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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-01-30
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-01-30

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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-09
Recommends 1t.

Messrs. E. o. Painter & Co., DeLand.
Dear Sirs:-Under another cover [
send you some tobacco grown by me
at Green Cove Springs, fertilized by
your "Intensive A1luvium.''
This tobacco has been declared of
the finest quality. It's combustibility
texture, color and aroma are perfect.
attribute all this to your high grade
fertilizer, and shall take pleasure in
recommending it to all my friends.
Thomas J. Laud-Brown,
Mayor.
Green Cove Springs, Fla, Jan. S, go.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-09

E. o. Painter & Co., DeLand, Fla,
Gentlemen: Right here [ wish to
testify to the excellence of the two
tons fertilizer ($27.5O) sent me. 1t
proved more satisfactory than eight
tons of other brands applied to nur-
sery stock, under about same condi-
tons, i. e., very dry weather after ap-
plication of each kind. G. w. Fox.
Fruitland Park, Fla, Sept. 20, '96.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-09
More Satisfactory.

e. o. Painter & Co., DeLand, Fla,
Gentlemen:-Please ship me at once
31s tons of your $3.50 orange tree
fertilizer, same grade bought of you
last year. That proved satisfactory
and I have recommended it to Others
G. w. Fox.
Fruitland Park, Fla, April 2, '97.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-09
FERTILIZERS.

They the best OF materials and properly
You tell what they
made of by examening the analysis tag each bag.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08
COTTON ON THE DECLINE.
,r,4E. LOCAL sPOT MARKET DROPS
X CENT ON ALL GRADES.

-ni5dIinG Closed at 6ss Cents, with
the Tone of the Market Quiet-In-
creased Receipts OF COttOn-F'airIS
Good Demand at the Decline--Spir-
It's Turpentine Only Steady at Is
Cents-PaIe Grades of ROsin Low
cr-Advance on suSar-Other Mar
kets Unchanged.
savannah, Sept. THE main feature in
.ba leading departments to-day was the
,-aadv decline of cotton and the quiet tone
,,f the market. The market closed Is
,.ents. on all grades, below the opening
,,rices. The spirits turpentine market was
ereadv at Is cents a gallon, no sales bein g
reported at the close. There was de-
cline of cents on window glass and water
Unite rosin. An advance was reported Ia
the sugar market. Other markets were
steady and generally unchanged The fol-
lowing resume of the different markets
viii show the tone and the quotations at
the close to-day:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08
OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton-Market firm: rates quoted are
per 100 pounds: Boston. per bale $1.25;
New York, per bale, $10O; Philadelphia,
per bale, $l.00; Baltimore, per bale. S1.OO:
Direct-Barcelona, SIC; Genoa, soc; Re
val SIC; Bremen 43c; Havre, Soc
Via New York-Liverpool, 43c; Bre-
men, soc; Amsterdam, 55c: Hamburg, 45c;
Genoa, Doc; St Petersburg, COO; Man
chester, 47c; Havre Soc; Gothenberg, Coo
Lumber-By Sail-Freights are firm at
ruling rates Foreign business Is more
or less nominal. The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at $4O0d
$50 for range-including Baltimore and
Portland, Me. Railroad ties. base A feet
to Baltimore, nc, to Philadelphia, 13c; tc
New York, 1870. Timber rates, 50c0$1 o.
higher than lumber rates. To the Yves
Indies and Windward, nominal; to Rosa
rio, $l2. 00al3.00; to Buenos Ayres and Mon,
tevideo, Sl000011.00; 10 Rio Janeiro. $140o
to Spanish and Mediterranean ports, 81 81
@1l.50; to United Kingdom for orders
nominal for lumber. 4 pounds IS standard
By Steam-To New York $3.50; to Phil
adelphia via New York, $50; TO Boston
$3.50 via New York; to Baltimore, $500.
Naval Stores-By Sail--The market is
firm. Medium sized, Cork for orders, are as
follows: Rosin, Is, l013d, for barrels of 3l(
pounds and per cent. primage; spirits, As
I'D; Genoa, rosin, IS 3da3s Cd; Adriatic, Is
6d@2s Sd; South American, rosin, SOC pei
barrel of 2S0 pounds. Coastwise-Steam-
To Boston, 10c per 100 pounds on rosin, SOC
on spirits; to New York, rosin SEC per 10
pounds spirits. soc.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08
DRY GOoDs.

New York, Sept. THE dry goods mar
ket opened with considerable spirit to-day
the accumulated mail of the holiday max
ing the shipments heavy and the demand
marked both at first and second hands
fresh onslaught of buyers was made on
the jobbing stores, the merchants asso-
citation being again responsible The mar
ket retains its strong position sellers be-
ing under less pressure to sell than here
tofore The market for all cotton goods
continues firm Woollens are also strong in
tone, though requests for goods are quiet
er now, while a general and heavy distri-
button at other points is going forward
The market for staple cotton is less active
Than was the case last week. but it is still
firm and well sustained. Prints are strong
and active.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08
GRAIN. rnoNIsIoNs. Erc.

New York, Sept. Flour, firm and held
! higher dtscouraging buyers; Minnesota
patents, $5.40u590; winter patents, $5.3jG0
$40 Rye flour. firm Corn meal. quiet
Rye, firm; No. 2, 5Sc. Barley, steady; feed
ing, Sllsc. Barley malt, steady
Wheat, spot, strong; No. red, $1.0f4
afioat; No hard, $1.04 delivered; options
opened strong and higher, on active for
eign buying and bullish cables, eased off
at noon under realizing. but recovered
later on heavy export buying. closed IA
1ac net higher; No. ? red, May, closed
Sl.C0A; September, $i.0l9sd102A, closed,
N.G2h; December, 99cdSl.0J34, closed, 81. o.
Corn. spot firm; No. ,, S7sc elevator;
3S1sc ahoat; options opened strong on bad
crop news, eased off under realizing, but
finally advanced again on renewed bullish
crop talk closing l0lAc net higher; Sep
tember 363sG371sc. closed 37isc; December,
3SisG3S%c closed, 3S7sc, Oats spot, firmer;
No. ?, 2334m24c; options were quie but firm
and with corn, closing Unchanged Sep
tember 23$4024c closed, 2ic; October
closed, 25Ac; November, 25l4d J1ac. Feed,
firm HAY dull Hops, q.liet Hides,
firm. Wool. strong. Beef, firm Cut meats,
steady; picked bellies 71g6S12c; picked
shoulders, SIC; picked hams, SIsnS%c.
Lard steady; western stea med, 5,20N5. 2jc /;
October, 5.1Oc nominal; ref ned, hrm COM
pound, 43405c. Pork, firm. Butter, steady;
western creamery 12ul8c; western fac
tory, Safe; Elgids. l8c; imitation cream,
cry 1Cd13c state dairy 10u16tzc; state
creamery. 12n18c. Chez &c. large white, Sc;
small white, 912c; large colored &c; small
colored, 9i2c; part SKINS. 6lzm7c; full
skins, 3Ikd4c. Cotton seed oil, firm. Rice,
strong; domestic. fair TO extra, asa nc;
Japan, AZ G45sc. Mola sses, strong. Coffee,
options opened stead.f with prices 20 10
points lower; closed barely steady at un-
changed prices TO a net loss of 10 points;
sales 1880 bags including September,
j9Cc December, 6.g0d6.25c; March, 6.5O0
6.55c May, 6.65e; SCOT coffee, Rio, quiet;
Cordova, 1Ola0l6lzc sales. 200 bags Mara
caibo at 60c. Sugar, raw. firmer; fair re-
fning, 33sc; centrifugal, 96-test 37sc. scat
tered sales of centrifugal were made at
37sc for 96-test; refined, firmer; mould A,
5-i6c; standard "A, A l5-16c; confectioners'
A, l5-16c; cut loaf 11-16c; crushed,
11-16c; powdered, 5-l6c; graduated,
5-l6c; cubes, 5 -l6c
Chicago, H., Sept. 7.--Wheat is getting
close 30 the dollar mark again. December
closed to-day ar 96hc. an advance of 2lzc
since Saturday. Strong cables and a heavy
export business started the market strong
and II kept In that condition, Corn scored
1c advance, Notwithstanding enormous
receipts and deniahs Of damage reports.
tent of a asc advance Provisions were af-
fected somewhat by the yellow fever scare
but at the close showed only 10c decline
In pork and 2l2c in ribs, while lard ad-
vanced &c
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest Closing.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08

nestle, is firm ordinary sizes, $40. 50611 90;
difficult sizes, $1zO0d14OO; flooring
boards $l5,00a170O ship stuff, $1450q1S 90;
sawn ties, $3.50.
Poultry-steady; fair demand; half
grown. 25Q50c per pair; three-quarters
grown, S5Q40o pair; full-grown fowls, 5Od
55c per pair.
Eggs-Market firm: candled, per dozen.
16c; country, &c Less
Syrup-Market quiet; Georgia and Flor
Ida syrup buying al 221ad25c; selling at q
@3Oc; sugar house at 19d32c Cuba straight
goods, 23qS0c; sugar house molasses, $50
zoe
Tobacco-Market quiet and steady;
smoking, domestic. 22d60c; chewing. com
mon, sound. 2ia27c; fair, 2S635c; good. Soc.
Hides, WOODS, Etc .--Hides-The market
firm; dry flint, 13c; dry salt, lie; green
sailed, &c. Wool-Firm; prime Georgia,
free of sand burrs and black wool, 1Sc;
blacks, 16c; bury, case. Wax, lie. Tai
low, &c. Deer skins. 15c.
Bagging and Ties-The market Is
steady: Jute bagging 2Apound, 7a71tc: 3
pound, 6l246&c; 1%-poCnd. 616Ac; quota
tons are for job lots; small lots higher;
sea island bagging, S6Siac; standard Ar
row ties, steel as pounds. large lots, soc;
small lots, 9Oc
Dry Goods-The market Is firm; demand
brisk; prints. S1aQ5c; Georgia brown shirt
ings, 3&c; Is, dc; "A brown sheetings, $40
4Ac; white osnaburgs. 6%c; checks 4d5c;
brown drillings. 51aq6l5c.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08

lower. further decline of a few points.
after the opening exhausted the selling
pressure. and on very light transactions
the market quickly recovered the entire,
loss of the day. The government weekly
crop bulletin was bulish. January opened
at 6.75c, declined to 6.74c, advanced to
6.S5c, and closed at 6.S0c TO oslo, with the
tone of the market quiet and steady. Crop
accounts were not favorable and we ex-
pest higher prices"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08

RECEIPTS Tor Two days.
Charleston S. c., Sept 7.-Spirits tur-
pentine, market finn at &c; sales none.
Rosin firm; sales rome; A, B, $1.1O; c, d.
$1.15 e, $1.2O; F, SIPS; G, $l.SO; H, ST 40;
], 81. 45; K, $1.45; W, $50; N, 1.7O; w G,
$1.95; w w, 2.20.
Wilmington N. c., Sept. 7-s;pirits tur-
pentine firm, 27$4c; receipts, SO casks. Ros-
in steady, $1.15d1-2O; receipts, 1893 barrels
Crude turpentine firm, $1.3O, $3.50, 81 80;
receipts, none. Tar firm, $1.1O; receipts,
172 barrels.
New York Sept. 7-Rosin, steady at
$l45. Turpentine, firm at SOikd31c.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08

bulk meats firm. G10c. Bacon steady.
710c Whisky active S12l
81. Louis, Sept. Flour higher; patents.
4440; medium, $35Oq3.75. Wheat, spot.
higher, 10. .. cash, elevator, CSC; track.
9Sa99c No. 2, hard, cash, close; track.
September, 992sc bid; December, 99c bid !.
May, $1,000 asked. Corn. spot, highef.
No. ?, cash. 29c; September 29Hc bid; De-
cember, Gle; May Sic. Oats strong; No. 2,
cash, elevator; 1910 bids; track, 20N20iac.
No. 2, white, erase; September, 19I4c; De-
cember, 203sc bid; May 23hc bid Whis-
ky, $l.2l. Pork easy; standard mess, job
bling. new, $3.50; old. $S75. Lard easy .
prime steam, 460c; choice. 467ikc Bacon,
Continued on sixth Page.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08
NAVAL STORES.

Spirits Turpentine-The situation of the
market was not particularly strong to-day
although there was not an official decline
nor reported sales at lower figure. The
reported receipts to-day were 1885, being
for two days.
At the Board of Trade. at the first call
the market was bulletined steady at Is
cents, with reported sales of 522 casks. At
the last call, 1t closed steady and unchang-
ed with no further sales.
Rosin-The holiday had bad effect upon
the rosin market apparently. The firm
ness of last weeks closing dropped to the
tone designated as steady" which has
not its full definition expressed in the ma
val stores market. A STEADY" market
most frequently means a declining market
in this trade. There was a decline to
day of cents on window glass and water
white grades, while others were unchar g
ed.
At the Board of Trade, the reported sales
were $50 at the opening and 1896 at the
closing of the market. The market was
bulletined steady at the opening and clos
ing, at the following quotations:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08
THE MORNING NEWS WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER s. 1884,
Florida Central & Peninsular RaiIroa,

Niles shortest Line Tampa,
TIME TABLE EFFECT JULY 49, 1897
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08

slower than Savannah city time.
ana Atlanta.
Savannah and Augusta, savannah ana
RS between Macon and Atlanta.
can remain in sleeper until a. m.
les TO all points beyond our line. apply
enger Agent. 80 Bud street.
a Passenger Agent. Savannah. Ga.
E. II. HINTON. Traffic Manager
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08

Continued on sixth Page.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08

In Effect Sept. 8, 1897.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-08

Dec .19% 2cs4 2Ols 20ai
May 49,. .238aG239s 1884 233s 239I
Mess pork, per barrel
Dec. ....SsO SS5 80 8 SIS
Lard, per 100 pounds
oct. 49,. 725s 4SO 472lz $50
Dec. 80 4@15 $50 S7is
Short Ribs, per 100 pounds
Oct oeP'' ... ....' $50 So s sslz
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
firm; No. 2 spring wheat, 961a697Ac; No. 3
spring wheat, 9Oq941zc; No. 2 red 9sh a
97Ac; No. 2 corn. S1aic; No. oats 1870;
No. 2 white +. o. b., 22l5GI2Sc; No 8 white.
(. o. b., 2Oizm22izc; No. ? rye, sic; No. 9
barley. nominal; No. 3. (. o. b., 30GlS5i@c:
No. 4 f. O. b.. 2Sd36c; No. fax seed s1.02
nl.olh; prime timothy seed, 81 rs; mess
pork. per barrel. IS 1905 so; lard, per 100
pounds, %.75a4.77lk; short ribs sides.
0oose). 5.5O05.75c. Dry sailed shoulders
(bowed), 5i5q5s4c: short clear sides (boxed)
Glt61sc. Whisky, distlllers' finished goods
per gallon, $1.22.
Cincinnati, o., Sept. Flour quiet;
fancy a.65@i90, family. SO 1854. 90. Wheat
firm; No. 2 red, 95a95lhc Corn firm No. 2
mixed 32c. Oats steady; No mixed,
zoe. Rye FIRM No. 2, SOC. Lard quiet, $40;
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11

gate of duties which will be lost the first
year on the merchandise imported under
the lower ad valorem rates of the present
law, but 1t must be considerable. If the
loss by such Importation should be $25, coo
it would mean a deficit. Having
this consideration in view, the Re-
publicans of the Senate finance COM
mittee reported in favor of in
creased tax on beer and a duty on tea for
two or three years, until the full revenues
which the proposed tariff and revenue legis-
lation proposes shall be realized. The
proposition seemed to be fair one, but the
brewing interest has raised so loud protest
that it seems probable the proposition
will be abandoned. Still, the mass of people
believe that the few extra millions which
are needed can be derived from that source
with less inconvenience than from any
other. 1t is idle to say that the bur-
den will fall upon the brewers, since there
are many ways at the command of the
brewers to transfer the tax to the con-
sumner. The proposed tax on bank checks
will be more unpopular than an increase of
the beer tax can possibly be. 1t is not en-
tirely within the province of the Republican
senator's to say which shall be taxed for
the needed revenue, beer or bank notes,
since large number of senators who would
vote TO tax the check will be sure to vote
against higher taxation for beer.
One thing Congress can do and that is to
cut its appropriations to the revenues of
the country. Without distressing the whole
country, the river and harbor appropriation
can be cut in two by providing only for the
completion of the works under contract
Unless we are forced into a war with Spain
by the Cuban element in the country, ex-
penses in that direction can be reduced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11

In most of the States whose legislatures
were in session the first months of the pres
ent year, attention was given to trust and
similar legislation to protect the people
from imposition. In seven States, which
include Indiana, Illinois and New York,
antitrust laws were passed which prohibit
all combinations ''in restraint of trade"
In other States such bills were considered,
but were not passed. In New York dras
tic inheritance tax bill was passed, but
vetoed by the Governor. In Minnesota,
however, such .. bill became a law. The
Utah Legislature passed an income tax
law. Several States have imposed taxes
upon sleeping car companies, and two Leg
islatures. those of Illinois and Minnesota,
undertook to grapple with the department
stores but gave it up. In all of the North
ern States there has been legislation de-
signed to better the condition of labor. Fac
tory inspection laws have been passed;
child labor has been prohibited; labor COM
missions have been created; the powers of
health boards have been increased; COM
pulsory education has been provided for;
increased taxation has been imposed upon
railroad, telegraph and telephone compa-
MES.
The measures passed and those proposed
show that the trend of state legislation has
been against monopolies and in favor of
the masses. Except in Illinois, legislation
has been directed against the assumptions
of street-railway and municipal gas corpor-
atoms With that exception, such corpor-
ations have received no consideration from
legislatures. Attention is called to this
subject because demagogues never weary
of telling the people that legislation is for
the few instead of the many, and that leg
islators sell the franchises which belong
to the people to those who have the money
with which to purchase them. The trend
of legislation in States the past year brands
all such assumptions as falsehoods. No
matter what the motive lawmakers have
tried to legislate for the benefit of the
many Measures may prove inadequate, but
they have been passed in good faith in re-
Spouse to the demands of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
A LOSS TO BE MADE UP.

Not the least difficult problem in connec-
tion with the revision of the tariff and rev.
enue laws is to secure sufficient revenue to
meet the current expenses of the govern
ment The problem has been complicated
by the fact that so much merchandise has
been imported under the present tariff that
months and perhaps nearly year will ex-
pire before realization of the advantages in
the way of increased revenue which sthe
tariff now being considered will afford and
there is likely to be deficit during the first
wear under that law unless it shall contain
some special provisions for a limited period
The warehouses of wool importers are
crowded with free wool, and the Sugar
Trust has possessed itself of much of the
raw sugars in the worlds market while
European textile manufacturers have been
having a brisk season in order that their
warehouses in New York may be filed to
reap the advantage which escaping a higher
duty may bring. 1t has been suggested that
a tax should be laid upon all imported wool
and raw sugar in bonded and other ware
houses when the new tariff shall go into eff
which the excellent Spreckels declares that
the trust Of which he is a shareholder will
make upon the COO 900 or 100000 tons of raw
sugar Il viii own when the new tariff shall
go into effect should go into the treasury.
No estimate has been made of the aggre-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
THE WAR ON THE sCALPER.

All the trouble which business men and
railroad officers are having over the ar
rangement of the terms for selling mileage
tickets is due to scalping. Either through
the dishonesty of men who claim the right
to mileage tickets or the completely of rail-
road officials with those who are called
scalpers, a considerable part of the tickets
issued to promote commercial interests get
into the hands of the scalpers and by them
are sold at about the full rates to the public.
A few years ago, when competition was
fierce between competing roads, many COM
mutation tickets or books found their way
direct to the scalpers' offices from those of
the companies. 1t is probable that this is
not the case at present; STILL by some
means or other, the railroads lose large
revenue from the traffic in mileage tickets
by scalpers who always seem to have a
supply. 1t seems that between the capable
and experienced men in the employ of rail-
road companies and the business men whose
interest is in restricting the use OF such
favors to those who are entitled to them,
a plan might be devised by which their
use could be limited to the actual purchas-
ers. Evidently, such a cooperation has not
been brought about, else the companies
would not be trying new projects to defeat
the sale of mileage books to scalpers, and
commercial travellers would not be protest
ing against the new plans of the railroad
officials.
There is a feeling that this is nobodys
business butsthat of the managers of the
railroads, and that it is SO much given to
somebody who will make good use of it if
the railroads are deprived of part of their
revenues This is not the proper view to
take of the matter. A railroad which does
not earn a surplus over operating expenses
must be ineffectively run. 1t cannot give
good service; cannot pay it's employees, and
cannot eXpend money in keeping up its
tracks and rolling stock. In Indiana the
railroads are assessed on a valuation of
$156, 100000, or six millions more than the
improvements on farms, consequently there
should be a general interest in the pros
perity of railroad property. If the roads in
Indiana lose a million year by fraudulent
transactions in communication tickets, it
stands to reason that the managers are not
in a position to grant the public favors
which they might otherwise be induced to
give.
The Legislature OF New York passed an
act declaring all tickets invalid unless pur-
chased of the authorized agent of the COM
pany, whose name is on every ticket is
sued. This puts end to the business of
scalping in that State. Congress has been
asked to pass a similar law for interstate
commerce. Commercial bodies have de-
clared for it, and there seems to be no rea-
son why such a measure should not become
law.