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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
Short ribs, per 100 iba-
July $50 so $50 SO
es eS SIS s.15

Short ribs, per 100 iba-
Sep .. SIS CTS SIS s-75
Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour strong and quiet; winter patents
patents s3-30G3.15: No. 2 yellow corn
3sA d4oc; No, 3 spring wheat aoa
No. . red USG17nc: No. 2 corn
$3.50: No. . oats 23AG23Sc: No. :
white ae62ei4c: No. ; white 2sh 4zshc:
No. > rye 5S1c: mess pork per barrel
s1o-35G1i.5o. lard per 100 pounds $e.600
go: short ribs sides. 0cose) $3.50
SIS; dry salted shoulders ss5oTe-t5'
short clear sides (boxed) S.lSgd-2s'
whiskey $1.9.
New York. June Is.-FLOR-Ma-ket
strongly held and a shade higher OF
asking prices but not active. Winter
patents s..oG4.eS: Minnesota patents
s3.soG425.
wHEAT-Spot strong: No. . red
Sssc: options opened strong on higher
English cables and continued bullish
met active realizing. however. under
which prices eased Off. Market A.
nally rallied again on heavy covering
and closed stron at 1hG1nc; net ad-
vance: July closed 1sAc; September
closed So%c.
CORN-Spot strong: No. ? is&c; op-
lions opened firm on strong cables and
good civering. but subsequently, yield
ed to unloading inspired by wheats
decline. Later the market recovered
with whea and closed strong at &c
advance; July closed at 45c: Septem-
Der closed at 45Ac.
OATS-Spot steady: No. : &c; truck
mixed western e7%es9c; options quiet
and firm.
LARD-Firm: wesern steamed 1924:
refined firm.
PoRK-steady: family sI4.5oGl4e5:
short clear sI3.50d142s.
BTTER-Strong.
CHEESE-Strong: large white sAc:
small white eGexc.
EGGS-Steay; state and Pennsylva-
MIA l4GI5c.
TALLOw-Steady.
PETROLEUM-Ouiet; refined New
York S7.S5.
RICE-Frrm: domestic 4Sdsnc.
COTTON SEED OIL-Inacive and
entirely nominal at old prices. Prime
crude barrels Sc. nominal: Prime sum-
mer yellow 35G36c. nominal: of sum-
mer yellow 34kG35kc, nominal; but
ter grades nominal; prime winter yell
low 39c, nominal; prime yhite 3sG3ac;
nominal. Prime meal SIS.
SUGAR-Strong; fair refining 4kc:
refined firm: Mould A 5.a5; cut loaf
Sc. 10; crushed 500.
POTATOES-ouiet; Chill s1.25dI.75:
southern prime s1.50G225.
CABBAGE-Quiet: Florida per crate
s1,25G1.75.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Rosin quiet: STRAPPED,
common to good s1.55. Turpentine
steady at 47d471zc.
Charleston, June 16.-Spirits turpen-
tine nominal, nothing doing. Rosin
quiet and unchanged: sales none.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm at
43hc; receipts LAS bales: sales zoo
bales; exports 239 bales.
Rosin firm and unchanged: receipts
$3.50 bales; sales 1.123 bales: export
1,169 bales.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

Mr.. w. E. Worth in a Letter to the
Manufacturers Record Elves Inter-
esting Facts and Ffgeres About the
Possibilities of Our Harbor.

The last issue of the Manufacturers
Record contains a letter from Mr.. w.
E.Worth, of this city, which will be
read with interest by the people of
Wilmington and vicinity. The ar
ticle in the Record is as follows:
Mr.. William E. Worth, of Whining
ton, N. c., in a letter to the Manufac-
turers' Record, referring to the discus
sion now going on in regard to south
ern harborS, says:
I my mind the harbor at the
mouth of the Cape Fear river is the
finest on the Atlantic coast south OF
Hampton Roads. Inside of the har-
Dor there is an anchorage basin about
five miles long and from 1000 to 1850
yards wide, with not less than twenty
five feet of water, and over a large
portion of it t~hirty-five to fifty feet of
water that is absolutely ~landlocked.
The entrance to this harDor over the
bar from the ocean to the river is by
a perfectly straight channel, n on
this bar We have tw~enty-eight feet OF
water at high tide, and by dredging
l 500 feet of it thirty feet of water can
be a in four or five onths' time,
and maintained at an annual expen
diture for dredging not to exceed S1O,-
600 TO $4,000 per ear. This channel
is protected from the northeast n the
southeast storms by Frying Pan
Shoals, which at this point jut out
into the ocean some twenty-seven or
twenty-eight miles. There is nc storm
so severe that vessels cannot cross the
bar at the mouth Of his river and en-
ter the harbor in perfect safety.
There are places in this harbor where
a dry-dock could be located, the exca-
walton or dredging for which would
not be one-third that which would be
,anr1inaI or Cnrnn 0fhnr nnfntC Tn rnv
judgment, the harbor at the mouth of
the Cape Fea river, as I have said
before, is the best south of Norfolk on
the Atlantic coast, n must be seen
TO be appreciated. The government
has spent s. 1000, 900 Or s. 00, 900 in Civ
ing US deep water on the bar, and
have been e~minently successful in do
ing so, and thirty-ive feet of water
can be had and maintained just as ca
lily as thirty if it is desired. One cot-
ton exporting house loaded a steamer
this week at Wilmington that carried
16, 600 bales of cotton and went from the
city direct to the ocean. The next
largest steamer carried 1851 bales"
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THE CONDITIONS ALARMING
Steps being Taken to Locate and Pro-
vide for DIR. George G..
Worth and Family I'm China.

Now that the matter of the safety of
the missionaries and other Americans
i'm hin has reached such a critical
stage owing to the complications and
lawlessness attending the uprising of
the Boxers, the question of the safety
of DR.. George c. Worth and family is
one of general concern hereabouts. DR..
Worth has been in China as a medical
He is a son of the late d. G. Worth,
and Mrs. Worth is a daughter of Mr..
w. II. Chadbourn, of this city.
Mr.. Chadbourn, feeling considerable
anxiety as to the safety of DR.. Worth
and family, t~elegraphed Senator Pritch-
ard to use his influence to have the
United States authorities take steps at
eminent protection. Mr.. C~hadbOurn re-
ceived the following reply:
Marshall, n. c., June IL.
w. H. Chadbourn, Wilmington, N. c.:
Telegram received. I at once wired
the secretary of state requesting that
immediate steps be taken to protect
your daugher and the Americans in the
vicinity to which you refer.
81. c. PRITCHARD."
A telegram to Mr.. c. w. Worth from
Rev. DIR. s. II. Chester, secretary of
the board f oforeign missions of the
Presbyterian Church, at Nashville,
Tenn, states hat he had only heard
of disturbances at Chin Kiang, which
is about forty miles above Kiang Yin,
where DIR. Worth is stationed, but that
he had t~elegraphed the secretary of
state for protection to all the mission
aries in the Yang Use valley, and that
all the missionaries had authority to
act on their own discretion in leaving
their stations to protect themselves.
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Duna Il Co.'S. Trade Review.

New York, June 15.-R. G.. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade says: A
session Of declining prices is never
wholly agreeable to business men
whose stocks on hand are losing part
Of their value. Yet there are times
when return to the highest prosperity
In business is not possible except
through adjustment of prices. The
highest prosperity the country had ever
reached, prior to the panic, was in 1892,
with prices averaging not quite IS per
cent. Of their average in 1860. After
great depression for several wears the
highest point reached with last years
recover was so per cent, March 18th.
but the gradual yielding has already
returned the general average of prices
to a shade less than rs per cent. prac-
tically where il was with the highest
prosperity in 1892.
The output of iron furnaces June 1st
was 296,316 tons weekly, an increase OF
2,526 tons, making the yield only l.63S
tons less than at the highest point ever
reached February 1st: but the increase
Of unsettled stocks to 339. $50 To about
$4,000 tons in May, discloses a larger
decline than was expected in the new
business upon which nearly all the
works and furnaces have now to rely.
and reports that furnaces Of consider
able capacity have been already closed
lNlS HnOnln seem likely To De correct.
Within a week or two the labor or
g~anigations n the employers will be
discussing new demands for higher
wages and shorter hours and the clos
ing of many works for lack OF orders
will have much influence about that
time. Prices are gradually changing.
anthracite No. 1 to $50 and Pittsburg
grey forge $3.50, and sales of bars are
reported there at $50. After the clos
ing of furnaces a more nearly adj
justed present supply to the demand,
the fact that many large operations
are being held back until prices ave
been readjusted will have It's proper
influence.
Reconstruction moves slowly in cot
ton goods, though a few quotations are
slightly reduced, the uncertain shifting
in the market for raw cotton having
some influence, and the halting Of ex-
ports to China on account OF interior
strife there. AS European manufac-
ture is likely to be affected in the same
way, the present conditions help those
who o for lower prices in the goods
market.
Failures for the first week OF June
were IN moun 81. lis. so. of which
1892, $40 were in manufacturing and
$685. 36 in trading concerns. Failures
for the week nav been 1s2 in the Unit
ed States. against 1876 last year.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

Wilmington's 1900 seaside season is
now opening up in a ann highly
gratifying to the hotel managers, rail-
roads and others interested in III
splendid seaside resorts.
Yesterday was the first Saturday on
which special round trip weekend
rate tickets were on sale from all
points on tributary railroads to Will
mington and large numbers of pleas
ure seekers arrived on every train some
remaining in the city and others going
to the. beaches to spend Sunday
The hotels on Wrightsville beach have
many guests and the beach has as
sumed its wonted seaside life n ac-
tivity.
1t was on last Saturday night that
Seashore hotel gave their grand open
ing ball and all last week there were
dances every night the hotel music,
Prof. Miller's band, being pronounced
the best that has ever been provided
IN the beach. The guests all seem de-
lighted with the entertainment which
is being accorded them and compli-
ment in high terms the culinary de-
partment and dining room service in
the management of which Mine Host
Hinton has few peers and no superiors.
THE BALL LAST NIGHT.
The first regular weekend ball at
the Seashore hotel was given last night
and was a complete success.
Besides the large number of regular
guests at the hotel and the numerous
residents on the beach and sounds,
the Z o'clock train from the city was
we'll filled with Wilmington's young
society people.
On arrival at the beach most of
them partook of the ~Seashore'S ele-
CANT supper and all speak in the high
est praise of the management by Mr..
Hinton.
About 9 O'Clock the spacious dining
room was cleared and it made an ex-
cellant hall for the enjoyable dance
that followed. Music was furnished by
Prof. Miller's orchestra and it is the
general opinion that it is better than
any ever before on the beaches. Dane
ing continual until Home Sweet
Home" gave the warning that the
train for Wilmington had arrived.
The train left the beach at II o'clock,
reaching the city at 11.45.
The following are among the most
notable people from a distance who
are guests at the hotel:
J. H. Odem, Jr., Baltimore, Md: A.
NJ. Spong, Charleston, S. C.;Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Dockery, R~ockingham;
Miss Matte Dockery, Masters Henry
ana WIN. l.. w.
Charlotte, n. c.; Mr.. George Howell,
Charlotte; Charles E. Hicks, New
York; S. H. Harriss, Charlotte; Miss
Foreman, Montgomery, Ala; Marion
Cobb, Durham, N. c.; r. c. Fields,
Norfolk, Va; Henry Grimes, Colds
boro;; H. c. Constable, Baltimore, Md;
w. c. Latimer, Billion, S. c.; E. F.
Lowndes, Charleston, S. c.; O.. Hersel-
field, New York; E. c. Tracy, New
York; D. E. McGou, Atlanta, Ga;
Fred Howard, Baltimore; S. w. San
ders and wife, Charlotte; Charles
Duffy, London, Tenn; Howard B.
Sterrett, Lynchburg, Va; John Will
son, Taunton, Mass; Allen B. Green
Ough, Boston.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
RURAL FREE DELIVERY ROUTE
SPECIAL AGENT OF POS -0FFlCe DE-
PASTMENT ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Best 25 mile Route I'm New Hanover
County-RouteySu2Rested by Captain
Mannfny-Mr. j. 7. Kerr VIII Ac-
company Inspector Over County
Roads Tomorrow.

Mr.. W. c. Latimer, special gen for
rural district Tree mail deliveries of
h United States postoffice depart
ment arrived here yesterday afternoon
for the purpose of inspecting n re-
porting to the postal authorities at
Washington as to the best 25 mile free
delivery route which could be es-
tablished in New Hanover county with
Wilmington as a starting point.
Mr.. Latimer conferred with Hon.
John D. Beliamy and several county
officials yesterday afternoon and will
on tomorrow drive over a number of
the county roads with a view to max
ing an official inspection. He will be
accompanied by Mr.. j. 7. Kerr, who
will come to the city tomorrow morn
ing for the purpose Of directing Mr..
Latimer on his trips.
New Hanover is entitled to one free
delivery mail route under the recent
act of congress providing for the ex-
tension of rural free delivery.
In making the inspection for the Sc
lection OF the route an eye will be had
to 50 Arranging the 25 mile route az
to serve at least 100 families with
mail.
Captain Manning vas one OF the
county officials whom Mr.. Latlmer
conferred with yesterday. A route
suggeste dby him is, starting at Will
mington to go out the county o over
the Smiths creek iron bridge, thcnce
by the Carroll farm to the county
home, thence through the Acorn Branc
section, down the Ccrdan Dad by Hc-
sea Shepard's place, thence out the
county road beyond Prospect church.
Then returning to Shepard's place go
up the old plank Ioad to Wrightsville,
thence to Greenville, Masonboro and
returning to the city, cross the turn
pike via Brunswick ferry road and
come through Fact Wilmington.
This is only a suggestion on the part
of Captain Manning. AS previously
stated , several routes will be in
spected by the special agent AID vari-
u influential citizens Of the county
will be consulted before Mr.. Latimer
forwards his Official report to Wash
ington.
In establishing he free delivery
route The mai agent will deliver mali
once each day collecting mail at the
same line. Boxe will be established
at advan lse1uS points along tie route
where mail ,aI. Re left for dIstrIoution
n letters to-, to be mailed can be de-
posted 70 be gathered up by the mail
carrier.
In speaking of the rural free delivery
service Mr.. Latimer said yesterday that
the extent and efficiency Of the SER
vice depends in a great measure upon
the character of the public roads in the
county. The better the roads the
more extensive and efficient the free
delivery servic.
1t is impossible to say az yet how
soon a New Hanover rural free deliv-
cry route will be established.
Mr.. Latimer, who is here to make
the inspection is a son of Hon. A. G.
Latimer, member of Congress. His
home is at Billion, Anderson county,
s. G..
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Hester's Cotton Report

New Orleans, June 15.-Secretary
Hester's statement Of the worlds Wis
IDLE supply Of cotton shows the total
visible is 2,13s,s34 bales, against 2.238,-
SCI last week and 4.097. s81 last year. OF
this, the total of American cotton is
1.155.943. against 1.594,ss last week.
3,40S,S ISL last year, n OF all other
kinds, including Egypt, Brazil, India,
etc. $4,000, against GA, 900 last week.
OF the worlds visible supply there
is now afoat n held in Great Britain
and continental Europe 1.es3,00 bales.
against 2.4oo 600 last ear in Egypt
1iosooV. against $4,000 last yea in In
dia 313, 900, against s32. 900 last year. and
In the United States $50. 900. against
$4,000 last year.
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AN BARGE
Conveniently Designed One Just
Built by Mr.. Charles VESSEL.

Mr.. A. D. VESSEL has just completed
at his wharf, at the foot of Ann street,
what he terms an excursion barge, de-
signed expressly for the purpose of car
rying excursion parties. 1t has a ca
pacity of $50 passengers, and when in
service will be in tow Of the tug I'm
perial.
The barge is covered and has wide
windows which can be opened or clos
ed on the same order as can windows.
1t is furnished with comfortable seats
and lis equipped with many conve-
niences which will contribute to the
comfort of the passengers. The initial
trip was made on last Sunday, when
an excursion party was carried to a
camp meeting at Meares' Bluff. On
next Sunday Mr.. VESSEL expects to
carry a large crowd of excursionists to
Town creek, where a camp meeting
will be held.
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IMPORTANT TO GARDENERS
Bulletins the Experiment Sta
tfOn.
GARDENING UNDER GRASS.

GARDENING UNDER GRASS.
This is the title of a late bulletin from
the experiment station of the North
Carolina College of Agricultural and
Mechanical arts. The first part is a
detailed account Of the experiment
made during the past winter in fore
ing tomatoes, by Professor w. F.
Massey and Assistant Professor Alex
ander Rhodes.
The second part is a chapter of
hints and directions by Professor Mas
ening.
The great increase of interest in win
ter gardening in the eastern part Of
the state makes this bulletin an oppor-
tun one. 1t will be sent free to all in
tereSted in the cultivation of the soil,
on application to DR.. George T. Win
ston, director, West Raleigh, n. G..
CORN CULTURE IN NORTH CARO-
LIMA.
A very readable popular bulletin on
this subject has been prepared by
Benjamin Irby, professor of agricul-
lure in the North Carolina College OF
agricuturist Of the NORTH Carolina ex-
pertinent station. Professor Irby
treats Of corn culture under the follow
ing heads: Kinds OF lands suited Tor
corn culture; preparation Of the soil;
when and how to plant best fertilizers;
best methods Of cultivation; A gool
rotation for corn; best varieties Of
corn for the south; harvesting the crop;
selection and improvement OF seeds;
protection against weevils n moths;
the comparative food value Of corn
and other crops .
This bulletin is now in the hands Of
the printer. Any n may secure a.
COPY of it by addressing George T.
Winston director, Raleigh, N. c..
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Six Exposures Dismissed.

Six parties who had been exposed to
smallpox were dismissed from the
houses OF detention at the smallpox
hospital yesterday, having beer de-
tanned the fifteen days necessary after
exposure. There are remaining at the
hospital nine persons who have been
exposed to the disease and also the
four original cases. If there are no fur
Their developments of the disease a
num err of those now detained at the
hospital will be dismissed on the 22nd
instant, and all will have been dis
missed within a few days thereafter.
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.



New York, Jun 16.-Money on call
easy at 2 per cent. Prime mercantile
paper 3k@41a per cent. Sterling ex-
change steady with actual business in
bankers bills at 4.S7h@4.S7A for de-
mand and at 4.S4@4S4A for sixty days.
Posted rates 4.S5k@4.SSk; commercial
cial bills 4.74@4.s4A; silver certificates
AIN; state bonds Inactive. railroad
bonds heavy; government ponds easy.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
New York, June 16.-The weekly
bank statement show the following
changes: Surplus reserve. decreased,
1915, 500; loans, increased, 3,24S, 800;
specie, decreased, 81, 1886, 600; legal ten
ders, increased, 1865, 700; deposits, in
creased, $2,O 24. 500: circulation, in
creased, $S7, 800. The banks now hold
ST., 49S, $50 in excess Of the require
ments of the % per cent. rule.
COTTON.
Liverpool, June Is, 4 p. m.-COTTON:
Spot, limited demand; prices higher;
American middling fair sgd; good
middling 5 7-32d; middling 5 3-32d; low
middling 5 31-32d; good ordinary A 27-
32d; ordinary 4 21-32d; the sales of the
day were 5000 bales Of which 500 were
American.
Futures opened steady and closed
quiet; American middling L: NJ. c.:
June 4 63-64d sellers; June and July 4
6O-46@4 61-64d sellers; July and August
4 5S-64d sellers; August and Septem-
Der 4 49-64d buyers; September and Oc-
tober 4 32-64d@4 33-64d sellers: Oc-
tober and November 4 21-64d buyers;
November and December 4 16-64d SELL
ers; December and January 14-64d
buyers; January and February 4 r.
Cad buyers; February and March 4 r.
GA H. II roh ND Anri1 A 10 GA1
sellers,
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston firm at s%c; net receipts
$50 bales.
Norfolk steady at SAC; net receipts
80 bales.
Baltimore nominal al &c.
Boston nothing doing.
Wilmington nothing doing.
Philadelphia quiet at sac; net re-
ceipts ia bales.
Savannah dull.
ceipts 1 bale.
Mobile nominal at &c: net receipts 1
bale.
Memphis steady at S slice; net re-
ceipts 16 bales.
Augusta quiet at sBc; net receipts
276 bales.
Charleston nominal.
Cincinnati quiet at &c; net receipts
% bales.
Louisville firm at &C..
St. Louis firm at SIC; net receipts
IA bales.
Houston quiet at SIC; net receipts
Is bales.
THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, June 16.-Cotton dull at
9 1-16c; net receipts 227 bales; gross
receipts 900 bales; sales 80 bales; stock
-, 1873 bales.
Total to-day-Net receipts 1.05S bales;
exports to Great Britain 1924 bales;
continent 3,219 bales; stock 209, 730
bales.
Total since September Met re-
ceipts 6,341, S41 bales; exports to Great
Britain 2,169, OPS bales; France 6S9. OPS
bales; continent2. $50, 1926 bales.
Futures closed steady; June S.57;
July $50; August s.33; September
7.S4; October 1865; November 7.53; De-
cember Isl; January 7.53; February
1.1; March 7.57; April 7.59; May 7.61.
Spot closed dull ;middling uplands 9
1-1sd; middling gulf 9 5-1sc; sales so
bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET.
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Funeral of David Is. Switzerland.

The funeral of the late David B.
Switzerland was conducted from the
residence Of his brother, Mr.. c. G.
Switzerland, at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, Rev. E. E. Lane officiating.
The interment was in Oakdale GENE
terry. The pallbearers were:
Honorary-Dr. w. J. Love, DR.. A. II.
Harriss, Mr.. James Sprunt, MI. Sam
uel Northrop.
Active-Mr. ]. n. Berry, Mr.. ]. T.
Riley, Mr.. Owen Fennell, Mr.. w. n.
Harriss, MI. j. r. T~urrentine, and Cap
tain w. r. Kenan.
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Imnortant Captur. In Lnzou.

Washington, June 15.-An important
capture of the Filipino insurgents was
reported to the war department this
morning by Genera Macarthur in the
cable message:
Manila, June 15.-General Macabu-
los. with s officers, 124 enlisted men
and 124 relies, surrendered to Colonel
E. H. Liscum, Of the Ninth infantry.
at Tarlac this morning. Macabulos is
the most important and last insurgent
leader in Tarlac and Pangasinan.
MACARTHUR"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
Shake Into Your Shoes

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