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NEW YORK MONEY.

NEW YoRK, Sept. 6.-3 P. M Money on call
easier at 3i-206 per cent; last loan at 4
Der cent. Prime mercantile paper l-4a5 per
cent. Sterling exchange firm, with actual
business in bankers bills at $4862S D4S61-2 for
demand, and at $4.83 a4.s3 IL for sixty days
Posted rates s4.84 and S4.87 IL. Commercial bills
A.s2a482 l-2. Silver certificates 58Aa60 Bar
oliver 59k. Mexican dollars AZ IL. Govern
road bonds firm.
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Schedule in Effect December 18th. 1895.
SoUThaouND

Ar Raiegn q 10 am *Il Is am
tDaIly.
Nos. 403 ard 402-"The Atlanta Speci Is"
Solid Vestibuled Train of Pullman Sleepors
and coaches between Portsmouth and Atlanta,
also Pullman Sleepers between Portsmouth and
Chester, s. 9.
scs al and 40 The g. A. L. Exnress.u Solid
Train, coaches and Pullman Sleepers between
Portsmouth and Atlanta. Company Sleepers
between Columbia and Atlanta.
Both trains make immediate connections a
Atlanta for Montgomery. Mobile, New Orleans
Texas, California, Mexico, Chattanooga Nash
vile, Memphis, Macon, Florida.
Ell. s. LIZARD, q. T. and r. A.
Raleigh, N. c.
II. ST. JOHN, Vice. Prest. and Cen
Manager.
FL. w. GLOVER. Traffic Manager.
" &c. McBEE, General 6upt.
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-. voc send your name and address, mention
ing TINS paper, to DR.. Hathaway & Co., you will
Women. AZ 100
This book has Just been issued and is full of
valuable information to those afflicted with any
81 lose delicate diseases peculiar tn either sex
~ tolls how to cure diseases. DIR. Hathaway q
90. are experts in the treatment of such dis
eases aud are without doubt the leading spe-
ciaJists OF the United States.
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low middling clause:
NEW ORLEANS.
OTHER COTTON MARKETs.

Galveston, steady, lie, 8,727 bats.
Norfolk, firm, g, 1,l49 balce.
Baltimore, nominal, I-2, = bales.
Boston, quiet, 81, 276 bai.s
Wilmington, steady, 81, 1884 bales.
Philadelphia, firm, g. - bates.
Savannah, firm, So, 1910 oales
New Orleans, firm, 6zs, 1903 bales.
Mobile, steady, 1l-1s, l,32s bales.
Memphis steady, 81, 1874 oalea.
Augusta, steady, 8, l,407 bales
Charleston, firm, 5 ll-18, 1853 bales.
Cincinnati, dull, So, 80 bates.
Louisville, steacy, "a, - bales.
st. Louis, quiet, D 1916, I48 bales.
Houston, firm, 6, 4,9i2 bales.
New York, quiet, steady, 6 E-16, 152 bales.
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uHroAao. sentember 6.

Flour steady. winter patents 60;
do straights Sl0a3.30; do clear -; spring
81 sOa8.2O; bakers $l.9Oa2.6O. Wheat-No. 2
spring -; No. spring 1850 1-2; Mo- red
q u oorn-No; 2 s2aags Oats No. 2 q LA
IS l-2aiO. FLAX seed-No |. lis f.2 Prime
Timothy seed S2.sOa2.4O. Mess pork, per bbl.,
Short rib sides, loose, s5.lOa5.9,; dry-salted
shoulders. boxed, 5l-2a5X. Short clear sides.
boxed. s5.6oa5e5. Whiskey 1922
NEW YORK
NEW YORK, September Flour more act We
and considerably stronger with the sharp re-
in Wheat wateT
3,s0a 100; do bakers S290a3.l0: winter extras
81 40a2.S0; do. low grades S2.30a2 40.
Rye flour firms good to prime S2F'a3.15;
Corn meal firm; yellow western 7la73; city -.
Rye steady; no. ., western 81 l-2; state
Barley steady; feeding s31-2a40l- mailing
4sa5j
Barley malt quiet; western 55a63
Wheat, spot nm; No. z red rs Is: options,
May 791s; September 7szs; December 76%'
Corn, spot strong: NO q oSts opt,an~. May
So.
Oats, spot steady; No. 2, IS; options inactive.
Beef fr1ner; family $4,000 Loo; extra mes
50; beef hams s27a$l8; packet s9.2la$l0.o0; city
extra India mess S14. 50a15.0o.
Cut meats easy; picked bellies 647 Ia;
picked shoulders 6a6h picked hams lOslO IL
Lard firm; western steamed $50; city S5.l5;
August -; refined frmer; to the continent
$3.50; compound 4Aa4%.
Pork firm; mess $S.75a9.50; short clear
sl0.2501l.7b; family siO000ll.oO.
Tallow firm; city 4sSa4I; country =.
Butter firm; western creamery H02l liz;
imitati creamery l4a2t; State dairy l5al9 ID
Cheese, firm; large white ia; DO coloreo
9ka9 Ia.
Eggs firm; state and Pennsylvania IS 1-2;
western, ungtaded lSal6; so lthern
Potatoes quiet; Jersey 81 00aI.2b; Long land
M2aal 81 l1: Jersey sweets Sl.75a 80; southern
sweets $t.U0a125.
Peanuts firm; fancy hand-picked 1-2a6 Ia
other domestic Lab.
Cabbages quiet; Long Island s2aS3.5o per 100
Freights to Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
26lz do grain
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude 2ll-2
Is I-Sa4S;. off summer yellow 81 IL; butter grades
20: prime winter yellow 30aS2; prime white
2ea99 1-2.
Petroleum strong: refined New York, 1925
Philadelphia aud Baltimore $3.50: DO In pulR
$50
Rosin steady: strained, common TO good
SI.27 l-2ai 80.
Turpentine dull 1t z62lai7A.
Rice quiet; lair to extra 41a7 Ia; Japan
4Aa59S.
Molasses dull; New Orleans, open kettle
good to choice, 32a36
Coffee-Opt1ons, October si.35; November
St.35; December $3.50: March Si75a4.80; May
s4.S 5ai 80; spot Rio dun and weak; No. invoice
5 Ia; No. jobbing 6; mild easy; Cordova 6Aa
Tx.
Sugar raw easier: fair refining 15-l6; GEN.
trifugal 96-test, 7-I6: molasses sugar Sd; re-
fined quiet and barely steady; mould A 5%i
standard A 5 I-16: graduated D. 6.
Muskmelons, Rocky Ford Colorado, per case,
50a2.a0 do Maryland 50aSl 30: do South Jersey
per barrel, 50aSl o.; do Michigan, per bushel
basket, 30a40.
Watermelons Maryland, per leo, s4alS.
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LIVERPOOL, Sept. Cd P. M.-Spot cotton,
fair demand; prices l-32d higher: Ameri-
can middling fair 1-lfd; good middling
good ordinary aid; ordinary 2 To- ed.
The sales of the day were i0,U00 bales, OF which
900 were for speculation and export, and in
Guided 9,400 American; receipts 1000 bales, in
Guiding 500 American.
Futures opened quiet and closed steady at
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TRUE ECONOMY.

These Triplets in every family for
prompt relief and prevention of sickness.
Vick's Magic Group Salve, 25c., never
has failed. Little Liver Pills, 25c.
Small, non-griping. Kadok-H Headache
and Neuralgia Powders, 10c.
You may refund it if not the best.
Sold by frst-class Druggists, or mailed
on receipt of price.
[. RICHARDSON DRUG co.
Wholesale and Manufacturing Drug
gists, 329-331 South Elm Stree.
GREENSBORO. N. G.
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COTTON.

New York, Sept. 6.-Bullish sentiment
predoninated in the market for cotton
futures all day, but considering all
phases of the local situation confident
bull speculation was conspicuous by its
absence. shorts We're made uneasy at
the opening by an unexpected improve
ment in SPOT business as well as higher
prices for futures Mt liverpool, and in
an effort TO place themselves in more
secure positions, forced prices 1GI4 points
higher ON the Opening. The market was
steady at the advance. As the session
progressed the NERVOUSNESS of shorts, in
having come to hand from Texas and
good buying orders reached the market
from New Orleans. BY midday prices
had scored further Advances and contin-
ued to improve pretty much all the at
ternoon. Wall Street contributed con-
siderable support i'm the last hour. pur-
chasing january and March contracts.
German houses, which had been quite ac
tive sellers early i'm the day, turned
buyers, leaving the market almost bare
of SELLERS. The weather indications did
not hold cut any promise of relief in the
cotton belt from the excessive temporal
ture and long continued drought This
fact together with predictions that Tn,
Government report would be publish, add
ed to the alarm of shorts The market
closed at a net gain of 10M12 points.
NEW YORK.
New York, Sept. Cotton futures opened
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NEW YoRB
New York, Sept. Cotton futures opened
steady.
Futures cIoged steady
LIyERpOOL.

SPOT cotton closed quiet and steady and 1-l6
higher middling upands Gig; middling gulf
6 9-l6; sales LIZ bales. -
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the late war with Spain The other
100000 is to be raised by popular sub
scription.
Pending the opening of National
Memorium bureau, which will occur
shortly in Washington, all communica-
tions and inquiries relative to the new
movement will be given attention at the
office of Franklin o. Case, 207 Broad
way.
When the National Memorial bureau
is opened in Washington it will assume
charge of the entire affair. The bureau
will send out such literature as will
tend to help the passage of the bill and
will also organize the national commit
tee.
Letters have already been mailed to
governors of states and mayors of cit
les, representatives of the government
in the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Ri
CO, and to all the ambassadors, minis
tiers and consuls asking their co-opera-
ton in the work.
The national committee will be COM
posed of prominent men throughout the
country, and sub committees will be or
ganized in all the important cities
General Fltzhugh Lee has been Sc
lected to act as honorary chairman and
Franklin o. Case as honorary secretary
1t is announced that this movement
is in no sense connected with the work
being done by the Citizens committee
of New York city.
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responds to the system Of the flat-wedged
lock, and Is worked by means Of a lever.
SO that by a single motion of the hand
the gun can be opened and closed. The
same method is adopted in the naval ana
other guns of this kind. The belief that
in the ammunition for the field howitzers
the metal coverings of the shells are dis
pensed with does not seem to be correct.
AT any rate, the instructions for practice
for the field artillery seem to show thai
the field guns and field howitZers shave:
the same shells. If it is desired to use a
field gun shell for the howitzer, it wiir
have to be unloaded and less heavily
charged, the gunner removing the press:
board cover, and taking away The con-
tents until what is left corresponds to the
amount required. The carriage Of the
field howitzers corresponds, generally
speaking as regards Its arrangement ana
appearance, to that of the field gun. 1t.
has the spade at the rail of the carriage
and the axle seats for two gunners, Of
whom there are five, as in the case of the
field gun. The projectiles used are shrap-
mel and grenades, with double fuses
weighing 16 Kilograms In time of peace
a practice grenade is used, as with the
field guns. .t-.-,
Besides the No. 9S field howitzer, there
is the 15-centimeter howitzer of the heavy
artillery to be used against positions of
greater resisting capacity, such as fort
resses The war of the future, however,
will become in many cases war in this
open field.
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bilt and Mister Depew, who were max
IN the decker with the Pullman fellows,
but the chairman said it wouldn't do
any good. There was man at the
meetin' who said he'd been a Pullman
porter one time. and he could promise
that as far as tips We're concerned the
Pullman fellows would stand solid no
matter what the bosses might do about
'solidation. There won't be any more
cars, and there won't be any more por-
tiers to divide up, no mGrter what they
call the new company. Leastways
that's how most of US looked at it and
we 'journed without takin' any action"
Why don't 70 form a trust like the
bosses are doing?"
Great Difference in Porters
Wouldn't look well, boss. We've
got to stand in with the travelin pub
lie, no matter what happens, Fore I
Joined the perfession I thought all por-
tiers was alike and got the same amount
OF cash from the passengers. Lord,
They're no more alike than a thorough
bred horse and scrub mule. Was on
a run With porter from Boston who
used to read books written by Mister
Huxley and Mister Darwin when none
or the passengers was calm him. We
mad separate cars, and every time /
went into his car he wanted to argue
with me bout all the passengers bein'
monkeys in disguise. He said. he was
goin' to college as soon as he had saved
money enough. Last I heard of him
he'd got fired for neglectin' duty and
was washin' dishes in restaurant. I
don't know much about Mister Hulk
ley's books, but I've got a house and
lot paid for and I've held my job ever
sine Mister Vanderbilt started this 'ere
company. It's all in the way you treat
your passengers"
Who are the most liberal tip Civ
ers?"
Bridal Couples Snap.
Bridal couples and western fellows
goin' East for holiday. We don't ex-
pect much from regular travellers who
make two or three trips a month. They
keep us down to livin' wages, but we
can't neglect them, cause they're the
worst kickers, The only real small tips
we get are from women and drummers
But when one O. them hayseeds gets
on BOARD with roll he gets the best
his roll at the end O. the line and shove
a bill at us. Same way with a man
that's just got married. Was on a trip
one time when a couple had the car
nearly all to themselves. I hadn't a
blessed thing to do all day but stuff the
brides pug dog with crackers that I
DouSht at q lunch counter for 10 cents.
When they got off at New York the dog
was nearly dead with dyspepsia, but 1
got liver just the same"
L guess the new trust won't hurt
your revenues any?"
Pends on circumstances, boss. If
they should make up their minds to
charge more for berth there mighn't
be anythin' left for us. Then again,
they might cut our wages, but that
wouldn't be much odds. l can blow nv
wages Tor cigars and still make money
when business is good
And as the train pulled into the depot
the uniformed monarch of the rail gave
a parting brush and majestically de-
scended the platform step, his pocket
jingling with coin.
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SCIENCE HAS A LOCUST REMEDY.
Insects Are Inoculated With a Disease
That Soon Proves Fatal.

From the New York Sun
Enormous damage is inflicted every
year by the locust or grasshopper. 1t
has been most destructive of late years
in Algeria and Morocco and in South
and East Africa. Its ravages in our
country have been most severe in the
states west of the Mississippi from Tex
as to Minnesota and the destruction in
some areas has at times been so COM
plete that farmers have left their
homes to seek employment elsewhere.
1t is possible that a remedy recently
discovered in South Africa may greatly
restrict if it does not wholly destroy
the evil; at least, there is ground for
encouragement in the great success of
the experiments thus far
In 1895 the locusts in Cape Colony
appeared to be almost wholly destroyed
by an epidemic, and an investigation
by M. S. Evans seemed to prove con-
clusively that the disease was the re-
suit of feeding upon a fungus growth
now known as locust fungus, and that
a few insects infected with the malady
might communicate it to millions of
others. In the following year a similar
epidemic occurred in Natal and the idea
began to prevail that the malady might
be propagated among locusts wherever
they We're troublesome. After repeated
experiments in the Psychological in
stttute at Grahamstown, Cape Colony
a pure culture was obtained from the
locust fungus and all the insects
brought into contact with it at the in
stitute died.
In 1897 experiments on a large scale
in the artificial propagation of this dis
ease were conducted in Cape Colony,
Natal and Rhodesia, with results that
surpassed all expectations. Immense
swarms of locusts persisted a few days
after the infection of number of in
fjUjH11l orr
that the best results, were obtained in
periods of rain, when the locusts re-
main longer in one place, and the
spread of the infection was thus facil-
itated. In dry, hot weather, when the
flight of the insects was rapid the sick
were left behind and the majority es-
capped contagion.
The institute at Grahamstown now
puts up the culture from the locust
fungus in tubes which have been sent
thousands of miles away. and the rem
edy acts with the same excellent re-
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suits as in South Africa. Several
methods of application are suggested.
One is to smear several insects with
the culture and then let them rejoin
their swarm; another, to drop the con-
tents of the tubes upon bits of hui
mid earth where the insects are feed
ing; another, to inclose locusts in a
bottle in which a little of their pre-
ferred food, covered with the culture
has been placed, and, after they have
eaten the food, set them at liberty.
Still another suggestion is to dissolve
the contents Of a tube in basin of
warm water, immense in it a number
of insects and set them free.
Last year the government of Ger
man East Africa applied to the insti-
tute for some of the tubes and they
reached Oar es Salaam, the capital Of
the colony, in November. The Ger
mans say the culture was applied ac-
cording to instructions, but for some
reason it had lost it's efficacy and there
was no result: Another CONSIGNMENT
was received in the Kilimandjaro dis
trict in July last. and the Deutsch-
Ostafrikanische Zeitung has just pub
lished the results of the experiment
Lieutenant Maerker and his assistants
treated 10 locusts from each of five diff
ferent swarms. His report says that in
four days after the infection the five
SWarmS were lying Qedu III IledpS.
Locusts have recently been a terri
BILE scourge in German East Africa.
If the new remedy will serve the pur-
pose the government purposes to ex-
terminate them. 1t has just ordered a
large number of fresh culture tubes
from Grahamstown for distribution at
all the colonial stations and to be sup
piled gratuitously to planters, mission
aries and merchants. 1t will be a
boon to many lands if the remedy for
the locust plague discovered in South
Africa proves to be everywhere eff
cacious.
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STANDPOINT OF PORTER
How They Regard the Sleeping
Car Consolidation.
THEIR JOBS ARE SECURE
Eastern Men Despise Those With Runs
in the West-How Cheap Tip
Taker Can Spoil a Good
Mans Run,

Don't know much about this ERE
'solidation of Mr.. Pullman's sleepin
cars and the Wagner palace cars. 1t
looked 'spicious to me at first, but Mis-
ter Vanderbilt says it's all right. and I
'spose it is. And I hear that Mister
Depew says-Ive got cousin that's
been on Mister Depew's private car
since he was boy-that the 'solidation
won't make any of the porters lose their
jobs. So I guess it is all right"
The speaker was a dusky athlete in
immaculate white cap and jacket, who
was playing a brush tattoo on the
shoulders of a traveller as the Wagner
car on the New York limited rolled into
the Chicago suburbs.
How a Run Is Spoiled.
"Course us Wagner fellows will have
to take some O. the Pullman runs, and
We'll mix up with some O. the porters
that haven't learned the business yet
A couple O months ago I had fellow
on my car who had been making runs
for a western road. He was taking the
place of my partner, who was sick.
The first night out O. New York the
new man got out o. bed twice to give
drink of water to q temperance lee
turer who'd set up late the night be-
fore. In the morning he carried the
mans baggage to the platform, after
shining his shoes and brushing him
down. And what dye think he got?
Two tickets for a Y. M. c. A. lecture
I tell you cheap porter can spoil run
so that 1t isn't worth cigar money, let
alone board and clothes"
Have you fellows got an associa-
tion?"
mo ISOLATION at all, boss. Only COM
mon sense. You see, we're Americans
us Wagner fellows | mean-and the
Americans don't give somethin' Cor
notin'. Most Of our travellers are
Americans, too, and if you try to give
them somethin for nothin' they feel
hurt and don't 'spect you. Had a run
once when a convention O. railroad
men was traveln'. They're our people,
and We didn't look for any tips. Fact
is we agreed not to take any, cause
the boss O. our company was in the
party and we wanted to play like we
was satisfied with our salary. And
what dye think these fellows did?
Fore the end O. the run they played
game o. dollar ante, the porters to
take the pot, no matter who won.
When we cleaned up the chips my part
ner an l divided up more than our
months salary"
Whats that got to do with the con-
solidation of the companies?"
The Porters Discussed 1t.
Now, boss, you've got me. When
this 'solidatfon scheme first came out
in the papers We had a meetin' in New
York and 'scussed the matter. One of
our fellows spoke up and said the por-
tiers ought to stay neutral-I think
that's what these ere diplomacy men
call it-until we learned more about it.
He wanted to introduce a resolution
and vote confidence in Mister Wander
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SECOND DEGREE C MURDER
shadwsll's Punishment Fixed at
Life Imprisonment.
WAS OUT FOURTEEN HOURS
The Murderer Smiled When the Verdict
Was Read-He Expects New
Trial - The Jurymen
Wouldn't Talk.

Robert Shadwell has again been con-
Victed of the murder of Martin OCon-
nor, but the jury this time saved his
neck and fixed his punishment at life
Imprisonment in the state penitentiary,
the verdict being for murder in the Sec
ond degree. The jury was out IA hours
from S:45 o'clock Friday evening I'M
til 10:45 yesterday morning. At that
hour the bailiff was notified that ver-
dict had been reached and half an hour
later the attorneys were in court and
the jury was brought in. The defend
ant sat by his attorneys, Thresher and
Hamilton, and his brother, Joe Shad-
well. The latter had waited all night
for the verdict, but the defendants
mother was not present. not having
been notified of the jury's agreement.
The state was represented by the chief
deputy county attorney, Mr.. Kelley.
While the jury was being polled and
the verdict recorded by the clerk the
defendant watched the faces of the
jurors interestedly, and when the YER
dict was read finding him guilty of
murder in the second degree and fixing
his punishment at imprisonment for
life, faint smile came to his face.
Of his intention to move for new trial
and requested the court to make an
order on the court stenographer to get
out a transcript of the case as soon as
possible at the expense of the county,
and the order desired was made. The
jury was then excused and Shadwell
was taken back to Jail. He expressed
himself disappointed, for he had hoped
TO be acquitted or to get off with a light
sentence
''Of course, will get a new trial." he
said.
A few minutes after Shadwell had
been returned to his cell his aged
mother arrived at the court house.
One of the jurors had informed her
of their action.
II think it is awful that they should
have convicted him again." she said,
I'VE think now he had better go down
to Deer Lodge and stay there until we
get him a new trial, for 1t is better there
than in this tail. OF course he will get
a new trial, for the supreme court said
he shouldn't get anything more than
manslaughter."
The jurors refused to discuss their
action or their votes while balloting on
the verdict. They said they had agreed
before leaving the jury room not to
give out any information. The fact
that they were out SO long and then re-
turned with a life sentence indicates
that some members on the jury must
have been strongly in favor of a YER
dict of murder in the first degree.
sAfteg leaYiag the court house one Of