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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-05
COTTON

The cotton market closed quiet and
steady to-day, with sales on the spot of
ga bales. The demand was about the
same as it has been for several DAYS
past, and no great amount of business
was done aside from the official transac-
tons. Throughout the week the market
has shown signs of improvement, the
closing being at gain over last week 8
prices. The sales for the week were q
5S2 uplands and $50 sea islands, and so
far this season, Ala uplands, and 3d.
1874 sea islands.
The following were the official spot quo
tations at the close of the market at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
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COTTON FUTURES.
The Closing Barely Steady With
Prices Net 3 to IA Up.

Irices Net to Ia Up.
New York, Jan. 4.-The undercurrent
OF sentiment in the cotton market to-
day was bullish throughout, and the eff
forts of the bears were entirely directed
toward the Strengthening up of accounts.
While investment speculation was nothing.
TO boast of, considerable new buying was
recorded, and the South from opening to
closing, was a conspicuous supporter Of
the spring and summer months. On the
INST call prices declined 1d5 points in re-
spouse ITO Disappointing Liverpool cables,
and in keeping with foreign selling or
ders. The low prices brought out specu-
lative buying and local covering, and in
a short time quotations were up 6 to s
points, and for the rest of the session the
general tendency of variations, though
sluggish, was upward. Liverpool rallied
slightly. The local market derived con-
siderable fresh strength at midday from
small estimates for to-morrows receipts
Covering and Wall street buying increased
the advance. Still later the market forged
higher on general buying, based on small
weekend lin sight" figure A furry of
profit-taking cut down the advance sew
eral points near the close but on the re-.
action there was nothing in the way OF
bear speculation noted. The close was
barely steady with prices net, 3 to a
points higher.
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Open. High. | Low. .lClose.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

Liverpool, Jan. 4.-Cotton, spot moder-
ate business; prices 1-16d lower; American
middling fair 15-16d good middling, sgd;
middling, 17-32d; low middling, 11-32d;
good ordinary, $500; ordinary, 27-92d.
The sales of the day were 5000 bales. of
which 500 were for speculation and export
and included $3.50 American. Receipts
10000 bales, including 1900 American.
Futures opened easy and closed Steady;
American midding, low middling clause;
January, 525d5 sd, sellers; January-Feb
ruary, 5. 22a5 ed, buyers; February
March, 1895 god. buyers; March-April,
5 lid, sellers; April-May, 5.1iq5. 15d, SELL
ers: May-June. 5.12d, sellers; June-July,
:. O9d, buyers; July-August 5.O695 Old,
buyers; August-September 4.57d, value.
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MONEY MARKET.

New York, Jan. 4.-Money on call steady
at 3lAa5 per cent; last loan at AZ per
cent Prime mercantile paper, EM5% per
cent. Sterling exchange firm, with act
uaI business i'm bankers bills at S4.S61s n
I.SGA for demand, and az 81 S2ha4 S2h for
sixty days Posted rates A.83 and %.S7.
Commercial bills, $4.3lAG4. sl%. Silver GER.
tincates, 6lKqG5c. Bar silver 6Sssc Mex
lean dollars, 1910. Government bonds ir-
regular. state bonds strong. Railroad
bonds irregular.
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FINANCIAL.
INVEST MI ENTS.

10 900 Georgia Az per cent. Bonds, due
1915.
1915. 49,
3 600 Alabama Glass A Bonds due 1905.
% 900 Augusta 49, Bonds, due 1929.
40 600 Savannah per cent. Bonds. due
1909 ,ooo
1900 Macon per cent. Bonds due 1923,
q 600 Middle Georgia and Atlantic First
Mortgage per cent, due 1897.
o, o00 Eatonton Branch Railroad Com
ANY First Mortgage per cent, due 1926.
IA other stocks and bonds for sale by
JOHN w DICKEY.
Augusta. Ga.
SEND FOR LISTS.
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DRY GOODS.

New York, Jan. 4.-The demand for all
descriptions of cotton goods continues
ight. There has been reduction
in the price of heavy and ounce
ducks by the combination. No other
changes. Print cloths inactive; wide
goods barely steady. Wooden goods divi-
sion inactive.
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MUCH COTTON IN INTERIOR.
Mr. l.. NJ. LeHardy Reports the
Staple Plentiful at Small Towns.

Staple Plentiful at Small Towns.
Mr. L. NJ. LeHardy of the firm of Lee
Hardy & Co, cotton exporters, returned
yesterday after a three weeks "trip
through the cotton growing country of
Georgia. Mr. LeHardy visited many towns
where cotton is accumulated for ship
ment. and found that there is much I'M
sold cotton there awaiting a satisfactory
offer.
From the amount which has already
been received this season, together with
that which is yet to be marketed, I be-
lieve Georgia will produce as much or
more cotton this season than she did
last" said Mr.. Lehardy. Holders are
naturally expecting fancy prices, and will
doubtless make strong fight to win out.
There is no danger Of their getting lone
sumo while they walt however, as abe
stations where cotton Is piled up for mar
keting are many and close between"
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steady. Commercial demand. Ns5; sixty
days. s4.Sl; ninety days, $i791k; francs.
Paris and Havre sixty days, 2O7s; Swiss,
sixty days, 5.24a4; Belgian. 5221I marks,
sixty days. 9f1s; ninety days. 90 1916
DOMESTIC EXCHANGE 700 Steady:
banks are buying at Lie discount and
selling as follows: S25 and under 1Oc pre-
MUM; s25 to $50 15c premium $50 to 500.
zoe premium; 500 20 500. 25c premium
500 to $1,000, y premium; $1,000 and over
Toe per VI.
sECURTr1Bs-Our railroad securities
arc all advancing.
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DAILY Movements at Other Ports.
dalVeston-Firm; middling, 9-16c; net
receipts, 1O4s1; gross receipts, 1O,4S1; sales,
81 stock, 245,6d.
New Orleans-Firm; middling, 9lkc; net
receipts, l1,S18; gross receipts, II, 54S; sales,
5000; stock, 374S11.
Mobile-Quiet; middling, 93kc; net re-
oe'pts, 41S; gross receipts, as; sales, 100;
stock, 32,715.
CAarleston-Firm: middling, 92sc; net
receipts, S75; gross receipts, S75; stock,
Wimington-Firm; middling, 99sc; net
1910.
Norfolk-Steady; middling. 9lAc; net re-
eelpts' 2,OS5; gross receipts. 2@5 sales,
40l; stock, 1869
Baltimore-Nominal; middling, 10c; net
receipts, 4S0; gross receipts, s77; stock,
New York-Dull middlng, 1Okc; net
Jol79.
Boston-Dull mlddling 10ibc; net re-
''lpts' $50; gross receipts. l,O66.
Fhliadelphla-Quet; mddling. 1O9sc: net
receipts SCI; gross receipts. s61 stock,
Dai'y Movements at Interior Towns.
Augusta-Firm; mlddliug. 9ssc; net re-
seipts. 80; gross receipts, So; sales, 5I7,
stock. 591i7.
AemPhis-Flrm; middllng. s9-1Gc; net
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ARRIVALS OF TRAINS
EDnAF
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS

Magnificent Pullman buffet sleeping car
service 20 Washington. Baltimore, Phila-
delphia and New York: also to Jackson
Vile and Tampa.
Dining cars from Savannah to Hamlet
and Richmond to New York
Buffet parlor cars Savannah to Mont
gomery.
For additional information apply to
Ticket Office, Bull and Bryan streets.
Phone 49,
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TIgsIUU, .. % JdI. DFIIIIIIt
firm. 36lac. Rosin firm. unchanged
Wilmington, N. c., Jan. 4.-Spirits tur-
pentine. S6hG37c; receipts 40 casks. Rosin
firm. S1.2001, %; receipts 1914. Crude tur-
pentine quiet s1.SOdl2. 30; receipts &c. Tar
firm, $50; receipts 105.
New Orleans. Jan. 4.-Receipts, rosin.
$50; turpentine, 70; exports to Belfast.
rosin, $50 barrels.
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FINANCIAL.

MONEY-The demand keeps fairly up
with the supply.
BANK CLEARtNCS-Th bank clear
ings during the past week were So. 7O7. 93S 10
against 1897. 362.7S for the corresponding
period last year, and s., 547,O12 40 for the
corresponding ceriod of 1898
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SEA ISLAND COTTON.

Charleston, S. c., Jan. 4-Sea island cot
ton, fully fine, 24c; fully to extra fine, 25d
2oc. Receipts, 14S bags; exports, 1873; sales,
1858; stock, 2,97l.
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FLUCTUATIONS IN FUTURES.

New York, Jan. 4.-Cotton futures OPEN
ed steady al the decline and closed bare
ly steady. Prices as follows:
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BANK CLEARINGs FoR WEEK.

An IncreRse OF 2D.b Fer Cont CONF
pared with Last Year.
New York, Jan. 4-The total bank
clearings at the principal cities In the
United States for the week ended yester-
day were $1,000, 1878. an increase of 1876
per cert compared with the correspond
ing week last year. outside of New York
S72o 1861, increase Of 81 per cent
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new York office, No. 81 Broadway.
Onices IN principal cities throughout the
south. Write for our Market Manual and
DOCK containing instructions for traders
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WEEKLY COTTON REPORTS.

Comparative cotton statement for TIL
week ending Jan. 4, 1871, and Jan. 5. 1900.
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MURPHY & CO INC.

BOARD Of Trade Building. Savannah.
rriVate leased wires direct TO New York.
chicago and New Orleans.
COTTON sTACAS ANn GnAI.
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1arket quiet and steady; sales, 544.
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Comparative statement of net receipts
at all the ports during the week ending
Friday evening, Jan. a. 1901. and during
the same week last year
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Comparative statement of net receipts
at all the ports from Sept. l, 1900 to
Friday evening Jan. 4, 1901. and from
Sept. l. 1899, to Friday, JAM 5, 1900;
Receipts Since s6pt.1sf.lio gi96b-O1 $4,000.
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Continued on Eighth Page.
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Trains operated by Goth meridian time
One hour shower than city time.
In effect Dec. 8, 1900.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-04
MILFORD.

Milford, April 3.-Today being Maun-
day Thursday, at st. Peters church
there will be high celebration and SER
mon at 1850 p. m.
D. C. Wilson, of North street, is ill
with pneumonia.
Mrs. Arthur Platt, of Orange avenue
Is i'll with scarlet fever.
THE annual meeting of the Milford
Wheel club will ,be held this evening
The Arctic Engine company has re
ceived an invitation to attend the open
ing night at Madison hall of the Graph
ophone Fire company, of Bridgeport,
April Is. \
Mr., and Mrs. George w. Plumb, who
have been spending the winter in Flor
ida, have returned to Milford.
Mrs. Page and Mrs. Martin and their
families, OF New York city, are spend
ing a Few days at their summer cot
tage.
The third degree will be conferred on
one candidate at the regular communi-
cation of Ansanawae lodge, F. and A.
M, on Friday evening
Mrs. Fred Chase. of Kent, who has
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. George
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THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES
Continued From First Page.)

(Continred From First Page)
Charles L. Baldwin, Mr.. Baldwin said
that he would 60 to the convention I'm
pledged if elected. DIR. Waldo H.
Miner nominated for first delegate Pro-
fessor Chandler, who stated that he
favored the nomination of George B.
Martin for mayor. A ballot was taken
and resulted in tie vote, forty-ene be-
ing cast for each candidate. On the
second ballot Mr. Baldwin received
forty-four and Professor Chandler for
ty-ore For second delegate Mr.. Hill
Ter nominated Herbert w. Snow and
John Mccarthy nominated Professor
Chandler. The ballot resulted as fol-
lows: Chandler forty three, Snow for
ty-two. For third delegate ]. Louis
Green, DR.. Joseph H. Townsend and
Herbert w. Snow were nominated,
Mr. Snow being nominated by Mr.. Hill
Ter. Mr.. Snow was elected. For fourth
delegate r. =. Rice DR.. Townsend and
John T. Sloan were nominated. Mr..
Rice was elected.
The city delegation chosen is divided
as follows: For George e. Martin 2,
doubtful 2.
The following town delegation was
chosen: John M. Peck, Henry Hillman,
Nehemiah Candee, John T. Sloan.
DR.. Waldo III. Miner, a present coun-
Gilman from the ward, was nominated
for alderman and Professor F. E.
Browning, F. Fl. Mason end Charles A.
1ngersoll for councilman.
SECOND WARD.
The Second ward caucus was held at
the supply house at the corner of
Spruce and Oak streets, and was pre-
sided over by Judge Pickett, with
George w. Pach as secretary. There
was large attendance. The following
delegates were chosen: City conven-
ton, D. A. Blakeslee, John H. Clark,
John W. Lowe, Frank e, Hill, John N.
Leonard, #. l.. Mead and George w.
Pach. Town convention, Henry G,
Newton, Charles Bierley, j. Romney
futile, Henry p Spiegel, Lyman T.
Law, E. Emmerick, Edward S, Swift.
Alderman, Frank E. Hill; councilmen,
Charles w Hausman, w. T. Eames and
Fl. G. Young.
THE delegates were upirstructed for
mayor, but they are understood to be
for w. G.. Davidson for registrar.
THIRD WARD CAUCUS y
The Third ward caucus was held 1t
No POI Congress avenue, at Z o'clock
last evening. w T. Clark was chair
man and Prilip It. We'll, secretary.
About 800 voters were present. There
was some little contest at the opening
of the caucus between the friends of f.
S. Hamilton and w. G. Davidson for
general registrar, Dr. ffildebrand led
the fight for the Davidson contingent,
and was nominated for chairman of the
caucus, but was beaten by Mr.. Clark
by an Overwhelming vote. The follow |
ing city delega ton was chosen, w. T.
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Chauncey B. Tinker, of the graduate
department at Yale, who is i'll with
diphtheria at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Baldwin, on Crown street was
reported last night as improving.
The children of the parochial school
connected with the Zion German Luth-
eran church, corner Davenport avenue
and Ward street, will have their an
nual examinations this afternoon from
80 till 4 o'clock at the schoolhouse in
the rear of the church. The examna-
tons will be conducted by Teacher Max
Dressler. The public Is invited to at
tend.
There will be services at the Zion
German Lutheran church this evening
1880 O'Clock and tomorrow morning at
1880 o'clock. Rev. Ottmann will &C.
cupy the pulpit at both services.
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Foreign Notcs,

Cape Town, April 3.-seyeral plague
corpses have been found in the streets and
houses indicating efforts to conceal con
tact with the disease. The total number Of
deaths from the plague is 107 including 22
Europeans. There have been 315 eases Of
the plague. 8
Odessa, April 4.--Famine and typhus are
raging throughout the governments of
kherson and Bessanhia, and portions of
the governments of Kieff and Taurida The
mortality Is 30 per cent. Of the entire popu-
lation. a{3Ef
Berlin, April 3.-The new imperial three
per cent. loan of 300,000000 marks was Of
Tered Bl. today The directors Of. the Imperial
Bank this evening estimate that the sub.
scriptions amount to over Ago 100000 marks.
Madrid, April 4.-Yesterdays cabinet
council approved the basis of d treaty of
peace and friendship between Spain and
the United States
Copenhagen, April 1.-THE elections to the
Folkethlng have resulted In sweeping
Whelming defeat for the governdmcnt.
London, April 4.--The Morning Leader
publishes The following dispatch from
Vienna. ''At Smyrna, on the strength Of
rumors that the Jews had murdered Il
troops charged the mob with bayonets, one
person being killed and fourteen others
wounded"
Vienna, April Am important represen.
tative meeting of Austrian manufacturers
just held in Vienna dealt largely with the
question of meeting American competition.
A resolution was adopted unanimously de-
claring the necessity OF placing the com
mercial relations of the dual monarch with
the United States OH basis of reciprocity
and equality simultaneously with the re-.
newal Of the commercial treaties In 1903.
Odessa, April 3.-It is asserted that the
Russian political agent in Bulgaria has
sent to st. Petersburg n very pcssimistic
report regarding the situation in the halk-
ans, declaring that the Bulgarian govern
ment is quite incapable of coping EFFECTIVELY
with the agitation of the Macedonian com.
mittee, and that there Is constant danger
of some untoward incident leading to a
conaagratlon.
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CAT-AND-BIR LAW.
Cats Are Not Property and Nobody is
Table for Damage They Do.

Cats Are Not Property and Nobody is
Liable for Damage They Do.
A novel case was argued before JUS
tice L. /. O'Neal a few days ago involv-
ing the unique question as to whether
the owner Of a cat Is liable for damages
to The owner of valuable hooking
bird killed by the cat
1t appears that Mrs. Elizabeth @.
Belt, of 1903 New Hampshire avenue,
Northwest, is the owner Of a feline
which she prizes highly. Although this
cat is fond of his home, it is impossible
to keep him there all of the time. He
insists on rowing about the neighbour
hood. His visits have been particularly
frequent at the home of w. r. Vaughan,
1901 New Hampshire avenue which Is
one block away. No protest was enter
ed to the cats coming and going. 1t
was thought that he was attracted to
Mr.. Vaughan's residence by the warb-
lings OF an unusually fine hooking
bird. The other morning he entered
the PLAINTIFFS residence through an
open window. He attacked the bird,
which was in a cage on the table In the
sitting room, dragged 1t from its frail
prison. Killed it, and was In the act Of
making breakfast DIT 1t when discov-
cred by a servant.
Mr. Vaughan brought suit for 500
damages, the price at which he valued
the bird, against the owner Of the cat.
Papers were served upon Mrs. BELT,
and the case came up for hearing.
The proposition presented for Justice
O'Neal to decide was whether or not
under the circumstances the defendant
should pay the plaintiff the damages
asked. M
Both attorneys submitted exhaustive
briefs. The subject Of domestic and
wild animals and the owners liability
for trespasses committed by them was
deliberately treated and discussed. Cases
of dogs, cows, monkeys, bees and other
animals, excepting cats. were cited
an opinion of the supreme court Of the
United States even being quoted from.
But there was only one reported case
that could be found in the United
States which bore directly on the point.
That was the case of Mcdonald VS..
Jodrey In Eighth Pennsylvania county
court reports, page 142. The case was
furnished by Mr.. Newman aster the
first diligent research, and the book
could only be obtained from the law IL
brary at the capitol by special permits
sion, 1t sustained the defendants con-
tention in all respects, that the owner
of the cat was not liable for its depreda-
tons, under the exact conditions Of the
case then on hearing.
After this authority was read to JUS
tice O'Neal he promptly decided in ia
vor of the defendant and no appeal was
taken.
Justice O'Neal afterwards stated that
cats are not personal property and that
under existing laws the owner Of one
could not sustain an action against any
person who might kill or otherwise
make away with such an animal. 1T is
the duty Of the owners of birds to keen
their pets out of the way of all cats.
II in so doing it Is necessary to dispose
Of the cat, under the law no damage
Will have been done.-W Washington
Times.
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RECENT FACTORS IN HISTORY.

RECENT FACTORS IN HISTORY. u
Every century since the Renaisaancs
has seen the rise Of new power ana As
transfer Of political supremacy, Tha
sixteenth is the age of Spain. III the
seventeenth comes the rise Of France At
the expense Of Spain. With the eigh-
tenth there is the expansion Of Eng-
land at the cost of France. The ruling
political fact of the nineteenth century
has been the rise Of the German empire
at our expense, as Germans irnaginA
the twentieth century is mainly des-$
tined to show. Even IN the view Of aIl {
experienced and authoritative thinker
of absolute sobriety and deliberation
like Herr Won Brandt, the triumph Of
1870 is significant less as a goal Of at-
tainment than as a point Of DEPARTURE.
The idea represented by the Kaiser, ana
which has as complete a control over
the enthusiasm of his subjects In tha
mass ais the imperial sentiment exercise
es over us, is that Sedan, Versailles and
the indemnity, though marking at the
moment the overthrow of France, as- {
tablished in reality a continental base
for the development Of German worId-
power. The natural repetition Of hieto-
ry in the twentieth century, az Count
Won Bulow indicated in unmistakahle
terms, when introducing the new navy
bill two or three days after the battIA'
Of Colenso, would be the suppression of
British commercial and maritime HJ-
premacy by Germany-not necessarily Il
by violent means, but in the regular
course Of change by which the sceptre
Of pre- commence is drawn inevitably to
the hands most fit to grasp 1T, ais the
needle must follow the slow shift Of the
magnetic pole
The working of several other factors,
the American, the Russian, the JApa%
nese, must make the whole problem far
more complex and far less calculabl8
than the struggle for empire between
England and France throughout the
eighteenth century; but the broad issue
for the twentieth none the lesa n \
whether Great Britain or the German
empire at the end Of the next two or
three generations will possess the rela-
tive aecendency in trade and its insepa-
rable attribute Of sea power. 1t IA OBJ
vious that either or both may be our
passed by the United States. Between
these three the contest must be decided,
and the victor will have to settle with
Russia indeed, but at date which need
not interest contemporary speculation.
The conviction of Germans Is that they &
will be first, that their real difficulty
will be with America, and that wei IL
we retain at all place worth considers
ing a hundred years hence, shall be
third. The result in our case absolutely
depends upon the Thickness and the in
tensity with which we may realize that
this must be the actual problem of the
new century, whatever view may be
taken of the ultimate solution.-Fort-
nightly Review.