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PUBLISHER'S 'ASSOTHfCIMIST. THE MORNING STAR, the oldest dally news paper In North Carolina, is published dally ex cept Monday, 3.00 year, for tlx months, Hi2 lor three months, SO cents for one month to raaH subscribers. Delivered to city sub scribers at the rate of 45 cents per month tor any peri-; troni one month to one year. ADVEili lSIXG BATES (DAILY) One square one Cay. :..; two days. 11.75; throe days, ViSO; four day. Sk ;avs. J3.i0: one week, (4.00; two wees-. M 50; thre wv-eki. $3.50: one month, 110.000; two months, 117.03; three months. t-M.OO; six months, $40.00; twelve month, fuO.00. Ten lines of mild Konpariel type make one square. THE WEEKLY STAR is published every Fri day morning at $1.00 per year, 60 cents for six months, SO cents for three months. All announcements of Fairs. Festivals. Balls, Hope Picnics, Society Meetings, Political meet lngs, A a., will be charged regular advertising rates. 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Tribute? of lt-P.-t, K--.':i;tions of Thanks, &c, are charged for .is or . ...iry advertisements, but only half rat ys wlu;i iaid for strictly In advance At thi rate 50 c-- - will pay for a simple announce Cioot of Marriage or Death. Advert -meuts lnsertd once a week In Daily wii! be cii.ired $1.00 per square tor each Inser tion. Ewryothar day. three-fourths of daliv bw. TvWr a week, two-thirds of daily rate. C-outM'i ciilvertlsers will not be allowed to exceed th-.r pace or advertise anything foreign to their r ;iar business without estm rharjia at transi rates. Adven. -luents kept u::dor the head of ' ;.V AdvertH ' : -M3" wil! charged KXtv per cjat. extra. Adverti .uments to follow reading matter, or to occupy a:iv special place, wlil be charged oxra ac c-iiu to the position atsired. nr WILLIAM H. BERNARD. WILMINGTON. N. C. Wednesday Morxixg, Sept. 27. VERY WELL ANSWERED. Xo economic or industrial mon strosity iu thi3 country is so mon strous aa not to be able to secure de .fenders or apologists, some of whom are regularly employed and well paid, others of. whom are or expect to be. paid indirectly. The trusts, which within the past few years and especially within the past year, have sprung up in such amazing number are, therefore, not without their apologists or defenders, some of whom are men of remarkable talent, but of much more remarkable cheek. Some of them presuming on the gul libility of the American people deny that there is any such thing as a trust, assert that what are com monly called trusts are simply legiti mate and natural combinations of capital for the purpose of work ing more systematically, methodi cally and economically, thus cheapen ing production and benefitting the public. They know when they talk this way that they are not speaking the truth, for they know that what are called trusts are not organized for the purpose of cheapening pro duction to benefit the public, but to choke off competition and thus se cure an absolute monopoly, which will enable them to demand their own prices regardless of the cost of production, and they ought to know that the American people are not gullible enough to be imposed upon by such rot as that, when they have seen the prices of trust-controlled articles increasing right along, some of them as much as double in a year or so when there was no reason for it but greed, pure and simple. There is scarcely an article in com mon use to-day that is controlled directly or indirectly by trusts that isn't higher now than it wa3 hree months, six months, or twelve months ago, and yet these trust apologists and defenders have the amazing cheek to eay they are good things for the people and the neces sary and logical outcome of our in dustrial and commercial progress and activity. One of the foremost and most zealous defenders of trusts in this country is the Xew York Tribune, which in a recent article extols the trusts as public benefactors. The Phil adelphia Ttedger is an indepen dent paper politically, with a lean ing towards the Republican party, and is a believer in moderate tariff protection. It takes up the article in the Tribune to which we refer, and thus effectively answers it: much their power to procure other services. " Free trade would bring a cheaper service to the people. But we hare we not th Tribune for authority that such cheaper service would result in the deprivation of the American work iBg man's employment, and in his inability "to procure other service" because of his lack of means? But of the hundreds of trusts in the United States it is improbable that there are three that have not made tho service dearer to the consumer while at the same time cheapening th share of labor. "The menace to the public is not so much in the mere concentration of cap ital as in the combination of indus trial establishments in restraint of trade. So long as free competition is preserved some scope is afforded work men and consumers for voluntary and independent action. Once a monopoly is 'established, however, it has both these classes in its clutches. Some of the advocates of trusts pretend that these monstrosities are actual friends of labor instead of its foes. They say that the workman who has saved a few hundred dollars would find difficulty in investing it in his employer's business, but that be can readily buy shares in the trust. What does a working man know of the actual value of the stock of an over-capitalized- trust? What does the public know of its value? What do the stockholders themselves know unless they are among: the few who manipulate market reports? The insiders know when a crash may be expected, and they "unload" in good season, but what of the ordinary in vestors what measure of protection hav they other than the usually meaninglass, see-saw quotations of the Stock Exchange? To listen to the apologists for mono poly one almost might be induced to bslieve that restraint of trade is an enterprise of benevolence and philan thropy ; that the watering of stock is a veritable kindness to the "lambs:" that the "covering" of profits is the amplitude of Christian virtue, and that the discharged working man should'be happy in the assurance that if he be forced to the wall a benignant poor house holds open an inviting door. This appears to be the Tribune's view on the subject. This is very well said and com ing from one of the leading papers published in the great manufactur ing State of Pennsylvania, and man ufacturing city of Philadelphia, the second if not the first manufactur ing city in the country, a paper which does not view this question through partisan glasses, it is en titled to much more than ordinary consideration. It isn't easy to say which is more entitled to admiration in the Tribune's contention, its cheek or its absurdity when it asserts that the consumers get the benefit of the saving in expense when the trusts dispense with the services of so many travelling men and other employes. Dosen't every body with an ordinary amount of everyday common sense know that is the veriest rot, and doesn't everybody know that if it came to retaining these men or giving the public the benefit of the saving by discharging them, they would be retained and thus prevent a very strong argument being raised against the trusts? They know that every man discharged by a trust or thrown out of employment in con sequence of the organization of trusts becomes an enemy of the trusts, a worker and a votnr .itrainsh them, whose work and votes will tell in elections where trusts are an issue. Are they not spending money by the thousands now to influence public opinion, and would they thus be courting antagonism and opposition when they had nothing to gain by it? The men who organize trusts are not the fools that the Tribune and other organs would make them appear. CALLED HIM DOWN. General Otis seems to have been called down by the Washington authorities, and the result is that that cargo of seven hundred Chi nese will be permitted to land. It will be noticed, that the reason as signed for permitting them to land is entirely different from the reason assigned for prohibiting their laud ing, which was that Chinese are odious to the Filipinos and their presence in tho islands will make the task of pacification the more difficult, while the reason assigned for withdrawing the order is that their landing will not interfere with military operations. It is also al leged that a great many of them were formerly residents of the islands, a fact which might have been ascertained before the order prohibiting their landing wa3 issued and before the Chinese government took occasion to protest so vigor ously against it. The fact is that as tho situation is now the Chinese government seems to have the better side of the contention, and hence this Govern ment concludes that the best thing to do for the present would bo to call Otis down, let those Chinese land and hold tho question a3 to the right of Chinamen in the premises in abeyance to be talked over later, in the event there be occasion for further talk. General 0 tis probably doesn't like the Chinaman any bet ter than the average Californian does, which may account for his disposition to shut the Philippine doors on them regardless of the en tanglements that might result from it. THE MAN OF TO-DAY. CURRENT COMMENT. Thoogh Apparently Strong and Healthy He May Be in Imminent Danger. We read of the sudden death of men apparently full of health and strength, and we are astounded. But were they healthy? No, though outwardly there was nothing the matter, and no symp toms appeared by which a doctor could discover their disease, there was. not withstanding, a disease present, which silently and secretly was laying up poison which, when the exciting cause should come, would immediately flood the lungs with its deadly secretions, render them inert and useless, so that the man who been apparently a tower of strength grew feeble as an infant, and, in spite of the efforts of the greatest doctors, slowly choked to death. ."Medical writers will tell you that the victim of pneumonia is drowned in his own secretions. But why were not these secretions carried off? Because the kidneys were unequal to the task and needed aid. If business men, and men of affairs generally, when apparently in perfect health, could be induced to take pre cautions how greatly would the num ber of widows and orphans be dimin ished in this fair land ! The remedy is so simple, so well known, so infallible. To avoid pneumonia and Bright's diseas9 and all othsr ills arising from diseased livers and kidneys, all that need be done is to take as directed, Warner's Safe Cure. It will clenase, it will strengthen, it will feed these organs, so that they can do their work. Autumn then, with its sudden changes of temperature, will have no terrors for us for colds cannot find lodgment in a healthy body, and as for the greater evils of which we have been spe king, this medicine is known to furnish perfect immunity from them, to all who take it faithfully ac cording to directions. SPIRITS TURPENTINE THE MOB FOR WAR. Mr. Chamberlain has succeeded in doing one thing that he has been playing for for some time, and that is to create the impression in Eng land that the Boers are in the wrong and are simply without good cause bidding defiance to Great Britain. This, of course, touches British pride, for national pride is very easily touched when one nation is strong and well equipped for war and the other comparatively weak. Judging from the demonstrations in London, reported yesterday, when that peace meeting was broken up by a mob and the speakers as sailed with decayed eggs, apple3 and other truck, reason has been relega ted and blind passion has become the arbiter on that question. The mob doubtless has an idea that if war begins in the Transvaal it will soon be over, which may or may not be, for if the Orange Free State makes common cause with tho Transvaal, they can put men enough in the field, and men who will fight, too, to make the task of subduing them a very costly one. The Boers do not want war, if it can be averted, but if forced into it, there is every reason to believe, from their previous encounters with the British, that the invaders will find it anything but a picnic. After the first heat cools down these war shouters who aie now so eager for the fray may take a second thought and come to the conclusion, when too late, that they were somewhat too precipitate in yelling war to help schemers destroy a Republic that was in the way of their schemes. FEWER CHILDREN IN THE MILLS The notable decrease in the num ber of children employed in the cotton mills of this State has at tracted considerable attention and has been favorably commented upon by a number of Northern papers, among them the Providence, R. I., Journal, which thus notices' Com missioner Lacy's last report: BOOK NOTICES. "Our esteemed contemporary, the New York Tribune, which seems to have constituted itself the special champion of trusts and monopolies, makes a labored plea for these combi nations in restraint of trade on the groand that the deprivation of em ployment as the result of the opera tions of trusts is of the same nature as the reduction of workers in any special industry occasioned by the in troduction of labor-saving machinery Says the Tribune: 'If travelling salesmen are no longer wanted for hundreds of companies formerly competing, but now com bined, the cost of that competition wiil be added to the savings of con sumers or to the profits of producers, and either may well be spent to sat isfy other wants.' "The phrase 'profit of producers' is a generous concession in our contem porary's argument What monopoly in this or any other country has been organized for the purpose of adding to 'the savings of consumers?' Practi oally all of them hare been capitalized greatly in excess of their value, and, to return dividends on watered stock, 'economies' have been resorted to in the way of the discharge of employes and the redaction of wages, and prices have been inflated at the expense of the consumers. Where there is an absolute monopoly it can dictate wages to employes and prices to consumers, because neither class has any alterna tive. Nor is it full consolation for the wage earners and wage spenders con stituting the community that "the Eroflts of the producers" are likely to ow through the channels of trade. Who is content to pay an exorbitant price for an article because the seller is willing to spend his profits? Who will accept with equanimity his loss of employment or reduction of wages merely because these conduce to "the profits of producers?" Another gem from the Tribune is the following: "If any change brings a cheaper service to the people it increases by so "A highly gratifying report on child labor in North Carolina has been made public by Labor Commissioner Lacy, of that State. In 1896, 6.822 men, 10,567 women and 6,046 children were employed in cotton mills in the Old North State, whereas this year the figures are, respectively. 13,950, 15.887 and 3,440. The decrease in the num ber of children in three years is therefore nearly 50 per cent The report also shows that the men of North Carolina are more and more going into the cotton mills, and that the proportion of women em ployes to men is not so large as it used to be. One striking feature of the de crease in the number of children em ployed is brought out by the fact that in 1896 there were but two thirds as many spindles as there are to-day. At AV.fr i U A 1 . ... . piouk mD uumuer oi spindles is 1,200,000, and the increase to this total while fewer and fewer children are em ployed is creditable to the Southern people. Apparently it is hardly fair to urge against them, at least so far as North Carolina is concerned, that their cotton mills are successful only be cause they employ child labor." Some of the Xew England mill operators seem to regard as a griev ance the laws passed in those States to regulate child labor, but others have come to the conclusion that child labor is not as profitable as some supposed. Possibly that is the conclusion that Xorth Carolina mill operators have come to, for they as a rule do not encourage or want children m their factories, and when they are employed it is often the case -that they are em ployed not because they are wanted, but because parents insist upon it as one of the conditions of working in the mills themselves. The October number of The Ladies' Home Journal presents a varied an in teresting list of contents, handsomely illustrated. As usual, the domestic and fashion departments wiil be found useful in the household. Published by The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Among other interesting papers in Frank Leslie's Monthly is one on liquified air and its uses, a subject which is now attracting much atten tion in the scientific world, and one in which every intelligent reader is more or less interested. Another article, illustrated, tells'about the fire fighters in loonaon. and another, also illus trated, tells about Edgar Poe's college days at Charlottesville. Published by Frank Leslie Publishi tier TTmicn 111. 143, Fifth Avenue, New York. We are indebted to Dodd, Meade & Company, publishers, 151 Fifth Ave nue, New York, for two nicely printed, neatly bound little volumes, one en titled "The Tory Maid," a Maryland "torjf giving an account of the adven tures of James Frisbie, of Fairlee, an officer of the Continental army during the war of the Revolution. The other is a religious work, entitled "The Life of the Spirit," a thoughtful aud edify ing production, which may be perused wnn prom. The price of the former is 11.00, of the latter $1.25. mst year 2,186,800,000 letters passed through the British post office, but 8,500,000 of these wound up in the dead letter office because from defective 'address or other rea sons they could not be delivered. They contained $3,600,000 in money ana other valuables. Yadkin Hippie: Geo. Williams, colored, working near Mr. John Hol ton's fish pond, killed twenty seven snakes in one den lately. Goldsboro Argus: The death of Mrs. Mittie Croker, daughter of the late Daniel Thompson, occurred Sun day at her home, near Salem church, after a lingering illness of many months, with a complication of dis eases. She was 22 years of age. Greensboro Record: Messrs. Scales and Noble succeeded Saturday in buying a farm for the A. and M. College. It was bought from D. E. Thomas and comprises 100 acres of fine land under cultivation about half a mile east of the college, for which $50 per acre was paid. It is considered a bargain, the land being excellent and in a high state of cultivation. Fayetteville Observer: Miss Flora McDonald, a lady well known and much beloved throughout Kobe son and Cumberland counties, died yesterday (Sunday) afternoon at the home of her uncle, ex-sheriff- Hector McNeill, at Rockfish. Her death was very sudden, as she arrived at Rook fish only Friday last on a visit. Mr. Marshal H. Hall died in Gray's Creek Sunday evening after several weeks' illness with typhoid fever in his 43rd year. Lincoln Journal: The last of the big colored campmeeting in this section was held last Sunday at a campground called McKendree, in Catawba county. The usual bloody record was made and the usual silence about what happened is being main tamed. It is reported, however, that an unusual number of shootings and cuttings occurred. One fellow, it is said, got drunk and . armed with a long whip, lay down by the road. He had lots of fun lashing passing teams with his whip and seeing them run away, until one fellow came along and after getting his horse under con trol after it had been lasLed into frenzy by the drunken fool, got out of his buggy and cut the fellow's throat. Hendersonville Times: Friday morning the loth inst, two young men of Hillgirt, brought word to coroner J. G. Waldrop that a man had been found dead at that place. The coroner immediately organized a iurv and nm- ceeded to the scene of the tragedy. In old house used of late for hous ing tools of the railroad section gang, they found the dead body of a man about 55 or GO years of age, beside whom a nearly emDty 60 grain mor phine bottle told the tale that needed but little little investigation; but as if to make assurance doubly sure, the suicide left this note, written upon the open page of an old pass baok; "G. W. Shealey. Langley, S, C, Domestic troubles the cause. My trunk is in the express office at Asheville." Deceased wore a good suit of cloths, and his gen eral appearance indicated gentle birth. There was not a mark or scratch upon the body by which identification could could be further facilitated. "Fighting Joe" Wheeler, whose request for cavalry to annihi late Filipino insurgents was curtly refused, evidently doesn't know Gen. Ot'is. If there be any annihil ating to be done around Manila the Military Governor will do it himself with a cablegram. Philadelphia Record, Dm. Captain Mahan, the famous naval authority, says he is so devoted to Christianity that he is in favor of the subjugation of the Filipinos by force of arms. Captain Mahan probably agrees with General Shat ter that in the interest of Christiani ty it might be well to kill half of the Filipinos and then convert the rest. This is a queer way of promulgating the religion of peace. It is the "Die or Believe!" policy of the bloody Mahomet. Atlanta Journal, Dent. All things considered, Gen. Otis seems to have been somewhat premature in excluding tho Chinese from Luzon. Uncle Sam's rnle over over the island is theoretically established, but if indications are not misleading there is considerable work to be done before that rule will be practically in force. In the mean time Gen. Otis would do well to pay more attention to the practical duties incumbent upon him and afterward dispose of the theoretical at his leisure. Chicago Jews, Ind. Foreign diplomatics at Wash ington seem disposed to make trouble with regard to Spain's Cuban debt. They contend that it is a mortgage on the island, and that, aa the intervention of the United States prevented tho satisfaction of tho mortgage by Spain, therefore this country is bound to pay it. American diplomatics reply that all the obligations of the United States iu the matter were settled by the Treaty of Paris, and as that treaty says nothing about the Cuban debt this country is not bonnd to pay it. The bill is 8250,000,000. The Amer ican people will refrain from worry ing about it until somebody comes to collect it. Philadelphia Ledger, Ind. THE ACTORS WENT .TO CHURCH. The War of Ji&tnre. A story Is told of an attempt to Intro duce the mongoose Into Jamaica to kill the rats which ate the cane plantations. After having performed this duty it mul tiplied very rapidly and proceeded to kill all tho snakes and lizards as well. It next attacked the birds (learning to climb trees in the process) until the poultry and wild birds disappeared. Then arose the "ticks," or "chigoes," which the birds used to keep down, and the island groaned under a fresh plngue. The ticks, however, finally attacked tho mongoose, which began to decline; the birds began to reappear and attacked tho ticks; snakes and lizards were seen once more, and in the end the cane plantations were devastated as much as ever by rats. San Francisco Argonaut. Now and again you see two women passing down the street who look like sisters. You are astonished to learn that COMMERCIAL. WILMINGTON MARKET. PRODUCE MARKETS. TWINKLINGS. Cheap: Stubbs "They say the inhabitants of Sulu are a patient people." Penn "Sort of a Job lot, I suppose." Chicago News. Please Them. Ida There is some controversy as to the kind of corner stone for the girls' college. May Why can't they use a brick of ice cream? Chicago News. Courageous but Rash: "Mrs. Padderly insulted our Culture Club." "In what way?" "She suggested that this year we take up the study of 'manners.' "Chicago Record. Expensive "My daughter's music." sighed the mother, "has been a great expense." "Indeed?" returned the guest. "Some neighbors sued you, I suppose?" Boston Traveller. . A Standing Grievance: "There will always be more or less friction between the United States and Can ada." "Yes; they will keep working off their confounded tencent pieces on us!" fuck. Explained: Gentleman "You can't work, on account of paralysis I Nonsense.' you look aastrono-nn T Hr " Tramp "Well, ye see,boss,its paraly sis of do will dat I'm troubled wit " Brooklyn Life. An I'ncxpected Hole Iy the Quartet and the ltcnult. 'Concerning tho power of music," re marked tho retired barnstormer who had several home stretch pedestrian records witli various cpmic opera companies, "I reuienJior on one occasion to havo seen it peculiarly verified. We had some first class talent in the company I was with at the time we had only been out a month, sjjnd tho endowment fund wasn't exhaust ed yet and among them was a quartet of male and female voices that couldn't be beat anywhere. We were billed to appear one Monday night in a town of 7,000 peo plo in Ohio which had a reputation of be ing tho frost k st place on the road, and tho manager put us in there only because there wasn't any other place to go with out costing as much in railroad fares as we could lose at a performance. . "Wo got to tho town Sunday morning, and it was a long ajid tiresome day, and we were so bored when night came that we mado up a party to go to church, just to change our luck. I don?t know what kind of a church it was, except that it was a big one and there was some kind of a meeting on that filled it. We had come early, and we had seats about the middle of the orchestra chairs. As it happened, our quartet 6at together," and they got hymnbooks all right. "When tho first service of song was offered, our combination was a bit shaky with stage fright, for they hadn't been to church since they had sung in their home church choirs long ago, but on the second round they wore nil right, all right, and the hymn was one thev were familiar with. Well, they went at it as they ought to, and when the first verse was fin ished I could see there was some sensa tion among the people nearest to us and lots of eyes and cars were turned out way. Our quartet was interested by now in their singing, though, aud we didn't think about anything else but the word to go on with the second verse, and when they got it they went at it with -ill their skill and sweetness. By the time the second verse was finished there were not a dozen voices to bo heard besides their own, and the" sensation had spread all over the house. "On tho third verse our quartet went in alone, and I don't think I ever heard such singing as they put up. It was one of those good, old fashioned hymns that havo the spirit of truth and glory iu them, and the music matched the words in a way to carry anybody off his feet, and it did it for that audience or congregation, or what ever you call it, for when tho last noto died away the cold chills ran down my back and up my neck, and if some old brother in tho aiiion corner had not shouted glory and a dozen more in other parts of the house followed suit I believe I would havo shouted myself. "However that might have been, when everybody had sat. down the gentleman in the pulpit stepped forward and thanked our people for their singing, and said if they would sing a few more selections tho congregation would be greatly pleased. Of course our quartet was pleased, too, and they not only sang a few more selec tions, but they received' the personal thanks of everybody after the service was over, and the next night wo had an audi ence that filled the theater. Now, that's what I call real power." Washington Star. they are mother and daughter, and you realize that a woman at forty or forty five ought to be at her finest and fairest. Why isn't it so ? The general health of woman is so in timately associated with the local health of the essentially feminine organs that there can be no rich cheek and round form where there are debilitating drains, and female weakness. Women who have suffered from these troubles have found prompt relief and cure in the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It gives vigor and vitality to the organs of wom anhood. It clears the complexion, bright ens the eyes aud reddens the chef-Its. No alcohol, opium or other narcotic is contained in ' ' Favorite Prescription. ' ' Any sick woman may consult Doctor Pierce by letter, free. Every letter is held as sacredly confidential, and an swered in a plain envelope. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. "I commenced to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription," writes Mrs. Martha E. Barham, of Newville, Prince George Co.. Va.. "in Tune, 1897, also his ' Golden Medical Discovery,' and I cannot express the benefit 1 have received from these medicines. I was suffering- with what the doctors called chronic indigestion, torpid liver and vertigo. I also suffered with female weak ness. The doctor did not do me any good, so I wrote to you for advice. When I commenced to use the medicines I weighed only 112 pounds, now I weigh 140 pounds." Dr. Pierce's Pellets regulate the liver. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.- STAR OFFICE. Sept. 26 . SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Marked, steady at 47 cents per gallon for machine-made casks and 47 cents per gallon for country casks. ROSIN Market firm at 90 cents per barrel for Strained and 95 cents for Good Strained. TAR Market firm at 1.30 per bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market firm at $1.30 per barrel for Hard, 12.50 for Dip, and $2.50 for Virgin. Quotations same day last year. Spirits turpentine, quiet at 28J272c; rosin, riottsing doing; tar firm at $1.35; crude turpentine steady at $1.10 1.60. RECEIPTS. Spirits turpentine 56 Rosin .'' 146 Tar., 142 Crude turpentine 16 Receipts same day last year. 61 casks" spirits turpentine, - 187 bbls rosin, 1198 bbls tar, 6 bbls crude tur pentiiie. ! COTTON. j Market steady on a basis of 6c pound for middling. Quotations: Ordinary 3 13-16 cts Good Ordinary 5 3-16 " " Low Middling....... 5 13-16 " " Middling 6 " " Good Middling 6H " " "Same day last year middling 5c. Receipts 3,198 bales; same day last year, 4,194. ; COUNTRY PR.ODUOE. PEANUTS North Carolina Priuie, 85c; extra prime, 90o per bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, $1.05. Virginia Prime, 55c ; extra prime COc ; fancy, 65c. CORN Firm; 52 to 52 cents per bushel for white. 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 9.00ierM. per a rb By Telegraph to the Morning stm New York, September 26 Flour opened steady, but ruled quiet and closed a shade easier in sympathy with wheat; winter extras $2 452 90 Wheat 8pot weak; No. 2 red 76c; op tions opened steady at c advanca on cables and further advanced c on disappointing Northwestern receipts. Local covering was a feature of the forenoon, but the market broke on Bradstreet's statement making the world's visible supply of wheat 34,346 bushels above the figure of a week ago, v. iiich carried the market c off from the best prices of the morning, with the close weak at a net decline of i c: No. 2 red September closed 74jc; December closed 76c; May closed 79ic. Corn Spot weak; No. 2 40c; options opened firm at c advance on strong cables, but subsequently turned easier under realization followiutr the decline in wheat, selling off yCc from the opening prices and closing weak at a net decline of c the sales included: May closed 36c; Sep' tern bey 39; December closed 37o Oats - Spot firmer; No.2 30c; options rjoriiinal. Lard firmer; Western steain closed at $5 70; September nominal; r,-, fined firm Pork firm.. Petroleum strong; refined New York $8 95 Rir, firm. Butter quoted steady ; West, n, creamery 1723c; State dairy 152ot: Cheese firm; large white quoted at 11c Cabbage The market was dull ; Loi Island $2 003 50 e- 100 Freights 10 Liverpool dull ; ioim.i by steauigtiXe Potatoes !endy; Jersey $1 001 40 NewYoik $1 251 40'; LoDg Is1t.,i $1 25l 62; Southern sweels $1 00 1 50; Jersey sweets $1 752 00 Coffee Spot Rio quiet but steady; mild quiet and featureless Sugar Raw FmAhUM. MARKETS. The rollowing quotations Wholesale Prices generally. In small orders higher prices nave to be charge- represent In making 3 BAGGING 2 S Jute Standard Bnrlaps WESTERN SMOKED Hams SI Bides B Shoulders yk, DRY SALTED Sides B) Shoulders B : BARRELS Spirits Turpentine-Second-hand, each New New York, each New City, each BEESWAX V tt BRICKS Wilmington $ II & 5 to 7 12H BUTTER North Carolina 9 t Northern CORN MEAL Per bushel. In sacks Virginia Meal COTTON TIEtt fl bundle CANDLES lb Sperm Adamantine CHEESE lb jcortnern Factory , Dairy Cream , State COFFEE 9 S Laguyra Rio DOMESTICS Sheeting, 4-4, yard Yarns. bunch of 5 lbs ... . EGG8 dozen FI8H- Mackerel, No. 1, barrel . . . " . Mackerel, No. 1, half -bbl. Mackerel, No. 2, barrel. . , 1 Mackerel, No. 2 half-bbl.i Mackerel, No. 8, barrel. . . Mullets. barrel Mullets, pork barrel c CO n. u. Koe Herring, keg. C 614 m 15 1 35 & 1 40 1 40 G 24 5 CO 7 0U 9 00 14 00 15 18 25 fO 47 47 47 47H 1 25 18 25 8 11 13 14 15 11 10 Q Zb 1 8 70 15 I67S By Telegraph to the Morning Star irew York, September 26 Money oil call steady at 620 per cent., last loan at 20 per cent. Prime mercan tile paper 57 per cent. Sterling exchange steady; actual business in bankers' bills at 485485 for de mand and481481 for sixty days. Posted rates wfir df& tmrl -iRfii Commercial bills 481481.Sil ver cer tifieates 5960. Bar silver 58, Mex ican dollars 47. Government bonds stroug. State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds weak. TJ. S. 2's, reg'd, 100 ; u.. 6 s, reg ; d o. coupon, 10SM ; U.S. r:w4's,TBgist'd,130j6; do.coupon, 13034 ;U. S. old4's, regist'd, 111; do. coupon, 113; U. S. 5's, registered, 111: ; do. coupon, 111; N. C. 6's ld0:do.4's, 104 ; Southern Railway 5's iuoXs. toeis: .Baltimore & Ohio 49 ; Chesapeake & Ohio 25; Manhattan L 108; N. Y. Central 134 ; Reading 2 Us"; do. 1st preferred 57 ; St. Paul 12t54; do. preferred 178; Southern Railway 11 : do. preferred 51 M : Amer ican Tobacco,' 117I4T ; do. preferred 145 ; People's Gas 1093; Sugar 141 ; do. preferred 117; T. C. & Ifron 114; U. S Leather 13 H; do. preferred 78 ; rn Union 87.. NAVAL STORES MARKETS. Dry Cod. lb " Extra FLOUR S 8 Low grade Choice Straight , 22 00 11 00 16 00 8 00 13 00 4 25 3 00 .(3 5 35 30 00 15 00 18 00 9 00 14 00 4 75 8 00 3 25 10 4 50 4 00 First Patent 4 50 38 eo 10 85 40 80 80 80 6 7 15 & & & . 1 1 iaiw an troubled wit." railroad TICKETS GOOD F0K THIRTY DAYS. DEWEY IN WASHINGTON. Take the Seaboard Air Line, All Rail, or by Norfolk and the Sea. Health Commissioner Reynolds, of Chicago, doesn't take much stock in the freezing out process for ty phoid or diphtheria microbes. He has tried it at 312 degrees below zero, and when they were thawed out they Beemed to be refreshed by the coolness and ready to resume business where they left off. The distinguished Admiral is ex pected to appear in the National Capi tal October 2nd and 3rd. Besides the sword presentation in front of the big Capitol Building and the parade, there will be splendor such as one never saw even in Wash ington. Tickets one and one-third fares for the round trip, by the Seaboard Air Line, will be on sale September 29th and 30th, good to return until Octo ber 8th inclusive. - v TiLe Seaboard takes you all rail or by Norfolk and the Sea. t A Cheap Excursion Trio to Washlnvtnn Baltimore or Philadelphia, by the Seaboard Air Line. You can buy of any Seaboard Air Line Agent tickets to the Philadelphia Export Exposition at the rate of one and one third fares for the round trip You can stopover at Washington or .Baltimore, eoinc or mining fAr tiCket 1,6 thirty (60) days from date of rurfh it must be used on or hAfr. twT ber 2nd. , You can go by Norfolk and r,,a ln?,?,te-amshiP lines. or all rail. minions 01 dollars have been spent 1 this mammoth tion, an education itaif r Tickets on suiIa TiiAaHoi mi j , , --vuj uuu mum- day of each week until and including Tuesday, November 23rd, 1899. f The MKlitiimre of Microbes. A woman who had purchased a pair of gloves w;is given three $ 1 bills in change. "Do it up iu paper, please," she said to the salesgirl. The request was complied with, aDd the wrapped up bills were put in a pocketbook. "Some persons are microbo mad," said a physician in explaining the incident. Many have it so bad that they will not even pick up a pin, because it has been said that all sorts of disease germs can be collected under their heads. Dread of microbes is a common form of hypochon dria. I can sympathize with a person who does not like to sco a woman with a bun dle of dirty clothes for washing get into a public conveyance, but there is no use In going to extremes. "Ever since the researches of Koch and Pasteur have attracted attention the num ber of microbe maniacs has steadilv in creased. Tako any morbid minded person and give him a little insight into bacteri ology, and the result is sure to bo disas trous. He shakes in terror at the first lit tle symptom of real or imaginary derange ment. ' ' Now York Herald. Seven Kinds of Snakes In n. Well. John Poliskia and several other Ital ians at Jtsirch Point, near tha VnlW between Essex and Old Rnv. brook, uncovered an ,old well Friday which had not been used for many years and had dried up. It was half filled wnn sana ana dirt. The well was cov ered by a large fiat rock 7 by 8 feet in size Straw saturated with oil was set en fire and thrown into the hole. Soon reptiles came swarming out, and 85 were killed, while many more escaped. There were seven varieties, and the largest was a black snake nearly six feet long. Hartford Courant. Trombone In the Pnlplt. rpt. 1-. . xne itev. Wilson Cnrli o i-c. St. Mary-at-Hill, London, is an up to date clergyman. He takes a trombone with him into the pulpit, and when the singing becomes spiritless he livens it up with a few blasts on that instru ment. During the greater part of the service the chnrcb is darkened, and the hymns, prayers, sacred and other pic tores are thrown by limelight on a huge screen suspended across the altar. cesiaes an organ there is an orchestra composed of girls wearing surplices and college mortarboards. GLUE y tt 11 & uaALN Dusnei Corn, from store.bjrs White 52 (jar-ioaa, in ogs wnue... Oats, from store Oats, Bust Proof Cow Peas HIDES V lb Green salted Dry flint Drv salt HAY V 100 lbs Clover Hay Rice Straw Eastern Western North River ... HOOP IRON, fi lb ILLUMINAING OILS Diamond White, bbls a gal Aladdin Security Pratt's Astral " Carandine " LARD, Northern North Carolina LIME, 9 barrel LUMBER (city sawed) S M f t Bhlp Stuff, resawed 18 00 Rough edge Plank 15 00 West India cargoes, accord lng to quality 13 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 Scantling and Board, com'n H 00 Common mill 5 00 Fair mlU 50 Prime mill 8 50 Extra mill 10 00 MOLA8SE8 V gallon Barbadoes, In hegshead Barbadoes. In harruls Porto Rico, in hogsheads. . . . Porto Rico, In barrels Sugar House, In hogsheads Sugar HOHSft. In harrla Syrup, In barrels NAIL8, jfi keg. Cut, 60d basis. . runn, v Barrel Citv Mess 9 50 Rump. Prime ROPE,n... 10 SALT, V sack. Alum Liverpool 75 American. 70 On 125 V Sacks SHINGLES, 7-lnch, per M 5 00 Common 1 oo Cypress Saps 2 so SUGAR, lb Standard Gran'd 596 u Louuai u White Extra C Extra C, Golden C, Yellow SOAP. B Northern 8TAVES, V M W. O. barrel R. O. Hogshead TIMBER, M feet Shipping 9 00 MU1, Prime 7 50 Mill, Fair :;. 650 Common Mill j 00 Inferior to ordinary " 351 SHINGLES, N.C. Cypress sawed M 6x24 heart 7 50 " Sap 5 00 5x20 Heart 3 00 " Sap o CO 6x24 Heart 6 00 tallow, v a.!!l!".'."!;"."' 5 00 w gallon, Northern North Carolina wool per a UnwaahHd. ';. 3 00 3 0 4 25 5 00 13 to 40 45 65 6 12J 9 90 0 85 85 -85 3 11 12 H 13J6 13 By Telegraph to the Mornlnif Star. New York, September 26. Rosin steady; strained common to good $1 251 274. Spirits turpbntine quiet at 5051e. Chaaleston, September 26. Spirits turpentine firm at 46c; sales casks. Rosin firm and unchanged; no sales. rfAfiKHAH, September 26. Spirits rurpemine firm at 47Jc; sales 793 casks; receipts 1,712 casks; exports 53 casks. Rosin firm; sales 1,055 barrels; receipts 4,479 barrels; exports 1,069 barrds: quotations unchanged. rreguiar and nominal; retinsd dull anu barely steady. Chicago, September 26 P.lu tak ing was the feature of todaj'a jfraiu markets and material decliues iu wht-at and corn resulted. Oats closed uu changed, December wheat declined c and September fc. Corn cloed Jc lower. Provisions closed wuh insi ni Scant changes both ways. Chicago, Sept. 26. Cash quotation,: Flour firm. Wheat No. 2 spriug e No. 3 spring 6871c: No 2 1. .( 73Xc Corn No. 2 34c. Oat: Is . 2 2223c; No. 2 white 25ic No. 3 white 24 25Ke. Pork pM b $7 658 20J Lard, pw Ids lbs. $5 22 5 40. Short rib sides ioosf, $5 05 5 40 Dry salted sijouiufir. $6 00 6 12. Shon clear sides box So 505 55 Whiskey Distillers" ished goods, per gallon. $1 22 The leading futures ranged as. r 1 lows opening, highest, lowest uur closing: WheatNo. 2 September 74, 75, 74. 74c; December 73it' 73, 73&T. 73, 73; .Vay 74, 76,75, 75J. Corn No. 2 September 35, 35, 34, 34c; December 3030j. 305g, 30, 30c; May 30030, 3030. 30M30, 30X30c. Oats-Sep tember23, 23, 22, 22 ; Decern ber 223, 23. 221. 22X: Mav 23. 24'. 23ft, 23c. Pork, per bbl October $8 72K, 8 20, 8 10, 8 17: December 8 30, 8 35, 21, 18 32; January $9 77, 9 80, 75, 9 75. Lard, per 110 Bbs October $5 32, 5 37, 5 32, 5 37j ; December $5 42, 5 4 5 42, 5 45; January $5 524, 5 57. 5 52y2, 5 57. Short ribs, per 100 lbs - October $5 15, 517, 5 15, 5 15; January $5 10, 5 12H, 5 10, 5 10. ' Baltimore, September 26. --Flour firmer and unchanged Wheat firmer Spot 7273c; month 7273c; October 7373Xe; December 75X 75jc. Southern wheat by sample 65 74c. Corn firmer Mixed spot 40c utuuiu oay2v. vciooer aoeoooc; rv vember and December, new or old, 3535?c; Januarv 35&35c: February 35c. Southern' white corn 4141c. Oats firmer No. 2 vthitr. 2829Kc. FOREIGN MARKET COTTON MARKETS. 8 I 25 20 00 & 16 00 18 00 2 2 00 & 15:00 C 50 & 8 00 & 10 00 & 10 50 23 25 12 14 15 2 50 25 28 30 30 14 15 25 3 00 a 10 00 9 60 9 00 22 1 10 80 75 6 50 2 25 2 75 & & & & & 6 00 14 09 10 00 10 00 8 75 5 5 4 1100 t 00 15 7 CO 6 00 5 00 8 50 6 09 3 50 2 50 6 50 5 50 6 i 00 CO 17 MARINE DIRECTORY, List or Vessels In tkt.5-or or vn tnlnKton, N. C Sept. 27, 1899. STEAMSHIPS. Skuld (Nor), 913 tons, Olsen, Heido & Co. Isle of Ramsey, (Br), 1,062 tons, Wil- nauis. Aiexanaer ssprunt or Son. Roxby (Br), 1,964 tons, Shields, Alex Sprunt & Son. Baron Douglass, 1,606 tons, Goudey, J H Sloan. Almora (Br), 2,835 tons, Williams, Alex Sprunt & Son. Aquila (Nor), 1,407 tons, Andersen, .txiex oprunt cc con. SCHOONERt'. J tercy Bart ram, 320 tons, Liord, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. BARQUES. Argo (Nor), 584 tons, Arentaec, Heide & Co. Arcturus (Nor), 663 tons, Andreassen, Paterson, Downing & Co. BRIGS. Caroline Gray, 289 tons, Meader, vjourgo Harriss, on oc uo By Telegraph to the Mornln Star. 4 New York, September 26. The cotton market to-day was somewhat er ratic but showed pronounced strength from the opening to the close. Bullish sentiment continued" to broaden and fresh buying increased apace. Weak cables, foreign pressure, bear oppo sition, war talk, and declarations that prices were unjustifiably high, all failed to disturb prices to any consid erable extent, or to displace the con fidence of the bull faction. Shorls, on the other hand, were confused by the small receipts, predictions for frost in the northwestern belt for to night and a very bullish weekly government ra port. Tho latter factors formed the basis for heavy Wall street, Southern, New England and foreign buying, uu waica prices aavancea . two to teu points after opening unchanged to -ight points higher. Profit taking was a conspicuous feature of the day's spec ulation, many thousand bales being put on the market at various times, though at no time causing -weakness. With a few exceptions snot P.ntt nn m Southern markets was 1 16c to io higher with a tremendous business re ported, the latter mostly for export account. The weeklv crop and weather report stated that with favorable weather conditions, cotton picking had made rapid pro gress. Nearly the whole of th crop is open and the bulk has been gath ered over a large portion of the cotton region. The marke featud of this season's crop are premature opening, early gathering and a very slio t top crop, the latter in some sections being a complete failure. New York, September 26. Cotton quiet; middling uplands 6c. Cotton futures closed steady at quotations; September 6.39, October 6.39, November 6.47, December 6 56, January 6.42, February 6.66, .March b.t9, April 6.72, May 6.76, June 6 78, July 6.81, August 6.81. Spot cotton closed quiet at quota tions; middling uplands 62c; mid dling eulf 7c; sales 385 bales. Net receipts 59 bales ; gross receipts 696 bales; exports to Great Britain -500 bales; exports to the Continent 4,409 bales; stock 149,554 bales. . Total to-day Net receipts 50,488 bales; exports to Great Britain 10,236 bales; exports to the Continent 4 409 bales; stock 619,340 bales. Consolidated Net receipts 141,374 bales; exports to Great Britain 25 439 bales ; exports to the Continent 43 011 Total since September 1st Net re ceipts ombu oaies; exports to Great untain 15,6, box bales :ATnmts PVo 38 707 bales; exports to the Continent 159,054 bales. Sept. 26. Galveston, firm at 6c, net receipts 11, 866 bales ;Norf oik, firm at 6 9 16c, net receipts 23,341 bales; Balti more, nominal at 6c, net receipts bales; Boston, quiet at 6c, net re ceipts 300 bales ; Wilmington, firm at 6Uc, net receipts 3,198 bales; Phila delphia, firm at 7c, net receipts 238 bales; Savannah, firm at 6 5-16c.net receipts 13,878 bales; New Orleans, steady at Gjic, net receipts 16,085 bales; Mobile, steady at 6c, net re ceipts 2,360 bales; Memphis, firm at 6c, netreceirjts 2.788 balAs- A 1, steady at 6c,net receipts 2,962 bales; By Cable to the Morning Btar. Liverpool, September 26, 4 P. M. Cotton Spot in fair demand , price.-. 1 32d higher. American middling fair, 4 9 32d;good middling 3 13-32d ; mid dim 3 23 32d;low middling 3 17-32d; good ordinary 3 11 32d; ordinary 3 5 32d. The sales of the day were "l0. 000 bales, -of which 10,000 were for speculation and export and included 8,300 bales American. Receipts 6,000, bales, including 4,900 American. Futures opened quiet and closed steady at the advance. American middling (1. m. c.) September 3 44 64 3 45-64d buyer; September and Oc tober 3 42 643 43 64d buyer; October and November 341 643 42-64d buyer; November and December 3 40-64as 41 64d buyer; December and January 3 40-64d seller; January and Febru ary 3 40-64d seller; February ai,d March 3 40 643 41 64d seller; March and April 3 41 64d seller; April and May 3 41 643 42 64d seller; May and June 3 42-64d value; June and July 3 42-643 43 64d value; Ju'y and Au gust 343 64d buyer. MARINE. AR RIVED. Brig Caroline Gray, 289 ton s, Meader, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. CLEARED. Br steamship "Velleda, Tulloch, Liverpool, Alexander Sprunt & 'Sun. EXPORTS. COASTWISE. New York Steamship New York 304 casks spirits, 363 bbls rosin, 615 bbls tar, 29,616 feet lumber, 60 bbis pitch, 52 pkgs cotton goods, 110 poles, 73 bales warp; 83 pkgs mdse, 35 pkgs paper cartoons; veesely by H G Small -bones. FOREIGN. 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