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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

Northern Pacific preferred was D
chief sufferer in this respect - on -.
terday. but all Of the internationally
listed stocks were sold by London ~
some extent. II II estimated that ~
total Of London's sales reached 36.eoe
shares for the day. This was almoo&
without effec On prices here and failed
change. which was affected by heavy
offerings Of grain bills London WA
apparently eager to realize on AmeFfs
can securities and steadfastly declined
to enter the tempting field for specu-
lation offered by the New York mar.
ket. The Industrial group and the
stocks were conspicuous again today
for strength. Consolidated Gas lead
ing and showing o further net gain
OF 5 points. The Changers were heav.
lily bought and advanced at n time
nearly a point. The final decline left
the net gains in these m other active
stocks only a fraction. The Erie
stocks, Vanderbilts and the anthracite
coalers were also notable for some
sharp gains. Sugar ross at one time
pa. but closed with only a fractional
gain.
The total sales OF stocks today
amounted To 81. 200 shares. including
Atchison preferred ?.345. Chesapeake
and Ohio 10. 80. Chicago. Burlington
and Quincy 1875. Erie tnew) l0.915.
Louisville and Nashville lo.375, North
ern Pacific preferred 3 .2eo. Northwest
ern $3.50. Ontario and Western $500,
Reading q. $50. Rock Island li.2so. st.
Paul 1000, Southern railway $50.
Southern railway preferred 1850.
American Tobacco 50, 80. Bay State
Gas $3.50, Chicago Gas 21.i2o. Console
dated Gas $500. General Electric H.
10. Laclede Gas $3.50. silver certin-
Gates 5000. Sugar 2s.l70. Western Union
IL, $50, Chicago Great Western IL, $50.
Operations in railway bonds were at
tended by violent fluctuations in some
cases with Georgia Pacific firsts and
Union Pacific aus trust receipts con
spicuous for advance of ga and 3 per
cent. respectively. The market exhib-
tied a very strong tone throughout
with dealings on a heavy scale. The
aggregate sales were 50. $40. 900. Govern
ment bonds were heavy on moderate
sales.
The controlling factor in wheat again
today was the enormous export de-
mand. At least 1,000.0 600 bushels were
sold to go abroad. the continent get
ting two-thirds and the United King
dom the balance Foreigners were
buyers of futures also and. with the
pronounced strength Of English cables.
caused an advance OF Is to 1tc In New.
York prices for the day. Total transact
tons posted up S.755. 600 bushels. Sep
TENDER opend at S5c, ranged from san
to SEC and closed at S5Ac.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

ID you 60 to school, my little
MANI" asked the smiling visitor.
Nav" drawled the hopeful; I'm
sent."-Yonkers Statesman.
Am I to take this medicine inter-
nally or apply it externally?" asked
the lady customer Of the drug clerk
who was filling her prescription.
Whichever pleases you, madam;
the stuff Is perfectly harmless."-De-
troit Free Press.
Family Ffriend-I congratulate you.
my dear sir, on the marriage OF your
daughter. I see you are gradually get
ting all the girls off your hands.
Old Olivebranch-Off my hands-yes:
but the worst of it is, I have to keep
their husband on their feet.-Boston
Traveller.
Il have found out at last" said the
elderly boarder, the new boarder ~
a bachelor"
You don't mean to say that you
asked him?"
Nope. But last night when we SET
on the veranda taking a smoke he en-.
pressed the opinion that women rarely
say what they really think. "-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
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STATE PRESS.

The attitude of the negroes Of the south
toward the members of their race who arc
guilty Of this assault has been one that
has done more to injure the race In tho
eyes of the world than anything else.
With rare exceptions-so rare as to
make the exception regarded as almost
negroes of denunciation of the men OF
their race who are guilty Of the crime
for which lynchings is practiced. They
are loud in ~denouncing lynching and make
such a to do about 1T as to admit the con-
clusion that they do not regard IL as the
worst of crimes RaleIgh News and OBJ
server.
Where the schools are under the SUPER
vision of committeeman of honesty and
integrity and imbued with a sense of the
Importance of an educated citizenship. II
will be the part Of wisdom and patriotism
to vote for the tax, which would be only
a slight burden to the individual ax-pay
ers, but would aggregate a sum that
would prove of great advantage to the
public schools. Let IL be remembered too.
that for every dollar voted by q district,
the state will give another dollar, within
the limitation OF five hundred dollars TO n
district, or township. Where then condi-
tions indicate the ACCESSIBILITY of voting
this tax, the friends of education should
be active in explaining the local taxa
ton act and presenting its advantages
during the short time Intervening between
now and the election, which will be held
on Tuesday, August 0th.-Winston Sen.
tinel.
But the law is not only ~tyrannical IL Is
also incompetent and will fail to give US
progressive schools. The law seems to go
on the theory that II takes taxes alone to
make schools. TIL people will yet learn
to know that there Is more in system
than there Is in taxation. The law pres
ents no system and is apparently without
regulation. 1t Is cumbersome and will be
slow in operation. Suppose the district
hat is comprised by the town OF Chad
bourn should desire to erect a school
building, how could II proceed under this
law to levy the funds and build the struc-
ture! Suppos any serious difficulty
should arise between teachers and pupils.
to whom can the case be referred SO as
to secure instant judgment and protect
the interests of the school? Suppose the
patrons Of any school decide that their
equipment Is insufficient, that they need
new desks, charts, blackboards, etc, how
can they proceed to get them? Suppose
that they find the teacher Objectionable
and his salary extravagant, what redress
will they have? 1t viii take but a mo-
ments reflection on the part of any man
OF ordinary intelligence to reveal the fatal
defects Of the law. and we believe IL to be
the duty of every father who regards the
interests of his children to vote down the
tax and begin at once the agitation OF a
new school law under standard Of district
rule for the public school, and a division
OF the school taxes. Such a law will take
the school out OF politics and do equal
justice to all classes.-Fair Blun Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

Raleigh Press-Visitor: The Baptists of
Raleigh have erected a beautiful little
house of worship at Pilot Cotton mills
just north of this city. The settlement
around the mills has been growing rapidly
and now there is quite a colony there
A party from the east who came in on
the PIG north bound Seaboard Air Line
vestibule this morning reports that they
came near having a wreck near Laurin-
burg on the road between Wilmington and
Hamlet. An old colored man tagged
down the train and told the engineer that
a rail was out Of order ahead Of them.
After a short delay the rail was fixed so
that the train moved slowly over the
dangerous point. None Of the particulars
could be learned. It is not known how
the~rail came to be out Of place. 1t was
not thought to have been the work of
wreckers by the party who related the
incident.
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The Stock, Grain and Cotton Markets
fC1aoio1 % Tbo AFaCcnnOar

Especial TO LIE N1eSSeLSeTD
New York, August 4.-London higher
prices and st. Paul and Rock Island
greatly increased earnings were the
features. Granger stocks made new
high records at the opening, continu-
ing strong till the closing hour when
a cessation on buying orders and real
izing caused a reaction. Industrials
were strong, Tobacco, Gas n Sugar
making new records. The market is
going higher.
In cotton Liverpool was active with
sales of 1000 bales at a decline. The
home market was narrow and stag
nant. The crop outlook is favorable.
All that can be said is that prices are
we'll maintained on narrowness.
In wheat foreign cables opened
higher and the export demand was
good, another 1000. 900 bushels being
engaged. Every vessel in sight is
chartered for immediate sailing. Pri es
again advanced, making new records
for all options. Conservative people
think a reaction due, but ultimately
higher prices.
Provisions were strong on foreign
buying.
Corn declined on heavy rains
throughout the western states.
H. w. SILSBY e. CO.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, August 4.-The great ma
jority of sales of stocks on the ex-
change today was made at prices very
substantially above last nights clos
ing. But the market succumbed in the
last half hour to a sudden selling
movement induced by profit-taking.
The effect was to wipe out nearly all
the earlier gain in most tocks and to
leave the average level Of the market
but little changed from yesterday. The
sales of all stocks attained an aggre-
gate OF over $500 shares. The deal
ings in the last half hou were all at
lower prices and the only stocks to es-
cape the effect of the fall were those
not included in the later dealings. Ex-
cept for the final decline the market
was almost a repetition Of that Of yes
terday, copious purchases being made
of pretty much every stock in the list.
Very many sales Of odd lots were re-
corded, rejecting the ventures OF small
individual purchasers through COM
mission houses. There was not much
discrimination shown in this class of
buying, which embraced some OF the
stocks which have almost passed out
Of the field of attention On the ex-
change. A notable feature Of the trad
ing was the heavy selling for foreign
| account and the readiness with which
] these sales were absorbed and their
sentimental effect disregarded.
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The Chicago Markets.

for wheat took on the appearance Of
panicky apprehension Of inadequate
supplies. Exporters reported sales Of
about 1,50O. 900 bushels here and at the
seaboard. This market closed 115c
higher. The advance was checked by
the marked change Of a long line, es-
timated at 5000, 900 bushels. Liverpool
advanced an equivalent Of 2kc, Paris
2%c and Antwerp &c per bushel. Corn
yielded &c per bushel- on timely rains
west. Provisions were active, advanc-
ing 17h to 25c, the latter in pork.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
Rheumatism Cured in a Day.

Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days.
It's action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. It remove at
once the cause and the disease immedi-
ately disappears. The first dose great
ly benefits.
T.. F. Anthony, Ex-Postmaster Of
Promise City, Iowa, says: "I bought
one bottle of Mystic Cure for Rheu-
matism, and two doses of it did me
more good than any medicine ] ever
took" Is cents and $1.0O. Sold by J.
II. Hardin, Druggist, Wilmington,
N. C..
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Rock Point Notes.


Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Rocky Point, N. c., August 4.
S~easonable rains have at length fall
en-. thereby refreshing parched vegeta-
ton. The cotton crop is rapidlyxtak-
Ing on forms, squares and bolls, and
by the goth considerable cotton will be
open. With no extremes Of drouth nor
ain the crop throughout Fender coun-
ty promises to be almost phenomenal.
The lite planted corn with seasons
from now on, will be good, while a
large portion Of hat put in early is
cut off from one-half to t~wo-thirds.
The sweet potato and sorghum crops
promise well also. A considerable area
has been planted in strawberries dur
ing the recent showery weather.
The fence commissioners, through
their chairman, Mr.. T. J.. Armstrong,
were cited to appear before the county
commissioners on Tuesday, the 3rd in
slant, charged with misappropriating
the fence funds. They completely ex-
onerated themselves.
One of the smartest colored men Of
this section, Pink Smith, was SO indus
trious last Sunday as to unthoughted-
ly get his grub hoe and IKE and COM
mence work on his strawberry patch.
Mr.. Tom Lee, formerly of Pender,
but now from Tampa, Fla, is visiting
relatives here.
Miss Alice Lee a few days since
killed, according to actual measure
ment, a chicken snake six feet n
three inches long. The snake was
egg-hunting.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
Did You Ever

Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
your troubles? If not, get a bottle now
and get relief. This medicine has been
found to be peculiarly adapted to the
relief n cure of all Female Com
plants, exerting a wonderful direct in
fuence in giving strength and one to
the organs. If you have Loss of Appe-
tite, Constipation, Headache, Painting
Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepless, Ex-
citable. Melancholy or troubled with
Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the
medicine you need. Health and Strength
are guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents
and $1.00 at r. R.. Bellamy's Drug Store.
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same day last year, -
" STORES.

FTtceS same day last yea, -
NAVAL STORES.
Spirits turpentine opened dull at sc and
24hc, and closed with sales at 24i2c and
&c.
Rosin steady at $40 and SIS.
Tar steady at $i.l5.
Crude turpentine firm; hard H-30; yell
low dip 81. 80: virgin $50.
Prices same day last year-Spirits tur-
pentine 21lc and aoAc: rosin $1-32Iz and
n-Sk; tar 800: crude turpentine $1.2O,
$1-55 and $1.65.
Receipts ~today-10e casks spirits turpen-
tine, 5oS barrels rosin, 11 barrels tar, So
barrels crude turpentine.
Receipts for same date last years.
casks spirits turpentine. 81 barrels rosin,
50 barrels tar, 3S barrels crude turpentine.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06
Bucklen's Arntca Salvo

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheum.
Fever Sores. letter. Chapped Hands.
Chilblains. Corns, and all Skin Erup-
lions. and positively cures Piles. or no
pay required. 1t Is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refund-
ed. Price % cents per bottle. For sale
by r. r. Bellamy.
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O1AobCl - 1-SsT2 TO 90
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
strong at 15c higher; No. 2 yellow corn,
21sM2Sc: No. 2 spring wheat, 7s24c; No. 8
spring wheat. 14a751ac: No. 2 red. s0lzc:
No. 2 corn. 2Isd2sc: No. 2 oats. 1114c: No..
2 white, 1870; No. 3 white. 1s12a21c; mess
pork, per bb1.. $3.50: lard. per 100 lbs. s4.55:
short ribs sides, loose, 519G5Sc; dry sailed
shoulders, boxed. 5G5Ac: short clear
sides, boxed. 5G51sc: whiskey, distillers'
finished goods. per gal, s1.19.
New York, August Flour strong. but
held generally above buyers views; Min
nesota patents s4-50ds4.S0: winter patents
81. 40GS a.; winter straights $.15GS42.
Wheat-Spot active; No. 2 red. S91zc
afloat; Nc. northern, New York, a2Ac
afloat: No. 1 hard, New York, SS1zc, mid
die September afoat. Options opened
strong and active on strong Liverpool
cables, weakened slightly with corn, but
reacted and touched highest point Of the
day in the afternoon ON covering and
heavy exports purchases. closed at EG1sc
net higher. September S4AGSSc, closed at
S5Ac: October closed at Sc; December
S4xGS6c, closed at Sac.
Corn-Spot; No. 2, 23Ac elevator; 34sc
afloat. Options opened weak and coIlaDs-
ed under liquidation and rain news from
the southwest, later rallied with wheat
and closed at SgTc net lower. August
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Cotton Futures
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
New York, August ~4.-Liverpool prac-
tically ignored yesterdays weakness in
our market and cabled a decline of but
k-64d this morning. Buyers We're
wary at the opening here, however.
and prices were only 2 points above
the closing figures of last night. Mod
crate selling for New Orleans and
some hammering by local operators
caused a decline after the opening.
Some August delivery notices were is
sued and added to the weakness. They
were taken, however, by a prominent
house. Unfavorable crop reports were
received from Texas and the market
became firm n slowly advanced. jan
uary opened at us, declined to ITO,
advanced to 7.1S and closed at I'll, with
the tone of the market steady. The
bulls contend that the Texas drought
is now very serious and that unless
broker at once today's rise marks the
beginning Of an important advance.
General rain is certainly needed there.
and if not had the market may under
go another crop scare.
RIoRDAN & CO.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, August 4.-There was very
little speculative activity in cotton fu-
lures today and prices were dominated
almost entirely by the operations of
professional traders. A rather better
class Of English advices gave the mar
ket a steady undertone at the opening
and prices advanced 1 to 2 points
on local buying orders. Reports of light
ain in several sections Of Texas
brought out considerable long cotton
shortly after the call, which resulted
in a loss Of 5 to Z points. This selling
movement soon ran it's course, howev-
er, and with favorable news from Fall
River, buyers again took hold and the
market regained the early loss by mid
day. New Orleans representatives
were moderate sellers during the break.
The market steadily improved through
out the afternoon and finally closed
steady at a net advance of 2 to 5 points,
the gain being chiefly in the late
months.
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Savannah. Ga. April 26. 1896

Savannah, Ca, April 26, 1896.
Having used three bottles of p. p. P.
for impure blood and general weakness
and having derived great benef1. from
the same. having gained II pounds in
weight in our we ks, I take great
pleasure in recommending it to all I'M
ofrtunate like
Yours truly,
JOHN MORRIS.
Office of J.. N. McElroy, Druggist,
Orlando, Fla, April 20, 1891.
Messrs. Lippman Bros, Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sirs:-I sold three bottles of P.
P. P. large size yesterday, and one bot
tie small size today.
The P. P. P. cured my wife of rheu-
matism winter before last. I came
back on her the past winter and a half
bottle. 81 size, relieved her again, and
she has not had a symptom since.
1 sold a bottle of P. P. P. to a friend
of mine, one of the turkies,a small
~teaspoonful, that was in the evening,
he was dead, but next morning was up
following n we'll.
Yours respectfully,
il. N. McELROY.
Savannah. Ca, March II, 1891.
Messrs, Lippman Bros, Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sirs:-I have suffered from
rheumatism for a long time and L
not find a cure until I found P. p. p.
which completely cured me.
Yours truly,
ELIZA F. JONES.
IL r-"nge ST.. Savannah. Ga
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1t Is said hat the name Klondyke 10
the Indian name "Trondak," meaning
plenty Of fish" from the fact that tho
river Is q famous salmon stream.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-06

John Brown has been an employee of
the Philadelphia postoffice for fifty
three years, and Charles J. Summers
has been a letter carrier there for
nearly thirty-four years. all that time
on the same route.
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p. p. p, Lippman's Great Remedy, Saves
Man From Becoming a Cripple.

Mr.. Asa Apmons, q we'll known
citizen of Jacksonville, Florida, was
afflicted by a terrible ulcer. Medical
skill seemed unavailing in stopping the
ravages of the terrible disease. The
leg wa swollen and intensely painful,
as the ulcer had eaten it's way down
TO the very bono. All medicines and
treatments having failed to effect a
cure, this doctors said the leg must
come off. just when it seemed that
Mr.. Ammons would become a disabled
and a crippled man, he tried P. P. P,
Lippman's Great Remedy, and the re-
suit was wonderful.
P. P. P. SAVES Wis LEG.
Jacksonville, Fla, July 1, 1885,
Two years ago / had the worst ulcer
on my leg l ever saw. It had eaten
down to the bone, and my whole leg
below my knee, and my foot was
swollen and inlamed. The bone was
swollen and painful, and discharged q
most offensive matter. My physicians
said l had necrosis Of the bone, and
my leg would have to come off. At
this stage / commenced to take P. P. P.
and to battle my leg with hot CASTLE
soap suds. 1t began to improve at
once and healed rapidly, and is to-day
. sound and useful leg.
81 think P. P. P, Lippman's Great
Remedy, is all a man could ask for as
q blood purifier, as I have known it to
cure so meterrible cases of blood poi
soning in a remarkably short time.
"ASA AMMONS."
TERRIBLE BLOOD POISON.
The body covered with sores-two
bottles of P. P. P. made a positive and
permanent cure. This is only one OF
many thousand similar cases.
Catarrh yields 1T once to P. p. P.
That smothered feeling at night, that
heavy feeling in the day-can and
should be removed P. P. P. will do it
If you only give it a chance.
Indigestion and constipation go hand
In hand. Headaches and total loss of
appetite are the results. Regulate
yourself and tone up your stomach
with r. p. p.
Sold by all druggists.
pothecariss. Sole Prop'n
eek. ~savsnnah. 0a.
For Sale by R.. r. BELLAMY.
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PORT RECEIPTS.

Galveston-Steady at 75sc; net receipts
Is.
Norfolk-Firm at SIC; net receipts s.
Baltimore-Nominal at SIC; gross re-
ceipts 15.
Boston-Quiet at Sc; gross receipts 44S.
Wilmington-Firm at Sc.
Philadelphia-Quiet at SIC.
Savannah-Firm at 1ac: net receipts 2.
New Orleans-Firm at Z 11-16c; net re-
ceipts 142.
Mobile-Dull at TIC; net receipts 1.
Memphis-Steady at Z 13-16c; net re-
ceipts 6.
Augusta-Quiet at SBc.
Charleston-Firm at 7Ac; net receipts 4.
Cincinnati-Quiet at 8Bc; net receipts 1.
Louisville-Fair at Sc.
St. Louis-Firm at Z 13-1oc; net receipts
Is.
Houston-steady at 75sc; net receipts
$50.
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FINANCIAL.

FINANCIAL.
New York, August 4.-Money on call
firmer at 1@2 per cent; last loan at 1 per
cent, closing offered at / per cent. Prime
mercantile paper 3A@4 per cent. Sterling
exchange weak with actual business in
bankers bills at .S65s@ "a. 1864 for demand,
and at $4.S5N@s4. S5A for sixty days. Posted
rates 81. 861a@$4.S7 and A.S74@$4.SS. Com
mercial bills at $4.S5. Silver certificates
57057k. Bar silver 81. Mexican dollars
Az. Government bonds weak; state
bonds dull; railroad bonds strong.
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WELLINGTON MARKETS.
COTTON REPORT.

Wilmington, N. c.. August 4
Receipts of cotton today. - bales
Receipts to same date last years bales.
This eason's receipts TO 81
bales.
Receipts to same date last III
bales.
The quotations posted at 4 o'clock today
at the exchange.
Cotton firm.
O~rdinary....... .......... ....... 81
Good ord~inary...-... ......... ......
Low middling...-.... ..... II
oOOu "~ioOi.uS..-.- 49,. ...--.....S S-1o
Prices same daY last year. -