BY WIXaaAK H. BBKHABD
WILMINCilVU. X. C.
THUESDAT BO.OKSIX&, Dec. 19.
OBEYIHO THE COHBTITUTIOH.
It i3 remarkable when it meets
their purposes what loud cham
pions of the constitution the Re
publican statesmen and their organs
are. It is remarkable, too, what
silly stuff some of them can indulge
in when talking on the constitu
tion. The pretence on which the sup
porters of the Crumpacker bill to
reduce Southern representation do
it is that by disfranchising illiterate
negroes the Southern States which
have passed qualified suffrage laws
are violating the constitution, that
is two partisan amendments to the
constitution which were never con
stitutionally adopted, and which
were themselves unconstitutional
in the inception. As an illustra
tion of the silly stuff that even some
of these presumably sensible organs
can get off sometimes we quote the
following from the Philadelphia
Press, a zealous supporter of the
Crumpacker bill:
"During the long dominance of the
slave power in Congress and the na
tion the customary method of South
ern newspapers and statesmen to hush
up any discussion of the slavery ques
tion was to threaten secession from
the Union. This threat was hurled at
every Northern member of Congress
who ventured to assert his manliceu
in debate. Only the 'doughfaces'
escaped the fling. The threat was
finally carried into effect with results
that are not doubtful.
"Southern newspapers and Con
gressmen are making the same mis
take now in discussing the proposed
enforcement of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which the Southern
States are undeniably violating by
the suffrage clauses they have placed
in their Constitutions. The threat is
uttered and repeated that if an attempt
is made to compel compliance with the
United States Constitution that the
South will be made solid again acd
the old sectional bitterness be revived.
In other words, the South must be al
lowed to violate with impunity jjst
what provisions of the Constitution it
chooses and if any protest is made
from the States which obey the Consti
tution the South will get 'mad' and
refusa to recognizs the North.
"To such a puerile argument there is
just one answer, and that is that the
South shall obey the Constitution or
take the penalties. The old days whsu
bull-ragging intimidated any one in
the North have gone by. No nn
knows this better than the South itself
and its present bluster is pure assump
tion. The idea that one man in toe
South mast be "allowed twoorthrea
times the voting power a Northern
man has, and that nothing must be
said about it for fear the South may
get into a pet, is on a par with the argu
ment that it is better to keep stuffing a
spoiled child with candy than to make
it obey. Constitutional questions are
not decided in that way."
If there is anything in this more
prominent than its silliness
it is its assumption and its
monumental cheek in posing as the
champion of "obedience to the
constitution."
When did the party for which
this disciplinarian speaks ever show
any regard for the constitution
when the constitution was in its
way or it wanted to do anything for
the doing of which its right was
questioned ?
Where did it find any authority
in the constitution to make war on
the South to keep it in the Union,
and where did it find any authority
in the constitution to keep the
Southern States out of the Union
after the war and after contending
all along that they never had
been out ? It raised armies not to
bring the seceded States in, but to
prevent them from going out and
staying out.
Where did it find any authority
for disfranchising Southern white
men who had never been out of the
Union and making them citizens as
if they were aliens ?
Where did it find authority in the
constitution to emancipate four mil
lions of slaves, the right to hold
whom was recognized by the consti
tution, and where did it find in the
constitution the right to enfran
chise these slaves and make them
mcttirohs of the ballot box ? Where
did it find in the constitution the
right to reconstruct the Southern
State and put it in the power of the
enfranchised slaves to rule these
States when they didn't know the
difference between a ballot and bill
poster?
The more candid of its leaders
never made any pretence Jthat they
found authority in the constitution
for any, of these things. They made
war on the South not by virtue of
any constitutional authority, but,
as "they declared, by the inherent
right to protect and preserve the
life of the nation, which was not a
nation, but a nnion of sovereign
States bound together by mutual
agreement.' Numbers and ; superior
resources triumphed, and ever since
then when it suited the purposes .
and schemes of the party leaders
the constitution was ignored and
set aside.
When these leaders decided to
abolish slavery they didn't have the
cheek to claim the constitutional
right to &6 it 'bat did it as a "mili
tary necessity,", when it . was not a
military ns66siltj, 1 and had ceased
to be a military necessity if it eter
was. -
When they decided to enfranchise
the ex-alavea and - reconstruct the
South they did not claim the right
ftmntiw the constitution,
did that the action was
'extra constitutional," and the, a
mitted, too, that it was for the pur
pose of Bepublicanizing the South
and nationalizing the Republican
party. That was so apparent that
they could not deny it if they
would, although some of - them
hypocritically pretended that they
gave the negro the ballot to protect
him from the white man, who
would oppreBS him if he did not
have the ballot to protect himself.
Where did it find in the constitu
tion authority for the election laws
it passed for the South to fasten
negro domination on us, for the
United State marshals it sent to
the polls to look after the negro
vote, and for the force laws it at
tempted to run through Congress
but couldn't, because some Republi
cans, like James Q. Blaine, who had
some respect for the constitution op
posed them and helped the Demo
cratic minority to defeat them?
The organs ot such a party should
be the last in the world to lecture
the South upon violating the consti
tution, and to threaten to punish
her for "violating" not the constitu
tion bnt, as remarked above, the
unconstitutional amendments passed
to handicap the South and put her
in the power of the Republican lead
ers. Having failed in this they admit
the failure, and now try to handicap
the South again by reducing her
representation because she refuses
to be dominated by the negroes
whom the Republican party leaders
hoped to use as tools to control her
politics. And in doing this they
publicly confess that they abandon
the negro and never expect to find
him useful as a political tool. They,
speaking through the Crumpacker
bill, virtually say to the Southern
States, we recognize our failure to
put you under negro domination,
and are not going to try any more
to do that. We have no further use
for the negro in the South as a politi
cal factor, and therefore don't care
what becomes of the ballot we gave
him. You can do with that as you
please and if you wish disfranchise
every negro within your borders, il
literate and literate; all we ask and
all we will claim is that when you
disfranchise your negroes, all of
them, that you only ask representa
tion in Congress and in the electo
ral college for your white people. If
this be done then the negro will be
eliminated as a political factor, the
South will get rid of him as a voter,
the Republican party will get rid of
him as an incubus and an uncon
genial associate, and we will all be
glad. And that's the sum and sub
stance of the whole business.
But doesn't lecturing the South,
and reproaching her for disfranchis
ing, not all negroes, but simply the
vicious, venal and ignorant mob,
come with bad grace from those late
day clamorers for "obedience to the
constitution?" It surely does, and
it borders on the ridiculous.
A QUEER BILL.
The tariff bill for the Philippines
might be called a bill to encourage
trade between the Philippines and
foreign countries and to suppress
or reduce it to the minimum be
tween the Philippines and this
country. In the debate, Tuesday,
Mr. Swanson, of Virginia, in oppos
ing this bill called attention to some
of its nnique peculiarities, as fol
lows: Philippine sugar entering
our markets must pay a tax of 136 a
ton; our sugar entering their mar
kets will pay $17 a ton; Philippine
hemp entering onr markets will be
taxed $20 a ton, while our hemp
going to the Philippines will pay
$11 a ton. Philippine coal coming
here will be taxed 67 cents a ton,
while our coal going there will' pay
a tax of 25 cents a ton. Philippine
tobacco coming here will be taxed
$1.85 a pound, while onr tobacco
going there will pay 88 cents a
pound.
These are a few of the peculiar
ities, the tax on Philippine pro
ducts coming here being more than
double the tax on our products
going there. The probabilities are
that the same proportion is kept up
on all the exportable products of
the islands which may be produced
in this country, a practical illus?
tration of "benevolent assimilation"
when it collides with the protected
interests in this country.
As these rates on Philippine
products are practically prohibitory
will not the effect be to keep the
products of those islands out of our
markets and compel their people to
seek markets where there will be
less discrimination against them?
The tax on American sugar, hemp
and tobacco will not probably make
any difference to the Filipinos, as
they can make all the sugar, hemp
and tobacco they have any use for,
8Q that if the object is to get reve
nue out of the islands they will not
get much out of these things. .' ' ' j
One of the peculiar features of
this discrimination against Philip
pine products is that while the ex
pansionists are talking volubly of
the possibilities for; those islands
when American enterprise enters
that field of development, ! they are
pursuing the very course to strangle
enterprise and development by
closing our markets against theprjCK .j
ducts of those islands. Consistency j
is a jewel, but these fellows do not
put much value on that kind of
jewels.
V' ForWhooping Cough
use ' CHENEY'S EX
FEOTOBAX3T. For sale by Hardin's Palmes Fnaraaey,
THEY CAST BH0THE& IT.
The anti-Schley faction and the
anti-Schley navy ring would like to
smother the Schley question now if
iUiey flbuld, but they can't. That
biassed verdict has made it too big,
big enough to call for a protest
from all fair-minded people in the
country, and big enough to break
into Congress with an avalanche of
resolutions. In trying to crush
Schley they have simply added to
his greatness and his fame and made
him the most conspicuous person
ality iri the country.
His persecutors doubtless now re
gret that the two admirals who ren
dered that one-sided verdict did not
show more discriminating judgment
and more sense of fair play arid bring
in a verdict that had some features
of fairness and justice in it, one that
might have made it unnecessary for
Admiral Dewey to differ entirely
from it and to render an entirely
different verdict the one that the
large majority of the American peo
ple will accept and endorse.
The result of these two verdicts is
that there is universal disappoint
ment, the friends of Admiral Schley
and the friends of justice repudiat
ing the former and the adherents of
Admiral Sampson rejecting the lat
ter. Admiral Schley's friends are
determined, as far as' they can effect
it, that the country shall have more
light on this conspiracy against
Schley than could be brought out by
naval court methods when partial
judges may be chosen by those in
authority may be interested in the
result, and coached witnesses used.
They will, therefore, insist on an in
vestigation by a committee of Con
gress, which will not be governed by
navy court procedure. Whether they
will get it is another question, and
whether, if they get it, it would be
an impartial investigation in view of
the political considerations that will
figure more or less in it. Schley is
a Democrat and the majority of his
friends moving for a new investiga
tion are Democrats. But there will
not be any politics in the court
which historian Maclay will have to
face when Admiral Schley proceeds
against him for libel. They can get
facts and testimony in that which
the navy ring can't suppress.
The Henderson Gold Leaf com
pleted its twentieth year last Thurs
day. EditorJManning has been its
directing genius from the beginning
and has given its readers one of the
best weeklies in the State.
CURRENT CUM MEN!
In devising a tariff scheme
to bring America to terms of reci
procity, Germany seems to have got
into a snarl with Russia. A tariff
war, even more than the other kind,
appears difficult to confine to the
two countries that begin it. But
the whole trouble can be avoided by
giving the consumer a chance, as is
his right, to buy in the cheapest
market. Brooklyn Citizen, Dem.
President Roosevelt seems to
be taking a throw at every Republi
can with a machine. Senator Fair
banks being the latest head hit. To
refuse to bestow the patronage on
the bosses may weaken the machine,
but it remains to be seen whether it
shall strengthen the President suffi
ciently to compensate him, as a
politician, for the loss he may suf
fer through the opposition of the
machines. Louisville Courier-Journal,
Dem.
Poor old Chauncey; he goes
smiling up and down and telling
everybody he meets, that he's going
to Europe to be married in the
merry holiday time, Wonder how
the lady in the case enjoys having
her wedding made part of every
conversation her ancient lover has,
with anybody, from the driver of
his hack to the president of the
United States! Chattanooga Times,
Ind.
Admiral Schley is rather un
favorable to a Congressional inves
tigation on the ground that its de
cision would be apt to be made on
party lines. This is true, and yet
it would give all the facts to the
public, and the verdict of the strong
er party in Congress would be set
aside if not acceptable to the higher
court of public opinion. It is ob
vious that there is much in the navy
that needs investigating, and it
could not be brought out by an in
quiry that involved Admiral Schley
alone. Jacksonville Times- Union,
Dem. .
Blowd To Atom.
The old idea that the body some
times needs a powerful, drastic, purga
tive pill has been exploded; for Dr.
King's New Life Pills, which are per
fectly harmless, gently stimulate liver
and bowels to expel poisonous matter,
cleanse the system and absolutely cure
Constipation and Sick Headache. Only
85c at B. R. Bellamy's drug store, t
Tex ousts will buy trial size of
Ely's Cream Balm ; enough to con
vince you that it is the greatest of
remedies for nasal catarrh or cold in
the head. Full size 60 cents. All
druggists. We mail it Ely Bros., 56
Warren St, N. Y.
153 8econd Street Albany, N. Y.
Messrs. Ely Bros. : I suffered great
ly With catarrh and tried different
remedies without effect- A ft a milrin
one bottle of vour Cream Ralm T
found relief and cannot praise too
nigniy sucn a remeay.
Sept 27,1859. Miss Cora Willabd.
For over Wlfiv Tsars
Mas. WnrsLow's SooTHnra Syeup has
been used for over flftv Tears bv mil
lions of; mothers for i their children
while teething -with perfect success.
It soothes the child, soften the arums.
and allays all pain; cures wind colic.
ana is me nest remeav ror diarrhoea.
It will relieve: the poor little sufferer
Immediately. 7 Sold by druggists .in
every part of the world. Twentv-flve
oeata a bottle.. Be sure and ask for
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Svrun.
and take no other kind.
Batista;
ttgastus
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The Kind Yog Haw Always Booght
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Hillsboro Observer. n About
$500,000 have recently been ; invested
in copper mining in Granville acd
Person counties.
Ooldsboro Argus: Chief of
PnliM 1Trrman has received a tele
gram from Newbern asking bim to ar
rest Clarence Wallace, a regro man,
hA.knf anil IrtllnH hia wife in NOW-
bern Monday night Up to tbis hour the
murderer has not oeen seen nere, a
nd
it is thought that he will attempt
nags this way.
to
Fayetteville Observer: Mr. John
McGeachy died at his nome at St.
Paul's Monday in the 76 tb year of his
age. Mr. McGeachy ws one of the
most prominent cU;z-m.b of Robeson
county. Some time during Mon
day night robbers enter, d the hard
ware store of Mr. Waller Watson,
corner of Hay and Anderson streets,
and carried off numerous articles, in
cluding a dozen or more fine pistols.
The store was entered by one of the
side doors on Anderson street, from
which the robbers cut Oie of the
panels. No c!ue as jet has been ob
tained as to the identity of the thieves.
This stnrA has heen ftitt-red a irreat
number of times during the past few
years.
Kinston Free Press: At Grif
ton. Sunday afternoon. Will White
and Lias Coward severe! 7 beat Hy
man Slack, all colored, and he is not
expected to live. Sback lust an eye
and was nrobablv iniun-d internallv.
A negro named Daniel Williams
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed at Grifton yesterday by a white
man named Georee L 11 v. The shoot
ing occurred in an oyster s loon kept
by Chris. Mopre, colored. Lilly had
been drinking heavily and went into
Moore's Dlace for som oysters, and
while in there be and Moure became
anaaaoA in an alternation, durin
which Lilly pulled his pistol and shot
at Moore, but missed him and struck
Williams, who was standing near, but
who had nothing whatever to do with
the quarrel.
TWINKLINGS
Sunday School Teacher Willie
Green, why was Lot's wife turned to
salt t Willie Green 'Cause she was
too fresh, I a'pose Philadelphia
Record.
Lord Foranheir I can trace
my descent from John Milton. How's
that for a descent? Miss MUlyuns-
It's a great descent, sure enough.
Tit Bits.
Editor Can't use your joke,
young feller. Humorist I dont see
why not I that joke has been used by
some of tbe best papers in this coun
try. Chicago News.
Cause and Effect: "To what do
you attribute the remarkab'e increase
of kleptomania in late years t" "To
the fact that the dry gooda tnra keep
more detectives." Harlem Life.
Cordial Welcome Tardy Ar
rival at a Dinner Party- lam afraid I
am too late, dear Mrs. 8mith. Mrs.
Smith (effusively) Ob, dear, you
could never come too late Tit-Bits
"Here, Maria! Send up a peck
or two of corn dodger an' a hunk o'
meat to Joseph I" "Lan'sakeal Why
can't he come to taile!" ' Ease he's
locked himself in his room, an' is ez-
ressin' of Mmelf in poetry!" At
inta Constitution.
A surprise for Charley Cassel.
Tbe Bride John aa you know any
thing about hign bail? "Why, er r,
y rs'm." "Well I w.sh you would
cook several for my hubard's dinner.
I heard him tell a 'riei.d thai he dearly
loved them." Life.
Dsntz ''Wnat was that remark
Miss Goodart made about Howlett's
singingt LeDtz Why, she. said
she admired his technique. Dentz
was that it? Wbat is "technique.
anyway French f.r -Catholic
Standard and Times.
Great Discovery: Harold
"Well. Percy, did you tiud gitoline a
good remedy for chappa handst"
Percy Splendid I Not only did it
cure the ehapoesn, but everyone in
tbe ballroom detected the smell and
thought I owned an automobile."
Chicago News.
Sandy Pikes Say, Billy, dere
was only one time in me career when
I'd like to been inside out Billy Goal-
gate When was dat, pardf Sandy
Pikes When dey took me to de hoe
pltal an' rubbed me down wid alco
hol. Exchange.
Does your husband still call
you bis pearl, and b:s gem and all
that? asked the young matron. Not
exactly, answered the .lder one,
doubtfully. He has taken to calling
me his gdld brick of late, and I'm not
just sure what he meana by it"
Chicago Kecora-Merald.
At the monthly conclave of a
certain rural council it was decided
tbat an honorarium be awarded to the
secretary, whose fidelity had won the
esteem of all. One worthy but illiter
ate member, however, put an amend
ment as follows: Gentlemen, our
faithful secretary really don't need
aich a thing. If we give 'ira a honor
arium he couldn't play it I propose
we give him some money instead.
Jjtfe.
Strikes A Bleb Find.
"I was troubled for several years
with chronio indigestion and nervous
debility," writes F. J. Green, of Lan
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which did me more good than all the
medicines I ever used. They have also
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years. She says Electric Bitters are
just splendid for female troubles; that
they are a grand tonic and invigorator
for weak, run down wem n. No other
medicine can take its place in our
ramily." Try them. Only 50c Sat
isfaction guaranteee by R. B. Bel
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Presiding Elder's Appointments, Wilminr
ton District.
Scott's Hill, Prospect, Dec. 21, 22.
Grace, Dec. 22.
Burgaw, Wallace, Dec. 88, 89.
Southport, Jan 5r 5.
Waccamaw, O'd Dock. Jan. 11, 18.
Whiteville, White ville, Jan. 12, IS.
Town Creek, Zion, Jan. 18, 19.
Bladen Street Jan. 19.
Sballotte Camp, Jan. 85, 26.
Carver's Creek, Way man, Feb. 12.
Bladen, Bethlehem, Feb. 8, 9.
Elizabeth, Elizabetbtown, Feb. 10.
Jacksonville and Bichlands, Rich
lands, Feb. 15. 18.
Magnolia, Centenary, Feb, 82, 23.
Clinton, Clinton, March 1, 2.
Kenansyille, Kenansville, March S.
Onslow, Swansboro, March 8, 9.
BR John. P. E.
HA.TCHXCHUBBXX, ALA., Jane 80, 1875.
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Aa .tUH.WcAAWOWtW.
ENGLISH OFJTHE ENQUs'H.
. UBdcB .li Kte Plaeat V"
; Kfeow the iMa-Mare"
That, hackneyed American maiden
who said London was a nice place if
you knew tha language was not bit
absurd. We speak English, but we
hav-? built up onr forms of English ex
pression upon the English of a few
shires of the old couutry as it was
spoken between two and three centu
ries ago. while they have been blending
and changing the speech of all their
home peoples during the same period.
The result Is th:it an American can
hardly utter a sentence In England
without calling attention to the differ
ence between his speech and that of
the people nbout him.
Ouly vi'stenlny. after 18 months resi
dence in England, 1 rushed up to a con
ductor in Charing Cross station and
asked, -'Which car for Bromley?" He
stared at me, and I knew I had spoken
a foreign tongue to him, because street
vehicles like omnibuses and horse cars
are called road cars and tram cars, and
there are no other cars in England.
If you ask a guest at your home in
England whether he likes his meat
rare, he asks what you said because ho
does not understand you. He calls
meat underdone when it is not thor
oughly cooked. If you tell him you
fear the asparagus is canned, he is at
a loss again, because he would have
said it was tinned. To ask him to pass
the powdered sugar will again set him
to wondering, for he calls it icing sugar
generally, though he knows that It Is
sometimes called caster or sifted sugar.
And If you have candy on the table
you may not call It so without betray
ing your foreign origin, for he calls
candy "sweets," abbreviated from
"sweetmeats," and used to designate
all preserves, puddings, pies, candles
and jams.
To go further along the eccentricities
of English at tbe dining table most
persons know, I suppose, that the beet
is called , beet root, cornstarch is corn
flour, corned beef (or a particular cut
of it) is called "silver sides of beef and
napkins are serviettes. Julian Ralph
in Harper's Magazine.
THE PROLIFIC FLY.
To Lmmi the Peat All Oraraale Kef
mae Shomld Be Burled.
Flies multiply at a prodigious rate.
Given a temperature sufficiently high
to hatch eggs, their numbers are only
limited by the amount of food avail
able for them. Linnaeus Is credited
with saying that three meat flies, by
reason of their rapid multiplication,
would consume a dead horse quicker
than would a lion, and the fact that
certain dlptera having some outward
semblance to the honeybee lay their
eggs in the dead carcasses of animals
probably led Samson and Virgil to
make erroneous- statements with re
gard to the genesis of honey and the
manufacture of bees. The breeding of
"gentles" for ground bait is an Indus
try the practices of which could prob
ably give much information as to the
nicety of choice exercised by flies in
selecting material for feeding and egg
laying. According to Packard, the
honse fly makes selection of horse dung
by preference for ovipositing, and as
each female lays about 120 eggs and
the cycle of changes from egg to fly Is
completed In less than three weeks it
seems probable that a female fly might
have some 25,000,000 descendants in
the course of a hot summer. Other va
rieties of flies multiply, I believe, still
more rapidly.
As flies multiply upon and in organic
refuse of every kind, it is obvious that
the sooner such refuse is placed where
it cannot serve for the breeding and
hatching of flies the more likely is the
plague of flies to be lessened. The
most commonly available method for
the bestowal of organic refuse is bur
ial. The egg laying of files in dead
carcasses commences at the very In
stant of death or even before death In
the case of enfeebled animals. Lancet.
MISTAKES TO AVOID.
An English paper gives what it terms
thirteen mistakes of life:"
It Is a great mistake to set up our
own standard of right and wrong and
Judge people accordingly.
To measure the enjoyment of others
by our own. -
To expect uniformity of opinion in
this world.
To look for judgment and experience
In youth.
To endeavor to mold all dispositions
alike.
To look for perfection In our own ac
tions. To worry ourselves and others with
what cannot be remedied.
Not to yield in immaterial matters.
Not to alleviate all that needs allevia
tion as far as lies in our power.
Not to make allowances for the infir
mities of others.
To consider everything impossible
that we cannot perform.
To believe only what bur finite minds
can grasp.
To expect to be able to understand
everything.
The KTOlatiom of Warship.
A man need not be a scholar to be
an inventor. One of the most success
ful aeronauts of old times who had
made a study of aerial currents and the
management of balloons once delivered
an address in which be referred to
"the anaconda" as "the largest bird'
that ever flew," and he also remarked
that "the mental faculties of a man's
mind Is so constructed as to bring
things down to a pin's point." He also
referred to the currents of air as
stretchnms, meaning strata, and yet he
was one o the foremost balloonlsts of
his time.
He was an inventor also of maax
useful things and was the first man
in the country to suggest an ironclad
man-of-war with slanting sides. He
built a miniature vessel on this plan
of sheet iron, placing it in the water
and fired musket balls at it at short
range. Every ball glanced ofl. The
Merrlmac was built on a similar plan,
and from that humble beginning the
evolution or revolution in naval archi
tecture took its start Baltimore Sun.
A Tall Smoke Column.
During the burning of the Standard
OH company's tanks at Bayonne. N. J.,
in July, 1900, an Immense column of
smoke; shaped at the top like an um
brella, rose Into the air, where very lit
tle .wind was stirring, to an elevation,
measured by triangulatlon, of 13.411
feet, or more than, two miles and a half.
Above the column white clouds formed
In an otherwise cloudless sky and re
mained visible for two days, the fire
continuing to burn and the smoke to
rise. After the explosion of an oil
tank flames shot up to a height of 3,000
feet, and the heat radiated from them
was felt at a distance of a mile and
three-quarters, where it was more no
ticeable than close to tbe fire. Youth's
Companion.
Tow Know ITsutt Ton Are Taking
When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill
Tonic, because me formula is plainly
printed on every bottle, showing that it
la limnly iron and nnlnina in a
less form. No pure, no pay. Price,
wc. . . satntn
A CHICAGO DEHTIST
Relates How fle Found Cure foi
Systemic uaiarrn-
B. A. Norris, D. D. S.
R. A. Norris, Doctor of Dental Surgery,
136 State street, Chicago, 111., writes to
The Peruna Medicine Company as fol
lows :
"I desire toexpressfor thebenefltof the
public my experience with- the famous
catarrh reroedy, Peruna I was afflicted
with catarrh of the head and throat for
twelve years. I had tried many reme
dies without avail. I applied to several
doctors, but they were not able to cure
me. I learned of the remedy, Peruna,
through your pamphlets and took it for
four months. It entirely cured me, and
as I took the remedy three years ago, I
consider the cure permanent."
Hon. Clement M.Hammond is one of
tbe best known newspaper men in New
York City. Writing to The Peruna
Medicine Co., he says :
"For about six years I have had
trouble every fall and winter with my
voice. At times it has extended to my
bronchial tubes and lungs. I think all
this trouble came from whooping cough,
which I had when I was about twelve
years old, and which left me with ca
tarrh. Since I have taken Peruna, my
voice has been clearer than in over two
years, all of which I am willing to tes
tify to." Mr. Hammond's address is
"The Arlington," 64 Montague street,
Brooklyn, N. T.
Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O.
for a free catarrh book.
No Plpea Smoked In Cuba.
Cuba produces no tobacco for chew
ing or for pipe smoking. The Cubans
who smoke pipes .might be counted on
one's fingers without making a second
round of the fingers. The cigar and the
cigarette prevail. To what extent the
Cuban cigarette might ever become
popular with American smokers Is a
matter beyond determination. It is cer
tain tbat most Americans of prolonged
residence become, if they be smokers,
addicted to Cuban brands and find diffi
culty in weaning themselves back to
American brands on their return. Re
view of Reviews.
Joke In a Needle'a Point.
Some 30 years ago a firm in San
Francisco sent to a Chinese house in
Canton the smallest and finest kind of
needle as a sample of our skill in deli
cate handicraft. It was returned to
them with a bole through the point,
which could only be seen with a micro
scope. Stereoscopic Photograph.
One Kansas law says the personal
property of a dead man, when not
Claimed by relatives, shall be sold at
auction.
Prudence is common sense well
trained in the art of manner, of dis
crimination and of address.
WHOLESALE PRICES mmi
SV Tbe following quotations represent
Wholesale Prices generally. In making up
small orders higher oricee have to be char zed.
The quotations are always given as accurately
as possible, bnt the 8ta will not be responsible
for any variations from the actual market price
oi sne arnciea auoiea
8AQGIKQ
S B Jute O
Standard... ... . O
Burlaps 6 O
WX8TEBN 8MOKXD
Hams S 12M&
Sides fT ft 0 A
Shoulders V .... 8 Q
DRY SALTED
8idesft 9 O
BhonldersV t O
BARRELS Spirits Turpentine
Second-hand, each l 35
Second-hand machine 1 35 a
New New York, each
New City, each
BBICK8
6
14
10
;9M
35
35
85
35
WUmlnston M. .
50 7 03
Northern 9 oo
BUTTER
1 00
North Carolina f) ft
Northern
CORN MEAL
Per bushel, In sacks
Virginia Heal
OOTTON TIEa ft bundle...
CANDLES ft
Sperm
Adamantine ....
OOFFEE 9 ft
Lagoyra.
Bio
15
22
75
75
85
18
S
O
O
o
o
o
s
18
76
7
30
85
11
ii a
o
12K
11
DOMESTICS
SheeUne. 4-4. vara.
5M
Tarns.
FI8B-
9 banco of 5 fee
Mackerei, No. l.
Mackerel, No. 1,
Mackerel, No. S,
barrel. . . & oo
hatf-bbl. 11 00
barrel... 18 oo
80 00
15 00
18 00
9 00
14 00
4 00
7 00
S 86
nacKerei. no. a
half-bW.. 8 00
Mackerel, No. 3,
barrel... is oo
muueca, m oai
. 850
Muuets, vpork barrel
n. u. Roe Herring, ft
keg.. 8 00
- o
o
10
4 on
6 00
8 85
8 75
4 85
4 75
10
85
84
55
83
90
11
10
1 05
50
L 00
TIMOR V ft
Lowarade s oo
o
g
Choice.......... 3150
Straight
4 oo
4 50
8
nrst ratent ,
SLUE ft ,
SRAIN bushels
CorcL,from 8tore,bKs White
Mixed Corn
Oats, from store (mixed)..
Oats, Rust Proof ,
Cow Peas..
HIDES ft
Green salted ,
Dry flint..
Dry salt. ...
HAY V 100 s
No l Timothy
Bice Straw..
Eastern...
Western
78
76
75
85
4
10
0
1 00
1
O 1
1
o
95
00
80
3
North River..
N. O. Uron...
HOOP IRON, ft
OHEE8E V ft-
Nortnern Factory..... . .,
Dairy Cream
Half cream
LABD. ft
Northern
North Carolina.
LIME, V barrel
PORK. V barrel
14
13
ISM
13
10
91
10
10
s
oitv M
Bumn
18 50
O 18 50
18 00
O 88
Prime...
ROPE. ft
11
HALT, v sack. Alum,
Ldverpooi ,
American.
On 125 9 Sacks ut
SUGAR, 9 ft Standard Qran'd 51
Htanaara A.
White Extra a. 41
Extra C Golden.... i
OYeUow ?
LUMBER (city sawed) 9 M ft-
ooip puiii, reeawea.. is 00
Bough edge Plank 15 00
West India cargoes, accord
tog to qtuUlty., 18 M
pressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00
Bcantllnir and BoaWI nmn a m
MOLASSXS canon--
fSgadoes, in bogshead... ..
Barbadoes, In barrels. ..... .
Porto Bloo, tn hogsheads. . . . 20
Porto Bloo, to barrels 20
House, In hogsheads. 18
"AIL8, keg, Ooveod basla. . .
BOAP. 9 D-NorthArn
BTAVES, M-W. O. barrel!;::
JH
a. o. Hogshead..
TIMBER, ?H feet-ehlPDlmr .1
uommonnuil ....
Fair mill
Prime mill , '
VM Mill
HINQLCT, N.C.' Oyp'reaBBawed
w roars..
ftxacHeart..
flan
WHISKEY. 9 sauon Northani
The Kind You Haw i
Mn tin
COMMERCIAL.
WILMINGTON MAEKK'5
Quoted officially at the closing of the Produce
Exchange.!
STAB OFFICE. December 18.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE Nothing
doing:. - M
ROSIN Market firm at $1.00 per
barrel for. strained and $1.05 per bar
rel for good strained.
TAR Market steady at $1.20 pec bar
rel of 280 lbs. ,
CRUDE TURPENTINE Market
quiet at $1.10 per barrel for hard, $2.00
for dip and for virgin.
Quotations same day last year
Spirits turpentine firm at 3737c;
rosin firm at fl 201.25; tar steady at
$1.40; crude turpentine quiet at $1.30
3.30.
BEOKIPTS.
Spirits turpentine 24
Rosin 77
Tar7 223
Crude turpentine 144
Receipts same day last year 21
casks spirits turpentine, 815 barrels
rosin, 415 barrels tar, 219 barrels crude
turpentine.
OOTTOH.
Market firm on a basis of 7c per
pound for middling. Quotations:
Ordinary 5 5-16 cts. ft
Good ordinary 6 11-16 " "
Low middling 7 5-16 " "
Middling 1 " "
Good middling i 8 1-16 " "
Same day last year, market quiet at
96c for middling.
Receipts 2,487 bales; same day last
year, 904.
r Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce
Commission Merchants, prices representing
those paid for produce consigned to Commis
sion Merchants. J
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS North Carolina, firm.
Prime, 65c; extra prime, 70c; fancy,
75c, per bushel of twenty-eight pounds,
Virginia Prime, 55c; extra prime,
60c; fancy, 65c Spanish, 70 75c.
CORN Firm; 8082Kc per bushel
for white.
N. C. BACON Steady; hams 15
16c per pound; shoulders, 1314c;
sides, 1314c.
EGGS Firm at 2021c per dozen.
CHICKENS Dull. Grown, 20
22c; springs. 10 to 20c.
TURKEYS Dressed, firm at 10
-12c: live, 89c.
BEESWAX Firm at 26c.
TALLOW Firm at 56c per
pound.
SWEET POTATOES Firm at 50
60c per bushel.
FINANCIAL MARKETS
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar
-n rw York. Dec 18. Money on call
was steady at 46 per cent., clos
ing, bid and asked, 44$ per
cent. Prime mercantile paper 65
per cent. Sterling exchange steady,
with actual business in bankers' bills
at 486 for demand and at 483
483H for sixty days. Posted rates
were 484 and 487 4. Commercial
bills 482483J('. Bar silver quoted at
55 Mexican dollars 43. Govern
ment bonds irregular.. State bonds
inactive. Railroad bonds were firm.
U S. refunding 3's, registered, 108 ;
U. S. refunding 2's, coupon, 109 j;
U. S 3's, reg'd 108K; do. coupon,
1083 ;U. S.4's,new reg'd,139H ;do. cou
pon 139; U. a 4's, old reg'd,
IUH; do. coupon, 112 ; U. S. 5's, do.
reg'd," 107H ; coupon, iu7j ; Southern
Railway 5's 123. Stocks: Baltimore
& Ohio 102; Chesapeake & Ohio
46 X; Manhattan L 133 j; N. Y.
Central 166K; Reading 48 Vt; do. 1st
pref'd 79; do. 2nd pref'd 67; St.
Paul 162; da pref d, 187; Southern
R'way 33; do. pref'd 92; Amalga
mated Copper 66 ; Am'n Tobacco ;
People's Gas 99; Sugar 121; Ten
nessee Coal and Iron 62; U. S.
Leather 11 ; do. pref d, 80 ; West
ern Union 93; U. S. Sieei 41; do.
preferred 91; Mexican National 13 ;
American Locomotive 30 K; do. pre
ferred 87& ; Standard Oil 6S0655;
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., 61;
do. preferred, 122.
Baltimore, Dec. 18. Seaboard Air
Line, common, 2SX2SJi ; do. prefer
red. 48 bid; do 4s 85J485.
NAVAL STORES MARKETS
Bv.Teiegraph to the Morning Btar.
.- rw Yobk, Dec. 18. Rosin sUady ;
Strained common to good $1 55
167.X. Spirits turpentine steady at
Charleston, Dec 18. Spirits tur
pentine and rosm unchanged.
Savannah, Dec 18. Spirits turpen
lice firm at 36c; receipts 863 casks;
sales 4oa casks; exports 3,114 casks.
Rosin steady;, receipts 2,703 barrels;
sales l,U5U barrels; exports 404 .barrels
COTTON MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Horning Btar.
NEW YOBE. Dec 18. The nnttnn
market opened steady with prices one
10 nve points nigner, mis Deing an in
different reSTMDRA tn riistinn.tlv hullict.
Liverpool cables and light , port re
ceipts. The room trade was disposed
to sen on every ouige, oo the idea
1 .1 . . 1 . .
mat ousiness wouia continue to fall
off as the holiday season approached.
Liverpool , and the continent were
earlv buyers hern- mmminin.
houses had more selling than buying
orders; Wall street and the South
traded sparingly. Freezing temper
ature over pretty muco an 01 the belt,
with light estimates for to-morrow's
receipts, checked any severe decline
in prices after the call. Liverpool
quickly conformed to our opening
and the foreign demand soon tapered
off. For the rest of the morning the
market fluctuated between very nar
row limits with business dull. Through
out the afternoon trade 'was of a pro
fessional, evening up character and
small at that, with prices hold
ing a trifle under last night's
final bids. There was very
little cotton for sale and very little de
mand for that offered. The sole aim
of tbe room faction was centered on
closing up accounts in preparation for
the holiday season. Southern spot
markets reported a quiet trade at full
prices and New England spinners told
of a brisk business at former prices.
The market closed barely steady with
prices net one to four points higher.
New York. Dec 18. Onttnn mi 1 at
t8c; net receipts 524 bales; gross
u,ox wura , biuck vx,aoz Dales.
Snot cotton cImmm)
' wavwf - UIIUUUUM
Snda8c; middlin ulf 8&o; sales
2,085 bales.
Cotton futures closed barely steady
December 8M0J&nnarv R 1 1 irah,..,..J
8.13, March 8.16, April 8.16, May 8.18.
uuuo o xo, ouij o 10, august s 01, Sep
tember .
Total to-dav Net MMlnt. o q
bales; exports to Great Britain 4L699
bales: exnorta to SVmm u. 1
m - . miivv WAX OS I
exports to the Continent 6,988 bales:
OUO,J.U9 (HUBS.
Consolidated Nat hiIi. io ow
bales; exports to Great Britain 83.245
wuoa, export to franco 8,500 bales;
exports to the Continent 19,326 bales.
Total since SentemW it
ceipts 4,196,955 bales ; exports to Great
Britain 1,516,50ft, bales; exports to
France 370,893 bales; exports to tbe
Continent 1,164,854 bales.
December 1ft naWMnn
f i?6 ne,t "ceiPt 15.150 bales; Nor
folk, steady at ; 8c, net receipts 3,858
Miles: Baltimore, nnminil at Rl n.f
receipts bales; Boston, quiet at Byi.
net receipts 1,025 bales; Wilming
ton, firm at 7c, net receipts 8,487
receipts' 177bale7fl!!!
7flc, net receipts' 87 ffiW
leans, quiet at 8c, netfe W
1,357 bales: Chaw?3 t
PRODUCE
MARKETS,
BiTelewaDhtotheMo
Btt
dull and baralv Joiit,
easy ; No. 2 red 86c 0t,v heS
moderate frrn Vptl0sdij
Southwest strength
small Northwest
buying. Later they W
clearanVsan
Closed weak at iinQ
Sales included: MaTchi "et 5
closed 84c; Julyd1
:l P Vf,U0Ds were fi,
the forenoon on small
wheat upturn, but eyen7u!M
to unloading anrf iI?.niUally Jiiul
net loss. The sales to da
May closed 705 : TWi.-
Oats soot Quiet- tcn
opened firm and then t M
Jn0Alo'iDlother5?kets. SM
A " 1 1 U. , Mn
xanuw arm. fori?
easy; Western
steady
refined easv: nnnt . 10
- 1 wuviuu 7
American $11 00; compound
uoitee apot Kio dull- w wi
voice 6c; mild quiet; (V?'
ing 3 9-32c; centrifugal 96 JS,1
fined Bteady. Butter-Mai3c
nrm; creamery 1625c- S.,
sylvania2930c: South... iBdM
2228c . Potatoes-Market V
$2 252 62; Long lalandS?
Jersey sweets $2 253 00
steady; Long Island Plat Duu1
100. $2O03 00. PM1
fancy hand picked 44ue. nn
mestic 2 u:a33. vSb ob?
seed oil Sales by exporter,
bought at lower prices n.i,
further decline: Pri
rels nominal: nrim enmn,.. M
89K40c; off summer jelM
nrimo rchita A97t.AQn . . . 1
low 43c: nrime meal 9 nn "I
Chicago, Dec. 18.-Numeroa,k
ing after a firm opening broJ
sharp hlump m ail grains to d i'
wheat closing c down, Mav J
7a7su luwor auu may oatj ui
lower. Provisions closed ifa-
aown.
fiour maraec easy. Wheat-No.
spring ; No. 3 spring 7IWfl7!t
No. 2 red 80K82c. Corn-Ra
; No. 2 yellow . Oab-No. J
46c; jno. 2 wane 48MMc
u nmw yz vs;7u. mess pore J
oarrei, s is iui5 20. Lanj
xuu ids., a 000a oift. ata
J 1 o o f n n
Biues, musts, o oatgto io. utj
shoulders, boxed, $7 37 M 750. Si?
clear sides, boxed, f 8 758 85.
xey casis or hJfth wines, $132.
The leading futures raneeui
1 1 . i
lows opening, mgnest, lowers
closing : Wheat No. 2 December!
76. 7S14. 75e:Mv ROatm
79K. 7979Xc-,July 80.8uj$
M, 64, 63 63'c;May67Mf
67. 66. 66Hc: Julv 66X&S.E
66X, 66Xc. Oats-Decemoer fcj
44 Z 44U. 44U- Mair IStfis
C144 44Ke: Jul v 39iai39 A.
38c. Mess pork, per bbl JuJ
fig 3U, 10 3U, 16 3U, 16 3U; Ma; Hi
16 90, 16 75, 16 77K- Lard, perM
January $9 87. 990, 9 85. 981
9 90 9 92 U 9 85 9i 85 Short
per 100 lbs January $8 45, 8 45.!
o Ar . f o t o ce o ci at
FOREIGN MARKi
Bv Gable to the Mornia
Liverpool Dec. 18, 4:30 P. I
Uotlon: spot, lair demand;
steady ; American middling ijii 'i
sales of the day were 10,000
which 500 bales were for specula
and export and included 7,800
American. Receipts 28,000 bald
eluding 27.800 bai s American.
Futures opened steady and m
quiet, but steady ; American miil
(cr. o. c.) December 4 34-64
seller; December and January Sj
4 34-64d seller: January end la
ary 4 32-644 83-64d seller; Fetot
and March 4 32-64d seller; HartM
April 4 31-644 32-64d teller;!
and Mar 4 3l-64d buver: Mw
JunA 4 31-ft4d hiiver: June and Jf
4 30-644 31-64d buyer; Julymjl
gust4 30-64d buyer; August m
tem be r 4 25-64 d buyer.
M
h i i A ' i
ARRIVED.
Stmr Compton, Banders, Citoj
and LitUe Kiver, b U, Kione, w"
Co.
Tnlosa,
Seaborne.Baltimore, Alexander m
& Son. .
Schr Wm P Hood, 632 tona
pott. New York, George mrm -ScCo.
CLEARED.
Steamer Driver, Bradshaff, FaP
Trillo T T T j-itto
British steamship SpennjWl
Nairm, Mobile, Heide&Ca
marine'uirectopv
s.ut o ! tn m Po'' '.'J,
ailnitoa. K". c. December Hi"'
STKAMSHIra
Tolosa, (Br) 2.099 tons,
Alexander Sprunt & Son
RnprnnNERS.
t txa flq-l tons. PH
worge uarriss oou -..s
w rt TTi,n oqq inns. WW"
George Barriss, Son & to.
Addie P McFadden, 199 tons,
George Harriss, Sod & to.
Mabel Darling, (Br) 112 tons,
J A Bpnnger x ko.
AKhiA a rviif. 232 tons. Cole, w
Harriss, Son & uo.
ChasC Lister, 267 tons,
Harriss, Son & Co.
D J Sawyer, 267 tons,
Moore,
Kelly.
. Harriss, Son z oo.
BARQUES.
Hutitu, (Nor) 635 tons,
Heide & Co. msml
A 1K AQ1 tons, o1""
Heide & Co.
BY RIVfcK AND RAL'
Receipts of Nsysl Stores
VnfallsV
W.&W.Railroad-443bales
28 barrels tar. , , s7 n
W. C. & A. Rmu
cotton, 34 barrels rosin, w
t iu.nia .i,1a tiimentine.
O. C. Railroad-91
cask spirits turpentine, w
M a i .tilt
Xj6 Darreis rosm. , ualesC"
A. & Y. Railroad-"
5 casks spirits turpentine,
rosin, 51 barrels iar, -
. z a 17 nariw-
turpentine. . ,
W.&N. Railroad r-n -
9 barrels tar. taleS
16 casks spirits tarpentine.
Nrasmav irnnsua
turpentine. oaharreHH
Schooner Ruth J.-W J
rVoiXZM bales couofl
spirits turpentine, 77 barw i
barrels tar, i r-tine.
vie, jrnuaaeipnia, quiet at oc, net