BY WILlilAM a. ttJUKNARD
WIliMIHGTUJV. ss. c.
Sunday anoBKiHS. November 10.
HE PROVES TOO MUCH.
Governor Shaw, of Iowa, is one of
the gentleman whose names have
been "mentioned" as likely to come
before the next Republican conven
tion as a candidate for the Presden
j-tiai nomination. He made a speech
in St. Louis a short while ago in
which he gaye the ship subsidy
scheme the following boost:
"In fortv vears our foreign com
merce has increased fourfold, and
wt the a??reate tonnage carried in
American vessels has decreased two
thirds. We have four times as much
freight to carry as we had forty years
mao. but we actuall y carry only one
third as much as we carried forty
vears aeo. We have the best coast
wise and lake trade in the world.
This is because it has been protected.
We have allowed no ship owned by a
foreigner or built in a foreign country
to register at our ports or to float our
flae- in the coastwise trade. The De
troit river carries more American
freight than all the foreign tonnage
that enters Liverpool or New York, or
both combined, and every pound floats
the American flag, and underneath
everv ton is a vessel buit by American
labor. A statute signed by President
Washington, which in all these years
has never been successfully assailed,
created an American monopoly of our
coast wise and lake trade, but instead
of reanltinar in advanced rates it has
nroduced the cheapest freightage in
the world. The rate on some classes
has decreased over 80 per cent, in
thirty years."
It may be incidentally remarked
that the ship subsidy business, is
not very popular among the farmers
of the Haweye State, and hence it
is necessary to make some special
effort to work them np to favoring
imp subsidies. Coming from a
Western man, the great industry
of whose State is agriculture, this
speech is hailed with rejoicing by
the subsidy boomers, one of which,
the Philadelphia rress, thus com-
ments upon it:
"The Governor demonstrated in this
and in other ways the tremendous im
portance of applying the protective
principle to the shipping in the foreign
trade, the same as is now and always
has been done with the shipping in the
coastwise trade. This protected coast
wise shipping is the most prosperous
in the world, and freight rates have
been reduced, as the Governor says,
so as to give the cheapest freightage
in the world.' If the protective prin
ciple had been applied to our shipping
in the foreign trade, as proposed by
the Frye bill, the country would not
now be in the disgraceful and humi
Hating position of carrying only one
third as much of its foreign freight as
it carried forty years ago, although
we have four times as much freight of
that kind to carry as we had then
While the Governor was thus
boosting ship subsidies under ihe
delusive plea of protection to our
shipping wasn't he proving too
much and showing that we were get
ting along pretty well without a sea
going merchant marine? There are
two reasons given for askinga-Goy
ernment subsidy to American ships,
first to facilitate the expansion of
our commerce, second to foster our
shipbuilding industry.
Assuming that they are honest in
this doesn't Governor Shaw hit the
iormer, aiinousrn unintentionally, a
hard rap when he asserts that with
out a sea-going marine our com
merce has increased fourfold in forty
years while our sea-going shipping
has dwindled away to almost noth
ing? Forty years ago American ships
carried 85 per cent, of oar commerce
while nowthey carry only one-third
as much as they did then. It doesn't
seem from this that our commerce
has suffered much for the want of
American ships. In all this discus
sion it has not yet been shown that
any cargo of American exportable
products was ever left on this side
for want of transportation. Some
time ago there was some advance in
freights, attributed to the fact that
so many English ships were drawn
off to do transport service to South I
Africa, but that was only for a short I
while. Now freights are down and
thgre are more ships than cargoes.
But why has our merchant marine
vanished from the seas? The Re-
i 1 1
pu oiican party naa oeen in power
almost continuously all that time
and has had the shaping of our
national policies. Why did it per
mit the decay of our merchant
marine? It will not do to. say that
it was driven from the seas by Con
federate cruisers because that is not
true, and if it were, there have been
no Confederate cruisers afloat for
thirty-five years. The fact is that
the sailing vessel was relegated to a
large extent by the iron steamers
that put in an appearance in Eng-1
land abont 1858, and theRepubli
can tariff makers were so anxious to
favor certain industries they made
the duties so high on iron and
steel, of which we then produced
comparatively little, that we could
not build iron ships and thus Great
Britain got control of the sea carry-
ing Business.
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But now we produce I
iron and steel more cheaply than
this can be done in Europe and can
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.wwxci.u uuu ompg aa cheaply if
not more cneapiy than they can be
Duut iu .uugiauu.. xuis is posi
tively asserted by ship builders and
yet ; they , have the gall to demand
subsidies to foster the ship building
industry - of : this country, when
every ship yard in the country is
full of work and "are building more
ships than any country in the world
except Great Britain.
The Governor calls attention to
the Tow freight rates "on onr lakes
and coastwise carriers and attributes
this to the fact that they are pro-
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tected by the laws which prohibit
foreign ships from engaging in the
lake or coastwise trade. Bnt these
laws do not prohibit foreigners from
owning lake and coast vessels and
sailing them under the American
flag and reaping the benefit of this
protection, while they send their
earnings to be invested as they see'
fit, just as millions of foreign money
is invested in other protected indus
tries, and in our railroads, the divi
dends on which go to Europe.
But if protection has given such
low freight service by our lake and
coastwise vessels, how is it with our
railroads? They are not reaping the
benefit of any protective legisla
tion, but the carriage rates for both
passengers and freight have been
steadily reduced by them until they
now give the American people the
cheapest service in the world. What
did this? The answer is competi
tion, one line competing with an
other, and this is precisely what
has given the cheap service on our
lake and coastwise vessels. There
was business for them to do.
They competed with each other
and with the railroads, this compe
tition put rates down, and as the
rates went down business increased
and the competition and rate reduc
ing continued. Protection had
nothing to do with it. It was simp
ly business and competition, as it
was with the railroadsf and as it
has been with other indus
tries whose products have been
cheapened by improved methods,
reducing the cost of production
and by competition.
When they can show by some
positive assertion based on plausible
ground that an American merchant
marine is necessary to the preserva
tion or expansion of our commerce,
or that our farmers would get
cheaper freight rates for what they
export, they might talk with some
show of reason to farmers and ask
them to favor ship subsidies, bat
tney should not put lorwara mere
assumptions and spread eagle ora
tory as substitutes for argument and
fact, and try to humbug people
with these.
OPPOSED TO BEYISIOH.
A Washington dispatch published
yesterday states that Representative
Payne, Chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee, and
Representative Steele, also a mem
ber of the committee, had a confer
ence with the President in which
the subject of tariff revision came
up. Mr. Payne declared that he
was opposed to any tariff revision at
this time, and that he disagreed
entirely with the views of Represen
tative rsaococa. who iavors revision
on certain lines.
There are a good many Republi
can Kepresentatives and senators
who are opposed to any "revision at
this time" but they do not intimate
when the time will come when they
will be in favor of it, whether next
year, the year after or ten years
hence. They say we are on the high
tiae oi prosperity now, that any
attempt at tariff revision will unset
tle business and therefore we had
better let the tariff alone.
rut woman t cms apply to any
other year as well? If there be dan
ger of disturbing business now by
touching the tariff, when there is a
Republican President and a Repub
lican Congress, which would touch it
lightly, would not there be as much
if not more danger of disturbing
business a year or two years hence,
when business might not be so pros
perous and when there might be a
Congress which would not touch it
so lightly? Do they want to wait
until business -reverses come before
they attempt to reduce duties?
They seem to be acting upon the
principle of "letting well enongh
-i j i i
aione, wnicn is one oi tne cam-
paign maxims of Senator Hanna.
But why are they not consistent in
this and apply it to the ship subsidy
schemer They boast of the splen
did progress we have made in in
creasing our commerce, and yet they
insist on taxing the American peo
ple $9,000,000 a year for twenty
years, and there is no telling how
long after that, to build ships osten
sibly to help our commerce along.
But if Mr. Payne is opposed to
tariff revision and entirely disagrees
with Representative Babcock, how
are we going to have the reciprocity
and the reduction of duties "where
high protection is no longer neces
sary" which the late President Mc-
Kinley advocated in his Buffalo
speech? The indications are that
the Republican statesmen are play-
ing "craps" with reciprocity and go
ing square back on Mr. McKinley.
James McCormack, of Colorado,
naa gold be-spangled locks bnt
didn't know it till a barber imparted
the information. He was about to
start East and concluded he would
shavenp and tune np to make him-
ecu more preBentame. in manipu
lating his hair the barber discovered
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that it was covered with gold dust
and announced that discovery to the
gentleman in the chair. Mr. Me
remembered that he had been in a
ne nabit of washincr his fana nA
wetting his hair in a stream in
tbJ S-T-W concluded that
frlgfwnthu hair mU8t h come
?n f tt8'68?1' bo he made a bee
line back and etoV r
which he says is whfT" STer
000 to $500,000,
For Whooping Couch
Use UtfJSNEY'S Tf5c.
PEOTORANT.
For sale by Hardla's PaUca Pharmacy.
A ESOUSHUAH'S GSAVD
SCHEME.
An Englishman, whose name is
Streiff, bas struck on a grand scheme
by which this country, in his opinion,
could turn the tables on European
countries, and monopolize the busi
ness of cotton manufacturing and
the business of building cotton spin
ning and weaving machinery. He
has written np his scheme for one
of the London papers in a letter,
from which the New York Sun
makes a few extracts. He starts out
with the following introductory re
marks: "If the American bull knew his
own strength he would not condescend
to haggle with Germany, France,
Switzerland, Italy and other countries
over the admission of American pork.
The American Government need only
point to the expediency of an export
tax on cotton wool,"
A tax of twopence a pound on
cotton, he says, would not only
bring the Government abont $160,
000,000 revenue annually, bnt would
do a good deal more than that, which
he tells in the following extract:
"It would stop the addition of a
single spindle or of a single loom to
the now existing machinery of Eu
rope. This machinery is chiefly made
in England, Germany and Switzerland,
and these makers would have to trans
fer their entire plants to America.
What that would mean to the Ameri
can iron and steel industry any one
can guess. Considering what the cot
ton industry means to Europe, other
far-reaching results would be inevita
ble. "Why does not Jonathan see all
thatt Because his natural resources
and the cotton crop is one of them
are still greater than his much vaunt
ed intelligence. If any one can refute
my above statements, I am at his dis
posal." From Mr. Streiff's view this is
a splendid scheme, and he is no
doubt surprised that it has escaped
Jonathan. But unfortunately for
his scheme, even if Jonathan did
catch on to it, there is an insur
mountable obstacle in the way
which would prevent the scheme
from working, and that is the con
stitutional provision which declares
that "No tax or dnty shall be laid
on articles exported from any
State," which has held good ever
since the adoption of the constu
tion. Mr. Streiff is in tbe position
of some inventors who work for
months on an invention and then
discover that they had overlooked
some important principle or part
that made all their work worthless.
The Republican statesmen have
been so much in favoi of taxation,
especially the taxation of articles
produced in the South, that we have
no doubt whatever that they would
have whacked an export tax on
cotton long ago if this constitutional
inhibition were not in the way, but
that was so plain and mandatory
that there was no way of getting
around it.
The New York Journal, in a re
cent issue, published a number of
letters from prominent white and
colored men of tbe South giving
their views, by request of the
Journal, on the subject of negro
education, among them Bishop
Dudley, colored, of Kentucky, who
touched a vital point when he said
a negro ' 'whose intelligence had
been sharpened by the training,
the school room, but whoso moral
nature is nndeveloped, is but a more
dangerous animal." There is abund
ant evidence of that.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Elections in Philadelphia as
they are conducted under the Ash
bridge Administration make a farce
of popular Government. Philadel
phia Press, Rep.
Minister Wn has received
some very valuable education in
American methods during his stay
in this country, and his interming
ling with Americans. Should he
be recalled to China, he ought to
be a valuable missionary of develop
ment. Augusta unromcle, JJem.
The Dutch have produced
some, remarkably good fighters and
leaders in their South African busi
ness, as is very generally remarked.
It is noted, however, that Cronid.
Botha, Jonbert and De Wet. at
least, are all Frenchmen, as their
names indicate. "From 1688 to
1702 there was a steady stream of
French emigration to Cape Colony."
Charleston News and Courier.
Bern.
The lynching question has
ceased to be a sectional Question.
The evil has spread until there are
but few States without notches on
their sticks. Republican Governors
and Democratic Governors alike
seem unable to administer the laws
against lynching.- Some of the oldest
towns on the map are as deeply
stained with the evil as the roughest
of the frontier settlements. Wash
ington Star, Jeep.
The Talladega News-Reporter
intimates that Washington was in
vited to dine with the President
through a Southern influence, and
that "truthful criticism of the inci
dent would cause a blush to mantle
the cheeks of some persons nearer to
Alabama than Washington City."
This adds mystery to the intensity
of the situation. Now let the News-
Reporter tell the whole truth: per
haps that may relieve the situation
of some of its grotesque features.
Chattanooga-Times, Dem.
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SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Tarboro Southerner'. Charles
Bennett, a negro, wbile playing
"craps" in the woods near Goldsboro
fell dead. Some of the other players
were so frightened that they ran a
great distance.
Winston Journal: Dr. T. L.
Cook, of the South Side, raised 85
bushels of corn, S3 bushels of wheat
and a fair crop of leaf tobacco from an
acre and a half of land this season. He
bas given bigger farmers a valuable
pointer.
Washington Gazette: We are
told more second crop potatoes have
been raised in this county this fall
than ever known, and the farmers are
receiving a better price for them than
for those they shipped in June and
July.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.
John Blue, president of the Aberdeen
and Rockfish Railroad, is one of the
State's most remarkable business men.
80 far as we know, he is the only man
that has ever successfully undertaken
the construction of a railroad alone.
Thirty odd miles of this road has al
ready been completed, and the work
of constructibn is still in progress.
Columbus News: Last Friday
night about 9 o'clock Mr Eli Memory's
bouse, containing all bis household and
kitchen furniture, clothing, etc , was
totally destroyed by fire. It will be re
membered by many'that only a few
years ago Mr. Memory was burned out
It is supposed that the fire originated
from a defective stove flue. There was
no insurance on the building. Only a
few articles were saved from the fire.
Greensboro Telegram: Since
the failure of their attorney to secure
the necessary bondsmen for their re
'ease, the gold brick men, and in par
ticular Howard, have seemed to grow
despondent and to lose hope of their
ultimate release. Thursday Mrs
Howard gave her husband a curtain
lecture about his conduct and the old
miner broke down and cried like a
child. He seems to realize for the first
time that he is likly to serve his full
term in the State's penitentiary.
Greenville Reflector: Mr. W.
H. Gray, of Carolina township culti
vated a one horse crop, having seven
acres in tobacco, nine acres in cotton,
one acre in potatoes, besides what he
puts in corn. For his tobacco he re
ceived $850, for his cotton $200, for his
potatoes $112, making a total of $1,162,
and he has on hand 45 barrels of corn
and 5 stacks of fodder. This is what
we call a fine result for a one horse
crop, and shows that farming will pay
when properly done.
Greensboro Record: The youni
white man, Ernest Causey, from Higl
Point, who was convicted for house
breaking before Judge Shaw in Supe
rior Court here three weeks ago and
sentenced to three years on the coun
ty roads, and who made his escape
from Guilford county jail last Sun
day a week ago by sawing a steel bar
in two, was captured in Hagerstown,
Md., Thursday evening by the chief of
police of that place.
Sanford Express Mr. George
Gilmore says he raised 75 bushels of po
tatoes this year on a 4 darter of an acre
of land. This is at the rate of 300 bu
shels per acre, the greatest yield we
have so far heard of. At 50 cents per
bushel Mr Gilmore would realize the
nice sum or $150 from one acre of
land. This beats raising cotton all
hollow. The great scarcity of
cars is causing a great deal of incon
venience to lumber mills and other
manufacturing establishments in this
section. The Sanford Sash & Blind
Company have of late been unable to
make prompt shipments due to a lack
of cars. It is said there are thousands
of feet of lumber at the mills around
Raeford awaiting shipment.
Pres idirslder'g Appointments. Wllmlnz
miogton District.
Elizabeth, Elizabetbtown, Nov. 9,
10.
Burgaw church, Burgaw, Nov. 13.
Jacksonville and Richlands, Rich
lands, Nov. 15.
Onslow, Tabernacle, Nov. 16, 17. .
Scott's Hill church, Scott's Hill
Nov. 18.
Waccamaw, Nov. 22.
Whiteville, Chadbourn, Nov. 23, 24.
Bladen street, Nov. 27.
. Market street, Nov. 28.
Kenansyille, Charity, Nov. 29.
Magnolia, Providence, Nov. 30,
Dec. 1.
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FAVORITE
RESCRIPTIOrJ
M VO R .WEAK WO MEW
1
THE NASI El. ESS HEIR.
There are countless heroes who live
and die,
Of - whom we have never heard;
For tbe great,' big, brawling world
goes by,
With hardly a look or word ;
And one of the bravest and best of all.
Of whom the list can boast.
Is tbe man who tmlla on duty's call.
. The man who dies at his post.
While bis cheek is mantled with mat
bood's bloom
And the path war of life looks bright,
He is brought in a n oment to face the
gloom .
Surrounding the final night.
Hi buoyantly sails o'er a sunlit sea
And is dashed on an unseen coast
Till the ship goes down at the helm
stands he--The
man who dies at his post.
Who follows the glorious tide of war
And falls in the midst of fight,
He knows that honor will hover o'er
And cover his name with light;
But he who passes unsung, unknown,
He hears no applauding host;
He goes in the dark to his fate, alone.
The man who dies at his post.
Who bears with disease while death
draws near, ,
Who faces his fate each day, .
Yet strives to comfort and help and
cheer
His comrades along the way,
Who follows bis work wbile he yet
may do,
And smiles when he suffers most,
It seems to me is a hero true
The man who dies at his post.
There are plenty to laud and crown
with bays
The hero who falls in strife.
But few who offer a word of praise
To the crownless hero of life.
He does his duty and makes no claim.
And to-night I propose a toast
To the silent martyr unknown to 'fame.
The man who dies at his post.
Denver News.
SUNDAY SERVICES.
Preaching at 11 A. M. and 7:15 P. M.
Sunday school at 10 A. M , at Delgado,
by. Rev. P. C. Morton.
St. Thomas' church : First mass, 7
A. M. ;high mass and sermon, 10:30
A. M. ; vespers,sermoD, 7:45 P. M.
First Presbyterian church -: Services
to-day conducted by Rev. R. Murpb y
Williams, at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M
Christian Science -.Service at Room
No. 11, Masonic Temple, to -day at 11
A. M. Subject of Bible lesson : "Mor
tals and Immortals."
Services in 8t. John's church to
day, 23d anniversary after Trinity, by
tbe rector. Rev. Dr. Carmicbael.
Morning prayer. Litany and service at
11 o'clock. Sunday school 4 P. M.
St. Paul's Lutheran church, Sixth
and Market street. Rev. A. G. Voigt
pastor. German service to day at 11
A. M. English service at 7:30 P. M.
Sunday school at 3:30 P. M. Every
body cordially invited.
St. Matthew's English Lutheran
church, North Fourth street, above
Bladen, Rev. C. W. Kegley, pastor.
Sunday school at 9:45 A. M., "preach
iug at 11 A. M , services at 7:30 P. M.
All seats free and every person wel
come. SUNDAY SELECTIONS.
If one does not get comfort out
of his religion it is generally because
nobody else gets comfort out of it.
That church is best where the
Gospel is preached in the most simple
and earnest manner, where a godly
man "points to brighter worlds and
leads the way."
Set yourself earnestly to see
what you were made to do, and then
set yourself esrnestly to do it; and the
loftier the purpose is, the more sure
you will be able to make the world
richer with everv enrichment of your
self. Phillips Brooks.
The best proof of the divinity
of the Christian relegion is tbe daily
life of tbe Christian himself not bis
words and professions, but his conduct
and spirit; not his 8unday garb and
service, but his every day tone.
That ye, being rooted and
grounded in love, may be strong to
apprehend with all tbe saints what is
the breadth and length and height and
depth, and to know tbe love of Christ
which passeth knowledge, that ye may
be filled with all the fullness of God.
Let us be only patient, patient,
and let God. our Father, teach His
own lesson His own way. Let us try
to learn it well, and learn it quickly ;
but do not let us fancy that He will
ring the school bell and send us to
play before our lesson is learned well.
Charles Kingsley.
'fLe't him that thinketh he
standeth take heed." Nothing can be
more wholesome than such self sur
veillance. The dropping from high
places of men here and there through
lapses and astounding defections em
phaaizes the admonition of the Holy
book. Watch!
If it be poetry, as I think it
is, to go out to morrow with all our
doors open and all our moral enginery
in play, ready to see the miracle that
the sun will bring up over the riven
and the hills once more, ready to learn
the lesson of the earth a work to do
and manly strength to do it ready to
sympathize with and worship all that
is worthy of our sympathy and
homage,eady to grow more God-like
in our reverence for God if this be
poetry, then fifty poems may begin
to-morrow, with earth's grand music
for all them to sing to, and heaven at
last to crown the victor with a sweet
"Well done." Phillips Brooks.
TWINKUNO
"Good gracious ! I'm afraid
the ship's going down I" " 'Twon't
matter. Nothing stays down here."
Ufe.
Employer And bow long were
you in your last place, my good mant
James (just out of Portland) Ten
years, sir, and I never had a single
evening out. Pupk.
"Young man," cried the long
face individual, "you are on the road
to ruin " "That so!" replied the un
regenerate youth 5 " then, - what are
you doing going or coming?" Phil.
Press.
Confiding Stranger That girl
was flirting hard with me two minutes
ago, and now she won't look at me.
The Other Man Perhaps that's be
cause she saw me come in. I'm her
husband. The Sketch.
- Not Possible: Visitor Yonr
dolly seems to be very happy. A Tiny
Girl of To-day Well, auntie, I'm sure
she isn't, because she has only one
dress, and that isn't stylish." Town
and Country.
Blown to At9m:
The old idea that the body some
times needs a powerful, drastic, pur
Sative pill naa oeen exploded, for Vr.
line's New Life Pills, which are ner.
feotly harmless, gently stimulate liver
and bowels to expel poisonous mat
ter, cleanse the system and absolute!
eon Constipation and 8ick Headache.
Only . 25 cents at R. B. , Bellamy's
arug store. f
Senator stored to Health
Peruna as a Nerve and Catarrh Tonic
the Talk of the World.
Hon. W. V. Bnlllvan, TJ. S. Senator from
Mississippi.
Hon. W. V. Sullivan, United States
Senator from Mississippi, in a letter
recently written to Dr. Hartman, from
Oxford, Miss., says the following of Pe
, rnna as a catarrh remedy :
- "For some time I have been a
sufferer from catarrh in its most
incipient stage, so much so that I
became alarmed as to my general
health.
"Bat, hearing of Peruna aa a good
remedy, I gave it a fair trial and soon
began to improve. Its effects were dis
tinctly beneficial, removing the annoy
ing symptoms, and was particularly
good as a tonic.
"I take pleasure in recommending
yonr great national catarrh cure, Peruna,
as the best I have ever tried."
Miss Irene Cooper, Assistant Superin
tendent of the Old People's Home, Chi
cago, Ills., also has a good word to say
for Peruna. In a letter written from
8933 Prairie avenue, Chicago, Ills., she
gives in the following words her experi
ence with the national catarrh remedy,
Peruna:
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MARKET.
Qnotedlofficlaiiy at tbe closing by tbe Produce
Exchange. J
STAR OFFICE, November 9.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothing
doing.
ROSIN Market firm at 90c per bar
rel for strained and 95c per barrel for
good strained.
TAR Market firm at $1.25 per bar
rel of 280 as.
CRUDE TURPENTINE Market
steady at $1.10 per barrel for hard,
$2.00 for dip and for virgin.
Quotations same day last year
8pirits turpentine steady at 4140Jc;
rosin steady at $1.20L25; tar firm at
$1.65; crude turpentine steady at $1.40
O2.40.
RECEIPTS.
Spirits turpentine 64
Rosin 126
Tar 225
Crude turpentine 59
Receipts same day last year 60
casks spirits turpentine, 166 barrels
rosin, 111 barrels tar, 104 barrels crude
turpentine.
OOTTON.
Market firm on a basis of 7J4c per
pound for middling. Quotations:
Ordinary 4 13-16 cts $ lb
Good ordinary 6 3-16 " "
Low middling 6 13-16 " "
Middling 7 " "
Good middling 7 11-16 " "
Same day last year, market dull at
9Xc for middling.
Receipts 1,960 bales; same day last
year, 971.
Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce
Commission Merchants, prices representing
thoee paid for produce cpnaignea to pommls
slon Merchants
OOOTJTBY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina, firm.
Prime 60c; extra prime, 65c per
bushel of 28 pounds; fancy, 70c
Virginia Prime, 55c; extra prime,
60c; fancy, 65c. Spanish, 6065c.
CORN Firm: 75 to 77c per bushel
for white.
N. C. BACON Steady; hams 13 to
14c per pound; shoulders, 11 to 12c;
sides, 11 to 12c.
EGGS Dull at l617c per dozen.
CHICKENS Dull. Grown, 25 to
28c; springs, 1020c
TURKEYS Dressed, firm at 12
15c; live, 910c.
BEESWAX Firm at 26c.
TALLOW Firm at 56c per
pound.
SWEET POTATOES -Firm at 40
50c per bushel.
FINANCIAL MARKETS
Bt Telegraph to tbe Morning star.
NsTW YOBK. Nov. 8. Money on call
was quoted firm at 4 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 45 per
cent. Sterling exchange firm, with
actual business in bankers' bills at
487487& for demand and at
484 for sixty days. The post
ed rates were 484 485 and 487K
488. Commercial bills 483jtf483.
Bar silver 67; Mexican dol
lars 45&. Government bonds steady.
State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds
strong. U. 8. refunding 2's, reg'd,
lOQ ; TJ. S. refunding 2's, coupon,
109 ;U. 8. 3's, reg'd 108; do. coupon,
108; U. 8. 4's, new reg'd, 139; do. cou
pon 139; U. a 4's, old reg'd, 112&;
ao. coupon, HZM; U. S. 5"s, do,
reg'd, 107; coupon, 107: Southern
Railway 5's 120. Stocks: Baltimore
& Ohio 108; Chesapeake & Ohio
48M; Manhattan L127M; N. Y. (Jen
tral 163J(i Reading 43M; do. 1st
prerd 77; do. 2nd pref'd 54; St.
Paull73M; do. pref'd, 191; Southern
R'way 34H; do. pref'd 91. Amalga
mated uopper ; American Tobacco
; People's Gas 104; Sugar 119M;
Tennessee Goal and Iron 62; U. S.
Leather 12K; do. pref'd. 81; West
ern Union 92: U. S. Steel 43; do.
S referred 93,; Mexican National 13H;
tandard Oil 712714; Virginia-Caro
lina Chemical Co., 63; do. preferred
122. " .
BAirrMOBE, Nov. 9. Seaboard Air
Line, common, 37H27 do. prefer
red, 5151; do 4s 8686$.
NAVAL STORES MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Nrw Yoax, Nov. 9. Rosin steady;
strained common to good $1 45.
Spirits turpentine steady at 8838$c.
Charleston, Nov. 9. Spirits tur
pentine firm and unchanged. Rosin
firm and unchanged.
Savahrah, Nov. Spirits turpen
tine firm at 35itfc; receipts 1,148
casks; sales 953. cask?; exports 9i9
casks Rosin flrmyreeeipts 2.639 barrels;
sales 8,575 barrels ;exnorts 5,390 barrels.
Prices unchanged.
COTTON MARKETS.
Br Teienrapn to tbe Horning star
New York, November 9. The cot
ton market opened steady, with prices
one to three points higher on covering
"In these days of all kinds of medicine
it is a comfort to know of a remedy
which may be used with unquestioned
beneficial results. I gladly recommend
Peruna as a safe, reliable remedy in
cases of catarrh of the stomach, helpful
In building np the system worn out with
overwork or age.
"Several of my friends who have used
Peruna have spoken of it in the highest
terms, and I congratulate you on its
merits."
Mrs.W.E.Grissom, Henry, Ellis Co
Texas, writes :
"I took Peruna faithfully over two
months, and the result is a thoroughly
renovated system and a strong, buoyant
feeling, to 6 ay nothing of a care of the
chronic catarrh. Therefore I shall avail
myself of every opportunity to speak of
Peruna as a catarrh cure."
Mr. Harry M.Stevens, Midland Beach,
L. I., New York, proprietor of "The
Richmond" Hotel, says of Peruna:
"It gives me pleasure to testify to the
value of Peruna. I have used it for years
and have found it to be a most excellent
family remedy. For colds, catarrh and
similar ills, it is unsurpassed." Cor
dially and gratefully,
H. M. Stevens.
Catarrh is a systemic disease, curable
only by systemic treatment. A remedy
that cures catarrh must aim directly at
the depressed nerve centers. This is
what Peruna does. Peruna immediately
invigorates the nerve-centers which
give vitality to the mucous membranes.
Then catarrh disappears. Then catarrh
Is permanently cured.
Peruna cures catarrh wherever lo
cated. Peruna is not a guess nor an ex
periment it is an absolute scientific
certainty. Peruna has no substitutes
no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna.
A free book written by Dr.
Hartman, on the subject of ca
tarrh in Its different phases and
stages, will be sent by The Peruna
Medicine Company, Columbus,
Ohio, upon request.
and light investment buying, inspired
by a better ruling of the English mar
ie, t than expected. Receipts at the
ports and interior towns were about as
expected and advices from Southern
spot markets reflected a disposi
tion among holders to await further
developments in speculative mar
kets before selling extensively. The
weather chart told of frosts, light
to heavy, in parts of the Eastern
bslt, but generally fair conditions
west of the Mississippi. The forecast,
however, pointed to frost temperatures
in the northern portion of the western
belt to-night and over Sunday. After
the call the market eased off to 7.45
Tor January and to 7.38 for May, un
der scattering sales for profits by pit
longs. Trading was not active and
after the first half hour was chiefly of
a professional type. , The market for
futures closed steady, with prices net
three to six points higher.
Naw York, Nov. 9. Cotton quiet
at 7Jc; net receipts 833 bales;
gross 3,840 bales; stock 72,296 bales.
Spot cotton closed quiet and l-16c
higher; -niddling uplands 7e; mid
dling gulf 8c; sales 112 bales.
Cotton futures closed steady; No
vember 7.50, December 7 54, January
7-54, February 7.46, March 7.44 April
7.44, May 7.41, June 7.41, July 7.89,
August 7.29.
Total to-day Net receipts 43,023
bales: exports to Great Britain 64,839
bales; exports to the Continent 8,049
Dales; stock 698,681 bales.
Consolidated Net receipts 43,023
bales; exports to Great Britain 64,839
bales; exports to the Continent 849
bales.
Total since September 1st. Net rir
ceipts 2,448,449 bales ; exports to Great
Britain 870,369 bales; exports to
France 223,270 bales; exports to the
Continent 668,507 bale.
Nov. 9 Galveston, steady at 7&c,
net receipts 9,658 bales; Norfolk,
firm at 7Xc, net receipts 4,458 bales;
Baliimore,nominalat7c, net receipts
bales; Boston, quiet at 7 13-16c,
net receipts 174bales; Wilmington, firm
at 7c, net receipts 1,960 bales; Phil
adelphia, firm at 8c, net receipts
289 bales; Savannah, steady at 7c,
net receipts 9,457 bales; New Orleans
firm at 7 5-1 60, net receipts 13.155
bales; Mobile, firm at 7c, net re
ceipts 828 bales; Memphis, steady at
7J4c net receipts 4,880 bales; Augusta,
steady at 7c, net receipts 2,502
bales; Charleston, firm at 7 He, net re
ceipts 2,211 bales.
PRODUCE MARKETS.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning star.
NEW 1 YORK, Nov. 9. Flour
firm but quiet; winter patents $3
was
A u; rye Hour steady, fair to good
S3 003 30. Wheat spot firm ; No. 2
red 8326c; options closed firm at a par
tial yic net advance. Sales included:
March closed c; May closed 81 He;
December 796 c. Corn spot market
strong; No.2. 66Xc;the options market
closed firm at Jsc net advance.
Sales: May closed 66&c; Decem
ber 66c. Oats spot firm; No. 2, 45c;
options were fairly steady but quiet.
Lard market steady ; Western steam
$8 90; refined firm; compound 7
7c. Pork steady. Butter firm. Cheese
quiet. Tallow firm. Rice steady.
Coffee Spot Rio firm; No. 7 invoice
7c;mua steady; Cordova 7Ullc
ougar-
"SBllL-ES1
cen
quiet, rotatoes Market was auntmi
quiet j Jerseys fl 50175; New York
fl 252 12H', Long Island t2002 35;
Jersey sweets $1 501 75. Cabbage
quiet; Long Island Flat Dutch, per
100, $2 003 00. Peanuts quiet;
fancy hand-picked 44c; other do
mestic 2tf3c. . Freights to Liver
poolCotton by steam 15c. Cotton seed
oil dull and barely steady Quotations
closed : Prime crude bgrrelrnominal ;
prime summer yellow 85c ; off sum
mer yellow S434c; prime white 38
39c; prime winter yellow 3839c:
prime meal 25 on. -
m . Chicago, Nov. 9. A fair activity
lu the wheat pit to-day kept the grain
markets steady against otherwise sag
ging influences. December wheat
closed e higher, December corn ic
up and December oats a shade higher.
Provisions closed 2v7c up.
Chicago, Nov. 9. Cash quotations :
Flour steady; winter patents $3 50
3 60; straights $3 003 40; clears $3 70
3 20; spring specials $4 00410:
patents $3 353 70; straights $3 70
3 20. Wheat-No. 3 spring ; No. 3
spring 7171c; No. 3 red 7475c.
Corn No. 3 c; No. 3 yellow 60Kc
Oats-No. 3 -c; No 2 white 42
43c; No. 3 white 42X42tfc. ?
Rye 60c. Mess nark, nm- karaAr
$13 8013 96. Lard, pef 100
!l ?67e- ShDb sides, loSe
$7 807 95. Dry salted shoulders!
boxed, $7257 50. Short clear sides,
boxed, $8 158 85. Whiskey-Basis
of high wines, $1 30.
The leading futures ranged as f o -lows
opening, highest, lowest and
Closing: Wheat No. 9 NnmmhA79
UU'JJ2 December 72 56 723?,
HJ?73W 73c; May 75 K
76, 76tf.755a"a75tf:7BVtf CSovnWA
8 November, Wjf,$a.ls 68c;!e.
cember 5959W j
59c; May 6161 ; fi3u
38. 38c; Mav in5bWj
40Mc Mess norfe
$14 96. 15 00, H 93K iTyJ
per 100 lbs- December is &
8 52, 8 55; January
8 55. 8 60; Mv h vii J W 5s
Shor riW, perlMft l TC,
7 72M..7 67,7 72K-v1
7 87. 7 82. 7 87'Mtm
FOREIGN
BT Cable to the Morning,
Liverpool. Nov. 9 4 o :
Spot, unchanged; Ameri l
4 5-16d. The rales of tffjfl
o.uuu Dales, of whinv. n
300 baf,
tor speculation
and
eluded 4,800 bales American $
38.000 bales, including
American.
Futures opened onio
quiet, but steady; American'
(g. o. c.) NovemW a..
November and December 4?
ler: December snH t. Hfe
seller; January and PpK.,(
4 4-64d seller; February s'?
4 3-644 4-64d seller V
April 4 3-64d buyer; April?1
4 3-64d buyer; May andt1
buyer; June and July 43T
July and August 4 3-64d buye,
MARIN
ARRIVED.
Stmr A P Hurt Robeson,
ville, James Madden.
Barque Charles Lorinp
ruatcniora, new Xork. q
riss, ova oo vJ.
CLEARED.
ville, James Madden.
11 t " ttooeson, p,J
Bremen, Alexander Sprunt
muumQy
uiyae sieamsnm Rnn to
8taples, New York, HG8msI,bJ
EXPORTS.
FOREIGN.
Bremen British steamship
J xx,auo uaies cotton, $m
and vessel by Alexander 8pruti
ouu.
COASTWISE.
Nbw York Clyde steamshin
W Clyde, 135 bales cotton, 248 ,
spirits, 5U barrels rosin, 756 M
tar, 70 barrels crude. 18.000 ft J
ber, 31 barrels pitch, 38 cases col
guuus; cargo oy various consin;
vessel by H G Smallbones.
MARINE DIRECTORY,
Hmt of Teaaela la tfc ?.,.
tactoaw W.C, November 10,1m,
- 8TEAMSHlrc
Tripoli, (Br) 1,687 tons, Barber, J
Sloan.
Wandby, (Br) 2.580 tons, Peanf
Alexander sprunt & Son.
Polano, (Br) 1,898 tons, HoiltJ
Aiexanaer prunt & Hon.
Hurworth, (Br) 1,520 tons, Galbit;
Alexander bprant & Son
Wragsby, (Br) 2,371 tons, Max&l
Alexander Sprunt & Son
Candleshoe, (Br) 2,466 Iocs, Did
sen. Alexander Sprunt & Son.
SCHOONERS.
Harold J McCarty, 297 tonsnFlW
ieorge ttarnss, on x (Jo. I
W R Perkins, 143 tons, Geo.-fie
riss. Son & Co.
Ida C Schoolcraft, 347 tons, Robiwd
George Hamas, Son & Co.
Venus, 194 tons, Fox well, George
riss, Son & Co.
BARQUES.
Charles Loring, 525 tons, Blatchd
George Harriss. Son & Co.
Amal, (Nor) 448 tons, Knudsen, m
tick, Jieide oc (Jo
BY RIVER AND KAIL
Receipts of Naval Stores and
Yesterday.
Coi
W. & W. Railroad 349
ton, 4 barrels tar, 16 barrels
turpentine.
W. C. & A. Railroad-1,127 b
cotton, 5 casks spirits turpentine,
barrels tar, 10 barrels crude turp
tine.
U. O. Railroad 81 bales cotton
casks spirits turpentine, 9 barm
rosin, 36 barrels tar, 23 barrels cri
turpentine.
A. & Y. Railroad 116 bales cotid
17 Casks spirits turpentine, l barrl
rosin, 12 barrels tar.
Steamer A. P. Hurt 18 bales
ton, 20 casks spirits turpentine,
rels rosin, 79 barrels tar. 2 bami
crude turpentine.
Steamer C. M. Whitlock-3 I
cotton, 10 casks spirits turpeut
94 barrels rosin, 12 barrels ta. S
rels crude turpentine.
Steamer Compton 14 bales ootlw
8 casks -spirits turpentine. 8 bam
tar.
Steamer Geo. W. Clyde 257 W
cotton.
Total 1.960 bales cotlon. 61 CM
spirits turpentine, 126 barrels rosin. S
barrels tar, 59 barrels crude lurpemw
Bears the
Signature
of
The Kind You Have Always Bs?
Llaxton Building and
Imd AssociatioD,
MAXTON B.
DIRECTORS;
J. B. CBOOH, MAXTOR.
VD. ItCKAI, MAXTON.
A. J. ItCKIKlTON, 1AXT0.
O. B. PATTERSON, MAXT0K
J B. W1ATHEELY, MAXTON.
W. H. BMSJTABD, WIIMIXQW
U. G. MCKENZIE, MAXTON.
inioauon ree, as cents per snare.
Subscriptions to stock payable !nw
8tentaor 35 cents per sTiare. noBie
as Is shown bv the fact that the Associate
sustained no losses, and Its annualejpetf
eluding
taxes, are
uouars.
RAISINS !
100 Boxes Pa-lafbrni
Just received.
BaiiH
95 Basra Cocoannts.
85 Bosea Nice
Evapor1
Peaches. , . 1
85 Boxes Nice Evaporated m
plea.
85 Boxes Mixed Nuts.
1 SO Palls Mixed Can dy.
150 Bexea Stick Candy.
.50 Barrels Stick Candr
Andflfty-elght carloads of othgr
cur prices.
O. L. CORE CC'
Wholesale Groceries and Drn .
RAISINS!!
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