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BY WILiiiAa B. BaKNARD
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Tuesday MOBKiire. Dec. 10.
'THE BOBBERS AND THE
ROBBED"
There are two countries in which
there is warm discussion upon the
tariff question, in both of which the
many are taxed for the benefit of
the few. The United States is one,
Germany the other. The are both
tariff protections-countries, ostensi
bly for the purpose of fostering and
protecting their own industries
against the competition of the indus
tries of other countries but strange
to say, these are the two coun
tries that are most alarmed about
their commerce and their industries
and the two countries between
Which there is the most trade fric
tion and conflict. With all the pro
tection that Germany has given her
manufacturers, farmers and others
engaged in productive pursuits they
clamor for more protection against
America, the other protection coun
try, and while this is going on the
the protected in this country pro
test againBt any reduction of the
protection they now have, for this
would make them vulnerable to the
attacks of the very people who
are clamoring for more protection
because they can't compete even in
their own markets with the protect
ed Americans. In both countries
the protection champions, are play
ing a fake game and making false
pretences to deceive the people who
are taxed and robbed for their
benefit.
When protection is sifted down,
both in this country and in Ger
manyfor these are the two best il
lustrations of the protective tariff
carried to extremes it is a queer
jumble. In both the masses of the
people, who have no pecuniary in
terest in any of the protected in
dustries, are taxed for the benefit of
all of them, and in both one indus
try is taxed for the benefit of an
other, and some of them are taxed
beyond all reason. In this country,
for instance, the people who live by
agriculture direct constitute about
one-sixth of the population and
they are taxed on everything they
have to buy for the benefit of man
ufacturers, who with their employes
do not constitute more than one-twenty-fourth
of the population.
As 1 an offset to this the farmers
have protection on wool, sugar,
potatoes, wheat, barley, eggs and
sundry other things, which are im
ported in precious small quantities,
and these only when there is some
sort of shortage in this country, as
this year, when, on account of the
partial failure of the Irish potato
crop, potatoes are being imported
from Germany.
There is pretty much the same
condition of affairs in Germany,
where the manufacturers are clam
oring for more protection against
the progressive "Yankee," as Prof.
Paache calls the American, and the
farmers or rather the landlords
are clamoring for protection to keep
American grain and other food stuffs
out of Germany, the object of which
is to give them absolute control of
the market and enable them to
charge their own prices for what
they raise and sell.
The agrarians, as they are called,
declare that American competition
is raining them, and therefore they
demand more taxes put on the labor
ing man's bread and meat, although
the laboring man has a tough time
scuffling for a living now, and
there are half a million workless
workmen in the principal cities of
Germany.
The new tariff bill, which is prin
cipally aimed at this country, is now
under discussion in the Reichstag,
and a warm discussion it is. Herr
Bebel, is a Socialist member, who
has caught on to the true inward
ness of the proposed increase of the
tariff on grain and other food stuffs
for the professed protection of far
mers. He raised pandemonium when
in a speech in opposition to the new
tariff he exposed the fraudulent pre
tence for the increased tariff on food
tuffs. The substance of his speech
is thus given in a cable dispatch
from Berlin:
"Herr Bebel said there were two
nations in the German State, the
plunderers and the plundered. The
Imperial Chancellor, Count von
Buelow, spoke for the former; I am
peaking for the latter. Fifteen per
cent of the German people are en
gaged la agriculture. The Chancellor
said the remaining 85 per cent were
engaged in other occupations, and
that 72 per cent of these latter were
j industrialists. The proposition of the
Government was to lay a tax of be
f tween 600,000,000 and 700,000,000
1 marks on food in order to make more
profitable the occupation of IS per
cent of the people. Only one-ninth
of the grain is imported.
"Agriculture in Germany should be
prosperous. The late Dr. Von Miquel,
, former Minister of Finance, in an of
l ficial declaration three years ago, said
F German agriculture was prosperous.
The Prussian Crown knows it is pros
perous (because it is now investing
8,000,000 marks in new agricultural
holdings. The reduction of farm
mortgage foreclosures of recent years
showed that agriculture was better off
than previously, and the lands has in
creased during the last century.
This bill is intended,1 not for the
fcUrment of the farm laborer, but for
fefeeUerment of the landlord. - If any
feterftord Is not getting . on .well now,
it H of law hunting parties,
mmm well-filled wine cellars.
gftfeo1reaTtJry regiments and
tmm'MLn .
.V. onntfnnftd TTapp Rabnl. "that
is the way with you fellows. ' You lay
unnn thn TWr and when it is
proven to you that they are unneces
sary, you laugh. But the world's his
tory rolls on over you regardlessly.'.
'TMn Kill fnmnti insurrection. The
Chancellor aims to overturn social
order: we shall do our utmost to send
this bill to hades, and we only regret
we cannot send its aumors ana
tors there also."
The dnties on grain, which are
absolutely prohibitive, Herr Beb
el calls "hunger duties;" hunger
duties for the poor who will have
to reduce their consumption of
bread, and hunger duties for the
landlords who are guarding and
hungering for the money they want
to squeeze out of the people. It is
as he pictures it, a case of the "rob
ber and the robbed," robbery justi
fied on the ground that those who
are doing well, as Herr .Bebel de
clares, may do better and have more
money to squander. Take his re
marks, apply them to the protective
tariff in this country as we have it and
this would cover the case to a dot.
It is the robber and the robbed'
there, and it is the robber and the
robbed here, robbed not for the
benefit of the farmer, who gets no
benefit from the robbery, but robbed
for the benefit of a comparatively
small number of people who do
get the benefit of it, people who
have no more need of this tarifi pro
tection than they have to carry light
ning rods to protect them - from the
lightning. About the only differ
ence between the German clamore
for protection and the American
beneficiary of protection is that the
former is bawling for more of it to
protect him from the aggressive
American competition while the
American has not the gall to ask
for any more but professes to be
satisfied with what he has. But in
both it is a game of legalized plun
dering "the robber and the robbed."
TOO CROWDED FOR BOOKER.
Here is another Booker T. Wash
ington "incident," in which three
Springfield, 'Mass., hotels and
Booker figure. On his arrival in the
town, Friday night, he applied at
three hotels for a room, and they
were all so crowded that they didn't
have any room for him; so they say,
but other hotels at which he did not
apply were not crowded. It isn't
stated that there were any excur
sions into that town to crowd these
hotels, and the inference therefore
is that it was the color of the appli
cant which so suddenly crowded
them.
Of course this is a mere pretext,
and that is the meanest part of
it, in a town and State which pro
fesses to have such brotherly feeling
for "the man and the brother" and
where there are so free to find f anlt
with and condemn the drawing of
the color line in the South. They
didn't want to take Booker T.
Washington into these hotels be
cause of his color simply, but they
didn't have the courage to say so
and gave a false reason for it.
The managers of these hotels had
a right to do as they saw fit in such
a case and refuse to open their
houses to Booker T. Washington or
to any other negro if they thought
taking them in would be offensive to
their guests; this as a matter of
business. It is true they might have
thus laid themselves liable to a
damage suit, but it would have been
the manly thing to have boldly
faced the consequences, and not take
refuge under a falsehood. A hotel
manager in the South would have
been honest about it and would have
given the true reason for refusing a
colored applicant accommodations
in his house, and the probabilities
are that if Washington had applied
at a Southern hotel he would, with
out relaxing the rule, or compro
mising the hotel, have been treated
with more courtesy and candor than
he was by these hotels in a town in
a State where they talk ' so much
about the "brotherhood of man,"
"the man and the brother," and all
that sort or rot. The fact is the
man of African hue isn't given any
more social recognition, and isn't
any more welcome in the hostelries
up theie than he is down this way.
Senator Quay has struck on a de
vice to reduce the surplus. He has
introduced a new pension bill grant
ing pensions to soldiers who served
ninety days or more. This will take
in the excursionists and lots of other
patriots who never heard a gun pop.
It also provides for the amount of
pensions to be paid to all pensioners,
of the ordinary class. Widows are
to get $12 a month, veterans of from
50 to 55 $6, 55 to 60 $8 a month,' 60
and over $10 a month. Senator
Quay seems to be partial to widows.
He also looks out for the pension at
torney, who is to be allowed $10 for
getting claims through.
In one section of Southern Africa
they have what they call a "sleep
disease." People affected by it fall
into long sleeps, and finally ' die
within two or three years. A simi
lar case is reported from Kansas.' J.
S. Lytle, one of the pioneers;; was
at Santa Ana, Cal.,' where he fell
asleep May 28th and slept till Au
gust 20th. He 'was taken , back to
Kansas where he again went to
sleep September 2d and slept till
December 3d, when he woke up and
died.
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Dins:
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A BOOST FOR THE SHIP BUILDER
The decision by the Treasury De
partment, based on recent decisions
of the Supreme Court, that cargoes
shipped from this country to ine
Philippines must be shipped in
American vessels ought to give a
boost to the ship-building business
in this country, for this ruling will
no doubt apply to Porto Rico and
whatever other outlying territory
this country may acquire, and the.
result will be that exporters, rail
road companies and others doing
business with our "colonies" win
have to hustle around and equip
themselves with American built
ships. As this rule will apply both
ways, neither can shipments be
made from those "colonies" to this
country in foreign bottoms, so the
foreign built ship is completely
ruled out of this trade, as much so
as it is from our Lake or the Atlan
tic or Pacifio coast trade.
As far as the running of these ships
is concerned they can't make any
plea for subsidies for there will be
no competition with foreign 'ships,
which are ruled out, nor can they
ask any bounty for the ship builder
for he will not have any competi
tion, but it will do this, it will force
the American shipper to have his
ships built in our yards and pay
whatever price they may demand,
or quit business, unless they can
buy foreign ships and secure Amer
can registry for them.
Under these decisions and this
ruling our coast line now circles the
globe as it sweeps across the Pa
cific, winds around and takes in the
Danish West Indies (if it be trne
that the deal with Denmark has
been consummated) Porto Rico, and
eventually, no doubt, Cuba, which,
by the way, is a pretty tortuous
and wide stretch of coast. The
grab game is developing some un
looked for results.
The Germans do some things
pretty well. The Government has in
structed to hygienio associations in
Berlin to open offices in which in
structions in hygienio and Banitary
matters will be given free. Com
petent doctors will be employed to
deliver lectures, give instructions
and answer questions as to the best
ways of preserving health, the best
food to be eaten the best clothing
different seasons, and numerous
other things in which people inter
ested. The idea is to teach people
how to take care of themselves, of
their health and of their family.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Mr. Roosevelt is diplomatic.
In his message he has driven the
reciprocity bear up a tree and said
to both Houses of Congress, "Now,
crack away at the thing. I'll keep
the score. A finer straddle could
not be planned. Houston Chronicle,
Dem.
General Wood, who knows
what he is talking about, insists that
some measure of reciprocity on
sugar and tobacco is necessary to re
store prosperity and stability to
Cuba. It is said with a protection
ist sneer that Cuban patriotism be-
fins and ends with sugar and tobacco;
ut this is an ill-natured remark that
is capable of much more extensive
application. Philadelphia Record,
Dem,
The Republican plan is said
to be to admit New Mexico and
Oklahoma as States, not because
either has population, enough to en
title it to one Representative, but
because the admission of oth would
doubtless add four more to their
majority in the Senate. The pop
ulation of New Mexico is 153,593;
of Oklahoma, 61,834, and the ratio
of representation in Congress is
173,901. Brooklyn Citizen, Dem.
The trust-making industry
does not appear to be at all dismay
ed or greatly discouraged by Repub
lican threats as to its regulation.
Statistics of incorporation in the
Eastern States during November, as
compiled by the New York Journal
of Commerce, show a total for new
concerns above $1,000,000 of capi
talization of $508,850,000. The re
cord has been surpassed in no month
during the year except April, when
the big Steel Trust was launched.
The aggregate capitalization of com
binations organized in the past
eleven months reaches the total of
$3,205,605,000. against $2,255,075,-
900 last year. Charleston News and
Courier, Dem.
She will probably get tired of
him when they have been married a
year. Oh, no. He's got more money
than that Boston Transcript.
A Baaing-, Boarlaa WloofL
. Washed down a telegraph line
which Ohas. C. Ellis, of Lisbon, la.,
had to repair. "Standing waist deep
in icy water," he writes, "gave me a
terrible ' cold and cough. It grew
worse daily. Finally the best doc
tors in Oakland, Neb., Sioux City
and Omaha said I had Consumption
and could not live. Then I began
using Dr. King's New Discovery and
was wholly cured by six bottles."
Positively guaranteed for Coughs,
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It soothes the child, soften the gums,
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OrAnville Reflector: The Green
ville Knitting Mills are now turning
out beautiful work and find reaay
sales for all they can make.
Mnnnt Olive Advertiser'. The
inKhuvn noreaca of this section could
be increased ten-fold next season, if
our merchants and farmers would
unite in an earnest effort in that direc
tion. Grumbling about lossess on cot
ton won't produce tobacco; it takes
hsrd working farmers encouraged by
enterprising merchants.
Newborn Journal: For several
weeks a party of Northern capitalists
hsve been quietly at work near this
city and in Craven county making
preparations to bore for oil. The
ii.;..i ahAvul tha noaaiMlitfaa for
pajafusp Su v w w w jw-ww-
nil and tha nartiea now at work are SO
confident of success that everything is
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fast approacning me ume wuen acuvo
boring will begin, derricks, machin
ery, etc., being now erected.
Statesville Landmark: There
is some counterfeit money in circula
tion in Statesville and those who hau
dle coin should be' careful. The coun
terfeit is an imitation silver dollar
bearing date of 1891. It is fairly well
executed, but the material is poor. It
is very light weight and can be easily
delected if one takes notice. Two or
three business men have taken in
these dollars without detecting them
and without knowing who gave them
in
Tarboro Southerner: W. H.
McNair, on a three-acre lot near the
town, gathered four biles of cotton,
ai d did not go strongly on ibe inten
sive system either. N. P. Bullock,
ne&r Doehead, on two acres made
over three bales. On Judge Howard's
Hair Rnrinc farm. James Raffia has
picked from 175 acres 212,000 pou&ds
. . . . . t i
or cotton. noi a larmer is iu uo
afAn who is makinir headwav in har
vesting his crops. All speak of the
insufficiency of labor.
Raleigh News and Observer
Speaking of Gerald McCarthy's reso
lution before the Bosrd of Asricul
lure to encourage silk culture in this
country, Msj. w. a. uranam saia
resterdav that the people of this sec
tion of the State were wild over the
subject of developing the silk industry
some fifty jears ago. "I remember,
said Maj. Graham, "that Mulberry
trees were planted all through this
section by prospective silk growers,
who dreamed that they would rival
Fans in the silk industry. The old
fair grounds was a forest of mulberry
trees. The silk fever soon passed away.
Up in Lincoln county the silk industry
vai u nrlnrtntrnn and vn nnw thera
are a few people who cultivate silk
worms."
Einston Free Press: Mrs.
Frank Turner committed suicide at
her home in Woodington township,
seven or eight miles from Kinston.
Saturday morning. It setms that she
woke up about 4. SO o'clock and dressed,
then went into the kitchen and started
to cook breakfast witb the assistance
of one of her little girls. About 5
o'clock she left the kitchen, telling her
little girl to finish breakfast. This was
the last seen of her until Mr. Turner.
her husband, went into her room about
7 o'clock and found his wife, fully
dressed, lying across toe bed uncon
scious. An empty bottle with a cai
bolic acid label on it told the sad story.
The cause of her suicide is ascribed to
despondency caused by a long period
of ill nealtn.
IWIINKLINQS
"They do quarrel about trifles,
but I'm not sure that that is a very bad
sign." -isn't it?" "Well, it may in
dicate that they have nothing eise to
quarrel about." ruck.
Mr. Marmaduke Jenkins
Well, old boys will be old boys, Mrs.
Jenkins. Jars. Marmaduke Jenkins-
Ob, no; you mean that old boys will
keep ou trying to be young boys.
Jjetrott tree tress.
"Who is that man who keeps
saying it is always the unexpected
that happens?'' "I'm . not sure.
Probably an attache of the weather
bureau." Washington Star.
Sapley Yon say Miss Doe is
out. Didn't she know I was to call
this afternoon. Bridget I think she
must have known, sir. 8he had
nothing else to go out tor. Life
Why do they call them step
mothers ?" "Well, I suppose, it's be
cause they are so inclined to make
their first husband's children step
arouna. rnuaaeipnta Jtsuuettn.
"I wonder," she said thought
fully, "what would- have been the re
suit if Eve hadn't partaken of the fruit
of the tree of knowledge?" That's
easy," he replied. "There wouldn't
have been any woman's clubs."
Chtoago Post.
Papa Are you sure that you
and mamma thought of me while you
were away? Grace Yes; we heard a
man kicking np a great row about his
breakfast at the hotel, and mamma
said, -mat's just like papa. "Tit Bits
Her hair turned white in a sin
gle night, began the person who was
about to tell a ghost story. She should
not nave used the perovide so heavily.
tittered the frivolous young thing. It
is so hard to induce the feminine mind
to contemplate the' hereafter. Phil
adelphia Press.
MTeacher says that 'boom' can't
be compared," said the little one. "Can
it!" asked her mother. "Why, of
course " was the reply. "Positive.
boom ; comparative, boomer; superla
tive. Doomerang." "Uorreet !" said her
father, promtly. QhUsago Post.
Aunt Hannah "Oh, J don't
think Amanda would do such a mean
thing as that I have always heard
people say Amanda was generous to a
fault" Uncle George "When the
fault happens to be her', she is; not
otherwise, not otherwise." Boston
Transcript.
First Farmer "Blest if I
think the agricultural department is
any good at all!" Second Farmer
"What's the trouble?" First Far
mer Well, I wrote to 'em to find out
how high wheat was goin' to go an' I
couldn't get no satisfaction at all.'
Puck.
a poor BIIIIlOMtrs
Lately starved in London because
he could not digest his food. Early
use of Dr. King's New Life Pills would
have saved him. They strengthen the
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25 cents. Money back if not satisfied.
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Price, including spraying tube, 75 cts.
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New OblbsAns, Sept 1, 1900.
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" CONDENSED STORIES.
Hew Irving Got a Valuable Tip on
stage "Business."
Irving is nothing if not severelyi
accurate. Shortly before he put on
the "Merchant of Venice" he in
quired of a brother actor if he could
supply some stage "business" for
the part of Shylock, says a writer
in The Ledger Monthly. The actor,
being, like Shylock, a Hebrew,
thought he might and asked Irving
how he meant to do the "impreca
tion scene," which occurs upon Slfy
lock discovering that Jessica has fled
with Lorenzo and the jewelry of -her
late mother, "Mrs. Shylock."
Irving knelt, held his hands pray
erlike and rehearsed the terrible im-,
precation "I would my daughter,
were dead at my feet and the jewela
in her ear."
Upon the actor's saying he was,
wrong Irving rejoined that he natt
followed the best stage direction in
the book and that all the best bay
locks so did it, as the Keans, Brooke,
Fechter and Phelps.
"Yes," said the actor; "but they
were all Christians. A Hebrew in
imprecating never kneels, but stands
upright, passing his open hand
over his face."
Irving adopted the hint.
Soon afterward a well known
London solicitor, also a Hebrew,
who had seen the new version, told
the actor in question that he had
not before been aware that Irving
was "one of us," and he refused to
believe the contrary.
The Eighty Said Grace.
John Lawrence Toole, the most
popular low comedian of his day,
once gave a supper to 80 of his
friends and wrote a note to each of
them privately beforehand asking
WHXN TOOIiB TAPPED ON THH TABZiK.
him whether he would be bo good as
to say grace, as no clergyman would
be present. It is said that the faces
of those 80 men -as they rose in a
body when Toole tapped on the ta
ble as a signal for grace was a sight
which will never be forgotten.
Thrifty Senator Mason.
T. was standing in the lobby of
the Auditorium in Chicago," re
marked ex-Congressman P. J. Som
mers recently to a writer in the Mil
waukee Sentinel, "talking with Sen
ator William E. Mason of Illinois
when a trampish looking fellow
came rushing m and, addressing
him, said:
" Billy, lend me $10. I have a
chance to make $3 in 15 minutes
"Billy went down in his trousers,
fished up a two dollar and a one dol
lar note and passed them over to tha
man.
-" a want $10 to make the deal
remarked the man as he stretched
forth his hand for additional aid.
"TTqu said you could make $3,
didn't you?'
'fTTes
" 'Well, you've made $3, and Pm
$r ahead. See?'
"The man saw the point and re
gretfully withdrew.
His Greatest Reward.
The death of Sir John Stainer re
moves one of the most fascinating
personalities from the musical
world. A story is t6ld of how once
he was walking witb a friend by the
seaside when he came upon a little
group of children singing one of his
hymns. "Ah!" he said as they lis
tened to the young voices, "this is
the greatest reward that I can ever
hope for." The stqry recalls SiT
J oshua BeynoldV famous mot pn his
great picture pf Mrs. Siddons as the
tragio muse. This picture is the
only one which beara-jSif- Joshua's
signature! "Madam," said the 'artr
ist, "if my name should , go down
to posterity it must be on the hem
of your garment."
f any a man looks upon marriage as an
iastitutiop tbnt rnahJfs bmta put his
property ip vifr' . aatnpr Chicago
News..
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In each, lay on butter the size of a
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Shoulders ft 6
BARRELS Spirits Turpentine-
8econd-hand, each 1 35 O 1 85
Second-hand machine 1 85 O 1 85
New New York. each....... 185
New City, each O 1 35
BBICKB
Wilmington H 8 60 O 700
Northern 9 00 O 14 00
BUTTER
North Carolina V 15 O 18
Northern 2 O 28
CORN MEAL
Per busheL In sacks 75 Q 76
Virginia Meal 75 O 76
COTTON TIES 9 trandle 1 25 O 1 30
CANDLES V ft
Sperm 18 5
Ai1amnr,tiM 8 11
COFFEE V ft
Laguyra n O 12
UK) 7sw 11
DOMESTICS
Sheeting, 4-i, V yard 5tf
Yarns, v onncnor 5 as .... a a
FISH
Mackerel, No. 1, V barrel... 88 00 so oo
Mackerel, No. 1, f half-bM. 11 00 15 00
Mackerel, No. 2, barrel... 18 00 18 00
Mackerel, No. 8 Vhall-bbl. . 8 00 9 00
MackereLNo.8, barrel... IS 00 14 00
Mullets, V barrel 8 50 400
Mallets, ft pork barrel 7 00
N. O. Roe Herring, V keg., t 00 8 85
Dry Cod, ft 6 io
M Extra oo o 5 oo
FLOOR
Low grade 3 00 8 25
Choice T. 3 85 8 60
Straight 3 60 O 3 85
FlrstPatent 485 O 450
OLUB SO 10
6RAIN m bushel -
Corn,fromstore,bgB White 78 O 85
Mixed Corn 76 84
Oats, from store (mixed).. 55
oate. Bust Proof 75
Cow Peas 85 90
HIDES ft
Oreen salted..... 4 5
Dry flint io u
Dry salt., 9 io
HAT 100 fts
No 1 Timothy.. . 1 00 I 05
Rice Straw 40 50
Eastern so 95
Western 90 95
North River 90
N. C. Crop 75 80
HOOP IRON, ft 3 3)4
unuuu v "
Rortnern Factory 14
Dairy Cream 18 13H
niu cream iu Q iSJH
Northern 9 4 O 12X
North Carolina io
uuvninw 1 jo 10 1
PORK. barrel
Cltv Mess 16 00
Romp.., 18 00
Prime 15 50
BOPE,x a $ 28
SALT, sack. Alum 1 85
Liverpool 95 1 10
American. 95 1 05
On 126 V Backs. 50 60
SUGAR, ft Standard Qran'd 596 6i
- Standard A 6HO 5!
White Extra 0 4V4 5
Extra O, Golden 4540
U I OLIO w 4 O 4ft
iiuumui iciiy aawsaj y si i&
8 hip Stuff, resawea 18 00 so 00
Bough edge Plank 15 00 16 00
West India cargoes, accord
lng to quality 13 00 18 00
Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 O 88 00
Scantling and Board, com'n 14 00 15 00
MO LA 88 ES gallon
Barbadoes, la hogshead.,... a
Barbadoes, In barrels 88
Porto Rico, In hogsheads.... 89 81
Porto Rico, In barrels 89 83
Sugar House, in hogsheads is 14
Sugar Hoase, in barrels.... 14 15
Syrup, In barrels...... if 27
MAILS, V keg, Oat, BOd basis... 8 40 8 50
SOAP, ft Northern sm 4
STAVES, M W. O. barrel.. . . 6 00 14 09
R. O. Hogshead O 10 00
ZIMBEB, M feet-Shipping.. 8 00 O 0 00
Common mill 4 00 5 00
Fair mill 500 660
Prime ml 6 60 r 60
Extra mill 8 03 O 8 60
SHINGLES, N.O. Cypress sawed
M 6x84 heart.. 6 96 7 00
" BaP.; 5 60 600
6xao.Heart.... 8 50 4 00
" Bap a so Sioo
WHI8KXT. trail on Nortiuri ! no a g jo
' i
BY RIVER AND RAH.
Receipts of Naval Stores sad Cotto.
Yesterday.
W. & W. Railroad 618 bales cotton,
4 Casks SDiritS turnentinff. R harmta ta
W. C. A: A Railroad Halo-
cotton, it? barrels tar, 13 barrels
crude turpentine. .
C. O. Railroad 45 halea
casks spirits turpentine, 17 barrels
tar, i oarreis cruae turpentine.
A. & Y. Railroad 9510 haloa ontimi
13 casks snirita turnentina - 1 a lumil
cruus turpentine.
W. & N. Railroad 10 bales cotton.
Steamer A. P. Hurt d. hai
ton. 2 casks snirits tuMMntin i9ft
rels rosin, 11? barrels tar, 1 barrel
crude turpentine.
Total 1,710 bales cotton, 25 casks
Hints nirMntinA. ivx hurroi.
234 barrels tar, 26 barrels crude tur
pentine. MARINE DIRECTORY.
&Ut Of To! In tfta lo-t of WU
sBimartosu o.? pace giber j, isoi.
STEAMSHIPn.
Jessmore, (Br) 1,548 tons, Taylor,
aiuuiugr opruoi CSC EJOn.
Bpa?JmTZ' Br) 1'79 toM. Nairn,
SOTTOnTOTTOa
222 a, George
DJ8WJ.r. 267 ton., K.IIj, George
' - - 9 JW Wa
Mwell 2&0 . tons, Bowden,
Howell Leedv 893 tons, Bateman,
vjwrifa tmrriss, Bon 5C UO. '"'
BASQUES.
SlV' Nor) Wo" tons, Eilertsea,
Heufo & (In --.j '
Albatross, (Nor) 491 tons, Basmuisen.
- H&IHa JV apt ?
swwu VJW
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MAEKET.
(Quoted officially at the closing by the Produce
Y" Exchange.!
STAR OFFICE, December 9.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothing
ROSIN Market firm at 95c per bar
rel for strained and $1.00 per barrel for
good strained. :" V ' '
TAR Market firm at $1.20 per bar
rel of 280 lbs.- ' '" ' ' ' "
CRUDE TURPENTINE Market
quiet at $1. 10 per barrel for bard, $2.00
for dip and -for-virgin.
Quotations same day .last year
Spirits turpentine steady at 8837c;
rosin firm at $1.20 1.85; tar steady at
$1.35; crude turpentine steady at $1.40
2.40.
RECEIPTS.
Spirits turpentine. 25
Rorin....T...... 128
Tar...... 234
Crude turpentine. . . 26
Receipts same day last year 63
casks spirits, turpentine,; 675 barrels
rosin, 874 barrels tar, 123 barrels crude
turpentine.
COTTON. .
Market firm on a basis of 7c per
pound for middling. Quotations:
Ordinary... 5 3-16 cts lb
Good ordinary 6 9-16 " "
Low middling 7 3-16 " "
Middling 1 " "
Good middling 8 1-16 " "
Same day last year, market firm at
9c for middling.
Receipts 1,710 bales; same da? last
year, 3,569.
Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce
commission Merchants, prices representing'
those paid for produce consigned to Commis
sion uercnants.j
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS -North Carolina, firm.
Prime, 60c; extra prime, 65c; fancy,
70c, per bushel of twenty -sight pounds.
Virginia Prime, 55c; extra prime,
AAA. RKi Qnonioli K K 7k Rff.
CORN Firm; 7577c per bushel
for white.
N. C. BACON Steady ; hams 15
16c per pound; shoulders, 1314c;
sides, 1314c.
EGGS Firm at 20a21c per dozen,
CHICKENS Dull. Grown, 20
25c; springs, 10 to 20c
TURKEYS Dressed, firm at 10
12c; live, 89c.
BEESWAX Firm at 26c.
TALLOW Firm at 56c per
pound.
SWEET POTATOES Firm at 50
60c per bushel.
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
Bt Telegraph to the Morning star.
Nw York. Dec. 9. Money on call
was firm at 67 per cent, last
loan 5 per cent., ruling rate 6 per
day. f rime mercantile paper 4J4
5 per cent. Sterling exchange steady
at a decline: actual business in bank
ers' bills at 486 for demand and
483483&for sixty days. Posted
rates 484485 and 488488W. Com
mercial bills 483483ii. Bar sil
ver 54 t. Mexican dollars 43M. Gov
ernment bonds steady. State bonds
inactive. Railroad bonds irregular.
U. 8. refunding 8's. registered. 10854 :
U. 8. refunding 2's, coupon. 109:
U. 8. 3's, reg'd 108; do. coupon,
108K;U. 8.4's,new reg'd, lS9X;do. cou
pon 13934; U. & 4's, old reg'd.
1114 ; do. coupon, lizx ; U. S. 5's, do.
reg'd, 107 J ; coupon, 107 J ; Southern
Railway 5's 120X. Stocks: Baltimore
& Ohio 102 Jtf; Chesapeake & Ohio
46X Manhattan L 136; N. Y. Cen
tral 165M; Reading 48M; do. 1st
prefd 78; da 2nd pref'd 57 tf; St.
Paul 163; da prefd, 185; Southern
K'way 32H; da prefd 91 ft: Amalga
mated uopper 70 ft ; Am'n Tobacco ;
People's Gas 9831: Sugar 121 ft:
Tennessee Uoal and Iron 62 : U. 8.
Leather 113; do. pref'd. 815: .veat-
ero Union 91 i; U. S. Steel 4i; do.
preferred 91; Mexican National 14;
American Locomotive 31 ft: do. pre
ferred88U: Standard OU 695710W:
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.. 615 :
do. preferred. 122.
Baltimore. Dec. 9. Seaboard Air
Line, common, 26 27: do. prefer
red, 50&50; do 4s 8585M.
NAVAL STORES MARKETS
Bv.Telacranh to the Mornlnir Rt.ii-
NlW YORK. TW. 9 Rrurin fitFuriv
Spirits turpentine steady.
Charleston, Dec. 9. Spirits tur-
rift n Linn nrm xm- uim ,m,b
Rosin firm and unchanged.
BAVAHHAH. Dee. 9. SniriU tnriutn.
tin firm at SKVic Kntintii Tra
,
casus; saies euu cassrs; exports 960
IS j 4Ana
saies 1,04 a oarrei8;exDorts 1,J1 barrels
t a j rv i . ' . . .
Vtfuoie: A,iJ, u, u, f 1 IU; Jfi, fl 15; W.
S120: G. XI 25- TT CI AK. T tl in. V
2 25; M, $2 65; N. $3 25, W G. $3 60;
V VV, fd OU.
COTTON MARKETS.
Br Telegraph to the Morning Star
New York. Dee. & Th
future market opened steady at an ad-;
'ww ui xuurteeu to iwenty-lwo
points, and durinp-tbe first hnnr
remarkably strong on enormous de-
uiauu lrum anuria wno were stamped-:
in Liverpool. Bull confidence was in--
lenawea oy rumors or an advance of
iic in Southern snot markt. nn
the first wave nf hiivin t. -
jumped to 8 25c and May to 8.29e
micbo iigurea oemg about the
uesi vi me session. Heavy rain
over most- or the hit jv.
snow in Memphis, coupled for a fore
cast for verv mneh
atures in the South to-night, added to
mo uuuuu iwuog nere. wail street
and Western grain interests sold out
blocks of Januarv and Mtwh t.
uplift Towards middav thA mM
nvu uii a xow Dainu nnnA wwm
-
ing and broke aharnlv mi .fi.. j
uajr uouw large estimates for to-mor
, . r-rf IU1U
'x," vriwuia ana Houston re
ceipts. Januarv tnnnhnt q i q i
May 8.17 before fresh general buvin?
7 , . . ow1D u raiiiea me mar
ket eicrht iioinls. TVi i
for a reaction, but the second advance
. - uwi rj 11HJB COttOn
Was DICked un to arnnA al.t. ti
Was seen that total wt m "
!ue.'layA11i,nany thousands of -.bales
own ox whi pon clearances. 3 Fall
River news wm f.Mifi ?:i
- - j Tvruio ana.
spinners were reported biddings freely
for suDclies throuchnnt th a.i. rl-
m vwv wmf vvlKla Laav
wO? SS?11 ihe dy fel1 w,ooa
wuob iuuii vt looaa ine sama f a-o-
year. In the last hour. hni?''JZ2
jr uoryuua ana pictea up a good
deal of cotton nM k. 7f
profits. The market cloWayat a
i(ut to niieen points.
New Yqrbl Dee.-fi.jn
c u j.uo,oi. Dales.
. Spot cotton closed quiet and Ue
hiirher : middlinir nnkni. si.
dlteg gulf 8c;sale.990 bales; 1
vjwh luraresmarjcet closed steady i
December 8.17. Jmna a it wuj '
&16,:March liiffl.i!V3-
Junean. July 8l August?? JJ )
Total to-da-v MAt .j-
bales : exnnr tn Z' t 277
bales exorLi to'" 1HUB u
consolidated Net receipts 85 463
balest exnorta t nZtKT. SX'Trx
exrf? the - Continent 54,986 bales.
7c net receipt, ilfS
folk, firm at 8c n, haw. n
bales; BaltimoreT'nSSilW ft
receipts - bales; Boston i ?l 8c. J
net receipts
ton, firm at 7c, net ' flJ?
bales: PhilrliC L n,et cein3
receipts 54 tTSia?
715-16C, netreceipu?!
Orleans steady aPt J'Sl1
V"c'ODlle' nOminar.7?s;l
7 1-16C, net recelpt8 4 08a tSNhl
gusta, firm at 8iic .' i.: I
2,579 bales; CharlesV.S
7c, net receipts 5,717 hii 8H ,
PRODUCE MARKETS,
By Telegraph to the Morning atl
NEW STork, Dec. 9 wu
was fairly active and
quotations; winter pateni V
4 10; Minnesota patents la q
Wheat-spot strong; ZUM
clined, owingto unsatisfacullll,'M
rain, in the West and fc
vtpinm.oiwueu easy and hC
soon selling i,ate the mCft
vigorous rally, accompanied Sw"1"
covering, and reached new m,h S
records for the cron nf6?1"'.
and lHe over Saturday', S
prices. March closed 89 y8c- M,clSl
b83ic: December 8fi Vv
easy; No. 2, 730. OpO
opened steady, but scon 5:
der larger receipts and ;.L0tiii
and at the close was
nrfona tin net lnmo yr. K 'fil
December closed 72 zie ri..
easy;No. 2 52Kc; options wetj
at first under heavy WesW
but rallied with other markets t
firm: Western steams in A U
fined stead v; ennti '3;
1 -.uvU QlJ
American SIO 75?
Pork firm; family $17 00i7f58J
Coffee Snot Rio loBj..
vninA fi3n? miA otoo . !n. . 'il
ing 3 9-S2c; centrifugal 96 tit sifM
23b6c. uneese stead v ; ta , . "H
large 90 ; late made medium iM
Kice steady. Kggs quoted steady- O
at mark 2025c. Potatoes Z
Jerseys fl 501 75; New v I
v- 1 "uug xaianu 12U02 jl
u Ciocjr on ecu f VU(ga a. (Vu
atfeadv: Trfintr IelnnH Plot n.....
, " V --"w- i-cauuig stall
mestic 2X3Xc Freights to Lil
bacxi nil won tqi nl T Online .J o I
shade advance. The closing quoutiotl
were; rriuiv cruae in DarreU3ir
nominal; prime summer yellow &
off summer yellow 3838c;
white 4142c; prime v? inter yelk,
4142c; prime meal t26 00.
Norfolk, Va., December 9.-pft
nut market dull; fancy 2&c: tJ
prime 2c; prime 22c 8piik
c; macnine-picued c. New
nuts, fancy 2c; strictly prime 3P
7c; prime 6&c opanisn euc I
CHICAGO, December 9 Overcoiil
dence among tbe bears in the jd
pits Drougnt griet to many shorts tl
dy. ' Liquidation for profits and ski
selling brought a tremendous voluj
of business, but the low pricss ttl
followed the weakening iiflaem
were too tenrmtinp to thn hiu r
and amid Ecenes of the wildest eu!;
sion wheat was sent up to a neweJ
record price. May wheat closed;
higher, corn 4c and Ma v oats It lm
Provisions closed unchanged toil
higher.
Chicago. Dec 9. Clash niiniit.n l
Flour stead v. Wheat Nn 3 swill
7576Xc; No. 2 red 84c. Or
No. 2 ; No. 2 yellow 68Wc
-No.2 4747Jc; No 2v!i,e
49 Wc: No. 3 white 4849111
pork, per barrel $15 9016 00 U-l
per 100 tts., fg 82X9 85. 8hon rI
sides, loose, $8 458 60. Dr oiitj
shoulders, boxed. 7 2R(f?i7 SO
clear sides, boxed. $8 909 00 Wl
key Basis of high wines, $1 32.
xne leading futures ranged
lows onenin?. highest, lowes;
.lrrlTl T AJ host 9 nsunklil
78H, 79X, 77X, 79c; May 82
r - ... ... . a, ft ittciuvHi.
81J, ?33i83Jic; July 82Ji
81, 81U, 83Mc Oorc-Noil
December 64KS164 5. 65. UXMtl
May 6869M. 69J. 67. 68Kc;J!
6868, 68, 67, 680. OaU
December 46, 46M, 45, 45c;Hu
47a475. 47$. 46. 46 He- Julv M
42i. 4214. 41c. M
Dork. Der bbl Januarv J16 87 tf. Ml
-16 70. 16 410: Mav $17 20.' 17 811
1712. 17SJ5. I Jird rwr 100 fts-Jttl
uary $9 80, 9 90, 9 72, 9 85; Si'l
16 85, 9 92K. 9 80.9 90. Short nM
per 100 fts Januarv 18 50. 855,842ji l
8 55; May $8 70, 877X. 8 60. 872X
foreign mm
Bv Oabie tc tbe Kornii iiu.
Cotton j Spot, fair demand; price H I
14 31-330; good middling 4a; mi
aimg 4fid; low middling 4 u-M
good ordinary 4 13-32d: ordinary U
vm. a. uc boicb ui buo uajr nw.v -v
kn 1 An 1 J 1 .AA 1 1 HrAMfflTI
speculation and export and includej 1
6,900 bales American. Keceipiswl
bales, all American.
- Futures onened firm and closed tJ
steady; American middling (g
December 4 35-64d seller; Decemtfl
and January 4 33-64d buyer; w
ana eoruary 4 3-64a seller; r.
ary and March 4 31-64d buyer; Maru
uu A.pru 4 ou-04ga ai-ou
April and May 4 80-644 31-64d
ler; May and June 4 30-64d buyer,
.Tuna T..1 A OC RAA sallpr! JUIJ
na August 4 za-C44 au-osu
Ausrust and Rentember 4 24r644
, . . .".a . . rt n J. 1 J kilVfif.
64d value.
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Old HewsDauers
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Quantities to Suit,
at the
STAB OFFICE
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Excellent for
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