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BY WIIXIAM H. BERNARD,
WILMINGTON. N. C
TtTESDAY AlORXIJTG, DEC. 19, 1S99.
A BLESSING IN DISGUISE.
What appear sometimes to be af
flictions to people tarn oat to be
blessings, and it sometimes happens
that these apparent afflictions are
necessary to teach people what to
do and how to do it. It is trials
that pat them on their resources
and brine out what their ia in them.
If everything went well and smooth
ly the average man would plod along
jcontentedly and progress would be
very slow. The average man is of
the go-easy disposition and it takes
prodding to make him hustle. We
are writing now about the farmer in
particular, and how apparent afflic
tions may turn oat to be blessings
ia disguise to him and to the coun
try or secticm of country in which
he lives.
In one section of Minnesota the
farmers had for years been patting
their main dependence upon wheat,
whioh was their staple crop. Most
Jf them were in debt and their debts
grew larger instead of smaller. With
crop failures and low prices when
the crops didn't fail, their condition
grew worse from year to year, and
they saw no way to better it, for
they made nothing on what they
raised, and nobody wanted to buy
farms on which nothing could be
made. As an experiment some of
them who had become desperate de
cided to abandon wheat growing, and
try grass and milk and butter.
They formed an association, sowed
grass, gave their cows attention and
established a creamery. They found
a market for all the butter an.il milk
they had to sell, thej fed pigs on
the buttermilk, and in a short time
they pulled out of the mire and
breathed easy. Their neighbors fol
lowed their example. The creamery
became an object lesson and in a few
years the creameries became numer
ous, the cows multiplied and im
proved in quality, and through
out a large section only wheat
enough wa3 grown to bread the
people. Grass became king, the
creamery a mint. The bankrupts
became prosperous and land that
couldn't be given away is now worth
hundreds of dollars an acre. The
apparent affliction of bad wheat
crops and low prices was their bless
ing in disguise.
pome years ago a number of
Canadian farmers went into the
Kalamazoo district of 'Michigan,
where they thought " they could do
well cultivating cranberries on the
swampy lands. They planted, but
frost or something else destroyed
their crops, and nearly all of them,
discouraged, went back to Canada.
But one or two of them, who were
not bo easily demoralized, concluded
they would try celery-growing, as
the land seemed adapted to that.
J. hey ditched and drained, planted
their crops, nd when ready for
market they found no trouble in
selling all they could raise at prices
that paid them well for all the labor
done and expense they had incurred.
Now there are great celery farms in
that section and te celery grown
there is shipped allover the country.
Men have become rich growing it,
and all who grow it are prosperous.
The failure of the cranberry crop
was an affliction which turned out
to be a blessing. These are but two
illustrations showing how adversity
led the way to prosperity.
And so has the low price of cotton
for some years, until the present,
been a blessing in disguise not only
to the farmers of the South but to
the whole South, for it put the
farmers to thinking about something
else than cotton and to raising some
thing else. It pat them to planting
other crops, wheat, corn, oats, grass,
vegetables, fruits, &c, more than
ithey had been doing for many years.
J U put them to raising more hogs
nd in other words it led
Pto diTertiied fining, which ia
rt-f .d to cultural pros
M "tJS independence.
Many of them had doubts whether
- fcO innir ani-rv.,. iV.t
they could grow better wheat than
ia grown in some of the wheat-grow-irifc
sections of the West, and as
cheaply if not more cheaply than it
cau be produced there. They found,
too, that where they could grow
wheat they could grow grass, and
that they had more feed for cattle,
and thus they profited in more ways
than one. If wheat culture con
tinues to increase for the ntxt ten
years as it has for the past ten, the
South will before many years be
come an exporter of wheat and flour
instead of an importer. As wheat
growing becomes more general so will
cattle-raising become more general,
and so will the dairy and the cream
ery, for wheat growing and cattle -
raising nearly always go together,
Grass growing becomes a necessity
in a wheat crowing country, for
grass is wheat's rester and the recu
perator of the soil which had been
weakened by feeding wheat. Thus
cotton that did not pay, led to
wheat and other crops and tooattle,
which do pay and will pay better
with the improved methods that ex
perience will teach, and the appa
rent affliction prove a blessing.
But that's not all, for the low
price of cotton was a potent factor
in turning attention to the cotton
mills, which now not only give the
farmers a home market for 1,500,
000 bales, but give a market for
scores of things they never thought
of growing, and which it would have
been useless to have grown before.
That the low-price affliction was a
blessing in disguise, becomes every
day more apparent throughout the
South.
A FOOL PLAY.
When Messrs. Grosvenor, Dalzell
and Dolliver pat ap that little job
in the House of Representatives
Saturday to make it appear that be
cause no Democrat had ottered a
16 to 1 amendment to the currency
bill they had abandoned the silver
issue, they doubtless thought they
were doing a smart thing, but they
were playing a fool game, all the
same. There isn't a Democrat in the
House that didn't know that if such
an amendment had been offered it
wouldn't receive serious considera
tion and would stand no more chance
of being adopted than an amend
ment to repeal the Dingley tariff
would. There are some Democrats
in the House who do not set a very
high value on time, and do a good
deal of talking for buncombe, but
when it oomes to measures connected
with the party policy these men are
not permitted to go to the front and
speak for the party.
When the Republicans played this
game they were playing politics, too.
in which they are much more con
cerned than they are in a currency
bill. They thought they were mak
ing some political capital by calling
the attention of the country to the
fact that no 16 to 1 amendment had
been offered and construing that as
an evidence that the silver issue had
been abandoned.
But that is their habit. They
lug politics into everything, wheth
er there be any politics in. it or
not, and claim credit for evey suc
cess achieved in peace or in war re
gardless of the part that Democrats
may have taken in securing success.
With them it is party first, other
things next.
"WALKING IH TO TRAPS.
It is somewhat remarkable that in
the reverses the British armies have
met with in South Africa, the gen
erals have confessed that they were
trapped by the Boers. White was
trapped when he made his first sortie
:rom Ladysmith: Gatacre was
trapped when he met with his de
feat; Mathuen was trapped when he
was confronted by unexpected num
bers and had to retreat, and. last.
Gen. Buller, the man who boasted
that he would wind np the business
in sixty days, and eat his Christmas
dinner in Pretoria, was trapped, and
lost more men than any of the others.
The British soldiers have shown
their fighting qualities, bat their
commanders have shown an amazing
talent for sending them into traps,
where they are suddenly confronted,
not by rude, naked savages, but by
sturdy men of Spartan pluck, who
are in every way their equals, and
a3 deadly shots, their superiors.
It is an easy thing in that coun
try with its broken, rugged surface,
and the great boulders which na
ture has strewn over the earth, to
fall into traps and to be suddenly
confronted by large bodies of men
hidden behind these boulders, and for
that reason every movement necessi
tates extreme caution, and when this
is neglected somebody is apt to pay
the penalty arida very costly one, as
the British have' already discovered.
lawyer Labori, who defended
Dreyfus, got his revenge out of a
Paper which intimated that he had
himself shot to win smpathy. He
sued the paper for libel, and the
paper was sentenced to fine of 2,000
francs and was required to insert
the verdict in forty papers in Paris
and- in two hundred published In
other provinces, whioh made its ad
vertising bill pretty large, and gave
Labori some solid satisfaction.
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MB. LSNTZ MAXMSOME POINTS
We are not a very ardent admirer
of Mr. Lents, of Ohio. He lacks bal
last, and in his fervor is given to
savin? things that it were better
left unsaid. But he made some good
points in his speech in the House
Saturday, although much of it was
irrelevant to the subject under dis
cussion.
Bat he struck a rock bottom truth
when he charged that the effect of
the enrrenev bill before the House
would be to establish a bank trust,
which would have absolute monop
niw nt Urn naner currency of the
vj - X C - -
country, and whioh it could con
tract or expand at pleasure, regard
leas of the demands of business or
of the necessities of the people. The
silver certificates will not bo in
creased, the Treasury notes will be
withdrawn as rapidly as it can be
done, and the country will be left
entirelv dependent upon national
bank notes for its paper money
The amount of notes tha
banks may issue is left to their
judgment, the only requirement of
them being thathey must keep
within the limit of the bonds de
posited. They are governed as to
the maximum issue but are left free
as to the minimum, and being free
as to this they will naturally con
suit their own interests and issue
only such Volume of notes as may
be profitable to them. The ten
dency will, of course, be to keep
the volume down to keep interest
up, and there will be expansion of
volume only when there may be an
extraordinary and pressing demand
for more currency. This is no re
flection on the bankers. They are
operating banks as a business, for
the profit there is in it, and it would
not be reasonable to expect that
they would not take advantage of
the privileges the law gives them.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Winston S$ntinel: Salem's
new enterprise knitting mill began
operations Thursday. Mr. il. U.
Lemly, the proprietor, is well pleased
with the way nu machinery is work
ins and the goods being turned out.
He has all the orders he can fill for
several months.
Nashville Graphic:
carrying some coals of fire
While
into the
field the little six-year-old daughter of
Air. Fr entice Drake was so badly
burned that it died Sunday. The little
one dropped the fire into the weeds
which at ooce became ignited setting
fire to the clothing of the child with
the above stated result.
Kinston Free Prtas: A slick-
tongued maa was here recently and
took a few orders, for job printing
Irom some of our people, collecting
part payment in advance. The man
jumped his board bill and it transpires
mat those who gave him orders and
cash are out the amount parted with.
Greensboro Record: Bob Ben
nett, one the most estimable citizens
of Rockingham, who lived about 10
mi I AM Roil til rif foditn waa BMiifan.
laily shot Thursday by one Logneeker,
ui auoBioa, it a., wniie out oua nunt
inc. Tt uvmi that Rannntt waa wal Ir
ing jnst in front of Logneeker when
the iatter's gnn, whioh was a hammer
gun was discharged by a limb catching
gainst the hammer, the whole load
entering Bennett s body just below the
hip, shattering the bone and making
was. is uuarai at mis urns to De
fatal wound.
Charlotte Observer: Another
noted convict has escaped from the
Demiemiar-v ner i m io nma is
Wright, and he belonged to a notorious
1 i m m
oauu ui aaie mower ana postome roo
ber that were baireed in the Southern
States about two years ago. All of the
Cans'. Some dozen nr hftAAn in ntimhi
were sent to the nenitAntiarr and all
oi mem, wun one exoeption, nave es
capea. Wright made his escape
Ihurjday night. Exactly how he got
OUt ia not known I To waa in id. Vina.
pi taL however, and it is supposed he
ant in tna ho A V..A
by hiding Under the shirt factory
and scaling the wall during the night.
Raleigh Newt and Observer:
The faculty of the Normal and Indus
trial College at Greensboro announced
Saturday that the college will not
open on January 2nd, as first stated,
as the repairs will not be ready in
time. Mr. Dudley Parks, near
Spring Hill, Halifax county, lost his
barn and stables by fire some days
ago. He thought it was the work or
an incendiary. A horse was burned
in the stables. The Secretary of
State Saturday did a rushing ' business
in the matter of incorporating new
manufacturing concerns. Four new
companies were incorporated, with
capital stocks aggregating up
wards of S200.000. Of these.
three are in vireensboro, ana repre
sent a total capital stock of $134 000.
Some specimen of the San Jose
Scale were received yesterday at the
Agricultural Department from Mr. J.
P. Council, at Wanamsh, Columbus
ooaaty. The scale was taken from
young trees bought from a nursery in
this 8tate and set out last March. The
stock of this nursery has since been
condemned and its lioense t iken away.
sir. Council writes that three or four
of his trees are already dead and others
are badly infected. He has been ad
vised by the crop pest commission au
thorities here to destroy all the trees,
as in no other way can the scale be de
stroyed, such a hold has it get on the
orchard.
f!old Steel or Death.
"There is but one small chance to
save your lire and that is through an
operation," was the awful prospect set
before Mrs. I. is. Hunt, of Lime Kidge.
Wis., by her doctor after vainly try
ing to cure her of a frightful case of
stomach trouble and yellow jaundice.
He didn't count on the marvellous
power of Electric Bitters to cure Stom
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weighs more and feels better tha n
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CURRENT COMMENT.
Several of the British officers
in Natal are having plucked from
their brows the laurels that they
won in other African wars. The
trouble is that they are fighting
white men now, whereas they were
fighting black or brown before.
Savannah News, D&m.
And now we are to hang or
shoot the guerillas we capture in
"Luzon, "for the sake of the deter
rent effect such action will have.
How exactly we are following the
footsteps of Spain in our treatment
of the possibly unwise, but . un
doubtedly patriotic, Filipinos.
Hichmond Dispatch, Dem.
Another effort is to be made
in Congress requiring publication
of the pension roll, livery really
deserving pensioner should indorse
the measure, for publicity would do
more than anything to make the
pension roll what it should be, a roll
of honor, by exposing unworthy
pensioners, whose presenoe on the
iists tends to discredit the whole
body. New York Her aid, Ind.
Four pence per day will be
deducted from each private in the
Britisn army now aneid wno has a
wife, and one penny a day in addi
tion will be taken for every child of
such married soldiers in order to
provide for the support of those
whom that "absent-minded beggar,"
lommy Atkins, has left at home.
This is a measure never resorted to
by the War Office unless the absence
of the troops from their canton
ments is expected te be prolonged.
The easy confidence with which the
British authorities entered upon the
Boer war. as exemnlified bv the
boast attributed to General Bailer
that he would eat his Christmas
dinner in Pretoria, has evidently
given way to a feeling that the
pending struggle will be one of the
hardest in which the British army
has ever been engaged. Philadel
phia Record, Vein.
i
TWINKLINGS
Percy "That girl made a fool
of me years ago." Louie "Pity; you
never got over it. " Ally aioper.
A monopoly is a good deal like
a baby. A man is opposed to it on
general principles until he has one of
bis own. Til Jilts.
roriune ener Ana 1 see a
dirk man who will give you trouble."
The Widow (to herself) "The coal
man ! Why didn't I pay his bill?"
Awful Silence Perkins "How
very quiet it is here, Mjss 'Arlington !"
The Lady "Yes, dreadfully; one
might almost hear an 'h' dropi" Tit-
tsue.
"Mamma, I saw a dog to-day
that had only three legs." "Weren't
you awfully sorry for him?" "No;
he had one more leg than I have."
Tit Bits.
''How does it happen, doctor,
that we never see you with your old
name, tne canker s- daughter, any
more i ' ".Because she is married.
"Married! To whom?" "Tome."
He " Yes, she's very rich, they
ten me. Most uninteresting girl,
though, i consider, she can say noth
ing but 'Yes?' and 'Nol'" She "In
deed ! And which did she say to you?"
A.uy mopy.
Neighborly Ties: "The tele-
nhnn A i o vraaf srkst a 1 faittA "
"That's so. We wouldn't have called
on those people next door at all if
we hadn't wanted to use their tele
phone. Chicago Record.
Fayetteville Observer: A young
negro giri aoout lay ears or age, nure
ror ior Mrs. a. u. West, the Southern
sgent at Walnut Cove, fell in a well at
BennetUville yesterday and broke her
neck. Mrs. west was visiting in Ben-
nettsville at the time.
FOUND DEAD IN BED.
Capt. Arthur Barnes, of North Carollas,
Assistant Doorkeeper of the Senate.
Br Teiearapb to the Horning Btr.
Washinqtow, December 16. Capt
Arthur Barne. of North Carolina, was
found dead in his bed in this city at
8.30 o'clock this morning. He seemed'
in his usual health yesterday and his
death is believed to have been due to
heart disease.
Capt. Barnes had been an assistant
doorkeeper for the Senate for ten wars.
He was a Democrat and had attended
every Democratic national convention
since 1680. He was a captain in the
Confederate service during the civil
war. He was about 65 years old.
WARM WIRELETS.
The Methodist Conference of Missis
sippi passed a resolution appealing to
ne uouse or .Representatives not to
seat Congressman Roberta of Utah.
Ex-Mayor Patrick J. Qleason. of
Long Island City, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy, in which he gives his
liabilities at $326,894; assets $8,933.
The Cedar Grove property, opposite
the Norfolk Navy yard, will be sold to
the government for $133,500. this
amount having been decided upon by
secretary ixng.
The nine year old son of Mr. Joe
Robinson, of Eatonton, Ga., was badly
torn by a mad dog Friday. With his
father he left for the Pasteur institute
at Baltimore yesterday. .
Four new manufacturing concern s
were incorporated in Kaleigb. N. C.
yesterday with capital stocks aggre
gating upwards of $200,000. Of these.
three are in Greensboro and represent
a total capital stock of $ 134,000.
A Nlxht ot Tenor,
''Awful anxiety was felt for the
widow of the brave General Burnham
of M cbias, Me., when the doctors
said she could not Jive till morning,"
writes Mrs. W. H. Lincoln, who at
tended her that fearful night. MA11
thought she must soon die from pneu
monia. But she Pegged for Dr. King's
New Discovery, saying it had mora
than once saved her life, and had cured
her of Consumption. After three
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ror over fifty Tears
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A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
Tragedy la Sorry Coaoty, North Care-
Has Sol SlaptiOB Killed by
Sarah Wallace.
By Telsgrapk to the Horning Star.
Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 16 There is
now being investigated at Dobson, the
county seat of Snary county, North
Carolina one of the most mysterious
murders
Carolina,
vember
ever committed in North
About the middle of No
a Mrs. Sarah Wallace
Dobson and reported that
on the night' previous
came to
she bad
shot and killed Sol Simpson. Simp
son is a man who had served a term
in the penitentiary for stealing
whiskey and was considered a gereral
nuisance. Many hoped her report was
true, butnp one oared to investigate,
and not being able to make her
story believed, she returned home and
found, as she clims, that while she
was away to surrender to the authori
ties, some one came with a wagon and
removed the dead body that she had
left lying in front of her door. The
body had been secreted and so
far no trace of it has been
found, though diligent search
has now been made. Some fonr
days ago the father of the mur
dered man, not hearing anything from
his missing son and having heard
these reports, had warrants sworn out,
with the result that Mrs. Wallace is
now in jail and the search for the
missing corpse goes on. It seems now
that she implicates a man of some
standing, and if the body is ever
found Surry county will have a highly
sensational and complicated murder
trial.
. Her story is now that this man was
with her and that they knew SoL
Simpson was coming. As she had no
way to defend herself the man gave
her his pistol and then retired. Simp
son knocked for admittance and Mrs.
Wallace informed him that she did
not care for his company. He declared
he would come in any way and after
two heavy assaults on the door with a
huge rock, the door fell in and Simp
son started to enter. As he reached
the threshold she fired the pistol and
he fell. After a few moments she
went to him-v and found that his
body was growing cold. She made
still further examination and a
bullet bole was found in his breast,
which caused immediate death. Then,
as she claims, she came to Dobson to
surrender and while there the body
was removed and secreted away and
thus the case sta nds at this writing.
T T fVmn nt Tlimliom 1ST' O
father and administrator of'Linwoai
Couch, has instituted suit for $30,000
against the North Carolina Railroad
Company. Linwood Couch, who was
m the employ or the railroad company.
was a brakeman. and" while chane inr
a car whose arawheaa had pulled out,
was crushed to death.
A CLEAR RIGHT OF Wav.
rbere Waa
Nothing: to
Interfere If
He Chose.
rVTen I first came into the mountains
if West Virginia to look after the coal
Interests of an eastern company. I board
ed at a little tavern in the county town
presided over by a good looking woman
of 40 who, as I had understood, was a
widow. She was keener witted and
more entertaining than the average
mountain woman and ' I rather enjoyed
talking to her. One evening, after I had
been her guest about three weeks, I
found myself alone with her on the porch
of the house, and we chatted along very
pleasantly about men and women and
life generally.
"Ain't you married?" she asked in re
sponse to something I had said leading
up to such & questional
"Oh, no," i laughed. "I'm an unhappy
01a Dacneior.
"Well, you oughter be ashamed-
av
yerself," she said with spirit.
1 am, 1 assented. JLSut how Is a
man to be otherwise when the women
won t do their share?"
"But they will ef they ever git the
chance, she contended.
"It's easy enough for you to say that,"
1 said, "because you felt that way to
ward your husband when he asked you."
"My liusbandi" she almost shouted. "I
hain't got no husband, nor never did
have."
"Why why," I. stammered, "I under
stood you were a widow.
"Well, I ain't."
"Do you mean to tell me that as good
looking a woman ss you are is aq old
maid yet?"
She hesitated a moment before answer
ing.
In courso I am," she said, and her
voice softened, "but i hain't no objec
tions to bein a married woman.
Goodness knows how I got out of it
and still remained a "star boarder," but
I did, and I didn't sit out on that porch
in the evening any more, either. Wash
ington Star.
! ,
Tlnry Softer In Silence.
One of .the most pathetic things ia the
manner in which ti;e animal kingdom en
dures suffering. Take horses, for in-
stanco. in hnttle. After the first shock
of a wound they ninke no sound. Thes
bear the puln with a mute, wonderful
endurance, and if at night you hear a
wild groan from the battlefield it comes
from their loneliness, their loss of that
hummi x-umpiUiionshlp which seems ab
solutely Indispensable to the. comfort, of
domesticated animals.
The dog will carry a broken leg for
davs wistfully, but uncomplainingly.
Ihe cat, stricken with stick or stone
or caught m some trap from which it
gnaws its way to freedom, crawls in
somp secret p'.nce and bears in silence,
pajp wtucfi we coulj 'not endure. Sneep
and cattle often meet the thrust of the
butcher' knife without a sound, and
even common poultry endure intense
agony without complaint.
Ihe dove shot to death Hies to some
farofi bough, and as it dies the silence
is unbroken save by the patter on the
leaves of its own lifeblood. The wound
ed deer speeds to some thick brake and
in pitiful submission waits for death.
The eagle, shot in midair, fights to the
last against the fatal summons. There
U no moan or sound of palq, and the de
fiant look never fades from its eyes until
the lids close over them never to uncover
again. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
440444X44444
WE HAVE
t EVERYTHING
1
t FOR
i CHRISTMAS.
I REMEMBER US
AS WE SHALL - f
REMEMBER I
THE POOR. I
PALACE BAKERY.
nov 88 tf
D. O'CONNOR.
Real Eatat Axnt, WHilnttoa. If .
Hoasaa and Lots for sale on eas
eras.. Bents, Taxes and Insurance
attended to promptly. Monev k.ni
onlsuiroTM maltf
BY RIVER AD RAIL.
Receipts of Naval Stores and Cottoa
Yesterday.
W. & W. IbuIroad-472 bales cottoa,
10 casks spirits turpentine. 53 barrels
tar, 1 barrels crude turpentine.
W. C. & A. Railroad 119 bales
cotton, 7 casks spirits turpentine, 6
barrels rosin, 150 barrels tar, 50 bar
rels crude turpentine.
A. & Y. Railroad 77 bales cotton,
14 casks spirits turpentine, 103 bar-
W. & N. Railroad 154 bales cot
ton, 10 cask spirits turpentine, 8 bar
rels rosin.
C. C. Railroad 58 bales ootton.
Steamer' Driver 6 casks spirits tur
pentine, 123 barrels rosin, 251 barrels
tar.
Schooner J. D. Pigott 5 bales cot
ton, 7 casks spirits turpentine, 80 bar-,
rels tar.
Schooner Victor C 13 bales cotton,
25 barrels rosin.
Total Cotton, 898 bales; spirits
turpentine, 54 casks; rosin, 243 bar
rels; tar, 557 barrels; crude tarpon
tine, 51 barrels.
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.
Tne Quotations are always given as accurately
as possible, but the Stab will not ba responsible
NOBIDIO
t price
resent
for anv variations from the artnal market nrlce
rcei
of the articles anoted.
The following quotations re
wooiesaie Frlces generally. In making up
small orders hlzher nrlces have to be charged.
BAGGING
8 1 Jute
Standard....
Burlaps
WESTERN BMOKJtD -
Hams ft
Sides ft
Shoulders f) .....,
5 Q
Wi O
5ft
O
WO
DKY SALTED
Sides
Shoulders V
BARRELS Spirits Turpentine i
Second-hand, each 1 5
New New York, each &
New City, each &
BEESWAX V ft
BRICKS
1 20
1 85
1 40
85
Wilmington v M 5 oo .7 00
Northern 9 00 14 00
BUlilSJt
North Carolina y ft..,.,.... si
Northern 27 a
OORN HEAL
82
Per bushel. In sacks
46
41H
47
Vlnrtnla Heal
OOTTON TIEa bundle
CANDLES V ft
Sperm
10
85
Adamantine .
CHEESE V
a
11
Northern Factory,
18
18
15
15
mare
COFFEE V B
Laguyra...
Bio
ISM
7
DOMESTICS
Sheeting. 4-4, V yard
Tarns, ft bunch of 5 fts ..
EOO8 f3 dosen
FISH
Mackerel. No. 1. barrel.
10
70
SO
18
28 00
80 00
Mackerel, No. 1, half-bbl. 11 00
15 00
Mackerel, No. 8, barrel... 18 00
18 00
9 00
14 00
nacKerei, ho. 2 y half-bbl
8 00
Mackerel, No. 8, barrel.
Mullets, V barrel
Mullets. pork barrel
IS 00
S 75
S 00
5
4 85
4 00
8 50
N. c. Roe Herring, 9
keg.
8 25
10
4 50
raotTB-y
Law graae
Choice
8 00
8 50
8 90
4 50
Straight
First Patent
75
4 25
12
eitUE V ft
15
uttAiM y nusnei
Corn, from store, bgs White
Car-load, In bgs White...
Oats, from store
Oats, Rust Proof
Cow Peas
53
88
60
52K
50
40
45
75
HIDES V ft
Green salted
Dry flint....
Dry salt
10
i2
HAT V 100 fts
Clover Hay.
Bice Straw.
85
40
80
80
SO
60
Eastern.
Western
85
85
85
North River..
HOOP IRON.
ft'.".'.'.'.".''.'.'.
80
LARD, V ft
4
Northern
North Carolina
US. barrel
6
8
1 15
ex
10
1 85
LUMBER (city sawed) M ft
, reeawed is on
a 80 00
& 16 00
O 18 00
houku cage rians 15 00
West India cargoes, accord
lng to quality IS 00
Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00
Scantliag and Board, com'n 14 00
Common mill 500
Fair mill g so
Prime mill 8 60
Extra mill 10 00
& 23 00
O 15:00
O 6 50
O 800
10 00
MOLAS8BS gallon
10 60
farbadoes, in bg8hsad.. . . .
B&rbadoea, in barrels
&
1 mn fuuu, m nogBneaos. . . ,
Porto Rico, in barrels
Sugar House, in hogsheads.
Sugar Bouse, in barrels....
8yruD. In barrels
85
18
14
15
8 60
10 00
80
'14
15
5
NAILS, keg. Cut, 60d basis...
POBK, V barrel-
3 00
City Hess
Bump
Prime
10 50
9 50
9 00
BOPE.
10
SO
85
SAXT. V sack. Alum
1 25
95
90
60
6 50
8 25
8 75
Liverpool
American
On 186 Sacks
SHINGLES, 7-lnch, per M
5 00
1 60
8 60
Common
Cwrees Sai
SUGAR, y 1 standard Gran'd
5M
4
Standard A............
White Extra O
Extra c, Golden
5
5
45i
4
8OAP, 1 Northern
BTAVES, V M W. O. barrel....
B. O. Hogshead
4
0 w
14 09
10 00
10 00
8 75
7 00
e m
5 00
9 09
r so
6 60
S M
8 60
Mm, FaTr.."!!"!!'.!U!""'.
Common Mill
TntAvHfa 4y- nwl Inn mr
SHINGLES, N.O. Cypress sawed
v u nearv
" Sap
5x80 Heart
" San
T 60
6 00
3 00
8 00
fi 50
Is 00
8 50
8 50
6 50
5 50
6
8 00
00
15
6x84 Heart. 6 00
" San k tin
TALLOW, m
WHISKEY, v gallon. Northern 1 00
North Carolina i nn
WOOL ner m Unwashed 14
MARINE.
ARRIVED.
otmr Driver. Bradshaw VA-PAtt.
ville, T D Love.
Schooner Abbie G- Cole. 233 Inn
Cole, Ne York, George Harriss, Son
oc VJO.
ttcnooner a 1 Hazard. 373 tnn
matenrord, JSew York, George Har
ris, con or to.
CLEARED.
otmr Driver. Bradshaw. Favosa.
vine, a u Aiove.
; 1 1 m t t
Stmr E A Hawes. Smith. Mill PVaaV
James Madden. '
Stmr Seabright: Sanders. CaIaWI
and Little River, S C, Stone, Rourk
IN or baraue Johannes 473 .nna
mi -r - , tt -7 -
Aiiursvn, uona on, laeiae ac uo.
EXPORTS.
COASTWISE.
NEW YORE Clvde steamsliin Rich
mond. 237 bbls soirits. 1578 hhla to
139 bbls crude, 182,576 feet lumber, 10
bbls pitch, 51 cases cotton goods. 135
pirgs muse, w Dales warps ; vessel by
a ur omaiiDones.
FOREIGN.
LOWDOK Nor baraue .Tnhnn
, 000 001s rosin, valued at $5,780.62;
cargo oy iraierson. Downing & Uo.
vessel by Ueide & Co.
MARINE DIRECTORY.
mm 01 vessels in tMe IPo" of wtl
mlnarton, If - o.. Bee. 19, 1899.
STEAMSHIPS.
Laurelwood (Br), 1,595 tons, Mauer, J
xx oioan.
Aguila (Nor), 1,407 tons. Andersen.
Astrea (Br), 2,110 tons. Barry.Bracken
burg. Alexander 8m-unt & Son.
Haslingden (Br), 1,220 tons, Higgins,
iu xreecnau oc kjo.
SCHOONERS.
B I Hazard. 373 tons. Ptlatrifrvr-
George Harriss. flan fir. rv '
Abbie G Cole, 232 tons, Cole, George
A1a. 152tons, Small, George Harriss,
Son & Co.
Charlotte W Miller, ?48 tons, Htebee,
ureorge narriss. Son fc Co.
Caroline Gray. 311 tons. Meader.
George Harris. Son &. Co.
M C Haskell. 277 tons. Wine-field.
George Harriss, Son & Co.
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
STAR OFFICE, Dec. 18.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market
firm at 48 cents per gallon for
machine made casks and 48 cents
per gallon for country casks.
ROSIN Market firm at $1.10
per barrel for strained and $1.15 for
good strained;
TAB Market quiet at S1.Z5 per
bbl of lbs.
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market
firm at $1.60 per barrel for hard,
15
$2.80 for dip and for virgin.
Quotations same day last year.
Spirits turpentine firm at 4039jc:
rosin, nothing doing; tar firm at
$1.10; crude turpentine firm at $1.30
RECEIPTS. -
Spirits turpentine 54
Kosin 242
Tar 557
Crude turpentine : . . . , 51
Receipts same day last year. 27
casks spirits turpentine, 1,090 bbls
rosin, 716 bbls tar,71 bbls crude lur
pentine.
COTTON.
Market steady on a basis of 7c per
pound for middling. Quotations:
Ordinary 4 13-16 cts $ &
Wood ordinary 6 3-16 "
Low middling 6 13-16 "
Middling 7
Good middling 7H "
Same day last year middling SHc.
Receipts 898 bales; same day last
year, 1,705.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina
Prime 85c. Extra prime, 90c per
bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, $ 1.05c.
Virginia Prime, 55c; extra prime,
bOc; fancy, boc.
CORN Firm: 52 to 52K cents per
ousnei tor wnite,
ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide
water) 90c$1.10; upland, 6580c.
Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to
tne nusnei.
N. C. BACON Steady ; hams 10 to
11c per pound; shoulders, 7 to 8c;
sides, 7 to sc.
SHINGLES Per thousand, five-
inch hearts and saps. $2.25 to 3.25:
six-men. $4.lft to 5.00 ; seven-inch,
$5. 50 to 6.50.
TIMBER Market steady at $3.50 to
9.0U per M
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
BTTTelegrapn to the Mornmg Star.
Nhw York, December 18. Monev
on call to-day was stringent, ranging
irom b to 125 per cent, last loan at 40.
closing, bid and asked, at 30
40 per cent. Prime mercantile ca
per 56 per cent. Sterling exchange
was siignuj easier; actual ousiness in
bankers' bills 487 for demand
and 481 for sixty da vs. Posted
rates were 4824! and 488W. Com
mercial bills. 480481. Silver certifi
cates 5959$;. Bar silver 59- Mex
ican dollars 47. Government bonds
weak. State bonds inactive. Railroad
bonds weak. TJ. 8. 2 reg'd, 102;
U. S.3's, reg'd,109X ; do.coupon, 109 ;
u. . new s, reg'd, 133. ; do. cou
pon,133X ;U.S. old 4's, reg'd,113X 5 do.
coupon, 114X; U. S. 5's, registered,
U2X; do. coupon, 112X; N. C. 6's
127: do. 4's, 104; Southern Railway 5's
104. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 48j6 ;
Chesapeake & Ohio 262C ; Manhattan L
su; new xorlc Uentral 121: Read
ing 15; do. 1st preferred 49 ; St. Paul
115; do. preferred off'd 165; Southern
Railway 10 do. preferred 50Jrf ; Amer
ican Tobaoco, 82; do. preferred 130;
r-eopies uas 93: Sucar 124: do.
preferred 112; T. C. & Iron 70:
U. S. Leather 11 ; do. preferred 65;
TXT--- TT f nv. - "
NAVAL STORES MARKETS.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning staj .
JMEW XOEK. December 18. Tioin
steady; strained common to cmrxi
$1 45. Spirits turpentine stead v at 52
Chableotow. December 18. Smrits
turpentine firm at 48c; sales casks;
no receipts, josin nrm : sales bar
rels, frices unchanged.
oayannah. December 18. Soirits
nrpennne was nrm at48J4c: sales 621
oaaks; receipts 1,176 casks; exports
165 oask. Rosin firm; sale 1;367
barrels; receipts 5,442 barrels; exports
C0TT0M MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Horning star.
New York. Dec. 18. It was a d
letter day for the bears on the Cotton
Exchange and one of reckoning for
the bulls who have nracticallv had full
sway for several months. Traders, in
view of developments iu South Afri
ca, expected some decline in Liver
pool, and conceded a crop of several
points nere. tjuite in accordance with
these ideas, prices went off four to six
points without excitement at the start.
in sympathy with a two point loss in
hue xuugusu marxec. aat no sooner
had the opening passed than ,rders
came irom ail quarters to sell cotton.
not small lots, but great blocks
waicn had been held for weeks
py presumably strong dealeis, on
tne theory that eight cent coUol
tvuuiu uo recoruea Dei ore me Jiew
year opened. Close ucon the Aiinr
orders came report of financial diffi
culties in Wall street. The failure of
the Produce Exchange Trust Com-
pnujr aim 01 nenry Alien at uo. were
telling blows, against the bulls. A
heavy slump in New Orleans, a rapid
11 i TJ a
laxi in .Liverpool ann a rise in money
to a rate equal to 186 per cent, caused
prices to tumble at a terrific rate. All
tne regulation news was discarded
ihe one aim of all seemed to be to
get rid of enormous amounts of
cotton accumulated on the 1-t.rt nm
traded rise. : As compared with
Saturday close of 7.05, Janu
uary fell perpendicularly to 6.90,
March dropped from 7.38 to" 7c,
while May went off thirty-five noints
to 7.09. Houses having extensive in
terests in stocks and securities were
the heaviest sellers, presumably for
the purpose of better protecting inter
ests on the Stock Exchange. The
South and the West were also large
sellers. Late in the day there was
something of a reaction on profit
taking by shorts and quite new buy
ing for parties - believing the market
entitled to a decided uplift The close
was fairly steady, with the present
crop positions twenty-three to twenty-
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six points net lower. Th f
crop months were but nine 7 te
points lower. Trading Was hi "
heaviest in several years
New York. December is n
quiet; middling uplands 7VC' 14011
Futures clewed steady - tv
ber6.97, January 7.01 Peh'. "
March 7.12, April 7.15, &ffl'A
7.20, July 7.20, August 745 Seli
6.97, October 6.85. NovemW
Spot cotton closed quiet" an,i .
lower; middling uplands 7 J ; I(
dling gulf 7c; sales 553 baW BlH
Net receipts 36 bales; CTos,
2,152 bales; exports to the nZ
bales ; stock 110, 979- bale,
Total to-day Net receipts i.V
bales; exports to Great Brffi
exports to the Continent 18 7u 1 1 ;
stock 1,092,471 bales. 8,794 ;
Consolidated Net receipts n,
bales; exports to Great Britain ' !
bales; exports to Franc 7295K.1
exports to the Continent 19 845 k?;
Total since SeDtembflr lot XT . '
ceipts 3,667,308 bales
Britain 926,599 bales sports to iFV 1
suu.oo uaiea exports v; trif Oont",
980,456 bales. '0nt :
December la-Galveston, quitl lt
7 5-16c; net receipts 12,115 bales i
folk, dbll at 7-K-1R L, a
-, receipt 21ft
bales;- Baltimore, nominal at 7k
no receipts r Bos i on, qUi(.t afid 8t dfc;
711-16c,net receipts 7S baWU.f
mington steady at 7X, net receipt
bales; Philadelphia, quiet at 7L ..
ceipts 118 bales; Savannah, onirt',
easy at 7yi .net receipts f
receipts 6,727 bale Ne.
Ol1aiaTio iimafwiilA 4 t O 1
8,819 bales ; Mobile, weak a 7 i t
receipts 2,366 bales; Memphis oJ
""""J 7i"ct receipts 4 -Di
bales: Augusta, steady at 7 3 16c
receipts 976 bales; Charleston du'v
7Xo, net receipts 974 bales. '
PRODUCE KARnfh
By TeleuraDH to trie ai.ru.n
Ifnw Vnoc- rioiuimk.,. IO n,
" ' ""-wmucr IO. Ainu,
was firmer and held hijjher itiih
meet asaing rates, ijiose was firm.
Wheat Spot. No. 2 red 78c; optiou
openea strong at a(vi,cj, ufo.
enced by higher eables. tctive
ing and bullish foreign statu-tici Af"r
a midday reaction under disappwr,;.
ing visible supply figures, the mad 1
experienced a second sharp uptur
stimulated by a decided fall cons ,
and further alarms among jhw.
Closed strong atlOlc neiadwrm'.
March closed 76 c : May closed 76(,t
July closed 76 ; December ckwi
76 He. Corn Spo firm : No. 2 40c-
options opened c higher on Deom
ber, through a squeeze of shorts, tt;
later had a general advance on hmi
cables, large clearances and thei'tim.
, in wheat. Closed rm it unchains
prices to c advance; M v ckhi
39p. Oats Spot ..firm; No.U9fc
No. 3. 28i4c: options auiet butfirow.
Lard weak; Western steam $5 638
5 70; refined weak; continent $5 9i
rsutter steady; Western creamer?
2327c; State dairy 1825c. Ch
steady; fall Maryland' fancy
12M13c; do. large fancy UU
123- PfttrnlAllm firm Rica firm
Tallow firm; city 5c; country 45t
uaooage steady; Liong Island 1 1
6 25 per 100. Freights to Liverpool
Cotton by steam 26d. Poiat
steady; New Jersey $1 251 50: Net
xorlc fl 251 75; Long -Iain!
$1 502 00; Southern sweets ft 75
25; Jersey sweets $2 252 3
Coffee Spot quiet: No.1 7 invoiet
6Zic: No. 7 iobbins- 7?c: mild auiet;
Cordova 812Kc Sugar Raw steady;
fair refining 3 13 16c; centrifugal 91
test 4c ; molasses sugar 3 9 16c; n
fined quiet.
Chicago. December 18 -Indiclioti
that the war in South Africa h
reached proportions sufficient to act
ate a marked improvement in tk
foreign demand, caused a ibarpu
vance in wteeat to day. May eion
lc over Saturday. Other grim
were influenced by wneat. wj
corn closing f c and May oats w
higher. Profit-taking depressed "
provision market, May pork clonal
7c, May lard 5c, May ribsTKckmei
CHICAGO. Dec. 18. Casii quotation
Flour steady. Wheat No.2 spnnff-;
69Jic. Corn No. 2.31 UaSltf- 0
No. 2 2323Md No. 2 wnite H
26c; No. 3 white 2iK
Pork, per barrel. t8 6010
Lard, per 100 lbs. 1 5 105 W
Short rib sides, loose. $5 155
Dry salted shoulders.. $5 37' "
Short clear sides, boxed, 15
5 60. Whiskey Distillers'
goods, per gallon, $1 23. ,
Thfl I An Hi ricr fntiii-po ran CM
lows opening, highest, lowest an-
ilroin rm
MX, 67. 66, 67c; MayWgg
71, 6a4, 71c; January yuw'
71X, 7Q70, 7lc. Corn-
December 31.'S1; 31. SIMe;
3131. 31J4 8131),31X
oimv DdKuasM, ooyz, 0071, Mi
December 22. 22, !
22Jic;May 24H24M, Z4'
10 25, 10 00, 10 22 : May $10 SW.
10 02K. 10 Z2U. Lard, per 1
T. ' p fr r rn r OS K 37 1
$5 66, 5 70, 5 67X, 5 60. Short
per 100 Ebs January $5 dJ4.
5 27, 5 80; May $5 50, 5 50, S 4M
Baltimore. December io.-'
l,,ii 1 j WhRatsi"".'
t. j n, i i,7t Uc: JaouaC
7272c; May 7575Xc; Soo'J
h.t k UmniA fif!72c. Corn niw1
a j. j . u
owui anu monui t,.
cember. new or old, 37M3LtfV(:
ary3738c; February 0 TJjjj,
March 35 c bid; Souinern; - 8
38c. Oats dull JNo. 2 nn
39cc.
FOREIGN MARKET.
Bv Cable to the Morning 3r
LlVEBPOOi-, December 18. 4
Cotton Spot dull; prices i; j
A miJA linnr fair.
nr.
low middling 4 5 3'4d ; goou
31-32d; ordinary S Pf V
of the day were 8,000 bales, oi .
Knn n fn BTuurn lation uu vt
nH Jt.o1ii1.H 7 400 Ameriw
v t wi v r . Jull w
ceipts 9,500 bales; all AmerioJ.
lr at th decline. America" .j
riiir. n m . DeceniB"
m11. nAMmhpr and January -M
ealerl January and February
V-RArt I lor- Marf.n Slltt '--- (4l
, . !i fav 6 W .,Al
puyer;. April auu -j
bnver: Mav ana u"r."eSl'
63 64d buver: June ana r n.6
-V . J n If frTISL " . m CtL
Aiiorr A u trust ana oca""-,"
' - . j n.innerf'
value.