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The advocate., 1895-01-02
NATURALIZATION.
Robert P. Porter Tells Of Strong Movement
In Progress.

pa pCA AAACuACu1 VA bu0 4aob OulJSU
States census, has written a letter,
which appeared in number of papers
December 8, in which he describes the
movement now on in England for the
state control of the railroads. He says:
SIN England sensible, far.seeing,
conservative statesmen are strongly
advocating the absorption of the rail
ways by the state. This idea has long
since passed out of the hands of the ex-
tremists and crsnks and is receiving
the best thought of those most deeply
interested in internal commerce-the
boards of trade and commerce and
agricultural organizations. In short
the idea of national railways has crys-
talized and will probably become an
accomplished fact this generation.
While this phsze of the question has
taken itself to the realm of construc-
tive legislation and is awaiting q bold
and able hand to shape it into accom-
plished fact, the crsnks and faddists
have gone good step forward and are
advocating not only state ownership of
railways, but free railway travel.
"The last proposition will no doubt
provoke smile, but when ably pre-
sented and vigorously backed up by
existing conditions in England it is
novel and by no means unsttractiVe."
Mr.. Porter further considers the
question of free railway travel in these
words:
"The foundation of the argument in
favor of free railway travel is, of
course, the gigantic waste Of the pres
ent system. Elaborate calculations
show that every traveller who buys
ticket for seat in an English railway
train really pays for nine seats. The
competition which seems to compel
rival companies to run half-empty
trains between the same points at pre-
cisely the same time is in fact a charge
upon the public. So are the innumer-
able boards of useless and enormously
paid directors; so are the rival stations
and other expenses peculiar to the
present system. 1t is not contended
that state control or free travel would
absolutely remedy this waste, but the
advocates of free travel do undoubC-
edly bring forward facts which indi-
cate that the waste of seats under free
travel would be but trifing compared
with the existing waste from ticket
travel. In short, it is estimated that all
the people who could possibly want to
travel If the railways of Great Britain
were as free as the highways could be
accommodated, under economical man
sgement, with the present rolling stock.
"Figures are produced showing that
the throwing open Of all bridges, and
in some instances even ferries, in Eng.
land, has reduced the actual cost to
the public to one-sixteenth. Of course
the additional number taking advsn-
tage Of this free communication is in.
pluded; but assuming that railways,
Like other highways, are for public
good and not private profit, the deduc-
ion is not unfair. The British public
paying over $50 million dollars annu-
ly for railway fares. Probably FIVE
six times as many people would have
aad tho rail had fba foros boor ,,;tb;n
The advocate., 1895-01-02
Farmers, Account Book.

What every farmer needs is a boGk.
that will enable him to keep his CO.
counts In simple and systematic man.
nor, 30 that he can tell st any time just
what each department Of his business
is paying or costing him, what he owes
and what 10 due him. The ordinary sys.
em OF bookkeeping 10 too elaborate and
complicated.
The ADVOCATE has a book that fills
the bill. Win it anybody who can
write can keep his accounts 80 that they
can DO understood by everybody.
The book has been sold at 81. but we
can send 1t prepaid TO any address in
the United States for so cents. WITH
THR ADVOCATE ONE YEAR FOR $l50, or
lno book will DO sent FREE TO anyone
Who will send tha names Of three yesrlV
subscribers and S3. The book contain
90 pages, 8Kl2 inches in size, substaI
TALLY bound Ia cloth covered board,
rns following 10 the table OF contents
Directions and explanations. ............. 4
Introductory ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s
Diagram or farm, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Inventory Of live stock. Observation-Disclosures.
Inventory Of farm Implements. IS
Inventory of produce on hand. ............ %
Cash received from oil sources. 81
Cash paid out. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SO
Field account. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6S
Live stock account. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 70
Produce account. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81
Hired help per month. h........................ 108
Hired help per day. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ll9
Household expense e........................l l8l
Accounts with neghbOTs. 17
Dairy and fowls. 1856
Fruit account. ........................... l67
Notes and obligations owing. nG............... I76
Notes and obligations due YOU. l79
Interest, taxes and Insurance.. ce............... 1888
Physicians and druggists account......,.. 1877
Miscellaneous accounts................ 19l
Improvements and repairs rs................. l99
Weather report. ..'.......,...............2 2O3
Recapitulated annual statement. .......... 2l1
Useful information, etc....................2 2l9
The advocate., 1895-01-02

"'YOu may safely state, said Mr..
Mole, that to-day some score Of per-
sons linked together by common in
terest control nearly / 900 millions ster-
ling of capital and 10000 miles of the
most important communication of the
country. Mark thisl The shibboleth
of this age, Competition" is dying
with the century that gave it birth; it
is not found so full of blessing, nor so
essential to the exercise of individual
energy as it was once believed to be.
Educational progress, where it was
deemed indispensable, is fast discard
ing it. and this will extend to other
fields Of social action. We must not
be frightened by words. In any case,
competition is inapplicable to the rail
way system, which is essentially a mo-
nOpoly.'
"'The results of your studies lead to
the conclusion that state ownership is
the only sOlutiOnP'
"'Most sssuredly. The fair pre-
sumption is that railroads, like all
other roads, should be under public
authority, and this is confirmed by
practical experience. In other words,
that to secure the full advantages of
which the railway system is capable, it
should be in the ownership of the state
as the trustee of the public
"'BOth for England and American
"'FOr all countries: The worse state
system conceivable could not have
made a more miserable failure in ad.
ministering such a trust than we wit
ness to-day in your country. At last
we should know whom to hang. 1t is
little better in England, where free
competition has been tempered with
legislation. In the one case specula-
tors have defrsuded the public; in the
other case Oligarchies control trans
portation, and in their greed destroy
industry and trade"
The British public has become yet
further exasperated by a recent ad-
vance in the already exorbitant freight
rates, ranging from 50 to III per cent.
The way in which the railroads ma
nipulate the rates is well shown by Mr..
Porter's report of the words of Mr..
Hole:
"When we want to compete on the
continent we find ourselves driven out
of our old markets by lower foreign
rates. Girders from Belgium were
sent through Grimsby for lower rate
per ton, though there is loading and
unloading twice over, than from Shelf
field to Grimsby, with one loading and
unloading. The Northumberland
farmer says, 1T will cost me more to
send cattle to Liverpool than to send
them from Chicago or New York 1t
costs more to send grain from the
Eastern counties to Birmingham than
it does from Odessa, and it costs more
to send cheese from Cheshire to Lon
don than to take it from New York
right past the Cheshire stations to Lon.
don."
Mr.. Hole significantly says that for
private individuals to inaugurate such
a system is, "to say the least of it, one
of the most striking, and at the same
time pernicious, anomalies ever re-
corded in the annals of commercial
The advocate., 1895-01-02
MARKET REPORTs.

CHICAGO, Dec. 8l.-WHBAT-Dec. 5S5s cents;
May, 57249B cents; July, $50 cents
CoRN-Dec. 4515 cents; Jan. 459s cents; May,
4S1l cents; July, 48 cents,
oATs-Dec. 2S2 cents; Jan, 283s cents; May,
3l9S cents; Feb, 2O9S cents.
PoRK-Dec., slL45; Jan, $l1.5215; May, 1896.
LARD-Dec. $6.S211; Jan, $6,S215; May, SLO99
TO715.
RIBs-Dec., IS 80; Jan, $3.50; May, $6,O5.
RYE-Cash 48 cents; Dec, 4S cents May, SO
cents.
FLAx-Cash sold S183.
TIMoTHY-Nothing doing.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 81. - CATTLE-Receipts,
1900; shipments, 1,4OO Market dull; 10 csntSd
higher. Texas steers, S25O@3; Texas COWS, S2@o
275; beef steers, $395.25; native COWS, $lg385 --
stockers and feeders, s225985O; bulls and-n,
mixed, S99325. y
HoGs-Receipts, 5000; shipments, 600. Mar
ket dull to 10 cents higher. Bulk Of sales S42O o
@45O heavies, SL2594GO; packers, $42O@46O s,o SSs
mixed. $4O5945O; lights, sSSO@L15; ycrkersens
81 1O@415; pigs, S3g465 rot
SHEEP-Recelpts, 1900; shipments, none an
Market steady and unchanged. ,ald
No grain markets to-day. .
BUTTEE-Qulet and steady. Creamery, 100 :
20 cents; dairy, 14(9r7 cents
EGGs-Flrm, strictly fresh 1601615 cents.
When writing to our advertisers al
The advocate., 1895-01-02

When writing ~ our advertisers al
ways mention the ADvonATE
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The News and Observer, Thursday, Aug. 22, 'o5.

Copper trong; exchange prices Sl2 25
Lead Strong; brokers' price 39s; eX-
change price 334@3%. -
Tin--E'irmer; raig1is IA l5W ~.
pelter- Quiet.
Cotfee-Options opened ba ely steady at
4010 points decline, closed easy at ne t
decline of 10M25 oints; March Sl4 Z. "a
IA IS: August SIS 05@15 10; September
$l5C0; N5vember ga 80; December S14 go;
spot Rio dull and easier; No Z, 1875; mild
quiet and easy; Cordova 1870 9
Sugar-Raw steady: fair refining 10 10
centrifugal, 95 test 81; refined quiet.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Aug 21-Flour-Dull;
Western superfne S250@2 IS; do extra
50 S0@3 Is; family $3.25@3 60; winter wheat
patent s. 65@3 so; spring wheat, patent
1864 90; do straight 50. 50@3 IS.
Wheat-Steady; spot 66H@664; August
66666I; September 66M@6626; December
6994@695s; steamer No. 2 red $50 81 !;
Southern wheat by sample 6716S; do on
grade 64x@67>k ..
Corn-O.d asy; new firm; spot 441a@44%
August -; September 1904; the year
8 A@3716; January 37@57B; Southern
white corn 44@4e: do. yellow corn 47@4S:
Oats-Steady, fair iGquiry; No white
western 270<71S; No. 2 mixed western 25@
251S.
Rye Inactive; No 2, IS.
Hay-h irm demand good; choice Timothy
$14. 500l5C0.
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BETWEEN CHESTER AND LENOIR.

The G. & L. railroad connects at Hickory
and Newton with Western North Carolida
railroad: LincoInton with Carolina Central
abroad; Gastonia with Southern railroad.
Yorkville with G g. G railroad; Cheste3
with Southern, G G & A, G G e. N and
81 o railroads. L. T. NICHOLS, Sept,
Fl. T. BEARD, Chester, s. &.
G.. T. and P. Ag't,
Yorkyille, S G
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RALEIGH MARKET.
RALEIGH. ". c.. Aug. & - z. =
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

NEW YORK, Aug, 21.-Speculation on
the Stock Exchange was characterised
by healthier tone than for some time
past and there were evidences that the
professional traders are to be no longer
allowed to control the market. The
favorable news of the crops was received
this morning from all over the grain
growing country and the good effect of
these advices was heightened by the
lowering of the rates of sterling ex-
change, the hardening tendency of which
has been one of the most depressing in
huences OF the share market. Prices of
the leading properties opened firm.
After / O'Clock the speculation became
unsettled and prices moved irregularly,
some realizations being effected. Around
delivery hour the coalers were pressed
for sale and there was general depre-
citation in values, the market closing
heavy in tone.
Bonds were irregular and active, the
sales aggregating 81, 4s4, 900.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21--Money on c, /
easy lat per cent, last loan at / ana
closed offered at l per cent Prime mer
camille paper 314@iM per cent. Sterling
exchange is easy, with actual business
In bankers bills at 49011490k for de
mand, and 4.S9@4 S9H for so days Poste d
rates 4-s91S@4 90 and 4.9o110491; Silver
4,sK@4ss16. Bar silver 66N Mexican
dollars 53x. Government bonds firm
State bonds dull. Railroad bonds irregu
lar.
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Train on the Scotland Neck Branch
Road leaves Weldon 3 45 p m, Halifax o.
IN, arrives Scotland Neck at 55 NJ
Greenville 6 81 p m, Kinston z IS . m. Re
turning leaves Kinston Z 20 a IN, Green.
vile % m; arriving Halifax at II 90 M
Weldon II 20 a m, daily except Sunday.
Trains on Washington Branch leave
Washington 90 a m, arrives Parmele 40
N, Tarboro 80 m, returning leaves
Tarboro 20 p m, Parmele 6 Top m, arrive
Washington IS p M, daily except Sunday.
Connects with trains on Scotland Neck
Branch
Train leaves Tarboro, n G, daily, except
Sunday, at 80 p m, Sunday 90 p m; ar
rives Plymouth 9 90 m, IS m. Re-
turning leaves Plymouth daily, except
Sunday, 8 90 a m, Sunday 30 m, arrives
Tarboro 10 IS M and II as I'm.
Train on Midland N Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily, except Sunday, 05 m
arriving Smithfeld z 30 m. Returning
leaves Smithfield 500 a m; arrives at
Goldsboro 8 30 a m.
Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky
Mount at 80 p m, arrives Nashville 05 .
N, Spring Hope $50 p m Returning leaves
Spring Hope 8 90 m, Nashville s 35 m,
arrives at Rocky Monnt 8 05 a m daily ex-
cept Sunday.
Trains on Latta Branch, Florence r r,
leave Latta $40 p m, arrive Dunbar sop
m Returning leave Dunbar 80 a m, ar
rive|4atta7 SO a m, daily except Sunday
Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw
for Clinton daily, except Sunday, at 10 p
m Returning leaves Clinton at 7:20 m,
Train No 7S makes close connection at
Weldon for all points north daily, all rail
via Richmond, and daily except Sunday
via Portsmouth and Bay Line Also at
Rocky Mount with Norfolk and Carolina
r R for Norfolk daily and all points north
via Norfolk, daily except Sunday
JOHN + DIVINE, Gen1 Supt
j r KENLY, Gen'l Manager
T NJ EMERSON Traffic Manager
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:. a.
SeahOard Airline.
Schedule in Effect May 5, 1895
TRAINS LEAVE RALEIGH:

1:26 A. NJ, DAILY.
Atlanta Special" Pullman Vestibule for
Henderson, Weldon, Petersburg, Rich
mond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, New York, and all points north. But
fet drawing room sleepers and Pullman
coaches Atlanta to Washington, parloF
cars Washington to NewsYork, Pullman
sleeping car Monroe to Portsmouth. Ar
rives at Washington 10:45 a m, Bsltt.
more IL noon, Philadelphia 800 p m, New
York 4:53 p m. Also for Portsmouth, Nor
folk, Old Point and local stations Sesboard
Il Roanoke railroad.
1871 A. NJ, DAILY.
For Henderson, Weldon, Suffolk, Ports
mouth, Norfolk and intermediate stations,
connects at Portsmouth with Bay Line for
Old Point and Baltimore; with Norfolk 81
Washington Steamboat company for Wash
tngton; with n Y p a. N railroad for Phil
delphia and points north; also at Weldon
with Atlantic Coast Line for Richmond
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York, and with Scotland Neck Branch
for Greenville, Washington and Plymouth
Pullman sleeping car Atlanta to Ports-
mouth
5:35 DAILY,
Atlanta Special" Pullman Vestibule foY
Southern Pines, Hamlet, Wilmington, Mon
roe, Charlotte, Chester, Clinton, Greenwood,
Abbeville, Athens, Atlanta, Macon, Mont
egomry, Mobile, New Orleans, Chattanooga.
Nashville, Memphis and all points south
and southwest; through Pullman Buffet
sleepers and day coaches Washington to
Atlanta, connecting directly at Union de-
pot, Atlanta, with diverging lines; also
Pullman sleeping car Portsmouth to Mon-
roe.
$40 P NJ, DAILY,
For Wilmington, Charlotte, Chester
Greenwood, Athens, Atlanta and all inter
suka uka ~
tion Atlanta, with diverging lines Pull.
man sleeping car Portsmouth to Atlanta.
TRAINS REACH RALEIGH:
$50 A NJ DAILY,
ATLANTA Special" Pullman VesribuIa
from New York, Philadelphia, BaltimoFs
Washington, Richmond, Portsmouth, NoE-
folk and all points north.
1885 p NJ DAILY
From Portsmouth and points north via
Bay Line, and n Y p and y Railroad; Pc.
tersburg, Richmond and Washington, and
points north via Atlantic Coast Line: also
from Greenville, Plymouth, Washtngtos
and eastern Carolina points via Weldon
1:21 A NJ, DAILY,
Atlanta Special" Pullman Vescibuls.
from Atlanta, Athens, Abbeville, GreeBa
wood, Chester and points south.
1925 A NJ DAILY,
From Charlotte, Athens, Atlanta and
intermediate stations.
The ATLANTA Special" leaving Raleigh
at 5:35 a m, makes close connection at Ham.
let for Bennettsville, Darlington, Charles.
ton; arriving at Charleston at 500 m;
also at Monroe for Charlotte, Shelby anG
Lincolnt0n. Also for WILMINGTON and
local stations G. G. r. r.
Nos 400 and 403, ATLANTA Special'' ara
solid Pullman Vestibule trains, composed
of magnificent day coaches and Palace
drawing room Buffet sleepers between
Washington and Atlanta without change,
on which there is no extra fare charged.
For information relative to scedules, eta.
apply TO ticket agent, or A j. Cooke, s p A
Raleigh, n. G.
JOHN II. WINDER,
General Manager
T. j. ANDERSON,
General Passenger Agent.
&. ST. JOHN. Vice President.
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GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, H., Aug. 21.-Oontinued
heavy liquidation marked to days SEES
sion in the wheat market and September
closed with loss of 7-Sc. Corn closed
with 8 loss; September 18 lower and
provisions at declines.
August 81
(Su@nInG CiaSina
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-22

If you're in doubt whether your trouble
is indigestion or dyspepsia, just take a
few doses OF Simmons Liver Regulator,
it will settle the whole question. 81
have tried Simmons Liver Regulator for
dyspepsia and find it just the thing to
relieve me. A small dose after meals is
sure to prevent indigestion. IS. S. Per-
kins, Sharon, Ga. at is the best medi-
cine to aid digestion. u. ]. Black, Dun
can. Arizona.
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COTTON MARKETS
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 -Cotton-Spot
closed firm: middling uplands ~; mid
ding gulf ~; sales 20S bales.
Futures opened strong; sales $500 bales.
Failures closed fl N; sales 2l3,300 ba es.
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NAVAL STORES.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2l.-Rosin steady;
Steady, at 2. M@27M.
CHARLESTON, k ug. 2l.-Rosin firm,
at 81 05@1.15.
Turpentint Firm, at 2 T.
WILMINGTON. Aug. 81 -Rosin firm ;
strained sl.15; good strained 100. Spirits
steady at z419@25. Tar eady at $1.35.
Turpentine quiet; ard LILO; SOFT 150; VIZ
gin 1 so.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 21.-Spirits turpentine
firm at 2 Is; sales -.
Rosin firm; water white $3.50; window
glass 81 60; N, 1906: M, 81 20; K, $l.8 ; /,
SL65; H, SL.50; G, s1.45; T, $1.45; Z, sL30;
ID, 81. 25; Z, s1.10.
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COTTON RULED STRONG
THE MARKET OPENED AT AN
ADVANCE AND CLOSED FIRM
AND HIGHER.
IT ADVANCED Il TO 10 POINTS.

The Basis OF the improvement was the
Weekly Government Crop Report In
dicating That the Crop is Suffering
From Drought in Texas and She'd
ding in the Upland States as a Re-
suit of Excessive Rains--Stocks Low
er and Unsettled.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-Cotton market
opened at an advance of 4a12 points
and closed firm at advance of 12a13
points. Total sales 213, 800 bales. Spot
firm and higher; middling uplands Z
So; middling gulf rs. The opening
of the market was excited and active
covering by shorts was feature. This
was supplemented by more confident
buying for outside account. The basis OF
the improvement was the weekly govern
ment crop report indicating that in Texas
the crop is suffering from drought while
in 1.-THE upland States shedding, as the
result of excessive rains, is general. The
English news was bullish. Private ca
bles said that an improved Manchester
outlook helped the Liverpool market. In
the afternoon the market showed consid-
cradle activity. Shorts continued to
buy, and outside buying orders for new
long accounts were reported, including
New Orleans business and some for Wall
street
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Cape Fear { Yadkin Valley
RAILWAY.
JOHN GILL, Receiver.
HDnAHnnA SohI.rInIr. ERRnrnA
JOHN GILL, Receiver.

Condensed Schedule--ln Effect
June %, 1895.
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+Daily tDaily except Sunday.
NORTH BOUND CONNECTIONS

NORTH BOUND CONNECTIONS
At Fayetteville with Atlantic Coast
Line for al POINTS north and east, at San
ford with the Seaboard Air line, at
Greensboro with the Southern Railway
Comp any, at Walnut Cove with the Nor
folk g. Western Railroad for Winston
Salem.
SOUTH BOUND CONNECTIONS
At Walnut Cove with the Norfolk &
Western Railroad for Roanoke and POINTS
north and west, at Greensboro with the
Southern Railway Company for Raleigh,
Richmond and all points north and east,
at Fayetteville with the Atlantic Coast
Line for all points south, at Maxton with
the Seaboard Air Line for Charlotte, At
lanta and all points south and southwest,
at Wilmington with the Wilmington Sea-
coast Railroad for Wrightsville and Ocean
View.
Trains No. l and dinner at Fayette-
Vile.
". E. KYLE,
GENT Pass. Agent.
W. FRY, Genl Manager.
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DOG TAX.

a tax upon every dog kept in the city
limits is due and payable to the Chief of
Every person owning dog who shall fail
to pay the tax urirg the month of July,
or who shall keep upon their premis IS an
unlicensed dog after the first day of )Au-
gust, shall be subject to a fine, ard all Der
sons who shall fail to give In their dogs
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeaI:or
ana fred five dol ars for each dog SO
omit ed. All unlicensed dogs will se
taken up and impounded after the frat
day IF August, 1895.
G. d. HEARTH,
Chief of Police
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Professional Card.

Doctors W. l. Register and Hubert A.
Register, having formed a co partnership
for the practice of medicine aud surgery,
offer their professional services to the
citizens of Raleigh and the surrounding
country.
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vERPooL.

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 21-1:30 P. NJ
Cotton-Spot, fair demand prices hi<her;
American middling 4 7-3. d.; good middling
3-33; merican middling 1916; Low mid
ding 13- 8; ordinary SID.
Sales the day We're 10, 600 bales, ef whic
1000 were for speculation and export, and
iacluded 9,700 bales American: receipts
- bales, including - bales American.
Futures opened stroag aud clos rather
ca Ter.