Br WH.LIA.dI IX. BERNARD
WILMINGTON N. O. -Saturday
Morning, Oct. 10, 1896
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
- for president: '
WILLIAM J. BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
roR vick-prksidint:
ARTHUR Sit WALL,
of Maine.
FOR ELECTORS.
Electort-at-Large Locke - Craig;, o!
Buncombe, and R. B. Davis, of New
Hanover. x:
, First District Theo. F. White, of
Perquimans.
Second District H. F. Freeman, of
Wiisoa.
Third District C R. Thomas, of
Craven.
Fourth District W. S. Bailey, of
Nash.
- Fifth District William Merrilt, cf
Person.
Sixth District B. F. Keith, of New
Hanover.
Seventh District Theo. F. Kluttz,
of Rowan.
Eighth District Tyre York, of
Wiittes. .
" Ninth District R. D. Gilmer, of
Haywood.
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
for governor:
CYRUS a WATSON,
6f Forsyth. . .
rOI LIEUTENANT GOVtRNOR:
THOMAS W. MASON,
of NorthaoiptOD.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE :
CHARLES M. COOKE,
X. of Franklin. , i
FOR STATE TREASURER :
B. F. AYCOCK.
of Wayne.
FOR STATE AUDITOR :
R. M. FURMAN,
of Buncombe.
FOR SUPT. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION !
JOHN C SCARBOROUGH,
of Johnston.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL '.
' . F. I. OSBORNE.
of Mecklenburg. , .
ASSOCIATE JUSTICES SUPREME COURT:
A. C AVERY, of Burke,
GEO. H. BROWN, Jr.. of Beaufort.
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE FIFTH DISTRICT.
AMES S. MANNING, of Durham.
" . asap swawwaw" ' ' ' ' t
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET, -1
1st District W. H. Lucas. of-Hvde.
2d ... F. A. Woodard, of Wilson.
3d " Frank Thompson. Onslow.
4th " E. W. Pou. of Johnston.
5th '" W. W. Kitcoin, or Person.
6th " Jas A. Lockbart, of Anson.
7th " S. J. Pemberton, of Stanly.
8:h - ' R. A. Dougoton. Alleghany
9tb M Jos. S. Adams, Buncombe,
COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET-
For Sheriff Frank H. Stedman.
Register ofJDeeds John Haar.
Treasure Josh. T. famea-!:----
Coroner Peter HJsiailb---Com
misiionr 'srRoeerMoore.
. -.-""' J. G. L. Giescben.
" : W. F. Alexander.
Constable (Wil. township) W.H.Biddle.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
-'' B. F. KING.
D. J. FERGUS.
ISP" Cockran on Slaveholders.
Will you'submit to this conspiracy
between the professional farmers,
the farmers who cultivate the quar
rels of their neighbhrs, farmers who
labor with their jaws, Populist agi
tators of the West, and the unre
conciled slave-holders of the South ?
This is a conspiracy between pro
fessional farmers, who want to pay
low wages, and the unreconciled
'slave-holders, who would like to
pay no wages at all. - (Extract from
the speech of Bourke Cockran, de
livered In New York August 18th.) .
SKINNING CLOSE.
We are favored from time to time
with election prognostics by figurers
journalistic and otherwise, some of
which are worthy of note-and some
of b-ch are ridiculous and not
worth : he paper they are written on.
The man who, like Congressman
Grosvenor, of Ohio, sits down and
with a few dashes of his pencil elects
McKinley overwhelmingly and can
f dd in all these United States only 70
sure electoral votes for Bryan might
not therefore be considered a fit sub
ject for an insane asylum, but he
would certainly not command much
attention among sane people.
There are leading newspaper edi
tors of the Republican persuasion
who when it comes to this kind of
figuring show as little respect for the
probable, as Gen. Grosvenor does,
and hence we pay very little atten
tion to the prognostics of the parti
san organs. They are so fully de
termined; to win that they insist on
winning in advance on paper and
take the chances of being walloped
out of their boots and seeing, their
election figures become a wrecked
mass of reminiscences of disordered
imaginations. ; x fl::;
Bat we do read the prognostics of
the independent and of the so-called
independent papers even if they do
lean too much to the McKinley side.
We make due allowance for - that
when we con the figures and sur
mises. , - .' ' ;
One of the . most : thoughtful and
encouraging estimates for the silver
men, coming from a non-partisan
source, that we have so far seen, ap
peared a short while ago in that
really Independent journal a gold
paper, too the Washington Fast,
which gives Bryan ,148 electoral
votes sure, fusion or no fusion, and
with Fusion in Kentucky, Kansas,
Nebraska, Indiana and 'North Caro
linawhich was then not effected in
all of these States, but now is 57
more electoral votes, making 205,
leaving but 19 to be secured from Illi
nois, Oregon, California, Maryland,
Delaware, West Virginia, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and Iowa,, aggregating
103 votes, from which Mr. McKin
ley must get 84 to escape defeat.
In every one of these States elec
toral fusion has been effected with
the Populists, and the Democrats
feel quite as confident of carrying all
but two of them Minnesota and
Wisconsin as the Republicans do,
and really more so. They are confi
dently claiming Illinois, California,
Maryland an.d West Virginia. Illi
nois would, furnish five more than
necessary; California, Maryland and
West Virginia, five more than neces
sary; Michigan and West Virginia,
one more than necessary; Iowa and
West Virginia, the nineteen neces
sary. As far as the probabilities go
Mr. Bryan stands a much better
chance of getting 19 votes out of
these 10 States than Mr. McKinley
does of getting 84.
' As pertinent to this the following,
clipped from the same paper, some
days later, commenting on some; es
timates of thefNew York Herald,
non partisan but a strong supporter
of McKinley, is interesting and sug
gestive: I X
"la its edition of Sunday, the 4th of
October, the New York Herald gives a
table of election fiares by which it
lands .McKinley an easy winner. The
table runs as follows:
I Hi no's .......
Indiana.,... . .
Iowa .........
Kentucky ....
Connecticut ..
Delaware .....
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts.
Minnesota ....
24 - New Hampshire 4
15 New Jersey.... 10
13 New York..,.. 88
18 Onio.:. ....... 88
8- Pennsylvania .. 83
8 Rhode Island... 4
0 Vermont . 4
8 Wisconsin ..... IS
15 X- -
Ti.td........887
It will be perceived that this list In
cludes: Kentucky ...I 13 Indiana.. 15
Maryland . . . T. 8 Illinois 84
Delaware ..... 8
'' The loss, therefore, of either Illinois
or Indiana would defeat McKinley. The
lots of Kentucky and Delaware would
defeat him: The loss of Ken tacky and
Maryland would defeat him. And it is a
significant fact that in these five States,
especially in Indiana, Illinois. Kentucky
and Maryland, the Republicans are
spending time, effort and money With a
species of desperation ,that argues any
thing bat confidence on their part. The
Herald airily assigns all five to McKin
ley, but does Mr. Hanna teel sure about
it? i Is be willing to accept the Herald's
Canvass" and turn his energies else
where? We think not." It is impossible
to Imagine, at this distance from the
s:ene of the-, real, struggle, the
excitement, the ceaseless endeavor,
the overwhelming interest that - pre
vail in the middle Western States.
Those who : read - the local news
papers, the connty organs, throughout
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, realize that
the people are aroused to an extent un
paralleled in the history of the country
since 1881. They know that -men meet
and discuss the issue in v every town,
hamlet and rural . neighborhood: that
the streets of the smaller cities are
crowded from sunrise to sunset with
speakers and their listeners; that the
silver men have hired halls which are
kept open continuously, and In which
argument and controversy never cease;
that the farmers pay for their own
music and demonstrations, and find
their enthusiasm only spurred by the
poverty of the Democratic committees
nd thrh5fa4UwaJHh-B3aefltffcl
anna, we do not understand these
things here at the East. They are out
side of our experience. We sit calmly
in our luxurious homes and do not
even distantly imagine the fervor, the
earnestness, the furious uproar of the ag
itation beyond the AUegbenies. The
situation exists, however, as we have de
scribed it. . The battle rges with gigan
tic tumult. Party lines are broken down.
Precedents go for nothing. We have no
past upon which to base an argument
for to-day. What we know is that the
McKinley managers are not struggling
like men who feel confident of the result,
bat rather like warriors who know that
the issue hangs upon the merest chance.
How. then, and upon what grounds does
the Herald base its complacent appro
priation of Indiana, Illinois, and Ken
tacky? Upon the observations of its
'bright voung men' sent out from the
metropolis? Great Scott 1
'"It seems to us that the tooe of oar
Eastern contemporaries has undergone
a carious change within the past two
months. Tben it was a tone of ridicule.
Then we heard of 'Little Willie.' and the
'Boy Orator.' and so on. Now we bear
'liar, thief,' 'conspirator,' 'incendiary,
and each things. Hardly a day passes
bat some 'great metropolitan , daily'
tells us of a Western State which
'six weeks ago seemed doubtful but
is flow quite safe.' ; There has j been
a 'revulsion of feeling, &c Yet,
when we look back over the files of
those great metropolitan dailies we find
that six weeks ago they bad claimed
the States in question and pooh-poohed
the bare idea of their 'being doubtful.
Finally, to come back to the Herald, we
see this foaming champion of McKinley,
which at the outset of - the campaign
predicted an overwhelming defeat for
the "Popocrats" an ' uprising of the
common people against their would-be
betrayers we see in the Herald electing
McKinley on an estimate, electing by a
bare scratch, and depending upon Indi
ana, Illinois,' Maryland, Kentucky, and
Deleware to make its forecast good I
"Certainly the fight gros hotter and
more perplexing everyday.
. - The to r isn't a believer in the
free and unlimited coinage of silver,
but it isn't a believer In the omnipo
tence of Hanna when confronted by
the American people, and it doesn't
believe that McKinley can be elected
on paper as the Herald and other
organs are trying to elect him before
the ballots are cast.
MIS0S MENTION.
If there is anything that charac
terizes Wm. J. Bryan more'than his
eloquence, bis earnestness, the vigor
of his speech and his marvellous ver
satility, it is the readiness and the
force with which he meets the objec
tions to the' Democratic platform on
which he stands, using for this pur-,
pose not the utterances of Demo
crats but the utterances of the men
who are arrayed against him. He
convicts McKinley from the mouth
and the pen of McKinley, Harrison
with " the utterances of Harrison,
Sherman; with i the record of Sher
man, Palmer with the record of Pal
mer, and so on. They have been
attacking the Chicago platform, as
anarchistic, - communistic, etc., be
cause it 'declares In K favor of
an income tax and ; mildly
criticises the decision of the Su
preme Conrt, which pronounced ad
versely - upon the Income tax law
passed by the last Democratic Con
gress. How effectually he-, closed
the mouths ot those criers ot "an-
archy," ''communism,'' etc , when at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa,, Thursday, he
quoted from the dissenting opinions
of Justices Harlan and Brown lan
guage ' incomparably stronger and
more denunciatory than anything
that appeared in the Chicago plat
form, language which by comparison
makes the platform criticism read
like laudation. And yet it never oc
curred to any of the organs or
stumpers who are opposed to an in
come tax to refer to these Associate
Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court
as anarchists or communists.
XV. V .X XX ' r
"The probabilities are that since
the returns have been received from
the elections in Florida and Georgia,
the McKinley figurers will eliminate
these from the doubtful columns. Up
to the day of the election they claim
ed that both States were doubtful
and that there were fairprospects of
carrying Georgia for . McKinley in
November, while the Florida dele
gates to the Indianapolis decoy con
vention solemnly assured x their
brother decoyists assembled there,
that their State could be counted on
for 30.000 ' majority ' for the decoy
ticket. Of course no one who knew
anything about those States attached
any Importance whatever to these
claims on predictions and if
they did they will surely
not attach any; importance to them
now, for the Democratic majorities
will be as large in November as they
are now, if not larger. The people of
the South have sense enough to pre
serve the Democratic Governments in
their States which they won years
ago alter such protracted and bard
fighting, and they have sense enough,
too, to see through the trickery of
the men who have been trying to
divide them. Those of them who
were leaniag towards the gold stand
ard have begun to see pretty clearly
through the Indianapolis fraud, which
was resorted to to cheat them out
of their votes and aid ia the election
of McKinley under- the fraudulent
pretence of supporting . "sound
money.
We publish in this issue of the
Star the address of Oliver H.
Dockery to the people of North
Carolina, in which he gives his rea
sons for breaking away from the
Republican party, and why he is
now supporting Wm. J.. Bryan for
the Presidency. In proof of the
fact that the Republican party, Mc
Kinley, Pritchard, Russell and others,
who are now assuming to lead the
Republican party in this State, had
deserted' the people, broken their
pledges, and committed themselves
to the money power of Wall
street, he quotes' the Reptsl
lican plajfgsn of . to dy in con
trast with the former platform
declarations of previous years, the
utterances of McKinley to day with
the utterances of McKinley before
he became the tool of Hanna and
Wall street, the declarations and
pledges'of Pritchard before he per
mitted himself to be tied to the
Hanna-Wall street band wagon, and
the position of Russell heretofore
and now, when he is travelling with
Pritchard behind that band wagon
It is a good letter, a - plain letter, a
logical and a manly letter, which
commends itself to the perusal and
thoughtful consideration of every
man who does not endorse dishon
esty and approve fraud.
APPOINTMENTS.
Wilmington District W. 8. Bone, P. ID
Wilmineton. Fifth Street. Oct. 4. 5.
Brunswick circuit,' Macedonia, Octo
ber 10. 11. v
Southport station. Oc"L 11, 18.
: Scon's Hill c'rrcuit. Union, Oct. 17, 18.
Wilmington, Market Street, j night
UCt. 18. ,--':--::;
Elizabeth circuit, Erzibethtown, Oct
84. 85. - . -
Clinton Circuit, Goshen, Oct. 81 and
Nov. 1.
Carver's Creek Circuit, Shiloh, No
vember 7, 8.
- Kenansville circuit. Rose Hill, No
vember 14, 15.
Magnolia circuit. Providence, Novera
ber 15. 15. x
Columbus circuit, Cerro Gordot No
vember 80 81. X
Whitevilleand Fair Bloff, Whiteville,
Nov. 88, 83. V x
V-Waccamaw circuit Zion. Nov. 84. '
Almost p
Distracted
1Y
.ID TOD EVER suffe from real ner
vousness? when every nerve seemed
t quiver with a peculiar. creeDV
reeling, first in one place, and then another
- and all seemed finally to concentrate in a
'mtthlng Jumble Is the brain, and yon be
come Irritable, fretful and peevish: to be
', followed by an impotent, weakened condi
tion of the nerve centers,' ringing In the
ears, and sleepless, miserable nights T
;Dr. Wiles'
Mrs. Eugene Searles,
110 Slmonton St Elk
hart, Ind., says: "Ner
vous troubles had made
m nearly Insane- and
- physicians were unable
to help me. Sly memory
Nervine
Restores
Health....
was- almost gone and every little thing
worried ma" unJU I -was almost -distracted.
' I really feared I was becoming a maniac. I
; imagined all sorts of evil things and would
cry over nothing. ' 1 commenced taking Dr.
Miles' Restorative Nervine and four bottles
of this wonderful remedy completely cored
me. and 1 am as well now as 1 ever was." "
- Dr. Miles' Nervine is sold on guarantee,
first bottle will benefit or money refunded,
HeaOaehe stopped in 20 minutes by Dr.
Miles' Pais Pills. "Once cent a dose."
No morphias or oploaia Dr. Miks Pain Pills,
Cos All Pais "One cent sdCM."
For wle by all Drug giiu. Chanc.
: JoaslSly sstata
!
THE BIGGEST OF BUGS.
The Elephant Beetle Is the Elaphaat la.
- sect of Utile Venezuela.
Venezuela is a little republic, bat
she has one thing that is the biggest of
its kind on earth. It ia a bug the lar
gest insec in all the world. The creature
ia known as the "elephant beetle," and
when full grown it weighs nearly half
a pound. To be struck rathe face by
snob, a bug," flying at full peecL would
make a man feel as if a mole had kicked
him. : ' . . " '' X -' Vx
This beetle, like others of its kind,
both small and large, ia clad in a com
plete suit of armor. This armor is. made
of a material far more indestructible
than steel namely, chitine. Chi tine
cannot be destroyed except by certain
mineral acids in other words, only the
artifices of chemistry avail against it.
Thus the shells of beetles that died 10,-
000,000 years ago have been preserved
perfectly in the rocks, so that we know
today just what these insects of antiquity
looked like.
In Europe giant beetles have a con
siderable market value, commanding
prices in proportion to their size. In
London there tire regular auctions of in
sects, and a single butterfly has been
known to fetch as much as $800. - A
specimen of the rare and very large Go
liath beetle is worth $60. This is the
largest beetle of the old world, and it
first became known through missionaries
In the Kongo basin.
Though no other insect in existence
compares in bulk with the beetle from
Venezuela, there are Other bugs that ex
ceed it in dimensions. For example,
there is the Atlas silk moth, which has
a wing spread of nearly a foot. It spins
a ooooon,the silk of which is better and
stronger than that of the ordinary silk
worm. - iJut unfortunately it cannot be
reeled. The department of agriculture
tried for years to discover a way of reel
ing it, but without success. Moths of
this species often alight on ships in the
Indian ocean, x -
There is a butterfly of the Malay pen
insula and Malayan archipelago which
has a spread of ten inches. In India and
tropical Africa are found giant forms of
those remarkable insects known
"walking sticks, " which look like twigs
of trees. Some of them measure 1 8. inch
es in length. They are related to grass
hoppers and katydids. In tropical Amer
ica are found certain huge species of
bugs that are closely related to the fa
miliar electric light bugs of this coun
try. Like the latter, which have been
popularly known only since the intro
duction of the electric light, they fly at
night, living during the day at the bot
tom of ponds. St Louis Star. f
THE VORACIOUS CARP.
Clever Buses by Which It Is Exterminat
ing Black Bass.
The German carp is a vicious fish aft
er a fashion, and the kind of brains it
has is described by W. F. Meehan in
The Fishing Gazette. Says Mr. Meehan
"One day in early June in 1893 or
1894, in Montgomery county, Pa. , I was
watching the spawning bed of black bass
in Per ki omen .creek from a bridge over
head, when along came a number of
large German carp. One made a feint
toward the nest, and when attacked by
the black bass fled. While the bass was
in pursuit the. remainder of the carp
darted in, and in a twinkling devoured
the spawn in the nest. I waded out to
the bass nest later and found scarcely an
egg in .it. I was told afterward of
similar case in" the same stream. "
The Pennsylvania report of the state
commissioners of fisheries says that
'there are few fishes more heartily an
athematized by American anglers than
ihe carp. They fail to see a redeeming
feature in the creature, and charge it with
maOy bad ones, the most serious of
whJCA is that it is a more inveterate
spawiKeater than the eel, " and the an
glers filar that it will in a lew years
practically exterminate all the valuable
food and game fishes despite the efforts
of the various fish commissioners;"
' The carp furnishes the angler little
or no sport, because it refuses to take the
ordinary lures offered. Its flesh is not
popular with - American fish eatera, as
it is in European countries, where as
early as 122t it was cultivated in Aus
tria. . . . . -;,. - . ' '
It is not known exactly who first in
troduced carp into American waters, nor
exactly when it was done, but Mr. Poffe,
a Calif ornian, some time before 1870,
is believed to have been the man. He is
regarded in much the same light as the
introducer of the English sparrow into
the United States, and the misguided
men who turned Engfish rabbits on to
Australia. "
v Women aa Pharmacists.
x Today the pharmacist is a trained sci
entist, and pharmacy has been elevated
to a profession. In its present farm it
has no unclean and unpleasant - features
and is therefore liked by women. Never
theless it is only of late years that they
have overcome the former prejudices and
crossed the threshold of the calling.
X They have a natural aptitude for the
trade on account of their constitutional
cautionr deftness and delicacy of touch.
The first woman to enter the profession
in our country was Mrs. Jane Loring of
Boston, in 1800. She was a grandaunt
of Congressman Loring. Under the old
system there was no state supervision of
the profession, and any one could take
it up who desired without any legal im
pediments. Under this system over
1,200 women became pharmacists. Of
late rears, however, there has been
profound change in the industry. Partly
to prevent competition, or rather to re
strict it, partly to raise the professional
standard, and partly to protect the pub
lic, colleges . of " pharmacy have been
started in various places in the country
and laws passed requiring all candidates
for the profession to pass examinations
almost as strict and difficult as those
laid down for physicians and lawyers.
The new system bas cut down the num
ber of candidates, both male and female.
In Massachusetts not more than a scare
of women have passed the examinations
in the past 15 years. : In New York the
number is said to be nearly 50, and in
the various states of the Union the en
tire total is below 600.
Many marry and leave the calling, a
few have retired, and a : few have con
tinned their studies and have become
physicians or chemists. At the present
time the total number of women who
practice pharmacy either as proprietors,
clerks or apprentices is estimated at
about 1,500. New fork Mail and Ex
-press. x ' '
' Forty Besolate Women.
According to accounts In western
newspapers. No Man's Land, once the
refuge of criminals in the southwest, be
cause none of the surrounding states or
territorial courts had jurisdiction over
it, has been changed into a rich agricul
tural and stock country, largely through
the work of 40 resolute women, who are
now in charge of the 88 public schools
of Beaver county. Seven of these young
women teachers met in Beaver City re
cently and organized the Panhandle
Cattle company, intending to invest
their surplus earnings from teaching in
the cattle business. Probably the 40
yoang women in that territory will join
' in this enterprise. Over 80 of them have
taken claims of 160 acres each on the
Beaver river, and will till the soil in
' summer and teach in winter. They re
ceive $30 per month for teaching a six
' months' fern. X - "
The impurities In blood which cause
scrolulous ' eruptions are woroupoiy
eradicated. by Hood's Sarsaparllla." Try
it, ; t
INAPT STATE NICKNAMES. ; ;
Appellations Which Ones Fitted Xtoslna;
Thsir Foros With Advaaoinf Civilisation.
State nicknames in this oonntry
have begun to loso their aptness.
New Hampshire's narre, the Gran
ite State, eta almost aa well some
other mountainous states, and she
never really deserved to be called'
the Switzerland of America, sinoe
her mountains are but hills oom-
pared with the' mountains of Swit
zerland. Several of the Kooky moun
tain states more nearly deserve this
title. Colorado, for example, has 41
mountains more than 14,000 feet
high, 1 and, in all,' 139 mountains
more than 13,500 feet high. Colora
do's own name of the Centennial
State is one that no other can ever
dispute with her, though it looks
as .if , Colorado might dispute the
name of "Golden" with California.
Maine's forests are disappearing
so rapidly that some of the north
western states may soon have a bet
ter title to the name Pine Tree
State. There are more famous bays
than that of Masschnsetts, and cer
tainly Chesapeake bay, if considered
only as a body of water has more
distinction than Massachusetts, and,
historically, the Chesapeake is quite
as famous, so that the name Bay
State might, with aptness, be giv
en to Maryland, x x 'X: r X
There are quite as characteristic
green mountains elsewhere in the
United States as those that gave
Vermont her Frenoh name. The
Empire State seems Inappropriate to
any democratic community, but it is.
appropriate to New York if to any
state of the Union, and it is likely
to be a long while before even Texas
can lay claim to the title. The name
that Texas takes pride in, the Lone
Star State, is certainly hers by
right, as she is the only state to have
come to be an independent republic
totally unoonf ederated with any oth
er state. Pennsylvania is no longer
the ; keystone of the Union's arch,
just as it is no longer politically true
that as Pennsylvania goes so goes
the Union. If Delaware ever deserv
ed her name of the Diamond State,
she certainly cannot claim it against
Eh ode Island, since the latter is not
only -much smaller, but, aa well,
much richer. x
No state disputes Virginia's pic
turesque name, the Old Dominion,
though few people realize that it
dates back to a time when our At
lantic ooast knew only two ill de
fined politioal divisions New Eng
land and Virginia. Ohio's buckeyes
are no longer a distinguishing fea
ture of her rapidly disappearing
woodlands. Indiana is being civi
lized out of her Hoosierdom, and the
wolverene must be pretty soaroe in
the state to which the beast has giv
en a nickname.
Connecticut has learned so many
smart' tricks since the days of the
traditional wooden nutmegs that
ber neighbors could easily discover
an apter name of reproach. Louisi
ana doubtless has as many pelicans
as Florida or any other state, and so
may . well hold to- her . nickname.
while North Carolinians are proper
ly enough called tar heels, since
their state is still famous for tar
and kindred products. New York
Herald. : x
He Had Him.
I heard a gentleman while discuss
ing the subject 'of coon hunting re
late the following incident in his
experience: -
The party, consisting of hunters,
dogs, axes and torches galore, had
been hunting for a good part of the
night without any luok whatever.
Finally, however, the, dogs treed a
ooon up a very large tree. While
discussing the subject of cutting
down such a large tree, one of the
many negroes in attendanoe volnn
teered to climb the tree and investi-1
gate the whereabouts of ' his coon-
ship.
All agreed to this and sat around
to await developments. Soon after
the. negro had disappeared among
the branches the attention of all was
drawn to a very peculiar sound
emanating from the top of the tree.
It was a kind of a mixture of negro
and ooon dialect. Some one ventured
the remark: .
"Bill, have you got that ooon?"
"Yas, sah,",was the reply, "I'se
gotdis her' coon, but I wish you
'u'd send some o' dem darkies up
her' to help me turn him loose.'
Forest and Stream. j
.-,"'' Alaa. Poor Brooklyn!
The children had gathered around
the hotel piano and were singing
hymn desoriptive of a flock of little
pilgrims arriving in the New Jeru
salem, and announcing the various
places from which they had oome.
Little Johnny looed at his mother
sadly. "Mamma," he said, "when I
go to heaven, I hope God won't ask
me where I came from." "Why
not?" inquired mamma. "Because,
mamma, when I say 'Brooklyn, I
know he'll .laugh 1" New York
Journal.
What is
Gorham
Silver? Anysil
versmit:
92fi9S will tell ycu: Its
. proportions tsz
..... as well known as those cA
U. Sa coin, which it always
exceeds in purity by several
. pointsJftGORHAMAbeina
never less than the Englislr
, Sterling standard (925 parts
pure silver to 75 alloy), the
ihighest degree of purity
which the softness of the
metal will permit
Too good for '
Ory Goods Stortt
Jeweler only.
x A Household Treasure.
n. OT. Fuller, of Canaiohane. N. Y,
ays that he always keeps Dr. King's
New Dlf cover? in tbe house and bis
family has always found the very best
results to follow its use- that he would
not be without if procurable. G. A.Dyke
man, Drugiit. Catikill, says that Dr.
Ding's New Discovery Is undoubtedly
the best Cough remedy; that he has used
it in his family for eight years, and it has
neve failed to do all that is claimed for
it. Why not try a remedy to long tried
and tested. Trial bottles at K. K. tsxu-
xamy s Drug Store. t
People find just the help they so much
need, in Hood's Sarsaparilla. It fur
nishes the desired strength by puri
fying, vitalizing and enriching the
blood, and thus builds up the nerves,
tones the stomach and regulates the
whole system. Bead this : "-. i - "
"I want to praise Hood's Sarsaparilla.
My health run down, and I had the grip.
After that, my heart and nervous system
were badly affected, so that I could not do
my own work. Oar -physician gave me
some help, but did not cure. I decided
to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. Soon I could
do all my own housework. I have taken
Hood's Fills with Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and they have done me much good; I
will not be without them. I have taken 13
bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and through
the blessing of God, It has -cured me.
worked as hard as ever the past sum
mer, and ! am thankful to say 1 am
well. : Hood's Pills when - taken with
Hood's Sarsaparilla help very- much."
Mas. M. M. Mkssenoeb, Freehold, Penn.
This and many other cures prove that
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. AH druggists. SI.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Hood's Pills effectively.
act easily, promptly and
2 cents,
SMOKING TOBACCO
Hade from the Purest, Ripest and Sweeten leaf
grown in the Golden Belt of North Carolina.
Cigarette Book goes with each ios. poach.
azz fox 10 CBirrs.
A Pleasant, Cool and Delightful Smoke.
Lyon A Co. Tobacco Works, Durham, N.C.
For Over Fifty Years
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup bas
been used for over fifty years by mil
lions of mothers for their children while
teething, with, perfect success. It
sootbs the child, softens tbe gums,
allays all pain, cares wind colic, and is
the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will
relieve the poor little sufferer immedi
ately. Sold br druggists in every part
oi tbe woria. i wenty-bve cents a bot
tle. " Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Wins-
low s soothing ayrup, and take no
other kind. v
" Baefelen'a Arnica Saive.
The Best Salve in tbe world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt
Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin
Eruptions and positively cures Piles or
no pay required. It is guaranteed to
eive perfect satisfaction or money re
funded. Price 25 cents per box. For
sale by R. R. Bellamy. t
Wholesale Prices t urrent.
W 1 he foOowlos floatations represent Wbolestle
Prices generally. In making op null orders higher
prices 1
nave to be c
t chanted.
Ths a notations are always enren as accurately as
posrible, bnt the St as will not be responsible for any
variations from the actual market price ot the aruclei
a noted. - -
BAGGING
Sftjate
Ft.nda d
WESTERN SMOKED
Hams fl
Uds lb
Shoadcr V
DRY SALTED
Sides 9
Shoulder 9 S
BARRELS piri a Turpentine
Second-hand, each....,,.,,,,.
New New York, each. .. ....
New City, each
BEESWAX V B.
BRICKS
12
6
6
14
7
4
4)4
f 00 &
1 35
S3
110
1 41
1 40
21
. Wilmington V H,
6 60
9 00
15
93
40
40
& 7 CO
14 00
Nortnun
BUTTE
- North Carolina f) ft,,,....,,,
N rthern
CORN MEAL .
Per Bushel, ia sacks ..........
Virginia Meal ...........
COTTON TIKS-fl bundia
CANDLES V 1
. Sperm ........
Adamantine..,.,,.. ....
CHESE-l1b-r
Northern factory
Dairy, Cream.. ...... ........
State . ..................
COFFKE-aj J
Lagnira,,,.. ,, .. T.. ..
Rio............
DOMESTICS
Sheet ng. 4-4, V yard.,.,,.,,.
Yarns. 0 bnnch..... ...,...
EGGS ft doses
FISh
Mackerel, No 1, jl barrel....
Mackerel, No 1, half-barrel
. Mackerel, No S, f barrel... .
Mackerel. No S. half-barrel
Mackerel. No 8, V barrel. ...
Mallets, 9 barrel. ............
Mo kta, V pork barrel
N C Roe Herring, keg...
Dry Cod, V S
" sxtra
W,'1VR V barrel
Low grade.,,.,.
Choce ......................
Straight,.,,.,.... ...........
' First Patent ........
GLUE V ft
G8AIN ft bn-hel
Cora, Iron store, hag? White,
Cora,, argo, in balk White...
Co-n, cargo, in bsgs White,.
0 t, from a ore .............
Oats, Rust Proof.
40
40
&
1 .0 I
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9
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10
10
11
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12
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BIDES, V
tireen
Dry .M...,..i..M......
HAY, V 100 ft- ,
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. Wertern -....... .. ......
North River,. ,, ....,....
HOOP IRON, V ft...,
LARD, V ft
K OTther ra,B.e.aL(,
Nrrth Carolina.
6
8
&
-
5
6
1 05
91
85
8J4
- 6
10
I 15
LIMC y MTTtd ittMini)
LUMBa.R(a ysawtdMB M fee -Ship
Stuff, reaawed... ........ 18 CO
.Roagh-cdge Plank.... 15 00
West India cargoes, sceording
Dressed Flooring, seasoned... 18 01
' Scanting and Boatd. common. 14 0
MOLASSES, W gallon
New Crop Cuba, ia hhds,,,.,.
- . . la bbls......
Potto Rico, in hhds.,,...,.... SB
. -labb'a
O 8000
& ie 00
18 00
saoot
is t o
S3
S3
SO
SO
14
13
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- Sugar-House, in hbds...
X ia bbls...
' - Syrup la bbls ....
NAILS, V keg. Cot 0d basis....
PORK, fib rrel- . - .
.. . City Mess.... ,
S0''" ............
IS
14
- 18
J5
t64
800
7 50
f 50
S3
75
66
-v rniis -...
KWI, B . ...... ....
SALT, V tack Alum .
-
10
l.iaoon ..... a.,...,,..,,,,, ,
Ameiicaa . ...... ... ..........
On,l.S!$. Sacks.. ...,
'65
46
60 -t5'
8 60
41
40
500
s ........
wommoa
3riew -
SUGAR, H ft Standard Graao?
Sutdaid A. ,..... ;
yhite Ex. C ,
....
1 60
I 60
& -.. H
s
X 1 4
8 00 14 00
& 10 Ot
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SOAP, 9 ft Northern..
. ...
STAVES, m M-W. O. barrel.,,.
R. (X Hojf.head .. ..
TIMB'R, 3M feet Shipping,...
9 00
Bam. rrme
- If ill. Fair..
7 00
450
8 60
.00
100
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4 00
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EXTRA
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
STAR OFFICE, October 9.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market
firm at S5W cents per gallon
for ma-
chine-made casks, and z4g
cents for
country casks. Xx x
ROSIN Market firm at 11 40 per
bbl for Strained, and $1 45 for Good
Strained.- - ' ' '
TAR. Market firm at tl 05 per
bbl of 280 lbs-
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Steady.
Hard 1 80. Yello Dip 1 80, and Virgin
1.70 per barrel.
Quotations same dav last year Spirits
turpentine 25K24c; rosin, strained,
$1 15; good strained $1 20; tar $1 40;
Crude turpentine $1 10. 1 50, 1 6J.
" ' RECEIPTS.
Spirits Turpentine 100
Kosin.... i
Tar ....... i 228
Crude Turpentine - 29
Receipts tame day last year 67
casks spirits turpentine, 613 bbls rosin,
150 bbls tar. 67 bbls crude tarpentme.
COTTON. .
Market steady on a basis of 7Uc for
middling. Quotation
urmnary....,.;
Good Ordinary
6M
7
law Middling.,..
Middline.........
Good Middline...
S '.me day last year, middling 82c.
Receipts 2,283 bales; same day last
year 1,069. f
x country produce.
PENUTS North Carolina Prime,
4050c per bushel of 23 pounds; Extra
Prime, 65c; Fancy. 6085c. Virginia
Extra Prime. 606?c; Fancy, 6570c.
V.UKN.-firm; 85 to 40 cents per
bushel.
N. , C. BACON Steady; Hams, 9
to llc per pound; Shoulders, 6 to 7c;
Sides, 7 to 7)4c
SHINGLES Per thousand, five inch,
hearts and saps, $1.60 to 2 25; six inch,
$2 60 to 8 50, seven inch; $5.50 to 6 50.
TIMBER Market steady at $3.00 to
7.50 per M.
CQTTON AND NAVAL STORES.
WFEKLT STATEMEHT.
- RECEIPTS. . r
For week ended Oct. 9, 1896.
Cotton. SpirUi. Xuin. Tmr. Cnut-,
li,96J '671 1.939 1,199 - 299
RECEIPTS.
For week ended Oct, II, 1895.
Ctttou. Sfiriti. Motim, Tmr, Crude.
17,2.9 1,253 4,9 8 1,580 428
EXPORTS.
For week eaded Oat. 9, 1896.
- CetUn. Spirit. Mttiu. Tr. Crude,
Domestic.. 1,313 1.521 XS3 71S 11
Foreign ... 24,411 OA) - 1X0 000 00
23.757 1,521 223
713
81
EXPORTS.
For week ended Oct. II; 1895.
Cetto. Sriritt. Rotin. Tar. Crude.
Domestic.
Foreign ,.
1,015
tOO
1,015
778
000
158
000
1,378
100
1,378
403
000
778 158
403
STOCKS.
Ashore .'and AOoat, Oct. 9, 1896.
Alkrrt. AJloai.
Total.
22.84!
1,723
30.262
Cotton 16.304 6,359
Spirits 1 33S 403
16.956 . 3,306
3.390 580
3,970
Crude 3b0 00
360
STOCKS.
Ashore sad Afloat, Oct. 11, 1895.
Cetton. Spirit. Rosin. Tar.
Crude.
25,401 5.324 33.380 2.331
S47
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
By Teiegraphto tbe Moral" Star.
FINANCIAL.
New York, October 9-Evening
Money on call was Iirm at 43 per
cent; last loan at 6, closing offered at
6 per cent. Prime mercantile paper
89 per cent. Sterling exchange was
weak; actual business in bankers bills
481K481 for sixty days and 483M
484 lor demand.' Commercial bills
480WQ481M Government bonds steadi
United Staus coupon lOurs K6J4. United
Slates twos 92. State bond dull
North Carolina tours 99M; North Caro
lina sixes 118. Railroad oonds easier.
Silver at the Stock Exchange to day
weak.
COMMERCIAL.
New York, October 9-Evenine.
Cotton dull; middling gulf 8 3 16;; mid
dling 7 5-1 6c.
Cotton futures clcsed steady at prices:
October? 58, November 7 64, December
7 78,January 7 88, February 7 93. Marctr
7 98. April 8 02, May 8 05, June 8 C9
Sales 220.100 bales.
Cotton net receipts 916 bales; cross
5.878 bales; exports to Great Britain
bales: to France bales; - to the
Continent bales; forwarded 557
ba'et; sales 1,794 bales; sales to spin
ners bales; stock (actual) 109.670 bales.
Weekly Net receipts 5,610 bales; gross
35.860 bales; exports to Great Britain
10,561 bales; to France 850 bales; to the
Continent "6.003 bales; forwarded 7,190
bales; sales 16,711 bales; sales to spinners
1,151 bales.
Total to-day Net receipts 54 084
bales; exports to Great Britain 8.563
bales; to France 1,253 bales: to the Con
tinent 2.075 bales; stock:' 830.805 bales.
Total so far this week Net receipts
829.464 bales; exports to Great Britain
99,505 bales; to France 1.603 bales; to
be Continent 46,237 bales.
Total since September 1 Net receipts
1 820.529 bales; exports to Great Britain
434,146 bales; exports to France 68 157
bales; exports to th Continent 181.570
bales.
Flour quiet, steady and unchanged:
southern flour was quiet and stead y;com-
mon to fair extra (9 20 Q 2 80; good to
choice $3 803 10. Wheat spot market
dull and firmer; options opened firm at
?85c advance, fell c and closed
steady and unchanged to c over yester
day, with a light trade; No 2 red May 77;
October 73c: November 74c; Decem
ber 74 c. Corn spot was dull and
firmer; No 2 8929Xc at elevator and
8080Wc afloat; options were (full and
firm at c advance; October 29Jc;
November c December 30fc; May
83c. Oati spot dull and firm; options
dull and firmer; October 81 c Novem
ber c; December 23$c; May .spot
No. Sljfefc; No. 8 white 85c; mixed
Western 20Q23s. Lard quiet and firm;
Western steam 4 62;city $4 lO.October
$4 55, nominal; refined lard was dull;
Continent 84 90; South America $5 25;
compound 84 3034 00. fork quiet.firm;
new mess 87 758 60. Butter fancy
was firmer; State dairy 10 16c; do.
treamery ll17c; Western dairy 7
iic;B.igins i f4lBc.riges fancy firm
and scarce; State and Pennsylvania 17
030c; tee bouse 14X616; Western fresh
1718. do. per case 33 258 60c Cotton
seed oil active.stronger; crude 23028c;
yeuow prime oj47C. Kice firm, fairly
active and unchanged. Molasses in fair
demand firm and unchanged. Pes cuts
steady;fancy hand-picked 8$4c Coffee
options were weak and 20 to 80 points
down: October $9 75; December $9 25
9 45; March 9 259 40; May $9 80
9 40; June 9 80; spot . Rio was dull but
steady; No. 7, 10 6010 63. Sugar
raw fairly active and ateadv; fair refin
ing 3c; centrifugal 96 test c; refined
z lower, with a fair demand; off A 8
8c: standard A i.c; cot-loaf and
crushed 4c; granulated 4c . -
Baltimore, Oct 9. Flour firm; re
ceipts 1,000 tb's. Wteat firm: pot and
October 7378Hc; December 74)
7&cr oteamer o. a red 6969c;
oouiucrn oy sample Yi74c; do on
grace 730. uorn strong; spot
and Octooer 8888c; new or old.
November or December, 2888Xcj
January Ttvi&HMcr. Steamer mixed
2627c: Southern white 8031; do
yellow 8030Hlc. Oats steady; No. 3
white 2526c; No. S mixed Sl21c.
cotton markets.
,.. By Telegraph to the Morning Siai..
October 8 Galveston, easy at 7 7 is
net receipts 7,700 bales: Norfolk, rjiiiet
at 7c, net receipts 6,849 bales; Bai t
timore. dull at IK, net receinta'i ono
bales; Boston, doll at 7 15 18, net receims
804 bales. Wilmington. stead at 7U
receipu S 280 bales; Philadelphia quiet at
o a suw, an receipts isv oaies; savannah
steady at 7Jf. net receipts 7,3i$9 bale:
MewUrleans, steady at 7if. net
18,635 bales; Mobile, qniet at 7. net re
ceipu 1,418 bales; Memphis, steady at
7Jic net receipts 6 121 bales; Augusta
quiet at 7 510, net receipts 2.564 bales-
Charleston, easy at 1, net redeiDts
8,603 bales.
FOREIGN r MARKETS
: By Cable to the Morning Star.
Liverpool. Oct- . 18.30 p w -
Cotton, demand fair nd prices eaur
American middlin4 9 16d. Sales 12 000
bales, of which 10,800 wereAmencan
speculation and export SCO. Recei.ti
3.000 bales, of which 2.700 were Ameri
can. Futures opened weak and detnan,i
moderate. October 4 19 6t&4 so fu.
October and November 4 15-64d; No
vember and December 4 18-44. 41m
4 13 64d; December and January 4 10
644 11 64d; January and Februaiv
4 9 64, 4 10-64214 11 64d: Fehm;
and . March 4 10 6t4 11 64d; March
and April 4 10 64(34 11 6td; April ard
May 4 10 64d; May and Jane 4 10-64
4 11 644 13 64d, Jane and July 4 11 64
4 13 64d. Futures steady at the decHne.
.Tenders none.
H 45 P.' M. American spot grsdcg
1-164 lower. American middling !a;r
4 27 821; trood-middliog 4 19-32d; mid
dllOK 4Jd; low middling 4 13 32,3
pocd oidinar7 4 8 824; ordinal v
4 8 33d. 3
4 P. M. American middling (1 m c)
October 4 17-64d buyer; October ana
November 4 18 64d buyer; November
and December 4 ll-64d ssller; December
and January 4t9 614 10-84d huscr;
January and February 4 9 64d buver;
February and March 4 9 66 4 10 64d'
seller; March and April 4 9-64 4 l0-64d
seller; April and May 4 10 64d seiler;
May and Jane 4 10 644 11-644 seller; .
June' and July 4 ll-64d seller; July and
August 4 11-64 4 12 84d seller. Fu
tures closed steady.
Liverpool, Oct. 9. Tbe following
are the weekly cotton statistics: Total
sales of the week bS.OOO bales, American
67,000; trade takings. ( including for
warded from ships side. 62,000; actual
exports 8,000; total imports 33.000;
American 2U.000; total stocks 388 000;
American 276.000; total afloat 240,000;
American 235,000; speculators took 600;
exporters took 4 000.
MARINE.
CLEARED.
Schr Jennie F Wil'ey. Anderson.
Kingston, Jamaica, Geo Harris, Son &
Co; cargo oy Edward Kidder's S 3D.
EXPORTS,
COASTWISE.
Kingston Schr J F Willey
feet lumoer.
-756 775
MARINE DIRECTORY.
Uac ot Veaaela In tbe Port of' Mil
mlnston, IV. C, Oet. 10 il896.
SCHOONERS.
Chas H Sprague, 260 tons. Harper .
H G Milliken, 171 tons, Kimball, Geo
Harriss. Son & Co.
W C Wickbam. 313 tons, Ewan, Geo
Harries, San & Co
B I Hazard. 373 tors, B atebford, Geo
Harrisi, Sen &Co.
John C Gttingbam, 2S6 tons, Thomas.
Geo Harrir s, Son & Co.
STEAMSHIPS.
Magdala (B ), 2,295 tons, R-.ed, J H
Sioan.
Crathorne (Br). 1.693 tor.S L-wis,Alex
Spruat & Son.
Duiwicb,- 2rill tots, Ccx. Alex Spruni &
Son.
Ormidale, 2,804 toes. Batler, A'ea
Alex Sprunt & Son.
BARQUES.
Kof g Carl (Nor). 470 tots. Romeltevd:.
Paterscn. Djwnine & Co.
Victoria (Nor). 868 Arecsen, .
Padur (Lmo), 562 toes, Schmidt, J 1
Kilev&Ce.
M&XTON BUILDING
AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION,
Maxton, N. C.
DIRECTORS.
J. D. Croom, Maxton.
Ed. McRae, MaxtoD.
J. H. Kinsey, Maxton.
G. B. Sellers, Maxton.
G. B. Patterson, Maxton.
Wm. H. Bernard, Wilmington
E. F. McRae. Ratmont.
The attention cf investors In Wil
mingion Is called to the fact that tbe
average profits on Six Series of Stock
in this Association have been over
Fourteen Per Cent.
Initiation Fee, 25 cents per Share
Subscriptions to.Stock payable in
weekly instalments of 25 cents per
Share.
. The management is prudent and
economical, as is shown by the fact
that the Association has sustained no
losses, and its annual expenses, in
cluding taxes, are only aboat Two
Hundred Dollars. 1
V J. D. CROOM, President.
W. B. HARKER, Secretary.
jeSlm ;.
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1st .f Apply to
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