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I. x Br VULUfl H. BERN 1BD. wxLMiiroroir, n. or WlDNESDAT MORNING. DEC. 30, 1896 715 AH CI AL DEPENDESCRs, In some, respects this is a great country, the greatest country in the world, and yet ia other respects it is In a .condition of shameful depen dency on other nations. We are not only dependent for many manufac tured articles which we could and should manufacture ourselves and for natural ' and agricultural pro ducts which this country could pro-, duce if the proper effort were made, but with all our boasted wealth we let other countries dictate our finan cial policies and are dependent upon them for the money with which we build and equip our railroads, estab lish steamship lines, .improve our cities, open and operate mines and do sundry other things which re quire, a large amount ot money. Even our Government is at times dependent apon the assistance of foreign money-lenders for the money to meet emergencies. . r There is no more excuse for this than there is for oar buying abroad the things that we can make or pro duce at home, nor as much, for no country as rich and resourceful as this is, should be dependent upon any other country' for a dollar, and no country as rich and resonrcef ul as this is, should be without its own fi nancial policy. Financial indepen dence is almost, if not quite as im portant as political independence. It might be disputed that a nation which is financially dependent apon other nations, is really politically indepen dent in the treatment of these ques tions which most directly affect the prosperity and happiness of its own people. The Indebtedness due by our Government,by our railroads and other enterprises to the money lend ers of other countries is estimated at $5,000,000,000, one half the value of the railroads in the United U States and nearly one, twelfth of our esti mated national wealth. The annual interest on this amounts to about $200,000,000 and that must be paid and paid in gold, paid in gold be cause our so-called statesmen were stupid or criminal enough to demon etize silver, and adopt the gold standard of the countries that we borrow money from, i To pay this interest in gold takes at least $400,000,000 of the earn ' ings of the railroads and other debt ors who owe it, for they have to buy the gold and pay the difference be tween the value of that and the cur rency with which j they buy it. There are very few of our principal . railroads which do not carry more or less Indebtedness abroad, and 6ome of them a very heavy . indebtedness, heavy that they have been : swamped in the" effort to carry It. This is what has put nearly one-half the railroad mileage of this country in the hands of receivers within the i past five or six years, and what will put more of them in the hands of re ceivers and eventually in the hands ; of European' bond holders if our present financial system be perpetu ated. We ship to other countries anna- ally the surplus products of our fields and millions of dollars worth of manufactures, and it takes more than the difference between the value of these and oar imports to pay the annual interest on our debts to foreigners. The advocates and defenders of the monetary system which results ia this tell as that there is moriey enough in this country. If there is money enough why are we forced to go abroad to borrow? Why do we owe $5,000,000,000 on the other side of the ocean ? We go abroad to borrow money because . interest charges are lower there than : with us. This is proof that have not money enough, for if we had inter est charges would be as low . here as they are there, and thre would be no occasion to go abroad to find "cheap" money. Our $62,000,000,000 of national wealth, .ought 7 to be ": equiva lent to that much banking capital and yet we have but about $1,800, 000,000 of currency, and less than oae third of this passes as money with our European creditors, and that is locked up and must be - bought when needed to pay foreign debts or home debts , that are . pay able by agreement in ' gold. How can we prosper as a nation when our foreign creditors hold us in such a vice-like grip, and take so much of ' our earnings to pay ; the debts , we -owe them? Can a railroad which has to earn $1,000,000 to pay a $500,000 debt prosper?: But this is precisely what the railroad has to do which borrows money and-agrees to pay it bact in . gold and to pay the interest in gold, : and it is precisely what every rail road and other enterprise is doing v which borrows money and obligates - itself to pay in gold. ,. It obligates itself to pay in a coin that mast be - - bought, and can not be earned for it does not receive gold in payment for services rendered, or something furnished. It takes Its pay in the. ordinary currency of. the country - which passes from hand to hand and i . is good for all except the greedy and . dictatorial money-lender. ; - ; ; So it has been going on ever since this Government was entrapped into acquiescence in the money system of England, the creditor nation of the world, which has made her wealth, or rather the wealth of her wealthy (for the masses of her people are poor enough) by lending money on her own terms to more needy and less thrifty nations, and when she got them in her debt being shrewd enough to .influence them tq adopt her monetary system.. In that way she has made the nation's of the earth tribute-payers to her and this conn, try one of the greatest of tribute payers. : . Opinions may differ as to what may be the best monetary system, but however they may differ as to this, no nation can be permanently pros perous which lets another nation say what its monetary system shall be. We have paid the penalty of that in business' adversity and in a foreign indebtedness the proportions of which are amazing, 'and will in crease rather than diminish if the present ruinous monetary system be perpetuated. -. ffiSOK KEHTIOJ.. The Star contends that the best use to which State convicts can be put is in making new and improving the old higbWays, a fact that do State has yet, as far as we know, eaught onto, although there has been a good deal of talk on that line in a number of our State Legislatures. Under the law in this State counties complying with the conditions which wish to avail themselves of the privilege, can work their short-time. convicts - on the county roads. Several counties have taken advant age cf this, among them Mecklen burg, Wake and Forsyth, in each of which the roads - have been : very much improved. sWake county em ploys about thirty-five hands, under the superintendence of Mr. W. C Mc Mackin, supervisor of county roands. In speaking of the advantage to the farmer and others, but especially to the farmer, with a representative of the Raleigh Press and Visitor he-calls attention to some of the practical benefits .derived from good roads. Referring - to . railroad freights he shows that it costs the farmer more to haul his produce to the railroad stations, an average distance, say, of twelve miles, than it does to carry the same amount of freight : four hundred miles by rail, and yet much fault is found with the railroads for what is considered by some the high charges for transportation. With good hard roads he maintains . that the transportation to the stations which over bad roads costs the farmer thirty cents a ton could with good roads be done with one fourth of that, without taking into con sideration the lightening of work on men and draft animals and the wear and tear on wagons. There are other advantages.reaped both by country and town, to which Mr. Mc Mackin calls attention, and others to which he does not allude, one of which is the enhanced value given to land along these roads. He shows also that with the labor-saving ma chinery now available, the cost of macadamizing roads has been re duced from $6,000 and $10,000 to $1,000 a mile, and where convict labor , is employed to" $750. With this showing of cost, there is no good reason why any county which can command convict labor, or any State, should not have -good roads. -: The Richmond Dispatch recently commended the utterance of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, when at the Christmas banquet of the New England Society of New Yorx, he said in response to a toast to the South, "The South, I do not sly the new South; it is the old South; con tinuing fond of ber traditions and ashamed of no part of her history.' In commenting upon this the Wash ington Post pays the following clever and truthful tribute to the old Sooth as she was and is: "The Post has always been impatient of this silly gabble about the new Sooth. There is no inch thing. The expression is never nied save by politicians or noto riety seekers or beardless yootbs who knew not the thing they speak of a hav ing vanished. It is the same old South, cherishing the same old patriotic tradi tions, inspired bv the tame patriotic pur pose loving the country, jealous of Us dignity and honor, readv to die or suffer for -it always. It is in the South that the language, the Ideas, and the practices of the American fathers find their moat perfect preservation. It it la the South that anarchy and other foreign teachings of social agitation have received the least encouragement. It is to the South that the country some day will have to look for the protection of our social and polit ical institutions. These people wbo prate about the "new South" are either talk ing ignorantlv or for their own aggran dizement. The South was the home of conservatism before the war. The Sooth nnder the changed conditions is the na tion's citadel of conservatism still. The Soutb's ideas and .aspirations may not please Wall street at times, but should the Uaion ever be confronted by any genuine peril, either from abroad or from w.thin, there is not a county in any Southern State but will give In her de fence more pluck and backbone and de votion than the whole bagging swarm put together, with all its connection thrown ia for good measure. "Believe' ns, it is the old South still, and the day mav come when every ci?i l.ztd citizen of the United States with Anglo-Saxon blood in his veins and the love of enlightened free Institutions In his heart will be glad that it has changed in nothing. '' According to the Chicago Railway Age, there are now in the - United States 182,800 miles ot railway. For the past ten years the " increase of mileage -annually has been small compared with some preceding years, the builders evidently moving cau tiously, and takings few ' Chances. For the present. year the road 'mile age, amounts to 1,802 miles, dis tributed among -thirty-eight States and Territories; California,;, leading with 186 . miles, Louisiana comlnz second with 154 miles. Out of the 1,802 miles the Southern States get 550. -North Carolina shows op with 40.50 miles. But there were a good many States that had lass than this, some very little more, and some none at all. Of course " we cannot expect a very large construction now in the country at large to com pare with the years of great activity ten years ago and previously, for many of the States have all the rail road facilities for which they can find profitable use. "The"; seats of activity in the future will be in the younger States ot the West and 'in the South, neijher- ot which , has as much railway as it, needs, j1 The South needs much more, and when the building era begins this will be the section of" the greatest activity. CURRENT COMMENT. ' - A prominent Chicago mer chant states that, if he were begin ning his career over again, he would make climate, a prime factor. He evidently thinks that the young men ot the West, seeking success, should go fouthward.--iM Chronicle, Dem. ... . . Another bank failure yester day. Fifteen or more banks have failed within a month. Gold fake papers before the election intimida ted voters by threatening the pros tration of every bank in the United States if Mr. Bryan was elected. Indianapolis Sentinel, Dem. We can always find clews to the coming good times in the opti mistic predictions of Henry Clews, who never is, but always to be blessed. This man can find more unsatisfactory conditions In the present hoar, and brighter prospects in the folure, than any of the other disaster bemoaning rainbow chasers of . the times. Washington Times, Dem. - So many persons have been poisoned by canned food of late that it is a question whether the use of tin for this purpose should not be prohibited. ; Among the rest twenty five cavalrymen at . West Point suf fered the other day from eating canned bead cheese. Could such a thing happen if the goods were packed in glass or stone jars and hermetically sealed 1 -Brooklyn Citi ten, Dem. SPIRITS TURPENTINE.. Charlotte Observer'. Mr. Daniel Sifford dropped dead Saturday morn-J ing in ADernatby s store, at Staaley Creek. He was about 60 years old. Lincoln Democrat'. On Wednfs dny morning about 10 o'clock Mr. J seph Jetton was missing from home, and upon inquiry and investi gation he was found in his barn dead. He was about 76 years old. He died ot heart disease, Morganton Herald: A Berk shire hog weighing 654 pounds, gross, was killed at the State hos pital on the 16th inst. The- net weight was 606 pounds. This is the largest porker so far reperted to as. Mr. Charles M. Huffman, ot Lower Fork township, killed a hog on the ISth inst. which netted 477 pounds at 14 months old Oxford Ledger'. Lemuel Sullivan a prosperous farmer of Wilson connty, had been to town Tuesday and was on bis way home when he struck his horse which was very fiery, whereupon she began to furiously kick. Mr. Sullivan was knocked from his vehicle, and lay senseless until found by some neighbors a short time afterwards. He died in a few hours. Franklin Press : We are told that a very rough looking specimen of humanity has been camping along the range of the Nantabala moun tains, for several weeks past, ranging from the bead of Burningtown to the bead waters of Coweta. He has an old frying pan and an ax, and lives on what he can pick up in the way of corn and meat. Nobody knows his name, where he came from, nor what his object is for living wild in the mountains. Warrenton Record: Mr. Plum mer W.' Green quietly passed away last Tuesday afternoon, at bis resi dence in Warrenton, surrounded by bis devoted daughter, sister : and brother and friends. Mr. Green was blind. Has been blind for many years, caused by injuries received in the late civil war, through which he served as gallant a soldier as was in Lee's army. Mr. Green, though totally blind, knew his friends re markably well by their voices, and be was a most delightful companion. QUARTER" MEETINGS. ' Rev. R. C Beaman, recently ap pointed by the North Carolina Annual Conference of the M. E. Church, South, Presiding Elder of the Wilmington Dis trict.baa made his appoictments for the first round, as follows: Wilmington. Fifth Street church, Jan uary 3. 8. Wilmington, Grace church, January 9, 10. Southport, fanuary 16, 17. Scott's Hill circuit, at Scott's Hill, January S3, 24. Wilmington, at Market Street, Jan uary 81. Wilmington. Bladen Street (night). January 81. - Burgaw circuit, at Rocky Point, Feb ruary 6. 7 Clinton circuit, at Keeners, February 18 14. Jacksonville and Richlands, at Tack-, sopville, February 20, 21. . Eozabeth circuit, at Elizabethtown, February 27. 88. Kenansville clrcait, at Kenansville, March 6, 7. Onslow circuit, at Queen's Creek, March 18. 14. Brunswick circuit, at Concord, March 20, 21. ' ' Columbus circuit, Evergreen, March 27. 28." Whiteville and Fair Bluff, Whiteville (night), March 88. Waccamaw circuit, Shiloh, March 80. Magnolia circuit. Magnolia,- April 8, 4. Bladen circuit, at Bethlehem, April 10, 11. . ' Gaffer Queer .never could stand prosperity. . Bland Why ? Gaffer last as soon as he began to make money the police swooped down and arrested him for counterfeiting. Phil. North American. t Why not profit by the experience of others who have found a permanent cure for catarrh in Hood's Samoa- Ua? V- TWINKLINGS. Dombey When your wife gets angry won't sue speak to too ? i Capt Cuttle She won't do sashing else. Tit Bits. His Poignant Grief: What on eatb are you howling ao hard about, Fredd ? - "Dddy whipped me." "Well, what if he did? You've been whipped-before and the occasion doesn't call for such heartrending grief." ' "Bat he w-w-w-whlpped me with a s-s wicb cut from the .Christmas tree." Truth. - - - ' Tommie I've got $8 In my bank. ."' , Mr Freshman Indeed. Where did yon get it nil ? Tommie Every time sitter Lil gets a new beau be gives me ten cents to stay cut of the parlor. . Now Tommie has got $8.10 in bis bank. Puck. First Motorman I believe I will buy a bicycle and leara to ride it. ; Second Motorman Nonsense. , You will not be able to run into wagons on a bike. First Motorman I know. that, but people who are walking will not be able to get out of or wav by getting off the track New York World: - p i ' How many men did we kill in that last battlf?" asked Weyler. r ' You said 8.000," replied bis secretary. " The General thought a moment; then he said: "Well, that's a good round round number. Lit it go at that!" Atlanta Constitution "No, there is one thing, my daughter is not being married tor her money. I have made inquiries and find that her intended is not only free from debt, but tnat he's had excellent expec tations." - "What on earth is he marrying hit for, then? fudge. Tommie -Tompkins -Pa, was Senator Duckworth, who died the other dav. a politician or a atatesman? Tompkins Nobody knows yet, my son; his real estate hasn't been appraised. Truth. , V . - - "I don't see the use of puttin' Mamie in short pants," said Mamie's brother scornfully the third day after she had aDpeared in ber new - bloomers. "Willie!" exclaimed Mamie sharply. "Well. I don't care," retorted Willie "Now you've got 'em you can't climb a tree an' you know you can't, so what's the nae of puttin' up a bluff that you're a boy? 'Omaha Bee. - USES oV COLLEGE TRAINING. Hot to Make Experts, bat to FIf Hn Far Larfc-e, Intelligent Work. "It ia not entirely 6afe to claim that every kind cf success, even of legitimate success, will be promotedJjy a college training, .' -writes Rev. Charles IL Park hurst, D. D., in The Ladies' Home Jour naL "If I had a boy for Whom it was my supreme ambition that he should be- 'oome rich, I should not send him to col lege. So far from helping his prospects in that direction it would probably dam age them. Money making is a trick. The easy acquisition of it is a knack. It involves the condensation of interest and faculty along a particular line, and that a narrow line. There is nothing to hinder a very small man from being a very wealthy one. Shrewdness does not imply a bigmindedness. - I might say with a gcod deal of assurance that it implies the contrary. . And shrewdness has more than anything else to do with the acquisition of gain. - "There are a great many things that can be best done by the man who does not know too much, ct, at least, by the man whose intelligence is concentrated at a single point cr along a single line. The mechanic who has come to be known among us as 'the wizard' would, perhaps, have been more cf a man if he had gone to Harvard, but it would prob ably have spoiled him as a 'wizard. Genius is presumably always a species of. mania, and liable, therefore, to be come' something very ordinary if suc cessfully subjected to the processes of the asylum! They had better be kept away from college if the design is to make them experts. College will be able to give them a character of ; 'all round ness, ' but a knife cannot be round and sharp at the same time ; neither can a boy. ; "If we are going to do large, intelli gent work, (he prime condition is the possession of an intellect trained and stocked in the same general and com prehensive way. College training is simply the process of intellectually get-J vuig reauy, nut getung reaay lor uus, that or the other specific mental service, but simply getting ready planting down a broad foundation of preliminary big enough to support any breadth cr height cf superstructure that there may be need or opportunity to put upon it The college course and the requisite preparatory training cost about seven years of the best and most possible peri od of a man's life. '' But if a young man 4 hopes to do a large, solid work in the world, a work in which intelligence of a broad kind ia to play any considerable part, and there is no' antecedent obsta cle in the way, he makes an -irreversible mistake if he considers seven years too much to pay for a liberal education. " ; Hla Liberal Reward. .. The champion .mean man up town seems to be a young man who recently advertised in the papers offering a "lib eral" reward for the return of a pocket book .containing $30 ; in cash and some valuable papers. Two young men found the pocketbook in Norristown and called at the loser's house to. return it - He handed one of them 50 cents. The find ers i protested, saying that it had cost .them 65 cents to come' down from Nor ristown, and that- they hadn't enough money to get heme again. The fortunate owuer of-Jite pocketbook dismissed them with the remark' that he couldn't help that Philadelphia Record. - - A not One. - - "Smith gut off a bright thing the oth er day." . "What was it?" , ; "A lighted cigar some one had-carelessly dropped into the chair he sat on. " Detroit Free Press. TEwo (Soob i Resolutions I FOR THE . . NEW YEAR t J Never to buy Silver that isn't. GORHAM Silver. j : 2 Never accept what Is offered for GORHAM Solid Silver, without J V Knowing that it bears ' ..theTrade-mark: Lion, Anchor, Letter G. fl00 Ood foe r.v n wf w r. t LADY DAY OF MARCH. IMPORTANT IN BOTH SECULAR AND .y .RELIGIOUS CALENDARS. Why the SSth of Uarch Ia Venerated In England What Happen IT It ralla on V Barter Secularly Considered It Ia the . Beginning- of Oae of the Year's Quartan.-. - The 25th of March is an important date both" in the secular and religious calendars. It is the first quarter day ia the year and as such comes home to most of us who have before our eyes the fear of payment of rent or the rarer pleasure of receiving it The- pay days in England have been arbitrarily fixed on Lady day, Midsummer day, Michael mas day and Christmas day. , Why? No body has been able to explain, unless it be that arriving, as they do, near the end of each quarter, such important days are better as reminders of our duty to our landlord than any ordinary 80th or 81st of the month would be likelyto But-it is, of course, as one of the great festivals dedicated to the Virgin (as its name, Lady day, or the old term, Our Lady's day, implies) that it has most importance being the anniversary of the day when the angel Gabriel an nounced to the Virgin the mystery of the incarnation, t Four other dates in the calendar share the honor of this ti tlenamely, Feb. 2, or the Purification ; July 2, or the Visitation, to commem orate the visit paid "by-lhe Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth (instituted by Pope Urban VI in 1383); Sept 8, ;-or the Nativity, and Dec. -8, or the Con ception. - . But the 25 th of March, or the An nunciation, is most regarded, as it is the anniversary, according to St Au gustine, of the great event to which it owes its origin, and the institution of this festival dates from very early times, since St Athanasius makes mention of it in one of his sermons. " An 6rders of the Patriarch Nioephorus having given permission to break the fast of Lent if the Annunciation happened to fall on the Thursday or Friday of Holy week, a council convened at Toledo in 656 to preserve the complete observance of Lent and ordered the transference of the holiday to the week preceding Christ mas. Some of the eastern churches still follow this decree, but the Syrians have fixed it on Dee. 1 and the Armenians on the 5th of January, while in the Latin church it has resumed its old place in the ecclesiastical calendar. In the western church, if it should fall in the Easter fortnight, its celebration is postponed until the second .Monday fol lowing the festival ' Lady day of March has always been very highly observed in England. The synod of Worcester, 1240 A. D., by one of its canons forbade all servile work upon it and this was afterward con firmed by various provincial and dice-' esan councils in all respects except ag ricultural labor. " . ' -V In Rome, in the early part of the cen tury, the day used to be celebrated with great pomp and splendor. . We read that the windows were hung with crimson and yellow silk draperies and occupied by females in most ' gorgeous attire, while the churches were patrolled by the pope's horse guards in their splen did full dress uniforms, all of whom wore in their caps a sprig of myrtle as a sign of rejoicing. Before the service a procession appeared, preceded by anoth er detachment of the guards mounted on black chargers, who rode forward to clear the way to the sound of trumpet and the beating of drums. This martial array was followed by a bareheaded priest on a white mule, bearing the host in a gold cup, at the sight of which ev erybody prostrated himself. - The pope used formerly to ride on the white mule himself, and all' the cardinals used to follow him in their magnificent robes of state, but as the eminentissimi were for the most part not jvery eminent horsemen they were generally fastened on lest they should tumble off. . ; It is not to be supposed that in this country the day would be without its tradition or superstition, so we find that it was considered a publio misfortune if Lady day fell on Easter day, and the mediaeval couplet runs: When our Lady falls in our Lord's lap, " Then England beware of great mishap. ' No less than 13 saints figure in the calendar on this day. Of these two were ladies St Dnla-andSt Ida; one Irishman, St Cammin, abbot of Inis keltra, and two' Englishmen, . St Alf wolf, bishop of Sherborne, and St Wil liam, the child martyr, of Norwich. ' In The Calendar of the Anglican Church we find "a statement showing how great in ancient times was the ven eration for the Virgin in this country. Published in 1851, the book states that no fewer than 2, 120 churches were named in her honor alone, besides 102 where she was associated with some other saint On the authority of. the same - work, pictorially the Virgin is nearly always shown kneeling or seated at a table reading. . Of the great masters of all countries and ages whose genius has been lavish ed on this theme it will be sufficient to mention the brothers Van Eyck, Loch nerof Cologne, Albert Dnerer, Andrea del Sarto, Vasari, Louis and Annibal CarraccL Guido, Charles de la Fosse, Lesnenr and Murillo. In connection with the day it is per missible, perhaps, to conclude with a "chestnut" that owes its origin to the poetoffloe. It is said that a few years a go a country gentleman wrote a letter to a lady of rank in town and sent it through the post, with the following ad dress: "To the 25th of March, Duke Street London. " The postman is said to have delivered it at the house of La dy Day, for whom it was intended. Pall Mall Gazette. Where the Bee Works. . f , Properly considered, a beehive is a wonderful shop, and each individual insect is a curiosity. The inhabitants of a hive are classed as' drones, workers and queens. The queen is the. mother of every insect in the hive unless she has been installed instead of a queen who had died and left the hive without a mistress. The queen bee is the wonder of the whole insect tribe aa far as egg laying is concerned, often depositing 4,000 eggs a day for days in succession during the most productive season. The chief wonder connected with the work er bee is the admirable manner in which his body is shaped and fitted with in struments for honey gathering. These natural - instruments consist of cups, combs, brushes, knives, funnels, scrap ers, eta, each of which is worthy of a week of careful and painstaking study under a high grade microscope.- Chica go Chronicle. , : Hand's Presenee of Blind. ' --Minnie Did you hear of Maud Edith's wonderful presence of mind? - Mamie Dear me, no. What was the occasion?..;.- "Why, when her wheel began to run away down hill, she pulled back on the handle bars and screamed 'Whoa!' as loud as she could.? W Indianapolis Jour nal. -'; -, ; The, barber's art in Europe dates from the time of Alexander- the Great B. C. 880. He ordered every soldier to shave, lest the beard should give a handle to their enemies. - " ' ; :. The birds of the south polar regions migrate north on the approach of win ter. . ' ! President Isaac Lewis of Sabina, Ohio, Is highly Tespected all through that section. He has lived in Clinton Co. 75 years, and has been president of the Sabina Bank 20 years. He gladly testifies to the merit of Hood's Sarsa parilla, and what he says is worthy attention. " All brain workers find Hood's Sarsaparilla peculiarly adapted to their needs. It makes pure, rich, red bio. d, and from this comes nerve, mental, Sodily and digestive strength.. "lam glad to say that Hood's Barsspa rWa ia a very good medicine, especially aa a blood purifier. It baa done me good many times. For several years I suffered greatly with pains of Leuralgia In one eye and About my temples, es pecially at night when I had been having a bard day of physicand mental labor. I took many remedies, buj1 found' help only in Hood's Sarsaparilla which cured me of rheumatism, neuralgia : and headache. Hood's Sarsaparilla has proved itself a traa friend. I also take Hood's Pills to keep my bowels regular, and like the pills very much." Isaac Lewis, Sabina, Ohio. run n Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists, t L Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. ww j, are prompt efficient and flOOd S FlllS easy In effect 25 cents. INCASD iLYOwaco Yourt BckLcaf 0TMeesT, SMOKING TOBACCO Made from the Purest, Ripest and Sweetest leaf grown In the Golden Belt ot North Carolina. Cis atette Book goes with each S-oa. pouch. ALL FOR io CENTS. A Pleasant. Cool and Delightful Smoke. Lyon a Co. Tobacco Works, Durham, n. C. BHCkien'a Arnica aiva. Thi Best Salve ia 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 pay required. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or moue? . funded. Price SS cents per box. Fc Sale O? K. K. BELLAMY. i t The IMecovery Saved Hie Life. Mr. G. Callouette, Druggist. Beavers ville, III., says: "To Dr. Kicg's New Dis covery I owe mv life. Was taken with La Grippe and tried all the ohvsicians 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 my store I sent for a bottle and began its use ana from tne Erst dose bcean to set bet ter. and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won't keep store or house wttnout it. uet a free trial at R. R. Bellamy s Drug Store. Wholesale Prices Current. VTbe following quotation, lepreeeat wholesale riunnwsnuTi lu -nj Bp small mum Bigccr - Toe quotations ate always nvea as accorately as poanDw, doi we stab win aot oe responsible tot an variation, from tn actual market price of the artlcje. aaoteo.. .. . - BAGGING JUJaU...... 6 Manon a WESTS kN SMOKED - Hams id-s S 9 . ...... Shoo dcrt ) DRY SAL I ED & 6 13 S 14 7 6M Sides V Shoulders V S BARRELS -piri s Turpentine . -....... becona-nand. each .......... New New York. each.... ... New City, each 1 00 1 8S U 8 50 9 00 15 13 40 40 1 10 1 1 40 at WilmiDftoa M & TOO 14 00 nortnun BUTTE North Carolina ......,... N rthera CORN MEAL Per Bushel, ia sacks .......... Virginia Meal -. COTTON TICS bundle...... CANDLES B Sperm . Adamantine ., CHVESE f t ' Northern factory ............ & 4?H I xu 25 10 11 IS 10 & & vairy,ueam, Mtn COFFEE Lagutra... .......... ..... Rio DOM KS1 ICS Sheet ng. 4-t, yard..,..,, ' Yams. bunch.,..,,,,.,.,,, Jii?- "ea ................. VI ti 16 SO 1 18 Mackerel, No 1, Mackerel, No 1, Mackerel, No S. Mackerel, No S. Mackerel. No 8. SS 00 -1 00 U 00 15 00 18 C O 18 00 WWW 18 00 5 00 6 75 10' 6 8 85 Mullets. barrel MOO 8 OV 6 5.1 8 85 10 8 50 : Ma kcta. oork barrel N C. Roe Hrrring, keg UTJ UM, V B extra V .OUR- barrel .............. "wgraae ..... 8 8S 4 00 4 75 445 8 75 W 4 CO 6 00 ua .............. S :; Straisht ......... First Patent GLUE v- &AIN- btrhel- Com, rro-u store, bag? White, ; Com, a 'go, in bulk White,. . : Coin, cargo, ia bugs White,, O.tx, from sore r. Oats, Rust Proof.,,.,.. 8V. 45 45 40 46 50 43H9 & 40 80 40 45 uw re BIDES, V jjreea ..., ......,. BAY, W 100 .. aaVavLCr ' a " North Rivet, , , . .... 1 05 l 65 3a 1 15 m 6 HOOP IRON, 9 t. LAKH, orthen North Carolina ..... 1.1MB Barrel LUMBfc R(ay sawed). fl M fee: - Ship Stuff resawed.....,,.,,. 18 00 Rough-dge Plank 15 00 West India cargoes, according , to qualit- .... . ... 18 00 Drtmed Hoofing, seasoned... 18 03 Scantl ng and Board, common. 1 00 MOLASSES. f-!loo - 2000 18 00 18 00 S3 00 15 00 - New Crop Cuba, ia hhds...... " " in bbls...... . Porto Rico, la hhos, , SB " la bbls I.,.,"!" Sngar-Honss, in hhds....,..,. 18 Syrup. In bbls . ; 14 NAILS, JB keg. Cat 60d basis..,. PORK, Sb rrel City Mess. 8 75 Rump............ .....,,,, Prime ....................... ROPE. S U) SALT,? sack Ainm ,. ,,,.: fte 19 -fe, Cu.!.. SHINGLES, Wackfl 'it'.'.l . ...... 40 .... 00 Ciueem Ban. 1 so SUGAR, Bv-Standard Grann? White Ex. C ,. - J;?.,0 GoWea - c Yn-w ........ SOAP -Northem....".: : STAVES, M-W. O. barreL:.. 8 50 . - s . 8va 4 8 00 14 00 10 03 9 00 R. Q. H, . IX Hor, head -. TIMB Mi 650 & 4 00 7 00 4 60 "ui, air...,v. Common Mill... 111 Inferior to Ordmarv. 8 50 8 00 too 8 80 iAuiu-,f a. .........,,.,.., - g WHISKlt. V piloa Noiihern. 1 00 North fHln , 1 00 n.rtit.u ' ra .bfx mm ! barrel .... half-barrel barrel... . half-barrel barrel COMMERCIAL. ; WILMINGTON MARKET. STAR OFFICE, December S9. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market firm at cents 'per gallon for ma-chme-madc casks, and 83 cents for country casks. ROSIN Market firm at $1 45 per bbl for Strained and $1 50 for Good btramed -" ' " : ''. . TAR. Market quiet at'fl 00 per bbl of 880 fcs. - ... j .... CRUDE TURPENTINE. Dull. Hard 1.40, Yellow Dip 1.80. and Virgin 1.80 per barrel. . . , ' - Quotations same dav last year Spirits turpentine 2S87Jc; rosin, strained. $1 85; good strained 40; tar SO 95; crude turpentine 1 10. 1 40, 1 80. RECEIPTS. . Spirits Turpentine.......... .... .43 Rosin................ 719 Tar ..... r 191 Crude Turpemice .t 18 Receipts same day last year 71 casks spirits turpentioe, 483 bbls rosin, 112 bbls tar, 48 bbls crude turpentine. cotton. - .;; Market qaiet on a basis of 6 9 16c for middling, Q jot.tions: , Ordinary............. 4 8-18 cts lb Good Ordinary....... 5 9-18 "4 " Low Middling........ 6 316 " Middling .... 6 9-15 ? Good Middling t " - Sime day last year, middling 1c. Receipts 608 bates; same day; last year, 897. - ' j COUNTRV PRODUCI. . i - PEANUTS North Carolina Prime. 4050c per bushel of 28 pounds; Extra Prime, 55c; Fancy, 6065c. Virginia Extra Prime. 6085c; Fancy, 6570c. CORN Firm; 88 to 40 cents ', per bushel. . r .; ROUGH RICE 6570 cents ; per bushel, : .- N. C BACON Steady; Hams, " 8 to llc per pound; Shoulders, 6 to 7c; Sides. 7 to 8c. SHINGLES Per thousand, five inch, hearts and saps. $1.60 to 8.85; six incb, $3.50 to 8.60; seven inch; $5.60 to 6.50. TIMBER Market steady at $3.00 to 7.50 per M. DOMESTIC MARKETS. . . By Teiorraph to the Morui-3 Star. j FINANCIAL. - New York. December 29-Evening. ' Money on call to-day wasv easy at 8 per cent; last loan at 2 per cent, closing offered at 8 per cent. Prime mercantile paper 34 per cent. Ster ling exchange was. weak, with actual business in bankers-bills 483t8t Icr sixty days and 486Vs488 for aemand. Commercial bills 482483. Govern ment bonds farmer; Uoned States cou pon fours llliUnited States twos 95.; State bonds dull; North Carolina fours 102; North Carolina sixes 123. Rail road bonds higher. Silver at the Stock Exchange to day. was neglected. COMMERCIAL. New York, December 29 Evening. Cotton steady; middling 7 11 16c. Cotton futures closed fi.ui at quota tions. December 6 78 January 6 81. Feb ruary 6 90, March 6 97. April 7 04, May 713. due 7 18. loly 7 2i, Aocutt 7 24. September and October 7 00, November 7 04. S-'es 173.200 bales. r -net recepts b90 bales; gross 14.978 bales; exports to Great Britain bales: to France bales; to se Continent 897 rales; forwarded w.? H bales; sales 1 331 bales; salea to spinners bales; stock 803.844 bales. iuuu lo-uir ii ci receipts, oouu bales; exports to Great Britain 14.759 bales; to France bales; to the Con ttnent 19 437 hairs- atnrlt 1 UU ft Ml hoi. Total so far this week Net receipts 97 953 bales: iixrxirta tn (Irrat Rriran 28.123 bales; to France 8.230 bales; to tne (continent b,0s Dales. Total sine. September 1 Net receipts 4,785.639 bales; exports to Great Britain 1.789,857 bales; exports to France 897.861 bales; exports to the Continent J.04I.13S oaics. Flour market q iiet and unchanged; Southern flour was dull but steady; common io iair extra 13 05; good to choice $3 553 85. Wheat spot dull and firmer with options; free oo haard El OlXCi nncrarlerl rerl an.vai no. options faiily active and fiim at lKb xgc aavancc; no. v rea uecemaer 92Lc; January 91C; March 93Jc; May Sihc Coin spot dull and firm: N 8 S95tej;80c at elevator and SOjgSlc afloat: notions were dull snH firm c advance; December 29 Vet Tanuai v a.c may oic. cats spot anil but firm; options quiet, firm and uncharged. December 22c; January 22Jc; May 2a W; spot--No. 8, 2c: No. 8 white 25ic: : m fir.-. ooab. . . . .' uiu.un.Hciu o,.ic. ura quiet ana firmer; Western steam . $4 05; city S3 oa; ueccmoer us. nominal; r- finrrl rlrill Pnnlinpnt t.4. fiR. c...u v- . duuiu America $4 65, compound $4 MX&i 60. rors was steady ana quiet; new mess 88 35 8 75. Butter quiet; barely steady; Si ate dairy 10l8c; do. creamery 14Q21; western creamer i-c; citrins 22c. Eggs lower.witb liberal supply.State and Pennsylvania 20tfft22: ien hnnu IJnm-.. Western fresh 1820c; do. per case ; souwera -u&iVKc. cotton seed oil du'l but steadvrude 20c: vellnnr nrin.. 23?3i. Rce firm, in fair demand a; d uncbaniced. Molasses quiet and un rhana P.annl. n n i . . j " . 13UL1 aDtJ- picked 8 4c Coffee qaiet; 10 points uuwu io xu uy, LCCCul rci OU; JaDQary $9 709 80; Match $9 759 85; May 9 759 85; July $9 85 9 90;, Septem ber $9 85&10 00spot Rio firm and quieti No. 7 810 12Uffain sit I quiet and steady; lair refining 2 18 16c; icuucu uuiisdu uacuangeu. Chicago. Dec 89. Cash quoutiots riour .was quiet and Urm at pr,ces; uara wncat spring parents 14 04 50 in wood, soft wbeat patents $4 0U4 is hard wheat bakers $3 003 80 io sacks' soft beat bakers' $3 008 20: winter heat$4 804 50 io wotd. Wheat No. 8 spring 78M80efc; No. 8 red 90U 88c Corn No. 8 828c Oau wo. s nc. Mesa pork, - $6 656 70 Lard. . $3 78VJ3 75. bhort rib sides $3 70f3 90. Dry salted shoulders $4 854 50. Short clear sides, 14 Whiskey $1 18. , . The leading futures ranged as follow: Woeat December 78SC 8054 78V 80?i May 82X88. 84. e2U, S Ji 8te Jut 77LJ, 80. 77Vi. 80c. CoTu-Dccen -bir22X 82 tiX ;,2V.: Januar 23H. 22. 23- Ma.; S8K. 88 5. Joi 8flX 8 86Lf. 8 88!: Oau December loM ltu 165rt Ma, 80.20. mviOX?: pSi-fci SSoT,.!7 -87' 7 67- 7 May $7 87J, 7 90. 7 77. 7 6S Lard-Jaou J $3 77J4, 8 80. 8 75, 8 77K: Mav JMaf.uaaa fx A 72 i mi Baltimore. Dec. 29. Flour steady but unchanged. Wheat strone; soot 93c bid; Mar 90Xffi903c; Southern by samDie SSflar i.ii... . .00, -vu .HUB 0t 93KC Cora steady. spot88U28V ear S7tini9'&'.. T r?'r?c ---- 'awry s MCSS794C1 Febrnam 97t.50 i i. oo, , Ilv'i - ---a-! nail,. 07.flB?tC Steamer mixed 8525c; Southern m; q I, i,B";ct uats steady: 2223c. "m m,Xed COTTON MARKETS. By Tslectaph to tha Moralna Star. . Decern hr ols.i... ... - m . .- -xanHluu, quiet a. ? ri'18', net re"Pt 7.685 bales; Nor- . -'"". nvmiiii a. . net re- CeiDtS 2.208 hnl-- Rn.ln. M-i.. net receipts H.uao bales. Wil- T 7 V,.' ,iu,cl F io. receipts 606 bales; Philadelphia, quiet at 7 $-15. net receipts 79 bales; Savannah, auiet at . m,a uaies; new Orleans, quiet at 11-18, net receim. 18,958 bale.; Mobile, quiet at 6 9 receipts 1 668 bale's; Memphis stead, at j! 8 11-16, net receipts 3 057 bales' Anguita,quiet at 64 net receipu 985 bales; Charleston, steady at 6U n- r. ceijju 965 baits.- re" FOREIGN MARKETS - i -l By Cable to the Morning Star. Live fool. Dec 29. ia an u i. Cotton, demand fair and onrr American middling 4 13-8-d 18000 bales, of which 11,100 wire American: speculation and export 1 ooo Receipts .93 000 bales, of which 88 ami were American. Futures opened qa,-t and demand moderate. December a 57 64d; December and January 3 5554 January and February S 54 64rJ; FebruV ary and March 8 54-64d; March nri April 8 54-64d. April and Mav 3 54 6i 3 65 64d; May aad June 3 55 eia 9 68 643; June and July 8 56 64i Jai arid August 8 57-6 Id. Futures qUiet J 13.45 P. M. American fpn eradei 1 I6i lower. . American middling lair 4 5 16d; good middling 4 1 821 middling 8 181-333; low middling 3 27-32d: 8ood ordinary 8 23 835; ordinary 3 17 3.1 4 P. M-December 8 67643 f8 64d seller; Decerobfr and January 3 55 64a S66-64d buver; Jjnuary aod FeDruir, 8 54 643 65-64d value; Februar? anrt March 8 64-643 55 84d value Ma.ch and April 8 64 643 65 64d buyer AdhI and May 8 55 43 66 64d seller; May aod June S 66 64d ouver; Jane acd Ini 8 66 643 57 64d buyer: July and Aa giitt 3 57 643 57 64d; August &nd Sep tember 8 86 o4d Fu ures closed ste-d MAHINE. I! ARRIVED. jStmr Frank Sessoms, Williams. Clear Run, Jas Madden. Steamer E A Hawcs. Ward. Clear Run, Jas Madden. j - CLEARED. ! Steamer E A Hawcs, Ward, Fur, Jas Maddtu Clear Stmr Frank Seasoms, Williams, Clear Ruo, Jas Madden. - Scbr Maiy A Hall, Haskell, Union Island, Ga. Gx Hrriss, Son & Co. Scbr C C Li sier. Robinson. New York Geo Harms, Son & Co; cargo by Cbpe rear Lumcer Co. EXPORTS. COASTWISE. Nw Yoxk Scbr C C Lister 823 . 708 leet lumber. ' -av-wss-a MARINE DIRECTORY. List f Vessels In ibe Port or nil. mlDstom, W. c, Dee. 80, 1896. SCHOONERS. Daoneohower. 217 tons, Johcecn, Gea tiarriss, aoo s to. W-C Wsckbaro. 816 tons, Ervan, Gto Harriss. Son & Co. I 'a C Schoolcraft 30(5 tons, Bdovc, Geo jHarn s S n & Co Morancy. 160 tons, Torrey. J T Ri:ey & - ICo. . Lucia Porter, 833 tons. . Farrow, Mabel Darlicg (B), 113 tons, Roberts Cronly & Moms. Jacob S Wirslow, 865 tons, Henley, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. Emma Knowlton, 853 toes. Hodson.Geo Harriss, Son & Co. Jrjo R Fell. 847 tons, Abraham, Geo Har- ITiss. Son & Co. Victor (Br), 131 tens. Monro, GeoHar- Irias, Son 4 Co Winnegance 25t tots, Macson Geo Hamas, Son & Co. Cora M. 186 tons. Mitchell. Geo Harass, Son & to. Acara. 185 tons, Nash, Geo Harriss, Son A Co. f Ea A Danenhower. 217 tons, Johnson, Geo Harriss. Son & Co. Bertha H, 124 tons, LeCain. J T Riley & Co. . j STEAMSHIPS. Mcorby (B ). I.fc73 toes, Lawrie, Alex Sprunt & Son. Gfafloe (Br). 1 633 toes. Pcnmwell,Alcx Spruot & Son. BARQUES. R6ca (Ital), 852 tons, Schffino, J T Riley & Co. 1 SEASONABLE GOODS. Jute Bagging, . Arrow Ties, heese, Crackers, Cake?, Sal mon, Sardines, Oysters. iFull and omplete stock of HEAYT AKD PAHCT GROCERIES, ; j LOWEST CASH PRICES. Don t fail to see ns before buying WORTH & WORTH aacSStf Signatnre Is printed In BLUB diagonally across the OUTSIDE wrapper ! a farther protection against !i . - all imitations. , 1 1 A rents lor tha United States. JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, N. V. . oct 84 It ' - Tbe Sampson Demcciat, i aakUscie4 Brary Tbarsday. L. A. BETEUKEsJSflitor and Prop'r SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1 Six Months 50c. It pays business men to advertise in it. Rates and samole copies fur nished upon application. ; Address The Sampson Democrat, feb 16 tf CLINTON. N. C. ' ' - - - For Rent, l! -J ot every jl- - iT bottle of f rM y tbe Orlglnai M f.' 'Ij and Genuine) It SLy L v Worcestershire SAUGE " THI STORI Ho. 106 NORTH Water street, now occupied by J. t" CroostaCo. Apply to D. O'CONNOR. Kaal latate Afcst, 1 V V Si
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