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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-03
Cotton Futures.

New York. November 30.-The cotton
market opened steady at unchanged
prices to 2 points advance, this being
an Indifferent response to firm Liver
pool cables and private crop estimate of
q bullish character. Almost immedi-
ately after the call the market turned
weak and broke to 7.55 for January un-
der liquidation by disappointed room
longs. On the decline the south and
Wall street sold a little cotton; scalp
ing shorts took profits as a mere mat
ter of course. Receipts at the ports and
at interior towns were LIBERAL; the
weather south was generally fair and
the public manifested no desire to re-
enter the market before the bureau es-
innate makes it's appearance next Tues
day.
Private advices from the south stated
that exporters were good buyers in in
terror markets.. The market closed
quiet and steady with prices net 4 to {
points lower.
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Murphy & Co.'S Cotton Letter

New York, November 30.-The Liver
pool report today indicate practically
no change in the prices in that market
which was rather surprising in view
of the fact h a that market made an
average guess of 10, 500, 900 for the crop
after yesterdays close. If n estimate
was worth anything whatever that
market should have gone off sharply,
and the conclusion is that the people
making the estimate entertained them
selves no confidence in their W figures
and the same may be said of the vari-
Gus estimates so far issued by other
exchanges and individuals, the great
majority of which indicate a crop Of TO-
SOC. 600 or over. The visible supply or
cotton during the week gained 1860 o
bales, including $4,000 gain for the
American. The weather today was
warmer in the Atlantic states, Selma,
Ala. and Camden, S. c., reporting SO
degrees and Columbus, Ga, 81. At West
Point. Miss. the range was 4S.
The market was favorably Influenced
by the Liverpool cables, b opening
being at unchanged prices to 1 to 2 ad-
vance: but before a great while there
was unexpected selling pressure cauS-
ing 4 to 5 decline. A leading firm issu-
ed an estimate of 9.733.000. based on s.
476 letters from the south. IL was
credited with $500, 600 bales. as against
3,S09, 900 last year. The report claims
that the crop has been marketed earlier
than any previous season n that the
top crop is a failure. The explanation
for the early weakness was a desire OF
shorts and other interested parties 10
all the cotton possible before the
bureau figures appear, for even if the
small crop estimates circulated are
5O0.0 600 shor Of the actual yield. still
the crop would not exceed 10, 200. 900. A
report that y recount at Brennan
showed 10000 less than supposed had
the effect OF recovering the lost ground
before the lose.
MURPHY 4 CO., Qnc.)
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NAVAL STORE

New York, November 3O.-Rosin
steady; strained. common to good $1.55.
Turpentine quiet 371a to 3Sc.
Savannah, November 30.-Spirits tur-
pentine firm at 35Ac; receipts 1,526
casks; sales 1,7S4 casks; exports 2S4
barrels. Rosin firm; receipts 4,719 bar
rels; sales 2,404 barrels; exports 11,199
barrels.
Charleston, November 30.-Sririts tur-
pentine firm and unchanged; rosin firm
and unchanged.
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The DRY Goods Market

New York, November 30.-There was
little movement in the dry goods mar
ket today. The demand was light from
The home trade in nearly all depart
ments, and exporters were not buying
Prices of brown and bleached cottons
are steady. Denims are decidedly
scarce and firm: other coarse colored
cottons are steady: prints are in fair
demand and unchanged; p%rintcloths are
inactive: cotton yarns are quiet and ir-
regular: worsted yarns are firm: wool
en- yarns are quiet but steady.
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FLOUR-Straights $s.75: second pa
tents $500: full $4.75.
MOLASSES-S. House 15c. New Or
leans Brights. % to Csc: Porto Rico 80
to 35c; Cuba. % to 40c.
COFFEE@7k to 10c.
SUGAR = Granulated $50; w.x.C.
No. s, s4.65; No. z. s4.45; No. 9, $3.50: No..
IL. $40.
LARD-Pure 11Ac: compound SIC.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS-North Carolina IS to roc:
Virginia IS to Coo; Spanish 50 to Toe.
CORN-77h to soc.
CORN MEAL-72k TO 75c.
CHICKENS - Dull; hens 25 to 2Sc:
ROSTERS 20 to Csc; spring 8 to 1Sc.
EGGS-Steady at zoe.
SHINGLES-Per 1000. 5-inch saps.
$3.50; 5-inch hearts, s2.25; 6-inch saps.
$3.50; 6-inch hearts. $3.50.
TIMBER
Per n feet-Shipping .........$S-0o49.0e
Mill Prime .$o.oOV 100
Mill Fair
Common Mill .34.00Q5.00
Inferior to Ordinary ..........SS.50Q4.50
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Tho Coffee

New York. November 3O.-Coffee fu-
lures opened steady in tone, with prices
5 to 10 points higher on covering and
buying by bulls, prompted by
light Brazilian receipts and strong ca
bles from all foreign speculative mar
kets. Finishing prices were net un-
changed to 10 points higher and the
tone quiet. Sales amounted to Is, COO
bags. Spot Rio steady, No. Z invoice
SIC; mild market quiet, Cordova IL to
lie.
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Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, November 30.-Proft taking
all around brought declines in all pits
on the board today, December wheat
closing Il to Nc down: December corn
q to hc lower and December oats sc
depressed. Provisions closed unchang-
ed to &c lower.
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Saturday, November 80.
Receipts of cotton today-1,796 bales.
Receipts same day last year - 1,051
bales.
This seasons receipts to date-172, 719
bales.
Receipts to same day last year-1S2,-
2S7 bales.
The quotations posted at 4 o'clock
today at the exchange:
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Friday, November %.
Receipts of cotton today-4,150 bales.
Receipts same day last year 2,149
bales.
This seasons receipts to date-17O,9 1S
bales.
Receipts to same day last year-1S1,-
1856 bales.
The quotations posted at 4 o'clock
today at the exchange:
COTTON-Firm.
Goo Ordinary 5-16
Low M1ddllng 1o-ls
Middling ........
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MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.


New York, November 30.-Money on
call nominal. Prime mercantile paper
AZ to 5 per cent: sterling exchange
firm with actual business in bankers
bills at 4.S7A to ass for demand and at
4.S4k to 4.84A for sixty days; posted
rates ASS and ASH; commercial bills
4.S3A to 4.S4A; bar silver SO, Mexican
dollars 43A; government bonds steady;
state bonds Inactive: railroad bonds
easier,
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The Trial OF the Decatur

Washington, November 30.-The navy
department has arranged for an official
trial Of the torpedo boat Decatur. built
by the Trigg ShipbuiIding Company, OF
Richmond, on the 9Th proximo, over
the Barren Island course I'm Chesapeake
bay.
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SSAAS o0y A~
NAVAL STORES.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE - Steady;
machine barrels 35c; country barrels
34kc.
ROSIN-Firm at CSC and $1.00.
T~AR-Steady at s1.20.
CRUDE TURPENTINEISteady hard
$1.10; soft $500.
Prices same day las year Spirits
~turpentine, 39c and SShc; Iosin $1.2o
and $1.25; tar $1.55; rude turpentine
hard s1.40 and $40.
Receipts TODAY - IS casks Of spirits
~turpentine. 543 barrels Of rosin, 275 bar
rels Of tar. Sc barrels of crude turpen-
tine.
Receipts same day last year - "A
casks of spirits turpentine, 800 barrels
OF rosin. III barrels Of tar, 81 barrels
Of crude turpentine.
PRODUCE.
SALTl0G's 45c; 1875 SOC. COOS SIC: f.
T. $1.35; in less than car lots.
DRY SALTED SIDES-Sh to SIC.
BUTTER-A to 26c.
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PORT RECEIPTS.

Galveston steady at NC; net receipts
10, 954 bales.
Norfolk quiet at TIC: net receipts
1857 bales. A.
Baltimore nominal at 7%c.
Boston quiet at Sc: net receipts 2,1S3
bales.
Wilmington firm at 7%c; net receipts
1,796 bales.
Philadelphia quiet at SAc: net re-
ceipts POI bales.
Savannah steady at nc; net receipts
0.703 bales.
New Orleans easy at 7Ac; net receipts
20,712 bales.
Mobile nominal at nc; net receipts
1,6W bales.
Memphis steady at Z slice; net re-
ceipts 1856 bales.
Augusta steady at Z 7-16c; net receipts
1892 bales.
Charleston steady at Z 5-16c; net re-
ceipts 1884 bales.
Cincinnati quiet at nc; net receipts
1852 bales.
Louisville firm at 7%c.
ST. Louis quiet al 7&c: net receipts
2,142 bales.
Houston quiet at 71sc; net receipts
12,457 bales.
THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New Y~ork-Cotton quiet at Sc; net re-
ceipts 769 bales; gross S,672 bales; sales
10 bales; stock 50, GAS bales.
Total today and consolidated-Net re-
ceipts $685. bales; exports to Great
Britain 4,640 bales; to France 1885
bales: to continent 1880 bales: stock
500, 203 bales.
Total since September met receipts
3,421, 292 bales; exports to Great Britain
1,194,547 bales; to France 81, $40 bales;
to continent 976, ISL bales.
Futures closed quiet and steady. De-
cember 1855; January 7.56; February
7.55; March 7.53: April 7.52; May 1853;
june 7.52; July 7.50; August 1856: Sep
TENDER 100.
Spot cotton closed quiet; middling
uplands Sc; middling gulf SIC; sales
is bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET.
Chicago, November S0.-The leading
futures were as follows:
Open. High. Low. Clos.
Uhoo& NJ
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WILMINGTON MARKETS

Wednesday, November q.
Receipts of cotton today-1,76o bales.
Receipts same day last year I162
bales.
This seasons receipts to date-1s4. 76S
bales.
Receipts to same day last year-17s.-
e37 bales.
The quotations posted at 4 O'Clock
today at the exchange:
COTTON-Firm.
Ordinary .......... ........-.-.4 1916
Good Ordinary o-!o
Low Mfddling 1910
Good Middling lilo
Same day last year-93c-
NAVAL STORES
SPIRITS TURPENTINE - Steady;
machine barrels CSC; country barrels
s4c.
ROsIN-Firm at CSC to s1.0.
TAR-Ffrm at s1.20
CRUDE TUEAIENTINE-Ffrm; hard
$1.1O; soft 800.
prices same day last year-Spirits
turpentine 39Ac n 3SAc; rosin s1.20
and s1.z5; tar s1.55; crude turpentine
hard $1.4O and s2-4o-
Receipts oday 30 casks of spirits
~turpentine, 80 barrels Of rosin, III bar
rels of tar. AZ barrels of crude turpen-
tine.
hcCElpIS SdI1e udI ldo1 JOo y
casks of spirits turpentine, 167 barrels
of rosin, 1O1 barrels of tar, 131 barrels
of crude turpentine.
PRODUCE.
SALT-100s 45c: 1905 SOC. zoos S5c;
F. F. s1.35; in less than car lots.
DRY SALTED SIDES-Sk to sac.
BUTTER-24 to 26c.
COFFEE-7k@10c.
FLOUR-Straights S5.75: End patents
"a 90: full S4.T5.
MOLASSES-S. House. 15c. New Or
leans Brights, % to Csc: Porto Rico 30
to Csc; Cuba. % to 40c.
SUGAR = Granulated. $3.50; w. x. c.
No. 5. $4.65: No. Z, $4.45; No. 9. $3.50; No.
II, 1920.
LARD-Pure. 11Ac; compound SIC.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS-North Carolina IS to zoe;
Virginia So to Coo; Spanish 80 to zoe.
CORN-77k to soc.
CORN MEAL-72k TO 75c.
N. c.. BACON-Hams 13c: shoulders
&c: sides 10 to lie.
CHICKENS-Dull: hens rs to Csc:
roosters 20 to CSC; spring 8 to 1Sc.
EGGS-Steady at zoe.
SHINGLES-Per 1000. 5-inch saps
$3.50; 5-inch hearts. $2.25: S-inch saps.
$3.50: 6-inch hearts, $3.50.
TIMBER
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COTTON.

Liverpool, November 3d. p. M
Cotton: Spot, limited demand, prices
easier. American middling 4 11-32d.
The sales of the day were 5000 bales,
of which 800 were for speculation and
export and included 3,4O0 American.
Receipts 21,0OO bales. including $1,000
American.
Futures opened quiet and closed
steady. American middling l. NJ c:
December 4 12-64d buyers; December
and January 4 11-64d sellers; January
and February 4 1O-64d sellers; Febru-
airy and March 4 9-64@4 10-64d buyers:
March and April 4 9-64d buyers; April
and May 4 9-64d buyers; May n June
4 9-64d sellers: June n July 4 9-64d
sellers: July and August 4 S-64@4 9-64d
sellers.
The Conservative, 1901-02-07
PRESIDENT SCHURMAN'S CONCLU-
SION.

PhESlDENI HUMANS CONCLU-
SION.
At last President Schurman is i'm.
pressed by the accommodating evidence
against his assertion, long maintained,
that the only hostiles in the Philippines
comprise but a fragment of one of the
more than eighty tribes which together
make up the Filipino people. He does
not acknowledge that he must have
been mistaken when he said so, and
tried to make the people believe that it
was this small body which held in terror
from 100000 to 100000 of natives,
and kept an army of 10000 United
States soldiers more than busy. What
he now says is that the natives "seem
more hostile to the white race, and
more united against the United States,
than they were in the beginning of
The Conservative, 1901-02-07
ASBESTOS.

The H. w. Johns Manufacturing
Company of New York have issued
pamphlet containing interesting and
valuable information about asbestos and
the various uses to which it is adapted.
Asbestos is a fibrous mineral found in
various parts of the world and usually
occurs in narrow veins or seams. When
treated mechanically it yields soft,
white, delicate and exceedingly strong
fbres, which can be spun, woven and
otherwise manufactured into many
useful articles. In addition to it's fire.
proof qualities, it is acid proof and is
practical. It also forms a valuable
insulation for electrical purposes.
Asbestos in the form of paper and mill
board has become indispensable as a
building paper; as non conductor of
heat as a barrier against fire; in the
lining of kilns, dry rooms, air shafts and
electrical switch boxes as deadener of
sound between floors and partitions;
and for the innumerable uses to which
an inexpensive fire-proof, vermin.proof,
odorless, building paper or board is
adapted.
The Conservative, 1901-02-07
FACTS WITHOUT COMMENT.

For the year 1896 the appropriation
for the navy was lin round numbers)
$27, 100000.
In 1898. the year of the Spanish war,
it was $58, 100000.
Last year it was 500, 900 900.
This year the bill as reported to the
house calls for $77, 7,OOO, 900, with author.
ization for additional naval construction
which, included in the bill, as it should
be, would swell the total to nearly
800, ,OOO. 900.
The entire ordinary expenditures of
the government twelve years ago were
less than $3OO,OO ,OOO.-New York
World.
The Conservative, 1901-02-07

1S99." It is impossible to derive any
comfort from such an acknowledgment.
It means simply that all the costly effort
of the last two years has accomplished
nothing except to produce worse con.
dition, SO far as paciication is the end
desired, than existed at the beginning of
the term. The result of all the fighting,
more than 1000 recorded engagements,
according to the war department, and
of the protracted efforts of the Schur.
man and Taft commissions to persuade
the natives to accept our rule and insti-
tutions, seems to have as its consequence
more general and resolute hostility
than existed two years ago. What more
can we do?-Boston Herald.
The Conservative, 1901-02-07

An orator who jumps from the stump
onto the tripod and poses as an editor
demonstrates the velocity of his last
mount as toboggan slide. The pre-.
cipitate decline of the taking qualities
Of flapdoodleism when embalmed in
cold type beats liquid air as re.
frigerator.
The Conservative, 1901-02-07
THE TORRENS LAW.

some years past the improvement in the
manner Of recording and transferring
titles to real property, known as the
Torrens system; and is much gratified
at the prospect of seeing this improve.
ment Investigated officially by the Ne
braska legislature. When the possibility
of securing better system is once
realized by the legislature, we believe
that it's members will appreciate to the
full the defects of that which is at
present established.
We give below the text of a bill which
has been introduced by Mr. H. H. Hanks,
representative from Otoe county:
A bill for an act authorizing the
governor to appoint commission to
investigate our present system Of trans
ferring land titles, and other systems,
including the Torrens system of trans.
ferring land titles, and to draft a law to
improve our present system of transfer
and to make an appropriation for the
necessary expense.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Nebraska:
Section /. That the governor is here
by authorized to appoint commission
of five (5) persons, known as the Ne.
braska Land Transfer Commission.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of this
commission to investigate our present
system of transferring land titles also
to investigate systems that at present
are in effect in other countries and are
now being introduced in several states
in our country, and especially to investi-
gate what is known as the Australian or
Torrens system of registration of titles,
and if it would be suitable to the laws
and constitution of this state, and to
draft bill that is more simple, less
expensive and giving better security
to titles than our present law of transfer
this commission to report on or about
January 1st, 1902, to the governor.
Section 3. Each member of the said
commission shall, after the taking effect
of this act, qualify by filing in the office
of the secretary of state an oath to faith.
fully perform his duty.
Section 4. Each of the said com.
mission shall receive from the state as
full compensation for his services the
sum of fifty dollars, ($50) five cents
($05) per mile for distance necessarily
travelled and all actual and necessary
expenses, to be audited and paid as
other bills against the state, and to be
paid out of the funds in the state treas.
ury not otherwise appropriated.
Section 5. The secretary of state
shall allow such commission access to
all public records and documents under
such reasonable regulations as may be
necessary, and shall furnish them with
The Conservative, 1901-02-07
Che Conservative.
THE sENATE's TAX REDUCTION BILL.

THE sENATE'S TAX REDUCTION BILL.
If the bill was framed on the theory
that the most burdensome and oppres-
sive of the taxes should be the first to
60, there is little in it's provisions to
show the fact. In some instances the
question of repeal or non. repeal seems
to have been settled by purely arbitrary
decision. The tax upon bankers capital,
for instance, which the house proposed
to retain, is greatly reduced, but the
stamp tax of 2 cents on checks is re-
stored. At the same time the stamp
taxes on mortgages, promissory notes
and many other documentary taxes are
removed. The chief beneficiaries of the
measure apparently would be the brew.
ers, for whereas the house in it's bill
proposed to reduce the beer tax to 81 go
barrel, the senate financiers cut the
rate to 81 so, the effect of the change
being that the brewers taxation would
be reduced fully $l4,OO0,O0O.
In other words, the stamp tax on
checks and various special and docu-
mentary taxes, which are distinctly
burdensome, are to be permitted to make
up for the revenue losses involved in
the reduction of the beer tax. To men.
tion but one other signal inconsistency
in the senate bill, an unreasonable and
apparently wholly arbitrary discrimina-
tion is to be made in the taxation upon
proprietary medicines, those compounds
for which the formula is known being
exempt, while those having a secret
formula for some inscrutable reason are
to continue to pay tax approximating
per cent of the retail price.
In the course of debate the senate
may modify materially the provisions of
the measure, but as it stands today the
bill which has been patched together
fails to meet the requirements of the
situation. It is apparently the result of
laborious effort after compromise and
conciliation with numerous contending
interests, and it's one salient feature is
it's marked Difference to the wishes of
the beer sellers, who are generally sup
posed to be securing the fruits of ante.
election bargains. Chicago Record.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-05-04

mon laughing down in the earth, rang
out.
Nelly Anderson moved forward as if
fascinated As she passed over the little
square of turf or which they had been
standing and where the bank began to
slope on the other side. she came 10 the
top Of an incline of soft sand which end
ed in "A wide black mOdth of some deep
excavation. On the top of the sand in
cline Nelly Anderson caught sight of
something lying at her feet in the faint
mO0nheamS. Her heart gave Il bound as
she STOPPED to pick il mp. 1t was her
Walters knitted comforter which she
had made last winter with her own
hands. AS she stopped the man came be-
hind her, and catching her by the shout
ders threw his weight against her. But
the girl, turning, caught her aSSailant
with nervous fingers aS both of them
went sliding down the slope together to-
wards the yawning mouth of the cave.
As they did so. TWO figures dashed for
ward. both of them men-one across the
mo0nlit turf, and the other crashing up
through the hazel bushes. Darling to-
wards the sand slope. they fell against
each other at the moment when their feet
encountered the yielding sand. Their su-
perior impetus brought them To the mouth
of the dark opening almost as quickly as
Nelly Anderson and her aSSdilant Her
bert Peyton had not anticipated the
| strength of hi> opponent, and he strug-
| gled vainly to disengage his arms To
thrust her downwards from him. In the
moment of struggle the rwo additional
cOmbatants were upon him. Nelly An
| derson was Snatched from him to one
| side. and a pair of heavy hands were laid
ON his neck at the other. II was Archie
| Grierson in whose arms Nelly found her
| self. and it was Sawny Bean who laid
! his great paws so uncomfortable athwart
| Herbert Peyton'S throat.
"Quaite. moo. or I'll choke the life GOT
o We. said Sawny, sending his thumbs
! home in a knowing manner.
Herbert Peyton. finding the fateS Were
/ going against him in this marked way,
struck out suddenly with both feet. kick
| ing away the uprights and struts which
| supported the mouth of the excavation.
The moment after there was a strange
culver of the whole bank. 1t seemed al
once to tilt forward and to settle down
with soft rumble and a kissing rush
/ The opening Of the cave closed mp, and
the sand slope stretched on unbroken tC
the dark edge of the Hanging Shaw
| Overhead the "H0Oet" and the Dell
danced like imps of darkness.
! Sawny Bean relaxed the pressure OF
| his thumbs on the throat of his late ally
| in sheer establishment.
Herbert Peyton laughed a little in i
h0arSer manner than before. but there
was the same note of triumph in his tone
THAT settles the brat at last" he said
Continued Next Week.