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WILMINGTU.W. Jt C. TUE8DAT 4LOKHIK6, JUST. 28. SENATOR HALE AND MR SCHWAB. One of the arguments, and one of the arguments on which j great stress is laid in support of the ship subsidy bill, is that without subsidies we can't hare a merchant marine, and - that a merchant marine of our own is necessary for tlio : flTBiTismii of our I com merce. If our. commercei had not so phenomenally expanded there might be something in this, but with this phenomenal 'expan sion there isn't. We are going right along expanding our commerce year after year, more rapidly than any other nation in the world, in cluding England and Germany, the two greatest ship-owning nations. This is a solid fact which furnishes a sufficient answer to the plea for subsidized ships as necessary to ex pand our commerce. . j As bearing on this point we have the testimony (although not so in tended) of Senator Hale, of jMaine, and Mr. Chas. M. Schwab, president of the great - Steel Trust. In the discussion a few days ago on the pro: posed new Department of Com merce, which is warmly supported by Senator Hanna, Senator Hale hit subsidies a hard blow. We quote that part of the discussion which bears upon the expansion of our commerce, for which they allege a merchant marine of our own! is ne cessary: J "Senator Hanna, of Ohio, said the object of the new department! was to enable the Government to give more detailed attention to the great indua j trial interests of the country in the; course of its tremendous develop ment - ! j "He said that the time had come when we must expand our commerce; or restrict our production. i "At this point he was interrupted by Senator Hale, of Maine, who said that the United States had already ; captured all the foreign trade worth having. He inquired of Senator Hanna whether 'he did not j realize that as being a fact j "I do not," promptly replied Sen ator Hanna. j "Then the Senator and I disagree," said Senator Hale. ! "We do," retorted Senator Hanna. "The record of what has been ac complished by the Dingley law," con tinued Senator Hale, "is to j me the most amazing record ever exhibited to the world in the absorption of foreign trade. We have absorbed the foreign trade in the great countries that are competitors of ours. We have not wasted our energies in a dream of what is called Oriental trade. jWe do not need additional markets." j Senator Hale represents a State, one of whose important industries is ship-building, but he doesn't seenv to be as fully impressed with the; need of American ships as .his col-i league, Senator Frye, who is standi ing sponsor for and is working hard: to engineer his subsidy bill through; Congress. If, as Senator Hale says, "we captured all the markets worth; having," without an American mer-j chant marine, where is the need, or) justification for , paying $9,000,-; 000 ' a year for twenty j years: for something that we are get-; ting along so splendidly without?; What gives emphasis to this utter-j ance of Senator Hale is the fact: that he is a Republican and repre sents a ship-building State which would doubtless be much benefited by the subsidies proposed. We do not know how he stands on the subsidy question, but in view of his colloquy; with Senator Hanna and his re-f marks on the expansion of our! commerce he would stultify jhimself by supporting his colleague's sub sidy scheme. He isn't delnded with "the dream of the so-called Oriental trade," for the sake of which we have sacri-j ficed thousands of lives and are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to hold the Philippines as I stepping stones to that trade, which would not in a century pay jus back in profits the money we have ex pended and are spending to hold the Philippines. There are 350,000,000 of Chinese whose trade, if we had it all, would not be worth to us as much as the trade of a country like England or Germany. The mass of the Chinese population are poor, very poor. Tho struggle for subsistence is j so hard with most of them that destroying' their infants, especially female in fants, is carried on to a horrifying extent and does not shock the Chinese because they look! upon it as necessary. By persistent indus try 'and' economies resorted to no where else in the world they force! the productiveness of the soil, and; yet with all their thrift, persever-i ance, industry and economic methods famines are not infrequent and mil-1 Hons die of starvation. With such a people, where the struggle for; subsistence with the average man and woman is so hard, trade would necessarily be of a kind in which their would be but small profit how ever large the bulk might he. China! would mate more out of what we would buy from her in ten years than we wonld out of what we might sell to her in twenty. Senator Hale has doubtless been studying up on the Oriental trade question. The Oriental trade plea j also fig ures in the subsidy game, but there it about as little in that as there is in. general expansion plea, for which . there is no foundation at all. A few dayi ago Mr. Chas. M. Schwab returned from an "extended trip in Europe during which he spent some time in Germany, France, Austria, England and other coun tries, where he gave close attention to the manufacturing industries of these countries, especially on lines where we come into competition with them. He gave close study to the iron and steel industry, the basic industry, for the suprem acy in which the leading nations of the world are struggling. Accord ing to an interview published after his return he came back strong in the belief that this country will cap ture the markets of the world, that all that will be left to our competi tors will be their home markets, where we will also compete with them although they may try to bar us out with high tariff barriers. This was not a conditional state ment based upon having ships of our own to do our ocean carrying, for ships were not alluded to, and consequently the inference is that we will continue to expand our com merce just as we have been expand ing it with hired ships or ships owned by Americans but sailed un der foreign flags. That's what we have been dong ever sines Repub lican policies destroyed our mer chant marine, which, up to 1860, was the second greatest in the world. We don't know how Mr. Schwab stands on the subsidy question but we suppose, as he is interested in steel and steel is largely used in building ships these days, he favors subsidies, but after this interview and so confidently asserting that the markets of the world will be ours, he would stultify himself by sup porting subsidies. Here we have the testimony of two distinguished citizens, both Re publicans, that subsidies are not necessary to the expansion of our commerce. DRIFTING TOWARDS ANNEX ATION. ColonefrBliss, collector of customs at Havana, was one of the gentle men who was heard by the House Ways and Means Committee, Satur day, on the question of reciprocity with Cuba. He showed how we were losing trade with that island under the present tariff, and how our trade might be improved by a modification of duties, which would throw trade this way. From the position he occupies as collector of customs at Cuba's leading port he ought to be well informed on the trade of the island, where it goes to, and cornea from and ought to be good authority on that subject. The most interesting feature, however, of the information he im parted was that in reference to the feeling for annexation, what he says is Btrong and undisputed. This is not altogether news for we know a sentiment of that kind has prevailed more or less in the island ever sinco American occupation, and there is abundant evidence that it has been growing stronger and becoming more general. But his testimony is the latest, and the most direct. There are thousands of Cubans who realize that annexation is the solution of the problem for Cuba, as there are thousands of Americans who realize that it is the solution for this country. It is the short way to settle the relations between that island and this . country, which will never be definitely and perma nently settled otherwise. It would simply be following up naturally and logically the Piatt amendment, un der which Cuba can never be a really independent country, but must be a protege of this country, without the power or opportunity to work out her own destiny. Although there would be much opposition to it by the protected ipterests, which are now protesting so clamorously against reciprocity, it would be the best in the end for both Cuba and this country, the shortest and easiest solution of the problem of the rela tions between her and this country. Eight years ago Charlie Inman, of New York, then ten years old "booed" at a servant girl who was coming down stairs, and "booed" so hard that he firightened her so that she jumped iuto a glass door and cut her hands badly. She valued the damage at $25,000, sued his father for it, and after being in the courts ever since, a few. days ago she recovered (2,500. Charlie doesn't "boo" any more. A Louisville, Ky., man, who several years ago sat on a cushion containing a lot of needles was transformed into a cushion himself. Some of the needles were picked out but a good many remained in and since have been meandering all through him. A few days ago he died and the supposition is that one of the needles worked into his heart. John F. Dryden, the new Senator from New Jersey, is also a new man in politics, but a man of large wealth.: Of course. That's the kind of men, generally speaking, who are elected to the Senate these days. He is President of an insur ance company with a salary of $1001 000 a year and is worth between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000. FAVORITE RESCMHH FOR WEAK WOMEN. TEE PENSION ROLL. The pension roll now contains 997,735 names, and calls for an ex penditure ; of $140,000,000.; The net gain last year was 4,206 names, which, allowing for the deaths and removals for other causes, means that 47,792 new names were add ed, with many thousands of appli cations pending and thousands of private pension bills before Con gress. We are now paying moreTin pensions than any three or four of the leading nations of Europe com bined, and more than any nation in Europe, save Russia which has a standing army of about 600,000 men, pays to support its army. As a matter of interest we publish the following, which shows how the pension roll is made up: REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Widows Daughters 5 WAR 1813." Survivors J Widows M7 INBIAN WARS. Survivors 1.086 Widows 3,479 MEXICAN WARS. Survivors 7,568 Widows 8.109 SERVICE AFTER KARCH 4. 1861. General laws 293,186 Army invalids 86,504 Army widows 4,489 Navy invalids 3,298 Army nurses - 650 ACT JUNE 27, 1890. Army invalids :.. 432,481 Army widows 138.490 Navy invalids 15,633 Navy widows. 6,621 WAR WITH SPAIN. Army invalids 3.344 Army widows 1,981 Navy invalids 211 Navy widows 68 Total ....997,735 We have still with us nine pen sioners of the Revolutionary war, which ended over 118 years ago; 1,528 of the war of 1812, which ended eighty-seven years ago; 4,565 of the Indian wars; 15,677 of the Mexican' war, which ended fifty-four years ago, and about 970,352 of the war between the States, which ended thirty-seven years ago. If to these 970,352 the names were added which have been dropped from death or other causes what a showing the list would make. As we still have on the list nine persons drawing pensions on account of the Revolutionary war, and over 4,000 drawing pensions on account of the war of 1812, and over 15,000 on account of the Mex ican war, the possibilities are that with the hustling pension attorneys we will end the next cen tury with a pretty large sized pen sion roll. CURRENT COMMENT. Mr. Nixon, Mr. Croker's suc cessor at the head of Tammany, is trying to get the New York delega tion in Congress to vote for the Hanna-Frye ship subsidy scheme. What sort of Democrat did you say Mr. Nixon was? Louisville Courier Journal, Dem. 'Pis said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. However, two of the fattest Federal .positions in North Carolina have gone to Messrs. B. F. Keith and Harry Skinner, one of whom has belonged to two politi cal parties within a . decade and the other of whom has belonged to three parties. Maybe in these cases Mr. Roosevelt has not played into the hands of the sort of politicians against whom he is supposed to be so set. We say, "maybe." Norfolk Landmark, Dem. In the anti-oleomargarine hearings before the ' Committee on Agriculture, science has appeared for oleo. Dr. Geo. M.Kober, professor of hygiene at Georgetown University, stated that while there might be germs in artificial butter, they were less likely to occur in the manufac tured than in the natural article, as the heat processes of manufacture destroyed any organisms capable of bringing diseases to the human body. And still there are people who are willing to risk the germs. Indianapolis Sentinel, Dem. Probably the costliest infant the protective wet nurses in all their experience ever undertook to rear at the public expense is the beet sugar infant. The duty of $19 a ton on raw sugar and $39 a ton on refined puts a tremendous tax on the consumer. The cost of the nurs ling in the ten years of its existence is calculated by The New York Trib une to have been $570,000,000. No wonder the disgusted Tribnne is moved to decleaie that this protected industry has failed to justify its pro tection. Philadelphia Record, Dem. 8ve Two From latb. "Our little daughter had an almost fatal attack of whooping cough and bronchitis," writes Mrs. W. K. Haviland, of Armonk, N, Y., "but, when all other remedies failed, we saved her life with Dr. King's New Discovery. Our. niece, who had Consumption in an advanced stage, also used this wonderful medi cine and to-day she is perfectly well.'' Desperate throat and lung diseases yield to Dr. King's. New Discovery as to no other medicine on earth. Infal lible for Coughs and Colds. 50c and $1.00 bottles guaranteed by R. R. Bej Li amy. Trial bottles free. r ww orr Sixty tmti Mrs. Winslow's Soorania Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, soften the gums, and allays all pain ; cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Sola by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, i and take no other kind. TOT Bwoith f fm Kind Yoa Haw Always BoajM SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Statesville Landmark': j' There seems to be an epidemic' of mumps in Statesville. Several have had the dis ease and recovered, while there are a number yet laid up with it. Charlotte News'. Mr. Frank Neely, of Steel Creek, reports several cases of smallpox among the negroes of his section. 8ince the first outbreak of the disease in Steele Creek, the ne groes have been attempting to conceal the fact as much as possible. They have a horror of going to the pest house and this makes it difficult to en tirely stamp out the trouble. Kinston Free Press: Some strange disease has -been killing the horses of our farmers in this section and from best accounts it resembles the disease o prevalent in Hyde and adjoining counties. Messrs. Lynn Wooten, R. K. Bland and Z. Edwards have all recently lost horses from this disease. Mr. Edwards is the heaviest loser, haviDg lost two horses and one mule. Statesville Mascot: Alex. Gib son, a young white man, was shot in the back and killed as he ran from the house of Patsey Folsom last Bat urday night, near Huatersville. Learning that Gibson had gone there, Joe and Henry Lowrance, brothers of the Folsom woman, and Will Whitley, slipped on him and as he ran one of them shot and killed him. All three escaped and it is not known which did the shooting. All the parties are well known Officers are on the track of the men. Raleigh News and Observer: Mr. J H. Atkins, of Marion, was in Taylors ville last week entering the Brushy Mountain range from the Caldwell county line to Iredell county, some fifty-two square miles, or more than 30,000 acres. He takes tbese en tries in the name of A. R Miller, of Marion Very little, if any. of tnia land-is vacant All is owned and oc cupied by citizens who have long ago bought and paid for it, but whether all can show grants from the State or not, cannot be said. The mat ter has created consternation in the county. Lexington Dispatch: A pro ject is on foot for the establishment of a veneering factory in Lexington. The gentlemen behind the movement are men of means and there is a strong probability that the plant will be erected. Near Town Creek, just outside the corporate limits of Salis bury, a snake 8 feet and 3 inches in length and 13 inches around the body, was killed Monday afternoon. The snake was what is known as a python, and it is believed to hav escaped from Robinson's circus, which show ed near the Creek last October. For nearly fen years Enoch Shaw and son, Will Shaw, have been fugi tives from' justice. They are charged with stealing some tobacco from Jake Curry. A short time after the crime was committed Enoch was arrested; he gave bond for his appearance at court, and left for parts unknown. Will accompanied him. Last week the officers learned that both parties were again in this county, and Jailor Lindsay arrested and placed them in jail. They will be tried at our next term of court. Newborn Journal: The cab bage crop is reported by truckers to be in bad condition. It is believed, how ever, that the weather of the past week, with the rains, has improved the pros pect. The river steamers How ard and Carolina have brought down from Vanceboro and from up the Trent river a considerable quantity of dogwood. Some 30 cords of the wood at the E. C. D. wharf, awaiting ship ment by steamer for Norfolk. Inquiry regarding these shipments of dogwood brought out the following fact. The dogwood is being shipped to Norfolk and thence goes to Europe, where it will be used for making shuttle blocks and other articles of a like nature. The dogwood tree is not of a large growth and the logs come in four foot lengths and must square up four inches at the small end. In some cases the logs are cut in two foot lengths so as to get a sufficient size at the small end. The wood is quite heavy but when dried out it becomes rather light as it holds a great deal of water. The material is paid for here and the price obtained is from eight to nine dollars a cord. TWINKLINGS. The Tragedian "My parents tried hard to keep me from becoming an actor." The Villain-'I congratu late them on their success." Tit-Bits. He It is only a quiet little game. She What do you mean by a quiet game? He Oh, one in which money does nearly all the talking. Judge. Nodd Every time I hear that minister it makes me want to be a bet ter man. Mrs. Todd Why don't you go to hear him oftener? Nodd But I don't want to lose all my self respect. Life. The Missionary My friend, I ami afraid that you do not realize the dreadfulness of the drink evil. The Farmer Why, ma'am, I never tech a drop. The Missionary But you raise hops. Judge. "In that interview ' you pub lished this morning," said the angry statesman, "you made me utter a lot of blamed nonsense." "I'm afraid I did. Senator," replied the reporter. "I wrote it down exactly as you said it." Chicago Tribune. An unsophisticated old woman asked a druggist the other day if he had any soap. "Yes, ma'am," he re plied. "'Do you want it scented or un seen ted f" "Well," she replied, "bein it's so small I guess I'll take it along with me." New York Tribune, He is one of the most re sourceful lazy men I ever knew. Why do you say that? Because, in stead of writing out his good- resolu tions, be cut the page for Jan. 1, 1901, from his old diary and pasted it in under 1903. Chicago Post. Genuine Game. So, despite all your efforts, your client didn't escape the death penalty, eht No, he had to go at last, poor fellow. Did he die game? Literalrv so; the papers said that a sight of the gallows made him quail. Richmond Dispatch. After the Proposal: He "Do you think your mother will be sur prised?" She "Yes, indeed. She was saying only -this afternoon that she didn't believe you'd ever get up the courage to propose." Judge. Young Husband r "Don't you think, darling, that it would spoil the curtains if J should smoke?4 Young Wife "You are the best and most considerate ..husband that ever lived, dear; of course it would." Young Husband "Well, then, you'd better take them down.'1 Tit-Bits. Emil Twyeffort, President of the Merchant Tailors' National Ex change of the United States of America, says: "We have not followed the ex ample of the Trusts, because we are artists, and not tradesmen. Can you imagine Michael Ahgelo and the old masters in a Trust?" Boston Evening Transcript. For Whooping Cough use CHENEY'S EX PEOTOBAJffT. For sals by Hardin's Palace Pharmacy.' eagles as property; OwneraHlf of Bird udnti IUJ- apected by Pueblo Iadlaaa. i- Anions the Pueblo Indians of New Mex-. ico and Arizona, there la a property" right In eagles. Each clan claims ownership in. several eagles' nests which may or may not be near the place where the clan lives. When the nests are distant from the Tillages where the Indians claiming whem live, it has been found that the an cestors of these Indians came in former years from the localities where the nests now are, and they point to the" fact that these nests are theirr as proof that they also, by inheritance, own the land round about them. Driven into new locations by maraud ing Navajoes and TJtes, these Pueblo In dians have steadily contracted their oc cupied territory, but they still visit the old nests, as their forefathers visited them before the white man came to Mex ico. Some of the Pueblo Indians the ZudIs, for instance keep eagles in cages, treating them as domestic fowl, but most of the tribes procure their eagles by tak ing the young from the ancestral nests. These Indians keep turkeys also, but neither turkeys nor eagles are kept .for food. With the feathers of the birds the Indian decorates himself and his "prayer sticks" on occasions of religious cere mony. The various tribes respect one an other's rights in certain nests and the birds which are hatched in them, and a heavy punishment is provided for an In dian killing an eagle not his own. Sometimes the nests are 60 miles from where the tribe lives, but investigation always shows that the tribe lived once where the nest is. Generations without number the eagle builds his nest in the same spot and rears his young there. So the title of the Pueblos reaches back into the twilight of American history. Those Pueblo Indians speak of their eagles as they do of their sheep, their dogs or their horses. Though the king of birds may be flying wild half a hundred miles from the Indian's abode, yet it is the Indian's eagle. When an Indian visits one of his nests to secure a bird, he does not take all of the young, but leaves some, so that the breed may be perpetuated. Returning home with his eaglet, he strips it of its feathers and kills it The body of the eagle is not thrown on the rubbish heap, bnt it is buried in a special eagle burying ground. The ancient Pueblo Indians used to keep parrots as domestic birds, probably only for their feathers, which were used in decoration for religious serv ice. These parrots they obtained by bar ter with the Mexicans south of them. It is known that the Artec kept a variety of birds as domestic fowls and used them for food, as well as eating their eggs, but the Pueblo Indians seem to have kept their domestic birds for their feathers solely. Chicago Chronicle. THE INSPECTOR SMELLED A RAT. And Detected am Insrenioas Scheme For Stealing- From Mint. The sight of vast quantities of coin has a'stimulating influence on human wits, to such an extent that Uncle Sam is kept busy "coppering" efforts of geniuses to "do" the various mints. Some of the schemes devised are so smooth that the government officials are unwilling for their nature to be divulged, at least until the law has been twisted Into shape to fit the new form of theft. Time and again methods have been evolved for which no legal antidote is discoverable and which can only be punished by dismissal, not by criminal prosecution. One of the latter types was recently worked on a weBtern mint, according to the report of a late ar rival via the Southern Pacific It was this way: The gold is rolled into strips from ingots in the rolling room and care fully weighed out again. The "in" and "out" figures should tally; so they did until recently, when a sudden daily def icit appeared. Each evening there was a loss of $10 or $20, and the director of the mint grew hot in the collar. A per sonal search was made of every one leav ing the room, but the shortage continued. Finally, one day the inspector in the coinage department smell ed a rat, a real rat, which had fallen a victim to the jaws of a deadfall during the night. Although it was still early in the day, the rat as serted itself until it dawned upon the in spector that decomposition had progress ed with remarkable rapidity for a one day corpse. The trap, be knew, had been emptied of another rodent the evening be fore, for he remembered seeing an em ployee pick up the thing by the tail and toss it through the small slot above the window. A flash of intelligence came to the o fa cial, and he waited. Later a "stamper" approached the trap, remarking jocular ly, M 'Nother rat," bent over, fooled .with the trap and then tossed the creature out of the window. The inspector was out in a flash and reached the ground just in time to see a "gent" pick up a defunct ro dent, slip it into a leather -grip and de camp. . The commotion made by the inspector put the employee on his guard, and he threw no more rats. , He was soon dismissed for cause and went away damning his own laziness, for, instead of getting busy and keeping a' supply of fresh rats on Ice, he used and reused the same fellow until he became faisande and put the authorities "next" to his game. However, he justified him self by saying that was the only rat he had found with a mouth large enough to bold $25 worth of gold. Exchange. Sympathetlo Ink. Anybody may manufacture a good sym pathetic ink for himself by adding a little gum arabic to a small Quantity of chloride of cobalt, the latter being obtainable from any dealer in chemicals. The mix ture, when used with ink a quill pen should be employed makes a pink script which disappears when dry, becomes green when heated, disappears when cold and is pink again when dampened. An expedient even simpler when one wishes to confide his secrets to paper and yet keep them is to use ordinary rice water instead of ink. It cannot be seen when dry, but turns blue when Iodine is applied to it. If it be desired to make perfectly sure of the destruction of the contents of the letter after it has been read, the purpose may be accomplished by writing it with a solution of iodide of starch in water. A few days later the script will have disappeared. Saturday Evening Post. All on 90 a Tear, A clergyman by the name of Mathson was minister of Patterdale, in West moreland, England, GO years and died at the age of 90. During the early part of his life his benefice brought him only 12 a year. It was afterward increased to 18. which it never exceeded. On this income he married, brought up four children and lived comfortably with his neighbors, educated a son at the university and left behind Ihm upward of a thousand pounds. With that singular simplicity and In attention to' forms which characterize a country life, he himself read the burial service over his mother, he mar ried his father to a second wife, and afterward burled him also.. He pub lished his own banns of marriage In the church with a woman he had formerly christened, and he himself married all his four children. 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COUNTERFEIT BILLS. j Am Eur Method lr Which They Ha Be Detected.' j "Talking of counterfeiters puts me in mind of one, a notorious rascal, who was caught not long ago in this city while at his nefarious trade," said the ex-treasury official. "The paper money this man pro duced was absolutely perfect in every de tail but one thing, and it seems strange that a -man of his knowledge and experi ence of the art of counterfeiting should not have known it." . . ( i Here the treasury official took a $1 bill from his pocket. It was new and crisp, and he pointed out a diminutive letter O on the right under the bill's number and another down in the other corner. "Now," he continued, "I don't suppose there are ten! men in a hundred outside the treasury department who know that these seemingly, unnecessary letters are on United States bills. And even if they bad noticed them I am willing to bet that not one of them could tell what they signify." i I Handing another bill to the reporter, the ex-treasury man asked him to read the last four figures. They were 5,321. The treasury man said almost instantly, "The letter on that bill is A," which was correct. i Half a dozen other bills were produced, and when the treasury man was told the last four figures of their numbers he was able to tell, with lightning rapidity, what letter would, be found on each bill. In each case the letter was either A, B, C or D. "The explanation is simple," said he. "If you take the last four figures of the number on any bill, no matter what its denomination, and divide them by four, you will have a remainder of 0, 1, 2 or 3. If the remainder is zero, the letter on the bill will be D. If it is 1, the letter will be A; if it is 2, the letter will be B, and if it is 3 the letter will be C. "This is one of the many precautions taken by the government against coun terfeiters. You can tell instantly whether a bill is bad or good by making that test. I wouldn't give a 5 cent piece for a $1,000 bill, n matter how perfect it seemed, if its little letter did not correspond with the remainder -obtained by dividing the last four figures of its number by 4." Not Mlaflta. Mrs. Criiosonbeak It seems strange to me, if matches are made in heaven, that there should be so many unhappy mar riages. , ; Mr. Crimsonbeak Oh. you forget it is the matches that are made there, not the misfits. Yonkers "Statesman. His Opportunity. Mr. Timmid I've decided to speak to your father tonight. Miss Fatience Oh, who told you? Mr. Timmid Told me what? Miss Patience That he sprained his ankle today. Catholic Standard and Times. A man accused of crime may sometimes excite suspicion by employing too many attorneys. Chicago News. ? Broadcloth was first so called because it took two weavers side by side to fling the shuttle across it. MiMaMiaiiMSiis"aS"5a"!"5 WHOLESALE PRICES CURREIt. fjr The following Quotations represent Wholesale Prices generally. In making up small orders nlzhnr Drtoes have to be charged. The quotations are always given as accurately u possible, but the Stab wUTnot be responsible tor any variations from the actual market price of the articles Quoted BAGQIH9 SBJute O W Standard: O 7 Burlaps 6 O 6 WESTERN 8MOKED Hams UHQ Bldeejp .... 9 O 10 Shoulders 9 O AH OBY SALTED r Bides.. KO OH Shoulders 9 O 9J4 BARRELS Spirits Turpentine Seoond-h&nd, each 1 85 O 1 35 Second-hand machine 1, 85 O 1 85 New New York, each O 1 85 New City, each O 1 35 Wilmington M 6 60 O 700 Northern 9 00 OHM BUTTER North Carolina 15 18 Northern..... 88 O 88 CORN MEAL Per bushel, m sacke 78Wa 81 Virginia Heal 8K 81 COTTON TUB bundle 1 25 O 1 30 CANDLES S- Sperm II O 85 Adamantine .... SO 11 OOFFEE V Caguyra...... 11 O , ISH Bio .80 11 DOMESTICS : Sheeting, 4-4, p yard O fH Yarns. bunch of 5 s ... . O . 0 FI8H ' Mackerel, No. 1, V barrel.'. . 22 00 O 80 OS Mackerel, No. 1, f half-bbl. 11 00 O 15 00 Mackerel, No. 8, barrel... 16 00 O 18 00 Mackerel, No. 8 half-bbl.. 8 00 O 9 00 Mackerel. No. s, V barrel.. . 18 oo O 14 oo Mulleta, barrel 8 50 Q 3 75 Mullets, vpork barrel. 6 co O 7 00 N. o. Roe Herring, keg., t 00 Q S 86 Dry Cod, s so lo u Extra 4 00 O 5 00 VLOUB- - Low grade a 85 o SCO Choice 875 O 400 Straight 8 35 O 8 75 FlrstPatent 5 00 O 5 85 QLUE SO 10 , 9 RAIN bushel - Oorn,from store, D2s White . 86 Q 88 Mixed Corn 81 & 86 Oats, from store (mixed).. 60 O 62 oats. Bust Proof 75 85 Cow Peas -90 O 1 00 BIDES B Oreensalted 4 O 5 Dry flint....... 10 O U Dry salt 9 O 10 BAY 100 S8 : . No 1 Timothy. t 00 O 1 05 Bice Straw O 60 N. C. Crop 75 O 80 HOOP IRON. B 20 3 CHEESE K Northern Factory 18KO 14 Dairy Oream 18 ISH r Half cream io O 18 LABD. 1 Northern........ (HO 18H North Carolina 10 O ism LIME, barrel 1 10 1 25 ORE, barrel . " Oltv Meee ; 18 bo Bump o l M Prime......... O 18 00 BOPS, t.... UO 88 SALT, sack. Alum 1 85 Liverpool... o 90 American. o 90 On 185 Sacks 50 60 SUGAR, t Standard Qran'd 4 90 O 6 40 Standard A... 4 5 White ExtnrO 4MO 4K Extra O, Golden 4J4 4M O Yellow..... i 4 O 4 LUMBER (city sawed) M ft Ship Stuff, resawea 18 oo O 80 SO Bough edge Plank 15 00 O 18 00 West India cargoes, accord ing to quality 13 oo O 18 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 83 00 Scantling and Board, com "d 14 00 o 15 00 MOLASSES gallon Bar baaoea, in hogshead.. . . . Bar badoes, in barrels rorto Rico, in hogsheads 89 O 81 Porto Rico, in barrels 89 O S3 Sugar House, In hogsheads. 18 14 Sugar House, in barrels.... 14 15 Svruu. In barrels. 17 S e? AJLBV keg. Out, 60d basis... s 40 8 E0 SOAP, t Northern 3140 4 STAVES, M w. O. barrel 6 00 .0 14 09 B. O. Hogshead. O 10 00 TIMBER, M feet Shipping. . 8 00 9 00 Common mill 4 00 o S 00 Fair mill....... too S bio Prime mill 6 B0 0 7 60 Extra null......... ......... 8 00 O 8 60 SHINGLES, N.o. Cypress sawed . V M 6x24 heart.... 6 85 A rot .l- iPii 6 o oo SxaojHeart 3 50 O 4 00 " Sap...., 1..... 8 50 O 8 00 WHI8KET. 9 sraliorf Northern 1 no S .H0 BY RIVER AND RAIL. Receipts of Naval Stores and Cotton i I Yesterday. j W. & W. Railroad 369 bales cotton. 1 barrel tar. i j W. a & AJ Railroad 557 bales cot ton, 68 barrels tar. O. O. Railroad 867 bales cotton J A. & Y. Railroad 46 bales cotton, 4 casks spirits turpentine, 94 barrels tar. W. & N. Railroad 24 bales cotton. 1 barrel tar. . . . Steamer Highlander S61 barrels tar. Schooner J. D. pigott 9 bales cot ton, 5 casks spirits turpentine, 25 barrels tar. M i Total 1,281 bales cotton, 9 casks spirits turpentine, 25 barrels rosin, out Barrels tar. Tom Kaow Wfeat Toi Are Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing that it is simply iron and quinine in a taste less form. No cure, no pay. Price, Wc. M satuth COMMERCIAL WILMINGTON MARE KT (Quoted officially at the closing of the Produce JKXOIUMUCB..I ' STAR OFFICE, January 27. SPIRITS TURPiamNE Nothing doing. ROSIN Market firm at $1.10 per barrel for strained and $1.15 per bar rel for good strained. TAR Market firm at $1.25 per bar rel of 280 lbs. CRUDE TURPENTINE Market strong at $1.35 per barrel for hard, $2.50 for dip, and for virgin. Quotations same day last year Spirits turpentine nothing doing; rosin firm at $L201.25; tar firm at $1.30; crude turpentine quiet at $1.30 2.30. RECEIPTS. Spirits turpentine. 9 Rosin 25 Tar 567 Crude turpentine Receipts same day last year 31 casks spirits turpentine, 79 barrels rosiir, 466 barrels tar, 10 barrels crude turpentine. COTTON. Market firm on a basis of 7c per pound for middling. Quotations: Ordinary. ..... 6 cts. lb Good ordinary 6 " " Low middling 7hi " " Middling... 1 " " Good middling 8 3-16 " " Same day last year, market steady at 9Kc for middling. .Receipts 1,281 bales; same day last year, 421. (Corrected Begularly by Wilmington Produce Commission Merchants, prices representing tnoee.pald for produce consigned to Commis sion Merchants. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PEANUTS North Carolina, firm. Prime, 70c; extra prime, 75c; fancy, 80c, per bushel of twenty-eight pounds. Virginia Prime, 60c ; extra prime, 65c ; fancy, 70c Spanish, 75a77c CORN Firm; 8587c per bushel for white. N. C. BACON Steady; hams 14 15c per pound; shoulders, 1213c; sides, 12K13c. EGGS Dull at 18c per dozen. CHICKENS Dull. Grown, 20 25c; springs, 1018c. TURKEYS Dressed, firm at 12 14c; live, 910c BEESWAX Firm at 26c. TALLOW Firm at.5$6c psr pound. , SWEET POTATOES Firm at 60 65c per bushel. FINANCIAL MARKETS By Telegraph to the Morning ' star. w York, Jan. 27. Money on call easy at 2Jg3 per cent; the mar ket closed, bid and asked, at 2 percent. frime mercantile paper 45 per pent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at 487487H for demand and at 484$ for sixty days. -Posted ratfs were ! 485 and 488. Commercial bills 483X484X. Bar silver S43. Mexican dollars 44& Government bonds strong. State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds were irregular. U. 8. refunding 2's, registered, 108M: U S. refunding 2's, coupon,108M;U.8 3's, registered, 108; do. coupon, 108; U. a. 4 s, new registered, 139; do. coupon 140; U. . 4's, old regis tered, 111 ; do. coupon, 111 ; U. S. 5's reg'd, ex int. 106; do. coupon, 107M; Southern Railway, 5's, 119M- Stocks: -Baltimore. & Ohio 101 J4; Uhesapeaxe ot Uhio 45K; Manhat tan L 134; New York Central 160 ; Reading 55; do. Ssi preferred 81; do. 2nd preferred 61M; St. Paul 161; do. pref d, 186 ; Southern K'way 32; da pref'd 93 M; Amalga mated Copper 73; Am'n Tobacco ; People's Gas 100 ; Sugar 125 ; Ten nessee Coal and Iron 613: U. S. Leather 11 do. prefd, 80; Western union u?s; u. a. eteei 4Z?t; do. pre ferred ya; Mexican National 15; American Liocomotive 38M; do. pre f erred 90X; Standard Oil 648650; Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., 60; do. preferred, 123. Baltimore, Jan. 27. Seaboard Air Line, common, 2424; do. pre ferred, 46 asked; do 4s 8484&. NAVAL STORES MARKETS By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Nbw York. Jan. 27. Rosin steady. Spirits turpentine steady at 44 45c. Charleston, Jan. 27. Spirits tur pentine and rosin unchanged. Savahbab, Jan. 27. Spirits lumen tine steady at 42c; receipts 293 casks; saies aoy Darreis; exports 165 casks Rosin firm; receipts 3,492 barrels; sales 4.372 barrels; exports 4.561 bar rels Quote: A. B, C, D, $1 22; E, $127W; F. $1 32if: G. $1 37W: EL $1 45; I, $1 70; K, $2 25; M. $2 65; N. ao; wu,3 6U;W W, 3 85. COTTON MARKETS. By Telegraph to the Morning star. New York, January 27. The cot ton market onened stead v. with nrlmi one to fouF mints lower hnh w about a fair response to disappointing LlTAnwinl .allies 4 Via fan tn Was a decline of one half to one point in i mures and l-ggd in spot cotton. Shorts in the local ring beat a hasty retreat immediately after the call on estimates for port receipts of but 27.000 bales tor thn t this comparing with 33,000 bales Miiiio uay iasi year, rrom ts.10 May stiffened up to 817, and for a time the whole ruling of the market was decidedly firm. Liver pool was quick to conform with our advance and the South sent a fairly good number of buying orders to rep aentatives here. On the advance re ports were in. circulation to the effect that spot cotton was firmer throughout the South on active pompetition be tween exporters and between dealers who last fall had sold cotton for January-February delivery.Tne latter feared the markets would get away from them inasmuch as holders were very bullish. Heavy rains were reported - to haye broken the drought over Northern Texas and to have put roads in very bad condition over the rest of the Western belt except Southern Texas which remained dry. Intensely cold weather was forecasted by the Wash ington department for the entire west ern and much of the central belt for tonight, all of which led to fears of a curtailment in the movement. But a big estimate for tomorrow's Hous ton receipts and' a liberal pre diction as to-morrow's New Orleans receipts, restored the bears to their natural equilibrium- later in the day and under scattering sales for both accounts the markets dragged slowly lower. Prices returned to about the opening level. Speculation through out the afternoon was very fame and almost entirely professional. Near the close bear pressure helped to force prices off. The market was finally barelv steadv with nrWi n( Vi. t - -r X" mvv UA9 4 seven points lower. ' Nbw YORK. Jan. 27. fVtttnn nn;at at 8 5-16c; net receipts 228 bales; gross receipt 7,940 bales: stock M7.108 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet; middling unlands 8 5 -18e? middling nir a aic. sales 584 bales. - 9 ' Cotton ftltttPAa ftlmuul ImmIv January 7.87, February 7.98, March 8.03, April 8.08, May 8.09, June 8 10, -ujj o.ao, august 7.o, September 7.71, October 7.69, Total tn-da-v Kt MMint an ton bales; exports to Great Britain e!776 bales: exmrta tn Vmrm hnla exports to the Continent 24,851 bales; stock 891,985 bales. , ; "Pr to Great r . B39. i bales; exports to FLf & exnorts tn tha r."i5rance 13.907 I ToUlsinc7rS.307 ceipts .719,537 baler7.--M Bntain 2.190,514 baletoQ France 542,115 bales- . exPo-ts Continent 1. 680,964 5u" Jan.-27.-GaivestoT- n net receipts 7,244 ba1 uuici at rw not . Boston, quiet and steajft BV"C' net receipts 1.281 ? V, 5 & ton, firm at 7XC net . rC' bales; PfcUhV & net receipts 140 bales r 8 9W quiet at 7 13-16, net rece pu Jfe New. Orleans, quiet t 5baW receipts 12,329 bales' MoMi !i 713-16C. net receipt 323 phis, very steady at 7 13 ifr; Mei! 1,788 bales; Augusta steaii 6t net receipts 984 bVle8fdLat8lll steady at 7 13-16e, ne ?arles'o bales. ' net reiPU 1,7 PR0DUCEJWARKETS ByXelegraDh-totheMofninKB Nbw York, Jan. 27 Fin, influenced by the grain &i!,kei. was weak and a shade W, u. sota patents $3 804 io to?""1' Spot easy; No. 2 red 86c n closed unsettled at 3c yptiot, Sales to-day: March 'dosed r1.1 closed 83c; July closed 83k ,1 M'J Spot quiet; No. 2, 66c nriK closed unsettled and lc net 0 ai included: January closed !r'' closed 65c; Julj closed 65wrM'? Spot weaker; No. 2. 48c; track -55o.Lard easier ; Western stLl refined weaker; couUvfSftg American $10 75; compound s$ Pork easier; fami y $17 95. 11 . . $18 0020 00; mesa & Cheese firm; large earlV JW 10Xc; late early SadS whiS S? ter firmer; creamery 1625? 0. l' dairy 1423c. Eggs firm .' and Pennsylvania 2829c- 'ai! i em at mark 27c. Potato' 'k New York, fair to prime ckW.B 2 20, Jersey sweets, bar're & 350. Cabbagesteady;LoaTlslan1? Dutch, per 100, $2 504 K fi steady; fancy hand picked affi Liverpool Cotton by steam 19 Ooff-Spot Rio quiet! No SvfiS: mild quiet; Cordova 7mile. E Raw firm; fair refining 3WC. !L TalXfw d6ul!68t'p3 U-16C kff 1 allow dull. Rif ctooj- seed oil was weak aud loVta ' affected by the decline n JSdS ducts. Closing prices: Primf:l f.? b.milh34c;-pS yelkm 41c; off summer X t1CilT?f Whit? 47c; Prime "inter!? low4849c; prime meal $28 00. Chicago, January 27. All nits n the Board of Trade went wild to-d A. stampede in May oats, forcing iW datum m all markets, pressed prU downward in a panicky fashion and within half an hour from the opesine May oats had dropped May whe lc and May corn lie: Provisional) were sore hit. Good support and hean short covering brought back some confidence, however, and the close sw a net loss in May osis nf only If, May wheat c and Msy corn o. Pro visions closed 10 to27c lower. Chicago, ' Jan. 28 Cash prices' Flour easy. Wheat No 2 spring--No. 3prinfr7274c; No. 2 red 82tfc' Corn No. 2 c; No. 2 yellow -Oats No. 2 42X43c; No. 2 while 423c; No. 3 white 42X45c. Mess pork, per barrel. $15 6C15 70. Lard per 100 lbs., $9 229 25. Bhort r:l) sides, loose, $8 15 30 Dry salN shoulders, boxed, 712&725. Short clear sides, boxed, f 8-708 80. Whis key Basis of high vices, 1132. The leading futures ranged r 1 lows opening, highest. lowet! closing: Wheat No " January 74X, 74X,74tf,74c; May 78tf78& 78Jg 78)4, 77. 77c; July 7877M. 7 7677, 77c, Cora-No. January 57J, 57. 57J. 57.c; May 616i. 62K, 60M60c; July NX 61. 61, 60, 60e. Oats-Maj 4444J. 44, 39, 4242Mc; July 39J. 39.35. 3737c:' Septem Der 3233, 33, 32, 32c Mm pork, perbbl Jany $15 GO, 13 60, 1555, 15 55; May $16 05. 16 30. 15 70, 15 80; July $16 20, 16 32, 15.80. 198. Law, per 100 Ebs January $9 22. 9 22tf, 9 22K, 9 22X; May $9 45, 9 50, 9 30, 9 40; July $9 67, 9 60, 9 40, 947. Short ribs, per 100 tts Januany $820. 8 20, 8 20. 8 20; May $8 45. 8 60. 835, 8 40; July $8 5 5, 8 55,8 65,8 50. FOREIGN BASKET. BV Cable to the 5iornl::. St: . Liverpool, Jan. 27. Cotton: Spot, dull; prices l-32d lower; American middling 4 15-32d. The sales of .the day were 7,000 bales! included 6,500 bales American. Futures clo:-:; Bteady i Amerto middling (g. o. c.) January 4 23-64d; January and February 4 27-64 RXA HVhrnfirv and MarCD, 1 4 27-fUH Mftifrh and ADril! 4 ! A WT-RAA . A TM.il oni) Man 4 2S-I 64d: May and June 4 27-64d; Jum and July 4 26-64T; July and Aoj 4 27?64d; August and September 64d; September and October 4 15W MA ARRIVED. 8teamer Highlandei-, Bradshaw, Fayetteyille, T D Love. " Schooner Carolyn. 60 tons, Moore, New River, O D Maffltt. , Schr Edgar C Ross, 380 tons, W lin, Baltimore, George Harnss, Bona 8chooner Cumberland, 349 tons, IJ tlejohn, St Pierre, George Harrises 8ch'r Nellie W Howlett, 492 ton i -DUJi-ir.io frforee a? JUULUlUrU, JT UliUOIuil riss, Son & Co. CLEARED- Steamer Highlander, Bradshaw, Fayetteville, T D Love. . ., Standard Oil Barge No. 88, n delphia, Standard Oil Company- MARINE DIRECTORY. Mat of TiimIi in th Po of Uartom, W. C, January 28 8TEAMSHI1-B. Wingrove, (Br) 1,818 tons, Watson. Alexander Sprunt & Son. . Polana, (Br) 1.898 tons. Holttnm, ander Sprunt & Son. SCHOONERS. Edgar O Ross, 880 tons, Quiilin, Geo Harriss, Son & Co. T utleioho. Cumberland, 349 tons, Li"j George Harriss, Son & Ui Nellie W Howlett, 492 tons, Mum George Harriss, Son & -0B JT McClure. (Br) 191 tons, Weston, Rilev & Co. r...baloo. Fannie Reiche, 440 tons, eu- George tiamss, con -BARQUES. Victoria, (Swd) 609 tons, j .anil Dci Viva, (Nor) 462 tons, Acdeon. & Co. . Heide Anders, (Swd) 536 tons, Taurus, (Nor) 84 tons, Olsen, Uo. , C3 Bears the Signature of BrPOltl-'! m MHU i mi ! -i-
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