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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
N FINANCES
Monthly Report of County Treasurer.
The Receipts and Disbursements OF
Funds During the Month OF Sep
TENDER.

At the meeting Of h auditing COM
mittee of the board Of county commits
sioners on Thursday afternoon the re-
port of County Treasurer II. Mel.
Green for the month Of September was
received.
The report shows that the balance Of
the general fund on hand August 81
was 81, 942. 95. The receipts during the
month of September were s2,161.43, in
GLIDING the following items. Property
taxes, 5 1,S9s.45; back taxes, Spills;
marriage licenses, $3.50; jury tax 50;
rent $40. During the month of October
the disbursements were 81, 544.32, in
GLIDING the following items: Outdoor
poor, s4O3.2 90; criminal court, s162.3 SO;
superior court, $21.19; roads and bridges
$782.13; magistrates $39.8S; election,
$31.9 SO; public building. s55.67; tax list
ing 500; stationery and advertising
$3.50 city hospital, $3.50; county home,
s226.46 is; jail s127.7 20; attorney, $25; coro-
ner, $21; superintendent of health, 500
county commissioners, $3.50; clerk, $50;
j~anitor, s45; t~reasurer's commission
IN receipts, $27.01, on disbursement
LIST was 81, 560.06.
OF the special county fund there was
a balance on hand, August 31st, of ST.
$50. S4. The disbursements were $177.1 Is
Balance on hand October 1, $1,713.66.
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DOWD TO SPEAK
The Bryan and Elector VIII
Address the People at Southport To-
morrow-He VIII Speak in Whining
ton Wednesday Night.

The Hon. w. c. Dowd. editor Of the
Charlotte News, and the Bryan and
Stevenson elector in this district, on
yesterday addressed the people at Fair
Bluff, Columbus county. He Is ex-
pected in the city today on his way to
Southport, where he will speak tomor-
row.
Mr.. Dowd will speak in Wilmington
on Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at the
court house. All the Bryan and Stew
enzon clubs Of the city and all citizens
of the city and county, and neighbor-
ing counties as we'll, are expected to
attend and give Mr.. Dowd a big au-
dience. He Will discuss the issues of
the campaign from the democratic
standpoint and every voter is invited
to hear him. He is a good speaker and
a man Of fine ability and everybody
will be interested in what he says.
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Cotton Falling In Price.

Since Monday the price of spot cot
ton has declined in the New York mar
ket from IL cents for middling to 10
7-16 cents on yesterday whe 1.-THE market
closed quiet at that price. Tie VIII
mington market has declined corre-
spondingly, closing firm on Monday at
10A cents, and closing firm yesterday
at 9S cents. The price the correspond
ing day with yesterday in October,
1899, was rs cents.
The receipts of cotton at the port of
Wilmington yesterday We're 1868 bales
against 1,S5s bales h corresponding
day last season.
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St. Louis quiet at 1Oc: net receipts p
O70 bales.
1873 bales.
THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, October 13.0Cotton quiet
at 10 7-16c; net receipts 1,40o bales
gross receipts 1892 bales: sales 80 bales;
stock So, 159 bales.
Total today and Consolidated-Net
receipts "a, 752 bales: exports to Great
Britain 2S, $50 bales; France 1855 bales;
continent 22,0 01 bales: stock oo4,S42
bales.
Total since September Met re-
eip 1,2s2, 7Ss bales; exports to Great
britain 4a5,57s bales: France $1,000
hales: continent 1S3. $50 bales
Futures closed weaker; October $40:
November s.5S: December 9-53; January
es. February ISL; March s.5S; April
s5a: May s.52; June $50: July s4S:
Snot cotton weaker: October $40:
lands 10 7-1sc: middling gulf 10 I-1sc;
sales 80 bales
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET.
Chicago. October 1S.-The leading fu-
lures ranged as follows:
OMAN HtUh- Low. ClOo
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A special meeting of THE board Of
ty was held yesterday afternoon. All
the members were in attendance
Chairman McEachern and Commission
ers Holmes, Alexander, Vollers and
Montgomery.
As there has been more or less COM
plant Of the sanitary condition of the
Jail, the board ordered that DR.. w. D.
Mcmillan, the county superintendent Of
health, officially visit and inspect the
Jail once a week.
The commissioners made Inquiry into
the recent escape from Jail
Of three prisoners and ques-
toned Sheriff Walter G. Mac
Rae and Jailer ]. w. Mills about the
matter. 1t appears that sometimes dur
ing the warm weather the prisoners are
given the freedom of the corridors and
it is an easy matter for them to es-
cape if they set their heads to it. The
commissioners simply inquired into the
facts. They construe hat the Jail means
the cells and cages and that when
a prisoner is sent to Jail he should be
locked in a cell or cage; that within the
wallis of the Jail building is not strict
ly speaking the jail, as the walls are
not built specially for the safe keeping
of prisoners, the cells and cages being
for that purpose.
On account of physical disability, the
49, No. 49,
cense 10 peddle medicine of his own
manufacture.
An application from the Atlantic
Coast Line for a correction of the valu-
alton Of certain Of it's property for
taxation, was referred to the county
attorney.
After attending to several matters Of
no special interest, the board % a re-
81 subject to the call Of the chair
man.
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A Wilmington Boy saw Something OF
the Calamity at Galveston-Writes n
Letter Telling What He Experienced
I'm a Walk About Town

Mr.. Willie Gilbert. a Wilmington boy
who is chief oiler on the United States
revenue cutter Onondago. which was
ordered to Galveston after b great
storm disaster, writes a graphic letter
to his brother. Mr.. c. D. Gilgert, OF this
city, as to the sights he saw. His let
ter is dated September z3rd.
He says, owing to the wreckage in
the harbor, the cutter slowly and eau
tiously steamed her way in Far out
h wreckage began TO be noticed
When the cutter got into the harbor he
saw sailing vessels high and dry in
h streets, the great grain elevators in
ruins. hundreds of houses demolished,
debris strown for miles in heaps from
five to fifteen feet high. n fires burn
ing everywhere to cremate h dead
bodies of the victims or me awful ca
Amity.<
He writes that he saw women, men,
and boys piled in heaps and burned and
among others a two rear old baby.
He IA a gang Of negroes under a
white man take the body OF a beauti-
full woman from a heap of debris. The
boss of the gang, however, said she's
too pretty to burn" and he made the
men dig a grave and bury her in the
street, marking the spot and taking a
description Of the m
Mr.. Gilbert, while walking on the
streets, heard some one ask a colored
man how he was and he replied that he
was unhurt but he lost his wife and
eleven children. He talked with one
man who saved himself and wife and
five children by the most heroic efforts,
He carried them through raging waters
for several blocks, tying a clothes line
from n chimney to another and ther
going back and taking one over at a
time.
He writes that the sight @ burning
dead bodies was heartrending, and that
the popular idea that a negro is super
stitious about a dead body is exploded
so far as Galveston is concerned. He
saw negroes, hardened to the work
pile one body after another or the fires
One negro told him he had burned his
fifth body that day.
The papers of Galveston are full OF
advertisements, men, women and chi
dren advertising for relatives who have
no doubt been burned or were swept
way in the gulf.
Mr.. Gilbert says the work of rebuild
. ing Galveston has already been com
menced, n is rapidly going on.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
The Campaign.

Congressman John D. Bellamy, the
democratic nominee for congress in
this (the Sixth) district, spoke to a
large crowd at Laurinburg yesterday.
Mr.. Bellamy and the Hon. w. G. Dowd,
the Bryan and Stevenson elector in the
Sixth district, will speak at Southport
tomorrow.
Gen. Julian S. Carr, Of Durham, one
Of the candidates before the demo-
cratic primary election to be held No
vember 9Th, for the purpose Of giving
the democratic voters the opportunity
Of expressing their choice FOL a United
States senator, to be elected by the
next Legislature as the successor to
Senator Marion Butler, spoke to a big
audience on yesterday at Lumberton.
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The Late Captain Hallett

The Mt. Olive Advertiser Of yesterday,
referring to the death of the lament
ed Captain B.. A. HaIlett on Sunday
morning last, says:
Capt. Hallett was a man of superior
intelligence and a character beyond re-
proach. He was always identified with
all measures calculated to upbuild the
religious, moral, educational and ma
terial interests of the community. He
was an ardent advocate of move
ment that had for it's object the better
ment of his fellowmen or the improve
ment of his town. He was e ready
to extend a helping hand to the un-
fortunate and to offer encouragement 70
those struggling against adversely. He
was careful, Just n honorable in all
business transactions; a conscientious
advisor, a good Samaritan to h needy,
a charitable and upright gentleman"
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New York, October 12.-R. G. Dun
& Cos weekly Review of Trade tomor-
row will say:
More ~seasonable weather had i'm
portant influence throughout the coun-
try. but the coal strike continued as
the restraining factor in Business. AS
speculation everywhere is on a small
scale the effect is minimized Lower
prices recently for some iron roduc
nave been without disturbing force
and the firmer market for p%rintcloths
and strong quotations for lumber show
mat In some directions I'm the great
industries a small increase I'm demand
Is araol OF raising prices. The stu
ation still promises a when
politics and the strike are settled.
FEAR OF tight money has made men
hesitate, but higher rates result from
the activlty OF the movement OF cot
ton at higher prices I'm the south. At
n the movement of gold
from Europe has tended to relieve he
tension in New York, and gold is still
coming from Australia.
Pig iron production has been further
REDUCED, according to The Iron Age.
A gratifying feature is the evidence
that supplies In consumers hand are
low. Quotations OF iron products are
steady, n foreign buying continues.
two contracts OF Importance being
placed.
Much disappointment was apparent
among cotton traders when the official
crop report appeared. for the anticipa-
ton Of a gloomy report had put the
price up to IL cents. When the state
ment indicated a point Improvement
in Texas on September, prices dropped
sharply.
Domestic conditions are generally
satisfactory and foreign crop news
cheerful.
Failures for the week were 223 in the
United States. against 164 last year.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
Backache and Womb
Troubles SUccunsb TO
Lydia K. PinkhansIS NeHe-
table c0nsp0und.

II have been for ten years an in
valid with female weakness, and the
torture and pain / suffered no tongue
can tell. / v spent one week in
the ten years that 1 was free from
pain. My trouble was Inflammation
and congestion of womb. When l
commenced to take your remedy / had
been belfast for some time under the
treatment of two of III best physi-
clans without receiving any benefit
You can imagine the benefit 1 de-
rived from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound when 1 tell you that l
have gained forty pounds and Inn well
"a thing l never dared to expect
MRS. C.. E. POLAND, Monet, Nc.
"For a number of years I was
troubled with backache and leucor-
rhea. I became so weak and miser-
able that / could not attend to my
work or studies. The least effort
would completely exhaust me-. Physi-
clans failed to help me. Ifelt that my
youth was blighted, and the life before
me would be one of suffering and
misery. Then a friend insisted on me
taking your medicine. Before 1 had
used n bottle I was greatly relieved.
/ had not known a well day for four
years, but now / feel better than 1 have
since a child, and it is all due to Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Miss MAY B. STEVENSON, Alliance, o.
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0z,san,s
ENFSfakc

It is q wen-known fact that Lydis
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
has cured more women than any othe,
remedy. 1t therefore must be thu
best possible medicine for female ills
But some women make the mistake
of thinking that they will try some.
thing else. simply because it is new
That mistake is often a fatal one
fatal to the health and happiness OF
the experimenter.
Is it not foolish to risk the possible
results of such experiments? Is it no,
better to depend upon a medicine
which has been tried successfully FOL
thirty years, and which has never
been found wanting? Do not therefore
let any one persuade you to try some.
thing which they say is just as good.
1t cannot be just as good. Mrs. PinF-
hams Compound is the best, and there
can be only one best This is not 4
mere assertion, but is a positive fact.
admitted by hundreds of regular
physicians.
Rely on your own common sense.
and Mrs. Pinkham's lifelong expert
ence, and you will make no mistake.
Don't experiment with your health.
but take a medicine that you kn0a0 Is
good, and is hacked by such letters &
these to Mrs. Pinkham:
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General Wholesale Cold Storage

Messrs. w. E. Worth & Co., proprie-
tors of the Wilmington Ice Works,
nave completed arrangements to con-
duct a general wholesale cold storage
at their ice plant in this city.
The capacious old storage adjoining
the factory formerly used by the Arm
our Packing Company, will be used.
1t has been thoroughly overhauled and
divided into separate refrigerating de-
partments for the special storage Of
butter, cheese, eggs, apples and other
fruits. Goods will be handled by the
carload.
Mr.. w. I. Shay, lately Of New York,
a nephew of Mr.. w. E.. Worth, has ar
rived here and Will manage the cold
storage for the company.
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
n

New York, October 13.-Money on
call nominal; prime mercantile paper
sos per cent. Sterling e exchang
steady with actual business in bankers
bills at 4.S3A for demand and at 4.s0@
4.80h for sixty days; posted rates 4.S1@
4.7SA@479Z; silver certificates 62A@
Ga; bar silver 62%; Mexican dollars 1914
State bonds steady; railroad bonds
steady; government bonds steady.
COTTON.
Liverpool, October Is, 4 p. m.-Cot-
ton: Spot quiet; prices easy. American
middling Cd. The sales of the day were
1000 bales, of which 500 were for specu-
lation and export and included $500
bales American. Receipts $1,000 bales.
including IA, 300 bales American
Futures opened easier and closed
quiet; American middling L N. c.:
October ) 34-64d value; October and
November 5 19-64dQ5 20-64d sellers;
November and December 5 14-64d buy
ers; December and January 5 1-64d4
5 12-64d buyers; January and February
5 9-64d buyers; February and March
5 7-64d buyers; March and April 5 5-64d
buyers; April and May 5 4-64d sellers:
May and June 5 3-64d sellers; u and
July 5 2-S4d value; July and August sd
buyers; August and September 4 49,
64d sellers.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston quiet at SIC; net receipts
1921 bales.
Norfolk quiet at SIC; net receipts A.
515 bales.
Baltimore nominal 10hc.
Boston quiet at 10 7-16c; net receipts
1,4A bales.
Wilmington quiet at csc; net re-
ceipts 1868 bales.
Philadelphia dull at 10 11-16c.
Savannah weak at 9zc; net receipts
9,S49 bales.
New Orleans easy at SIC; net re-
ceipts 1883 bales.
Mobile quiet at 9hc; net receipts l.
6S7 bales.
Memphis steady at 9 15-1sc; net re-
ceipts 1905 bales
Augusta quiet at 9zc; net receipts l.
675 bales.
Charleston steady at shc bid; net re-
ceipts 2,629 bales.
I Cincinnati quiet at 10kc; net receipts
2,352 bales
] Louisville firm at 10Ac.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
SuppreSSed and Painful
Periods Cured by Lydia
E. Pinkhans's Vegetable
COna0OHnd.

Il was thin, sallow and ervou I
had not had my menses for over a
year and a half. Doctored with several
physicians in town and one specialist,
but did not get any better. / finally
decided to try you< medicine, and
wrote to you. liter 1 had taken
three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and three of
Blood Purifier, my returned.
and I feel as well and strong as 1
ever did, and Inn gaining fesh."-MIss
LENA GAINES, Visalia, Tulare Co., Cal.
Before taking the Vegetable Com
pound l was troubled with irregular
menstruation, and suffered great
agony. Ny physician gave me NOR
phine, and I remained in bed. I doc
tored eight years and got no relief, and
the doctors told me there was no relief
for my trouble. Finally / tried Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
While taking the first bottle I felt
that 1 was improving. I have taken
seven or eight bottles, and never had
anything to do me so much good.
Every month my troubles have grown
less and less, and now at this time I
am cured. ELLA QUNNEY, No. %
Stage Street, Haverhill, Mass.
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Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour quiet: winter patents
straights s3.20QS.S0 clears $3.2OgS.6O:
spring specials s4.6OQ4.70; patents $3.50
GALS; straights $S.10Q3.60; e $50
@2.S5; No 3 spring wheat I0hQ15%c;
No. 9 red 75@76hc; No. 2 corn 4lAQ
Also; No. 2 yellow 41@41Sc; No. 2
oats 21Z @22Ac; No. 2 white 2413Q25hc:
No. 3 white 23k@25hc; No. 2 rye 501ac;
mess pork per carrel S15.00Q15.50 >; Hard
per 100 pounds $6.9047.00; short ribs
sides Qoose) s7.40G7.70; dry .salted
shoulders (boxed) $6.25Q637hc; shor
clear sides (boxed) $S.10@S.20: whiskey
s1.27.
New York, October 13.-FLOUR-In-
active and a little easier at the close
with wheat. Winter patents $3.709
400; Minnesota patents $4-20Q4.5O.
WHEAT-Spot easy; No. 2 red SOkc;
options opened steady on higher cables,
but met rather liberal selling by yes
terday's purchasers who had profits
on their heat and were Influenced by
prospects of bearish statistics on Mon
day. Closed weak at hQSc net de-
cline. March closed S4hc; May closed
SIC; October closed 7sAc; December
closed SoAc.
CORN-Spot easy; No. 2 47Ac; op-
lions were steady at first with wheat,
but quickly developed weakness under
local realizing and fine weather ond
lions. Closed easy and hcQAc net
lower. May closed 41Ac; October
closed 4S%c; December closed 42%c.
OATS-Spot quiet; No. 2 25Ac; OPP
lions quiet and easier.
LARDIWeak; Octobe r closed s7.35
nominal. Refined easy; continent
s7.65; South America $S.25: compound
6h@s%c. -a
EGGS-Firm: state and P~ennsylva-
mia 20Q21c; western regular packing Is
@1Shc.
$1.5O; New York $1.50Q1.62h: Long
Island s1.50Q1.75; Jersey sweets s2.250
2.75.
PETROLEUM-Quiet: refined New
York $7.45; Philadelphia and Baltimore
$40; do in bulk s4.S5.
RICE-Quiet; domestic. fair to extra
4%@6kc.
SUGAR-Raw steady: fair refining
4Ac; centrifugal Sc test 4Ac: molasses
sugar &c; refined steady; standard A
$5.55; confectioners A $3.50; mould A
$500; cut loaf s6.15; crushed $6.15; pow
dered $aS5; g~ranulated 1915; cubes
$3.50.
PEANUTS-Steady; fancy hand
picked 4Q4Ac; other domestic 2k94c.
CABBAGECQuiet: Long Island per
COTTON SEED OIL-very quiet and
barely steady. Prime crude barrels
nominal prime summer yellow &c
prompt. on summer yellow 3s636bc;
prime winter yellow 41@42c; prime
white 4Oc. Prime meal SIG. 0O026.5o.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-SpirIts turpentine easy
at 41k@42c. Rosin quiet: strained com
mon to good $1.47hQ1.50.
Savananh-Spirits turpentine firm at
3Sc; receipts 64S casks; sales 503 casks.
exports zoos casks. Rosin firm and un-
receipts 5,718 barrels; sales
l,Z64 barrels; exports 1.251 barrels.
Charleston@Spirfts turpentine firm at
3Ihzc. Rosin steady and unchanged
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DIR. Dixon to Speak at Burgaw Oc-
tober 22nd.

DIR. B. F. Dixon, the nominee for
state auditor on the democratic ticket.
will speak at Burgaw, on Monday of
next week, October 22nd. He will dis
cuss the issues of the campaign and a
large audience should be on hand to
hear him
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

Feelings Of safety pervade the
household that uses One Minute Cough
Cure, the only harmless remedy that
produces immediate result 1t is in
fallible tor coughs, colds, crop n all
throat n lung troubles. 1t will pre-
won't consumption. R.. r. Bellamy.
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II had been in poor health for
twenty years, having Inflammation of
ovaries and wnr.h trcaG!e. Although
treated by ohys.-iaus, l could not gain
strength Ifr 60 2:E w0ra. and was So
l~Ow-spirltei anG tired OF life. 4 frie .
advised re 20 take Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. The first
bottle strengthened me, and l wrote
to you. After taking six bottles can say
hat l ara well and can even do my own
washing ."-MRs. NJ. w. MILLER, No.
1893 Canal Street, New Orleans, La.
"For three years l suffered with
ovarian trouble, having Inflammation
and an abscess on right ovary. Had
such pain III my back and head, and at
times was unable to walk. Had sew.
eral docto.s, but they did not do me
much good. One doctor said that I
would have to have an operation and
have the ovary removed. I became
discouraged and gave up all hopes OF
getting well. 1 began taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
/ wrote to Mrs. Pinkham and followed
her directions faithfully, and am bet
ter than l have been for three years.
I have taken ten bottles, and my
friends + surprised at my rapid i'm
proyenent-r-MRs. w. 81. WALTERS,
Cold Spring Harbor, l.. l., NY.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

If your stomach is weak it should
have help. Hoods Sarsaparilla gives
strength to the stomach and cures dys-
pepSia and indigestion.
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Mrs. Pinkhans Eas FIT,
Thousand such Letters.
Red Springs Against Fayetteville

Red Springs, N. c., October Is.
The cadets of the N1rth Carolina
military academy defeated the Fay
ettevilIe foot ball team by a score Of
30 to 0 yesterday.
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The president will recommend TO
congress the payment for the murder
Of four Italians at TaIlulah, La,
about two years ago.
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LOCAL STOCK MARKET.
Wilmington, October 13.
Quotations on local securities, fur
nished and regularly corrected by
HUGH MacRAE & co: