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RANK STATEMENT.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

New York, Oct. 31.-To-day's market
practically consisted of Sugar, Reading
and ST. Paul, no other stock reaching
the 5000 share mark. The course OF
prices was irregular, some of the
fluctuations recorded in the principal
shares were material, Lake Shore, for
example, advancing 3 per cent. The
early dealings were characterized by
decided strength, but realizations sub
sequently caused concessions. A slump
in money rates to 10 per cent as the
maximum, with the average and clos
ing at 6, exerted a reossuring infiu-
ence. After the first hour the market
became very dull, owing to uncertainty
regarding the bank statement. The
exhibit was paarently consistent in
all items and was more favorable than
had been anticipated, showig am in
crease of Sc, 5O2, 305 in legal reserve, but
was not reflected in the later trading.
Thee losing was irregular, but with
material net improvements in NUM-
Der of the leading shares.
The bond market for the week inn
proved with the movement in stocks
and exhibited enlarged investment in
quiry, for the gilt-edge issues toward
the close. In speculative bonds good
demand was also noted with the Read
ing and Atchison issues prominent. The
total sales were $6,289, 900. Govern
ments were irregular, but with good
undertone. The movement was irregu-
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AGH ::
Snail PHI. Smell Gaia Snail Price

lN THE RoulT QUIT or THE { AITED STRTEs,
] EASTERN DISTRICT or SoRTa CAROLINA.
VIM r. tfe.ez & nn3 cs' a~s va Il Lang
don II SIC 80 J ~ ing C;m~any and
In the ehev .ttl q nee the undor.
signed avn . eV appointed nl&stet Ito
take an eccount III 81 the indeD' efness of
said company ahu uhe natul e OF saIa IN.
deDtEdness e5a Dc order and priority OF
other ecia' II +eow " ie;i hi shall re
Quired 10 ivn5i5 nv euy dsstY to these pro.
ceeGng1 04- il G-.sEeE - No 20 Ice
1y p1hliee a 'EA1 fa1f Wessisg
a. Some s, sgse-lsscv 81 = s1i - 80 ei3,-
Raleigh, ana ms GoTstfkff 3 ii II i
in the cou tssai 0iiss q Lazy, % aNTer
sons hnvis@ ID isa 0fnn. 'fra rrsa sa5c6 u
tisn whaIsc ~. ag inst s41f coma any 70
file tie ils.l tsaeiafs s. sid Slain hefurettd.
said I'd, Jhambet~ saltth.& glkl1S afg8
er notice UIE hs. t5fnes~Gna Iaeas zqtiage BIS
viii recssiv psNtf ~ sAi caIags. Or evil
deIlce against sa il claimss now, in puFsu
ance Of said oroer notice is hereby given 70
ali creditors of the said defendant, The
Langdon HensZey Coal Mining Company, to
presepE til cir elnims tn me prop riy yetkfi@d
at my office In the Pnllen buildis e, Raleigh,
n. c., on or bef1Te SATURDAY., November q,
1896, on sheg viii be eass cd fiona nsr,icipa.
ton Il fts43s nnder tic censrui o the
Ihoss hucing bonds Of the de endant
Company VII lie verified statements set
ting forth tie On Z. etnomina1ion number
and amount sucn bonds, whether they
are owned absolutely Dv the claimant eT
have been hYpogheea ed Or are held in
trust, &c
And all parties ella ming any interest in
any Of the bonds or osher indebtedness of
the said LaBgcon Fl. nszey Coal Mining
Company viii file verified statements SET
ting forth the nature of such interest, how
acquitted, &c, &c
And eli persons claiming a lien CT any de-
scription on any If The property of said
Lang1on Hershey Coal Mining Company
will file verified statements specifying the
amount Of such lien ard the property on
which 1t II claimed
Motto is further given that at my said of
fee Ia the pul en- build ng in Raleigh. N. c.,
at 10 o'clock a m. ,on lid 2lst ay Novem.
ber / shall proceed to pass upon said
claims, and oppol tunity viii be given to all
part es claiming any int rest in disputed
claims to present pFonfs Of their interest.
ED. sCHAMB Frs SMITH,
SneciaI Master.
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Tallow duIl city (S2 per package) 37s
Country packages free 34, as to quality.
petroleum quiet United closed at $l.lS
bid refined New York $500; Philadelphia
and Baltimore $685.; do. in bulk $i.40.
Rosin firm; strained, common to good
Turpentine quiet at 281@29
Rice firm; domestic, fair TO extra 3&06;
Japan 3%044.
Molasses irregular; New Orleans, open ket-
tie, good to choice 29a31.
Pig iron quiet; southern Sl0.25; northern
$l675al259; exchange $l0.750l0.S5.
Copper quiet lake brokers' $l075 exchange
Lead steady; brokers $3.50; exchange $3.50
Tin firm; straigats sI30Oal81o; plates
steady.
spelter firm domestic S38O@8864.
Cotton seed oil barely steady; prime crude
22%; do. l. .. p. mills 10; oil crude - nomi-
mer yellow ~; butter grades ~; prime white
28,a@8,
Couee, spot Rio quiet No. Z, jobbing 1875
invoice 1915 mild quiet; COrdova l5(dl7.
Sugar, raw firm; fair refining "a; cen
trifugal, 96-test, 34; refined firm; No. 8,
10 Ii: o 7, 81, No; 8, 3 1l-l6; No. 9, So, No.
No. IA, 8 Is, Mould A, Ak standard A, AZ, con
PETITIONERS A, a., cut loaf "a, crushed AZ
powdered AZ, graduated AZ, cubes AZ.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Nov Flour dull and
unchanged; western super $2.40.a265; do
"a $3.55; DO. famlly S3.yUG4.5O winter Wheat
ats $l.iG4p4.d5; spring do. Sl.l5(G4 40; spring
wh,st straights $3.95@4.20.
Whelt steady; spot and November I6al6% ;
Deccmbe May -; steamer No. red, ia
0Q72@; Sout. wheat by sample, 15WU; do.
on grade iZA(t,.ti.
Corn firm; spot and November 2Qa7 030; No
vcmber and December new and old, 294;
January 30b03l February 81 bid; steamer
mixed 278lq28, Southern white corn 49,; do.
yellow -.
Oats steady; No 2 white 2e02j&; No. 2
mixed 22022&.
Rye firmer; No. 2, nearby, IL u; western
43(d44
Hay quiet but firm; choice Timothy $500
bid.
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RAIBIGH TOBACCO MARKET.
NAVAL STORES.

CHARLESTON, S. G., ? ov. l.-Rosfn firm
at 81. 4Hdl. 10.
Turpentine steady at 25.
WILMINGTON,g N. c.. November l.e-Rosin
firm: strained 81 so; good ..$1.55a spirits firm
at 34k(d)25.
Tar steady at $l.D0,
gin $3.50.
ss--sAvANNAH, Ga, Nov. 1-spirits firm at
254. Sales SIC. m
Rosin firm; water white $255; window glass
81. 80; M. 81 10: NJ Sl85; X, Sl.65; i ST go: H. 81 CO.
@, $l.60 II, Sl.60; Il, Si.50 ID, c. d and a
1.50. Sales 1.55S.
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CHICAGO. November /.
Opening. Closing,

Cash quotations were as follows:
so ;n 9niet s Nv Wheat 81 Nc: spring coz No Nc
No. White i7aais. Rye, No. Z, 85K. barley Iies
P FaR seed NJ So si 5SP PRIME hS r IaStE
seed $3.50. Mess pork per Dbl, ST. l0a7.l5 Lard.
perl00 lbs, S4.324 Short rib sidees Qoose)
$37003.90; dry-salted shoulders (boxeda) 4G
AZ; short clear sides (boxed) 4048. Whiskey,
dIstillers' finished goods per gallon $1l8.
NEW YORK.
NEW YoRK, Nov. l.--Flour dun; city
mill patents $490G05l5; do. clears $.406D450
winter patents $4.4504 90; do. straights $4.l0G
40; Minnesota patents $4.0O94.4 40; do. winter
extras S2.S061325; Minnesota bakers $500
3 80; winter low grades S220d2.45.
Southern flour steady; packages &.l0a4. 10.
Rye flour quiet superfine S2.S5; fancy $3.50
@320.
Buckwheat fourdullat $3.50
Iuckwheat quiet; prime track3.
Corn meal quiet; yellow western 81; city
RYE dun; No. western 43a44& ;car lots
Barley dull; western feeding 27Ka
284 Buffalo, six rowed state mailing, 36Ca38;
barley malt dun; western 50lQ55.
Wheat, spot inactive; No. 2 red o b S4A,
No Northern New York S0a t. o. b. afloat;
No ! hard S2% t. o. b. atoat; options, No. 2
January --; February ~; March S34(dS4,
closed 81; May 82As@S3 closed 50; October -;
November closed 1885, December 79k(d80
Corn, spot inactiVe No. y 81; options, May
34A934&, closed 34A, July -: October =; No
vember -: December BIZ, closed 3lT.
Oats, spot Inactive; No. 2, 2Z9; No. 2 deliv-
cred 23h; No. 8, 20H; No. 2 white -; No 3,
white %, track white western 25033; track
white State 22(033, options, March closed !;
May closed 264; October -; November; De
cember 23}kGS23%, closed 23k.
Feed dull; brand 45Q52k; middlings COG
65.
Rye feed, 50a52x; city, 55a57k.
Hay dull; shipping bS(G&O; good to choice
Hops firm; 1894 crop 2Ka4K, 1895 crop ga
~. 1896 crop 8(B10H, London firm at go.
Hides firm; wet selected, New Orleans, 65
lbs -; Galveston, 20a25 lbs, -, Buenos Ayres
dry, 20a24 lbs, nominal, State, common to
choice, 91(G10; California, 2la25 lbs, l5
Leather firm, Hemlock sole Buenos Ayres
light to heavy weights, 19&a20k acid, 2G13
Wool quiet; domestic fleece, l4alS; pulled
15a2U.
Coal steady.
Beef steady; family S9aSl0 extra mess
$500; beef hams $l6alS.00 packed $Sa900 city
extra India mess $1lal300
Cut meats steady; picked bellies 5(d5A;
picked shoulders a; do. hams S4ld9A.
Lard dull: western steam closed at $3.50
nominal; city 1916; October closed $4.65
nominal; refined firm; continent -, South
American compound =.
Pork dull; mess S8.50G900; short clears
SS75G0 1850: family $l2.60.
Butter weak; western dairy S9l24; do.
creamery l2AG20; do. factory 7al2; Elgins
20 imitation creamery 10kal4; State dairy lI(@
49, do, creamery l2Ra20.
Cheese dull; large State TAal0B; small
fancy small 7hGlO%; part skins 34G7; fun
Eggs weak; State and Pennsylvania 1ska
81 western fresh l5ale
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NEW YORK moNEY NARKET.

NEwY )RK. November 1.--Money on call
easier at 6a10 per cent; last loan 8: clc sed
per cent. Prime mercantile paner nominally
ut 7al0 per cent. Sterling exchange steady,
with actual business in bankers bills at
81. 84kG14 e4A for demand and $4.8lk a4.8lA
for sixty days. Posted rates $4.82tg4 82H and
4.S54GO4 S. Commercial bills, $4SGd4.804
Bar silver g. Mexican dollars 50t. Silver
certificates, -. Government bonds firm.
State bonds irregular. Railroad bonds strong.
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FLAG DAY DULLAESS
Wheat Showed Little Life and
Market Was Quiet.
MONEY SLUMPED TO 8 P. c.
This and Foreign Investment
Reassured Stock Market.
COTTON sCOREDGOOD ADVANCE
Closed a to 7 Points Net Gain on Good
Inquiry From Abroad and on
Advance in Fall River
Print Cloths.
COTTON oREDeooD ADVANCE

New York, Oct. 31.-The cotton mar
ket opened firm at los points advance
on favorable cables, strong Southern
spot markets, and tirmness and ac-
tivty in print cloths at Fall River. A
good inquiry from Manchester spin
9ers was also reported. After the open
ing there was another advance of 4Q5
points in good part on buying orders
for Southern account. The volume Of
business was small, howe, er and the
close was steady at a net advance Of
407 points.
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The two new, fast and powerful steam
ships
jamestown and Yorktowe

Leave Norfolk every Monday, Thursday
sud Saturday evening, arriving in New
York early the following afternoon in
time to make all evening connections
for points beyond.
For tickets and general information
apply to Railroad Ticket agents, or to
J. +. Mayer. 1912 Main street, Rich
mond, Va, If B. Crowell, Norfolk, Va,
J N. Smith, Old Point Comfort. Va, or
10 W. l.. GUILLAUDEU,
Vice Pres. ana Traffic Manager
Pier %. n. r foot Of Beach ST. N. 2.
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1ocAL sTocK MARKET.
GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Chicago, Oct. 31.-The observance of
Flag Day and the nearness of election
day made trade in the wheat pit very
light to-day, prices suffering nc. de-
cline, other markets were quiet but
comparatively strong, corn and oats
advancing We. and provisions 715610.
CHICAGO. November |.
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SUMNER EXCURSIONS
llIdI)olninionIline
FOR NEW YORK.

Leaving Norfolk, Va, daily at 7:30p p. m.
From Richmond, Va, Monday al 500
p. N. (via James River.
The ships of the Old Dominion Steam
ship Co., are first class and especially
arranged for the comfort of the travel.
ing public and offer the advantages of a
cool and delightful sea trip.
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Administrators Notice.

Having qualified as administrator of
Henry ~ Cowan, deceased. late of Wake
county, Norsh Carolina. this is TO notify al
persons having claims against the estate OF
said deceased to exhibit them to the under
signed, at Raleiq h, N c., on or before the
8rd day of October, 1897, or this notice will
be pleaded to bar any claim ther eafter; and
all persons indebted to said estate must
make Immediate payment to me.
This the 3rd day of October, 1896.
G. b. benson, Admir-.
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NEW YORK.
NEW Yonk s. November I.-Foturos opened
Spot cotton closed quiet; middling uplands
81: middling gulf SO: sales q bales.
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. November 1.-4:15 p. Moot
ton Closing-spot, in fair demand and prices
firm; American middling 1872.
Sales of the day were 10000 bales, of which
500 were for speculation and export and in
cluded $500 Americans: receipts, 25,O00 bales
including &c, 800 bales American.
EutIres closed EteadY at The advance.
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NEW ORLEANS.
RALEfGH COTTON MARKET.

RALEIGH, n. c., November /.
Cotton selling today at 64979s.
Receipts 2S5 bales
Market firm.
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JOHN GILL, President.
w. w. SPENCE, Vice. President
C. r.. SPENCE, Third Vice President
Il. @. FISHER, Secretary and Treasurer.
JOHN MOH ENRY, Asst Seciy and Tres.
LOUIS MoLANE, Chairman
ANDREW REID, BFRNARD Calm
5NO. A. HAMBLET0N, ALEX SHAW.
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Your Attention
F. Z Minutes, Please.

We have three items we wish TO tell yos
about. Something choice and extra nice
and we VIII occupy minute with each:
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Interest Allowed on Deposits.

which may be made at any time aud With
drawn after five days notice and VIII be
entitled to interest for the whole time they
may remain with the company.
Acts as trustee of mortgages of corpora
tions, and accepts the transfer agency and
registry of stocks.
Executors, administrators or trustees OF
estates, religious and benevolent institu-
lions, and individuals will find this COM
pany convenient depository for money
and for the safe keeping of securities.
Safe deposit boxes for rent. Vaults sup
piled for storage of silver chests, etc
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New Roe Herring.

Exceptionally nice invoice just received
They make very appetizfng break fast
relish Just now.
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Queen Olives.

A special.lot of the Mammoth variety, the
finest ever brought to the city.
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Mercantile Trust and
Deposit Gonna
OF BALTIMORE.

Capital, SL0GG OO0O8
Surplus and undivided profits, SCI, 1918
This company is a legal depository for
moneys paid into court, and is authorized
act as executor, administrator, guardian
or trustee.
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OTHER MARK ETs.

Norfolk, steady, ~, 6,501 bales.
Baltimore. duh, ~, -. bales.
Boston, quiet, l5-l6 1918 bales.
Philadelphia, quiet, So, Ia bales
Wilmington, firm. I2s, 1865 bales.
Savannah. quiet, TX, g,l30 bales.
New Orleans, firm, 5-l6, 1880 bales.
Augusta, steady, 7lG, 4,sg3 bales
Charleston, firm, rs, 2.426 bales.
New York, quiet, SIS, 32S bales.
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SmithfeId Hams.

2,OO0 lbsof the finest Virginia Hams sba
can be bought have just been received, ano
are being offered to-day.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-07-31
why He Leaves His Party.

Mr.. Samuel Dickson of Philadelphia,
lifelong Democrat and an influential
citizen, has resigned as a presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket. Among
other reasons for his action he gave the
following:
1t is merely paltering with the truth
to pretend to acquiesce in the expert
ment of trying to make the product Of
days labor in silver mine worth
two or five times as much as the product
Of days labor in gold or an iron
mine. At the present time the results
of days work in one occupation are
worth approximately and in the long
run as much as in any other. To affix
an artificial value upon silver ore is q
dishonest and unjust discrimination
against every other form of industry,
and when it is done by calling it legal
tender it is done at the expense of every
class in the community except the money
lenders and the money changers.
With currencies of different value in
circulation, the money lenders always
thrive at the expense of the people, and
the debtor must suffer more than the
wage Garner 1t was favorite saying
of Lord Palmerston that high rate of
interest meant bad security, and the
owner of money must charge for the
risk if there is q chance that when he
lends bar. of gold he may be forced to
take payment in a bar of silver, just as
the owner of horse will hesitate to
lend it with a chance of being given in
return sheep or pig. That is all
there is in bimetallism as practical
question as between the lender and the
borrower, and, so stated, it ought to be
easy to understand why, until it is
stated, hundreds of millions of capital
are lying idle which would be at the
service of the south and west if they
were willing to give back what they got.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-07-31
Attacking Home Builders.

The silverite candidate for president
nominated at Chicago declared: 1--WE
are fighting for our Lomes, our families
and posterity." Mr.. Bryan neglected to
say how policy of debt reputation
and property confscation would estab-
lish more firmly the right of men who
build homes to own them. If, as he
seems to think, tho fact that some debt
ors are poor justifies the wholesale rob-
berry of creditors, would not the same
logic entitle the millions who have no
land or homes to share the property Of
the farmers who have by hard work Sc
cured home and little wealth? Can
an agitation which attacks capital and
property rights be truly said to be a
movement in defense Of the peoples
homes?
There are about 1000, 900 Americans
who have saved up little money and
deposited it in savings and other banks
or in building and loan associations. A
large proportion Of the 5000, 900 have
saved from their small earnings in hope
of ono day having enough to get home
for their old age. Mr.. Bryan's 16 to
scheme would cut the value of all these
savings in two. Is that policy in de-
tense of the American homer
Fighting for our homes" sounds
we'll Fighting to prevent the masses
from getting homes would be a more
truthful statement of the silverite agi-
tation
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-07-31

The Detroit Free Press of the 2Sth con-
tanned the following dispatch from Laings-
burg: "A careful survey of the effects of
the silver craze in this place fails to find
that anything but superficial work has been
accomplished. 1t is true that there Is a
deal of excitemen i'm favor of the white
metal, but the noise is being made by the
few, while the many say nothing. Without
doubt, good many democrats will sup
port new ticket and are anxious that one
be placed in the field, but while this is true
it is also true that some republicans are de-
serting; but considering all in all, the demo-
Gratis that will not support silver ticket,
more than counterbalance the republicans
that have bolted. Taking all things into
consideration and all things being compare
lively equal, Mckinley and Hobart will re-.
ceive here the largest vote ever given to
republican candidates"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-07-31

Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, who is
largely interested in silver mines, in speak.
ing of the currency issue, says: 1.-The Ques-
ton is, are we in favor of opening the minis
of the United States to the free coinage of
silver bullion of the world at twice the value
of that product? This question will soon
solve itself, if the sensible people of the
country study it. If the workingmen,
business men and farmers of this country
can only realize that the free coinage of
silver is in the interest of about 10000 pro-
ducers of silver, and can be Of no benefit to
anybody else, they will settle the matter
next November" He also says: 81 have
not felt so confident of an Overwhelming
victory since the Greeley campaign in 1872.
l have perfect confidence in the American
people, and in the three months that lie be-
tween this and election day they will do a
great deal of thinking and deciding for
themselves"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-07-31
VICTIMS OF CHEAP MONEY.


Macaulsy's Description of Those who suf-
fered by Clipped Coins In the Severn
teenth Century.
Free coinage at 16 to is equivalent
to clipping from 40 to 80 cents from the
present dollar. 1t would give us a de-
based dollar of varying val-a. The
world mas had experience with clipped
coins. Poorly minted coins during
Queen Elizabeth's timo made it easy to
clip them. Coin clipping was carried ON
extensively during the rest Of the six
teenth and during all of the seventeenth
century. By 1895, Macaulay tells us,
sit could hardly be said that the coun-
try possessed, for practical purposes,
any measure Of the value of commodi-
ties -
Speaking Of the effects upon the peo-
pie at large of this debased coin of I'M
certain value, this great historian says
that "it may we'll be doubted whether
all the misery which had been inflicted
on the English nation in quarter of q
century by bad kings, bad ministers,
bad parliaments and bad judges was
C4udl w UuO iiiioCiJ Cduotu III ~
of years by bad crowns and bad shil-
lings." He describes the workings and
effects in the following language:
But when the great instrument of ex-
change became thoroughly deranged,
all trade, all industry, were smitten as
with palsy. The evil was felt daily
and hourly in almost every place and
by almost every class, in the dairy and
on the thrashing floor, by the anvil and
by the loom, ON the pillows of the ocean
and in the depths of the mine. Nothing
could be purchased without a dispute.
Over every counter there was wrangling
from morning to night. The workman
and his employer had quarrel as regu-
larly as the Saturday came round. On
fair day or market day the clamors,
the reproaches, the taunts, the curses
were incessant, and it was we'll If no
booth was overturned and no head
broken. No merchant would contract to
deliver goods without making some
stipulation about the quality of the coin
in which he was to be paid. Even men
Of business were often bewildered by
the confusion into which all pecuniary
transactions were thrown. The simple
and the careless were pillaged without
mercy by extortioners, whose demands
grew even more rapidly than the money
shrank. Tho price of the necessaries
Of life, of shoes, of ale, Of oatmeal, rose
fast.
The laborer found that the bit of
metal which, when he received it, was
called shilling would hardly, when
he warte1 to purchase pot of beer or
loaf of rye bread, go as far as six
pence. Where artisans of more than
usual intelligence were collected in
great numbers, as in the dockyards at
Chatham, they were able to make their
complaints heard and to obtain some
redress. But the ignorant and helpless
peasant was cruelty ground between
one class which would give money only
by tale and another which would take
it only by weight. -"Macaulay' His
tory Of England"