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The times., 1898-07-16

he stock market did not respond yes
terday 10 the news of the surrender ne
Botia1ens st Santiago in the manner ex-
pected- There was duilness and heavi-
ness all day. AT the opening il was
said that the victory al Santiago would
cause a bull market. with eager pur-
chasens and a few sellers. This talk con-
tinued for a time, but il was not fol-
lowed by any percepuble action on the
part Of the enthusiasts. The only two
possible conclusions 10 be drawn are that
either the market is already high
enough for the present or that the stree,
is skeptical as 10 the genuineness of the
surrender. Perhaps both causes had
their part in the effect. 1t seems now
that the street was warranted in its be-
lief that the Spaniards are dying hard
in Santiago.
Secretary Alger made the statement
yesterday evening. after reading the 4
O'Clock cable message from Gen. Shafter
that "the suspicion cannot be lost sight
Of that the Spaniards are playing for
time" For two days now. since the de-
mand for unconditional surrender was
made, Spain has said "manana."
The comment was made last night in
the War Department that il may be
necessary yet 10 lombard the city, de-
spite the word Of honor given by the
Spanish commanders in their promise to
surrender. Unless there is positive news
thar the American army Is in Santiago
and the American flag flying, al an early
hour today. il seems certain that the
stock market win continue unsatisfacto-
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New York July 15.-R. G. Dun's review
of trade tomorrow will say:
The destruction of a Spanish fleet Eu-
ropes quick appreciation of the feat, the
wearying flags of truce at Santiago, and
at last the surrender have all influenced
some markets day by day, nut Americans
have grown and see thai not many out
side matters greatly influence the bust
ness which enables them to market s. Zid-
274ol5 worth of domestic products abroad
in a year. against $gl6, ,C52, S44 worth i'm
ported
The new loan has proved a stupendous
success. over $500 000 0J0 having been sub
scribed, and IL is now tho question of chief
interest whether any banks will get
enough after personal subscriptions have
been accepted to support further circula-
ton. Industries and business are at the
naturally lowest point IIr the year and
therefore the records are the more i'm
pressive
The decrease in outpu; or pig iron from
225,37S tons weekly June i, TO 216.311 July
J. mostly due to usual stoppages for re-
pairs, little before July !, carries with
IL a decrease of 42l6 tons week
ly in unsoId stocks. If the first and
last of the month represented average
production, the quantity consumed In
manufacture would be 3.S per cent. less
than the highest ever attained in May
a small decrease for midsummer. but in
fact the average production was larger.
and decrease in consumption was smaller
The fall shipments just begin in boots
and shoes and works have smaller orders
than they want, though many works for
several months ahead. but others because
they refuse contracts at old prices
Leather costs more but yields slightly
for common hemlock sole, while prices
of hides are decidedly weaker at Chicago
Behind all Is a great distribution by
many dealers greater than in Nav and
extraordinary abundance of pasturage
promises cheaper cattle.
Shipments from the East in July have
been only 1920 cases less than last wear
when deliveries in the first half of the
year were 10000 cases smaller but ship
ments are now greater than in any former
year, and II per cent. greater than in
1892
1t Is still between seasons for wool. but
a few large purchases indicate some dis
position for business and the demand for
woolen goods is better. though prices for
some have been reduced and the COM
petition as to serges seems likely 10 be
excessive.
Wheat has been dropping in price un
der estimates of 6sO, ,OOO.O 600 to 7oO. 900 900
bushels this year, which seem to be at
least as well warranted as over conser-
Vatlve estimates by the same parties last
year. The volume of business still ex-
ceeds that OF any previous year for the
week III per cent greater than last wear
and ~ per cent greater than in 1892,
Money is coming into New York heavily
in July. Commercial loans are hard to
find, and the interior is paying its debts
in advance. Failures for the week have
been 2l5 in the United States against 26s
last year, and in Canada, % aginst 81
last year.
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The feature of the market yesterday
was the sharp break In Metropolitan
Traction. For this, several reasons were
assigned, though the true one was, per-
haps. that selling at q time when there
was no support caught stop orders The
passage of the mo seat, no fare bill
by one branch of the board of aldermen
and the fact that the company will ask
its stockholders 10 authorize an issue of
sl50o0000 instead of Sl0,OO0,0O0 of new
stock, were used as bear arguments.
Without passing upon intrinsic value it
may be well TO remember that the new
stock viii be sold at par to stockholders
that part OF it is 10 be used TO retire de-
bentures, and that only $40, 600, coo is to
be issued now, the remaining s. ZOO. 600. if
authorized, 10 remain in the trasury
The formation OF the Manhattan Island
Is such that il is not probable that a
no seat, no fare" ordinance can pass, or
If passed can be enforced
The times., 1898-07-16

breaking shipments of breadstuffs and
provisions, with large forwardings of raw
cotton and mineral oils, furnish a total
of $50, 100000 larger than in any previous
years.
Imports. on the other hand. show
as striking shrinkage as ex-
ports do gain, being Sl4S 100000 smaller
than last year. which was one of very
heavily reduced totals. The result is a
total of exports twice the size of i'm
ports, and net imports of gold running
close TO sl00.000.0 900 in this particular also
exceeding all previous records.
While there seems little reason to ex-
pect anything like the excited foreign
buying of cereals this year, which occur
red last season. the worlds wheat crops
ali pointing 10 exceptionally large, If not
record-breaking yields, stiIl the situa-
ton of carried-over supplies is such as
TO lead 10 confidence in good general
demand.
More is doing in steel and some West
ern mills are reported booked with orders
until next Winter. Copper and potatoes
are lower. while lard and spices are high
er. Coffee is weak on large worlds
stocks.
The times., 1898-07-16
Chicago Grain and Provision Mor,.e,

Corrected daily by w. B. Hibbs & Co.
members OF the New York Stock Exch ange
1897 + S
The times., 1898-07-16

The earnings Of Northern Pacific for
the first week in July increased SIS, go
The times., 1898-07-16
Washington stock Excbnuye

Regular CaI-Metropolitan Railroad
Certificate "A" $500 at 112 ga. Mergen-
thaler Linotype, 10 at Us 3-S. 10 at III 1-2
Lanston Monotype % at Is ga 100 at 16
Notice-On motion, the exchange de-
cided to adjourn over Saturday during
the months of July, August and Septem-
Der.
The times., 1898-07-16

Dow Jones & Co. say that there is n
truth in The talk of Union Pacific takin
in the Oregon Short Line.
The times., 1898-07-16

ry. Even If Santiago falls, the advance
may not be strong. The street is also
afraid of the fever. One begins to be-
lieve that only peace itself will be able
TO give a strong tone TO the market
NOW
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and although the movement of new wheat
showed a surprising increase, the wheat
market scored a moderate gain today.
1t was under the domination of the
corn market, which was being buned by
the same dry weather which should have
proven a bearish influence in wheat
There was talk of export selling of hard
wheat both here and at New York, but
definite figures were unattainable.
The market was not large enough to
absorb any important quantity.
Chicago Grain and Provision Market
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New York Stock Market.

Corrected daily by ". B. Hibbs. & Co.
members Of the New York Stock Exchange,
l459 + Street.
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FINANCIAL.

Let your money make more for
you Invest in the Washington
Natl Building and Loan Associa-
ton, 18th and G. streets.
Evening star., 1898-04-15

Everything the amateur needs to take
pictures. develop, print and mount then
And while we handle the standard makes
our prices are lowest.
An Eastman Camera-1hc Eureka
Worth s.. For. x3.T5
Yale Camera, everything complete,
takes pictures 2x2. Worth 81. For. .4sc.
Evening star., 1898-04-15
Seeking for Pearls.
From Lippincott's Magazine.


The history of pearl seeking has about it
SO much OF the glamor of romance and DOS
sible gain that the difficulties and risks OF
the quest are well-nigh forgotten. Me.,
love pursuit that entails much danger
end much knowledge of men and elements.
Long before the Roman conquest men were
hazarding the dangers of newly discover
ed rivers In Search of the elusive gems.
and one of the prime reasons for under
taking the expedition into Great Britain
was 10 obtain the fair ''congealed dew
drops pierced by sunbeams' which poets
and philosophers In all ages have made the
cmb!ems of purity and worth and which
Roman women so much coveted There Il
scarcely sacred literature in existence In
which pearls do not bear reverent meaning
and no nation where place and favor have
not been bought by the beautiful, Iustrous
products of the sea.
Evening star., 1898-04-15
Chief OF division xyantcd.

The civil service commission announces
that on May @ an examination will be held
at all places throughout the United States
where the commission has competent boards
OF examiners for the position of chief of di-
vision of library and archives In the United
States coast and geodetic survey. Treasury
department, at salary of $500 per an
num- The department requests that per-
sons certified to this position be not under
forty-five years OF age, and that they shall
have lad practical experience as librarians.
shall be (preferably members OF the Amer
shall have reading knowledge Of French
and German.
Evening star., 1898-04-15
Iple.sonIafi, SIC ntion.

Lieut.. Col H. Ra freeman, 9Th infantry
has reported at theidNar Department fol-
duty. He is at the. Ebbitt House.
Mai. H. c. Cushing, retired. is at 1905
Connecticut avenue. ojeI
Lieut.. G. B. Priteh4rd, ir. 9th Cavalry, Is
in the city. on leave 0f,absence.
Lieut.. H. S. Knapp. On duty at the Naval
Academy. is in thissr,Sieity h! r,i on leave Of ab-
First Lieuts. Charles Lynch. q. c. Cod
Trey and C. B. FifagK fs ya. ass.stanl surgeons
examination for promotion.
Lieut.. r. G. Paxton. 10Th Cavalry is al
the Army and Navy Club On leave of alb
Sence -
First Lieut.. W. n. Hartz. corps of en-
gineers. reported to Gen. wilson today FOL
examination for promotion. -ss;ff
Mr.: Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., is the guest
of Vicomtesse de Sibour. ass
w. G. Foote, formerly principal OF the
Henry Grammar School nov city superin-
tendent of schools. South Norwalk. Conn,
is. with his wife, stopping at the Regent,
this city. =.
Evening star., 1898-04-15
Cen. Lee Receive. Callers.

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee had a number of vis-
itors at the Shorehem Hotel this morn
Ing. He busted himself with opening his
nail, which has accumulated greatly, and
in receiving the many friends who called
upon him About noon he left the hotel
and went to the State, War and Navy
Department.
The general has had many applications
from persons who wish to serve with him
IN the event of war between this country
and SPAIN
Evening star., 1898-04-15
NJ. nrxan,s Panef.

Mr.. Mcmillan yesterday laid before the
Senate sketch Of the various forms Of
local government in the District Of sColum-
bia by w. B. Bryan. The paper Includes
xtsnsive lists Of city offlciaiss OF Washine-
ton from the organisation OF the eoyefs9-
ment. It viii be printed. IS.
Evening star., 1898-04-15
Patent Examiner J. q. Rice Resign

Fafeut EXaEhIhef y. q. HIcc HeAfisns.
Mr.. James Q. Rice. for the past fifteen
years patent examiner of the United States
patent Office. has resigned to accept a more
lucrative position in New York city. Mr..
Rice has been in charge of three of the
most important divisions In the patent office
and latterly has been identified with that
Of printing and the allied arts, having been
Evening star., 1898-04-15

SSC ounce for the new Bouquet Odor pop
Wv ularized by the famous Paris firIu
For sale Only at the Palais Royal in Wash
ingtol-
Continued aboyeJ
Evening star., 1898-04-15

A bargain in Straw braids,
black, white, orange and all wanted
shades-Ioc yard quality for. zc
Evening star., 1898-04-15

in charge Of that division for the past seven
years, and has earned quite a reputation
among the printing press manufacturers of
the country.
Evening star., 1898-04-15

Want" ads. in The Star pay because
they bring answers.
Evening star., 1898-04-15
Bicycle Sundries.

AlWay lowest.
Solar Gas Lamps Worth s.. For. s. 80
Embossed End Bicycle Grips. Worth
@oc. For lie.
L. A W. Luggage Carrier. Worth SOC.
For .39c.
Steel Toe Clips. Worth 15c Fcr &C.
No l Standard Cyclometers. Worth
i9c For. .45c.
Bunaio aluminium Lamp, with II
tapes. Worth S1s0. For .25c
Happy Thought Lamp. Worth $780,
For .75c.
All tires bought Of us put on free
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-01-07
VOL. XVIII. mo. /.
THE PENSION BOARDS.


Ane pension board will meet In n
lew days and in order that there shsll
ee as little confusion as possible, and
mo n order e sas enable lIsssathsa athsa tnc i0n0~'s
s.~,,ctions: IL organ lzeu ~
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-01-07
WHAT A MAN EATS.

The Royal Statistical society of
Great Britain has been calculating
the amount of food eaten by an aver
age man who lives to be 20 years old.
lie will eat between fourteen and
fifteen tons Of bread or one thing.
Two compartments of IN English
railway carriage would hold the giant
potato, cut in halves, which this man
would eat, but no one man could
-corTy-.ho-huf1: IIaH million peas,
requiring pod four miles longto hold
them, carrot twice us big as dom
key, enough lettuce to carpet twelve
room house, besides smaller vegeta-
bles too numerous to mention would
be eaten.
If q man ate nothing but beef he
would consume q bullock weighing
over eighteen tons and standing fifteen
feet high, and would likewise eat five
tons Of fish and 10000 eggs.
Four tons of sugsr, three quarters
of ton of salt, ton of butter and a
cheese weighing nearly 800 pounds
would be consuLled, together with
100 tins of mustard and fifteen pounds
of pepper.
The solid food taken in lifetime
would be nearly fifty-four tons, and
the liquid would be 1880 times a
mans weight. If all this was of the
consistency of q frothed egg. it would
be 10000 times as big az the man,
and if the total amount Of sustenance
| was converted into mechanical power
| it would be equal to lifting $780,
900 tons one foot high.
A cigar smoker consuming half o
| dozen cigars a day for fifteen years
has, if all were Jumped together, q
cigar sixteen feet long and two broad
weighing o ton and requiring a steam
engine to create n through draft wher
it is lighted. A pipe smoker woult
use half ton Of tobacco.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-01-07
Growth Of the South In Wealth.

The value of the assessed property
in the South today is just double
what it was before the war, when the
negroes were included as property.
Taking the South as whole, the
increase has been greater where in
dustries have been diversified and in
tensifed. Mississippi is Joined to
her old idol. King Cotton-hence
that State which, comparatively. was
one of the wealthiest before the war,
is now one of the poorest-at least
one Of the least progressive as far as
material progress goes. North Caro-
lima, one Of the poorest, or rataer one
of the slowest in ante-bellum days,
is now become one Of the wcalthiest.
Within q few years the old North
State has built $50 cotton factories
and 24O tobacco factories. Her old,
worn-out sedge fields, with 93 per
cent of silicious matter, produce the
fine yellow leaf tobacco in abundance.
The building Of railroads has been
one Of the most important factors in
this unexampled development Of
ealth.--Nashville Banner.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-01-07
A BRAVE SOUTHERN WOMAN.
She Refused to Leave Her Home
Though q Battle Was Expected.

Though Battle Was Expected.
Summer Hill, close to Studlcy,
Va, is very interesting place, built
over 100 years ago, and was the
arena of much active warfare about
the year 1862. Mrs. Newton resides
there, the widow of Capt. William
B. Newton, scholarly gentleman
and brave commander Of cavalry in
Gen. Fitzhugh Lees brigade, who
was killed at the battle Of Cllpcpper
Court House. He was a brother of
the late Bishop John Brokenbrough
Newton, who died last Ascension
Day. Summer Hill was taken for
headquarters by Gen. Grant, and
there be held q council of war with
Gen. Hancock and Gen. Mcdowell.
Gen. Grant told Mrs. Newton he
was expecting an attack, and that a
battle would be fought under her
very rooftree, and added:
II advise you strongly, madam, to
20 over into King William county
with your little children. will be
glad to furnish you an ambulance
and safeguard to cross the lines"
She answered: "No, ] prefer to
stay here. This old home is all |
have left, and if its fate is to fall
down it will have to fall OH my head.
l can put the children down in the
potato cellar, and, general, if you
should get scared when the firing
begins, you can so down there with
them"
Gen. Grant laughed heartily and
said: "Have your own way, mad
am. You are brave enough" Af
ter the war was over he inquired very
particularly of her, and expressed
tie hope that she came out all right
Boston Transcript.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-01-07
Sra.o
Sra.S
laom they know to be deaa.

-'uoAh thOJ AhoV W SO NSou.
y.j may add to the roll only such
names of new applicants as may file
applications. Those already on the
pension roll need not prepare nor file
new applications.
All new applications not properly
and correctly fled in each particular,
although approved by township and
county boards, will be disapproved by
the State board. The county boards
are requested not to forward to the
State board the names of any pen
sioners disapproved by the township
or county boards. Complete county
and township lists as approved for
1897 are herewith sent to the town
ship boards from which they are ex-
pected to make up the list of those to
be continued ON rfe ron; the same VIII
be handed to the county board for
their approval.
Township and county boards will
notice that tho law provides three
classes, IA" 3D." and &C." with
five sub divisions of class &C, as
follows:
Class A-Those who have lost both
hands, or both legs, or both eyes, or
whose absolute disabilities arising
from wounds, are equivalent to the
loss of either, and whose income docs
not exceed $3.50. This does not in
clude soldiers whose disabilities arise
from diseases or causes arising since
the war.
Glass B.-Those who have lost one
arm or one leg, or whose disabilities
from wounds are equivalent to the
loss Of an arm or leg, and whose in
come does not exceed $3.50.
Class C.-(No.n-Those soldiers
and sailors disabled by wounds, but
not sufficient to be placed in Class B,
whose income does not exceed $3.50.
Class C.-(No. 2.) Those who have
reached the age of sixty years and
whose jncome does not exceed 800.
Clos C.-(No. 3.) Widows of those
who lost their lives while in the SER
vice of the State or Confederate
States, and whose income does not ex-
coed $3.50.
Glass C.-(No. 4.) Widows above
the age ofsixty years, whose income
does not exceed 800.
Glass C.-(No. 5.) Widows of pen
sioners. This class is not mentioned
in the printed act sent out, but BY the
act approved 9th December, 1894.
Blanks for the reports of township
and county boards in accord with
these classes and subdivisions have
been prepared and will be mailed tt
auditors for distribution among thu
boards. Class A get $6 per month o,
$72, and will be paid this amount
Glass b, "a per month or $36. After
class A shall have been paid, tn,
balance will be pro rated between 1
and G on the basis of 81 to $3. Thi
money will be sent to the clerk o
court Us heretofore as has been pro
vidcd in the appropriation act eacl
year, and will be sent just rs soon
the roll for the State can be correctc'
and verified.
Township boards cannot be tw
careful in these matters of "income'
and physical condition" 1t is
very poor man whose gross incom
from labor, rent, and other sources
docs not exceed 800, or poor landt
ifany. which will produce this amoun
gross. Probably sufficient to produc
800 in applicant'sor his wifo's nam
debars him or her. Where soldier
or widows dispose Of their propert
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-01-07
I'D it's
ION mills and
.ofNcw England.
i must make up her
MIR. Wiggin, ''that the
Ter manufacturing glory

ucT MISUNDERSTANDING ElOIy
.as passed, and that, for the future,
for their support. This section of
the country cannot Il repeat-can-
not compete with the South in man
ufacturing the cheaper grade Of cot
ton goods, and the sooner New Eng
land manufacturers realize that they
cannot, and that all attempts at
economizing and cutting down wages
and lessening the number Of their
help, or even going back to longer
hours of labor, is only postponing
the inevitable the better for them and
their help"
What is the chief reason that
New England cannot compete with
the South?"
"Labor, of conrse-labor. The
lr->,--s-.a-.-vo..-----'-
facturer Of the South depends upon
con live for about one-fourth the
amount that his New England com
petitor is forced to expend. Why.
in Georgia, a man can get enough to
support himself and his family the
year round out of one carefully
worked acre of land. Here In the
North, in my time. and don't think
the conditions are very much changed
from what they used to be, the lux
uries and conveniences in reach Of
the cotton operative of the New Eng
land States are looked upon as his
right. TO the class of help now en-
ployed by the average cotton mill Of
the South they would simply be hap
py dreams.
have seen considerable stated in
the newspapers of the North" con-
tinued Mr.. Wiggin, regarding the
negro labor Of the cotton mills of the
South. Now this is all a mistake.
There are very few negroes employed
in tho mills, and it will always be so.
Why! Because one of the chief cs-
scntlals of a cotton operative is to be
| steady and reliable, and this the
negro will never be, l have seen it in
the South time and time again
Suppose a manufacturer were
20 hire o negro to operate q
mule. For one week, that is during
the time that he had no money, that
negro might be pattern. But n
the end of the week. The minute
that negro gets into his possession
the five 'cartwheels'--as he calls
them, which he may have earned
that minute he becomes perfectly in
dependent Of all manufacturers ant
manufactures. He may show up a
the mill Monday morning-and thel
again he may not. The chances ar
that, if he has any of his money left
he will not. No manufacturer cal
put up with help Of this kind, ant
will not.
"The kind of help that is employees
| in the Southern cotton mills toda,
is the poor white Men, wome1
and young children arc now workinI
| in families in the mills. In the bull
of the Southern States there arc n
laws regarding hours of labor or pre-
hibiting the employment Of childre
under u certain age. You see, fo
so many years the South looked ur
on as impossible the growth of
manufacturing class in her midst tha
she neglected to provide safeguard
for their and her own safety.
consequently, these people wor
+ from 6 q. m. to 6 p. m. In tn
spring and summer, this means fro'
about sunrise to sunset--the same s
the operatives of Lancashire in Eng
land did many years ago ut the b.
Iginniug Of this century and befo'