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By WIIiIiIASI II. BERNARD. Wilmington, n. c. TUESDAY MORNING. CkC. 29, 1896 SUGAR F&ODUCTIOff. We wrote an article a lew days kgo on the dependence of this coun try on other countries for many things which could be and should be produced in this country. This casts us millions of dollars annually, and the money goes out of the country, very little of it to return. We had reference la that article to manu factured articles, but we also buy abroad natural and agricultural pro ducts, such as wool, silk, rice, sugar, tobacco, 'nuts, fruits and other things, all of which could be raised in this country, but which we have never tried to raise in quantity suffi- cient to meet the demand. Let us take the item of sugar. The people of this country, consume annually 2,000,000 tons and produce 350,000 tons, leaving 1,650,000 tons to be imported from other countries. for which we pay over $100,000,000. Every dollar of this goes out, and . very little of it comes back. It goes -out annually, not for one year, or two years, bat year after year,, and will go ja larger amount as our pop ulation increases if we continue to - import to meet the demand as we have been doing and do now. if we could not produce sugar enough to supply the- home market there would be a satisfactory "reason for the Impottation, as there is for the importation of coffee,"tea, spices, &c, but this is not the case, for there is no part of the United States be ' tweefl the extreme North and ex treme South, extreme East and ex treme West, where sugar cannot be produced, either from cane or beets. Of course some sections, owing, to , soil and climate, are. better adapted to growing sugar-producing plants than other sections, i)at all sections ; are capable of growing them to some extent. The sorghum cane grows well in most of the Northern and Western States, for it is not so sensi .1 tive to frost as the Louisiana sugar : cane is, and it grows luxuriantly in ; the South when attention is given to " its cultivation and the soil is reason " ably fertile. The Louisiana cane ; can be grown in most of that State, in the Southern portion of Arkansas, in a considerable portion of Texas, ' in Florida, Mississippi and "portions of North Carolina. It is claimed -that sugar cane will grow luxuriantly in any part of Florida, even in. the : pine barrens, and that that State i alone could produce sugar enough to i supply the demand for ': the whole country. This may be saying too i much but there is little doubt that in the cane-growiog area of the States we have named enough could be pro laced -without seriously taxing its capacity to produce sufficient for this country and leave a pretty respect able surplus for export. Bat we have in addition to this an unbounded area 1 adapted to the growth of the sugar beet, which has taken the lead o: cane as the sugar supplier of the world. The produc tion of cane sugar for the world is 3,200,000 tons, of which this country produces only 300,000 tons, not a tenth part of the total, and not a sixth part of the sugar we consume. The world's production of beet su gar is 4,600,000 tons, of which we produce the insignificant portion of 30,000 tons. Germany produces 1, 700,000, lacking only 300,000 tons of as much as this country consumes, and Germany isn't as large arthe State of Texas.Germany.France.Aus tria and -Russia produce 4.000,000 tons, and none of 'these countries is any better adapted to the culture of ,the sngar beet than this' coun try, and perhaps not as-well. We have the advantage of being able to choose the soil and . climate best adapted to it, while hey have no such choice. Their growing season is a good deal like that in the West, short, while we have in. addition to the North and West .with their shorter seasons the semi-tropical re gton of tne boutb, where the grow ing season is long and but little dan gerof frost, giving more time for the plant to mature and reach per fection. ; . - And yeFtr all this wide domain : we produce only 30,000 tons of beet sugar. Tberej are in the United States only nine beet sugar factories," and these in only fire States and one Territory, three in California, two in Nebraska, one In Utah, one in Wisconsin, one in Virginia and one in New Mexico. It is said that It would require seven hundred such factories as these, with their capac ity, to produce the amount of sugar - that the people of this country an nually consume." '' " ' The low price of the staple arm products of the West will in the near future compel the farmers of i that section of the country to seek i other crops. which will bring them ; better reward for their labor. Those of them in the States where sugar . : factories have been established, who . raise beets can realize, four or five .tints as much money from . them, acre foe acre, as they did from any of the other crops commonly grown at the prices that have prevailed for ome years. The low price of cot ton sjll in all probability force Southern farmers to do as the West ern farmers will have to do, seek new . .crops inUhe cultivation c which there mav be more profit. Here is something for the South ern farmers to think about. If they wait until the culture in the West has grown to such proportions as to secure the establishment of a large number of manufactories the West will get the start and it will be "diffi cult to induce men with money to in vest in factories in the South for they will not care to embark and enter into competition with the .Western factories it they should be numerous and strong. If the South gets the start the West will be in the same predicament. The section that takes the lead and makes the most progress will be the one most benefitted, and be most likely to retain the lead, which the South- with her natural advantages could easily do.: While there are inducements in beet culture for all sections, there are special in ducements for the South, for there are immense possibilities in it for this section. It may be said that we have no factories now, which is true, with the exception of the, one that is in Vir ginia, but we will nave no factories until we have beets. ' The beet goes before the factory. When the beets come in sufficient quantity the fac tories will come. . . MLMOK JUSAT1U9. We have in these columns-devoted 9 ... considerable attention to the subject of nut-culture as an inviting and profitable one for the people of this section, and have tried especially to direct attention to the pecan and walnut, in each of which there are great possibilities both in the nuts and in the timber, which in time would pay a handsome,; profit if nothing were realized from the nuts. Bat this subject has attracted atten tion in other States and nut-growers have been making experiments .that may, if they prove as successful as represented, : materially reduce' the cost of production and lessen the time for the realising of profits. One of these experiments Is noted by the Greenville, S. C.,News as having been made by a nut-grower in Florida who grafted some soft shell pecan grafts into hickory trees, the result being that tn three years he. got a paying crop of pecans without hav ing to wait several years longer, for the young pec in trees to come into profitable bearing. The News mentions this as a bint to South Carolina land owners, but seems to be in doubt whether the pecan will thrive in South Carolina generally. although it has no doubt that in some localities it will. The pecan is as hardy a tree as the hickory, and will thrive any where that the hick ory will. They may be found scat-" tered from Maryland and Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico. Occasion al fy, but very rarely, the frost nips the budding hickories in this State, but this is only when the budding is very early or. the freeze is vefy late. The danger of frost is so little that it need not be considered as one of the factors in the business. But the pecan is no new experiment ; in this section for there are thousands of trees in the forests, and many people have some trees planted about their dwellings from which they have been for years gathering nuts for home use. This settles the question of the adaptibility of this section to their growth, and if- the hickory-grafting process be a success, (and we see no reason why it should not), it will settle the question of raising large quantites of nuts at a comparatively small cost. Some ot the Star's subscribers have planted eroves with the choicest seed. r It would be worth whUe for some of them to give this grafting process a trial, y Prof. Booker T.Washington, Pre sident of the colored State college of Alabama, to whose wise utterances we have several times called atten tion, has been talking some more hard sense, this time in Springfield, Mass., where h delivered a lecture a few days' ago, from which the follow ing are extracts : "Few of voa. JLfear, realize what yon asked the South to do immediately af ter the war. Returning to their desti tute homes after years of disastrous war to face blasted hopes,-- shattered- tadns- f trial systems, your southern brethren brethren bad to reorganize or create a new industrial system, to put on foot oat o their poverty a system of public schools. Besides, you ask them to add to their own hardens and perplexities that of preparing in education, econom ics and politics, for citizenship within a few short years .4,000 000 of former saves." - .,. . I "Heretofore we have bad too much of the idea that an educated colored man most either teach. preach, be a clerk, or follow a profession. Oar educated rqen must, more and more, go to the (arms, into the trades, start brickyards, saw mills, factories, open coal mines. Tbey mast apply their education tococq aer the forces ot nature. " Education wuhin itself is nothing except at it ia used in a way to make the world better and more aiefui; unless it is used in a way to pro duce sometDing. AO eaocated man standing on the streets with his hands in his pockets is of no more value to the world than an ignorant man doing tbe same thing. IsMhe eientconditloD of our race oar education for the next 60 or 100 years should be especially di rected along industrial and scientific lines." v mc luriner or. tuese paragrapns is aIain statement of Several tacts, not entirely new, however, to the people toSrtom it was made, for many of tberealized It fully but thoognt they re punishing the South, which was iore of an object with them than th elefoit or bet terment of the emancipated sia The second paragraph is tbeutter. ance of a man who has given the subject of the -elevation of bjf thorough study and shows not on! in this bat in everything be has sal on that" subject (and he has talked much on it) that Jbe fully compre bends it. . " Mr. McKmley went to church while he . was ia Chicago, and , the preacher recognizing the "advance agent of prosperity." in closing his sermon,' "looked straight at Mr. Mc itinley and said: "We all look for better" times.,.- We expect they! are coming right off." Some of the congregation "uttered," s and Mr. McKioley had a far off look. He was '-. not-, right sure - whether --the preacher was really looking for bet ter times, or poking some clerical fun at him. There "1s no accounting for these Chicago preachers. CURRENT COMMENT. Tbe shrinkage of Value in stocks in tbe New York market on account ot the Senate committee's Cuban report suggests the possibility that perhaps some of the Senators but then, of course, they would not speculate. Indianapolis Sentinel, em, ' We notice that some New York millionaires are buying yachts from England instead of having them built at home. - One man bas just received a John Bull craft cost ing $500,000. His ' great fortune was made by bis fath'er in, this conn try. Augusta Chronicle, Dent. Perhaps ia nine cases in every ten the reports ' of alleged "race wars" telegraphed from-the South are mere perversions of such common b.awls as are lidely to. occur when ever and wherever the connection is made between a ' mean man and .mean whiskey. They are christened "race wars" by men who know that when so called they, may be worth $5 each,-while if they .were called dis turbances of : the peace tbev could not be marketed at all. N.Y.World, Dem. , Colonel ' Richard Malcolm Johnston was true to himself and to his people, when in his speech tbe other nightat the banquet of the New Eogland Society of New York, he repudiated tne new South idea. ' The South," said Colonel Johnston, "I do not say Ihe new'South; ft is old South, continuing fond of her traditions and ashamed of no part of her history," etc. There is nothing more sickening than to hear a South era man talk about "ihe new South, particularly if he is addressing an as semblage of Northern men. Rich mond Dispatch, Dem. ' ; TWINKLINGS. - (i - Algernon "Two years ago I though she was the sunbeam of my ex istence. - i.r'-t Dick'Then she's anl ex-ray." Ntw York Journal. , - Amateur Humorist "That is a prettv good jke of mine; don't yoa thirkso? Experienced Editor "Well.it is just as funnv now as it ever was. Sommer ville Journal. - r". "yvnat do you think of my French, Jules ? " I asked ol my Pans guide. " It iss vondeilul. madame," he replied, courteously. rrla all my life be fore I never have heard anysing like it." Household Words. - Teacher Where is joy, health and happiness to be iouod? i Tommy In the dictionary. New York Advertiser. She My brother Tom played with your foot ball team, dida i her He Yes; be did. She Aod hs was a fall-back or half back? He Neither. He was-er-a drawback "Walter," you remember, the ordrr I gave you Yesterday." "Yes, sir; will yoa have tbe same to day f VYes; it ought to be ready by this time. N. Y. World. "I guess I can manage to stand it when yoa call a nlty-cent piece a ball dollar, but when von speak of a slab as a slob, I want it understood that I will Permit to such language. Cincinnati Jznquirer. - -.- ':.-'' - t " Brown "I wonder who origin ated the ides that it is unlucky to begin ant thing on Frula " Kobiason "frobably it was' some lazs IndivnTtaHrbo preferred to wait un- tu Saturday? Puck. - uidboy "say, ) plumber, o yon are a venr improvident ' man,' leaving those pieces of lead. , nuts aod screws Ifiog about. They'll sure'v be lost." Leadly -Ob. no. - You'll find 'em all in the m l'ffarlemJJe. Weldon News: Mr. Walter Shields' dwelling," near Tillery, was burned to the ground last Thursday He lost nearly all bis furniture. Mr. C H. Hale's son, at Halifax,was broken into last Friday night by an known thieves and robbed of about $60 worth of goods. The rogues have not been captured but Mr. Hale has recovered some of the goods. The store is supposed to have been robbed : by two convicts, recently discharged from the State farm near that place, who were seen in .town Friday. . : , - f;;;??, Ministers Shbuld Use Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. WHEEB IS NO PROFESSION, whose J' B labors so sererely tax tbe nervous ays- tern, as that ot the ministry. Tb.de- rangemesiof the nerve centers of the brain by over work, frequently brings on attacks of heart trouble, and nervous prostration. Ber. Jr. P. Keater, M. D., Pastor TJ. B. church; London Hilla, Ills himself a physl elan, writee Feb. 20, 1899: "Beart affoctloa and nerrons prostration bad become so serious last fall that a Uttie over irorxla tbe pulpit would so completely prostrate n Tir UTilPC that It seemed certain w muatreUnqulsh the work Heart i:nre of the ministry entirely, . t Heart palpitation became KSSlOreS so bad that my auditors TJaoItU would ask me if I did not AXfMUUmm , h9,r heart disease. lAst Kevsmber I eomtaeacei taking Dr. Mile. Kew Heart Cure alternately with Ds. Miles nervine and derived the greatest poesibla benefit. - I have liist closed revival work of T.7, preach In g nearly every night and "'uu -Cinatn, lean speak for hours Without suffering sl-aeriy an. Hard Working ministers should keepOn-.S(ues Krand remedies on liand. x s.- Dr. Miles' Heart Cure to sold on guarantee, , flrst bottle wiu Denent or money refunded. Pain has no show with Dr. JUies Pain Pills. No morphio. of opiam la Dr.' Miles' Paj tuiM vniAiina. -UMcescadesa." ' m)f DntgM. CCassgs, jos wit . i .. as mm SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Charlotte News: T. P. Hunter. Esq., of Derita, cut down . a bee tree one day last week aod got sixteen pounds of honey,'- two squirrels and -one opossum. Mount Airv News: CoL A B. Galliway, of Elkin, raised 40 bushels of Irish potatoes on less than one- eighth of an acre, r He then sowed the land in turnips but owing to the dry weather; the firslsowibg failed. tie sowed tbe second time about the middle of September, and on the 9th of December -dug" 85 bushels from thef sowing,'- besides using turnips from the patch all the Fall. Raleigh - News and Observer: Major Sidney M finger dted in New ton Saturday morning at 7 o'clock. He bad not been in robust health for some ti:re, but his death was so un- unexpected as to shock all his friends. A free dispensary wi l be opened early in the new year in connection with the schools of Medicine and Pharmacy at Shaw University.--; The members of the medical, faculty can be consulted at stated hours without charge by needy and deserving col ored people. - If medicines are nec essary, they will -also be furnished free of expense, - Wadesboro Messenger: Mrs. Dr. P. T. Beeman died at her home at Peacbland last Saturday, after a long illness. Isaac M. Wiiliams, Esq., died at his home near Polkton last Saturday afternoon', after an ill ness of several months, aged about 65 years. Miss Fannie Mclntjrre dted at the home of her father, Mr. G. Mclntyre, in Ansonville town ship, Monday night, aged about 18 years. Officers raided an illicit distillery that was doing business in Lilesville township, near the planta tion of T. J. & C. N. Ingram, last Monday night, and destroyed tbe whole ontfit, .. Monroe .Enquirer'. Mr. John Meigs .'died at his home in Marsh villc township, on December 18ch, 1896. He waiseventy-eight years old. Mr. Jackson Gatbings died at bis borne-at Prane Station, Mississippi, December 9th, 1896, in the seventy fifth year of his age. He was a very prominent citizen and a good man. He was a native of this county and was a brother of Mrs. S. A, Covington, of this place.' Some time ago Mr. Bryant Williams, of Rock Rest, found a bee tree on Mr. B F. McLarty'e land, two miles east ot here. On last Saturday Mr. Williams and Mr. Mc Larty took , eighty-four pounds cf nice honey from the tree. There were two large swarms of bees in it Some time - ago Mr. J. D. Hen dricks, of Marshville township, found a bee tree and when he cut it down found that there was seven feet of the hollow, which was about a foot across, fall of comb. He sawed off a section of the tree and carried it to his house and the bees are content ed and at work tn their new quar ters. This i not a good week for bee trees either. Don't dallv with rheumatism. Purify your blood and cure it at once by taking a course of Hood's Sirsppanlla. t EXERCISES FOR THE THROAT! ": A BrameJb of. Physical Cnltnre Not Oftea Touched On. . The chronio sore throat is not Infre quently produced by the misuse of the vocal organs. Very often that unruly little member, the tongue, is accounta ble for the difficulty, as it is for a great many other troubles in this transitory life. ., Many people have a habit when talking of pushing the tongue so far back against the delicate menibranes that line the throat that irritation more or less painful is caused, and if it con tinues any length of time ulcers will form, and so will a doctor's bill. Control of the tongue is excellent in all senses of the word. Physically this organ may be managed by depressing it into a hollow at a poni three-quarters of an inch back of where the tip of if eomes when in a natural-position in the mouth and at the 'same time singing very light head, tones. This exercise requires some patience at first, but the habit of keeping the tongue down is soon acquired- In speaking or singing it should not be allowed to hoop up and fill the mouth, thus interfering with the free passage of the tones of the voice from the throat to the front of the mouth, where they should strike and then escape clear as a belL This hoop ing up of tbe tongue in the mouthts the cause of much cf the indistinct and slovenly utterances to which we are too often obliged to listen. In many people we notice the line from the point of the chin to the neck is in the form of a right angle. In shapely throat this line forms a curve just as a canary's' does when the small yellow artist is warbling bis carols. - To develop the throat and make this angle a curve, stand before a mirror so that you may watch the throat swell out Now thrnstyour tonguffout as far as it will go, then draw it back quickly and forcibly, at the same time bringing it downward in the mouth as far as you can. " Place your thumb and forefinger againBt the larynx (commonly called the Adam s apple), and if you are mak ing the right movement ryou will feet tne larynx pass aownwara. jror a week or two make the movements lightly. After that time put as much force into it as you. can. The exercise should be practiced for a few minutes several times a day to insure rapid and; good results. , . To fill up the hollows of the neck. stand correctly, and then slowly fill the lungs with air without, elevating you; shoulders. As the air is forced upward into the throat hold it there a few sec onds andihen expel slowly. This exer cise is best performed soon after rising in the morning and before retiring at night New York Post An Anomalous "Bruiser." - . : Conper, "the ex-prize fighter; and author," who was one of the enrolled in tbe police force during the trou pies at Johannesburg, formerly en joyed a great reputation in Sooth Africa by defeating a local Goliath, in Kiraborley. Since then he has done' a good deal for athletics2 in South Afrioa and has written a took, bo exceptional accomplishment for a prize fighter, bus not surprising is Couper'a oaae, sinoe ha ia a well ed-' noated man andy indeed,- in 'most matters a oompletd contrast' to the accepted type of " bruiser." " y "Ef I bad your luok and yon, bad mine," said Dismal Dawson to one Of bis prosperous clients, "I a'poae it would be me helpin you."- , ; lok?.M answered tbe prosperous -pib. "I made all my money by bard worsv r-.: . f VTbat'a where the luck Aggers, Yon as -borne4 with a-Jikinfoy, work, I wasn't," Indianappli TfiUE TO HIS 10 YE A HUSBAND WHO CHERISHED THE ; H EMORY OF HIS DEAD WIFE., The Peculiar FssUoa In Which Be Shewed BIS ralthfulsjaas Always Acted As if His Wife Was Still With Him Tha Fa i tlieUo Story Told by Hotel Clerk. The Sun reporter was leaning in a graoefol attitude gainst the counter of an up town hotel office, conversing in an insonfiiftnt and nonchalant mannnr with thej haughty and imperious clerk, as reporters always do, when a nice looking old gentleman, with just enough provincialism in his appearance to show that he was not a New Yorker, though he might have come from Philadelphia or any other rural district, came up to the register as if he had been there be fore , and wrote . his name and address: In a few minutes the clerk' had sent, him off to his room with' a bellboy and resumed his conversation r ; "Queer old chap," he said, nodding in the direction of the, departing guest The reporter ' whirled , the register around to look at thjFname. -, i 'x"es?" he repliedjiuesoningiy, "t see that he has signed himself and wife. Where's the wife? In the ladies' parlor? ' , "That's the queer part of it, " contin ued the clerk with an evident purpose of telling a story, and the reporter be-, came interested. - "There isn't any wife. He's a widower, and has been for 15 years, but he has been signing it that way for the ten years I have known him. He is now 60, and was married at 40, and the romance is as pretty as it is pathetic." -1 ' i "And unusual, ventured the report--er, "if he is faithful - to the memory of one woman, and that Woman his wife.; -Widowers are not all so." '. "That is why .this one's story is the more interesting. ' Let me tell you. At 25 he was a poor young clerk in a west-' ern town and was romantically and deeply in love with a pretty girl of 20. It may be said that she was in love with him, too, but, he, had queer no tions, and as they were both poor, and a rich ' man. was anxious to many the girl, he never told bis love, but let con cealment like a worm in the bud, feed on bis damask cheek, as it were, and be pined in thought and with a green and yellow melancholy sat like patience on a momujaent while the other man mar ried her. i - . ' ! "At 84 she was a widow and poor, ' for her husband had - dissipated his for tune, and our friend here, still; a bach-. elor and as much in love as ever, was a successful merchant This time he was braver, for he w as-possessed of the sin ews of war, and within a year's time, he bad married ber. It was rather hasty on her part, possibly, but he bad wait ed long enough and was so importunate thvt she compromised with him on one fear instead of the regulation two 'of widowhood, r They came to this hotel Ja their wedding tour and were here Two weeks, and one of the proprietors of the hotel informs me that he never has seen a couple more suited to each other and better satisfied with each oth er. After, that he came to the city in the spring and - autumn to buy goods, and she always accompanied him, and they seemed to be no .farther away from the honeymoon season, with each recurring year. ; ,- v "At last after the fifth spring trip, he did not come, but bis manager did, and he said that the wife bad died and the husband's mind was affected, though they hoped he would come around all right in time. In the following spring he came again, but he was not the same man any more. His mind was clear on all business matters; but be was 'queer' about his wife, and a sadder faced man couldn't be found, anywhere. The old plerk, who had been at the counter On his previous visits, was there when he came again, t and after greeting him pleasantly turned the register around for him to sign it He responded as usu al, and when the clerk looked at the name it was followed as before by 'and wife, as he had been accustomed to sign it The clerk was about to call his attention to it, but a second, thought prompted him not to notice it, and he sent the guest -to the bridal chamber, the room he and his wife always occu pied, as they did on their first visit "During bis Btay of a week he had very little .to say, .and if any reference was made to his wife he responded as if she were still alive and was with him at the hotel. At the table, too, be had a place for her, and her meals were served as if - she had been there to eat them. (When he was ready to go and came for his bill, it was made out as usual, and he paid for two people with out oominent Ten years ago, when I came into the office, I received my in structions concerning our peculiar guest and have since my first meeting him acted with him exactly as if he were ac companied by his wife. . I have learned that he follows the same, course in all that be does in any way connected with her. He buys two railroad tickets, two theater tickets, two places in any con veyance,, two every things, where she might have gone with him, and on trips where she would not have accompanied him in life, such as short trips from bis town or to affairs of any kind where it was probable she would not have cared to go, he provides only for himself. He seems to understand what she would be doing j all these years and acts accord ingly. You noticed him sign that regis ter and go off up stairs?" concluded the clerk. Well, be does all the rest in the same confident way, just as if she were with him and his first consideration was for her." "You may not be a poet, said the reporter, "Dut tne story you, tell is a poem that all men should learn and cherish in their hearts. ' ' New York Bun. The Trench Institute of Science had under diaenssian tha nhAmlitrr n barks possessing an industrial value, t is shown that the gums and cements which bold together; the filaments of fiber are composed essentially of pectose, cutose and vasculose, while the fiber itself is composed of fibrose, cellulose and its derivatives-i-the theory, therefore, of degumming or retting being to dissolve and wash out thrgums without1 attack ing the cellulose; while, in order to eliminate the vaseulose and cutose, air kaline oleates or caustic alkalies under pressure are found to be necessary, and even bisulphites and hydrocblorites. The gums being thus dissolved, the epi dermis is detached and can be separated mechanically frpm the layer of fiber by washing. An important point involved is that upon the degree .of cleanness of the fiber must depend the expense of this degummiug operation. ' In the construe tion of machines for this purpose it has been assumed that there is but little dif ference whether the ribbon to be operated upon is simply stripped bark or a well decorticated product as . the' revolving agency, followed by a volume pf wateiv may be depended upon to render tbe sep ration complete and to wash out all ex traneous matters, giving tbe pure fiben The quantity that may , be turned out in a given1 time, rather than quantity with quality, has been the main consid; eratipn.- Te waste matters in the baric of ramie ataiks-nruBtf bewbolly "elimi? sated before the fiber is fit for ihe spin, ner, and Jthe" machine does not so complisb any part of this work the do gumming bath must do it all, but at a cost in direct ratip to the percentage p waste matters remaining in tbe ribbons after leaving the machine, - - Wood asy, to Take , asyLtcJ Operate Are features peculiar to Hood's PillsJ Small in size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. AS one man "lT said: You never know yB""S Fills have taken a pill till It is an over." 25c. C. I. Hood & Col, Proprietors, Lowell. Mass. Tbe oaf pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparllla. smmuimiiimuNiiHnHiuiMNHMnniMiiHiiiniinf E iSLni:flIlET0BACC0j Kids from the Purest, Ripest and Sweetest leaf - grown in the Golden Belt of North Carolina. Cig- S SareUe Book goes with eaehsoa. pooch. S ALL FOR io CENTS. 5 "a Pleasant, (ool and Delightful Smoke. s Lvon Co. Tobacco Works, Durham, n. C: 1IIIIIUmHIHMUMllM.lilltrtllMIIIIMIUIUMMiUliMUE " The Judicial Dictionary. The Century, Standard, International and Encyclopedic dictionaries are stead ily falling behind the courts. One re cent decision establishes that when a man is hanged by a mob it is an "acci dent." A child whose parents are liv ing baa also been declared by an end nent judge to be an "orphan," and when life insurance was taken by a man while unmarried it was judicially de clared to have been 'effected by a hus band.'' In addition to these an unmar ried woman has' been declared by our highest .court to be a 'single man. Exchange. ' - Sir. Peppers Sag-rests. ' "How the wind howls tonight!" said : the melancholy boarder. . "I shouldn't wonder if it had the Joothache," suggested Mr. Asbury Pep pers. .; "Toothache?" ' ; "Yea Have you never heard of the teeth of the gale?" Cincinnati En quirer. - - .. . "Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of jnromise translated out of seeing into hearing. Mrs. L. M. Child. . - Buckles' arnica SaiTe. Thk Best Salvk in the 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 pa? required, it is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money re funded. Price 25 cents per box. For tale by R. R. Bellamy t ' IThe Discovery Saved Bis Life.' Mr. G. Callouette, Druggist, Beavers ville, III , says: "To Dr. Kicg's New Dis covery l owe my Hie. Was taken with La Grippe and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told I could not live. Hav ing Dr. King's New - Discovery in mi store I sent for a bottle and began its use and from the first dose began to get bet ter, and after usicg three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won't keep store or house witnout it. uet a Iree trial at R. K Bellamy's Dru Store. Wholesale .Prices Current. aw The foOowiiK oaotatwns bhiumi iThnlnuli Prices feaaaily. Ia "i Bp small ordenT" higher prkas have to be chaxaad. ' Toe quotations an aiwajs giTea as accarateiT as possioa, hi taa stas win not ds rsspoaiiMe toran variations inns the actual saatket price of the anklet BAGGING . StJate.,...ft.. S Mna-a WI8TBKN SHOKID- HanuJB is s f H 7 : ia m a Shoe den f) S DRY SALTED en : Sides n s Shoulders 9 t BARRELS opiri s Turpentine - . Second-hand, each '- Vvw New York, each, . New City, each BKSWAX 9 BRICKS Wilmingtaa M...... ... 1 00 1 89 - SS S 50 9 00 I 10 140 1 40 : si O TOO O 14 00 rioruiftin BUTTE North Carotins f k N rthera i 15 ft S3 d 40 ft TH 40 & 4 ?H Q 1 SO . 18 as ft i 10 10 ' II U a is O io- SO Q ' 10 ft is a so ft . .: tUKN M&AL Per Bashel, in sacks ....,.,. Virpaia Meal. , nmm COTTON TIES-fl bandls,... CANDLES W t- - opyroi t. ' Adtmaatine1.,,.,.,,..... ... CHEESE 9 1 - Northern Kactorj - Dairy, Cream. ..,,,.,,.... Ktne COFFEE ugnrra ..,,,t,l.,tlt,,M DOM ESI ICS Sheet'-nf . 4-t, V yard.,.,',..., Yrns. W bunch. ........ ' noaan ..... MacSereX No 1, barrel .... -Mackerel, No I, half-barrel Mackerel, Not, barrel..... - Mackerel. NoSr- halt-barrel . Mackerel. No S, barrel VMl3iirrai - Dnav; ,-r '. f VTJR-B barrel . Low grade tsoo asioo II 00 IS 08 18 f0 18 00 8 00 POO IB 00 14 00 a oo s oi 5 75 e SO 8S s 10 8 SS S 50 - 8 88' 4 00 4 75 8 75- uioce Btreight. W 4 60 6 00 First Pats IWWt.w,...,,,,, 4 45 5 TM r?t tiv CO 8 4 45 40 K if GO GSAIN-S ba tMS Cora, fro store, beg- -White, Cora, a -go, ia bulk White... Com, cargo, is haa White,. 40 80 40 45 u n, tram s oie ... Oata, Roat Prool.,. ......... jow -ea BIDES, f fj . . Green . " Dry BAY, 100 t- Kasier ? We-tern 105 90 a 85 North RiTcr. HOOF IRON. LARD, m t- ortae' a ."..... rrJi0 CnroUnsv..,. LTMB f) barrel " LUMB R(ajr sawd),y M-fee: 5 1 15 snip oiun reamwea., Rnaxh-rdse Plank .. t 9000 t 18 00 . . West India cargoes, cordinf ...... io uu to qualitv ressed Flo 11 00 8 63 18 00 aoo Dressed Flooring, teasSiusd Scant! at and Boar td. dommon.14 0 ft IS GO MOLASSES. ealioD 8ngsr.Hose,ta:::::;j:; PRbV Gty Mf3sa...t,v..J.;. . 80 ft 14 , 15 a 8 19 S9 00 8 8 85 SS O 75 66 ' 65 w4.aa ' SALT,; sack Ahus 10 oTiahr""'"--- muni 7 ... w w o 40 v uCAi w at ........ a ev q au I 80 1 80 iTT -- -"w.url,,., ri 3 I SUQAlsJi 'lira Grass " " a cVgoW'iit:::-' 4 S2A?. V aWNatthe nartk CaroUs-,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 1 00 f 00 COMMERCIAL. .1 WILMINGTON MARKET. STAR OFFICE. December 88. M SPIRITS TURPENTINEMarket upmioai. Later, sales were made at.. 24), cents per gallon lor-' ma-cbine-made casks, and 23& cents lor country casks. ROSIN. Market ;s. firm at tl . 45 per DDI tor strained ana f.1 ou ior Good Strained., t ..... . , - TAR. Market quiet at $1 00 per bbl ot880 fts. - - - CRUDE TURPENTINE. Dull. Hard 1.40, YeHow Dip 1.90. and Virgin 180 per barrel. . Quotations same dav last year Spirits turpentine 2827Kc; rosin, strained, $1 85; good strained $1 40; tar $0 95; crude turpentine $1 10. 1 40, 1 80. . - RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine. . . ... . .. . 99 Kosin . ... V.; ... . 1,48 Tar ...169 Crude Turpentines. ............ 00 Receipts same dav fast veatr-79 casks spirits turpentine, 1,008 bbls rosin, no ddis tar, obis crude turpentine. COTTOK Market quiet on a basis oi 8 9-18c for roiddlinir. Qjotations: Ordinary 4 8-18 culb uood urdinary.i..... ,0 B-1S low Miacuing . e b-i - Middling ....... 6 9-18 " Good Middlinc;...... 6 " -- Same day last yr, midaline 7kt - Receipts 605 h bales; same day last year 134. . .. j ' . : . : . ; r COUNTRY PRODUCE. -PEANUTS North Carolina Prime. 4050c per busbel of 28 pounds; Extra Prime, 65c; Fancy, 6065c Virginia iutra Prime. 6065c; Fancy, t570;. LUKW-rirni; 88 to -4.0 cents per DusueL ' ROUGH RICE-6570 cents per Dusuei. : ; N. C BACON Steady; Hams, 8 to lljc per pound; Shoulders, 8 to 7c; Maes, 7 to bC. , : , CSHINGLES-per thousand, five incb bcarts and taps, $1.60 to 3 25; six inch, $2 50 to 8 50, seven incb, $5.50 to 6.60. ' TIMBER Market steady at $3.00 to 7.ou per M. ? . DOMESTIC MARKETS. - By Taieirraph to the Morni-3 Star. FINANCIAL. Niw York, December 28-Evenine. Money on call to-day easy at l4 per cent; ust loan at - per cent closing offered at 2 percent. Prime mercantile paper 4 per cent. Ster ling exchange was steady, with actual business in bankers bills 4833$ 84 lor sixty aays ana 4.8t).o87 lor oemand Commercial bills 482K483X. Govern ment Donds biguer; United Mates con pon fours 111 ; United States twos 95; State bonds dull; North Carolina fours 1023;North Caiolina sixes 122K- Rail road bonds firm. Silver at tbe Stock Exchange to day was negiectea. . COMMERCIAL. - ' " Niw YORK? December 28 -Evening. Cotton quiet; middling 7 1 16c. Cotton futures closed steady at the de cline. December 6 67. January 8 68, Feb ruary 6 76, March 6, 85. April 6 93. May 7 01, June 7 08. July 7 10. August 7 12. September and October 6 85, November 6 87. bales 194.800 Dales. v 7 touon-uei recepts aio Dales; gross o.eaa oaies; exports to Great Britain oaies; to f ranee bales; to the Continent 1,793 bales; forwarded vol Dales; sales 1,321 bales; sales to spinners 68 bales; stock 293 248 bales. Total to-day Net receipts , 60 509 bales; exports to Great Britain 80.b64 Dales; to France bales; to the Con' tinent 4 733 bales; stock 1,834,360 bates. lotaiso tar mis week Net receipts 09 74.2 Dales; exports to Great Britain 13.864 bales; to France 8.280 bales; to the (continent 16,020 Dales. - . Total since September 1 Net receipts ft iO,o8 oaies; exports to Great Britain 1.766,098 bales; exports to France 897.861 bales; exports to the! Continent 1.002.685 bales. - Flour. market was dull but steady winter wheat, low grades $2 203 80; fair to fancy $3 854 75; do patents $4 90 5 25; Minnesota dear 83 60&4 00: patents $t 255 25;low extra $9 S08 80; soutcern Dour was dull Dut steady common to fair extra $3 OOQS 55; good to caoice 0093 oa. wneat spot dull and firmer; No. 2 free on board $1 O0Jf; nngraded red 80c $1 00: op tions itavancea iglcaeciinea Q7ic, rallied Wc and doted firm at M&l He over Tburaday; Na2red Decern otr w6Ci January 90c; March OlKc: Ma 88WC. Cora spot moderately active and firmer; No. 2. 29Xe at elevator and HOLTr afloat; options were dulL and firm at c advance; December SSc, January 29W.:; May 81 c. Oats spot quiet and steady; options dull but steady and KV,c lower; January 28Jic; May 24c; spot-- u. a, no. i wuite zoc; mixed vrcstcrn onsj4c tara was quiet and firmer; . Western steam 24 10: city i no. T . a . . a . r ww, ucramget nominal; re- nnea quiet: continent $4 S3; South America $4 65. comnound x4 S7t.A fin Pork marker firm and quiet; new mess 18 258 75. Butter fancy steady; State dairy 10l8c; do. creamery 1481c; ncsteru creamer lSStc; Klsias 22c B.ggs in moderate demand; State and rennsyivania ii4; ice bouse 1518c; - Western fresh 2023c; do. per case $2 00 4 00: Southern 19fit22c: limrl i.tiz. Cotton seed oil steady; erode 20c; yellosf tniwc oH). Kice nrm aod fairly active; aonustic, lair to extra 8V6c Japan 4H4Kc Molasses firm, with a' moderate demand; New Orleans, open kettle, good to choice new 2584c Pea nuts quiet; fancy band-picked 4c Coffee quiet and 5 points up; December $0 60 Jaouary $9 65; Match $8 70. May 9 65 May $759 80; July $8 75 G 9 80; spot Rio dull but steadyt No. 7 $10 12X a .alrrawiluli bns8tedi fair refining 18-16c; refined Steady;- off A 44UC, standard A 4c; cut-loaf and crushed 1 granulated 4c. ; Chicago. Dec. 28 Cash Flour as quiet and firm t ' bard wheat tpring patents $4 804 50 in wood; other grades unchanged Worat lit 8 !?riog t?79 No. S red 89V lc Corn No. 2 8288c. Oai No. 8 1717Xc.; Mess pot $6 V bhort rib sides $3 75f8 Hi Dry salted jhoolders $4 254 80. Wniskey $1 18 for bigb-proof spirits .. Tne leading futures ranged as follows: opening, highest, lowest closing:Wbeat Oecejnoer7 79. 78. 78Vi May gieh 82.82X.81X 82cJu.l6 77$2 76c Corn Decern bet iU 88W a2 88; January 83 88V asltf 82lt M?.' 85X 85V. SMimHnH0-t& cember 165s. 16. 16W, 16UC. Mao mi 5 77i o ootr ;r ."""" Baitimo; f Dec 28 -Flour dull- qV f ne" do"! Pdt v2Xc; May 88X 89c; Southern by samplT9394c Oo u 3c Corn steady 't7JjC February 27Vft27Xe S85Ci Sotbern white corn 29V. 5S3ch,1-, COTTON MARKETS. B Tekarapei to the Moraine; Star. December 28-Galyestoo.- holiday. receipu 10,705 bales; Norfolk dull I ft ! " 7Jy, i ""7"' way xt go. 4 03U, 1 nH ,1' ' Short ribs-Jaooary $3 80 I Sh4oq; iMay,14 ' at K. net receiots 6 081 bain- n.t tiroore, nomial at tX- - net receipu uaica.fi ousiun, ... ootiuay, net receipts vtv ; oaies. Wilmington, quiet at 9 16i receiots 655. bales: PhiiZri.t,"1' quiet at 7 5 16. net receipts 618 bales- ' vannab, qu'et at 6VJ. net . recemt. 4.757 bales. New Orleans., quiet at 6 net refcemts IB 734 bales; Mniu ' 6Jgvr4et receipts 2186 bales: Mernpbi. Bicaur u u, net receipts t,3ft Dalrs Aaetuta.outet at SV. Bet o r,o bales;; Ctaarjeston. qilet at 6 b d, net receipts oaies. - '-" J A'k v ' m m - . . rUKtlUW JVlAKK.ltTS j ,By Cable to tbe Morning Stat; LlVIiPOOL. Dec. 28. 12.30 P m Coit.in. yquiet. American middiine 8 18-82d. Sales 8 000 bales, ot whirh 7.400 were American; speculation and expop ouu. Receipts, bi.uuu bales of wbicb 25 400 were American. Futures opened quiet and demand moderate uecemDct a oi-oa; uecemner and Jan uary 8 69-641: January and February 8 57 i43 68 64d; February and March 8 6T 64a3 68 64d: March anrl a ..i 8 5f 64 68 64d; July and August o ytu, umuici quiet. Tenders bone. , . 4 f.-M. December 8 67 641 bid; De ceruort and January 8 55-64d buei; fanuiry and. February 8 64 64d value' February and Marcb 8 64-64d value Maidu and April 3 64 64d buyer: April and May 8 55 64d seller; May acd Jure 8 65 1643 66 64d seller; June and July 8 5864d buyer; July and-Aoguu 3 67 64d Seller; Aagost and September 3 5 613 66-64d Value. Futures closed steady.'- . r MAKINE. II ARRIVED. Steamship Morgan City, Leech, Bo--tqo. H G Smsl'bones. v.- btmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette ville.) fames Madden. Schr Daecechower. 217 tons. Johoion. Baltimore, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. ... jj H LCARtiJ. . .: Steamship Morgan Qty, Leech, Jack sonville via Charleston, H G Smail bones. Stmr A P Hart, Robeson, Fayette vilie,; James Madden. EXPORTS. COASTWISE. Niw York Stmr Geo W Clt dawtm balesli cotton, 478 casks spirits txrptn tlne. 307 bhls main Mil htla r fifin feet lumber. 10 000 bolts. 150 psrgs mcse. MARINE DIRECTORY. LUcjor V oaae la la tits Port r Wfl. r amlnartsH, W. c., Dee. SO, IS84. i I SCHOONERS. ' W G Wickham. 816 tons, Eivan. Geo Hirriss. Son & Co. ' Ida C Schoolcratt 80S tons, Baoje, Geo Hart its Sen & Co. Morancy. 160 tons, Torrey, I T Ri'ev 4 Co. Lucta Porter. 833 tons. Farrow, Marjr A Hall 841 tons. Haskell. Geo Harriss, Son & Co. Mapel Darling (B), 111 tons. Robens Cton!y4 Moiris. Jacob S Wir slo. 865 tons. HenJey. Geo Harriss, Son & Co. Emma Knowlton, 853 tors. Hndson.Geo HSrnts. Son & Co. Jno jR Fell. 847 tons, Abraham.Geo Har- rus. Son & Co. Victbnr (Br), 131 tons. Monro, Geo Har " t iss. Son A Co. C CjLister 863 tons, Robinsoc.Geo Har ries. Son & Co. Winlsegance 251 tors, Macson Gec Hkrnts. Son & Co. CorijM. 186 tens, Mitchell. Geo Harriss Son & Co. Acara. 135 tons, Nash, Geo Harriss Sora V & fO. ' EvaA Daneohower. 217 tons. Johnsow. Go Harriss, Sen & Co. Beniha H, 124 tons. LtCain. J T Riley 4 3 STEAMSHIPS, by (B ). 1,173 tons, Lswrle, Alex Sprunt & Son. Grafloe (Br). 1 832 tons, Penniwell.Alez. Sirunt & Son. i BARQUES. Roa lull. 852 tons. Sckffino. T TRilev Co. ' CliTislmas PDrchasers. Just Eeceived A! large stock of the following H Wines Liquors: Native N. C ScuppernoDg Wine.. Cooking; Sherry Wine. DurT Gordon's Wine, imported. ' G. H. Mumm's Champagne.. Wernex's Champagne. Cochrane & Cantrel's Ginger Afe. Bass' Ale. Guiness' Stout . Old Breezeland Rye. Pure native North Carolina Moun tain) Corn Whiskey. -.Apple and Peach Brandy. :At low prices. Give us a call. SOL. BBAE, No. 18 Market Street, dec 23 tf Wilmington, N. C. The Sampson Democrat, 1 l ; allalial Krary Tkaradaj. l A. BETEDKEEiitor and Prop'r ; SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1; Six Months 50c :! r" T UU1UCS9 UICU tU aUfCUIW Rates and sample eopies fnr- uibuea upon application. ... Aaaress The Sampson Democrat, feb 16 tf CLINTON. N C jji Combination Bicycle , , FOR SALE. iM A Combination "Crnsader" Bicycle, for either lady or gentleman. Cush Ion Tires. JBrand new. Will be sold cheap. Call in person, or address fff.:-:. -r;:';---?;-tf : M., at iji a.0 7 tf - St sb Orvirm ii-f 18 HIGHLY BECOMafXNDKD AS 1 EEMEDT - FOH JLDHS DISEASES j riVHt. AND AS A.: . Preventive for 1 vphoW. Malaria. ; A Bel all klads of Fsvers. . Art K. FOVGKHA et COw, Hew Tor. ji iDiuifciDl ill iiwm ssii; ra sow
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