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Satub r aisriNG, Mabch 23.
BLUHDESIHO IH CUBA
Senator Proctor, of Vermont, and
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, are
now in Cuba where they are said to
have gone at the request of Presi
dent McKinley to study the situa
tion and see if some way cannot be
devised to let go of the animal's tail
without sacrificing the vantage
ground we hoped to secure because
of our relations with the island
growing out of the jwar with Spain.
It has been announced that the Piatt
propositions as a whole have been
rejected by the convention, although
there is no objection to some of
them. Governor Wood is still hope
ful that the convention will yet come
to terms and accept all, because
many Cubans believe that this is the
best thing and about the only thing
they can do, for impoverished and
exhausted by the war with Spain
they are in no condition to enter
into a contest with a powerful na
tionso near by as the United States?
There are several classes of Cu
bans by birth or adoption, and each
of these several classes has its own
views as to the Piatt propositions,
which Mr. Piatt calls "requests,"
but which they regard as demands,
but they all agree that these "re
quests" or demands are a viola
tion of the letter and the spirit of
the Teller resolution, which had no
string to it. That resolution de-
clared that "the people of Cuba are
and of right ought. to be free and
independent." This was a virtual
recognition of their independence
then, without waiting for the result
of their war with Spain. But, as if
this were not sufficiently expressive
of the sentiments and motives of
this country, it added that there
was no intention to seek territorial
aggrandizement, or to exercise power
or control, but that when peace was
restored and stable government
established, our forces would be
withdrawn, and the control of the
island turned over to its own peo
ple. There was no string to that.
It was uttered in good faith, and it
meant precisely what it said. The
string was tied to it later, when the
greed for concessions took posses
sion of men who were inside the
ring.
That's where the blunder was, in
attaching any string whatever to it,
for there was nothing that we de
sired of Cuba that we could not
have secured with the full and
cheerful consent of the Cuban peo
ple if we had maintained our
plighted faith, had helped them to
put their civil governments run-
ning and then left them to take
charge of tfieir own affairs. Then
they would have remembered us as
friends and rescuers, they would
feel an obligation of gratitude: there
would have been no shattered confi
dence, and they would have had no
fears or hesitation in granting any
thing we might have asked.
There was blundering from the
beginning, there is blundering to
day, a vacillating policy that hesi
tated and then hinted and then sug
gested, and all in an indirect, round
about way, that lacked the direct
ness or candor to command respect.
A few days ago the New York
Herald, a paper friendly to the ad
ministration, published a letter from
its Cuban correspondent, one of the
most comprehensive descriptions of
the situation, as it now presents it
self, that we have yet read. The
writer is evidently well acquainted
with Cuba and its people, and un
derstands them well, and he has also
kept track of the various movements
in Washington that have led up to
the present situation. He begins
his letter thus:
''Tricked! and by oar friends I" ex
claimed an orator at tbe Theatre
Marti, yesterday, and the Cuban Con
stitutional convention applauded as
one man. Tbe swarthy bned speaker
was a nonentity from the far west of
the inland. You would not know
him by name, yet he sententious!
expressed the opinion of almost
every Cuban on tbe island who take
any interest in tbe relations of his
country with the United States.
At no time since Toral surrendered
at Santiago has there been such in
tense political excitement as there is
in Cuba to-day. I have travelled
miles in the interior, and I find tbe
rural districts more excited than the
cities. There I found murmurs of
violence and sjmptoms of disorder.
"Whatever tbe convention may do
or say. however, an armed upmiug is,
in my opionion, out ot the que lion,
for reasons that I shall try to explain."
He then explains that there is no
danger of an uprising because the
more substantial class of people are
opposed to that, realize that it would
be the height of folly, the only class
that would favor it being those who
. have not the ability to lead, have no
formidable following, if they had
and have not the means to organize
resistance or the resources to carry
Cr itrf,; Exhausted by the struggle
with. Spain, practically in the power
,,ot this country, without the money
or: the credit to sustain organized
Assistance, there is no serious
" thought of, resistance, simply be
cause ft is deemed impracticable
.and impossible.
lving the Cubans and turning
Jiiff, attention to the; cause of" this
f UMet,lngeaf a people who
I hjC irtjpiitY ctmflenoe in us to
fomething bordering on hatred, he
X- aiserts that the cause of the .change
of feeling has been the persistent
blundering by this" Washington ad
ministration, to which he thus re
fers:
"But the pity of it all is that awk
ward blundering at Washington baa
stirred up a biit-rtiesa between the
peoplesof Cuba una the United States
mat will use jears to efface. A little
diplomacy would have accomplished
ever thins without friction, and with
a little tact Cuba might be clamoring
now for annexation.
Io Cubit they say Washington was
afraid to announce its position; a most
palpable absurdity when we stop to
consider what tbe United 8tates had
to fear. Tbe (ruth is tbaj wbi e we
may be clever in trade and progress,
we know nothing of diplomacy tbat
great attribute of, government that
prevents wars and preserve peace.
Iu the handling of problems grow
ing out of the Spanish war Cuba, the
Philippines and Puerto .Bco the
Washington government nasi sbow it
self to be, in tbe language of Manau
lay, but "a struggling and irresolute
mfdiccracy."
It bad no policy; it was groping in
tbe dark, hopeful tbat the accidents of
the situation might lead it to the
lifcht. It trusted to the god of fools
luck. And tbe result tbe Tagals in
rebellion; the Porto R cans protesting;
i he Cubans almost on tbe verge of an
outbreak ; and tbe only hope of the
people in the Supreme Court. There
seeas to be no one mind in Washing
ton capable of dealing with the whole
question in a broad and liberal sense;
and, unfortunately, there is not a
leader in Cuba.
To one who has studied the Cuban
question tbe Piatt resolution covers
tae whole ground, and should be in
sisted upon by the government, not
paly for its own benefit but for the
good of Cuba But the manner in
which it was forced upon tbe Cubans
was most brutal."
Thewriter'of this letter believes
and asserts that there is not one of
these Piatt "requests" that would
not have been cheerfully complied
with if they had been put in the
right way, candidly and without
seeming to make it a matter of com
pulsion on the Cubans to grant
them. They resent being forced to
do what they might have done vol
untarily and not thonght much of
it, but with the Characteristic blun
dering of the administration, which
never seemed to know just what it
wanted, it dallied, acted suspic
iously, never took into account the
peculiarities of the people with
whom it had to deal and at last
asked under a semi-threat what it
might have gotten by a mere ex
pression of a desire made in a
friendly, frank way before its
thimble rigging policy aroused sus
picion of the motive and shattered
confidence in the men that were
trusted.
The demands will be granted in
some shape, however, because Cuba
cant't help it, but they will be
granted with the same feeling that
a waylaid victim surrenders his
parse to an armed highwayman.
LIMIT THE ACREAGE
The President of the Southern
Cotton Growers' Protection Asso
ciation has made a oall for meet
ings of the c0n growers in every
county in tbe cotton belt for April
6th to take steps to limit the cot
ton acreage for the coming crop
which he in common with many
others deems absolutely necessary,
if the cotton planters hope to
be remunerated for tbe expense and
labor of making the next crop. He
predicts that with anything like a
material increase of acreage, the
next crop will not bring more than
six cents a pound and every cotton
grower knows what that means, for
there are very few who can produce
it for much less than that. Six
cent cotton simply means a year of
labor thrown away, with contracted
debts that the farmer cannot pay.
This will involve tnot only the
farmer but the merchant Whose
business will be seriously affected by
profitless cotton, and other branches
of industry which will feel the ef
fect of it. The fact is this a matter
in which not only she cotton grower
is affected, but the whole South and
to some extent the whole country,
for the cotton crop is one of the
main reliances to bring in money
from abroad.
We have, for the benrift of our
cotton growing friends, (published
some instructive and valulble papers
on this subject, writtengby men who
keep up with the cotton movement
of the world, and gave good reasons,
supported by convincing figures,
why the cotton acreage should be
kept down to present figures if not
reduced. The indications now point
to a material increase, which means
an increase of production unless the
conditions should prove adverse,
and tbat means more work and less
money, unless the cotton growers
can be made co see the folly of add
ing to an acreage that is already
rather too large. It is to be hoped
that the cotton growers will heed
this call and warning and that at
their meetings steps maybe taken to
avert the impending danger.
Bbmuki Iron Nerve.
Was tbe result of his splendid
health. Indomitable will and tremen
dous energy are not found where
Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels
age out of order, if you want these
qualities and the success they bring.
use ur. nine's New ljiie fills. They
developed every power of brain and
body. Only 25c at B. B. BziXAMY,
drug store.
For Ovar Plttr Tamra
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It soothe, the chlldr.onhe.SS:
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and is the best remedy for diarrhmT
It will relieve 4hei poor little sufferer
immediately. Sold by druggists in
very part of thejvorkL ; Twenty, fire
cents a bottle. Be sure . and ask for
"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
and take na other kiad.- t
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AH EXPLAS iTIO THAT DOES
NOT EXPLAIN. ,
More than ten years ago when the
McKinley tariff was under discus
sion, and the . point was made by
its opponents that our manufactur
ers did not need the protection it pro
vided, because they were then ship
ping manufactures to foreign mar
kets in competition with manufac
turers in other nations, and selling
their goods for from 25 to 50 per cent
less than they were demanding from
home purchasers. This was ad
mitted, for the documents print
ed price currents were produced to
prove it, and it could not be denied,
but it was "explained" on the
gronnd that it was only the surplus
or out of date goods that were thus
sent and sold abroad, because the
manufacturers were glad to get rid
of them at any price.
That was very thin, so thin that
anybody could see through it then.
The following whjsh we clip from
the New York Commercial is on the
same line and is about as thin:
"Some of our contemporaries con
tinue to charge up aguiusttbe "trusts"
every real or fancied form of injustice
or discrimination tbat anywhere
makes its appearance in realm of trade
or commerce. A recent report from
fitubuig, for instance, moves the
Public Licdtrerof Philadelphia, to de
mand that the United Sutes Industrial
C immission put its screws immedi
ately upon the "steel trust" as if that
would do any good, any waj 1
"This report declares that the rial
making companies in the consolida
tion that will soon emerge from the
hands of a syndicate as the Unitrd
dtates Steel Corporation "have two
prices" one for tbe American pur
chaser and another for the European,
witb tbe advantage decidedly in favor
of the latter.
"I. is not a normal condition, to be
sure, but arises at irregular intervals
and from various causes. One of its
simplest forms may be illustrated thus:
A. village grocer buys most of the
butter produced on the outlying farms,
gets the trade of the farmers, and sella
tbe butter to his village customers at a
good profit. Tnis is an excellent ar
rangement nobody complains When,
nowever, the grocer some day finds
his stock of butter accumulating
rapidly, rather than reduce tbe price
or stop buying, thus losing the rarm
er's trade, he loads up his wagon with
ihe surplus butter, drives off to the
city, sells the stuff at a price much
below that charged to bis home cus
tomers perhaps at a slight loss even
and returns to let the traffic go on in
tne good old way. He has sustained
home print-s, kept the dairy maids all
at work, held bis country trade, served
all bis village customers on an exact
equality, and has established a "for
eitfn" trade that may later on be made
much more profitable. There is "no
kick coming" from the village con
sumer, and the local newspaper
Joesn't think the matter of enough
importance to talk about."
There is about as much resem
blance between these cases as there
is between a spavined mme and an
up to-date warship. The village
grocer doesn't make his butter, he
buys it frooa the farmer or dairy
man and pays for it in money or
good 8. When he gets more of it
on hand than he can profitably dis
pose of at home, he sells it in other
markets at such profit as he can
make. If the farmer or dairyman
from whom he purchases charged
him one price and sold to a grocer
in another town at a much less
price, wouldn't he kick and want to
know the reaso9why, and wouldn't
the farmer or the dairyman have a
good time convincing him that this
was a perfectly square business?
'But our manufacturers are not
simply dumping their ? 'surplus" on
foreign markets. They are culti
vating the foreign markets, as is
shown by the continuous and re
markable increase in our manufac
tured exports and they are also
bidding in competition with foreign
manufacturers, and making con
tracts foi the delivery of various
lines of goods in foreign countries,
at prices less than their foreign com
petitors ask, or apparently can do
the work for. This is not for sur
plus stuff, but for new stuff made to
order, and they make it and deliver
it at prices far below the prices
which they demand from purchasers
in this country. This is true of
nearly all lines of manufactured ex
ports. The Commercial's explana
tion doesn't explain.
As an illustration of what pluck
and perseverance can do, it is stated
that John O. Johnson, of the Phila
delphia bar, to whom Mr. McKinley
has offered the position ofAttorney
General, to succeed Mr. Griggs,
was a blacksmith until 30 years of
age, when he read law. He now
ranks as one of the most thoroughly
equipped and best constitutional
lawyers in the country, whose ser
vices are always in demand.
The tax collectors in Uganda,
Africa, hare lots of fun and exer
cise. The natives pay their taxes
with elephants, zebras, ohimpanzes,
wild hogs, monkeys, snakes, etc.
The collectors now have a 1300,000
assortment of this menagerie stuff.
Story of A Slave.
To be bound hand and foot for years
by the chaioes of disease is the worst
form of slavery. George D. Williams,
of Manchester Mich., telW how such a
lave was made free. He says: "My
wife baa been so helpless for five years
that she could not turn over in bed
alone. After using two bottles of
Electric Bitters, she is wonderfully
improved and able to do her own
work. This supreme remedy for
female diseases quickly eurer nervous
ness, sleeplessnefcs. melancholy, head
ache, backache, fainting and dizzy
apeels. This miracle working medicine
is a godsend to weak, sickly, run down
people. Everybody guaranteed
Only 60 cents. Sold by E. ,R BKir-i-aht.
Druggist. 1 f
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FOR CHILDREN
Nothing, that pomes in a
bottle, is more important for
children than Scott's emulsion
of cod-liver oil.- And "impor
tant" means that it keeps them
in even health, on the highest
plane of physical life.
"Do they live on it then?"
No; they don't touch it, ex
cept when they need'lt.
"When do they need it?"
Whenever they show, in
whatever way, the least disturb
ance of even balance of health.
It is not for acute diseases,
with some exceptions ; it is for
a slight falling off from first
rate condition.
It is to be used as a food,
whenever their usual food does
hot quite answer the purpose
of tood.
We'll send yon a little to try, if you like.
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl street. New York.
HEALTHY ABD HUSTUNG.
There are few towns in the Sonth
whose progress has attracted more
attention than Charlotte's, although
nearly all the leading towns in this
State have made gratifying progress,
especially within the past ten years.
We like to note the progress of any
of our towns. We take some inter
est in their success, and when they
present object lessons showing what
persistent hustling will do we
take pleasure in noting their
achievements, and therefore clip the
following from the Observer of
Thursday: "
'A writer in Cram's Magazine, of
Chicago, speaking of Charlotte, says:
"It is the commercial centre of the
State, and has had an amazing
growth. Here are the figures: In 1880
a total population of 8.500, in 1890. a
total of 15,000; in 1900. a total of SO.
000 Th explanation of this growth
is found ia tbe transference of tae cot
too milling industry from New Eng
land to the South. Charlotte had but
one mill in 1888; to-day the- em
ployes of tbe mill receive in wages
over $1 000,000 a year, while, within
a radius of 100 miles are It Cited 67
percent, of all tbe cotton spindles in
the South. Six railroads radiate from
Charlotte and .-arry supplies to tbe
tributary region. The government at
Washington has issued a health map
of tbe United States, showing tbat the
healthiest section owned by Uude
Sam is tbat hundred miles with Ubar
lotte as a enter. Either Charlotte is
a wonderlul place, or some of its lead
ing ciliz'nskstand well with the au
thorities ar Washington."
"The transference of the cotton
milling industry from New England
to the South" doesn't explain it, but
the industry, perseverance and vim
of the men who started the system
of co-operative cotton factories does,
and that began before there was any
thought or talk of the transference
of the cotton milliDg industry of
New England. The success of the
first mill encouraged the establish
ment of another, and so on until
Charlotte has become the industrial
center she is. Her success is the
result of the energy, pnsh and pluck
of her own people.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Are there any privates in the
Philippine Army? We ask this be
cause Gen. MacArthur's prisoners
are nearly every general is "the life
of the insurrection." Norfolk
Landmark, Dem.
The length of time the
United States supreme court has
been sitting on that Porto Bican
case leads to the suspicion that it is
trying to give the administration a
chance topnt. the haiter on Cnba
good and strong before anything
happens. Atlanta Journal, Dem.
The Chicago Record's W ash-
ington correspondent asserts that
that the President has named as
commissioners for the St Louis Ex
position "a lot of politicians who
happened to be out of jobs." and
lumps ex-Senator Carter in with the
rest. Thus is chin-music discounted
in the house of its friends. Norfolk
Virginian Pilot, Dem.
The pension sharks would
not care three straws for the "Vin
dication" that Commissioner Evans
would recoive in the way of a promo
tion to an office paying twice as much
salaiy. They want Evans out, and
they do not care anything about the
manner of his going. And when he
goes out, his successor will know
full well that he must placate the
sharks, and the attorneys, or they
will make trouble for him. Evans
proved himself to be a man of some
backbone. It is rather difficult to
get two such men in succession in
the pension office. Savannah News,
Dem.
Presidiof flier's Appointments, Wilming
ton District.
Onslow, Bethlehem, March 23, 24.
Carver's Creek, Hebron, March 30,
81.
Atlantic, Andrew's Chapel, April
6, 7.
Zion, Summerville, April 13, 14.
Bladen Street, April 14.
' Burgaw, Burgaw Creek, April 20,
21.
South port, April 28, 29.
Clinton. Kendall's, May 4, 5.
Scott's Hill, Bethany, May 11, 12.
Fifth Street, May 12.
Magnolia, Magnolia, May 18 19. .
Elizabeth, Purdie's, May 25. 26.
Bladen, Deem's Capel, May 26, 27.
- Kenansville, Warsaw, June 1, 2.
Grace, June 2. 3
- Onslow, , Jane 7.
Jacksonville and itichlands, Jack
sonville, June 8, 9. .
Waccamaw, Zion, June 15, 16.
Wbiteville, Cerro Gordo, June 17.
Market Street, June 23, 24
R B. John.
ttR.PIERCELS
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Nashville Graphic: Last Fri- ,
day afternoon Mry Arrington, a col-
ored girl living on the old Coleman ;
Woodard land, accidentally killed her !
self while fooling with a pibtol. i
Lumber ton Robesonianx If we
may judge by a few farmers we see in
town and tne immense quanuues oi
fertilizers beicg hauled out, we will
have larger crops planted this year
than ever before.
- Salisbury Sun: A prominent
Democrat who was here last night and
who has been a close listener to and
observtr of the impeachment trial at
Raleigh says he is quite certain tbat
tbe judges will not be impeached. He
thinks that publio sentiment over the
State is largely against it and believes
that impeachment will certainly fail.
Charlotte Observer: Since the
outbreak of smallpox in Biddleville, a
a few days ogo, from two to four new
cases have developed daily among the
colored people of that settlement. City
officers yesterday transferred four new
cases frtm Biddeville to the pest house,
and sent four suspects to the house of
detention.
Rocky Mount Motor: George
Ray. tbe colored boy who killed Rico
rd Dickens, and later escaped from
the lock-up in Tarboro, was captured
Monday by Policeman Sumner, near
Qobgood. Mr. 8umner was at Hob
good on some other business, and bap
pened to see tbe boy near by. He
r-cogniz-d him, as he made the firt
arrest soon after tbe killing of yjuing
Dickens Ray was taken into custody
oy Mr. Sumner and later placed in
jil.
Winston Sentenel: A move
ment is on foot to build a $100,000
cotton factory in North Winston on
he installment and co-operative plan.
fbe promoters of the enterprise are
encouraged and feel that it is prac
tically assured. Shares will be placed
t two dollars in order to give every
body an opportunity to take stock.
Payments can be made weekly or
uontnly. . A barn together with
two horses, a wagon and a buggy,
was burned last night three or four
miles east of Greensboro. The prop
erty belonged to the widow of the
late Perry McLean, whose residence
was burned about two wesks ago.
This is tho third conflagration in that
neighborhood within a month and it
is believed that some of the fires were
of incendiary origin.
Monroe Enquirer: Mr. Cul
pepper Tarleton, ot New Salem town
ship, has lost four children within the
last two months with pneumonia.
The fourth child died a few days ago
After the revenue officers raided
the Central hotel and seized a lot of
unstamped liquor last Friday they
ent about six miles south of here,
near Goodman1 distillery, and found
graves In which there were spirits
rather than bodies. Four barrels of
unstamped liquor were Ifound in the
trraves The officers resurrected tbe
spirits and the government was made
r,chr by the act. Mr. J F. Os
borne, the organ builder of 8tanly
county, has built 33 organs within the
past four years. Mr. Osboroe says
(bat bis organ building was the out
growth of a great desire to own an
organ, aud not being able to purchase
one and having a mechanical turn of
mind, he -eel to work and built aa
organ. His first organ was a very
crude affair, but it did what it was
built for. It made music Since then
Mr Osborne hasbad many order for
instruments. tU makes a good double
reed, eleven stop, solid oak case or
tran and sells them for thirty-five
dollars each. Those who bfcve tried
Mr. Oaborne'a organs say that they are
equal to organs of Northern make
which sell for seventy Qve dollars.
TWINKLINGS
"Typhoid, eh! Is he ont of
danger!" "I suppose so. They've
discontinued that jouig doctor's
visits."
They were in a private box.
"I want to talk with you on a very
important subject," he said. "No,"
was her answer. "Not now. Wait till
the play begiBS."
Professor "Mr. Chump, do
you think you'll ever learn anything!"
No, sir." ' Give Mr. Cbump a merit
mark for a correct answer."
"Chinese pronnnciation and
spelling are very peculiar.' 'Tea,' for
instance, means 'a son" "At first
sightjt looks as if it ought to mean a
snefze.'"
"Is there a famine in the sus
pender button or belt industries!"
"Not that I know of. Why!" "I see
an advertisement for hands 'To sew
pants "
"Here's a book of songs that
claims to be especially adapted to
children." "Well, they are not un
common." "But there is not a tune
ia a minor key in the whole collec
tion." "And this country," shouted
the orator, "will never take anything
England or or " yLe lacked the
needed word. "He's just resting on
his ors," whispered a party in the au
dience. Out of $34,932,644 contri
buted in 1900 by charat&tfte persons
in the United States to educational
institution 3 only a little more than
1,000,000 was given to Sonthern
schools and colleges. This amount
includes donations for institutions
intended for the exclusive instruc
tion of both white and blacks, and
bnt a 8 mall part of it came from the
hands of Northern givers. When
the great need of the bouthern
people for adequate home oppor
tunity of instruction is taken into
consideration it seems a pity that so
little of the opulent stream of gifts
andbequests should find its way over
Mason and Dixon's line. Philadel
phia Record, Dem.
MARINE DIRECTORY.
Mat iTeaeels 1st tka Po ot VU
lactoa, w. RKareki as 1901.
SGHOONETttJ.
Massachusetts, 425 tons, Jones, George
Harriss, Son & Co.
Edith H Symington, 881. ton, George
Harriss, Son & Co.
Cora M, 137 ton, Mitchell, George
Harriss, Son & Co.
BARQUES.
Nore, (Rub) 470 tons, Aulin, Heide &
Co.
Marie. (Nor) 441 tons, Nielsen, Heide
&Oot
Hed v g, (Swd) 465 tons, Persseu, Alex
ander Sprunt & Son.
Inverdruie. (Nor) 667 tons, Wittusen,
Heide & Co.
BRIGS.
Audhild, (Nor) 449 tons, Arensen,
Heide & Co.
M O Haskell, 299 tons, Wingfield,
George Harriss, Son & Co.
BARGES.
Carrie L Tyler, 588 tons, Bonneau,
Virginia Carolina unemical Com
pany. '
ForLaQriDDO and In
fluenza uao OHKNEY'G
EXPECTORANT.
CLERGY MINISTER
From
Many Parsonages Gome Words
Piaise for Paine's Celery
Compound.
More practical work and shorter doc
trinal sermons disitoguish the pulpit
of to-day. Bishops and plain minis
ters of ihe gospel are putting tremen
dous energy into the cause of good
government and public health.
Tbe injunction "Minister" to the sick
suffering" is being literally obeyed.
Clergymen are investigating reme
dies as they have never done before
taking, them, themselves and family,
frankly recommending the valuable
ones and condemning the worthless.
Rev. W. E. Aldridge of Birming
ham, Ala , says he considers it his
duty to let his people know about
Paine's celery compound, as he speaks
from personal knowledge. He sys :
Gentlemen: I had been affl cied
for ten years with the what I thought
to be heart disease, but after having
the physicians examine me, I learned
that I was almost dead with indiges
tion. They told me that they could
give me medicine that would relieve
me, but there was no permanent cure.
Then I began using Paine's celery
com pound, which gave me immediate
relief, and now I am well aud enjy
ing good health. I can recommend
Paine's celery compound to be tbe
best remedy for all ailments I ever
used, and furthermore. I tell my peo
pie if they will use the compound
freely, thev will hav no doctor's bills
to pay. REV. W. E ALDRIDGE.
Clergymen in every denomination
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
f Quoted officially at tbe closing by the Produce
Exchange.
STAR OFFICE, March 22.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market
steady at S34 cents per gallon for
machine made casks and S3 cents
per gallon for country casks.
ROSIN Nothing doing
TAR Market steady at 41.15 per bbl
of 280 lbs.
CRUDE TURPENTINE. Market
quiet at $1.10 per barrel for hard,
$2.10 for dip aud for virgin.
Quotations same day last year
Spirits turpentine nothing doing;
rosin nothing doing; tar steady at
$1.20; crude turpentine quiet at $2.00
3 25
RECEIPTS.
Spirits turpentine. .....
Rosin
Tar
Crude turpentine
34
31
234
8
last year 31
Keceipts same day
snirits turoentine. 268 bbls
rosin, 789 bbls tar, 15 bbls crude tur
pentine. COTTON.
Market firm on a basis of 83c per
pound for middling. Quotations:
Ordinary 5 13 16 cts $ tt
Good ordinary....... 7 3 16 " "
Low middling 7 13-16 " "
Middling". 8U "
Good middling 8 9 16 "
Same day last year middling3 firm
at 8ci
Receipts 310 bales; same day last
year, 354.
r Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce
Commission Merchants
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina
Prime, 70c Extra prime, 75c per'j
bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, 80c
Virginia Prime, 50c; extra prime,!
55c; fancy, 60c; Spanish, 75c
CORN Firm; 58 to 60c per bushel
for 'white.
N. C. BACON Steady; hams 13 to
15c per pound; shoulders, 8 to 10c;
sides, 8 to 10c
EGGS Dull at 10c per dozen.
CHICKENS Dull. Grown, 20
28c; springs, 1020c.
TURK EYd -Live, dull at 9 to 10c;
dressed, 10 to 12c
BEESWAX Firm at 25c.
SWEET POTATOES Firm at 60c
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning star.
Naw York. March 22.-Money on call
steady at 2X3 per cent Prime mer
cantile paper 3 4j per ct. Sterling
exhange firm, with actual business in
bankers' bills at 487488 fdr demand
and 484 for aixty days. Posted rates
485 and 489. Commercial bills 489
484 5. Silver certificates 6263 Bar
silver 60&. Mexican, dollars 49. Gov
ernment bonds steady. State bonds
inactive. Railroad bonds irregular.
U. a refunding 2's reg'd, 106; U. S.
refund' 2's, coupon, 106K;JU 8. 2's,
reg'd, ; U. a S's, reg'd, MM; do.
COUDOn. 111V: U. R. A'a. haw mvM
138W; do. tompoo, 1383; U. 8. 4's,
oia reg a, us: aa, coupon, 114; U. 8.
S's. reir'd 111 l : do. ennnon . 1 1 1 U .
Southern R'v S's 117. . Rtneka; Balti
more & Ohio, 92 tf; Chesapeake &
umo 46 ; Manhattan L ; N. Y.
TO THE SICK.
of
are recomending to their parishioners
these March days the great spring rem
edy that makes people -ell, earnestly
enidorsiug tbe work of Dartmouth Col
lege's generous scientist, and frankly
lending their influence to that of the
best physicians-r-advising tbe use of
Paine's celery compound now sping
has come.
A.8 soon as one has fairly begun to
use Paine's celery compound, every
day is a step toward assured health
Nervous, unhappy, and feeble persons
find tbeir flesh becomes more solid, a
more healthy color takes the place of
the waxy, sallow look, and there
comes an increase in tbe volume of tbe
blood and an improved normal app
tit? because of this rapid feediug of the
entire nervous system.
Clerks, employers, lawyers, doc
tors, mothers of families, hard work
ivs mn.1 and women in every sate
aud country, and hosts of
workers the most inulligen
or every community are sdy
taking Paine a - celery compound
w.;h the happiest re4uts to relieve
themselves of rheumatism, neural
gia. irv ;U5 exhaustion, dj?sp-piia,
sleeplessness, and low sp rits.
Gut rid of languor, cletr the mud
dv. unhealrav skin, nlumu out the
body, aad eet back to a normal, vig
orous condition with Paine's celery
compound sr.-d begin now. March is
the rnoaih wjbj it is easiest to b-gin
health. -
Central 147; Reading ; do. lstprefd
73; St. Paul, ; do. prefd, 189.
southern Kail way : prerd 7856;
American Tobacco. 127X ; do prefd
; People's Gas 106 H; Sugar ; do.
prerd 123 . T. C. & Iron ; U. S.
Leather i2? : d-. preferred : Wsst
m r-ioi, 88K; Standard Oil 797
800; Consolidated Qas 21 1 M
Baltimore, March 22 Seaboard
Air Line, common, 13?14; do. pre
ferred3233 Bonds 4's 79 79.
NAVAL STORES MARKETS
Bv TeWraph to the Morning: Star.
Nkv York. March 22 Rosin stesdv.
Spirits turpentine easy at 3737&c.
v BAftUEBTON, March 22. Spirits tur
pontine, nothing doing Rosin firm;
prices uzicnanged.
.-5AViifnAH March 21. Snirits tur
oeutine firm; receipts 203 casks; sales
buz ca&iK; exports 13 caska. Kosm firm.
Quoted: A, B, C. $1 20 D.$l 25: E.
$1 251 30; F, $1 S01 38; G, $1 35
I 40; 1, $160; 1 65; K, $1 80; M,
l ; JN, 3U0; W ii, 3 10; WW,
$2 30.
COTTON MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning 8 tar
New York, March 22. The cotton
market, after opening at an advance
of eleven and twenty-oe points, fur
ther improved a little. May sold up
from 8 03 to 8.10; July fr m 8 05 to
8 09 and October from 7 39 to 7.42
The general market c!ostd steady at a
net advance of ;welve to twenty
points. Tne impiun u.ei t was largely
oased on an advance of four to nine
points on futures al Liverpool. For
a time tbe trade here bad been look
ing for tuch a turn in the foreign
market until many had become dis
couraged; so tbat the trade was hardly
prepared for the uplift that Liverpool
furnished. The response, however,
was immediate. All classes of traders
bought, chiefly the shorts, with New
Orleans a leading factor. The buying
included orders from the South for
covering short contracts rather
than on investment account, al
though invtstment orders were sen
erally of a better class than
seen here for a long time, past Dur
ing the forenoon, the' bear con
tingents resorted to their hither
to profitable practice of selling
on bulges, but they failed to cause a
reaction. . Later thc.local shorts cov
ered industriously. Local sentiment
remained more bullish than bearish
All classes of traders admitted that
much denenda nnnn in
cables During the after part of the
session, therefore, trading was of a
conservative order.
Nw York, March 22 Cotton firm ;
middling uplands 8 7-16c
Cotton futures market closed steady.
l 4jrw iiugiMi 7 7, Septem
ber 7 48, October 7 89, Jiovjtatet 7
iscveuioer i o, January ?
Spot cotton dosed firm, e higher;
middling uplands 8 716c; middling
gulf 8 11 16c ; sales 350 bales.
Total to-day Net receipts 15 936
bales; exports to Great Britain 3.646
bales; exports to France bales;
exports to the Continent 2,367 bales;
stock 835,444 bales.
.Consolidated Net receipts 129,953
bales; exports to Great Britain 83,165
bales ; exports to France 13,461 bales ;
i jaw
exports
- WW
- Cota
C?!PtS
6.
itain
Kra
nee
MareuH
net
i TM I
at 8
ceipts
net i
firm
I at 8c, aetSj
lade uKtoi:1 'Msto.'S
Philaa
ceipts
Orleans,
4.827 b.s
receipts
'ipts 81 'bales- tf
L6c. n. l.mnhi.
8 3:16c,nelrhi
nl . U7SC' net
y TeiegrapU to th.
New York. VLrS
and about t; c
were inclined towM"0!
Polled b, bearish c;b3
West, a rise in
seaboard clearances, H
stir in export circle L M
shorts and
Closed firm Yt ,".
Vlarch o."
80c; Ju.v closed
2 49c; options op(.ledi!!?1
and cables. hntiSi.f'N
partial He net d-ciin. 7J
49c: Mav cIosah
46Hc; September effif
-Spot dull; wo. j uJ3
quiet out flrmly hehl I
Meady. Lard firm; wj
South American $8 00;cojJ
evltrania at w.J...
tuui, iroou creamery hJ
dairy fresh 152ic. (O
auvjr mikb wuue liailUj
.hit. 14nl01. r.
"lino wwu nicest
toes Stead v : Jernve ti nJ,
Yktl40i68;I,a?d
Oil 75 : Jersev saw. Z
Cabbage steady ; 8tatel
Tallow firm ; city 4VC; uJ
5Mic. Cotton setd oil J
fnme crude, in barrekij
summer yellow 34c; offsJ
low 83c; prime white 3&J
. li no. 1 H
er jeiiuw ooc; prime m
Z5 UU. UOttee Spot fie,
7 invoice 7c: mild m
812. Sugar steady; J
3jc; centrifugal, 96 teal
fined steady. Freight) toj
Uotton iy steam 13c
Chicago. March 2?
oversold early to day on U
tistics atid recovered on i!j
agement. Mav drain
4
under yesterday, after i3
early. (J rn closed a sbsdt
oats at a like advan.
were irregular, My pnrki
a net decline of 35c, as sm
newed liq iidatiou, while 1
vanced laj15c aid Ma;k
Chicago. March 22-Ciit
Flour steady. Wbfai-St
c; No. 3 spring 67a?4t
7676Uc. Corn-No if
yellow 40c. Oat Noll
2 white 2728Mc: No,
2SHc Rvt N. 53155:
uu- rjarrl. $15 8S159d
jf?ix d. 6 506 75
I O' bomd $i 258 37
Dtulers hnisnet- guoaj
11 27
The leading futures ml
lows opening, nipfles; a
losing: Wheat-No 1)1
75. 74. 75c; April 74!
75KJ; May 75ft76H.K
Corn March , .-
to 4141M. 41H41i
4141He; July 4i.
41 &c Oats Mav 24 S.
2425-; July 24., 2i
24J4.24&C Pork, prtibl
16 40, 15 80. 16 CO; JuljJ!
14 65. 14 97 i. Lard, off I
I7 87&. 7 90, 7 80 7 90; Jd
7 90. 7 82. 7 90: S
8 95. 7 85. 7 92. rflmri lis!
na Mow i.7 R(l 7 97U 7
September $7 72, 7 75, It
FGREI6N
Bv OaNe.to thejtonm
LlVEBPOOU March ft
Cotton Srjot. increastd
nrirvs S S2rf hifi-htr: -AW
dling fair 5 7 32d; pood
15-ltd; middling w,
ennd ordinar?
1M. The sals
wr 1ft 000 bales, of M
were for sDecuJatioD A
included 9.800 bales W
ceipts 11,000 Dales, inclw
American.
Futures onened om
and closed firm; Amen
(1. m. c.) March 4 43 w
and April 4 42 644
and June 4 41 6441
T A T,i Itt 4 41-Hfl
and August 4 40 64a J
and September 4 36 64d
tember 4 36 64d sel erjU
c 4 14 64d nominal; WT
vember (g. o c) 4
November andecea.
inal.
MARINE
ARRIVED.
Olulr a. o 1
Run. by master. ,
Stmr CocnptoD, btfji
and Little River, 8 T
Co.
n. it TnVnsnlL W
otmr a. o 1
Run, by master.
Stmr Seabriebt,
8tone, Rourk &Ca f)
Scbr Majreie C, Vj
River and Jacksonv.
BV RIVER AW 11
Receipts of Naval SW
Vesterow
W f!. ft. A. Bail1 J
. , i 1 wnain. irJ
ion, D oarrrm
D oarrri
Is crude
& Y. BailroaJ
3 casks spi'111
barre
A.
ton. 3 casks
barren taru ..jii.
w Xr N. Railroad
24
barrels msm.
rrels mm. . yM
O.
rt L.;n CinfW ..J
Steamer A.
co'ton. 30 cas -150
barrels tar.
. L. KIIII''
Total-UonoD":"rn6i.
nentine, 34 cas'-
tar, i Darrein,
r . t crw-
irrels
Arrests aoflj J
In either ses m clA
Urn- and treo I
twonvenleiiccs.
cAMTAL-MiPla
I IS" Vucbi