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By UILLIA 1 II. BERNARD.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Tuesday Morning, Feb. IT, 189L. I
GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS.
We take it for granted that the
bill pending before trie Legislature
providing for the establishment of a
geological survey will pass, for we
have too much confidence in the good
sense and sound judgment of the
majority of the men who compose
the Legislature to believe that they
would permit the failure of a mea
sure of such vast importance.
If a man had a large tract of land,
and there were out croppings of the
precious metals, such as gold and
silver, and if the useful metals, such
as iron, copper, zinc, and of coal,
and building stores, and marble, and
other things which could be turned
to profitable account, the conclusion
would be if he had the means and did
not endeavor to ascertain what was
under these outcroppings or what was
the extent of them, that he was either
a very singular, a very silly or a very
shiftless sort of a fellow. Well that
is what North1 Carolina has.' She
has a tract of 32,000,000 acres of
land, a very large portion of which
contains, as is well known, all these
articles mentioned above and a good
many useful and valuable articles
not mentioned, and by far the larger
portion of these 32,000,000 acres have
never had what might be called a
geological exploration.
The work that Dr. Emmons did
in 1S50 was necesssarily limited and
superficial, though it did very well
as far as it went and threw a good
deal of- light on the mineral and
other resources of North Carolina
and on her wondrous water-powers.
Later, we believe, Professor Genth
did some special work. Profes
sor Kerr,' who held the of
fice of Stat'e Geologist when it was
abolished, did as much as could be
expected of him handicapped as he
was for want of means to pursue the
work of exploration. From Emmons
to Kerr the office was run on a nar
row gauge economy schedule which
was too lavish just for the name of
having a State Geologist and not
liberal enough to make the State
Geologist really useful.
There should not only be a State
Geologist, but there should be in
ducements enough in the office to
make it sought by men of brains
and learning in the profession, and
energy, and the office shouid.be so
equipped that "it could make assays
of minerals, analyses of mineral
waters, etc., for the benefit of dis
coverers. Under Prof. Kerr, his de
partment had no means of doing
this. There was no fund provided
for it, and if the Professor had it done,
as he sometimes did, they who did
it expected compensation from him
or the parties for whom the assays
or analyses were made. We believe
that work of this kind can now be
done at the experiment station
themselves to the police, to be taken
to Ireland to serve out their term of
which, though established mainly as"
part of the Agricultural Department,
should be required to co-operate with
the State Geologist. '
In establishing the survey it
should embrace not only surface ex
plorations, to ascertain the area and
character of our mineral' and other
valuable deposits, the existence of
which is well established by the sur
veys already made arid by more recent
discoveries, but also a system - of
deep borings to see what there may
be under the surface which has not
been fouftid, to establish the value of
some of the treasures that have been
uffearthed, and to test the existence
of others', indications of which have
been discovered. There is no tell
ing what such a system ot deep
borings might not reveal. It might
demonstrate that Eastern North
Carolina may be supplied with an
abundance of pure water by means
of artesian wells, as Savannah and
New Orleans now are. It might de
monstrate that some of our Eastern
swamps can be thus drained and the
lands become valuable for agricul
tural purposes, as has been done in
some of the swamp lands of Georgia,
which before that were not only use
less but prolific sources of malaria.
It may also show that Eastern North
Carolina has phosphate deposits as
South Carolina and Florida have.
Indications of kerosene oil have
been discovered in Guilford county,
and the opinion is entertained by
some, who do not belong to the
visionary class, that it may be found
in both the Dan Valley and in the
Deep river coal fields. Deep boring
would test its presence in Guilford,
also in the Dan and Deep river
sections, and at the same time estab
lish some valuable facts as to the
number and thickness of the coal
veins in these respective fields, upon
which some estimate of their value
might be based.
There is a wide field in North
Carolina for a geological survey,
and lots of work for it to do, work
too, that will prove immensely valuable.
MINOR MENTION.
Southern pig iron is closing up the
blast furnaces in Ohio and Pennsyl
vania for the reason that Southern
pig can stand $4 a ton freight and
then be sold there for less money
than the Ohio and Pennsylvania
smelters can make it. A late dis
patch to the New York Sun says
there are but two blast furnaces in
the Mahoning Valley now in blast,
and that pig iron has fallen in price
$4 a ton in the last four months, and
still iron is brought from Southern
furnaces, and sold at 50 cents a ton
cheaper than it can be made in Pitts
burg or anywhere in the Mahoning
valley. The furnace men who have
succumbed to this Southern competi
tion declare that they can't compete
with Southern iron if they got their
coke for nothing, and they have shut
down to ascertain whether the South
ern men are selling cheap merely to
get a foothold in the market and to
see whether they can hold out at
their present low prices, about which
there is no doubt on this side of
the line. As a pig iron maker the
South has got there and is going to
stay
&
The New York Commercial Adver
tiser pronounces Secretary Blaine's
schedule of the Braziliarrduties that
are to be removed or reduced in
favor of American products under
the reciprocity agreement, "a char
acteristic example of impudent
classification of figures." It says
there are certain duties levied by
Brazil of a special character which
Mr. Blaine has entirely overlooked,
or to which he makes no reference,
and there is nothing to show that
these will be removed. The Brazil
ian Consul in New York says they
will not be. It says the misrepre
sentation in some of Mr. Blaine's
figures can be explained only on the
ground of absolute ignorance of a
kind that always leads to statements
in excess of the facts. In ' view of
these facts the Advertiser thinks
"that there is now more reason than
before to bel ieve that the Brazilian
agreement will be of much less value
to American exporters than Mr.
Blaine would have the public im
agine." The negotiations between the Par
nell and anti-Parnell factions in Ire
land have come to a stop, and all
hope of an agreement by which they
could act together has been dissipa
ted. The negotiations were broken
off by Parnell because pf the refusal
of the leaders of the opposing fac
tion to accept some condition upon
which he insisted. Thereupon Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien left France for
England on the lth inst., and on
their arrival in London surrendered
imprisonment in uionmei jau. xc
fore their departure, and in the letter
breaking off the negotiations, Mr.
Parnell expressed the highest' regard
for Mr. O'Brien, whose patriotic de
votion he admired, and declared that
hope for Ireland was not blasted, but
that she was really stronger and in
better condition to triumph than
ever. Mr. Parnell may thus try to
bolster himself up, but the fact atill
remains that by his own folly and
unyielding obstinacy when he should
have yielded he has done the cause
he advocated incalculable if not
irretrievable injury.
It is said that a reciprocity agree
ment similar to that with Brazil has
been effected between this govern
ment and Venezuela. Our total
imports from that country for the
fiscal year 1889 amounted to $10,
392, 569 while our exports amounted
to only $3,703,705. We imported
coffee to the amount of $9,138,591,
goat shins valued at $330,000 and
other skins at $530,913. We ex
ported corn to the value of $118,724,
wheat flour $791,007, colored cotton
goods $272,962, uncolored cotton
goods $176,558, cordage $104,186,
machinery $60,954, sewing machines
$59,949, wire $61,066, other manu
factures of iron and steel $117,693.
lard $477,036, butter $109,440, man
ufactured tobacco $72,250.
STATE TOPICS.
An electric railway between Ashe
ville and Rutherfordton, a distance
of about fort) miles, is being talked
about. It is said that electric rail
ways can be run over much steeper
grades than the steam railway, which,
of- course, very materially reduces
the cost of construction, especially
in broken country such as we have
in the western part of this State.
We trust that this talk may result in
something more than talk, for if the
road be built, and proves a success,
it will give a stimulus to the build
ing of similar roads between other
towns, and to the building of short
lines to connect with main trunks,
thus making it possible for many of
our towns to secure railroad advan
tages which they could not, for a
long time at least, otherwise secure,
especially in the central and western
portions of the State, where the
work of grading is the most serious
obstacle.
CURRENT COMMENT
While the laws of the United
States prevent our shipmasters from
participating in the foreign trade,
Great Britain forges ahead at a rapid
pace. During the year 1890 Eng
land launched 615 steamships and 92
sailing vessels. No wonder the
American flag is disappearing from
the nigh seas. N. O. 'Statics, Dan.
It will be an excellent thing
for the President and his Cabinet to
visit the South after the adjourn
ment of Congress. They will see
the wonderful results of Democratic
home rule in promoting peace and
prosperity in that section during the
past ten years. The will learn, too,
how little need or call there is for a
Force bill. N. Y. World, Dem.
If the Democrats in the
House shall vote for any resolution
of thanks and compliments to
Speaker Reed after his insulting and
bullying treatment of them it will
prove simply that he knew his men
and treated them as they deserved.
If they do not respect themselves
they cannot complain that he has
not respected them. Charleston
News and Courier, Dem.
Lord Scully, an Englishman,
owns 90,000 acres of land in Illinois
and draws thence an annual income
of $200,000. Other foreign land
owners run up other sections to a
total of $22,000,000.At this rate after
a while we'll have to take Canada, if
only to strike a balance, and call
things square. Phil. Times, Ind.
OUR STATE CONTEMPORARIES.
The idea of an increase of taxation is
not very palatable to the people; but
there are certain items of expense that
ought to be incurred. Theie should be
no resort to the sale of bonds in order
to get along. Raleigh News and Obser
ver. There need be no further doubt as to
where Cleveland stands on the question
of free coinage, nor that he has more
courage than discretion or political pol
icy. We know now just the kind of
Democrat he is and we can take him or
leave him. It is our impression that Mr.
Cleveland will not be left. Ashevilfe
Citizen.
Somebody wants to borrow money at
6 per cent, or less, and hence he asks
for the law. Now suppose the law is
passed so that no man dare to loan his
dollars at more than 6 per cent.; cannot
the owner carry his money to a better
market? Yes. WilRie not do tit Raleigh
V isitor.
Mr. Cleveland is as bold and undaunt
ed in politics as Napolean was in war,
but Cleveland's is a moral courage and
Napoleon's was that of a barbarian. It
takes a man to be himself in American
politics, the product of so many men,
but we have one in the "stuffed prophet"
of Williams street. This conspicuous
man stands alond. Charlotte Chronicle.
Newton Enterprise : Mr. P. C.
Shuford has struck a vein of gold on the
lands of Mr. N. B. England, about five
miles east of Newton that promises to
be a very rich gold mine.
BIG RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
The Virginia Midland to Be Made a Double
' Track Boad.
An important meeting of the direc
tors of the Virginia Midland branch
of the Richmond & Danville railroad
was held in this city Thursday, says
the Washington Post. Among those
present were Senator Barbour and
Messrs. Logan and Christian, of
Richmond; Holland, of Danville;
Blackford, of Lynchburg; Payne, of
Warrenton, and Tnplett, of Cul
pepper iTis not generally known
that the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
has acquired a working interest in
the Virginia Midland road, and will,
after the first of April, run its own
trains over the road to Orange
Courthouse and thence over the
short span which it has recently pur
chased to its rnain stem at Gordons
ville. The meeting of the directors yes
terday was to arrange for building a
double track from Alexandria to
Orange, a distance of seventy-nine
miles. All the real estate necessary
for the new track and new sidings
has been acquired, and the directors
yesterday ratified the steps that had
been taken. The road is to be put in
first-class condition, so that the
Chesapeake and Ohio trains will be
able to run from here to the main
stem of that road in two hours, or an
hour and a half less time than is now
required. A new train, to be known
as "The Flying Dutchman," will be
put on as a fast flyer to Cincinnati,
running through from Washington in
seventeen hours. It will leare here
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and
reach Cincinnati at 7 o'clock next
morning. The work on the proposed
double-track will be commenced in
the spring.
swarms" spies.
Mr. Kenan Must Imagine Himself to be a
Very Important Personage.
European Edition of N. Y. Herald.
It is estimated by an eminent sta
tistician that there ate now employed
in various parts of Europe and
America at least 1,300,000 Russian
spies. No one who reads second
rate English novels can doubt that
Europe swarms with Russian spies,
and there are few Russians of either
sex, residing outside of Russia,
who have not been suspected by
their cooks or housemaids of being
spies. It now appears that Mr. Geo.
Rennan, who is lecturing in the
United States, is constantly followed
by a detachment of Russian spies,
whose presence prevents him from
making the blood-curdling revela
tions that he would otherwise make.
Everybody knows that the Russian
Government lives in deadly terror of
Mr. Kennan, and the presence of
Russian spies at his lectures is gen
erally thought to be an additional
proof of the fact.
Still, it is possible that Mr. Ken
nan is mistaken in snpposing that
spies are at present dogging his foot
steps. The Russians whom he be
lieves to be spies may be criminals
of exceptional atrocity, who have
been condemned by a cruel govern
ment to expiate their crimes by at
tending a series of Mr. Kennan's
lectures. Cruel and unusual punish
ments are, however, forbidden by
the Constitution of the United
States, and the so-called spies ought
to be informed that while they are
in America not even the Czar can
compel them to undergo Mr. Ken
nan's lectures.
John L. Sullivan's Generosity.
Wilkesbarre (Pa.) Leader.
A little hunchback stepped up to
John L. Sullivan as he was getting
out of his carriage in front of the
Wyoming Valley Hotel to-day and
said: "Mr. Sullivan, can you do
anything for the poor widows and
orphans of the entombed miners at
Sanesville?"
"Why? Why, they are not wid
ows," replied the bruiser. "Didn't
I read in the papers this morning
that the men had been rescued
alive?"
"Oh, that's another case, altogeth
er," said the little hunchback man.
The latter then went on to tell to
the big bruiser of the disaster at
Janesville by which seventeen men
were suffocated.
"Oh, that's it," said Sullivan.
"Well, come into the hotel office."
The little man followed and Sul
livan pulled out a check for fifty
dollars.
"Thank you," said the receiver.
"Don't mention it," said the big'un.
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The native-born Elephant bids fair to
rival the great imported Jumbo in size
and weight ; but it is pretty generally
known that nothing rivals 'the great
remedy. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.
"What bhall 1 do," the maiden cried.
"He will be here to-night and my hands
are chapped; and he will hold them."
"Calm yourself, dear," her mamma re
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PERSONAL.
President Carnot has an idea
of suggesting the demolition of all the
fortifications in. the neighborhood of
Paris.
Fatherlgnatius has been spending
the winter ia Florida. Friends in Eng
land sent him $3,000 to cover his ex
penses. .
Count Rothenburg,10 years old,
is the youngest lieutenant in the Prus
sian army. He is assigned to the First
regiment of dragoons.
Gov. Hill says that his well re
membered speech in Brooklyn when he
said: "I am a Democrat," was made very
nearly in despair and not at all in mis
chief. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has
grown very corpulent. She- devotes
much of her time to works of charity
and games of whist, and has discarded
all the vanities of the world but Parisian
dinners.
Inventor Edison is a vegetarian.
Novelist H. Rider Haggard is a veget
arian. Prof. Swing is a vegetarian.
Sir. Issac Newton was a vegetarian. All
the Greek philosophers, sages and seers
ate no flesh. -
Of the hundreds of letters
which Tudge Peffer has received con
gratulating him on his election to the
Senate, not one comes from the wealthy
classes or moneyed interests. Mr. Peffer
feels very good over this.
Senator-elect Brice, of Ohio, is
very often taken for a Hebrew, but Gen.
Ben. Le Fevre, his close friend.says that
Mr. Brice comes of Scottish stock, and
his father was a Scotch Presbyterian
elergymen.
Broker Robert D. Davidson, of
Philadelphia is the only surviving clerk
of the old United States bank. He is
-82 years old, and was employed in the
bank from 1832 to 1836, while Nicholas
Biddlewas president ot it.
Mrs. Marian Reid, the
mother of Whitelaw Reid, who
near Cedarville, O., has been
feeble for the past month or six
She was highly delighted while
aged
resides
quite
weeks,
her ll-
lustrious son was taking his trip through
the Holy Land to receive from him
some olive leaves he obtained on the
Mount of Olives, a sprig from a tree
whose branches overhung the River
Jordan, and a bright, old-fashioned
marigold pluckedin the garden of Geth-
semane.
POLITICAL POINTS.
Henry Watterson's letter to
Governor Hill, of New York, which the
latter says he never received, sounds
very much like Poe's appeal to the
raven to take his shadow from the door,
and Governor Hill replies, after the
fashion of the raven, "Nevermore." But
there are some millions of Democrats
who will back Watterson's demands.
Phil. Ledger, Ind.
Mr. Cleveland is quite safe in
announcing as in his recent letter to the
Reform Club that he is not in favor of
free silver coinage. A Republican lead
er not less prominent than Mr. Cleve
land is of the same opinion as Mr. C. on
the same subject, so that on that point
at least he is not making an issue for a
campaign. Washington Star, Ind.
It will be a year before the
next Congress can tackle the silver
problem, and a year and a half before
the. next nominating convention will
meet. In this period of discussion and
reflection hastily formed views will be
reconsidered, and by 1892 Mr. Cleve
land's declaration will doubtless be in
dorsed by his party with substantial
unanimity. Baltimore Sun, Dem.
Nothing could be more unsatis
factory than the political condition of
New York at the present moment. It
is both anomalous and dramatic. The
Governor is the central figure in an odd
spectacle. He is plotting for the cap
ture of a Presidential nomination by
what the countrymen called a "coody
tat." He is a clear headed, cold blood
ed and desperate politician, who has de
cided to take a bold step and either
"make a spoon or spoil the horn." We
therefore watch his movements with a
good deal of curiosity. N. Y, Herald,
Tnd.
A TIME FOR ALL THINGS.
The Old Man Thought the Judge was Giv
ing Him Chestnuts.
Texas Sif tings.
It became the solemn duty of a
Texas Judge to pass sentence on an
aged man named George Bliss for
stealing a hog.
"It is a shame that a man of your
age should be giving up his mind to
hog-stealing. Do you know any rea
son why sentence should not be pro
nounced on you according to law?"
"Now, Judge," was the reply of
the aged sinner, Bliss, "this is get
ting to be a trifle monotonous. I
would like to know how a fellow can
manage to please you judges. When
I was only seventeen years old I got
three years, and the judge said. I
ought to be ashamed of myself to
be stealing at my age. When
I was forty I got five years,
and that Judge said it was a
shame that a man in his very best
years should steal. And now, when
I am seventy years of age, here you
come and chew over the same old
story. Now, I would like to know
what year of a man's life is the best
one, according to your notion, to be
gin a life of crime!"
The Judge told Bliss that if he
wanted legal advice he' had better
consult with some lawyer, and then
passed the usual sentence of five
years.
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WILMINGTON MARKET.
STAR OFFICE, Feb.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market
steady and Ami at 37 jeents per gallon.
Sales of receipts at quotations.
ROSIN Market firm at $1 15 per
bbl. for Strained and $1 20 for Good
Strained.
TAR Firm at $1 40 per bbl. of
20 lbs., with sales at quotations.
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Distillers
quote the market firm at $2 10 for Vir
gin and Yellow Dip and $1 20 for Hard.
PEANUTS Steady at 50 to 85 cents
per bushel, of 28 pounds.
COTTON Dull. Quotations at the
Produce Exchange were
Ordinary 6 1-16 cts $ lb
Good Ordinary.. .... 7 9-16 " "
Low Middling 8 7-16 " "
Middling 8 " "
Good Middling 9 ' " "
RECEIPTS. .
Cotton. 310 bales
Spirits Turpentine 80 casks
Rosin..... 1,939 bbls
Tar 282 bbls
Crude Turpentine 00 bbls
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
IBy Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Financial.
New York, February 16. Evening.
Sterling exchange quiet and weak at
486488. Commercial bills 484
486. Money easy at 22 per cent.,
closing offered at 24 per cent. Govern
ment securities dull but steady; four per
cents 120; four and a half per cents 103.
State securities entirely neglected; North
Carolina sixes 123; fours 96.
Commercial.
New York, Feb. 16 Evening. Cot
ton quiet, with sales reported to-day of
204 bales; middling uplands 9 cents;
middling Orleans 9 9-16 cents; net
receipts to-day at all United States
ports 20,877 bales; exports to Great
Britain 22,528 bales; exports to France
1,256 bales; exports to the Continent
6,435 bales; stock at all United States
ports 824,167 bales.
Cotton Net receipts 1,056 bales; gross
receipts 8,422 bales. Futures closed
steady; sales to-day 92,200 - bales at the
following quotations: February S.82
8.84c; March 8.81 82c; April 8.89
8.90c; May 8.9g8.99c; June 8.968.97c;
July 9.149.15c; August 9.159.16c;
September 9.089.09c; October 9.05
9.06c; November 9.049.05c; December
9.059.06c.
Southern flour steady and quiet;
common to fair extra $3 454 007 good
to choice do. $4 005 50. Wheat firmer
.and very dull; No. 2 red $1 11 at
elevator and $1 12. afloat; options un
changed to c up on a decrease in the
visible supply, closing steady; No. 2 red
February $1 11; March $1 13; May
SI 06; July $1 00. Corn quiet clos
ing steady; No. 2 62c at elevator and
63c afloat; ungraded mixed 62
65c; steamer mixed 6263Mc; op
tions steady at &c advance on re
served offerings; February 62c; March
62c; May 59c. Oats steady and quiet;
options dull, unchanged to c down;
February 52c; March 52c; May 51c;
No. 2 white. March 53c; May 52c;
spot prices No. 2, 5254c; No. 2
Chicago 5354c. Coffee options
opened firm and unchanged to 15 points
up, and closed steady, 525 points up
and more active.with better cables; Feb
ruary $17 1517 20; March $16 95
17 00; April $16 7016 75; May $16 50
16 55; June $16 3516 40; July $15 90
15 95; spot Rio firm and dull; fair car
goes 19M19Kc; No. 7, 17c. Sugar
raw dull and firm; refining 5c; cen
trifugals, 96 test, 5c; refined quiet and
easy; C 5 3-165c; standard A 6 7-16c;
cut-loaf and crushed 6c; granulated
6Jc. Molasses foreign nominal; New
Orleans quiet and steady; common to
fancy 2732c. Rice quiet and steady;
domestic, fair to extra, 56c; Japan 6
6c. Petroleum steady and quiet;
refined at all ports $7 257 50; do. in
bulk $4 95 Cotton seed oil quiet and
firm; crude, off grade, 2325c; yellow,
off grade, 2829c. Rosin quiet and
steady; strained, common to good,
$1 42J1 45. Spirits turpentine quiet
and steadier at 40)40c. Pork ac
tive and firm; quotations to-day: old
mess $9 2510 25; new mess $10 50
11 25; extra prime $9 009 75. Beef
steady and quiet; family $9 5010 50;
extra mess $6 506 75; beef hams firm
and quiet, quoted at $13 50; tierced
beef dull but steady; city extra India
mess $13 0013 50. Cut meats dull
but steady; pickled bellies 5 1-16
5Jc; do. shoulders 3c; do. hams 7
8c; middles quiet and easy; short
dear $5 25. Lard opened firm and
closed weak; Western steam $5 90 bid;
city steam $5 50; March $5 92 bid;
April $6 00 and nominal; May $6 06
bid; June $6 17 bid; refined quiet; Con
tinent $6 006 25; South America $6 75.
Freights to Liverpool weak and dull; cot
ton 9-64d; grain 2d.
Baltimore, February 16. Flour dull.
Howard street and western super $3 10
3 50; extra $3 704 50; family $4 50
5 00; city mills Rio brands extra $5 15
5 37. Wheat southern firm; Fultz
$1 001 09; Longberry $1 031 09;
western quiet; No. 2 winter red on spot
and February $1 021 03. Corn
southern quiet; white and yellow 61
62; western steady.
Chicago, Feb. 16. Cash quotations
were as follows: Flour reported un
changed. Wheat No. 2 spring 94c;
No. 2 red 9797c. Corn No. 2,
50c. Oats-No. 2, 44c. Mess pork
$9 25. Lard, per 100 lbs., $5 555 57,
Short rib sides $4 504 55. Dry salt
ed shoulders $3 904 00. Short clear
sides $4 75 4 80. Whiskey $1 14.
The leading futures ranged as follows
opening, highest and closing: Wheat
No. 2, February 94, 94, 94c; May
97, 98, 97c. Corn No. 2, Febru
ary 50, 50, 50c; May 52, 52,
52c. Oats No. 2, February 44, 44,
44c; May 45, 45, 45c. Mess pork
per bbl March $9 45, 9 45, 9 37; May
$9 75, 9 75, 9 65. Lard,- per 100 lbs
March $5 62, 5 62, 5 62; May
$5 82K, 5 85, 5 82K- Short ribs per
100 fts March $4 55, 4 55, 4 55; May
$4 87K, 4 87, 4 82.
COTTON MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the MorninglStar.
February 16. Galveston, easy at
9 3-16c net receipts 1,392 bales; Nor
folk, dull at 9c net receipts 2,799 bales;
Baltimore, nominal at 9c net re
ceiptsbales: Philadelphia, quiet and
easy at 9Jc net receipts 477 bales;
Boston, quiet at 9Jc net receipts 522
bales; Savannah, easy at 8c net
receipts 3,602 bales; New Orleans, quiet
at 8 15-16c net receipts 6,513 baW
Mobile, nuiet at ftKr ' : . ies-
bales; Memphis.quiet and easy at 8 15-ir,r
net receipts 2,963 bales; Augusta, quiet
at 0c net Jfceipts 548 bales; Charles
ton, quiet atc (grades re-classified
and reduced) net receipts 2,281 bales.
FOREIGN MARKETS.
By Cable to the Morning Star.
Liverpool, Feb. 16. noon.Cotton
dull, prices generally in buyers' favor
American middling 4 15-16d. Sales to'
day of 8,000 bales; American 6 goo"
for speculation and export 500 bales'
Receipts 8,000 bales, American 500
futures easy February and March
delivery 4 55-64d; March and April de
iTv 7"64d; als 5,6-64d; April and
May delivery 4 61-64d; May and June
delivery 5 l-64d; June and July delivery
5 4-64d; July and August delivery 5 C
64d, also 5 6-64d; August and Septem
ber 5 6-64d; tenders 1,100 bales new
docket.
Common rosin 4544.
4 P. M. February 4 56-64d, seller
February and March 4 56-64d, seller
March and April 4 57-C4d, buyer; Aprii
and May 4 61-644 62-64d; May and
Je 4 Gl-64&4 62-64d; June and July
5 4-645 5-64d; July and August 5 6-
2 7J"64d' August and September
5 6-64d, buyer; September and October
5 4-64d, buyer. Futures closed firm.
ALLSKINndBLOOD
DISEASES.
The Best Household Medicine.
Once or twice each year the sys
tem needs purging of the impuri
ties which clog the blood. Trom
childhood to old SLgB, no remedy
meets all cases with the same cer
tainty of good results as
BOTANIC BLOOD BALM.
ITT y- c 1 mi t . .
yy. wcuauncy, neon Lity, Ark., n
H. a. B. has done me me re d and fi r
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tes.
muuey Limn any o-.ner tiooci puiuitr 1 -vir i
I owe the comfort of my life t i n.
P. A. Shepherd, Norfolk, a., August 10, i
writes: "I depend on H. h. 1;. f.r the prescrva
88.
Hon
ot my neaitn. I nave f ad it in my family
nearly two years, and in all tlir.t tin e kivc rut
now
had
to have a doctor.
Of" Write for Illustrated "Book of Wnuun
BLOOD BALM CO.. Atlanta. Go. S ct five.
jan 13 D&W lv tu tn sa nnn
W. L. DOUGLAS
k M 1 I"" and other speclal
TfJ M M. M t ties for Gentlemen,
T mmm Ladies, etc., are war
ranted, and so stamped on bottom. Address
W.Ii. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. Sold by
H. VON GI.AHN,
Wilmington. X. C.
an 1 6m sa tu th
For Old and Young.
Tntt's Liver Pills act as kindly on the
child, tbe delicate female or Infirm
old age as upon tlielgorons man.
Tot
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(rive tone to the weak stomach, bow
Is, kidneys and bladder. To tbese
organs their strengthening-qualities
are wonderful, causing tbemtopar
form their functions as in youth.
Sold Everywhere.
Office, 39 & 41 Park Place, N. Y.
jan 21 D&Wlv tu tti sat nr
Z Liquor Habit.
MTMunre wotur m vs -ojkcuxe
omnfES.GOLDEM SPECIFIC
Itcan be given in coffee, tea, cr In articles of food,
without tbe knowledge of patient if necessary,
it is absolutely harmless and will effect a perma
nent and speedy cure, whether the patient Is a
moderatedrinkeror an alcoholic wreck. IT NKV
ER FAILS. Itoperates so quietly and with such
certainty that the patient undergoes no incon
venience, and soon liis complete reformation U
effected. 48 page book free. To be had of
JOHN H. HAKD1N, DrnvKi.
octl7D&Wly sa tu th Wilmington. N, C
These tiny Capsules are?-u;'"ior j
to Balsam of Copailui,
Cubel)3 and Injections.
They cure in 48 hours the
same diseases without any inc on
venience. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS
dec 16 D&Wly
tu
At the Unlucky Corner !
Q.RANULATED SUGAR 7c 5)., 15 lbs for fl.
WHITE EXTRA C SUGAR 6c fr.. 3
for $1.C0.
GOLDEN C SUGAR 6c $ ft., 17 lbs for $1 .00.
EGGS, 18c dozen.
Five hundred good fat CHICKENS.
S. W. SANDERS & CO.
jan 10 tf
To the Trade!
Q.RAVELVS TWIST, IN FIVE POUND CAR
toons. "Cotton Plant' Twist, in bushel measure.
"Bright Twist," 6, lOand 20 pound Caddies. "Ii!"e
Tag," Gravely & Miller's 9-inch 4s.
Tobacco, in various stylet nd all size packages, m
rock bo'tom prices. ,.
One hundred and fifty thousand Cigars, leading
brands. Some special bargains this week Call rariy-
SAM'L BEAR. Sr..
jan 25 Jw 18 Market street.
Mullets, Mullets, Mullets.
150
BARRELS MULLETS.
For sale by
ADRIAN & VOLLERS.
nov 23 tf
S. E. Cor. Front and Dock Sts.
and WHlskey Habit
cured at home with
out pain. Book of par
ticuIawsentFBtE. n:ivi i rv MU.
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