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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-15


Sales Of new dark loose tobacco on the
Richmond CVa) breaks Tor the week end
ing to-day. St0ucWal Warehouse SOLD
1f5sJ p0uuds-hiehcst price. 5000. Shoc-
koc Warehouse sold 300 sounds-hignest
price. $3.50. Crenshaw's Warehouse sold
- C35 pounds highest price, Sl1.5o. Total,
i}s 20 pounds-hishcst price, 500.
Private sales reported 10 The secretary
Of the Richmond Tobacco Trade to-day
Private sales reported 20 the secretary
Of the Richmond Tobacco Trade Tor tho
week ending to-day: Wrappers. II hogs
heads. Oilers. u.s. cutters .. leaf dark
15l: strips C0righD. 30, hurley, =, lugs
dark, o. Total, 2-3 hos heads. ,....
The tobacco inspector reports To-Day:
Inspection Bright hog heads, dark, =
hocsheads Rcinsnc ctions-NOne.
For the week ending to-day. Inspections
Bright. 80 hogsheads: dark, @ hog heads
and / fierce. Rciusncc ti0us-Bright !
h0gshead. dark 4G hOgshoads
Total Inspections for the week ending
to-day. f3 h0eshcads and ] terce. rein-
eDreff0ns AZ hOgshoads Total s1mu.iug
for the week ending today, 20 hossheads
seabrooks. old Dominion. Crumps,
Vauehan's and Davcnporrs tobacco ware
houses report to-day: Receipts, none; de-
llvories. 1j3 packages.
The same tobacco WAREHOUSES with
Meals. Allegheny Stonewah Snockoe,
Crenshaw's. Planters. Farmers, Iuckahoe
FUison's Williams a. Rchhng's and Star
added. report for the week ending to-day:
Receipts. IS packages. deliveries, 42S
Eycess of the deliveries over the re-
ccipts for the week ending to-day, 5J3
packages.
United States internal revenue collec-
lions on tohacc0s for the cil9 or R.ch'
mond. Va. to-day. cigars aul cisnreltes
S25s 20: plug tobacco, I,50I40 Total,
'l-nited States internal revenue collec-
lions on tobacco for the city OF Rich
f,fcare and cigarettes. S23 T33. fi. plug to-
bacco. s14.G57 p. Total, sSS.3O.6s.
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NEW YORK. Jan. 14-COTTON-Th
cotton market opened steady. with prices
unchanged TO points higher. but soon
turned easy under realizing by some OF
the more nervous traders. Business was
SIasmOdlc during the day, with sentiment
rather mixed. Selling orders from the
/ South and abroad added 10 the unsettled
feeling. The bear faction. however. were
slow 90 pursue aggressive measure as
private dispatches noted very stiff spot
southern markets. No change I'm the site
uation al New England milling centres.
continued light receipts and bad roads.
The Liverpool news averaged up pretty
much as expected, and cut little figure
as an influence on the market The
weather map showed continued rains over
the greater portion of The belt, the Mis-
sissippi Valley I'm particular reporting
heavy precipitation. Tho market closed
barely steady. 20 points net lower.
Estimated receipts az ports for the day,
q 90 bales, against 70 ~ bales last week
and 3aO39 last year.
For the week, 2iO.O0o bales, against
90976 last week and Zl6.S23 last year.
To-day's receipts at New orleans. 49,
55S bales. against 1899 last week
The days receipts at Houston were $3.50
bales, against 1915 last year.
COTTON-Futurcs opened steady; jan
uary, J.G9: February. 30. March, 5.lit
April, ga; May. J.fS, june. 0S1; July
Der. 80.
Futures closed barely steady. January.
or. May. SO; june or; July. $50; Au-
gust. j.S2; September 80, october, 5.7i;
November, 90; December, 90.
Spot cotton closed steady, midding mp
lands, l-lG; middling guif, J-l6' sales,
COTTON-FIrm; middiine. 6 1-le. net
receipts 40 bales. gross. 3.lHi bales,
sales. 90 bales. stock. lO952G bales.
Total to-day and consolidated-Net re-
ccipts. %2l1 bales; exports 10 Great Bri-
tain, 3S.53S bales. TO France. 6.103 bales;
10 the Continent. D,IeJ bales stock,
] 127 2OS bales.
Total since September 1st-Net receipts,
627ff26 bales: exports 10 Great Britain
2.4g34zf bales. to France J37 500 bales
70 the Continent, 1,720,f32 bales.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. LECTION
Futures steady: january. 527. February.
5.53; May 5.3s05.39; June, 5.4f, July, 5i7
054S; August. $4,000. September, Dab
Q54i; October 5.440J45.
LIVERPOOL. Jan. 14-CoTToN-clos-
lng-Spot lon moderate demand. prices
favor buyers, American middlng 5-32d
The sales of the day We're 5000 bales. of
which 500 were for speculation and eX-
port, and included 800 American. Re
cePts; 1900 bales, including 1900 bales
American.
Futures opened quiet with moderate de-
mand, and closed steady. American midi
ding J. 10. g., January. 5-6i03 G-G4.
sellers; January and February, g 5-6fa
Gel sellers; February and March
3 G-Gi. sellers. March and April. 3 7-Gf.
sellers: April and May. S-GL sellers.
May and June. 9-a. buyers. June and
July, 1861 buyers. July and August.
3 1l-6i. buyers; August and september.
3 1l-GiQ3 l2-G4. buyers; September and
October. 11-G403 1864. buyers. October
and November, o 12-Gf sellers; November
and December, 1861 buyers.
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NEW YORK DRY GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE dry goods
market closed with fairly good results
Tor fho week. Tho volume Of business
passing has been heavy. as IS inevitably
the case al this time Of the year. but IL
has not met the expectations Of sellers
On am departments. The i0bbing trade
has taken hold of new goods with con-
siderable erthu 1asm. Staple cottCns have
shown less satisfactory results. Print
cloths still maintain their firm position
The week has shown generally good re-
suits in wOOllen and worsted goods. There
have been many buyers in town. and
these have evinced much interest In the
newly opened heavy weights.
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BALTIMORE MARKET.

BALTIMORE. Jan. 14-FLOUR-Duil
and unchanged.
WHEAT-Steady: spot and month, 76n
7GEc: February. 7GAH71izc. Southern
wheat. by sample. 72n1fc. 800
CORN-Steady, spot ana monin' ayt4
40iLo. FEBRUARY. 4OisN401fc Southern
white and yellow corn. S7i.0iOkc.
OATS-Dull: No white. 3+u38iac.
RYE-gtcady. 40. western, CSC.
SUGAR Strong and unchanged.
pfrTTEP -Stcadv ana unchanged.
TGGS-Firm and unchanged.
CVFTgF- Steady and unchanged.
LETTUCE-S12 5dl50 per bushel box.
NHIskY Unchanged.
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PEANUT MARKETS.

PETERSBURG. Va, Jan. I4-PEA-
NUTS-Ihe market to-day in Petersburg
shows that Nirginlas are selling at 2atc.
per pound. Spanish at Toe per bushel.
NORFOLK. VA, Jan. 14-PEANUTs-
Farmers-Fancy, 24c.; striptly prime.
23.c.: prime. 2k02i2c.; ordinary 202i4c.
Spanish. shclled. 7Jc. per bushel. Tone of
market active: receipts light.
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LEES NIYERSARY.
Alexandria Veterans 20 Celebrate IL on
Big Scale.

tALEXANDRhA. VA. January IA
Special. Lee Camp. Confederate Vete-
rams, here. are making big preparations
for the celebration OF n. y. Lees BIRTH
day next week. Congressman Rhea from
Kentucky and Bailey from Texas will be
present.
Smallpox is so unier control that no
one now gives IL thought. No deaths
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CHICAGO. Jan. 14.-An Improvement I'm
the foreign demand, with heavy clear
ances az the seaboard to-day. caused a
good deal 81 animation among wheat
lost &c. and oats loft on "A shade lower
PORK advanced Zoe and lard and ribs 2tsc.
each.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
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JAMES A. F0RD'S WILL.
Richmond College Given Contingent
Interest.

LYNCHBURG, VA. Jan. Ii-speciai- 49,
The will Of the late James A. Ford was
admitted 10 probate In the Corporation
Court to-day. Ills wife. Mrs Ella H..
Ford, qualified as executrix. giving bond
for three hundred thousand dollars. The
estate is valued at $4,000. His personal
property is bequeathed to his wife and his
real estate 10 his daughter
Should the daughter die without chill
dren, Richmond College will get q large
portion Of her share.
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TRADING WAS
UNPRECEDENTED.
Two Hours Session Was at Nearly a
Two Million Dollar Rate.
RISE IN PRICES WAS GENERAL,
But the Buying Power Was Such That
AN offerings We're Absorbed and
the Rise Wont On-The Bond
Market Active But Naricgated


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NEW YORK, an. 14.-FLOUR-Dui but
steady, winter patents, $37J04
RYE FLOJH-Quiet; good 10 fair at
S32ON3.3O.
BUCKWHEAT-Quict.
S2dS3c.
RYE-Quiet: No. .. G5c. f. o.. %.
BARLEN-flrm. feeding. 47u4Sc.
BARLEY MALI-steady; western, G30
WHEAT-spot steady: No. . red. Sole.
Options opened steady and ruled very duh
and fcatureloss AN The forenoon Scalners
found their efforts to break the market
checked by liberal clearanccs. the lnnu-
ence OF yesterdays good export trade and
steady cables. closed steady and un-
changed March, 4sssc.; May closed 10
CoRN-spot STEADY; no . 48a3a.c
options dull from start 20 finish holding
fairly steady in sympathy with wheat.
closed steady and unchanged; May closed
at 42c
.oATs-Spot quiet; No ., 3sAQ34c. OPP
lions neglected.
BEEF1Quiet: family 1oal1c.. extra
mess, sN.sOa9, beef hams. S1S0lS-O. pack
e, $1J0al0. city extra India mess. SlJ0
CUT MEATS Duh: picked bellies
S31&'z1b picklcd shoulders, 81; picked
hams. SG.5J9{7
LARD Steady. western steamed. 81. S5G
80: January. $50 nominal Refined
quiet.
PORK Steady: mess. S9JON1025. short
clear. Slo5On 1925, family. S1O.JOU11.
BUTTER-Steady. western creamery. ~
G2Oc: factory 13D14c.; Elgins zoe. imi-
tat.On creamery, Bale; State dairy, 13Q
1Sc.
CHEESE Steady: large white. 1Olbc
EGGS Steady, State and Pennsylvania,
21G2lhc. western fresh, 20,ac.; southern.
1OiSfl2fr.
POTATOES STEADY: Jerseys. 81 ga
80. Long Island. $i750iS0. sweets. Jer-
seys 81 1JN2JO
COTTON SEED OlI-Quict and steady.
without change. prime crude, 19ul0izc.:
butter grades. 27hN2Sc.
PETROLEUM-Easy. Refined. New
York. $40: PHILADELPHIA and Baltimore.
S7.35. do. in bulk, $3.50.
ROSIN-Dull: strained common 10 good,
1IrRPTNTINE-D ~ a50f5Hc.
Rfcfl Firm. domestic fair 10 extra
4a,0Gttc.. Japan. 1tNjhhc.
CARBAGE-Qulet az S20f per 100
COFFEfj-ODtiOns opened dun at nm
changed prices. ruled inactive and foa-
tureless. with no outside speculation and
local trading. Indifferent in the absence
OF new features az home or abroad. closed
dun at net unchanged prices. sales pa
bags. including March ar S5G5 Snot
coffee-RiO dull. No. invoice, csc, No
Z fObbiug. IiSc., mild quiet and abouf
steady: COrdoya 7iaMl5c.
StGAR-Raw dull and unsettled. fair
refining 3 1-lGc; centrifugal. % tegf
4 5-lGc.: molasses sugar. o-18c. Refined
quiet; mould a, 54c.: graduated, &c.
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A BUSINESS DISPUTE

have occurred. the cases being Of an ex-
tremely mild type.
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WILMINGTON. y. O.. Jan. 1f-SPIR-
ITS OF lNE-Nothing doing
prices unchanged. receipts. so casks.
ROSIN- Quiet at sac. ANA Slo-l1i re-
cciDts 4Gl barrels.
CRUDE TURP ENIlNfl-tlrm az l-1'1
. 90. receipts barrels.
TAR-Steady at Sl1Oi receipts, go bar
rrIa
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SAVANNAH. GA. Jan. 14-SPiRITS
or TURpENTINE-Nothing doing. re-
ccipts. 30 casks.
ROSTN-Firm and unchanged; sales.
Gill barrels. receipts, 4297 barrels
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NAVAL STORES

CHARLESTON. S. c.. Jan 1i-TUR-
PENTI NE-Market firm at 42c., sales,
none.
ROsIN-Firm and unchanged: sales,
none.
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Members New York Stock Exchange.
va.-caro. chem, com......1oo 81 6
GRAIN AND COTTON ExCHANG
i1ol EAST MAIN STREET.

Quotations are for bonds maturing II
not less than ten years.
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Gowns.

Fine Cambria Gowns, yoke
and insertion. neck and sleeves
trimmed With fine Hamburg
embroidery, for -....,............
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y NVN III SUIT.
Carter Turner u drayman, Is the plain
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-12

and suspicious beyond belief AS serv
ants they are subtle and usually un-
mitiSated thieves. Another OF their lit
tie traits * that they are likely to leave
their employer withou; moments no.
tice. particularly if they notice any
sickness developing in the house. They
are also arrantiy superstitious. and one
of their strange beliefs is that their
great chief, Aguinaldo can be shot sew
en- times without even being injured.
The character of these strange ma
tives is best shown by the fact that the
katapunin secret society has been able
TO organize the mestiZos under the very
nose of the Vigilant Spanish adminis-
tration. At moments notice the en-.
tire native population on the island can
be turned into an oiticered army, Ill
vided into regiments and armed with
bolcs and rifles. For years back the
native troops in the employ of the
Spanish government have been secretly
handing out firearms to unattached ma
tiNes. stealing their guns IN such smaN
quantities that their loss has not been
especially noticed by the officials. The
meS;izo as Il warrior is not large. but
he is endowed with all the mad feroci-
ty and fanaticism of those Sudancse
dcrNisheS who flung themselves rcck-
lessly upon the guns of Kitchener AT
Omdurmun.
But one Of the most important ques-
tons which the newly acquired posses
sion OF these strange islands has
brought before Americans is the suita-
bility OF their climate for white men.
Many contradictory statements have
appeared of late as 10 the real nature
of this climate and its actual effect
upon whites. There has been n tcnden-
cy. on the whole. To idcalze it. One
writer says it is delightful. another as
SureS us it is dangerous and fatal. and
sim another protests that 1t is neither.
being merely disagreeable and mala-
rial. The truth of the matter is that
if the American visitor or settler is per-
mancntly situated in II good locality. OF
which Plnay. like the other islands,
has many. and lives where he can Sc
cure suitable food and pure water for
drinking he is likely to remain healthy
that is to say. IL he fulfills certain
other little conditions. These condi-
lions are that he shall be scrupulousy
careful as to baths. watch himself in all
matters of diet. keep out of the sun
during the middle OF the day. refrain
from severe ami long continued work or
exercise of any kind and avoid excess
ses of all description. If he does all
these things. and, Furthermore, if he
is fortunate enough TO escape malaria!
infection. it may chance that he will
not fall i'll.
Such being the case. the question nat
urally presents itself. Then how are
American explorers, officers. engineers
and assayers to carry on that work
which now lies before them without
such work being accompanied by n de-
plorable loss of life? The question ia
even harder to answer when 1t IS re-
membered that the traveller in Panav
cannot humur his digestive apparatus,
since his bill of fare is necessarily linn
ited to those strange foods the country
produces and the meagcr supply OF
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Downright. 1899

Rudyard Kipling has said that the
East is too old to sit at the feet of the
Anglo-Saxon.
1t is one of life's little ironics that
the fortune Of war should fling at the
feet of the worlds youngest republic
the very jewel of that mystical East.
But while 1t took Dewey's gun a very
short time to knock kipling's epigram
In the head our newly acquired pearl
of the Orient is not shaking off her old
world shackles without Il struggle or
two. The activity of the ambitious
Aguinaldos Filipnos and the events
that have been taking place in and
about 1loilo have reawakencd interest
In the Philippines islands. American
eyes are once more turned toward that
remote quarter of the globe, and Amer
lean statesmen are beginning to inquire
more closely into the character of the
new peoples that Columbia has been
forced to take under her wing.
1t Is not generally known that the
Philippines were discovered by Fernan-
do Malhaens, or rs he is usually call
ed. Magellan. just 20 years after Co.
Iumbus first set foot on the new world
Magellan landed ut Jomonjol. near
Malhon. an inlet OF the strait of Surf
gao. between Samar and Dlnagal. i'm
March. 1871. He christened the islands
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the ST. Lazarus islands. and one month
after landing was murdered by natives
on the island of Mactan. eff the coast
of Iebu. But long before this, Araniau
seamen had established communication
with the islands, sailing from the shores
of India across the Bay of Bengal.
Ioilo. which is at present The cyno-
sure of all eyes, is the capital Of the
island of Panay and until recently was
the political capital of the entire Phil
ippine Islands. Panay itself is the
fourth largest of this archipelago Of
some l.200 islands. being about one-half
the size of the State of New Jersey. 1t
lies ut the extreme limit Of the late
Spanish domnions. Next to Manila
lloilo is the most important seaport Of
the archipelago. In fact, /; was az one
time dangerous rival OF Manila, it.
self, and though the latter port has
forged greatly ahead of the Panay town
lloilo is slowly but steadily growing in
commercial Importance
Spanish administration. however. 10,
years has sc; a very definite limit 10
the extent of its possible development.
There Is provcrb in the Phiiippines
which says the church lives off the ma
tiNeS ara the officers live off the mer-
cants. The Spanish collector OF GUS
TOMS at Manila for instance. during
the year lS16 put down in his own
purse $4,000 collected in petty fines and
fees.
The islard of Panay. while nerhans
not so pleasant as Luzof. has an OK
tremcly rich soil and !uxuriant veg
citation. The island Is bisected by a rug
sed mountain range which gives the
country wilder and rudev aspect than
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Soma Facts About Little Known but important Island
OF the Philippine Group and It's
Principal City,

that OF Luzon. The Panay mountain
slopes are covered with magnificent
forest growths, and much of the island
sun remains UNEMPLOYED, indeed is mac
cesSible To white travellers. The island
mas Il number of lakes and very many
small streams The result is that
marshes and malaria are disnCrceably
abundant. In fact, the city of uoilo it
SELF is built upon the bed of an ancient
marsh near the southeastern end of the
island, on Il shallow arm of the sea. and
IS consequently neither beautiful to be-
hold nor healthful to dwell in 1t lies Mt
the mouth of n sluggish river and al
though the climate does not agree with
Americans or Europeans. there are
some forty foreigners engaged in bust
ness ut lloilo. Among the Foreigners is
little English colony, representing
European business houses. AS an Eng
ilshman always sticks to his own deep
rooted prcjudices and habits. there is a
very good little clubhouse in the city.
also tennis club. a plentiful supply
OF Scotch whiskey and enough social
life to make existence endurabIe i'm
such an uncongenial loyalty and UNI
healthful climate.
The majority OF these English.nen
are transferred every few years. when
they become 50 run down that Il change
of chmatc becomes necessary. They
are mostly young men and are glad
enough 10 go home and yet Il glimpse of
real life once more. The great bust
ness houses cc the east in order to
Keep these young mon in their places.
which are universally unhcalthrul. add
Il certain per cent To the salary of their
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employees, according 10 the unhcalth-
fitness nf the place and the mans
chances of life. Ii is Il significant fact
that all agents at Iioilo are paid Il very
handsome extra stipend.
There was Il time when a great pro
portion of the trade OF Iloilo Was in the
hands of Americans. But one OF the
salient characteristics in times past of
the American merchant in the east has
been the tendency to speculate. These
merchants We're in the habit OF shin
pirg great cnrgoes OF hemp and sugar
lrcm the Philippines unsoid. ana on
many Of these cargOcs they eventually
lost thousands ana thousands of dol
lars The result has been thai the
great volume If trade has gone over TO
the more conservative English house IS.
1t Is, Of course, only reasonable TO as
sumo that under American control
American merchants will regain their
"id time activity and prestige. but this
VIII be done only by following more
conservative lines than in the Dast
Fdnay. Ike The est 4 The Thl.pp es
produces The best hemp and the worst
sugar in the world. 1t also does a large
business in tobacco, sapan wood. cof-
fee and mother Of pearl.
The hemp grows wild and in one way
might be called the curse of the Island
ers. lis production involves very lit
tie Labor and IS pregnant instigation
10 laziness among the natives. This
world-famed product Is obtained from
species of plant called abaca. Tnls
Grows from 10 To 90 feet in height. and
It's succulent stem attains a circum-
ference OF from 20 10 30 inches. a rude
knife ia <l thu, fr ~. es..,-,, s.. ON