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-rauum AT- WILMINGTON. N. C, -f-AT j1,0?A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. ,i;l"OW it 88888S888SS8SS888 88Sg888Sgf8ggg tVOT ,VyVY SSSS8SSSSSSSSS88 1 'VU; .ALA-A. 888S88888888S8888 88888888888888888 828888S8SS288S888 88888888828888888 z ! si 82886882888888888 8888888888888988 3:i!:'Jii it in --..- 6 oi o tiered i the Poit Office at ilmtgton, N. C. at Second Clan Hi er.l SUBSCRIPTION P ICE. -ly Star is u The ubscriptioa price of tbe "We .S'eOW J yet, postage paid..........'. 1 00 month " " CO 8 monthi " SO Weekly tar LATEST FROM BEARNIE WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1899. NO. 52 , DODGING THE ISSTJE.V Some of the leading Republicans, profess to be as much opposed to trusts as the Democrats are. .A few of them who are not engaged in run- ,i tj . t i i. njnr tne maumue may ue mmeai iu this, but most; of them are. not. Their professed opposition is a mere pretence to humbug tho people, for they have no idea of urging Con gress to take any action to curb, much less to suppress trusts. Aware of the popular demand that some thing be done to) lessen the power of trusts by preventing the monopoly which gives them such power, and knowing that the people will expect Congress to take some positive ac tion to accomplish this some of them are already putting in excuses in ad vance for the inaction they antici pate. ! Afew days ago Senator Allison, of Iowa, made ;a speech at .Cedar Rapids, in that State, in which he declared that "the Republican party had never hesitated to deal with the question of the j trusts" and "asked "who Aan truthfully say that wo shrink from it now?" If somebody eager for information had asked the Senator then what his party had ever done to curb the trusts he would probably have answered that it had passed some anti-trust legis lation. True, bint it was of such a character that they who passed it kuew it would never bo enforced, was not intended to be enforced when-passed, and which no U. S. official ever made any attempt to enforce. ' '4 Ho w is it if tbe Republican party is opposed to trusts that the trusts and grown strong spite of the mock legislation passed to curb them? For more than a quarter of a century that partfnas been wholly or partially in power in the national government, and yet the trusts have increased in numbers and in proportions until they now control nearly every pro ductive industry in the country, save tbe industry of the farm, and they indirectly control that by levying tribute upon it. In 1890 when the Democrats m Congress opposed . the McKinley bill, one of the reasons being that its protective features would foster trasta, Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, then. tions in such matters, and that in terference with the trusts would be a violation of interstate commerce. That's where the 'dual form of gov ernment" dodge comes in that Sen ator Allison refers to. He knows, and every other "Re publican Senator' and Representa tive knows,' that there is a way by which Congress can. deal with the trustB, and effectively, with many, if not all of them, and that is by re pealing (as Senator Sherman said in 1890 should be done) the protective features of the tariff which foster trusts. This is what numerous Re publican papers havo7 since de manded, but this thestatesmen have no idea of doing, for , every promi nent Republican who goes before the, people, from President down, dilates on the great prosperity of the coun try, and triumphantly points to that as one of the results of the Dingley tariff. . . If this tariff with its protective ieatures nas been so potent in re storing prosperity are -they going to undo the very thing for which they are now claiming so much? If they do not repeal or modify the protec tive feature of the tariff how are they going "to deal with the ques tion of trusts?" Other Ways of deal ing with them have been tried by Congress and by State Legislatures, and yet tho trusts have sprung up and multiplied right along as if there never had' been' legislation'of any kind. When a Republican statesman talks about "dealing with trusts," and in the same breath applauds the ;'agency which has done more than all the other agencies com bined .to foster and strengthen them and insists virtually, if not in so many words, that they must not be interfered with, hadvertises himself as a pretender, and deceiver who is playing false7 to the people and keeping in with the combina tions he condemns, and that is pre cisely what the men who are run ning the Republican machine or supporting it are all doing. have multiplied and defiant in in the Senate, were found that mg taken of the declared that if it advantage was be protection -it gave to organize trusts he would be in favor of repealing the protective duties on everything on which a trust had been formed. That was. nine jears ago, Mr. Sherman was in the Senate after that until he went into Mr. McKinley's Cabinet and al though trusts were formed while he was in the Senate who ever heard of Mr. Sherman I protesting against them, or. making a move to repeal the duties that fostered them? Who ever heard of any other Republican in either House of Congress pro posing any practical measure to curb the trusts? All that was ever said on that line in Congress or out of it was said toj humbug the people and create the impression that there were some Republicans whom the trusts did not own? After declaring that the Republi- cu party had "never hesitated to deal with the question of trusts," Mr. Allison proceeded to make an cu8o in advance for. not dealing ith them by Ahe Congress which toeeta in December, knowing as he does that tho people expect tttion bv that Congress. He put m hTs advance plea for in wwon thus: 'rAfter all it is a Ration of ourj dual form of gov ernment how far Congress can go, or 10 what extent the States must ex cise the power-" Right here comes hitch. The Republicans when Weed why no steps were taken by federal officials under the anti-trust logislation to suppress the trusts, in8werthat they are powerless to Proceed against trusts organized un o - o estate laws, that it is the province of the State authorities ta deal with Jem. And when the Republican iate authorities are arraigned for doing anything to suppress them, the answer is made that one btate cannot interfere with wons organized and corpor- chartered in GRABBED THE DIAMONDS AHD GOING FOE THE GOLD. In the dispute between the Trans vaal Government and Great Britain, the Transvaal authorities accuse the British representatives of decep tion and treachery, and there is enough, if the published reports, while the negotiations were pending, be true, to substantiate that charge. But Great Britain was never over scrupulous about breaking faith or treaties with weak powers when there was any tempting powers to take them. This isn't the first time she has done it with the Boers, for she grabbed the diamond field, as she is attempting to grab the Transvaal gold field. How this is done is told7 in the following from the New York Evening Post, a paper, by the way edited by a native born Englishman, which should acquit him of the suspicion of prejudice: , Mr. Froude was an anpostle of the expansion of England, yet in a lecture which he delivered in Hidinburgn m 1880 he told some very unpleasant truths about the way the English had wronged tne Datcn in soutn Ainca. In particular did he dilate upon the manner in which Kimberley, with its diamond mines, became a British pos session. The -reasoning was, in brief : "No State but England could be al lowed to possess the finest dia mond mine in the world." Great Britain had abandoned the . Orange river territory because it was thought useless. By the treaty of Aliwal, signed with the Dutch in 1869, England pledged herself to interfere no further north of the Orange river. But tne mt was scarcely dry on this document when the Kimberley mines were discov ered, and that altered the case entire ly. The diamonds stirred the con sciences of the- English authorities. They found that the Kimberley re gion really "belonged to avGriqua Chief, not at au to me uauiu , u mojr Sroceeded to take it away from the 'ree State in order to hand -it care fully back to its rightful owner, tne lawless native chief.. But unfortunate ly h cmi Id not be found When the .t . T7! 1 3 ' time came, ana wereiore. jngiauu w nnmnallad to annex the diamond fields, banding over $450,000 to tne urange Free State as compensation. It was. said Mr. Froude, 'one oi tue most scandalous acts recorded in our his tory.' 'In modern European history no treaty has ever been broken with more deliberate shameiessnessinanme treaty of Aliwal was broken by us when we annexed the diamond news. Yet Mr. Froude acquitted the n,ngnsn authorities of doing what tney con sciously knew to be wrong.' The ex- Dlanation is mat, -wneu jhukhbuuiou . . , . 1 .ha wish t.ni a rarucuwr wurso outu right, they are periecuy that it .is right. When in pursuit of territory which is valuable, the Englishman, accord ing to this,; easily reconciles his con and nersuades himself that the grab is right, and if uncomforta bly cornered, would probably fall back on that monumental fraud, "inevitable destiny." With the demoralization engen dered by the war of "criminal ag gression" on the Philippines, in spired by the same greed that stole theKlmberly diamond fields from the Boers and ia now inspiring the seizure of the gold fields, how long will itlJd before the same may be said of Americans, who have hereto fore secured all their territorial ac quisitions honestly and honorably? been ' WHY THEY BOUGHT THEM. Judge Day, who was President of the commission which made the treaty, with Spain, has been telling why the commission bought the Philippines. In a " letter to Con gressman Watson, of Columbus, Ohio, he says the commission did not make any claim to the islands on he ground of conquest but that the negotiations were about to fail and "for the sake of immediate peace" the American commissioners baited their hook, or words to that effect, with the $20,000,000 offer for the. Philippines, the Spanish commis sioners bit, b wallowed the bait and the thing wa3 done. This means that the Spanish com missioners were better traders than the American commissioners were, that they went to Paris with the in tention to get as much out of this Government as they could, and suc ceeded in trading off a lot of islands which they knew tfiey couldn't hold and getting $20,000,000 for them, from our commissioners, who were not half as anxious about the islands as they were for "immediate peace." "Immediate peace" was desirable,( and whether there was any secret reason, which has not come to light as far as the public is concerned, why our commissioners should be scared and brought to time by Spain's bluff, we do not know, but if immediate peace was the object why try to grab the Philippines and in vite -another war that is giving us more trouble than the war with Spain did ? Why not give Spain the $20,000,000 bonus and let it go at that, have an understanding and some amicable arrangement with the Fili pinos, and let it go at that ? Of course we couldn't claim them on the ground of conquest, because the Filipinos were in that as much or more than we were, and we can not now claim them on the ground of purchase, for Spain's title was broken and she did not have the right to sell. By that deal peace came with Spain, and with it fair play should have come to the -Filipinos. - s THE UNITED STATES OF AUSTRALIA. One of the long nursed schemes of Cecil Rhodes has been a United States of South Africa, which is figuring more or less in the war upon tho Boers. The Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State stood in the way of carrying out this scheme, and nence they must be de stroyed asindependent powers and becomeBritish colonies, which will be thoutcome if Great Britain be successful. yThere is already a United States Of Australia, the colonies having united. With an area of 3,250,000 square miles, these States have a population of 4,500,000, a million and a half more than the American colonies had when they declared their independence of the mother country. This uniting is the first step in the direction of independence, for it is not reasonable to suppose that a country with such possibilities in it as Australia has will be content to long remain a mere appendage to England. The severance may not come very soon, for England will be careful to J give no cause of offence and will' let those people have their own way, but whatever their feeling for the mother country may be, they are not all of English blood, (for there are a good many Irish among them), when they feel strong enough they will be naturally ambitious ' to take their place among the nations of the earth and steer, their own ship. - And so in time will the yet-to-be-formed United States of South Africa, to hasten which Great Britain is now' spending millions of THE FOURTH PORT. Wilmington Led Only by Galveston, New Orleans and Savannah In Receipts of - Cotton the Present Year. COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTORS. HIGH PRICES RULING IN SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Held October Meeting Yeneraay uniy Routine Matters Were Considered. ' The School Openings. SCHOONER CARRIE A. LANE. Weekly and part crop year receipts of cotton and naval stores on the Wil mington market to October 13th, were posted at the Produce Exchange yes terday as follows: Week Ending October 13th, 1899 Cotton, 10,222 bales; spirits, 451 casks; rosim-S, 258 barrels; tar, 1,166 barrels; erode, 880 barrels. 4 Week Ending October 13th, 1898 Cotton, 24,277 bales; spirits, 458 casks; rosin, 1,592 barrels; tar, 1,553 barrels; crude, 193 barrels. Crop Year to October 13th, 1899 Cotton, 83,120 bales; spirits,'. 20,909 casks; rosin, 75,285 barrels; tar, 81,365 barrels; crude, 6,878 barrels. Crop Year to October 13th, 1898 Cotton "69,867 bales; spirits, 19,855 casks; rosin, 93,682 barrels; tar, 31,468 barrels ; crude, 6,553 barrels. A noticeable feature of the state ment is the falling off in the weekly, receipts of cotton, which for the seven days ending yesterday are behind those of the same period last year by over 14.000 bales. This shows in a marked vdegreeJliejrobable shortage in crop in the territory contiguous to Wil- gton and also intimates in some degree that farmers having liquidated their fertilizer and other farm bills for the year, are holding their surplus stock for better prices. The crop year receipts to the present date also show a marked falling off, whereas, hereto fore, the present season in this respect has shown an increase. . Notwithstanding this falling off for the past week, Wilmington continues to occupy the "fourth position in re ceipts for the crop year at all United States ports. She is at present led only in their order by Galveston, New Or leans and Savannah, and has a safe distance ahead of Charleston, Norfolk and Mobile. THE DELGAD0 COTTON MILLS. dollars and will sacrifice many lives. be convinced A Maine man threatens to evacu ate this country and take possession of Canada if Uncle Sam capitulates to Aguinaldo. This would never do. How could Maine surVive the de parture of Tom Reed and this im portant personage? But if he be so deeply concerned about the racket over there why in the mischief don t he grab his . gun, go over and as sault the fellows who are mak ing the fuss? The French are making a sooth ing beverage out of American dried apples and raisins, which is rapidly taking the place of wine, as it sells at about 2 cents a glass, and is pre ferred to wine by many for the ad ditional reason that too much wine is adulterated, especially the cheaper brands. : ; " rfi. Mn -nencil man has w viu r - otW States, that a sovereign State put upon the retired list by order of The Main Building Nearly Completed i Carloads of Machinery Received New Town Springing Up. , A Stab representative yesterday visited the new Delgado Cotton Mills, on the Wrights ville turnpike at the crossing of the Wilmington & New born Railroad, and to say the least the revelation was astonishing. The massive brick mill building is nearly completed ; in fact, it is finished with the exception of the tower front ing on the turnpike. The principal compartments of the building are as follows: A magnificent rooms On the first floor of the south end to be used as the spinning and carding room. It is 208 feet long and 125 feet wide, and is splendidly lighted. Another robm the same size as the one above, just over it on the second floor, to be used as the weaving room. A room 40 by 125 feet on the first floor at the north end, to be the picker room and one the same size above it on the second floor, for the finishing department. Besides these there are other smaller rooms and there is an immense base ment to be used for storage purposes. Work is now progressing on the boiler and engine houses, and the foundation for a two story brick office building on the factory grounds has been laid. The office building will be 36x36 feet, with the office below and two handsome sleeping rooms on the second floor. A storage warehouse and a big store are also to be put up. Already the mill building is packed with machinery. Up to yesterday twenty-three car-loads of machinery have been received, including looms, spindles, lappers, cards, drawing f rames, etc. Expert machinists - will be here in three weeks to begin placing the machinery in order. A pretty village has suddenly sprung into existence at the mill. About fifty one and two-story dwellings have been erected on streets running on both sides of the turnpike, and the large force of carpenters is busy put ting up fifty to sixty more. A two-story twelve room boarding house is under way. The' houses are being neatly painted and the town has a most at tractive and healthful look about it. Every day the factory hands are mov ing in, and three months ago where not a building stood there is now a vil lage of 150 inhabitants. When all the people move in the town will embrace a population of about 500. It is expected that the mill will be ready to begin operations by Janu ary 1st. The Wrecked Schooners. Capt. Willie St. George, of South port, returned yesterday on the W. C. & A., train from Carabelle, Fla., where he went to look after- the in terests of Capt. S. F. Craig and Capt. S. W. Skinner in the derelict barques and schooners recently purchased off George's Island near Carabelle. Capt. St George and Capt. Louis Skinner are rapidly perfecting their plans to leave with wrecking apparatus for the scene of the derelicts and will tow them into some port for conversion into barges. They are very enthusi astic over the prospects, f. Chiefly : routine matters were con sidered by the County Board of School Directors at its October meeting which was held yesterday ernoo -i ; il office of the Superintendent Col. W. A. Johnson, the chairman, presided and Capt Ed. WilsonMan ning was secretary. Mr. W. H. Sprunt and Capt Donald MacRae, the other members of the board, were also present . 1 Bills for current expenses were audit ed as was also the monthly statement of County Treasurer H. McL. Green. CoL Johnson reported that Judge Battle had written that upon the con vening of the next term of New Han over Criminal Court, Ire would order the payment into the school fund of the amount of the defaulted bonds of the three pick-pockets. This amount ($600) less small court costs and at torney's fees, is- now in the hands of the clerk of the court and was tem porarily held up. it will be remem bered, awaiting instructions as to whether or not Capt Galloway of Goldsboro should be reimbursed out of the amount for the sum stolen from him by the pickpockets, who de faulted their bonds before they would appear In court to. answer the charge, the story of which is familiar to Stab readers. It would, appear from this notification by Judge Battle that Capt Galloway will not recover from the fund the $30 which was the amount stolen from him. j In this connection it is interesting to note that Capt. Manning has now received newa from most all the schools in the various districts and there is nothing in these reports to qualify former assertions that New Hanover people were never more alive to the necessity of a sound and thorough public school system than now. The white school at Masonboro has 36 pupils; at Castle Hayne they have 23 and at Wrightsville the ses sion opened with 27. Capt Manning expects to day to visit the Masonboro and Myrtle Grove schools and will ex tend his trip down to District No. 8, in Federal Point township, where for .some reason no teacner naa Deen selected and the school was not opened last Monday with the others. Miss Irene Bass, of Warsaw, has now been selected and it is probable that she will arrive this week in time to open the school Monday. CAPTAIN DEEMS IN THE PHILIPPINES. How He Captured Twenty-nine Filipinos and $43,000 in Gold Wall Remem bered in Wilmington. In a case of eggs opened at Pensa- cola, Fla., one was found oa whicn I pro8perous Country. some fellow in Tennessee wrote that I A gentleman who has travelled ex- that he wanted a wife very bad, and tensively the counties above Wilming- had plenty of property. That fellow may be hatching out plenty of trouble for himself . Pittsburg is trying to do some thing to offset and atone for her black smoke. She is going to spend $7,000,000 in beautifying and other wise making herself more attractive. ton for several weeks says the cotton crop in many sections is scarcely one half an average. Corn, except in low lands, is good; potatoes are fine; peas are maturing late. The latter crop is fine and will make a good yield. "Taukington is going to the dogs fast" "Humph! I don't envy the dogs, c-owter s wvvwg. Captain Clarence Deems was last year commandant at Fort Caswell until he left here with Battery I, ofe Fourth Artillery, for Porto RicSfaSd thence went with his battery to the Philip pines. He is well remembered in Wil mington and the following concerning him, from yesterday's Baltimore Sun, will be read with interest: "Col. James M. Deems, Hollins street, near Fremont has received a copy of the Insular News, a newspaper published at Manila, containing an ac count of an exploit of his son Capt Clarence Deems, of the Fourth Artil lery; who captured twenty-niae Fili pinos and $43,000 in gold last August "The money had been collected by the natives from Manila merchants and was intended for Aguinalio's use. The United States military authorities learned of the mission and location of the men, and Captain Deems was de tailed for the capture. He had a dozen or so soldiers stationed in the neighborhood, so as not to excite sus picion, and then, followed by two trusted men, went in front of . the de signated house just as one oi the Fili pinos, who had been away,' returned to the house, and knocked three times. The door was opened from within and Captain Deems at once leaped insiae and knocked the man senseless, then grabbed the astonished doorkeeper be fore he could stir up the neighbors or give a warning to those who had the gold. v "The men outside followed up then leader and the crowd of IS or so suc ceeded in catching unawares a com pany of 29, who were up stairs and could not get away. The gold was found under an. altar in an adjoining room.'' . Another Big Steamer. The second largest cotton steamer that has visited the port of Wilming ton this season is the British tramp Wandby, Capt Pearson, which ar rived from New York last evening to Messrs. Alexander Sprunt & Son for a cargo of cotton from the Champion Compress. The ' Wandby is of 2,580 tons register, and sailed from Soura baya July 6th, arriving at New York September 27th. TiiA TOsMiiolt of no m aw A TmVkvr vrTiiti Auwaii Bweniuwa. jl.wiiwi vt uivu ; recently cleared with 16,600 bales of cotton for Bremen, is the largest vessel that has been to the port this season, she having had a net register of 2,835 tons. She was also consigned to Messrs. Sprunt & Son. Southport Items. The Standard of Thursday, Oct 12th, says: The crew of the dredge Cave Fear saw a whale yesterday afternoon play ing around the bell buoy. The nsn was estimated to be fifty feet in length and swam around the buoy for twenty minutes near where the boat was at work." "A life belt drifted ashore on Smith's Island on the 25th ult, and was picked up by a member of Bald Head Life Saving crew about one mile west of the station. It was marked S. S. Viailancia1 and appeared to have been in the water only a short time." ' - There is displayed in the Bhow windows of the A. David Company a very handsome embroidered pillow donated to the Masonic Fair by Mrs.7 Frank McNeill. Wilmington Led All Other Southern Mar kets Yesterday The High Water Mark for Ten Years Reached. ' i i The oft-repeated prediction by naval stores people early in the season that spirits of turpentine before the elose of October would reach beyond the 50 cents mark in price, found a happy fulfillment in the market yesterday when just one-fourth of a cent be yond that limit was reached at the close of the day's business, Wilming ton in this respect having been a lead for Savannah by a quarter and in ad vance of the Charleston market H cents. Not. since March 13th, 1889, a little over ten years ago, has the price been so high as now, and even at that time the market lingered only a few days around the 50 cents mark, whereas this year it has been gratifyingly near that point for almost the entire sea son, yesterday's, figures having been almost paralleled on August 15th and a succession of days up to the present time. The receipts, owing to the shortage of the crop in the territory contiguous to Wilmington, have been light for the entire season, and espe cially so for the past month, f Naval stores men not only in Wilmington, but in other Southern markets have expressed themselves as confidently expecting a still further advance, as the scarcity of stock in the 'country becomes more and more apparent. Prices of spirits for the past three years have ruled very low and the re munerative prices this year are on this account all the more welcome. For the past several years it has been con sidered well when sales could be ef fected even as high as 30 cents,1 and it was as far back as January, 1890, that over 40 cents was reached, sales hav ing been made during' that month at 42 cents. In 1889 the parallel of the present season's figures was ' reached, and sales on March 13th were made at 50 cents. During the preceding month of that year prices did not rule over 40 cents, and during 1887 and the latter part of 1886, few sales were made over 4$5 cents. In 1885 prices generally, ruled below 30 cents, except during the first month of the year when sales were made as high as 35 cents. In February, 1883, as high as 50 cents was paid and the market took an upward tendency, which reached a climax on April 6th of that year when sales were made at 61 cents, the highest price ever reached singe 1875. The particular sale at that time was made by Mr. S. P. McNair in the early part of his successful businws career in Wilmington to Messrs. Alexander Sprunt & Son, who were at that time the principal dealers in naval stores at the port In December 1876 prices ruled as high as 49 cents, bulj . these figures were not approached at any other period of that year. j In searching up the records at the Produce Exchange yesterday, a Star representative was informed by Capt Jno. T. Rankin that the highest price ever recorded at Wilmington was 8i cents, which must have been scored during the abnormal prices in vogue just after the civil war. j Tog Blanche Left Yesterday Morning to Tow Her Into Port-Anchored at Brown's Inlet. The steam tug Blanche, of the Cape Fear Pilots' Association, with crew in charge of Capt L. j G. Pepper, left before day yesterday morning for a trip up the North Carolina coast in search of the abandoned schooner Carrie A. Lan&f lumber laden from Carabelle Sept 14th for Noank, which was reported Wednesday in a special telegram to the Stab as having been passed October 9th by the schooner Hettie J. Dorman, of Bogue, seven teen miles south of Cape Lookout lightship. , "- . A few hours after the Blanche de parted Capt S. F. Craig, secretary of the Pilots' Association, received a telegram from Beaufort stating that the derelict had drifted ashore four miles from the mouth of Brown Inlet, about eight miles west of Bogue Inlet, and that she had been anchored there by a party of fishermen. The tele gram came too late to reach the Blanche before she passed out at Southport, but Captain Craig says that from the course outlined to the tus- before she left, it is reasonably certain that she has by this, time overhauled the derelict and will have it into some safe port by to day. j He wired Capt. Pepper at Beaufort, howeyer, of the lat er information in case that he had not discovered the schooner's loca tion. The Lane sprung a leak and was abandoned October 3rd, latitude 32.48 and laugtitude 77.03. I Capt. Skolfield, his wife and crew of eight men, were taken off the derelict by the British steamer Rhodesia and carried to Norjj folk October 5th. j CAPE FEAR CAMP NO. 254 CONFEDERATE VETERANS Held Enthusiastic Meeting at the W. L. I. Armory Last Evening and Adopted a New Constitution. Now Claims Cotton Crop of Eleven Million Bales But His Argument Is Far , Prom Convincing. Henry M. Neill, the cotton statisti cian, has made public a circular letter indicating his continued belief in a large crpp and an oversupply of cotton: j - . ' v He gives his reasons for believing that the crop will be large and that there will be an oversupply of the staple, says tbe weather during August and September this yeBr wat more favorable than in 1898 and declares that a growth of 11,000,000 bales is now assured. The circular in full is as follows: . "The bureau report for October 1, 1897, showed a decline in condition of 8.3 points from its September report and the September report had shown a decline of 8.6 points, compared to August The decline was attributed to long-continued drought, and yet the crop of 1897- '98, to which these melan choly reports referred, exceeded the previous crop by 2,450,000 bales, and exceeded the largest previous crop (1894 '95) by 1,300;000 bales. - "In the nine, weeks ending Septem ber 25, on the weather, in which nine weeks these reports are based, the fol- . lowing statement shows the rainfall in the year 1897 and this year (1899) : Atlantic States, 9. 32 ; Gulf, 6. 10 ; Texas, 2.87. 1897 '98-Atlantic, 8.23; Gulf, 4.77; Texas, 4.88. As the outturn of the crop of 1897-98 demonstrated, by its enormous result that the weather , in August and Sep tember, instead of being injurious, must have been highly favorable, and as both the Atlantic States and the Gulf States, except Texas, have bad more rain than in that year, which these reports for August and Septem- ( ber alleged to be too dry, the demon stration is conclusive that this, as far , as August and September weather is concerned, should be a better crop. ' 'The largest purchases on record by the trade were last year 10,736,000. Now a growth of 11,000,000 bales, which I think we may say is well assured, with the old cotton held in the interior, will mean for the South to sell and the trade to buy more cotton than in any previous year, and for the third year a large addition to the sur plus, which at September 1 stood at 3,311,000, against 2,697,000 in 1898, and 4,426,000 in 1897, visible and in visible. "H. M. Nbilu" "P. S. It will be remembered that at the beginning of August this crop was known to be in very perfect con dition and heavily fruited. As to this, at that time there was little or no dif ference of opinion. The above details of rainfall are given to show what has happened since, in comparison with the record crop of 1897-98. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. To Qo Into Business. Mr. Victor K Zoeller has resigned his position with Mr. George Honnet and in November will go into the jewelry business in the handsome store at No. 104 North Front street, soon to be vacated by Mr. James C. Munds, the pharmacist. He will have as partner his brother-in-law, Mr. A. O. Schuster, lately of New York, and the Stab learns that they propose to carry a large and elegant stock and that their establishment will be' one in every way creditable to Wilmington. Mr. Zoeller has had a continuous service of twenty-five years with Mr. Honnet and his long experience in the business eminently fits him for the business in which he is to embark. He is a young man of excellent standing in this community, and being exceed ingly clever and extensively known, The Stab can predict the most signal success for him in his business career. Cotton Receipts. . ' The smallest one-day receipts of cot ton since the season fairly opened, were posted at the Produce Exchange yesterday only 876 bales. Receipts are October 12th last year were 2,450 bales, and the remarkably low figures for yesterday are explainable either from the fact that farmers are holding for better prices or , that the crop, which is unprecedentedly forward this year, has about all been gathered and sold. Certain it is that Wilming ton has no reason to believe that competitive ports have encroached upon its territory and are scooping up the stock that properly belongs here. The price continues firm at 7 cents for middling. Will Sail for Manila. Rev. Edward Wootten was in receipt of a letter yesterday from his son, Adjutant Bradley J. Wootten of the Twenty-eighth Regiment j United States Volunteers, which has been rendezvoused at Camp Meade, stating that he would sail on the transport Hancock tor Manila on Sunday, October 15th. Adjutant Wootten wrote that he was well and enjoying his military life immensely. He arrived at San Francisco October 2nd, and after sailing will arrive at Manila in about 42 days. .The regi ment was royally welcomed at San. Francisco and during the march into the city their path was almost literally strewn with flowers. " I The anglers report that blue fish are biting glibly in the; Banks channel, Wrightsville Beach, i Cape Fear Camp No. 254, United Confederate Veterans, held an ad journed meeting last, night at the W. L. I. armory. Commander Jas. I. Metts was presiding officer, and Ad jutant Henry Savage was secretary. The meeting, was j an enthusiastic one, and many matters of interest to the camp were discussed, among them being several alterations to the con stitution and by-laws. These as amended were read and adopted.. On motion, the matter of a lot at Oakdale cemetery was referred to a "committee composed of Comrades Belden and Rankin, j The sergeant major was allowed 10 per cent on collections of the camp fund already made. The following comrades were noted present: 'f J. R. Williams, O. M. Fillyaw, D. Leon Fillyaw, Louis S. Belden, Roger Moore, W. B. Bowden, W. Harlow, J. E. Matthews, John Cowan, P. Heinsberger, T. O. Bunting, O. A. Wiggins, R. M. Mclntire, A. M. Waddell, A. L. DeRosset, C. H. Robinson, W. S. Warrock,, W. J. Woodward, J. L. DeRosset Jv B. Hug gin, P. H. Hayden,; W. P. Oldham, E. S. Martin, J. H. Boatwright G. W. Huggins, T. Jeff Smith, W. M. Stev enson, W. D. McMillan, T. H. Brown, Thos. D. Meares, Ed. Brown, F. W. Kerchner, T. B. Sykes, M. T. Davis, Nathaniel Jacobi, John D. Taylor, R. F. Ha en me, F. W. Ortman, Sol. Bear. Going Into Business Here. The Stab is pleased to learn that Mr. H. I. McDuffie, of Fayetteville, and Mr. W H. McElwee, of Statesville, whose arrival here was mentioned a few days ago, will go into business in our city. They have rented an office in the new Masonic Temple and sometime in .November will en ter into a general insurance business, one of their companies being the Royal Union Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, of Desmoines, Iowa, is general of which agent in Mr. McDuffie North Carolina. Messrs, McDuffie and McElwee haye had many years experience in the insurance business, and both are well known throughout the State. They are valuable acquisitions to our city and the Stab gives them a most cordial welcome as citizens and busi ness men. r Mule and Buggy Stolen.! Sheriff MacRae yesterday received by postal card a notification of the theft of a mule and buggy at Kinston by a white man named Jim May, whose .description is given as being about 25 years" of age; weighing about 165 pounds, and wearing a black mus tache. The theft was committed on Thursday last and the mule is de scribed as being a dark bay mare, weighing 800 to 900 pounds. The buggy was of the Ellis manufacture; had been used for some time and is without cover. The name of M. D. Sharrow and Philip j Stroud is signed to the card and a liberal reward is of fered for recovery of the property. May is said to be from Henderson county, North Carolina. Ball at broniy. Mr. T. G. Register, of Cronly, was a visitor to the city yesterday. From Mr. Register it was learned that the Cronly Pleasure Club, composed of a number of young people of that thriv ing town, will on the evening of next Friday, October 20th, inaugurate a series of social entertainments for the Winter by a grand ball in Cronly FftH, Invitations are being sent out ' Spirits turpentine held its own yesterday at neither an advance or de cline. The local market is firm at 50 50 cents. Receipts yesterday were 99 casks. i Lenoir Topic: Dr. L. C. Reeves a popular physician of Blowing Rock, died last Sunday of appendicitis. He was taken ill on Tuesday. Elizabeth City Economist The stock for the new knitting mill has been taken to the amount of $25,500 and the organization of the company will soon be perfected. Alamance Gleaner: In Thomp son township one day last week a colored girl, some 8 or 10 years old, was crossing the pasture of a Mr Mor- ' row, when she was attacked by a vicious boar and so badly injured that she is not expected to live. Fayetteville Observer : ' The Holt Morgan mill is shortly to have an . addition of 150-3uoms, which added to the 48 now in ; operation, will make nearly 200 looms. The goods these looms turn out are finished for the market on the spot, as this factory has a splendid finishing plant v Carthage Blade: The canning business is becoming . quite an in-' dustry in an around Carthage. ' Mr. S. R. Mcintosh has canned 5, 500 cans of tomatoes from a little over one acre of land, and said he could have can ned three times as many if he had had enough cans on hand at . the proper time. Roxboro Courier: Calvin Hes ter, colored, president of the Labor Union Co., a colored merchandise es tablishment here, which also runs a eanning business, was arresjtadpand placed in jail Saturday eveningTunder $100 bond, for false pretence. He will be tried at the November term of Per son county Superior court He is now out on bail. High Point Enterprise: Thurs day there was a car load of negro em igrants attached to the noon train. They were from Charlotte. Judging from the looks of the crowd it was that class of negroes that hangs around the towns, a class that will not work ; nor take advantage of the school facul ties that are provided for them. ' Wilson Times: On Tuesday 349,250 pounds of tobocco were sold in Wilson. A wagon load one barn of golden leaf and fine of texture. While we were standing there the pinhook ers were offering the seller in rapid succession,-$18, $20, $22.50, and, we understand, he sold it for $25 around, netting him $177.25. The next day, we chanced at the i Centre Brick, and the clever Capi. Bobbitt informed us this market had sold in two days over 600, 000 pounds. T --. - Raleigh News and Observer: There are now 102 names on the roll at the soldier's Home. As a rule there are about 85 men there regularly to be cared for. At , some seasons of the year, though, 1 the number is smal ler, owing to the fact that many of the veterans visit their friends and spend some time at their old homes. Superintendent Mebane is sending out letters to school officers to call atten tion to the fact that the law of. 1899 Erovides that "The County Board of chool Directors shall cause the names and prices of all school books to be printed on cardboard and kept posted in each and every public school house. The ! list of school books adopted in 1893, is also sent out The next adoption occurs the first Monday in June. 1801. : TWINKLINGS. Still Making a Hit: "The lec ture used to be a pugilist." "So now he's an expounder." Philadelphia, Bulletin. j "My daughter wants to be a famous writer." "Do you think she will succeed?" i "Well; she has a good start She was born down on a modest little side street." veirotiJf ree trress. Mrs. Urown "There's no rea son at all why there shouldn't be wo men preachers 1" Mrs. Jones "And women elders?" Mrs. Brown "Well er yes; but the name might be changed." Brooklyn Life. "It wouldn't hurt Admiral Dewey as a presidential candidate that -he can't make a speech," remarked Uncle Jerry Peebles, "but if he isn't a good handshaker he'd be no great shakes in a campaign." "Th' lover," mused the janitor philosopher, :"oftin gives th' lass to understand thot her widded loife will be a be a bed uv roses; but faith, it's a funny bed uv roses -thot has a cook stove at wan ind an' a washtub at th ither." Chicago News. 't - Vi : ww be the judge of its own ac-1 the War Department.
