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Bf WlttlAffl H. BEBHiBD. Wilmington, n.c ySvsmAr ":. Morning. Dec. ; 13. 1896 IT 13 THS SAHE Iff UEOPZ. , The farmers ot this country ,are net the only ones who have suffered from the effects of agricultural de pression. There is not a gold stand ard country In the world In which hey have not suffered some, in some as much and: in others more than American farmers, have. The gold standard defenders deny-that the de monetization of silver has had any J thing to do with this, while they ad ' mitthe fact of the depreciation In prices, t They say it was over pro duction, but -this is not true because prices have depreciated more than one-half within the past twenty odd years, have been steadily depreciat ing," but "the production has not doubled,' and if it bad doubled the torld consumes it all, which fact negatives the assertion 'about over production.. With all the low prices nere are hungry people, and hungry iadustrious people, too, in this rich, favored country of ours, and the . world over. -.-.. - Is it reasonable to suppose that the "overproduction'';, began cDinci dentally with the demonetization of silver, when the depreciation j In prices began, while investigation by impartial persons shows that the de cline dates from the degradation, of silver and was general in all produc tions that rwere not controlled by trusts or combines. ''-' ; ' ' There are no . more industrious farmers in the world than the Ger man farmers, but agriculture is de pressed in Germany, and the states men ofthat' country have endeav ored to help the farmers by patting impediments in the way of the im portatton , of foreign-raised food stuffs.;,. ' ''X :,- The farmers of the British Isles are good " farmers and Iwere once' prosperous t notwithstanding the im portations from other countries, but they are in a wretched condition now, and it has been proposed to help them by the restoration of what are callea corn duties. England is a very wealthy country, but her farm ers have became very poor, so poor that many of them have surren dered their holdings because they r.oald not raise enough on them t pay the rent, while farming i aj(3s : have depreciated in . value q lite as much and sometimes more so than they have in, this country. After his return from Europe Car dinal Gibbons said that one of the saddist sights he witnessed in trav : elling through I eland was the large tracts of lands turned into pastures which had once been cultivated, but which had been abandoned because .0W2"rfitftt fvknlf nrt mbm nnnali a them to pay the rent and support their families; and Ireland is a fer tile country. . France is a land of small farms, owned principally by the tl lers. There- are- no more saving and nlty people in the world than - ie French farmers. " But they are iffering as" the German and Eng- - h farmers, so much so that the Government is discussing plans of relief. They have tried to give re lief by import duties, as is suggested in England,' but these have -failed. Premier Meline goes tolhe bottom and suggests the true and only rem edy, which we find in the following cabled report. "Paris. Dec. 8 The agricultural budget was ditcassed in the Cnambefoi Deputies to-day. The Premier, M. Me liae, admitted that the termers were suf - ferinK from the continual fail in pncei, and that the " import daties had partly lost their efficacy owing to the fall in value ot foreign coin and the fall in ex chaoses. Toe remedy be explained in bimetallism, bat. be added, toe ques tion needed international settlement. Tne government, be farther stated, .in tended to stuar the enacts ol speca:a tion in wheat and farmers' insurance. ' "Continuing, the Premier suggested that a system of export bounties wa dangerous aad might bring reprisals. .The government, however, would con -." sider the proposition. ' "In cone utoa M. Meline said that one of the grc-itest services which cou'd be rendered to French husbandry wouid be to relieve it from land taxation." . Is it surprising that there should be business depression both in Eu- ' rope and in this country when the farmers of both are pinched to get along, "when they ", are . not able to make ends meet and the end of. the year, after all their labor, finds them in as bad or a worse condition than they were at the beginning?. At least 0 te half the people in this country 1 ve by the farm or by occupations - c nnected with it. When they suffer hjw can the other half prosper? Our sources of wealth come out bf the ground, and without the products of the farms there would be little in the products of the forest, the mine or the quarry to bring prosperity? -For years our farmers, like the farmers of other: countries, have suffered from the effects of falling prices, suffered so that it is the only most thrifty, or those who raise specialties ia the luxury- lines for which there Is a paying market who have made any money or been able to save anything.. If they have been aole to pay their debts, which many bive not been,-they have had but I ttle money to spend and have been f -reed to exercise rigid economy. If t icy are in any better condition than toey were it has been where they have exercised: this economy and more thrift. They have not made : mbref they have simply pent: less and contracted fewer obligations. - Much ado is made over the ad-! vance in the price of wheat as a proof that the gold standard is all right, and that silver has had nothing to do with the prices. This is simply nonsense. The rise in prices is due solely to the short-crop in other countries, and to the fact that im porting countries which do not raise enough for home consumption must have bread and -this is the only country hey can now depend upon for it If. it were not tor the short crops and the consequent deficiency in the world's supply American wheat would -not to day be worth forty cents a bushel." The xllsaster that has fallen upon other countries has been this country's gain. It has simply been helped by an accident or a calamity to-others. If we had bimetallism In European countries and in this the wheat that is to day selling for a dollar a bushel would be worth two dollars, and European consumers would be better able to buy It at that price than they are now able to buy- at present prices. Ifwe were, to talk until the stars felt there will be no general nor perma nent prosperity until silver is again recognized as U was before the con spirators against it succeeded in de grading it and destroying one half the world's volume of coined money. - ; MACEO'S DEATH. There does not seem' to be any doubt : now as to the death, of Gen. Maceo, which has been a cause of so much rejoicing in Spain-and among the loyalists in Havana, and of much gloom, as might be expected, among their friends and sympathiz ers in this and in other countries. Maceo was a dauntless and an able chieftain and the last of six brothers who gave their lives for Cuba.' While his death would be a great lossjat any U me, it is exceedingly un fortunate at this jancture, but It does not necessarily mean the defeat of the Cuban cause or .the t speedy tri umph of the . Spaniards, although, judging from the jubilation in Ha vana and the ovations to Gen. Wey ler, that seems to be taken for granted there. It simply amounts to tne temDorarr crippline of the Cuban army and perhaps some de pression and demoralization among the Cubans, but it is not a mortal biow. The Cubans still have Go mez and Garcia, and others under their command, and still have under these . armies with which they can dispute supremacy with Spain for an indefinite period, and the probabili ties are that the. death of Maceo will inspire them with a determination to show a bold front and thus offset its effect. The Spaniards have not yet won the fiht. -': MJJIU& OJSJfTlUS. We commented a day or two ago onahe remarkable fact that the so called Democratic gold organs of the North are advocating the retiring of the Government notes, and they axe also remarkably conspicuous in their opposition to a monetary Congress of nations, in which, however, they have the co-operation of some of the Republican organs. In speaking of Senator Wolcott's resolution (which was adopted without opposition by the Senate), the appofntment of, a Committee to provide for the holding of such a Congress, the New York Times pronounces it "a bad begin ning," and thus sneeringly refers to it: "Tne scope of this international con ferencemignt with perfect propriety be widened. It ought to provide a piau hereby the comets could be yoked up and henceforth be made to spin to getber, Kncks's with Beta's, Fay's with Halle 's, and so on. It might decree that the great dipper aad the Southern Cross should sap places, and that the Ethiopian and the leopard should make that change which Scrip.ure says they cannot. . "Bimetallism is au exploded myth. Why rake its fragments out of the wreck of the Bryan campaign ? There never has been a fixed parity of value between gold and stiver since the first miner struck the first pay dirt. Bimet allism has never existed la history. The two metals go their jgays in obedience to supreme natural laws which . it is impu dent and futile for conferences and Sen ators to seek to overthrow:" . "Besides, the 'leading commercial na tions of he world'- are content with the gold standard and wilt stick to it. Their presence would boffls the real bimetai nsts of the confereoce. China and Pern and Mexico are the countries we ought to ask to sit down with us for the con sideration of this silly business. "But why consider it at all? The country will be surprised by this action of the Repnolican Senators. It looks Lite trying to reopen a contest which the couotry closed with great emphasis b the pronouncement ot November Sd. Ttiis belated pottering with the silver .question will increase the present popu lar distrust of the United States Senate. That is needless." . - The Times seems to forget the fact that the Republican platform on which-Mr. McKinley stood declares for : bimetallism and pledged the party to use its endeavors to ; secure an international agreement by which the free coinage of silver might be resumed, and the Republican party is in honesty and in honor bound to carry out that pledge. But the' Times has not the honesty l or the honor of that party in its keeping. ' Some of the Republican journals in the North object to Comptroller Eckels recommendation for an in crease of National bank currency on the ground that it is not neces sary, in proof of which they cite the fact that a number of the banks have within the past year gone out of business and that there was a net increase of $2$329,653Sn the same time. . But it wasn't simply a recom mendation of an increase of bank circulatldnnhat Tr r Eckels made, but an increase which would pro vide for a better distribution of the currency and the greater usefulness of the National banks, which is a different and much more important matter. These are his most import ant recommendations : "1. Permission to organise in places of less than 2 000 inhabitants banks with capital of $2J,000 and a correspondingly leu amount of bonds to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States. , ;2. Permission to establish jn places of 1 000 population or less branch basks, with the right to receive .deposits mike loans and discounts." and bay and sell exchange, bat not to issue circulating notes other than of the parent bank. , . US Redaction of tax oa circulation to one fourth of 1 per cent, semi aohuaHy. '4 Permission to issue notes to the par value of Bonds deposited." ,- J This is substantially a reiteration of ' what he has heretofore recom mended, t which ' recommendations have been endorsed by the President in his message and by the Secretary of the Treasury in his reports. No one disputes the fact that there is ah abundance - and even . a surp'us of money in the money center-, which is one of the evils from which . the country is and has been suffering for a loner time. - and to overcome this. aad provide for a more equable dis tribution in the sections where money is most heeded and where it would do the most good these recommen dations have been made, s They are worthy of . the attention and serious consideratu n of Congress. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Monroe Journal: Mr. Martin Little, the son of Rev J. W. Little, died at the borne of; his father in Lane's Creek township Sunday night, of fever. He was -about eighteen years of age and had been, sick but a short time. v Winston Sentinel:' It Is report ed that a white man named Hall killed, a negro, named Joe Carter, during a drunken .brawl, at Brim, Surry county, last Monday : The killing was: the result of a trifling disagreement between the slayer and slain. i. Wadesboro Messenger : Many thousand pounds of pork was slaughtered in this section during the recent cold snap. For the year : ending November 9th, 1896, there were 160 marriage licenses is sued by Register of Deeds Benton. Of this number only 60 were issued to white couples. - Raleigh Press Visitor '. - The county jail never contained so mmy prisoners as at present. Every cell is full to its utmost capacity and a number of prisoners are kept in the corridors. Thirty ot the sixty-five pusoners confined in jail are Federal prisoners from other counties. - . Tarboro Southerner: The oldest person in this . county is Nellie Howell, a colored woman living at J. R. Councils'. What ber exact age is no one seems to know. B. G. Howell says she is at least 100 years Old. That he remembers tnat the old woman had a grandchild just about the same age as himself. , Monroe Enquirer : On Tuesday night of last week Mrs. R. C New son, of Lane's Creek township, over lay her Itttle three months old babe, while she slept, and when she awoke she found the baby dead. Mr. Wm. Perry, ex clerk of the court of Lancaster county, S. C, committed suicide yesterday by. drowning. No reason for the rash act . is given. He was very popular, of a cheerful disposition. . and his untimely death is a ' great shock , to bis host of friends. , He "was about , forty five years old. Four of the officers sworn in Monday were negroes. It was thought that the colored constable of Jackson township would not qualify, fcut he came up with his bond and took the oath ot r-ffice and is now a full fledged officer. The recent snow came very near exterminating the rabbits. Hundreds of them were killed. ; The snow was so deep that they could not run and the stnall boy was in, all bis glory bunting nem and catching them alive. . Une man came into t wo last Friday evening witb forty ltve rabbits in a box. CURRENT COMMENT. - The wild rejoicings of the Spaniards at the reported death of Maceo, a brave enemy whom they were never able to defeat, are bnt an other proof of the ingrained, bar baric savagery of the race. New York World, Dem. The mine riot in Scranton, in which 200 foreign laborers undertook to dictate how the operations of the mine should be carried on, is only one of a long(series of labor troubles of a similar chaiacter growing out of the employment of such labor m the mines because It is considered chtap. riui. Meager, Jnd. i re .French navy is con sidered to' be in fairly good -condition, but the Government wants $40,000,000 for the purpose of strengthening it. The incident shows at what a cost the "concert of Europe" is maintained, nowadays, and bbould confirm the United States in the determination to keep clear Ot t.rhil. Ledger, Jnd. Senator Aldr ch informed a delegation of manufacturers - at Washington, who were urging the passage of the - Dlngley bill,, that there were only two things required to secure that object, and that was a change in the Senate rules enabling the friends ot tbe bill to bring it to a vote and seven' more Republican senators, i nis is equivalent to a declaration that the passage of the bill is impossible, and omiog as it does from the best informed Senator on revenue measures In the "upper branch of congress, may be accepted as conclusive. There will be no revenue legislation of Importance passed by the Fifty fourth Congress and it is folly to expect nay. PAila detpnta tltmes, jna. , . . Don't dally with rheumatism. . Purify your blood-sod cure it at once by taking J Baeklea'a Arnica lam, ; ' Thx Best Salve in tbe world tor 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 give perfect - satisfaction or money re funded. Price 95 cents per box. For sale by R. R. Bxllamt. f THB LilT AlfSWKH. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. Dying eyes, what do ye tee? I see the love that holdeth me; The look that, lighting, leans to bless. - The little daily tenderness; Smiles without words; the sweet, sure sizn . .-r-AJx: Which says in silence, lam thine. Ketarnioe feet met at the door; Alas, for those which ran no mort! ; Ah roe, I w hps that widespread. "Dear ! E irth is all heaven, for thou ait her.e 1 s:e a figure like a stoned The house where one sits oa alone. 0 God have ptty ! lor I see Tne desolated needing me. . - Dying eyes, what do ye see? 1 see tne love that taketh me. Loud In the breakers soft in song, Eyer the summons calleth strong. -I see upon an unknown strand -The signal of a distant Hand. The leaf Is light, the bud is cut, - Kiools of many olors fl jat abont. The p ilse leaps high, the heart is young. I as twee test cbiorK-sare yet anstraog, M bravest deeds I never did: And, struggling with the coffin lid. Hopes, dreams, and " j jys and happy tears- .v. . S'.art, throbbing, to live down the years. A'mishtf 1 L;sten! . I am dust. Yet spirit am I; so I trust. Let corns what may, cf life or death. I trust Thee with my sinking breath. 1 trust Tnee. though i see I bee not - In heaven or earth, or any spot. 1 trust Thee till I shall know why - -, There's one to live and one to aie. . I trust Thee till Thyself shall prove Tbee Lord of life and death and love. f - i ' Harper s Baxar. SUNDAY SEUC.UTIUNS. - Whoso escapes a duty avoids a gain. Theodore Parkerz The mother's heart is tbe child's schoolroom. H. IV. BUcher. - When we recognize ourselves as sinners we have made the first siep to ward salvation. : If yon would reform the world from its errors and vices, be, in by enlist ing the mothers. C. Simmons. The devil will not be long in making some kind of a fi ink movement against the preacher who makes smneis leel their need of Chnsr. Blasts. - Spiritual acquirement is condi tioned upon our cooimanion with God. We may have intellectual ability, but unless we are vitally connected with God we mnst die spiritually. When a church lowers the standard of religious life to fit the lives of worldly rich memoers, her dependence for prosperity and power is on a level in aim and work with that ot a fashionable Club. Tennessee Methodist, Duty is privilege,; all duty, even that which nature sarins from, because in doing it God will help ns and Gd rill bless us, in that tbe bitter becomes sweet and the cross is transformed until we glorv in it. It is most blessed to do the will of Gad. Florida Christian Advocate. Let us take short views. Let us not climo tbe high wall till we get to it, or ugbt the battle nil it opens, or shed tears over sorrows that may never come. or icse the loy and blessings tbat we bave by the sinful fear that God will take them away from us. We need alt onr strength and a 1 the- grace God can give us lor to .day s battle. To-morrow nc- iongs io our Heavenly Father. Theo dore Luyler. D D TWINKLINGS. Fuddy I wonder how Cramer came to marry that Berley womat ? Duddy Perhaps he had to do it in payment of an election bet. Boston Transcript. "Have you no pride at all?' asked tbe Earnest Worker. ' Nap," said.Cumberer of tbe Ground. 'I'm waitin till it gits cheaper. . Prided too know, mast have a fall.'' Cincinnati Enquirer. Brown I wonder why Paynter was so aogry when l asked dim what school of art he belonged to? Smith What scoojI? That implies be has something to le.arn Puck "Do you think that all matches are made in beavei f ' Yes; except those made at (he sea shore." Tudee Men are not as good as women, of coarse, bat there is one thing do man ever does; be doesn't tell a woman of tbe wrongdoing . of her husband. - Atchison Glob. Barber (a wag, to customer) Stop those i Jites or 1 li cat yonr head off." - - . . ' Customer Yoa couldn't with that razor.. .-.-'-TV"' Hoax What ? Yon buying a bicycle ? I thought you detested them. John S I do. but I've been ran over long enouih. Now I'm going to have my revenge. Giles Do you think be will commit tui de on her accoatt? Merntt No; he's - so selGsb be wouldn't put himself oat of the way for any one. Harlem Life "The Noddings. have at last agreed to live apart. , "Gracious! As bad as that? "Well, it . amounts to as much Tbev've taken a house In -suburbs." Philadelphia North American. Appointments lor Vwitatwa by Bishop die - Of Mttt Carolina. December 18 Sunday. 8rd in Advent. M P., Snow Hill. S Barnabas. December 15, Tuesday, M. P- Farm- ville, Emanuel. . Decern oer 16 Wednesday, E. P.. Ham ilton, S. Martin s. December 17. Thursday, Com- Hamil ton, S. Martin V December 18, Friday. E. P.. Winston. S. Tohn'a. December 18, Saturday. Com., Wins . . ton. S. John s. December 80. Sunday. 4th in Advent. Mnrfreesboro S. Barnabas. December 25 Christmas, Woodville, Bertie county. Grace. December 87. Sunday after Christmas, I. P.. Roxobel, 5, Mark s. M. P Morning Prayer. E. P. Evening Prayer. Com Communion. At all Morning Services tbe Hofy Loramnnion. The Vestries will please be ready to meet tbe Bishop. Tbe Children will please be prepared to oe catecnizea. Offerings for Diocesan Missions unless otherwise announced. Showerful and Peaceful.' Hitherto in praising a nation the ora tor and eulogist have employed tbe word warlike, .from the Greeks we learned to wed the horrible with the beautiful. Tie proudest claim -of tbe Athenians was that they excelled all others "in arts and in arms. " - Let the United States claim tbo pure : glory-to which they alone of-ll the nations, past or present, are entitled, the "powerful and peaceful nation. "Chicago Interior. .. Bishop Julius of New Zealand is much troubled by the number of spurious coins found in the church offertories of the diocese. In a recent sermon be said : "I never saw so much bad coin in all mr life.- To offer to the church the causa of God money that the baker or the butcher would not accept shocks me. Xhe man that would-do that Wants tba grace of God badly or three months.". GRABBED BY A GORILLA. Aa American Traveler! Thrilling Expert : one on the East Coast of Africa. A Cinoinnatian who has lately return ed from a tour of east and South Africa told a reporter of a thrilling encounter he had with a gorilla while in that far off country. Said he : " Thoevemng train had arrived at Lon- renco Marques, Delagoa Bay, on sched ule time. But whaa night it wast The rain came down as if th6 very heavens were . falling, the wind blew a terrific gale, and the darkness which-overspread the whole scene was such aa I had never witnessed before. It wsa however, a fitting night to the experience which fol lowed. Stepping from what the Nether lands Railway company term a first claaa carriage. I accosted a heavy stft , indi vidual on the platform. 'Can- yon tell me, sir, -which is the best hotel of ,this rjlaoer I asked. : ..- r ' WelL stranger, heremarxed, 'that is hardly a fair question to ask me, as I own both the hotels in this place. ' . - 'I turned orer mr grip to him and followed a crowd of Africans through that tropical storm. Dinner was served at the International hotel, but my per manent quarters were to be at the Cen tral, both of these being owned by Jim Carpenter, t her person I met at the sta tion. - After dinner an employee of the hotel asked me if I was ready to go to the Central. I replied in the affirmative. He went to the door, and above the din of wind and rain could be heard his voice yelling 'Sixpence 1 "Mv belief was that this individual was 'singing but to some of the natives that a sixpence job was waiting for any of them who would take me to the Cen tral hotel, bnt it proved to be the pecul iar name of an east Arrioan negro. 'Sixpence' came with a 'Tap,; boas.' It seemed as he came that a section of that black night was moving bodily toward me. The instruction was to keep close to 'Sixpence.' C--' "The route was through a large gar den. We had hardly entered the garden inclosnre "when a terrifio -scream was heard, and at the same time X was struck on the head. . In an instant I had my revolver out and fired at my un known assailant. My enemy grappled with me, but before losing my hold of the revolver I managed to fire two more shots. But it was an uneven fight. I re ceived another blow on the head, ren dering me unconscious. 'When I regained consciouness, : which was three days later, I learned that my firing of the" revolver had attracted the attention of an American who was known at Dela goa Bay as 'Texas Wilson. He told me that he ran out of his house with his gun and lantern, and had hardly gone 200 yards when he came across a huge gorilla carrying me on his back. . The gorilla scowled at him, but he was de termined toHry to rescue me from that brute. After : taking a careful aim be managed to shoot the animal without hitting me, and killed him. Then he brought me to the hotel, where I after ward was informed that a big gorilla had been sent to Jim Carpenter about three days previous. He had been tied to a tree in the garden, but somehow must have broken his chain and was waiting for the first comer. It was' Car penter's intention to send the gorilla to the Manchester zoological gardens as a present - "This was my first visit m December, 1894, to the sleepy, dirty and sickly town of Delagoa Bay, on the east coast of Africa.?' Cincinnati Enquirer. - Corpses Rented For' Dissection. The terror that the average colored woman has of the medical students and colleges is absolutely overpowering. Few people relish the idea of being carved np after death, bnt this feeling seems especially, accentuated in the bosom of the colored woman, especially if she comes from tbe country. Many of them cannot be hired to goby a medical college after night, for they fear being captured by the students and dissected alive. It is hardly to be wondered that there is a superstitious dread of the sur geon's knife, as so many "stiffs" are re quired on tbe many dissecting tables of the Louisville medical colleges. There is a large supply from penal and other institutions, but .the demand is great. As a result it is not uncommon for the medical colleges to rent, corpses. The body will generally be sent with a note requesting tnat tne race be not mutilated. The remains are then placed in the oof- fin, with the clothing properly arranged about the nnmutilated face, and none besides those who are parties to the transaction is any the wiser. Louis ville Courier-Journal. . The Lnminons. Bea Crab. One of the marine curiosities recently fished from the bottom of the Indian ocean by a-tedging vessel in the em ploy of the Calcutta Society of Natural History was a mammoth sea. crab which continually emitted a bright white light similar to that seen in the spasmodic flashes of f phosphorescent luminosity kindled by our common fireflies. The' oddity was-captured in daytime and placed m a large tank, nothing peculiar except its immense size being noticeable- in the broad glare, of the tropical sun. At nignt, However, wnen ail was in pitchy darkness, the crab surprised the naturalists by lighting np the tank that all the other sea creatures, great anc small, occupying the same tank could ' plainly seen. When the luminous err tacean was prodded with a pole, he emit ted flashes of lights which enabled the experimenters to read small print, even though otherwise they were in total darkness. St Louis Republic. '.: Ont of the Public " When I was a very little boy, writes Sir William Gregory in his autobiog raphy, my grandfather, who was then under secretary for Ireland, took me to the chief secretary's room: in Dublin castle and formally introduced me to Lord Melbourne. T r ' - v.--i.' ;-- After I had been with him for some. little time he Baid, "Now, my boy, ia there anything here you would like?" "YesV,X answered, pointing to a very large stick cf sealing wax. ' 'That's right, " s ltd Lord Melbourne, pressing on me a bundle of pens, -' 'begin life early. All these things belong to the public, and your business must al ways be to get out of the public as much as yon can. " Pearson's Weekly. . v -V";, All on the40atsldo.7'0 ; -. - Speaking of libraries reminds me of a story I heard of a certain rich man who did build himself . a new mansion, and wishing to set np a bookrcom there he Bimply went to real library, put down the names of the volumes and had them painted on boards that assimilated a library. : "Oh, it doesn't matter,", ho said. "You see, folks will never read 'em, an they look just as welL". " The man who told me this story point ed to a couple of meaningless married folks. "They are just like Mr. 's li brary," he said. And they were. New York Recorder. m. - fttwen'and VMhloa. . There exists a strict relation between tbe class of power and the exclusive and polished circles. . The last are always filled or filling from the first Fashion,' .though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed, a kind of posthumous honor, a hall of the past : Great men are not commonly in Its halls. They are absent in the fields. They are working, not triumph ing. Fashion is made up of their chil dren. Emerson. - The iron grasp of scrofula has no mercy upon its victims. This demon of the blood is often hot satisfied with causing dreadful 6oresr but racks the body with the pains of rheumatism until Hood's Sarsapaiilla cures. '. Nearly tour years ago I became af flicted with, scrofula - and rheumatism. Banning sores broke out on my thighs. Pieces of bone came out and an operation 'was contemplated.; I had rheumatism in my legs, drawn up out of shape. I lost ap petite, could not sleep. I was a perfect wreck. . I continued to grow worse and finally gave up the doctor's treatment to u u take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Soon appetite came back: the sores commenced to heal. My limbs straightened out and I threw away my crutches. I am now stout and Beany and am farming, whereas four years ago I was a cripple I gladly rec ommend Hood's Sarsaparilla." U KB Alt Hammond, Table Grove, Illinois. n n In! Sarsaparilla IstheOneTrue Blood Purifier. All druggists. L Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Hood's Pills take, ?25C. easy to operate. anaiimuimmiiMIUHUiiiiuiiimiiuiiumiHiMHinK 5 - PREFTRRTO PICK TJUlV. j Z FAIUUca Cnele Bufus, if yon cat that wood m : sriTerouanioetnrkeTforTour8aDdfiTdinnfv. : Tjwcim Roves Than t, Massa, bot rd rather hsb - not uaa. ; i jub ga au us lom i want. . I I YON S 5.MDKING TOBACCO I SHade from the Ptirest, Stpest and Sweelest lear : S crown tn the Golden Belt of North Carolina, : - Cigarette Book goes with each io. pooch. -3 c- ill FOB IO CEXT8. A Pleasant, Cool and Delightful Smoke. : Lyon a Co. Tobacco Works. Durham, N. C. iniititfitHaii,t,ii,n,..t..................,..a,,,mii Some one has made tbe remark that every thice tbat God cave to th: Son be gave away. The only tbieg the world cave him tnat lie dldn t give away was that alabaster box that Mary broke1 over him-, acd it she had civen him I he rbole bos be would have given that away, Afr, Moody XHo Ideal Panacea. 'James L. Francis. Alderman. Chicago, says:,-! iepard ur. King a New D sccv' ery as aa Ideal Panacea lor Coughs. Colds and Luna Complaints, havim? used it In my tamily lor the last cvfi years, to tbe exclusion of physician's Drescrio- tions or otner preparauons. Kev. John Jiurgus, Keokuk, Iowa, writes: "1 bave been a Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Cburcb lor 60 years or more, and bave never found anything so beneficial, or tbat cave me such speedy relief as Dr. King's New Discov ery. Iry this Ideal though Kerned? now Trial bottles free at R. R. Bellamy's drugstore. : r Wholesale Prices t urrent ft W Thj; foDowliix notations nmum Wboleaale Pricej generally. Ia -nj np tmali ordera higher pnee nave to oe cnaraeo. Toe qaotarjoni ara anrays nrea aa aocaracely as poBBoie. ont toe 9iu wiu not ne reanonaiDie tor act vanauon rrora u acniaj Barest price ot toe articles anocea. BAGGING i - .. Sftjate . .1. ...... ........... t-nda d ....... - O o is a s s & e WEST E k N SMOKKD Hams V. 14 T f id 1 W Shoa dn S DRY SAL aa Sides fj .. 0IVUim w ..... ....... BARRELS pH s Tarptntiae Second-hand, each . : New New York, each...-. New City, each .............. 1 00 1 86 23 50 00 15 S3 40 40 1 10 1 4a 1 40 81 BEESwAXf . - Wilmiogtoa f II,, a ? co nortncin BUTTED 14 00 . North Carolina f) N rthera CORN MJCAU ! Per Boshcl, in sacks .......... Virginia Meal , COTTON TlHS-aj hondl..., CANDLES V ft -i. Sperm Adsmantine'.. . ' CHXESE )) Northers factory ........... .- & & a & & & & o I zu 85 18 9 10 11 10 11 , uairy, ueam... 18 tte ... COF F EC 10 LgaTra......,,,.... ,,.,.. Rio DOMKS1 ICS Sheet ag. 4-4, f yard.,...,,., EGGS tt doxea ............... . FISH , Mackerel, No I, W barrel. .... Mackerel, No 1, H half-barrel Mackerel No S. W barrel..-... Mackerel. No S, half-barrel Mackerel. No 8, V barrel. .... Mallets, barrel , Ma lets, V pork barrel N C. Roe H.ning, ) keg.... : - OryCodt W 1 i kxtra ............... FiOUR-f) barrel 10 M 18 zu 16 S3 00 11 00 19(0 8 00 18 00 3 00 S 15 3 0 5 3 86 3 96 3 SS 4 78 445 &neo 15 00 18 00 aoo 00 a s oi 8 50 85 a io 350 lXHrgraiM Choce .., A 3 75 U 4 SO 6 00 Straight..,.. ' First fateat GLUE 1 7na 84 GRAIN bn-liel Cora, fro store, bag White, Corn, a'go,ia balk White... Can, caign, in bijts White.. O-ta, from s'oie. ...... , Oats, Rnst Proof,., Cow Peas HIDKS, V ft 4SXIJ 40 a so g 0 45 a o & o a - - e & r o 45 40 a 50 oreea ... Dry HAY, 100 Easier . 1 05 . We-tern 9) nonn niycissta HOOP IRON, V ft. - 85- 1.AJIU, W rorth he' a .9 t"v North Carolina LIMB S barrel 1U 1 85 LUMB R(a y sati),l f fee: bdp oiori rrsmweu .. OS000 Raahdga Plank 15 00 West Iodia cargoes, according to qoalito .... . .. 13 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned . . 18 0J Scaoil dc and Kid. commoa.14 00 SB tau a 18 00 18 00 88 00 15 CO MOLAS.-ES. aaboo New Crop Cuba, ia bhds,,,,,. " " bote.."'! Porto Rico, jo hhds .... .. 89 88 89 80 14 15 815 88 . UU'B 18 , tt " " ia bbls....,,,,,, Srrrip -in Bbls .... 14 13 city Mei Ramp .. , M.. . .... ........ 8 75. 900 ' 8 5 - . S 85 M 88 rnme ROPK ft SALT. tack Alum t : , ...... - O 75 66. : 85 40 45 SO0 850 1 ) 3 85 8 50 8 50 4S) " 4 . 4H & 3 " SVrta An Lisbea Asm icsn SHINGLES, 7-inch, Tpres Sana SUGAR, f ft Staadard Grann? Ui--,,i? A-" - white Kx. C 1st a C, Golden...,, . .. . C Y U w SOAP, m ft Norflin ""!;" WfcS, M-W a barrel..., 8 00 '4 00 h m, fa ................. ICO 4 50 s OrnoMtjL. 4 00 8 50 loterlTr to Ordmanr..... . .... a Son tallow. k...!!..i;..";; - a . TALLOW, ft, ..,.. .. .. .... .. r a WHi:ill5t. 8-Nibra. 1 00 . Nortk Caro.laa ,.,,.., 1 00 800 8 0S. We - S rTU COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON- MARKET. STAR OFFICE, December 13. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothing doiog.- ROSIN Market . firm at tl 43 per bbl for Strained and $1 50 for Good btramed. - TAR. Market steady at II 10 per bbl of 880 lbs. - - - ' CRUDE TURPENTINE. Q liet. H4d 1.40, Yellow Dip 1 80. and Virgin 180 per barrel, ,v;;- .: v'y Q jotations same dav last year Spirits turpentine 25Ji24c; rosin, strained 1 85; good sireineo $140; tar tl 00; crude turpentine 1 10. 1 60, 1 60. RECEIPTS. Snirits Turpentine.. I.. 84 Rosin................ 880 Tar 11 Crude Turpentine So Receipts same day last year 117 casks spirits turpentine, 624 bbls rosin. Ids bbls tar. 29 bbls crude turpentine. - - - - COTTON. Market quiet on a basis of tc for middling. . Quotations: Ordinary 4 6-16 cts tt 5J .. 6 tf-16 " 7 1-16 uood Ordinary. . . . M . Low Middling...;.... Miaaiing ............ Good Middling. . . Same day last year, middling 8c. . Receipts 1.814 bales: same dav last .yearTlOO. - - COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS Nortn Carolina Prime. 4050c per bushel of- 28 pounds; Extra Prime, 55c Fancy, 6065c. Virginia Extra Prime. 60ti5c Fane?, 6570c CORN Firm; 88 to 40 cents per bushel. ROUGH RICE 65075 cents per bnsbel. . ' - . -. N. C BACON Steady;. Hams. 8 to llc per pound; Shoulders, 6 to 7c; bides, 7 to 8s. SHINGLES Per thousand, five inch, beans and sips, 11.60 to 2 25; six incb. 2.50 to S SOseven inch; $5.50 to 6.50. TIMBER Market steady at t3 00 to 7.50 per M. DOMESTIC MARKETS. " By Temrraph to the llornf-3 Star. ' FINANCIAL. Nw York. Decern oer ia-Evenme Money on call offered at 2 per ct, Pr m mercanuie paper 8J4 per cent. Ster ling exchange waa firm, with actual business in bankers bills 483J4.1833 for sixty days and 4884b6 tut oemand. Commercial bills 82Jefre4c'3jtf. Govern ment bonds steady; United stairs cou poo fours llO.Umted States twos 95. State bonds dun; North Carolina foais 102; North Carolina sixes 122. Railroad bonds irregular. COMMERCIAL. New York, December 18 Evenine. Cotton quiet; middhne IHc. Cotton tutnre& maiket closed oaiet: December 6 99, January 7 03, Febrnar 7 11, March 7 19 April 7 27. Mav 7 81 June 7 35 Juiy 7 83, August 7 40. Sues 29.100 bales. . Cotton net recepts 87 bales: cross 1.688 bales; exports to Great Britain - bale: to France bales; to tbe Continent bales; forwarded bales; sales bales; sales to spioners 65 bales; stock 248 800 bales. Total to-day Net receipts 49 786 bales; exports to Great Britain S4 642 bales;. to France bales; to tbe Con tineot 21.82?bales; stock 1.207 093 bales Total since September 1 Net receipt 4 107.652. bales: exports to Great Britain 1.490,815 bales; exports to France 842 ' 91 bales; exports to the Continent 864.9W7 bales. ; -.:, ;.: Flour was doll and easy at prices winter -wheat, low grades 2 20(&8 80; fair to fancjr $3 404 75; do patents 4 90 On sa; Minnesota c ear is 004 00. patents tt 2535 0 ;low extra $S S03 80. outtern Hour dull, easy and uncbaoked; common to fair extra $3 fl5C48 60. good to choice 3 60a3 0. Wheat soot dull and firmer; ungraded red 8098c; no. i noriuern 0?c; options were ouli and firm K&lc aovaoce; No 2 red De cember 87c: January 87V n March 88c; May 86Xc; July 81ic Corn spot dull and fit m; Nj 2 29; at elevator and 30c float; steamer mixed 28c; op Hons 'were dull, firm and unchanged; December 29c; January c; May 31c. Oats spot dull but steady; options duM and quotations nominally'' nochanpfd I. December 223c; January 22 c; Feoru aty 34C spot r.o.. 28Jc. No.8 whi:e 25c; mixed Western 2ii24c La d quiet and steady; Western steam t 15; city $3 tiii&d 75. December $4 10. nominai; refined doll; Conunem ft!40 South America 84 75; compound $4 87 3 ou. rors steaavjaemar d mcd-rate new mess t8 258 75. Butter was quit t State dairy lla0c. do. creamery 15 23c; Western creamer? c; Erjin 24a Eees qniet at prices; State and Pennsylvania 20 23c; ice taoose 1619j, Western fresh 80Jlc; do. per case fS25 4: 20: Southern 19s20c: Iimirl f 2?yeri;eUU2 active, firm and nncbaneed. Molasses firm and oncbanged Peanats qaxt, fancy naDu-pi(.KCu c. rooee am sod 10 to 15 points np. December $9 85; March 9 809 85: spot Rio dull aad nominal; No. 7 R10 00. Saar raw was rjUii DnJ steady; fair reining Sjc; refined dnl, and unchanged. .-.':---r:.J' C hicago. Dec 12. Cash qnotations Flour was qniet, steidt and aariunsed. Wheat No. 2 spring 7677c; No. 2 red 8989. Corn-No 2 22X3Uc Oats No8.1?18c. Mess p.,tfc, 85 wro a Short rib sides $3 80 4 10. Dry salted shoulders i S54 bo. -; bnort clear sides 4 00 A 412. Whiskey $1 18 tor hlgh-prooi spirits - : - . - - -r The leading fatnres ranged as follows: opening, highest, lowest.closTa:Wheat December 76. 76g, 765,' 7c; Mav 80M80,80.80J 805i8 .C JuU 78 7. 74H 79H 7 J; - Corn December 8X.2. HH 8Sc; Jan uary 28 23. 23, 23c. MaytLSfiU 253f25JS 25gc Oata-DecemtJetTTU 17J 17H7Vi 17. 17c; May t0& 20. 80., 20 20K 20HC Vri December $6 85, 6 b7. 6 85 6 87 U January $7 60 7 65. 7 60. 7 63 . M?, 7 90. 7 95 7 87. 7 92v Lard-Da cember f 3 75 8 75 8 75 8 75 January 13 85. 8 90 3 85. 8 M, May $4 05 4 10 4 05, 4 07 . Short ribs Dccrmber 3 90. 8 90. 3 90, 8 90. January 83 85 7 90 8 85, 8 87X May i 05, 4 10, 4 05 4 07$. . Baltimore Dec 12. Flonr dull nad unchanged. Wheat, firm; spot 80c Mav 87X088C;, Southern by samp.e 9192c ao on grade 87 91c. Corn 88X88ic January 882"Hc; Feo ruary 28Jt,G8K;; March 8428Xc. S'5ameI m x"0 SoaWjblC SoutbTtn row 8jK28Kc; do elTow S2W la 9,aU ,ieaaT 0 firmr No, Wbllr 2326c; No. 2 mixed 22J83c COTTON MARKETS. 4 - By Taksraph te ta laoraiax Star. -Dec 18 Galveston, easy at 7 1-16. net receipt 9,614 bates: Norfolk, nominal at 7. net rece ss 6.780 bales; Bal timore quiet at IX. aet receipts 1,714 bales; Bo8toB, qrJie. at Bet 1,714 bales Wilmington, firm at 81'. net recelpu 1 816 bales; Philadelphia, quiet at 7Jc net receipts 432 bales; Savannah, dull ai 63$ net receipt 8 Tales Near Or leant, steady at 6 15 16 net receiptt ie . 614 bales; Mobile, quiet at 65 net re cetpt8 84T bales; Memphis irregular at 6 net receipts 8270 bales Augusta steady at 6. net receipts 8,108 bales; Charleston, quiet at 65,, net receipu 8,841 bales. FOREIGN MARKETS By Cable to tba Manioc Staii LrviRPOQL Dec. 13 12.80 P. M Cotton, q a let; American spot praxes 1 821 loer. , American middline 4Ud Sales 10.000 bales, oi which 9800 Cre American speculation and export 500 Receipts 84 000 bales, of wbicn 83 500 were American. : Futures opened si ear y and demand moderate. Us embfr 48 4d; December and Jaroart 3 83 6ld -January aio Febroarr 8 61 64d Ftiiu ary and Mrcb 8 63 640: March ar.d April 8 63-64d. April and May 4d. Mrfv and.Jooe-4Q4 1 641;' Jane and 4 1-644 Jniy and Aoatt 4 1 4 S 6li: August ana Sepiember 4d. Fu tare quirt. Spol price: r Aroericin middlms. fair 4 7 16a; good middling 4 8 16d: rw mddig4 1 82 8od otflinarv 3 29 82d; ordinary 8 23 82d 1 P. -M. American m'ddling 4 uecember' 3ol 8 644 senrt; cernO'rand January 863 644i ix ai aad f ebrar 8 S3 64d buyer: r crurv and March 8 63 64.4 tu.er, Mnco nd Apri 8 63 644a teller April an- M - 4d buyer;" May aed Jane 44 1 6ld oayerl June and fnl 4 1 64d bnier. J , y and Aegutt 4 1 6464 S 64 1 : Dr. A 1 gust and September d seller. Fu uns closed sean MAiilNE: ARRIVED. Schr 6 C L's er. 2)3 tons Robinson, New Yjbik Ge- H-.mss Son 4 Co. Steainsbip G o W Qvoe. Cticbis rr. G?OTKfctown. H G Smatlbor.es. Scbr. John W L.noell. 845 tors. H indy. Pnnta G wd CLEARED. Br schr Tonan. B l(ord. Hfm sen. Bermu4a, Chddb-uu Lumber Cj Nor barqDR . Aalabia. Jacksoo, L r d B, Eie. S P Snotter Co Schr Wm F G'een. Clark Port u Prince. Hati S & W H Ncibro0. Scbr Roger M we Milier, Cape Hayti. S & W H Northrop Steamsoip Geo W ClvO-. Cbichexer. New Yark. H G Sm tl bones - EXPOBTS. ' .COASTWISE NSW YORK Sirnr G;- W Civde 758 b ies cjitoo, 265 casas spirns mr pectinr. 78 obl ros n, 8"'5 ro tiir. S do pitch. 85 Oacs peanoia 100 kS mdse .". ; FOREIGN. , . 5 453 t b rosin. Caps HAVTl-S-br R,ger Mrx-r" 225,837 leet pitch pine mrorer. 70.(00 feet white pine lumber. 200 buoo ts Shingles. . Port-au Princc Schr Wm F Green 15 2tt leet lamber. (bit pie tar. 6 c--Bs spris inr pontine : Hamilton. Birmoda Schr Torban 161.183 reel lumoei . 6 000 snmK tS MARINE DIRECTORY. Ust ef Vetstls lB tho Prt' of u 1 -mlncto ,1 C, Die IS, 1896 SCHOONERS. Abbie G Cole. 232 tons. Cole. Geo H r riss Soo & Co. ; - . Wmoegaoce: 25.1 tor s. Mat son G u Hamss. Son &Co ai'HcurO. 373 ions. Bate h for d. G o Harr s.. S- n & O. Anoie Aicslie, 288 tons, lc.idrcs Geo Barns S & Co. H B Homao (B ) S 9. tons. McNeal Geo Harriss, Son s C -' Cora M 136 tona. MitrhpH Ctm Hmiii Son & to. Hnmaiock. 899 toes, Veaz e, Geo Hair - riss S jo & Co.' Acara, 135 tons, Nash, Geo Harriss Son &Co Eva A Danetihower. 217 tons. Johnson. Geo Harriss. Son & Co. J Bcrtba H. 124 tons. LcCsin. J T Rilt & Co. - - STEAMSHIPS. Glrnmavis (Br). 1.353 tons Welia'ce Power G o s & Co. Grafioe (B.J. 1 93a iocs PenniwlI.Aiti Sprout A Son Leit Enckssr n (Nor). 1 310 ions Gercld Heide & Co. - . BARQUES. ' Jorgensen (Dan), 5i0 tons. Jo-gens n Heide & Co. . Mailings, Ru; . AND, ' A FULL LINE mATTINCS bought at a sacrifice that tfe w 11 , sell chtap A Llnd Smyrna Rugs Very Cheap. - Blankets Towels at d A larg lot Marseilles Spreads at all prices. The ba'ance f our Orpet s ck ery cheap " These good most be sold in the next thirty days. - ail and ee them at my new stand. SOL. BEAE, No. 18 Market Street, dec 6 tf Wilmingto , N C SEASONABLE GOODS Jute Bagging, - Arrow Ties, Cheese, Crackers, Cake-, Sal mon, a'dmes, Ov ters. Fall and - complete stock bf EEATT All PAPT PrPRPrlfiia . - - LOWEST CASH PRICES, j Don t fail to - see ns before bcyir.g W0RTIL & WORTH aaa-88 tf .: - Tne Sampson Diicciat, lMiBk1 Krrry Tkarsday. L. A. BETHDeT Editor and Prcp'r ' - - -sassissssis . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $Ji Six Months 50c. It pavs business men to advertise in it. , Rates and sample copies fur Dished upon application.. Address : The Sampson Democrat, feb 16 tf CLINTON. N. C
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