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Or WI1LIAM II. BKBRABD.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Sunday Mobxibto, Jctmk 9, 1889.
the favetteville centsni
NI AIi,
The committee of invitation for
the proposed centennial celebration
of the ratification of the constitution
of the United States, to be held at
Fayetteville on the 21st of next No
vember, are in receipt of another let
ter from lion. Jefferson Davis, in re
ply to a second letter of invitation
they wrote him, assuring them that
he will be present on that occasion
if no insurmountable obstacle come
in the way. It is, therefore, reason
ably certain now, if there was any
doubt before, that he will be present,
unless sickness or some unforeseen
and unavoidable occurence prevent.
We are glad to have the assurance
that he will participate, by his pres
ence at least, in the proceedings of
that day, for his presence will lend
additional interest to an event, which
every North Carolinian ought to
take a patriotic interest in. North
Carolina is a historio State,
the Cape Fear a historic see
tion, h ayetteville a historio city
this proposed celebration tne com
memoration of a historio event. The
men of a century ago were not lag
gards in making history, the men of
this generation should not be lag
gards in proclaiming it, nor slug
gards in preserving it.
There is no people between the
two oceans, nor between the two
poles, who are more devoted to and
justly proud of their own State or
country than are the people of North
Carolina, and yet, from some strange
and unaccountable inconsistency they
have stood modestly silent while
others claimed the glory and wore
the honors due to her. She has never
received the credit that is hers for
her resolute daring, the grand valor
and heroic devotion of her sons who
raised the standard of colonial in
dependence and bore it to triumph
at the end of that long, varying,dark
and doubtful struggle; and even
in the last great clash of pano
plied hosts in which she bore such a
gallant and conspicuous part, she has
not been awarded the honor that is
hers, nor the rank on the roll of fame
that she is entitled to. She was al
ways more intent on helping to win
victories than in claiming her share
of them when won, more intent on
hurrying her sons to the front to
breast the storms of battle than in
writing epitaphs or building monu
ments for th'e fallen brave. This has
been her characteristic and is to day.
It is a modesty that the stranger
might mistake for indifference. Sen
ator Vance once said in a speech in
the Senate, referring to matters of
this kind, "What North Carolina
lacks is self -assertion," and he ut
tered a volume of truth in that brief
sentence. We must study more the
methods of self-assertion, not to
claim honors or glory unwon, but to
preserve that which is won and wil
be lost or appropriated by others if
it is not claimed or guarded.
Mecklenburg county inaugurated
a new departure when, in 1876, she
celebrated the centennial of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde-
r
pendence, which she has kept up
from year to year since. Guilford
county followed when she last year
celebrated for the first time the cen
tennial of the battle of Guilford
Court House, which she followed up
with a more imposing demonstration
this year. Both of these, in Meek
lenburg and Guilford have done
much to awaken an interest in North
Carolina's historic record, to res
cue from musty and fragmentary
chronicles, or oblivion, much valua
ble historio information, and to
stimulate a more assertive State pride
among her sons and daughters; and
Fayetteville will tjelebrate on the 21s
of November the culminating event,
the grand final, which makes com
plete the glorious story which these
previous celebrations oommemorated
This will awaken additional interest
in the written and traditional histo
ry of the commonwealth, and again
inspire the State pride that may
slumber or need inspiration.
We hope Mr. Davis will be there,
as the living typical hero of one of
the grandest of armed conflicts. We
hope Senator Ransom will ba there,
and in his best mood, to tell the BtO
rv of North Carolina s struggle and
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ner iriumpns 10 ears man win near
and not forget. We hope that the
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TJOODle of the Cape Fear and from
,
her Queen City will be there in thou
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by the sea shore, from the highlands
in the centre, and the mountains in
the skyland, loyally and fraternally
meeting to do honor to one of the
grandest and noblest of mother
States.
STATE TOPICS.
The Greensboro North State in
forms us that Congressman Brower,
from the 5th district is using his in
fluence at Washington to have an ac
curate geological survey made of the
counties of Forsyth, Stokes, Surry,
Guilford, Rockingham, Caswell,Per-
son and Granville, in which exist val
uable deposits of useful minerals and
stones. Mr. Brower is a Republican
of bushwhacking proclivities, to
whioh he owes in some measure his
success in two elections, but in this
matter he shows a practical level
head, for which he is to be com
mended, lie has received, it is said,
the promise of Major Powell, the
Chief of the United States Geologi
cal Bureau, to put a corps of scientific
men in these counties during the
summer. Of course Mr. Brower is
working for, and more interested in
his own district than in any other
but if the survey could have a broad
er sweep and take in Western North
Carolina it would develop a wealth
of mineral resources which would
open the eyes of people and show
how prodigal to the Old North State
Nature has been in her mineral
bounties. Let Mr. Brower proceed
on this line. The good he may thus
do may counterbalance the mischief
of his naughty politics.
The commissioners of Durham
county evidently do not regard mar
riage as a failure, and believe that
no unnecessary barriers should exist
to keep apart "two hearts that beat as
one" after the front gate sociables and
other customary preliminaries have
been duly complied with. Believing
that this requisite institution to the
healthy growth and progress of com
munities should be duly encouraged
they and the board of justices at
their last meeting resolved that there
should be no county tax on marriage
licenses, and thereby established
their reputation as level-headed, pro
gressive citizens.
The towering question with which
the tax list takers in this State are
now wrestling is how to get a fair,
square deal in the property given in
for taxes. There is a good deal, of
human nature in the average North
Carolinian, when it comes to recording
his worldly possessions for tax assess
ment. With many there is a sud
den shrinkage in property and values
about this time that would entitle
them to sympathy if there was sym
pathy enough to go round. But this
peculiarity is not confined to North
Carolina. The citizen who is too
modest to magnifiy his earthly goods
in the presence of the tax lister is
somewhat numerous and somewhat
promiscuous in other States as well.
If the citizen were relieved from this
embarrassing ordeal, and the old sys
tems still praoticed of "giving in
taxes" abolished, and assessors ap
pointed to go around and list the
property, it might work better and
put an end tothe harrowing perplex
ties that worry the list takers.
rnlNOK MENTION.
What the survivors in the flooded
district of Pennsylvania now dread
is death from disease following the
flood. The sickening odor arising
from the decomposing bodies
of
human beings and animals is fearful
while exposure and the lack of pro
IK
per food have already been produ
c-
tive of much sickness, especially
amoner children. There is now con
siderable diphtheria and typhoid
fever, but the doctors, of whom there
is a large number on the ground, are
using every energy and precaution
to prevent the spread of these,
would be terrible if the horrors
It
of
a plague were added to the horrors
of the flood.
The fence or rather "no fence
question is one of the topics which
is now agitating the sovereigns of
Georgia. North Carolina wrestled
with it some time ago, and it is a dis
trading question in some counties
yet. It cut short the career to glory
of a number of aspiring young states
men, but it is a big thing for all that
There are fifteen or twenty counties
perhaps in the State where the "no
fence" law prevails, and where the
fences could not be replaced by pop
ular vote if a chromo were offered as
a premium with each panel.
The county commissioners of Meek
lenburg county ,, have appropriated
the sum of $1,000 towards the Pied
mont exposition, which it is proposed
to hold in Charlotte the coming fall
That's characteristic of Mecklenburg.
When there is anything on foot
which has merit in , it she is, in the
language of the Celtic gentleman
"never backward in coming forward.'
The promptness and generosity
with which the people of different
sections of the country, responded to
the cry of distress from Johnstown,
shows that the American people,
however they may differ in matters
of politics, of state, of religion or
anything else, when it comes to a
calamity where humanity pleads they
all belong to the same family.
CURRENT COMMENT.
As an instance of the vaga
ries for which the theory of high
protection is responsible, the New
York Evening JPost cites the case of
the French butchers, who are not sat
isfied with the tax of over a cent a
pound imposed upon meat coming
from Germany and Belgium, but who
now ask for its inspection at the
frontier, where the facilities are
poor, the obvious purpose being to
secure its spoiling by the delay. For
this absurd demand the Chamber of
Deputies voted "urgency" by 318 to
184. Another appeal comes from
the laundresses of Paris against their
competitors in the suburbs, who en
joy the advantages of cheaper labor
and rent and make competition in the
absence of a protecti?o tax more dif
ficult. This may be a narrow view,
but it is logical enough. If protec
tion against the foreigner is such a
good thing, why is not protection
against the native equally desirable?
The butchers and laundresses apply
the high tariff theory with a clear un
derstanding of the basis on which it
rests. Boston Post, Dem.
Can the President afford it? It
is not only a very questionable busi
ness, but it may prove to be an ex
tremely awkward and risky business
for President Harrison to permit
himself to be drawn into the Ma
hone-Riddleberger fight in Virginia,
even as arbitrator. There's no more
propriety m his participation in that
feud than in any other, big or little,
in the Republican ranks in any of
the States. He cannot possibly at
tend to all the business of that kind
that would be brought to him by
squabbling politicians scrambling
over the "spoils." And that is not
what he is in the Presidential chair
for at all. Phil. Ledatr, R-
of the 3440 merchant vessels
that passed through the Suez Canal
last year 76 per cent, belonged to
Great Britain, 5 per cent, to h ranee,
4f per cent, to Italy, 4J per cent, to
Germany, 3 per cent, to the Dutch,
and the percentage of the United
States was next to nothing. There
was a time, before the American
merchant marine was protected off
the high seas, when the trading ves
sels of this country were familiar
sights in every seaport in the world.
Phil. Record.
During the war Artemus
Ward said he would give the last of
his wife's relations to his country.
General 'Harrison seems to thick
tbereis a war going on now. N; Y,
Com. Adv., Ind. JJem.
Neatness In Girls.
The Interior.
Neatness is a good thing for a girl.
and if she does not learn it when she
is young, she never wili. It takes a
great deal more neatness to make a
girl look well than it does to make a
boy look passable. Not because a
a boy, to start with, is better looking
than a girl, but his clothes are of a
different sort, not so many oolors in
them; and people don't expeot a boy
to look so pretty as a girl. A girl
that is not neatly dressed is called a I
sloven and no one likes
her. Her face may be pretty and
her eyes bright, but if there is a spot
of dirt on her cheek, and her. fingers'
ends are black with ink, and her
shoes are not laced or buttoned up,
and her apron is dirty, and her collar
is not buttoned, and her Bkirt is torn,
she cannot be liked. I went into a
little girl's room once, and all her
olothes were on the floor, and her
playthings too. - Learn to be neat,
and when you have learned it, it will
almost take care of itseii.
A Clever Tnler.
New York Bun.
A boarder in a fashionable up
town house, who had been delayed
one night last week, arrived home as
a seedy-looking individual came
down the front steps with an aimful
of spring overcoats. The boarder re
cognized some of these as the proper
ty of friends in the house, and stop
ped the man. j
"Where did you get those?" he de
manded. !
A light smile flashed over the
man's face as he replied
"I'm a tailor around
the corner.
and the gentleman sent
press and fix their coats."
for me to
The boarder suddenly remembered
that his own coat needed repairing,
so he gave it to the man, witn in
structions to fix it with the others
and return it. When he got down
to the table he said to one of the
boarders:
"Jones, i met tne tailor witn your
coat as I was coming in and I gave
him mine, too."
Jones looked up wonderingly.
"What are you talking about?" he;
asked. !
The boarder explained, and in i
moment there was a panic. Severa
of the coats were afterward recovered
in a pawn-shop, but the thief is stil
at large.
The Editors Who Have Flams, j
Chicago News.
There is nothing in this wide
world so trustful, so meek, and so
conciliatory as is the able Republican
newspaper which has peen pampered
with official plums. The Indianapo
lis Journalis a good newspaper. But
its own John C. New and 'Lige Hal
ford stand with the elect. Now day
by day it is gazing at President Har
rison and murmuring, half uncon
sciously: "How great! How good!"
Dear Indianapolis Journal, who dis
covered America? !
"Please, sir, Benjamin Harrison.'
He also wrote the Declaration of
Independence, did he not ?
"He did."
It was he who fought the battle of
New Orleans, was it not?
"It was."
Was it he or his grandfather who
trounced the Injuns at Tippecanoe ?
"He, sir." j
Was it he who put down the rebel
lion ?
"It was."
And reconstructed the South ? !
"Of course." i
And licked Grover Cleveland?
"Yes he and we." I
Very good. Now you may jump
down and run away.
r-
OUR STATEICONTEIIlPORA HIES. i
Taxes are always with us . We have the
school tax, the township tax, the county
tax, the city tax, the State tax, and many
times greater, all the United States tax.
How great the United States tax is we do
not realize. It foots up for the Union four
hundred millions of dollars. Say there are
65,000,000 of people, and give five to a
family, and we have 13,000,000 families. So
the tax is over thirty dollars to each fam
ily. Everybody knows that one-half the
people, because of their email means, pay
but little of this tax. The ordinary family
averages, then, $5U a year united mates
tax. Raleigh News-Observer. I
North Carolina cannot afford to neglect
the education of her children. Her honor,
no less than the happiness and prosperity of
her people, is involved. We have no lamp,
by which oar feet are guided, but the lamp
of experience, and the last few years have
thrown a flood of light on the educational
problem. General education is an impera
tive demand wherever suffrage is general,
and, in a State where suffrage is univer
sal, education should be universal. Acw-
bern Journal. j
If the farmers are resolute and honestly
stand by the Alliance, the jute trust is ruin
ed and cotton mill owners will be greatly
profited. Moreover, American cotton will
reach the cotton mills in better condition
and bring better prices. The country will
be well pleased if farmers win in this con
flict with speculation. Qoldsboro Argus, j
JPOL,lTICAL,rOINT8.
You are in the soup, just where
your friends, the politicians, left you when
they were done with you last November.
You are in the soup, and there you will
stay for four years, and there you will go
.a;n i r ,uuoo luur years, unless
in the meantime you learn the wisdom of
exercising common sense. Six months ago
you let these men lead you by the nose.
You marched around shrieking for protec
tion, proclaiming that you did not want
British free trade which nobody had of
fered you and assorting that a home mar
ket was good enouch for you. Well, then
you have your protection and are likely to
have more of it you have no free trade-rand
none too much trade of any kind and
yon have your home market what there is
of it. And, right and left, mills -and fac
tories are shutting down on you, your
wages are reduced, and business is bad all
over, with no signs of bettering. Brattle
boro Tariff Reform Record. j
It is a most encouraging indica
tion that educated and reflecting colored
men are endeavoring to instil into the minds
of southern negroes the duly of solely de
pending upon themselves for recognition
and advancement in the great battle of life.
When this idea is fnllv prasced and .acted
on by the dark-Bkinned population of the
south, from that day will date their gradual
release from those influences which now
deprive them of the privileges conferred by
the fundamental law of the land." Boston
Iransertptt lnd. i
President Harrison appears dis
posed to adhere to his rule to make no re
movals of Democratic officials (except for
cause other than political) until the end of
their terms of four years. This is what
probably accounts for the slowness of the.
changes in the Consular service. The
newly appointed Consuls to Montreal and
Dublin take the places of Democrats whose
terms have expired. Phil. Record, Dem.
The Philadelphia Zdger is
needlessly distressing itself over the heavy
taxes or tne sultan's country, auu up u
State, county, city and tariff taxes of the
TinlA rf ttiA TT : d . .
rr uuiwu otaies, sou we nave
some figures that are quite as interesting
as anything in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Mobile Register, Dem.
He Wasn't Sordid,
New York Sun.
I had been sitting in the shade of a
fence-corner for a quarter of an hour
when a farmer came along with an
ox team and invited me to ride with
him. I was only fairly seated when
he said: .
"Sad thing happened back there
there about six months aero."
"Indeed?"
"Yes; that 'ere blamed off ox shied
at a paper in the road and run into a
ditch and tipped the wagon over."
"Yes."
"Martha was along. Crushed the
gizzard right out of her, and she was
dead when I picked her up. Funeral
cost me $40. I was just looking at the
bill. Had a coffin with six silver
plated handles. Ever lose your wife?''
"Never."
"Awful sad thing. Haw there,
Buck! She had two unmade diesses
in the house, which were left on my
hands. Guess I'll get shet of them,
however guess I will. Whoa, you
yeller ox! Undertaker said we could
scrape along with four handles te the
coffin, but I told him to make 'em an
even half-dozen. Feller can't afford
to be small about these things. Say,
you know what belongs to manners,
eh?"
"I hope so."
"Gruessed you did: even if you are
afoot. I want to ask you how long a
widower has to wait before taking
another. There's no law, you know
but a sort of custom. Is it a year?"
"Some wait a year."
"And some only wait three or six
months?"
"I've heard of a second marriage
within a week or two."
"Too soon a leetle too soon," he
answered, as he J stroked his thin
whiskers. ' Looks too sordid and
grasping you see. Neighbors would
probably talk, too. Couldn't complain
about six months, could they?"
"I should think not."
"That's twenty-four weeks or 168
days, you see. Nothing sordid about
that, eh? It's coming off next week."
"Wnat! lour marriage? '
"That's it. Bin engaged five davs
now, and it's to come off next "Wed
nesday. Her name is Feebe. Awful
hard to get up airly aud keep hustl
ing all day. Had my eye on her ever
since the day of the funeral, but you
needn't mind telling it. Folks is gos
sipy, you know, (iit up, you lazy
beasts! Say. I want to ask about an
other thing.
"Well?"
"Haven't got Martha any tomb
stone yet. Have to git one.wont't I?"
"Why, yes."
"If I didn't they'd say I was sordid,
woman t tney?"
"They might."
"Would you put a lamb or a dove
on it r'
"That's just as you feel ?"
"Has it got to read : 'Martha the
first and most beloyed wife of Aron
Snyder?' "
"Not necessarily?"
"Kin I list put on : 'Erected to the
memory of Martha Snyde, who died
April 22, 1888?7 "
"Why. yes."
"And have it quietly taken up and
set up, and not let on to the other. I
see. Nothing sordid about Feebe, but
sich things grind, you know. Do you
take the cross road? Wall, good day.
(xlad we met. Seemed to me six
months was long enough,but I kinder
wanted an outside opinyun. Had six
handles, you remember ; but the
neighbors might call me sordid and
shut us out on quilting bees and corn
huskings."
TWIN KLIN OS.
Boston worehips the busy B's
BuDkerhill, baked beans, base ball and Ben
Butler.
According to the Allgemeine
Militear Zeitung, No less than 150,000
young men in Alsace-Liorraine have since
lo74 evaded military service.
The average daily number of
admissions to the Paris exposition greatly
exceeds that of all previous world'd fairs
held in Pans, London or Vienna.
The annual Pans dog show is
being Le'.d on the terrace of the Tuileries
gardens. The exhibits show no falling off
either in the race or fceauty of "ihe friend
of man."
There are 10,000 children in
connection with the Norway Total Absti
nence Society, and, with adults, a total
membership of 72,000, of whom 8,000 are
Good Templars.
First Broker: Jinks is financial
ly embarrassed, too. Wonder what's the
matter with him ? Second Broker: Haven't
you heard? First Broker: No; what is it?
Second Broker: His wife buys all her goods
at the bargain counters. Philadelphia In
quirer. "Do you like the Greek poets?"
asked Miss Theodosia Thuddiugton of
Brown, who is not in the least literary.
"Yes, better than any or the modern
poets." "For what reason?" "Principally
because they are. all dead. mercnant
Traveler.
Editha Corner: Papa, who do
the newspapers mean by coal ring, salt
ring and whiskey ring? Mr. Wheatly
Corner: That is one formed to prevent rival
enterprise. Editha: Is that it? Why that
is just like an engagement ring! San
Francisco Wasp.
The Dentist's Daughter (who
hears her father approaching) Oh, dear
Edward, here comes my father. If he
should find us together here, we are lost.
Oh, he is coming ! You will either hare to
ask for my hand or let him pull out a
tooth for you. Fliegende Blatter.
The vernacular press in Bengal
appears to be steadily declining, apparently
owing to the spread of English education
among the reading classes. There, are now
only two vernacular daily papers regu
larly published in Calcutta, whereas a year
or two ago there were five or six.
Pharmacy is receiving the at
tention of the Russian Government, and a
plan is being prepared which will require
that every chemist shall spend eight terms
at a university, and will give a master in
pharmacy an education and status equal
to that of a doctor of medicine.
An agricultural exchange says
the best sugar beets are grown in sandy soil.
We thought so: that accounts for the sand
in the sugar, and here we have been un
justly accusing the honest grocer. We take
it all back, and wil. go right on paying
thirteen cents a pound for bar sand without
a murmur. Burdstle.
A newspaper correspondent
wants to see the women of America rise in
their might and beauty and foreswear the
Easter bonnet. The Easter bonnet is all
right. That is worn to church. Something
more to the purpose would be for the men
of America to rise in their might and
wrath and swear at the theatrical bonnet.
P. S. Come to think about it, a great
many of 'em do. Norristown Herald.
'Tinfld ad Vfrt.lBpmn t nr ntlerhnm T.tthi.
Water In thia nnner - TTnortnollofl (nr Tina.
pepsia and all diseases of kidney and blad-
uer. jrrux? wiuua re&cu OX ail. T
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
STAR OFFICE, June 8.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market
quoted firm at 86 cents per gallon. Sales
of receipts at quotations.
ROSIN Market firm at 80 cents per
bbl for Strained and 85 cents for Good
Strained.
' TAR Market quoted firm at 1 50
per bbl. of 280 lbs., with sales at quota
tions.
CRUDE TURPENTINE Distillers
quote the market firm at 1 90 for Vir
gin and Yellow Dip and 1 00 for Hard.
COTTON Market quiet. Quotations at
the Produce Exchange were as follows:
Ordinary. 7 cts $ tt
Good Ordinary 9 " "
Low Middling 10 1-16 ' "
Middling .10 " "
Good. Middling. . '..11
RECEIPTS.
Cotton 00 bales
SpiritsTurpentine 428 casks
Rosin ...........1.278 bbla
Tar 114 bbls
Crude Turpentine 44 bbla
DOMESTIC MAHKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning star.
Financial.
Nw Yobk, June 8. Evening Ster-
ing exchange dull but steady. Money
easy; offered at 2 per cent. Government
securities dull and barely steady; four per
cents 129; four and a half per cents 106i.
State securities neglected ; North Carolina
fours 126; sixes 97.
Commercial.
New Yobk, June 8. Evening. Cotton
quiet but steady, with sales to-day of 433
bales; middling uplands 11 3-16c; middling
Orleans 11 7-16c; net receipts at all U. 8.
ports 1,212 bales; exports to Great Britain
3,824 bales; to the continent 118 bales; to
France bales; stock at all United
States ports to day 260,846 bales. '
Southern flour dull and unchanged.
Wheat dull; No. 2 red 81823 in store;
options active, closing iic higher; No. 2
red June 81c; July 82c;Augu8t 83c; Sep
tember 83fc Corn spot llic higher
and scarce; No. 2, 42c at elevator; options
stronger; June and July 41fc; August 42c;
September 423c. Uats firmer; options firm
er but dull; June, July and August 28c; No.
2 on spot 28c. Hops firm. Coffee options
closed dull and unchanged to 10 points
down; July $16 ou; August $10 75; De
cember $16 95; spot Rio dull; fair cargoes
$18 63. Bugar raw strong and quiet; fair
rennmg bgc, centrifugals, yo test, 7fc; re
fined firm, with a good demand. Molasses
quiet. Rice steady. Petroleum steady and
quiet; crude m bbls at Parkers $7 10; re
fined here $6 90. Cotton seed oil dull.
Rosin steady. Spirits turpentine steady.
Wool firm. Pork quiet. Beef dull; beef
hams strong; tierced beef quiet. Cut meats
firm; middles quiet. Lard weak and dull:
western steam $7 00; city $6 45uoptions
no sales; June $6 956 96JjiTy $7 02
7 03; refined quiet; continent $7 40.
Freights to Liverpool market weak; cot
ton 3 32d; grain 3d asked.
Cotton Net receipts bales; gross
receipts 26 bales; futures closed dull,
with sales of 5,500 bales at the fol
lowing quotations: June 10. 58 10 60c;
July 10.6410.65c; August 10 6910.70c;
September 1 0. 1 5 10 . 1 6c : October 9 89
9.90c; November 9.859.86c; December
9. 879. 88c; January 9 949 95c; February
10 0210.03c; March 10.1010.11c; April
10 1510.17c; May 10.2510 26c.
Chicago, J une 8 Cash quotations were
as follows: Flour steady and unchanged.
Wheat No. 2 spring 79c: No. 2 red 79c.
Corn No.2, 33i33c. Oats No. 2, 22
22ic. Mess pork $11 75. Lard $6 62.
Short rib sides $5 855 90; shoulders
$5 12i5 25; short clear sides $6 12
6 25. Whiskey $1 02.
The leading futures ranged, as follows
opening, highest and closing: Wheat
No. 2 July 77 J, 77f, 76$ ; August 75. 75J,
741; September 75J, 75,75. Corn No. 2
July34. 341, 34 J: August 34J, 35, 34f .
Oats No. 2 July 22, 22, 22$; Septemb r
22f, 22i, 22f. Mess pork per bbl Juiy
$11 85, 11 85, 11 80; August $11 92J,
11 92 , 11 87f Lard, per 100 lbs July
$6 721,6 72. 6 70; August $6 77. ,
6 77i. 8hort rib Bide?, per 100 lbs July
$5 92i, 5 95, 5 87 ; August $5 97, 5 97,
5 92.
BALtiKORK, June 8. Flour fair job
bing trade and firm; city mills and Rio
bracd3 extra $4 8o5 00. W heat south
ern arm Fultz oooo cents; Liongbcrry
8590 cents; western firm, closed quiet and
easy: No. 2 winter red on 6pot 82J cents.
Corn southern eteady; white 414dcts;
yellow 4042 cents; western quiet and
steady.
St. Louis, June 8. Flour quiet. Wheat
lc lower; No. 2 red cash 8081ic. Corn
firm; No. 2 mixed cash and June 81c.
Oats firm; No. a cash 26c. Whiskey
$1 02. Provisions very quiet.
1 "W
COTTON ITIAIlKT3.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning: Star.
June 8. Galveston, dull at lOfc net
receipts 4 bales; Norfolk, steady at 11c
net receipts bales; Baltimore, quiet
and steady at life net receipts 400 oaies;
Roatnn. nniet and firm at llitfalltc net
receipts 93 bales; Philadelphia, firm at 11 jc
net receipts 44 bales; Savannah, quiet at
10c net receipts 232 bales ; New Orleans,
steady at lOJc net receipts 349 balesr Mo
bile, dull at lOfC net receipts o uaiea;
Memphis, quiet at 10 l-16c net receipts 26
bales; Augusta, quiet at lOfc net receipts
98 bales: Charleston, firm at I01c net re-
ceiDtS bales.
A Woman' Discovery
"Another wonderful discovery has been
made and that too by a lady in this coun
tv. Disease fastened its clutches upon her
and for seven years she withstood its se
verest tests, but her vital organs were un
dermined and death seemed imminent. For
three months she coughed incessantly and
could not BleeD 8he bought of us a bottle
of Dr. Kings's New Discovery for Con-
sumption, and was so mucu reiieveu 00
taking first dose that she slept all night and
with one bottle has been miraculously
cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz."
Thus write W. C. Hamrick & Co., of
8helby, N. C. Get a free trial bottle a
Robert R. Bklulmy's Wholesale and Ret
tail Drug store. t
BncKlen'i Arnica slv
Tttte Rht Sat.vk in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chappea mnas, unuDiains,
CornB, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi
tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It
l ffnaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by kobbbt . cbixamy,
wholesale and retail druggists. X
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
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It has a lanre and increasing circulation in the
heart of the Pee Dee country, the best Cotton
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It is a desirable medium 01 oommnnication
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COUCH or COLD,
THROAT AFFECTION,
WASTING of FLESH,
Or any Disease u-here the Throat and
Lungs are Inflamed J Lark of Strength or
Nerve Foiver, yon can be relieved and
Cured by
SCOTT'S EMULSION
OF
PURE COD L3VEROIL
With Hypophosphites.
Palatable as Miik.
Ask for Scott's i:m,ihio,,rn,,fi t ho
explanation, or solicitation i,,rc you to.
accept a substitute.
Sold by all Druggists
SCOTT & BOWHE, Chemists, i.l.
ebllO DAW ly tu v,c Jr 1, w
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS. lj:i.
W. BAKER & tO.'S
Breakfast Cocoa
la absolutely purr am:
it is soluble.
No CJiemicals
are used in its preparation It v
than threa timet the srrrn'h !
mixed -with Starch, Arruwr j t r
and is therefore far nmre . a,
CMting lest than one cent a ' i- .
delicious, nourishing, strerrt.u!..: - .
61 LY DIGESTED, and admirably a 1
for invalids as well as persona i:. .....Li
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
BAKES & CO., Dorchester, Mas
dec 23 D&W 9m we'.' r sn
Swift's Specific has cured me of a
malignant breakii)' out on ray loir, vh: h
caused intolerable pnfn. It was calVi
Eczema by the doctors four of win mi
treated me with no relief. I candidly
confess that I owe my present pood healt ii
to 8. 8. 8., which in my estimation is
Invaluable as a blood remedy.
lis Julia DeWitt.
2227 K. lOtb. St., St. Louie, ilo.
Our baby when two month? oid wa3
attacked with Scrofula, which for a Ion."
time destroyed her eyesight emir, ly, aiiJ
caused us to despair of her 1 i f-The.
doctors failed to relieve her, find v
.Swift's Specific, which pooii cut"! Inr
entirely, and eho Is now hale and l.ciriy.
K. V. Delk, Will's Point, Texas.
f3FSend for book giving history of
Blood Diseases and advice to MiUir.r-,
mailed free This Swift Srn ind'"..
Drawer 3, Ashmt.i.
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DRUNKENNESS
Or the Liquor Habit. Positively Cured
by adminiterin Dr. Haines'
Golden Specific.
It can be sriven in a cup of coffee or tea. or in ar
ticles of food, writhout the knowledge of the patient ;
It Is absolutely harmless, and will eneot a perma
nent and sjpeedy cure, whether the. patient is a
moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. IT
NEVER FAILS. Over 100.000 drunkard liave
been made temperate men who have taken i..M.-ii
Specific in their coffee without their kDoiei(f!.
and to-day believe they quit drinking of tneiroi
free will. 4S page book of particulars fre
"JNO. H. HAHDIN, Drufffflst,
Wilmington, N. C
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According to lour Seeds.
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rpHB FOLLOWING VOLTJNTABY TRIBCTB
to PANACEA WATER by that Christian Gentle
man, the Rev- J. P. Barrett, D. D., editor in
ohlef of the Christian Sun, is only confirmatory
of Blmllar testimonials from other rellaP'
sourceslon the eamo subject. Dr. Barrett says-
PANACEA WATKB. There are so cjn7
"quack remedies" for dyspepsia, and Andrea
diseases, that It Is hard to et people to believe
that all remedies advertised are not quacKi
and worthless. In anotner column will be lonnu
the advertisement of the Panacea J ater, cy
Mr. John A. Williams, of Oxford, N. C. W e have
great confidence in Its value, especially m cast
or dyspepsia. We have used.lt with Kat bene
fit,and we know whereof :we speak, in a wee
time its use made a decided! Improvement, u
we have no hesitancy In commend'nff it to '
suffering. We also know that when
Hurley, of Franklin. Va., had been reduced ai
moat to a skeleton from a terrible case of u
pepela of several years' standing, and wnen w
medicine of first olaes physicians had ffj!.eat X
care, or even give much relief,, he triea i
water as well nigh the last hope, and to "
astonishment to a fow days be found e1
lief. He oontlnued Its use for several weeKs
he Is a well man. We write this notice i or y
own accord, that we may persuade the suneru
to try the PANACEA WATER. , , . c.
For sale by J. H. HARDIN. Wilmington,-
It your druggist does not koep It send f -w
tlx gallons F. O. B. at Littleton, N . l,-
JOHN A. WILLIAM!'.
my 81 DW tf " oxford. N-t-
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