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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1898-09-24

in good faith.
SMALL LOSS n IT Is TRUE.
Shanghai, Sept. GA local
rumor i, current here To the tf
feet that the Emperor Of China i,
dead.
No details are obtainabie, but
it is said the gates Of pekin are
closed.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1898-09-24
Dos't Issssso Spit ssd SMOKE Yosr life AWAY.

To Quiz tobacco cs,ily and forever. be mag
neLis. fan "f LIE. nerve and vi,os. sase SOTO
Bss. Inc e"sdsr vorss,, bhsS masss weak men
strong. All druggists. :'c or a.. Cure xuaran.
tced bookles AMI sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or Now York
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1898-09-24
Look: stitch in Time

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thsi" PHEASANT. taken in early Spring and
Eau prevents, thUlS. DcugUc ant Ma.arinl
F'N"r~ Acts on IL" liver. tones up the syS.
tenn H':l"r ;hIn Quinn. Guaranteed. try
1t ~ DRUGGISTS "bc AMI fp bottles \
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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1898-09-24

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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-17
Extracts from our
Recent Catalogue

Our best efforts have been ex.
pended for nearly quarter century
in making desirable connections for
the purchase OF high class foods.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-17

Some one said 81 never come into
your store without feeling that
l would like to buy it out"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-17

For a good and clean shave, also
up-to-date hair cutting, call and see
Charley Molteno at the European
Barber Shop, on Merchant street. :
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-17

Now is the time OF year to en-
tertain-thats when you need us.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-17

Refined folks use refined foods;
that's the kind we sell.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-17

There's great responsibility selling
groceries.
Life and health depend on good
nutritious food.
That's the kind we sell.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-17

The price Of thing is generally
what it is worth, competition
regulates that. The higher the price,
the better the quality as rule; but
price doesn't always guarantee
quality, the reputation OF the seller
counts,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-16
STOCKS AND RONDS.

New York, April 15.--Professiona
traders bought stocks this morning caus-
| inc an advance III prices of point OF
over in the speculative favorites hut
most of these takings were sold again
before the expirations of the days ses-
sion. carrying prices back over their own
course and leaving net changes in al
most Ill cases significant but with small
gains predominating. European bourses
also showed a firm tendency for Amcri-
cans and Spanish As rallied from an ear
ly depression before the opening of trad
ing here. The cause of this strength
was Il rumor that the powers had inter
vened between the United States ami
Spain and that the Cuban insurgents had
agreed TO an armiStice
The midday period of intense dullncss
and sagging prices gave way to n more
active selling movement in the final hour
on belief that the Senate would take ac-
ton before adjourning.
Dealings were on small scale and the
wide movement of prices indicated n
small floating supply of stocks. holders
maintaining their waiting attitude. A
feature of the day was the reaction Of
43s points eX-dividend. in Tobacco. the
closed out As foreshadowed in these
dispatches last night the supply of cur
rency has become so scarce that some #
the city banks are shipping gold in re-
Spouse to the interior demand. Further
engagements of nearly S1.500,000 in
gold for import were made today, not
withstanding the hardness of the London
money market and the Discrimination of
Paris or Berlin to supply gold.
The bond market was dull and about
steady Rock Island extension IS were
largely dealt in three separate blocks of
100000. 100000 and 100000 respec-
lively. changing hands during the day
Total sales 81 10000.
United States SIS were "a lower today
(the registered ex-interest), the seconds
were 1 per cent higher and the old As
registered "A higher bid. Others were
unchanged.
The total sales of stocks were 2O5. 300
shares. including C. b. & Q. 1920:
Manhattan l.. 1865: Northern Pacific
preferred 6,424: st. Paul 1865: Union
Pacific preferred 1921; u. p. ID. & G.
ot.415; American Tobacco ex-division
40,925; Sugar 33, $50.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-16
VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY FOR
SALE

BY virtue of power and authority Civ
en- in a deed of mortgage which is duly
registered in the office of the Register of
Deeds for Wake county, book No. 80,
page 1859, | will sell on Monday, the 9th
day of May, 1898, at II o'clock NJ, at
the court house door in Raleigh, to the
highest bidder for cash, tract or parcel
of land lying in and adjoining Raleigh,
and bounded and described as follows:
Beginning where Johnston street ex-
tended, reaches the eastern line Of the
late Paul G.. Cameron, thence nOrtherly
with said Paul G. Cameron's line to
Peace street extended, thence east along
Peace street, crossing st. Mary's street
to BOylan street, thence south with Boy
Ian street to Johnston street, thence
along Johnston street to the beginning,
being the same land conveyed to the
party of the first part by deed registered
in book Al at page 766, except that part
heretofore conveyed to Frank Brooks,
the trustees of Brooklyn church and
Geo. w. Poe, the part to be sold contain
ing about five and a quarter acres.
w. p. BATCHELOR.
Attorney and Agent for Mortgage.
April 8. 1898.
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LOCAL Seouk ma "a al
GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Chicago. His, April 15.--Thc unloading
of something like 100000 bushels OF
July wheat to-day to Joseph latter re-
suited in break of 5 cents III that op
ton. May also declined sharply, closing
212 cents lower than it did yesterday
The wildness and activity of the market
is shown by the fact that there was
cents difference between the high ant
low points of May and 3H cents in July
The high point for May, 115, is the hlgh
est since 1892
Corn and oats declined about II CEN
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NEW YORK MONEY.

New YORK. APP ii Is -Morey en-
ga Ter at 1896 DOR cenG last 'oan pei
,enL closing at per cent. PRIME
percantile PAGES Aai per cent. Sterling
,xcnanga is steady, with actual bust
less ia ba1k,,' tlns at 4S3ka $50 for G.
nand, and Ara al 80 for sixty days. POSTED
rates swat 81 and CLASSY. Com merois
1Ills4 Gal 81 sil tpr c5vstocstes 54 0tb4
Bar sll.. OF t5S Mexican dollars Fk. Gov.
srn nent buu. Irregular. state bonds dull
& fIr1ad bonds d. IN
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NEW YORK.

NEW YORK April 5.-Floal ak snd Gu J,
C osed 70 I, cents &c e; city mn,
| patento .. 5a5.i0 M'nnesota hagers 4.4i: w u
ter patents sf.ssaa5 s. do. straight s4.b5GVt ld
winter extras 3.66a4.l0 ID; winter low graces
s2.9Oa500
Rye -four ste dy; superane S2.s5; fancy
1870
Corn meal dul yellow western 20 oily
70; Bran WV ne S2.05a1 10
Rye easy NJ western 60; state ye h5H
Barley quiet wesrer" teeulne IS asa {;
n.lti ~ =; oarIeV malt ftsy: western b3%o
w. eat. spot weak No. red Slu7, option
No Q red July closed S9%.
Corn. spot, esk NJ a6K options, May
closed 8a%; Jolly CT sed son
OstE. spor, quiet, NO. 2, iOf; options, May
Fay quiet shipp1 sOa35; good to choice
5-as0.
Reef firm; family tll COsll.75' extra me,s
B. ,0a9 "a: b, eff hams p230U: packet Sl0.25g
il.UO city extra India mess sl6-5oal70O
Cut meat cad pickieo oeihos MSA !;
n. picked shoulders4A: do. hams 7AUI%.
Lard teady: ~estern steamed .i,so; cry ., 81:
south American s.. 10: compound 4alA
Pork qufst: mess 90 all 90, BourL clear
$40 25a 2. family sll0alj.R. ,raoo
20. factory Isk0T6' FlgiDs 81: initiation
creamery 14xsl7s; State dairy 1bals; o
Cheese steady; large white September ~ az.
riggs ST.. dy: ctaLs snp PAansy va Il a
los: weseel n fresh l01; southern skss
Pots toes STEADY, New York S2S7AUe2.ol;
sweets 81 C0aa ~.
Taliow steady; city Css per package) S%;
{ ountry S4RSA.
Petroleum dull; United -: refined New
FORK s. 20; Philsielphia and Baltimore % DO;
10. in hulk $3l5
Rosin steady; strained. common to Eood
I42ksl So
Turpentlne qui at 3Ca3K. .
Rtce frn: domestic, TaIr TO extra mo
Moiasses st dy: New Orleans. open
ettle good 80 choice. 2sa33.
cabbage gu ct: Forids, T9l OJ Cha lei
ton and savannah 81 tUsl I2k.
lotion 81 ed OH moderately activ: prime
crude l9k: do { o b i4Aal5& nc summer vel
low 22ka2'h off summer IN butter oil SSa
q: prime winter yellow 2lhasSk.
Coffee-Opnons. May 1916: June $40; s1ot,
Rio, steady; No. invoice OK Jobbtng ~
mild steaoy; Onrdove Skal5.
Sugsc, Iaw steady; far refining 81 lbi
centrifugal. So-tPst l-i6 refined STACY
mould 7-l8: standard A 51; CONNECTION
ers' A 5I, cut loaf and ceushed lt-l6; LoW
d. red Oh l.; granuiated 10 Gu e50L
BALTIMORE.
BALrrMoRB, April l5.--Flour firm; west
family S440A4 81; winter wheat patents
s4. 85s510 spring do. IS. $50; spring wheat
straights IS l00E %.
Waest WEEK.: SPOT and April l0sHalO2' ;:
May l0sks.O /: July % asked; stesmer No ,1ia
red 9sA a59 coutrerr weest by sample Nla
1913: do Ga grade 9 'Kal02&.
corn essv; spot AMI april 3iRS554 May
3:a6H uns oJ4 ajOA; Ju SbAab. steamer
mixeo 3ixa3I&; SoutSe n white corn S6h; 90
oats arm; No. white, western 81; No. ?
mi yed 3s1sRtl.
Rye easier: No. 2. nearby t7xaFsa; No. 2
e Hsv drm choice Timothy Il2.5Oaia.OO.
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CHICAGO. Inn Ii.


" On 4dOLALIuus were a TnIIONs
Flour steady, wheat, No. spring ,..';
NO. a. rI%E 81 a oil; No. 9 red, I0S Corn,
No. :, 29xa1ix. O.s, N 23%: No. white
{ b tU1y; No. VIII t: o 2sh aiO rye
No. Q en-. Barley, no. 9, 57a,i; no; ., -;
nv 9th 5000 SIS ASK. Nc SIS pork, ger bbll;:'
50 sass L,r" per IUu It's sb.l6. short M
sIoe Ioose, 9, 9j4E5 81. Dry -salteo shoulder
ho1edi sxat% short clear 81 zee thO1e
l5.tsb So Wntskey, 1iItllers ioished goods.
rer ka.loD 81 90.
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BALTIMORE.
NAVAL STORES.

wLMINGToN N. C., April Is Spirits tur
pentine steaay at 2jA a2o; receipts ~ casks.
ttilsst duI strained SLID; good straIueo
ST.. ~: receipts Lac ba relI
Crude turpentine qufsti hard H.AOi SOFT
ll.9E rs'aelpts 10 barrels
Tar firm al 90 receipts q barrels
CHARLESTON, N. O., Apr.I I6-Eurpentlne
Il m at Zo1s.
koein firm.
SAvANNAH, Ca, APP IL 3. Spirits t"rpen-
tine firm at 25X; sales l37 cas- 8. receipts 4B1
casks
Kosin frm; sai ! SOL: recei Is 1872; a, ..
@. D. lI0; e 81 40; f, tl:0 y, @3i; Else
1877; +, $50 NJ, $50; N, sl.o5: window
glass Sl.T,; water lite SO.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-16
AUCTION SALE OF LAND.

By Virtue Of power conferred upon me
by, a certain mortgage deed executed by
j. w. Locklyer and wife, Alvarada, and
duly recorded in Registry of Wake
County, in Book 40, at Page $50, as
well as by the request Of said J. w.
Locklyer, / will offer for sale, at the
Court House door, in the City Of Raj
eigh, n. c., to the highest bidder for
cash, ON Monday, April %, 1898, at II
o'clock m, the lands in said mortgage
described, lying in said county in House
Greek Township, and described as fol-
lows:
Track No. 1.-Beginning on Crabtree
Greek at Maple, thence North to VIM.
Houses line, thece parallel with his
line East to hickory in Polly Kings
line, thence South to a pine on said
Creek, thence up said Greek to the be-
ginning, containing One Hundred Acres
900 acres) more or less.
Tract No. 2.-Adjoining the above and
bounded as follows: Beginning at a
Spanish Oak in the Great branch, and
thence West 80 z. to stake in VIM.
Holmes line, thence South 100 p. to a
Red Oak and Sassafras, thence East "a
Z. to said branch, thence up the various
courses of said branch to the beginning,
and said to contain Twenty Acres GO
Acres.)
Tract No. 3.-Adjoining the above be-
gins at n stake in Wiley Holmes via line
thence North 50 ?. to a hickory, thence
West to a branch at Pink Warren's
corner in the steep Hill Branch, thence
across the various courses of said branch
to a beech or birch to VIM. Nicholas
corner, thence to the beginning, contain
ing Thirty-three acres (33 acres), more
or less The whole of the three tracts
aggregating One Hundred and Fifty
Three Acres (153 acres), more or less
B. T.. MONTAGUE,
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We were never 80 we'll prepared
pnw TO send eut, for the fall trade
Fins. Orv and llrilIable
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Having qualified as Executrix Of A. I.
Mial, late of Wake county, hereby no.
thy all persons having claims against
said decedent to exhibit the same to me
at the late residence Of said A. L. Mai
in Marks Greek Township, Wake coun-
ty, before the list day of April, 1899.
March Goth, 1898.
VICTORIA L. NAL,
Executrix of A. 4. Mial.
o-a-w for 6-wks-Sats.
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THE STOCK MARKET
Prices Advanced Over a Point
Yesterday.
TAKINGS SOLD AGAIN
THE DEALINGS WERE on :,
SMALL SCALE.
STAPLE CoTToNS CONTINUES QUIET
The Unloading Of 100000 Bushels Of
Wheat Caused Break of 3 Cents in
July Option May Closed
3 Cents Lower.

dency exhibited by buyers in the dry
goods market to show II little more free
dom in their operations. In staple cot
tons the market continues quiet; sales of
brown or bleached goods are made only
when radical concessions are offered
But these are not frequent. In wide
sheetings there has been more interest
displayed. hut operations are still light
Coarse coIored goods are duh in all de-
partments. There have been fairly
heavy sales of denims within the last
two days, but they were along special
lines and at very low prices. Export
goods show no change. Print cloths are
still quoted at > cents for extras. Prints
are still weak
COTTON.
New York. April 15.-There was quite
a squirt of old time activity i'll the cot
ton market to-day, with trading more
evenly divided between foreign, South
ern and local houses than in some time.
From the start the bull crowd had the
upper hand and prices steadily improved
throughout the session. On the opening
call the feeling was firm with prices
to ) points higher. due chiefly to I'M
looked for favorable Liverpool cables.
The feature of the forenoon operations
was the active covering by operators
who recently have figured conspicuously
as sellers.
The close was very steady at a net
gain of ) TO Z points.
TOTAL NET RECEIPTS.
New York, April 1.-THE following
are the total net receipts of cotton at
all ports since September 1. 1897:
Galveston 1.S69,661 New Orleans
2,500,95S; Mobile BAT, 103: Savannah
1,140.511; Charleston 460,521: Whining
ton 81 .6SS; Norfolk 526,311; Baltimore
65,342: New York 134,4O5 Boston 1856
"a; Newport News 1869: Philadel-
phia 1900: Brunswick 232.040: Port
Arthur 10.417; Pensacola 109,6S7; Port
Royal 65,9I2; total S.047. 263.
WEEKLY COTTON STATEMENT.
New Orleans, La, April 15.-Secre-
tary Hesteris weekly cotton statement
of the. worlds visible supply of cotton
made UP from special cable and special
telegraphic advices compares the figures
of this week with last week, last year
and in 1895. the latter the 9,901 900
crop year. 1t shows decline in the
week just closed of 33, $50 bales, against
a decline last year of H., $50, and de-
cline of 1864 in 1895.
The total visible is 3,791 .914, against
1915, 49f last week. 3,114,955 last year.
and 4,272,63 in 1895. OF this. the total
of American cotton is 3.509914, against
3,5T6.4 94 last week: 2,719, 7J5 last year,
and 3,945, 431 in 1885; and of all other
kinds. including Egypt Brazil. India
etc., 212,000, against $4,000 last week
1920 last year. and 372, 200 in 1895.
The total worlds visible supply of cot
tons shows decline compared with last
week of $3.50 bales, an increase com
pared with last year Of 666,9J9 and Il
decrease compared with 1895, of $40, III.
new YORK Aprfl I5-Futurea onened
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Thirty-fve years make a generation.
That is how long AdOlph Fisher, of
GAINESVILLE, O., suffered from piles. He
was cured by using three boxes Of De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. Heart Il
Heartt.
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LIVERPOOL.

t,n, good busipe -. prices higher; me lean
midaline fsic az. cd middline ~: Ame ri
can midq)ing 81 d: low middlinx lick d.
good ordinary 3.32d o-njnary3d.
Sales of the day were 1910 bales OF (which
l.H0 were for speculation aod export, ana in
GUIDED 800 American receip 4,ttU Aaies
including ~ Ame fcan
Tut les opeDed steady wi II a moderate de
mand AID cofed steacy.
ma if,,.l. -,
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Nothing cures aches and pains as
quick as Goose Grease Liniment. Guar
anteed by all druggists.
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N%ENlTG- Reliable persons to
AL - ~ ] - take the agency Of
their own towns for the best line of fast
selling novelties; pays 100 per cent; for la
dies or gents. Spiro Il Watkins, 1881 & SO
Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
feb16-Sm
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each in sympathy. Provisions were
steady and showed slight closing adj |
yancCS.
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Charles Pearson
and Engineer

Plans and specifications furnisnul or
application. Land surveyed and wasG
works. Pullen Rzildlrr.
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Raleigh, N. c., March 3. 1898.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.

VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.
On Monday, April 25th, 1898, being
the first day of the April term, 1898, OF
Wake Superior court, at the court house
door in Raleigh, n. c., l will sell at
public outcry to the highest bidder, the
following described lands and premises:
A tract of land, in Swift Greek town
ship, Wake county, bounded on the
north by the lands of the late w. G.
Upchurch and others; on the east by the
lands of said Upchurch, Joseph King
and others; on the south by the lands
of w. II. J. Goodwin, r. l.. Powell and
others, and on the west by the lands
now or formerly owned by NJ. w.
Woodland, and others. Said tract OF land
is made up of sundry tracts purchased
from several persons by G. e. J. Good
win, and the whole is known as said
G. e. j. Goodwin's "Steep Hill Farm"
and is the same described in the mort
gage, or deed of trust, from q. 10. j.
Goodwin and wife to e. Nick. Good
win, registered in book No. Ia at page
543, and in another mortgage or deed
of trust from said G. q. j. Goodwin to
Bennett Smedes registered in book 40.
104 at page 651 of said Registers office;
and includes the SO acres mortgaged to
E. W. McVea by said G. q. J. Goodwin
by mortgage registered in book No. 81
at page 592 of said Registers office.
The whole tract contains between AZ
and 430 acres.
Sale made by order of Wake Superior
court rendered at February term, 1898,
in the case Of Smedes and others vs..
G. e. J. Goodwin and wife and others,
No. SS3 Summons Docket.
Terms Of sale: CASH. Hour Of sale
IL N.
r. Fl. BATTLE, Commissioner.
March 10Th, 1898.
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The people of America are crying less
war and more chaw OF Grape tobacco.
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new YORK April 15-Futures opened
6rm: sales 10 "
!. FUTURES closed very STEADY; sales 81,
NEW ORLEANS.

spot cotton closed quiet uiddllng upl and
*; middling gulf 6a. sale 8 800 ba es.
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We keep right making and selling the same character
of work in harness and saddlery that have been
ufacturing for more than twenty years,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-17

that these will carry about 6.O00 men,
with their equipments. The War Depart
ment IS now in communication with the
various coastwise steamship companies
on the Atlantic and Gulf, with view TO
securing the additional vessels needed
Mr.. Meiklejohn said it had not yet been
determined whether any of the vessels
soon to reach Santiago would be utilized
In the Porto Rican expedition. That was
matter entirely contingent upon the
military aspect of affairs as they might
develop I'm Eastern Cuba.
TAMPA NOT ENTIRELY ABANDONED
1t is stated not to be the intention Of
the government at this time 20 abandon
Tampa as base Of military operations,
as has teen reported. The War Depart
ment has a vast quantity Of rations, be-
sides large number of men, at that
place. While IL is possible that future
lar 9 military Cvements may rot be en-
barked from that point. yet IT is believed
that II viii be continued TO be used as a
reserve base, for such work as may be
more conveniently done from there.