North Carolina Newspapers

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Diversified farming has become an old theme in the South, but it is a good theme and should be stuck to until diversified farming becomes the rule instead of the ex ception. It should be the aim of the dwellers in the country, just as diversified manufacturing should be the aim of the dwellers in the cities. Take the farming class of the country as a whole and it will be found that the mo3t prosperous and independent are those who di versify their crops and do not put their dependence on any one crop. "While there are a number of crops that the farmers of Eastern North Carolina might raise with profit, there i3 n6ne that offers more in ducements at present than tobacco, for the growth of which this part of the State is especially adapted, a discovery that has been made within a comparatively few years. In view of the fact that tobacco has been cultivated in this country ever since the days of the first white settles, who learned some thing about it from the Indians, it is remarkable that its cultivation should be a mystery to so many far mers, even in the great tobacco pro ducing section of the South, and that the inquiry still continues to be made whether tobacco can be suc cessfully grown here or there, when it is grown in forty out of the forty five States, and can be grown any where between Maine and the Gulf, or anywhere between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The question is not where it may be grown but where it may be grown with the greatest certainty and with the best profit. The profit, of course, depends upon the cost of production and the quality of the product, assuming that there is a market near enough to take what is produced. The product depends upon the soil and the climate, some kinds of soil pro ducing one kind, some another, .one a low-priced, the other a high priced leaf. Maryland, portions of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and portions of North Carolina produce a heavy leaf tobacco, suitable for the manufacture of plug, much of which is shipped abroad. This does not command a high price, but it pays when the farming is well done because of the heavy yield per acre. Florida and Connecticut produce a different quality, used in the manu facture of cigars, and a higher priced leaf which pays well. East ern North Carolina can produce both the heavy leaf and the light leaf, the latter of which is the more profitable if cultivated and prepared for market by men who understand what they are doing. The experimental stage has passed and tobacco-growing is now an estab lished industry in the Eastern sec tion of the State, and one of the most profitable- in a number of coun ties where it was scarcely known ten years ago. Wilson, Nash, Edgecombe, Greene, Lenoir, Hali fax, Johnston, Wayne and others now produce millions of pounds, and all have tobacco markets which have built up the towns and given them new life. Speaking of this we quote the following from the Fayetteville Observer : , "Capt J. C. Huske returned yes terday from a three months' trip throueh Eastern North Carolina. He says that tobacco culture has made a number of the sleepy towns of several I years ago, grow out of all recollection ! and as if by magic The country, too, j he says, wears a wonderful look of prosperity." Tobacco is a stimulator of hustl ing, there is no doubt of that, and there is money in it for any com munity which gives it systematic, business-like attention, for it is a crop that demands that and will not be fooled with without resenting it. There has been no effort that we hare heard of to grow tobacco as a crop anywhere near Wilmington, and yet we have been assured by ex perienced tobacco handlers, that the ideal section for the cultivation of smoking tobacco, and leaf that is in the greatest demand as a smoker in foreign markets, is the section between here and Mount Olive, on some of which there doesn't seem to bo vegetation enough to encour age a goat, and yet that land planted in tobacco, which the planter under stood how , to cure and handle, will produce the finest kind of to bacco, a few acres of which would buy fifty acres of cotton. As for a market the growers in this section would have Wilmington a3 a shipping point, and buyers here for every pound they raised, and they would have the additional ad vantage of being near fertilizer manu factories and being able to buy their fertilizers at the lowest price on ac count of the little freight they would have to pay. Fertilizers which are shipped long distances form a large item of expense in the cultivation of tobacco. Here then is the ideal section, ideal in climate and soil (cheap land, too, to those who may wish to buy), cheap fertilizers and a shipping port for a market near by with low cost of transportation, all of which would be that much gain to the pro ducer and seller bf the leaf. Under these circumstances what good reason is there why the section we speak of should not become a great tobacco growing section and why Wilmington should not become a great tobacco buying, manufactur ing and shipping city ? A few men started the industry in Nash, Edge combe, Lenoir, Wayne, Greene and other counties, which are now great tobacco, producers, with markets which buy and ship millions of pounds, and a few men can do the same in the section which we speak of as successfully, if not more suc cessfully thanthese did, because they will have advantages that the pio neers in the counties we name did not have. Let the truck growers, cotton growers and others begin with an acre or so, and as they acquire skill in the cultivation and curing in crease the acreage, in accordance with their ability to cultivate and handle, without neglecting other crops. A few acres well cultivated and well cured and prepared for market will prove more profitable than a dozen acres carelessly or slov enly managed. TRIBUTES TO THE JEWS. One of the finest tributes that we have ever heard from the platform to the Jewish people was the elo quent lecture by our lamented Vance on "The Scattered Nation." Since the Dreyfus trial has been on in France the anti-Semitic spirit shown against those people has evoked elo quent tributes from men who are not Jews, a very ardent one by Geoige R. Wendling, which appeared in the New York Herald a few days ago, and another by Samuel Clemons, better known as "Mark Twain," who in a contribution to Harper's Weekly, giving the reasons for the anti Semitic feeling in France, Germany, Russia and other European coun tries, pays the following truthful tribute to the Jews: "The Jew is not a disturber of the peace of any country. Even his ene mies will concede that. He is not a loafer, he is not a sot, he is not noisy, he is not a brawler nor a rioter, he is not quarrelsome. In the statistics of crime his presence is conspicuously rare in all countries. With murder and other crimes of violence he has but little to do ; he is a stranger to the hangman. In the police court's daily long roll of 'assaults' and 'drunk and disorderlies' his name seldom appears. That the Jewish home is a home in the truest sense is a fact which no one will dispute. The family is knitted to getter by the strongest affections ; its members show each other every due respect; and reverence for the elders is an inviolate law of the house. The Jew is not a burden on the charities of the State nor the city ; these could cease from their functions without af fecting him. When he is well enough he works; when he is incapacitated his own people take care of him. And not in a poor andjstingy way, but with a fine and large benevolence. His race is entitled to be called the most benev olent of all the races of men. A Jewish beggar is not impossible, perhaps; such a thing may exist, but there are few men who can say they have seen that spectacle. The Jew has been staged in many uncomplimentary forms, but, so far as I know, no dra matist has done him the injustice to stage him as a beggar. Whenever a Jew has real need to beg, his people save him from the necessity of doing it The charitable institu tions of the Jews are supported by the Jewish money, and amply. The Jews make no noise about it; it is done quietly; they do not nag and pester and harass us for contributions; they give us peace, and set us an example an example which we have not found ourselves able to follow." SOME NEW AND INTERESTING QUESTIONS. The approaching completion of the Illinois drainage canal, connect ing Lake Michigan with the Missis sippi river, opens up some interest ing queations, in pne of which the dwellers in the cities on the Lake are interested, in another of which the city of St. Louis and other cities which draw their water supplies from the river are interested. It is con tended by some that the immense volume of water which will pass from the Lake through the canal, will have such an effect in lowering the Lake surface as to destroy the navigable channels of these Lake cities, unless constant dredging be' resorted to. The question that oc curs here is what right the city of Chicago has to open a canal at its end of the Lake which will steal the water from them and thus practi cally ruin them aa' shipping ports? Of course, the Chicago people and others who are interested in the canal, declare that this is a mere pretence inspired by jealousy of Chicago's prominence and progress St. Louis and other pities which draw their supplies of drinking and other water for domestic use fro. the river are much more concerne than the dwellers in the Lake cities for thev sav that turning into this river the sewage of a city of more than a million and a half people, and emptying it into the river whence f ViAV draw thflir RiinnlifiS Will SO t0 lute and poison it that ii it will not be fit for use. The promoters of the canal make light of this and under take to show that the noxious mat ter carried down by such a volum of water would be a mere trifle and could hot possibly materially affect the healthfulness of the water of the river into which it flowed,' but St. Louis does not propose to take Chi ego authority for this but will call on the United States courts to say what right the city of jChicago has to make her river a sluice into which to dump Chicago's sewage. WHY NOT MAKE J THEM? We clip the following item from ii ti i . :n. i r 1 ine r ayetieviiie uoseri er ui vxyju. day: "A train of thirty-one ' solid cars of shoes, shipped from Richmond, passed throuffh here this morning, one of these being cut out here, j' Thirtv-one solid cars of shoes means a good . many shoes, bub this isn't a drop in the bucket compared with the shoe shipments from the North to the South. 6t the many thousands of houses in the South that handle shoes there i3 probably not one that does not draw its stocks from Northern manufac tories. These shoes from Richmond, but idea that they wftre were snipped we have no made there If there is a shoe manufac- tory in the South it has escaped our attention. There are, of course, in our cities shops where shoes are hand-made to order for regular cus tomers, but these amount to few, and the work they turn out amounts to nothing in comparison with the imported stock. Both for fine and coarse wear the machine-made shoe has driven out of the market the hand-made, which couldn't compete with it in price. There are twenty-five millions of people in the South to be shod and these are practically de indent upon the Northern manufacturers for the shoes they wear. Wha these shoes cost in the aggregate 'for the year we do not know, but they represent many millions of dollars, every dollar of which comes out of South ern pockets to go into Northern pockets. As in a great many other things which we buy from the North, we furnish much of the material that goes into these shoes. Our farmers get four or five cents a pound for the hides they Bell the tanners, the tanners get probably fifteen or twenty centl a pound for the leather, and then the shoes that are made out of this leather are sent back to us and we pay from a dollar to tpree or four dollars a pair for thejm owing to quality and finish. There isn't a shoe worn in the South that could not be made in the South. It is only a question of capital, machinery and labor, all of which could be commanded with combined effort. In talking about and considering diversified manufactures for our cities, this is one of the industries that looms up, and is deserving of special attention. BOOK NOTICES. Among the articles presented in Gunton,8 Magazine for September are two, one entitled "When Coal Gives Out," the other, "The Economic Idea in Education," which will attract at tention. There are other interesting papers on political and J economic sub jects. Address The Gunton Company Union Square, New York. The September number of the Ladies1 Home Journal is a very handsome, interesting and valuable one. It pre sents a delightful list of contents, beautifully illustrated, and varied in scope and character. The special departments, as usual, are full of valu able information. Published by the Curtis Publishing Company. Phila delphia. The September number of The North American Repiew presents a select list of contents, embracing among other timely and instructive articles one entitled "A Vindication of the Boers," which in view of the clash and prospective conflict with the British will be read j with interest. Address The North American Review, No. 11 Warren street, New York. QUARTERLY MEETINGS. M. Church, South, Wllmintfon District. Wilmington, Fifth Street, September 10-11. South port, September 17-18. White vUle, Terro Gordo, September 23-24. Waccamaw, Old Dock, September 26. Brunswick, Zion, September 30-October 1. Wilmington, Market Street, (at night) Oct. 1. Carver's Creek, Shlloh, October 7-8T Elizabeth. Binsrletaries. October 14-15. I Wilmington, Grace, Oct 23-23. Jacksonville and Rlchlanda, Rlchlands, Oct. 98-89. i Bladen, Windsor, Nov. 4-6. CUnton, Clinton, Nov. 11-18. Onslow, Tabernacle, Nov. 13-19. E. V. BUM PAS, j Presiding Elder. "Don't tell me you won't." said an East Side citizen to his five-year-old daughter. I "Well, papa, what must I say when I mean I won't!" Ohio State Journal. For Over S'Uty Tears Mrs. WnrsLOw's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums. aixays au pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea: It will relieve the poor little sufferer im mediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other. t SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Louisburg Times The dead body of E. G. Jackson, a respectable and highly esteemed citizen of Free- mans Township, this county, was found in his pasture, near his home on Sunday night last There was no bus picion of foul play. He was subject to heart disease, and it is supposed that his death was caused from rneum atism of the heart. Raleigh Post: Lightning killed a negro named John Hughes and the mule he was driving at Jerry Smith's plantation, near Miiburme. late Tues day afternoon. Hughes was hauling cotton. In the rear of the wagon was another negro. He was not hurt. A severe electric storm prevailed in that section. The stroke of lightning killed both driver and mule instantly. Hendersonville Times: Deputy Marshal Israel, accompanied by otn cers Freeman. Jackson and Aiken, captured a splendid moonshine distil lery six miles south of Pinner s creek, in the Uapps neighborhood, last eatur day. No arrests were made. One man was seen to run away from the place as the officers approached. Five moonshine distilleries were captured in the Dark Corner of South Carolina last week. All were running on full time turning out the liquid crook edness. Greenville Reflector: Saturday looming a colored man named Brown was tried by Mayor Moye for violating a town ordinance, and was fined. Not having the money to pay the hue he was placed in a cell of the guard house. That night Chief of Police James went to the guard house to put in another prisoner and discovered that Brown had escaped. The man bent the iron rods in the upper sec tion of the window, 7 feet above the floor, and went out a little hole that it does not look like a man half his size could go through. High Point Enterprise: The Globe Furniture factory, one of the best in the state, rinds it necessary to firreatlv increase its facilities. The main factory building will be extend ed 40 feet two stories, west, which will bring the building up to the gate on the south. The warehouse will be ex tended a distance of 80 feet, three stories. The largest tobacco markets in North Carolina now are in sections where, ten years ago. it was not thought the "weed" could be grown to advantage Thefarmers and buyers east of Kaleigh and Wilson are in the same bouyant frame of mind that the people in the Piedmont section were a few years ago. Up here we have made it a business and like it. Down east it beats cotton and it goes CURRENT COMMENT. The best efforts of distin guished forgers in the upper circles of French army life do not compare in artistic versimilitude with the every-day bungles of common crimi- inals in this country. Richmond Times, Dem. Hon. J. Sterling Morton is having some difficnlity in expressing his opinion of the platform of the Nebraska Democrats. He might simplify the work by borrowing a few sections from the ' vocabulary of General .Lagan. washmgton Post, Ind. Dato Mundi seems to be somewhat of a fighter himself. All he wants is a chance at Aguinaldo and it wouldn t be a bad idea to afford him that pleasure. Mr. Mundi is not so awfully civilized, but then he knows how to accom plish the purpose of war jnst as well as his contemporary warrior who carries the Bible in one hand and the gun in the other. Chattanooga Times, Dem. Tho jobbers are working hard for the bhip bubsidy bill; but they haven't told us yet why, if public money is to be given as an inducement to men to build and sail vessels, public money should not be given to induce men to go into the farming business. In short, if the farmer, the butcher, the baker and the people in a hundred other lines of life are to be taxed for the bene fit of the shipbuilder, why not tax the shipbuilder for their benefit also? Men of grit and enterprise once went into a business because they thought they could make it pay. Nowadays, the idea is culti vated that you shouldn't take hold of anything unless there's a subsidy in it. If this idea prevails we shall all be subsidizing each other in time. -Brooklyn Citizen, Dem. TWINKLINGS. Cause and Effect: "Mrs. Smythe "I wonder why old china is is so rare and valuable." Mrs. de Jones "Why, I thought you kept a servant." Chicago News. ' Contrary to Stage Rules: Chap- ley "We have quarelled enough; I have come to make up with you." Chorus Girl "The stage manager won't hear to such a thing." Harlem Life. Diplomacy: Tactful Shoe Clerk "Here is a pair of one-and-a half shoes that the maker has marked No. 6 by mistake. Just try this on, please; I believe it will just fit you." (Trial and speedy sale.) Judge. A Theory: Ada "Who said 'one man is as good as another' I do not know, but I suppose it was some advocate of Republicanism." Clara "Uh! I thought it was some old maid 1" Puck. "Papa, what is the difference between subject and object?" "They sometimes amount to the same thing, my son. For example, Mr. William Waldorf Astor has become a subject of Great Britain and an object of con tempt." Washington Star. Involves Early Rising: "Sun sets and sunsets !' exclaimed the con noisseur. "Why never a sunrise!" An, there is the dilhculty of obtain ing a model, you know I" protested the artist who was in every sense a Bohe mian. Detroit Journal. Insurance Superintendent (suspiciously) "How did your hus band happen to die so soon after get ting insured for a large amount?" Widow "He worked himself to death trying to pay the premiums." Household Words. The Game Laws: Lawyer Since you can't deny having shot the man, what then?" Culprit "Well, I thought I might claim to have mis taken him for a deer." Lawyer "What good would that do you ? It's the closed season for deer." Detroit Journal. "Now that you are about to marry, remarked the fond mamma to her only daughter, "it behooves me to speak plainly. You have had your own way all your life, but that must end." "Why, mammal" exclaimed the prospective bride, "George will et me do lust as I please." "Bother George 1" .retorted the fond mamma ; l m thinkincr that vou will have to have a cook." Philadelphia Record. WASHINGTON LETTER. Joint Commission to Meet Next FalL Studying- Our Judicial System. Belies of the Civil War. Special Correspondence. It is now believed the joint high commission will hold another meeting next fall, but if the commissioners meet again it will be on an entirely new basis. Embassador Choate has been con ferring with Lord Salisbury and Sir Julian Panncefote. under instructions from Secretary Hay, with a, view of getting the British government to yield something on the Alaskan boundary question, wbich is the. great stumbling block to successful negotiations. Re ports received from Embassador Choate are encouraging and give hope that if negotiations are resumed at all there will be better prospects of reaching ari agreement. If the commission reconvenes, assur ances must be given in advance that some results will be obtained. The nature of thes'e concessions must be fully set forth before it is formally agreed to have another meeting. Sen ator Fairbanks, who had already start ed for Alaska, was recalled by Secre tary Hay, and, with John W. Foster, had a conference with the secretary of state. After the conference both Sen ator Fairbanks and Mr. Foster expressed themselves as believing the 'sittings of th commission will be resumed and the Canadians will be willing to yield con siderably, but as yet no positive assur ance? on this point have been received. Senator Fairbanks will go to Alaska, but he will return about the middle of July, and if by that time the Canadians are ready to give the assurances de manded by this government negotia tions will be resumed, but in their ab sence the conference will be declared off. Studying- Our Judicial System. Three distinguished Japanese jurists are in Washington (Studying the judi cial system of the United States and learning all they can as to the jurisdic tion of the different courts of this coun try. They have shown such knowledge of the legal system of this country and ask such incisive questions as to excite the admiration of the officials with whom they come in contact. They are G. Baba, judge of the court of cassa tion of Japan, the highest court of that land ; K. KoKaka, chief procurator of the court tf Yokohama, and C. Nakas hioji, public procurator of the appeal court at Tokyo. They speak English sufficiently to make themselves under stood and to understand what is said to them. They have been sent out by the Japanese government especially to learn all they can of the methods of conduct ing the legal affairs of this country. They were at the department of justice the other da v, having been introduced to Attorney General Griggs by the Japanese minister. Afterward they had a conference with Solicitor General Richards, who turned them over to W. J. Hughes, with -whom they remained a number of hours and will further consult him before leaving. Messrs. Baba, Kosaka and Nakashioji have attended several sessions of the supreme court and found much to in terest them. It is understood that they will go from this country to England for a study of the judicial system of that country. Belies of the Civil War. Colonel Benjamin F. Hawkes, a clerk in the pension office, claims to be the possessor of the first drops of blood shed in the civil war. Colonel B. F. Kelley commanded the' Federal forces at Phi lippi, which was the first real battle of the war. A short time after the battle opened, and when the firing became ex ceedingly rapid and sharp, Colonel Kel ley received a bullet in his left lung and was carried from the field, bleed ing freely. The blood stained his shirt and vest, and when these were removed they were carefully preserved. It was believed the wound would prove a mor tal one, and there was great anxiety. Colonel Kelley recovered and lived to be quite an old man. Colonel Hawkes succeeded in getting possession of a por tion of the blood stained clothing and has carefully preserved and guarded it ever since. The stains are yet clear and distinct. Swindling- Negroes. Delivered with almost every mail at the pension office are letters from ne groes throughout the country making inquiries as to how soon the commis sioner will begin the payment of pen sions to former slaves. In nearly every instance the writer says that he has paid some agent, lawyer, collector, preacher, club, society, association or individual who claimed that the pen sion would be immediately forthcoming, and they are beginning to fear that they are not going to get the pension. Such a supposition is correct up to the present time, and it will perhaps be a long, long time before the bill providing pensions for former slaves, as introduced by Senator Mason of Illinois, becomes a law. Nevertheless, the fact of its being introduced in the senate gave new life to the various schemes concocted and successfully worked by sharks to rob the more ignorant and deluded negroes. War Prize Released. By a decision of the supreme court the crew of the cruiser New Orleans loses one of the richest prizes captured during the Spanish war. The Olinde Rodriguez, a French steamer, was cap tnred by the New Orleans while it was attempting, it was alleged, to run the blockade of San Juan harbor, Porto Rico. The court has ordered the restitu tion of the steamer to its' owners with out damage for capture. The decision was announced by Chief Justice Fuller.- Secretary Long does not believe Ad miral Dewey will take four months to reach New York. The admiral has not advised the department how fast he will sail or given any other details, but it will take some time to put the Olym pia in shape for its long voyage, and many stops will be made en route. Cabl Schoeteld. Tbe Latin Langrnagre. It aunears to have been in t,h lnet. of tho Roman republic and the first of the enmiro that tho nolishml TjiHti l reached its highest point of perfection in the writings of Cicero, Horace, Virgil and others, but by the influx of strangers, by tho srradiml dec! inn nf "Roman fiuiina and Roman spirit and by the intermix ture of tho classic forms with tha HiiWt, of tho provinces it became corrupted, the process of ilot-prinratinn rrnl n c nn mffl. . - - - r " - & v" niui double rapidity after the dismemberment of tho Roman empire in the fifth century. Thus were formed the modern French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The English language also owos much to Latin, both directly by derivation from the classical forms at second hnnd thmnnh the Norman-French. Latin continued to bo the diplomatic lansuasre of Rnrnnfl fill a comparatively recent period. It is still the medium of conimiinifjitlnn mmi learned of the world and is now, as it has always Deen, the omcial language of the Roman Catholic church. Legral Antiquities. , Punishment in effigy was legally prac ticed in France and with great solemnity up to the time of the first revolution, says The Green Bag. If the man condemned escaped, a dummy was put up in his cell, and the entire routine of the law allowed to take its course. The warrant was read to it, and on tho day appointed it was con ducted to the scaffold in the presence of all the legal functionaries and with all the circumstances of the law. Sometimes the same person was executed in effigy simul taneously in several cities, but that did not exempt him from actual punishment should he be afterward caught. FACTS IN A FEW LINES. Forty-one warships were launched in fcreat Britniii daring 189'8. The Dnited States sold $180,000 worth of soje leather to Japan last year. -From the standpoint of European education the best educated Asiatics are in the Philippines. Not a foot of the farm of Michael Guilogowski, at Pedricktown, N. J., can be seen at high tide. A special delivery letter system, like that of the United States, is now in operation in ten of the chief cities of Canada. A catalogoo of tbe Vatican library in 11 volumes has been presented by the pope to the Germanic museum in Nu remberg. Speckled or brook trout may be caught in Pennsylvania from April 15 to July 15, but none must be kept lees than five inches long. Dublin has two ancient cathedrals, St. Patrick's and Christ church, the former of which was restored by a brewer and the latter by a distiller. During 1898 Switzerland's imports exceeded its exports by $64,000,000. It seems queer that a great share of the imports cgnsists of watches. The family grave in which the body of M. Faure was placed is unpreten tious to a degree compared with many of the imposing monuments in Pere la Chaise cemetery. Wells, the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, has been released from Portland on ticket of leave. He is an able musician and acted as organist in the prison chapel. That football is not losing its popu larity in England is shown' by the fact that the match for tbe English football cup at Sheffield this year was witnessed by upward of 60,000 persons. But two tanneries of any magnitude are in operation throughout Japan one in Osaka and the other in Tokyo and they are chiefly occupied in supplying the leather wants of the army and navy. WHOLESALE PRICES CURREKT. The following quotations represent Wholesale Prices generally. In making up small orders hlizher prices nave to be charged. The quotations are always given aa accurately as possible, but the Stab will not be responsible for any variations from the actual market pries of the articles auoted. BAGGING 3 B Jute 6?4S 1 Standard H Burlaps 5 WESTEKN BMOKED- Hams W lb 18 & 124 Bides $T 7$ Shoulders t 7H DBT SALTED niiUta Th 55ia 6 Shoulders ft SH BARBEL8 Spirits Turpentine-Second-hand, each 125 135 New New York, each 1 40 New City, each 1 40 BEESWAX V ft - 84 BRICKS Wilmington V M 5 00 7 00 Northern 9 00 14 00 BUTTEK North Carolina V ft 15 18 Northern 85 0 CORN MEAL Per bushel, in sacks 47 47S Virginia Meal 47 47J4 COTTON TIES V DUD die 123 CANDLES ft Sperm , IS 25 Adamantine 8 11 CHEESE ft Northern Factory 106 HMi Dalrv Cream lis State lOtf COFFEE w ft Laguyra 10 12H K10 7 li 8 DOMESTICS Sheeting, 4-4, yard 5f Yarns. bunch or 5 fts . . . . 86 70 EGGS dozen 12H3 15 FISH Mackerel, No. 1, barrel... 22 00 80 00 Mackerel, No. 1, hair-bbl. 11 00 15 00 Mackerel, No. 2, barrel. . . 16 00 18 00 Mackerel, No. 2 half-bbl. . 8 00 9 00 Mackerel, No. 3, barrel. . . 13 00 14 00 Mullets, barrel 3 75 4 50 Mullets, ispork barrel 6 00 8 00 N. C. Boe Herring, keg.. 3 00 3 25 Dry Cod, ft 5 10 Extra 4 35 4 50 IXOCB ft Low grade 300 Choice 350 Straight 4 00 425 First Patent 4 50 500 GLUE ft 11 13 GRAIN bushel Corn.from store, bgs White 52 52J4 . uar-ioaa, in bgs wnite... 52 Oats, from store 38 40 Oats, Bust Proof 45 Cow Peas SO 65 HIDES ft Green salted 6Hi Dry flint 10 12$ Dry aait 9 HAY 100 lbs Clover Hay 85 90 Bice Straw 40 SO Eastern 80 85 Western 80 85 North River 80 a 85 HOOP IRON, ft 2?i Ltanis, v m Northern 6 7 North Carolina 7 8 LIME, barrel 1 15 1 25 LUMBER (city sawed) M ft Ship Stuff, resawed 18 00 20 00 Rough edge Plank 15 00 16 00 West India cargoes, accord tag to quality 13 00 18 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 & 22 00 Scantling and Board, com'n 14 oo & 15(00 Common mill 5 00 0 50 Fair null 650 800 Prime mill.. 8 50 10 00 Extra mill io 00 10 50 MOLASSES V gallon Barbadoes, In hogshead..,.. 25 Barbadoes, In barrels 28 Porto Rico, in hogsheads.... 23 - 30 Porto Rico, In barrels 25 30 Sugar House, in hogsheads. 12 14 Sugar HoHse, in barrels.... 14 15 By rup,,in barrels 15 25 NAIL8,Jrkeg, Cut, 60d basis... 2 25 2 50 PORK, barrel Cltv Mess , 9 50 10 00 Rump 9 50 Prime 19 oo ROPE, ft 10 22 SALT, sack. Alum 1 10 Liverpool , 75 80 American..., 70 a 75 On 125 Sacks 4744 ouinviuxio, i-uiuu, per m o uu & e 50 Common ., 1 60 2 25 Cypress Saps 2 50 2 75 SUGAR, ft Standard Gran'd 5$g 5' Standard A 5 a 51 White Extra C a 5' Extra C, Golden 5 C yenow a 494 DVJU, V jv ilUl Ll , . . OaKA 4 STAVES, M W. O. barrel.... 6 00 14 09 R. O. Hogshead 10 00 TIMBER, M feet Shipping, . 9 00 10 00 MU. Prime 7 50 8 75 MM, Fair 6 50 7 00 Common Mill 5 oo 6 00 Inferior to ordinary.... ss) 500 SHINGLES, N.C. Cypress sawed M 6x24 heart 7 50 850 aP 5 00 ""'6 oe 5x20 Heart 300 350 " Bap... 2 00 250 6x24 Heart 6 00 6 50 . T r Sap 5 00 5 50 TALLOW, ft 6 WHI8KEY, gallon. Northern 100 2 00 North Carolina too a 00 WOOL per ft Unwashed 15 3f 17 MARINE. ARRIVED. Steamsbip New York, Ingram. New ium, xi jr Diuaiioones. Stmr E A Hawes, Black, Clear Run, James Madden. Br steamship Velleda, 1,648 tons, Rullucn, St Michaels, Alex Sprunt & ouu. CLEARED. Stmr E A Hawes, Black, Clear xvun. james maaaen. MARINE DIRECTORY. Llat of Vessels In the Port of Wil mington, jr. c.,;sept. 7. 1899. - STEAMSHIPS. Velleda (Br). 1,648 tons, Rullucn, Alex Snrunt Ar. Son AquUa (Nor), 1,407 tons, Andersen, xieiue 00 kjo. Ormsby (Br) 1,828 tons, Robinson, Alex Sprunt & Son. South Africa, (Br) 2,213 tons, Dobson, Alex Sprunt & Son. SCHOONERS. Jno C Smith, 392 tons, Kneeland, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. Frank S Hall, 152 tons, Moore, Geo BARGES. Maria Dolores, 610 tons, Bonneau, Powers, Gibbs & Co. Wash the Dichea Quickly F You can if you use Gold Dust. It does most of the work. It saves time, mon ey and labor. Send for free booklet "Ooldeo Bale for Housework." THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY Chkap St. L00U NewYork Boston WILMINGTON MARKET. STAR OFFICE, Sept. 6. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Marlset steady at 43 cents per gallon lor machine-made casks and 43M cents per gallon for country casks. -T?ncTNrTU-!i.rlret firm at 90 cents per bbl for strained and 95c ffood strained. , TAR Market firm at fl.dO for per CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market steady at per barrel for nara, for Dip and $2.60 for Virgin. Quotations same day last year. Spirits turpentine firm at 2827 1.nnfcl.05: tar firm $1.30; Crude turpentine firm at $1.10 l.eu. 1 . . ! TJWniT.TPTS 105 Rosin ?9 Tar 1 Crude Turpentine T?aAA;nfs cima lfl.ir la3t vfiar. A V.A IO njajlrs snirits turrjentine. 516 obis rosin. 124 bbls tar.' 38 bbls crude iur pentine. COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 5 els per pound for middling, quotations: Oadinary 3 7-16 cts Good Ordinary . ..4 13-16 " Low Middling 5 7-16 " " Middling 5- " " fWwl Mirlrllino-. " " Sam rJn-D- Inst, vear middling 5Mc Receipts 364 bales; same day last year, 124. ; COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina Prime 90c. Extra prime, 95c per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, $1.00. TTi " 7 " 1"1 . 4n tvhi m Virginia jrrime, ouc; ca.w. jjniiio fiK. farip.v 70t. CORN Firm: 52 to 52 cents per bushel for white, ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide QfVif?)1 in- unlnnd 65a80e Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to thft HiisViaI N. C. BACON Steady; hams 10 to 11c per pound; shoulders, 7 to He sides, 7 to 8c. SHINGLES Per thousand, five inch hearts and sans. $2.25 to 3.25 six-inch. $4.00 to 5.00; seven-inch K Kn tn R K(l TIMBER- Market steady at $3.50 to y.uu per m FINANCIAL MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York. September 6. Money on call was 3J6 per cent., the last loan at 4 per cent. Prime mercan tile paper 45 per cent. Sterling exchange nrm: actual business in bankers' bills at 486486K for de mand and 483483 for sixty days Posted rates were 484 and 487 J4 Commercial bills 482 482 J. Silver certificates 595 60. Bar silver 59M Mexican dollars 4714. Government bonds ! steady. State bonds steady. Railroad bonds were firm. U. S. 2's, registered, 100: U. S. 3's registered, 108; do. coupon. 108 J U.S. new 4 s,regist d,ld0i: dacoupon, 130J4 ; U. 8. old 4's, regist'd. 111M ; do. coupon, . 113 ; U. S. 5's, registered, 111U;. do. coupon, 111&: N. C. 6's 129; do. 4's, 104; Southern Railway 5's 109 'A. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 53U Chesapeake & Ohio 28: Manhattan L 114$ ; N. Y. Central 139; Reading 23; do. 1st preferred 61; St. Pau 135M; :do. preferred 178: Southern Railway 12 ft : do. preferred 55m : Amer ican Tobacco, 129 ; do. preferred 145 ; People's Gas 119 J; Sugar 155; do. B referred 121X; T. C. & Iron .111; r. S. Leather 10 M do. preferred 75: western Union 88. NAVAL STORES MARKETS. By Teleeraph to the Horning Star. New York, September 6. Rosin quiet. Spirits turpentine dull at 46 47c. ; ! Charleston. SpntAmhei- r s j r--" w. v. uuAva turpentine nrm at 43 4 c ; sales 10 casks. .noBinnrm; saies aw barrels; B, C, u. Hi. uc: a: ysc: i xi ) h xi in I, $1 15; K, $1 20; M, $1 50; N, $1 85 w w, spa Z5 ; W W , S2 50. Savannah. Sentemhr k HrniHta rurnenixne onenea stpadv at. aoz closed firm at 44c bid ; sales 100 casks receipts bl7 casks. Rosin firm and un changed; no sales; receipts 2,534 bar rels. ' COTTON MARKETS. Bv.Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York. September fi RniUaii sentiment predominated in the market ior couon lutures all day, but consid ering all phases of the local situation confident bull speculation spicuous by its absence Shorts were made uneasy at the opening by an un expected improvement in spot busi neSS as well as mirhfir nr-inac tutures at Liverpool, and in an effort . f . v.-u 111 iu piace memseives in a more secure position forced tirinpa vn trw f,,- points higher on the opening. The "jainei was sieaay at the ad vance., j As the session progressed the nervousness of th ahnvio in creased, numerous crop damage reports uaviug tuuio 10 nana irom Texas, and good buying orders reached the mar- lrum iew urieans. jy midday prices had scored f urthpr a A continued to the afternoon. The did not hold out any promise of relief m the cotton belt from the excessive temperature and long continued drought. This fnrt inrrath c vubu,uvl mm pre dictions that the government report would be bullish, added to the alarm of shorts. The markp.t. rl-vori ot - w u c L gain of ten to twelve points. New York. Fnmh quiet and steady; middling uplands 6 5-16c. i Cotton futures n.lmuvl otnn quotations: September 5.81, 'October 6.01. NovemhA-r R f)R T.t -.- January 6.16. Pfihnia r iq tut v! .23, April 6.27 May 6.31, June 6.35. uubton ciosea quiet and steady and l-16c hiffher: miMlin i6ii6S;,middlinK'Rulf 6 9'16c; sales Ajl I t utucs. Net receipts IKS! Hal lOO Dales: PYmnta tr ta ,658 bales; stock 159,613 bales. xotai: K-aay wet receipts 20,098 Dales : exports in fho nn-nu-nt- 1 coo bales; stock 428,277 bales. Consolidated Net receipts 73 096 bales; exports to Great Britain 7,170 bales, exrjorfa ts fhA r-r,4nA o oo bales, i Total since September 1st. Net re- .to ssssss ceipts 82,918 bales; exports to Great Britain 14,734 bales; exports to Frlt bales; exports to the Continent bales. Sent. 6. Oalvfistnn fo.i.. ..... . . net receipts 8,727 bales; Norfolk, fim 'wirig uaies- Ha t; more, nominal at 6c; net receW bales: Boston, quiet at 6Xc,net receim. 246 bales; Wilmington, steady at 5T net receipts 364 bales; Philadelphia firm at 6 9-16c, net receipts - bau ' Savannah, quiet and firm at 5S'P : receipts 3,840 bales; New ' Orleans steady at 5Jgc, net receipts 3 oti-i bales; Mobile, firm at 5 11 Wc net'V ceipts 1,328 bales; Memphis, steady ti 5c, net receipts 194 bal?s; AuUsu steady at 6c, net receipts 1.4117 bale.' vuuxiebbuii, nrm at .) 11 1 ( ceints 359 bales. net re PRODUCE MARKETS New YORK, September c, K(mr more active and considerably stronger with the sharp recovery h rtjeal' Wheat Spot firm; No. 2 d 75 1'. options opened firm at J,se MK-auce'on cables, later developing Uni. activity and positive strength in sjnip&ttv with unexpected Northwestern no vices, local shorts were the bestbu-. ers as foreien or outside trade lacked energy. A good export business trai. -pired on the rise. The close was siroi at lc net advance ; May closed 7itr.;t September closed 73JgC; Decenii),r closed 7c. Core Spo: stroir No. 2 39c; options opened stm,' at c advance on dry weather :u d cables, On heavy cohering for heal and Chicago accounts advauced active ly all day and closed u net higher, aganstcnet advance in December with the undertone firm ; May c!osti 35jc; September closed 3Sji'c-December dosed 36c. Oats-Spot steady; No. 2 white 26c; options inactive. Lard firm at $5 70; refined firmer. Pork firm. Butter firm -.Western creamery 21c; State dairy 15lfii.2'c Cheese firm; large white lljc. Potatoes quiet; Jersey $1 001 25; Long Island 25 1 62J; Southern sweets $1 ifl 1 25 ; Jersey sweets $1 752 25. Cab bage quiet; Long Island $2 003 5u per 100. Freights to Liverpool Cottun by steam 263c. Cotton seed ul steady. .Rice quiet.. Coffee-Spot Rio dull and weak; No. 7 invoke 5c; No. 7 jobbing 6c; mild easy; Cordova 6llc. Sujjar Kaw easier; fair refiniDg 3 15 lb"c; centrfu gal 96 test 4 7-16c; molasses siU'sr refined steady. v" . r"i . j . i tiTi jiiuauu, oepiemDer 0 vv neat was influenced to-day by strengthemos outside markets and improvement iu the export demand. It ruled stroii? all day and closed i&jjc higher A feature was the continuedJ buying of September by elevator people. Com closed Jc higher for September, but a shade lower for December. Oats cled ifc higher, and provisions .V 12k higher for October products. CHICAGO, Sept. 6. Cash quotation: Flour steady. Wheat Xo. 2 spring c; No. 3 spring 6769c; No 2 rtd 71c. Corn No. 2 323234c. 0aU No. 2 2121Ke; No. 2white23& 23c; No. 3 white 2223c. Pork, per bbl, $7 408 20. Lard, per lot- lba, 15 155 35. Short rib sides, loo e $5 105 35. Dry salted shoulders, $5 505 624. Short clear sides, boxul, $5 095 56. Whiskey Distillers' fin ished goods, per gallon, $1 22 The leading futures ranged as lo. lows opening, highest, lowest and closing: Wheat No. 2 September 69&, 70K70K, 69, 70; December 7171H, 71X, 71. 7171?4; S'ay 74, 7474, 74,T4Xc Corn No. 2 September 31, 32, 31& 31ge; December 29, 29, 28. 29c; May 306, 30J630X, 29 29i30. Oats September 20. 20&20, 20 20, 20H20H ; December 20, 20& 2020M, 20Mc; May 21, 22, . 21, 21c. Pork, per bbl September -, , , $8 15 ; October $8 15, 8 20, 812& 8 25; January $9 57, 9 65, 9 57 Tird twv 100 rhs Sertember $5 25, 5 32, 5 25. 32 'A ; October $5 30, X 5 37, 5 30, 5 37H; January $5 47H,y 5 52, 5 47, 5 52. Short ribs, per 100 fts September $5 27. 5 30, 5 27, 5 30; October $5 22, 5 35, 5 11 5 35; January $5 02j, 5 05, 5 00, 5 05. Baltimore, September 6. -Flour quiet and unchanged Wheat firmer Spot and month 699698c; Oc tober 7171c; December 74 74c. Southern wheat by sample 62 70jc. Corn strong Mixed spot 3737c; month 37c bid: October 36K36c; November and Decemuer new or old, 33c bid; January and February 33c bid. Southern while corn 3939&c. Oats firm-.N" 2 white 28c. FOREIGN 1!ARK!. By Cable to the Mornlm; si u . T .TWTnrrT Hontomtfpi' f! -1 i'. -Vl dling 3d; low middling- 3 5-iw, good ordinary 3 id ; ordinary 2 l 1M The sales of the day were 10.W bales, of which 1,000 were for specula, tion and export and included a,-" bales American. Receipts 1,000 bale?, including 800 bales American. , Futures opened quiet but ciosea steady at the advance. American n Sputember 28-64d buyer; September and Octooer 3 26-64d buyer; October and ftovem Kak 9 9A.RAt?h 9.K.RIA seller: JovemDer and December 3 23-64d seller ; oer ana January o o v -'m. a baa ui ami March & 24-64d seller; March and April s Ji cJ1AH. Mow onH June 3 2o-vy 3 26-64d value: June and July S buyer; July and August 3 27 -64a sew- BY RIVER AND RAH W. & W. Railroad-33 bales cotton, casks snirits turpentine, ' Dan tar. , i..nt- W., C. & A. Kailroad-l9f o-- ion. MJ CaSUS spinia wr-, , barrels l-nsin. 35 barrels tar, 14 bar- reiscruae turpenuiie. toD cotton, barrels I casks spirits turpentine, 71 rosin. 50 barrels tar W. & N. Railroad-3 bales cDttO; casks spirits turpentine, crude turpentine. C. C. RaUroad-102 bales cottgjj, isks spirits turpentine, a u ie 13 uui&s spirits iuiin""-, , main 18 Vfarrp s tar. Daricw turpentine. ct sri Steamer K A. iiawes - turpentine, 1 barrels tar. tur. fU-.hr. Ruth J.-19 casks spirits pentine, 79 barrels rosin. lur- Total Cotton. 364 bales; s 3 K 7. pentine, 105 casks; rosin, wD tar, 111 barrels; crude turpentine, 240 barrwfj barrels. Cotton Spot in fair demand ; prion l-32d higher. American middling W A -t.1RA. vrl miArtMntr .'?3d: mlfl- i v-