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r BY WILuXAJn a. JJiIIARD WIlxMlNtiTUA. J C. Wednesday Mobning, Mat 21. THE COAL TRUST. As the exorbitant advances in the prices of meats have oentere d public attention on the Beef Tra st, so has the strike by the anthracite coal miners drawn attention to the Coal Trust and given rise to the de mand that the courts come in and call the law on that. Of course the mine operators will deny that there is any trust, or that they are vio lating the law, but so did the Beef Trust do that. The beef combina tion, by whatever name it may be called, is to all intents and purposes a trust, and whatever the combina tion of mine operators may be called, it is a trust, all the same. In dis cussing the Beef Trust the Chicago News, an independent paper politi cally, finds its counterpart in the Coal Trust, concerning which it says: The strongest evidence against the packers' combine that has been secur ed thus far consists of admissions made by railway men before the In terstate Commerce Commission rela tive to the unjust system of rebates and other substantial favors which have been secured from the common carriers by the members of the 'big ix.' No less important for purposes of prosecution seems to be the evi dence obtained by the National Indus trial Commission in regard to the op eration of the Pennsylvania coal roads and their allied corporations. In its final report the commission says: Competition between either the pro ducers of anthracite coal or the rail roads which transport that product can no lonrer be regarded as of the slightest effect Competition cannot be perpetuated. It has disappeared ap parently once and for alL' The com mission declares that to secure relief either the public must turn to other fuel or the coal roads must substitute a policy of enlightened self-interest for their present policy of greed or else there must be 'the immediate ap plication of government regulation.' "The atrocities committed by the coal roads not only against the con earner of coal but asrainst the inde pendent mine owner are endurable only because there has been no escape from . them. Koooery oy excessive freight rates, a hard and fast combina tion by which the price of coal is fixed arbitrarily without regard to the laws of trade and all other abominations that go with the workings of a bandit trust have been revealed by the testi mony presented to the Industrial Commission. They are, indeed, mat ters of common knowledge and com mon experience. It is this grab-all trust that works the miners at starva tion wages and refuses to consider their reasonable requests. It is the capaheafof trust eriminality, the most conspicuous or all robber combines. It is impossible that the government can continue to let this trust enjoy fair weather. The anthracite coal road outrage calls for prompt and effective treatment and cannot be ignored or put aside for attention at some time later. It should be attacked at oncaf Just as the Big Six, which com pose the Beef Trust, practically control the meat business of this country, and as the Steel Trust practically controls the steel busi ness, so this Coal Trust practically controls the coal business, .and that means the fuel of the country, as practically all the cities and large towns and manufacturing indus tries, as well as railroads j and steamers on river, lake and sea, are dependent upon coal. Within the past twelve months nearly all the anthracite mines and many of the bituminous mines have been merg ed under one management consoli datedand worked as one. This was one of the first moves by J. Pierpont Morgan after he had suc ceeded in effecting that colossal railroad consolidation. There are some mines not in the combine, bnt these are at the mercy of the com bine, which can destroy them when it may be thought to its interest to do that. The combine has special favors on the coal roads, which the independent mines cannot secure, and thus the combine has an ad vantage over them, can undersell them when it sees fit and thus shut them up. ' j Not satisfied with the abselute control of the anthracite mines the manipulators of this combine have been reaching out and with octopus grasp and taking in the most valuable of the soft coal mines, of which it now has control of a large area East of the Mississippi river. j The fight is now on between the anthracite minerrandthe anthracite combine, which' involves 147,000 miners, and if the bituminous miners can be prevailed upon to make com mon cause with the anthracite strikers there will be about 456,500 men in it. The contention between the miners and the mine operators grew out of a demand by the miners for a shorter day's work for those who worked by the day, many of them working twelve hours; an in crease in pay by the ton, where the miners were paid by the ton, and for a more equitable way of measurement, by which the miner would get pay for the full amount of coal he mined. Papers in the mining region say these were just and reasonable de mandsjbut the mine operators or the Trust deemed them unreasonable and would hot consider them hence the strike, which unless checked be- j fore it becomes general, will cost the country Infinitely more than the de mands, if complied with, could ever cost the Trust. It has cost the country something already, for anthracite has advanced a dollar a ton within the past week and' will go much higher, as it is said there are but 30,000 tons of anthracite in sight. There may be more hid away which will come in iht when the prices i go high enough to draw it out. ' There was a strike not long ago by the workmen employed by the Steel Trust, which was finally, after a protracted struggle and the loss of millions of dollars by the strikers, settled by mutual concessions, which could just as well have been done before the strike was a week old. So now this strike against another trust will lrag on i till both sides become tired and then they will come to some agreement ! after the miners have lost much in wages and the country has lost much in the increased cost of coal and the de rangement of business. - The Coal Trust will be the ; least losers be cause it will make up much f what would otherwise be lost by running up the price of coal on hand. The Beef Trust, the Steel Trust, and the Coal Trust are all tariff protected-institutions.' There is no tariff on anthracite coal, because there is no competition on that, very little anthracite being mined in any other country. Bnt it has indirect protection in the duty on bitumi nous coal which is 67 cents a ton un der the Dingley tariff. This pre vents the importation of Nova Scotia coal and of some qualities of Eng lish coal which .might be used in place of anthracite, but which can not be used because of the practi cally prohibitive tariff. There is a remedy against all these trusts, a better remedy than the courts can apply and that is to deprive them of tariff 'protection and the monopoly it gives them. World competition would bring them j to their senses and put a stop to their plundering. THE TARIFF AHD TRUSTS. High prices for nearly all kinds of food stuffs is the order of the day. No one who has to do any marketing need be told that. A year or so ago meats, eggs, butter, cheese, poultry, &c, could be bought for two-thirds of what they now cost.. Meat that now costs from fifteen to twenty cents a pound could be bought for from ten to twelve; butter which now costs thirty-five cents could be bought for twenty-five, and eggs which could be bought from ten to twelve cents a dozen now cost eighteen, and other things in proportion. This doesn't make much difference to people with good incomes bnt it makes a good deal of difference to the average earner or person with a fixed, moderate salary, who have to scufle along against these rising prices without any increased pay to meet them. This class of people forms a very large majority of the American family. Of course there are all sorts of reasons given for the . advance in prices, some of which may have some little foundation and some none at all, pure fakes. The Beef Trust says the increase in the price of beef is caused by the "scarcity of beef cattle," but this is not true, be cause the figures by the U. S. De partment of Agricultnre in its re port for May show that for the nine months of the fiscal year up to May last the exports of meats i amounted to $138,969,583 and for the same months of this present year to $147, 368,862, an increase of over $8,000,- 000 over fast year, notwithstanding the "scarcity of cattle,'' and they say, too, that it is their surplus meats they export. Bat they can't account for the ad vance in the price of butter, cheese, poultry, eggs, &c, by the scarcity for the cows and the hens, have been attending to business as usual. The Trust has reached out for them, filled its cold storage houses full of them and ran up the prices. As to butter it has the co-operation of the dairy men who are taking advantage of the anti-oleomargarine law pass ed by this Congress. In this grab game and merciless plunder they have the support of the so-called protective tariff which puts a duty of two cents a pound on but ter and five cents a dozen on eggs. If it wasn't for that they would not put the screws on as they do, and yet the' Republican statesmen in Washington cannot be persuaded to touch that tariff to give the people relief from this oppressive extortion The Jacksonville (Florida) Times, Union says Senator Vest was mis taken when he said in the Senate re cently that he was "the only sur vivor of the twenty-six gentlemen who acted as Confederate Senators," and reminds him that Hon. A. E. Maxwell, of that State, who was one of the twenty -six, is not only a survivor but a well preserved one physically and mentally, although he has passed his eightieth birthday, so much bo that he might easily be mis taken foe a youth of fifty. The aggregate daily earnings of the 456,500 coal miners employed in this country is $704,095. the yearly earnings (for 230 working days) $161,941,850. From this some idea may be formed of the cost to the miners alone if the strike becomes general. j The President is planning for a Fourth of July speech at Pittsburg. It is announced that it will be "one of the most important speeches he has yet made." It will probably be an "old glory" "stay put" speech. For WhooDinff Ooueh use CHBIIBYr3 EX JflSUTOIiAHT for tale by Haraint Palate Pharmaeyj MOSEY, NOT PATRIOTISM. -V Andrew Carnegie has the reputa tion of ,being a ..pretty level-headed business inan, and no dull observer of passing events. jAfter his arrival in London, in repljr to some one who seemed to be troubled as to the effect that the recelnt ship merger by J. Pierpont Morgan might have on the future of England, and asked his opinion, he is quoted as saying j j "I am not in the navigation syndi hawintr retired from business. and reformed, so I cannot advise you as to the exact character and bearing of the combination. But in my opin- Inn In. mm hftiA fa nnralr a matter of money-making. There is no question of patriotism in trade. It does not care a fig for a flag.! It is dividends that count Of course, every citizen worth a cent wishes ;his own oountry to be first in everything, and a peace ful industrial victory is the only genn vininw thVnuvh war srener- IUV W. . .wj 1 . n wMii mnM thin; It ii worth. II Great j Britain continues her costly . .hnn umndiner in distant parts, and the United States develops her industrial army were can umj u ..nit OrAit RnUin will have the shadow and the United States the sub stance," ; "No tifttriotism in trade." We have heard a good jdeal of nonsense about "trade following the flag" notwithstanding the numerous con tradictions of thatj we are witness ing every day, wh&n our exporters ship stuff and find markets for it in foreign countries and in tneir ae pendencies where they have planted their flags. With them the nag doesn't count, foj they buy such stuff as they want from the trader who sells it the j cheapest, other things being equal. That's what individuals do andjthat's what com munities, which are simply aggre gations of individuals, do. The flag counts only when it carries low er prices, and better inducements to trade, with it. and then it is the prices and inducements, and not the flag, that figure. ; But where is the sense or the patriotism or the jhumanity in sac rificing thousands of lives and hun dreds of millions of dollars to secure a market or a trade avenue that wouldn't in many years pay back in profits the money sunk in one year ? And this is precisely what this Gov ernment is doing n its stupid and criminal war in the. rniuppmes. CURRENT COMMENT. It is possible that the trans continental roads know more about the volcanoes of Nicaragua than the scientists. At least it is suspicious that knowledge of them crops up just when all other objections have been thoroughly discredited. Do the Republicans intend to go into a campaign before they have thrown a shovelful of dirt? Jacksonville Times-Union, Demi. When Earl Russell, says the Philadelphia Times, introduced a bill into the house of lords adding five causes for divorce to the three or four now existing in Great Britain, the lord chancellor, who presides, said the bill was tanta- monnt to the abolition of marriage. And just to think that in America we have some forty-odd grounds for divorce. Atlanta Journal, Dem. There is some discussion on the point whether! "the flag'' shall "stay put" in the Philippines. There is no question, we believe, about army and navy expenses staying put at a pretty stiff ftgure--something over $100,000,000 a year so long as the flag stays put. jAnd all the prof its of the business it appears, are crystallized in the "glorjr" of it, whatever that miy consist in. Charleston News and Courier, Dem. Captain Grant, Civil Gover nor of Leyte, in jthe Philippines, has made a report showing the adoption of needlessly harsh meas ures by the military authorities on that island, including several case of unjustified killing. He ascribes the action of the military to nervous ness caused by. the; massacre of Bal angiga. One conclusion that can be fairly drawn from reports like those of Lieutenant Gardner, Gov ernor of Batangasj and of Captain Grant is that military and civil gov ernment cannot be made to work harmoniously side by side; one or the other must be subordinated. Phila delphia Record, Dem, QUARTERLY MEETINGS. Wilmington District Second Round. Clinton, Kendall; May 17-28 Jacksonville, May 24-25 Fifth Street, May 25 KSenansville, Warsaw, May 31 Onslow, June 7-81 District Conference at Fair Bluff, April l-s. BJ B. John, P. E. ( There are a good many neces sary evils that are not really so necrs aary as they are convenient Puck. Food Chanced Poison. Putrefying food in the intestines S reduces effects like those of arsenic, ut Dr. King's; New Life Pills expel the poisons from clogged bowels gent ly and easily, bnt surely, curing Con stipation, Biliousness, Sick Headache, Fevers and all Liver, Kidney and Bowel troubles. Only 25 cents at R. R. Bellaxt's drug store. t wor vtu Sixty Tra , Hbs. Wuraxow'B Boothiho Bybup has been used for over sixty years by mil lions! oL-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. Sold by druggists In every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup, and take no other Hod . FAVORITE ESCRIPTHO JV RWEAK WOMEN SPIRITS TURPENTINEr- I- , Newton1 Enterpriser The nearer harvest approaches, the worse grow the reports about the wheat crop. ; The fly, is reported to-be injuring what was not frozen out by the severe win ter. The general-opinion is that the crop in Catawba county will not aver age three bushels to the acre, i It will, not pay the fertilizer bills. It ,is the worst crop since 1894 when wheat was killed by the severe freeze the last day of March. J v ' ''V-:' Gastonia Gazette: At the stock holders' meeting Wednesday) of. the Cherokee Falls Manufacturing CoTn Danv a dividend of 5 per cent jwas de clared. A dividend of 8 per cent, was declared by the mill last February, which, with: that declared this week. brings the total annual dividend up to 8 per cent jMost of this 5 per cent dividend was earned during the past nve montns ana wnne spinning mga priced cotton a part of the time. , . Wilkesboro Chronicle: Esquire Cally Lowe, who died recently at Poor's tt.noD, leaves grana-ennaren and 59 great-grand-children living in this county; Mr. Junie James went un to his farm Sunday near Goshen and! had a lively experience with muskrats. lie discovered i a muskrathole in the creek bank and ran a stick into it. Out came a big rat He killed it- He tried the hole aeain and out came another. This experiment was kept np until fifteen were killed, ail xarge ones. Concord Standard: Charlotte had a sensation last week that paral leled our Isaac Uruse case.- Liee lia briel oi Taesdav struck his wife with an axe, making a necessarily , fatal wound. The woman, however. lin srered till the end of the week. Lee is in the lock-up and tells a tale of a sort of self-defense, but it is tbin and ne expects the full penalty of the law. John Mowery, the well-known and wealthy colored tailor of Salis bury died on Sunday morning the 18th. He was commonly called -Jack Mowery and was so nearly white that there was scarcely any trice of race mixture in his face. He was indus trious and frugal and had accumu lated a $40,000 estate. Tarboro Southerner: Saturday afternoon Frank Dancy, colored, was shot and killed by Redmond Joyner, in the house of Louis Battle in Rocky Mount Sheriff Harris was noti fied of the killing and to arrest Joyner who lives at the Home of the Aged and Infirm. I The sheriff at once drove out there and found Joyner. Sunday morning he had him before Coroner Harrell, and a jury, who, after hearing tne witnesses who were present when the snooting was done, returned verdict of accidental shooting. Dancy was before a glass arranging his hair, and Joyner; had the pistol. Dancy told him to stop fooling with it. and a moment or two later the weapon was discnarged. Dancy staggered Into an adjoining room and expired In about fifteen minutes, shot just above the heart Joyner, after the verdict of the jury, was. of course, duoharged. Raleigh News and Observer'. One or tne most del berate cases of sui cide occurred near Laurinburg Mon day. The : victim was Mr. Alex. Lytch. Mr.' Lytch - was managing a farm a couple of miles north of town and was generally regarded as a quiet ana inoffensive citizen, tie was in town making some purchases, and just before leaving for his home he Eurcbased new gun shells loaded with fo. 4 shot Upon arriving at home he ate dinner as usual and then went out, locked up his barn and began to get things in order, then he went to his room and removed the greater part of his furniture, his trunk and other articles, undressed himself and sat on the bed. He then put the muzzle of the gun to his forehead and with his toe pulled the trigger. When found his eyes and the entire front portion of his head were blown off. A note left by the dead man stated that he had contemplated suicide for years. 1-WINKLINUS. The poor being always with us, it is iortunate tnat tney are so much more tolerable than the rich. Life. "They have two servants." "Huh, that's nothing I We usually have two in our house one going and the other coming." Philadelphia rress. If there is one word more than another we long to open the backdoor of a hearse for, and slide it gently in, it is the word "geniaL" Atchison uiooe. The historical novel makers don't care a rap for consistency. They never think to enlarge the cemeteries to correspond to the killing of their neroes. Washington fost. Another Mystery: "And she married Jaggers, did she I Well, well I How on earth did that come about!" She "So far as I can learn, it is owing to a mutual misunderstanding." Har lem jutje. Often the case. "They say his wife drove him to drink." "Per haps she did, but from what I know of him I think he would have been awfully disappointed If she hadn't." Chicago Post. Barnes Funny, but when a lady is fully dressed, less of her body is corered than when she is not. Howe Not so very funny. It is the same way with poultry. Boston Transcript. You would have to go far to find a philosophy to match this: A negro, standing in his cabin door dur ing a thunder storm, exclaimed: "Bless God, lightnin's hit the mule, en de sheriff cantt levy on him." At lanta Constitution. , Old-Fashioned Grandmother ; Now, Rhoda, you know you wear that hat with all those towering feath ers on it just to attract attention. Up-to-date Descendant Why, grand mother, that's what they built the Par thenon for Exchange. Ding "That bank president has all the instincts of a trust mag nate." Dong "In what way?" Ding "He acts as if, instead of paying in terests on deposits, he would like to charge depositors storage on their de poslts!" Baltimore Herald. Sister "Why, Lester, you shouldn't ask for such things in your prayers. You don't know whether they would be best for all or not." Lester 'Say, will you stop interfer ing with me and the Lord!" Chicago Daily News. Borem Yon can't' find a man anywhere who eniovs a ioka . better than I do. Biff kins Guess that's right. I've heard you tell the same old joke twenty times, and von laughed averv time you told li. Chicago News. B Kept His X.c. Twalva tmm im J TOT a..n.- of Hartford, Conn., scratched his leg with a rusty wire. Inflammation and blood Boiwmfnir ant In Pn. --- r IITWIMn he suffered intensely. Then the best doctors urged amputation, "but." he writes, "I used one bottle of Electric Bitters and H boxes of Bucklen's Ar nica Mire, ana my leg was sound and Tetter, Salt Rheum, Sores and all blood disordersJSlectrie Bitters has no rival on earth. TVr thftTn T? T? pm,lu- druggist, will guarantee satisfaction or roiuuu haa money, uniy oo cents, f - ' - . : ; - - -'-i- i Of the assassin may be more sudden, but it is not more sure than the dire punish ment meted out to the man who abuses his stomach. No man is stronger than his stomach. When the stomach is dis eased the whole body is weakened, i t Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cores diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It cures diseases of other organs when it cures the diseases of the stomach, on which the several organs depend for nutrition and vitality. - ; - I would gay in regard to your medicine that I have been greatly benefited by them writes Mr. J. 8. Bell, of Ieando, Van Buren Co., xa. 1 was ul uuc umc as I thouzht almost -: f at death's door. I was. ' confined to my noose and part of the time to my bed. I ' had taken gallons of medi cine, but it only fed She disease; but I must say that ' Golden Med ical Discovery' has cured me, and to-day I am stouter than I have been for twentv ?ears. I am now forty hree years old. Have -taken in all twenty-nine bottles of ' Golden Medical Discovery,' besides two or three dozen vials of Dr. Pierce's Pellets, but now I take no medicine. Dr. Pierce's Pleas ant Pellets cure con stipation.' A LITTLE NONSENSE. Pat Couldn't Do It and Gave Conclu sive Reason For His Inability. Pat Murphy had been out of j work for some time and was a few iveeka in arrears with his payments to his landlady, rinding no other em ployment, Pat determined to enlist, consoling himself with the thought that the life of a soldier would not be worse than being in lodgings. All went well ;till Pat was in. the ranks for drill, when the sergeant came up and called out, "Here,i Mur phy, throw out your chest." j "Sorry, sir, I can't," replied Pat. "Can't! Why?" "Because my landlady has it, sir." Not Necessarily. j Mr. Upjohn That young sneak of a Spoonamore is hanging around here again, j How many times have T told you j Mrs. Upjohn -John, just because a low, soft voice is an excellent thing in womari it doesn't follow that a loud, harsh voice is an excel lent thing in man. Chicago Trib une. I i Their Unhappy Lot. Cottage Dweller One of the joys of having a house of your own is buying coal and jirinning a furnace. Hat Dweller-j-One of the joys of living in a ! flat j is to have twelve pianos in the building start on dif ferent tunes just as you start a night's sleep. Indianapolis News. I , I The perfumers i of Rome lived In a special quarter set apart for their use, and whole streets; were filled with their shops, which were lounging places for wealthy young nobles. WHOLESALE PRICES CURBEIT. Tne Quotations are arwaysgrren as accurately as possible, bat tbe 8am will not be reepoaslble tor any variations from the actual market prioe oi tne araoiM aaocea i i ss Jute.... Standard.. ...... Burlaps WXSTKRN 8MOKXD- Hams B .................. 8ldeefT Shoulders 9 DST SALTED 6a a 8 g 14 10VS 9M Gldea 9 60 Shoulders V ......... s BABBXLB spirits Turpentine Second-hand, each 1 SS Beoond-hand machine...... 1 30 Hew New York, each New City, each BBICK8 t Wilmington St...... 0 60 Northern oo O o o o o o 9 75 9 1 85. 1 S5 1 85 1 85 8 7 00 14 00 BU'ITJEB - nana uarouna v as Nortnern. ss ooBNiraai Per bushel, in sacks 75 O o o e o 8 o o s Virginia meal...... .., OOTTON TTEt y bundle 1 85 11 io s uaitjDLjba v Sperm.. Adamantine OOFFXS 9 baguyra.... Rto.7: , IS 11 7 , Sheeting, 9 yard. Yarns. V buncnof 5B .... ISB MackereL Hal,? barrel... 89 00 o so 00 O is 00 Macxerei, no. i, 9 naii-bbl. 11 00 LaciereL, mo, s. aacKerei, no. MackereL No. nonets. Mullets, v pork barrel 7 50 N. O. Roe Herrlncr. kaar.. a on - ::::::::::::::40s VLOOB 9 Low grade a 50 Oboloe 75 Straight , 428 nritPatent 8LUX 9 8 8BAIN V bushel Oorn,from store, bgs White 83V Mixed Corn.... Oata, from store (mixed).. 57V Oats-Bust Proof 70. Oow Peaa. 1 10 HIDES-f ft-i ttreen sauteu. Dry flint.. Dry salt.... HAY 100 s No 1 Timothy........... BJos Straw... N. 0.:Owjo HOOP 1BON, t GHKE8B S nortnern Factory , Dairy dream.. Half cream LABD. 9 . Nortnern North Carolina. LTMK, 9 barrel PORK, v barrel orey Hess........ Bump HOPE, 9 S rruuo B A T.T IB nuk A l 11 UTerpooi American,.. On 001 -m ban " "'Ullli ........... 8UQAR. 9 1 standard Qraa'd 45 standard A........ a - 49 White Extra O. 4VM - txtra a. Goirtn ""X !? LUMBER (cltrsawedTvMft- " Bough edge Plank .'1500 S M 00 west India cargoes, accord- www lng- to Quality is 00 a 18 00 Dressed Flooring, seasoned. 18 00 O 8i 00 Scantling and Board. nnmn w nn Xftsi M0LA88ES. V gallon sarMdoea, In hogshead.. ... Barbadoea, In barrels....... Porto Eloo,tahogshead8.... Porto Bloo, ta barrels " Sugar House, In hogsheads. Sugar House, In barrels.... AI&3, 1 Brruu. 1 .keg, out. aod bads. . P.f Northern.... yra.JP w. O. barrel.... STAVES. B. O. Hooshaad-.- lUfBKB. 9 M feet ahtrmlna . HQ . .urn ... m mm ............... Fair mill Mm. tll ...... Extra mill.... aata SHINGLES, N.a Cypress sawed w. a out nears...... ........ 1 " Bap.. BxSOiHeart... 1 Baa ..... WHISKEY. gallon Northern I a 1 TOM. Bears tha lbs Kind You Haw Always BougU Sgoata sf a i J I 89 O 81 80 5 88 18 5 14 14 5 15 17 8 87 8 40 5 860 00 S 14 09 . - 5 10 00 800 a 100 400 a too s 00 a e so 6 60 t 7 50 8 00 5 8 60 S98 O 7 00 imSih 8 60 5 400 8 60 5 8 00 1 a 8 10 COMMERCIAL! WILM NGTON MAHVi BTAR OFFICE, liay 20 Holiday -No quotations. FINANCIAL MARKETS 1 By Telegraph to the Morning . ..aw VOBK. -May 20. Money do call was fct-ady at 34X per cent., closing, bid and asked, 8j4 percent. Prime mercantile: paper 45 per cent. Sterling; exchange was weak, with actual business in bankers'bills at 487$487i for demand and at 484 484 for sixty days. The posted rates were 485 and 488. Commer cial bills 483484. Bar silver Mexican dollars 41.- Govern ment bonds easy. State bonds inac tive. Railroad bonds steady. U. S. re funding 2's, registered, 109; U. S. re funding; 2's, coupon, 109; U. 8. S's. registered, 108; do. coupon, j 108. U. S. 4'b, i new registered, 137; do. coupon 137; fU. S. 4's, old, reg istered, 111; do. coupon, 111; U.S. S's -registered, 105; do. coupon, 105 Southern Railway, S's, 122. Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 106M; Chesapeake & Ohio 46; I Manhat tan L 131; New York j Central 155X; Reading 62H;do. 1st preferred 82 ; do. 2nd preferred 68 ; St. j Paul 168; do. pref'd, 188; Southern ! Rail way 36&;! do. prefd 94X; Amalga mated Copper 68&; Am'n Tobacco ; People's Gas 101 K; Sutar 127; Tennessee Coal and Iron 63; U. S. Leather 13; do. prefd, 83 ;i Western Union 90; U. S. Steel 40; do. pre ferred 90; Mexican National . American! Locomotive ; ! do. pre ferred ; Virginia-Carolina Chemical 71 H ; da preferred, 132 ; Standard Oil, 625&630. j j Baltimore, May 20. Seaboard Air Line, common, 2526 ; do. prefer red, 4545 ; do. 4s 86S6Xc. NAVAU STORES MARKETS, By Telegraph to the Horning Star. New Yobk, May 20. Rosin steady. Spirits turpentine dull at 4748c. Ohabxeston, May 20. Spirits tur pentine dull: nothing doing. Rosin was unchanged. ; Savannah, May 20.-rSpirits turpen tine firm at 45c; receipts 1,974 casks; sales 658 casks; exports 2,740 casks. Rosin was'firm ; receipts 3,908 barrels; sales 1,669 barrels: exports 1,000 bar rels. Quote: A, B, C, D, $1 20; E, $1 25: F. $1 30: G. $1 35: H. fl 55; I. $195;K $2 45; M, $3 85; N, 13 25; W G, 13 50; WW, 13 60. COTTON MARKETS. ar.TeieirraDh to the Horning star. New Yobk, May 20. The cotton market opened with prices five points higher to one point lower, following which there was a sharp break under realizing by room longs and pressure from Wall street bear interests. The early stability was in keeping with better class of Liverpool cables than expected,! light receipts throughout the belt j and . reports, that spot cotton in the South was in better demand at improving prices. Claims that the recent rains South had done great good and that clearing weather was now In store, combined with weak Liverpool cables, helped to force tbe market back. But later it became clear to all that the demand from spot cotton bouses, exporters and IN ewJffing land spinners lor tne immediate posi tions was growing and that a formid able short account remained unpro tected helped to encourage buying for a turn. As tne afternoon pro gressed prices crept .. steaduy up ward and sentiment gained in bullish intensity The Southern spot markets were repoKed as steady and generally unchanged, wnile the local spot mar ket gained l-16c. Good reports as to the financial status of the New Eng land mills, more peace rumors from London, a firmer stock market and light estimates for to-morrow's receipts at leading points proved more than an offset for a bearish weekly I crop and weather I report from Washington. The market at the close was steady in tone and net one to thirteen : points higher, j New Yore, May 20. Cotton quiet at 9 7-iec; net receipts 9 bales; gross receipts i.34 oaies;stocs: JB3,165 bales. Spot -cotton closed quiet, and l-16c higher; j middling uplands '9 7-16c; middling guii y u-iec; sales w bales. Cotton: futures closed . steady : May 9.1G, june y.us, juiya.ee, August 8.59, September uctooer 7.at, XNovem ber 7. 88, December , January 7.88, euruary 7.S8. . 1 Total i to-day Net receipts 3,280 bales; exports to Great Britain 5,823 Daies; exports to irrance bales; export! to tne uonunent 9,813 bales; siocx oaies. I Consolidated Net receipts i 10,361 oaies; exports 10 meat Britain 17,079 bales; exports to France 787 bales; exports to the Continent 22,837 bales. Total since September 1st. Net re ceipts 7,340,661 balea; exports to Great Britain 3,937,861 bales; exports to Jrrance 688,836 bales; exports to the Uontinent 2.495.563 balea I , May 10-Galveston,nominsl at 9 3-16. .A a 4 swj,n 1 . . net receipts i,odo oaies; norroiK, noml nal at 9jgc, net receipts 530, bales; Bal umore, nominal at 9c, net receipts oaies; tsoston, steady at 9ic, net receipts 62 bales: wllmino-tnn. dull at 9Xc.net receipts bales; Phil delphia, steady at 9 1116c, net receipts o oaies; oavannan, steaoy-at 9Xe, net receipts 225 bales; New Orleans, steady t 9c, net receipts o3 bales: Mo bue, nominal at 8c, net receipts bales; Memphis, steady i at 9c, net receipts S23 bales; Augusta, dull at sc, net receipts 6 bales; Charleston, quiet and nominal.net receipts bales. PRODUCE MARKETS I I . . B7 Telesranh to the HornloK star New I Fork. m sn -iri.,. ... onint all Hair ttMriv mil Wheat Spot steady; No. 2- red 88Xc Wheat was dull all day hut steadv. beinsr lnflaeneed bv rains in the Nnrfh wnt m. -: , 7 - -6u.iicx niiu small spring wheat receipts and a large export trade. The close was steady at a nartial 6a net arlvamoa Tk 4 w wivw4 ug VsaalB actions included: May closed! 80 e: iJuly closed 80c; September 79 Ha- December 80)4e. Hnm nt . No. 2 69a. Options sold up sharnlv on small receipts and estimates at Chicago with shorta eetrv-A kn.i... U. much for sale. The market closed firm ft c advance. Qquotations were: September 65c; December SlUcl uai9 Spot steady; No. 2460.1 Options were fairlv active, mnvina iiv Ml day.! Lard was eaa-r ?' !W..t. steana $10 65; refined steady; conti nent tlO 85: Month AkimIm. -.. . compound 8a9c- Pork firmi Tal- lowsteauy. cutter steady i creamerr 19tf &22fl: State dalr 1i4 Southern 1415c. Potatoes stead New York, fair to prime, sack, t2; 00; Southern prime, per barrel; $5 00 3J weete P61, bawl, t2 50 5 00 Coffee Rnnt TUn ni.( j m jvoice 5c; mild quiet; Cordova 18 UXc. Sugar Raw nominal; fair re fin in p SKn MnMftinl- OM - o- iJHCe Stead ClhAnan nnlat m-A . . . rf- .... ... ... - wbw State full eream, imallr colored, ho?e Hi?iwbJt.12Xc lOabbage , 1 7 . wrrei crate JBCHZ9. 10c. Peanuts firm: fancy hand picked 4Kc; other domestic 34jc. .Cotton seed oil was rather firm on ' spot but without activity in any line. Closing quotations were: Prime crude, f . o. b mills 37Jtf38K; prime summer yel low 45Js"46c; off summer yellow 45 45c; prime white 484c ; prime win ter yellow 49 50c; prime meal $28 50 29 50, nominal. Chicago, May 20.-Corn took the lead in grain speculation late to-day and relieved the session from the dull, hot weather monotony that has pre vailed for several days. At the open ing of the markets weather reports were so favorable that the crowd was still Inclined to the recent bearish view. But a good bulge came when it was apparent that the much talked of increase in corn receipts were not to materialize at once. Other grains worked up in sympathy and July wheat closed c up, July corn Xc higher and July oats He up. Pro visions lacked tone and closed 2)5c to 7c lower. Chicago, May 20. Cash prices: FJour firm. Wheat No. 3 spring 7474c; No. 2 red 79c. Corn No. 2 ; No. 2 yellow c. Oats No. c; No. 2 white 4444c; No. 3 white 4344c. Rye No. 2 59c. Mess pork, per barrel, $17 1517 20. Lard, per 100 lbs., quoted at $10 17X 10 20. Short rib sides, loose, $9 65 9 75. Dry salted shoulders, boxed, $8 008 25. Short clear aides, boxed, $10 4010 50. Whiskey-Basis of high wines, 1 30. . The leading futures ranged as fol lowsopening, highest, lowest and closing: Wheat No.2May 74K, 74, 74, 74&c; July 7474M, 75, 74, 7474c; September 7373&, 74H,73, 73c;December74ji74X, 75tf75X. 7474, 745$75jc. Corn No. 2, May 60, 61, 60 X, 61c; July 61tf 61tf, 62,, 61, 62c; Sep tember 59&, 60K60&, 59, 60c vats Aiay as, 43, 4174, 4Zc; July, old, 34, 35, 3434, 3434c; July, new, 3636, 37, 3636X, 36c; September, old. 28K, 29, 28, 29Hc, September, new, S0H, 31, 30, 30303'c. Mess pork, per bbl May $17 15,17 15. 17 10, 17 10;July $17 27X, 1717X, 17 17X, 17 17; September $17 37 tf, 17 40. 17 30, 17 30. Lard, per 100 lbs May $10 25, 10 25, 10 17, 10 17; July $1022 10 27, 10 17, 10 17 ; September $10 25, 10 30, 10 20, 10 20. Short ribs, per 100 fts May $9 75,9 75, 9 70, 9 70; July $9 67, 9 72, 9 65, 9 65; September $9 70, 9 72, 9 65, 9 65. FOREIGN MARKET. Br oabie to tbe Morcinu tsi-.tr Liverpool, May 20. Cotton: Spot quiet, prices l-32d lower; American middling fair 5 13-32d; good middling 5d; middling 5d; low middling 4 29 32d; good prdinary 4 25-32d ; ordinary 417-32d. The sales of the day were 6,000 bales, of which 500 bales were for speculation and export and in cluded 5,500 bales American. Receipts since last report 17,000 bales, includ ing 16,000 bales American. Futures opened quiet and closed easy; American middling (g o c) May 4 53-64d buyer; May and June 4 53 64d seller; June and July 4 52-64 4 53-64d seller; July and August 4 52 64d seller; August and September 4 46-644 47-64d seller; September and October 4 32-64 4 33-64d seller; October and November 4 2564d buy er; November and December 4 23-64d buyer; December and January 4 22 64d buyer; January and .February 4 21-644 22-64d seller. MARINE. ARRIVED. Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette ville, James Madden. Clyde steamship Geo W CI5 de, Chi chester, New York and Providence, H G Smalibones CLEARED. Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette ville, , James Madden. Clyde steamship Geo W Clyde, Chi chester, Georgetown, H G 8mall bones. MARINE DIRECTORY. List f Taaaala Im te r f wii slmctOB. w cM May 21. SCHOONERS. Albert T Stearns, 482 tons, Bunker, George Harriss, Son & Co. Fannie Reiche, 540 tons, Buckaloo, George Harriss, Son & Co. Emelie E Birdsall, 467 tons, Wilbert, George Harriss, Son & Co. C C Lister, 267 tons, Moore, George Harriss, Son & Co. Gem, 489 tons, Gray, George Harriss, Son & Co. BARQUES. Kotka, (Nor) 857 tons, Ericksen, Heide & Co. Just Received NEW LINE TOILET SETS, f Tan Curtains, Curtain Poles, HaJf Curtain Sticks, Pictures. Decorated Lamps, Hammocks, Clothes Baskets, Water Coolers and Leonard Cleanable Re frigerators. - Lot 8-plece Enamel Beds expected dally. Ton a.ra cordially Invited to Insnect oar sroods Decore pnymg. we guarantee 10 eeu at rocK Donam prices. Q-ASTON D. PHARES. Inter-State 'Phone 76. 110-113 Market street ap 89 tf FLOUB, Meal, Corn and Oats. Salt and Molasses. Coffee and Rice, Cigars and Tobacco. We offer the above goods of bast quality at lowest market prices. Bend us your orders for anything In oar Une, Write for samples and prices. HALL & PEABSALL, wholesale Grocer, mar 15 tr - Wilmington, N. O. Wood's "Trade. Mark Brand" German Millet is the true large-headed sort, and pro duces from one-fourth to one-half more forage per acre than the ordinary Millet. The difference in yields from different grades of .Millet is more marked than any crop we have ever grown and it is a great deal the cheapest crop results considered to purchase the best quality of seed that you can obtain; this yon can always be assured of doing when you order Wood's "Trade Zlark Brand" oi Southern-grown. German Millet. Write for prices and Descriptive Circular which also gives full information about all Seasonable Seeds, Cow Peas, Soja and Velvet Beans, Teosinte, Sorghums, Buckwheat, Late Seed Potatoes, etc. -;-; T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen - Richmond, Va. Hid Com ishereb;given - .uiy8Il Co ?t6 rlckei4! pany will be held I at thi'r C office in the City of R & ginia, at 11 o'clock A m!5H the sixteenth day of the purpose of considSrin,,1902. fi izing and voting rm fWl "De. ami, owned and not to exceed iSaicl? Kate eighty millions of Hnn he 000,0000 payable in more than fifty years from lh 0,11 i and bearing interest abe!f C not exceeding four ner . a annum, which h0nrUPi.,F"t. v, the amount necessary 7o ' bonds now .outstanding J by underlying mortgaL JB the amount necessary LD.S . 7"'.. wnen an the bonds 7rM mately issued, increase .kV'8 '1c ? Donaea indebtedness of thB dated Company about ,1 COllol million dolfarsf and fol thft ."a ciocunoa and i.. "l- a mortgage or deed of trust .lMae t; said bonds, embracing all of ways, property and franchiser Company, and for the puraSsf sidenne and acting ?0,- matters as may be leeailv n? at the meeting, e y pres By JAME3F. P031 Dated May 13, 1902. Secreta'1- mJ 15 till j8 u New Goods FIRST PAT. Second Pat. Flour, Straight Flour. RICE, SUGAR, COFFEE, CANNED GOODS, SOAP. STARCH, jke., ftCi Special . attention to consist mentg. wS P- MeMAIR. How About That Tackle The blue birds are with again. The streams and poni are warming up Thefii men should be looking their outfits. Seeing if am thing is wanted before ti: last minute. As of old we are Bhowin the finest things to tempi fish kingdom and make tb sport more sporty for the anslers. Lines may be wanted; poles muitM needed ; hooks are very necessary, it in fact we have everything that ii n auired to make a complete outfit. To those that are interested in tt'l snort, to those others that may not so enthusiastic, we would consider il favor to have all come in and loot J. If. Hi Daalars1n Hardware, tc, ap 36 tf Orton BnM Does tbe Rocky Point, N. C, May 10, 1902 Gentlemen : The "BugDrf whATi nrnnfirlv ftrmlifid. 1 haveO it dry and in water with good suits. Truly, (Signed) E. Foam We are receiving testimony from all quarters as to the merits 66 Bug Death, but the surest proof is the that always follows a trial. Agents, THE WORTH CO my 13 tf Wilmington, N. & For the Most Stylish Footweaf for Ladies and Gen tlemen, as well as Boys and Girls. Low Cut and High Cut. 1 See Ours t ia1t ah our windo'j and get an idea of what we have YOU IUOIUB. , , ! Don't forget that ; Dong : Unttenhofer's are growiug uv ular every day. Don't forge' have their name on eacn . t The new contest ior Uft on. Get our cards for n: off,but begin at once. w pusb! Respectfully, FLOE SIM Wort .Ira 4 Evans Ii mylltf Same Old m we 8a W4t i wiwi-voiton fly steam my 10 D8t
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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