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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour easy; winter patents 81. 30Q3.50
straights, s3.OOd3.20; spring specials.
$500; spring patents, s3.30d3.60;
straights, s2.sOd3.OO; bakers. s2.l0R
2.40; No. 2 yellow corn. 29k m29Izc: No.
3 spring wheat, 59hG62lac; No. 2 red,
64c; No. 2 corn. 29d No. . oats.
T. o. b., 21AG22c; No. 2 white, Csc; No.
3 white, (. o. b., 22A G25c; mess pork.
per Dbl. S1S5d1.90; lard, per 100 lbs,
4.SO@4.S2h; hort ribs sides, loose,
S5.15d5.35; dry sailed shoulders. boxed.
S4.50G4.62h; short clear sides. boxed.
s5.40d5.50; whiskey. distillers' finished
goods, per gallon. s1.25.
New York, October Flour market
dull and easy with wheat: winter pat
ents 50. 75G3.S5.
options opened easy under foreign Of
ferings and was depressed all the
forenoon by big spring wheat re-
ceipts, light export interest and liaui-
dalton; closed hG%c net lower: sales
included No. . red, May closed at 677sc:
December closed at 67Mc.
Corn-No. 2 35ac. Options dun and
steady at first, later selling Off with
wheat, closing nc lower. May closed
at 36c; December closed at 34%c.
Oats-Spotsouiet; No. 2 26c. Options
nominal.
Lard-Easier; western steamed clos
ed at $5.12h; city $4.s5G490; October
closed at s5.07 nominal: refined steady.
Pork-Dull; mess sS.50Gs.O0; short
clear sl1.0oG12.7 rs; family $l2. 50Gl3.O0.
Eggs-Steady: state and Pennsylva-
mia 17k@1Sc; western fresh 1T1hc.
Petroleum-Steady; United closed,
no market; refined New York IS. s5:
Philadelphia and Baltimore $50; DO i'm
bulk, 1870.
Rice-Steady; domestic fair 10 ex-
ira, 5hG6Ac; Japan sAGshc.
Cofee-Spot Rio, steady; No. : in
voice SIC: No. Z jobbing s&c: mild
quiet and steady; Cordova sG15c; half
holiday market.
Sugar-Raw, dull and nominally low
er; fair refining 3Ac: centrifugal. So
test, 4Ac; molasses, sugar 3Ac; refined
weak and lower; mould A SIC; granu-
lated SIC.
NAVAL STORES.
New Y~ork-Rosin quiet; strained.
common to good, sl.30. Turpentine
quiet at 30kG3lc.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm at
2shc; sales 1862; receipts s4s. Rosin-
Sales 1883; receipts 1886. Quote: A Il
G d Csc. f $1.05. f s1.10GI12h. @ 81. 20.
4 K SI35. NJ Sl.40, n SLIGO, w G $50.
w w S2.15.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS market firm
at z1kc; sales none. Rosin quiet and
unchanged; sales none.
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Admission. Ala. September 30.-At
Camp Ship today, Private Syphe. Of
the Third Alabama (colored) shot and
killed Corporal Oliver. Syphe and an
other soldier were quarreling when
the former grabbed his Springfield
rifle and putting a cartridge in II. fired
at his opponent. He missed the man
he shot at. but the ball hit Corporal
ollver in the head. killing him instant
~. The murderer was arrested and
turned over TO the civil a~uthorsrIes
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL


New York, October Money on call
steady at 3G3k per cent; prime mer-
camille paper 3hG5 per cent; sterling
exchange firm with actual business in
bankers bills at s4.S4G4s4A for de-
mand and at s4.s1hd4s14 for sixty
days; posted rates at A-s244s2h and
s4.s5; commercial bills at s4.S0h; silver
certificates at -; bar silver so 1910;
Mexican dollars at AIS; state bonds
firm; railroad bonds steady; govern
ment bonds easier.
COTTON.
Liverpool, Oct. Ii p. m.-Cotton.-
Spot moderate demand, prices 1-1sd
lower. American middling fair 3 15-32d;
good middling 4Ad: middling 3 1-l6d;
low middling 2 2s-32d; good ordinary
2Ad; ordinary 2 9-16d. The sales OF
the day were 5000 bales. Of which 500
bales were for speculation and export
and included $500 American; receipts
500 bales, all American. Futures
opened quiet with a moderate demand
and closed quiet. but steady, at the
decline,
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WILMINGTON MARKETS.

Wilmington, N. c., October /.
Receipts of cotton today-2,347 bales.
Receipts same day last year-3,S34
bales.
This seasons receipts to ate-45,i $50
bales.
Receipts to same date last year-65,-
376 bales.
The quotations posted at 4 o'clock
today at the exchanges:
Cotton firm.
Ordinary ............ ........... 2 7-16
Good ordinary ................ 3A
Low middling ZIG
Middling .............. .......... Az
Good middling 5k
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Tr11n wears we'll. People have
learned that DeWitt's Little Early
Risers are reliable little pills for reg
ulating the bowels, curing constipation
and sick headache. They don grippe.
r. r.. Bellamy. 80
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15

A Virginia woman who owns a
little land has gone into the busi-
ness Of raising sheep. She spent
S25, paying So a head for ewes,
and then turned her flock into
her pasture land. She raised
what she could care for on her
land, selling the rest as soon as
they were Of marketable age.
She gave only obout one hour a
day to them, and paid boy so
cents a week to keep the sheep
sheds clean and tho fodder cut
up She has been in the busi-
ness about five years. The first
year she came out $40 ahead of
her experiment, AT tho end Of
the fourth year she had a flock of
sixty ewes, all she could keep
with her pastuIage, and in wool
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15
ample opportunity offered to

ample opportunity offered to
rescue at least some of the women
and children. AS it was, only
one woman, Mrs. La Casse, was
saved. She has been on board
ever since. She is the wife of
A. D. La Casse, a teacher of
languages Of Plainfield, N. J.
The crew of the Cromartyshire
comment freely upon the fact
that only one woman was saved
out CT 300. Nearly all the first
class passengers were lost, those
saved being steerage and sailors.
La Casse and his wife were in
the water eight hours, clinging
to raft, before they were picked
up by a boat from the Cromarty-
shire. They lost everything but
what they stand in, including
money and valuables. One pas
senger was going home to France
with his two children, his wife
having died a month previously.
He was saved but his two babies
went down with the ship.
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15

In speaking Of the Hawaii an
nexation question, Hon. j. s..
Little, member of congress from
the second district says:
81 am opposed to annexation,
the Arkansas delegation being
unanimous on the question. We
believe in the Monroe doctrine.
| am opposed to the policy Of
empire and territorial acquisition.
1t is proper that we should take
everything in sight in times Of
war, but to retain possession and
establish a colonial policy would
be antagonistic to all the tradit-
ions of the country and detrimen- =
tai to our consistent standing
among the nations"
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15
HOBSON EXCHANGED.
His Safe Return to the New York
Marked by Unparalleled
Enthusiasm.

Assistant Naval Constructor
Richmond P. Hobson, of the flag
ship New York, and the seven
seamen who with him sailed on
the collier Merrimac into the
channel of the harbor of Santiago
June 5 last and sank her there,
have been surrendered by the
Spanish military authorities in
exchange for prisoners captured
by the American forces. Hobson
and his men were escorted
through the American lines by
Capt. Chadwick, of the New
York, who was awaiting them.
Every step of their journey
was marked by the widest dem
onstrations on the part of the
American soldiers, who threw
aside all resemblance Of order
and scrambled out of the en-
| trenchments, knocked over tent
guys and other camp pharapher-
MALTA, in their eagerness to see
the returning heroes, and sent
up cheer after cheer for the men
who had passed safely through
the jaws of death to serve their
country. The same scenes OF en-
thusiasln were repeated upon the
arrival of the men at the hos
pital station and our base at
Juragua.
Hobson, who reached there in
advance of his companions, was
taken on board the New York
Immediately. The flagship's
decks were lined with officers and
men, and as Hobson clambered
up the side and stepped aboard
his vessel and the .harbor rang
with the shouts and chez Iof
his comrades, which wer' IRE
echoed ls the crews Of a dozen
transports lying near by. Hob
son had little to say in regard to
his experiences except that he
and his companions had been
we'll treated by the Spaniard and
that they were all in excellent
health.
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15
and mutton she found she had c
clear yearly income Of $3.50.

The following item from one
OF our exchanges may be Of inter-
est to point moral: ''In an
adjoining county town, while a
ladies' card club were engaged in
playing for two-dollar book as
a prize, the sons of these same
ladies, small boys, were arrested
in haymow while playing for so
cents as a prize. They had or
ganized club like mothers they
said. The mothers cried and
said, What a terrible place town
is to raise boys, anyhow. Served
the boys right. TN ey might nave
known the difference between a
haymow and a parlor, and be-
tween a two-dollar and q fifty
cent prize"
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15
LYTLE is DEAD TOUGH.
A Chickamauga correspondent

A Chickamauga correspondent
of the Conway Democrat writes:
The town OF Lytle, Ga, is
tough-dead tough. 1t was
Literally built in a day. A few
days ago it was nothing more
than a wide place in the road
a station depot with one room,
and a cob-pipe with an old man
at the other end. 1t is now a
regulation metropolis, buzzing
with animation. There are scores
of telegraph and telephone wires,
a large opera house, several drug
stores, numberless lunch counters
and the required number Of sight
less tigers. There are gambling
halls and otfer' JiHiTts till you
can't rest, and 70 soldier can
say there is no opportunity for a
good time. All buildings are
built of rough material, and will
be taken down when the troops
move.
Happening to stroll into this
modern Sodem in miniature a
few days since | was surprised at
what | saw, and glad when | got
clear of the city limits. The first
thing | saw was ventriloquist
with the inevitable limberjawed
dummies, who was selling panta-
loon buttons to the soldiers.
Next ran against fake M. D.,
dispensing his infallible cure for
all the diseases on the calendar.
On the Midway Plaisance $50
called because of its Worlds
Fair aspect) | saw the knife.
board man, the cpne-rack man,
the wheel of (mis) fortune, the
monte man, the shell manipulation,
and dozens of other contrivances
for turning an honest (?) penny.
| was directed to the blind tigers
by half a dozen men who seemed
to be there for nothing else. |
went TO one of them, found a
fight in progress and got hence.
If the Lord will forgive me, will
never 60 there any mcre-for the
general has placed a strong line
Of pickets between us and the
metropolis and no one is allowed
to pass.
Recruits arrive on every train.
The poor fellows are guyed un-
mercifully, and, doubtless, wish
they were at home with mother.
Immediately on arrival they are
surrounded by a detachment Of
soldiers, who eagerly ask how
many stamps they brought, "For
Gods sake gimme a chew Of to-
baccol" "Say, how does salt
taste?" etc. The recruit gets
pale around the gills and isn't
glad he came. One fellow, on
his arrival, was short on water
and asked an officer where he
could get some. The officer look"
ed at his watch and said, curtly;
"Water rations will be issued at
8 o'clock, provided there is any
left after the mules have had
enough" The recruit wilted and
meekly hoped that the mules were
not as thirsty as he was at that
very minute
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15
OFFICIAL.

han, First District--P. d. McCulloch
|SriaHna, LIE County.
4ec0nd Disi-A' J witt Pocahontas
b Judicial Dist-JOhn b. McCaleb,
&de.
18th Dlst-R. b. Maxey. Nam.
ESry-Representatlve-T. /. Herrn,
G, Murphy
$ptr Justus,
T. wilkins Har y.
ThOs. H. McCaleb.
C.'W, Shaver.
niner-D d. Spurlock.
n THE COURTS.
art, N.'Dist-First Monday In Jan.
Y. In s. Dist-Second Monday in
y August.
9urt-lst Monday In January, April,
ctober.
pnrt, s. Dlst-2n1 Monday in March
mber and December.
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15

One of the earliest tragedies in
the engagement at La Quasina,
last week was the killing of Hamil-
ton Fish. He was a sergeant in
one of the companies of the regi-
ment Of rough riders. Advanc-
ing boldly at the head of his
company he was mortally wound
cd by a Spanish bullet. Realiz-
ing that he was doomed, he pulled
out q small watch and gave it to
his companion. 1t reminds the
writer of a story told him by a
Revolutionary pensioner, says
the Pawtucket Gazette. He was
one Of the provost guards at the
execution of Major Andre. The
old pensioner spoke Of the British
spy as one of the comeliest men
he ever saw. He marched up the
gallows with a brave step, but ere
he received the fatal moose, took
out his watch and gave it to one
of the guards. A few months
ago we saw in a paper the fact
mentioned that that watch was
lately exhibited by a descendant
Of the man to whom it was given
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15
DirectOry.
RELIGIOUS.

RELIGIOUS.
ot ,be Methodist church first and
va IN each month Rev. W C..
tor. Everybody invited.
., the Christian church Saturday
" tbe t"s second Sunday in ea ch month
WiIholland of Batesvtlle.
.bool every Sunday morning at
Methodist church. Everybody is
g. j. WILSON,
rn";o Secretary. ouperlntenden
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15

,iSoF LEASE, ACKNOWLEDGE
'"y.ls 10 accounts, Dispositions ant
mortgages taken, Abstracts o
y, nills OF sale, bonds for title,
h-peIsohalty and realty-decds,
SoaM,s, unmarried persons, wife,
WIN fcllnquishmeAt OF dover
:, ng,rlgNges real estate, Chuttl
powers p0rs or attorney, written aud
reasonable terms,
,'' nollltsleads and prescriptions
prepared and pa,ents procured
l,i ~, redemption Of lands from
''Ons 10 refund taxes crrone0usl,
IoanoIhestcad now Naye ak months
rV,,,csIeads r"oSI'ds from date Of ltcgIstert
pchce collected Al
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15
A SHIP WENT DOWN.
Six Hundred Lives Lost in a
Collision Amid Terrible
Screams.

the Allen Liner Grecian, with
her bow torn away by collision,
sixty miles south of Sable island,
with the French steamer La
Bourgogne, which latter vessel
went down ten minutes later. Of
the eight hundred passengers and
crew on board La Bourgogne,
only 200 were saved. One woman
was saved by her husband. The
captain and other deck officers
went down with the ship. The
Cromartyshire laid to and picked
up the two hundred passengers
and seamen who were rescued,
transferring them to the Grecian
which came along shortly after
ward.
| Mrs. Henderson, wife of the
captain, was on board the Crom-
artyshire with her two children.
She tells thrilling story of the
terrible experience. The weather
was foggy and she had risen
from her bunk at an early hour
as was her custom when the
weather was thick. Shortly be-
fore the vessels came together
she detected a steamer whistle
blowing on the port side Of the
vessel. The Cromartyshire was
sounding her fog horn at Intervals
of one minute. Mrs, Henderson
called the attention of her hus-
band to the sounding of the
whistle and a minute later the
mate who was on the watch also
detected the sound. 1t came
nearer and nearer and Mrs.
Henderson stood near the cabin
in order to rescue her children
should a disaster occur. Sud-
denly the huge hull of an ocean
steamer loomed up in the mist
going about nineteen knot an
hour. Almost Immediately there
was a fearful crash and Mrs.
Henderson rushed below and
found her children awakened by
the shock. She dressed the little
ones as quickly as possible and
removed them to the deck, expect
ing to seq her own ship go down
any minute. Captain Henderson,
as soon as the collision occurred
ordered the boats to be lowered
and the damage to be ascertained.
AS it was found that the Cro-
martyshire was in no immediate
danger the Britisher put about.
The vessel with which they had
colided was at that time unknown.
A few minutes later her whistle
was heard and several rockets
were sent up. Captain Hender-
son replied in like manner think
ing the steamer was Offering as
sistance, but in few minutes all
was quiet and those on board
began to realize the awful results
Of the collision.
At $50 o'clock the fog lifted
and twD boats were seen ap-
preaching with only one man
on board. Later the weather
cleared still more and men were
to be seen in every direction
clinging to wreckage and floating
on life RATS. 1t was q terrible
sight. No pen can picture the
appalling sight revealed to the
onlookers when tho curtain Of
mist arose. The work Of rescue
was commenced without a mo-
ment's delay and over 200 per-
sons were picked up and taken
on board the ship. Mrs. Hender-
son who had ample opportunity
of interviewing those who were
rescued expressed her belief from
what she heard that there had
been no effort TO save the women,
There were many foreigners on
board who fought for places in
the beats. II was fully ten
Sharp County record., 1898-07-15
SOCIETIES..

,v,sa SHADE LODGE No. l43, F. 4
holds regular communications OF
batIrdy before lst Sunday In eacf
n X. S. BACON, W. N.
ID, Sec'y.
xs1xc sHAD CHAPTER, No, II, {
meets at Masonic Hall lst Thurs
y pach month, ut J O'Clock p. m.
;RS K KATEHUDDLESTCN, W. NJ
n AULT, Sec'ty.
pIL CHAPTER No. SO, r. A. NJ
4 regular cOnV9cations at Masonic
in Evening Shade, the Sd Saturday
scb month. ,o ~
avldSon. See.
BERpAR LODGE, No, 81, I. q. G
noIds regular meetings every a.
ornate Friday night.
l.. T. MEDLEY, N q,
ollins. Sec'g,
hNl,LL>>< EVENING SHADE LoDaI
EMffCt><- No. 2490, X. OF II
T1N@- meets first Tues.
AMJes-day nights in every
SAISss- month.
n3SSS W. CARROL SHAVER, D
wv C.J. Wilson X.
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SLIGHT DROP IN
NORTHERN PACIFIC.
Repart Comes From Berlin TbaS the
Northwest Trouble Will lie
Settled Next Week.

Special Disnesch TO the PoSt-fntelligencer.
NEW YORK Nov. 3o,-T'he financial pan
ic IN Berlin continues. There was an I'm
portsnt failure on the bourse today. and
Northern Pacific stocks were thrown on
he market In large quantities By German
hoFlers This action. together with gold
engagements ard hardening IN discount
rates. caused heavy selling of Union Pa
ciAo stocks by London As result, North
ern Pacific common, a Berlin specially
was forced down rs from yesterdays clos
ing IN This market.
London and Berlln both had the report
tha. President HIl. Of the Great Northern,
had retired sfrom all connection with the
Northern Paclac. and tha; negotiations had
teen broken of with the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation Company. This. however
could not he confirmed here, and the story
Is rot believed IN influential quarters X
IS declared here that negotiations toxar,
a settlement of the Northwest troubles are
progressing favorab.y. and vii te conciud-
az nass week
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DEATH ROLL OF Great STORM MOUNTS HIGHER.
Bodies From the Wrecked Portland Washing
Ashore, But How Many Were on Her
Can Only Be Surmised

ing was on the body except fragments OF
underwear.
At Provincetown-Body of an unknown
colored man.
At Orleans-Body of woman IS or 30
years old. The body was devoid OF cloth
ing when picked up on Nauset beach by
the Nauset life saving crew.
Body OF a girl % years Old. The body
was clad in nnderc.othing.
Body Of rrsulatto girl. - years old, evil
IDENTIFY one OF the waitrssses Of the Port
land.
BODY Of woman abou. Is years of age.
A gold wateh was found on this body with
the monogram -. G.. e" engraved on
the case. The body may he that Of Mrs
Jennie Einlnnds, OF Boston.
A dispatch this afternoon stated that a
body had teen identified as taat of Mrs
Mitchell, Of Northeast bag a telegram
tonight indicates that the body descri bed
a5oyt. and now though; to n THAI of Mrs.
EdmuEds Is the one referred 10.
Boz OF a woman 90 to s5 years OF age.
The s4ze is badly d.sfigured and the body
was almost entirely nsids. T1ss only means
OF Identification is z ol0odstone ring atth
the initials OF IL. w G." followed by the
agsl-es 20" Another white girl assovrt 20
years old, fully dressed a.so the body of
a colOreSs walter, ahou, - years Old. also
the body Of a man aged % Also "a man
If A. \ card marked John ". D..
Congress street, Portland" was found on
the clothing.
The descriptions of three bodies a, Fast
ham could not ne Obtained here uonght.
Exact Number Never VIII BE known
The exact number - persons who were
carried away from Boston by tie Portland
Will praoahly never oe known. "a no list
OF passengers WAS retained pa s2EoTe when
The vesSsl left last Saturday Many ssti
mates % me ntrnhe- on hssard have been
made. bgt the estimates have seldom
agreed G. F. Williams Of Bost5.. axen:
o. sAe Portland Steamship Company.
rIaced the to.al number o. persons on the
steamer ~ lsl. or possibly fgs. This est
mate. however. ss generally regarded as
rather sr1aii. II has been stated that the
number WAS as hlgb az 1S. nwt Ir. VIII
2Ias de<a.es thai 80 uaAaE s2.isd On the
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SHERIFF HOLDS OFF CROWD.
Armed with Winchester He Tells
Iyneher~ He VIII Do His Duty.

PARK fsRSRT- RG, W. Va, New ~ La -
tonight circular was recelyed or the
STREETS reading Armed and masked nea
wanted ST y O'clock tonig9; 81 the south
ens q the bridge" Before Il o'cIock ssa
nse1 rad collected there. mostly masked.
A. na15alght they marched across 70 the
faN where ever a thousand had coue,t ed
Sheriff Wade rad 4 guard armed with
Nsnrhesfers lie told tire crUwi 20 d.
perss.. trst Ae would DO his sworn aaty
K - Supposed they wanted u fy-nca two
negroes. Wade Gray and Seogge Ialst
both accused - assaultlaE wegnsr. A few
snets aave s%sn tired, agt r0 one wss aa-s
The aseo iiSr~r$~s at SIS fnorr the eject
- tie eoo.Isss % S3s-.1 WA.A
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