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E.ALEIGH MARKET
YEW YORK STOCK MARKET

II
New York, April 6.The stock mar
ket to-day, upon moderate volume OF
business. displayed an irregular course.
The opening speculation was larry
confident HI tone and commission
house buying on moderate scale was
apparent. the Improvement being due
ia n business like consideration Of IN
fuences having special application up
ON certain industries and properties.
The limited demand for exchange IN
the face of an easy money market, neu-
tralized the effect Of the high rates OF
sterling exchange and in some CIR
cIes. the belief was current that httie
If any gold, in addition 10 the SSOo,ooo
to be forwarded by tomorrow . steam
err. would be shipped this week.
Tobacco moved in sharp contrast 70
the general market, and although an
early concession of 1ss per cent was
fully recovered, the stock displayed a
sagging tendency and eventually clos
ed with a net loss of q point.
Toward midday, the market deyel-
oped a reactionary tendency IN anti
cipation of the passage OF the Cuban
resolutions in the House by a very
large majority. Realizations were gen
eral and the traders made effective
raids upon prices. The pressure TO sell,
carried the entire list below Saturday $
closing level.
The closing was weak and at the
lowest OF the day. The general net
losses, extending to point in num-
Der of shares.
Bonds were strong in the early deal
ings, with Northern Pacific and Mon
tana Firsts, Trust receipts, leading
with gain of 2h per cent. In later
dealings, however, the market weak
ened in sympathy with the reaction in
stocks. The sales were 100000.
nav YORK, April 8~Money ON call
easy at 3d3llI per cent: lest Dan 3, closed
A. aGn3l< per cent PINE saerc4ntiIe raDeT
s15Ma1S per cent. Sterling change firm,
with actual business IN .nkers' hills at
4 s9lt4 s91@ FOR dem md and 4.eEt11f 88Il for
80 DAYS pcsted rate s.e8n4 sql<. and
4 sgl1 a. 80 Commercial bills 4.s7 Il Bar
sitv.t, IS Silver certificates 681<16Sx
Mexican dollars 2. Government bords
srm State binds ina i've Rail Dad bonds
firm.
g., r e. reg s g. e." e 90 CON n s
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Dividends Did 1t.
OFFICE OF THE
EQUITABLE NATIONAL BANK,

CINCINNATI, Jan. y, 1894. }
Hon. John M, Pattison, President Union
Central Life Insurance Co, Cincin-
natl, o.
DEAR SIR ! take pleasure in &C
knoWlcdging receipt this day through
Z. W. Jewell, your General Agent in
this city, of so, 327.68, in payment Of
policy No s, 928 in your company
| wish to express to you my hearty
thanks My policy was for $40, 900 90,
and on your Life Rate Endowment Plan
| paid you but the Ordinary Life Pre-
MUM, just the same as | would have
paid any of the other leading companies
for policy to be paid only at death,
and yet your profits have been so large
that in little over % years it has ma
tured for an amount over the $40, 900 90
and thus have an Endowment Policy
at Ordinary Life Rates
am greatly pleased at my good for
tune. No other company known to me
gives such a contract, or secures such re
suits carry policies in number of
the leading companies, but / have none
whose results compare with this.
/ am glad that my own city of Cincin-
natl is the home Of such an institution
as the Union Central Life Insurance
Company, and as citizen | am proud
of it. am,
Yours respectfully,
GEORGE FISHER.
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Notice hx Executors.

The undersigned, having qualified as ex-
eeutors under the will of the late Mary r.
having claims against said decedent to ex-
hibit them before us on or before March Y.
1897. or this notice will be plead in bar of
sheir recovery.
All persons indebted to the said decedent
are notified TO make immediate payment to
us CHAS. Fl. BELVIN,
j. w. HARDIN,
Executors Mary h. Reade, deceased
Raleigh, m. g., March 18th, 1885.
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g4th quotations we're az follows:
Flour Nomin Il spring patents s3, l0@
3. 5. straights $9401255: wfntei
patent % 40W3.60: winter straight s3 20Q
335; export bakers 81 0002.25 VINE at
M 2 sprinU, 6E5l; No B, spring -, No. 9
red, 651TG68. Corn-NC. 2. white 2893M
2sM; No. yellow -. Oats-No. O. 49,
No. 2 white 2014 al: No. 8, white 19m
20I. Rye---No 2, .S51f. Barley NO. q
No. I, $50. Prime III cothy seed $3.50
PORK n ess pr Dbl, s8 8716@s5 50. Lard
per 10 lbs s o. Short RIB sides loose
kl55M4f0 ary-salte6 shoulders GDoxed)
~ 6E45<; short clear sides (boxedl 4MdrsX
Whiskev. distillers' fnshed goods per
gallon s1.22.
KEW YoAK
NEw YORK, april o. --rionr--S5troag;
ity nall patents SL20L4..0. bs4.1r ..atentA
o., S503 %. city mill clears 1 20, win
ter straights straits $500 B %, Minnesota
patents $3.50 1855; Minnesota bakars 81. 80
an l5;spirng low grades 81 l5M2 CO; winter
extras s2.65@3.tO winter lpE grade s220
gas.
RYE -four active and oady; superilne
t2 60QI2 40; fancy ~ 7002 20
Buckwh cat houl quiet, spot ST. s. buck
wheat quiet at Ala 2.
Corn meal active; yellow western ooaree
70 ty mill 759s74, brandywine ~ 10
AAJC~@ NShASbs 4NSs . WG9DDAI ANAaSu sf9lSstE
Barley steady; western mailing 4Og4s;
feeding 34Q13S, choice -.
barley malt Quiet; western 44155.
Wheat-Spot stronger; No. 2 store
ard elevator 80; I o -; No | Northern
IAN IN elevator 75h deliyeIed afoat 76h
fob, NO. harn Il VI In elevator; IN de-
Lyered: options No. red April osed
735l, May 717s@741[; June 72G725, clos
72K. July 711<975, closed TN August ~;
Septer Der 71M07l31, CLOS, d 7316 Decem
Der closed 75.
Corn-Spot stronger, 10 Q, 2sN9s1l, in
elevator 39@39H sfi at; yellow 8s11; M
q AIDED mixed 3d. steamer yellow 49, steam
or mixed BIN steamer white -; options
April IN y 85Sx Ggsfh, closed e6 June
-. July 3bH, closer ~; eotemp
Oats SCOT firmer; No. z, S5l(; No red
-, No. 3 delivered 25h. No. 5 24024h,
NO 2 white 26A N261s; No. 3 white N,
track mixed western 24N26bs; t. ack white
25090 ontions-April closed 25A, May
closed asa
Feed Dull.
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tsHAlNAND PHoDUoE NAHKETf
CHICAGO

Chicago, H., April g.. This was a
great bull day in the wheat market
which closed at 66A for May or 2 cents
over Saturdays close. 1T got assis-
lance from all quarters but the de
mand for export. Corn was quiet but
firm with but little for sale. Hog pro
ducts were quiet and showed little
change.
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NEW YORK.

New York. April Cotton Spot
cotton closed quiet; middling uplands,
~; middling gulf, rs; receipts, none.
Futures opened quiet and steady;
sales $500 bales.
Futures closed quiet and steady;
sales 80. 500 Eales
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NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, April 6.-Futures dull;
OTHER MARKETS.


Norfolk firm, 11-16; $50 bales.
baltimore nominal, ~; As bales.
Boston steady, 77s; TAT bales.
Wilmington quiet, rs; 153 bales.
Philadelphia quiet, So; - bales.
Savannah steady, z 9-16; 976 bales.
New Orleans quiet and steady, 73s;
{, 400 bales.
Augusta quiet and stead, ll-l6:
two days. $50 bales.
Charleston quiet, rs; 663 bales
New York Quiet 71s; bales.
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c0rT(lN R.EClEIPTS.

New York, April 6The following
are the net receipts Of cotton at all
United States ports since September
/. 1895.
Galveston, 81 1863 bales; New Or
leans. SIC. go; Mobile, 1917, s85; Sayan-
nah. 700, $50; Charleston, 269,591; Will
Elington, lGa, 499; Norfolk, 3O4,843; Bal
timore. IS. 6G8. Kew York, $3.50; Bos-
ton. l19, 461., Newport News, 14,4l4;
Philadelphia, 1921; West Point, w.,
140 651: brunswick, ~, 436; Pensacola,
"a. 872: Port Royal, $3.50; Texas City,
53,273; total, 4,770,084.
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For tho cost Of a policy on your life
like the above address,
CAREY ] HUNTER, Supt. for Va. & N. @.
Raleigh, N @.
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OFFICERS.

JOHN GILL, President.
W. W. SPENCE Vice. President.
Q. r. SPENCE. Third Vice President
90. FISHER, Secretary ana Treasurer
JOHN MoHENkH, ASS { Sec'y ana Tres
LOUIS MCBANE, Chairman.
ANbkEW bEID, BERNARD CALM h.
JNO. A. HAMILTON, ALEX SHAW.
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Everybody in Raleigh and ont of Ral-
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aggravating things the drivers DO just to provoke
us They will squeeze In between an up-going car
and a down-going car. and It's all man can do
to keep from crushing into them. The ladies
bother us a lot too They won't get on the right
side OF the crossing to take the car and they will
insist upon stopping when the car Is really too
full TO hold another passenger; then when they
want to get on instead OF coming out to the track
before they stop us. they stand on the pavement
and some slowgong wagon gets in between and
We have no end OF delay before they can get on
board"
The mall wagons. the carts and vans. and needless
women are thorns In the flesh TO the gripman but
those annoyances pale INTO insgnihcance compared
with the Fostering performances OF the small boy.
THE newsboys bad enough lodging and dart
ing before the car but | kind o. sympathize with
them. because being 80 crazy to sell their papers,
they forget everything else when they see a GUS
toner on the other side OF the street. But these up
town children with nothing to do. that get on the
track ahead. and dance up and down just for sheer
devment. make me tired" said a gripman on the
Lexington ave line. "I've had them scoot out in
front when It was all that man could do to slow
down In time to keep from running over them; and
II one OF them got hurt. the gripman would get no
end OF blame-and perhaps a lynching" he added.
Does II take long to learn to be grpman?"
he repeated after the questoner. We'll. that de-
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pends a good deal the man. Two seen men
we'll set up whom would have picked out as likely
70 make hrst-rate gripmen throw up the Job In
three trials 1t takes pretty much the same quail
ties to make the right sort Of a gripman as 1t
does to make a good driver; and l say that a
gripman's work Is harder than an engineers. Pro-
yIded he understands how to run his engine. all
that the engineer has to do Is to let her out on
plain clean track with nothing In the way; but
the motorman has to be constantly on the alert.
watching the corners, to see about passengers.
stopping 10 let people off, noticing the wagons
and bicycles and foot passengers ahead Of him.
He has got to have a quick eye and a clear head
to tend to his business right
Then, some men have naturally smooth. hrm
hand on the wheel. There Is no need Of car
being started of with a rough jerk that throws
all the standing passengers swinging into the
laps Of those sitting. Whenever this is done 1t Is
owing to carelessness the gripman's part. 1t Is
a little harder to start the car of smooth but
II can be done with easy. swinging motion
every time, II the gripman tries. just as horse
starts of with a sudden jerk or steps on easily
and naturally.
what class Of applicants make the best grip
menu"
"I think taking 1t all round. that the Ameri-
csn-born country boy man. used to driving and
stronr and healthy, 10 the best material we have
TO draw from. In two weeks they get so they can
take q tripper' downtown and back All sorts OF
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norant, but in late years number Of your writers
have been mixing realism and romanticism In
such way that they would not appeal to us
even II We did know them. Your classics. on the
other hand, are thoroughly appreciated in Ger
many. and we consider Shakespeare almost our
own. Among modern writers. Dickens. Thack-
cray, Scott, George Eliot and Bulwer are very
popular OF your very latest authors l think
that Kipling Is the most read. He Is liked, how
ever, mainly by literary men. and the public Is
not yet really acquainted with him. He Is GER
tainly a very great artist
Our knowledge Of American literature is also
very meagre. Hawthorne. Whitman and
Thoreau We do not know at all Bret Harte Is
the most widely read, and think of him
is also popular and all laugh at his
jokes. OF your poets. Poe is the best known.
and in later years Adrich's name Is often men,
toned"
Our talk ended with some general remarks
about America He expects before long to cross
the water. and I was somewhat curious to
know what he expected to find. AS general
thing | think that most Germans look upon
America as more or less a colonial world.
They all know that it Is politically independent,
but my finding Is that they consider 1t quite
dependent in social and intellectual matters
Herr Sudermann expects to find an entirely
new world. He thinks that we have left Eu-
rope far behind in many particulars. and has
great hopes for our institutions He believes
however that we are still much In the max
ing. and that Europeans are not justified In
tossing off their Judgments upon us until We
have had more time to develop.
Ny final impression OF Sudermann was quite
distinct from the popular one. AS rule ne is
called a preacher. and his plays and novels are
said to be sermons taken from BIBLICAL tex' s.
Doubtless he breaches. but feel sure tnat IL II
unconsciously done. and only as experience ana
a knowledge Of the vcissitudes OF life inspire
his representations 1t is as painter preaches
by the truth Of his colors and the exactness Oh
his details I can think OF him only as the
artist. and 1t is as such that he seeks public
hearing.
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THE TRIALS OF A GRIPMAN
THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE HARD FOR MEN
WHO RUN CABLE-CARS.
BREAKING IN NEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. WAGONS AND
CHIDREN

CANDIDATES-WOMEN. WAGONS AND
CHILDREN.
Probably no man in New-York has cast at him
as many glances Of appeal. inquiry. establishment.
Indignation wrath resignation In the course OF
a single day. by people Of every age. sex and con-
dtion. as the gripman Of a cable-car. From the
rising Of the sun. and even long after Its going
down, he holds the destines Of north or southwark
bound travellers in the hollow Of his hand
III this will just stop for us, now, we'll get
there on time" says the belated matinee girl from
the upper west side. standing on the corner with
parasol appraised and reckoning theoretically to the
stawart grpman on the platform Of the on
coming car. Alas! Irritated at the coal wagon
which retarded his progress further up the line
the grpman speeds on to overtake his leader, ig-
noring the waving ruf1es Of the parasol with most
unchlvarous phlegm.
please stop the next car for u.s." two elderly
women are heard entreatng a policeman later In
the day, adding, Three have gone by without
noticing us In the least"
Again It is with halfsuppressed oath that the
stout man. who has vainly essayed to catch an
other gripmar's eye and board downtown
car crowds his newspaper into his pocket and
makes a run for 1t, managing to get on. breath
less and indignant q rod or so further down the
street.
Have to make time" mutters the gripman, to
satisfy any pangs of conscience he may have.
Another right behind that he could have taken
just as WE'LL ana co the procession goes OF up
ward and downward moving passengers, motion
Ing. reckoning and signalling to be carried toward
their destination.
The gr!pman Is not always obtuse, however,
nor deaf. bird as he may seem; he has
trials and fluctuations that are unknown to those
who anathematize him.
These United States mail wagons are enough
to plague a SAINT declares of the band.
They know that charged particu-
larry to give them ample chance and they take
advantage Of US. They more trouble than any
thing else on wheels in NewYork. I've had one
OF those wagons go along for whole squares d.
recty the track In front OF me- when there was
plenty OF chance for the driver to turn out.
brewery wagon, too. Is bothersome: their drivers
are nearly always half asleep full OF beer. they
don't know half the time what they are doing
All loaded wagons and vans We are instructed to
give way to. and l could not begin to tell the
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ARTILLERY RED TAPE.
AN OFFICER WHO SPENDS FOUR HOURS DAY
IN TRAVEL BECAUSE HE HAS NO LAUNCH.

AN OFFICER WHO SPENDS FOUR HOURS DAY
~ rp.vrr. BECAUSE HE HAS NO LAUNCH
n,om,nent artillery officer. speaking about coast
,.,.asa IN. other day. said: "we. guess coast
defences are doomed once more II read the Signs
Alright There is one thing. however. the GoVefhhe"'
nigh, do for the New-York defences IL might tur-
NTH launch for the use OF omcers PASSING o"
necessary duty between Fort Wadsworth ana Fort
IIaunu,on a, the Narrows. Colonel Miller. the COM
mandant al Fort Hamilton. and VINO. IN iac'. mas
General supervision OF the two posts. has MS mead
a,ar,.rs IN Long Island. Every day In the week.
SUNDAY. excepted ne has to go over TO Fort WadS-
worth and do you know how he goes he mas 10
,eave Fort Hamilton early In the morning. take the
trolley road TO the South Brooklyn Terry AT Ih'r'y-
n,,th-st. then cross to the Battery ana there take
~. staten Island ferry for Staten Island. and on
tho island board the train for Fort Wadsworth. he
10 four hours day on boat train or electrician.
and tho Government is deprived OF his services for
that time. In other words he consumes one day
and four hours Of each week riding 10 ana from MS
work at either end Of the line.
.T, a launch was furnished at the Narrows the
,r,n could he made In about twenty minutes. and
among the artillerymen a. the forts men could be
found who can nj, every position on the launch
from pilot to engineer. Now. ! was over TO Gov. Gov.
e or FOUR launches tied up to wharf or course.
dc not know whether any OF them are worth any
The BAY should have some accommodations for
closer Communication. The same Is true perhaps
in less important sense, Of Willets Point and
Fort SCHUYLER. up the Sound. But. as between Fort
Wadsworth and Fort Hamilton. there should be a
method of quick communication. Messages are al,
ways passing back and FORTH and It seems absurd
thai the roundabout way now followed should be
necessary Why. Colonel Miller has convenient
ha roe down AT Fort Hamilton and the Government
Will not even give him boathouse In which to keep
indiydnai property yet he would use 1t. am
II the Government would give It protection But
Uncle Sam won't do that apparently It's
Sissustne" and the officer threw up his hands as II
TO add: Firm sick OF the whole business and wish
was out OF It," but he didn't
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HERMANN SUDERMANN.
-, INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR OF
mazda"

Berlin, April l.
4. Tho present moment there Is no writer IN
INV who arouses more interest In his per-
o,,v and Is more widely read than the realist'
1y.roann sudermann. There Is also none. not
~ excepting Heyse. with greater inter-
..,ora, reputation. In Italy one finds his casa
no,arna" in every bookstall, while Sarah Bern
rat in France and Duse in England and Amer
10 have made Magda, its heroine. familiar
oh.racter to playgoers. His novels too, par
,,cularly Frau Sorge.' have been translated ih'o
..veral foreign languages. In Berlin, where herr
crdermann lives he may almost be said 10 nave
,onopozed public attention. and until recently
~ modern plays have appeared on the poaros
- frequently. His last work. "Das GlucK I'M
yynkel." which he considers his best, was given
srst in the provinces, and Is not to appear III
parn for a month or so to come. but tnis is d
,esult of the operations Of the Berlin cliques
rather than on account of any unpopuarity OF
The author or his works The capital Is just now
n tho hands of these SETS" and they manage
things pretty much to suit their own petty
rotions and jealousies They have not succeeded.
however. in putting anything on the boards
which can compare as popular ana artistlc
srccess with Sudermanns "Heimath." This
,n remains the masterpiece in late modern Ger
nan drama
A few days ago it was my good fortune to be
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SAGE ADVICE FROM THE PATENT OFFICE.
From The Washington Star.

From The washington our.
There are some things that the Patent once
does and here are some things that we are too
birhiy educated to touch" observed an omciaI OF
the Patent Office "A few days ago the once re-
natl in which he said: i am anxious to buy bicy-
Gle for my daughter. but cannot decide which OF tne
vne machines now on the market Is the best
p,ease advise me what machine the Patent ONCE
thinks is the best? To answer the letter wouia nave
tSs President declaring war with Cuba. and SO we
niv said in reply that ne could ascertain for HIM
s smp Nv reading the advertisements of the various
machines in the newspaper Ysste rS cane a
havs resd 90 much on the bicycle question that
s, nearly driven to drink. bat up TO this writing
have not been able to decide