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ST WILLIAM H. BERNARD.
WILMINGTON. N. C.
Tuesday Morxixg, September 12.
CALLING EVASS TO TAW.
Commissioner of Pensions Evans,
is not popular with the Pension
Attorneys, nor with the pensioners,
because he has labored under the
impression that the Pension Office
ought to be conducted honestly and
the laws governing pensions be hon
estly construed, and faithfully ad
ministered, that the people who are
taxed to pay pensions are entitled
to some consideration as well aa
the pension attorneys and the peo
ple who draw pensions. This is the
assumption on which he has been
acting and this is the reason why
he has incurred the enmity of the
pension attorneys and the disap
proval of the pensioners in whom
these attorneys profeBS to take 6uch
:i warm and disinterested interest.
Some of the Post3 of the G. A. R.,
under the inspiration of those
guardian pension attorneys, have re
cently passed resolutions denounc
ing the economic methods of Mr.
Evans as injustice to the pensioners,
and calling upon the President to
remove him and put in hi3 place
some one whose methods would, pre
sumably, be more in accordance with
the liberal ideas of the pension
drawers and their" representatives,
the pension attorneys. At the na
tional encampment of the G. A. R.
at Philadelphia last week Mr. Evans
received, as he anticipated, some at
tention, and the committee on pen
sions in its report filed its protest,
and a committee was chosen to pre
sent it to the President and insist in
the name of the G. A. R. that this
offending Tennesseean be called to
taw. Commenting upon the action
of the G. A. R., the Baltimore Sun
says:
"The committee on pensions of the
Grand Army of the Republic, in their
report to the National Encampment
at Philadelphia; state that "no class of
citizens bears more cheerfullv th
burden of supporting the Government
and its
institutions than the veter-
. ans. it is no
patriotism of the
reflection upon the
veterans to suggest
tnat tne Uovernment has araatMl
them most generously in "bearing
the burden." According to the an
nual report of Commissioner Evans,
the disbursements for pensions during
the last fiscal year aggregated $138,
355,052. There are 753,451 surviving
soldiers of the Civil War or the pen
sion rolls, 237,415 widows and depend
ent relatives, and C53 army nurses. The
soldiers who receive pensions exceed by
150,000 the total.strenghtiof the Confed
erate armies during the great conflict
One man out of every three who en
listed in the Union armies during the
war is pensioned by the Government
In Ohio, it has been estimated that one
voter in ten draws a -pension. In other
States, a very large percentage of the
voters is composed of former soldiers
who have for years been receiving a
bounty from the Government Since
1S69, the total disbursements to army
and navy pensioners have amounted
to 12,389,310,974, and it would be an
ungrateful set of veterans indeed, who
would not "bear cheerfully the burden
of supporting the Government and its
institutions" under such circumstances.
"One of the "institutions' in which
some of the veterans appear most deep
ly interested is the pension system. In
their report the committee say The
veterans rightfully demand the ful
filment of the solemn compact made
when they manfully and bravely gave
all they had to the country, not count
ing the cost to themselves.' That this
compact has been faithfully kept is
convincingly proved by the statements
of Commissioner Evans, who shows
thirty-four years after the close of the
civil war the annual disbursements for
pensions amount to $138,355,052, and
that the number of pensioners aggre
gates nearly a million. Yet, not con
tent with this unprecedented generos
ity, the effect is being made persistent
ly by organizations of veterans to in
Cras? the expenditures through laws
wnicn will give almost any man who
wore a uniform a legal claim upon the
Government's bounty."
The offence of the Commissioner is
that he has been interfering too
much in the matter of pensions al
lowed and paid, especially in the
cases of "widows," of whom he had
made free to remark that there were
more on the rolls than properlv
should be there. He had especially
in view widows of a speculative mind,
young women who married old pen
aioneri with the prospective view of
becoming pensioners when the men
they married died. The Commis
sioner had an unsophisticated opin
ion that that kind of marrying
should not be encouraged, and that
that kind of widow business should
be done on a smaller scale.
There hare been nnder his admin
istration 43,000 names dropped from
the rolls, most of them by deaths,
but some 40,000 have been added,
which is not an indication of very
severe nrunin?. The number of
names now on the rolls is about a
round million, thirty-four years after
the unpleasantness ceased. Would
any disinterested, honest person
look at these figures and say there
was not fraud in the system which
was paying pensions to about a mil
lion people thirty-four years after
the war ended on account of which
they were paid?
There is not only fraud in it, but
the whole system, as it has grown
since the war between the States, i3
baaed on fraud. All this talk about
pensioning the soldiers "who saved
the Union," to whom "a debt of
gratitude i3 due that can never be
paid" and that sort of stuff is the
veriest rot. The men who talk it
and pose as the friends and lovers of
the soldiers don't care any more for
the soldier than they do for any
other man and if the pensions had
to come out of their pockets they
would count the dollars as care
fully as they do the dollars they
send to convert the benighted
heathen. Every person of any sense
understands this, understands the
politics in it and knows that the
money of the people is not appro
priated to pay these enormous pen
sions out of public gratitude to the
men who fought, but to win their
favor and influence their vote for
the party whose representatives are
so liberal with the money of the
people, under the falae pretence
that they are paying" "a debt of
gratitude" and discharging an honest
obligation.
What the pension attorneys and
those complaining veterans want is a
confmissioner like Corporal Tanner
who knew how to satisfy them and
at once begin to "shovel" out the
money and boasted about his success
in -'shovelling" it out. He had a
regular pic-nic while it lasted and
seemed to enjoy shovelling out the
money as much as the pensioners
did in receiving it. He didn't have
any trouble with the pensions nor
the pension attorneys, and adver
tised himself so well that after he
retired from the office he opened and
ran one of the biggest pension shops
in Washington.
The machine runners of the Re
publican party find pensions useful
in controlling the vote3 of pen
sioners, and the support of the pen
sion attorneys, just a3 they found
tariff bounties to manufacturers and
others useful in securing contribu
tions to campaign fund3 to buy
votes, and carry out the schemes to
keep the party in power. If it
wasn't for that we would hear less
of the "debt of gratitude we owe the
men who saved the Union" and
there wouldn't be one dollar paid in
pensions to the ten that are now
paid: but while pensions control
votes we need not expect much in
the way of reform.
FRANCE WAS ON TRIAL-
As the verdict in the case of Drey
fus was foreshadowed almost from
the beginning of the trial it caused
no surprise when the court pro-'
nounced him guilty. The only Bur
prising feature in it was how a court
sitting ostensibly for impartial in
vestigation and to do justice to an
accused officer of the army should
have so plainly shown its bias against
him and rendered a verdict in ac
cordance with that bias, without the
slightest unimpeachable testimony
upon which to base it, and this, too,
in the face of proven conspiracy and
perjury, and the admission in court
by some of his prosecutors that gross
frauds had been perpetrated to make
a case against him.
But the verdict wasn't so much
against Dreyfus as it was against
the Jews. There has been no effort
made to conceal the prejudice in
this case, but on the contrary his
prosecutors seemed to glory in it
and regard it as something com
mendable and patriotic.
But in effect it was not so much
Dreyfus or the Jew that was on trial
aa France, in whose name this mon
strous crime has been so shamefully
perpetrated, to pander to a base
and contemptible prejudice. A
second time it has been heralded to
the world that justice has no hear
ing in France when prejudice is ar
rayed against it. If the action of '
the mock court at Rennes did not
give sufficient proof of this the can
did gloatings of the anti-Dreyfus
press over the verdict would leave no
room for doubt. Dreyfus is deserv
ing of sympathy, but as for France,
it isn't sure that the sympathy of
those who admire her for her heroic
past will not be buried in the con
tempt that the world feels for such
a degenerate nation.
Some men are so absent-minded
that they would forget their heads
sometime if they were not fastened
to them. One of these, a citizen of
Potsdam, recently took a street car
to go to the Berlin railway station.
He had diamonds worth $35,000 and
$4,000 worth of bank BhareB, which
the Potsdam idiot left in the car
- ...
wnen ne got out to take the train.
The conductor picked them up and
delivered them at the office of the
company where the owner afterwards
got them. He was glad enough to
reward the finder with $25.
Mr. Carnegie has lightened his
burden by $6,000,000 contributed
for various worthy objects.
TIRED OF BEING IGNORED.
Gen. A. D. Cowles, of Statesville,
who sometime ago published a letter
declaring his purpose to vote for the
constitutional amendment, and giv
ing his reasons therefor, has pub
lished another letter in the States
ville Landmark, an open letter to
President McKinley, which is to re
mind him of how the Republicans
in the South have been ignored by
Republican administrators, and to
impart the hint . that if the Repub
lican party expects the continued
support of the white Republicans of
the South it must show these white
Republicans some respectable rec
ognition when it comes to the dis
tribution of the honors and emolu
ments in the gift of the administra
tion. The following extract shows
the gist of the complaint and the
letter:
"Until the South is treated fairly and
imaginary lines are obliterated, wneu
men will be judged simply on merit as
citizens of the great Union of States,
we will have a heterodox people. Mr.
McKioley rose above partisan consid
eration in the face of national danger
and placed in command Democrats and
Southern men in the late war. His
confidence was never misplaced and
commended. While Democrats do
not expect positions in the civil gov
ernment Southern Republicans do.
"Now. Mr President, you acted
nobly, you acted wisely, during the
war, and wniie you couldn t nod a
siagle Republican in the South fit to
uii a piace auuro a uiajur ui uuuimis-
sary, i ara tree to tell you ccnnaen
tially that we have many capable of
filling any position under you. You
were not acquainted with us, and now
since this introduction no excuse will
et you off in the future, and we will
expect recognition.
He calls attention to the fact that
in the appointments to office, to re
sponsible positions abroad and at
home, Southern Republicans have
been persistently ignored, their rec
ognition being almost entirely con
fined to the patronage to be dis
tributed in their own States, and yet
Southern white Republicans have
meekly borne this, and while not
unconscious of it have seemed to be
content with the bones that have
been thrown to them.
If white Republicans, some of
whom are men of brains, and of
character, have met with so little
recognition, i3 it strange that the
negro, although casting the bulk of
the vote of that party, has not met
met with more? Here and there he
has been stuck into a little postoffice;.
or into some other little position to
carry out some bargain previously
made for votes in conventions, bnt
that's all. As a matter of fact,
neither the white Republican of the
South nor the black Republican
stands much show when it comes to
substantial recognition after elec
tions. i
George T. Smith, of South Orange,
X. J., has the distinction of having
on his wheel beaten a lightning ex
press train on Long Island and rescu
ed a child which wa3 playing upon
the track. He was pushing his wheel
along a narrow path beside the road.
Hearing the whistle blow he looked
back and saw the train bowling along
on a down grade. Looking ahead
he saw the child sitting, playing on
the track. Bounding on his wheel he
flew along until he reached her,
threw himself from his wheel, seized
the child, and with her in his arms,
rolled down an embankment just as
the train flew by. The train was
stopped, but before it could back to
the place the little girl was seen run
ning to her home, and the rescuer,
after brushing the du,at from his
clothes, disappeared before his name
could be ascertained, which was after
wards learned on investigation bv
some of the passengers.
Abraham Stringley died recently
in Missouri, aged 93. He never
gave a note, never took a dose of
medicine from a physician, and
never voted anything but a Demo
cratic ticket. He voted, for everv
Democratic candidate for the Presi
dency from Jackson to Bryan.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The true inwardness of Gen
eral Otis' advance from San Fernando
north, as it is understood among the
officers in the field, is revealed in an
uncensored dispatch which the
Herald's correspondent at Ma
nila has forwarded via Hong Kong.
Politics, not war, is the truth of it.
N. Y. Herald. Ind.
If the Kentucky campaign
is so hot now what will it be during
the last weeks of the campaign.-'
The Democrats of that state were
never before so hopelessly divided
and the Republicans hare not for
years been so harmonious or so well
organized. From a Democratic
standpoint the outlook is verv
gloomy. Atlanta Journal, Dem.
The proposed tunnel between
England and Ireland, if built, is to
run .from Island Magee, County
Antrim, to a point near Port Pat
rick in Wigtownshire, Scotland, its
cost being estimated at $50,000,000.
The Bcheme is favored by Engish
men and Irishmen alike, being one
of the few things on which they can.
agree. Competent engineers pro
nounce it feasible, and think it ought
to be open and running in five, years
after the work is begun. Brooklyn
Citizen, Dem.
Java planters of cinchona
are complaining of the methods of
the quinine truBt, which, they
say, are killing their business at the
same time that they are mamng
prices exorDitanc w consumers,
. . i i j ll
although tne aemana is constantly
increasing. Here is hint for Ameri
can planters, lor certainly xnere
must be land adapted to cinchona
cultnre somewhere in our wide do
main. Competition, which is the
life of trade, is the death of trusts.
Let the planters of tropical America
grow cinchona. Philadelphia Led-
Ind.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
- Red Springs Citizen'. Moss
Neck, this county, was visited by a
severe wind and rain storm last Tues
day. Several buildings were blown
down and some stock killed.
Kinston Fret Press: We no
ticed a large consignment of canned
tomatoes to one of our merchants yes
terday, which was put up by a North
Carolina canning company.
' Winston Sentinel: Capt. Staggs
says he had a passenger on the Wilkes
boro road yesterday who claimed to be
103 years old. Samuel Key is his
name. He and his wife got on the
train at Lime Rock, near Siloam. and
rode to Berch. The old man said this
was the second time he had been on
the train.
Newton Enterprise : Army
worms have appeared in the western
part of Lincoln and Catawba counties.
They are attacking grass and clover
fields first, and from there they go to
the corn fields. As yet they have not
shown any taste for cotton. Our in
formant saw them in the vicinity of
Lore's school house, and says they are
thick in the grass fields and are sweep
ing through them with a rush.
Greenville Reflector: Mr. W.
A. Darden, of Greene county, was in
town to-day (Friday). He said as he
was passing Dr. Horn ad ay 'a, on his
way here, the latter told him he had
just extracted a ball from the throat of
a colored man named Henry Nobles.
He said that Mr. J. M. Patrick, a
brother of President D. W. Patrick,
of the A. & N. C. railroad, did the
shooting last night. He did not know
the cause of the trouble.
Charlotte News: Last Tuesday
the News mentioned the fact that there
were nearly 2,000 school children en
rolled on the second day of school.
Since that day both schools have con
tinued to increase, the white school
having enrolled about 40 since Tues
day and the colored school more than
100. The figures now stand at 1,305
for the white school and 840 for the
colored school, making the grand
total of 2,115- pupils now enrolled in
the city public schools.
Fayettevillo Observer: Ex
Sheriff McD. Geddie tells us of a ter
rible accident that happened near his
residence in Flea Hill yesterday (Fri
day) afternoon, in which a little two
year old negro child was stamped to
death by a vicious mule, owned by
Henry Tucker, a brother of the child.
The little fellow was lying on his back
in the yard, when the mule, who had
gotten out of the stable lot made di
rectly for him, and, without warning,
jumped on his breast, and in a second
stamped all the breath out of the in
fant. . TWINKLINGS.
"Well, rain falls on the juat
and the unjust" "Not much ; the un
just steal umbrellas.
"Is it true that, in spite of
bein? in mourning, you sat up till
midnight last night drinking beer?-'
"Yes, but I drank only dark beer."
Heitere Welt.
Pater (sadly) "I "don't know
what to do with that boy of mine. He's
been two years at the medical schools,
and still keeps at the foot of his class."
Perrins (promptly) "Make a chiro
podist of him." Tit Bits.
Featherstone "Come, Bobbie
(handing him a quarter), how many
fellows have called on your sister this
week!" Bobbie "Let's see, five."
"That doesn't include me, does it?"
"Oh, no. Sister says you don't count."
Brooklyn Life.
Hoar "I believe that constant
association has its effect upon the phy
siognomy. For instance, the pork
butcher grows to look like a pig."
Joax "Sure; I know a golf fiend who
isn't very far from the lynx." Phila
aeipnia Kecora.
"The beef trust seems deter
mined to put the price of steaks up
higher than ever before," remarked
Mr. Gaswell. '.'Beef can scarcely get
higher than it was when the cow
jumped over the moon," added Mr.
Dukane. Pittsburg Chronicle- Tele
graph.
His Proposition: "Are you able
to support my daughter ?" asked the
old gentleman. "You know she has
pretty expensive tastes, and I don't
mind saying that the burden has been
pretty hard for me at times." "That's
just the point," exclaimed the prospec
tive benedict "If I marry her we can
divide the expense." Chicagd Even
ing Post.
Out of Sight: Boss "I don't
know whether to discharge that new
boy or raise his salary." Manager
"What has he been doing?" Boss
"He i rushed in my private office this
morning and told me there was a man
down stairs who would like to see
me." Manager "Who was it?"
Boss "A blind man." Chicago
News.
QUARTERLY MEETINQS.
M. E. Chnrch, South, Wilmington District.
Southport, September 17-18.
Whltevllle, Terro Oordo, September 83-84.
Waccama, Old Dock, September 2$.
Brunswick, Zlon, September 30-October 1.
Wilmington, Market Street, (at night) Oct. 1.
Carver's Creek, Shlloh, October 7-8.
Elizabeth. Slngletarles, October 14-15
E Wilmington, Grace. Oct. 23-23.
Jacksonville and Blchlands, Blchlands, Oct
28-29.
Bladen, Windsor, Nov. 4-5.
Clinton, Clinton. Nov. 11-12.
Onslow, Tabernacle. Nov. 18-19.
Burgaw, Burgaw, Nov. 24.
KenansvlUe, Wesley's Chapel, Nov. 25-28.
Magnolia, Rose Hill. Nov. 28.
Scott's Hill, Scott's Hill, Dec. 8-3.
Wilmington, Bladen Street (at night) Dec. 8.
B. F. BUM PAS,
Presiding Elder.
Stopping: a HIk Steamship.
To stop the Etruria, whose displace
ment is 9,680 tons, horsepower 14,321
and speed 20. 1 8 knots an hour, 3 min
utes and 47 seconds are required, and
during the process of stopping the-ahip
will forge ahead 2,464 feet, or nearly
half a mile. The United States cruiser
Columbia, with a displacement of 7,550
tons, 17,991 horsepower and a speed of
22.8 knots an hour, can be stopped in. 2
minutes and 15 seconds and within a'
space of 2,147 feet. In each case the
vessel is supposed to be going atffnll
speed and the stoppage produced sby
reversing the action of the propeller.
Dimu
Quick Wit.
unmas found a man asleep in the
uheatre Francais during the playing of
a piece Dy nis mend Soumet. "T2bu
see that?" said he, "that's-your work."
Next evening a Dumas comedy was1
.put on. The two friends looked'in again
and found a sleeper.
"You see, dear Dumas," said Sou
met, "your works can produce sleep."
"Do you refer to that man 7" replied
Dumas. "Why, that's the man who'
was there last night He's not awake'
yet! ' San Francisco News Letter.
For Over Fifty Tears
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup
nas 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,
allays all pain, cures wind colic, and
i8' remedy for Diarrhoea. It
will relieve the poor little sufferer im-K1?-
B druggists in every
?l?,f orld. Twenty-five cents
a bottle. Ra mnw inii oV ..nu..
Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take
no other
CURRENT MISCELLANY.
Pigs that have amazed vast audiences
at the circus by their performances are
not to be mentioned in the same breath
with the yonng porker the roiiowing
account of which has been eent to The
Record by a person who has heretofore
been considered thoroughly reliable and
truthful : "One of the bis drays" going
down Tenth street on Thursday having
to stop at the corner of Carpenter street,
the boys who were utilizing the rear
end for a ride were surprised and de
lighted to see a pig try. to scramble up
beside them. Kindly hands helped him,
and he snt content among the free riders
until a small street below Morris was
reached, when he intimated by grunts
and scrambling that he wanted to get
off the dray. He was assisted to the
street and immediately made his way to
a doorstep, where he was at home, as he
was soon admitted into the house. He
is a pet pig, owned by a dermatologist,
who is making experiments upon him
with newly invented hair tonics. Every
few days piggy appears on the doorstep
with bristles of a different color, and,
it is said, his hairs really begin to curl
owing to the application of castor oil
and qainine. Recently, having been
.treated with peroxide of hydrogen, he
has been of a most beautiful gold color.
Piggy is bathed every day, has his teeth
brnshed with liaterine and sits on the
front steps with the children, occasion
ally strolling a square mi two with
them. The fact that he knew his way
home and preferred to ride there has
made him quite a hero in the neighbor
hood. " Philadelphia Record.
A Sensation In Fort Scott.
"With a big Colt's revolver and a
belt of cartridges strapped around her
waist a Fort Worth (Tex. ) woman rode
into Fort Scott on a bicycle at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning from the south on
Main street, " says the Fort Scott (Kan.)
Monitor. "The advent of this apparent
female adventurer created considerable
amusement for the np town people. In
addition to lier cowboy appearance, she
was attired in a blue skirt, brewn leg
gings and a sailor hat. A small grip
was strappctl on the handle bars of her
?heel. TIip v.-omnn seemed to admire
the cm-iusity s-liu was causing, and she
rode rapi.Tly. to Pfiiniman's hardware
ttore. rii) her lu ll every few yards.
the refneu to give her name, but
'jiiough was learned of her to know that
she came from Fort Worth and was en
route to New York, intending to make
the trip in 21Jays. She staid here but
a few minutes nnd then left for Kansas
City."
English Courtesy.
A yonng lady, coming the other day
out of Kensington parish church, Lon
don, picked up a handsome purse, con
taining, among ether articles of more
or less value, a dividend warrant. The
owner's card was also inside, the ad
dress on it being that of a house in a
neighboring square. The finder packed
the purse np, directed and posted it,
and took the tronble to register it, at a
total cost of 25 cents. She had given
her own name and address, and, receiv
ing no acknowledgment, she wrote,
after a few days, to inquire if tha
purse had teen received. In reply, she
got a postcard bearing the words, "Yes,
thanks." As u sample of the manners
of a certain type of English women in
the Victorian age this will not be easi
ly beaten.
Don't Wash Eggs.
We have lately seen some lots of eggs,
which have evidently been dirty when
collected, which the packers have washed
as clean as possible with the hope of
increasing their value. For the most
part they arrived in bad order and
mostly rotten. When an egg is soaked
in water sufficiently to enable one to
remove the dirt from it, the gelatinous
substance which ordinarily fills the
pores in the limn of which the shell is
mostly composed becomes dissolved,
subjfetin the inside of the egg to the
destructive effect of the air. In warm
weather, wet eggs soon decay, and some
of these washed eggs lately received
here have been almost worthless, while
sonnd candied dirties are worth a good
price; eo says the New York Produce
Wi
Vc Orl Automobiles.
The Boston Herald publishes this ex
tract from a private letter describing
the Paris automobiles: "We went to
Fontainebleau, five in the party, for
breakfast, 40 miles in three hours, and
sucb.a ride! We came back by a longer
ronte, 48 milep, in the same time,
through the forest at sunset and along
the Seine in the moonlight. Fancy go
ing 80 miles for breakfast and enjoying
it that is. 80 miles by road I I have
always detested automobiles, but for
quick traveling they beat everything I
have ever tried. "
A Cure For the Big- Hats.
Apropos of the question as to whether
or not women should remove their hats
in chnrch, a Lexington (Mo.) man sug
gested a return to the good old custom
under which the men sat on one side of
the chnrch nnd the women on the other.
"In that way," he says, "the women
could get the full benefit of their big
hats. Women who remove their hats
out of conrtesv to those who sit behind
them could, of course, sit where they
choose. The others could have the full
benefit of attempting to see the preacher
through n jungle of feathers and gee
gaws. "
Becoming: Americanized.
Havana is rapidly becoming Ameri
canized. Instead of a bullfight on a re
cent Sunday there was a baseball game,
and interest in the match waxed so
warm that a close decision by the um
pire in the eighth inning almost pre
cipitated a riot. The Times of Cuba
says that the police took a hand in the
affair, levolvers were drawn, and mur
der would have been done had not a de
tachment of the Seventh cavalry appear
ed on the scene with loaded ' guns to
qnell the distumance.
Sample Carriers.
The Philadelphia Record says: "A pe
culiar trade followed by a number of
men who haunt the big hotels is that of
sample carrier. The natty drummers
who visit the city are far above the
work of lugging around their sometimes
heavy samples, and so there has arisen
a class of men who make a living by
hanging around the hotels waiting an
opportunity to carry sample cases.
Sometimes these cases are very valu
able, as when they contain samples of
jewelry. It is not an infrequent sight to
see a spruce young fellow, followed by
a Bhabby individual carrying two black
cases, enter the portals of one of the big
hostelries. If the couple were traced
farther it would be seen that the big
hotel safe was the objective point.. Some
of these sample carriers have their reg
ular patrons, who look for them on ev
ery visit.'
The St. Louis union station has 424,
200 feet roof area, 31 tracks and 22
roads; Boston and Maine station, in
Boston, 246,560 feet. 23 tracks and
three companies ; the Broad street sta
tion, Philadelphia, 179,986 feet, 18
tracks and one road ; the Philadelphia
and Beading station. Philadelphia,
208,000 feet and 14 tracks; the Union
station, - Chicago, 1 1 5, 500 feet, 9 tracks
and four companies; the Dearborn
street station, Chicago, 99,710 feet, 10
tracks and six roads, and Grand Cen
tral station, New York, 305, 840 -feet,
21 tracks and threo roads
Irving Didn't Rea3.
Sir Henry Irving appeared at. the
Theater Royal, Edinburgh, in . 1857,
and two years later he went to Linlith
gow to give a reading there, j He was
delighted to see his name in big letters
on the posters on arriving in the town.
He went to the hall, but there was, no
crowd there in fact, the caretaker, had
not arrived, having forgotten all about
the reading. Irving went in search.of
him, and things were got ready ; 8 :80
o'clock arrived, but no one came to the
hall not even a small boy. In recalling
the incident Sir Henry was wont to
say, "I never slept better than I did
that nlght.
Ita Natural Effect.
"How many of these sheep got out
of here V ' asked the angry farmer.
"I don't know," Replied the new
fired man, rubbing his eyes. "After
'd watched five or six of 'em jump
over the fence I seemed to lose $h
count. That always puts me to sleeps
Chicago Tribune.
Of No Avail.
"Prisoner," said the court, "have
you anything to say for yourself?"
"What's the use?" replied thexul
prit; "you guys wouldn't believe me.'
-Philadelphia North American.
WHOLESALE PRICES CUEREKT.
1ST" The following quotations
reDresent
wholesale Prices generally. In making up
small orders higher Dtlcee have to be charged.
Tne Quotations are always given as accurately
as possible, but the Star will not be responsible
tor any variations from the actual market price
oi uis articles auotea.
BAGGINO-
3 ft Jute 6 a 7
standard a J4
Burlaps .' 5 bXs
WESTERN SMOREL.
Hams $ lb 12 J 12H
Bides . &
Shoulders 9 & 7
DRY SALTED
Sides B 6
Shoulders S B Q. 5M
BARRELS Spirits Turpentine-Second-hand,
each 125 & 136
New New York, each 1 40
New City, each & 1 40
BEESWAX V 2i
BRICKS
Wilmington M 500 7 00
Northern 9 00 14 00
BUTTER
North Carolina V 15 & 18
Northern 25 0
CORN MEAL
Per bushel, In sacks 47 47
Virginia Meal 47 47&
COTTON TIE V bundle 1 25
CANDLES 9
Sperm 18 25
Adamantine S & 11
CHEESE V lb
Northern Factory 106 11 X
Dairy Cream &. 13
State O 10M
COFFEE 9
Laguyra 10 & m$
Rio... 7 8
DOMESTICS
Sheeting, 4-4, f yard & SH
Yarns, v bunch of 5 lbs ... . 70
EGG8 V dozen 12J4 15
FISH
Mackerel, No. 1, 9 barrel. . . 22 00 & 30 oo
Mackerel, No. 1, half-bbl. 11 00 15 00
Mackerel, No. 2, barrel... 16 00 & 18 00
Mackerel, No. 2 V half-bbl. . 8 00 9 00
Mackerel, No. 3, V barrel... 13 00 14 00
Mallets, V barrel 3 75 & 4 50
Mallets, VLPork barrel 6 00 & 8 00
N. C. Roe Herring, V keg.. S 00 & 3 25
Dry Cod, lb 5 & 10
Extra 4 35 & 4 50
FLOOR lb
Low grade & 300
Choice & 850
Straight 4 00 & 425
First Patent 4 50 500
SLUE V lb ll 13
GRAIN bushel
Corn,from8tore,bgs White 52 & 52$
car-ioaa, in Dgs wnite... 52
Oats, from store 38 & 40
Oats, Rust Proof & 45
Cow Peas 60 & 65
HIDES lb
Green salted 67
Dry flint 10 12)
Drv salt 9
HAY 100 lbs
Clover Hay 85 & 90
Rice Straw 40 50
Eastern 80 & 85
Western 80 & 85
North River 80 & 85
HOOP IRON, lb 2H
LARD, V
Northern 6 7
North Carolina 7 a 8
LIME,barrel 115 125
LUMBER (city sawed) M ft
Ship Stuff, resawed 18 00 20 00
Rough edge Plank 15 00 16 00
West India cargoes, accord
lng to quality 13 00 18 00
Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 22 00
Scantling and Board, com'n 14 00 15100
Common mill 5 00 0 50
Fair mill 6 50 800
Prime mill 8 50 10 00
Extra mill io 00 10 50
HOLA88ES gallon
Barbadoes, In hogshead. . . . 25
Bar badoea, in barrels 28
Porto Rico, in hogsheads 23 30
Porto Rico, in barrels... 25 30
Sugar House, In hogsheads. 12 14
Sugar House, In barrels. ... 14 15
Syrup,. in barrels 15 25
NAIL8, WTteg, Cat, 60d basis. . . 2 26 2 50
PORK, barrel
Citv Mess 9 50 10 00
Rump , 9 50
Prime 19 00
ROPE, 10 22
SALT, sack. Alum 1 10
Liverpool 75 80
American 70 75
On 125 Sacks 47j
SHINGLES, 7-inch, per M 5 00 6 50
Common 1 60 2 25
Cypress Saps 2 50 2 75
SUGAR, S Standard Gran'd 5 594
. Standard A 5 5H
White Extra C 5
Extra C, Golden 5
C, Yellow 4?4
SOAP, lb Northern 3M 4
STAVES, M W. O. barrel.... 6 00 14 09
R. O. Hogshead 10 00
TIMBER, M feet Shipping . . 9 00 10 00
Mill, Prime 7 50 875
M11L Fair 6 50 7 00
Common Mill ,, 5 00 6 oo
Inferior to ordinary 3 53 5 00
SHINGLES, N.C. Cypress sawed -
M 6x24 heart 750 850
" 8ap , 5 00 6 09
5x20 Heart 8 00 3 50
" Sap 2 00 2 50
6x24 Heart 6 00 650
" SaD 5 00 5 50
TALLOW, 6
WHISKEY, gallon. Northern 1100 2 00
North Carolina 1 00 00
WOOL per Unwashed 15 17
MARINE.
ARRIVED.
Schr Chas H Sprague, 260 tons,
Lord. South Am boy, Geo Harriss,
Son & Co.
Br steamship Chatburnv 1,225 tons,
Wood, Teneriffe, J H Sloan.
CLEARED.
Stmr Seabright, Sanders, Calabash
and Little River, S C, Stone, Rourk
& Co.
Barge Maria Dolores, 610 tons,
Bonneau, Charleston, Navassa Guano
Co.
Schr Nellie Floyd, 435 tons, Nelson,
Heide & Co.
Br steamship South Africa, Dobson,
Bremen, Alex Sprunt & Son.
EXPORTS.
COASTWISE.
New York Steamship New York
1,113 casks spirits, 181 bbls rosin,
1,064 bbls tar, 25 bbls crude, 87,480 feet
lumber, 156 bags peanuts, 42 cases cot
ton goods, 85 pkgs mdse ; vessel by H
G Smallbones.
FOREIGN.
Bremen British steamship South
Africa 12,628 bales cotton, valued at
$414,976; vessel and cargo by Alex
Sprunt & Son.
MARINE DIRECTORY.
List of Teasel In the Por of TVU
mlnsrton, N. C. Sept. 12, 1899.
STEAMSHIPS.
Chatburn (Br). 1,225 tons, Wood, J H
Sloan.
Almora (Br), 2,835 tons, Williams,
Alex Sprunt & Son.
Velleda (Br), 1,648 tons, Rulluch.
Alex Sprunt & Son. -Aquila
(Nor), 1,407 tons, Andersen,
Heide & Co.
Ormsby (Br) 1,828 tons, Robinson,
Alex Sprunt & Son.
SCHOONERS.
Chas H Sprague. 260 tons, Lord, Geo
Harriss, Son & Co.
Jbo C Smith, 392 tons, Kneeland, Geo
Harriss, Son & Co.
Franks Hall, 152 tons, Moore, Geo
Harriss, Son & Co.
Scrubbing Floors
can never be made
a pleasing pastime,
but one - half the
labor will be-saved
and the results im
proved by using
Gold Dust Wash
ing Powder.
Send for free booklet
for Housework."
" Golden Rules
THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY
Chicago St. CooU New York Boston
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
STAR OFFICE. Sept 11.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Market
steady at 43 cents per gallon for
machine-made casks and 43 cents
per gallon for country casks.
ROSIN Market firm at 90 cents
per barrel for Strained and 95 cents
for Good Strained.
TARMarket quiet at $1.30 per bbl
of 280 lbs.
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market
quiet at . per barrel for Hard,
$2.50 for Dipjand $2.50 for Virgin.
Quotations same day last year.
Spirits turpentine, no report; rosin
dull at $1.051.10; tar firm at $1.30;
crude turpentine firm at $1.101.60
RECEIPTS.
Spirits Turpentine. . '. 54
Rosin 135
Tar : 116
Crude Turpentine 52
Receipts same day last year. 85
casks spirits turpentire, 504 bbls
rosin, 197 bbls tar, 7 bbls crude tur
pentine. cotton. "
Market steady on a basis of 5gc
per pound for middling. Quotations:
Ordinary 3 7-16 cts. tb
Good Ordinary..... 4 13-16 " "
Low Middling 5 7-16 " "
Middling..; 5 " "
Good Middling 6M "
Same day last year middling 5 Xc.
Receipts 1,266 bales; same day last
year, 398.
COUNTRY PRODUCS.
PEANUTS North Carolina-Prime.
90c; extra prime, 95c per bushel of 28
pounds; fancy, $1.10. Virginia
Prime, 60c; extra prime, 65c; fancy,
70c.
CORN Firm; 52 to 52 cents per
bushel.
ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide
water) 90c$1.10; upland 6580c.
Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to
the bushel.
N. C. BACON steady ; hams 10 to 11c
per pound; shoulders, 6 to 7c; sides, 7
to 8c.
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 $3.50 to
$9.00 per M.
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New York, September 11. Money
on call firmat58 per cent., the last
loan at 5 per cent. Prime mercan
tile paper 4js5 per cent. Sterling
exchange steady; actual business in
bankers' bills at 486J486 for de
mand and 483483 for sixty days.
Posted rates 484 and 487. Com
mercial bills 482482. Silver cer
tificates 5959M- Bar silver 59.'
Mexican dollars 47. Government
bonds steady. State bonds inactive.
Railroad bonds were weak. U. 3
2's, registered, 100K; U. S. 3's,
registered, 108 j; do. coupon, 108;
U. 8. new4's, regist'd, 130; do.coupon,
130; U. S. old 4's, regist'd, 111 14 ; do.
coupon, 113J4; U. S. 5's, registered,
111; do. coupon, 111; N. C. 6's
129 ; do. 4's, 104 ; Southern Railway 5's
109. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 51 ;
Chesapeake & Ohio 27; Manhattan
L 114 ; N. Y. Central 136X ; Reading
21; do. 1st preferred 59; St. Paul
132; do. preferred 178; Southern
Railway 12 ; do. preferred 52 ; Amer
ican Tobacco, 125 do. preferred 145 ;
People's Gas 117 ; Sugar 151 ; do.
preferred 118X ; T. C. & Iron 121;
U. S. Leather 10 ; do. preferred 74 ;
Western Union 88
NAVAL STORES MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New York, September 11. Rosin
firm; strained common to good
$1 271 , 30. Spirits turpentine
steady at 46j47c.
Charleston, September 11. Spirits
turpentine firm at 43c; sales casks.
Rosin firm and unchanged; no sales.
Savannah, September 11. Spirits
turpentine ! firm at 44c ; sales 134
casks ; receipts 934 casks. Rosin firm ;
sales 1,278 barrels; receipts 2,969 bar
rels; quotations were: A, B. C, D, E,
95c; F, $1 00; G, $1 10; H. $1 15;
I, $1 25; K, $1 30; M, $1 65; N, $2 10;
WG, $2 50: W W. $3 00.
COTTON MARKETS.
Bv Telegraph to the Mornlnn Star.
New York, September 11. The
cotton market was very active to day.
The start was a steady one at an
advance of one to five points, cnbles
showing an advance of 1 82d in spot
prices and a gain of 2 61d in futures,
were better than expected. But as
soon as the call was over the mar
ket became very weak and rapidly sold
off five to three points under liquida
tion, following advices from the cotton
belt to the effect that rains had been
very beneficial. Still later, howeverj
the market displayed decided rally
ing power and the government
report was announced, showing
the 1st of September condition to be
68.5 per cent, a decline of 155 dpi-
cent, for the month and the smallest
showing for twenty-five years, with the
exception of 1896. There was a sharp
movement upward. From the lowest
prices of the morning there was an ad
vance of eight to eleven points, while
the net gain on Saturday's closing
figures became five to eight points.
The local traders had generally pre
pared themselves for a condition of
anywhere from 73 to 78 per cent. In
the afternoon the market was less ac
tive and somewhat lower under real
izing. At the close the tone was
steady, with prices net unchanged to
three points higher.
New York, September 11. Cotton
quiet; middling uplands 6 7-16c.
Cotton futures closed steady at
quotations: September 5.87, October
6.04,o November 6.09, -December 6 15
January 6.20, February 6.23, March
6.26, April 6.29. Mav lt.HR .T, nao
July 6.38.
Spot cotton closed dull and un
changed; middling uplands 6 7-16c;
middling gulf 6 ll-16c; sales 500 bales.
a iAet1r?ceipts 885 bales; gross receipts
i j u ales? exports to the Continent
601 bales ; exports to France 432 bales ;
stock 165,458 bales. '
Total to-day Net receipts 28,154
bales; exports to Great Britain 5,948
bales; exports to France 432 bales
exports to the Continent 2,001 bales
stock 480,654 bales.
Consolidated Net receipts 51,758
llll
WasHinpwilei!
bales; exports to Great Britain 9 94s
bales; exports io France 432 bales
exports to the Continent 13,777 bales'
Total since September 1st Net r V
ceipts 168,264 bales; exports to Great
Britain 25,352 bales; exports to France'
932 bales; exports to the Contino,,.
23,330 bales. "ne,u
Sept. 11. Galveston, firm at 6 3 -itv
net receipts 9,755 bales; Norfolk fin.,
at 6c. net receipts 1,312 bales; ealtj
more, nominal at 6c, net receipt 200
bales; Boston, quiH at 6 7-16c net v.
ceipts 41 bales. Wil.rnneton. steady a
5c, net receipts 1,266 bales; Philadei
phia, firm at 6 ll-16c, net receipts 3V
bales; Savannah, quiet at 5c net c
ceipts 6,045 bales; New Orleans
firm at 5 15-16C, net receipts 4 807
bales; Mobile, steady at 5 13 16c.net re
ceipts 2,087 bales; Memphis, stead v at
5c, net receipts 1,320 bales; Augusta
steady at 6Xc, net receipts 2,575 bales'
Charleston, firm at 5jc, net receiv
1,655 bales.
PRODUCE MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Mornlni: ur
New York, September 11 Flour
was quiet but steadily held; Minuota
patents $3 854 05. Wheat-Spot
steady; No. 2 red 74c; options ope. . a
weak at jc decline, affected t v
lower cables and large Northwest ic
ceipts. The late market was a shade
steadier on export business and cover
ing. The close was steady at un
changed quotations ;sales included May
closed 79c; September 73c; Dc
cember closed 76c. Corn Spot steady ;
No. 2 39$c; options opened dull aud
easy on account of easier cable Lews
fair crop conditions and the decline in
wheat. Later they recovered ones
port demand and big clearances, clos
ing steady at unchanged prices; May
closed 342c; September closed 3734'.
Oats Spot quiet; No.' 2 26c; options
dull. Lard sseady ; Western $5 65 ; re
fined steady. Pork firm. Rice stead t.
Butter firm; Western creamery 18fe
S3c; State dairy 1520c. Cheese irreg
ular; large white 1111. Cabbage
quiet; Long Island $2 003 50 per
iuu. a reignis 10 ljiverpool Cotton by
steam 26c. Cotton seed oil steady.
Potatoes steady ; Jersey $1 001 37;
Long Island $1 251 62 ; Southern
sweets $1 001 20; Jersey sweets
$1 752 00. Petroleum firm. Coffee -Spot
Rio dull and nominal. Sugar
Raw quiet; refined quiet.
Chicago, Sept. 11. Cash quotation :
Flour steady. Wheat No. 2 spring
;No.3 spring 68 69 yic; No.2 red72i.
Corn No.2 3131. Oats No.2 21 'A '
22c; No. 2 white 23c; No. 3
white 2223c. Pork, p.jr bbl.
$7 208 10. Lard, per 10 - tb,
$5 -12j5 27K- Short rib sides ioo-
$5 105 40. Dry salted shoulders,
$5 62j5 75. Short clear side-,, boxe t,
$5 605 65. Wbiskey Distillers' s.n
ished goods, per gallon, $1 22.
. The leading futures ranged as foL
lows opening, highest, lowest and
t . " TTT i T o 0 . 1
uLKMuji ; tv iicciir? x , o. 6 oepiemuer
70." 70K, 70, 70; December 70j8
70H, 71K. 7070 71 ys: iiay
7373, 74, 73, 74c Corn
No. September 3131, siysiu,
31,31; December 28 S28X, 28,
28, 2828Kc; May28, 29&. 29
29L, 29X- Oats September 2121,
21X, 21, 21; December 20X20,
20, 20tf20K, 20H; May 22, 22.
2122, 22&c. Pork, per bbl-Octo
ber $8 00, 8 10, 7 97, 8 10; December
$8 12, 8 22, 8 12, 822K; January
$9 50, 9 55, 947K, 9 55. Lard, per 100
lbs October $5 27, 5 27J, 27;
5 57 4, December $5 35, 5 35, 5 35, 5 35;
January $5 40, 5 45, 5 40, 5 45. Short
ribs, per 100 lbs October $5 20, 5 25,
5 20,5 25; January $4 92j, 4 97,
492,4 97.
Chicago, September 11. Trading
in wheat, dull for weeks, was even
further curtailed to day by the influ
ence of the forthcoming government
crop report and the change was Jc.
Bearish foreign crop reports and
heavy receipts gave the market a
downward tendency, December clos
ing at ic decline. Corn closed un
changed for December, but J&ic
lower for September. Oats advanced
itc, and provisions closed un
changed to 5c higher.
Baltimore, September 11. Flour
quiet and unchanged Wheat very
dull Spot and month 7070Xc; Oc
tober 7171Jc; December 73
73 c. Southern wheat by sample
6370K. Corn quiet Mixed spot,
37 Ji37Mc; month 36Xc asked; Oc
tober 3636c; November or Decern
ber, new or old, 33X33Mc; January
and February 3333c. , Southern
white corn 4040c. Oats lirm
No. 2 white 2828c.
FOREIGN MARKT.
Bv Cable to the Morning Sua .
Liverpool, September 11, 4 P. M
Cotton Spot in fair demand, prtess
l-32d higher. American middling
fair 4d; good middling 3 13 16d;
middling 3 9-16d : low middling 3d;
good ordinary 3 316d; ordinary 3d.
The sales of the day were 10,000 bales,
of which 5,000 were for speculation
and export and included 9,300 bales
American. Receipts 2,100 bales, all
American.
Futures opened firm and closed
quiet but steady at the advance.
American middling (1. m. c.) Septem
ber 3 29-643 30 64d buyer; Septem
ber and October 3 27 643 28 64d
buyer; October and November 3
26 64d seller; November and Decern
ber 3 25-64d seller; December and
January 3 24-643 25 64d buyer;
January and February 3 24-613
25- 64d buyer; February and March
3 25 64d buyer; March and April 3
26- 64d seller; April and Mav 3 26 64
3 27-64d seller; May and June 3 27-64d
seller; June and July 3 27-643 28-64d
value; July and August 3 28-64d
buyer.
BY RIVER AND RAIL.
W. & W. RailroadV-69 bales cotton,
4 casks spirits turpentine, 5 barrels
tar, 5 barrels crude turpentine.
W. C. & A. Railroad 784 bales cot
ton, 16 casks spirits turpentine,
barrels rosin, 28 barrels tar, 44 barrels
crude turpentine.
A. & Y. Railroad 197 bales cotton,
16 casks spirits turpentine, 34 barrels
tar.
W. & N. Railroad 1 bale cotton, 7
casks spirits turpentine, 3 barrels
crude turpentine.
C. C. Railroad 215 bales cotton.
Schooner Minnie Ward 11 casks
spirits turpentine, 76 barrels rosin, 4a
barrels tar. . . .
Total Cotton, 1,266 bales; spirits
turpentine,' 54 casks; rosin, 135 bar
rels; tar, 116 barrels; crude turpen
tine, 52 barrels.