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Advoriia-m'-nt-ins-ned one a week in Daily wliiba-"i dfi.0- p-r rq aaiv f or ecn In w -Wo i E r oi l i y th -r--urtbs of daily j n a i wlce a w k two-thirds o.' d uly rat, i Cuaoi i d vert.irr w 1 not b imow-d to ' exc- d their spaw r dvenls a i iblut( to --,g:i toih-l'" uUr bus'.n ss without ex .r charge at trans! -ut r.wr I Advorif iu- nt- kep u-.der th hed of ' w iieram nts" w 11 be chrged 11 ty per cent, xir i. Advertisements Vt follow rvd:nt matter, or to ocra v a iy spct- p c-, wi! be thATg-d ex'ra acc rdi-.- to tiie iw Iim desirtrd. ' BY WILLIAM H. BERNARD. WILMIXGTOX. X. C. Frcdat Morxixg, December 29. THE WORLD'S RAILWAYS. Iviilwaya are the great material , developers of the world and oae of i the mos potent factors in the pro gress of civilization. Xo country will be long content to slumber or . look backwards after it hears the '. whistle of the locomotive within its borders. The" whistle is proof that a country i3 waking and looking for ward. The Scientific American, an excellent authority on such sub jects, has recently published an elaborate article on the world's rail ways, a condensation of which we find in the Xew Orleans Timei Democrat, and reproduce because of the valuable information it gives and because nearly everybody is inter- ested more or less in railroads: 'The United States early stands first amoD the nations in the length . of the railroads. In fact, she is not only Srst in mileage, but she has .a mileaje greater by 53,000 miles than that of trie next five countries of the i world together. But there are other j considerations than mere mi!eage4bat j give importance to railway systems, f such as the amount of rolling-stock, number of trains, passengers, locomo tives and cars, amount of freight, etc ; and in these respects the United States does not lead the other nations bv such a superiority as in the matter of mileage. "Ia locomotives, we are as far ahead as in mileage; for while Grt-at Britain ! has 19.600, Germany 16,800, France 10 5')0, Prussia 8 700 and Brituh India 4,258. tae Uuit-d Slates roads have 36.700 lticomutivea in their service. This du Tiber of locomotives, it will be observed is nearly twice as many as Great Britain owns, and more than twice tin number owned by any other nation. "In the matter of passeneer cars, we are awiv behind; Great Britain bav ins 62.252. GririHOv 32 590. and the United Slates 33,89. But there are care aud cars; and for carrying capa city, roomiuess and trenwal comfort, American Cars are adm tted by Euro pea os to be some way inadvaneeof tbi-irs. Irnitati'jn be'ng the sincerest form of flitiery. Eiropeaos drmoa strata the sincerity of this admission by introducing American cars on tae.r roads. 'In freight cars, the United States has a preponderance over the nextfiv countries as pronounced a iu mileage. With the euormous number of 1.284, 807 freight cars, each of them haviot; a capicit two or tbree times as great as the freight cars of any other coun try, this country has a total freight carrying capacity from three to four times as great as that of Great Britain ; and 100 per cent, greater than that of all tie five other countries already namtd together! And the carrying capacity of the freight cars being so enormous, it is not 'astonishing to hear, of course, that the freight carried on American roads is mora than double that carried by the railways of any other country, and not far from being as great as the freight carried on the next five torether. For the United Statt-s roads carry 913 millions of tons of freight every year, whereas the Brit ish roads carry only 437 millions, the German roads 276 millions, the French roads 120 millions, the Russian roads 97 millions, and the roads of British India 39 millions of tons. "When we come to the number of passengers carried, however, we once , again part with our superiority to Great Britain. Great Britain, which was easily first in the number of pas senger cars, is also easily first in the number of passengers carried with the unapproached total of 1,062,911,000 pas sengera carried in one year; the Uni'ed ' States comes next with 693,342,000 Ger many is taird with 646,461,000; France fourth with 382,240,000; British In dia fifth with over 160.000,000 and Ruia last of the six with only 97, 000,000 of passengers annually. It gives one an idea of what ci vilization and good government can do when we thus see that the British islands with their comparatively microscopic terri tory carry on their railroads every year eleven times as many passengers as Russia with nr immense domain and nearly threefold population car ried on here. "The reaiou why the British 'roads carry so many more passengers than the American roads are manifold one of them being the shorter journeys, which encourage travel; anoiher the suburban-home system, which prevails n the big British, cities to an extent unknown in this country, and which ends most of the working men as well as the business men railway travelling both morning and evening. "But in the malU-r of railroads taken generally the Anglo Saxon race, and particularly that division of it on this side of the Atlantic, whipj the earth." The United States have now about 186,000 miles of railway, more than all . of Europe, and with the continuous annual increase it will not be many years before we will leave Europe away behind. Most of the European countries have already constructed aa much railway as they need, and for that reason there it but small annual addition to their road. Russia is the one" European coun'ry which shows much activity iii railway construction, and that is more for the purpose of binding to gether her European and Asiatic territory, and to put her in a posi tion to defend her remote territory in the event of war. There are some States irr the East and Bomt in the central West which are well supplied with, railways, ex traordinarily well supplied when compared with other States but taken as a whole there is or will be in the near future demand for double the present mileage. The Western frontier States, or what were called the frontier States not many years ago, will need a great in crease in their mileage as they be corao more numerously populated, and more developed. In the past, and at present, there has been little inducement to engage largely in railway building in that section of the country because with the sparce population, the little development of resources, and the cost of build ing in such rugged territory where labor is high there was little prospect of profit, and consequently capital was slow to invest. Bat every year lessens there diffi culties and offers more encourage ment to the investment of capital, the result of which will be that as the unoccupied territory is peopled and the necessity for roads becooie's more pronounced they will be built. Th s is also true to some extent of the South, large areas of which have but few roads, and all of which, taken as a whole, has not one-third the mileage it will need in the near future if not now. The invention of .the locomotive put the world ahead a thousand years at a 'bound, and is even now one of the great factors in pushing the world forward,, and dispelling the darkness and lifting the gloom that hung over much of it for count less centuries. With the iatroduc tioa of the locomotive and- the steel rail Africa is losing its historic pecu liarities and emerging from dark ness into light, and men are living who will see idol-worshiping, tradition-ruled, Asia revolutionized by that same mighty agency. A cen tury nence the world will be far dif ferent from the world of to-day, and first among the factors to make it so will be the iron steed which as it flies along blows off the dust of ages and wakes the slumbering peoples. OUR C0RH TRACE. Within the past few days we have called attention to the large and steady growth of our exports of corn and corn meal, which have in creased fourfold within the past seven years. The following tables show the exports for the first eleven months of the past seven years and the growth from year to year: Eleven months ending Exports of Corn. November Bushels 1833 48 602.182 $23 974,039 194 37,910 232 17.433 432 1S95 50,823 190 23 775 287 1S9S 113.643.364 38.16695 lfc97. 163 532.963 52 623,198 193 185 284 340 68 513 147 1899 185,832.659 74.742.137 Exports of CorameaL Barrels. 1S93 P35 241 $ 643 624 1834 237 095 652 610 1895 230 800 620 999 1896 258 288 . 549 74 J 1897 623 753 1,204,919 1898 '. 773 082 1,710.688 1899 798,111 1,815.788 The value of the exports so far this year is something over $75,000, 000, and it is estimated that for the full year it will run oxer $80,000, 000. The corn crop of the country this year will be about 2,000,000,000 bushels, which is more than can be consumed at home, and therefore it is well that this foreign corn trade is growing, because it gets rid of some of the surplus and helps to keep up prices at home. This is good 'for the American corn grower, but it is better forthe people of Europe, who do not raise enough breadstuffs and have to im port them, because thousands of them who cannot afford to buy wheat flour can afford to buy corn meal, which is jeally a better, more healthful and more nourishing food, a fact that they will discover as they become more accustomed to its use and learn better how to prepare it in appetizing ways. Even in this country, where we are supposed to know all about it, corn is not valued as it should be as an article of food, for it rarely goes inside of some houses when it should go into all. A New Jersey woman who sued for divorce from her husband, put it on the ground that he was too demonstrative. In the twelve years in which they had lived together he had given her black eyes seventy two times. The court considered such a manifest infatuation for black eyes, when bis wife's eyes were not black, was good cause and granted the divorce. A man and a woman, who went out shopping in New York the day before Christmas,- are missing. Whether they became bewildered and lost or made a joint runaway isn't known; nor whether, if a run away, the man ran away with the woman or the woman with the man. DcBuLTawN Cores all Throat and Lung Affection. COUGH SYRUP Get the genuine. Refuse substitutes. Vis sure Dr. Butt's PSOt curt Dyspepsia. Trial, toJbr$C AH ANTI-TRUST CONFERENCE. Hon. M L. Lockwood, Chairman of the American Anti-Trust League has issued an address to the Ameri can people, and a oall for au anu TrU6t Conference to meet at Chi cago on February 12th, 1900: The call is signed by the executive com mittee and by about five hundred prominent citizens of different States and Territories, every State being represented. Among the signers are several prominent citi zens of this State. The address is a strong one, and sets foith in vigorous language the reasons why the people should meet to counsel together, and devise some plan to check this growing evil and protect themselves and their liber ties from the oppressions and en croachments of these rapacious trusts. All citizens who are in sympathy with this patriotic movement, and representatives of Anti-Trust or ganizations are invited to participate in the conference, but are requested to make application for admission to the Secretary of the American League, Franklin H. Wentworth, at University Building, Chicago, at an early date, as the credentials of dele gates must be signed by the chair man of tho Executive Committee. - This is a matter in which every citizen of this country is interested; it is a vital one that calls for earnest thought, serious consideration aud unity of action, and therefore this Conference shou'd be largely at tended by patriotic citizens, who take an interest in the welfare of the people and the prosperity of the country, and realize the imperative necessity of taking some action to curb these monstrous trusts before they get the country completely in their power. This is not a move ment of partisans but of patriots, and as such it appeals to and should have the endorsement and cordial support of every patriot. A St. Louis lady who took her baby with her in her Christmas shopping, became so absorbed in her work that she forgot where sho left her baby. But a good old Irish woman found it, took good care of it, and returned it to its mother, when she saw the advertisement of "lost baby." The moral in this is, that women should not become so much absorbed in shopping as to lay their babies around loose, but if they do and lose them, that they shouldn't fail to advertise them. An English experimenter claims to have concocted a good and cheap substitute for India rubber. We know a gentleman who has for some time projected with an artifical rub ber and succeeded in building some thing that looked very much like India rubber. But it wouldu't bounce like rubber, or stretch or contract like rubber. With these exceptions it seemed to be very good rubber. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Salisbury I-idex: About 1.30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon part of the three-story buildings owned by Craig & Wilson in Oastouia, and which was used as a storage warehouse for their business, collapsed, demolishing part of the entire building and its contents. A negro man by tbe name of Hum phrey, who was running the elevator in the building at the time, was caught under the debris and died before he could be extricated. It is feared that there are other bodies under the mass of timber and brick. Raleigh News and Observer'. Bob Strowd, a nro, shot and killed Bullie Jones, also colored, Tuesday night at Chapel Hill. Tbe shooting grew out of trouble over 8trowd' wife. Strowd is a respected negro. Jones was an ex-convict. Strowd gave himself up Wednesday to the au thorities: Mr. B. C. White, a government statistician, who has re cently visited the Carolina, is quoted as reporting that "all of fifty-one cot ton mills, which he visited in North Carolina, are working night aad day," and that this State is "on a boom" as a result of its mill building aud cotton manufacturing. He adds: "In Char lotte I watched wagon loads of cotton come to town, drive up to the mill doors, unload the staple, and the plan ter get his pay in cash then and there That is what brings prosperity. Go on with the building of cotton mills. They are what the South needs." Charlotte News: Monday after noon. Miss Mamie Qoodman, a daughter of Mr. Geo. C. Goodman, of Cabarrus county, had a burr in her mouth and accidentally swallowed it. From the first, she suffered intensely and a local physician was called in. He was unable to locate the burr although he tried for several hours. Tuesday morning Miss Goodman was taken to a hospital in Salisbury. The physicians there were also unable to locate the burr, "The young lady's throat is very much iz flamed and she is unable to talk above a whisper The burr swallowed is known and commonly called a "cockle burr." It is covered with sharp stickers and must produce very geart pain. A tele phone message from Coiicord this Wednesday afternoon states that the physicians extracted tbe burr from Miss Goodman's throat and tnat she i- now free from pain. Walter Spring the negro who last week killed Edward Blunt at the house of Lily Hall, on Davidson street, and who escaped, gave himself up to Night Turnkey White, at the city hall Wed nesday morning. Ifo Rlb.t To TJcllaess. The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be attrac tive must keep her health. ' If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nervous and irritable. If she has consumption or kidney trouble.her impure blood will cause pimples. blotches,skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters ii the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good-looking, charming woman of a run down invalid. Only 50 cents at B. R. Bellamy's Drug Store, t CURRENT COMMENT. The discovery that Sampson has drawn $549 in excess of his pay while acting as a rear-admiral serves as a reminder of his promptness in laying claim to the prize money for the destruction of Cervera's ships." Baltimore Herald, Ind The valued Chicago Times Herald has decided that there are but ninety-nine years in the present century; that Sampson smashed Cervera at Santiago, and that Mr. Foraker is a huge lump of all-round wickedness. In addition to these decisions, Editor Kohlsaat haSr a number of "important matters nnder consideration. Washington Post, Ind. It is now stated that the commander of the the Boer forces in the Nicholson's Neck fight, in which the Irish regiments of the Jueen's trrops lost heavily, was an Irishman of the name of William Vance, who was formerly a leading orangeman in County Cavan. Vance was tho agent of the Earl of Annes ley in Ireland, which county he left some years ago and removed to South Africa. Savannah News, Dein. w The Boer girls go a long dis tance to see Abe fighting and re main to care for their wounded and weep for the dead, but not one has been found to beg sweetheart or brother to keep away from the firing line. Klipling does not like her, but we find much to admire that is finer than beauty of face or form or the cut and texture of a gown. Perhaps we are lacking in apprecia tion of the truly beautiful, or it may be that the poet fails to look deep enough. Jacksonville Times- Union, and Citizen, Dem. IWINKLINuS "He is quite a lady's man, isn't bet" said McSilligen to Spuild inr. "Who?" "R berU of Utah." Chicago Chronicle Telegraph A Nursery Pugilist: "Your little cirl looks healthy, Mrs. Jones " "Healthy! Ht doll has had eight heads since last Christmas." She "Isn't that , a duck of je. bonnet Dr. Cubebs' wife has ont" He "Yes, and it's very appropriate, too," She ' How so?" He "Her husband's a quack." Teacher "What is that letter, Johnny?" Johnny "I dou't know." Teacher "Why, don't you know what comes after T?" Johnny "Yes'm; sister's feller." Twins arrived at Nellie's home one day, acd wheu tbe little miss was taken to see them she exclaimed : "I'll just bet mamma discovered them on a nargain counter or she wouldn't have bought two. ' Cold Comfort: "Looks as though our day was done," said the dejected horse. "Oh. I don't know !"' replied the Optimistic Dobbin. "They'll need lea' her for certain parts of these auto mobiles, and tiiev'll probably ue our hides for that Philadelphia Press "Please, sir, won't you give something toapwr father of a fara ily?"' "Give samethiog? What's that photographic apparatus for?" "I'm aa amateur photographer, sir, and I'm collecting the pictures of all th p-ple that give me money?" Der Floh. The girl's father was rich and the suitor for her hand was poor, but rt-raarkably persistent. "Papa." she aid to the old gentleman, "if Frank ask me to marry him, what shall I s..j ?" "S ty whatever you thiak is i-Vt, rr.y child " "How best ppa? Best for nse. or best for Frank?" Detroit Free Press. FE4CE INSTIIUTE, RALEIGH, N. C. The Fall term of this Institute has been remarkably successful in every .way. It has had more boarding pupils "than last year, they have enjoyed uni formly good health and have distin guished themselves in deportment and application to study. Work will be resuaned January 4th. 1900 This will be a good time for ynung ladies to enter the Insti ute for the Spring term at reduced rates. The separation of Dupils, two in a room, the excellent Physician and inspector, mot competent train nurse, admirably arranged Infirmary and the careful at tention paid to each individual must reduce to a minimum all tei dency to disease. lis numbers are limited and the aim is to have a select school, where there sh 11 be a quiet home life, with close and intimate association between teachers and pupils, and to avoid the demoralizing influences of great numbers collected together with no common bond of sympathy. In such a school as Peaobi the advan tages for the development of true char acter and habits and the correction of individual defects of either are very Rreat" m QUARTERLY MEETINGS. Wilmington District, R. P. Bumpass, P. E , Wilmiof too, N. C. South port Dec 31. Jan. 1. Burgaw, Burgaw Creek, Jan. 9 7. Elizabeth, Elizabethtown, January 13, 14. Magnolia, Magnolia. Jan. 20, 21. Jacksonville and Richland, Jack sonville, Jan. 27, 28 Carvers Creek, Wymans, Feb. 3, 4. Sett's Hill, Prospect. Jan. 30. Wilmington, Grace, Feb. 11, 12. Bladeu, lnter. Feb. 17, 18. Clinton, Johnson's, Feb. 24, 25. Kenansville, Kenansville, March 2, 4. Waccamaw, Bethesda, March 9. White ville, Whiteville, March 10. 11. Zioo, Zion. Feb 6. Atlantic. Concord, Feb. 7. Onslow, Bethlehem, March 18, 19. Ilia Life Was Saved. Mr. J. E Lilly, a prominent citizen of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a won derful deliverance from a frightful death. In telling of it he says: "I was taken with Typhoid Fever, that ran into Pneumonia. My lung became hardened. I was so weak I couldn't evensitupin bed! Nothing helped me. I expected to soon die of Consumption, when I beard of Dr. King's New Dis covery. One bottle gave great relief I coutinued to use it, and now am well and strong. I can't say too much in its praise." This marvellous medicine is tbe surest and quickest cure in tbe world for all Throat and Lung Trouble. Regular sizes 60 cents and 1 00 Trial bottles 10 cents at R. R. Bellamy's Drug Store; every bottle guaranteed. t Electric Belt on Trial. To introduce it and obtain agents, the undersigned firm will send a few of their Electric Belts on trial on the following terms: $1.00 to be paid in ten days if the Belt proves beneficial, and the balance, $2 00, to be paid in sixty days if the Belt effects a cure. These Belts are a positive cure for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Kidney trou ble, Stomach and Liver trouble, Asth ma, etc. Address at once German Electric Agency, t P.O. Box 1874, New York, N.Y. LARGE LOADS. One of the Details !: Mea,n Good Bnalneas to the I t: ner. Much time; 13 lost by tliaK'rnj: small loads." -Many tim't s have I seen farm ers going to town vrlth a load of whent of only 30 or 40 Bushels. I can remem: ber when a boy we had to draw our wheat and oats to market a distance of 16 njiles. Even on good roads we con sidered: 30 bushels of wheat and '60 bushels of oats a good load. Now we draw 80 bushels of wheat -and don't consider it any too much. Where there Is a large quantity of stuff to market a third horse pays well. You can then put on 100 bushels of wheat and 200 bushels of oats. One man can do the work, an extra trip Is saved, and the third horse does nothing but draw grain. 1 It will take one horse to draw the wagon and the other two horses to draw grain. A great many loads of logs and bolts are drawn pastour house every day In the winter time. It Is Interesting to notice the difference in the size of loads. Some, with a good team and a long distance to haul, will have on a couple of small logs, while a neighbor with no better team will pile on 10 or 12 logs as large. What a lot of time Is wasted here! Frequently large load ing is overdone, but more frequently small loading Is overdone. One of tho handiest things we have on our farm is a large flat rack, 1 feet wide and 16 feet long, with a tight, smooth floor laid over it. We use this on our low wheel, wide tire wagon. It stays on all the time, and we use It for nearly everything. It has a 2 by 3 strip nailed ardund the outer edge to keep loads from slipping off. It Is the best thing for drawing in hay or grain that I ever saw. We can put on some monstrous loads of hay, and It is no trouble to put on 60 dozen of wheat, or all that a large team can handle. It looks like a flat car while empty, and the old fashioned rack looks like a toy beside it. Large loads of hay pay well. They save sev eral extra drives to and from the field. Besides, it does not take any longer to clean up the bottom of the load from a large one than it does from a small one. So time is saved in two ways here. Saving time means lots of mon ey sometimes in drawing hay. It may mean tho saving of large quantities from beiuj; spoiled by getting wet. I have often wished for an extra diy to finish up the hay. Had I used large loads I might have saved a good deal from getting wet. . These things mean business to every farmer. The time Is here when the farmer must use more business in bis business, writes I. N. Cowdrey In Tho Country Gentleman. I'orolnar Ithnbarb Ia the Celljur. Horticulturist Fred W. Card of the Rho:V." Island station, iu summing up his experience in forcing rhubarb, ex presses a desire to impress upon ev ery one who lias a garden with rhu barb in it the fact that he and his fam ily may be enjoying in February and March of next year a more beautiful product than ever grows In the opeu ground. To do it he will need to trans fer a few roots to a dark corner of the A CORXEU IX ItHCBARB. cellar after they have frozen In the fall, prfeking a little fine mellow earth about them, and then simply see that the plants are kept moist. Whoever owns a garden with no rhubarb In it should see that some is planted there forthwith. A warm cellar will liasten the crop, but n moderately cool one will give a finer product aud probably a better yield. The length of time between planting and harvesting varies from less than three weeks to more than two months, depending chiefly upon the temperature. Allowing the roots to freeze in the field will greatly fa cilitate forcing. Large roots should yield five to ten pounds per plant, and every ten ounces of that ylpld will make a delicious pie. The color of the cooked product will be much brighter If it Is placed upon the stove in cold water, and it will be sweeter if the sugar is added Just before it is eaten. Agricultural Brevities. The results from the continued ex periments of the Rhode Island station appear to indicate that many farmers might find the use of lime on their land a paying financial operation, even though the first cost of the investment seems to them forbiddingly great. J. IL Hale of fruit growing fame says there is less "danger from injury to the trees by freezing in winter when the soil is given frequent cultivation during the growing season and then a cover crop grown to cover the soil In the winter and to plow under to add 'humus to the soil the next year. Thorough fall cultivation seems to be the only practical means yet known of destroying wireworms In the soil. Sweet corn, if allowed to remain on the stalk and cut and put in a shock before being injured by frost, will keep fresh for a considerable time, says John Hobson in American Gardening. Smudge fires can be used to advan tage, according to the department of agriculture, for orchards, vineyards and ground plants, and even for the smaller grain fields, and would be par ticularly efficacious in protecting crops and plauts in low or bottom lands over which ou still nights the smoke from Smudge fires would settle. lie Got the Aa. "You're not on that horrid paper, are you, ' ' cried the girl who speaks her mind, "though I did once meet a re porter -from it who was rather nice? He came to see about getting an adver tisement What I Not a reporter! Why, I thought he was. Well, anyway I had lost a dog, and he said he had heard of it and wanted to know if I didn't want to advertise in his paper for it. I told him I didn't believe 1 liked his old paper, and he said he didn't think much of it himself, but he thought it was pretty apt to reach the class of people who stole dogs. And so since he was so polite about it I thought I might as well advertise in it But I didn't get the dog." New York Commercial Advertiser. Millionaire Private Davia. Roscoe Wells Davis, the millionaire sheep man of west Texas, who rode 183 miles on horseback to reach the railroad station at Marfa In order to come to San Antonio and enlist In the Thirty-third Infantry for service In the Philippines, was admitted to .Com pany D of that regiment the other morning and now wears the uniform of the country as a private, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Davis has a tre mendous estate, stretching over three counties, filled with thousands of eheep. He had sought to enter Roose velt's famous Rough Riders, but was rejected at the time because of a phys ical ailment. i. VORACIOUS LITTLE ROBINS. Cr.ch ncQt::ieJ Fourteen Yard of Asfeif.ut.-s Every Day. A would L philanthropist relates hia pxperienccs trying to play mother to a nest of little robins, which had by some accident been deprived: of their rightful mother's care. He diligently set to work digging angleworms, and sup posed that hewas fulfilling his whole duty, when one of the poor little songs ters died. Upon examination of the body, .which was reduced to skin and bone, the fostej parent came to the con clusion that it mast nave died of starv ation. Deeply grieved at his shortcoming, he redoubled his efforts, determine! to at least save the other two. It was not long, however, before a second one died, evidently of the same malady. The good man then resolved that, whatever the third one died of, it should not be starvation, and took off his coat and went to work in earnest. He kept on with the anglerorm diet until Le found that his one little bird was consuming from 14 to 18 yards of angleworms a day. This was too much for his pa tience, and ha proceeded to substitute the moro easily managed diet of bread and milk and other delicacies, which were, however, not nearly so much to Miss Robin's taste. Wanting to discover whether he had been catering to a family of abnormal appetites, our friend took to watching the methods of a real mother bird and found that she fed her young every two mintites. He then consulted the learned books upon birds and discovered that 14 yards of worms a day, with meals every two minutes, is the average rate of feeding fledgelings. He has therefore decided that he does not care to take up raising birds by hand as a business. Boston Transcript. The engineer misunderstood the signals and there was a frightful railroad collis ion, with terrible loss of life. The whole country was appalled by that accident. There is doubtless a far greater loss of life occurring every day, in various sec tions of the country, for which the only excuse is, "the doctor didn't under stand the symptoms." These cases are not the subjects of special inquest or the country would be aghast at the sacrifice of life to ignorance. It has been the experience of Dr. R. V. Pierce and his staff of assistant physi cians, that ninety -eight out of every hundred persons submitting to their treatment can be cured. People given up by the local physicians, weak, ema ciated, with stubborn coughs and bleed ing lungs have been absolutely cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Sick people are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter free. All letters at held as strictly private and treated as s; credly conficential. Answers are mailed in plain envelopes without any printing on them. " Last spring: I was taken with severe pains in my chest, and was so weak I could hardly walk about the house," says Mrs. G. E. Kerr, of Fort Dodge. Webster Co., Iowa. ' I tried several physicians and they told me I had consumption. I heard of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery and I thought I would try some of it. Before I had taken the first bottle I was very much bet ter; I took five ottles of it and have not yet had any return of the trouble." WHOLESALE PRICES CDEREKT. The quotations are always given as accurately as possible, but the 8tab will not be responsible for any variations from the actual market price of the articles Quoted. 9" The rollowinz quotations represent Wholesale Prices generally. In making up small orders nkzner Drices nave to be charged. BAGGING 2 K Jute 694 Standard i6MO 6i Burlaps 6 & ISH WI8TEUN BMOKKD Hams X im O 15 Bides m 6 Shoulders 9 K..... O 6 DBY SALTED Sides W ft- 6 6H Shoulders 6 BARRELS Spirits Turpentine Second-hand, each 1 15 1 20 New New York, each 1 35 New City, each 1 40 BEESWAX V In & 85 Wilmington V H.. ... 5 00 7 00 Northern 9 00 14 00 BUTTEB North Carolina V IS 80 Northern 27 SO CORN MEAL Per bushel, In sacks 46 i7H Virginia Meal 47J4 OOTTON TIE v Dandle... 110 CANDLES 9 Sperm IS 85 . Adamantine 8 11 CHEESE V By Northern Factory...... 16 18 Dairy Cream IS State 14 15 COFFEE V Laguyra 13 16 Rlo 8 11 DOMESTICS Sheeting, 4-4, V yard 6H Tarns. V bunch of 5 Ids ... . 70 IGrSS V dozen 18 30 FISH- Mackerel, No. 1, f barrel... 22 00 80 00 , Mackerel, No. 1, half-bbl. 11 00 15 00 Mackerel, No. 2, 9 barrel... 16 00 18 00 Mackerel, No. 2 half-bbl.. 8 00 9 00 Mackerel. No. 8, y barrel... 13 00 14 00 Mullets, y barrel 3 75 & 4 oo Mullets, 19 pork barrel...... 3 50 N. C. Roe Herring, 9 keg.. 8 00 & 3 26 Dry Cod, S Tb 5 10 u Extra 4 85 4 60 FLOUR- H Low grade 8 00 Choice 3 60 Straight 3 75 3 90 FlrstPatont 4 25 4 50 GLUE B 12t 15 GRAIN $i bushel Corn, from store, bgs White 52 62J6 Car-load, In bgs White... & 50 Oats, from store 38 40 Oats, Rust Proof 45 Cow Peas 60 . 75 HIDES V lb Green salted 6M Dry flint 10 125 Dry salt t9 HAY 100 lbs Clover Hay , 85 ' .90 Rice Straw.... 40 60 Eastern 80 85 Western 80 85 North River " 80 85 HOOP IRON, V B 3H 4 LARD, ? . Northern 6 66 North Carolina 8 10 LIME. JS barrel .". 115 125 LUMBER (city sawed) V M ft Ship Stuff, resawed 18 00 20 00 Rough edge Plank 15 00 16 00 West India cargoes, accord- lug to Quality 13 oo is oo Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 & 2S oo Scantling and Board, com'n 14 00 -& 15 00 Common mill 500 650 Fair mill 6 50 8 00 Prime mill 8 50 10 "00 Extra mill 10 00 10 50 HOLASSE8 V gallon Barbadoes, In hegshead 25 Barbadoea, In barrels 28 Porto Rico, In hogsheads.... -28 30 Porto Rico, In barrels 25 so Sugar House, in hogsheads. 12 14 Sugar Hoase, In barrels.... 14 is Syrup, In barrels 15 & 25 NAILS, V keg. Cut, 60d basis... 2 60 8 00 PORK. V barrel Cltv Mess. 10 00 10 50 Rump 950 Prime 9 00 ROPE B 10 22 SALT, V sack. Alum 1 25 Liverpool 90 95 American 8 oo On 126 Sacks .7".... 60 SHINGLES, 7-lnch, per M 5 00 660 Common 1 60 8 25 Cypress Saps 2 50 2 75 8TJGAR. V B Standard Gran'd 5M 56 Standard A ' 4? 6 White Extra C 4 Extra C, Golden a C, Yellow '. 46 SOAP, n Northorn 3J4 4 STAVES. V M W. O. barrel.... 8 00 & 14 09 R. O. Hogshead. 10 00 TIMBER, M feet Shipping , 9 08 10 00 Mill, Prime 7 50 8 75 Mill Fair 6 50 7 no Common Mill s oo 608 Inferior to ordinary 850 600 SHINGLES, N.C. Cypress sawed P M 6x24 heart 7 50 8 50 " Sap 5 00 8 00 6x20 Heart 8 00 350 " 'Bap , 8 00 2 60 6x24 Heart 6 00 6 60 " 8ap 6 00 6 60 TALLOW, y D 6 WHISKEY, V gallon. Northern 100 a 00 North Carolina 1 00 00 WOOL Der Unwashed...... 14 O 16 UOMMERClAi; WILMINGTON SaUKK! STAR OFFICE, Drc 28 SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market firm at 48 cents per gallon for machine made casks and 47 4 cents per gallon for country casks. ROSIN Market firm at $1.10 per barrel for strained and $1.15 for- good strained. TAR. Market steady at l.25 per bbl of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE. Mark et firm at $1.60 per barrel for bard, $2.80 for dip, and - - for virgin. Quotations same day last year. Spirits turpentine firm at 42J42c; rosin, nothing- doing; tar firm at $1.10; crude turpentine firm at $1.302 30, 2.30. RECEIPTS. Spirits turpentine 14 Rosin 373 Tar 282 Crude turpentine. . 34 Receipts same day last year. 57 casks spirits turpentine, 705 bbls rosin, 218 bbls tar, 5 bbls crude tur pentine. COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 7c per pound for middling;. Quotations: Ordinary 4 9-16 cts. ft Good ordinary 5 15-15 " " Low middling 6 9 16 Middling 7 . " " Good middling 7 " " Same day last year middling 5Jc. . Receipts 378 bales; same day last year, 248. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina Prime, 85c. Extra prime, 90c per bushel f 28 pounds; fancy, $105 Virginia Prime, 55c; extra prime, 60c; fancy, 65c. UOKN ifirm; 52 to 52 i 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, 7 to oc; 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 .00 per M. FINANCIAL MARKETS. Telegraph to tbe Morning Star. New York, December 28. Money on call was steady at 44 6 per cent.. last loan at 5 per cent., ruling rate per cent. Prime mercantile pa per 6 per cent. Sterling exchange was firm: actual business in bank ers' tills at 487487 for demand and 481M481K for sixty days. Posted rates 482482 and 488. Uom me rcial bills 480 480 U-Silver certifi cau:s58ja59j. Bar silver 58?. Mex ican dollars 47j. Government bonds weak. State bonds firmer. Railroad bonds irregular. U. 8 2's, reg'd, I02l4 U. S.3V reg'd, 110 ;do. coupon, lloX ; .U. S3, new 4 s, reg d, 156 U ; do. cou pon, 133; U. S. old 4's, reg'd, 114; do coupon, II514 ; u. b. 5's, registered. 113; do coupon, 113; N. C. 6's 127; do. 4's, 107; Southern Railway 5 107 J Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 54 : Chesapeake Sc Ohio 29 6 ; Manhattan L, 96; New York Central 131; Read ing 173 ; do. 1st preferred 49 ; St. Paul 117 ; do.' preferred 172: Southern Railway 11 ; do. preferred 53; Amer ican Tobacco. 98; do. preferred 135; People's Gas 102f6 ; Sugar 127 ; do. preferred 113; T. C. & Iron 83 U. S Leather 13 ; do. preferred 71 ; vVest?s U'-iioa 85. NAVAL ST0BES MARKETS. By Telegraph to ths Morning Star.. New York, December 28. Rosin steady. Spirits turpentine quiet at 51 51c. Charleston, December 28. Spirits turpentine firm at 47e ; sales casks ; no receipts. Rosin firm and unchanged ; no sales. Savannah, December 28. Spirits turpentine firm at 48c; sales 912 casks; receipts 549 casks; exports 41 casks. Rosin firm; sales 1,657 barrels; re ceipts 2,764 barrels; exports 1,200 barrels. Quote: A, B, C, D, $1 10; E, $1 20; F, $1 30; G, $1 35; H, $1 55; I, $1 60; K, $1 60; M, $1 90; N, $2 30; W G, $2 80; WW, $3 60. COTTON MARKETS. By Telegraph to the. Moraine Star. New York, December 28. Bull speculation was the feature of to day's operations' on the Cotton Ex change. From the very opening shorts were nervous, the news in General having depicted much firmer conditions than calculated, while offerings, even at an advance, were surprisingly light. Cbief among bull ish influences were the English cables and strong Southern spot markets. Oar market made a steady start, with prices three to six points higher. Dur ing the f orenoon there was very little departure from this level and trading did not reach imposing proportions. Early in the afternoon, however, there was a decided change, the volume of speculation and prices advancing rapidly on vigorous buying by shorts and aggressive action by bulls. Tbe market closed firm at a net advance of seven to eleven points. New York, December 28. Cotton, Quiet and steady; middling uplands 7 1116c. Cotton futures closed firm : Decrm ber 7.38, January 7.39, February 7.43, March 7.48, April 7.52, May 7.56, June 7.46, July 7. 59, August 7. 55, September 7.12, October 7.02, November 6.98 Spot cotton closed quiet and steady and 1-1 6c higher; middling uplands 711 16c; middling gulf 71516c; sales 236 bales. Net receipts 1,106 bales: gross receipts 9,658 bales ;. stock 119,376 bales. Total to-day Net receipts 30,307 bales-.exports to Great Britain 15,500; stock 140.170 bales. Consolidated Net receipts 148,217 bales ; exports to Great Britain 30, 100 bales; exports to Franca 3,611 bales; exports to the Continent 56.698 bales. Total since September 1st. Net re ceipts 3.859,432 bales; exports to Great Britain 981,625 bales ;exports to France 417,392 bales; exports to the Continent 1,084,846 bales. December 28. Galveston, firm at 7XJ, net receipts 5,188 bales; Nor folk, firm at7 7 16c, net receipts 1,799 bales ; Baltimore, firm at 7c, net receipts bales; Boston, steady at 7716c.net receipts 1,114 bales; Wil miBgton, steady at 7, net receipts 378 bales; Philadelphia, firm at 7 15 16c, re ceipts 404 bales; Savannah, quiet and firm at 7jc, net receipts 2,856 bales ; New Orleans, steady 'at 7 7 16c, net re ceipts 14,152 bales; Mobile, quiet at 7 3-16,net receipts 2,444 bales; Mem phis, steady at 7 5-16c, net receipts 882 bales: Augusta, firm at 7Hc, net receipts 907 bales; Charleston, firm at 7 3 16c, net receipts 236 bales. PRODUCE MARKETS. ;By Telegraph to the Mornlniz Star. New York, December 28. Flour very, slow and if anything easier. Sharp concessions would have to be made to secure business, as buyers were indifferent. May flour stmiy. Buckwheat flour steady. Corn meal quiet. W heat Spot steady ; No 2 red 74&c; options opened easy at Ko de cline with the local 8ellineTnt!r!!' bearish ArTt.iT. -1 V 118 Plred u is-ppointiDg cables a hS M-i.ttt- of outside support Th b" held weak and narrow all a miiret for an afternoon rally on thye political complications ow. yncan anaire. (Jlosed steads uth a u iirrrr"'. ia-e sales irxttivu uiuseu BC;MavcWj UUtd .Tulv closed 74ii . 'rVy cl5sed 748.' 'jx- v"u opui easy No 9 options opened dull. 4 40k..- u,v wMimg west and 1W P", trade. Closed steady with ! iVePo unchanged prices; M v enJj at st December closed 39c. Oat ? No. 2, 29c; No. 3, 280 odTS011 Beef dull. Cut meat? eas! T Vr Western steam, December to o- H nal. Pork steady. Butter tUnii Petroleum steady. Rice quiet P?" firm; New Jersey $1 giflJi otatc York $1 501 75;. L75 $1 502T 00; Southern swe.Lfr 1 5; Jersey sweets $2 IM Eggs steady ; State atd FW , 23 24c; Western ungraded Waci 1620c; Western 23c loss r low steady; city Gc; counts v Ttl CHICAGO, Dec. 88. ( ash L fc: Flour stead y . WheatN J"1-!: No. 3 spring 6065Kc; No CTi eScCorn-NoSi? No van 26c; No. 3 win,.. 25 . ill! v . Pork. uer barrel c.Se. Lard, per 100 h , I5 W. 25 Short rib side... io,u ,5 Dry salted shouicc :A7 5 60. Waiskev-DistilW IvV goods, per gallon, $1 231 - The leading futures rar'ged ? 1 lows opening, highest, L, 1 closing: Wheat-No. 2 SL'1V 65,65. 65K, 6Sc;Hsy69?Xr 69. Corn-No 2 December 30 30,30kc; January 80. 30 S ' 30H;May 3232. Ig 32&32c. Oats-DecnS 218 22, 22c; May 23, 23$,? 23, 2323Xc. Pork; r bb I?' uary $10 22K, 10 22'A. 10 17 jf 10 ,7? Lard,perl00 lbs-January $5 5 6 5 67?' 5 62H, 5 65; May $5 85, 5 85 5 ft 5 82. Short ribs,per 100 fts-JanuS $5 35, 5 37 'A, 5 32,5 35; May t 5 57X, 5 52, 5 55. ?l5j5' Chicago December SS. -The wW market today felt the effect cf Liverpool decline and favorable croa Closed ic under yesterday. Smal'r ceipts gave support to the corn market' May closing at , a. shade gain. Osti closed a sbade up and provisions un changed to 2c better. Baltimore, December 28.-F!ot dull' and unchanged. Wheat veir dull spot and month 7171c January 7171c; February in 71c; May 74fc74,'c; Southed wheat by sample fc'871c Com dull and easy Spot and month 36 36jc; December, new or old 36 36Kc; January 3636c; Feb ruary 36237c; March 37Jc; South ern white 3337c, Oats steadr No. 2 white 3031c. FOREIGN $ARR 8 Bv Canle to the Homln ri . Liverpool, December 28, 4 P. AS -Cotton Spot in fair demand; pric 1 32dLigher; American middling fair. 4 11 16d ; good middling 4d ; m ddhug 47 16d; low middling 4 9 32d: goi4 ordinary 4 3 32d; ordinary 3 2932!. The sales of the day were 10,000 bail-, of which 500 were for speculation au export and included 9,400 American. Receipts 53,000 bales, including American. Futures opened firm aLd ckx' stead j at the advance. American v:. dling (1. m. c.) December 4 1861 4 19 64d buyer; December and January. 415 644 16 64d buyer; January anil February 4 13 644 14 64d buyer; February and March 4 ll-64d buyer; March and April 4 09-644 10 Hd buyer; April and Mav4 08 64d buyer; May and June 4 06 644 07-64d buyer; June and July 4 05 64d seller; July and August 4 03-644 04 64d seller: August and September 3 63 64ld er; September and October 3 55 64d seller. MARIJN ARRIVED. Stmr Driver, Bradshaw, Fayeits ville, T D Love. CLEARED. Stmr Driver, Bradshaw, Fayette ville, T D Love. Stmr Seabright, Sanders, CalaW and Little River, S C, Stone, R & Co' " M , MARINE DIRECTOR List of Teaaela In tbe C"-" -; Hl mlDSton, f- Dec. 29. 13SS. STEAMSHIPS Laurelwood (Br), 1,595 tons, Mauer.J H Sloan. Aquila (Nor), 1,407 tons. Andersen, Heide & Co. ti. . Haslisgden (Br), 1,220 tons, HiggM E Peschau & Co. SCHOONEitri Wm Linthicum, 147 tons. Brannocl, George Harriss, Son & Co. B I Hazard, 373 tons, BlatcbW George Harriss, Son & Co. Abbie G Cole, 232 tons, Cole, Wre Harriss, Son & Co. BARQUES. Louise (Nor) 620 tons Tomma"' Heide & Co. BRIGS. tit. M C Haskell, 277 tons, Wio George Harriss, Son & Co- BY RIVER AND ML- Receipts of Naval Storet to& W' Yesterday. W. & W. Railroad-49 bales cotton W. C. & A.- Railroad-U cotton, 2 casks spirits turpen"Ss barrels rosin. 80 barrels tar, "' j .. y I A. & Y. Railroad-98 bales cog 4 casks spirits turpentine, u rosin, 11 barrels tar. . ; C. C. Rilroad-20 bales co tf. casks spirits turpentine, It" rosin, 22 barrels crude turpenW j Steamer Driver-5 bales cotWJ cask spirits turpentine, 18 bsrr f 1 -IQ1 !,.!. i A barrels crude l" t U Steamer Seabright-15 bale cott 150 barrels rosin. ,11 QTQ hales: r. " turpentine 14 casks; rosin, a . rels; tar, 282 barrels; tine, 34 barrels. OPINIO5 NEWS AND of National Importance. THE S"0" ALONE CONTAINS BOTH. $6 ay" Daly, by mall, - Daily and Sunday, by mail, U"""J CPAP0 IS THE GREATEST SUNDAY Nt Iff THE WORLD. a copy. 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