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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-09-21
What You Can
Buy For Sc s!

Bottle or Best Black Ink &c,
Bottle of Best Mucilese Sc.
large size cake of Toilet Soap Sc.
large size box IS b. Backing "a
1 Bottle o. best Machi,-e Oil Sc.
large size Kitchen spoon &c.
large size Cast Shears 80.
Combination Can Openers &c.
Boxes Carpet Tacks Sc.
Large size Tack Claw Sc.
1 paper large size Safety Pins Sc.
rubber fine comb Sc.
dozen dress stays &c.
Rubber Roach Comb &c.
Il yards Elastic Sc.
1 Folding Pocket Comb Sc.
l Box Steel Hair Pins &c.
l Tin Dipper Sc.
Pudding Pan &c.
l Spice Scoop Sc.
Large Cocoanut Crater Sc.
Card of hooks and eyes Sc.
l Package of Envelope Sc.
Star Skirt Braid &c,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-09-21

Just received 1000 pairs Drummer's Sam
pie Shoes in ladies', children's and
gents at wholesale cost price. Also a
large lot of oXfords.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-09-21
HARRisoNBURe TO WASHINGTON.

tDaily except Sunday. +Da1Iy.
Immediate connection in Union Depot al
" ashington for and from Baltimore, Phil
sdelphia and New York.
Frank S.Cannon, 3dVice- PreSt g. Gen. Man
W. A. Turk, General Passenger Agent.
J. NJ. CUP, Traffic Manager.
L. s. Brown, General Agent.
Washington. D. c.
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Millinery.

Everything new and of the latest style in
this line. We have just received lot
of Pattern Hats at 50 30 and So, worth
from 81 to Sc. Must be seen to be ap
preciated.
Flowers, Sailors, Chi1dren's Lace Caps and
Hats in endless varieties, and at lower
prices than elsewhere
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-09-21
Fall Goods !!

Buy your Fall Goods now and have them
ready for the season when it comes on, for
you will pay double later as this stock is
selling out rapidly. Do not delay if you
have any regard for economy.
The times., 1899-12-14
RAILROAD STOCKS
STOCKS
CHICAGO GRAIN SALES.
General Increase in Prices Prevails
All AIOng the Line.

General Increase in Prices Prevails
All Along the Line.
CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-Wheat was firm and
higher today under the influence OF stronger
foreign markets and a better cash demand.
Liverpool was up SD, Paris 3-4c, and Ant
werp 5-Sc. Cash sales here amounted to
600 bushels for export. The seaboard
reported Is loads. Primary receipts were
sec. 600 bushels less than last year Clear
ances were 542, 600 bushels.
Casn corn sales today are put around
100000 bushels. OF course. this is all rail
business. The bulk of this trade was by
one interest, but an Improvement in the
shipping demand was reported generally
1t did not do much for the futures how
ever, prices being up barely one-eighth
cent. The cars here were 24S with 100 esti-
mated for tomorrow. Clearances amounted
TO 727 600 bushels.
Oats closed where they did Tuesday,
practically no fluctuations during the day.
There was q slight Improvement in the
shipping demand, 100000 bushels being sold
from here. The receipts were $50 cars,
with 1877 ordered for tomorrow. The oats
traders now are deyOting all their time TO
watching the corn fluctuations.
The advance in provisions continued
under good general demand, influenced
by the light hog movement as compared
with last year Packers sold rather freely.
and there was considerable profit taking by
longs. but the market closed firm at about
top prices
The times., 1899-12-14
Ware A LeIand,s Letter.

Reported daily to Ferry & Wood Brokers,
1885 Street. upstairs; phone l52j.J
CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-Wheat at Liverpool
closed 3S higher; London cargoes firm;
Paris wheat and -four higher; Antwerp,
SIS higher; Berlin, IA lower Great
Britain. yield for 1899, estimated 60 .529,-
600 bushels, against 10000, 600 last year.
Argentine prospects are fine. Severe frost
reported in eastern Europe. Russian
wheat crop reported same as last year
but the rye crop is smaller. Primary
receipts 613 600; shipments, 195, coo.
Farmers deliveries in the Northwest are
quite light. Illinois State report makes
condition SO but acreage is reduced to
202S, 600 acres which is 240, 900 less than
last year. ClearanCes $50, 900. Ocean
freights have weakened lately which may
tend TO increase export business. Fifteen
loads reported for export There is more
enquiry in the southwest
A much better tone prevailed today
although there was realizing by scalpers
The commission house buying was OF a
good character The Improvement was due
TO higher markets abroad, the falling off
in receipts and a renewal of the enquiry
for shipment. The market may rule duh
until after the dnal Government report is
issued, but many expect good advance
in the price in the near future.
Corn clearances, 41S; Liverpool, IA
higher. The weakness in ocean frights
will help export business. There was buy
ing of a good character today.
Provisions at Liverpool closed un-
changed Receipts of hogs at eight POINTS,
So 600: same time last year, 123, 600. Ship
ments of lard. 1850 600 pounds; meats,
?, $3.50 coo pounds There was a good sized
| business transacted Sales made by pack
ers and all offerings due to realizing were
The times., 1899-12-14
THE HEALTH HABIT.

just a. Easy TO Form as Any Other.
We do not deliberately form our pet
habits. but they are unconsciously ac-
quired ana grow as We grow, and by the
time we learn they are hurting US, we find
them too strong TO be easily broken.
Then. why not form a good habit.
habit which will counteract the many bad
ones. in other words contract the IN
fashionable habit of being always we'll
The best health habit to get into is 10
have and keep d vigorous stomach; If you
have healthy digestion you can drink
your beloved coffee, smoke your favOrite
brand Of tobacco, with little or no harm,
the mischief begins when these things are
forced upon the faithful stomach without
any assistance.
Form the habit OF taking after meals
some harmless but efficient digestive which
viii relieve the stomach OF so much extra
work
Nature furnishes US with such digestives
and when they are combined in such "a
pleasant preparation as Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets, they give the oyerwoTked stomach
just the necessary assistance TO secure per
feet digestion without any OF the harmful
effects of cathartics and similar drugs.
The habit OF taking Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets after meals is as necessary TO the
weak stomach as foor itself, and indeed 70
get the beneht from food eaten, nOIhlng
better and certainly nothing safer can be
used.
Many families consider Stuart's Tablets
as essential in the house as knives aud
forks.
They consist entirely of natural digestive
principles without the effect or character
istics of drugs; they have no cathartic
action, but simply go TO work on the food
eaten ana digest IT,
Take into account your bad habits and
the expense they entail and then invest
fifty cents in a box of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets and see If your digestion for the
next month is not vastly improved.
Ask the clerk in any drug store The
name Of the most successful and popular
! stomach remedy and he viii say Stuart's
The times., 1899-12-14
Not a Surprise.

It VIII not be a surprise to any who are
at ali familiar with the good qualities of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy TO know
that people everywhere take pleasure In
relating their experience IN the use of that
splendid medicine and in telling of the
benefit they have received from it, of bad
colds it has cured. of threatened attacks
of pneumonia it has averted and of the
children ii has saved from attacks of the
Group and whooping cough. 1t is a grand,
good medicine. For sale by Henry Evans
Wholesale and retail. and all druggists.
The times., 1899-12-14
Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales-Washingto Loan and Trust, 10
d163; Capital Traction, 100Q92 3-S; City
and Suburban Railroad, 10G35; Washing
ton Gas, ESQ 80 Is, 1G55 Ia, 61G55, 25G
81 rs; Mergenthaler Linotype, 10d204 1-2,
10G2O5 10. 1G205 "a. 2Od205 rs, 100
206 II. lO6206 Is, 306 206 LanstOn Mono
type lO016. After call-Capital Traction,
l0692 3-S
The times., 1899-12-14

Stock market people say that there has
NOT been such a bad break in prices as
occurred an the close yesterday Tor many
a long month The tumble in the Industrial
securities in the past week and more has
been rapid and decisive and the level yes
terday at . o'clock was far below thai at
the beginning of the month even In the
best u the railway stocks. but the short
selling and liquidation in the last hour was
on an even more tremendous scale, and
no attention seemed 20 be paid 10 the
prices realized. One broker sold 80 900
shares q Sugar The entire sales Of the
stock must have been very near 100 0G0
shares. The price broke 10 125 Is or
twelve points for the day. and thirty
FIVE points in little more than a week.
Tennessee Coal and Iron tumbled from Sc
10 IS, the price a week or two ago having
been 114 Metropolitan Traction dropped
10 III Ia more than twenty points since
the beginning of The month. Colorado Fuel
and Iron, American Steel and Wire pre-
ferred and common, the Tobacco securities.
and many other industrials declined from
three 10 Eve points for the day. making
their total downward movements since the
beginning of the month 10 10 Is points.
The railway list was only less FORUM
ate than the industrial group the breaks
extending from point 10 three points from
the high prices 10 the low OF the day
Rock Island which has held up well until
yesterday. was broken TO 10S ST. Pau
tumbled 10 IL 3-S. the lowest price Of tht
year; Burlington dropped 70 125 T-S The
coalcrs were all weak, Reading first pre-
ferred ceiling as low as 52l-2; Louisvill,
broke over two points; New York Central
Two points. 10 I26 3-s ard so Throughout
nearly the entire railway list. The Pa.
clfcs. Chesapeake and Ohio, Big -Four
Pennsylvania. and a few other stocks wen
Of only a point or so.
The failure CT the Treasury Department
70 take any action for the relief Of ii,
The times., 1899-12-14

the way of the entire market. breaking TO
Al ga. There was stubborn support for
the stock, however, and a quick advance
seems not unlikely as soon as the worst of
the pressure is removed from the general
market
The times., 1899-12-14

The present prices in the grangers are
the lowest Of the year, or very near the
bottom. St Paul yesterday went below
any previous price. last January's low hav-
ing been 120 Is. Rock Island went to
within fraction Of the price reached by il
on the day of the great break after Gov
ernor Flowers death. Burlington declined
10 within point of the lowest price Of the
year. despite the big rights" that have
been added 10 the stock during the year.
The bear talk Of poor crops and smaller
business for the grangers in consequence,
while not founded on any facts, has un-
doubtedly helped TO break these stocks, and
70 prevent investments in them.
Pacific Mail was strong yesterday morn
ing, advancing to a IL, but later IL went
The times., 1899-12-14

The earnings of the Louisville and Nash
Vile for the first week of December in
creased SGT, 600. The stock broke badly in
the afternoon.
The times., 1899-12-14

Chesapeake and Ohio was again strong
The people that bought and bid up this
stock recently are believed not to have sold
any of 1t in the break
The times., 1899-12-14

any money to England, the fear of another
advance in the discount rate by the Bank
Of England 10 the highest notch since 1866.
and finally the stories circulated indus
triousiy by the bears regarding ths Ger
tain" exnaTt Of goIG next week, all had II
most depressing effect upon the market.
me bears, taking advantage of this. ii--Vest
ed all the money that-ihA."- nave made In
the past week in further tremendous short
sales. Forced liquidation on an enormous
scale was the inevitable result. This was
the history of the day. 1t is almost useless
10 predict what viii be the outcome. Ru-
mors Of important firms in financial diff
culties were floating in the street in the
last hour yesterday. and if any of them
were true today may see repetition OF
yesterday market 1t seems certain that
the opening today will be very weak on
further forced selling of securities for ac-
counts that cannot produce margins. The
cheerful facts in the situation are the al
most certainty now that the Treasury De
partment will Immediately advance the
January interest payments the good gen
eral news that every day gives, and the
fact that there will be investment buying
Of securities at the recent low prices. These
matters win almost surely cause a rally
today and they may result in strong re-
covery.
The times., 1899-12-14
drop IN IN railway STOCKS
All Sorts of RumorS as to What
Is Going on in the Market.

The Accounts of Various Spectators
Weakened and Commission Houses
BADLY Hurt-British Rcverses in
South Africa Cause Further De-
eIine-ForeiEn Houses sell Heavily.
The times., 1899-12-14

The Federal Steel securities have been
the strongest in the group OF the new in
dustrials during the entire break, and yes
terday showed no exception TO this rule.
The common opened at Sc, advanced to 81
and g fraction, and then in the afternoon
declined to 81. 1t is or points off in
the present b-eak, while other industrials
are from 10 10 80 points off. This compara-
tive strength OF the stock has been no.
ticeable curing the entire year. 1t is one
OF the few not selling now many points
lower than when it was foated. The ques-
tiOn If this fact may not have something
10 DO with the intrinsic merit of the stock
is perhaps worth considering at this time
when stocks Of all kinds are selling at
bargain prices" Low prices are not
necessarily cheap prices, and when in the
face Of such an attack as has been made
on the industrial list any one of the group
shows strength the fact is notable The
president of the Federal Steel Company
makes the statement that 3 "a per cent
dividend viii be paid on the stock in Jan
uary, or at the rate Of per cent yearly
Il is further stated that when both the
preferred and the common dividends have
been paid there viii remain as a surplus
for the years business 81 GOO 000, or three
fouTths enough to pay the entire dividends
for next year. The company has made con
tracts for business that Will keep il busy
all the time until the end of next Septem-
Der at the highest current prices. The
meaning Of all this in the way OF profitsis is
obvious.
The times., 1899-12-14
~, yo~l, s,ocI. .In-Ire,

Corrected daily by W B. Hibbs Co,
members Of the New York Exchange,
1zl9 r Street.
The times., 1899-12-14

taken by commission houses BulIish SEN
timent is growing. and il looks very much
as if higher values would be established
The times., 1899-12-14
y [;]I[I!IIIlI.a;,I.IIE11II.I

uAUr ynu Sore Throat Pimples. Copper
HHEE IUU colored Spots, Aches. Ola SortS
Ulcers In Mouth, Hair Fsllingl
Write COOK REMEDY Co, 1851 Masonic Temple,
Chicago H. for proofs OF cures. Capital S5O0,-
COO Worst cases cured in IS 20 30 days 100
mare hook free.
The times., 1899-12-14
THE GREAT DEAD TRANCE

Seer and Palmist Nita gives advice on business,
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The times., 1899-12-14
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The times., 1899-12-14
Chicago Grain and Provision Market

Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs & Co.
members Of the New York Exchaqg.
The times., 1899-12-14
New york Cotton Market.

simple protection against dangerous throat
affections are Deans menth0lated cough drops.
Only five cents, at druggists
The times., 1899-12-14
GOVERNMENT pnNDS.
plsTRIcr OF coLunlBIA BoNps

G's 1902 30 year funding gold l04 -.
rs 1901 Water stock" currency. l0j
rs 1908 water stock currency. ..
Funding currency 3.65's..-......, ll75 l20
rs Reg lSl}
The times., 1899-12-14
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The times., 1899-12-14

The failure of the Treasury Department
70 take any action for the relief Of The
monetary situation, the denial Of the state
ment that the Bank OF France Is 10 lend
The times., 1899-12-14
MONEY $4,000 MONEY

To loan on furniture. pianos ETC.. without re-
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no charge or expense If loan is not made Always
ready and willing give information regarding
rates and methods 10 secure loan We are the
Oldest loan company in the city, and will give
You honest treatment. AL business strictly CON
Bdential Private Offices
Washington Mortgage Loan Co..
6foF Street'N.W.
The times., 1899-12-14

MONEY TO LOAN at sIs, Sz. 4. and AZ pes
cent in sums Of -, 900 to $4,000 on D. c.
real estate, pay OF and 9 per cent mortgages
and begin anew; all transactions conducted with
economical considera ton for borrowers. WM. II.
SAUNDERS & CO.. 14O7 St NV. iyI-tf-em
The times., 1899-12-14

The directors of the Northern Pacific
Company yesterday declared the regular
dividend OF l per cent on the common
stock and an extra dividend of ! per cent
in addition. making total OF 3 per cent
for the year, and establishing a rate of
per cent. The announcement of the inten-
tion of the directors had been made in this
column in advance. The intrinsic value of
this stock, earning more than per cent
and paying per cent, is about 70 or So
according 10 the important financial in
terssts that have been responsible for its
great strength Of late The price in the
market yesterday was 53, at which the divi-
dend is worth nearly per cent on the in
yestmeny. a quick advance seems ineyit-
able in the stock. The intention of the
clique which advanced it two weeks ago
was TO put il TO 90 Immediately, but the
break in the general market prevented its
reaching higher than 81 and a fraction. II
viii be seen, however, that the decline since
that time has been very little, comparative
~ speaking.
The times., 1899-12-14
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The times., 1899-12-14

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The times., 1899-12-14

Sugar was the feature of the days bust
ness. An avalanche of selling orders
poured in during the entire afternoon, and
especially in the last hour. The price was
Jumbled as low as 125 is, the lowest since
last January, when it dropped in one day
10 123 and a fraction. The campaign
against the stock has been masterful and
its effect tremendous. The break OF 80
points has been engineered in a wonder
fully short time. There is every reason
to believe that the news" regarding the
company recently put out is entirely with
out foundation. Nothing in any way re-
sembling the alleged S1OO, GOO 600 opposition
company is believed to be in contempla-
ton Nobody is believed TO have any in
Jention of enjoining the dividend on the
common stock because it has not been
earned"
The times., 1899-12-14
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GoAaip of tho Ring.

H. b. L., New York He was knocked out
q. G., New York.-He was born in Carroll, o. on
April IS, 1875.
Constant! Reader New York.-The managers refuse
to state what compensation either puglist received.
Ii Hung Foy. tho Chinese boxer, has an offer Of a
purse TO meet good lad at % pounds In Chicago
Dial Hawkins and Jack o Brien have been matched
They are to meet before local club within few
weeks.
Ell, s.. New York.-They met at RchburR. Misa
rounds.
Oscar Gnrdner's hands are in very bad shape and
It is doubtful If he will he able to night for some
time to come
would like tn make n match with George Jensen the
former amateur, at 1873 pounds.
Tho Coney Island Sporting Club 10 making an ef.
fort 70 rcmatch Tommy Ryan and "Mysterious''
Billy smith II Smith accepts the affair viii tai a
place in three weeks.
spike" Sullivan. who Is now In town has received
2 dozen offers To- meet ambitious lightwelghts. but
has been compelled to decline them all owing 10 tho
fact that he will not night until September.
Soly Smith, who is training Johnny Richie for
the latters approaching contest with Terry Nc.
sullivan.
Fitlsimmons yesterday received a letter from
" Kid Mccoy, In which the latter asked him to
meet him at the middleweight limit 1853 pounds
ftH replied that for the present he after q re-
turn match with Jeffres
II is quite likely that when Billy Brady and jim
Palmer. The crack English fcatherWeiRht has en-
presseda desire to go under BrAdy's management
and as Palmer has not appeared in serious battle
In TINS country he would be great drawing card
Many sporting men hereAbouts say that the Coney
Island Sporting Club would make an extremely
popular move by engaging Tim Hurst as the officiGl
the confidence of the public and has rendered satis
factory decisions. Poor decisions at tha Cnnev
Island Club last year did much to close its doors.