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PUBLISHES '8 AJSrSOTrSCZKZST. TUX MORN1NO STAB. tM oideet daily 11 WS- pperlniorus tjaroiiaas is uuuubuou uauj ex cept Monday, 93.00 year, -oo iur uul uuiuji, jl is for tore months, so cents ror one montn ti null ennacnoerB. miironju w euu- crlbers at the rata of 45 cent per month tor any perkxi from one month to one year. advertising bates (DAILY) One square one day. Jl.oo; two days, fl. 75; three days, vi.50; four days. 33-00: five days, $3.50; one week, 94.00; two weeKS, tnree wee its, o.ao: one montn, 0 000; two months, J17.00; three months, 34.00; six months, 140.00: twelve month, 160.00. Ten Unee of solid Nonparlei type make one square. THE WEEKLY STAB Is published every Frt dav mornlnar at tl.oo tier year. 60 cents for six inree monins. months, 30 cents for 1 meet- All announcements of Fairs. Festivals. Balls, nnna minion ovaf Moatlnira. PolltlcaJ meet ings, c wtu be charged regular advertising rates. 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At this rate 50 cen:s will pay for a simple announce ment of Marriage or Death. Advertisements Inserted once a week In Dally will be charged $1.00 per square for each inser tion. Every other day, three-fourths of dally rate. Twice a week, two-thirds of daily rate. Contract advertisers will not be allowed to exceed their space or advertise anything foreign to their regular business without extra charge at transient rates. Advertisements kept under the head of "New Advertisements" will be charged fifty per cent, extra. Advertisements to follow reading matter, or to occupv any special place, will be charged extra acconline to the position desired. 3Y WILLIAM H. BERNARD. WILMINGTON. A'. Tuesday Morxixg, Aug. 15, 1S99 THE TEXTILE IffDUSTBT. We clip the following from the American Wool and Cotton Reporter, of Boston, showing the progress made in the establishment of Tex- ( tile plants for the first six months J of this year: j "The first half of the year 1S99 has slightly surpassed the last half of 1S9S in the number of new and proposed textile enterprises entered into in the United States. Thus the total number of new enterprises launched in the first six months of this year was 116, against 107 in the last half of 189S and 155 in the last half of 1S93. The South continues to lead in new mill con struction, and the number of new en terprises compares Tery favorably with those of any previous year for a long time. The number of new enter prises in the North is considerably greater than that of the last half of 1893. but it is decidedly less than that of the first half of that year. The record of "enlargements and improve ments" shows up very favorably as compared with last year. The textile mills of this country are to-day run ning full, almost without exception, and more new machinery has been ordered during the past six months than for a like period in many years. One result is that the various machine shops are enjoying a period of remark able prosperity, several of them being overrun with orders so that it is neces sary to work a portion of the night to fill them. The Lowell machine shop, for instance, is said to have 1,750 hands employed, the largest number ever at work in that establishment The following table shows the num ber of new enterprises in the North and in the South for the last two half years: Six mos. ending Dec., June 30, 1898, 1S99. Northern 18 25 Southern 89 91 If the fact of building new mills in the North indicates that the Northern mill men have no idea of abandoning the field, the large num ber of new mills built in the South shows that Southern mill men, and others who put their money into such enterprises, have no fears that the business will be overdone, or that there will be too many mills in the South. The Northern mill men and the Southern mill men are both A- right, provided proper effort be made to find foreign markets for the product of our mills. This will be come a necessity if our mill men ex pect to keep on building and increas ing the annual output, so that it re solves itself into this, that the American millers, North and South, must become competitors of foreign millers, and compete with them for the world's trade. If they fix their eyes on the home market the result will be profit-destroying competition between Southern and Northern mills, in which event Northern mills would have to go to the wall in those lines of goods manufactured in the South, for they could not com pete with the Southern mills. This has been already demonstrated and has been confirmed by the abandon ment by many of the Northern mills of certain classes of goods which they once made, but make no longer, since being confronted by Southern competition. As the case presents itself in view of thei steady and large increase in the number of mills, the Southern mills must branch out, add to their ines of goods and reach up to higher grades in which the larger profit is, while both Southern and Northern mills must make concerted efforts to find profitable markets for the surplus that the home market cannot consume. Together they should work for and insist upon such modification of the protective tariff as would remove some of the obstacles to their entering and securing a permanent foothold in foreign markets, and also to secu ring shorter and cheaper routes of transportation for their goods to the countries which they desire to enter. There are over a thousand millions of people on the other half of the globe the majority of whom wear cotton clothing if they wear any thing and there are a hundred mil lions in the countries south of us of whom the same might be said. With cheap transportation and a tariff that would encourage rather than repress trade with as, Ameri can cotton manufacturers should command the bulk of that trade. If the American cotton industry continues to increase as it has been for some years and is now increas ing, and its managers hope to con tinue prosperous, larger foreign markets will be a necessity and the sooner this fact is recognized and acted upon the better it will be for them, and for the .millions interested directly or indirectly in that dustry. C0B.N EXPORTS. This year's corn crop for the United States promises to be one of the largest ever grown, if not the largest It is not yet . sufficiently advanced in the great corn-growing States of tho West to be entirely out df danger from unfavorable weather, but with no drawback the estimated yield for the United States will be between 2,200,000,000 and 2,500, 000,000 bushels, grown upon 81,556,000 acres, the largest acreage ever planted except in 1892 when it reached 82,000,000 acres. The largest crop ever grown was in 1896 when we .produced 2,285,000,000 bushels, so that the crop of this year, even at the lower estimate will, not fall far short of that. Corn is a great crop, but there isn't much money in it for the farmer when sold in the form of corn. Tho money is in converting it into meat. We nearly always, with fair seasons, raise more than enough for home consumpton which, of course, keeps the price down, and being bulky it will not stand the cost of transportation by rail, and therefore water transportation is sought when it can be secured. As pretty fair ocean rates c now be had our exports to Europe have increased and the demand i3 growing there for this food, which was little if any known a few years ago. This is due in a great measure to the efforts made by tho United States Department of Agriculture to introduce this as a food grain in European countries, efforts which have met with considerable Buccess, as proof of which the exports from Baltimore alone have increased from 7,75S,000 bushels in 1894 to 45, 096,000 in 189S, when the total reached 212,000,C0O, the largest quantity ever moved, the fall being to 174,000,000 bushels for the last fiscal year. But the failure of crops in the corn producing .countries of Europe arifl ABia will cause an ex traordinary demand this year, when the figures may reach or exceed those of 1898. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. TOM'S DAUGHTER. en. Goldsboro Arsons: Fire to bacco barns within a radius of five miles of Goldsboro have been de stroyed Dy nre tnis. week, ana in evf ry instance they were full of to bacco and were a total loss to their owners. Durham Su?i: A gentleman here to-day said that a friend of his in Auburn planted twenty watermelon seed of a particular kind last Spring and has already gathered over erght hundred pounds of melon from the planting. He had one melon that weighed fifty pounds as a sample of the kind raised from these seed. Be fore the season is over it is thought that the small patch will produce at least' two hundred pounds more, or fifty pounds to each seed planted. Kinston Free Press: A long article ecently appeared in the Wash ington Post about a certain Harvey Rogers, who, after passing through many vicissitudes of fortune, has come into the inheritance of a considerable sum, between $400,000 and $500,000. A good many of our people will" recall that during the latter part of last year a tramp by that name roamed the streets of Kinston. beceinsr his bread and sleeping where he could mostly in goods boxes in back lots. It seems to be almost certain, from the facts published, that this tramp and now a half millionaire is the same person who used to be seen around Kinston, apparently brooding, and presenting a picture of wasted life. Some of our people recall hearing him mention events in his life as they were re counted in a long article in the Wash ington Post, so it is almost beyond a shadow of doubt that the tramp and the now half millionaire is one and the same person. Burlington News: Mr. Jas. A. Zachary brought to our office this week a small oak bush, about two feet high, which was full of small acorns. We have never seen so small a bush as this bearing, and Mr. Zachary says he thinks it must be a cross between a mistake and an accident. Which it is or whether it is both we can't tell, but it is, to say the least of it, a freak of nature. Quite a strange incident occured at the depot at this place last Saturday. Last Saturday a colored woman, who resides in this city, re ceived a telegram saying to meet the o ciocfc tram, as the remains of her husband, who had been working in Asheville, and died there, would be down oa that train. She went sadly to the depot to receive the last remains of her de parted husband. Soon after her arrival there; another colored wo- . ' A 1 - man wua a Daoy m ner arms came in in- Total 107 ; 116 The new enterprises of the first half of this year may be clasifiedas follows, in comparison with those of the pre vious half year: First half. Last half 1899. 1898. Cotton 76 78 Woolen 10 ll Knitting 14 14 Miscellaneus 16 4 Total U6 107 The following table gives in detail the location of the 116 new textile en terprises, together with the class of goods manufactured : Woollen, Cotton. Alabama Connecticut Georgia Louisiana Maine 2 Maryland Massachusetts.. Mississippi Missouri New Hampshire 1 New Jersey New York North Carolina. 1 Pennsylvania.. 1 Rhode Island... 3 South Carolina. Tennessee Texas 2 Vermont Virginia Totals 10 Knitting. Misc. 1 1 20 i s 3 4 1 4 2 U IS "North Carolina, as usual, leads the list, with a total of 33. Georgia comes second with a total of 26. South Caro . lina and Virginia each show 7. Texas 6. Rhode Island 5, New York 4, Massa chusetts 4. Tennessee 4. Alabama 3, Maine 3, Pennsylvania 3, Mississippi 2, New Jersey 2, Louisiana 2, Con necticut 1, Missouri 1. Maryland 1, New Hampshire 1 and Vermont 1." While this shows that there has been some activity in the North in the erection of cotton mills, it also Bhows that the center of activity is in the South. The fact that mills continue to be built in the North gives proof that those interested in that business in that section have not abondoned the hope that they can maintain themselves, while com pelled to recognize the fact that they will have to yield supremacy to the more favorably situated South. They have been encour aged, no doubt, by the turn in the THE DBEYFUS TRIAL Military courts in France are pe culiar and spectacular, which is one of the reasons, perhaps, why they draw so well. They are peculiar because everybody connected with them has unlimited latitude and can say pretty much what he pleases, provided he doesn't become boister ous enough to make himself a tem porary nuisance. According to the mode of pro cedure there is no distinction made between legal and illegal evidence, that is evidence that is pertinent to the case or not, which means that a witness may compose a romance and deliver it while on the stand if it isnt too uninteresting or long enough to tire the court out, and in addition to this he can pitch into the person he is testifying against and denounce him as all sorts of a scoundrel on general principles, as yen. Mercier did when testifying in the case of Dreyfus. Mercier was the witness to whom the anti Dreyfus faction was looking to crush him, but his testimony was a fizzle and he himself became a pitiable object of contempt before he ended and left the court room, amid the hisses and howls of a' people who not long ago would have torn to pieces the man against whom he tes tified. Judging from the evidence as far as it has been given, the acquittal of Dreyfus seems to be a certainty, for how he can be conyicted, even by a French Military court, after such a complete fizzle as Mercier's testimony proved to be, we cannot see. TO GET RID OF OTIS- There are pretty good indications that the wa managers in Washing ton are planning to get rid of Otis as commander in the Philippines. There have been rumors from time to time that the responsibilities there would be divided, because Gen. Otis had too much 011 his shoulders, and that some other Gen eral would be put in charge of mili tary matters, leaving him to deal only with the civil. The latest comes from the Washington correspondent of the New York Sun to the effect that Gen. Otis will be called home to take part in the conference of the Philippine Commission, which will meet in Wasnington early in the Fall. He and Aomiral Dewey belong to the commission, and'j their presence, it is said, will be necessary. In the event that he comes home it is thought that Gen. Merritt will be sent in his place, and it is pretty safe to predict that if he does come, they will find another job for him, nearer his size, and he will have no chance to do any more bungling in Luzon or adjacent territory. But one of the be3t indications that they are contemplating getting rid of Otis is the statement which ' finds its way into print now and then that he has the full confidence of tho President. Alger had the full confidence of the President, but all and sadly took a seat, holding a hand kerchief to her eyes. The first woman being occupied with her own grief did not inquire into the cause of the other's sorrow, but through an over heard conversation she learned that she also was there to meet the remains of a deceased husband. Well, the train came, and with it the coffin con taining the dead husband. But as the train stopped, another colored woman carrying a baby in her arms stepped off the train. All three, each without noticing the other, marched up to the coffin, and there 'mid the noise usual to a passenger depot their hearts gave vent to their feelings over the loss of a true husband. When it was discovered that the body belonged to all three of the mourning widows the train left for Haw River, and we did hot stay j to see what was the dis position of the body, but went off soliliquizing whose husband he would be in neaven. LIKES THE AMERICAN NY'S PRESS. COMPA- An Irkauats Firm I'aed II Latt Sea son With Great Satisfaction. From the 'Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. A. J. Clements, of the firm of Ckm ents & Daniel,'! cotton ginners of Lo noke, Ark , was in the rity yesterday. Mr. Clements was seen by a Commer cial Appeal representative in the of fice of the American Cotton Company in the Continental building, and he talked very enthusiastically of that company's Roundlap bale press, which he has been operating at his gin the past . season. He compressed about 4,000 bales on his Roundlap bale press and the cotton was all sold at the press at Memphis prices. Mr. Clements says that a Roundlap bale from the Amer-ic-,an ComPany'8 Preas will neTTrom $2.50 to $3.00 more than from the old press. In fact, a farmer a fe W months maae a test or the matter. airu maae a lest or the. mnttoi- h.m. ing the exact number of pounds of the same quality to Mr. Clement, that h the same he snapped at that resigna- j d.id to.a square bale press, without let ups cnucr giu xnow ne was making tion with the celerity that a hungry trout would go for a baity We think Gen. Otis should go. He is a misfit. TWINKLINGS. "He hasn't he?1 his wife."- has very decided views, "Yes; they are decided by TitBits. May "Are you very particu lar about how your chaperon looks?" Fay '-Urn, yes I want her to look the other My." Philadelphia Bul letin. A Clear Title: "I don't see w.. .T7pson ot into the Authors' wuo 11 ne nas never writ n ki, He got in on condition that he never would write one. "Detroit Free Press Making Home Pleasant: "Cook "talin abu leaving, Henry." Gracious !-don't let that happen! . oiDe to buy her an automobile in a few days!" Puck. . A Hard World.- "By lookin' in the miscroscope," said Plodding Pete, 'you learns dat every time you drinks water you puts a bunch o' wild f.v w"elin' animals in yer stomach" . , n8wered Meandering Mike an if you drinks whisky you has em in yer head: so what's a man to do?" Washington Star. the test, and the Roundlan hala ntwt just $3.75 more than the square bale. Mr. Clements says that one season has satisfied him of the merits of the Amercan Company's Roundlap bale press It is a good thing he says, both for the gmner and the farmer, and his firm will continue its use and abandon it other press entirely. CURRENT COMMENT. is O'Flannigan (in an awful pre- O 1 fA TTl Aflt twA of Atnnrj UCMU 4 T7t 1 T I tT w ti 9VXAV U1U ) J Aim II i ranee, were the onlv country I Pat, I can't howld on here envlnm'. that had that kind Af;i;)....nnu. I m ffoin' t' dhroo: rest m rwl r" UUUH1J UUIU19. That News Illinois real and we might laugh at her, but we have tide and the lifting of the promise 80metllinS bordering on that our- wiwa muis, ior they have I courts, n : .1 1 1 ... - paiu wiinin m- ... . 1 " " ' ' j muiiigan -uould yez hang on a wee bit longer, Tim, till I get me new manor oucKei irom under v9' Ohio State Journal. yez?1; ine past year renmnrt. able dividends; much larger, doubt less, than their stockholders looked for some time ago, when some of the New England mill men were predicting ruin to the business un less they could secure modification of some of the legislation , regulat ing labor in the mills, which legis lation they asserted was one of the principal things that give the Southern mills the advantage oyer them. They seem to have gotten over their scare on that point for they have ceased raising the alarm cry, and the fact that they are now making satisfactory profits seems to give proof that there was less ground for this legislation clamor than they pretended there was. of investigation, for instance, in the first of which General Eagan performed. An old fellow in Peoria, HI., iB so stuck on the bicycle that he has had one cut on the tombstone which will mark his grave. There are a good many diBtilleriea in Peoria. For OT.r Fifty Tears Vno TTT TV ISSIilW'fl MAAmTTrv CI . a, n in 19 ri ki p Aunt Hannah "Of ponmo you ought not to go if your husband does not want you to go. You know you promised to obey him." Mrs. Darling "When I promised to obey him. of course, I looked upon it as a joke. You could not think seriously of obey-ing-a man who had been telling you for nearly a year that he desired only to be your devoted slave." Boston Transcript. QUARTERLY MEETINQS. v v ' : " " . uaa seen tiuvl fn. an . It Toothe. uSZ k"1 Pert access. 1!. .vf Jr chlld of tens the gums, SuS besfr?;, wind coUcfana 11 v fedy for Diarrhoea. It 801 li57 iKSiata in every part of the world. Twenty-five cente a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other. j M. E. Church, Sooth, Wilmington District i-ao. Bamw. Rnrnv A nvna. (Mvr VaenpUa, Centenary. September s-s. yWon, Firth Street, September 10-11. wSJi11" September 23 24. uZf'S1 September go. wtTT'. -'""."epiemDer ao-octoberl. Upon the eitiienshin nf tha Italians lynched at Talulah seems to depend the' question as to whether they are worth some thousands of dollars per capita or nothing at all. In this case naturalization does not appear to enhance value. Balti more Herald, Ind. -bx-Jresident Harrison has never been known as an internal joker, buhe appears to covet that distinction. "The United States," he assures the French people in an interview published in Paris, "have no desire for war or conquest. Their attitude iB limited outside their own boundaries to the safe guarding of liberty." humor. Cliarleston Courier, Bern. Til- 1 jl no people 01 Illinois are, ineoreiicaiiy very lond of the colored man and brother, ao long as he re mains in the South; but cracticallv and at close range they have ex tremely little for him. At Quincy the other day a restaurant keeper re- jlubbu 10 serve meals to a colored preachers, and in Peoria the Young Men's Christian Association has a row on its hands because the white members refuse to share the bath tubs with the colored members. Savannah News. Bern. One passage in the Queen's speech is calculated to arouse the wrath of the Boers. It is that in which her Majesty speaks of "my grant of internal independence to that Republic." This is an expresB ooseruon 01 suzerainty over the Transvaal, and an intimation that it holds its independence, such as it is, Only at her Mft-iont.ir'o nUnon.. T ine .British Govern men wi'oa ur UD Strife in Snnfli A "I was shipmate for six years with old Tom Ravenwood, one of the best known of the knotty, bard swearing and hard fighting gunner's mates of the old navy," said a Washington man who put in a long stretch as a ship's writer in the navy. "I don't know whether Tom is still alive and in the service, but I have a feeling that he is, for he was as tough as a hickory log, and I can't imagine him passing in his gear and getting himself sewed up in a hammock and heaved over the side. "Tom couldn't read cr write, and I used to attend to his correspondence for him. His correspondence . consisted en tirely in letters to his daughter, who was in a convent in Mississippi. "The child was about 14 years old when I first became a shipmate of Tom's and began to write his letters to her, and he had not seen her for over six years. He'd always happen to be discharged on a foreign station, and he always shipped over on a cruising ves sel, and so rarely made port in the United States long enough to permit of his visiting his little girl. "He devoted more than three-fourths of his gunner's mate's pay to the sup port and education of his little one, whose mother, a young Frenchwoman in New Orleans, had died in giving her birth. "On the foreign station old Tom used to come aft to my office on the berth deck, after ap American mail had ar rived and been distributed to the men on board and get me to read to him the little bundle of letters, that always reached him from his little girl. "At first they were childishly bland and commonplace, but as the years went by they grew more womanly and clever and filled with the thoughtfulness of a tender nature, and after awhile as the girl passed into womanhood they be came beautiful specimens cf the episto lary art Bweet and frank and filled with affection for the rough old tar and with longing to see him for she barely remembered him. . " 'She cert'nly do know how to spin a plain talk, now, don't she?' he used to ask me after I read one of these letters. I never had no chanst meself, bnt I alius figured on givin the little gal a chanst to stow her headpiece with enough of this here book learnin to do fur both of ns when 6he gits growed up.' If I had always written the old man s letters to his daughter 3ust as he'd dictate them to me, they'd have all been exactly alike. 'My dear little girl, ' he'd dictate, 'we got into this port in the China seas two watches ago with a fair wind and no steam to push ns along. Your letters received. You are a good little girl, I know. Your old dad is go ing to try to see you one of these here days at the wind up of a cruise. Good by for the present. ' Of course I altered this a bit and put a little news into the letter. "The girl was bitterly disappointed when three years after I began to write her father's letters to her he announced that he'd shipped over for another three year cruise and that he wouldn't see her for three years more, and, he added, he 'would then for certain sure.' "About a year before the wind up of the cruise the old man asked her to send him a photograph of herself, but she begged off, saying she wanted when she met him to see if he would know her. " 'Mayhap,' said the old man to me, 'the little one's growed up a bit plain like and don't want to send the pictnr' of a plain gal to her old dad, as if that 'ud make any difference to me. ' "Well, our ship pulled up at the Brooklyn navy yard just two days be fore the old man's time was out. His daughter was to meet him across the way in New York. "There was a big crowd of the rela tives of the officers and men aboard at the yard dock when we pulled along side. When the plank was thrown out, they flocked aboard. Old Tom Raven wood and I stood at the break of the fo'c'sle watching the people coming aboard, neither of ns expecting any body. "A tall and very lovely young wom an of about 20 stepped lightly up the gangway. She was such a thoroughbred in appearance and so singularly beauti ful besides that the officers of the deck bowed and scraped to her, thinking, she was come aboard to see one of the offi cers aft "The young woman looked around In a bewildered sort of way, and then her eyes caught sight of old Tom, with his sleeves rolled up, showing the tattooed crucifixion on one knotted forearm and a Japanese dragon on the other. "The girl had had a tintype taken years ago of her father. Well,, it was surely enough an affecting thing to see the sight that leaped into the eyes of that superb young woman and to see her glide like a flash up forward to the surprise of the officer of the deck into the lump muscled arms of old' Tom Ravenwood, gunner's mate. The fel lows standing around all coughed fool ishly in a choked sort of way and looked off in the other direction. "As for the old man, after he had held his daughter in his arms for a minute or so -looking as embarrassed and yet happy as a man could look said he to me, knuckling at his clear old eyes and trying to pry himself loose : " 'Look a here, mate, jest you keep an eye on this bit of cargo for merfor half a minute, will you, ontil I lay 'be low an see about them am'nition h'ists V "But the 'ammunition hoists' were too thin a subterfuge. The old man bidn't want to make a show of himself. " Philadelphia Item. Santa 'Anna's Cork Xjea. Ever since the Mexican war a cork leg and boot captured from General Santa Anna have been in the war ma seum of Springfield, Ilki It is now pro posed to send them back to the family, of the general, and, this purpose having been communicated to President Diaz he has made the following acknowledg ment: "I appreciate greatly the kind ness and goodness of 4be purpose com municated which may actuate the hon orable members of that legislativebouse and which concerns the family of Major General Santa Anna. The sending back of the cork limb into their possession' would be an estimable course and with out doubt a very pleasing and accepta ble attention to them, and it would' be a pledg9 of friendship of great value. Your respectful servant. Forfiro Diaz. " Salisbury and His Safety. . Lord Salisbury is to ride a bike. Hiq eminence has not yet appeared in pub lic, but the few intimates who have had the pleasure of witnessing his per formances at Hatfield assure an anxious people that he will at least nresent a ..striking appearance. The machine has been made to order, having two brakes and a number of extra spokea It is confidently expected that the queen will be the next convert to the whir of the wheel, although as yet no official bulletin has been issued in relation to her debut LENGTHENS YOUR LIFE The scrubbing brash is the implement of torture with which thousands of women are wearing out their lives. It's the true cause of half pf their wrinkles, 1 half their backaches, 'half their weakness. 9Pi Washing Powder 31 comes to their relief. Used with this great cleanser, the scrubbing brush loses its terror at once. AU clean ing is easy with Gold 1 Uust. It does the work inlalf the time.with half the effort and athalf the cost of soap or any other cleanser. For greatest economy buy our large package. CHICAGO THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY NEW YORK ST. LOUIS WILMINGTON MARKET. IN REGARD TO THE ROUND BALE. Smithfield Herald The controyersy of the round bale vs. the square bale has now assumed such an aspect here in Johnston coun ty that, in justice to our paper and its readers, we can no longer it main silent concerning the" question. We trust our readers have iuderstood this silence. When the controversy first began to rage, we refused to take a stand with either gide because we wished to investigate and ascertain which sys tem was of greatest benefit to tho cot ton raiser. hen we should become fully convinced which was right we determined then to announce our po sition and take a part in the fight ''Be sure you are right and then go ahead" was the favorite maxim of Davy Crocket, and the ad vice of the wise Tennesseean was never taken in vain. Upon looking into this question we at once stumble upon one point and in our opinion, the fact that a trust is behind the roui d bala thou Id be enough to warn the farmer of the baleful effects which, it is reasonable to expect, the general introduction of the system in the South would pro duce. The American CJotton Com pany is the promoter of the new sys tem. If the outfit, required to manufac ture the round bale, was placed on the market for sale, the farmers need have nothing to fear But it is not for sale, only for rent And the ginner who rents it must guarantee 1,000 bales per season before he secures the plant. How many ginners in this country could secure the outfit under these conditions? How many miles would the farmer be forced to carry his raw cotton before reaching a gin? Smaller ginning concerns would be driven out of business and the farmer would be subjected to the greatest inconve nience. " Let the American Cotton Company sell its outfit at a reasonable price and the condition will be changed. It will not do to place the cotton raiser at the mercy of a syndicate or trust. We have fought trusts early and late. We see in them the great dan ger to American liberty we want no centralization of capital or business. The trust is the octopus that grinds I the poor man in the dust and always selects the poor man as its victim, it causes little children to suffer, and mothers, seeing their sufferings mourn. STAR OFFICE, Aug. 14. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market firm at && cents per gallon for ma chine made casks and 48 cents per gal lon for country casks. ROSIN Market firm at 90 cents per bbl for strained and 95 cents for good strained. TAR. Market firm at $1.80 Der bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. - Market firm at per barrel for hard, 12.60 for dip and $2.60 for virgin. Quotations same day last year. Spirits turpentine, nothing doing; rosin steady at $1.001.05c; tar steady at $1.20; crude turpentine firm at at $1.101.60. EECEIPTS. Spirits turpentine 192 Rosin 713 Tar 457 Urude turpentine 74 Receipts same day last year. 86 casks spirits turpentine, 307 bbls rosin, 16Q bbls tar, 35 bbls crude tur pentine. COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 5c per pouna ior miaaiing. (Quotations uooa ordinary 3 7-16 cts Good Ordinary 4 13-16 " Low Middling, 5 7-16 " " Middling 5Ji ' " Good Middling 6 " Same day last year middling 5l4c. Receipts 0 bale; same day last year, 0. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina Extra prime, $1.00 to Jl.lOc per bushel 01 z pounds ; fancy, $1.10 to $1.12 Virginia Extra prime, 75 to 80c; iancy, voc: CORN Firm; 52 to 52 cents per Dusnei ior wmte. - ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide water; yuc$1.10; upland 6580c. (Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to the bushel N. C. BACON Steady ; hams 10 to .Lie per pound; shoulders, 7 to 8c; siaes, 10 oc. SHINGLES Per thousand, five- inch hearts and saps, $2.25 to 3.25; six-mcnrf i. uu to 5.00; seven-inch, o.ou 10 o.ou. TIMBER Market steady at $2.50 to o.ou per m. at 5c, net receipts 1,326 bales- u bile, nominal at 5c, net rew' , bales; Memphis, firm t P . OA . " -J10fi Mai receipts 80 bales: Cl i . ... . -- V78, ui rceipu a Dales; CbarWJ quiet and nominal, net receinu u?h V lb A estoh bale? PRODUCE MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Mornine Star. New York, August u fairly active, firm Ind hfcSS patents $3 563 90 wUt er strong; No 3 rod TSXcptioSoS strong at He advance on JxSJXfS ish cables; a set back under real;,; followed, but the afternool Jfe a second active advance Used ll ! liberal decrease in the visible su?Du figures covering, strong late cabft and a sharp rise at St Lonic.. strong at &c jZ'Z tember closed 77Xc; December cfi 79c. Corn-Spot steady; No. 2 ffi options opened firm at ysC sd with wheat and ruled veryste a day in face of almost perfect w J,v news; shorts covered on higher cable and light on-ermgs; closed steady a Td unchanged; September closed 36c December closed 343e. rQt, o.: easier; No 2 white 27c; options m" lected.Lard easy ; Western steam ch-i $5 55; city $5 20; August closed 5 H nominal; refined steady. Pork steady mess $8 759 50; short clear $10 o' 1175; family $11 0012 00. Cmt seed oil quiet. Butter strono- Western creamery 16K20c; State'dairv i4a vo. Mulct, large wnite vuuuui 111 111. IHCrt hnn 18c. 9c FINANCIAL MARKETS. -JHQLESALE PRICES CURRENT. The Wholesale following Quotations Prices generally. In makl represent IV. In mae no small orders hiirher prices have to be charge e IS 7 00 BAGGING 8 Jute Standard WESTERN SHOEKj Hams V Sides w t Shoulders 9 t DRY SALTED Sides D Shoulders V X BARRELS Spirits Turpentine-Second-hand, each 1 25 1 new new xorg, eacn New City, each .BEESWAX V I BRICKS Wilmlntrton V M s oa eh Northern 9 00 14 oo BUTTER North Carolina 9 s Northern CORN MEAL Per bushel, In sacks Virginia Meal COTTON TIEs w bundle CANDLES f t Sperm Adamantine . , CHEESE V Nortnern Factory Dairy Cream State , COFFEE Laguyra , Bio , DOMESTICS Sheeting, 4-4, 9 yard Yarns. 9 bunch of 5 tts .... EGGS 9 dozen FISH Mackerel, No. 1, 9 barrel... Mackerel, No. 1, 9 half -bbl. Mackerel, No. 8, barrel... Mackerel, No. 2 w half -bbl.. Mackerel' No. S, 9 barrel . . . Mullets, 9 barrel Mullets, 9 pork barrel N. C. Roe Herring, 9 keg.. Dry Cod, s Extra FLOUR 9 lb Low grade Choice Straight First Patent GLUE 9 . 6H 7 694 IK 6 35 40 40 24 By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, August 14. Money on call easier at 23 per cent., last loan being at 3 per cent. Prime mercan tile paper 45 per cent. Sterling exchange firm; actual business in bankers' bills at 486486X for demand and 482X482 for sixty days. Posted rates 483484 and 487487. Commercial bills 481). Silver cer tificates 60X61. Bar silver 60&. Mexican dollars 48. Government bonds strong. State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds were quoted strong. TJ S. 2's, registered, 100K; U. S. 3's, registered, 108; do. coupon, 1Q8; u.a. new 4 s, regist a, 130; do. coupon, 130; U. S. old 4's, regist'd, 112; do. coupon, 113; U. S. 5's, registered, 111K; do. coupon, 111 ; N. C. 6's 128; do. 4's, 104; Southern Rafilwav5's 108. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 47 ; Chesapeake & Ohio 28 y Manhattan L 117 ; N. Y. Central 1388 ; Reading 22; do 1st preferred 60; St. Paul 131 ; do. preferred 173; Southern Railway 11 ; do. preferred 52 ; Amer ican Tobacco, 117; do. preferred 141; People's Gas 121 ; .Sugar 163& ; do. E referred 120 ; T. C. & Iron 89 ; U. S leather 9; do. preferred 75; West era Union 89M- 15 18 25 SO 47 47H 47 47 1 00 18 25 8 11 10K 11 13 10X 10 Ui 7 8 5M 70 8 9 23 00 11 00 16 00 8 00 13 00 3 00 5 00 3 00 5 4 35 30 00 15 00 18 00 9 00 14 00 4 00 8 00 3 25 10 4 SO Making- steel Fens. Briefly described", steel pens are. made as fallows : First the steel is rolleujinto big sheets and then cut into strips about three inches in width. The strips are heated to a bright red and are then al lowed to cool gradually, which anneals them. They are next rolled to the necessary thinness and are cut into blank flat pens, and the pens, while nat are usu ally stamped with the brand or the. name of the manufacturer. To shape the pens is the next process. The rounding makes them hold the Ink and distribute it more graduallyand evenly than could he done if thevwere flat To harden them they are heated;to a cherry red and then suddenly cooled. This not only hardens them, but makes them elastic. The polishing, slitting, pointing. and finishing come next, .and then they are ready for use. The-utrtle holes in-; the pens at the end of the -slits serve to jmake. them more elastic and to facilitafetthe flow of the ink. It,is said that more steel is nowused in the manufacture of pens than.inthat of swords. It is even claimed thafejLthe metal annually used in their manufac ture .weighs more than all the 'metal usedun the manufacture of war. imple ments. If this he true, much forcejis added to the time honored sayingat "the pen is mightier than the sword?" GRAIN 9 bushel Corn, from store, bgs White Car-load, ln-bgs White. . . uats, irom store Oats, Rust Proof Cow Peas HIDES 9 Green salted Dry flint Drv salt HAY 9 100 lbs Clover Hay Rice Straw Eastern Western North River HOOP IRON, lift nu, v jo Northern , North Carolina 4 00 4 50 11 9 tt. 52 38 65 10 85 40 80 80 80 ht) Oct. 1. ber 14-1 s. R. F. BUM PAS. Presiding Elder. provoke the Boers to open war, this language is well adaped to do it. HHuueipnia Laager, Ind. "What a little mouth your fZI uasi ii aoesn't seem Crying Tor Charlie. Harry and Charlie, aged 5 and 8 re spectively, had just been seated at the1 nursery table for dinner. Harry noticed there was but one orange on the tahle and immediatelv set nn w.i brought his mother to the scene. ' 'Why,. Harry, what are you crying fort" she' tST 'tany orange' LIME, barrel....-: i LUMBER (city sawed) 9 M ft Ship Stuff, resawed 18 00 Rough edge Plank 15 00 West India cargoes, accord ing to quality 13 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 Scantling and Board, com'n 14 00 Common mill 5 00 Fair mill e 50 Prime mill 8 50 Extra mill.. l0O MOLASSES 9 gallon Barbadoes, In hogshead. .... Barbadoes. In barrels Porto Rico, in hogsheads. . . Porto Rico, In barrels Sugas House, In hogsheads Sugar BoHse, In barrels. . . . Byrup, in oarreis NAILS, J) keg. Cut, 60d basis.., rvK&, V oarrei Cltv Mess Rump Prime ROPE, B SALT, V sack. Alum. . . . Liverpool American. On 125 Sacks...... SHINGLES, 7-lnch, per M 5 00 Common 1 go Cypress Saps 250 ouuan, Btanaara uran a Standard A White Extra C Extra C, Golden C, Yellow SOAP, 9 Northern.... , 8TAVE8, 9 M W. O. barrel. . . n. u. ttossneaa. 3 00 3 50 4 25 5 00 13 52 52 40 45 75 8 126 9 90 50 85 85 85 2K I 66 8 NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning Btar New York, August 14. Rosin steady. Spirits turpentine firm at 51 'A 52c. ' Charleston, August 14. -Spirits tur pontine firm at 46c: sales nnslrs Rosin firm and unchanged; sales barrels. Savannah, August 14. Spirits tur pentine nrm at 4a; sales 50 casks; re ceipts 1,252 casks. Rosin fi rm and unchanged ; sales 361 barrels 3,244 barrels. COTTON MARKETS. Bv Telegraph to the Mornlnir star. JMEw York, August 14. To-day's cotton market wavered wih any downward inclination, although at one time about ten points above tne closing prices of Saturday. Through out the session the market was irreir- uiar ana at all limes 'active The character of the trading, however, was not progressive and parties who have been building long interests found their holdings tr h inr.ni;n and a considerable part of the atten tion of the professional element was directed .towards Sinriprminino. l i .i. fe mm "' ui UUIUIDS-S. lftfi final mn t, j j ",vc " Louun sieuuy. iroiaioes nominal fair to prime $1 501 75 ; fancy $2 009 Southern sweets $1 002 00. Freeh's to Liverpool dull and weak; cottou by steam 20c, August. Coffee-Spot Rio dull and nominal ; No. 7 invoic 5c; No. 7 jobbing 6Xc; mild quiet and barely steady; Cordova 7Klk Sugar Raw easier and lower to sell fair refining 4c; centrfugal 96 test 4 9-16c; molasses sugar 3c; refined quiet and about steady. Chicago. August 14. Wheat t developed into a strong bull marktt and closed, at an advance of lc over Saturday. The continual falling in primary receipts and generally dissp pointing-Spring wheat threshing . turns caused free covering and bromri.i outside support to the market. Coarse grains were utterly indifferent to tie wheat strength and closed a shad lower for nearly all ODtions. Lard de clined 2i5c, but other products made little change. CHICAGO. Ausr.14 Cash Quotation Flour firm and 10c hieher. Wheat Nn 2 spring ; No. 3 SDrine- G9ffl70e: No. 2 red 73i. Corn No. 2 31 "sc Oats No. 2 21a21lc: No. 2 wtm- 24c; No. 3 white 22'X23'Ac. Fork, per bbl, $7 508 30. Lard. per 100 lbs. i5 1005 25. Sl.o.i rib sides, loose 14 80a5 15 Drv salted shoulders, $5 505 62'A. Short clear sida-, boxed. 5-3u& 5 35. Whiskey Distillers' finished goods, per gallon. $1 26. lhe leading: futures ranged as U'. lows opening, highest, lowest am. closing: Wheat No. 2 September 71, 7172, 71, 71Hc; December 73M73, 74, 73, 74Jic;-fcay 7.6 77, 7777&, 76, 77c Corn-No 2 September 30&30J, 3031, 30 30c; December 28J628&. m, 28H, 28Hc; May 2929, 2i 29 29$, 29M29K. Oats-September 19, 19K. 19. 19. : Decemb. r 19 , 19M, 19, 19c; May 2V, 21, 21. 21c. Pork, per bbl Seotember $8 37 yi, 8 37, 8 22. 8 30; Octobtr $8 42, 8 45, 8 30, 8 35. Lard, per 100 fts September $5 25, 5 27, 5 20, 5 22; October $5 32, 5 35, 5 25, 5 27K- Short ribs, per 100 lbs-September $5 07, 5 10, 5 05, 5 05; Octo ber $5 15, 15, 5 07, 5 10 Baltimore, August 14. Flour dull and unchanged Wheat firmer Sput and month' 77c September 7272Kc; October 7373c; December. 76jc asked. Soutieru wheat by sample 6572c. Cora firm Mixed, spot and month 35c; September and October 3535c;. November and December, ?232c; January 32jc Southern white corn 39 40c. Oats more active -No. 2 white, 2527cnew. FOREIGN MARKET. Bv Cable to the Morning Stai Liverpool, August 14, 4 P. H. Cotton Spot in moderate business; prices lower. American miaaiing fair 4Jd; good middling 3 13 32J; middling'3 9-32d ; low middling 3d; good ordinary 3 3 16d ; ordinary 3d. The sales of the day were 10.000 bales, of which 500 were for sptcir latjon and export and included 9,300 bales A merican. Receipts xmi-i-Futures opened quiet and closed quiet. American middling (1. m c) August 3 31-32d buyer; August ami September 3 29-643 30 64d buyer; September and October 3 28 643 29 64d seller; October and November 3 27-64d seller; November and w cember, December and January, January and February 3 25 64P 26 64d seller; February and March i 25 64d seller: March and April 3 2b- (4(7hfK 9.?-(AA Kiivov Anril and May 3 27 64(&3 28 64d seller; May nd & 1 25 & 20 00 16 00 18 00 & 23 00 & 15100 0 60 & 8 00 10 00 & 10 50 MARIN K. 23 SS 12 14 lb . 2 00 9 50 & & & & & & 10 & 75 a 70 & & & 5 & & & o uu 25 28 80 80 14 15 25 2 10 0 10 00 9 50 9 00. 22 1 10 80 75 47K 6 50 2 25 3 50 4 ARRIVED. Steamship New York, 2,111. tons. Ingram, New York, H G Smallbonw Stmr Driver, Bradshaw.Fayettevilie, T D Loye. CLEARED. Stmr Driver, Bradshaw, Fayctie ville, T D Love. MARINE DIRECTORY. 3,192 bales; bales; 5,774 2.350 bales; Tra5KLMefr.t.78hIppm'J-; Mill, Fair ."..'.'." Common Mill ' Inferior to ordinary 8HINGLK8, N.C. Cypress sawed 9 M 6x24 heart " 8ap 5x24 Heart " " SaD 6x24 Heart " Bap TALLOW, 9 t.. 450 3 09 7 50 5 00 4 50 4 00 6 00 5,00 14109 & 10 00 Q 9 00 7 00 & 6 50 5100 4 00 W'S 50 600 5100 6:50 6 50 5 60 6 or to-day s market were bearish in the June 3 28 64d buyer; June and July expectation of weak cables to morrow. 3 29 64d seller ine market closed barely steady at a net loss of five to ten points. -TRBK- AU"st 14 -Cotton quiet; middling uplands 6c. Cotton futures closed barely steady at quotations: August 5.75, September 97, October 5.97, November 6.02, December 6.06, January 6.11, Feb- J " uuue v.&l. Spot cotton closed quiet; middling1 275ajs6C; middliDsVlf 6Xci sale! 9 otKrTeipts bales5 ross receipt 2 988 hales; exports to the Continent m ' BWCSSi 145,735 bales. Total to-day Net receipts bales; exports to France 50 exports to the Continent 19.9 stock 353,903 bales. Consolidated Net receipts bales; exports to Great Britain uaies; exports to France 50 exports to tne LJontiTAnt k srn v-i ' Total since September 1st! Net re ceipts 8,330,198 bales; exports to QrT Btain 3.9.899 bales; ex ports to France 796,609 bales; exports to the Continent 2 fiS7 k iL Aug. 14. Galveston, firm at 6 116c. net receipts 654 bales; Norfolk, steady at 6c, net receiDts 6 hl. TtoiK. more, nominal at 6c, net receipts 838 bales; Boston, quiet at 6c, net re affi 81 baleS.; Wilmington, steady qiet at 6&c. 'receipts -bales; Savannah, steady at 5c. net receipts 140 bales; New Orleansfsteady LIU of VesMla. In tbe Pr' mlnarton. N. ;.. Aug. 15 SCHOONERS. Nellie Floyd, 435 tons, Nelson, Bed Tji i c TT-li tva . fnnlf. v Harriss, Son & Co. BARQUES. Bianca Aspacia (It) 451 tons, Geo Harriss, Son ac uo. BARGES. Maria Dolores, 610 tons, Bonoea Powers, Gibbs & Co. , i. D. O'CONNOR- . . wiimtnirtoni " Tvnni'T.T.mOB. STORES- i f erma. Bents, iaie -r- losnw k attended to promptly- u""'ftiotr on improved UfJ
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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