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New York, December 29.-Sugar, raw steady; fair refining 3B; centrifugal 96 test 4ss molasses sugar 37s; refined quiet; con- fectioners' A $7 40; mould A $5.S5; standard A S5.4O; cut loaf $500; crushed $500; pow dered $5.70: granulated S5.60 cubes $.i5.
 Coffee-Spot Rio steady; No. invoice !; mild auiet Cordova 91a013A
 Futures opened firm 15G20 points higher on generally higher cables and European buying orders, with local shorts actively covering in anticipation of holidays. Havre and New York being closed January l, trading was heavy. On this account caus- ing firm closing 3594O points net advance.
 Total sales 3S0O0 bags, including Jan. $5. .7O@5.S0; Feb. $5.S0; March $5.90@6.05; May s60ON615: June $6lO; July S6.O5q6 10; Sept. $6.1006.25; Oct. $61566.30
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ACTIVE BUYING IN
 THE STOCK MARKET To Overcome Rather Sharp De-
 cIines in InternationaIs. RAILROAD STOCKS STRONG  The High Priced Members of the An. thracite Group Were Conspicuous. Market Sold Off Little Before
 the Bank Statement.
RAILROAD STOCKS STRONG

New York December 29.-Last night New York showed more symptoms of alarm over the~rumors of financial difficulties in Lon don than London did itself. This morning the New York market gave about fifteen minutes of active buying to overcome the rather sharp declines in the international stocks which had resulted from unsettled conditions of affairs in London, growing out Of the announcement of the actual fail- ures resulting from the gamble in West Australian and their subsequent slump.
 The lower prices here seemed an attarc- ton in themselves, and the aggressively sustained advance in St. Paul on renewed reports of the entry of J. J. Hill into an active share in the management of the company and of alliances with other North western railroads was a stimulating influ- ence throughout the whole list. The buying of St. Paul itself was on ver.t large scale and the price rose 10 147, leay ng the pre- vious record price far behind
 The market sold off a little before the bank statement, but renewed strength ap- peared on the showing made by the banks, the expansion in loans being more than provided for by the increase in reserves of nearly $6,000,000, which was considerably more than was expected The principal strength of the market was in high grade railroad stocks. The high-priced members Of the anthracite group were conspicuous.
 There has been increasing interest in rail road bonds of lower grades, and the vol umes of dealings has approached higher 1 record figures. United States refunding 2s advanced Is; old Is, 1%; 3's, 11a; 5's, IA; new As. F per cent. over the call prices of week ago.
 New York Stock Market
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Birmingham City Bonds.

Fruit and Produce.
 Butter-White clover, pound prints, 27c; I7loin (standard), 23c; best creamery. 25c Mississippi best grade, 23c; good country 2Oc; mixed country, 1SQ15c. Irish potatoes, FOG per bushel
 Sweet potatoes, white, S1 O.; yellow vans $1.75d2. Anples. s2. .75d3. 50 per barrel Bananas-Culls, SocQs1; stra1ghts s1. .7502 per bunch.
 Demons, $2 25q3.
 Poultry-Best triers 200: medium. 1sc. hens, 25@3Oc: ducks. Pel1in, 3O935c; puddle 15620c; turkeys on foot, S69c drawn. head and feet off, 10c.
 Eggs-Cold storage, 21c; fresh, 2skc. Onions, 24@21ac per pound
 Cabbage, 1Ac per pound. Rutabas, ,1G1Ac per pound. Lima beans, 71a0t5c per pound
 White peas, $2.25 per pusheL
 Dried apples, s1kq5c per pound.
 Local Staple Groceries.
 Flour-Best patent, $4.65; Tennessee nal ent. $4. 25; half patent, $3.75.
 Sugar-Granulated, SAC; Y. C., Sc.
 Coffee-Green. Rq1312c; Arbuclxle's mack ages s12.30; Lion packages, S11 80
 Cheese-New York full cream, 13ISc.
 Lard, Sc basis. -s~ ~Meats-Clear rib sides, 7Ac; bacon be,,,os ec: dry salted bellies, 7Nc; best ar' hares 11Mc; four x hams, 1o&c; California hams Sc; breakfast bacon. I1Ac. Molasses-CentrffugaL 15635c: suca. house. 20@35c; Georgia cane, s71kc. Rice-4hc; fancy, 7c.
 Corn, mixed. 54c; white, 57c.
 Meal-Jim Dandy. soc; Joe Darter. Sec Hay-Choice timothy, $1s.50; No. 1, slI5o. clover mixed. $1e.50; prairie. s11.50
 Oats-Mixed, BAG; white. 3sc.
 Bran-Mixed. s17.0O; pure wheat, s1S.5O Cotton seed meal, s23.00
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Daily Statement,
nnidd1ing nAn

Galveston - Cotton steady; middling 9 7-16c, sales 1852, receipts S123, stock 240, 566.
 Mobile-Cotton steady; middling 3-16c, sales 900, receipts 34S, stock 40.
 Standardization quiet and steady mid ding 5-16c, receipts 5306, stock 1429 937.
 Charleston-Cotten firm; middling 9Ae receipts 233, stock 22,0S7.
 Wilmington-Cotton quiet; middling 9Ac, receipts 14S, stock 7927
 Norfolk-Cotton quiet; middling 7-16c, sales 12S, receipts 194S, stock 39121.
 Baltimore-Cotton nominal; mddling 10c stock 16,307.
 Boston = Cotton dull; middling 10 5-16c net receipts 271, stock 47S6.
 Philadelphia = Cotton firm; middling 10 9-16c, stock 653O.
 St. Louis-Cottdn quiet; middling 9-16c, receipts 6027, stock 75061.
 Memphis-Cotton steady; middling 9-16c receipts 271, shipments 2015. sales 2109 stock 163 BOG
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Murnhv e .omnanx,s Stock Letter.

New York, December 29-After weak opening this morning, with declines extend ing from % to per cent the market be- came steady and good gains were scored during the first hour. The most pronounce ed decline at the opening was sugar but all of the loss was speedily recovered There was heavy buying orders in New York Central, St. Paul, Pennsylvania, Rock Island and Southern Pacific, all showing quick advances, St. Paul rallying te $lfl Tt~was thought the market would be at- fected by the weakness in London, the close there for Americans being h to IA below parity but cables from that city emphasize the fact that all the failures in London today were chiefly in the mining division and our market paid but little at tention to this. The two commercial agen- cies this morning report the holiday busi- ness large; all indications point for very active market Monday
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Bonds.
Financial

New York; December 29.-The Commer- cial-Advertiser's London financial cable gram says:
 The disastrous failure of thirteen houses with twenty-nine members of the exchange involved in the complete collapse of the West Australian and British Columbian n FiDance Capital Company, through highly speculative and financing deals, palled upon the whole market here today and the troub- le is not all over. About a dozen more fail ures are expected on Monday. All atten- tion was absorbed by this disaster and many heavy sales were insured by it. though there Is no reason why the trouble should extend beyond the group concerned.
 Even the American department was in- fiuenced somewhat by 1t, and the selling there put prices down half point or so
 Besides this local trouble 1t Is quite gen. orally said, however, that the American market is getting to be top-heavy After the opening fairly good buying was ob- served, nevertheless and the close for Americans was much better, especially for the better grade shares.
 Forty thousand pounds gold was taken for export to India and 65, 5,0o0O 900 pounds for Paris. Eagles are 76s Sad Money was steady.
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ARRIVAI8.

No. 1 from Macon. Columbus. Albany, etc, 800 D. n-
 No. from Savannah, Macon, Columbus. etc, 1920 p.
 mingham. Columbus. Macon and Savannah on Nos. 3 and (
 Connection is made at Savannah with the fast freight and luxurious passenger steamships of the Savannah line from and to New York, Boston and the East Close connection at Macon with the Dixie Flyer for ali points in Florida and Cuba
 For more detailed information. beauti- fully illustrated matter. write or apply to SOLON JACOBS Commercial Agent. W. D. HAMMET, Travelling Passenger
 Agent, 1921 First Avenue JACK W. JOHNSON, Union Ticket Agent,
 Birmingham, Ala J. c. HALLE. Cent Pass. Agent.
 E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager,
 Savannah, Ga.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
chicauo Change

Chicago, December 29.-Wheat was a buoyant market today under the stimulus of lighter northwest receipts and stubborn cables, May closing 13sD2c over yesterday. Other markets rallied in sympathy, corn closing 1SdD9sc, oats 1s6hc and provisions 2156Df21kc higher.
 There will be no session of the Board of Trade January 1.
 The leading futures ranged as follows:
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Live Stock Market.

Chicago, December 29.-Cattle-Receipts 200; nominally steady. Natives, good to prime steers, $5.25Q6.OO; poor to medium, $S.6Od5.2O; selected feeders, s. 3.75a4.S5; mixed stockers, $2 275Q3.75; cows, $2.5OQ4.2O heifers, 450; calves. $4.OO@5.5O. Receipts of cattle this week, 49,000; last week, 67O0
 Hogs-Receipts, 16,o0O; left over, 2O00; es- inmates for Monday, 32,O0O; active, shade higher, closed firm top, s495; mixed and butchers, s4.65d4921s; good to choice heavy, S475Q495; rough heavy, $460G4.70; light, $4.65Q490; bulk of sales. $iSO64.9O
 Receipts hogs this week. 11s.5OO; last week, 1S750O.
 Sheep-Receipts, 1000. Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice wethers, Sa 75@40O:
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
DR. Y. E, HOLLOWAY,
 Physician and Surgeon.

Young phy ysicians and the lesser lights of the medical pro- fession, probably for the want of other practice, try.to cre- ate the impression that they are expert in the treatment Of priva ate diseases. They delight in tell ing people that doc tors who advertise are quacks and im-
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Go where the crowd goes, to Dunker's Saloon, 2OS ana 21O North 2Oth Street, between 2d and Sd avenues.
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SATURDAYS MARKETS.

fair to choice mixed, $s4Oas.SO; Western sheep. $S.75@450; Texas sheep. S2.5OQ35O; native lambs, s4.25@550 Western lambs, $0OQ5.50. Receipts sheep this week., I1,2OO; last week. TO- 100
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

No. s. washington and southwestern Limited" solid vestibuled train. atlanta to Washington; Pullman sleeping ear Bir- mingham to New York: also Pullman r. brary observation car. Atlanta to New York, making close connection at Atlanta with through sleeper for Tampa, Fla.
 No. 36, "U. S. Fast Mail" carries Pull man sleeping cars Birmingham to Rich mond, Va., via Atlanta; also sleeper At l&nta to New York.
 No. s7 carries Pullman sleeping car. Bir. raingham to Greenville. Miss.
 No. 21 carries Pullman sleeping ear Birm- ingham to Mobile.
 F. S. Cannon, Third vics President and General Manager. Washlngton. D. c.
 J. M. Culp. Traffic Manager. Washington, Q. c.
 ~. A. Turk. 0. P. A.. Washington, D. c. .. A. Benseoter. 4. c. P. A.. Chatta- nooga, Tenn.
 c. E. Jackson. T. P. A.. Birmingham. Ala.
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Articles LOpened HlghestI LowestI Clos

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour dull and steady. No. spring wheat 651aGp 711ac, No. red 73@751ac. No. 2 corn 37e, No. yellow corn 37c. No. 2 oats 23G2314c, No. white 26@261ac, No. white 25626e. No. 2 rye 51052c. Fair to choice malting barley 5S64c. No 1 haxseed $1 53k61. 54, No. 1 northwestern $154 Prime timothy seed .65. Mess pork per barrel s11.O0d11 .12h. Lard per 100 pounds $6. S5d69 90. Short rib sides loose, $6 3O1660 Dry salted shoul- ders, boxed, 5B661sc. Short clear sides, boxed, $6.7006.S so. Whisky, basis of high wines, $1.2. Clover, contract grade, s10.0o@ 1925.
 On the Produce Exchange today the but ter market was dull creamery 15423c, dai- " 12d20c. Cheese inactive, 10A011Ac. Eggs fairly active; fresh 22c
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Da-Cost-a-N Nickel.

Vote for W. R. Gum, can- didate for alderman in Fifth ward.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans, December 29-Cotton steady; sales 1900 ;sordlnary 7Hc, good ordinary Sssc low middling Sc, middling sac, good mid ding sac, midding fair 9 15-16e; receipts 10639, stock 405,544.
 Consolidated statement: Net receipts ST. BOT, exports to Great Britain 6076, to the continent 22,239 stock 1.O07,2SO.
 New Orleans, December 29.-Cotton-Fu- lures quiet and steady; January 929G9 3l, February 927G9. 2S, March 9.26d9.2 .27, April 9.24Q9 .26, May 9.29q9. A, June 9.20Q9. .22. July 91S69.1 19
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Da-Cost-a-Nickel.

Vote for w. R. Gum, can- didate for alderman in Fifth Wlrd
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Vote for W. R. Gum, can didate for alderman in Fifth ward
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Suuar and Coffee

shows absolutely no tendency either way.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

It's a mistake to go on losing appetite and strength: Hoods Sarsaparilla cor rects it.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Liverpool Cotton Market.

Liverpool, December 29, 1 D. m.-Cotton- Spot small business, prices 1-32d higher American middling fair, 29-32d; good mid ding, 19-32d; middling, 515; low middling 5 5-16; good ordinary, 1-16; ordinary 4 1916. The sales of the day were 1000 bales of which 200 were for speculation and ex- port and included 3S0O American. Receipts 1000 bales; no American. Futures opened easier and closed steady; American mid. ding, L. M C.: January, 5.2205.23 seller January February, 5.19 seller; February March, 515615.16 buyer; March-Aprfl, 5.120- 513 buyer; April May, 5.10 seller; May-June 5.07q5.OS seller; June-July, 5.04@505 buyer July-August 5.02 seller; August-September 451 seller The tenders for delivery at to- days clearings were 100 new dockets.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Dry Coco

New York, December 29.-The market has been entirely without change in the goods division today, the week closing inactive in all departments and without feature. Buy CTS are taking small lots only for quick shipments and few inquiries are In the mar ket for forward positions of either staples or fancies. The cotton yarn market con- tinues very irregular and without any sign of improvement. demand lifeless and stocks accommodating. Woolens and worsted yarns are dull and irregular.
 New York Cotton Futures
 By Private Wire to H. D. Cothran & Co.
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New York Stock Market. By Private Wire to Murphy & Col
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PLANT SYSTEM

Schedule in Effect November 25. 1900.
 No. 5s. No. l
The evening times., 1900-03-19
TO MAKE THEIR OWN SURVEYS
An Indian Territory Delegation Nis-
its Commissiener Jones'

A delegation from the Indian Territory
waited on the Commissioner of Indian AZ
fairs. William A. Jones. this morning in
order to confer with him regard to a pro-
posed amendment to the bill of appropria-
tions for Indian affairs now before the
Senate Committee.
The amendment provides for further ap-
propriaticns to enable incorporated towns
in Indian reservations to make their own
maps and surveys and to carry out such
typographical and engineering work as
may be deemed advisable and necessary
without requiring the aid of Government
craftsmen and surveyors.
The principal purpose of the amendment
is to expedite the works specified therein
and to further extend the right of towns
people in the Indian Territory.
Commissioner Jones expressed his ap-
proval of the amendment and applied his
presented to the Secretary of the Interior.
The amendment was then submitted to
Secretary Hitchcock and afterward to the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
The deputation Offering the amendment
consisted of the following prominent citi-
zens of the Indian Territory: C. B. Stu
art E. b. Toilet. II. NJ. Furman, Leo E.
Bennett. and S. b. Bradford.
The expressed intention of the delegates
in presenting the amendment before the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Sec-e-
tary of the Interior was to keep in line
with the recommendations of the Interior
Department
The evening times., 1900-03-19
FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
Annapolis Seeks to Buy Out Pri-
vate Water Company.

ANNAPOLIS. Nd, March 19.-The people
of Annapolis are greatly interested in the
question of municipal ownership of the An
napolis waterworks. The stock of this com
pany is owned by the State, the city and by
private holders, neither one having corlr9l
bill backed by the city government is
pending in the Senate to sell the State )
stock to the city, so as to put ;he water
works under municipal control through
municipal ownership.
One of the leading citizens OF Annapolis.
who has given close attention to the water
question, says:
1T is proposed to give the people of Az
napoIis the right TO vote upon the propo-
sition of the purchase of the States inter
est in the Annapolis Water Company, 50 as
20 give the city control AS now c0nsti-
tuted neither the State nor city has con-
troll and the company has been run as a
private company and in thirtytwo years
but two reports published. The works have
been reconstructed twice and perfected out
of the water rents paid, and the stock
holders have had no responsibility and re
ceived for twenty years dividend ayerag-
ing per cent. There has been law on
the statute books authorizing the sale OF
this and other stocks held by he State
since 1892 and private parties nearly Sc
cured the controlling interest by the nur-
chase of the stock two years ago. By the
provisions of the bill and to meet the view :
OF the private stockholders the city agrecz
10 accept all the stock at price acceptable
to the State for its stock If thev wish 10
sell. The question then is simply TINS:
Isn't 1t equitable and just to the State :?
The citizens here out of high water charges
have paid back 10 the State the full amount
invested and 81 900 more in dividends, and
fIow offer the amount invested, with a pre-
MUM of from s. 0GO TO $6.0O0 especially as
they were going to sell il for renjum OF
only $2.GG0 two years ago TO private
syndicate and since that time have received
in dividends 81. 200. BY listening to the
protest of the citizens the State has gained
between s7.0e and $1O0G0. 1t is right for
the State TO use us for revenue. and is i.
not just and proper to sell 10 the city of
Annapolis this indispensable comuoditr-
'water'-for fair sum, and not put il he
yond the possibility of the city to own and
control its water supply?'
The evening times., 1900-03-19
STUDY OF RACE PROBLEMS.
Plans for the Forthcoming Confer
eRce mt Montgomery. Ala.

NEW YORK, March 19-Rev. Edgar
Gardner Murphy, rector of St. Johns Epis-
copal Church of Montgomery. Ala, ad-
dressed a meeting of the Armstrong Asso-
citation recently at the residence OF Rob-
ert C. Ogden.
Mr.. Murphy is Secretary of the Execu-
tive Committee OF the Southern Confer
ence, which will meet at Montgomery on
May s, Q, and 10 for the study OF race
problems in relation to the welfare of the
South. Former Secretary H. A. Herbert
will be the permanent chairman OF the
conference. In speaking Of the conference
Mr. Murphy said:
"The membership of the society is rep
resentative OF the South at large; leading
publicists journalists. attorneys. physi-
clans. and clergymen of all sections of the
South are heartily interested in its sup
port. This will be the first annual con-
ference and will represent the beginning
OF an effort on the part of Southern men
to establish within the South itself an open
parliament of ideas relating TO every aspect
OF the negro problem.
Representative speakers have been Sc
cured from different parts of the South to
deal with such subjects as the franchise
the negro in relation to popular education.
Atii5lOu anu IHt SOCidI n HiSCuSStOu
Of lynching will form part of the regular
programme.
THE conference has no fixed objective.
but represents the interests of men of the
South in a frank and thorough handling
Of the subject from the standpoint OF
Southern life The difference in Southern
sentiment will be frankly recognized. and
places on the programme have been fairly
assigned to the opposing advocates in each
relate to the negro. the discussion of pop
ular education in the South will bring be-
fore the whole country the claims Of the
poorer elements OF the white population OF
the South.
There are many of us IN the South to-
day who feel very deeply that while the
negro should be afforded every possible
educational opportunity the country at
large is in danger of forgetting a class
whose needs are quite as acute. il not 80
picturesque, as are the needs of the negro
population. Therefore, while We are doing
our utmost 10 secure for the negro every
reasonable educational privilege. We feel
very keenly the urgency of the need for an
extension of educational privileges to An
element OF our Southern population that
has been very largely neglected.
THE poor white boy of the South needs
the same opportunity for Industrial train
in6 hiCb 81 many nave 6idhAy tANtAutu
10 the negro by such institutions as Hamp-
ton and Tuskegee.
'As to the negro himself. We feel that at
times Southern opinion has been led by
suggestions from the North The sugges-
tions offered have not been based on a
thorough knowledge of the conditions ex-
sting. The solution of the problem in the
South has come at last from the Southern
people themselves
The conference is to have no political
or factional significance. All the elements
OF the political life of the State are repre-
sented in the membership of the Southern
society and in the personnel OF the execu-
tiV committed" "
The evening times., 1900-03-19
WITHDRAws FROM THE RACE.
j. :. Cunningham Not to he Can
didatc for Governor.

RALEIGH. n C., March 1o.-John s.
Cunningham, of Person county. the largest
tobacco planter in the State has been very
prominent as a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor. He with
draws in a patriotic letter To the people
Of the State. in which he says:
Il believe the success of the Democratic
party this year is paramount to the ambi-
tion of any man, and that each member of
the party ought to yield his own wishes in
the interest of unanimous action. l think
il is also important that the candidate for
Governor who is rightly regarded as the
leader of the party. should he selected. as
far as possible without contest and with
practical unanimity. Holding these views,
and desiring always to do what is best for
the party and the State and believing what
is for the welfare of one is for the welfare
of the other, | have decided to withdraw
from the race for Governor.
Every patriotic citizen must admit that
the success of the party in the coming
campaign is more important than the tri-
umph of any individual, and that party
success at this time should be placed high
above every other consideration. The con-
stitutional amendment is at issue. and it
must be decided in favor of white suprem-
acy"
This renders the nomination of Hon C.
B. Aycock for Governor by the Democrats
almost a certainty.