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BY WILULAH a. UtiUlIARD.
WIliMiNOTUi. X. O.
WXDXESDAY MOBHIKG, APBIL 24.
A SORDID AND BI8HONEST PLEA-
In his endeavor to organize a
party inside of the Democratic
party, in Sooth Carolina, Senator
McLanrin is not going to hare a
rose bestrewn path to travel. In an
interview a few days ago on that
speech at Charlotte Senator Till
man recalled some reminiscences,
that will put the new Republican
ally in a rather awkward position
. when he comes to defend his new
departure before the people and
whoop it up for McKinley expan
sion. One of these reminiscences was
the fact that MacLaurin had em
phatically asserted that he would
vote against the Paris treaty, stood
and was supposed to be opposed to
it until the very last and then be
tween the hours of 6 and 12 the
niht before the vote was taken
ohanged his mind and voted for it
without eyer being able to assign
any good reason for his sudden
change.
Another was that in 1898 he made
oue of the strongest speeches against
McKiulev's expansion that had been
made up to that time, some of the
best points of the speech being
stolen bodily from a speech by a
New Yok preacher delivered a sho"t
while previous. This Senator Till
man characterizes as one of the most
amazing exhibitions of colossal
cheek he ever heard of, a U. S.
Senator to boldly purloin the
speech of another man and palm
it off as his own on the floor of the
United States Senate, where the
saying that there "is honor among
thieves" has believers.
Without questioning the sincerity
of Senator McLaurin's conversion,
or the motives that inspired it, or
the honesty in the programme he has
drawn up for himself, what would
the result be if it were logically fol
lowed up now, and what would the
conditions be now if that programme
had been followed years ago.
According to this new McLanrin
code of political ethics it is folly
to persist in opposing any policy
which had received a plurality of
the popular vote, not a majority but
a plurality. Because the policies of
the Republican party received more
votes at the last election than the
policies of the opposing parties,
therefore the opposing parties
should accept that as the final de
cision, desist from opposition, en
dorse everything that has been
done, fall in under the McKinley-
Hanna banner, and whoop it up
like the rest of the boys who were
. raised that way. That's what the
McL-aartn plan means ir it means
anything.
At the close of the war and under
the reconstruction regime thousands
upon thousands of white men of the
South were disfranchised and nearly
all of the best and most trusted and
honored men were debarred from
holding positions of honor or trust
under the U. S. Government,
because they couldn't take the iron
clad oath, invented for the express
purpose of excluding white men
from the offices to which they might
be ehosen. The party which favored
that policy received a ma jority of the
popular vote. Would Mr. McLanrin
have pronounced it folly to oppose
that? .
. Part of the reconstruction plan
was negro suffrage, thrust upon the
South by the Republican party. The
party which did -that received a ma
jority of the popular vote. Would
Senator McLanrin have character
ized it as folly to oppose negro suf
frage? With the aid of these negro votes,
and where necessary Federal bayo
nets, carpetbag governments were
established in nearly all of these
Southern States, where they inaugu
rated a system of rapine and licenti
ous riot, stole millions, and left State
debts of millions more. The party
which did that received a majority
of the popular vote. Would Sena
tor McLaurin have pronounced it
folly to oppose it, to turn these
carpetbaggers out and rescue these
States from the hordes of blacks
whose votes put the carpetbag
gers in?
Leaving the Sonth and turning
to the nation at large the Repub
lican party inaugurated a system of
tariff protection to help our "infant
industries." They have followed,
this ud from time to time until the
protection is now about three times
as great as it was . when the infants
first wailed for it, although these
infants have become giants, able to
cope with anything that comes in
their way. .The party that did that
received a , majority of the pop
ular vote, several times when that
was one of the issues if not the
main one.' Would Senator Mc
Lanrin characterize .it ' as folly to
persist in opposing this colossal
plunder legalized by the tariff laws?
. , Out of this protective tariff scores
vf Trusts have sprung to prey upon
the people and subject them to
merciless extortion - because, having
a monopoly , of the home market
r through the protective - tariff "the
' a make their own prices for
V what'thej haye toell and for what
x thej- have to? buy, thus " har-
t bod ot tht American
people 1 absolutely in their power.
The party whioh made these Trusts
possible; has received a majority 01
the DODular vote wnen mat was one
of the issues if not the main issue.
Would Senator McLaurin pronounce
opposition to the Trusts folly.
The logical result or senator mo-
Laurin's contention would make
him adceDt anything tne itepuo-
lican party did from its declaration
of war against the bouth, ioliowea
by plunder, desolation and carnage,
to its monstrous orgies of the "re
construction period from 1868 to
1876, its class legislation, protection
robbery and pension plundering,
with its expansion imperialism ana
proposed ship bounties, and any
other schemes that the plotters
against the United States Treasury
may hatch up. Mr. McLaurin can t
go part of the way and stop. Hav
ing started in, his plea for acquies
cence carries him to the end.
And! all this for what? Simply
beoause there may be money in it,
we may profit by the grabbing and
the tariff robbery and the bounty
plunder. That's the ethics of it sim
mered down. That is the corner
stone of Mr. McLaurin's proposed
political structure. Simply grab
without a scintilla of principle.
A GREA0 INDUSTRIAL CENTER
The industrial commission sitting
in Washington is getting some in
teresting and valuable information
from some of the gentlemen who ap
pear before it. Last Saturday Mr.
James H. Anderson, of the Pitts
burg Chamber of Commerce, gave
some interesting facts and talked
some good sense in the following,
which we quote from the Washing
ton Post:
Mr. Anderson estimated that within
a radius of siuy miles from Pittsburg
there were 15.000 nv n employed in the
various industrial plants, and that in
that area there was a capital emploj ed
10 the extent of 13,000 000, giving that
section 'a career of prosperity on in
dustrial lines unequalled in the world's
history.'
"This career, Mr. Anderson said,
had begun upon the advent of the firt
railroad in 1852. He argued that the
railroads were the greatest factor in
the world's progress, but said that wa
ter transportation should also be en
couraged. " 'What we want,' he said, 'is cheap
transportation and not cheap labor.'
"Yet he would not have rates so
cheap as to render them unstable. He
advocated arbitration for the settle
ment of strikes
" 'The greatest factors in the settle
ment of labor difficulties,' he said, 'are
conciliation, arbitration and mutual
forbearance.'"
There is no questioning the fact
that Pittsburg is a great industrial
center, the basis of all being iron.
But the iron would have been use
less without the railroads to deliver
it and the coal at Pittsburg. He
was right when he Baid the railroads
were thereatestfact9ra in the
world's progress, not only in its in
dustrial progress, but as civilizers
and enlighteners. They people the
wilderness, and wfeen they enter into
the Jand of the savage they open the
way for the civilizer and the mis
sionary. As railroads have built up Pitts
burg into the great industrial center
she now is, so have they built up
this country into the mighty Re
public it is, making possible a
growth and development never be
fore seen in the world's history, and
so will they in the near future build
up this section of our country, with
its untold resources awaiting devel
opment, and make it the great in
dustrial section of this continent.
Jennie Smith started ont in New
York the other day to buy a pair of
shoes. She had $1,900 with her in
$10 and $20 bills. She took a notion
that she didn't have any any use for
that money and began to distribute
it right and left. The performance
drew such a crowd that Jennie was
arrested for obstructing he side
walk, and put nndera bondlof $300.
She didn't get the shoes, but she
got away with about $4,100 in an
hour or so.
It is said that J. Pierpont Mor
gan has his eyes upon the cotton
mills, which he will try to organize
into a big Trust, a la the steel com
bine. That would be a hummer,
representing an output of about
$400,000,000 a year, $300,000,000
for the Northern and $100,000,000
for the Southern mills.
Presiding User's Appolatments, Wllmlag.
i toa District.
Southport, ,April 28, 29.
Clinton, Kendall's, May 4. 5.
Scott's Hill, Bethany, May 11, 12.
Fifth 8reet, May 12.
Magnolia, Magnolia, May 18. 19.
Elizabeth, Purdie's, May 25, 26
Bladen, Deem's Capel, May 26, 27.
Kenansville, Warsaw, Jnne 1, 2.
Grace, Jane 2. 3.
Onslow, , June 7.
Jacksonville and Richland. Jack
sonville, June 8, 9.
waccamaw, Zion, Jane 15, 16.v -Wbiteville,
Cerro Gordo, June 17.
Market Street, Jane 23, 24.
' - K B. JOHW. .
, Bobbed lh Grave.
A startling incident, of which Mr.
Job a Oliver, of Philadelphia, was the
suDject, is narrated by htm as follows:
" 1 WHS M a WW. n . jM.ilfMl w J . 43.w-
My skin was almost vellow. eves
sunken, tongue coated, pain continu
ally in back and sides, no appetite
gradually trrowinsr weaker dsv bv ds-r.
Three phvsicians had Hven me iin
Fortunately, a friend advised trying
'Electric Bitters; and to mv trreat Iot
and surprise, the first bottle made a
decided improvement. I continued
their use for three weeks, and am now
a well man. I know -thev saved mv
life, and robbed the grave of another
victim." No - one should fail to trv
them. Only , 50 cents, guaranteed, at
R. R. BXLLAHT'3 Drag Store. -
i Bean tfc .v. yythe Kind Yon Haw Atwajs BcngM
. oignataae
WORSE THAN WAlt.
w hear much of war's havoc, of
the loss of life, and much ado is
made over a battle . in which a few
hundred lives are lost, and yet
people are dying by the thousand
every day from 1 diseases that are
preventable, and countries are
swept by plagues which carry off
millions, plagues which are pre
ventable, and vet the death of these
millions attracts less attention andj
creates leBS interest than the death
of a few hundred men in battle
would. Perhaps it is because there
is less noise made by the reaper
when he stalks in pestilence than
when he does his work with crack
... . 1 mi
ing rifle ana roaring gun. iub
greater tragedy makes the lesser
noise and passes comparatively un
noticed.
The following from a Simla India,
letter to the London Times will
give some idea of the tragedy the
plague and famine have been per
forming in thatycoantry:
"The India census returns which
have come to hand mora than confirm
the conjecture that the official eati
mate of tnr quarters of a million as
the loss of life due to the distress of
last year is far short of the mark. In
all probabilty at least 5 000,000 have
died in India since 1896 from causes
directly due to famine.
"Farther returns received show
that enormous decreases have - been
recorded io the district of the Central
Provinces kff-cud by famine Thus,
Bipur is 114.000 short; Chanda.,108,
000; Betul. 87.000; P. tua. 54.000 and so
o. The figures fur the whole of the
Central Provinces show a decrease
of more than one million persons as
compared with 1891. In ordinary cir
cuuutances an increase of 1,500,000
might have been confidently expectea.
as 10 years ago the growth recorded
was well over a million.
"Iiis ce tsia that up to 1896 the
p tpulation increased at least iu lU nor
mal proportions, as shown by the re
turns or births and deaths But in
1896 b ran that series of Mean vears
wuich hs worked suob dire havco
throughout India."
Five millions of human beings
swept away, while nations are spend
ing millions in conquest, and millions
in contriving more destructive imple
ments of war, and yet with steam
and telegraph the continents are
drawn more closely together than
some of the neighboring countries
were a generation ago. If the spirit
of humanity influenced the nations
of the earth as much as the spirit of
greed and grab does, there would be
no snch horrid stories to write as
that of India in the past five years.
A BRITISH VIEW OF THE BOERS
It isn't often that we read a favor
able opinion expressed of the Boers
by an Englishman. The custom has
been to refer to them as an ignorant,
uncouth race, far behind the age and
lacking in all those qualities which
distinguish a truly civilized people
from thedavage. But occasionally a
candid, independent Englishman
speaks and pictures them in a differ
ent light. One of these is Mr.
Hugh Hole, who has seen fighting
in South Africa and was legal ad
viser of the British Governor since
the British occupation of the Orange
Free State. He is now in Paris, where
he was interviewed, and is thns quo
ted by a correspondent of the Phila
delphia Record:
"The Boers are,' on the whole, a
magnificent people. Almost every
thing that has been said of their atro
city is a pure fabrication. I have
known and met scores of Boer officers
and have atways found them splend d
fellows in every way. As for their
vomen. a more patient, brave and
'ong suffering lot I have never known
Their fortitude is wonderful. I have
lso met many Boer soldiers, and bsve
b-n vry favorably impressed, espe
cially by the Free Sujters.
'Wo d I was taken prisoner tbey
court martialed me as a spy, and I
never want a fairer trial or better
treatment. After having spent
month in Government offices in the
Free State, I do not hesitate to de
cisre that it was one of the best
r.vernrd countries in the world. I
am persuaded that unless at the con
clusion of the war - Bagland accords
these people the freest possible gov
Tnment trouble will recur, and South
Africa may be lost to the empire. '
"A crown colony government, such
as ia suggested, would be fatal. ; Noth
ing but the freest autonomy' will re
concile them to become British citi
zens. Settlement will be terribly
difficult, and the Boers must be in
demmfied for the damage done and
must.be resettled on their land.
The English belittlers and tra
dncers of tha Boers, who repre
sented tfcem as a race of ignorant
and uncouth rustics, didn't seem to
realize how it looked for the flower
of the British armies ntf be whipped
by these rude rustics, with little
armies to hold Briton's legions at
bay, and wage a war which for ten
acity and glorious heroism hasn't
been approached- since tha days of
Leonidas. They have taught Eng
land many things about war which
her generals -didn't know . and have
shattered the reputation of some of
her- military idols.
It is time they began to appreciate
the sterling qualities of these grand
fighters, and to show a disposition
to do them justice, if not to deal
honorably and generously by them.
Tbat ThrobblBg Headaebe.
Would flliir.klv Iaava vnn tf vnn
used Dr. King's New Life pills. Thou
anas or suserers nave Droved tneir
matchless merit for Sick and Nervous
Headaches.' Thev make nnm hlnnd
and strong nerves and build up your
health. Eanv to take! Trv them. Onlv
25 cents. Money back if not cured.
Sold by B - &,BKUAiqr, Druggist, f
For Over Fifty Year """ '
Mrs. Wiw blow's Soorspra 8yhitp has
been naed for nvnv fiftv vmm h-r mil.
lions of mothers for: their children
wmie teething with perfect success.
It SOOtlie thM4.hU! - utan th. n-n
and allava ell iM.n imM winA ni;
and is the best remedy for diarrhoea.
T .ill Is. a . .
wm relieve sne poor iitue sufferer
immediately. -Sold by druggists in
every nart of the wnrlH Tvmt..M
2S5to 5?ttle d ask for
ad take no other kind. - , , J- s
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SPIRITS TURPENTINE
Lumberton Argus: Mrs. Ann"
McDonald died at ner. home, Aear.
Shannon, last week. -:She was in ner
87th year, had been a widow thirty
two years, and having no children .
she successfully t managed her jowo
farm, making a comfortable living
and having a surplus. . -i - ,
Shelby Aurora: . A man. claim
ing tobs a doctor from Lynchburg,
Va. said to be N. O. Watts, .was on
the streets Monday ' selling patent
medial net and electria belts; r He sold
about 125 belts to the people for $100.
Toe belts were tested and proved to
be no good.: so. the people went for
their money back, bat to no good for
he had got out of town. c
Stanly Enterprise: Two chil
dren of Mr." Jim Hihcock were, at
tempting to oross Bear creek about
four miles this tide of Big Lick, one
day this week, and in some way lost
their footing on the log and were
thrown into the stream. The little
7 year old daughter was drowned be
fore help could reach her, while the
other child was sased by a Mr. Barbee,
who chanced to be passing;
Salisbury Sun: Snow in April
is a very unusual sight here, but all
those wbo happened to b on the
streets UteStturdav nigit witneHsed a
heavy fall of the fhecy. It continued
to snow from 10 o'clock Saturday
mght until 2 o'clock Sunday morning,
thougn it had entirely disappeared
from the ground ye.terday morning.
The intense severity of the weather
tinds no parallel month. It is feared
hat early vegetables aud fruit will be
badly damaged. Much prepared land
has been washed away.
Goldsboro Argus: Capt. J. W.
Coble, tne well Known and popular
paenger conductor on the Southern
Ril-ay, was held up Sunday even
ing about 7 o'cLjck, near the Big
Ditch, on the road leading out to the
Odd Fellows' Orphanage, and robbed
of bis putol. watch and $18 in money,
11 the valuables he had on bis person.
Toe perpetrators of the robbery were
imported villains a white man and a
negro, who boarded Oi.pt. Gable's
train at Greensboro Sunday.
Baleigh Times: The cases of
smallpox at Uillsb-ro seem to hve
scattered the disenae pretty widely. A
few days ago Mrs. Graham, of that
town, went t -Norwood, 8taoly eoua
ty, to visit her marriea daughter and
was taken with tha disease after her
arrival there. Miss Bettie Walker, of
west Durham, wbo had been visiting
in Hillsboro, returned home and soon
after was taken with the disease. It
seems that proper precautions to pre
vent the spread of the disease were
not taken at Hillsboro.
CURRENT COMMENT.
McLaurin has evidently gone
over to the Materialists the money
power and he holds out to the
South the temptation that has mo
rally degenerated the North and
Europe. To all intents and purposes
he is a Republican or Republican
ally. Augusta Chronicle, Dem. .
It is a good, thing for the
basing interests of the country
that the strike of the Steel Trust
employees is not to take place; for,
when one considers the fact that it
might have meant the going ont of
50,000 skilled workmen and have
involved the enforced idleness of
200,000 unskilled and the stoppage
of wages payment amonnting to
$15,000,000 a month, it is easy to
understand how the entire commun
ity wcnld have been affected very
Boon. Brooklyn Citizen, Dem.
Hon. John A. Kasson has
pnt a capstone on the piled-up
measure wf his dhsguai wish Dmgley-
ism and McEinleyism by resigning
his Speoial Commissionership and
shaking the dnst of betrayed Re
ciprocity in the face of the recreant
party whioh advocates that policy in
its platform and defeats it in the
Senate. Mr. Kasson acquits him
self. The mass of his fellow-citizens
will share with him the contempt he
most feel for arrant political du
plicity. In all but in name Mr. Mc
Lanrin wonld make Southern
Democrats exponents of. Republican
principles and champions of Repub
lican policies. His speech at Char
lotte, N. C, on Thursday was an ar
raignment of the Democratic party
for its adherence to the time-bon?
ored Democratic doctrine of a low
tariff, as well as an indictment of the
Democracy for opposing a colonial
system on constitutional grounds.
$ow, while Mr. McLaurin is a Demo
crat in name, he is in fact as good a
Republican, as far as protection, ex
pansion and ship subsidus are con
cerned, as President McKinley or
Senator Hanna.
! WINKLINQS.
"We are going to Egyp
)t, too."
"Indeed, Miss Onicago! Upper or
Lower Egjp ?" "Upper, of course.
We don't have to take in anything
low."
Wife (to unhappy husband)
"I wouldn't worry, John. . It doesn't
do any good to borrow trouble."
Husband Borrow (rouble t My dear,
I'm not borrowing trouble: I've got it
to lend." Tit Bits, -
"How is it Scaddles, who used
to be so down on war. Is anxious to
enlist and go to the Philippines ribt
off P "I don't know, and what makes
it odder ' is he only got married a
couple of ninths ago, too."
Stubbf 'There goes a 'man
that has caused thousands of - women
excruciating torture. "Vet they "are
ready to worship his name." J?enn
"Who is hep 'Stubb-"The nu-nu
factarer of n extra tight corset "';
Jn China: First Aii4
the missionaries' want' compensation
for their property.'' Jskcond $jative
"Dear me I Haven't they a text thai
if a man takes your coat yon are to
give him your cloak, also?" Pwcft. .
- ' The Man (to applicant f or
aim ) Poor woman ; have you do
husband to earn a living for you?
The Woman I have a husband, sir,
but he is too busy to work. The Man
Indeed H What is he doing ? - The
WomanTrusting in Erpvidenee. , .
.'Wealth," sighed the impecuni
ous youth wbo had' ust been presented
21- Al 1 1 a. 1 1 ;,1 . a,
will, tne maroie near, win not ouy
happiness " "Perhaps not replied
the v beautiful ' heiress, 'but it : cuts a
wide swath in the foreign title -mar
ket" '- -y ' v - -J,..
The landlady intended it as a
clinching argument as to the atjtrac
tiveness of her home : "And my
daughter sometimes : sits at the piano
for hours.' That's auite aatisfactorv."
said the prospective boarder, "so long
as she doesn't play on JL" f .T u
OAST
Bian tits'-iMaHM TPS HOT MWBr, Bfl8gt
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A NIGHT OF T0ETUEE
ilT BROUGHT A FORTUNE, TO IT8 IN-
NOCENTVICTIM.";'v"i-:-
' Twice :St8fTp" by ' Lraehertr E
Coaf eased to Murder and Was Alt
. enrard VI adleated . and Recovered
S2S.OOO From Bi Aualluti. .
Late" in the fifties George, W. King
tfas the proprietor of a hotel in' Ox
ford. 26 miles from Lafayette. Ind.In4
1859 a stranger arrived at the hotel and.
gave his name as Dr. Rowe. ; Be thld.
King that he bad no money and nsked
to be trusted for his board till he could
get. practice In .the place, promising to
pay him as promptly as possible. - King
'consented to the arrangement, &n$,t
Bowe soon Decame a ravorite wi?n inn
people on account of his companion
able disposition and superior intelli
gence. The doctor, however, fell deep
er and deeper in debt. He had been 'at
the hotel for nearly a year when King
reminded .him one mernlng that he
had not paid anything on his board
bill for three months. The conversa
tion, it afterward appeared, was over
heard by Home one in the hotel, though
nothing was thought of It at the time.
A week after the conversation Rowe
was called out late at night to see a
patient and failed to return. Days
passed without any word from him, and
his disappearance soon was connected
, wim tne con.verBauou mui nau pasaeu
between him and the landlord about
the unpaid board. One night three.
.months later a party of disguised men
entered the hotel and, overtowering
King, took him to a woodland adjoin
Ing the town. .
He recognized the voices of several
of bla captors and especially of the
leader, wbo told him that he was sus
pected of murdering Rowe and ; de
manded that he confess. King stoutly
maintained his innocence, and the
leader of the mob ordered his com
panlons "to string blm up." A. rope
was placed around his neck, a dozen
men pulled down a stout limb, over
which the other end of the rope was
thrown, and when the limb was re
leased it carried King off his feet and
left him hanging by the eck. He
was nearly unconscious when let down
and again ordered to confess.
xAfter much delay be was restored
sufficiently to understand what was
said to him. and be again refused, de
claring his Innocence and saying be
did not know what bad become of
Rowe. A second time he was strung
up and a second time let down,- but
life was nearly extinct, and he was
much lonjror in being restored tban be
fore.
The luckless landlord knew he could
not pass through another snch ordeal
and live, so ne consented to coniess.
He purposely lengthened the confes
sion in order to gain time, and said
that he and two men, named Rogers
and Haggard, bad poisoned some whis
ky and Induced Rowe to drink It, and
after his death they had burled him
in a hollow some distance away. It
was nearly daylight when the confes
slon was made, and the lynchers de
termined to take King to jail in Lafa
yette and then arrest Rogers and Hag
gard.
Before the jail was reached day had
dawned, and King recognized his cap
tors as members of the Horse Thief
Detective company of Benton, Warren
and Tippecanoe counties, nearly all of
whom were known to him. Confident
of his guilt,jihe men made no attempt
to conceal Qeir Indentity. So great
was the excitement and so intense the
feellnsr nealnst Kinz that he waived
examination and went t A jail, hoping
that 8omethlnjr would turn up to es
tablisb his Innocence.
From the Jail at Lafayette King ad
dressed letters to editors of papers in
Cincinnati. Chicago. St Louis, Louis
ville and ojbgr cities, setting out the
clrotmistances of his confinement and
asking them to keep his letter In the
papers in hopes that it might fall un
der Rowe's Dotlce. The appeal was a
p. thetic one find was copied Into many
papers throughout he northwest.
Two weeks after Its first appearance
Dr. Rowe rode Into Oxford and, at
tended by a number of citizens, pro
ceeded to Lafayette, where his appear
ance caused iSre immediate release of
the accused landlord. In explanation
of bis disappearance Rowe said he had
left his home In the east on account of
domestic troubles; that be bad learned
that his wife was on her way to Ox
ford and he bad .determined to leave
the place secretly In order to prevent
hqr from learning where he had gone.
He had gone to a little town In south
ern Illinois, and It was there that he
learned that the man who had be
friended him was suspected of his mur
der and was in jail in Lafayette.
As soon ns King was released he
.brought suit against 32 members of the
"Horse " Thief Detective company for
$5,000 each and also against the com'
pany as a corporation. Thomas A.
Hendricks, afterward vice president.
was his counsel, but the case was not
allowed to come to trial, the lynchers
compromising by paying King $25,000.
With this money byj purchased a farm
ana opner property near Lafayette,
where he lived till his death, at the age
pf 78 years. Indianapolis Correspond
ence.
Seaa Bmiumel and His Boots.
In the "Reminiscences and Recollec
tions of Captain Grownow" (who was
himself a famous dandy) occurs the
following annecdote of Beau Brum
mel, the time being 1815.
The dandy's dress consisted of a blue
coat, with- brass buttons, leather
breeches and top boots, and It was the
fashion to wear a deep, stiff white
cravat, which prevented you from
seeing your boots while standing. -
All the' world watched - Braminel to
imitate him, and order their clothes of
the tradesman who dressed that sub
lime dandy. One day a youthful beau
approttohed Brtlmmel and said: -
i "Permit me to ask you where you
get yourjblacklng?"
"Ah!" replied Brummel, gazing com
placently ot " his boots, "my blacking
positively ruins me. I will tell you in
confidence. ..ft is-, made with the finest
cnampagnerr . .
An Psf plalnable fapt.
. "Tbe pld sipej?sj:itpn." said a leading.
pbysiclan. "tflat when death lays his
banc) on us pur bodily health is made
perfect has now peep substantiated by
the j most advanced uiedicai science.
People dying of paralysis and bodily
ailments whjph- ha ve . kept them opp-.
fiOfd to tbtflF pouches for, yearn and
palsied the ir. limbs ' so- that movement
Was Impossible regain r1) tbelr physic
al strength Just as tbey rross the bor
derland. No:" we can't explain why.
All we know is such Is the case." :
Wanted to Remain Popular.
ha ve ohIydne request to make be
fore I go.l said the prpniiuept Kahsan
jon his deathbed, "and that is that my
real friends will shoot the man "who,
'after I am gone, starts a' movement to
.'ppecf -a statue of; me by popular sub
'scrlDtion. ; '4 J am supposed; .to be popij
Larvand after I am jrone i don't want
fbat Idea bTOkeu.-"Icftit'E'a'gIp.-i.:':.-:.
j,'.;-- -
' ' '" fp Pit.' ; ;. . ', "
; ayeu;dUp;t. go tp the-theatep
Wltlr your Cou6fp Tpm 'after' all! '
taougnr. your jiance two po objection,:
r Mabei---He1 hadn't :. That's . -why l l iaMBon Oo. r
WMHMm-An RTatonv467 tons, Oobb, George
- & - ,ir?& A.Ki.'r y-yj?vi?':J
now sne ac!?
': 'Just" budding into womanhood,' so
fresh, ScT faif and.fine 'that we turn to
watch her as she passes,- she trips along
aHWe a Tiirture of health and beauty.
Among tiie passing crowd of worn and J
she looks a being
irom .another
world...; Will she;
ever be like them? .
Could they onde
have been as fair
as she? No beauty :
can last under the
etrain ' and drain
of female weak
ness, from which
the majority of
women suffer in a
greater or less de
gree. They might
preserve their fair
ness of face and
form if they would
cure the disastrous
diseases which
affect the woman
ly organs. Women
are cured of such
diseases by the use
of Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescrip
tion, r It stops the
enfeebling drains,
heals inflamma
tion and ulcera
tion, cures bear
ing - down pains,
strengthens the
nervous system, and restores the gen
eral health. It contains no opium, co
caine or other narcotic.
"I bad been a great sufferer from female
weakness," writes Mrs. M. B, Wallace, of Muen-
tter, Cook Co., Texas. tried four doctors ana
none did me any rood. I suffered six years, but
at last I found relief. I followed your advice,
and took eight bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite
rrescnpuon ana tour ot his -uoiaen Meaicai
Discoverv.' I bow feel like a new woman. I
nave grained eighteen pounds."
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure bil
iousness.
Leas Hopeful For Himself.
George, the colored Janitor, needed
some money and went to the church
treasurer for it.
"There isn't a cent In my hands just
now, Geerge." said that officer, "and
won't be till next Sunday's collections
are handed over. Can't you wait till
then?"
"Don't see how I kin. Mis tab Gub-
ney," persisted ueorge. "ii yarn't nm
de house widout money."
' "The best I can do for you," returned
the treasurer, "will be to advance you
(3 out of my own pocket and run my
risk of getting it back from the
church."
"Well, sub," solemnly rejoined the
janitor, "ef you don't git it back 'm
de ebu'eh. Mittab Gubney. you'll git
yo reward In de good world, but ir's
diffn't wid me. Ef I cain't git dat
free doilahs fm you, I'd like f know
whah I kin!" Chicago Tribune.
t".
Black Teeth.
Th'- custom of women iu .latum at
marriage giving their teeth an. ever
lasting coating of blacking is practiced
now by only a small percentage, but
there are still seen in tbe cities hun
dreds of women hideous with black
Ivorv. and dentists showcases contain
sets of black teeth.
man who gets into tbe habit of
never making mistakes Is altogether
too near perfection for this world.
Chicago News.
WHOLESALE PRICES CUBREIT.
vm fonowinsr Quotations roprooant
Wholesale Prloes eenerulv. In making up
snail orders lUaber nrlces have to be
ThA nnnrArtrtnx nm arwav m-ren as accurateiT
as possible, but the Stab will not be responsible
for anV variations from tne actual marl
of tbe articles Quoted
fSAGGrao
jute
8KO
O
6 O
8
Standard
Barlans
7H
C4s
WS8TEBN SMOKED-
Hams w .........
Sides f) ,
Shoulders 9
19
9
10
15
10
8
11
DBY SALTED
sides 9
Shoulders t
ma
BABBKT-3 Spirits Turpentine
1 85 O 1 40
& 1 40
e 1 45
& 1 45
7 00 A 7 60
9 00 O14 00
80 O 85
85 O 35
6 O 58
58 O 68
O 1 25
18 O 85
8 O 11
11 O 1SH
9 O 11
8econd-taand machine.
New New York, each . . .
New City, each .........
BRICKS .
BUTTKB
North Carolina w
Northern
OORN MKAL
Per bushel, in sacks ....
Vlnrtnla Meal
OOTTON TTEa bundle. .
0ANDLE8 V
BDerm
Adamanthie
OOFFEB V
i-aguyra..............
Elo.7.
DOMESTICS
Sheeting, 4-4, 9 yard o 6H
Tarns, s nttnen of s s .... tx 70
IS H
Mackerel, No. 1, barrel... S3 00 O 80 oo
MacKerei, no. i, nair-oni. li oo
Mackerel, No. 8, 9 barrel... 1 oo
Mackerel, No. 9 hall-bW.. 8 00
HackereL No. S, V barrel... IS 00
15 00
18 00
0 00
14 00
Mullets, m
4 00 ft 4 25
7 50 O 8 00
3 00 O S 85
5 10
15 O 4 50
uuuDtCf w jana ucui'Oit
N. C. Roe Herring, f keg..
(TLOUB-P- J
Lrfwgraae .. ......
Choice
3 85
3 85
4 75
9
O
O
i
o
8 50
3 75
485
5 CO
10
63
61
.9
45
45
1 10
6
11
10
1 00
60
95
95
90
Straight.
First Patent.
QLUE-9
9 RAIN bushel -
(jorn,rrom store, bss White
60 O
60 S
58 O
40 a
90 O
io S
9 a
95 O
40 a
oo a
Mixed Corn..
Oar-load, ih: bgs White.
VMIO, U1HJ1 DWiV
oatsBost Proof..
Cow Peas.....
BODES y 1
ureen Batted......
Dry flint,..,
Drvsali a
BAY V 100 s
moi Timothy
Rloe Straw
Eastern
Western
North River -.
S
3
CHEESE V tv-
Mortnern factory,
15
14
Dairy Cream...
uaurc
e cream
12
LARD. V -
Northern na io
North Carolina to A it
LIME, Ji barrel 115.6 180
Lumber (city sawed) 9 m ft .
cuup o.uul, resawea.,.. is 00 O 80 00
Bough edge Plank is 00 $ is oo
Uiat quality ... 18 00 a 18 00
pressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 oo - a 83 oo
Scantilna- and Board, corn's 14 no
a is oo
V0LA88ES 9 gaUon ;
uaroaaoea, in neffsneaa., . . .
Barbadoes. lnbarrela
f Porto Riooi. In hosshaada m
Porto Rico, in barrels....... 88
Sugar House, in hogsheads. u
Sugar Hoase, in barrels.... 14
Byrnu. In barrels ik
NAia, keg, Cut, 60d basis....
PORK, 9 barrel . (
cttv Mess..
Bump..
Prime.........
SALT, 9 sack. Alum
mn im w. m
UTerppoi
American.................... i
On IBS Sacks .....
SUGAR. 9 Standard Gran'd
Btanoara a. ........... : '
Wbjte Extra o.. ....... ......
Extra C, Golden
O Yellow................
auAf. w northern... ....... sjitf
- B.O. Hogshead........ J.,,.. -
- - irniv mill - ' m
HHINQLa, N.C. Cypreee sawed .
vauMoeui , S3
, 6x80 Heart...... ....... 8 85
JfT- u f Ban.. - -' en
WHISKEY. 9 gallon. Northern I oo
iiAgjlE ijlgpCTORY.
SlMteM W. (D A or 11 1901. i
Uark Gray, S46 tons, Saw j er,Georgp
Mecosta, 242 tons, Stront George Har
ris Son &TCo. -ir --V! y?--. I
Montana.! 837 tons, Booye, George I
U WILMINGTON MARKET.
rQuoted officially at the closing by the Produce
, . , Exooange.J
STAB OFFICE, April 23
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Market
fir m at 82 & cents per gallon for
machine made casks and 32 cents
per gallon for country casks.
I ROSIN Market steady at $1.05 per
barrel for strained and $1.10 per bar
re r for good strained.
TAR Market steady at $1.20 per bbl
of 280 lbs. - - .- -
CRUDE - TURPENTINE Market
quiet at $1.10 per barrel for hard,,"
$2.10 for dip, and for virgin.
Quotations same day last year
Spirits turpentine steady at 47a47c;
rosin nothing doing; tar firm at
$1.30; crude turpentine quiet at $1.85
3.15.
RECEIPTS.
Spirits turpentine. 17
Rosin 251
Tar 74
Crude turpentine 34
Receipts same day last year 17
casks spirits trurpentine, 146 bbls
rosin, 19Q bbls tar, 59 bbls crude tur
pontine.
COTTON
Market firm on a basis of 7c per
pound for middling. (Quotations
Urdinary t
Good ordinary .
Low middling......
Middling
Good middlinsr .
5 716 cts. ft
6 13 16 " "
7 716 " M
7 " "
S 3 16
Same day last year middling quiet
at 9c.
Receipts 74 bales; same day last
year, 14.
r Corrected Regularly by WOmlnirton Produce
vommtHBion Hercn va j
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina -
CTime, 7uc. Hlxtra prime, 75c per
bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, 80c.
Virginia Prime, 50c; extra prime,
55c: fancy. 60c: Spanish. d5c.
CORN Firm, 60 to 62c per bushel
for white.
N. C. BACON Steady; hams 12 to
13c per pound; shoulders, 8 to 10c;
sides, 8 to 10c
EGG3 Steady at 12K to 13c per
dczen.
CHICKENS Firm. Grown, 25
3Jc; sprioffs. 1525c
TURKEYS-Live, dull at 9 to 10c;
pressed, 10 to 12c
BEESWAX Firm at 25c.
TALLOW Firm at 56c per
pound.
'. SWEET POTATOES Firm at 70c.
FINANCIAL MARKETS
By Telegraph to tbe Horning Star.
new York. April 23. Money on
sail steady at 24 per cent., last loan
84 and ruling rate 4i per cent Prime
merw-antile paper 4454 per cent.
Sterling exchange firm at decline, act
ual business in bankers1 bills at48S6
488 for demand and 485485H for 60
days. Posted rates 485340486 and
489. Commercial bills 484M484.
Silver, certificates were nominal at
60. Bar silver 60. Mexican dol
lars 48 . Government bonds easier.
State bonds weak. Railroad bonds ir
regular. U. 8. refunding 2's reg'd.106 ;
U. S. refund's 2 s, coupon, 106 M ;U. tt.
2's, reg'd, ; U. 8. 8's, reg'd, 110i;
do. coupon, 111X; w. S. 4's, new
ree'cL 138K: do. coupon, 13934; U S
-4's, old reg'd, 113; do. coupon, 113 ;
U. H. 6's, reg'd, 11UX: do. coupon,
111M ; Southern K'y 5's 117 X Stocks :
Baltimore & Ohio, 94 &; Chesapeake
dC Unio 47H ; Bdanhattan L 12714 . N. Y.
Central 151; Reading 37; do 1st
prel'd 75 ; St. Paul, 166i , do. pre I a,
190; Southern Railway 29 , do. prefd
ZK: American Tobacco. 1Z6. du
prefd 145; People's Gas 113J , 3uga
144; do. prefd 122, T. I . & Iron 66;
U. 8. Leather 133: do. preferred 77
WesternUnion 92; U. 8 Steel 46;.
U.S. Steel, prefd 94; Consolidatt d
Gas 2313i; Standard Oil 810818.
BALTIMORE, April 23 Seaboard Air
Line; common, 25a25 ; do.pref err?o,
44Ji45c. Bonds 4's81.
NAVAL STORES MARKETS
Bv Telegraph to the Morning star.
New York. April 23. Rosin steadv :
Strained common to good $1 60. Spirits
turpentine steadier at 35 36c.
Charleston, April 23. Spirits tur
pontine steady at 31c; sales casks
Rosin firm and unchanged.
SAVAHKAH. April 23. Spirits tur
pontine firm at 3232Uc: receints 1.532
casks; sales 520 casks: exports 64U
casks Rosin firm: receipts 4 130 bar
rels: sales 1.498 barrels; exports 5.360
oarreis. Quotations: A, o, U. l 15
D, $120;E, $1 25; F, $130, G, $1 35
COTTON MARKETS.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star,
X4EW YoRk, April 23 July shorts
ngurea as tne cbief supporters of tbe
cotton market again to day and specu
lation on me pare oi tne investment
public continued to crow in favor
On the first call prices were three to
six points higher with the undertone
steady. No sooner had the opening
fr s : i j . ... . . "
iiroitwUintiriea uoeu dispensed wun man
a small routBof room shorts a d
active buying for outside accouut
set in and prices went down
with a rush. On tbe advance, tbe
South, Europe, the West and Wall
street, bid energetically for May and
July and August. Before the buying
movement gave any sign of exbaus
tionMayhad reached 8 29 and Julv
8 31, with the bear faction disnlavintr
considerable excitement. Accompa
nying the bulge were rumors to the
effect that July was to be sent still
higher and that a Drominent Western
gram nouse had become t really inter
ested in the Summer months. Profit
taking eventually checked the rise
and by midday, prices were off to a
level some two or three points under
last night's closing. For tbe rest of
tne session, fluctuations were more
conservative and operations were
toned down decided I v. Most of the
afternoon business dragged, the room
trade being mixed in its views and
orders from the outside being at lim-
ia wmcn prevented meir execution.
Estimates for larger receints anit off
set the government's weather report
which had already been anticipatedas
of marked bnllish importance. The
early cables were a leading factor in
the early advance. The market was
finally quiet with prices net unchanged
to four points lower.
NEW YORK. A nril 23. Oottnn oniet?
middling uplands 8 7 16c.
Uotton futures closed auiet: Anril
ai5. May 8.16, June 818, July 8 20,
August 7.81. Sentember 7 43.' October
7 84. - November 7.26. Decemher 7 27.
January 7.29.
Hpot cotton , closed quiet; middling
uplands 87 16c: middling amf fill ifir-
sales 859 bales.
Net receipts 513 bales: cross re
ceipta 5,618 bales; stock 144.880 bales.
Total - to-day Net receipts 13 955
bales; exports to Great Britain 11.204
bales; exports to France 511 bales;
exports to the Continent 1,252 bales;
stock 668,26 bales, i i
yonoricraed Net receipts 35.925
bales: extiorts to Giat Rritin sb i
bales' exports to France S.185'alefc:
exports to lh Continent 2p, 63 bales.
Total since September UttNet I ro
""ui .otn,Du . oaies; exports to
France fi4T) gig hW
Cbntaneht 2.087.299 balea. - :
trt
I . - AprU21.---Gal- tsUUi. steady at 8He,
Tnet receipts v ttottit&tfi.
wJras:oAc, net : receipts-615 balet
Pbiladelph. ' n.ei
rceinta il?.5r?M
3.558 bales. ul 8 311
?8. net lemL,
qu.etatsgT.r-119
N iw Yohk. tl'N
moderately act ".
tone steady t l SaUl6i
Wheat-3pot?,
"T" snowed i I
atthet.tartunderd
rore,Bn eeli ng ra'fPpoiJ
allied aBd held Sfcl)
"aa uu under k-T
easy at Mai
----- - .-7SC. (Jorr,-)P
ithe Uh:C:,o buliS
w.g and smoii . "Wt
01. stead, rtf!
6lKc Mv closed 5l7'iH
temoer 48 Up. n . m
31 Vc; O,ll0D8-ieft
-ucr maruets l,,,,! "'I
steam $8 57 ;refiS
Q'Jiet; nm.ii
Cu.$9 5U;c,mpi,Uld 'M
Vug fbdvl
mart Uai.i """"ftj
Collie dn vm'l,
Mc$l"87, N"?
50-. 50. Po..M
Butter hro, fsr,
- irrsn CfftiiJ
8wie dairy frh iJ1
5c ;other dom'g ic mi
t LlVfrnniil0.....,l814
m
s41
. "j - omit
l luu i : mi.,
Ann wiih..n4- . .
bare I v
"u'iul iirw r. ,. .
lard products: Pnojf Cri;
iit. uriniHKiirr.il,... . j
r 0,l
nnmp moo I qk nn U . 1
5,1. XT" r,r W'
i . n Mi v m r -a f . r. r ir uu
fair refining Slliejj
test4 3 164c;refiaedij
Chicago, Auril 23.-U
the price record IMhtiJ
Tu. hlrrriOK W7U....l,
;,:..,:L...""ri,.,i
uauun, closing 0f..
V- uown ana proviKoo
1A1 . J.-
xju. ueprcssea.
Chicago, April 23 -Cm
Flour steadv. "WhuiJ
c; No., red 7lm.
46: No. 5J Tfillnw dR iu
27c; No. 2ivhue28M
wnue zumc Fon,
14 3U14 85.
8 208 21X. Bhoiti.
$8 058 25 Drv
boxed, $6 87tf7 I2j.
sides, boxed $8 25s 3i
Distillers' finished fooi
8127
The leading futures it
lows opening, highect
closing: Wheat-No 2 If
72, 71, 71tfc;Jub.W
71 M'71Ji, 71c. Corr-K
46, 46, 46c; Ky 46t
July 44 H W M.m
Oats-No. 2 Ma 2h
l?5Kc; July 25j4.5)i
aojfiM'ork. per Dbi-l
14 4, 14 27, 14 30; X
14 57 'A. 14 42. 14 45 I.
R-May8 12H.8M
8 05 8 05, 7 W.
$8 02, 8 05, 7 97H 797K
pr 100 Us Ma 181714
8 15: Julv79250 92!
September $7 7 87K,78?JS
-rfy
, ;.v K tie w
f.ivuRPOOL. Anril 33.1
ton : SdoI. ircreased dn
1 32d hieber: AoflW
K lAA ennri middling i
dling 4 21 32d; low tniddii
good ordinary 4 7.;i
azd. Toe sajes c in- m
kola. nf whiph BOO Dill
vrw.v., 1 . . ......
sTwvnlnt.inn and export if
7.BUU Dales a-wertau.
000 bales, including
A mAripn
tfiitiires onened flU't!
HU1C, UiAb o.vw.j I
. . 110! tlM
(I. m. c.) apni ai
. .. t At J Sir
im. Inn Anil n I!
.oil,... Ma, and June!
' .1.-1. iff
buyer: June ana juhi
r..i. A Aniriisi iSIwt
juij auu .i j
tust and September W
September 4au a rJ
o.c) 4 13BMw-u-,n
vember wr
ber ar.d Decen Der w
A V Hurt Bob.
O.LL1A i . ,' I
ville, James HtflJ
Clyde .steamship JM
New lorn, n"01
Tork, JT Riley &
YORK-S-hr
245 Pitch pine P"g3
vessel by JTwn
BY RIVER
Receipts of Naval StW
YegtetW'
or W Railroad-
2 casks spinw i
crude turpentine-
ton, ecasa-;H- !,
1. -.nsin. ID
crude turpentiD'. ,j
turpVnti. e.' 4 2
..-.-n. 22 barrel-W I
turpeninr. py
Steamer w. A- I
tar n vjchitln
8teamer u I
taj?eterson's ft'7f!S
Total-uow".
p-ntme, H ffe8'ude
tar, 74 barrels; cr
barrels.
wnr LaGripPi
ii ad v,
PIS$J
EXP0BT&I
C0ASTWISI
4
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