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Only such remittances will be at the risk of the nublisher. - Communications, unless they contain important saa A i c, Kmafli, an1 nsAnavlv anhife ft PAsal uewt) vt uubttoa uiiwj auva utvpMtj duujww interest, are not wanted; and, if acceptable In every other way, they will invariably be rejected if the rci uaiuc ui uio gwifcinrr id irtuuiwu kt lontinn flat. By WILLI ATI It. BEBN1RD. WILMINGTON, N. Tuesday Morning, Dec. 30, 1879. TUB It AST ASPECT OF THE .TI AIMS TROUBLES. The Maine Republicans are setting a very bad a very dangerous exam pie for the country. After having aided and countenanced the stealing ot the votes of Florida and Louisiana in 1876, they now threaten a eivil war in 1879 because the same sort of policy was applied to them that they applied to the Democrats. The Re turning Board of Louisiana counted out the Democrats, and yet Grant as President sustained their action. Nay, the whole Republican party, from Maine to Florida, and from North Carolina to California, justi fied and applauded the action of the Returning Board. Now, however, they are for resisting the constituted authorities if they dare to exercise their legal rights. Look at their conduct last week when they openly defied the Governor and compelled his clerk to take arms back to the arsenal at Bangor, which he was causing to be removed by order of the Chief Execu tive. The clerk, to prevent blood shed and riot, obeyed the mob, and the arms were actually returned to the arsenal. This is a most violent and shameful proceeding. Of course the Governor had the legal power to remove any arms he might choose. It was a gross instance of attempted insurrection when the mob defied and resisted his authority in the streets of Bangor. The Republicans stand con vioted before the country of refusing to yield to law to law that they themselves had made and of openly defying the authority of the Governor of the State, and by mob f oroe and terrorism preventing him from exer cising his constitutional powers. ' The cool-headed Republicans at ready see the great blunder they have been guilty of. Tbey find out that the leaders who have been agitating revolution or rebellion are liable to be indicted for high treason, and for disturbing the peace and tranquility of the State, The New York Herald has been prompt to condemn the cheating of the people out of their right of choice, but it also is prompt to censure the defiant and insurrec tionary conduct of the Stalwart ring leaders and their followers. It says : "It was full time to send forth this cry of 'Halt 1" There baa been a narrow escape from bloodshed in the streets of Bangor. The Governor, in the exercise of an au thority which undoubtedly belongs to him ordered a transfer of arms from the Banirnr Arsenal to Angusta. The arms were loaded upon wagons to be conveyed to the railway station, and while the teams were passing through the streets of Bangor they were topped by a Republican mob and the offi cer in charge, to avoid bloodshed, sent back the arms to the arsenal and hastened to the State capital to report ihVpro ceedings to the Governor. It is high time that public feeling should be quieted' and the supremacy of law restored. It is all important for the Republicans to keep the law on their side in this angry and bit ter contest. If they put it in the power of their opponents to brand them as incendia ry they will ueiatally weakened." It is acknowledged that the ma chinery for counting or ascertaining one day. ai.uu; iwu " Ji' V4 00 tour dawT3.00; five day 1 the result of elections in Maine is very defective. The Republicans fabricated that machinery, and have used it to their own advantage. It is a bad law mainly that causes the trouble. It allows either side to so use it as to deprive-the people of the right oi choice. This has been done by both sides. But when the Demo crats were victimized by the Radical officials they did. not fight, nor hold indignation meetings, nor defy the Governor. They submitted to the wrong Now, when the same bad law is stretched , to deprive Re publicans ot their seats in the Legis lature, and thus reverse the voice of the people, they swear they will fight, revolutionize and get up a civil war. The law is bad and the law is abused. It is the same kind of law, however, that gave Hayes Tildeu's seat. Kel logg takes this view of the matter, and be ought to know all about it: "I mean that the Maine case now and the Louisiana case of 1873 are exact parallels. You will remember that I was the Repub lican candidate for Governor of Louisiana, and my Democratic opponent was McEn ery. Well, the election passed off, and on the face of the returns McEnery was elect ed Governor, and a McEoery Legislature waschosen. The Returning Board, however, canvassed the vote, as the law required it lo do, and taking advantage of technicalities and frauds I was returned as elected, as well as a majority of the Republican Legisla ture. The law, however, provided that the Legislature should declare who was elected Governor. The Legislature returned as elected met in the State House, and the Mc Enery Legislature met at Mechanics' Insti tute. After the Republican Legislature declared my election I at once telegraphed President Grant tbo situation of affairs, and he soon settled the dispute, He issued his proclamation recognizing my lawful election, and that was the end ot it." We have already given our own opinion of the immorality and dan gers attending such a game. We have pointed out the evil results that will follow such a policy of revenge. One wrong does not justify another wrong The people all the time are the vic tims. . The game of the Republicans in Maine now is to get the case before the Supreme Court of the State. The Returning Board has availed itself of the strict letter of the law to de prive the people cf the right of choice. Whether it will submit its action for revision to the Supreme Conrt is doubtful, and if it did the Court wonld scarcely decide the case. The New Tork Herald presents this aspect of the case fairly when it says: "We do not suppose that either Mr. Mor rill or Mr. Blaine has any expectation that this proffer will be accepted. If this case weie submitted to the Supreme Conrt it wonld doubtless decide, as Judge Virgin decided, when he was applied to for a mandamus, that the question is beyond the jurisdiction of the (Jourt. Mr. Morrill per ceives this as clearly as anybody could tell it to him." If out of all these troubles and wrongs the voice of the country shall be heard demanding that the people shall no longer be cheated by Re turning Boards manipulating bad laws, then good, a great and lasting good will have been secured. So be it. HUB COTTON INDISIKI. In 1873 the total export of provi sions and breadstnffs was $196,970, 332. In 1878 it was $306,455,273. The Columbia (3. C.) Register put the export of cotton at $180,000,000. This makes an aggregate of $486, 000,000 of American products sent abroad. The Register pays a great deal of attention to tbe cotton ques tion and is somewhat of ao authority on the industries of the country. In view of the character and amount of our foreign shipments, that paper says: "Now whilst we have gone up at tbe rale oi sliu.uuu.uuu per annum in provi sions and breadstnffs in 1878 on 1873, we have declined in money's worth of cotton furnished foreign countries from $227, 000,000 in 1873 to $180,000,080 in 1878; tnus smKing f4?,uuu,uuu per annum in the value of our cotton export, though tbe quantity of our cotton exports for 1878 stood at 4,018,834 bales (400 pounds) against 3,000,134 bales in 1873. It will be thus seen that whilst we have enhanced our cotton production upon that of five years ago by a million of bales, we are sinking some $47,000,000 in doing it." It says that the time will come, and is not far distant, when the coun try -that can produce the cheapest cotton and food must supply the mar kets of the world. It then shows what is the cotton supply of the world according to the returns of 1878. We copy the figures: 400-pound bales. United States... 6,175,000 China 2,500,000 East Indies. 1,787,500 Egypt 622;50O Remainder of Africa. 500,000 Brazil and South America . 237,508 Japao 162,500 Turkey and Greece 100,000 West Indies and Central Amer ica 87,500 Bokahara 87,500 Total 5 11,200.000 It then gives in tabular foroTthe amount consumed. We give only the total', 11,200,000 bales. Of this' Europe consumed 5,680,000 bales, the United States 1,570,000, China 2,500, 000, and India, Africa, Brazil, &c., the remainder. It next gives an in teresting table showiog the consump tion of cotton in different countries to each head. In Germany it is 7.35, in Holland 13.75, Belgium 11.34, Switzerland 15.30, France 6.77, Spain 3.85, Great Britain 5.72,' United States 18.30. The Register thinks the true field is the East, where theru is much less cotton used to each bead. It takes this encouraging view: "We can raise and manufacture cheap cotton goods in such quantities as is simply impossible to tbe rest of tbe world. We can furnish the East with all the silver the trade requires and supplement its rood de mands to an extent that no other part of the world can. We can hive the Pacific seas with our great steamships, cut the isthmus in twain, swiften our lines of rail road transportation across tue continent, whiten our Southern fields with ten mil -lions bales of cotton if it be necessary, har ness our water power- running to wasiu alnncrairin of it. and seize this great empire of trade, not in tbe name of any royal mas- tcr, out as tne rignuui neruage oi an America v TUB VIRGINIA DEBT, General Bradley T. Johnson, while a member of the Virginia Legislature, made a report in which some inter esting statistics were given concern ing the indebtedness and revenues of that State. We avail ourselves of it to gather an item or two. He says that the Moffett Register tax $500,. 000 showed that there was $7,000, 000 spent on drinks upon which a tax was paid. He says this only repre sents about half that is consumed. He estimates that $14,000,000 is spent annually by drinking, and yet be says it is contended that an additional tax of from $200,000 to $500,000 will be unbearable. It is rather a lame plea, doubtless, that a million and a halt of people who expend $14,000,000 in dissipation cannot pay all they owe in the way of public indebtedness, much less the comparatively small interest. The Moffett Register alone would make the interest; and yet, strange to say, that instrument for raising tax on drinks is very unpop ular and very badly executed. In fact, its repeal is said to be certain. Gen. Johnson then goes on to show that the public debt is neither great nor onerous, lie says: "Her assessed values of properly (this io 1878) are $320,000,000, her population is 1,500,000, and her debt $30,000,000; that is, her debtis not ten per cent, of her pro perty, and is only $20 per caput of her population. The total amount raised by taxation and expended in the support of government, for schools and education, for interest on Slate, city and coumy debts, for roads and county and cily purposes, is $5, 000,000; that is, the annual lax on the labor and production of Virginia is $3 30 per caput of ber population. But tbe debt of Baltimore is $33,000,000, her -population 300,000; so her debt is $110 per caput. The debt of the city of New York is $160,000, 000 and hex population 1,000,000, and her debt is $160 per caput, while tbe annual tax paid for all expenses of government, in cluding interest on her debt, is $39 per caput, and the pauperism there is ten times greater than it is in Virginia." If these figures are trustworthy, and we suppose tbey are, it does look as if Virginia could do belter tbau the McCnlloch bill proposes. At any rale, there is not the slightest grounds for favoring out-right re pudiation. It ought to be with Stales as with individuals. If a man owed $1,000 and he told his creditors be could not possibly pay that sum, nor could he pay even a fair interest on it for a term of years, what would be said of him if it were known that he spent $100 each year for his drinks? He would get but little sympathy if be were much annoyed by his creditors, and bis plea of in ability or poverty wonld not be re garded by sensible or fair-minded people. ' Texas puts in a demurrer concern ing the murderer James Currie. Mr. John F. Dickson, formerly Superin tendent of the Texas Pacific Railway, writes to the New York Herald that it is not fair to bold Texas responsi ble for the killing of the unfortunate actor, as both were from the North, Currie having been a Federal soldier and is a native Ohioan. There were but three witnesses to the killing. One of these lives in Texas, and is in custody awaiting the trial. The other two are strangers and reside in the North, Texas has no interest what ever in having an Ohio desperado cleared. Mr. Dickson closes bis let ter by saying, and very properly: "The murdered gentleman and j his friends, together with tbe murderer, were all strangers, to us were "bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh" and it seems unfair that Texas should be held responsi ble for a crime committed On ber soil by one of your people." There was a typographical error in the article concerning Mr. Hobgood's tobacco. His crop of 1878 sold for $2,800, and not as printed. In Sun day's paper the printer failed to cor rect his proof. Exhilarate was the way he spelt it. We wrote statisti cian. It appears statiscian. That is shorter, bat it cheats tbe word out of one syllable. Never mind, we will soon have a spelling-bee in full blast. THE PERIODICALS. St. Xielwiat for January keeps up to the high standard attained by this best of all magazines for boys and girls. It is a mar vel of beauty and excellence, Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett has a story. Then there are thirty or more articles from Other con tributors, among them we may mention Louisa M. Alcott, Paul H. Hayne, Jose phine Pollard and other well known maga zinists. Price of subscription $3 a year. Mary Mapes Dodge, editor; Scribner & Co., New York, Publlshere. Scribner's Monthly tat January Is an en tertaining number of the most readable il lustrated magazine to tbe world, take it all and in all. It is admirably and richly ll lustraled. The Aral paper is very enter taining. You can learn from it something of the dangers, sufferings and toils of those employed iu tbe United States Life-Saving Bel vice. It is well illustrated. There are other ilhi,irated papers, to -wit, "Straw berries,' and "Young Artist Life in New York." Personal reminiscences are fur ubhe 1 from a Revolutionary Congressman's nolo book and the .late Henry J. Itay- mond's Journals. "The Grandissimeb" of Mr. Cable grows iu interest as it progresses. and Mr. Jam s' "Cuut)deuce" is concluded. Mr. J mes has' produced a masterly study of character. Ha is the r ofouudest and the most skilful m Aiuviicmi novelists. tlissil(i is exceedingly tint clear, neat, artistic and graceful. There are two or three clever poems. The editorial depart; men t is well done. The book criticisms of this number strike us as just. Price $4 a year. Scribner ,& Co , New Yoik, Pub lisher. Tbe Maine Stalwarts, who have been talking insurrection, and who put it in partial execution at Bangor, are thus at war with tbe lawful Statu Government in .the ex ercise of its strict duty imposed by tbe Constitution. Under these cir cumstances it is the light of the Go vernor of Maine, and might in some events become bis duty, to call on the President for troops to suppress insurrection within the borders of the Stale. The Constitution of the Uni ted States makes it tbe duty of the President, upon the call of the Legis lature or tbe Executive, when tbe Le gislature cannot be convened, to pro tect a State against domestic vio lence. The Republicans will make a serious blunder if they place them selves iu an insurrectionary attitude, and justify the Statu authorities of Maine in calling for protection from the General Government. Bait Ga zette, Dem. Governor Gaicelon stands for tbe law and the dignity and autho rity of his office up in Maine, and the revolutionary Republicans in the State, beginning to recognize the fact, are loiiiner down. Contraiv to the i , expectation of inauy, there was no conflict of forces yesterday and no bloodshed. The whole af fair may be expected, we think, to 1 1 r r 1 -W mm.. ena iu smoke. J ne Legislature will meet, with the Fusion majority in both houses master of the situation, and ready for the work of the session A Fusion Governor will be elected. a mi . ' ana win take bis seat and bold it The Republicans will be affoided thus, every opportunity to appeal to ine peopte at tne next general elec tion. If thev. have been honestly mr . ml' aggrieved which, as a matter of fact, they have not their wrongs win De ngntea. aw tbey have to do now is to submit and keep quiet. rrasn. x'osi, uem. OI It VI' ATK COftTKltlPUftAKIKK. North Carolina ought to be one of the largest wool producing States io tbe Union. It has every advantage. Tbe greatest room for sheep husbandry. There are many bleak hillsides that should be covered wilb flocks, the farmer therebv enrie.hiiMr Ma lana .nH putting money in his pocket. A judicious A 1 . ... 1.1 . 1 -l . uug taw wuuiu ibhu greauy io mis ena, ana farmers nnirlit In null nnn ihr tors to protect sheep husbandry. Wintion veancr. We think there is probably as much room for reform in the internal revenue as in any other department of the government. Let tbe axe be laid at the root of this tree right away, and if nothing more can be done tbe salary of revenue storekeepers can at least Deem down and a great saving be made. We know of government distilleries w4ib only a capacity of eight or ten gallons a day, whose storekeepers are paid $4 a day for just riding to the distillery and only SDendine about an honr there each riav We know, too, some who could not make fifty, cents a day at any other employment Charlotte Southern Home. While Deer 1st Virginia. L Richmond State. It is well known that white deer have been killed in Din widdie county for two years past. The first seen was considered a lusus naturae, but this year a number have been seen. Last season one was killed on the land of C. J. Cabacess, Esq., near Dar vilPs. Recently another was shot by Mr. Samuel Jefferson, in his bed. The shot pat ont the deer's eyes, hurt ing him but little, otherwise. Mr. Jefferson, in his efforts to secure him, mounted him as he would a colt, but the deer threw bim off with great violence, ne naa to snoot mm again to secure him. The skin, with hair on it as white as snow, has been dressed and is preserved as a me mento of a rare species of the deer genus. Can sportsmen and natural ists tell us if this white species is found elsewhere ? COItOfl. N. Y. Financial Chronicle. Friday, P. M., Deo. 26, 18?9. The movement of the orop, as indi cated by our telegrams from the South to-night, is given below. For the week ending this evening. Dec. 2 6, the total receipts have reached 207,601 bales, against 218,907 bales last week, 234,876 bales the previous week, and 216,167 bales three weeks since; mak ing the total receipts since the 1st of September, 1879, 3,012,549 bales, against 2,576,136 bales for the same period of 1878, showing an increase since September 1, 1879, of 436,413 bales. The exports for the weekending this evening reach a total of 121,495 bales, of which 79,963 were to Great Britain, 19,285 to France, and 22,247 to rest of tbe Continent, while the stooks as made np this evening are now 852,910 bales. From the foregoing statement it will be seen that, compared with the corresponding week of last season, there is an increase in the exports this week of, 37,555 bales, while the stocks to-night are 3,082 bales more than they were at this time a year ago. LReidsville Times.! Mr. Wormley, a very wealthy man, who lived in Chesterfield,' Va., had two sons, Tom and Jack, both fond of playing poker, but Jack was sharp at the game and Tom very flat. When the old man died he left Tom ninety thousand dollars and Jack only a thousand, but he explained at the foot of his will that one thousand was just slake enough for Jack to win everything that Tom had, and it was a wise provision, for so it turned out. 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A thorough me dical treatise, indicating bow confirmed oiaabil ities may be removed The experience of 20 years' study, observation, and profession practice.show ing the agencies that will insure restored manhood, strengthened vitality, and sound conditions of health that have been impaired by overtaxed pow ers. A statement of obstacles to marriage and of the means by which they can be remeved. By mail, 33c currency or postage stamps . Address Secret'y Museum Anatomy and Science, 489 Cth av N. Y. dec S eodlm tu th sa Select Boarding and Day School, " Hlllsboro. N. C. THE MISSES NASH and MISS BOLLOCK will resume the exercises of their school on Fri day, 6th February. 1880, and dose them 24th Jane; (twenty weeks.) Board and Tuition 100. circulars forwarded on application. tu fr dec 16 3m A DMINISTRATBIX' NOTICE. Having duly A qualified as Administrattixon the Estate of J. Francis King, dee'd, notice is hereby given to those indebted to tne Estate to call and settle immediate ly. Those holding claims against the Estate are hereby notified to present the same for payment on or Before the 23d day of December, 1880, otherwise this notice will . be plead in bar to a recovery. Tbe undersigned requests all persons having claims against the Estate to present them at once to ber lawyers, Russell m Hicaud. dec 23 6 w tu SOS AN LeBOY KING. Adm'x. Now! QHRISTMASISOVER, I THANK THE PUBLIC for their very liberal patronage. Saving added largely to my stock Of SCHOOL BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS AND STATIONERY, I am prepared to fill all orders promptly, and at reasonable prices, dec 28 tf .- C. W. YATES. We Are SELLING THE BEST HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIULB8, COLLARS. Ac. for the least money. If yoa don't think so try as pace. EST" Mann factoring and Repairing Harness and Trunks a specialty. MALLARD A BOWDBN. dec 28 tf No. 8 Bo. Front St. Kash Kustomers Kail; AT P.M. HAYDEN way ana uart, les, Borse Blanket. Saddle Cloths, and. every r in his line,at Rock Bottom PrlcesTReDafr. DC dose w aaoct notice on ItcKUf Third, bet. Market and Princess it i id I ll iBEaZ"EW- EBB BEES EBB 1 mm I m a I t $ VALUABLE i ' fTt-ri nc f mm iteknew, MISCELLANEOUS. SANTA CLAUS P. Li. Bridgers & Co. rpHK OLD GENT, ON BIS TBATEL8 ROUND the world, with a sprained foot, delighted with his Cape Fear friends, promises to come again next year. Perfectly carried away w th Wilmington, bat has an eye to business. - ' , V - ' - ' ' NEW YOBK, Dec S6th. 1879. MY PKAB PRCS : -Nothing I ever saw io Paris, Berlin, cr Amsterdam, where I have been la the habit of spending my Christmas of late, equalled the jollity and festivities or Wilmington. My re ception at your Great Grocery Establishment, Front Street, Wilmington, N C , i N was glcrions. The illumination was superbly suc cessful; ihe sales there surpassed my highest. ex pectations. The Banks and the Old btocklngs poured oat tbe cash as if they bad all the small change in America. I got my foot caught in a tele phone, somewhere about the old Cape Fear Bank, next door to your magnificent store, stopping there a momen4 to adjust yonr wires to connect with tbe B ST ANJ THK LKADINO GROCEKY HOUSES OF THK WORLD, in readiness for the Spring Trade of 1880, and got my beard tangled in one of Mr. Lamb's palmettos, ana came near being caught sneezing, falling into one of yonr tracks, loaded to the dri vers earn wun tne caoic st DURHAM'S SMOKING TOBACCO ! anri HAVANA CIGARS ! which, in the crowded condition of tbe Store, had to be unloaded in the street, bat a "wee drop of yuur cjJienuiu Stuart Bye. the best and cheapest in the world, which I tipped in iue aitey next yoar store, nas revived me. Dear Pres. eive mi love to Old Wilmington and Young Wilmington, Black Wilmington and White Wilmington, high and low. rich and poor, and tell them while memory lasts I shall never forget their genereus and magnificent response to my invitation to yonr reception. On 1st January, 1880. I shall have every thing REMODELED ond REN OVATKD. I am resolved that P. L. Bridgersi & Co. shail be rewarded for their liberal and intelligent euortu lo improve ine trade and extend tne busi ness of my favorite "City by the Sea." Yonr frier, rt, dec 28 tf SANTA CLAUS. Good Resolutions ! TaTfllLB MAKINQ GOOD RESOLUTIONS FOR the NEW YEAR, do not forget to see that your PROPERTY IS INSURED IN GOOD COMPA NIKS, such as are represented by J NO. W. GORDON & BBC, General Insurance Agents, dec 28 tf 2i North Water street. Valuable Turpentine Land. FOB BALK, "SAND RIDGE PLANTATION," oa the San tee River, Parish of St James San tee, containing 8466 ACBBS, heavily wooded with pine t-ees that have never been boxed. It has a good landing and a large amount of dead wood that can be readily sold to steamers plying the river. R. M. MARSHALL & KRO., Brokeis, dec 25 3t 33 Broad st., Charleston, S. C. . Plantation for Sale. rjHAT VALUABLE ESTATE, fSTTU ATE IN Pender Ceonty, known as "Bear Garden," formerly the property of CoL E. D. HalL Apply to the undersigned. dec 16 3w KDW'D KIDDER. For Sale. A MOST DESIRABLE PLACE. OK MASON BO RO BOUND, with beautiful Water Front, and the finest Ocean View on the Sound. Two story Dwelling with six rooms, large piazzas, metal roof : fine Cistern and Spring; two r com Cottage and Kitcnen, besides Servant Booms, Stable and Carriage Boose, Bath and Boat Boose. All new and built of beet material. Parties desiring to examine premises will find keys on place. For farther infor mation apply to dec l7 3w A. D. CAZAUX. The Hew Hat Store. MY STOCK OF MEN'S, BOYS' AND CHIL dren's Hats and Caps. Gents' Underwear, Trunks, Valises and Umbrellas, is complete. If yon wish to save money call and examine my stock be fore purchasing. JOHN M. ROBINSON, No. 13 North Front St de!4 tf South of Puree tl House BINGHAM SCHOOL, MEBANEVILLE, N. C, IS NOW PRE-EMINENT AMONG SOUTHERN Boarding Schools for Boys. The 171st Session, ending December 17th, 1879, has been the moat prosperous in the 86 years of the dcuooi b uiswry. The 173d Session will begin January nth, 1883. Board $13 per month. Tuition $50 per Session. n or uaiaiogue, giving mil particulars, address dec 13 lm Baa J. It. BINGHAM, Sup't. Handsome Hosiery ! JJANDSOME NECK TIES Handsome Handkerchiefs ! Handsome Low Price Drees Goods. Best 50c. Black Cashmere in the city . JOHN J. HBDBICK, dec 14 tf Corner Front and Market ets. It is Wise 0 GIVE A CHRISTMAS PRESENT THAT IS Useful as well as Ornamental, and a SUIT OF CLOTHING that fits well is an ornament to the wearer Give me a call, and I am sore you can find some thing that will make a USEFUL PRESENT, and give pleasure to the receiver. A. DAVID, Tbe Popular Clothier, Corner Front and Princess Streets dec 31 tf Jnst the Thing. jjgfpKft We have a nice line of SLIPPERS for La dies' and Gent's Wear, which Santa Claossays Is last the thing to give to Ma and Pa for a Christmas Gift. Then such nice and pretty Shoes for ine Baby and thA l&rtFer rhilHrpn .;- to 39 N. Front street, and bay of dec2i tf GEO. R. FRENCH & SONS, The Piedmont Press, HICKOKY, N. C., T S THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED IN CA JL tawba county, and baa .an extensive circulation tmraur merchants farm era nH oil .Uim nfk..i nets men In the State. Tbe PRESS is a WiilJiAWAJUi DEMOCRATIC PAPER, -r gui qauutuohts, is, i.xu-n 'J U-s iuimhMki esonl the who)tnl& orices uauraiiy iu ulu. u ssaaU orders higher price? nave to c diary? ting ajtTiouce. rauub, BAGGING Gunny standard BACON North Carolina. Bams. 9 fi(new) Shoulders, $ t Sides, N. O. choice, ft. . Western Smoked- Hams.. ....... Sides. fc... ... Shoulders,... Dry Salted Sides B. Shoulders BEEF Live weight... BARRELS Spirit Tur penuii z aecona nana, each. . New New York, each. New Citv. each i BEESWAX . BRICKS Wilmington, M.'.. Northern BUTTER North Carolina, 1 Hortnern. w e CANDLES Sperm. Tauow, v Adamantine, ft BBSE Northern Factory t Dairy, cream B State, 1 . COFFEE Java. ft K10, Lagnayra, V ft. CORN MEAL bushel.iii oKt k. COTTON TlE8-lbdle i DOAUSBTIUS Sheeting. M . aj yd Yarn. Danes. i RGGri.. ... FISH Mackerel, Nc l. hbi No. l, M bhi . Mackerel, Ne. S, 9 hoi. . . No. 3, a bbl. Mackerel, No. 2,9 bbi. ... Mallets. Vbbl N . O. Herring, Uoe.w kep Dry Cod.9 ft... ... FERTILIZERS Peruvian Guano, SOU) Bangh's Phosphate. " Carolina Fertiliser. " Ground Boee. Bone Meal, Flos , Navassa Guano. Complete Manure " W harm's Phosphate Wando Phosphate. i 67 60 00 00 45 00 00 00 GO 00 co ec 66 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 Berger & Bute's Phosph. ereer & Bute's fhosch. 60 on ExoHlenaa Cotton Fertiliser I Kb an v iaj v ri jrcne, m dm, Saper. Northern. bbl Extra do. " tf bbl.. Family " V bbl City Mills i Extra, tf bbl. . . Family, tf bbl. Rx. Family, tf bbl GLUE ft 0 GRAIN Corn, in store. In oags. Corn, Cargo, tf bushel corn,mixea otisnei.ui nags. Oats, bashel Peas, Cow, tf bushel HIDES Green, tf ft...... HAY Eastern tf " lOO" fts". . Western, tf 100 fcs North River, tf 100 It a HOOP IRON ton.. ...... .. LARD Northern, tf ft.. North Carolina, tf ft. LIME bbl LUMBER Ctty StsaxBawxb Ship Stuff, reaaweo, tf M ft. . Roach Edze Plank, tf M ft. . 18 00 00 00 13 00 18 00 6 )!) O 15 C 18W C 12 6 16.1K! Westlndla Cargoes, according to quality, tf M ft Dressed Flooring, seasoned. . t Scaatttag and Boards, com-1 mon, tf art.-. .... MOLASSES New cp iCaba.hbds New crop ouoa, ddxs gas. Porto Rieo,hhds. , " bbls Sugar House, hhde, tf gal. 0Dis,w gai... SyTEp,bls, tfgal NAILS Cat, lOd basis, tf keg.. . jILS Kerosene, tf gal Lard, tf gal... Ifinseed, tf gal.. Rosin, tf gal POULTRY Chickens,live,grown Spring... Turkeys I PEANUTS tf bushel POTATOES Sweet, tf bushel. " Dish, tf bbl PORK Northern, City Mess. .. Thin, tf bbl Prime, tf bbl Bumprtf bbl RICE Carolina, tf ft Bough, tf buBb RAGS Country, tf ft Ctty, tf ft ROPE SALT Alum , tf bushel Liverpool, tf sack, Lisbon, tf sack American, tf sack SUGAR Cuba, tf ft.. Porto Rico, tf ft A Coffee, tf ft..........s. S tf ft C tf ft Bx.C tf ft Crashed, tf ft . a . ... . SOAP Northern, tf ft SHINGLES Contract, tf M Common, tf M CypressSaps tf M, iss Hearts tD M. STAVES W.O.Bbl., tf M.. B. O. Had., tf M .. TAiSSwtfftf.' ; ! m. "." V. TIMBER Shipping, tf M. .. . MiH Prime, tf Sf.T. Mill Fair, tf M.. , 10 M V Ml h 5 00 common Mill.. 4 60 3 00 1 00 1 00 Inferior to Ordinary, at M. . WHISKEY Northern, tf gal.. North Carolina, tf gal.. ... . WOOL Unwashed, tf ft ..... Washed, tf ft 18 8m UVl-rrnNGTOSI BOHEl AABkB'l Exchange (sight) on New York, M disc ' t Baltimore, M " Boston,. X " r Philadelphia, M " Western Cities, ' Exchange 30 days 1 tf cent. Bank ofNew Hanover Stock as First National Bank, . n Navaasa Guano Co. ........... itu N. C. Bonds Old Ex-Coupon .33 Do. Funding 1806....... .... 8 Do. " 1868 8 Do. New .13 Do. Special Tax.... .. .tl Do. to N. C. Railroad M W. &. W. R.R. Bonds 7 tf c (Gold Int) . 100 Carolina Central B. B. Bonds, 6 tf c. . .40 Wil. CoL & Aug. E. R. " ... ..30 Wilmington City Bonds, 3tfc 76 1 old 6tfc Ic 70 new 6 tfc....70(Geidlm. Stfc .76f " " New Hanover County . ..Otfe 75 (Car. Int) W. Ss W. Railroad Stock 45 North Carolina R. B. l .......60 WIL Gas Light Co. ......46 Wilmincton Cotton Mills... .. ....160 A Card to the Afflicted. Dr. ROBEBTSO.V, 19 So. Uutatv Street, Baltimore, 91 d. From fifteen years' experience In hospital and pri vate practice, guarantees a permanent care in all; diseases of the URINARY ORGANS and of the NEttVoUS SY8TJSM, vis : Organic and Seminal! Weakness, Impotency (loss of sexual power). Ner vous Debility and Trembling, Palpitation of the Heart, Dimness of Sight or Giddiness, Pains in th Back and Nocturnal Emissions, etc, all resulting; from abases in youth or excesses in manhood. Dla eates rccenV.y contracted cared in five to ten days, and the poison entirely eradicated from the sys tem. Also all blood and skin diseases quickly cared. Dr. Robertson, a graduate of the Universi ity of Maryland, refers to any of the leading phy sicians of Baltimore. Special attention given to all female complaints and irregularities. All communications strictly confidential, and me. dicines sent to any address. Call or write, enclo--hg stomp for ieply. sept 9 ly COMMERCIAL HOTEL Wilmington, tV. F. A Schutte, Prop'r. jpHB COMMERCIAL, FORMERLY THE "EM PIRE HOUSE," having been thoroughly renovated and refitted, is now one of the LflaDING FIKsT CLASS HOTELS in the dry, . The Table is supplied with the best oar Home and Northern Markets afford. BOARD PES DAY $2 and $2 50. , car-Large Sample Rooms for taj Commercial, trade. .'.-t-f.:.- ' f9A First Class BAB and BILLIARD HALL connected with this Hotel tarFKSB LUNCH dally from 11 A. M. to 12.80. P.M. , jytf THE PEE DEE lAfCflUfc A First Class Weekly Newspaper Published at DARLINGTON C. H, S. O, IT ISA LARGE PAPER 24x40 INCHES ALIVE with news, local. State and general, with soecial pains in the departments, for the family, of its out side, which is all home work. . Itcirculatea in Darlinirton. Sumter. Mmn an A Marlboro, and hence is a most valuable advertising' medium. Circulation specially large at Florence. o. v. Aooress A. A. & F. A. GILBERT, sept IS tf Darlington C. B. , 8. C.