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W. C. T. U. WOMEN SAY GOODBY.
THE CLOSING EXERCISES OF THE
STATE CONVENTION.
Mr*. Snell’s Sermon nt Trinity Church
Lant Night—The Port She Took in
the Convention of the Man on
Whose Place the Snlllvan-Kilruln
Fight Took Place—Minn Kearney’*
Address at the Theater.
The cloning exercises of the state con
vention of the Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union were held at Trinity
Kchurch last night. At the conclusion of a
sermon by Mrs. Snell, the union's na
tional evangelist, the delegates to the con
vention and the members of the local
union were called to the altar railing,
where they joined hands and sang J ‘God
be with you till we meet again.” Mrs.
Snell prayed for the blessing of God upon
the work of the convention, and Dr. Cook,
pastor of Trinity church, pronounced the
benediction.
In his remarks before the close of the
convention, pr. Cook expressed regret
that so little interest had been taken in
its proceedings by the people of Savannah,
and that the meetings had been as poor
ly attended. He saia that when the con
vention comes to Savannah again, as it
likely will come in the course of the next
few years, he was satisfied more Interest
would be taken in its work.
The selection of the place of holding the
next convention was left with the execu
tive committee. An invitation was re
ceived from Thomasville, but It was
thought best to select some more central
place, many unions not having sent dele
gates to Savannah on account of the dis
tance.
Mrs. Snell conducted services yesterday
morning at Grace Methodist church, tn
the afternoon at the Bolton Street Chris
tian church and at night at Trinity Metho
dist church. She is one of the most pleas
ing speakers that ever addressed a Sa
vannah audience and those who heard her.
will remember her with pleasure. She
is earnest and unaffected in her manner
and so simple and dirent in her ideas and
applications and the relation of her own
experiences are eo interesting that she
disarms the most prejudiced and secures
the smypathy of her audience at once.
Mrs. Snell is a .Methodist and loves to
say so. She believe* in an earnest, ac
tive. vital Christianity that proves Its
faith by Its works and this is the .kind
of religion she advocates. Her sermon
was based upon Christ and the woman of
Samaria whom He met at the well and
tusked for a drink of water, and who ac
cepted him instantly when ho revealed
himself as the Messiah. Christ was a
Jew fyid the woman a Samaritan, but
this made no difference and sly? was the
first person to whom he directly stated
his Messtnhshtp. From these Incidents In
the narrative the speaker drew many
Interesting conclusions directly applica
ble to Christian life to-c)ay.
Mrs. Snell gives many interesting inci
dents of her own experiences, often both
laughable and pathetic. One of the most
Interesting was that of, the conversion of
Charles W. Rich, the widely known Mis
sissippi lumberman, at whose place the
battle between John L. Sullivan and Jake
Kllrain was fought several years ago. It
was at the request of his wife that Mrs.
Snell went to the Rich place for the espec
al purpose of converting Rich. She found
It a godless lumber town without a church
where the people had religious services
only once in two months. She held ser
vices in the school house. The country
men came •- in large numbers and brought,
their dogs with them in equally large num
bers. As soon as the singing began the
dogs set up a howl and threatened to
break up the meeting. Mrs. Snell had
been warned that the countrymen were
very sensitive about their dogs, but she
saw that either the dogs must go or the
meeting would be broken up, so she called
upon the men to put out the dogs. They
attempted" to do so, but as fast
as the dogs were kicked out they
ran in again uud between he yelping of
the dogs and the shouts of the boys pan
demonium reighed. The dogs were finally
gotten out", however, and n man was ata
’ ttonedat the door with a fence mil to keep
them out. Emboldened by tier success with
the dogs then proceeded to aback the
devil apd gained as complete a victory over
him aw she had over the clogs.
Rich whs converted as were most of his
cornrrnnions. When ho came forward to
the call »he made him call upon each of
his gambling associates as he hat) been a
great gambler, by name to come forward
and join him and they nil did so. The scene
was a very ’affecting one and there was
great rejoicing In the little village.
Mrs. Snell told another story of a Louis
iana lumberman whom she converted and
for whom she broke several hundred bot
tles of wine which he had Stored in his
cellar and which 'he turned over to her at
her request. In conclusion 'Mrs. Snell
called upon all who wished to be prayed
for that they might lead a new life to
come forward and give her their hands
and they did so.
FAULT OF CHRISTIAN VOTERS.
Miss Kearney’s Views ns to Why
Prohibition Ila* no Better Show.
Miss Belle Kearney, of Mississippi, na
tional organizer of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, delivered a bright and
interesting temperance talk to an audi
ence of about 250 or 300 at the theater in
the afternoon. Miss Kearney was serious
and sarcastic, pleasant. and ironical, hu
morous and pathetic.
She was' Introduced after tho opening
hymn and. prayer by Rov. Mr. Webb, by
Rev. J. O. A. Cook, who said Savannah
was honored by having two of the na
tional officers of the union present at the
state convention.
Miss Kearney's subject, as announced,
was "The responsibility of Christian men
to prohibition, or how will your, hands
look in the searchlight?”
She began by saying it had gone out of
fashion to rail against saloon men and
the liquor traffic. She spoke of its spread
In many directions, and said the traffic
had wound its way around the pillars of
the capital at Washington, as wap evi
denced by tho drunkenness of senators
ami representatives when congress ad
journed, and policemen had to be called in
to prevent open broils In some instances,
too, the trktfic in liquor had wound itself
around the pillars of the church.
"On one occasion," Wise Kearney said,
"I took a cab in Toronto, the drive*- of
which was somewhat of a wit. He stop
ped at tho intersection of two streets and
rhowod me on one corner a school, on an
other a church, on a third a parliament
building and on tho other a saloon. -We
call those corners, respectively,' he sanl,
•"Education. Salvation, Legislation and
Damnation."
“The liquor traffic is tho most potent
factor in modern civilization," Miss Kear
ney said. "The clink of gold degrades the
s . best citizens and palsies the hands of the
* best of men. There was never a stronger
alliance made than that of the United
gtwtew with the liquor traffic. Govern
ment receipts from liquor amount to
sll6.<X*o.ooo annually. Our children hni
better grow up uneducated; we had bet
ter walk over mowed ground and live
tn perpetual darkness than live in luxury
derived from such a source.”
She made no dtettnclton between the
degree of guilt es the man who signed
a liquor petition and the one who raises
no protest against the traffic, n w *< «,
ease where silence is treachery. Some of
the reasons why prohibition don't pro
hibit, she •aid. are amusing and Interest-
of our states shut out liquor
by statutory prohibition, but the great
constitution of our national government
too often breaks down the barriers and
nullifies the state laws. Agents of the
national government go Into a prohibition
territory ami isaue government licensee
under local option, the saloons are dosed
tn one town In a county but open tn an
other; the jug trade follows, ok! and
young men get on drunken sprees, and
still the cry is raised prohibition does
not prohibit. Os course prohibition does
not prohibit when congressmen favor
liquor law* and municipal officers favor
saloons. Give us an out and out prohibi
tion law, awd officers who favor it. and
It will be proven that prohibition wifi
prohibit."
Miss Kearney then took up the question
of ihe t allot There are voters tn
th«» United States, she said. matorit'*
of whom art Christiana, and therein lies
-
the whole secret of the power of the
liquor traffic.
"Christian men,” Miss Kearney said,
"let partisanship instead of principle rule.
How is |t here in Savannah? Christian
editors publish liquor advertisements,
Christians rent property to Saloon keepers,
sign liquor petitions, hold family prayers,
and at their conclusion take a social glass.
"Christian ministers pass thousands of
gallons of wine across the communion al
tar,’ to a certain extent a support of sa
loons. The church has no true conception
of its mission or such apathy would not
exist as Is found on its part. That Chris
tian president of ours recommended pro
hibition for Africa, but fails to see any
good in It for this country.”
Miss Kearney could not reconcile the
idea of a Christian church sending mis
sionaries to foreign countries, and the
Christian government from which they
went following this up with the exporta
tion of thousands of gallons of rum.
“The Christian men,” Miss Kearney said,
"are In the majority and with them lies
the remedy." She wanted a Jaw, a national
law which would keep out alcoholic li
quors of every description, except chemic
ally pure alcohol, fn government packages
for scientific purposes. The only way to
get It. she said, is to put the right kind of
men in the halls of congress.
Georgia is now 90 per cent, prohibition
by statutory law. It should go one step
farther, she said, and put down the traf
fie altogether. She told a very pathetic
little story to illustrate the subject, how
will your hands look In the search light?
"Vote, as you pray!” was a motto she
gave to the Christian/ She mentioned the
evils resultant on the - liquor traffic. "All
this may go on,” she said," but with the
help of God, Fll keep my bands clean.”
The audience had been in doubt jvhether
to applaud the speaker. This sentiment
seemed to bring forth the applause spon
taneously, and ft was frequently bestowed
to the end of her talk/
The Christian voter, she said needs more
moral courage, more backbone. She had
a word to say to young men. Goethe
said a nation’s history for a time de
pended largely upon the thoughts of its
young men under 25 years. Two prime
causes, she said, are now sapping away
the strength of our young men—liquor
and tobacco'. She mentioned some of the
evils and disorders alleged to be due to
the use of tobacco, and said one-third
of the applicants at the Annapolis Naval
Academy were turned away because of
a tobacco hearth
After scoring the cigarette fiend Mrs.
Kearney spoke of the successful men of
the world, the vast majority of whom, she
said, wer total abstainers. She mentioned
S. S. Prentiss as one of the few excep
tions. She told a story of the life of John
Wooley, the famous temperance lecturer,
who was first a lawyer, then for fifteen
years a drunkard, after which he went
on the temperance platform. She said
his first son was born before he became a
slave to drink, and is now a hearty healthy
man of ability and talent, while two others
born after he became an habitual drunk
ard were in their youth physical wrecks,
and subject to the same diseases and pas
sions which their father had at that time.
Miss Kearney was warmly applauded
at. the conclusion of her address. A sub
scription of $5 was then asked for for
the purpose of honoring Mr. W. C. Sibley
of Augusta by making him a life mem
ber of tho woman’s Christian Temper
ance Union. Miss Kearney said she had
intended asking the audiefice to honor
several prominent workers in this way,
but the responses for life membership did
not seme to be forthcoming, so a collection
was taken up by the ladies, to which
appeal those In the audience respondea
quite liberally.
THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.
Feature* of May Week ito Be Put Up
in Elegant Style.
The official May week programme is ex
pected to be one of the handsomest this
year that has ever been published In Sa
vannah. It will be a beautifully illustra
ted 100 page book, with gilt covers and to
its preparation considerable artistic taste
will be devoted. Mr, H. M. Lowitz has
been secured as canvassar for the pro
gramme, and he began calling on. the
merchants yesterday for advertlsemnts
for the programme. A considerable por-i
tion of the programme will be devoted
co savannah and points of interest
around the city. It will contain Illustra
tions of such places as Bonaventure,
Forsyth park, the De Soto hotel, the cot
ton exchange, and other features of inter
est. An elaborate programme is being
prepared for the visitors of the week,
and a description of each feature will be
given in the programme, besides a
general directory to the places of interest
around the city.
The programmes will be distributed free
this year, though during the last May
week they were sold. Tne issue will bb
5.0G0 and will be well distributed through
the country and among the merchants
and others who do their trading In Sa
vannah.
An enthusiastic meeting of the general
committee was held yesterday at the
store of Messrs. Lindsay & Morgan, and
. several reports were received and passed
on. Letters have been received from a
number of military companies of Georgia,
Florida and South Carolina, inquiring
about the May week celebrations, with a
view to participating in the contests for
prizes. The committee reports that the
merchants generally have consented to al
low their clerks to join in the military
parade. The interest In the celebration
seems to be on the increase, and several
contributions have been received from
merchants on Bay street, in addition to
those already reported.
PAYtifi HELD FOR TRIAL.
To Answer for Opening Mail While
a Postofliee Clerk.
Elliott, F. Payge was held for trial at the
next term of the United States court on
the charge of opening mail while in the
employ of the postoffice department, by
Commissioner Isaac Beckett yesterday.
The hearing has been going on several
days before Commissioner Beckett. Tho
evidence appears to make out a very plain
case that Payge opened a small package
addressed to Gardner & Einstein by
breaking in the end of it, but does not
show any motive for doing «o or any fe
lonious intention on his part. Commis
sioner Beckett simply decided that the
evidence was sufficient to hold Pavge for
trial by jury. He did not pass upon the
question of his guilt.
* TO BUY NEwYaRS?
Judge Speer’s Authority to the Elec
tric Railway.
An order signed by Judge Speer, author
izing Receivers Young and Collins to pay
21,000 from the net earnings of the com
pany to the J. G, Brill Company, on the
cart trust notes due, and also to buy
three trail cars for summer travel on the
suburban lines, at an amount not to ex
ceed SBOO. was filed tn the United States
court here yesterday.
—A highly interesting study of what a
hundred years of war have cost France
in human life has just been made public
Hagrieau. member of the Academy
of Medicine of Paris, and is found in the
Lancet. When the revolution broke out.
France's effective army was only 139,090
tnen. For the wars waged during ten
years in Belgium, on the Sambre, the
Meuse, the Rhine, the Alps, the Pyrenees.
In the Vendee. and In Egypt, there were
called out 2,300,000. At the census made
tn the ninth year of the republic there
remained of these only 877,598. In killed
and in dead by disease the wars of the
first republic cost France 2.122.402 men.
From 1801 to VI aterloe 3.157.398 men. scarce
ly sufficed to till the blanks which. In an
incessant war against combined Europe
France incurred at Austerlitz, Jena. Auer
stedt. Friedland, Saragpssa. Eckmuhl
Essling. Wagram. Taragona,
Moscow. Lutzeq, Bautzen, Dresden. Leip
zig and Waterloo. Under the restoration
taiuis Philippe, and the second republic'
in spite of the war in Spain (18231. the con
quest of Algiers (1830), and the taking of
Antwerp. France passed through a com
parative calm. The army numbered
about 213,701 and the mortality averaged
23 per 1.009, In 1853-55 commence.! (he
epoch of the great wars—the Crimea. Ttalv
(l&O-tii)), Chin* (1880-61), Mexico (1562-66)
and the disasters of 1870. In the Crimea'
out of men, 95 615 succumbed; In
Italy, out of 900,000, there dted 18.87$; in
China, I*o. and in Cochin China 48 per
l.wO. The second empire cost France
■ about 1,600.00) soldiers. According to Dr
Lagneau s demographic tables, the cen
tury from 1795 to 1895 witnessed the death
battle or by disease of 8,000,000 French
soldiers.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1895.
H. B. PLANT REACHING OUT.
THE PLANT SYSTEM PUSHING ITS
LINES INTO NEW TERRITORY.
Mr. Plant, Figuratively Speaking,
Says His Neighbors’ Cows Got Into
His Field—He Says He Will Show Up
This Section of the South at the
Exposition Because He Thinks It
Will Attract Immigration—Nothing
to Say of the Georgia Southern.
President H. B. Plant of the Plant sys
tem lines was in the city yesterday on
his way north after spending most of the
winter in Florida. He is in good health
and is looking unusually well after his
winter in the south. .
He was seen at his private car
and talked interestingly of the Florida
season and the situation in general in that
state.
“From ia tourist standpoint,” he said,
"the season has not been one that we can
complain of. In fact, it has been an ex
traordinarily good season and much bet
ter than last year. I have obtained no
figures as yet as to the amount of travel,
but am satisfied that It has been a good
average season.
"With the freight traffic, however, it
has been different. The farmers there suf
fered from the cold weather and the trans
portation companies must likewise suffer.
The orange tree is a very tenacious tree,
however, and it is surprising how many
of them have held on and began to put
out shoots as soon as the last freeze had
passed and warmer weather returned. I
have been unable to estimate the damage
with any exactness, but It is undoubtedly
true that not near so many orange trees
were killed as was at first supposed. The
truck crops which came on later are now
doing very well.”
"You have been reaching out and ex
tending your territory,” was suggested.
"Well, you know how it is with the care
ful farmer,” Mr, Plant said smiling. “He
may have a pretty good farm but after
while his neighbors’ cows will break down
the barriers and fences and get In onto
it in one way or another. Then he buys
the farm next to him, and moves the fences
further away, but the cattle are still there
somehow or other, and he tries to keep
on until he gets to a natural barrier that
they can’t break through. We have been
worried with considerable competition, I
don’t mean the ordinary legitimate compe
tition, but competition that goes beyond
these methods, and of course, we must
protect ourselves.”
"It Is said that you intend to have an
extravagant exhibit at the Atlanta Expo
sition,” was ventured.
“Well,, no; hardly extravagant, was
Mr. Plant’s reply. "But we intend to
show up every- industry and branch of
wofk along the lines of the system. It
will, of course, help the people along our
lines, and we go on the idea that what
helps them help us. It is true that the
project will cost a good deal of money,
but we feel that the end in view justifies
the work and expenditures for this pur
pose. I have heard it said that every
good industrious farmer that comes to
Georgia is worth SI,OOO to the state. I
have never been able to calculate the
value of the immigrant in dollars and
cents, but there is no doubt that the right
class of immigrants are a good thing for
any section. They come, of course, to
benefit themselves, but in so doing they
must of necessity benefit others around
them.”
"It has been Intimated that you are
seeking to purchase the Georgia South
ern and Florida railroad ”
“That, of course, is a matter of business
about which we can at present say noth
ing," was Mr. Plant’s reply. “The road
is at present in the hands of the bond
holders. or will be as soon as the sale Is
confirmed by the court. When the bond
holders secure full control of the prop
erty and express a desire to sell it, we
may talk about it, but we never buy
anything until it is for sale. The Geor
gia Southern and Florida is a good con
nection with our lines, and we give them
a good deal of business and take a good
deal from them.”
TO HAVE A YEAR TO BUILD IN.
A special meeting of the city council
was held yesterday afternoon at which
several important matters were disposed
of. The committee of the whole reported
by substitutes upon the ordinance extend
ing the time allowed to the Macon, Dub
lin and Savannah railroad to fulfill the
conditions of the grant of certain proper
ty made it by the city in 1892.
The company is granted until May 1,
1896, to build 50 miles of road between
Dublin and Savannah, and until Nov. 1,
1898, to complete its entire line between
the points named.
In consideration of this extension it is
required to pay into the city treasury
$2,500 within three months from date.
The following reservations are made by
the city: 50 feet of the northern portion of
lot No. 57, Springfield plantation, from
Styles avenue to the lot described in the
grant of March 2, 1892, as city lot, are Re
served for a street, to be 50 feet in width,
and 40 feet of the northern portion of the
city lot is reserved for a continuation of
Hungtingdon street.
If the property mentioned in the grant
of March 2, 1892. lots 57, 58 and 59 Spring
field plantation and the city lot named,
or any part of these lots, should be di
vided into building lots by the railroad
company, then the city of Savannah shall
have the right to extend its streets run
ning north and south through the prop
erty without cost.
The first ordinance granting property to
the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railroad
was passed March 2, 1892, and under a
resolution of council passed August 17,
1892, certain other lands, rights of way,
privileges and facilities were granted the
railroad company. The grant was re
newed by an extension of time Feb. 14,
1891, for one year.
A NEWSPAPER OFFICE RVIDED.
All the Attaches Jailed on n Charge
of Criminal Libel.
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 30.—The ini
tial number of the Harriman Tennessee
Progress contained a leader bitterly at
tacking W. H. Ladd, sheriff of Roane
county. The vocabulary of vituperation
was well nigh exhausted. Adultery, de
fault in office, suborning of witnesses in
a recent celebrated murder trial, and other
equally wicked charges were made against
Ladd.
To-day the sheriff and a number of his
deputies made a clean sweep of the Prog
ress, carrying the editor. George H. Free
man, with H. Sanborn and A. W. Will
iams. the proprietors, to jail at Kingston
on the charge of criminal libel. Two of- i
flee employes, including the typo who set
the obnoxious editorial, were arrested.
This is th» greatest sensation Harriman,
the magic town, has ever experienced, the
citizens arrested being the most influ
ential in the city.
MACON AIR YINE.
Central Railroad Bondholders Not
Scared Over the Talk.
New York. April 3h.-Counsel for some
of the divisional bondholders of the
Georgia Central road, who have had con
ferences with th® managers for
the receivers, say that the Cen
tral security holders need not be
alarmed by the talk of serious compe
tition from the new line proposed be
tween Savannah and Macon. There has
been the same talk of competition ever
since the abandonment of the old plans
of the Savannah. Dublin and Western
railroad. Thus far ail that has been
done is the purchase of the Atlantic Short
Une property and franchises bv ihe Ma
con and Dublin. There are some well
known railroad men connected with the
enterprise, but their plans have not been
completed yet.
A MONTH FOR STAR GAZING.
All of the Planets in Favorable Po
sition For Observation.
During the month of May every one of
the planets will be on the same side of the
sun at the same time, and several of them
will be in favorable positions for obser
vation. On the 4th Mercury will be in
superior conjunction, which means that
it will be on the opposite side of the sun
from us. After this date it will be even
ing star, and toward the close of this
month it may be easily seen in the west
at dark.
Venus is the most brilliant star in the
western heavens. She may be easily rec
ognized by her dazzling splendor and
her steady white light. The motion of
Venus is now nearly in a direct line to
ward the earth, and for the next two
months she will gain rapidly upon us. As
seen through the telescope, Venus appears
likfe a half moon, and soon she will as
sume a crescent form. It is difficult to
realize that this brilliant point of light
is a world nearly as large as our own,
and moving in space at the rate of 22
miles per second, or nearly one hundred
times as fast as a cannon ball.
About 17 degrees east of Venus shines
Jupiter with a splendor rivaling that of
the goddess of love and beauty. This giant
world is now in the constellation Gemini,
and in a very favorable position for ob
servation. Its motion now Is direct, anti it
will be interesting to observe its? change
of position from .night to nlgtit. with ref
erence to two small fixed stars very near
It. About one and a half degrees to the
northeast of Jupiter may be seen a red
star not so bright as Jupiter, but shining
with a steady light. This is the planet
Mars so prominent In the east last sum
mer. It is gradually receding frojn us.
Saturn is nt>w In . opposition
and nearest to us. It may
be seen rising In the east a llttlte after
sunset and easily recognized by its large
size and white .light. The other bright
star about ten degrees to the west is
Spica in Virgo. The rings of Saturn are
now sufficiently widened out to present a
fine view in the telescope. What a mag
nificent system this! A planet, 700 times
as large as the earth with three broad
flat of meteoric matter revolving
around it, and outside of these rings eight
moons one of which is larger than the
planet Mercury.
Uranus is barely visible to the naked
eye even on a dark night, though a tele
scope will reveal its disk and greenish
light. Uranus will be In opposition to the
sun on the Bth. It is now situated in the
constellation Libra, abodt 15 degrees
southeast of Saturn. L T ranus Was discov
ered by Herschel in 1781. It is sixty-five
times the size of the earth, and revolves
around the sun in eighty-four years. It
has four moons which revolve around the
planet in a direction opposite to that of
our moon around the earth. .’
Along the ecliptic, Libra Is just rising,
Virgo is midway, Leo is on the meridian,
Cancer is past, next Gemini, and lastly
Taurus just setting. In the north, Ursa
Major is above the Cepheus and Casiopeia
below, and Perseus west. Lyra and Her
cules are in the northeast and Orion and
Canis Major in the southeast. Nearly
overhead at dark is Regulus the bright
star in the sickle of Leo, a little to the
northeast Arcturus blazes with a red light.
This star Is approaching us at the rate of
fifty-five miles a seqbnd. It Is mentioned
by name in the book of Job. (See Job, 9: 9.)
Otis Ashmore,
CURRENT COMMENT. '
Bugs in PoliticM.
From the Macon (Ga.) News (Dem.).
The suggestion that there are two dif
ferent kinds of bugs, goldbugs and hum
bugs, seems to be generally accepted as a
truism.
Radically Opposed to Gold.
From Talbotton ,(Qa.) New Era (Den£).
t 1 c. ' i • i.
It is said that some of the editors of
rabid free silver papers do not wish to go
to the New Jerusalem the- streets are
paved with gold.
The Typical Free Silverlte.
Waynesboro (Ga.) True-Cltizen (Dem.).
W’hen you hear a fellow sitting around
on goods boxes talking about demonetiza
tion of silver, its a fact so far as he is con
cerned. It is possible that he doesn’t
know it as money and never will.
A Pet Theory Knocked Out.
From the Douglass (Ga.) Breeze (Dem.J.
The higher price in cotton and wheat,
as against the decline in silver, completely
knocks the "stuffin' ” out of the silverites.
This to them, must seem quite a calamity
as it will doom their pet theory to utter
banishment.
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A Perverse Commodity,
From Abbeville (Ga:) Exponent (Dem.).
How does a decline in sliver make cot
ton and wheat go down while it makes
corn, oats, lard and pork go up? If the
silver monometallists are correct in the|r
cotton and wheat arguments, silver must
be a very perverse thing.
Cheap Money Wouldn’t Help Them.
From Newnan (Ga.) Herald (Dem.).
There are farmers yet living In Coweta
county who were driven to bankruptcy
because they could not make enough
money with 18c cotton to pay the cost of
operating their farms. They had to pay
high prices for everything they purchased.
Less demagoguery and more common
sense is what is needed for the settlement
of the financial problem.
Working for a Silver Standard.
From Abbeville (Ga.) Exponent (Dem.).
Gold is the most precious of all metals,
and has always been a standard money
metal. The effort to drive it out of cir
culation, and thus precipitate a silver
standard should not and will not succeed.
We hold to the use of both gold and
silver as a money metal, but the policy
of the free silverites will, if successful,
force the country to the single silver
standard. It is a dangerous heresy. When
the Democratic party commits itself to
that fallacy it will go back on its record
for sound money and will commit suicide.
It will go. out of power, if not quite out
of existence.
Good Money the Thing Wanted.
Correspondence Milledgeville (Ga). .Union-
Recorder (Dem).
Many of us are poor and in debt and,
willing to pay our debts dollar for dollar'
and we do not wish cheap money to pay
with. We fear that what we have to sell
we will have to take cheap money for.
We may get a good price, nominally. It
will not be because the commodity will
be worth the price but because the money
is worth so little. We are a great people,
and have a glorious country, and are en
titled to as good money as any people and
if we are to have one standard of value
let us have the best. Gold is money every
where, silver is not. Let us therefore if
we have only one. have the one that will
settle our hotel bills around the world
without any exchange charges. As the
stamp of the United states is all that is
wanted, let us alter our constitution,
strike out gold and silver and insert in
lieu thereof copper and iron, then we will
have cheap money and plenty of it, and
not violate our constitution.
A hangcrotn Catch Phrase.
Thomasville (Ga.) Times-Enterprise (Dem)
Free silver! It is a catehy phraze; but
it is a most misleading one. Silver, gold
and greenbacks are free now to those who
will earn them or have something to sell
for them. We have over six hundred mil
lions d( silver dollars, and they are. by
the wise course of Mr. Cleveland, kept on
a parity with gold, and are free to every
body to earn and possess. The fact is that
thousands want and expect the govern
ment to furnish them stiver free. That is :
their idea of the duty of the government. -
Thousands have run mad on government •
paternalism. They want the government
to do what they should do for themselves.
The functions of the government ceases
when it furnishes its citizens with enough
sound money for commercial purposes
and with which to transact all necessary
business.
COTTON TAKES A DROP.
SPOTS l-16c LOWER AND NO TRANS-
ACTIONS REPORTED.
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Spirits Turpentine Firmer, With Fair
Sales at the Current Price—Rosin
in Good Demand at Unchanged
Prices The General Wholesale
Trades Fairly Active, With Prices
Unchanged.
Savannah, May I.—The month opened
up flat In the cotton market, prices hav
ing declined l-16c. Naval stores started
out In fairly good shape; the expected de
cline In spirits failed to realize and a
sharp demand caused transactions on a
fair 'scale at yesterday’s closing price.
Rosin was in good demand during the
early part of the day, and continued later,
but offerings did not arrive until late in
the day. The general markets were steady
and unchanged, with a fair business do
ing. The following resume of the differ
ent markets will show the tone and the
quotations at the close to-day;
COTTON.
The pressure of a lower futures market
had the effect of influencing spots to de
cline to-day. There was scarcely any de
mand, though the small' stocks in the
hands of factors were not freely offered.
The regular daily call at the cotton ex
change at 10:30 a. m., and 4 p. m., were
discontinued to-day, and only the 1
o’clock quotations will be bulletined each
day, until Sept. 1. On ’change at the
regular call at 1 o’clock, the market was
bulletined quiet, at l-16c below yester
day’s closing. There were no sales re
ported.
The following were the official spot quo
tations at the close of the market at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
Good middling .....6 9-16
Middling 6 5-16
Low middling ~.r
Good! ordinary 5%
Ordinary
Market—Quiet; sajes. none.
Sea Islands —The market was quiet. The
quotations remained unchanged as fol
lows:
Choice Ga.’s and Fla.’sl6@l6’£
Extra fine Ga.’s and Fla.’s, fu11....15
, Extra fine Ga.’s and Fla.’s, scant..l3
Fine Ga.’s and Fla.’s 11%
Medium fine Ga.’s and Fla.’sU@lV4
Medium Ga.’s and Fla.’s 10@10’/4
Savannah receipts, exports and stocks:
Receipts this day 39S
Same day last year 1,275
Receipts since Sept. 1 ,’94917„61>6
Same time last year 928,525
Exports, ccastwise, this day 1,590
Stock on hand this day 32,767
Same day last year 29,675
Receipts and Stocks at the ports—
Receipts this day 6,199
This day last week..../ 8,527
This day last year 3,452
Receipts past five days 42,204
Same time last year 21,027
Total receipts since Sept. 1, 1894....7,678,489
Same time last year 5,697,720
Stock at the ports to-day..., 665,194
Stock same day last year 579,857
Receipts this week last year—
Saturday..3,93s | Wednesday3,4s2
M'onday 7,851 I Thursday 4,165
Tuesday...»s,7B9 | Friday..,..16,365
Daily Movement at Other Ports—
Galveston—Quiet; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts, 715; sales, 44; stock, 45,149.
New Orleans—Easy; middling, 6 3-16; net
receipts, 1,353; sales, 2,000; stock, 238,902.
Mobile—Quiet; middling, net re
ceipts, 132; sales, 200; stock. 14,069.
Charleston—Firm; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts, 387; sales, 300; stock, 33,998.
Wilmington—Quiet; middling, 6%; net
receipts, 27; sales, 204; stock, 13,160 cor
rected.
Norfolk—Easy; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts. 483; sales, 365; stock, 24,493.
Baltimore—Quiet; middling, 6%; net
receipts, none; gross, 100; sales, none?
stock, 15,096.
New York—Quiet; middling, 7 1-16; net
receipts, none; gross, 4,623; sales, 135;
stock, 232,347.
Boston—Dull; middling, 6 15-16; net re.
ceipts, 2,273.
Philadelphia—Quiet; middling, 7%; net
receipts. 434; stock, 11,299.
Daily Movement at Interior Towns-
Augusta—Quiet; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts, 152; sales, 91; stock, 14,785.
Memphis—Quiet; middling, 6%l net re.
ceipts, 147; gross, 623; sales, 250; stock,
31.286.
St. Louis—Quiet steady; middling, 6 15-16
net receipts, 30; gross, 540; sales, 300;
stock, 42,756.
Cincinnati—Firm; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts, 360; sales, 150; stock, 10,657.
Houston—Quiet; middling, 6%; net re
ceipts, 876; sales, none, stock, 12,111.
Exports of Cotton This Day—
Galveston—Coastwise, 47.
New Orleans—To the continent, 2,012;
coastwise, 3,027.
Mobile—Coastwise, 1,779. >
Savannah—Coastwise, 1,590.
Wilmington—To the continent, 3,881. i
Norfolk—Coastwise, 494.
New York—Forwarded, 405.
Boston—To Great Britain, 2,577.
Total foreign exports from all ports to
day: To Great Britain, 2,577; to the con
tinent, 5,893.
Total foreign exports from all ports
thus far this week: To Great Britain,
47,698;t0 France, 1,213; to the continent,
47.680.
Total foreign exports since Sept. 1, 1894:
To Great Britain, 3,125,940; to France, 740,-
045; to the continent, 2,226,822.
Liverpol, May 1, noon.—Cotton, fair bus
iness done; prices downward tendency;
American middling, 3%d; sales, 12/000
bales; American. 11,400 bales; speculation
and export, 1,000 bales; receipts, 13,100,
bales, all American.
Futures opened easy; demand fair;
American middling, low middling clause,
May-June, 3.33 d, also 3.32 d; June-July, 3.34 d,
also 3.33 d; July-August, 3.35 d. also 3.34 d;
August-Spetember, 3.34 d, also 3.36 d, also
3.35 d, also 3.36 d; September-October, 3.38 d,
also 3.37 d; October-November, 3.38 d; No
vember-December, 3.40 d, also 3.39 d;
December-January, 3.40 d; January-Febru
ary, 3.42 d, also 3.41 d. Futures steady at
the decline. Tenders, 2,100 bales, new
<3 oclcc t s.
Liverpool. May 1, p. m.—American mid
dling, fair. 4 5-32 d; good middling, 3 23-32 d;
low middling, 3 7-64 d; good ordinary, 3
5-16 d; ordinary, 3%d; May, 3.31@3.32 sellers;
May-June, sellers; June-July,
3.32@3.33d sellers; July-August, 3.33<g;3.34d;
buyers; August-September, 3.35 d sellers;
September-October, 3.36 d sellers; October-
November, 3.37 d buyers; November-Decem
ber, 3.Wi3.39d sellers; December-January,
3.39@3.40d sellers; January-February, 3.40
»>3. lid value; February-March, 3.41@3.42d
buyers Futures closed quiet.
New York, May I.—Noon.—Cotton fu
tures opened easy; May, 6.69 c; June, 6.59 c;
July, 6.63 c; August, 6.68 c: September, 6.69 c;
October, 6.73 c; November, 6.76e; December,
6.81 c; January, 6.87 c.
New York, May I.—p. m.—Cotton fu
tures closed steady; sales, 272,400 bales.
May, 6.64 c; June, 6.56 c; July, 6.61 c; August,
6.65 c; September, 6.67 c; October, 6.71 c; No
vember, 6.75 c; December, 6.79 c; January,
6.85 c; February, 6.90?; March, 6.95 c.
New Orleans, May I.—Cotton futures
steady: sales. 115,900 bales: May, 6.13; June,
July. 6.39; August, 6.36; September,
6.37; October, 6.39; November, 6.43; Decem
ber, 6.48; January, 6.52.
New Orleans, May L—New Orleans cot
ton exchange statement. Semi-weekly
movement at thirteen leading interior
towns;
Receipts this year, 9,615 bales, against
7,262 last year and 9,988 year before last;
shipments. 21,007 bales, against 13,771 last
year, and 16,773 year before last; stock,
138,902 bales, against 142,837 last year, and
242.798 year before last. The semi-weekly
reports will be discontinued from date
until next October. - ■
New Orleans, May I.—The New Orleans
cotton exchange statement for eight
months to the close of April is as follows:
Port receipts, 7,730,153 bales, against 5,-
682.842 last year and 4,738,725 year before
last, and 4.735,555 for the same time in
J 892; overland to mills and Canada, 946,-
506 bales, against 788,714 bales last year,
805.931 bales year before last and 1,179,810
bales for the same time in 1892; interior
stocks in excess of Sept. 1. 114.300 bales,
against 193.891 bales last year, 155.700 bales
year before last and 232,274 bales for same
time in 1892; southern mill takings, ex
clusive of consumption at southern out
ports. 586,199 bales, against 590,591 bales
last year. 572,880 bales year before last and
518.226 bales for same time in 1892; crop in
sight at the close of April. 9,377.358 bales,
against 7.166.401 bales last year. 6.272,542
bales year before last and 8»665,865 bales
for same time in 1892: crop brought into
sight for the month of April, 323.890 bales
against 249.«0 bales last year, 202,437 bales
year before last and 271,576 bales for same
time in 1892; movements into sight April
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time in 1892.
New York, May I.—Riordan & Co. say
of cotton to-day: “The big reaction in cot
ton for which so many traders have been
waiting came to-day. Liverpool being still
uneasy over the Japan trouble, broke bad
ly. Our opening was at a further decline
of six points. The slump caught a suc
cession of stop orders and gathering im
petus with the exhaustion of margins the
tumble went on until August which open
ed at 6.69 c. had sold at 6.67 c, or about 18
points lower than yesterday’s closing price
at this point the bull leaders began to
pick up the contracts that were being
thrown over board so recklessly. A" partial
recovery quickly followed. August reacted
to 6.66 c and closed at 6.65@6.66c, with the
tone steady, the liquidation yesterday and
to-day has been heavy, and it is fair to
presume that the bulk of the weekly mar
gined holdings which the market was over
loaded, i have been sold out. With this
menace removed, cotton is a safer pur
chase than it has been recently. We re
gard the slump to-day as only a temporary
set back and strongly favor buying.”
NAVAL STORE S.
Spirits Turpentine—The market was
firm ail day and a fair demand was made
for the receipts. The sales were about
1,000 casks. At the Board of Trade, at the
first call, at 11 o’clock a. m., the market
was bulletined firm at 27c, with sales of
900 casks. At the last call, at 4 o’clock,
it was firm and unchanged, with further
sales of 86 casks.
Rosin—There was a fair demand at un
changed prices and all goods were taken.
At the Board of Trade, at the first call
the sales reported were 2,284 barrels, in
cluding 415 W. W„ 130 W. G-, 52 N, 35 M.
30 K, 91 I, 126 H, 281 G, 524 F, 365 E, 146 D,
and 68 C.
There were no sales reported at the
closing of the market.
The following were the quotations
posted at both calls at the Board of
Trade, the tone being firm:
A, B, Csl 00 1 ...$1 90
D1 10@l 15 K 2 10
E1 20@l 25 M 2 45
F1 40(?i l 45 N 2 50
G 150 W G. 260
H 180 W W 2 75
Naval Stores Statement-
Spirits. Rosin.
Stock on hand April 1, 1895.... 2,421 89,280
Received to-day 848 2,272
Received previously —,19,740 56,611
Total 7.23,009 148,163
Expiorts to-day 403 3,726
Exports previously ;12,789 81,361
Total 13,192 85,087
Stock on hand and on ship-
beard this day 9,817 63,076
Stock same day last year .... .12,998 100,403
Receipts same day last year .. 894 1,538
Charleston, S. C., May I.—Turpentine
firm, 27c; receipts, 21 casks. Rosin, good
strained, firm, $1.10; receipts, 191 barrels.
Wilmington, May I.—Rosin steady;
strained, 31.15; good strained, $1.20. Spirits
turpentine steady at 27%c. Tar steady at
$1.05. Crude turpentine quiet; hard, $1.20;
soft, $1.80; virgin, $2.25.
New York, May Rosin dull, steady;
strained common to good, $1.50@1.52%;
turpentine quiet, steady, 30%@31c.
RICE.
The market is quiet. The following quo
tations are posted at the Board of Trade:
Clean—Per pound, fair 3@3%c- good, 3%@
3%c; prime, 4%®4%c; head, sc; job lots,
%c, higher.
Rough—4se§’sl.2o per bushel.
New York, May I.—Rice firm, un
changed. <
FINANCIAL.
Money is steady, with fair demand.
Domestic Exchange—The tone of the
market is steady. Banks are buying at par
and selling at % per cent, premium up to
$5,000; over $5,000 at SI.OO per SI,OOO.
Foreign Exchange—Market steady. The
following are net Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, $4.88%, sixty days,
$4.87%; ninety days, 4.87%; continentals,
steady; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days, $5.18%; Swiss, sixty days, $5.20;
marks, sixty days, 95 3-16.
Securities—The market is dull.
State Bonds—Georgia, 4% per cent., 1915
115 bid, 116 asked; Georgia 7 per cent.,
1896, 104% bld, 105% asked; Georgia 3% per
cent., long dates. 102 bld, 103 asked.
City Bonds—New Savannah 5 per cent.
July coupons, 106 bid, asked; New Sa
vannah, 5 per cent., August coupons, 105%
bid, 106 asked.
Railroad Bonds—Central Railroad and
Banking Company collateral, gold ss, 90
bid, 95 asked; Central consolidated mort
gage 7 per cent, coupons, January and
July maturity, 123 bid, asked; Bavan-»
nah and Western railroad 5 per cent, trust
certificates, 54 bid, 54% asked; Savannah.
Americus and Montgomery 6 per cent., 55
bid,55% asked;Georgla railroad 6 per cent.,
1910, bld, 110 asked: Georgia Southern
and Florida first mortgage 6 per cent., 87%
Md. asked; Montgomery and Eufaula
first mortgage 6 per cent., indorsed by
Central railroad. 102 bld, 103 asked; Au
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage 7 per
cent., 98 bid, 101 asked; Ocean Steamship
5 per cent., due 1920, 97% bid, 98% asked;
Columbus and Rome first mortgage bonds,
indorsed by Central railroad, bid, 43
asked; Columbus and Western 6 per cent.,
guaranteed, 111 bid, 112 asked; City and Su
burban railway first mortgage 7 per cent..
bid, 84 asked; Savannah and Atlantic 5
per cent., indorsed, 15 bld. 25 asked; Elec
tric railway first mortgage 6s, 40 bid, 43
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage 7 per cent., 106 bid, 107 asked;
South Georgia and Florida second mort
gage. 105 bid, 106 asked; Alabama Midland,
bid, 91 asked; Brunswick and Western
4s, guaranteed, 72 asked.
Railroad Stocks—Central common, 11%
bid, 12% asked; Augusta and Savannah 7
per cent., guaranteed, 77 bid, 81 asked;
Georgia, common, 157 bid, 159 asked; South
western 7 per cent., guaranteed, Including
order for div., 69 bid, 69% asked; Central 6
per cent, certificates, with order for de
faulted interest 16% bid, 17% asked; Atlanta,
and West Point railroad stock, 93 bld, 94
asked; Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent,
certificates, 95% bid, 96% asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc—Citizens Bank, 103
bid, 104 asked; Chatham Bank, 47 bld, 48
asked; Germania Bank, 103 bld, 104
asked; Merchants National Bank. 98% bid.
160 asked; National Bank of Savannah, 133
bid asked, Oglethorpb Savings and Trust
Company 90% bld 101 asked; Southern Bank
of the State of Georgia, 164 bid, 165 asked;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 105
bid, 106 asked; Chatham Real Estate and
Improvement Company. 52% bid. 53%asked; I
Savannah Construction Company, 74% bid !
75% asked; Title Guarantee and Loan Com- i
pany, 8) bid, asked; Brush Electric i
Light and Power Company, 55 bid. 58%
asked; Savannah Gas Light Co., 20 bid, 21 :
asked.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Bacon—The market is steady. Smoked
clear sides, 7%c; dry salted clear rib sides
7%c; long clear. 7%c; bellies. 7%c; sugar
cured hams, U%c.
Lard—Market firm; pure in tierces, 8c;
50-pound tins, B%c; compound, in tierces,
6c; In 50-pound tins, 6%c.
Butter Market steady; fair demand;
Goshen, 13c; gilt edge, 20c; creamery, 21c;
Elgin, 24c.
Cheese—Market dull; 8%@12c; fancy,
full cream cheese, 10@12c; 20-pound aver
age.
Fish—Mackerel—Half barrel, No. 1, $8.50;
No. 2, $7.50; No. 3, $6.00; kits, No. 1, $1.25,;
No- 2, $1.00; No. 3,95 c. Codfish, 1-poqnd
bricks, 6%c; 2-pound bricks, ,6c. Smoked
herrings, per box, 20c; Dutch herring, in
kegs, SI.OO. New mullet, half barrels, $3.50.
Salt—Demand is fair and the market
steady; carload lots, f. o. b., Liverpool,
200-pound sacks. 49c; Virgfna, 125-pound
burlap sacks, 33c; ditto, 125-pound cotton
sacks, 36c; smaller lots, higher.
Syrup— Market ctuiet; Georgia and Flor
buying at 22c and selling at
22@25c; sugar house at 18@32c; Cuba,
straight goods, 23@30c; sugar house mo
lasses, 15@20c.
Tobacco—Market quiet and steady;
smoking domestic, 22@60c; chewing, com
mon, sound, 24@27c; fair, 23@35c; good, 36®
48c; bright, 60@65c; fine fancy, 65®80c; <-x
--tra fine, $1.00@1.15; bright navies, 25®45c.
B lour—Market strong and advancing;
fancy, $3.50; patent, $3.90; straight, $3.65.
Corn—Market is steady; white corn, job
lots, 67c; carload lots, 64c; mixed corn,
none.
Oats—Market advancing; mixed job lots,
46c; carload lots, 43c.
Bran—Job lots, $1.00; carload lots, 92%c.
Hay—Market steady; western job lots,
90c; carload lots, 85c.
Meal—Pearl, per barrel, $3.15; per sack,
$1.40; city meal, per sack, $1.30; pearl grits,
per barrel, $3.25; per sack, $1.50; city grits,
per sack. $1.40.
Coffee—Market dull; Mocha, 29%c; Java,
29c; peaberry, 22%c; fancy or standard,
No. 1,21 c; choice, or standard. No. 2,
20%c; prime or standard, No. 3.
20c; good or standard, No. 4,19 c; fair *
or standard, No. 5,18 c; ordinary or stand
ard, No. 6,17 c: common or standard. No.
7,16 c.
Sugars Market firm; cut loaf, sc;
crushed, sc; powdered, 4%c; XXXX pow
dered, sc; standard granulated, 4%c;
cubes. 4%c; mould A, 4%c; diamond A,
4%c; confectioners, 4%c; white extra C.
3%c; extra C, 3%c; golden C, 3%c; yellow,
3%c.
Liquors—Market firm. High wine ba
sis, $1.21; whisky, per gallon, rectified, 100
proof, $1.35@1.75; choice grades, $1.50@2 00:
straight, $1.45@3.50; blended, $2.00@4.00.
Wines—Domestic, port, sherry, cataw
ba, low grades, 60®8oc; fine grades, sl.oo®
1.50; California light, muscatel and an
gelica $1.35®1.“6; lower proofs in propor
tion. Gins,- 1c per gallon higher. Rum, 2c
higher.
Apples—Northern, steady; $4.50@5,00 per
* *
Oran ges—Mess in a, $2.75@3.00.
Lemons—Market quiet; per box, $2.75
Dried Fruit—Apples, evaporated, B%®
10c; common, 7@Bc. »
Nuts—Almonds, Tarragona. 16c; Ivacaa
14c; walnuts, French, lie; Naples, 12%c:
pecans, 10c; Brazils, 6c; filberts, 10c; as
sorted nuts, 50-pound and 25-pound, 10@12c
per pound.
Peanuts—Ample stock, fair demand;
market steady; fancy hand-picked Vir
ginia, per pound, 4%c; hand-picked, per
pound, 3%c; small hand-picked per pound,
3%C.
Cabbage—Scarce, $2.J5@3.00 per crate.
Onions—Crates, Egyptian, $1.25; sack,
$2. i 5.
Potatoes—lrish, New York, barrels, $2.75;
sacks, $2.50.
Nails—Market steady; base, 60d, $1.00:
50d, $1.10; 40d, $1.25; 30d, $1.25; 20d, $1.35; 10d’
$1.50; Bd, $1.60; 6d, $1.75; 4d, $1.90; 3d, $2.20
fine, $2.60: Finishing, 12d, $1.60; IGd, $1.75;
Bd, $1.90; 6d, $2.10; sd, $2.25; 4d, $2.45. Wire
nails, $1.40 base.
Shot—Firm; drop to B, $1.15; B and lar
ger, $1.40; buck, $1.40.
Iron—Market very steady; Swede, 4%@
sc; refined, $1.70 base.
Gun Powder—Per keg, $3.25.
Oils—Market steady; demand fair; Sig
nal, 45®>50c; West Virginia, black, 9@l2c;
1- rd, 65®70c; neatsfoot, 60@85c; machln
e -y, 20®30c; linseed, raw, 59c; boiled, 61c;
1 erosene, Georgia test, lie; water white,
12%c; Fire-proof, 13c; Guardian, 13%c.
Limo, Calcined Plaster and Cement-
Alabama and Georgia lime in fair demand
and selling at 85c per barrel, bulk and
carload lots special; calcined plaster,
$1.60 per barrel; hair, 4@sc; Rosedale ce
ment, $1.30@1.40; carload lots special; Port
land cement, retail, $2.40; carload lot*.
$2.10.
Lumber—Demand both foreign and do
mestic, is firm. Ordinary sizes, sll.oo®
12.00; difficult sizes, $13.00@18.00; flooring
boards, $15.00®22.00; ship stuffs, $16.50®
20.00: sawn ties, SIO.OO. w
Hides, Wool, Etc.—Hides,—The market
Is active; good demand; receipts scant;
dry flint, 11c: dry salt, 9c; dry butcher,
9c; ;green salted, 6c. Wool nominal
prime Georgia, free of sand, burrs and
black wool, 12c; blacks, 9c; burry, 7®90.
Wax, 25c. Tallow, 4c. Deer skins, fine. 20c*
salted 15c.
Poultry—Steady; fair demand; grown
fowls, pei pair, 55@65c; % grown, 40@45c.
Eggs—Market steady; country, per doz
en. 12''H3c.
Bagging and Ties—The market firm; jute
bagging, 2%-pound, 7%c; 2-pound. 7%c;
1%-pound, 6%c; quotations are for job
lots; small lots higher; sea island bagging,
9%@10%c. Iron ties, large lots, 85c: small
er Tots, 90@51.00.
Dry Goods—The market Is quiet; de
mand light. Prints, 3@t>c; Georgia brown
shirtings, %, 3,%c: % do. 3%c; 4-4 brown
sheeting. 4%c; white osnaburgs, 6@Bc;
checks, 3%@5c; brown drillings, 5@6%c.
OCEAN FREIGHTS.
Cotton—Market quiet. Rates quoted are
per 100 pounds. • Direct—Barcelona,
40c; Genoa, 40c; Kevai, 42c;
Havre, via New York, 43c; Liverpool, via
Boston, 30c; Amsterdam, via New York,
40a; Antwerp, via New York. 40c; Genoa,
via New York, 46c; Hamburg, via New-
York, 39c; Reval, via New York, 53c; Na
ples. via New York, 53c; Trieste, via New
York, 57c; Venice, via New York, 60c; Bos-
New York, per bale,
$1.00; Philadelphia, per bale, $1,00; Balti
more. per bale, SI.OO.
Lumber—By Sail—Freights are quiet at
ruling rates. Foreign business is more or
less nominal. The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at $4.00®
5.00 for a range including Baltimore and
Portland, Me. Railroad *<es. basis, 44
feet,l4c. Timber rates,suc®sl.oo higher than
lumber rates. To the West Indies and
Windward, nominal; to Rosario, $12.00
gl3.<Xi; Buenos Ayres or Montevideo, SIO.OO
11.00; to Rio Janeiro, $14.00; to Spanish
and Mediterranean ports, to
United Kingdom for orders, nominal for
lumber, £4 5s standard.
By Steam—To New york, $7.00; to Phil
adelphia, $7.00; to Boston, $8.00; to Balti
more. $5.00.
Naval Stores—By Sail—The market is
quiet. Large-sized. Cork for orders are
placed at 2s 4%d@3s 7Ud. small-sized, 2s
9d and 4s. Genoa, 2s4d@3s-6d; Adriatic,
2s-Bd<a3s-9d. South America, rosin, 65c per
barrel of 280 pounds. Coastwise—Steam
—To Boston. 11c per 100 pounds on rosin,
90c on spirits; to New York, rosin, B%c
per 100 pounds, spirits, 85c; to Philadel
phia, rosm. 7Uc per 100 pounds, spirits,
86c; to Baltimore, rosin, 7%c per 108
pounds, spirits. 70c.
—Prince Massimo of Italy thinks that his
is the oldest family in Europe. He traces
his ancestry to Quintus Fabius Maximus,
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