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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
RALEIGH TOBACCO MARKET.
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, Dec. 1.-THE surface indi-
cations in today's stock market all go to
show that stocks were in very active
course of transfer from the hands of
strong to those of weak holders. The
elimination of rise invariably presents
this very condition, but it is condi-
ton also which occurs at intervals in
every long sustained upward movement.
The conservative element after seeing a
certain profit assured, makes it a habit
to sell and take profit, without regard
to the prospect of further advance. The
weight OF influence then passes to the
bear party and the upward course is not
renewed until they have exhausted their
best efforts to push the reaction to a
elimination What was evident today
was that powerful skillful manipulation
was at work to make the opening prices
as high as possible to meet the flood
of outside buying orders which was GER
tain to come into the market after last
weeks events. From the very first enor-
nous realizing was in evidence. Later
in the day various attempts were made
to hold up the market by marking up
the prices of various individual stocks
AS the fact became more and more evil
dent that the sustaining force of these
individual movements was taken advan-
tage of to continue the unloading of heavy
lines of long stock, the professional ele-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
NAVAL STORES.

{ Wilmington, N c., Dec. l7.-Turpenti e
steady at 36hG37; receIutssl
Rosin = IN at O. .;>0G1l .25; +" '"'n'' on
Crude turpentine quiet at el.3002.3O; re seiptl
sNarrels.
FGr steady ::'l 30 receipts eS5 barrels
Charleston, S. c., Dec. 17,-Turpentine, firm at
81; receipts =; sales -; exports =.
Rosin firm: receipts -; sales 400; exports -.
Quote: B, G, l., l,25; E. 100; f, B1.35; G, LAO;
q, $3.50; l, e1.5O; K, U.55, 81, Sl.60; N, 800;
240; w w, s2.75
Savannah, Ca, Dec. 17.-Turpel tine firm at
37h receipts 1885, sales $50 exports 2a9.
Rosin n-m; receipts $3.50, saea l,sS7i exports
Quote: A, B, c, $780, D, sl.SO; E, g1.4o; T,
sf.45; u, LBS; b, el5h; T 81 60; K, 100; ID,
81 rs; n g. 10: WIG. ~ So; WV ~ co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, BIZ
lousEess, Indigestion, Headecne.
Easy 60 tako. easV to operate, an
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18

BETTER THAN A G 0VERNMENT b IND.
Net Five Per Cent Income Guaranteed. Bono
aud Forty Semi-Annual Coupons, PAYABLE in
Gold, Either at Death or in Twenty Years to
Bearer. Sold on Easy lnstalment Plan.
Suppose an agent of the Treasury De-
partment should call on you and say
The Government will sell you FIVE
PER CENT. GOLD BONDS for any
amount from $1,000 to 100000. and il it
is not convenient to make an immediate
settlement, you may pay for the bonds in
TWENTY EQUAL ANNUAL install
MENTS.'
And suppose, in addition, the Govern
ment, willing to offer this. the most de-
sirable investment in the world. should
stipulate that if you should die before
all the instruments had fallen due, YOUR
HEIRS WOULD BE RELEASED FROM
PAYING THE REMAINING install
MENTS. and yet that the full value of
the bond would be paid to them IN HARD
CASH by the Government.
Would you not close with such an offer
And yet this is practically what the
EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIE-
TY OF THE UNITED STATES (the
strongest financial organization OF its
kind in the world has done and is Do
ING.
This may be a strange way of putting it.,
but strange as it may seem, it is never
theless true.
Send your date of birth for a speci1-
cation today.
FRANK w. BANNER,
Gen. Agent, North Carolina and Richmond
920 East Main Street.
RICHMOND. VA.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
DECEMBER CORN
MAKES A BULGE
Rise of Two and Two Thirds
in the Cereal.
COTTON RULING LOWER
Business in Futures the Smallest in
Recent Times.
LARGER PORT RECEIPTS THAN EXPECTED
Yesterday Securities Were Being Actively
Transferred from Strong 10 Weak Hold.
ers, Condition Generally at
the End Of a Rise.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York. Dec 17.-There was a mod
crate attendance of buyers today in the
dry goods market and spot business was
quiet in all departments. No change in
prices of brown bleached or coarse col
ored cottons. Print cloths quiet but
steady. Prints in average demand at pre-
vious prices. Ginghams firm but quiet.
orders for wooden goods keep up last
weeks Improvements and tone occasion
ally firmer.
COTTON.
New York, Dec. 17.-Business in cotton
futures today was the smallest in recent
times, and the trade was quite bent upon
placing accounts in ship-shape form for
the holiday season. Aside from the Eng
lish market advices and the crop move
ment, there was little upon which new
ventures could be based. The opening
was easy with prices down four to thir-
teen points under fairly active general
selling, urged by disappointment in the
cables and the appearance OF more cot
ton at the ports than anticipated AS
receipts were large timid holders sold
out, believing a sharp further setback
would occur before the close. But fol-
lowing the call slight Improvement
resulted from room covering and per-
sistent buying for Southern account, lat
ter said to be against large oversales
in the New Orleans market. Soon after
the noon hour the market settled de-
cidedly under another squirt of selling
from all quarters which had for its in
centive large estimates for tomorrow s
receipts at New Orleans and Houston, and
reports that considerable lines of cotton
had been shipped from New Orleans 10
New York for contract delivery. Trad
ing during the rest of the afternoon was
inclined to drag with neither side striv-
ing for supremacy Wall Street houses
were moderate sellers all day; Europe
sold around the opening, but later bought.
The market was finally steady with
prices net five to twenty-five points
lOWGEs v@rrss@-5
NEW YORK.
New YORK. Dec. l7-Cotton futures opened
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
LJv-xPOOL

Spot cotton closeu quiet and &c Iowcr; MD :
ding apiAnds 10; mtu0Dng gull l(4; sales 30
bales.
LJV-RPOOL
LIVERPOOL, Dec ia p M.-Slos cotton,
quiet; prices 1-32d lower: American middilng
fair 5z5-S2d; good middhDg l5-S2d; middling,
Sad; low middllng, 5S-l6d; good ordinary,
Is 16d ordinary, lI-led.
The sales Of tie day were 5000 bales, OF which
900 were for speculation and export aud includ-
ed 5000 American. Receipts ie,cCO bales in
GLIDING IL 100 American.
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NEW YORK MONEY.

New Y1RK, Dec I7.-s n. Money on cali
steady at 406 per cent; last loan per cent.
Exchange was weak with actual business in
bankers hills at 4s4A for demand aud at 49, Is
D4. s0lS for 80 days. Posted rates S4.Sl04.8lh
4.8 6D's5M; Commercltl oils S4S a SOh. Sil-
YER ut heates 6l0e5 Bar silver a Mexican
iollars 500. Government bonds irregular; Safe
bonds stea" y; railroad nonds IrTesula
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
GRAIN AMI, PROVISIONS.

Chicago, Ills, Dec. 17.-Corn again took
precedence on the Board of Trade today
Anxious shorts forced the price of De-
cember up to 39%c. in their efforts to
cover and it closed at 39hc., an advance
of 2Ssc May corn also advanced 1ac.
Wheat, weakened by its own governing
influences was steadied by corn and closed
unchanged. Oats closed a shade higher,
and provisions closed unchanged to 10c.
lower
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18

Take the short line. which is the Sea-
board Air Line Railway. for Christmas
Holidays, and get home ahead of Santa
Claus.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18

NoRFc-z, Va, Dec. t7.-Pesnuts, new crop,
steady; fancy, ~: strictly prime 2ss: prime
gao Il; common, ln02; machine picAed lBD
IN: Slsnjsh. neS, Csc. per hu>htL
PEAS Blat keye, 81 60 perlba-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
NEW YORK.

New YORK. Dec. l',-cotson future. opened
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-18
sEAeoARp STOCKS AND BONDS.

baltimore Dec H. Seaboard Air Line common
l0A preferred 2Ss
Bonds-4s 731.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-10
Lincoln and Hanna.

Mr.. Hanna has repeatedly declared
that the full dinner pail argument is
sufficient to lead the working masses
to vote for the reelection Of Mr.. Nc
Kinley. He holds that so long as the
dinner pail is full the workingman has
no interest in inquiring into the meth.
dds by which Mr.. Rockefeller and 9th
er trust monopolists pile up millions of
dollars in profits every year, says the
N. Y. Evening Journal.
TO this sort of argument, which is
much older than Mr.. Hanna or Mr..
Rockefeller, Abraham Lincoln replied
in a speech as pregnant with homely
truth as an Aesop fable. This speech
was delivered Sept. II. 1859, at Cincin-
natl:
II hold that if the Almighty had ever
made set of men that should do all
the eating and none of the work, He
would have made them with mouths
only and no hands: and if He had ever
made another class that He intended
should do all the work and none of the
eating, He would have made them
without mouths and with all hands
But inasmuch rs He has chosen tc
make men in the way He has, if any
thing is proved it is that those hands
and mouths are to be cooperative
through life and not to be interfered
with. That they are to so forth and
improve their conditions is the inner
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-10

They DO not understand you: bring to
them the offer Of hope III the midst of
the afilictionS. they do not know OF
what you speak. And their morality.
what is 1t? Just that which their own
feelings of comfort, their own selfish
ness declare to be necessary. In
many walks of life there are men who
never practice religion, who never
pray, who never go TO church on Sun
day; they are still buoyed up by the
force of habit, by the strength of the
atmosphere which surrounds them;
but as they and their fellows continue
to neglect religion, habit will lose it's
force. the atmosphere will lose its
hcalthiness. and even they who are
now able to stand upon their feet will
totter and fall. And among such those
especially who have influence and
power should remember when they go
away from religion they are injuring
not themselves only, but the millions
VINO are influenced by them. All so
cicty today is sorely sick because of
the thoughtlessuess in which so many
live of God and of the things of God.
Brethren, while we stay upon earth,
and use the things of earth as far as
we need. let us remember the great
truth that earth does not suffice; that
mot in bread alone doth man live,
but in every word proceeding from the
mouth of Cod" let us make greater
and grenter efforts to live in COM
munion with God, in whom alone is
our source Of greatness and of right
eousness from whom alone can come
the hope of happiness for us in time
and eternity.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-10

ent right given to mankind directly
by the Maker
Mr.. Hanna insists that the policy of
Imperialism contains no menace to
freedom under our own institutions.
Abraham Lincoln saw clearly, as ev-
cry other great thinker in. the worlds
history has seen, that freedom and a
denial Of freedom We're inconsistent.
In one of the greatest speeches which
he ever delivered, at Springfield, I'LL,
Oct. j, 1854, six years before he was
, elected to the presidency, he said:
''Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves, and un,
der just God cannot long retain it,
Mr.. Hanna threatens that unless Nc.
Ikinley is reelected there will be tinan.
cial depression and perhaps even a
panic may be forced by Wall Street.
Now read what Abraham Lincoln
wrote to Truman Smith on Nov. TO-
1860, the week following his election
to the presidency:
81 am not insensible to any CONNER
cial or financial depression that may
exist, but nothing is to be gained by
fawning around the respectable
scoundrels' who got it up. Let then
go to work and repair the mischief O.
their own making. and then, perhaps
they will be less greedy to do the likt
again"
And the money changers and panic
mongers of 1860 denounced Lincolr
and called him blatant demagogut
just as they hurl the same epithets an(
abuse of Bryan today,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-10

feasts such as one seldom has an op-
portunity to sit down to aud went a
long way toward making the fair the
success it was The total receipts of
the three days We're S1525.S2. net le-
ceipts $1,37o. Father Lynch is vel
pleased with the outcome.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-10
p Ortr a t s:

Handsome fe-size Autograph pictures of Emmett, OCon-
nell Father Mathew Phil Sheridan Thomas Meagher
and many Others noted in history, any address a,
EACH
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-10
B Q 0 K S
FOR
IRISH STANDARD READERS.
H-Ll.
Greatly Reduced.

We pleased secured from the
publishers New York reduction forty per nearly
all the books the list below and the newpes postage
and charges of the United States
Some splendid books have added list among
which Catholic Gems and Pearls price co. St Anthony
and the 10th Century price $780, John M,es Jail Journal
Last Conquest of Ireland, 25c EACH
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
AN IMMENSE CARGO.

The steamer "Hallettee" cameinto the Pine Bluff Wharf this Mondaxl morning with one of the largest eargoes that was ever brought here by steamer. She had on board over 1900 bales of cotton, several hundred sacks of seed and much freight consigned to local merchants. The boat found it difficult matter to pull up the river on this last trip owing to the very low water and to the very heavy cargo. Capt. Mat Downs is in charge.
 The Halletta will depart shortly for another trio to Helena with equally as large cargo as the one she brought iii. Pine Bluff is now beginning to reap the benefits which were formerly enjoyed by Memphis.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
HE SAID GOLF WAS sHINNEX
Justice, Who Doesn't Know .'Put' from
 s'CaIp' sits OF the Game.

Justice, Who Doesn't Know Put" from
 "oaIr' sitg OF the Game.
 Without regarding the feelings of deyotees Of golf, Justice Potts of Jer- sey City has brought the aristocratic game which cannot be played without cleeks, mashies, lofters, and drivers Town to the level of sshlnney," a game that only requires crooked stick. any old thing that will serve as 8 ball, tough shins, and an opponent whom the player does not like. Mrs. Pauline Seharf lives near the links of the Jer- sey City Golf club, and has filed objecs tions tc having her children swatted on the head by golf balls driven in an ec- centric manner by beginners at the game Despite the heat, Mrs. sebarff also objects to having the windows of her home suddenly fall to pieces in a most disquieting way. It was to stop these annoyanees that Mrs. Sehartf caused Albert L. Drayton, president of the club, to explain to Justice Potts not only how it happened, but also how he would stop it i'll the future, The elite of Jersey City crowded the courtroom yesterday, and listened to Mr. Drayton explain that the organi- ration, through late recruits, had made some of the most wonderful strokes op record. He added that in few days A new course would be arranged, and the beginners Quarantined nine miles from any sign of civilization, Mrs. Scharff was willing to compromise, and even went so far as to express her admira- tion of the game when played in an other state, and everything was set tied. But the game is 'shinney,' just the same,9 was the decision given by Justice Potts, and which caused the elite to loft their noses and foozle their glanees as they left the putting green bound for the next tee. New Yogk Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
BENJAMIN M'GEHEE DEAD
Was One of Arkansas Oldest and Best Known Merchant Planters

Benjamin MeGehee. aged 75 years, died at hls home near McGehee, Desha county, Sunday morning, the 1lth inst
 A wife, two daughters. Mrs. J M. WhitehiH, of Meadvi.le, Pa. and Miss Ruth MeGehee, of MeG ehee; one son, Abner MeGehee, of McGehee, and number of grandchildren sur Yixe Mir. MeGehee's death
 During the past thirty years de- ceased has resided in the vicinity D which he died and in which, during the time, he was engaged in the business of fl merehant-planter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
THE BURLINGTON ROJI
 BEST LINE,

EST: st. Lonis to Kansasos St. Joseph, Omaha, Nebraska, DA yer, Utah, Pacific Goast-Tv TRAINS DAILY. Weekly Califor Excursions, NORFHEES to Black Hg Montana, ashington. Puget sou| Ria tke short Billings Route-5OI 5e0 miles saved. from St. LosI Tourists sleepers Tuesdays al Thursdays. Kansas Ctr to seata NORTH: to st. Paul and Mind apolis-THREE TRAINS DAILYl HOMESEEKERS' EXCURsIOl to the N esr and Northwest.
 7500 Miles of Standard Railroi The Main Travelled Road in Louisiana Purchase.
 Wide-YestlbGled, Pintsch-lighu complete trains of cbair cars (sei free), Pullman eleepers.
 All Ticket Agents can ticket ! the Great Burlington Route.
 Write.
 M I UGG, L " WAKELY T P A, 6o4 Piue St., Gen. Passengery
 St Louis, MO. st. Louis. Mo. HOWARD ELLIOTT, Gen'l Manager
 St. Louis, Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12

To accommodate those who are partial to the use Of atomiz rs in applying liquids into the nasal pas sages for catarrhal troubles, the proprietors prepare Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by mail, The liquid embodies the medicinal properties Of the solid preparation. Cream Ralm is quick Y absorbed pv the membrane and does not dry up the seeretions but changes them to q natural and healthy character. Ely Brothers, 26 Warren street, N. Y.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
4 sensar,onns. .rno1nenn

During the performance of the drama When London Sleeps" at the Broad way theater, Deptford. England, an unrehearsed incident of a sensational character was witnessed by the audi ence. When the performance had reached the stage at which the villain attempts to strangle the girl whom he has wronged and drown the child, someone in the gallery. apparently car ried away by the situation, threw knife at him as he stood in the center Of the stage. The knife missed It's aim. but struck the musical director in the back of the head. who staggered from his seat in the orchestra, and proceed cd underneath the stage where his in- tnries were attended to. The sensa- tional incident passed unnotieed by the actors, but was noticea by the audi- ence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
ID MEET THIS AFTERNOON
Commercial League to Elect Officers
 and Ira nsact 0 her Business.

At o'clock this afternoon the members of tbe Pine Bluff Conner eial League will meet and elect off eers to serve for tie ensuing year. Other business of much importance will be transacted.
 The meet will occur at the Bluff City Club parlors and every mem- Der of this onegear-oId but most beneficial organization will doubt. less be present.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
..anout t1..1


 4 report on the precious stons E try Of the gnited States in 1898 las been issued by the easz Survey. Some of its salient i5.S are The finding of raak egqs Moke1amne I{ill. Cal, of such sI and size as to almost rival ths ese, and the successful cutting ai 5 in the United States up to ogeF inches in diameter, the Increased put of the Fergus county, Mont phire mines and the yielding d| blue gems up to two carats eae5| fhe discovery of 2 new Ioeati9y 5 the stones are more varied h than those of any known IoealIt9 continued output Of the new Ns turquoise mines and the openingI mines in Nevada; the finding of nifcent green and other colofed. malines at Paris Hill, Me. and dam Neck, Conn.,; the increased Of Australian opaIsi greater usei the fancy or semi-preeious stone, greater importation of uncut dian and the increase of the dfamoaj ting industry in the United State unprecedented increase in the i tation ef cut diamonds and the T of the precious stone industry United States. The value of a precious stones found in the l States in 1898 was s160, 920. as pared with $136,675 in 1897.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
ANN0UNCEME EHTS.
For County Clerk.

E ye a1e authorized to announce Mr ohas. zss AIfkhn%h as a candidate for County and Probate Giers subject to the action Of the 9emeeHHtie primaries
 We arc authorized 10 announce MT Heank 5. Flanders as a candidate fer He- election as County and Probate Cler8. sub 8eet ta the action of the Democratic prima- ries,
 We are authorized to announce MT. E, B, HiO0m IS d candidate for fhe office of Goan- ty and Probate Clerk. subject to the action 9f the NenIoe atic primaries
 We &re authorized to announce Nr. ". l.. Strickland as candidate for County and Probate Clerk subject to the action. of the Democratic primaries on March Il. l4C9
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
nr AnnsfRlaIe.

We are authorized to announce Mr. Tanay Brewer aS candidate for Constable of Nausiae township subject 10 the acton of the Democratic ? 'imeries ea March l4 l99a. Your support solicited.
 We afs authorized to announce Mir Al J stewart as | candidate for reelection as Constable Of Naugiae township, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries on March I4, tA0a.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-12
rHIRS RSTY LCND OIL

Ti1e Quantity Of Water Required t@
 supply 4he BIg city
 h 3894 the astounding total of l92,- 8000a9 gallons q day WAS reached by 4ba combined water companies Of Lon don This Waa supplied to the 5.500,- 900 Inhabitants at the rate of, say, ahtrtg=two gallons a head fer all par- poses. These figures represent an enormous volume of water, though small when compared with the mighty river that flowed into old Rome We can only deal with the figures roughly the supply auctaated to 3 considerable degree at different times in the year; 1t is therefore not possible to be math- ematiea1iy accurate Allowing for 8 slight increase since the last return, and taking in other sources. to which l shall refer a little later, we may pretty safely put the present London water supply at about 200, GOO GOO gal ions day. Let US try for a moment to realize what these figures mean. With 200,000,000 gallons of water we could fill a lake a mile long, a quarter of mile wide and five feet deep. The water in it would weigh nearly mil~ lion tons. This lake would stretch from the Bank of Church, yet it would be emptied in a single day to assuage he thirst of London Or suppose we could freeze all this water, we could build up a great block of ice a thou sand feet long, a thousand feet wide and thirty-two feet high. If we allow for the expansion of freezing the block would of course be still bigger. Sixty five of the largest ironcIads in the British navy could float in the water we Use every day in London. When we come to compare our supply with the mighty torrent of Niagara We be- little it. The water goes laundering over the falls at the rate of 2,000, 900 tons 8 minute, or 0,000, ,000 gallons. Our whole daily supply would be whirled over long before the second hand of q watch would have travelled once around the dial. And could we divert the magnificent torrent for only three hours we could supply London with water for whole year at the present rate. Niagara is a big thing Good Words.