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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
Instructions to Our Commissioners to
the Peace Congress

Washington, April 1.-THE cabinet
today discussed the instructions to the
American commissioners to the cars
disarmament conference at The Ho-
quail.
The instructions Of this government
have been prepared by Secretary Hay
and were read at the meeting. AL
though the sympathy of the United
States for the cars proposal is well
understood, the exact nature of the in
structions to our commissioners is be-
ing carefully guarded. 1t would be
manifestly improper to disclose U
official position at the conference in adj
vance.
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MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.


New York, April 15.-Money on call
steady at 4@4k per cent; last loan at
4 per cent; prime mercantile paper at
3k@4A per cent; sterling exchange
weak with actual business in bankers
bills at s4.S6A @4.S61a for demand and
at $4.S4A @4.S4h for sixty days; posted
rates at s4.S5@4.S5k and $4.S7@4.S7h;
commercial bills at s4.S3G4.S4; silver
certificates at 6O@60Rc; bar silver at
$3.50; Mexican dollars at 475s; state
bonds Inactive; railroad bonds strong;
government bonds irregular.
COTTON.
Liverpool, April 81 p. m.-Cotton.
Spot quiet, prices unchanged. Ameri-
can middling 8 13-32d. The sales of the
day were 5000 bales, Of which 500 were
for speculation and export and included
1900 American; receipts 1000 bales, in
Guiding $500 American. Futures opened
quiet with a moderate demand and
closed steady.
American middling, low middling
clause: April 3 1S-64d buyers; April and
May 3 1S-64d buyers; May and June
8 18-64d buyers; June and July 3 1S-64@
3 19-64d value; July and August 3 1S-640
3 19-64d buyers; August n Septem-
Der 8 1S-64@3 19-64d sellers; September
and October 8 1S-64d buyers; October
| and November 3 17-64@3 18-64d buyers;
November and December 3 17-64d buy
ers; December and January 8 17-64d
buyers; January and February 8 1860
3 18-64d sellers; February and March
3 1S-64d sellers.
THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, April 15.-Cotton steady;
middling SIC; net receipts 6S3; gross
receipts 3,o43; sales 125 bales; stock
100, 555.
Total today: Net receipts 6,S03; ex-
ports to Great Britain IS; to the CONT
nent LOO; stock 1872, 1903.
Consolidated: Net receipts 6,S03; ex-
ports to Great Britain Sc; to the conti-
nent l, 100.
Total since September 1st: Net re-
ceipts 1926, 54S; exports to Great Bri-
tail 3,17O, 1888; to France &C., 1856; to the
continent 1896, 155.
Spot cotton closed steady; middling
up1ands 6kc; middling gulf csc; sales
125 bales.
Futures closed very steady. April
5.72, May 5.76, June 5.S1, July and Au-
gust $50, September $50, October 5.s6,
November 5.SS, December 5,92, January
$50, February 5.99, March 6.03.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Chicago, April 1.-THE leading fu-
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Prices same DAY IaSl yeaT-0%C.
NAVAL STORES.
Spirits turpentine firm; machine bar
rels 4111c; country barrels Ale.
Rosin firm at CSC and s1.00.
Tar firm at csc.
Crude t~urpentine quiet; hard s1.35;
soft $40.
Prices same day last ye~ar-Spirits
pentine 25Ac and 25Ac; rosin s1.05 and
s1.10; tar CSC; crude turpentine SIPS
and $50.
Receipts today-21 casks spirits tur-
p%entine, 131 barrels rosin, SO barrels
tar, 16 barrels crude turpentine.
Receipts same day last year-12 casks
spirits turpentine, 1,162 barrels rosin,
166 barrels tar, - barrels crude turpen-
tine.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Peanuts-North Carolina 20 10 75c;
Virginia 60 TO Csc; Spanish IS to goo.
Rice-Nothing doing.
Corn-54 to 55c.
Corn meal-51c.
Cow peas-60c.
North Carolina Bacon-Hams, 9 10
10c; shoulders, 6 to &c; sides, s to &c.
Chickens-Slow; spring 10 to 1Sc;
hens, % to Csc: roosters, Is to zoe.
Eggs steady at SC.
Shingles-Per 1000 five inch, hearts
n saps, s1.50@2.10; six inch, 81. 50@
$3.50.
Timber at $500 to $500 per 1000 feet.
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Correspondence of The Messenger.l
Whitsett, n. c., April IL.

w.
Whitsett, N. c., April Ii.
The North Carolina Teachers Assem-
bly, will hold it's great annual gather
ing this year at Moreheal City, from
June 18th to the 18th. This is one of
the is reest organizations of teachers
in the south. The meeting this year
will not Only be attended by the most
of the North Carolina teachers, but
many from Virginia Will come, incIud-
ing the superintendent OF public in
struction from Virginia, as that state
has no assembly. The railroad rates
will be one fare, and less, and the rate
at the magnificent Atlantic hotel has
been reduced to 81 for this occasion.
The usual rate at this hotel is 81. Many
new attractions will make this the
most interesting meeting yet held.
The North Carolina Association Of
Academies, the city superintendent.
and the Association of County Super
visors will all work to make a grea-
gathering, and these bodies will all at
tend the meeting.
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Ewart AppOiuted Judpe

Washington. April 14-Ex-Represen-
tative Ewart was today appointed
judge OF the western district OF North
Carolina This is a reappointment, his
previous nomination having failed OF
confirmation.
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Chicago, April 15.-The leading fu-
lures ranged as follows:

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady; winter patents, $500
$50; straights, s3.2OG3.30; clears, 5000
$40; spring specials. s4.1Oa4.25: pat
ents, s3.20G3.70; straights, s3.O093.10;
bakers, s2.20q2.40; No. 2 spring wheat,
72@72hc; No. 3 spring wheat, 67G72c;
No. . red, 75SG77Ac; No. 2 corn, $40
CSC; No. ? oats, 27A@274c; No. 2 white,
30Q31c; No. 3 white, 29A a3Oc; mess
pork, per bb1., s9.1od9.15; lard, per 100
lbs, s5.2095.22k; short ribs sides, loose,
s4.45Q4S5; dry sailed shoulders, boxed,
s437kg4.50; short clear sides, boxed,
$495Q5.05; whiskey, distillers' finished
goods, per gallon, s1.26.
New York, April 15.-Flour inactive,
but steady. Winter patents s3.75G400.
Wheat-Spot steady; No. 2 red S3kc.
Options opened easy under small week.
ly c~learings and conflicting weather
news, but recovered on local buying
for a reaction and a renewal of bad
crop news; closed steady at a partial
&c net advance May closed at 7Shc;
July closed at 7SKc; September closed
60 fVASs < -
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Sunnyside Floral Nursery,
FAYt:aTt.vILLF n. &

We have 5000 Arbourviteas and 9TH
er choice Evergreens; 5000 Roses.
mostly In 2h inch pots just right for
planting now, sl00 per dozen. To in
troduce our plants we will. ON rece,nt
Of SL.00, sent 20 Roses or 20 ArbourvI-
teas. s to s inches high, and Catalogue
for 1899 OF bulbs, greenhouse and orna-
mental plants generally.
mar %. d. 1w, I'm
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still EaIIouny for senaior

Harrisburg, April 1.-THE seventy
sixth ballot for United States senator
taken today resulted: Quay 6, jerks
30, Calvin Wells 2. No quorum.
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It's Bargain Week 1t The C. w. Pol
vogt Co.'S. Beginning tomorrow. Sc
u handDilI for list OF bargains. Their
terms viii bescash.
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Safety Pins &c. Darning Cotton 2c-an
this week ct The G. w Polvogt Co.'S.
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The Raleigh Reaches New York
New York, April 15.-The cruiser
Raleigh from Manila via Bermuda has
arrived at quarantine.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18

To PREVENT La Grippe take q dose or two
Of Or. Mills Restorative Nervine daily.
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WILMINGTON MARKETS.

Wilmington. y. c., April Is.
Receipts OF cotton today-1o2 bales.
Receipts on same day last year-1SS
bales
This seasons receipts to dat=2SS, Isl
bales.
Receipts 10 same date last ye2r-31S.-
$50 bales.
The quotations posted at 4 o'clock
today at the exchange:
Cotton firm.
Ordinary .............. ........ 9-16
Good ordinary 1 1916
Low middling -. ............ 5 Gle
Middling ............ ............
Good mi6dling s 5-l6
Drf@1~ 1ox- 1acs ,-an- 80
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-04
Did Tommy Get the cakes

Tommy was not little boy. He was
very big, old, gray cat.
One evening Tommy's master, who
was an old gentleman, was sitting by
the fire reading, and Tommy himself
was lying on the rug fast asleep, rolled
up In sort of round ball, with his
tail curled round his nose. The table
was ready for tea, and on the table
was plate of sponge cakes,
BY and by the old gentleman went
into the next room and was gone just
about three minutes. When he came
back, Tommy was still fast asleep, just
in the spot where he had been before,
but very queer thing had happened.
A sponge cake had somehow come off
the table and was lying close to Tommy
on the floor, and there was a little
piece bitten off of 1t!
Now, how do you suppose that hap
pened? Little cakes don't jump off
the table by themselves, and pussies
who are sound asleep don't jump up
on tables and steal cakes and bite
them.
Do you suppose that old puss was
really asleep? If he wasn't, don't you
think he was the sliest cat that ever
was seen2
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SHERIFFS SALE.


Between Melvin s. Condit, complainant, and
Mary Allen, George 7. Allen. Lydia PARCELS,
David u. Allen, Stephen M. Allen and Eliza,
his wife, Harriet Crowell and Nicholas @.
Cox, executor of the last will of Mary Egan.
deceased, defendants. FL, ia. for sale of
mortgaged premises, Returnable to October
term, A. D.. 1885,
GUY MINToN. Solicitor.
by VIRTUE. of the above stated writ Of
ID Fieri Facias in my hands, shall expose
for sale at Public Vendue at the Court House
in Morrtstown. N j.. on
Monday, the 14th day of August
next, A. D. 1899 between the hours of IL m
and O'Clock D. m. that is to say at2 o'clock in
the afternoon of said day, all that lot of land
situate, lying and being in the Town of Norris
New Jersey.
Being part of tract of land. which is part on
map of the whole tract made by Richard W.
Stites, filed June llth. 1870, in the Morris
County Clerks Office and designated as Lot
Number Forty-six, (No. 46). Said Lot Num-
Der Forty-six is butted and bounded as follows:
Beginning on the southeast side of Ridge
dale avenue, at the most westerly corner of
Lot Number Forty eight, conveyed to Joseph
York, and running thence Cd along the line of
said Lot Number Forty eight south forty-two
degrees and thirty minutes east two hundred
and thirty-four feet and three inches to cor
ner in the line of lands of Henry A. Ford, de-
ceased; thence ca along the same south forty
six degrees and fifty minutes west fifty feet to
a corner of Lot Number Forty-four conveyed
to Messrs. Wilday and Earles; thence CD along
said Lot Number Forty-four north forty two
degrees and thirty minutes west two hundred
and thirty-four feet and nine inches to cor
ner in the side of Ridgedale avenue; thence (D
along the southeast side of said avenue north
forty seven degrees and thirty minutes east
fifty feet to the place of beginning.
EDGAR L. DURLING, Sheriff.
Dated July ID, 1879.
Chronicle and Jerseyman. 2. f. $500
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some Hints About camping-Did Tom-
my Get the Cake --some
Queer Things.

Here are few things worth remem-
bering If you are going to camp out
this summer: Spread your tent out on
the grass, and If there are any holes
mend them at once. A few holes in a
tent on rainy night can do more
damage to the provisions and bedding
than can be easily remedied.
If you have not got canvas fly, get
one if possible. OF course, every one
knows that a fly is a large piece of
canvas for stretching over the ridge
pole of tent as sort of second roof
or covering. There should be about
eight inches between the sides of fly
and the top of the tent This will al
low plenty of air to circulate and will
do much toward making q tent COM
Portable and cool.
If you don't know how to cook meats
and vegetables, go out in the kitchen
and study a little frying pan science.
Most of all, learn how to make soda
biscuits. There is nothing nicer with a
good hot camp supper than nicely
Drowned soda biscuits. If it is posi-
BILE, take an old fashioned Dutch oven
on your trip. They are inexpensive,
and a Dutch oven and frying pan are
about all the things needed for first
class camp kitchen. Have the box in
which the provisions are packed one
that you can use as q cupboard.
Clean dishes and a place to keep
them are among the necessities of
camp life. In making up your party
choose companions who are unselfish,
Selfishness will rust the best kind of
happiness in camp. Go with the idea
of making the best of everything, and
don't complain.-New York Herald.
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SHERIFFS SALE.
IN CHANCERY OF NEW JBRs

In CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Between George w. Sickle, complainant, and
CHRISTOPHER M. DeGraw, Samuel DeGraw
and Mary Jane DeGraw, his wife; Charlotte
Snyder and Michael Snyder, her husband;
Louisa Post and Abram Post, her husband;
Emma Kimble. otherwise known as Emma
Henderson; Aaron Henderson. alleged to he
now or formerly the husband of the said
Emma Kimble; Susan DeGraw. infant;
Grace DeGraw, infant; Samuel DeGraw, the
second, infant; John Bates and Sarah Bates
his wife: Mary Ann Patterson and oscar
Charles Patterson, her husband, and Amos
Kimble, defendants, Fl. ia. for sale of
mortgaged premises. Returnable to October
h. B. MORTALITY, Solicitor.
DY virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
ID Facias in my hands. l shall expose for
sale at Public Vendue at the Court House in
Morristown, Nj, on
Monday, the 2Sth day of August
next A D.. 1893, between the hours of IL m.
and O'Clock p. m, that is to say at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon of said day, all that tract or
parcel of land and premises hereinafter par
ticularly described, situate, lying and being
in the Township of Rockaway, in the County
of Morris and State of New Jersey.
Being part of a tract of forty five and seven
ty-one hundredths acres conveyed by
Michael Snyder and wife to Hannah Frances
DeGraw by deed dated October second, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-four, and recorded in
the Morris County Clerks office in Book Leila
of Deeds, page 423, &c
Beginning at the beginning corner of the
whole tract thence running ID along the first
line of the same Qhe original course) south
one and a half degrees east twelve chains
eighty links; CD along division line as run
this twenty-second day of May. eighteen
hundred and ninety-siX (reversing the course)
the bearing being south sixty-four degrees
fifteen minutes west sixteen chains to the
third line of the whole tract; 80 along the
same, the original course, north twenty de-
grees thirty minutes west twelve chains to the
fourth corner of the whole tract; (D as the
original course north sixty-three degrees west
twenty chains TO the beginning, containing
twenty acres.
The lands hereinabove described are con-
yeyed subject to the reservation of mineral
rights contained in former deeds.
Dated July 2f 1899.
EDGAR L. DURL1NG, Sheriff
Chronicle and Bulletin. p. f. SIC. 80.
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Probably only small proportion of
the members of the Smith family
know the origin of their name. Ac-
cording to- tradition, one at least of the
Original" Smiths was a Macdonald.
The Macdonalds crossed the North
channel into Ireland during the reign
of James | of England and settled in
the northern portion of the country.
In July, 1880, so the legend relates,
William III of England was delayed in
the valley Of the river Boyle through
his horse casting shoe. A Macdonald
was called to shoe the kings horse, and
ever after he was called the kings
smith. One Of his sons, named John,
came to America in 1920, and he was
known as John Smith. The famous
Captain John Smith, however, had
long since made the name renowned
by his exploits and his stories Of travel
and adventure
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
MoRRIs CIRou1r Conn.

NORRIS CIRCUIT COURT
Between Charles w. Ennis, trading as c. w
Ennis d Co., VS.. The Eden Mills Paper Com
ppany' Fl ia. de: DO. ct. ter, Contract on
A. d, 1899.
JOHN B. VREELAND, Attorney.
DY virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
ID. Facias in my hands. | shall expose for
sale at public vendue at the Court House in
Morristown, n. j., on
Monday the 28th Day of August
next. A, D., 1899. between the hours of l2 NJ
and O'Clock D. M, that is to say at . O'Clock
in the afternoon of said day, the following
the said The Eden Mills Paper Company
builder and owner, namely: That brick build
ing of irregular shape, about three hundred
feet long on the side next to the Whippany
River Railroad. about fifty feet on the side
next to the public road, about seventy-five
feet ON the side next to the woods, with an ex-
tension towards the Whippany River, about
fifty feet deep by thirty feet wide, which phys
zeal points are more particularly specified in
the description hereafter given of the curtil-
age; part of the building namely, the paper
room, engine and boiler room is one story
high, with slate roof, and part thereof, name
ly, the beading and bleaching room. is two
stories high, with shingled roof: also the lot
or curtilage situate in the township of Han
over, in the county of Morris and State of New
Jersey, and now known as The Eden Mill Lot
which lot is bounded westerly by the Whip
panv River Railroad; southerly by the cross
road which leads from the road between
Whippany and Malapardis, to the road be-
tween Whippany and Monroe in the said
township, easterly by the Whippany River,
and northerly by woods, and is about three
hundred feet long on each side
Dated July "a, 1899,
EDGAR L. DURLING. Sheriff.
Chronicle and Jerseyman. rP. r, SO. 90
1915
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Red snow.

There have been at various times in
the history Of the world curious falls
of rain and snow, which in earlier days
were regarded as omens of remarkable
events about to take place.
In France in the fifteenth century
there was a fall of red snow, which
sent the people into the churches pray
ing until 1t went away. But today any
curious phenomenon is met with de
light instead of fear, and instead of go
ing into church to pray the people
who see 1t go to a scientific laboratory
to analyze and see what it Is made of.
In Colorado a few years ago, at the
head of Cross creek, some prospectors
found red snow. 1t contained minute
red insects. The DIR. Kane expedition
to the Arctic regions found red and
blue and green and even black snow,
all coming from the color of the ami
malcules which 1t contained.
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museum For BOYS and girls.

Brooklyn is to follow the example OF
a number of European cities and have
children's museum. OF course the
old city of Brooklyn is really part OF
New York city now, but the children's
museum will bear the name of Brook
Ign, just the same. This museum will
be the first Of its kind in America
though such places have formed part
of the educational systems of several
European countries. When equipped
the museum will contain natural his
tory and science specimens, plates and
pictures relating to art and science
and particularly adapted to Children
Chicago Record
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Some oueer Things.

It's queer, when the world seems steady,
1t really is whirling so;
It's queer that the plants get larger
When no one can see them grow;
It's queer that the fountains water
Leaps high in the sunshine bright,
And queer that the moon can never
Fall out Of the sky at night.
It's queer that one clover blossom
Is white and another red,
When the same black earth surrounds them,
The same rain waters their bed.
It's queer that Of all these wonders
We take so little heed,
And that as for feeling thankful
We seldom see the need
We scold If the weather's chilly
And fret at the hot sunlight,
Don't like to get up in the morning,
Hang back from the bed at night,
And queerer than all the queer things
Are surely those girls and boys
Who hive in the world of beauty
And rather see woes than Joys.
illustrated Lesson Papee.
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MASTERS SALE.
In CHANcERY OF NEW JERs


Between Martin J. Youngblood. complain
ant, and Mary e. Youngblood ct AL defend
ants. On bill for partition. Decree for sale.
GEORGE A. ANGLE, Solicitor.
By virtue of decree made by the Chancel-
lor of the State of New Jersey. in the above
stated cause, bearing date June IL, 1899, l,
George M. Shipman, one of the Special Mas
tiers of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey,
will sell at public sale to the highest bidder at
the American House, in the town of Hacketts-
town, county of Warren and State of New
Jersey, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8. 1899,
between the hours of IL and O'Clock to wit,
at O'Clock in the afternoon of said day, all
that certain tract or parcel of land and prem
town, in the county of Warren, and partly in
the township of Mount Olive, in the county of
Morris, and state of New Jersey, bounded and
described as follows:
Beginning at a stake and stones, corner to
lands of David e. Crane. on the Morris county
side of the Musconetcong river. and running
from thence ID south twenty-three degrees
west, six chains to the middle of the road
leading from Hackettstown to Budd's Lake,
said Cranes corner a stone bridge; CD along
the said road north seventy-five and a quarter
degrees west, eight chains and forty-four links
to point in the middle of said road, in line
of the division fence between the Haggerty
and King lots on the south side of said road OF
street, known as Mill street; CD north eight
cen and half degrees east, one chain and
twelve links to an iron pin; (D north three
degrees east, TWO cnalnS ana tnlrIy INKS TO an
iron pin in front of the barn building in line
with the rear fence of the ]. H. Youngblood
house property; co north seventy and a half
degrees west, seventy links to fence post; (6)
north eleven degrees east, sixty three links to
an iron pin for corner, seventeen feet dis
tant on a course of north seventy mine degrees
west, from the northwest corner of the barn
building: O. north eighty-four degrees east.
two chains and forty links to the water edge
of the Bowers brook; (S) thence up the said
brook about seventy links to the original cor
ner, Bowers corner; co. north eighty-six de-
grees east. nineteen chains and twenty-five
links to a corner on the bank of the Musconet-
cong creek C0) south seventy-five degrees
west, eleven chains to the place beginning,
containing six and ten hundredths acres of
land more or less.
Conditions made known on dav of sale.
GEORGE NJ. SHIPMAN,
July Z, '99.5t. Special Master in Chancery.
Foo C10 G0