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Sattjbdav MoKKisra, Mat 24.
LET WELL ESOTTQH ALOHE.
When Eepresentative Payne, of
New York, chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, was asked
about tariff revision he replied, "Let
well enough alone." Mr. Payne is
not in favor of tariff revision.
When Speaker Henderson was
what he
CBO aOU QVIUO II11UW
thought about tariff revision he
replied that the tariff must not be
touched, because the country was
prospering and this wasn't the time
to make changes in the tariff. That
was his reason for opposing recipro
city with Cuba, because it involved
a modification of the tariff on Cuban
imports, but he heard from his con
stituents, who didn't think that this
was a bad time to modify the tariff,
and he came to the conclusion that
reciprocity with Cuba might not be
a bad thing after all.
Hon. Mark Hanna declared when
the subject of tariff revision was first
broached after this Congress met,
that there must be no "tariff tinker
ing." Many Republican Congress
men have echoed Senator Hanna, and
Eepresentative Payne, when he
said "Let well enough alone" was
echoing Senator Hanna who made
that one of his texts in the speeches
he made in the campaign two years
ago.
His answer to the Democratic de
mand for tariff reform then was,
"Let well enough alone." He dis
coursed on the "full dinner pail"
and warned the pail carriers to 'let
well enough alone." A good many
of these came to the conclusion
that there might be something in
the "fun dinner pail" and 'let-well-enough-alone"
oratory, they
followed Hanna's advice and did it
and since then a good many of them
have been sorry for it.
Hanna, who, is opposed to "tariff
tinkering," would doubtless repeat
"let well enough alone,' while
145,000 anthracite coal miners are
striking because it isn't well enough
with them. He would say "let
well enough alone" while thousands
upon thousands of people are boy
cotting the Beef Trust and living
without meat because they can't
afford to pay the extortionate prices
demanded by the tariff-protected
Beef Trust. These thousands or
millions of people do not believe it
is well enough with them. It may
be well enough with the coal mine
operators, with the Beef Trust,
with other protected trusts, and
with men like Mark Hanna, who
are reaping benefit out of the tariff,
but it isn't well enough with the
millions of tribute payers. The pro
tected trusts and the men who are
reaping the benefit of tariff protec
tion are naturally opposed to cut
ting down their profits and are
therefore opposed to any tariff re
vision now.
But if they are not in favor of it
now, because this isn't a good time,
when will they be in favor ofit?
When will be a good time? The
country is prosperous, they say, and
therefore - the tariff must not be
touched, because it would disturb
business, unsettle values, &c. If
this means anything it means that
they -would' wait until the bottom
falls out, till values tumble, and
then when business chaos sets in
they would do some tinkering on
the tariff. They would reduce the
protective duties on imports when
the people didn't have any money
to spare for imports, and they
would open the way for competition
with the protected monopolists when
manufactures and other protected
things were a drag on our home
market. Wouldn't tariff revision
be somewhat belated then?
But of course they would not at
tempt ic then for they would say
that when the country was strug
gling against adversity would be no
time to undertake a new tariff sys
tem and that business must be
allowed to revive from prostration
and our industries to recover their
breath before anything like that
should be attempted, so that when
it is simmered down it would not do
to touch the tariff when the country
was prospering nor when it wasn't
prospering; in other words, there
must be no tariff revision that would
reduce the tariff duties, although if
there was half an excuse for it they
could be easily persuaded, if they
were not afraid of the people, to in
crease them. In this they would be
consistent with their record for they
have never revised the tariff that
they did not increase the average
duties.
They have been put to the test
this year. There never has been
since protection "for protection's
sake" became their policy such a
widespread and earnest demand for
a modification of the tariff duties as
there is. now. This sentiment has
grown so strong, especially in the
West,5tht if there were two Eepubli
can candidates running against each
other in some congressional dis
tricts, one opposed to tariff reYif
ion, the other in favor of it, and the
Democrats took no part in the elec
tion, the tariff
elected. There are thousands upon
thousands of Republican who do
not believe in theJ ,let well enough
..ljvnn". OSITlftA- TOT InAV n.n't ' IU
-where the "well enough" comes in.
The conditions are not well enough
with them when they have to put
their hands in their pockets and
shell out their hard earnings to fa
vored combines which are making
trom thirty to fifty per cent profits,
and squeeze the American consumer
as they would squeeze an orange.
The late President McKinley, the
typical protectionist whom they
hailed and honored as one of their
greatest leaders, declared in his
Buffalo speech that the time had
come when the tariff might be re
duced on such manufactures as it
had been demonstrated no longer
needed tariff protection, j When it
was proposed to reduce the duties
on steel manufactures which were
exported and sold for less in foreign
markets than at home they slunk
back as if they were afraid of being
hit by a thunderbolt.
When it was proposed in the reci
procity plan with Cuba to Bhow
some favors to Cuban products,
they divided on that, and haven't
settled it yet. The friends of reci
procity got a little 20 per cent, con
cession through the House with the
aid of the Democrats, but it still
hangs in the Senate, which pro
poses to do some "tinkering"
with it.
When the Beef Trust ran up
prices to a figure that the average
wage earner cannot pay and Con'
gress was asked to repeal the pro
tective duties on meats, which
would invite competition! and bring
the Trust to terms, the Eepublicans
in Congress were as deaf as bronze
statues and they could not be pre
vailed upon to touch the tariff on
cattle, sheep, swine or meats. They
acted on the cowardly rot, "Let
well enough alone," when the peo
ple were hungry for meat and de
manded relief from the protected
monopoly.
It may be well enough with Hon.
SerenoE. Payne and other states
men friends of the protected trusts,
but it will not be well enough with
some of them when the people are
heard from next November.
FROM PHILIP DBTJUK TO PHILIP
SOBER.
Of the numerous speeches which
have been delivered in the protract
ed discussion of the Philippine ques
tion none was listened to , with such
attention as that of the i venerable
Senator Hoar, which was delivered
Thursday. It was listened to with
marked interest by Senators of both
parties and by the people in the
galleries, which were crowded, be
cause of the high standing of the
Senator who made it, and because
he is a Eepublican whose I loyalty to
his party has never been questioned,
but who feels it his duty, to oppose
his party when it ignores the funda
mental principles of the government
established by the Fathers, and re
pudiates the doctrines upon which
that party was fonnded.
There was no fiery rhetoric in this
speech, no ebullitionsf passion, no
avalanches of invective, for he is too
old and too mild-mannered for that,
but it was rather an appeal from
"Philip drunk to Philip sober," an
appeal to the Bober second thought of
the men who either from deluded or
selfish motives are urging on a cruel
aud unjustifiable' war against a peo
ple who have given us no cause for
war. It is an appeal to them em
phasized by a just criticism of the
men who under various ! pretences
are trying to justify a war of crimi
nal aggression, inspired by a lust for
misconceived glory or! grasping
gain. I
He illustrated bvthe striking con
trast he drew between our course
with Cuba and with the Philippines,
from the former of which, he said, we
came away crowned with glory, in
the latter'of which we remain cov
ered with infamy. , '
a significant accompaniment of
that speech was the applause which
it received from the audience in the
galleries, and the enthuaiastic en
dorsement they give it at the close,
then the applause was so great that
he presiding officer had to reprove
it. In that applause the audience
expressed the honest sentiments of
the majority of the American peo
ple, for whom Senator Hoar spoke.
Mr. McGrath, of New York, but
originally of Ireland, who had his
104th birthday party a few davB aeoi.
sayB the way to live long is to eat
and drink moderately, behave your
self and be cheerful. This is all
good, but how about the people who
are born grumblers and growlers,
who seem to think their special pre
rogative is to be miserable them
selves and to contribute to the mis
ery of every one they come into con
tact with?
Last year over 17.000 children
were arrested by the Chicago police,
and locked up in the calabooses,
most of them for trivial offenses.
Mayor Harrison has reminded the
cops that they have shown too much
leal in pursuing the innocents, and
henceforth they must show discrim
inating sense in dealing with the
tots. : f
We feel pretty confident in the
assertion that if Gov. Jeff; Davis.
of Arkansas, moved to Massachu
setts and became a citizen thereof,
ie never could be elected Governor.
For Wnooping Cough
PEOTOIlAIiT
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GEORGIA'S TECHNICAL SCHOOL
The Atlanta Journal says this
year has been the most successful
one in the history of the Georgia
School of Technology, which was
organized in 1888 with "a meagre
equipment, a small faculty and a
mere handful of students." It is
now a ! complete establishment in
every respect and is pronounced "a
model of its kind." The corps of
professors numbers thirty-three,
with an attendance this year of 431
students, who come from every part
of Georgia and from several other
States. ; The attendance, j which has
been increasing from year to year,
ia larger this year than ever before.
Last year there were eighteen grad
uates, this year there will be twenty
six, to add to the 125 graduates al
ready sent out, many of whom fill
important positions as managers of
manufacturing establishments in
Georgia and other States.'
This school, which has become
such a useful and important institu
tion in the industrial training of the
young men of Georgia, was estab
lished with a donation by the late
Aaron French, of Pittsburg, (who
afterwards added other donations)
which was duplicated by the State.
The donations by Mr. j French were
supplemented by donations from
other friends of thej institution,
Mr. James Swann, Mr. S. M.Inman,
and others, who could not have put
their money to better purpose, nor
where it would yield better returns,
Next year we will probably have
our School of Technology in opera
tion. It promises to be a good one,
although it may not be able to com
pete with the Georgia school, with
its up-to-date equipment, its wide
range of instruction, its 33 prof es
sors and 431 students, but if with
liberal State support, which It should
have, some of our wealthy men would
come to the front, as wealthy men
came to the front in support of
Georgia's school, and contribute lib
erally to it, we might in a few years
have a school of which North Caro
linians could feel proud and whose
influence for good would be felt
throughout the State. There are
said to be nine millionaires in the
State, while there are many others
who although not millionaires are
wealthy. Here is a chance for them
to plant some of their surplus money
where it would tell.
CURRENT CUMMKNT.
If the beef trust is losing
money, as claimed by its attorneys,
it might quit sending that 10,000,-
000 pounds per month abroad and
selling it at a lower price than it gets
at home. Memphis News, Dern.
The wholesale price of the
foodstuffs consumed by the miners
and their families of the anthracite
region of Pennsylvania amounts to
about $21,000,000 a year. Retailed
it must bring much more; but, much
or little, a question not disconnec
ted with the present strike is, How
long can the strikers pay cash for
it; or will they get it on credit when
the cash is gone? Brooklyn Citizen,
Dem.
The liveliest expressions of
relief are heard from London over
the prospects of peace in South
Africa. England is coming out
of the war in a far different frame
of mind from the confidence with
which hostilities were begun. The
Erice has not been paid that staggers
umanity, as"Oom Paul" predicted,
but the British are now of the
opinion that peace is cheap, no
matter what it costs. Louisville
Courier-Journal, Dem,
Capt. Chad wick permits it to
be understood that he was fairly
aching to bombard Havana the yery
first week of the war with Spain,
and the Hon. John D. Long con
firms the statement, but adds that
he thinks the action of the Navy
Department in forbidding the attack
was vindicated by subsequent events.
In view of Capt. Chadwick's valor
ous achievement in the bombarding
line at San Juan and Matanzas, we
feel that the former Secretary of
the Navy is fully justfied in land
ing upon that conclusion. Wash
ington Post, Ind.
QUARTERLY MEETINGS, i
Wilmington District Second
Bound.
Clinton, Kendall, May 17-28
Jacksonville, May 24-25
-Fifth Street, May 25
Kenansville, Warsaw, May SI
Onslow, Jane 7-8
District Conference at Fair Bluff,
April 1-8.
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Washed down a telegraph line which
Chas. O. Ellis, of Lisbon, la., had to
repair.' "Standing waist deep, in icy
water," he writes, "gave me a terrible
cold and cough. . It grew worse daily.
Finally the beat doc ton in Oakland,
Neb., Sioux City and Omaha said I
had consumption and could not live.
Then I began using Dr. King's New
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SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Wadesboro Courier: Crops in
this county as a whole are seriously in
need of rain, Hmaii grain win amount
to practically nothing unless there are
showers from bow on.
Mount Airy News: Many of the
farmers say the fruit crop especially
the apple crop will ba almost an
entire failure in thin section this year.
Inasmuch as we had no frosts after the
fruit trees had bloomed out. we are at
a loss to account for the failure, unless
this ia what they call an "off year."
Weldon News: Old Aunt Emily
Johnston, a worthy colored woman
who lives near town, was born in ltsui,
and she now glories in the fact that
she is "going on to two hundred years
old," as she puts it. Bhe is a centena
rian all right, and the proofs are at
hand that she was born in the "year
180L
Lumberton Bobesonian: Reports of
crop conditions in the county have
never been more encouraging than at
present. Some say the prospect is
brighter than it has been since the war
and the opinion is general that it has
been many years since conditions
looked so promising. Corn, cotton and
tobacco are unusually large and for
ward for the time of year and in most
cases are clear of grass. Bud and cut
worms are reported but the damage so
far has been slight.
Monroe .Enquirer: Mr. J. W.
Belk, of Dudley, S. C, whose son,
James Belk, was killed by lightning
on the 14th Inst, an account of which
we gave last week, was in town yes
terday and told us that the crystal and
whole face of i the watch, which his
on had in his vest pocket when he
was killed, was melted, and that his
knife was also melted. A strange
thing about the young man's death
is that he had a premonition of death,
and at noon the day before he was
killed he wrote in a blank book
"Dear Mother After one more day I
will be better off."
Chatham Record: According to
the census of 1900 there were 1.551
colored men in Chatham county, and
868 of them ocukt not read or write.
Mr. O. O. Hamlet, of this county.
before each meal gives a chew of leaf
lODseco to every one oi nis nurses, sou
they seem to enjoy it as much as any
man does. There is a vast dif
ferent in the appearance of the wheat
fields, where a drill was used and
where the wheat was sowed in the old
style and plowed in. All looks bad
enough, but the drilled wheat is far
better than that sowed, and should im
press on every farmer the importance
of using a drill.
Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer :
Readers of this paper will remember
seeing in its columns, about a month
ago, an item to the effect that Willie
Lentz. the 16 year-old ton of Mr. F. K
Lenta, of Cedar Hill, had been bitten
by a mad dog. The dog also bit a
horse, three cows and two hogs, the
property of Mr. Lentz. Willie was
bitten on the heel, through his stock
ing. He had on low-quartered shoes.
The bite was not severe and soon heal
ed. The bites on the horse, cows and
hogs also healed all right. On Sunday,
the 11th inst. the -bone first showed
signs of being unwell, but at first there
did not appear to be much wrong
with it On Wednesday the place on
the horse's chin, where it had been
bitten by the dog. began to inflame and
swell and from that time the none
grew rapidly worse, until it died Satur
day. For some time before it died the
horse had one convulsion after anoth
er. It would jump straight up and
fall to the ground on its back and
while lying- in this position would tear
the flesh from its side, flanks and legs.
The flesh was torn from its legs to the
bone. It would also bite and snap at
everything in reach, several of its
teeth being broken out by coming in
contact with rocks and the logs of
which its stable was built As yet
only one of the hogs that was bitten
has died. The hog did not appear to
be vicious like the horse, but would go
into convulsions every time any one
or anything approached it Even a
chicken coming near its pen would
cause it to have a fit None of the
cows have died, but two of them were
showing evidence of being unwell
Tuesday. As soon as Mr. Lentz dis
covered that his horse had hydropho
bia he sent his son to Baltimore
for treatment in the Pasteur Institute
of that city.
TWINKLINQS.
Customer (at a restaurant)
Can I see the proprietor? Waiter
Very sorry, sir, but he's just stepped
out to lunch. Judge.
The Maid Do you think it's
unlucky to get married on a Friday t
The Bachelor Of course. Why
should Friday be an exception Tit
Bits. Proving It: "Women are always
curious." "My wife Isn't." "Well,
she must be a curious kind of woman."
Washington Times.
The man who is eternally kick
ing about his own troubles is general
ly thehap who wants to ride to glory
on some other fellow's horse. Balti
more News.
Jingo What caused the row
In the Younghub family f Bingo The
better half discovered that she didn't
know how the other half lived.
harvard Lamjxxm.
Every Little Helps "We've
got a little more room in our flat
now." "That so!" "Yes, we've just
scraped the paper off the wallj"
Philadelphia Press.
i Euphemism: "Why," asked
the visitor, "dou you call this section
fThe Tenderloin f" "Perhaps," re
plied his mentor, who had lived in a
bonding house all his life, it's because
It's so tough." Life.
"He was too dignified to join
in a scramble for office."
"And what has he now I"
"Nothing but his dignity." Chicago
Post. )
Foote Liffhte "la the Trmnftcror
nn-to-datef" fine RmttA "R. '.
just lniroaucea a game ol ping-pong
m the balcony scene in Borneo and Ju
liet" Tonkers Statesman.
Real Test of Wealth: Parvenu
"I hear the Newriches claim to be
better off than we are." Mrs. Parvenu
"That's perfectly ridiculous. Every
body knows we have more money.
Why, we receive twice as many beg
ging letters as they do. Town Topics.
"Oh, well, my dear," observed he
to his wife, "you wiU find that there
are a great many worse men In the
world than I am." . . J.
"How can you be so cynical, John!"
inquired his wife, reproachfully.
Syracuse Herald. j . .
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An Appliance For Deaf.
A new Russian apparatus for restor
ing bearing consists of a light rubber
shell, furnished with a miniature mi
crophone, which is connected to a small
galvanic battery. It is claimed that
the microphone causes even the softest
speech to react od the auditory uerve
of the; deaf when the apparatus is
placed t the ear.
London Foff Weighed.
The solid matter deposited by a Lon
don fog has been found by Sir W. This-tleton-Dyer
to reach six tons in a week
on a single square mile. Injurious hy
drocarbons were Included, as well as
soot !
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MOLASSES, m gallon
. garpaaoes, in hogshead.. . . .
Barbadoes, In barrels.. t
Porto Bloo, In hogsheads.... 90
Porto Bjoa in bawelsVJ!:::: ; S
Sugar House, In hogsheads. ! 18
Sugar House, la barrels.... F 14
Syruu, in barrels i 1
AILS. V keg. Out ftOdhasla... 9 An
BOAP, f ft Northern , i
BTAV M-w o. barrel.... 1 00
B. q. Hogahead. -
iusu, imn empping.. e
uoaunuuauu 4 00
Fair mill.. ............ 500
Prime mill g u
Extra mill.... o m
B-HlNeLES, N.O. Cypress sawed . -
gears....... ...... 1 as
Bxnvneart so
. " Ban..... s no
WHISKEY. saltos Nortbers M S
Tba Kind Yon Haw Alwajs Boagtt
1 CJMontnsi j4
COMMERCE!
? LM I N OTO N MAKS
(Quoted officially at the Closing of the ProdteV
Exchange.! . ,
- STAB OFFICE, May 83
8PIEIT8 TURPENTINE Nothing
doing. I
ROSIN Market firm at $1.10 per
barrel bid for strained and $1.15 per
barrel bid for good strained. I
TAR Market firm at $L35 per bar
rel of 280 pounds. '
CRUDE TURPENTINE Market
firm at $ 1.40 per barrel for hard, $3.50
for dip, and $2.60 for; virgin. !
(Quotations same aay last year
Spirits turpentine j nothing doing ;
rosin nothing doing; tar quiet at
$1.25; crude turpentine steady at $1.10
2.10. !
RECEIPTS.
Spirits turpentine... L 72
Rosin .L 273
Tar...... 63
Crude turpentine...: 33
Receipts same day last year 45
casks spirits turpentine, 390 barrels
rosin, 30 barrels tar,! 52 barrels crude
turpentine.
OOTTON. - i
Market dull on a basis of 9(e per
pound for middling.' Quotations: "
Ordinary ; 6 ctsflb
Good ordinary. 8 " "
Low middling. 84 " ,4
Middling 9 " "
Good middling...... 9 5-16 " "
Same day last year, market firm at
7c for middling.
Receipts 37 bales; same aay last
year, 80.
Corrected Regularly by Wilmington Produce
Commission Merchants, prices representing
. those paid for produce consigned to Commis
sion Merchants.!
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, 7580c
CORN Firm; 76 80c per bushel
for white.
N. O. BACON Steady ; hams 13
14c per pound; shoulders, 1012Kc;
sides, iuiic
EGGS Firm at 1415c per dozen.
CHICKENS Firm. Grown, 27
S5c: SDrin&rs. 2025c.
TURKEYS Dressed, firm at 15
16c; livejlOailc
BEESWAX Firm at 26c
TALLOW Firm at 5Ji6Kc psr
pound.
SWEET POTATOES Firm at 70
75c per bushel.
FINANCIAL MARKETS.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Nbw York, May 23. Money on
call was steady at 23 per cent,
closing, bid and asked, 2M3 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 4X6 per
cent. Sterling exchange was heavy,
with actual business in bankers
bills at 487 for demand and at
484 H for sixty days. The posted
rates were 485 k and 488. Commer
cial bills 4833f484&. Bar silver
Mexican dollars 415'. Govern
ment bonds easy. State bonds inac
tive. Railroad bonds firm. U. 8. re
funding 2's, registered, 108 ;U. S. re
funding 2's, coupon, 108 Hi U. S.3'8.
registered, 107 j; do. coupon, 107f.
U, S. 4's, new registered, 1S6M; do..
coupon 136; U.4S. 4's, old, reg
istered, 110; do. coupon, 110; U. a.
5's registered, 10534; do. coupon.
105 X; Southern Railway, 5's, 122
Stocks: Baltimore & Ohio 106;
Chesapeake & Ohio 46; -Manhat
tan L 133: New York Uentral
157K; Reading 62; do. 1st preferred
03 ; do. 2nd preferred 68H ; St. Paul
171H;do. pref'd, 189; Southern Rail
way 37H; da prefd 94; Amalga
mated Uopper 71; Am n Tobacco -
People's Gas 102; Sugar 128?;
Tennessee Uoal and Iron 63K; U. 8.
Leather 13VX; do. pref'd, 84; Western
Union 91; U. S. Steel 40&; do. pre
ferred 90; Mexican National ;
American Locomotive ; do. pre
ferred ; Virginia-Carolina Chemical
ex div 70 ; do. preferred. 131 X ; Stand
ard Oil 625630.
Baltimore. May 23. Seaboard Air
Line, common, 2526; do, prefer
red, 45 4; do. 45 85 86C.
NAVAL STORES MARKETS
I By Telegraph to the Morning Star
ftfiw York, May 23. Rosin firm.
Spirits turpentine firm at 47K48c.
Charleston, May 23. Spirits tur
pontine firm and unouanged.
Savannah. May 23. Spirits turpen-
ine firm at 45c bid; receipts 1:135
casks ; sales 270 . casks ; exports 1,107
casks. Rosin firm ; receipts 1,749 barrels ;
sales 1,969 barrels; exports 4,510 bar
rels.
COTTON MARKETS.
ByelegrsDh to the Morning star.
NlW YftRIT Ml 23J fVltti-iTl Tnarlrat
upeueu Btcauy wuu prices unensngea
ta two nninta TifirhAi end than wnvb-iut
lnwlv nnmnl until Tnlv mmaIicuI
o.9Y, on aemana irom nervous snorts
ia nfv -a a . . , .
ana loreign Duymg, Drougnt out by
light receipts and talk of too much
rain in the Indian Territory. There
was little pressure to sell and
tor tne moment i tne one crop-
and weather conditions seemed - to
htm been discnnntAd. ICvait nna
looked for a bullish ln sight" state
ment and for a-strong visible supply
statement later in the day. Again
nrivatA veimrta f mm th a Knit trilA nf
good spot demand and some damage.
in parts or xexas irom cut worms and
boll weevil. The improvement, how-
mta. f allnd tr anthnu , nnmmtaalM.
house buying and room traders took
3f A a a
advantage oi tne ; nigner prices
to secure profits on cotton dm.
chased on the call, i Soon the
whole list was easing f off under
scattering sales for a turn and sheer
absence of speculative support Trading
was at no limn artivA dnvlnor thai il
In the last hour Jury sold off to 8.88
unaer a smauer decrease m the world's
visibla than AT-nAntArl Nm thaalnu
there was a nartial taIIt on nnnirino
by former sellers, but the market fin-
isnea tne aay at a sugnt net decline as
a rule. The close was quiet and steady
with n rices netainchancred to ai mint
lower. Total sales were estimated at
75,000 bales.
NSWTOBX. Mav 23. fVittnn nnl.i
at? fiiic net iwai rt Kaia. -no-
receipts 656 bales; stock 186,412 bales.
epoc cotton closed quiet; middling
uplands Site; middlinor on If Qsa.m1a
8,105 bales. i
Futures closed quiet and steady : May
9.14, June 9.00; July 8.90, August a 59,
September a05. October 7.92, Novem
ber 7.85, December 7.84, January 7.85,
February 7.85. .
TOtai to-oay net receipts 3,784
bales: exnorta to Great i Britain sru
hal am A-rnnrta in ITmiimi v.. i .
exports to the Continent 3,374 bales
toes: 401,403 oaies. I
Consolidated Net receipts 20,270
bales; exports to Great Britain 17,383
bales; exports to France 1,514 bales;
exports to the Continent 25,178 bales.
Total since RmitAni Ur,, irt kjv
oeipts 7,353,909 bales; exports to Great
ontain 9,ws,i& Dales; exports - to
Franca 689. K (53 halaa. A-rnt.
Conttnent. 8,503,504 balea ,
; May 23 Galveston, steady af 9 3-16;
netreceinta 743 hales. Nmrfniir
at 9XC net-receipts 920 bales: Bal
timore, nominal at Attn, nut mmw.
861 bales: Boston, steadv at sun
uifu t.vacuei receipts s Dales; troll- 1
adelpbia, quiet at 9&C, net receipts
50 bales; Savannah, quiet at 9 3-16. net
receipts 641 bales; New Orleans, steady
and quiet at 9 3-16c, net receipts 1,096
bales; I Mobile, steady at 8c, net re
ceipts 7 bales; Memphis, steady at 9ic
net receipts 7 bales; Augusta, quiet at
9H net receipts 31 bales; Charleston,
quiet and nominal, net receipts 5 hairs.
PRODUCE MARKETS
By Telegraph to the Morning 8 vn
New Zork. May 23. Flour was
slow and easier and 1015e lower to
sell. Wheat Spot easy; No. 2 red 87 X-
UP to midday wneat was steadily held
although very dull, reflecting a strong
born market and small Northwest re
jceipt&i But a subsequent bear attack,
based on good crop news and less active
export demand so weakened prices that
the close was heavy at &$c net de
cline. Sales included: May closed 79 ;
July closed 79c; September 77c;
December 79H& Corn Spot easy;
;No. 2 i 70c. Selling up sharply in the
forenoon on small receipts, stead y
tables and vigorous covering, corn
eventually lost its advance under real
izing and closed weak at c net advance
on May but yi&Mo decline otherwise;
May closed 70$c; July closed 67c;
September 65c; December Slc Oats
3pot steady ; No. 2 46s. Options were
higher at first but followed the late
corn break. Rice firm. Lard easier;
Western steam $10 55; refined easy;
continent 110 80; South American
$11 10; compound 8$9. Pork steady.
Tallow easy. Butter steady ; creamery
1922c; State dairy 18X21c. Eggs
firm;i State and Pennsylvania 18c;
Southern 1415c. Potatoes steady:
State, fair to prime, sack, $1 75;
Southern prime, per barrel, $5 00
5 75 i Jersey sweets per barrel, $2 50
5 00. j Coffee Spot Rio quiet; No.7 in-,
voice 5c ; mild quiet; Cordova 8
lltfc. Sugar Raw firm; fair refin
ing 2c; centrifugal 96 test, 3 7-16c
refined steady. Cheese weak new State
full cream, small colored, choice 12
12Xc; small white, 12jc Cabbage
steady; Florida, barrel crate 75c$l.
Freights to Liverpool-Cotton by steam
10c. i Peanuts firm: fancy hand-picked
4c; other domestic 34Kc Cotton
seed oil was quiet but fairly steady.
Cosing quotations: Prime crude, f. o.
b. mills 37$s38; prims summer yel
low 45,46c; off .summer yellow 45
5c; prime white 46c; prime win
ter yellow 4950c; prime meal $28 50
29 50, nominal.
CHICAGO, May 23. Bearish argu
ment on crop prospects started late
activity in wheat and corn to-day and
brought about rather liberal liquida
tions Corn was held firm by bullish
manipulation most of the day, but suc
cumbed to the pressure. At the close
July wheat was f e lower, July corn
iicdown, and July oats a shade
lower. Provisions closed 57 to 12c
depressed, j .
CHICAGO, May 23. Cash prices:
FJour steady. Wheat No. 3 spring
7274Kc; No. 2 red 79'81Xc. Corn
No. 2; No. 2 yellow c. Oats No.
2 43c; No. 2 white 4545Kc; No.
8 white 44?45Xc Rye No. 2 59
60. Mess pork, per barrel, $17001705.
Lard, per 100 lbs., quoted at $10 15
10 20. Short rib aides, loose, $9 60
9 70. Dry salted shoulders, boxed,
$8 25. Short clear sides, boxed,
$10 2010 30. Whiskey-Basis of high
wines, 1 30.
The leading futures ranged aa fal
lows opening, highest, lowest an
closing: Wheat No. 2 May 74, 74 M
74K; 73, 73c; July 7474s, 74.
73X73K. 73X73c; September 73
73H, 73 tf, 72f, 72tfc; December
74X74I,, 74, 73. 73c. Corn
No. 2, May 61&, 62M, 61&. 61fcc;July
62i62, 62, 61, 61c; Septem
ber 6060, 61, 59, 59Jic Oafe
May43K, 44, 43, 43c; July, old.
35)4 855,, 3&H, 35Xc; July.new, 37,
37&i 3737M, 37X37c; Septem
ber, old. 29Jf,29M, 2929K,2929;
September, new, 80 ft 31, 31, 30
305& 8030Mc Mess pork, per bbl
July $17 15, 17 17. 16 97,17 00
17 02K; September $17 25, 17 27,
17 10, 17 12X Lard, per 100 lbs- July
$1020, 10 27, 10 12& 10 15; Septem
ber $10 22X, 10 30, 10 15, 10 17. Short
ribs,! per 100 Ibs-Tuly $9 62, 9 67,
9 55. 9 h7 ; September $9 65, 9 70,
9 57K, 9 60.
MARINE.
j j ARRIVED.
Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette
ville, James Madden.
H i CLEARED.
Stmr A P Hurt, Robeson, Fayette
ville, James Madden.
Clyde steamship Geo W Chde, Chi
chester, New York and Providence, H
G Smalibones
MARINE DIRECTORY.
Mi
atat mt Vessels ta tae Per of WU-
alnston. W C, may 34,
SCHOONERS.
Dora Allison, 323 tons, Rose, George
Harms, Son or Co.
Morris and Cliff, 125 tons, Johnston,
George Karri ss, Bon & Co.
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.
O C Lister, 267 tons, Moore, George
Harriss, Son & Co.
iii BARQUES.
Kotka, (Nor) 857 tons, Ericksen, Heide
ttCo.
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Notice is hereby given that .
meeting of the stockholders 5eeUl
Atlantic Coast Line RriiSld nU,B
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ginia. at 11 o'clock AM on v ' 7'
the sixteenth day of June fed?v,
the purpose of considering
izmg and voting on the pro Jul at'
issue bonds of the.CompanSTl lo
amount not toexewd inr.r.;y 10 n
owned and nnt in .
'Za1a "... way actum
LI. 7 "IJn !u iisu,e
y
gate eigmy minions of dollar-70,
000,000.) payable in m ",-
more than fifty vears fr7., ...oin not
wan uuy jears rrom thp-r a .
and bearing interest at 8tp'
not exceeding four pe? ce.. rate
annum, which bonds will inoi,r
the amount necessary in re d.a
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by underlying morlgafe! LTT
the amount necessary f0r Th. 0
quirement of additional proDe"
and will, when all the bonds are !, -mately
issued, increase the
bonded indebtedness of the cont 1
million dol ars;and for the V'
of considering, authorizing and S
vidmg for the execution and hlJ ,
a mortgage or deed of trust to se url
said bonds, embracing all of the
ways, property and franchises of f
Company, and for the purpose of el,
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pany
By J AMES F. P03T,
Dated May 13, 1902. Se"eta;y
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