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- i , f. v I Br WILI.IA.OI H.BEBNABD. W IDNISD AY M.ORNINQ, DiCY 23,1896 While 'the Republican in Wash ington are, for political effect, talk ing about an international Congress to discuss the' coinage question,1 no sensiblecaia 'expects' anything! to come out of that. The object in talking about it and pretending to te interested -in it is' to create the impression that they are really anx ious to do something, fonBllver and if the Congress fail, as they expect and feel sure it will, - then they can 6ay to the silver "Republicans that they had kept their pledge, endeav ored to rehabilitate silver, but failed because other, nations would . not meet us. While the masses of the business classes in the leading com mercial nations : of Europe are, as they are in this country, in favor of the double standard, and are anxious that some understanding may be had by which they may have a larger use of silver," the money manipulating and leading classes of those coun tris are; as are the same classes in this country, opposed to it, "They will if they can keep silver where it is, if they cannot still 'further de - crease its use as money; . .They must use some of it. They can't help that, for they must have somei-xoln to use where gold on account of its .'higher value cannot be used, but that is as far as they -are willing to , go with silver, which they tolerate as a mat ter of necessity in the smaller every day transactions, but refuse to recog oizein the larger transactio8S.r:r If the talked-of international monetary congress be held and the leading nations4 agree so that the - free coinage of silver may follow the solution of the currency t prob lem will be 'a comparatively " easy matter, for that will, break the money monopoly and deprive it of its power to dictate financial policies and control financial legislation, as it has done 1nthis country for a generation, and in other countries, too, although,1 perhaps , with the ex ception of England, not to the same" extent that they have in this coun try. " ; " , : But before anything can be done with that, even if .the movement be ' in good faith, ' which' it is not, this country must have relief in the shape of some banking' system which will '. get near to the people and not leave it in the p iwer of the bankers of any one section to control the bank cur rency ofthe whole country, and levy such tribute as they see fit on the other sections! That's what the large banks in-the East do now, and what they will continue to do until triccherensa change in the banking sys - tem, for with the exception of the. ' greenbacks in circulation (and there are precious few of these in circula tion) they control almost absolutely the paper currency of the country. To control it more absolutely they are moving for the 'retiring and cancel lation of the' (346,000,000 of green , backs,-which would contract the cur rency volume to that amount and create a corresponding demand for their notes. The pretence is : that they are""a menace, to the " gold re serve in the Treasury,: but anybody with' two grains of sense under stands what: that means.; They " are "a menace" to a reserve, which has no legal existence, and for which there would not be even the sem blance of an excuse if silver were re cognized as it "should be and the stigma removed from it. The' way to provide for anqnable distribution, of :tbe" currency is for the Government ofthe United States to exercise its , proper function of coining money- that is y metallic money, and in emergencies 4f , need be printiog its promises to pay (is it printed greenbacks during the war) and leave the people of .the States free to manage thejLj, paper currency for themselves,-, and, in their own, way.MTbey . are .the best judges of their seeds and of the way to supply them, as they did for three quarters of V. century before the prohibitory State bank tax was levied and the monopoly thus given to the banks, in the interest of which that law was enacted, a law which was justified at the time as a neces sity forced by the stern decree of war, but 'for which since "the war there has been jjo justification or decent excuse,' and which would not be on the statute books if it were not for the mighty, power the monopo- - listlc banks wield in bur 'politics and in our national legislation.-' It was passed at a war measure to help float Government, .bonds, v and -has ;been ' perpetuated for 'a generation 'after the war closed,' simply because its :.: beneficiaries had influence enough ia - our politics" and in our national halls of legislation to prevent its repeal. 9 We hear much talk! about "taking r tbe Government out of the banking business,'.'. but" It win never.get out .of the; banking business untiljit ceases to be a sponsor and security for theJiationalbaoksjandLiestores; to the people ttbe power and the, right to' regtilaterthe'if '-Wtr paper currency, of which, they were arbi trarily deprived by the enactment of the prohibitory tax. - The J way to take he ' Government'"; out ot the banking 1 business, from whicfc.it draws little or no benefit, but simply assumes responsibilities and lends its credit to corporations, for which it receives no equivalent, is to repeal that State bank tax and let the peo ple organize their own banks and do their own banking, which" they are more competent to do than the Gov ernment is.: ILthat were done it would tend greatly to take . the money question ' ou V of , politics whether we have the free coinage of silver or not,' and until '.that is done the money question .will, ia some shape; always be a factor in our pol itics and more or less a subject of agitation! , , , , -U If we can't have a" system of State banks' that will take that question out of the national arena, (and that is. now exceedingly , doubtful) the nearer we get to It the better, and the sooner the better.. One of the greatest impediments to "the prosper ity of this country is tbejack of an equable distribuiion of the currency which makes .the other sections de-i pendent upon the East, which is the dictatorial lender while they are the needy borrowers. That is neither a right nor a healthy condition. .r " , siauBTJosjiTiuJf: Our impression is that the leading Republicans and the Populist; ma chine managers are putting up a job to send Pritchard back to the Sen .atevThe interviews which have been given but with prominent Republi cans, In which Ptitchard is represent ed to be a sil ver man, and his card in the Charlotte ' Observer, to which we referred yesterday, are a part of the programme. The card answered the double purpose of denying that the Republican National Committee contemplated meddling in the Sena torial election io, this State, and .-of-currying favor" with the Populists by resenting the intimation that any of them could be bought and expres sing so much confidence in their hon esty and "honor." As a further inter in this direction, we clip the following from the Charlotte News : "Senator Pritchard came ' back to North Carolina from Washington yes terday. . He stated : that he was very confident he would be re elected to the Senate. . "Chairman Holton, of the Republican State Committee, bad a conference with Senator Batter ia the Marble Room ol the Senate,, regarding the election ol Senator Pritchard. x ' : -'-."'.'' . - "It ia said that aa understanding was reached by which the Populists and Re publicans will act together in the Legis lature.. Pritchard is have 'silver views,' and the Republicans who barp;d o much on Pritcbard's manly stand for gold in the campaign are now to tell of bis friendship for silver. It is said that a communication set ting forth Pi UchardY silver views has already been sent to this State; as a result of the conference. , .''Butler, immediately after the con ference with Holton had a conference with Shaford and Ltnney. Shnfotd comes oat in a communicatioa this morning and avows be is not fighting Pritchard. W; -" - "All the s?gos last now point Pritcbard's re-election by the aid of the Populist vote." . As another pointer ;ia this direc tion we reproduce the following from our Raleigh letter, published yesterday:.- ; : ; ; :: s. "Mark Hanna has told Pritchard to put himself on record in regard to tbe financial qaestion as best be saw fit. Io other words, the administration desires the return of Mr. Pritchard to the Sea- ate and. Mr. Hnoa has determined that Mr. Pritchard can change to a silver base without SiCrificing the sympathies)! the new administration. This informa tion has reached here in a letter which I was permitted to see. - Mr. Pritchard will undoubtedly pat bimself on recotd again as a firm believer in free coinage at tbe most advisable time. He is only awaiting the opportunity."; which may occur at any time. - - v Chairman Ater has said obaf Senator Pritchard cannot be defeated jf be goes on record for stiver. Some people think Chairman Ayer had a knife ap his sleeve when he said that." . . There is nothing in' all this that surprises us, for we have thought all along that a gap would be left open tor Pritchard, and that . he could very easily comply ; with the coridi tlon by pledging himself to abide by the instructions of the Legislature as to how he should vote on the silver question, as : Intimated by- Senator Butler in one of bis first public utter ances on this question alter the elec tion. These fellows are playing a game, and if they can play it better with Pritchard than" with some other patriot, they will pull the brambles out of his path and let him in. " . t Under the Republican regime in this State wbatshall wedo with the penitentiary" was a standing ques: tion with every Legislature. It ;was not self sustaining, and. was a source of constant expense to tbe people who were 'itaxed f f or ' its : support. When the ' Democratic party got con trol of the State the plan wajs adopted of hiring; the able bodied convicts to railroad companies to be worked in grading new roads -and thus the ex penses were reduced and the hire of the convicts brought something into the State treasury. Later the plan was 'adopted "of establishing State farms to which the convicts whose time had expired on the railroads and others" were sehrTfcuslTemproying about allheble bodied convicts, the result being that tbe penitentiary is not only self susuinlng but has a large surplus to its credit, thus solv ing the problem,' what shall' we do with the penitenttary.;tAs showing what has been done this year-we clip the following from the Golds koto Argusol lasvTjrjday: s;"'6nr townsman Mr. W; H. Smith re turned yesterday evening from a meet-1 ing of the Bjard of Directors of the , penitentiary of which he is a member, and ia a copvemtion .with thim-tbU morning be -informed ns that notwith standing a lou of (60 000) sixty thou- ; sand! dollars to the peonentiarv-this year by reason of the great floods (over flaws) on the State larm-( worked jbf convicts), the JtJoard will till have on hand, after aeying all tbe running ex penses of tbe institution, (ftO.OOO) forty ! thousand.; aoiiara ol created surplus, without having touched a dollar of the25'000 per-annum appropriated by tbe last Legislature for its running expenses, which sum can be covered back into the State Treasury, and to the tag-payers, to - tbe "credit of tbe De mocracy, to the credit of the Peniten tiary Board of Directors, to the credit of the competent and honest administra tion of Supsrintendent -Leaser, and to the credit of the sagacity of bis Excel lency Gov. Carr in the selection of so suitable a man for the head of this mammoth State institution. CURRENT COMMENT. : The Republicans declare that they are about to make a conserva tive revision of the tariff. 1 It will probably be very conservative. The Chinese are the most conservative people in the world, and a wall built' by them about 3,000 years ago is the regular Republican xaoitl. Brooklyn Citizen, Dem, , - , " . The extraordinary record of the Irish as men of valor, , in .every land has impressed a Chinaman He hopes to revolutionize China and, ia an address to a Chic igo audience he said that he intends to take back home with him ' 5,000 fighting Irish men," and when they ' have freed China. Wwaz will reciprocate by sending 50,000 pigtails to help free Ireland-Augusta nronute Jjcm ' The hew - Immigration bill passed by .the Senate puts the io tending immigrant who has not been tanebt to read and write under the same, ban of exclusioa as tbe pauper, the lunatic, the idiot or the criminal. Aa unfurnished head and an uafurnished pocket are certainly ereat- misfortunes. -But there is much more danger to the country in lettine into it certain eentry who can read and write, and who. have money to pay tbeir way, than in tbe admission of strong-bandea sons ot toil who come hither to better their fortunes by earning honest livings, but who do not know how to read a book or commit a forgery. It is a mistake to .: puV- ignorance io "the same category" wu crimev VWa delphia Record, pent. '""s. SPIEITS. TURPENTINE; Hickory Timet: During the vear the Odd Fellows in this State have made considerable gains. Grand Secretary B. H. Woodell says the order has 5,000 members, and there are 115 lodges. Seven new . lodges have been organized and one re organized. , Wilkesboro Chronicle. Miss Ruth I. Canter, of the Brushies, has in her possession the largest gourd - we have ; ever - henrd of. It holds a half bushel. Jt was raised by Mr. Jno. A. Steeiman about forty years ago, and the Canters have bad it in their possession about eighteen years. Williamsto'n News ; The mad dosr scare has taken the town and the aldermen have ordered all mem bers of -the canine tribe to be muz zled when! taking a promenade on the streets: Another attempt to burn the town was made early Sun day night, - The boldness of the fire fiend is unsurpassed, for - the' night policeman was within ten feet ot tbe tiuildine when it was fired. In bis eagerness to escape detection " the wretch left his oil canfl Fayetteville- Observer; About church time Sunday evening Deputy Marshal Atkinson received a grape viae telegram stating that a moon sbtne stilt was .in full operation all dav on the Sabbath .in Harnett county near Manchester. Getting Deputy Troy and a posse they raided tbe plant a little after midnight and destroyed a 75 gallon copper suji 800 eailons of beer and thirty gal lons of low wines, and were back home before day. : TWINKLINGS. By the way, how ,d d ,that scheme ycu went into po ont the one to set snaar out of beeu? 'I aot beat out of agu."-Cineinnat( Enquirer. . , . y . Mrs. W.Jenkioson, here's an item in tbe Da oer about some to adoDtine a curlew ordinance., What does curfew meat? . W, It meant that there's got to be fewer curs. - It's a sort of dog law. Chi - Hobson What makes Robson look so baDM? Has he been left a tor Dobaon Not exJC-Iy; but he has found ott that he can "bay a Vt name p'aie to pxt on hiei?os. swheeL New York Commercial Advertiser.- .-. - Two Examples: Grade Papa, a monologue is - when people .talk to thmselvet:1ttTM?-- - Papa Yes; or, sometimes, whea they talk to their husbands. Puck. : Like; Other f Medicine: Pene lope I hear you; are envaged to Miss Dmgbatts at last. - Reginald Yes; she refused me six Wmr t. but I persevered. " PenelopeThen yon were well shaken before taken. .ftrrtfM Uf. - Yes,'"! am. a self made : man; aid Oarence Bricktop, proudly. - i "I don't .adraireyonr taie in bair." replied Miss Kiuisb. Harper's Bazaar. ' ' She had been looking at her elf in the glass. .. I suppose III get used to it." she said.1 "but after' what we have been through in the last fe years these tight sleeves actually make me feel immodest. LAtcago rest.. is sometimes imitated1' but joriginality is not all ' thatis lacking" in the" cqpaes-the spiritof the artist "cannot 1 beught by ltut partisan unless both' work together,1 as ; b the great GORHAM t' ibllshment, where ; ' alone the best results are possible, "Too good for Pry Goods Stores-, j Jcwtlm only. GORHAM SILVER f A. SENTENCE OF DEATH. the Tragic Ending of BInrdav Trial la ... ta Tha JTew. WhI. "One of tbe most tragio scenes I ever witnessed,' remarked a west ern Judge at an nptown hotel to a Star reporter, "coourred in a court room in a small town in one of ' the new western states that ia to say, it was new then.Tbut that has been 40 years' ago and T was ont there growing up with the country' and' showing people how mnch law a youngster of 21 or 22 baa at his fin gers' enda The Judge was a man of 60 or more,' and in addition to a most venerable and dignified; appear anoe. ar-d manner ; Be was" the saddest faced man I ever saw. He had come to our town ten or a dozen yeara be fore from the east, and we knew lit-, tie of him, except ' that he was an able lawyer and Jurist,' and that hia wife, who was the only other mem ber of his family, and himself had some great sorrow, whioh they had sought -some escape from; by going into a far country. : "Onrs was a quiet town, and tbe Judge and. his wife, seemed to live serenely enough, but they 1 were evi dently growing old and feeble ahead of their time, - One night our town was all torn -up by a robbery and murder and the capture of the killer and thief almost in the aot. For a wonder be wasn't lynched then and there, but he wasn't, and as soon as daylight came proceedings were in stituted against the prisoner, and I was appointed, with another young ster, to defend bim;S ? "Really there wasn't any defense. and I was frank enough to tell him that he might ba : thankful if we ould save him from a lynching. He waa a stranger in the town, evident ly led there by some stories he had beard of an old miser we had among na, and waa a man of perhaps 33 or 34, with a most unprepossessing ap pearance, greatly accentuated by a week's growth of rough whiskers, years of dissipation and hard living, j In those days and in such cases the law's delay was not much in force, and by 6 o clock of the second , day the prisoner was standing before the judge to receive sentence. As he stood there that day a harder look-. ing customer I think never saw. ' 'Clave you anything to say why- sentence of death should not be pro nounced upon your' said the judge after all the preliminaries were over. " I have, your honor, if you are to pronounoo that sentence, replied the prisoner with an air of almost impertinence,' 'At least, 'j he added half apologetically, 'possibly under the circumstances you - might not care to pronounce it.' ; . . '"fbis was entirely out of the ordi nary, ana l touched my client on the arm and was about to remind him of the customs of the court when the judge requested me tq leave the prisoner to him. u i - ,u 'Will you be kind enough to ex? plain? be said, in a strangely excited tone " -y- .-; j--"" v " 'Well,' your honor,' responded the. prisoner, without a quaver of voice, aa I'm your only son' v; "But the judge heard no more. It was evident that he knew the pris oner was telling the truth, for, with a groan, he threw up his hands and fell forward aoross tbe desk in front of him dead a little stream of blood trickling from his lips. The excitement was terrifio, and in the midst of it the prisoner dashed through a window and. would have escaped, but a timely shot from a rifle in the hands of a man on the outside settled him forever. . And, best of all, his mother never knew. She lingered a few months after her husband's death, and the entire pop ulation of the town considered it to be a sacred obligation, to lie to her about the whole affaiy." Washingr ton btar,.,, . .- " - : ' t , : -1 ,; .- ,Thp Plalet Story, ; "J wish to goodness," observed Constant Reader with some display of warmth, I'tbat editors . would leave off printing these confounded dialect stories. Here's one I can't make bead or tail of, and I doubt if anybody else can." -" : . j - "Let me see it, dear,", cooed Mrs. .Keader.aiJ:Ti':-? -'P . "Oh, it's of no use. If I can't make anything out of it, youon't suppose you can, do you?" . ; -"Perhaps not, but I'd like to see itallthesame' ,'f .:' '-' He handed her the paper, and this is what she read: -"i i - t; r ."Toilet of fancy foulard. The por sage crossed and of guipure. Little 8ultane vest -held in by barettes of velvet with e bows. - High sleeves of foulard, terminated in volants of guipure. Flat skirt, trimmed with a high volant of guipure, eurmounted with! bows of velvet.'' Pearson's Weekly., - ' S&rdoB'c Deb to His WIT. " The first success of MfTictorlen Bardou, the French playwright, Was owing entirely to bis first wife He was starving in a garret and dying of typhoid fever when a poojHfctress,' living In the same building, pursed bim ; back from the ate cf 'death; She; married him and introduced him to the theatrical world of Paris. Ixjndon. Tit-Bits. . Has Soma Idaa of It . Tlnn vvn j . ti on ,1. Ma. ' Almost I loaned a fellow $10 for three days . and V he's had it for seven, rears!" Chicago Record. - APPOintmaott to Visitattoa by'TlBlshop tha r- -:' -r 1 ef .Carolina. - - - . j ,. " " December S5 Cbfistmas, Woodvllle, Bertie count?, Grace. . " J - .1 : December 87, Sunday after Christmas, M. P.J Roxobel, SMarkls, ; s:M. P. Morning Prayer.' v ."" i . i E. P. Evening Prayer. ' Com Commuoioo. - j At all Morninn Services the; Holy Com man (on. . - . ilTbe Vestries will please be ready to meet tbe B'Staop. !t" , J- - j The Children will please be prepared to be catechized. t, Offerings for Diocesan Missions unless otherwise anaoueced. r Catarrh Is'a conititotional disease and requires a constitutional remedr like Hood's SarsaparUla, which panfles.tbe blood. v . -'. ' .... . t ' ' BnekJea'a Araiea tmiva,' T '. "'.' Tax Best Salvb ie the world tor Cuts,! ,. Bruises, .Sores, .Ulcers, -.Salt Kbeura. Fever bores, Tetter,- Chapped Hands, ChilblaintrJra.ad -all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Piles or tjo pav required. It is guaranteed to Rive perfect satisfaction or money re funded.,. Price 25 cents' pef"""box. Tor .sale byyR: R. Biixaky: -1 CENTRIFUGAL FORClf. Aa Able DiMertatloa In a Staeaeoaofc - Wbica Mr. XJaeola Bciucmtwred. ' ,4The late Colonel Thomas l?eilson of Terre Haute, V. remarked .. M. Murphy to a reporter, "belonged to that class' of individuals to whom the growing generation invariably refers as gentlemen of , the. 'old BohooL' jr " -, -- "Colonel Nelson possessed a rioh fund of humorraM be enjoyed tell ing a story just as well if the joke were turned on, him as when the other fellow caught it. - "At an old settlers' meeting in .Terre Haute, in 1885, Colonel Nelson related a story .about his first meet ing with Abraham Lincoln. It was iiL the antebellum days of staged coaches. . One morning the stage ar rived at Terre. Haute- from Paris, Ills., and stopped at the Clark House,' the principal hotel in the city in those days, and among . the passen gers was a longVlanky individual, who, after partaking of breakfast," resumed bis journey to Indianapolis. Colonel Nelson was one of tbe pas-' sengersVand on the way endeavored to scrape an acquaintance with the lanky locking passenger. The latter told-, several funny' stories in the course of their rather - tedious jour ney. Nevertheless the colonel took his fellow passenger for some green country merchant on his way to In-, dianapolis to replenish his stock of "groceries, hardware, eta The colo-p nel also talked very learnedly, and soon the stranger was gazing upon him in a manner , that evidently . be tokened - admiration " for the great wistfom of his traveling companion. 'Arriving at their destination, tbe colonel put up at the principal hotel, and after making an elaborate toilet made his way to the hotel offioe. There he observed his fellow passen ger, the central figure of a group of gentlemen, most of whom were-well known to the' colonel. Stepping up to the clerk, he inquired as to the identity of the tall individual, and his eye was guided by the finger of the clerk to the open register, where he read, 'A. Lincoln,' written in a bold hand. A coating of moisture oozed through the pores of the polo- nel's countenance.: He was thunder struck, dumfounded, and, hastily calling for his 'carpet : sack, sought quarters elsewhere, - , : ,-rr;- 'In 1861 the friends of Colonel Nelson succeeded in securing an ap pointment for -him, and Governor Morton, who was in Washington, telegraphed , the colonel to oome on, and when he arrived at the capital he was told that he would probably be appointed ' minister - to Chile. When he made his call, upon the president, it was with the hope that Mr, Lincoln would not recognize in bin) the stagecoaoh passenger ' who had aired his erudition during the journey of a few years before. ' ; i' "Mr. : Lincoln -r greeted him . oor dially, and . after notifying him of his appointment and expressing the hope that he would accept he looked at the colonel, with a merry twinkle in his eye, and said: 'Colonel Nel son, do you know I have often thought of your talk on centrifugal force during tbe stagecoach ride? Now, colonel, I am going to toss you away off to Chile.' "St Louis Globe-Democrat - - "Twentf Million ArUUanS Sana. - .. Within the 24 hours which elapse from one sunrise until another, the astronomers of the world have not less than 20,000,000 stars within the range of their powerful telescopes, which today point out in all direc tions toward the," blue canopy whioh overhangs the earth." These bright shining, silvery; disks are not in finitesimal points'; of light, as they were formerly supposed, to be, but each is now known to be a burning central sun, surrounded within its, own colony of planets, each of these 20,000,000 "communities of the skies" having its allotted part tq perform in the economy of nature, When we consider that the nearest of these U 250,000 times as far away from our own light and life giver, and that each of those planetary colonies is from 10,000,000 to C00,. 000,000 miles from some other fam ily of swinging worlds, we begin to gat some slight conception of . the grandeur and magnificence of the universe. Another thought in this connection'. Each of these 20.000,000 suns is known to be moving some- -where through illimitable space, tak ing its brood of world with it, soma of them traveling upward of 200,000 miles an hour. It is such stupendous facts as these that .have caused the writer to often remark that no brain can conceive of ; what is meant by "space, ''universe ' or ''eternity.' St Louis Bepublio, - . Soma Sprtma Tama, ', Most persons when they hear a nat uralist tell about peculiar doings by birds, animals or reptiles grin and ask about bis fish. ' One tale, which. no one , but naturalists seem to be lieve, was told in Tbe , Forest and ..Stream reoently by Allen Chamber, lain. r He says he heard a cry down . in Florida such as a distressed - frog makes and found that a black snake waa swallowing a frog. Wbeq the frog was ont Of Bighti the snakerwaa shot through the head and the frog was liberated. At first it was stupe fied, .but was- soon as lively as ever. Within 20 years the same paper has recorded at least a score of just such instances, reported by as many in dividuals, who gave their real names and addressesr and who declared they had seen the stupefied toad or. frogcome to as from a trance, hop about as if dazed, and at last go away as lively as ever, . . S. Dl . Kendall, in. The Forest and Stream for June, I92, told about a mother quail, which in trying to pro? - teot her young got within reach of a rattlesnake The snake was killed in tbe act of rswallowing "the ; Wrd; Whrai released, the bird was for some time stupefied, but after awhile re covered enough to stagger off. On the next day she was all right and oaring; for her chicks. New York Sun. ' - ' - ;--,: 4 A Man st Buonne. - ' "I come to see if .'I could git 50 cents to go and 'see ' my pore old fa-' theri , said the ragged one doubt- .fully.:: - . '. ; ; --: : .. ; ?Say," said tho client, "you runs have forgotten that you bad told me you were an orphan. " - "5: -''Orphan? Oh, yes. This here half dollar is to git into a spiritual ist meetinv Indianapolis "Journal, Stomach, sometimes called waterbrashi and burning" pain,-, distress, nausea, dyspepsia, are cured by Hood's Sarsa-" parilla. - This it accomplishes because with Its wonderful power as a-blood purifier" Hood's Sarsaparilla gently tones and strengthens tne stomacti ana digestive organs, invigorates the liver, creates an" appetite, gives "refreshing sleep, and raises the health, tone Jn cases of dyspepsia and indigestion it seems to have " a magic touch," - - " For over 12 yeara I suffered from sour with severe pains across my abonldera, and great distress. ; X td violent nausea which would leave me very weak and faint, difficult to get my breath. These pells came oftener and more severe. I did not receive any lasting benefit from physicians, bat found such happy effects from a trial ot Hood's Sarsaparilla, that 1 took several bottles and mean to .always keep it in the house.- X am now able .to do all my own work, which for six years I have been nnable to do. My husband and son have also ' been greatly bene-. fited by Hood's SarsaparUla for paina in the back," and after the grip I gladly recommend this grand blood, medicine."' Mrs. Petxb Busby, Leominster, Mass.- - Sarsaparilla Sa the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. St. V-i eure all Liver Ills and flOOUS PlllS Sick Headache. 25 cent. SMDKiriG TOBACCO Kade from tbe Puifgt, Btpest and Sweeten leaf grown In tbe Oolden Belt of North Carolina. Cigarette Book goes with each toa. pooota. . azt tor io cxmrs. : A Pleasant, Cool and Delightful Smoke, trow a Co. Tosacco Works. Durham, n. C. "He died of tobacco' .' bean.' said tbe physician, whea tbe post-mor tem examination oad been coccuded. "Impossible." replied tbe dead man's chum. - "He never smoked anything but cigarettes," New York World. v . marreloae Heaalta. From a letter written bv Rev I Gun- derman. of Dimondale, Mich,' we are permitted to make this extract: "I have no besitatton in recommending Dr. King's New Discovery, as the results were almost marvelous ia tbe case oi my wife. While I was pastor' of tbe Baptist church at Rives function she was brought down with Pneumonia sue ceediniz La Grippe. Terrible paroxysms ot coughing would last hours wab little interruption and : it 2 seen.ed -i it she could not survive tbem. A mend re commended Dr. King's New Discovery it was quick in its work and highly sat isfactory in results Trial bottles free at R R Bellamy's drug store. Regular sixe cue and Si 00. - - Wholesale Prices t urrent. ' fcW" 1 he fonowm anotatHma mm WhnWtoalr Price ceaerallr. In ""Mng ap tmall orderl higher prices have to be eharoed. Toe qnotatKHa are anraya gma aa accnratelT aa pomiDia, oui ue QTAi wui not oe respooaible for aa variatkms from the actsal market priotof tha ankle, BAGGING . . . i . m JUW ..... Sto mach ?"'') (si tv r mi i e . 13 & H - T . - a - O 4a l oo e I io 1 SS 1 40 El 40 - 84 80 O 700 -9 00 a 100 IS 6 '. s a... . WES' . Hama W t : id a 'uaeiaaa a . DRY salk5 . Sldn -...., Shoal.i.ri W BARRELS pi laTarpearina . Secnod-haiid, each . New New York, each. .... v'- New City, each .............. BIISWAXf ............... BRICKS irunuiuv o. -. ... ' norihun BUTTK t North CaroQiia y ft, N rthera ,...,..,,.,,. CORN MEAL - Per Bmhtl, la wh .......... 40 4(j 4H nvrrnil Time M 1 11 " .40 1 so CANDLXS t Sptrm ...... JT...,. 18 7 AdmanriBe S CHKSK . Northern 'mctorj 10 . . DaiiT. Cream. ,...,. ,,.... 11 " Rte . .................. COFFKa W 9 LacnTra........,.....,u.... SO Rio 10 DOMES1JC8 .- cl a a en' 10 a IS YarS",iSach.;:::::::: pjS aj aoaea.,rtt,.M,0. 18 a . so MacVerd, No J, fj barrel ... . SS 00 ' - Mackerel, No 1, tt half-barrel U 00 Mackerel, No S. barrel... . 10 10 - Mackerel. No f half-barrel 8 oo : : Mackerel. No S, barrel. ... 18 O0 j f Mallets, m bariel r. 00 t.-:- Mo ktt, V pork barrel. ..... . - 8 TO N C Rue H.rrin, keg.... - S " '". Dry Cod, W t .............. 8 -i...-. '1. .trt "MiiMii-l S8 F iJUR barret si oo eis w ens oo t 00 14 00 0 s 10 as 50 iewfiade ........ .....a..... 8 88 O 8 TO Choc ,.,.,.,.....,w.. 4 00 M M - w Straight ...,,........,." 4 78 a l 00 Firmt Patent .. : A an a n UL.UB- v mi ...... Tua TTU -T ..- . ....... - y 8V4 ' Cora, froa store, bag White, Cora, a go, ia bulk White.,. :1 Coir, cargo, ia bigs White., . O.tt, from ojs.,,,,,..,,, , 7 Oats, Rat Prool.......,;.. 4Htt as ..45 c40 .. t58-4 40 a 4S 44 S i ' 80 tow f e BIDKS,W oreca tin.tMiimmiM'iiit - o HAY, 9 100 lumtsfiu -. tutera nr.. 105 90 65 ??2Z l .....". LARD, m t - . 1 - orth' n .,..,.......,.... ; lorth CaroUoa ......... . 3i 6 navnvi ".... ... ... ...... .y LUMB.R(ci y sawed), M test ' Ship StnB resawed........... IS 00 Rnogh-dge Plaak......,,,.,, 16 00 Wast India cargoee, aooardiag ehjMw. - - 18 00 Dressed fToorlog, seasoned... It) OJ ' Scaotl aa and Baatd.oauaoa.M Qt MOLASSES, m aallo - New Crop Cnbe, ta khds,. -.: r - a bb..:"! 1 7 PortoRico. jahhds . 85 -:. " ': iabb's ....... - ' .Bapr-Hotahbd. . g . . , os.... ...... .- le IV A 8000 18 0ft 00 nu.5, aeg. ui sua Basts,., S IB .",7- City atesa.,M9v..4s, ..in S. 9 " ... V ' ? JF J - 'CIV ' " ; 10 LtTerpool f . ,,, . jb??? -'.. . . Oo 1 Sacks !40 HINOLES. 7-taca, 'uTZlV 00 SUGAR W kTsuadara'Graa'oji ! ; . cx Y-ifV00" T1MB RVM ft-oofaa':: ' " - MilL Pr ma - S , TALLowTar.:::::::r B t w WHlXE V ga.kw-NUiera. 1 CO tM. North Caroiloa 1 00 O ( fi : COMMERCI ALi WILMINGTON MARKET. . STAR OFFICE. December sa. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothing doing. K:r - " " . - ROSIN. Market firm - at l a ner bbi tor .strained ana - mi oe . iora uood strained.-' ' ; -- ; TAR. Market firm - at ' II 05 . per bbl ol 880 lbs. . -,: CRUDE TURPENTINE. Stead v. Hard 1 40, Yellow Dip I SO. and Virgin 80 per; barrel. Qaotations same dav last year Spirits turpentine 28 K 28c; rosin, suained, $1 85; good strained $1 40;' tar $0 85. crude turpentine $1 10, 1 60, t 60. RKCXIPTS. . . , Spirits Turpentine m 80 49 Kosm ........... Tar ............. Crude Turpentine. Receipts same day last vear 126 casks spirit turpentine. 839 bbls rosin, 408 bbls tar, 81 bbls crude turpentine. - COTTON ' " ' t SMarket quiet oa a basis of 6kc for middling.- Qjotations: - Ordinary ............ 4Jf ' cts fib Good Ordinary 5m y " low Miaanng. ....... oj, - Middline cU - Good Middling. 8 18-18 " Same dav last vear, middling 76. Receipts 1,097 bales; same dav last year 82L . - ' . -COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANU rs North Carolina Prime, 4050c per bushel of 83 poaods; Extra rnme, 65c; rancv, 60 (55c. Virginia Extra Prime. 6065c. Fancy. 6570c CORN Firm; 88 to 40 cents ' per bushel. J - ROUGH RICE 054J75 cents .per busbel.: N. C. BACON Steady; Hams, 8 to UKc per pound; Shoulders, 8 to 7c; Sides, 7 to 8c. -t - ' r- -y SHINGLES Per thousand, five inch. beans and saps, 11.60 to S85; six inch. $a 50 to 8 60, seven inch, $5 50. to 0 60, TIMBER Market steady at 13.00 to 7.60 per M. DOMESTIC MARKETS. - ' " By Teiearaph to the atora- Star. TINANCIAIV. New York. December SS-Evenine. Money on -call to-day easy at 1J per : cent: last loan ; at per cent. clcsinK offered at S percent. Prime mercantile paper SH4 percent. 9 Ster ling exebaoee wat weak, with . actual business in bankers bills 483H 183 for sixty nays ana 4H7487M tor demand. Commercial - bill 4 8248S. Govern ment bonds - firm; United States con pon lours U0J; United States twos 95. State bonds dnti; North Carolina fours ICOr North Carolina sixes 120.; Railroad bonds easier. - - .-v----- - Silver at the Stock Exchange to day 2 COMMERCIAL. ' New York, December 23 -Evening;. Cotton quiet and steady; middling- 7Jc. Cotton futures market doted steady. December o 78. January 0 79. February 8 87, March S 98, April 7 08, May 711 laue 7 19, July 7 20, Aiiaust 7 2. Sales 128.200 bales. . Cotton net recepts 2,861 bales;gross 7 272 bales; exports to Great Britain 370 bales; to t rance bales; to the Continent bales; - forwarded sl bales; sales 41 .bales: sales to spinners 41 bales; stock- 27S 139 bales Total to-day Net receipts 60.650 bales; exporta to Great Britain 25 418 oales; to France bales; to the Con tinent 8.650 bates: stock O18.880 bales ' Total so far this week Net receipts 191834 bales; exports to Great Britain 55,418 bales; to France 84.828 bales; to tbe Continent 37,059 bales. - i ; Total since September 1 Net receipts 4 573.803 bales; exports to Great Britain 1.678 883 bales; exports to France 873 918 bales; exports to the Continent S91.0V8 oales. ; - . Flour dull and prices unchanged Southern dull, steady and uocbanced common to fair extra t3 00Q8 66; sood to choice 3 653 85. Wheat spot mooeraieiy active. jana nmrr; free on board 88c; ungraded red 8098L,c; op t ions opened firm at U0ilc aovat ce. r I iied c.and clossd firm at JiQlHc over yesterday: No. 2 red Lecemaer 88(c;Jannary 88Wc; May 86WC Ju't -c Corn spot dull firme: No. S. 28, c at elevator ana mxc : auoat: nnerded mixed 29c; options were dull and fiim at MC advance; Decern oer 2854c; Ian - any a9c; May 81 jtfc Oats spot dull but steady; options quiet and. steady; De cemDer esc; jarnry c; Hav Sic spot No. 2. 22 Vc; No. 2 white S5Uc mixed Western lk;C3c iard qaict and s eaay; western steam 4 !!,; city S3 70; Uecember 405. nominal; re fined dull; Continent : 4 40-, South Aaoerica $4 75, Compound $4 874 60. fork was 8teady;-ew meis-f tt 2J 8 75 Butter fancy firm; State dairy il 19c: do. creamery ' 143lc; Western creamery 14023c, Elgins 22c Eees firm State and Pennsylvania 22S4. ice boose 15ffll8c; Western fresh 21 83c; do. per case V 04 00; boutbem 212ic; 1 med 1515aC. Cotton aeed oil firmer; crude 20c; yellow prime 23e.v.Rice tairiy active, urm ana ancbaoKcd. Mo lasses firm in moderate demand Mid un changed. Peanuts quiet. Coffee tin charged to 6 points nr; n cember ta S5 January $9 40; March 45; May t9 45 J a: v 19 00; September S 60; spot Rio dull but steady; No. 7 810 00. . Sugar raw Cult and aoninal; fair refining SJgc i.uucu uuu ana nccnaogea. " " - Chicago. Dec. 21. Cash quotstiocs. Flour was quiet and easy at quoiatioea; hard wheat spring patetrta 24 204 60 m wooa, soit wneac patents $4 004 15 hard wheat bakers 3 000 3 80 ia sacks, w wi uteri ,aj VXJIQS gu; winter wheat t4 804 50 io ocd W beat No. 3 spring "Jfc No.8red 88U imse..m- aa . - . T wnt men pora.e votinBO, tro $3 758 77);. - Short rib sides $8 75 4 00. Dry salted shoulders $4 25a uv. juui l ciear iiaas UUQ4 18m Whiskey tl 18 for huh v The leading futures ranged as lollows' openiDg. highest, lowesnclosinjcWbeat iJ?0.V iV.,77J- 76H.-77c: May 78o78. o5j ,. OUM809fii Jnla 7. 75J. 7474 75 orn-De cember 8ttf, 2al 82k. 22&i- TaBn- 225,'. 229, 82V,. 22),: Ma 'wu, Ml 25 X. 8J5WC. OaU-Dj-mr.r;' 1954 lXc Pork January $7 60 7 60 7 6o.760;Ma, 7 94. 7 2C. 7 87 7 90, Lard January 83 83i,, 8 84 3 i&J $r 0 0" 03 4 OiH. Snort ribs January 8 85. 8 85 85;Ma,.$4 00. 4 Baltimore iDec. 2.-F!our doll tad unchanged. Wheat dull; spot SO 9 J Jfc; May 8787tfc; SonthVrn sarnple - 91Q92C; -do on grart., 8640 SUc Corn stead v; spot 27WS?X; . vear; 727Hc: January 87J,272c Febrnary 27 J,27Xc- March MtjaBc SiSf1 miJ? 'XOMej Southern white corn 27c asked; do Velio 37c. 26c; No, 1 muted 22KQ23& : COTTON MARKETS. - . ' Taefraph to tha Moraiaa Stas, 5 L - December 22 Galveston, easy at V i?SFlpU 10855 No'folt fiaV at 6tr aet receipts 9 668 bales: Bal- ha w!' TliM " 7)- receipt. -bales; ' Boston, quiet at 7 K. jiet re ceipt. 1.229 bal. Wilmmgtoin.c!?ie, J4. receipts 1097 bales; Pniladclpbia. quiet .t7Xc net receipts-169 bales; Sal ffllnnah ataaal. .a. aa a m .. . - 40.779 bales; New Orleaas, steady at Wif aetreceinta sa ia ki... . muuue, quiet at t-16. net receipts 3.860 balesiMemphi" 6K ?eet receipts 4.861 baler; aieadr at RV. nM rrinta 1 a Auauiia bales; , J ..VVV Charleston quiet at 6V4.net receipts balest - -' , . 1.844 FOREIGN, MARKETS ; . : - - .; . 1 vB Cale to da Hocaing Star,' lIRPOOU Decv 32 12.80 iP. M. Cotton, good business doae and paces easier. : American middling '4d. Sales 12.000 bales, of which 11.800 were American: speculation and export 1.000. Receipts 29 000 bales, of which 15.900 were American. Futures opened quiet and demand moderate. December 3 57- 64 d; December and January 8 57 61d; January and. february 8 04 Old; FeD ruary and Mwch 8 64 64d; March and April v. 54 61d; April and May 8 55 64J; May: and Jane 8 66 64d; Jane and fuly 8 58 64 J; July and August 57 6td.' Futures quiet..? - 1345 P M. American scot grades 82d lower. American : middlieg fair 4 5-16:1; good middling 4 1 321 mid dling 8 81-33-1; low middling good ordinary 834; ordinary 8 9 16i. 4 P. M. December 8 69 64d seller:' December and " lanuary 8 56 C43 57- 64d seller; January and February 3 50 6 Id buyer; Febrnary and March 8 66 614 baver; March and April 8 56 64 3 57 64d teller;. April and May 3 67 6ld burer; May aod June 8 53 64d seller. J jne aod July 8 68 64S 69 64d baver; Jaly and August 8 69 643 60 41 seller; August and September 8 68-b4d va'ue. Futures closed verv steady. -MAKINE.! ARRIVED. Br stmr Moorby, 1678 tons, Lawrie. South Shields. Alex Sprunt & Son. Steamship Go W Clydj. Chichester, New York. H G Smallbones. Scbr Mary A Hill. 841 ont. Haskell. New York. Gen Hirrtss. Son & Co. S.mr A P Hart, Robeon. Fayette ville. James Madden. '7-,- MARINE DIRECTORY. U8 f TeaaeU 1b tha Port af W1I- alwcto si wC.s Dee. 13, 1896. SCHOONERS. Mabel Da r Hog (B). 11 tons, Roberts Crooly & Morris. . Jacob S Wicslo. 86S tons, Henley, Geo Harris. Son & Co. Emma Knowlton, 853 tor. s, Hudson. Geo Harris, Son & Co. Jno R Fell. 347 tons, Abraham, Geo Har ms, Son a Co. Victory (B). 181 tons. Monro, Geo Har- rissr-eoo a Co. , Florence A. 148 tons, Stout, Geo Har ris, Son & Co. - : ; C C Lister 363 tons, Robinson.Geo Har ms Son Ct Co. W-"- John W Lmnel-. 945 tons, Hacdy, Geo Harms, Sen & Co. . Winnegance SSB1 toes, Mac son. ' Geo '--"'Harms. Son & Co. Cora M. 186 tons, Mitchell Geo Harriss, Son & Co. Acara. 135 tons, Nash, Geo Harriss. Son ACo. . Eva A Daneehower. 317 tons, Johnson, Geo Harriss. Son & Co. Bertha H, 124 tons. LeCain, J T Riley & ' Cf. - " - STEAMSHIPS. GraSce (Br), 1 933 tons, Penniwell.Alrx Sirunt & Son. BARQUES. Ro-a (Ital). 852 tons, Schf&no, J T Riley ACo. UAXTON BUILDING -AND L0A11 ASSOCIATION, Uaxton, N. C. DIRECTORS. D. Croom. Maxtoo Ed. McRae, Maxton. J. H. Kinsey, Maxton. GB. Sellers, Maxton. GJ B. Patterson. Maxton, Wfn. H." Bernard, Wilmiragton E. F. McRae, Racmont. L Toe attention of investors in Wij. miugion is called to the fact that the average profits on Six Series of Stock in thjis Association have been over Fourteen Per Cent. V Initiation Fee, 25 cents per Share .Subscriptions to Stock payable in weekity instalments of 25 cents per Share ;Tbje management is "prudent and economical, as is shown by the fact that the Association has sustained do tosses, and its annual expenses, in cluding taxes, are only about Two Hundred Dollars. " . !i J D. CROOM. President. W. JSj HARKER, Secretary. -. Ja 8 la - - - - . . , . . . 3 Slgnatare Is printed In - t BLUl dlazoaally acroaal the OUTSIDE wrapper . a farther protection r,r,m " v: jl dl imltatlouB. - , AgeaU fsc tha United States. JOHN jDUNCAN'S SONS. N. Y. " octM ir , - ' Tbe Sampson Democrat, " Uaial Erarr Tataraday. 1 . ... :. ' t 'y . .... C L A. i BBTEUKEsEditer and Prop'r SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: - . - One Year $1; Six Months 50c. .It pays business men to advertise in It Rates and sample copies fur nished npon application.', Address ". . v "- ; The :Sampson Democrat, '' W 16 tf . .CLINTON. N. C For went; . 1r- THK STORR No. 108 NORTH K I j 'Ji street,- bow occupied by J. t. Croon C4. Apply to ' tt quiet st JIM '-XJj y of every iT - - - - - bottle of ff y (the Original n H f"iS " - and Genuine) lljr X.' Worcestershire II 7 i Mai ajtaa agsai. II
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