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BY WILLIAM H, BERNARD.
WILMINGTON, N. C.x
TtJSDAT MORXTNO; J A.NT7ART 16.
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CUEEI5CY LSGISLATIOB".
The Washington i correspondent
of the New York Journal of Com
mero4 and Commercial Bulletin
writes that the Senate committee on
finmfifi ia wrestling with the re
funding scheme and while the-ma-
ioriiv of the Republican Senators
are in favor of it, ( they are fear
f ul that it may not prove a popu
lar mptanrn an d therefore thev are
feeling their way before they com
mit thfl party to it. This is the
ar-TiPma which prolongs the life of
the national banks for thirty years,
which was so sharply and perti
nently oriticised by the New York
Sun in an article which we repro
duced a few days ago. The Sun is
a Republican organ and as such
warns the gentlemen in Washing
ton who are pushing this scheme
that they are makinir trouble for
their party by tyeing to it the na
tional bank system. Perhaps some
of the Solons fear this and hence
they consider the question of politi
cal expediency quite as much if not
more than they do the question of
currency legislation. !
The New York Journal of Com'
rnrce and Commercial JSulletin is
not a political paper, j and discusses
public questions from a non-partisan
standpoint. While an advocate of
the gold standard, it is also' an ad
rocate of a scientific ourrency sys
tem, which would take the Govern
ment out of the banking business,
turn the note issuing over to
the people and let them supply their
own paper currency without any
interference by Congress. In com
menting upon this proposed bond-
refunding scheme, the object of
which, under pretence of saving in
terest to the Government, is to per
petuate the national bank system, it
says:
'Itis hardly necessary to argue the
necessity of a comprehensive and
scientific currency reform measure
from a financial point of view. That
argument has been made exhaustively
and to a large extent successfully. We
infer from the willingness of both
branches of Cor gress to en set a gold
standard bill and to relax slightly the
restrictions upon the issue Of bank cur
rency that the argument for a sound
currency has produced conviction gen
erally outside of the ranks of the
avowed cheap money men. The ex
treme moderation of the propo
sals of the House Caucus i Com
mittee and "of the Senate Finance
Committee seemed to be due rather to
considerations of expediency than to
wart of conviction. : This .hesita
tion on grounds of expediency, we
fear, affects the House Committee on
Banking and Currency which has just
organized. The oommittee has a good
chairman, and among its members are
the gentlemen who have been most
active for years in pushing currency
reform bills in Congress. We have
no doubt that the committee means
well, and that most of the members of
the oommittee are convinced of the
importance of a radical improvement
in our currency legislation. Several
members of the committee have long
been identified with meritorious bills
for the improvement of the currency
situation.
"But the oommittee is reported to
be unwilling to act at present; to
favor postponement of action till the
gold standard bill has become a law,
and till the affect of its very modest
changes in the National bank legisla
tion have been observed. It ia not
unfair to attribute this excess of cau
tion to political considerations. We
therefore suggest to the members of
the committee that whenever public
seatimeat has been taken on this sub
ject it has been found to be in ad
ranee of that among the political
leaders. It was the public demand
for a sound currency that forced tka
gold plank at 8t Louis upon . party
leaders, most of whom were, very re
luctantnot because they did not be
lieve in the plank, but because they
feared it was inexpedient Greatly to
their surprise that same public senti
ment forced the gold standard into the
first place in the campaign instead of
the secondary place it was expected to
occupy. That public sentiment in
favor of sound money: gave the Ad
ministration party its decisive victory
at the polls, and in spite ot caution
which might be called timidity in Con
gress that public sentiment in favor of
currency reform sustained the pro
longed efforts of the Indianapolis con
ference and expressed itself unequivo
cally in party platforms and at the
polls in pregon, Iowa. Michigan and
several other States. That same senti
ment welcomed the gold standard bills
which the gentlemen in Congress tar
dily and reluctantly produced.
'The most expedient thing that the
Administration party can do. at this
moment is to enact a bank currency
law that will release the circulation
from the fetters now imposed upon it.
IT the politicians will venture to do
this they will be surprised again at the
promptness with which the public, the
majority of the people, practically the
whole of the Administration party
will welcome the reform. With very
rare exceptions all the opponents of
rational banking, as of sound cur
rency, are already in the opposition,
and the Administration party can do
nothing better for itself than to give
the businesa of the country the cur
rency legislation it has been begging
for so long."
SpeaW as a old onran th J
Journal of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin assume, that the gold .tan-
question waa settled by the last
rw"oa wat it was made aa issue
"J the Republican party in com-
pliaTice" with the popular demand,
both of which are pure assumptions,'
for every one knows that there" was
no popular demand for anything of
the kind, and that making the goicT
question an issue was. not thought
of until Senator Piatt, of New York,
sprang it ou the convention an d
forced the politicians to accept in in
obedience-to the dictates of the
money combines of the East whom,
the political managers were afraid to
ignore. .But that was not a declara
tion for the gold standard. The
only out and out gold party was the
party represented by (Palmer and
Buckner. and they didn't make a
respectable showing on the day of
election. . getting Bcarcely votes
enough to be worth counting. The
National Democracy, as the Pal-
rf ,
mer-Buckner party called itself,
was the only party which positively
ittpd itHAlf to the cold stand
ard, for while reaffirming its deter
mination to maintain the parity of
all our different kinds of money, the
Republican party refused to commit
itself to the Bingle gold standard, ai
though oommitting itself to gold
payments of national obligations,
and declared its purpose to labor to
secure the co-operation of other gov
ments to open their mints to the
coinage of silver, so that silver like
gold .might become a world money.
In this way the platform makers did
what they considered the cunning
thing and played into the hands of
both the silver Republicans and the
gold men, as they are now playing
into the hands of the national bank
ers under pretence of saving interest
to the Government.
THE OTHEB SIDE OF IT.
An attempt has been made to in
fluence public sentiment in the
South and in the West in favor of
the policy of forcible expansion by
representing that with the Philip
pines in our possession there would
be an enlarged market for W estern
farm products and for Southern cot
ton fabrics. It does not appear how
holding the Philippines is going to
contribute to this, for the people of
those islands have little use for
Western farm products and not much
more for Southern cotton fabrics.
They jaise about all they need to
eat, and twenty-five cents worth of
cotton goods would clothe the aver
age adult person. The market for
American products is in China and
we can work our way into that with
out the Philippines as well as we can
with them. About the only advant
age we could derive from them would
be in having some port as a base of
supplies and distributing point, and
we could rescue that without any
grab of the islands. The Filipinos
would freely give ns that and doubt
less as many such ports as we might
ask. .
But assuming that there may be
something in that, how about the
other side of the question? We
have protective tariffs on sugar and
on cotton goods, the ostensible pur
pose ol which is to protect the
sugar beet grower and manufacturer
and the cotton manufacturer and
incidentally the cotton grower. The
American people have paid a good
deal of money in tariff taxes for
these purposes. Now one of the
strong arguments used by the ex
pansionists is that sugar can be pro
duced much more cheaply in the
Philippines than it can be in this
country, and cotton, superior to
American cotton, can be grown
there for- much less than in the
South, so that the Philippines un
der American control can come in
as competitors of the American
sugar cane and cotton growers.
The very men who have been fore
most in the demand for the protec
tion of American industries now
stultify themselves by proposing to
forcibly annex distant islands which
will become formidable competitors
of some of those industries, because
they pay little to the laborer that pro
duces the articles competed on. We
do not believe in the doctrine of pro
tection, but the sugar growers and
cotton growers of this country
should insist that the expansionists
who have advocated protection
should at least be consistent and
not desert them now. after havincr
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for years posed as their friends and
champions.
The director of the United States
Mint is trying to find the where
abouts of $300,000,000 of American
gold coin which does not show up.
Taking the amount coined at different
times he comes short in locating this
much, which seems to have disap
peared. He would probably find a
good deal of it disguised as Euro
pean coins.
The climate of Cuba does not
agree with American hogs, that is
four-legged hogs. Out of 800 im
ported into Havana 600 died within
a few days.
Robbed the Or
arc.
A atartline incident, nf k ?yVa fm
John Oliver, of Philadelphia, Pa., was
tuo ouujrck, im narrated Dy mm aa fol
lows: "I was in a moat dreadful con
dition. My skin was almost yellow.'
eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain con-
unuKuy in me oacjc ano siaea, no ap
petite gradually growing weaker day
by day. Three physicians had given
me up. Fortunately a friend advised
trying 'Electric Bitters,' and to my
31 iJSlVE?
inHed their use for three weeks, and
Lm? U?TlZ
of another victim." No one should
fail to try them. Onlv SO cents, guar
anteed, at R. E. Bhaaht'S drur
tore.
THZY 8TULTIFY THEMSELVES.
Senator Pritchard and Marion
Butler, both of whom- want to hKi
their soft snaps in the 'Senateare
noVpulling-together in ppposition
to , Vjfco , proposed constitutional
amendment. j Butler takes his cue
from Pritchard and toots j while
Pritchard fingers the keys of the.
tooting horn. They and j lesser
lights of the Rep-Pop gang profess
to be very confident that the
amendment will be defeated, arid
predict the 'figures by which it will
be defeated in some Western coun
ties, where there is a majority of
white voters.
But don't they stultify themselves,
and disoredit their predictions;
when professing to feel so confident
of the defeat of the amendment
they are moving to get up an injunc
tion to prevent the election from be
ing held, and are raising money to
pay the expenses of contesting the
election in the courts after it is
held ? I
If they felt half as sure of victory
as they profess to feel, wouldn't
they rather hold an election3iralop
the Democrats and have the prestige
this would give them than try to
choke off the election with an in
junction? Of course they would.
If they were so confident of vic
tory, would they be holding party
conferences to discuss the ways and
means of getting this question before
the courts to test the constitution
ality of the amendment after the
election has been held ?
If he felt confident would Senator
Pritchard be offering in the Senate
an absurd resolution asking tne
Senate to declare unconstitutional a
measure which has not yet been
adopted and with which the Senate
has no more to do, until it is adopted,
if then, than it has to do with the
collection of customs duties at Hong
Song ?
Men who are confident of having
the people behind them do not wrig
gle around so and resort to so many
devices to prevent an expression of
that will or to nullify it when ex
pressed.
Pritchard and Butler are both
jays when they cannot see that their
predictions are discredited by their
previous utterances and actions.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Kinston Free Press: Mr. Owen
W. Dail died Friday morning very
unexpectedly, at his home in Snow
Hill. He had baen sick; but was
thought to be improving. He was 41
years old.
Salisbury Index: Mr. W. A.
Fries, who came down the Westeru
road Friday night, tells us that there
was a heavy fall of snow at Blowin&r
Rock yesterday. The snow was still
coming down when Mr. Fries left
there.
Fayetteville Observer: Dave
Surles and Fred Shaw, two negroes
confined in the county jail, got in a
n ht Saturday morning over a game
of cards with the result that Dr. Mc
Gougan, the county physician, had
his hands full for an hour, sewing up
the latter'a wounds.
Newton Enterprise: Capt. Ben.
Clark, a freight conductor on the
Southern Road, is afflicted with a very
peculiar disease of the head. For
twelve months an opening has been
gradually going on in the skull from
ear to ear until the space between the
separated parts is now large enough
to put the finger in. He continues
daily at his work but suffers constant
ly from the headache. Dr. Campbell
is in correspondence with Dr. Tiffany
of New York, an expert in skull dis
eases, who says it is a very peculiar
case and advises Mr. Clark to go there
lor treatment.
Wilson Times: Lon Daughtrey
who killed Neil Jordan near the cotton
factory, in this city about a year ago
bas been caught in Newport News and
is now in jail awaiting the action of
the authorities here. Mr. J. J.
Farmer a prosperous farmer living
near Wilson showed us a brass ring.
na round m the mouth of a hog he
killed last week. It seemed that the
hog never thrived aa the others in the
bunch, which fact elicited Mr. Farm
er's attention. Upon examination
after killing the porker, the ring was
found around the tongue fastened in
the fleshing part next to the throat.
The ring ia about ljtf inches in diam
eter. Wade8boro Messenger-Intelli
gencer: The clothing of the little 3
year-old daughter of Mr. James Sings,
who lives in McFarlan, caught nre
Tuesday, while sbe was playing around
the fire, and Before it could be extin
guished sbe was so badly burned that
death resulted Wednesday. The
child's mother was in the yard when
the accident occurred. Dr. W.
A. Ingram's office was broken into
Saturday night and robbed of $100 in
gold. The money was in a small red
alorrooco pocket book which was
locked in a drawer, and consisted of
five 20-dollar pieces. The thief enter-,
ed the office through the scuttle hole
in the roof.
New Cook "What does your
husband like for his break fast, ma'am."
Mrs. Growella "Oh. he likes any
thing we haven't got.''
A Thousand Tongue
Could not express the rapture of
Annie E. Springer, of 1125 Howard
street, Philadelphia, Pa., when she
found that Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption had completely
cured her of a hacking cough that for
many years had made life a burden.
All other remedies and doctors could
give her no help, but she says of this
Royal Cure ''it soon removed the
pain in my chest and I can now sleep
soundly, something: I can scarcely re
member doing before. . I feel dike
sounding its. praises throughout the
UniTtrse." Bo will every one who
tries Dr. King's New Discovery for
any trouble of the Throat, Chest or
t a a . i ru rn : l
ajungs. truce ou cents aura ai- w. a.rxau
bottle 10 cents at R R BKixiirr's
drug
teed.
store. Every.
bottle guaran
t
Mrs. Wctslow's Boothhto Sykup
has been used for over fifty years by
millions of mothers for their children
while teething with perfect success.
It soothes the child, softens the gums.
aiiays au pain, cure wind colic, and
ia the beat remedy -for -Diarrhoea. It
will relieve the poor little sufferer im
mediately. Sold by druggists in every
part Of the world. : Twenty -five oenta
a bottle. Be aura and ask for " Mrs.
Winalow's Soothing Syrup," and take
no other. ! t
TWINKLINGS.
U She'I'm
one of her oldest
friends." " You
look it Ybnkers
BtategmarCJL': h : r;s
. The difference .between a wit-
and a humorist i tha'. a wit sbjs things
ai.- a humorist writes them. Jruck.
Customer "Hare you felt slip-
Ders. young manr; ew uierK "xes.
nil .r i -a . -m-w
ma'am ; but-1 - haven't for a long time
now." -L ....
Maude-7-"JJid Jack kiss j on
w nen you- accepted mrar' Uiara
"Certainly. 1 wouldn't consider any
but sealed proposals."
J?earl 'I almost love Harry."
RUby "But he is such a slow tello w."
Pearl "That's just it. He actually
took fifteen minutes to put on my
skates last night."
; Mr. J orthside " V ho was
that friend yon had with you this
afternoon?". ' Mr. Shadyside "That
wasn't a fried. It was my father
ittJaw.'' Jttttsburg Chronicle.
"Use one teaspoonf ul of this
cocoa in hot water every day. The
can will last thirty days." """But sup
pose there's company, missis?" "Why,
then, of course, use more hot water."
An astonishing incident occur
red during a recent nre in a piano
wareroom. A n reman who had no
previous knowledge of music picked
up the hose and played on a piano.
Philadelphia liecora.
'"Jacqueline and I always do
our Christmas sbooning together."
"How pleasant 1" "Yes; she doesn't
wan t to spend any more on me than 1
do on her,. and I feel the same way."
Indianapoli8 Journal.
Tommy! (on Uhristmasf morn
ing) "Where does 8anta Claus get all
his stuff, mamma?" Mamma Ob.
he buys it." Tommy "Well, he must
be a jay', to let any one palm off a tin
watch on him." lovm loptca
CURRENT COMMENT.
The wealth of the United
States is estimated at one hundred
billions of dollars, and yet there are
hundreds of thousands o' people in
the United States who to-day are
hungry, and cold and ragged and
hopeless. AUlanta Journal, Dem.
Senator Cullom is a fair aver-
ago in that body; but John R. Tan
ner would be a sorry one. "The
sickening deoadence of the Senate,"
as an eminent writer lately put that
chamber s misfortune, has gone far
enough. Illinois ought not con
tribute to it: two like Mason and
Tanner. One's enough in all con
science. Chattanooga Times, Dem.
The Roberts case is begin
ning to worry the Republicans.
Having started wrong, they think it
would be humiliating to turn around
and start right. Koberts has as
much right to his seat as any con
gressman now on the floor of the
capitol. After he is seated the house
can deal with his polygamous record
as it chooses. ' Atlanta Constitution,
Dem.
Chairman Payne of the Ways
and Means Committee of the Honse
thinks it would not be wise to cut
down any Internal Revenue or War
Revenue tax, until we see whether
the customs duties will fall off, and
how much. For a leader in the G.
u. f., unairman rayne exhibits a
sad lack of confidence in the "Pro
tective Tariff.!' B rooklyn, N. T.,
Citizen, Dem.
WHIM-WHAMS.
Bead Them Carefallr, aad Tou'll Be
Sure to Appreciate Them.
Tne Editor That story or yours
seems to be one sided.
The Reporter Well, you told me to
write only on one side of the paper.
Yeast I ran across a friend of yours
today.
Crimsonbeak Is that so? What wer
rou on, trolley, bicycle or automobile?
Bill Isn't the automobile wonder
ful? I wonderwhat we'll have next?
Jill I bear a fellow Is working on
a donkeyless engine for vessels.
Patience Chollie expected
the girls
to make a good deal of him.
Patrice But of course Mhe
couldn't perform Impossibilities.
girls
Bill Was the colonel one of the men
behind the guns?
Jill No; between you and me, I be
llese be was one of the men behind a
tree. ;
The Doctor Did you draw this deed?
The Lawyer I did. I suppose It Is
what might be called a horseless con
veyance. '
"Yes; I see It iwas drawn by a don
key." :
Bacon I hear your friend has got
an automobile.
Egbert Yes; It's all over town.
He Is that a song bird you've got
there?
She Yes.
"What did you get It for?"
song." Yonkers Statesman.
Fatal Word.
Mrs. Easy 'What
is your ailment,
my poor man?
Willie Why, er er it's
dyspepsy,
ddid, an
Mrs. Easy Bridget, take that hot
bread j and chicken right back and
tiring me my bottle of dyspepsia cure.
: Remembered.
: In the great department emporium
the fanner's wife was busy buying
something to take home to each mem
ber of her family.
1 And did she overlook her old hus
band? ;'"
No, indeed!
i "I musn't forget to buy a gold brick
for Abberi" she exclaimed In faultless
dialect i and with1 the true light of love
In her eyes. '
'. Howl truly affecting! Detroit Jour
nal
A
SEVEN TIMES A WIDOWV
Marie Del - Ctlllo' , Hmsba
i-. r- s 3fei ?Vfolent Deaths.
ids All
Ma rie Del CostEIo of I California has
had seven husbands, ali'.of whom met
death m'some: violent form. When she
was"19 years old, she fell in love with a
young" ranchman and stockman, ' J oe&
Cassela. They were happy for nearly
two years, and then one day her husband
fell from a wagon. '.When picked up, his
ekull was found to be fractured, v He was
killed instantly and never spoke agaln.
.After remaining a widow, for one year
in 1883 she -was wooed and won by Man
ville Harris, the son of a storekeeper of'
that name. ' For eight months nothing oc
curred to mar their happiness, and then
one day her husband had a bad fall,
breaking his leg. Instead of the break
healiug and. the bone knitting as it should,
blood poisoning set in, and in a few
weeks she was a widow for the second
time. : . i . i '.
. For two years sho remained a widow.,
but her youth and beauty proved such a
strong magnet and the importunations of
her suitors so persistent that she in 1888
"married Felipe Uelmuth, a miner. Uhls
time her conjugal happiness was of short
duration, for within five weeks after the
marriage there was a cave In lat the mino
whero Hchuuth was working, and his
crashed and almost unrecognizable body
was recovered a few days later.
To be thrico widowed in . four years
alarmed the beautiful widow, and she de
termined not to tempt the fates again by
marrying, but five years later, in lSJl,
William Storey, a young actor, who had
known her when tboy were children, suc
ceeded In persuading her to take the
fourth venture upon the matrimonial sea.
They took a ranch near San Juan and
were happy t o a few short months. One
evening while outiwalkhi? by himself
Storey entered what is known as the
"Speaking canyon." Perhaps the happy
bridegroom in ecstasy whiBpcred his
bri le's name while alone and surrounded
by the somber walls stretching far above
him. Perhaps he was frightened by tho
thunderous reply that was shontcd back
at him. In this weird canyon one spo
ken word would runke him the center of
an eddying whirlpool of monosyllables
th.it would flutter about him like birds of
the night of evil 'omen, while a spoken
sentence in an ordiuary toue would engulf
him in a whirlpool of rushing, noisy ech
oes. Perhaps that was why he lost bis
reason and shot himself.
Husband No. 5 was nu Englishman
named George Proutcr, an heir to Eng
lish estates and an ardent, determined,
earnest lover. He laughed nt the fears
of . the terror stricken widow, declared
that she was morbid and finally married
her against her protest, telling her that
he 'would take her across the ocean mid
break the spe!l of misfortune that Bcemed
to surround her.
He had planned their future ns 0143
round of social pleasure, and success iu
England, but before he could take her
r.way from her surroundings he acci
dentally shot hiui'elf while hunting a
few weeks after their marriage and was
dead before his friends could carry him
boiue.
For two years she again donned wid
ow s weeds, and, aitnougn in less tnan
a year after Prouter's death an old suitor
made his second proposal for her hand,
she held out until in 1894 she finally
gave up, ana in sullen disregard for tne
consequences she married Beam Camp
bell. Two months later she was totally
unmoved when she learned of the. catas
trophe that made her a widow for the
sixth time. Her husband was in a mine
elevator when the machinery broke, and
he went crashing to the bottom of the
f-haft to be crushed to jelly at the end of
his fall.
The following year the seventh hus
band, Rey Costillo, a young Mexican,
undeterred by the fate of the prerious
six, witn passionate nery fervor, vowed
that he would break the fatal charm that
surrounded her life and, in spite of her
warnings, succeeded in inducing Marie
Prieto Cassela Harris Helmuth Storey
Prouter Campbell to take the seventh
journey to the altar, and in juafc 28 days
after the wedding he was caught in a
treacherous quicksand in Amador county,
Cal., and was suffocated in the yielding,
sinking deathtrap, before help could reach
him. I
Taqal Saint. ,
The belief grows in Mexico that Santa
Teresa is responsible for the uprising of.
the'Yaqui Indians. Every rebel cap
tured has In his possession a picture of
SANTA TEEESA. ,
her, and on the back of each is inscribed
one of her weird prayers. The Indians
credit her with the power to perform mir
acles, cure disease by touch, prophesy and
exorcise evil spirits, i Though frail and
delicate, she possesses great magnetic
power. She incited the Ynquis to rebel
lion some years ago. I
MARINE DIRECTORY.
List of Vcseels In tmxt 1'" U U
mtneton -n- Jan. 14il900.
STEAMSHIPS.
Chatburn (Br) 1,224 tons, Wood,
Alexander Sprunt & Son.
SCHOONERS.
Julia Elizabeth (Br) 120 tons, Sweet-
me. Greorffe Harnss, Son ct Co.
Cora M, 136 tons, Mitchell, George
Harriss. Son & Co.
Mecosta, 199 tons, Stratton, J T Riley
ft Co. (in distress).
Nellie Floyd, 435 tons, Nielsen, George
uarriss, Bon ac UoJ
Harold J McCarthy, 297 tons, Flynn,
George Harnss. Hon & Co.
Jno R FelL 355 tons, Loveland,
George Harriss, Son & Co.
Abbie G Cole, 232 tons, Cole, George
Harnss, Son oc Co. I
BARQUES. s
Solid . (Nor); 507 Jons. Weden, Heide
ccuo. . r
Glimt (Nor) 735 tons,! Birkeland, Rot
terdam. Heide & Co.
BARGES.
Maria Dolores, ?6l0 ! tons, Bonneau,
Charleston, . Virgmia-Carolinia
Chemical Co. i
Carrie LIzler, 538 tons, Jones, Charles
ton, 0 C, Virginia-Carolina Chemi
cal Co.
.1
play,
Jxn-
Idon; proved .a failure -m F : -..J;
; Jeffreys Lewis; will Tauter, fco Brady's
hewf Chinese play. "The , Queen Of
Chinatown."
Blanche Bates has taken the plunge
into the sea of: greatness by acting;
.Nora In Ibsen s malodorous A uon s
.House." ; , ,.
"The Ameer- is the title of the op
eretta" In which . Frank Daniels is to
appear next season. 'Fred M. Ranken
and KIre La Sbelh? wrote . It, and
Victor Herbert composed it.
Ellen Rowan, who paid several thou
sand dollars for the privilege of play
ing Portia in a Broadway theater. New
r York, a few years ago, is acquiring
experience less expensively, and doubt
less more valuably, in a stock company
that gives two performances a day.
MrGillette rewrites hia plays sev
eral times. The first draft is readily
dashed off.- This Is typewritten, asd
the author goes over It,. Interlining
here and cutting there until he has
a second version of it ready. The play.
Is typewritten again, and there Is
another revision and re-editing..
It is related that before appearing as
Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt studied the
part for three years. In order to fully
grasp the meaning of the ghost scene"
she retired to her chateau In Norman
dy and paced the lonely battlements
night after night, mentally picturing
to herself the appearance of specters
from the darkness. -
BY RIVER AND RAIL.
Receiots o! Naval Store and Cotton
Yesterday. '
W. & W. Railroad 186 bales cotton,:
3 casks spirits turpentine, 2 barrels
tar. n si
W. C. m, A. Railroad 659 'bales
cotton, felsasks spirits turpentine, 88,
barrels rosin. 88 barrels tar, 6 barrels:
crude tumentine.
A. & Y. Railroad 7 bales cotton, iq
casks 8nirits turpentine. 25 barrels tar.
W. & N. Railroad 182 bales cotton,!
7 casks soirits turpentine. 51 barrels
rosin, 1 barrel erude turpentine.
. Steamer Drrver 13 barrels roam,
80 barrels tar.
Total Cotton, 1,034 bales; spirits;
turpentine. 26 casks: roam, 152 bar-
mIb- tor IftS harmla? crnde turnentinpi
7 barrels.
WHOLESALE PHICES CtlKREM.
Tne quotations are always given as accurately .
as possioie, Dtu tne bxab wui not oa responsicie -for
any variations from tne artnal market price
01 tne articles anoteo.
tar" The roHowing quotations represent :
wholesale Prices generally, in maftrng
small orders nuzner nnces nave to Decnarj
BiQSBIQ
9 a Jute ey
Standard re
Burlaps 5
WESTERN SMOKED
& IS
Hams M (
Sides fV 5XQ
ahonlders 9 S O
DRY SALTED
Sides B 8
8boalder8 V S O
BARRELS 8plrlts Turpentine
15
6
6
6)4
6
Hecona-nana, eacn 1 10
1 S3
New New xort, eacn
I.......
1 85
Newuity, eacn ........
BXESWAX V S
BBICKS
Wilmington M
Northern
BUTTER
North Carolina 9
Northern
CORN MEAL
Per bushel. In sacks ..
Virginia Meal ..,
OOTTON TTEa flt bundle
CANDLES V
Sperm.
Adamantine .
i Dr. J Conan Doyle's , first
"TTklves." rorautlv. oroduced In
& 1 35
Q 85
5 00 7 00
9 00 14 00
is e so
27 30
a . 4?
1 10
18 5
8 11
CHEESE"?
Northern Factory . 16
Dairy Cream
State ; 14
COFFEE t
Lagnyra 13
Rio 8
13
18
15
16
11
DOMESTICS
Sheeting, 4-4, fl yard
Yarns. W bunch of 5 ts ....
EGGS V dozen 14
FISH-
Mackerel, No. 1, 9 barrel... 23 00
Mackerel, No. 1. half-bbl. 11 00
Mackerel, No. i, V barrel... 16 00
Mackerel, Na 2 f half-bbl. . 8 00
Mackerel, No. S, barrel... 13 09
70
15
80 00
15 00
18 00
9 00
14 00
4 00
8 50
8 85
10
4 50
Mallets, barrel 3 75
Mallets, pork barrel
N. C. Roe Herring, V
keg.
8 00
5
4 35
ITjOUR- t
Low grade
Choice
Straight
First Patent
QLUB- ,
GRAIN 9 bushel
Corn,from store,bgs White
Car-load, In bgs White...
Oats, from store
Oats, Bast Proof
3 00
3 50
3 90
4 50
15
8 75
4 25
12H
52
.
38
CO
52
SO
40
45
65
cow reas.
HIDES 8 t
Green salted.
Dry flint
Dry salt
HAT 100 s
4H
10
Clover Hay
Rice Straw
Eastern..
Western
North River
HOOP IRON, 9
85
40
80
80
80
90
50
85
85
. 85
4
8K
LARD, V
Northern
North Carolina
8
8
... 115
O
10
1 25
9 barrel.
KB (city s
R (city sawed) M ft
Ship Stall, resawed.
... is 00
90 00
15 00
18 00
23 00
15 00
6 50
8 00
10 00
10 50
Rough edge Plank is 00
West India cargoes, accord
ing to quality 13 00
Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00
Scantling and Board, com' n 14 00
Common mill
5 00
Fair mill
Prime null
Extra mill
MOLASSES V gallon
Bar badoea. In hegshead.. . . .
Bar badoea, in barrels
Porto Rico, In hogsheads. .. .
- Porto Rico, in barrels
8 agar House, In hogsheads.
Sugar Homse, In barrels. . .-.
' v Syrup, In barrels
NAILS, JB keg. Cut, 60d basis...
e so
8 50
10 00
29
28
80
SO
14
15
25
8 00
28
25
12
14
15
8 50
fuuk. v Darrei
; City Mesa
Romp..
Prime;.
10 00
!0 60S
9 00
22
1 25
95
90
60
6 50
2 25
2 75
ROPE, V ....
SALT, 9 sack. Alum,
; Liverpool
American
10
90
83
! On 125 9 8acks
SHINGLES, 7-lnch, per M.
5 00
! uvmmon..
1 60
1 Cypress Saps 2 50
busab, 9 Standard Qran'd
1 Standard a
White Extra C
i Extra G, Golden
1 O, Yellow
BOAP, Northern
STAVES. 9 M-W. o. barrel....
R. O. Hogshead...
TUBER, 9 M feet-Shipping .
! Hill, Prune
Mill, Fair
t Common Mill
4
6
4fc
4
14 09
0 uu
10 00
10 00
9 00
7 50
6 60
8 76
7 00
6 00
5 00
S 00
' Inferior to ordinary. 8 63
BHINSLEB, N.c. Cypress sawed
, 9 M 6x24 heart
" 8ap....
5x20 Heart
I ,4 On.
? 50
6 00
8 00
2 00
6 00
5 00
8 50
6 08
8 50
2 60
6 50
5 60
6
2 00
00
15
6x24 Heart.
" San
IALI1UW, V D
WHISKEY, 9 gallon. Northern
1 00
1 00
14
North Carolina
WOOI. uer t Dnwwbnl
MARINE.
' - ARRIVED.
j Stmr Driver, Bradshaw, Fayette-
me, t v Jjoye.
i Schooner Harold J McCarthy, 297
tons, Flynn, New York, George Har
riss. Son & Co.
t Br schooner Julia Elizabeth, 120
tons, Sweeting, Dunmoretown, Baha
mas, George Harriss, Son & Co.
j Barge Maria Polores, 610 tons, Bon
neau, Charleston, .Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Co.
1 Barge Carrie L Izler, 538 tons. Jones.
Charleston, 8 C, Virginia Carolina
Chemical Co.
CLEARED.
Stmr Driver, Bradshaw. Favette-
ville, T D Love.
I Clyde steamship Richmond, Catha-'
rine, New York, H G Smallbones.
EXPORTS.
' COASTWISE. x
NEW YORK Clvde ateamshin Rio.b-
mond 156 casks spirits, 145jbls rosin, .
708 bbls tar, 173 bbls crude, 42,266eet
lumber, 100 bbls pitch, 62 cases cotton
goods. 120 pkgs mdse, 93 bales warps,
48 bundles shuttle blocks, vessels by
W G Smallbones. .
- Washing Willow Furniture and
Wicker Chairs . -
Wicker chairs soon become soiled, but
can be cleaned to look like new with
. .iGold Dust-Washing . Powder V
and warm water. Use scrubbing brush; when
water becomes the least soiled, get fresh; follow
with a soft, dry cheese cloth, sad wipe dry
White iron beds can also be washed by this
method, but must be wiped dry quickly. -
' The abovaia taken from oor tim booklet
"OOLSEIt BULKS FOB HOUSTWOKK"
Bast (im ob raqtust to
THE M. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY,
CaJeaajo, St, LmK, Maw ; York.
COMMERCIAL.
- WILMINGTON MARKET.
STAB OFFICE, Jan. 15.
, SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market
firm at 51 cents per gallon for
machine made i casks and 504 cents
per gallon for country casks. .
ROSIN Market firm at $1:20
per barrel for strained and $1,25 for
good strained.
TAK Market arm at $1.35 per
bbl of 280 lbs. 8
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market
steady at $1.60 per barrel for hard,
$2.90 for dip and for virgin.
(Quotations same day . last year.-
spirits turpentine, notmcg doing;
rosin.quietat y7J4cll.02J4 : tar steady
at $1.10; crude turpentine firm at $1.35
RECEIPTS.
Spirits turpentine 26
Rosin...... 152
Tar 195
Crude turpentine 7
Receipts same day last year. 30
casks spirits turpentine, 365. bbls
rosin. 296 bbls tar, 1 bbl crudeJur-
pen tine.
COTTON.
Market steady on a basis of 7c per
pound for middiine. Quotations:
Ordinary ........ 4 13-16 cts. lb
trood ordinary ....... 6 3 16 "
Low middiine:. ...... 6 13 16 "
Good middling;. ..... 7 " 4
Same day last year middling 5Mc
Receipts 1,034 bales; same day last
year, 123.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina
Prime, 85c; -extra prime, 90c per
busnel of 28 pounds; fancy, $1.05.
60c; fancy, 65c.
WKK-Jttrm: 53 to 524 cents per
bushel. i
ROUGH RICE Lowland (tide
water) S0cfl.10: upland 6580c.
Quotations on a basis of 45 pounds to
tne bushel, j
N. C. BACON steady ; hams 10 to
ne 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,
15.50 to 6.50.
TIMBER Market steady at $3.50 to
fy.uo per M.
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
By Telegraph to tne Mornlns Star.
New York, January 15. Money
on call was steady at 354 per cent.
last loan at 4 per cent., ruling rate
cent. Prime mercantile paper 5
6 per cent. Sterling exchange
hrmer; actual business in bank
era' bills at 486? for demand and
at 483U483?i for sixty days. Posted
rates 484484X and 487 i4 488. Com
mercial bills 482 i Silver certificates
t58j59j. Bar silver 5959X. Hex
ican dollars 47. Government bonds
strong. State bonds inactive. Railroad
bonds irregular. U. S. 2's, reg'd, 102 ;
U. 8. 3's. reg'd, luaif: do. coupon.
110M ;U.8. new 4's. reg'd, 132 U ; decou-
pon, 133 ;U.S. old 4's, reg'd.113 : do
coupon, 114M: U. b. 5's. registered, ex
int. 112; do. coupon, 113U; N. C. 6V
127: do. 4's, 106; Southern Railway 5's
: atV 1 t r- a AAa . .
tjnesapeaKe ec umo zmk ; Manhattan u
92; Kew York Central -133 X ; Bead
ing 17; do. 1st preferred 49. ; St Paul
116M; do. preferred 170; Southern
.cwuiway ;uo. preierrea Ddjtt ; Amer
ican Tobacco, ex div 96 U ;do. pref 'cf 133;
People s lias 103 : uuear 116 da.
preferred 111 ; T. C. & Iron 82MV
u. . iestner 16 V4 ; ao. preferred 74
i western Union b6'4. - -v.
NAVAL
STORES
MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morninz star
New York. January 15. Roei
steady; strained common to good
steady. Spirits turpentine steady at
Charleston. January 15. Spirit.
turpentine quiet at 49c; sales castas.
Xtosm firm; sales barrels. B, O, D,
$115;E$120. f
Savannah, January 15. Spirits tur
pentine firm at 51c; sales casks;
receipts 286 casks; exports 458 casks.
Rosin firm ; sales 2,220 barrels : receipts
oarreis; exports 2,172 barrels.
COTTON MARKETS.
Bv Telegraph to the Morn inz 8 tar.
t w , ,
1 imvT iuk&, oanuarv 0. uoiion
futures were neglected almost from
start to finish in the local market to
day. Nobody appeared to be in pos
Session of orders and scalpers were int
different The openine was easy with
prices uncnangedto nye points lower,
the decline being more in the way of
a sympathetic response to weak cables
than to special pressure from the bear
side. Later, unfavorable Ed dish ad
vises caused a further settling of val
ues here,! but in no way encouraetrd
shorts, not a few of whom took ad
vantage f the decline to even up ac
counts Though receipts were light
and Southern markets generally
strong, the trade overlooked these fac
tors and Idiverted attention exclusj re
ly to tbei situation in Liverpool and
South Africa. New - Orleans and a
local export house were identified as
the principal buyers, though Livernnnl
purchased scattered lota from time to
time. Liverpool weakness was re
ported later in the day as due partially
to heavy selling for the ournosa of un
doing old straddles. The
closed steady at a net loss of one to
two points. : t
J New York, I ' January 15 Cotton
quiet; middling uplands 7 Ho: f
I Futures; market closed steadv: JtiL
ary 7.34, February 7.3L March 7.34.
April 7.36. May 7.39. June 7 39. Jul
7.41, August 7.30, September 6.93, Oc
tober 6.80, November 6.76, December
C40. 4 - i
Spot cotton closed auiet and
lower; middling uplands 7 He-, mid-
anng etuf7c: sales 4.960 bales.
a'oSgf.'3 SESBBS
406 bales; exports to the Oontinont
500 bales 1 stock 118,426 bales. t
Total io dav Net receipts 28 K12
bales ; exports to Great Britain 10,887 i
exports to the Continent 8.47A Kh1as
stock: 966J827 bales.
i Consolidated Net receipts 49,087
bales; exports 'to Great Bntain 26,269
bales; exports to France 8,154 bales:
Mr me ! uamonent zzmsz balesJ
Total since September 1st. Net re-j
pw ,a,zue Dales; exports to Great
wuu a,xox.zoo naiea; mmrti tn
they
Franco 477,149 bales; exports to the
Continent 1296,343 bales.
Jan. 15. Galveston, steady 7 5-16c
net receipts 5,983 bales; Norfolk'
steady at 7jc, net receipts 476 baits
Baltimore, nominal at 7c, net jre
ceipts 605 bales ;Boston,quiet and steady
at 7 11-16, net receipts 278 bales; Wil
mington, steady at 7,net receipts 1 034
bales; Philadelphia, quiet at 7 7-1 6c,' te
ceipts 104 bales; Savannah, steady at
75 16c, net .receipts 2,697 bales; New Or
leans, quift and steady at 7c. net .4
ceipts" 9,290 bales : Mobile, dull 1
7 5 16c, net recen t;. 2,g:0 bales; M
phis, steady at 7jc, net receipts 2,Sl8
bales :AugUsta.8teady at 7 7-16c,dh Receipts-1,346
bales; Charleston, fiim at
7.J4C, net receipts 675 bales.
PRODUCE MARKETS.
' By Telegraph to the Morning star
iNEW -YORK, January 15. Floiir
weak and 510c lowrr, without n.uefh
demand ; Minnesota patents $3 754 00 ;
winter patents $3 603 75; do.straiehf s
$3 353 45. Wheat Spot steady; Ni
2red745ic; options opened weak ui
der bearish cables,large shipiaentj and
a good increase on-passage. Further
declines were prompted by liquidatioh
but in the last hour prices rallied r h
export rumors. Just at the close, howl
1 . A 1 I , .
over, a ouarp set uhck occurreu Uf 0 r
realizing apd final prices were weak ai
iMC net decline. The sales included
March closed 74c; May closed 73c
July closed c. Corn Spot easy
No. 2, 41c; options opened bars-h
steady with wheat, but steadied upA
little during the day with proviso' -n
on light coverings. They finally i-j,ss d
on: with wheat again and closed ey
at ic net decline; May closed 39c.i
Oats Spot quiet ; No. 2 29c: Lard
firm ; Western steam closed $6 40 ; n
fined firm. Butter steady at a decline :
Western creamery 2125 ; State dairy
1024c Cheese, firm; fall madefancv
smaii iz&inc; rail maae-iancy inrte
. 11 t s 4 n f 11 I a
12M13c. Petroleum steady. Potato" s
steady; New Jersey $1251 75; Ne
York $1 501 87H Long IsJar.d $1 50
2 00; Jersey sweets $2 503 00.
Eggs steady; State .and Pennsylvania
20; Western ungraded at mark 1418o.
Freights to Liverpool very dull. Cti-
bage quiet; Long Island i 006 50p r
1UU. mce steady. Tallow hrm. Poik
firm. Cotton seed oil was very firm
but rather quiet, after recei.t hefivv
export purchases made at the Souii.
inme i crude in barrels 3333.J4 f :
prime summer yellow ddddsc; on
summer yellow nominal ; butter prat
3839c; prime winter yellow. 394tc.:
prime white 3940c: prime meal $23
Coffee Spot Rio strong and ten!
ing upward No. 7 invoice 8c; Nr.
7 jobbing 8c; mild strong and L :.
higher; Cordova 812c. Suj-r
Raw strong and tending upwaul;
fair refining 3Jgc bid; centrifugal 93
test 4c; refined steady, firm at d
active. -
Chicago, January 15. A formid
able array of bearish stocks and news
and the lack pf demand gave wheat
another shove on its downward course
to-day. May closing lc under Satur
day. Corn closed JJc and oats ic
lower. Provisions closed 2i10e
higher.- '
Chicago, Jan. 15. Cash quotations :
Wheat No. 2 spring c; No. 3
spring 6263c; No. 2 red CCc.
Corn No. 2, 31Mc. Oatt No. 2 23c:
No. 2 white 25X25Kc; No. 3 whirs
25 fie ;Pork, per barrel. 9 55
10 95 Lard, per 100 lbs. $5 92&o 05
Short rib sides, loose, 5 65 5 67 Vi.
Dry salted shoulders, $5 50&5 62"
Short clear sides, boxed., $5 85(3
5 90. Whiskey Distillers' finished
goods, per gallon, f l 23
The leadiner futures ranered as fo.
lows opening, hichest, lowest', an
closing: Wheat No. 2 January
63, 63H.63H 63c;May 6767K.
77M67H, 66, 663c; July 67
67, 67J6, 67.67, 675i67Xc.
Corn No. 2 January 304. 3QX,
30X; May 33M33H. 33K. 33iL 33X :
July 34w 34, 33 33,, 3334c. Oats
Jannary 22X, 22, 22X.22c; May
Vi, SJ4, Z37i. Z3ft. Fork, per bbl
January $10 75, 10 90, 10 75, 10 90;
May $11 05, 11 17, 10 97, 11 02K
Lard, per 100 lbs January $6 05, 6 05,
6 05, 6 05;' May $6 10, 6 15, 6 05, 6 15;
Short ribs, per 100 lbs January $5 80,
5 80,5 80, 5 80;May $5 85, 5 90, 5 80. 5 90.
Baltimore, January -lS.-'-jflour
dull; winter wheat patent $3.653.85.
Wheat very dull and easy spot and
month 7070Xc; February 70
70fc; Southern wheat bv sample t5
713e. Corn dull and easy Spot aDd "
month 37H37Mc: February 37 if
37c; March 37X38c. Southern
white corn 33V38c. Oate stead v--
No. 2 white 30V31c.
; fBSjm-Ji
FOREIGN MARKET
By Cable to the Morning star.
Liverpool January 15. 4 P. te
Cotton Spot in fair demand; prios
1 32d lower: American middiine' fair.
i4d; good middling 4 9 16d; middling
4Jd; low middling 4 HS2d; good
ordinary 3 3f 32d. -The sales of the
day were 10.000 bales, of which 500
were for speculation and export and
included 900 American. Receipts 4,000
bales, including- 3.400 American.
Futures opened and closed auiet at
the decline. American middiine1 (1: m.
c) January 4 19 64d buver: Januarv
and February 4 15 644 16-64d seller;
x eoruary and March 4 13-4d seller;
March and April 4 10-64d buver: Aniil
and May 4 7 64d seller; May and
June 4 4 644 5-64d buyer; June and
July 4 2 644 3 64d buyer; Ju:y and
August 1 44 l-64d sales; August and
September 3 59 643 60 64d buyer;
September and October 3 51643
52 64d buyer: Octobe'r and November
3 45-643 46 64d buyer.
Only three Uprights
and one Square
left.
Several Organs,
AT PRICES
UNHEARD or.
M. E. VANLAER,
403 North Fonrth'Sfreet.
tu thsa
dcS8tr
A SKILLED TRIO.
'Call at No. 7 8onth Front street., where von
Will- find B. W. Onion. Oornnllna Davis and
Henry Harris, three cf the most accomplished
Baroen In tha cltv. Rmd vonr oblldren to na
to have their hair-cut. Bfcave only 10 cevtr
Boys' haircut 80 cents.
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