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The Banner-Democrat., 1898-04-09
MEMpHIS DIVISION

MEMPHIS DIVISION.
No. 6, Northern Eypress)-Leaye
Vicksburg 1901 a. m; arrive Memphis
7:05 a. m.
Ne. "a. (Local Mail-Leave Vicks-
burg 7:50 a.m.; arrive Memphis 6:10
p. m. (No. connects at Lula for
Helena; No. "a connects for Greenville
and all Riverside Division Points.
Both trains connect at Memphis with
fast Illinois Central and other trains
for all points.
No. Sc, Leland Accommodation)- =
Leave Vicksburg 4:S0 p. NJ; arrive
Leland 7:45 p. NJ.
No. 35, Leland Accommodation)-
Leave Leland 6:25 a. m; arrive Vicks-
hurg $50 a. m.
No. 5, (Southern Express)-Leave
Memphis 9:05 a. M; arrive Vicksburg
4:05 p. IN.
No. %. (Local Mail il)-Leave Mem
phis 900 a. m arrive Vicksburg 700
:. M. Nos. 5 and % connect for
Greenyille.
All trains run daily.
Trains and carry Palace Sleeping
Cars through between New Orleans
and Kansas City. Mo-. and local Sleep
ers between New Orleans and Vicks-
burg, the latter open for passengers at
300 p. IN.
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-04-09

The pension fraud continues to in
crease enormously and it now takes
S14S, 900, 900 year TO pay the pen
sioners. 1t is the greatest outrage
this country suffers from.
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-04-09
Strayed or Stolen.

One bay pony 141S hands high. with
large Texas brand on hip. Slit in left ear.
A liberal reward will be paid for bis de-
livery to me. w. III. MONTGOMERY.
March 26, 9S. Lake Providence, La.
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-04-09
TOWN LOTS.

Having acquired the Davis Addition
to the Town of Providence and the
field Immediately adjoining the town,
1 offer the same for sale at from $15 tt
$50 per lot according to location
Titles perfect.
CLIFTON F. DAVIS.
Lake Providence. La.
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-04-09
For Sale.

A limited lot of choice cotton seed for
planting-Allen Long Stape variety.
Address. FRANKENBUSH & SONS.
New Orleans, La,
or FL. L. Ethel, Lake Providence, La.
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-04-09

No. 6. (Northern Express) s)-Leave
New Orleans 4:20 p. M; arrive Vicks-
burg 1850 p. M.
No. %. (Local Mail-Leave New Or
leans 8:2O a. m.; arrive Vicksburg 5;55
D. m. Nos. 6 and 22 connect for Match
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-04-09

Uncle Sam purchased twenty-four
boats in one day last week, and con-
tinues buying more.
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-04-09
Y. a, M. ". R. II.
schedule.
EFFECTIVE AT NOON, DEC. 2S, 1897.
NEW ORLEANS DIVISION.

NEW ORLEANS DIVISION.
No. 5. (Southern Express. )-Leave
Vicksburg 4:05 a. M; arrive New
Orleans 1880 a. M. No. connects
for Natchez.
No. 21. (Local Mail)Leaye Vicks-
burg 800 n. M; arrive New Orleans
$50 p. m. No. q connects for Match.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19
NAVAL STORES
Happenings I'm santiago.

Santiago de Cuba, August Is, 4 d..
m. delayed in Enthusiastically
Olivette sailed this afternoon for Mon
aux Point with between 200 and 300
sick. Miss Wheeler is a passenger
Early this morning a Cuban was shot
by a sentry who caught him stealing
commissary stores at the dock. Yes
terday is was discovered that enough
goods had been stolen to make three
cart loads, which had been taken out
surreptitiously to the Cuban I'm the
held. The man under suspicion re-
turned to the wharf last night, evil
IDENTIFY with the intention OF continuing
his thefts, but he was warned of.
Early this morning he was again
found there. When the sentry challeng-
ed him he ran, refusing to obey the
order to halt. AS he was likely to es-
cape the sentry fired and killed him.
The occurrence Is regretted by Gen
eral Wood and the American officers
generally, but ii probably will have q
salutary effect. as aid on the COM
missary and the medical and Red
Cross stores have been altogether too
frequent to be tolerated any longer.
The rainy season has now set I'm
with torrents daily. The troops, there
fore are moved none too soon. as the
physicians are all agreed that the con-
dition OF the men would have been
greatly aggravated by the rain, damp
ness and consequent miasma.
All rejoice at the prospect OF peace
and an early return home.
| August 1910 a m.-General Shat
ter today ordered the Second volun-
teer regiment OF immunes to leave the
city and go into amp outside. The
regiment had been placed here as a
garrison, to preserve order and pro-
tect property.
There has been firing Of arms inside
of the town by members Of his regf-
ment, without orders. so. far as known.
some of the men have ndulged I'm
liquor until they have verged upon
acts Of license and disorder. the lnhab-
itants in some quarters have alleged
loss Of property by force and intimida-
ton and there has grown up a feel
ing of uneasiness concerning them, IL
not OF alarm.
General Shafter, has therefore, order
ed this regiment into the hills, where
discipline can be more severely main
tanned.
In place OF the Second volunteer I'm.
mune regiment. General Shafter has
ordered into the city the Eighth I'LL.
nois volunteer regiment. Of cclorec
troops. in whose sobriety n disci'
pline he has confidence and OF whose
sturdy enforcement Of order nc douo
Ii felt by those in command.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19
COTTON.

Liverpool, August IA p. m.-Cot-
ton.-Spot, poor demand, prices favor
ing buyers; American middling 3 1880
The sales Of the day were 10000 bales,
of which 500 were for speculation and
export and included 9,400 American;
receipts 5000 bales, including $500
American. Futures opened easy with a
moderate demand and closed quiet.
American middling, low middling
clause: August 3 17-64d sellers; Au-
gust and September 8 15-64q3 16-64d
sellers; September and October 3 13-64d
buyers; October and November 3 l1-64
@3 12-64d buyers; November and De-
cember 3 11-64d sellers: December and
January 3 11-64d sellers: January and
February 3 11-64d value; February and
March 3 11-6463 12-64d buyers; March
and April 3 12-64d buyers: April and
May 8 13-64d value; May and June
3 14-64d sellers.
New York, August 17-Cotton steady:
middling SIC: net receipts none; gross
receipts so: exports to Great Britain
3S9; &c the continent SIG; forwarded 50;
sales 2,461: spinners 391; stock 81, 1852.
Total today: Net receipts S37; ex-
ports to Great Britain 800; to the on
linen 6,169; stock 1879. $40.
Consolidated: Net receipts 5.e52; ex-
ports to Great Britain S.113; to France
q; to the continent 2,658.
Total since September list: Net re-
ceiptg S,52S, 351: exports to Great P"i-
tain 3,499. 800; to France Sl5. 329i to the
continent 1855, $50.
Cotton futures closed steady. August
$50, September 5.59. October 5.63, No
vember 5.64, December 5.ss. January
! 5.71, February STA, March 5.T. Apri
! $50, May 5.A.
PORT RECEIPTS.
GaIveston-Quiet at SEC: net re
, ceipts 393.
NorfoIk-Quiet at SIC; net receipt
81.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at SIC; gross re
ceipts 80.
Boston-Steady at &c; net receipts s
gross receipts Loss
Wilmington-Q1iet at 5hcj net re
] ceipts /.
Philadelphia-Dull at 6hc.
Savannah-Easy at 5 S-l6c; net re
J ceipts 81.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19

New Orleans-Easy at s s-1ec: net
receipts $50.
Mobile-Nom.uai at sac: net re-
ceipts Z.
ceipts is.
Augusta-Quiet at &C: net receipts
IS.
Charieston-Quiet: nst receipts g.
Cincinnatt-Quiet at &C. net receipts
Els.
Louisvilie-ouiet at 5Esc.
st. Louis-Easy at 5 s-l6@.' net re-
cetpts S; gross receipts as.
Houstoa-Quiet at 5sc; net receipts
SIS.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Chicago. August 1.-THE leading flu
lures were as follows:
Open. High Low. Clos.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady; No. . yellow corn. ssA9
SIC; No. 3 spring wheat. s7hGTlc. No.
2 red. re; No. . corn. sec: No. . oats.
&c: No. . white. 25a2sc: No. 3 white.
24g25c; pork. ss.sods.s5: lard. $3.50
5.e7h; ribs, $5.05G5.S5 dry sailed
shoulders. boxed. A62h a4.s7n: short
cler sides. boxed, s5.60G5.7o.
New York, August 17.-Flour market
was quiet and easy; winter patents
So. S5@4.2
Wheat-Spot easy: No. . red 77%c.
Options opened a trife easier through
foreign selling and after n second
break which left final prices Ld%c net
lower. Afternoon selling was inspired
by akin in corn and light export
demand. september closed at $3.50:
December closed at c7Sc.
C~orn-Spot weak: No. . 3-Ac. On
tons weak all day and closed | to iisc
net lower. Liquidation was the feature
resulting from favorable crops newa
and liberal receipts. September clos
ed at $3.50; December closed at 35@c.
~Oats-Spot weak: No. , 27Ac. Op-
tons dull and weak with corn, closing
&c net lower. September closed az
25sc.
Lard-Dull: western steamed ST. f2H
G5.45; September s5.47 nominal; refined
steady.
Pork-Inactive.
Egss-Steady; state and Pennsylva-
MIA 14h0l5kc; western fresh lac.
Cotton Seed Ol-Quiet; prime crude
nominal; do yellow 23kc.
Rice-Steady.
Cabbag-Steady; Long Island s.. O06
800.
Coffee-Options opened steady at un-
mango prices to 8 points decline:
ruled generally feeble without public
support, while room traders were bear
ish in face OF smaller Brazilian move
ments than expected; closed steady
and unchanged to s points lower: sales
25,5OO bags, including August at S5. 500
5.55; September S 5.50G5.55 Spot coffee
Rio quiet; No. Z invoice 6Lc; No. 7
jobbing SIC; mild firm; Cordova sails.
Sugar-Raw firm; fair refining 34c:
centrifugal, SO test, 4Ac; graduated
52sc.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Rosin steady. Turpentine
quiet at 2SA @29hc.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS turpentine firm at
26kc; no sales: receipts i.2g7. Rosin
firm and unchanged. sales 3,092; re-
ceipts 4,7S0.
Charleston-Spirits t%urpentine firm at
25Ec; sales 30. Rosin firm and I'M
changed; sales none.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19

Memphis. Tenn. August 1.-THE
American Cotton Growers Protective
Association was disbanded by Its rep
resentatives here today. They then
formed a new body to be known as the
National Cotton Growers Union. Com
mittees are preparing the constitution
and bylaws. A portion Of the scheme
now In effect 10 secret.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19

same Day last year, 1Hc.
NAVAL STORES.
Spirits turpentine-Nothing doing.
Rosin-Nothing doing.
Tar firm at $40.
Crude turpentine firm; hard lilo:
soft $50.
Prices same day last y~ear-Spirits
turpentine, 25hc and CSC: rosin, SIZE
and s1.25, tar. $1.15; crude ~turpentine.
$1.30. $3.50 and $40.
~turpentine.
Receipts today-12s casks spirits tur-
p%entine. SIS barrels rosin. lib barrels
tar. "A barrels crude turpentine.
Receipts to same day last year-l55
casks spirits turpentine. 4s4 barrels
rosin. III barrels tar, es barrels crude
~turpentine.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Peanuts-65c.
Rice-Uplands. s59soc; lowlands.
$1.1041.15.
Corn-52 to SIC.
Corn meal-50kc.
Cow Peas-90c.
North Carolina B~acon-Hams. 10 to
lie; shoulders. 6h to &c; sides. s to
SIC.
Chickens-Firm; spring 10G1Sc; hens
1Sq25c; ROSTERS, 1SG22c.
Eggs-Strong at lie.
Shingles-Per LOO five inch, hearts
and saps, s1.50Q2.10; six inch. $2.5oq
$50.
Timber at $500 to $500 per 1000 feet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19
By TELEGRAPH.
N

New York, August 17.-Money on call
firm at 1hG2k per cent; last loan at
1R per cent; prime mercantile paper
at 3A@4 per cent; sterling exchange
easier with actual business in bank
ers' bills at s4.S5A @4.S5k for demand
and at s4.S3A @4.S4 for sixty days: post
ed rates at $4.S4h@4.S5 and s4S61
1861; commercial bills at $4.S3A.
STOCKS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19
WILMINGTON MARKETS.

Wilmington. ~. c., August Il.
Receipts Of cotton today bale.
Receipts same day las tyear - bales
This seasons receipts TO date-32S,f4
bales
s3l bales
The quotations posted at 4 O'Clock
today at the exchange:
Cotton quiet.
Ordinary ....... Lis
1ooo VAo1uaIy --...-...........
mhAoAAnS . LIS
~aAd0AAhk -..-.-.-. -.-.-...... aA
GooQ mid0lng ............. 81
Same day last year &c
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03

world. There are persons living who can
remember when friction matches were not
yet invented and when light was obtained
by striking flint and steel together over
a box of finder. Tallow candles were the
cnIy light then. Afterwards came in order
stearine or star candles sperm oil lamps,
coal oil lamps, gas, electricity. The tallow
candle belongs TO the period of the double
standard while the light OF to-day is the
result OF evolution and progress. We do
not want in monetary matters to go back
to the time of the flint, steel and finder box.
We should fall in line with the rest of the
world, face 20 the front, and not only recog-
nize the fact but proclaim it boldly that
there is but one standard of value, and that
is gold. SO far from regarding the gold
standard as political bugaboo, something
to be lodged or run away from, we should
accept it as the standard of progress and
adopt it as the only fit cornerstone Of q
safe and honest monetary system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03
POWDER FOR OUR WAR SHIPS.

Items have been inserted in the naval ap-
preparation bill of $I00OO0O for smokeless
powder $500,000 for reserve ammunition and
$4,000 for powder factory. The appro-
priations seem large especially in view of
the present condition of national finances
but the committee on naval affairs is well
aware of this condition, and the fact that
the items have been inserted is evidence
that the committee regards the appropria-
tions as necessary. 1t takes money to
maintain q navy. but it is an essential fea-
ture of a great nation. and there is no al
tentative between meeting the expense and
abandoning the purpose to maintain a place
among great powers. Nor is that the only
phase of the case. The question of main
tanning a formidable navy is not one of
sentiment merely. but is largely one of ne
cessity. The United States has reached n
period in it's development and its relations
with other powers when it is absolutely
necessary to the protection of its citizens
in foreign countries and the enforcement
of their and its own rights to maintain a.
navy strong enough to give weight and Ct
feet to its demands. National pride IN our
navy has grown very fast during the last
few years. The names of our war ships
have become familiar to the public and
while We are still three or four grades be-
hind the first rank as Il naval power, the
people are proud in the belief that our war
ships are as we'll equipped and we'll manned
as any of their class afioat. 1t is needless
to say that if they are to be kept aEcat and
made effective for sudden and immediate
service they must be supplied with powder
to fire their big guns. authorizes cn tie
subject say that rs 'ong as the old style of
black powder was in use the many private
companies manufacturing that article gaVe
assurance that a supply could be secured
on short notice. Now. however, with the
general supply of smo<eless powder. TIE
opportunities for speedy supply are inuch
reduced. Hence it is proposed 10 appro-
pirate 100000 for the purchase OF an ade-
quate quantity and at the same time pro-
vide government factory, which will here
after produce an ample supply. This seems
to be in the line of the duty OF pr gearing
for war II time of peace arJ. la~ge as the
appropriations are, they may be fully jrsti-
fled by The circumstances.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03

The conspirators who would force the
United States to a silver basis for the sole
benefit of a few mine owners and an indef-
mite number of place-seekers i'll the Bryan
party would have us believe that the bonds
OF the United States were purchased at the
rate of so or 70 cents on the dollar in gold,
and that to pay them off in gold is to give
them ''the pound Of flesh" Some of those
who make such assertions know no bitter.
They are ignorant, and willfully So Such
men as Senator Teller. who had political
conscience until he became the tool of the
silver mine owners, knows that such is not
the case.
Nearly all of the unpaid bonds of the
United States are those negotiated by Sec
rotary Sherman in 1878 and 1879 under pre-
vious act of Congress to take the place of
the per cents falling due. Those who pur-
chased the per cents in 1878 paid for them
the equivalent of gold in greenbacks. In
1878 there was a small premium on gold, due
TO the lack of entire confidence of the people
in the success of specie payments Jan. /,
1879. Here it may be said, by wayof paren-
thesis, that the Democracy and their allies
of that time in Congress and out, were
bowling as wildly against specie resumption
as they now are for the forty-four-cent dol
lar of the silver mine owner. For that rea-
son there was doubt about specie resump-
ton, and gold bore premium. Therefore,
those who purchased bonds in 1878 with
greenbacks paid the premium which made
them the equivalent of geld. It was prac-
| tically a popular loan, and in the larger
cities men purchased $50 and 800 bonds,
which most of them sold when they COM
manded premium of from u to IS per
cent.
All of the bonds which Were sold after
Jan. l, 1879, the date of specie resumption
on a gold basis, were sold for gold, and the
sold was used to retire the 6 per cents and
later the 3 per cents. The fight from 1867
to 1879 had been made by the opponents of
specie resumption, in and out of Congress,
irredeemable greenbacks. The Tellers then
sturdy Republicans, were in favor of gold
payment according to the contract.
The point which it seems important to
enforce at the present time is that all or
nearly all of the outstanding bonds were
purchased with gold or its equivalent, not
by millionaires and not even by the 'Shy-
locks" of whom one of the odious dema-
gogues of the House spoke on Monday, but
largely, as the subscriptions in 1878 showed,
by small investors and by the managers of
savings banks and financial institutions.
The face of the bond then said coin, but
coin meant gold, because, prior to JAN /,
1873, only S.0OO0o0 silver dollars had been
coined in the eighty-dve years the mint
had been in existence. A bond never had
been paid in silver, nor had one been pur-
chased with that metal
1t is important that the friends of sound
money and national honesty should grasp
the fact that all outstanding bonds were
purchased with gold or its equivalent. and
not with deprecated creenhacks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03

Indians Next Door NcighbOr COnsid-
ers Him n Nuisance.
kansas civ Journal.

AN-'A-7ttf'
The Indian is not poor, but, like the poor,
he is always with us and is always costing
us money. In fact, the red man. though
steadily diminishing in number. is constant
ly growing more expensive. In $40 there
We're 300 000 Indians I'm the country. In 1890
hardly 100000. Seventeen years ago-in 1851
the Indian appropriations were 81 80. s.3S.
Nine years ago. in 1889 they were S. l0l $50.
For 1898 they are to be $7,527 ,20i.
The white people OF the country, who
foot these bills, are willing that the Indian
shall be treated fairly. They recognize that
he has a claim on the government for reas-
enable protection, but they do not desire to
Squander money on him. They have no mon
ey TO waste. There are Indians in the Indian
Territory who have grown rich OH the gov
ernmentS bounty and ere still drawing II
regularly. The treaties that nave been maze
with some of the tribes will have to be
honored. of course, and these call for annual
payments of money: but the appropriations
should be kept down TO the lowest limit
The truth is that the people-the Western
people espeeally--are growing tired OF sup
porting the redsldn in idlenesS. They want
the government to break up his tribal rel0-
tons and put him to work for his living.
They do not maintain the healthy and
strong Of their own color in shiftlessness,
and the burden of supporting the lazy
filthy Indians as public charges Is becoming
irksome Many of them have become suffi-
GENTLY civilized TO earn good livings If they
would, but they Will not do so as long as
they arc permitted TO live the govern
ment Instead Of growing laryser the appro-
prations for their support should become
gradually but steadily smaller.
The Indian is a nuisance any way You
take him. and the less expensive nuisance
is made to be the more satisfactOry the
method of dealing with It, There has been
too much sentiment and too little practical
sense in the governments treatment of its
red charges. TX is high time that the eXpen-
sive nonsense should stop.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03
THE HOUSE MUST NOT WAIVER.

The Journals Washington dispatches indi-
cate that the House is SO well pleased with
the record it has made against the Teller
resolution that it is disposed to rest on that,
so far as the financial question is concerned.
and make no attempt to pass -urrency re-
form bill this session. Many Republicans, it
is said, believe that the passage by the
House of any measure of currency reform
would simply lengthen the session by pre-
ciptating a long discussion in the Senate,
without any practical result. Speaker Reed
is said to hold this view. Amy attempt to
force a further agitation of the financial
question at this session." it is said, will
meet with his unqualified disfavor.
Without doubling that this fairly repre-
sents current phase of opinion in the
House the Journal hopes it will not prevail
1t is loath to believe that after their prompt
and courageous action on the Teller resolu-
ton the Republicans in the House will
adopt a do-nothing policy on the question
of currency reform 1t would be strange
sort of logic that would conclude, because
the House had made so fine a record on one
important phase of the financial question,
it could afford to funk on another. 1t is
true that the recent votes on the Teller
resolution show that the Senate is domi-
mated by the silver sentiment, but that does
not excuse the House from meeting other
financial issues as they come up. The mere
joining of an issue is not the winning of a
case. 1t looks a little as if members were
more concerned about making up politi
cal issue than they are about performing 81
duty they owe to the country. The manner
in which they throttled and strangled the
Teller resolution has encouraged Republic
ans and strengthened the party throughout
the country but if they dodge or slde-track
the currency reform issue they will be ac-
cused of laundering in the index. Such an
ending would be lame and impotent con-
clusion to so promising a beginning. 1t is
not for the House to assume that the rails
ing of the currency reform question in the
Senate will precipitate a long debate and
prolong the session. Congressman are paid
by the year to legislate for the public well
fare, and a question of national Importance
should not be pigeon-holed because discus
sion or action upon it may prolong the SEES
sion. The House should meet the
currency reform question prompt
~ and courageously as it did the
Teller resolution and make record
for itself irrespective of what the Senate
may do. 1t should take a lesson from the
recent monetary convention and put all
minor and personal considerations out OF
sight in favor of the general welfare. In
he SbO ra-c ba
ure OF currency reform possible as soon as
possible and thus give Republicans and
sound-money men throughout the country
new cause for rejoicing. If it would pass
such a measure within a week it would add
immensely to the moral effect of the vote
on the Teller resolution and furnish the Re-
publican party with another effective
NNaannn