet
been reported, but there has been many
narrow escapes.
A large iurmture warenouse tell in,
but 30 or 40 people in upper stories es
caped. Fears are entertained that the
court house foundations may crumble.
Four hundred people are sheltered in
that building.
Railroad to be Resold.
Richmond, Va., Feb. 16. A decree
was entered in the circuit court of
Richmond to-day for a rr sale of the
Washington and Western railroad
formerly called the Washington and
Ohio railroad. The road was first sold
for $592,000 of which $50,000 was paid
in cash and bonds were given for the
remainder, xne purcnasers lauea in
the first decree payment and now con
sent to a rc sale which takes place in
about forty days.
Weekly net receipts 4,030 gross 4,038; exports
coastwise 1,324; to Great Britain ; to con
tinent ; to channel .
PHILAD1CLPHIA Dull; middim lOlfec; lowmlt -fliluK
luLgc nood ordinary uei rtcoiinp
97: grr.ng 476; sales ; .hh! ; ei-
ports Great Britain ; to continent
Weekly net receipts 1.26H; gross 3.9M4; sales
; spinners ; coa-twise ; continent
: to Great Britain 2,839; stock 9,6L'3.
84V1KNAH Firm; middling 9$ic; low niid.lling
OVjc; good ordinar? R5e; net receipts 2.356.
eross 2,422; sales 2.7uu; stock 84 368; exports
to coastwise . to GrRt Britain ; to
France ; to continent .
Weekly net rec pts 1 6.4.V2; gross 1 6 566 : sales
9,700; exports to Great Britain 2 509; France
; coastwise 8,098; continent 7,662.
Niw Orlkaxs Easy; middling 97bc. low mid
dling 9Uc; eood ordnurr Ktyc. net receipt
7,684; k'wss 8.585: sales 4 75J: stock 335.214;
exports to Great Britain ; to France ;
coastwise ; to continent ; to chan
nel .
Weekly net receipts 46.250; gross 53,987;
sales V!6,500; exports Great Britain 24,217; chan
nel : coastwise 9,279-France 9.643; conti
nent 7,818.
Mobilx (julet; middling 9c; icw middllnn
93fic; irood ordinary Oc; noi receipts 564;
giuss 564; sales 1.000. stock 48.025 exports
ooastwlse ; to France : to Great Britain
; to continent .
Weekly net receipts fl.428; gross 6,449; sales
6.500: exports to Great Britain : coastwise
Richmond and Allegheny,
blchraond and Danville, : : :
Bock Island. ::::::
South Carolina Brown Consols, : :
West Point Terminal, : ; : :
Wabash, tit Louis and Paciflc, : :
Wabash. 8t. Louis and Pacific, preferred
Western Union, : : : : :
United States 3's, : : , : : :
Georgia H's, ::::::
Georgia 7's, mortgage, : : : :
Georgia, gold, : : : : :
Louisiana Consols, : : : : :
North Carolina's, : : : : :
North Carolina's, new, : : : :
North Carolina's, funding, : : :
North Carolina's, special tax, : : :
Tennessee 6's, : : : : ;
Tennessee, new, : : : : :
Virginia 6's. ::::::
Virginia, consolidated, : : : :
Virginia, deferred, : : : :
Adams' Express. : : : : :
American itxpress, : : : :
Chesapeake and Ohio, : : : :
Chicago and Alton, : : : :
Chic? go. St. Louis and New Orleans. :
Consol Coal, ::::::
Delaware and Lackawana. : :
Fort Wavne. . : . : : I :
Hannibal and St Joseph, : : :
Harlem. : : : : : : 1
Houston and Texas, : : : :
Manhattan Elevated, : : : : :
Metropolitan Elevated. : : : :
Miehig in Central, : : : : :
Mo'jlle and Ohio. : : : : :
New Jersey Central, : : : : :
Norfolk and Western, preferred. : :
New York Elevated, : : : :
Ohio and Mississippi : : : :
Ohio and Misslss'.pp', pre erred, : :
Paciflc Mall, : : : :
Panama, :::::: :
Quicksilver, ::::::
Q licksllver, pre.'errcd : : :
Heading, :::::::
St. Louis and San Francisco, ; : :
St. Louis, preferred, : : : :
St Louis & San Francl.-co. 1st preferied.
St. Paul. : : : : : : :
St. Paul, preferred, : : : : :
Texas Paciflc, ::::::
Union Pacific, ::::::
United States Express, : : : :
Wells' Fargo, :;::::
Bid. tLast bM. 0Td. I Ex. Dlv.
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WAM ACID PHOSPHATE
THE HIGHEST GRADE ACID PHOSFHATE. CONTAINING POTASH,
SOLD IN NORTH CAROLINA LAST SKASO.V.
Send to Dr. C. W. Dabney, Jr., at Raleigh, Tor nljris of Hie dltte e nt 1);;,m
WANDO FERTILIZER
Is the first ever made fnm the South Carolina Vlio Mm.
Its excrpp'ie for all field crops 1 muwtd.
0:
OF DIRECT IMFOHTATON, FOU SALP hY
T
The Lower Mississippi to be Flooded.
Washington, Feb. 16. The floods in
the lower Mississippi, near Cairo and
Memphis, will cause great loss of prop
erty during the coming week. Citizens
at river towns in the lower Mississippi
Valley are warned to provide for the
approaching danger.
m
Run Aground but Pulled off.
New York, Feb. 16. The steamer
City of Richmond arrived to-day and
got aground on the outer Middle Shoals.
She was pulled off to-night but the
weather is too thick.
Lonisville Able to Take Care ol Her
Sufferers.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 16. The con
tributions in airl tho nfFnrora frnm tho
floods here have reached, up to date,
wf,uw. Assistance is coming lrom out
side Places, but T.nniawillo rohila rhTiV.
f ul, feels able to take care of her citi
zens, jenersonville and other small
places neea neip.
Horsford'a Acid Phosphate,
For Nemmntn,
Dr. H. N. D. PARKER. Chlemm
thoroughly tested it in nervous diseasesdisnepsla
P " ' D"u it1 crcr cage COU1U S60
great benefit from its use."
It takes over one hundred pairs of gloves to as
8U8e the grief of the Brook yn officials over the
death of alderman, whose life might have been
saved by a single bottle of Dr. Bull's cough syrup.
German Kainlt and Acid Phosphate.
For these two articles apply to the Wando Phos
phate Company, Charleston, a. C. Bee adv.
Forty Tears' Experience of an Old Nurse.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children
teething, Is the prescription of one of the best fe
male physicians end nurses in tbe United States,
and has been used for forty years with never fall
ing success by millions of mothers lor their, chil
dren. It relieves the child from pain, cures dysen
tery and diarrhoea, griping In tbe bom els and wind
colic. By Kivlng health to the child It re Ms the
mother. We would say to every mother who has
a child suffering from any of the foregoing om.
Jtlalnts: po not let your prejudices, nor thepre
udloes of others, stand between your suffering
child and tbe relief that will be sure yes, abso
lutely sure to follow the use of this medicine.
Sold by druggists throughout the world. Price 25
cents a bottle.
lu. 178: France : cjntlnent .
Hxhpbis Easy . middling Wc; low middling
Plic; good ordinary 81a; nei reowiots 2.080;
gross 2,164; sales 1.042; shipments U.200; stock
79,678.
Weekly net receipts 6,802; gross 7,502; ship
ments 11,929, sales 11,500; spinners .
4USCSTA Q i:et; middling 9; low middling
8Viet good ordinary 8c- reor.ut 722; ship
ments ; sales 1,422. i
Weekly net receipts 4,931; shipments 4,719
sales 5,609; spinners ; stock .
Charlkotoh Firm; middling 10c; low mid
dllng9ic; good urdinary 9j; net -eipts 1,167;
gross 1.167 sales 1,500: stock 78,441; exuoru
ooastwlse . to (ireat Britain ; to con
tinent ; to Kranoe ; to channel .
Weekly-net receipts 1 3,017; gross 1 3.0 1 7; sales
8,500; coastwise rt.424; continent 6,061; Great
Britain ; to France .
St. Lotna Steady; middling vw, tow miaanng
yiic; good ordinary 8c; net receipts 324;
gross 405; shipments 1,215; sales 1,197; stock
62.108.
Weekly net receipts 3.880; gross 5,585;
shipments 10,304; sales 2,076.
Nw Yobk Quiet; sales 413 bales; middling
uplands lOVic; middling Orleans 10 Vic
Weekly net receli ts 6,211; gross 29.848; ex
ports to Great Britain 8.418; France 945; con
tinent 1,849; sales 4350; stock 164,28; to
channel .
Montgomery-Steady; middling 9t4c; low mid
dling 8?hc; good ordinary IVi; receipts 1,785;
shipments 3,448; stock, present year, 11,283;
stock, last year, 9,804; sales .
Macon Quiet; middling 9l4c; low middling
8c; good ordinary 8V4c; receipts 1,067; sales
1.243; stock, present year 9,299; stock last year,
6.724; shipments 1,426.
CoLtJMBUS-Qulet: middling Olfec; low middling
8c; good ordinary 8Vic; receipts 2.177; ship
ments 1,981; sales 1,54: spinners 500; stock
1 6,170; exports to Great Britain .
Nashttllb Steady; middling 9c; low mld
OiAc; good middling 8c; net receipts 1,107;
shipments 443; sales 443; spinners :
stock, present year, 18,058; stock, last year
7,718.
P6rt Royal, S. C. -Weekly net receipts ;
stock 1,510; exports to Great Britain ; coast-
wIoa to continent ; sales .
Providence. R. I. -Weekly net receipts 110;
stock 6,500; sales 1,200.
Pelma, Ala. Firm; middling fitfee. Weekly
nst receipts 1.232; gross ; shipments 1,462;
stock, present year, 8,85o; last year 7,290.
Rome, Ga. Steady; middling 9l&c; low mid
dling 9c; good ordinary HVic Weekly receipts
2,671; shipments 3,076; stock 16,048.
RECEIPTS AT ALL PORTS.
New York The following are the total net re
ceipts or cotton at all ports since September 1st,
1882:
Galveston, oq'52
New Orleans. 1.263,4.j
Mobile, 27fV,d9l
Savannah, SIkIZ
Charleston, 4?T,5Z?
Wilmington, on55l
Norfolk, 6?2't
Baltimore, ii'PJi
New York. .... - 110,011
Boston? ' - 123.237
Providence, 1 0.807
Philadelphia, - S8'242,
West Point, 178 200
Brunswick, 5,508
Port Royal, 10.883
Pensacola, - 1.480
City Point, 2.K44
inaianoia, i4,zw
COTTON.
LrvsKProL noon Moderate inquiry freely sup
plied; middling uj.lauds 5sd; middling Orleans
5 13 I6d; sales 10.000; spallation and exports
2 00; receipts 11.900; Ameri-an 9,700 Up
lands low middling clause: March and April deliv
ery 6 44-H4d; April and May 5 47-H4d: May and
June 5 fiO-d-ld; June and July 5 53-641; August
and September 5 01-64d. Futures in buyers'
favo
Sales for the week 53'00
American 34500
Speculation H.lUO
Export 9,4X)
Actual exports 10,000
Fnrwarded from shins' sides
Imports 102.000
American S3. 000
Stock 88rt,000
American rwa.uuu
Afloat 3S4.000
American 285,000
Liverpool 2 p. m. Sales of Arrerlcan eoUon
7,600 bales. Uplands 1 w middling clause: May
and June delivery 5 49-64d; June and July
5 52-tt4d.
Liverpool 5 p m. Upl-nds low middling
clause: April and May delivery 5 46-64d; May
and June 5 50-64d; July and August 5 f7-64d.
The Manchester market for yarns and labrlcs is
dull and tends down.
Liverpool -5 p. m. Uplands 10 middling
clause: August and September deliver) 5 60 64L
Futures closed dull and easier.
Manchester Th Manchester Guardian in Us
commercial article this momlDg. says: "The
market Is quiet and unchanged. Sales continues
small but numerous. Yarns are barely steady.
Clo'.h is firm."
CITY COTTON MARKET.
Office of The Observer, I
Charlotte. N. C. February 16, 1888. f
The city cotton market yesterday closed dull and
easy, at the quo atlons given Deiow:
Good Middling, P1& 9
Middling WAetWB
Wando Phosphate Ccmpany, tliarleton, S,
VBANCIS B. BACKER, President
dec20 3m
JOSI AH. BW'V.'.N 1 Mirer
mars
ANNOUNCEMENT.
GARDEN
SEED
TO S10MRS.
:o: :o:
JN Addition to large quantities of BB?AD,
mak dallv many varieties of FANCY CAKE;,
nr.a or.rt omnii ond Uh It understood tta'.
111. p, ' OIIU " -
h, sneclal facilities for filling orders lor i,im
on short
We also ln?lte a trial of our IK.tfO.V a'J
iFPniir nwn m;tkln2 they are unexceil'il
JUST RECEIVED, A LOT OF
where.
MAPLK SUGAK,
Buist's WarrantedTaild toanu
Strict Low Middling.. .
Low Middling
Middling Tinges,
Middling Stains
Low Middling btains,.
Lower Grades,
rrWM
8ifeai
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FRESH
COMPARATIVE COTTOM STATEMENT.
The following are the receiots of cotton at Char
lotta. for the week endlne Friday. February 1 6th,
as compared with the receipts for the correspond
ing weeks In 1881 and 1882:
day of weee. 1881. 1882. 1883.
Saturday, ... 107 44 171
Monday, 23 41 2i0
Tuesday 215 78 254
Wednesday 224 32 855
Thursday 175 80 389
Friday, t72 118 178
Total bales 16 843 l.f 32
Garden Seed,
RECEIPTS SINCE SEPTEMBER FIRST.
Receipts from September 1st to yesteiday. 89.71
Receipts yesterday, 173
Total Receipts to date S9.P04
Receipts same date, 1882 22 640
Receipts same date, 1881 40.733
Which we offer at very low prices, to both
NOTICE.
The Wholesale anil Retail Trade,
mHS subscribers of stock to the Mechanics'
J. Buildins & Loan Association, and all other
citiynns nr reouestted to meet Monoay evening,
February 19th, at 7 o'clock, sharp, at the Mayor's
nnim. when and where the Directors will submit
for their consideration a new and novel plan of
organization, and which, in the Directors oi lnion,
is very advantageous to ine cuizens 01 vnanuwe.
S. WIXTKOWSKY,
f ebl7 2t President
AT
WD A LARfiK VAHIKTY OK
Choice Confection
ALWAYS IN SfOJK.
tt ;iv
TO SMOKERS;:M?
furnish the celebrated "A7.6 lllMj men
Cigar, in any dtSlieJ quanta ,"u .
Vlgni , iu . .
nowners sise, nor win u uu. -
BETTER
cio au.
Manufacturing Confectiom-rs
feb4
and
At Cost ! At cost i At
ek such of ml
I will wll for the next we
Toy?, Dolls id ttrista
kk r
-A-T- -C-O-S-T.'
A', lot of MEh'S ai a BOYb'
1UT
Garden mi
Total,
- 4,633,048
COMPARATIVE COTTON STATEMENT.
Nat receipts at all United States ports
durine week 144.498
8 une waek last year 7 1 ,205
Tjtal receipts to this date 4.638.048
8 une date last rear 8.896.29 1
Etports for the week 102,667
8 une week last year 66.652
Total exports to this date S.047,951
3 une date last year 2,187,140
BUSTS GARMN SEED.
WE HAVE JDST RECEIYHD
One Hundred Thousand Papers
OF THE ABOVE POPULAR SEED,
Which we offer to the Trade at HIS PBICK3
Wilson 6 Burwell,
J.H.
McA
ens
DRUG STORE.
ftil3
DRUGGISTS,
janll
TRADE STREET.
P. LASNE,
Watch Mater, Jeweler, Gilder aiii Plater,
Trade st, opposite 1st Presbjterlan Church.
A LL kinds of Watches ClocVs. Jewelry repair
XX ed carefully snd warranted for one year, tte
pa ring a specialty.
All work left In my store over three months will
be sold for cost of repair;.
feb7
(1 )i.
Variety Store, undef Tiaotr.V
dec29
KING-:
New "Ml Sir Die
To Our FrierAt in Xort'h r
. . inrs used, tl)''1 ' is
xne Desi 1 rcu-" -. ncj,i)ieii 1 " lf:t
or fade, and ''KLK und Kai.c7 L
Dre&sos, inawis, curt""1"
Damssk Curtains, c- .clothing ckn,(,
like new. uenuemc" r .apver come v-
steam all through
Vno rot?er""- , g,
f.,?" " V"bi Brown 01 urn' 1
850 aXcieansed and
when Eyed. Send good. fl
woir,
m v -
feblS deowwly
Paper WW
. m -mitMoTl KRl
Ernie, iiiai wim ,,.itj
do the worK oIht country
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