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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23
Several Jigger. of Gin,

Joseph Shorter, eolored, who, 1t was said.
mad INDUCED in several ..jiggers of gin"
Yesterday, called at the front door of De-
tective Herndon's home and carried off a
rug. Policeman Jennings saw him with the
rug betore he could dispose of 1t, and ar
rested him. The prisoner declared he had
bought the rug for cents. and repeated
the declaration in court after he had heard
me testimony against him. Judge Kimball
held him guilty of the charge and imnoseI
a fine of $40, or thirty days in Jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23

Marriage licenses have been issued to the
following:
White-George A. T"vey of this city and
Marie Wmkler of Little Rock. Ark; Rome
L. Hogan and Edith r. Vaughan; Robert
Parker and Emma Jordan. both of Balti-
more. Md; Ernest s. Herbert Of Westmore-
land county, Va, and Lillian V. Harrison:
Henry Lidenfaden and Ellen Saul: Joseph
Boswick and Maggie NJ Norris, both of St.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23
MARRIED.

BENET-CoN- on "Wednesday December ~ ls.s
a. ~ p, raul ,hnrch Washington j. = -
ter II the iate ThomHs Campbell tinN 2. INIl-
RENEE VINCENT BI.NET.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
THE SEABOAs & D'S ROADFROM
CHARLE>TON no AUGUSGk.
The Construction Of it Can Scarcely
Begin Before Next Year

Inc CONSTRUCTION Oh H OAh CcaIccly
Begin Before Next Yea
The Seaboard Air Lines corps Of en-
gineers, under Captain R.. NJ. Balling,
have not taken to the road because the
corps has Tot been thoroughly organ
lied as yet. Five of the party have ar
rived in the city and the others are
expected today. The wagons and camp
ing outfit Of the corps are coming by
dirt road from Augusta, and it is not
expected that they will arrive here be-
fore Thursday. 1t will therefore be
about Monday before the survey is
taken up in earnest. In the meantime
the engineers are making daily excur-
sions about the outskirts of the city,
looking out for the best places to enter
the city.
Yesterday The News and Courier's
dispatches from Columbia contained
the following in an interview with Col
onel Bunch" McBee:
"Superinttndent McBee, of the Sea-
board Air Line, who is in the city, vas
asked today what there was in the re-
port hat the contracts for the Charles
ton-Augusta line would be awarded
this rear. He said that the Seaboard
was not going to make any contracts
uuCll II mao mdOe all OIL It's arrange
ments as to terminal facilities, and so
far as he knew, and he thought he
knew a thing or two, no such arrange
ments have yet been made. The
Charleston line, he said, would come
in due time, and there was no occasion
for impotence about it."
This just dovetails with the story
that a reporter for The News and
Courier heard from one of the engin-
GERS. The reporter told the engineer
that he heard the contract for the
Observation-Disclosures branch would be
given out Immediately, but the engineer
shook his head. He stated that it
would AXE the corps four months yet
to present a report on which building
contracts could be given. This would
put the letting out of the contracts into
1900. On account of the ''lay of the
land" it is though by the engineers that
the road can be built very quickly
when once started.-News and Courier.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
Hold to the Standard Rectangular
Bale

Mr.. j.. F. Cone, of Alabama, advises
holding to the standard square bale.
MY experience with the 24x54 press
box has BEEN satisfactory, quite as
much so as the larger ONE formerly
used, and so far as I have discovered
it a. no more difficult to pack a 500
pound bale in the 24x54 box than in the
old one. Possibly the round bale may
be a good thing, and to some it may
prove profitable, but as yet I fail to
see that the average farmer will be ben
Gifted. The adoption of the round
bale will greatly reduce the number of
plantation ginners, thus increasing the
difference between the cotton field and
the ginnery. requiring mere expense
for hauling, and upon the whole I am
in doubt if the advantages which is
claimed for the round bale would ever
reach the producer, or any n else, ex-
cept those directly concerned, corse-
quently I think we had better hold on
to the 24x54 rectangular bale"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

The Messenger %recentely noted the
return of two Of the young men who
volunteered and went to Camp Mead
to be mustered in with the Twenty
seventh regiment for service in the
Philippines. Mr.. Joseph N. Britain, an
other one of the volunteers, has re-
turned. In a skirmish drill it was dis
covered that his right eye was defec-
tive, so he was honorably discharged.
He did not like it at Camp Meade and
says the recruits are largely tough cit
liens. The regiment will leave For:
Meade tomorrow for San Francisco,
where they will embark for the Phil
ippines.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
Naming the Price OfCOtton
(Raleigh News and Observer.

Mr.. A. B.. Williams, one of the first
business men of the Cape Fear section,
has an article i'm the Fayetteville OBJ
server urging cotton ginners to make
a uniform bale of cotton 24x54 inches.
He adds:
THE round bale people are doing
their utmost to establish the round
bale, and IL successful in their efforts,
the cotton TANNER will be completely
in their hands. The certainty of a
royalty to them Of 81 per bale and the
naming OF the price TO be paid for cot
tom are what they are aiming at"
That DIS it exactly. John e. Searles
would never had left the sugar trust
and taken hold of the round bale if he
did not expect to coin millions by corn
ering the market. The southern farm
ers r not averse to improvement in
baling cotton. They would welcome
all improvements, but they will not
put their neck in the halter Of the
round bale trust.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

That Road VIII soO HUM
Between Florence and Atlanta


There is a report in circulation here
among the railroad people which is
also confirmed herein, and which goes
to show that within the next forty-five
days the Atlantic Coast Line viii have
through trains running between the
Gate City of South Carolina and the
Gate City OF Georgia. Florence-Atlanta,
says a special to The News and Cour-
Ter, from Florence, s. c. The Atlantic
Coast Lines new road running from
Denmark, the present terminus OF the
Manchester and Augusta division, to
Robbins, on the Charleston and West
ern Carolina railroad, will be completed
next week and the connection made
with the Charleston and Western Car
DINA. Several work trains and hun
dreds of laborers are now at work bal
lasting up the road in order hat the
new link in the Coast Lines system
may be inspected by the railroad COM
mission within the next two weeks, and
regular trains put on in order that the
road bed may become packed and the
track ready for fast mail n passen-
ger train service.
The entire roadway from Florence 10
Augusta will be strictly first class.
The road is LAID the entire distance
with 7O-pound steel rails, and will ac-
commodate ell the flyers" that the
Coast Line people nay desire to put on.
The new connection from Augusta is
made possible by the recent purchase
Of a half interest in the Georgia rail-
road leading out of Augusta, as stated
in the press dispatches several days
ago.-Augusta Chronicle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
A Mother Tells Sow she saved He
Lfttle Daughters Life

A Mother Tell. slow she saved Her
Lfttie Daughter. Life
1 am the mother Of eight children and
have had a great Zeal Of experience
with medicines. Last summer my liz
tie daughter had the dysentery in it's
worst form. We thought she would die.
I trieL- everything I could think of, but
nothing seemed to do her any good. I
saw by an advertisement in our paper
that Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy was highly recon-
mended and sent and got a bottle at
once. It proved to be one Of the very
best medicines we ever had in the
house. It saved my little daughters
life. I am now anxious for every moth
er to know what an excellent medicine
it Is. Had I known it at first it would
have saved me a great deal Of anxiety
and my little daughter much suffering
Yours truly. Mrs. Geo. F. Burdick.
Liberty, r. I. For sale by R. R. Bel
iamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
GONE

WflmingtOn's COiored Population
Scattered All Over the North-A Col.
ored Traveller Meets Them in a
Dozen Mates
David Bryant, a we'll known and
trustworthy colored man of this city,
for the past twenty-five years has
taken a summer trip to several states
in the north. On Sunday last he re-
turned from a tour through a dozen
states, having ven gone into Canada,
and he tells us that everywhere he
went familiar faces came up and greet
ed him. They were cOlored people who
had left Wilmington since the race trou-
BILE last November, and he says he was
brought to realize tina they had left
here by the thousands.
He states that the places where he
saw most of Wilmington's colored pop
ulation were Norfolk, Washington, Bal
timore, Philadelphia, New York, and
Boston. He says his observations are
that they had better staid in Will
mington, as the older people especially
and the uneducated in particular can
not compete with the working classes
in the north. They are ignorant of the
customs of the people of the north, and
they find themselves surrounded by cir
cumstances so widely different from
those they have been accustomed to in
the south, that they cannot come up
to the requirements. The young, active
and educated only stand much Of a
showing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Washington, August s2.-Following Is
the weather bureaus weekly summary
OF the crop conditions:
While there has been an entire alb
sence OF rain over a large part OF the
counts east OF the Rocky mountains.
and drodghty conditions are quite ex-
t~ensively reported in New England,
over much OF the lower lake region.
Ohio and lower Missouri valleys and
west gulf states. very heavy rains have
fallen in the Red river OF the North VAL
ley. on the Virginia and North Caroli-
ma coasts, and over portions or the CEN
trail gulf states
In the Rocky mountain and Pacific
coast districts the week has been too
cool, with frosts, causing some injury
in mountainous sections on the 18TH
and 18th.
The report from Cuba indicates that
the week has been generally very dry.
and that crops are suffering seriously
over the greater part OF the island.
In the principal corn states, the sea-
sonable temperature and general alb
sence OF ain a been favorable for
advancing the maturity or corn, the
general condition OF which crop il very
satisfactory, although late corn now
A1NaS 1AAA al RoA AAoAAS Va AN Az AA8
Missouri valleys, in oklahoma and in
some parts OF Kansas and Nebraska.
The spring wheat harvest has been de-
layed in the Dakotas and Minnesota
by heavy rains. which have caused IN
jury 10 stacked grain in the last named
state. Harvesting a also been inter-
rupted by rains in Washington and Or
egon. In the last named state wheat
in sacks and In shock. as well as stand
ing grain. is beginning TO sprout, as the
result OF unusual rains during the past
two weeks.
In Minnesota, South Dakota and
Washington oats In shock have been
damaged by excessive moisture. which
vest.
Over the central and eastern portions
OF the cotton belt the conditions OF cot
ton continues practically the same as
at the close of the previous week, rust
and shedding being prevalent. All re-
ports show that cotton is opening rap
idly, picking being in progress in the
extreme northern districts. In eastern
North Carolina the crop was damaged
by the high winds attending the late
hurricane. Drought is proving very
damaging to the crop in Oklahoma and
Texas, but the weather conditions have
been very favorable for picking. and
while an average yield Is not expected
in Texas, the quality OF the staple is
good.
In Ohio tobacco is suffering from
drought, but in other tobacco states
the general outlook continues favora-
BILE. Some damage, however, has been
caused by the high winds in North Car
DINA, n moist weather. has been IN
favorable for curing in Maryland.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Petroleum-Steady.
Rfce-Dull.
New York-Rosin steady. T~urpentine
quiet at 50d50xc-
CofYee-Options opened q NJ un.
hanged prices and improved ? % ~
DIR on covering but later turned n
regular and eased or under
Ing foreign market news. spot ouye.s
continued to procrastinate. OUTSIDE
support was totally lacking. closed
steady 5 points higher TO 5 points low
err: sales L.. ESQ bags. including August
at $4.s5; September at $3.50, December
at s4..5: March 500. Spot conee-hio
dull and nominal: mild small Local. mar
ket.
Sugar-Raw quiet and steady: fair
refining &C: centrifugal. e6 test, sac;
molasses 3Ac: refined steady.
NAVAL STORES.
Charieston-Spirits turpentine a
ket firm at acc: sales 10 casks. Rosin
firm at s0l95c: sales 90.
Savannah-Nothing doing in turpen-
tine; receipts 1.Sf0. Rosin firm: re-
ceipts 1850: sales 5.34S. Quote: A II G ID
s5c. f sl.o0, F si.05. G s1.lo. II $50. I
si.a5. X s1.35, Nj Sic, n sale, w G.
s2.25, w w $2.s0.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

4 Of Battery G. Writes that the
war II Over "a the Philip .sines Great
Loss amOng sbur Soldiers

Battery c, Sixth artillery. which was
sent last year from Fort Caswell TO
Porto Rico, is now in Manila, in the
Philippines. Our townsman, Mr.. J. T.
Burke, on yesterday showed US a let
ter which he received from Corporal
George D.. Meese, who is with the bat
terry. 1t is under date Of July LIST, and
in it Corporal Messe says:
I'VE are doing police duty here N
Manila, and have very little Of the
excitement that is going on round us.
"A great many Of our boys are being
planted here-a great many more than
you people know of.
II think there is a great future be
fore this country. American push and
energy are bound to succeed here. !
think the worst of the war is over, but,
like Cuba, there will be work here for
some time to come"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Mrs. Lisette G. Hood has been elect
ed teacher Of the Louise Mill and Bel
mont Park school. She won the ap-
pointment owe sixteen applicants, one
beingf rom Durham. Mrs. Hood, how
ever, was wel1 equipped with testimo-
mails, having among others a diploma
from the Maryland College, and certi-
icates of first grade from this and other
counties. She comes from a family OF
educators and literary people, her father
being Rev. DR.. Bernheim,of Whining
ton, who organized the Lutheran church
in this city, and who, though ~ years
old, is still actively engaged in the min
istry. Mrs. Hood will move to Bel
mont Park with her family, next week.
Charlotte Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
awake TO THEIR BUSINESS.

MI. F. E. Langley, of Alabama, says
it is to ginners interest to change boxes
from 24x54.
II readily agree with the compress
men as to the importance Of the cotton
raisers having their cotton baled on
the standard size, 24x54 inch press. If
all ginners that are doing any business
at all would consider the Importance
of this movement, they would not hest
tate to make the change in their presses
at once, instead of waiting to follow
after others. This is to the ginners
interest and he should take in the stu
alton himself, not wait for his COM
petitors to lead him. I hear ginners
say that they have just as much right
to keep their old size box as others
have to change, but these men are not
standard business men, and IN not
benefited by Improvement until led by
men who are awake to their business"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

During the civil war, as well as In our
late war with Spain. diarrhoea was one
Of the most troublesome diseases the
army had to contend with. In many
instances it became chronic and the old
soldiers stiIl suffer from it. Mr.. David
Taylor, of Wind Ridge, Greene County,
Pa, is one OF these. He uses Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diorrhoea
Remedy and says he never found any
thing that would give him such quick
relief. 1t is for sale by r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

We learn from MIR. Jno. S. Harriss,
son of Mr.. George Harriss, who was
in the city yesterday, that his residence
in the county at Elm Grove, four miles
from the city on the Newborn road,
was totally destroyed by fire at 3
o'clock Tuesday morning, together
with all of Mr.. Harriss' furniture and
household goods. Mr.. Harriss states
that he does not know how the fire
originated and that when he was
awakened by the fire, it had made such
progress that he was not able to save
any of his effects. His loss is partly
insured with the underwriters agency
of Mr.. w. w. HEDGES.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Fort Caswell, N. c., August 81.
Private Hurley, who has been in con-
fnement at Fort Henry, Maryland, has
been sentenced to SIX months at hard
labor at Governors Island, N. Y, by
general court-martal.
Corporal Foster is all smiles tonight.
He has received a letter from a friend
stating that the congressman from his
(Foster's) state, Maryland, will secure
his discharge by favor in a few days.
Privates Banfield and Roland have
taken French leave. We expect to hear
hear from them again however.
The boys are hauling in the fish by
the baskets full. They have just re-
ceived their new seine.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.


New York, August 23.-Money on call
at 2hG3 per cent; last loan at 2i2 per
cent; prime mercantile paper at 4AG5
per cent; sterling exchange firm with
actual business in bankers bills at
81. S61a GA 6A for demand and $4.S3A@
4.S3R for sixty days; posted rates
$4.S4 and $4.S7h; commercial bills at
s4.S2; silver certificates 60G60A; bar
silver at 50 1916; Mexican dollars at
AIS; government bonds weak; state
bonds Inactive; railroad bonds strong.
COTTON.
Liverpool, August ga p. m.)-Spot
limited demand, prices lid lower.
American middling fair 4 Lied; good
middling 3Ad; middling 21sd; low mid
ding 8 Sled; good ordinary 3hd; or
binary 2 15-16d. The sales of the day
were 1000 bales, of which 400 were for
speculation and export and included
$500 bales American; receipts 5000
bales, all American. Futures opened
easy n closed steady.
American middling, low middling
clause: August 3 31-64d buyers; August
and September 3 29-64@3 30-64d buyers;
September and October 3 28-64d sellers;
October and November 3 27-64d sellers;
November and December 3 26-e4d SELL
ers; December and January 8 25-64@
3 26-64d buyers; January and February
D Io-UfVo Lo-UfO Uuytios FEBRUARY lit
March 8 26-64@3 27-64d sellers; March
= and April 3 27-64d sellers; April and
May 3 27-64@3 2S-64d buyers; May and
June 3 2S-64d buyers; Tune and July
8 29-64d sellers.
THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York. August 23.-Cotton quiet;
middling 6 slice; net receipts none;
gross receipts 1856; sales 2S6; stock 49,
40S; exports to the continent 81.
Total today: Net receipts 4,634; ex-
ports to the continent 297; stock $780,
727.
Consolidated: Net receipts II, 900; ex-
ports to France As; to the continent
1904.
Total since September 1st: Net re-
ceipts 8,370,604 exports to Great Bril-
tain 1884, 236; to France 796, $50; to the
continent 2,S45, 9S4.
Futures closed steady. August $50,
September 5.S7, October COS, November
SOS, December 6.13, January GIG. Feb
ruary 6.22, March 6.25, April 6.2S, May
6.32, June .6.36.
Spot cotton closed quiet: middling
uplands 6 slice; middling gulf 8 9-16c;
sales 2S6 bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Chicago, August 23.-The leading flu
lures were as follows:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady. No. 2 yellow corn, 32hc;
No. 8 spring wheat, 67072Ac; No. 2
red, 72k@741zc; No. 2 corn, SIC; No. 2
23hc; No. 8 white, 22hG23kc: mess
pork, per bbl., s7.50GS.35; lard, per 100
lbs, s5.07hQ5.20; short ribs sides, loose,
s4.95G5.25; dry sailed shoulders, boxed,
$5.62hG5.75; short clear sides, boxed,
s5.5595.60; whiskey, distillers' finished
goods, per gallon, SIPS.
New York, August 23.-Flour steadier
in tone and a fair inquiry for spring
patents at old asking prices. Winter
etraights $3.35Q3.45.
Wheat-Spot steady; No. 2 red 7SAc.
Options opened strong at hc advance
OF higher cables, wet weather in the
northwest and local covering. They
were sustained later by light offerings
and nervousness among the short in
%terests, but finally eased off, because Of
disappointing cash trade and closed un-
settled at hc net advance. September
closed at 1850; December closed al
1870.
Corn-Spot steady; No. 2 39Ec. On
tons opened firm 1t &c advance on
covering and sold up later on export
talk, light offerings and good clear
ances: closed firm at sc advance. Au-
gust closed at 3Shc: September closed
at 37Ac; December closed at 35Ac.
Oats-Spot firm; No-~2 26hc. Options
quiet.
Eggs-Firm; state and PENNSYLVANIA
11Q1Sc; western ungraded 12615c.
Potatoes-Quiet; fair t o prime $1,000
21.25; fancy white s1-50d1.65; southern
sweets $1.25G1.50.
Cabbage-Quiet; Long Island 5000
400 per 100.
Cotton Seed Oil-Quiet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

London, August 23.-The secretary OF
state for the colonies, JOS. Chamber
lain, has received the text Of the Trans
vaal reply to the proposals of the Brit
ish government, and now has them un-
der consideration. The members OF
the cabinet are within reach, but until
the government has determined on
what course TO persue Mr.. Chamberlain
is unwilling to divulge the contents of
the message from South Africa
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Norfolk, Va, August 23.-Further
particulars Of the storm at Ocracoke
island, n. c., are coming in. The Old
Dominion Steamship Company sent the
steamer Ocracoke from Washington, N
c., to the island, and Captain David
Hill, the commander, states that his
family, who reside there, barely escap-
ed in a small boat to higher ground.
Mr.. George L. Buchanan and son, of
Washington, who were stopping on the
island, were drowned and a colored
mai died Of fright. The forty-room
residence Of a Mr.. Tuttle was badly
damaged, and the Hotel Ponder
wrecked. Many smaller houses, and a
Norfolk and Southern barge were
broken into pieces, and nearly all the
stock on the island was killed. The
Ocracoke removed all the summer Wis
itors from the island to Washington.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures
painful, smarting, nervous feet and in
growing nails, and instantly takes the
sting out Of corns and bunions. It's
the greatest comfort discovery Of the
age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure
for sweating. callous and hot, tired,
aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores. By mail for
25c in stamps. Trial package FREE.
Address, Allen s. Olmsted. LIE Roy,
n, Y.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

The soothing and healing properties
Of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, its
pleasant taste and prompt and perma-
nent cures, have made it a great favor
it's with the people everywhere. For
sale by r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-25

Hamilton Clark, Of Chauncey, Ga.
says he suffered with itching piles
twenty years before trying DeWitt's
completely cured him.. Beware OF
worthless and dangerous counterfeits.
r. r. Bellamy. i iIIE