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5, J- PUBLISHER'S jUnrOTOCXXXJrT. THX KOKNTNO STAB, Um oldest dally news paper In North Carolina, fa published daily ex cept Monday, $5.00 yew, SiSO for six month, HJK f or three monus, W cents for on month to mall sabscribera. Delivered to city rab aeribera at the rate of 45 cents per month for any pertol from one month to one year. advertising RATES (DAILY) One square one day. ii .; two days, i.T5; three days, fiSO; four days, t-t.no; five data, $s.io; one week, $4.00; two weeks, W.50; three weeks, ISL50: one month, Jl 0.000; two months, H7.00; three months, 9M.00-, six months, $40.00; twelrs month, 160.00. Ten Unes of solid Nonpariel type make one square. THC WEEKLY STAB to pnbUsbed every Fri day morning at H.OO per year, w cents for six all annotinoements of Fairs. FestlTals. Balls, Plcntca, Society Meetings, Pouucai meet ings. 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The great demand for iron and steel in this country and through out the world ia unprecedented. We have had extraordinary periods of activity in railroad building, which created a demand for an immense amount of iron and steel, but noth ing in comparison with what we witness now. Notwithstanding the fact that the output of our mines and furnaces is larger than it ever was before, there is practically an iron and steel famine, and steel manufacturers complain that the furnaces are away behind on their deliveries to them. Speaking of this a Pittsburg letter to the Iron Trade Review says: ' "The entire inadequacy of furnaces to supply sufficient Bessemer pig iron for steel making requirements is being further emphasized, and has lent addi tional strength to the market in the past week. It is really difficult to say what would be the condi tion of the general iron and .steel market were a sufficiency of pig iron or: ail jrraaea to be had. It is quite possible that such a supply would de cidedly change the complexion of the finished material market. While this ' may be the case, it does not affect the strength of the market, because of all iron and steel operations that of mak ing pig iron has been shown to be the least flexible." The question is whether this is only a temporary condition which will soon be over or whether it is to continue for some years. The impression among the trade journals 13 that the extraordinary demand for iron and steel has come to stay for two or three years at least. The indications point that way. As an index of this the Iron Age says: it is certain that in certain lines (notably in pig iron) the engagements for 1900 hare already been heavy. One Southern interest is reported to hare orer 150,000 tons on its books, while a large interest controlling a very important industry has orders for orer 200,000 tons of material se cured. It must not be forgotten, either, that a good deal of tonnage which cannot be delivered in time will hare to be carried into next year In steel rails alone this is variously estimated at from 400,000 to 500,000 tons." This gives some idea of the de mands upon the farmers and upon the rolling mills. The presumption ia that the Carnegie Company keeps a pretty close eye on the market and the present and prospective output, and it seems to be of the opinion of that firm that the demand will in crease rather than decrease and that prices will go up instead of down which is indicated by the following irom an editorial m the New York Journal of Commerce discussing the situation: "It was learned yesterday, on ap- Rff nw 7 unHestionable authority, that the Carnegie Steel Company had placed a contract with a shipbuilding concern on the Lakes to furnish beams and plates throughout 1900 and 1901 at current high prices. Furthermore. u. was tUted that the purchaser, wished to contract for their supply in 1902 at the same figures, but the Car negi Company declined the contract. Itui further said that the Carnegie ffi? ,orde already for all toe beams and plates it can turn out up to February, 1900." This unusual demand is due not only to the largely increased de mand jtor home consumption but to before that agreed to pay an Eng lish firm for the same kind of goods. When the buyer in Africa stated this fact the English firm contend ed that is was impossible to furnish ' a good article at the American price, but when the cargoes arrived the American iron was pronounced not only as good but better than the English iron. Of the more than 7,000 "tons of wire fencing used in that country the United States fur nished nearly all. These are facts which show how American iron and steel are forging their way into other countries, and will help to ac count for the phenomenal activity in the iron and steel industries in this country. But in addition to this there is an extraordinary home demand as shown hj the activity in railway building and the orders for addi tional equipment by some of the roads now in operation, some of which are thus noted by the Rail way Age: i "Michigan Central has received bids on 5000 cars. Atchison will build at its own shops 600 box cars. Erie has placed an order with the Pressed Steel Car Company for 1,000 steel crs. It is reported that Chicago & Northwes tern has ordered 2500 freight cars from the Haskel & Barber Company. In diana, Illinois & Iowa has ordered from American Car and foundry capa city, and eight caboose and five passen ger can. The road will also place an order for 100 box cars of 80,000 pounds capacity." Commenting upon this and the situation and the outlook generally, the Philadelphia Record, published in a great iron and steel center and in close touch with the iron steel industries, says: the most admired and . the most hated man in it. He will be missed from the political arena, '- too, where he .was always an- in teresting figure, v. because "bold, able and aggressive, with little of the trimmer or compromiser in him; It is not likely that he will go out of politics altogether for he loves a racket too well for. that, and from force of habit if nothing else he will probably take a hand occa sionally: but in New York, and 83 plain Tom Reed, he will not be the looming figure he was as a denizen of Maine and Speaker of the House. Ab he is not in full accord with his party in all of its present, policies, and has rather a small opinion of Mr. McKinley aa'its figure-head, and a large sized contempt for some of the men who are running the party now, this will make him some what cool and make him less in clined to strip for the fray when it comes. There is one thing about Tom Ree4, however, which is to his credit, whatever may be said of him as an unscrupulous partisan, he al ways had the courage to act, and whether right or wrong, he never played the hypocrite and both friends aad enemies knew just where to find him. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. "Following this comes a long list of new locomotives ordered for a num ber of different roads. The pressure of work is is now so great in some es tablishments it this city that the al most unheard of of experiment of night work is being tried in the foun dry of a large machine and tool works. Night work is common enough in busy times in machine shops, and most of these places have been and still are in full blast all night, as the brilliant illumination shows. As a rule, however; the foundries are al ways dark, being allowed to cool Off after the puring of the molten metal, which is usually done late in the dav. There is no question, in view of the present condition of affairs, that in the absence of any serious disturbing element, the year 1900 will be one of phenomenal activity and nrosnerity in all branches of iron manu factor ing." We are interested in this because if this demand for iron and steel continues the iron producing States of the South must be largely bene fitted by it, especially in view of the fact that iron can be mined, and de livered from Southern furnaces cheaper than from any other fur naces in the country. It should and doubtless will turn the attention of capitalists in this direction, and re sult ina great stimulus not only to increased production of ore and pig iron bnt to an increase in the num ber of plants and the enlargement of those now in operation. The greater the activity and demand the sooner the South will become the iron cen ter she is destined to become. THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH. Booker T. Washington, who has recently travelled - in Europe and spent some time in France, study ing the school systems of that coun try, says that where the negroes in the Sonth are not worried by mobs their condition is better than that of the laboring classes in France, and he might have truly added bet ter than that of the laboring classes in most European countries. There are few countries in Europe where poor men can become the owners of land, and where they can it is only of email tracts of a few acres. There land is high, and for that reason so many are simply renters, and then the rent is so high that they must be very industrious and farm well to pay the rent and have much left. In France the farmers can own their farms, but they must be thrifty, which as a rule they are. But those who own farms are few in number to those who do not, but earn their living by their daily toil, which we presume is the class which Prof. Washington re fers to. In the Sonth any industrious ne gro may become a home owner if he desires, and on terms that with ordi ordinary industry he can easily com ply with, and such a negro, who shows a disposition to help himself and attend to his business, keep out of bad company and seek the good will of his white neighbors will al ways find friends to help him along if he needs help. This has been the experience of thousands of them and would be of more where they showed themselves worthy of it. There is no class of wage earners MONEY IN POULTRY. We read much about our great crops of wheat, cotton, cofa, their valne, &c, and little of the poultry business which amounts to more in dollars than either wheat, cotton, or corn, and it goes right along all the time without much fuss or feathers, although there are lots of feathers in it, nor much cackling, for all the cackling that is done is done at home, and are simply an nouncements that the egg produc ers arc attending to business. And they turn out in the course of a year work of immense value, as will be Been by the following figures giving the value of various crop3 for the year 1896: Earnings of Poultry $290,000,000 Value of cotton crop 259,164,640 Value of Wheat crop 237,938.998 Value of Swine 186,529,745 Value of oat cron 163.655.068 Value of potato crop 78,898,901 Value of tobacco crop 35,574,220 This is the value in money of the eggs, chickens, ducks, geese, tur keys, &c., marketed, as gathered from reports considered reliable and does not include what was consumed on the farms, which would add very materially to the aggregate. This industry differs from others in the fact that it is practically a self-running one, requiring no large investment in plants, nor especially skilled labor, and very little money save when the poultry business is pursued as a specialty. But these are very few, scarcely enough to be counted, when we consider the immense volume of this business. But this aggregate isn't anything to the proportions this industry might attain for there are scores of farmers who never send eggs or ponltry to market to the one that does. It is a business that is left principally to the women and children, being re garded as too small for the men to bother with, and yet if the men did bother with it they might get more money out of it than they do out of the crops on which they labor so hard. ' Goldsboro Argusu Nearly al the banker ponies were drowned in ' the recent terriblestorm on the coast. A gentlemen from Beaufort told' us this morning that one man counted fifty two dead ponies within a distance of a few miles. .Winston Journal: , About' sei-i enty-five negroes, men and women, left on the N. & W. road this morn-" ing for Pocahontas, . Va. The men will work in the mines and the wo men will do the cooking. One man's wife wanted to sro. while her husband objected, and he took the liberty of pulling her off the train. Charlotte News', Snnday about noon Jim Byers, colored, shot and killed Fannie Gillespie, colored, near Davidson College. The ball entered the skull and brain above the left eye. a little to the left of the median line, and passed backward and downward, and lodged in the depression for the cerebellum. The course of the bullet was marked by fragments of bone and clotted blood. Greensboro Telegram: Mr. Bo hannon of Hickory is interested with Messrs. Odell, of Concord, and B. N. Duke, of Durham, in the development of the magnificent water power on the Catawba river, two miles from Hickory. This is one of the finest idle water powers in the state. It will ere long be turning the wheels of a large cotton mill and furnishing electricity for Hickory and other near-by towns Salisbury Sun: There "was hail south of town Monday night. Parties from China Grove tell us considerable hail fell in the Harris chapel neigh borhood. A big blaze at Forest City Thursday night destroyed the machine shops and cotton gin of Mr. John N. Moore's. -The origin of the fire is not known, but it is supposed it caught from a spark from the engine room. The loss was $5,000. with no insurance. . This was one of the big gest fires ever known in Forest City. Raleigh Post: Harry Wright, one of the noted criminals who was supposed to have escaped from the penitentiary Monday morning, was discovered Tuesday concealed inside of the penitentiary.- Wright was found in the engine-room of the shirt factory. On Sunday morning a Christian Endeavor Society was or ganized at the State prison by Miss Mamie Bays, of Charlotte, who is chairman of the press department of the'C. E. State Union. A number of the Raleigh Endeavorers were present also, and the new society begins with a bright outlook. It has a member ship of nineteen active and thirty four associate members. Bryant Pope, a white citizen of Mark's Creek township, walked into the sheriff's office Monday morning and surren dered himself, but not until he had defied officers of the law and fired on them with shotguns. If all that ds charged against Bryant is true it wDl be a long time before he enjoys liberty again. One day last week Miss Pope, a youDg daughter of Bryant's, married a Mr. Smith, who lived just across the river, in Middle Creek township. The bridal couple repaired to the home of the groom after the ceremony. When Bryant Pope, the father of the bride, reached home and learned that his daughter was married, he pro ceeded to visit his wrath upon his wife. He beat his wife severely and then proceeded at once to the house of the groom" Upon first sight he assaulted Mr. Smith, cutting him badly with a knife. The young man got away and savea mm sen. xne iatner then took the bride and carried her back to her home. According to her own story her brute father tied her to a tree and cruelly beat her. It is said he struck his wife with a plank. Warrants were sworn out for the arrest of the brutal father and hus band. Mr. John Sturdevant, a magis trate of the township, deputized J. D. Honeycutt, Bain and Oneil, of tbat community to accompany him to Pope's house in order to make the ar rest. When Magistrate Sturdevant told Pope the nature of his business, the latter, who was barricaded in his house, opened fire with shotguns upon the officers. The fire was so vigorous and incessant that the officers had to retreat and that at a fast gate. Yester day Pope came in . and surrendered. He is held on a number of charges. CAULIFLOWER CULTURE. i I,:---:-:-, - 1 ''a. . . .-..J Bw to Uakc It Pr Slt Sovrfaar - of U Hotbed In Hank. ' There iaa good profit jn growing' cauliflowers for market if the conditions are all right, but withjtbe culture often given them, they are not a reliable crop.- In growing cauliflowers for sale, the first thing to be considered is a market for these luxuries. -The crop is not a staple one, like eome which, are considered necessaries of life, and you must find people who want ' them and are able to buy them. In most large vil lages there is a sufficient number of peo ple who want thom to make a market for a few thousand heads. In eome sea sons, and at some times in the year, there is a good profit in growing them to ship to dealers in the cities, bnt the most money is made by retailing them in villages where no one is growing them and there is no competition. It ia not best to economize too much in purchasing seeds. The higher priced strains of white cauliflowers, where the type has become established by careful selection for several years, are more re liable in heading, and the whiter the heads the better they will sell in the market. The large pure white heads with the leaves trimmed nicely around them attract the eye. and people buy them-because they "look nice." The Early Snowball " is the standard with many people and probably more exten sively grown than any other variety and is usually very satisfactory. I make the first sowing of the seed in a hotbed in March. A little later I sow more seeds in a cold frame, and sow at differ-, ent times in the open ground from April until June My plan is to have only a small part of the-crop mature at one time, for the leaves will soon grow through the heads if they are not mar keted at the right time A deep, moist clay soil is the best for cauliflowers, although good crops can be grown on any good garden soil I cover the ground two or three inches deep with stable manure and plow it in. Then harrow and fnrrow two and one-half feet apart If I have well rot ted manure. I scatter it in the furrow and mix it with the soil with the cul tivator, or. if the manure is not at hand. I p et the plants and in a few days apply around them a little commercial fertilizer that is rich in nitrogen. Vege tables of whi'.-h the leaves or stalks are the edible partH need plenty of nitrogen in an available form. The plants are transplanted at different times from May until June. Cauliflower plants, from the hotbed should not be set too early unless they are well hardened, for they are more easily injured by frosts than cabbage In addition to the foregoing sugges tions given in Vick's Magazine the writ er says that to insure success one must have some means of irrigation. The plants should not stop growing at any time ; hence the importance of irrigat ing them during a drought A RUSH TO VICTORY. Colonel Roosevelt Telia of Hla Order ; . to Charee Up Kettle Hill. I spoke to the captain in command of the rear platoons, saying that I had been ordered to support the regulars in the attack upon the Jiilla and that in my judgment we could not take these hills by firing at them and that we must rnsh them. He answered that his orders were to keep his men lying where they were and that he could not charge without orders. I asked where the colonel was, and as he was not in sight said, "Then I am "the ranking officer here, and I give the order to charge" for I did not want to keep the men longer in the open, suffering under a fire which they could not effect ively retnrn. Naturally the captain hesitated to obey this order when no word had been received from his own colonel So I said, "Then let my men through, sir," and rode on through the lines, followed by the grinning rough riders, whose at tention had been wholly taken off the Spanish bullets, partly by my dialogue with the regulars and partly by the language I had been using to them selves as I got the lines forward, for I had been joking with some and swear ing at others, as the exigencies of the case seemed to demand. ! - When we started to go through, how ever, it proved too much for the regu lars, and they jumped up and came along, their officers and troops mingling with mine, all being delighted at the chance. When I got to where the head of the left wing of the Ninth was lying, through the courtesy of Lieutenant Hartwick, two of whose colored troop ers threw down the fence, I was enabled to get back into the lane, at the same time waving my hat and giving the or der to charge the hill on our right front Out of my sight, over on the right, Captains McBIain and Taylor of the Ninth made up their minds independ ently to charge at just about this time, and at almost the same moment Colo nels -Carroll and Hamilton, who were off, I believe, to my left, where we could see neither them nor their men, gave the order to advance. But of all this I knew nothing at the time. The whole line, tired of waiting and eager to close with the enemy, was straining to go forward, and it seems that differ ent parts slipped the leash at almost the same moment. "The Rough Rid era," by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in Scribher's. ..TMEBEST mm COMMERCIAL. . Jgrtj. XJt m wV,.HS watca, Consolidated-Net receipts i79(l() bales: ftinorts t.n TTo,k ... Mr'W , K v w a aui;u 3 k- l exports to the Continent, a n us. a WILMINGTON" MARKET. A Silo Door. A Rural New Yorker correspondent offers what he evidently finds a pretty good plan for a silo door: Ours is bevel egand about 17 by 24 inches. ' I bored 7m. 2.1 rv Sixteen Scorpion Bites. Winfield S. Keyes, a son of the late General Keyes, and a mining engineer of San Francisco, has just , recovered from a peculiar case of poisoning. Sev eral weeks ago he was in Mexico exam ining some mining properties. The day before he was ready to return to San Francisco he was bitten 16 times on the right leg between the knee and the ankle. He was not long in ascertaining that he had been bitten by an unusually large scorpion. The bites were little red spots at first, but they grew in size and increased in pain while he was hurried ly en route to San Francisco for treat ment When he arrived, his leg was fearfully swollen. The bites had become large red and yellow boils, and the pain was almost unbearable. The phy sicians said that if proper treatment had been delayed a day longer he would never have recovered. Aa it was, they had a very hard time bringing him WHOLESALE PRICES CURREKT. STAR OFFICE, Aug. 23. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market quiet at 46 cents per gallon for ma chine made casks and 46 cents per gallon for country casks. ROSIN Market firm at 90 cents per bbl for strained and- 95c for good strained. TAR Market firm at $1.65 per bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. rMarket firm at per barrel for hard, $2.70 for Dip and $2.70 for Virgin. Quotations same day last year. Spirits turpentine firm at 2626c; rosin firm at $1.001.05; tar firm at $1.20; crude turpentine steady at $1 10 1.60. RECEIPTS. Spirits Turpentine 147 Rosin 400 Tar 373 Crude Turpentine -76 Receipts same day last year. 74 casks spirits turpentine, 630 bbls rosin, 139 bbls tar, 14 bbls crude tur pentine. COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 5 eta per Sund for middling. Quotations: rdinary 3 7-16 ct&$ ft tfood Ordinary. 4 13-16 " ' " Low Middling 5 7-16 " " Middling 5 " " Good Middling 6X " " Same day last year middling 5c. Receipts 7 bales; same day last year, 1. country produce. PEANUTS North Carolina Extra prime, $1.00 to $1.10 per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, $L10 to $112. Virginia Extra prime, 75 to 80c; CORN Firm: 52 to 52 cents per bushel for white, ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide water) 90c$L10; upland, 6580c. Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to the bushel. N. C. BACON Steady; hams 10 to 11c per pound; shoulders, 7 to 8c; sides, 7 k ac. SHINGLES Per thousand, five inch hearts and saps, $2.25 to 3.25 ; six-inch. $4.00 to 5.00; seven-inch, $5.50 to 6.50. TIMBER Market steady at $2.50 to 6.50 per M ceipts 8,370,604 bales;' exports , Great Britain 8.604.23B to 70ft QQn ui. Aug. -23. Galveston, firm at i net receipts 2,506 bales ; Norfolk ste at 6c. net receipts 119 bales afl.f more, nominal r. ec, net receipu bales; Boston, quiet at 6 5 lGc. net ceipte - bales; Wilmington st,au "s. "Ck ictoipui oaies: Phila.l viua, uruu tti o iJ-J.DC, net Dales; savannah, receipts, 170 C, ,t Orleans 8teadv at receipts boo Dales : New a, J a ar a . BLOilUV HL D4fef HPT. rii ... -tO 1 1 Mobile quiet at 5c, net receipt bales; Memphis, firm at 5 15-iGc receipts 181 bales; Aueusta, stead, a 5 15-16c,net receipts 227 bales; Charle ton, firm at 6c, net receipts 105 bal. s PRODUCE MARKETS. By TelesraDh to tha Mornlnc star New Xork, August .-Flouy for spring patents at old ' loqui. v 3 54. .Wheat-Spotsteady; No. 2 S 78c; options opened strong at i c advance on higher cables, wet weath'r in the Northwest and l-cal coveriu? mey were sustained later bv lit-hi uucuuga miiu nervousness snort interests, but because of FINANCIAL MARKETS. 3r The following quotations represent Wholesale Prices srenerallT. In making nn mall orders hUiher prices nave to be charged. The quotations are always given as accurately as possible, bnt the Sta will not be responsible for any variations from the artoal market price TWINKLINGS. CURRENT COMMENT. The handling of the Carter case is not the kind of thing that makes a modest American feel that he should be tocuaevere on the thing called French justice, and now being exemplified at -Rennes. Chatlannn- ga Times, Dem. has An American bridge company closed a contract to build a bridge that will be the amazement of Japan. It is to cross a large rier, is to be 1,000 feet long and 100 feet high and representanot only the skill of the American builders, but a victory won in open competition with the big bridge-building firms of Europe. Chicago News, Bern. The emancipated and enfran chised Afro-American gave the country a specimen of their calibre at Chicago on Saturday by denounc ing Mr. Booker T. Washington as "a Traitor" and "a trimmer' Mr. Washington is a remarkably able, wise and intelligent man. It is no praise to him to say that his race has not produced his equal. Philadelphia Record, Dem. Emperor William is said to have told some American ladies, who Tisited him, that "women have no business to interfere with anything outside of the four k's kinder, kirche, knche and kleider" (children, church, cooking and cloths.) There was more wit than courtesy in the remark, but there was also a certain amount of truth in it. The woman the phenomenal exporta of iron and I thf world wl" have better oppor- I IJBuerally found to be lacking in one steel, the whole world thus draw ing upon and taxing the capacity of our mines and furnaces. The iron nd steel makers of this country have entered the field as competitors of the iron and steel men of the world and with Buch success as to secure contracts with foreign coutt trie for immense deliveries of steel rails, steel bridges, wire fencing, jhoop iron and numerous other ar ticles which a few years ago we did not export at all, or if so in very small quantities. We are now fur nishing steel rails by the ship loads to Russian and African railways, are building steel railway bridges in Si bera, Japan and Africa, and quite recently an American hoop iron maker made a contract for five tons to be delivered in South Africa at $10 a ton less than the parties with whom he contracted had shortly tunities for self-betterment than the industrious negroes of the South. TOM SEED SZTTRES. All speculation as to what ex Speaker Reed would or would not do in the next Congress is set at rest by his resignation, which has been sent to "the Governor of his State and accepted. With this in cident, as in the case of Secretary Alger, who remarked when he turned over the War Department to his successor, that with that act he became again plain "Mr. Alger," so Hon. T. B. Reed becomes plain Tom Reed, who will, we presume, proceed to transfer his effects and personality to the city ofNew York, where he will henceforth figure, if he has not already done so. He will be missed from the House, where he was always a picturesque figure, or more of these objects of feminine attention; but it is also true that intelligent women can giye all the necessary attention to matters of public interest without neglecting their other duties, just as intelligent and busy men do. Philadelphia Ledger, Ind. Not Quite Ont of Date: "It is deplorable that walking is becoming a lost art." "Lost art? It's a mighty Spod way of setting home when your icycle breaks down." Chicago Tribune. For Oyer virty Tear Mes. WnrsLow's SooTHrxa Syrup has been used for oyer fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething- with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer im mediately. Sola by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five-cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other. f "Do you never work?" said Mrs. Subbubs to a tramp who asked for a handout. "Never, mum," was the proud reply. "I am an immune." Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. "Do you believe that a thou sand years was ever as a day, and a day as a thousand years?" "I believe the latter half all right enough I've just spent the day at the dentist's." Detroit Free Press. iaisiea "i am iranK to say, he said, "tbat I feel you encouraged my attentions." "Perhaps," she re plied, "but how was I to know whether you wanted to marry me or only to borrow money from father?" Phila delphia North American. The Great Transgression: "Here is the account of some train robbers being lynched in Missouri." "Must be a fake." "No, somebody had started the report that the gang was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey." Detroit Journal. Auf Wiedersehen: After the high church wedding, the fashionable bride and groom shook hands. "Shall we meet again ?" she asked, trying to seem interested. "Yes, there's ladies' day at the club, you know," he an swered, smiling, for it would be impo lite to act bored. Detroit Journal. "Who are you ?" demanded the hard featured woman who had an swered the knock at the kitchen door Tuffold Knuttsaw it was of no use. but ke was game. "Ma'am," he said thrustine his friend,BadleighMildude, forward as he spoke, "I'm the man with the ho-bo." And with exceeding stiffness he turned and walked off the premises. New York Weekly. The Confidence of Youth : "And now that you are through col lege, what are you going to do?" asked a friend of the youthful grad uate. "I shall study medicine," was the grave reply of the ambitious young man. "But isn't that profes sion already overcrowded?" asked the friend. "Possibly it is," answered the knowing youth, "but I propose to study medicine just the -same, and those who are already in the profes sion will have to take their chances." FASTENIKO A SILO DOOR. a 5-18 inch hole in the center, drove a three-eighths of an inch bolt from in side, put a 5 by 21 inch hard wood strip bored in the center, on the bolt, then put on nut When the door is being placed, let the etrip be lengthwise of the door; then, when placed crosswise. screw up the nut No injury will result to the door from nailing, and no injury to the cows from nails dropped in the ensilage Shallow Covering; of Mannre. Farmyard manure should be kept as near tne surrace of the sou as possibla The rainwater as it percolates through the soil has a tendency to carry the soluble plant food downward apd out of tne reach or plants. Consequently an attempt should be made to delay the downward progress of plant food instead of assisting it by plowing the manure in deeply. Then again, nitrification is most active near the surface of the soil Therefore, manure kept near the surface is under more favorable conditions for having its plant food made available and consequently gives quicker returns. When a heavy application of manure has been plowed under deeply, it is no uncommon thing to see lumps of ma nure brought to the surface by subse quent plowing, showing that it had never become properly incorporated with the soil It is quite probable, too, that this deeply buried manure has lost considerable nitrogen through denitri fication. Economical manuring consists in obtaining quick returns over as large an area of the farm as possible, and this is accomplished by moderate applica tions incorporated with the surface soil Shallow covering of manure also in creases the humus of the surface soiL As a result the soil does not bake and crack in dry weather. It absorbs and retains water much more satisfactorily a a i. ..... auu wonts up into a nne tilth more easily. New England Homestead. Domestic Thrills. "Have you ever experienced the ex citement of being aroused from sleep in a house at night when it was on fire?" "No, but I have several times gone through the excitement attendant upon my wife's announcement of her belief that ihp baby had swallowed her thim ble." Chicago Newa BAGGING 8 Jute Standard . WX8TE&N SMOKED - Hams 9 ft Bides jT 8hoalders DRY SALTED e o Sides x. Shoulders 9 r. BARRELS Spirits Turpentine oewnu-nauo, eacn New New York, each. . . . New City, each BEESWAX 9 BRICKS 7 i! 6 Northern BUTTER North Carolina 9 S. . . . Northern CORN MEAL Per bushel, in sacks ... Virginia Meal COTTON TIEs w bundle. CANDLES 9 x sperm Adamantine , CHEESE 9 Dairy Cream State , COFFEE 9 Lagnyra Bio , DOMESTICS Sheeting, 4, 9 yard Yarns. 9 bunch of 5 s .... CHJ8 9 dozen FISH Mackerel, No. 1, barrel..; Mackerel, No. 1, half-bbl. Mackerel, No. 8, barrel... Mackerel, No. 8 fThalf-bbl.. Mackerel; No. a, 9 barrel... nuueis, m 1 85 1 85 a 1 40 & 1 40 O 84 5 00 7 00 9 00 14 00 15 & 18 25 & 0 47 47H 47 474, 1 25 18 85 8 11 10K 11 13 O 10M 10 UX 7 8 O 5M 70 9 11 Mullets, IP pork barrel. i. v. uoe uerring. 9 keg.. Dry Cod. B " Extra FLOUR R K Low grade ..... Choice Straight First Patent GLUE .... ujttAiA m Dusnei Corn,from store, bus White Car-load, In igs White... Oats, from store Oats, Bust Proof Cow Peas HIDES 9 ay Green salted Dry flint Drv salt HAY 9 100 Ds Clover Hay Bice Straw Eastern Western North Blver HOOP IBON, 9 t LAKD, 9 Northern , North Carolina LIME, JN barrel LUMBER (city sawed) V M ft 88 00 11 00 IS 00 8 00 13 00 8 00 5 00 S 00 6 4 35 SO 00 15 00 18 00 9 00 14 00 4 00 8 00 3 85 10 4 50 By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, August 23. Money on call steady at 2H3 percent, last loan being at 2 per cent Prime mercan tile paper 4K5 xer cent Sterling exchange firm; actual business iu banters' bills at 486j486M forde mand and 483X483 for sixty days. Posted Irates were 484 and 487. Commercial bills 482. Silver cer tificates 60602. Bar silver 59 13 16. Mexican dollars 47. Government bonds weak. State bonds inactiye. Railroad bonds were quoted stroner. IT. 8. 2's, registered 100; U. S. 3's, registered, 108; do. coupon, 108; U.S. new4's,regist'd,130M; do.coupon, 130J ; U. S. old 4's, regist'd, 112 : do. coupon, 113; TJ. S. 5's, registered. 111; do. coupon, 111; N. C. 6's 128; do. 4's, 104; Southern Railway 5's 110X. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 56 ; Chesapeake & Ohio 28"; Manhattan L113; N. Y. Central 138; Reading 224? do. 1st preferred 62M; St Paul ; do. preferred 174 ; Southern Railway 12 ; do. preferred 54 j4 ; Amer ican Tobacco.l29K;do. preferred 145 ; People's Gas 119 f Sugar 156 V ; do. preferred 119$; T.C&Iron 97; U. S. Leather 10 1 : do. Dref erred Wt era. Union 89. NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York. Auc-ust 23 steady. Spirits turpentine quiet at 50 50c Charleston, August 23.-8pirits tur pentdne firm at 46c: sal ah 1 Rosin firm; sales 200 barrels; B.C. D, 90c; E, 95c; P. $1 00; G, $1 05; H $1 15: I tl 25: E. 1 an. VT 1 an. $2 10; W G, $2 30; W W, $2 50. ' Savannah. August 23 . -Snirita tur pentine Nothing doing; receipts 1 810 casks. Rosin firm ; sales 5,348 barrels ; receipts 4,250 barrels ; Quotations wfir 2? f1Iwsi. A ? P. I, 95c; E, t ,LrViU5; l 10 ? tl 20; IK 4 00 4 50 11 53 65 10 85 40 80 80 80 & a 1 15 Ship Stuff, resawea is 00 S"" raws 15 00 West India cargoes, accord 6tf 8 00 8 50 4 85 5 00 13 52 68 40 45 75 ig? 9 90 SO 85 85 85 2H 7 8 1 85 lntr to aualltr Dressed Flooring.' seasoned, is nn 13 00 Scantling and Board, coni'n 14 00 QUARTERLY MEETINGS. M. E. Chnrcb, Sonth, Wilmington District. Burgaw, Burgaw, August 8S-87. Magnolia, Centenary. September 9-8. F?tn Street, September 10-11. Southport, September 17-18. white vine, Terro Gordo, September 88-84. Waccamaw, Old Dock, September 86. Brunswick, Zlon, September 80-October 1. winnlngton. Market Street, rat night) Oct 1. sSELS.0!?6? 8nlloh- October 7-i. ' ' Elizabeth, Slngletarles, October 14-15 B. F. BUMPAS, " Presiding Elder. Employment Uiuaiec. George Q Piatt, the San Francisco philanthropist, has formed a company to insure against loss of employment. ne.P"cy holder gets three-quarters 5lner PT fOT one month, while looking for new work, and if the new place pay. leas than the old the company ntakes Bp the difference.- Dlapntatiom. Hicks There's one thing you can say about Cronklin. He never has any views of his own, and therefore no pride of opinion. Wicks He doesn't need to have any opinion of his own. It takes him all his time to pitch into other folks' opinions. Boston Transcript. HI Wy of Patting: It. . "What we want to do," said a mem ber of a self constituted legislative body in far seas, "is to establish a board of public works." "That's right," responded the col league. "I have never thought we have been working the public aa thoroughly w migni.'- Washington Star. Unfortunate. "Why does Bunts go around with his hair pulled down over his forehead ana ms snouiders all hunohed up? It makes him look like a monkey." "1 know it Some one who had a pudge against him once told him that he looked like Napoleon, and he believed it" Answers. Common mill Fair mill Prime mill , " Extra mm . i a .... . MOLASSES 9 gallon Barbadoes, in hegshead.. . . Barbadoee; in baJreSfrr.:... Porto Rico, tn hogsheads. .. . Porto Rica, in barreS;. . . Sugar House, In hogsheads. duKwwu,ui Barrels.... , syrup, In barrels Pa 603 Cltv Mess Rump,.... Prune "II!"' ROPE. X " " SALT, 9 sack. Alum Liverpool American. '" On 12s Riu Common.. uypress saps. BOOAB, V Standard Oran'd Inch, per It! 5 00 6 50 8 50 10 00 25 18 14 15 8 00 9 50 10 75 70 5 00 1 60 8 60 Standard A.. 77..... ? Whit. Wmlm.. n Extra C, Golden! '. !!!" " Q, Yellow OAP, D Northern. ..."!". Mill iri- Common Miu'.'.V.'.V.V.'. mlpjferlor to ordinary. ....'."" BmNN.OrVes"sawea - Caw. 8r84 Heart 41 San... 8x34 Heart... TAT.r.rror -2?P-" Wool per -Unwaanea:::::: w 5 80 00 16 00 18.00 23 00 & 15100 0 50 8 00 10 00 & 10 50 85 88 80 80 14 & 15 & 85 8 10 10 00 9 50 9 00 88 1 10 80 75 47)4 O 00 8 85 8 50 COTTON MARKETS. kBy(TelegTaDh to the Mornlm8tar. New York. Aucust wnu cotton market was still very active with wide and at times violent fluctuations taking the day as a whole, there was u,,CiUpeu a sentiment of caution which somewhat reduced the volume of business and left the impression tnat Views at laro-n rn , The market onennH miMnti. . advance of five to eight points, with a further advance, immediately fol lowing of five to eight points. The tki 1 y uPwaro- movement was the alar mine charantA f 5SSni" ?OI2 the thwest and more particularly from Tatsb a i.j-1! cotton ' firm has advices from eighteen counties with the d amoncr- tho finally easpH r.tr disappointing' rash ti...,i.,' and closed unsettled at c net ad vau e' sales included: No. 2 red September' closed 76c; December closed 79c Corn Spot steady ; No.239c; options opened firm at io advance on coveriDir and sold up later on export talk; light offerings and good clearances; closed firm at c advance; August closed 38c; September closed 37 c; Decern ber closed 35c. Oats-dpot firm No. 2 white 26Jc; options quiet Petroleum steady. Lard firmer Westenrste&m closed $5 55 ; city $5 15 August closed $5 55, nomiual; refined quiet. Tallow firm; city 454c country 4c. Butter steady ; West ern creamery 1721c; State dairy 15 19c. Cheese steady ; large white 9. Potatoes quiet; fair to prime $1 00 1 25; fancy white $1 501 6i Southern sweets $1 251 50. Freights to Liverpool Cotton by steam 30c Rice dull. Cotton seed oil quiet. : Cabbage quiet; Long Island $3 00 4 00 per 100. Coffee Spot Rio dull and nominal ; mild, small local market. Sugar Raw quiet and steady; far refining 4c; centrifugal 96 iet 4jic; molasses sugar 3c; refined steady. Chicago, Aug.23. Cash quotation-: Flour market steady. Wheat i ring ; No. 3 spring 6772lt: o.2 red 7254a74Wc. Corn-N,, 2 32c. Oats No. 2 2121Xc; No. :i white 2223Xc; No. 3 white 22 23a Pork, per bbl, $7.'508 35 Lard, per 100 Hs, $5 07K5 20. Skori rib sides, loose $4 955 25. Dry salted shoulders, $5 62 5 75 Short clear sides, boxed, $5 55 5 60. Whiskey Distillers' finish goods, per gallon, $1 26. -The leading futures ranged as fo: lows opening, highest, lowest a.ji closing: Wheat No. 2 September 7172, 72, 71371, 7271ic; December 74H74M, 74, 7474, 74X74c; May n&77H. 77. 77X, 77Kc. Corn No. 2 September 31s 31M31, 31, 31c; December 28, 28K, 28c; May 29, 29, 29M, 29tf. Oats Septeai ber 19, 20i, 19 20c; December 1919&, 19, 1919, 1919c; My 20K, 2,2, 21H. 21H21'A Pork, per bbl September $8 WA, 8 32,8 20, 8 32; October $8 32, 8 40, 8 30, 8 40: January $9 55. 9 62M. 9 55, 9 62. Lard, per 100 Ibs-8ep tember $5 17. 5 22, 5 17, 5 20; Oc tober $5 25, 5 30, 5 25; 5 21 January $5 42, 5 47, 5 42, 5 45. Short ribs, per 100 lbs September $5 07, 5 15. 5 07, 5 72K; October $5 18, 5 173. 5 12W. SniJaniiarvlig?. 500. 4 97, 5 00. Baltimore, August 23.Fiour firm and unchanged Wheat firm Spot and month 72c; September 72 72c; October 7374c; December 77c asked. Southern wheat by sample 6573c. Corn strong Mixed spot and month 36237e; September and October 3636Xc; November and December, new or old 3233c; January 3233c. Southern white corn 39i40c. Oats steady - No. 2 white, new 2&yi 27c. FOREIGN MARKET. Bv Cable to the Mom In Swr Liverpool, August 23, 4 F. M. Cotton Spot in limited demaud; prices l-16d lower. American mid dling fair, 4 1-1 6d ; good middling 3(j ; middling 3Jd; low middling 3 5-ioa; good ordinary 3d ; ordinary 2 15-16J. . The sales of the day were 4,000 bales, of which 400 were for speculation and export and included 3,500 bales Ameri can. Receipts 3,000 bales; all Ameri can. , Futures onened easv and closed steady. American middling (1. m. c.) August 3 31 64d buyer: Autfust and September 3 29-643 30 64d buyer; HA-nfATviVioi. o-nsl rWsthav 28 old seller; October and November 3 27-64d seller; November and December o 26-64d seller; December and January a Z5-643 26-64d buyer; January " . r. J "puriea at from tan r "-I"-? .. T :wh. v to hfty per cent This. snrmW" V eoruary 3 z5 643 3t w ? jyw, , he other reports of 53S?d "W. "d March 3 26 W ocuer; marca ana April o -uw"- 7.,. "i m.meF Washington forecasts, became a Imf0 fo to . Cx Dysxne disposition to take profits. The latter at ne time SriS? mrk. and at noon the prices went off to within t, points of the best figures of yesterdly ,aofIn tnere was a whirl in the SEk1 ?useL b a influx of out mnbr y Sv0r?e? and some of the more timid shorts had tn mJT ing in the afternoon, however, became less active with ia Lf "'"rme April and May 3 27-64328 64d buyers May and June 3 28-64d buyer; June and July 3 29 64d seller. marine! Z CLEARED. Stmr Seabright, Sanders, Shailotte and Little River, S C, Stone, Kourt & Co Stmr A P TTnrt. Robeson, W active with ia h,, irry " etterill .T moo "Mairlan. thA -.-iT "Miur irom rr"" Alio mawcet closed tetninS.064 advance J thir c sua 8 00 MOB 10 00 O 9 00 .7 00 6 60 500 4 00 460 8 00 7 50 5 00 460 400 6 00 B 00 6.19. April 8150 eioe 6100 e so 5 50 ' s 00 00 17 6.08. ffeb-6,28, New York. Anmf quiet ; middling uplands 6 1- Cotton futures closed steady at SSSKLfSW 8Smbear tSI;' X7: -"2 November "eyuuuof 0.J.0, January roary 6.22, March 6.25 May 6.32. Jun ft a Spot cotton closed quiet; middling uplands 6 5-16cf middling iTX Mes 286 bales. Netreceinta vi. : 18ft Koi I"1De Kroaa receipts lr L?68! efp?rta to be Continent I Total toay-Net receipts 3,634 MARINE DIRECTORY. JLU of Teasels In tue:ir ' w"" mlnxton. If. C, Aiiff. 24. 1899. STEAMSHIPS. Sapphire (Br) 1,384 tons, Tonkin, B Peschau & Co. SCHOONERS. IJellie Floyd, 435 tons, Nelson CSC uo. Franks Hall, 152 tons, Moore, Harriss, Son & Co. BARGES Carrie L Tyler, 538 tons, Jones, yassa Guano Co. Geo Hi- I. n
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