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ENQUIRER-SCfi. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1890.
A “MORMIN” STORY.
young lady encounters a
UTAH TALE
jy THE north car’liny mountains
AX r> tells IT FOR OCR readers’
amusement—A MOUNTAIN
family’s escape.
jt-tatoe Creek, N. C., October 3.—
'special.]—After riding some 600 miles
during August and September through
; l w wildest, most beautiful and picturesque
country it lias ever been my lot to see, I
a ,n now set out on the road that will take
joe home. There are, however, some 400
miles yet to be made before I rest; the
route lies directly through the country of
‘■l.o,and the names of Standing Indian,
Vengeance Creek, Blood Rock, Hanging
Do" and Chunky Gal confront me.
] go now directly to Quallatown, the
principal settlement of the North Caro
lina Indian Reservation. Myself and my
black mare Ptuebe go alone; but like Phil
Sheridan ‘-we are not afraid.” Of dis
comforts I can encounter none more
formidable than I have already expe-
have reduced my baggage to a minimum,
and am always sure of a “bite and a sup”
ior myself and Phoebe at some wayside
cabin. < /
I long most earnestly to see the noble
red man on this section of his native
heath. I have seen him in the West,
where somehow, he seems more appro
priate, but this odd little pocket of abo-
riginaiism—to coin a word for the occa
sion—here in the midst of the alien
usurpers, in a civilization that has grown
oter and around it, as the bark of a tree
grows over a nail driven into its trunk
ought to be something to philosophize
and wonder over. It is likely I shall find
him as soiled in raiment, as pronounced in
his distate for water for any purpose as
his Western brotner, and as little given
to loquacity or likely to satisfy my curios
ity concerning him. We shall se«.
I came today upon a romance, ready
made to a novelist’s hand. Phoebe and I
had fared on all morning under gray skies
and came at noon, in a burst of repentant
sunshine, to a tiny cabin perched
on a spur of Big Mountain, overlooking
one of the most wonderful views of this
wonderful country.
My customary “hello” brought out a
woman with a baby in her arms, who
said I could get some dinner.
She bustled in the house to get me
something to eat, a merry, resolute little
body with a great head of the reddest hair
I ever saw,a “tip-tilted” nose and a mouth
that was continually smiling, and left me
to talk to an old w oman smoking a pipe
on the porch whom she addressed as
“maw.”
“Your daughter don’t look like the
mountain folks,” I ventured, after we
had talked a little. “Naw,” said the old
woman, who showed traces of having
been a typical mountain beauty, her thick
half gray hair having still a riotous crin
kle and wave that filled me with envy.
“Naw, her paw wuz a Yankee soldier.
I mary’d him enjurin’ of the wah, en all
my folks ’lowed he’d desart me, but he
never. Jist lived liyer after the wah tell
Biddy, he named her Bridget after his
maw, was ’bout, six ye’r ole, and then died
off.” As the woman in the house began
to sing a mountain him in a mellow con
tralto I put two and two together. “Your
husband must have been an Irishman,” I
said. “Naw,” she answered, “he wuz a
Yankee—cum f’um up Nawth,” and
seemed to think she had settled his nation
ality conclusively.
While 1 was eating my dinner I noticed
hung on the wail of the cabin a pair of
fine buckskin riding gloves, embroidered
in colored silks. I have a pair almost ex
actly like them at home, sent me from
Utah by a friend, and I was of course sur
prised to see anything of the sort here.
Idy surprise increased when, asking the
woman n regard to them, she replied, “1
brung 'em f um Salt Lake City.”
1 suppose I must have looked impolitely
astonished and inquisitive, for she chuck
led softly and said: “You didn’t low I’d
ever bin sotur fum home, did ye! Well
1 bin tliar, an’ I lived in Tenn-essee fer
two ye'r, too.”
My face must have continued to express
the liveliest curiosity, for she went on: “If
ye’d like to hyer how I come to go thar
I'll tell ye ’bout it while yer restin’. Ayf-
ter Biddy's paw died I lived hyer for nigh
six ye’r. 1 wuz a only chile an’ this yer
fakm was mine. You’ll say I didn’t hev
no call to ma’y no mo, an’ I didn't, but er
man come up hyer from Tenn-essee, an’
he fa’rly pestered me till I tuck ’im. His
name was Sively,” alluding to him in the
same impersonal way in which she had
mentioned her first venture.
“I mayr’d him and we rented out this
place an’ went down to live in Tenn-essee.
That there fakm ’er his thet he’d bragged
so much on way in the valley, an’ bein’
mountain born an’ raised I went ter chil
lin’ fust thing. Crops wuz bad for sum
sevrul yers and we run behint, an’ ter cap
all, thet man bed ter git a fever and lay
flat er liis back fer six months. Biddy
an’ me made the crop thet yer. Biddy
was fo’leeu an’ a fine, weli-growed gal.
“Time he got up en ter creepin’ round
ergin he got terrible tuck up ’ith some
new preachers’t come thiu. ‘We reper-
sent the church uv our Lawd uv Latter
Day .Saints,' sez the preacher ez bold ez
brass fust time I hyrd him preach.
“ ‘Tliet’s no mo’ nor less than sayin’
Morin in,’ sez I, ter Sively, ez we wuz goin
home. We jawed about thet business
back en fo'tk for nigh a ye'r. He’d hev
them elders, ez they called them Sets, come
en talk ter me an’ tell what a fine kentry
Youtaw wuz. en whut a fine religin’ the
Latter Day Saints wuz, en how they bed
the last wuru f’oin Gawd, an’ all thet, an’
nary word 'bout lievin' uior'n one wife.
“They needn't do thet, they sed, less’n
they pleased ter.
“ ‘Hub.' sez I, ‘I'd like ter see ther ole
onery man that wouldn't please ter—but
the wimmin—air yer so pottickler ter git
ther cornsint?
"Well, 1 was all broke down with chills,
an" hard wurk, an’ Sively ’lowed we’d be
rich out ther an’ could make a lady outen
Biddy—he wuz alwuz powerful sot on Bid
dy—an' th' eend on't all wuz that we
went.
“I’m bound ter say them Mormins done
ez they sed 'bout lendlnus money ter start
with an' agrieulchal instru-ments an’ sich,
an' we done well, tho I never did git back
my strength.
“When we'd bin thar risin’ two yers
Sively come from church one Sunday eve
nin' an' sed they wuz lavin’ off ter make
"im a deacon er a elder er sich, an’ thet
fu'thormo' they bed picked out a man fer
Biddy.
"I wuz plum 'shamed ter say a wurd gin
that, fer she wuz turped 17 yer, an’ we
alwuz sed t’Jiome thet er gal ’t wuzn’t
mayr d by 15, er didn’t hev her peg* set
fur’t by thet time wuzn’t gonter git no
body.
“I jjt sez ‘I hate ter have her take a
Mormin; I wish’t she cud er had one er
ther boys ter home. Who air they talkin’
about for her?’
“He looked t’ ther flo’ an’ outer th’ win
der like a sheep-killin’ dawg. ‘They wuz
aimin’ ter seal her ter me,’ he sez, kinder
co’se an’ husky like.
“‘Ye ole houn’T I hollered; ‘ye ole
houn’! don’t ye know I’d kill ye fust. This
yer’s why ye drug me an’ my darter out
hyar, is it?’
“I skeered him, an’ • he looked fa’r ter
back out, but I -wuz weak an’ sick, and I
fell a trimlin’ an’ shakin’ an’ a hollerin’
like th’ hy-strikes.
“‘Shet up,’ he says, ‘the neighbors’l
hyar ye.
“ ‘Nab.irs,’ 1 hollered, we ain’t got none
—jist a pack er wolves like you;’ an’ hit
was true. I know’d well by this time how
they treated their rebellyus wimmin out
thar—an’ I thought heaven wuz as near
ez Nawth Calliny.
“When I told Biddy she said ‘Paw orter
be ashamed er hisself,’ and then she
turned right white when she saw what a
trap we wuz in.
“The sealin’ came on a Chewsday, and
rieneed, of dangers there are none. I, that ga v^s bu^ dTy to pro^k roon
T-u,lnff.fi 111V haortrao-f. tn a minimum ‘ . . . J * J
an’ see what we cud do.
“All day Monday I wuz at Biddy for us
ter take th’ gun an’ make an eend uv it.
I lowed I didn’t see nary noth er way outer
■hit, an’ that I could take the gun an shoot
her cheerful and then myse’f.
“ ‘Aw hush, maw, you pester me,’ she’d
say, but wouldn’t let on nary word ’bout
how whut she did aim ter do. ‘I’ll do my
way, an’ ef hit don’t work we kin try the
gun—but we’ll use hit on the ole man fust’
she said—‘Biddy hain’t got her red ha’r
fer nothin’ ’—with a subdued snicker.
“We wuz a powerful quiet family that
day. Neither me ner Biddy spoke to the
ole man wunst, and she cum in my room
at night and slep’ with me, an’ the ole
man took ’him a quilt ’n laid down in front
er the kitchen fire.
“Airly in the mawnin’ Biddy got up an’
dressed herself, an’ took er close line on
her ahm. ‘Come on maw, mebby you c’n
hep me if I need nit,’ she sez, an’ walked
softly inter th’ kitchen.
“Hep her! I follered a trimblin’ so I
could scarcely stan’.
“She kneeled down by the ole man ’n
picked up the aidge of the quilt he wur a
lyin’ on and thowed it over him, then she
brung th’ other side over hit, an’ had ’im
rolled up neat ez you please, an’ two
rounds uv close line round ’im fore he be
gan to wake up ’ncuss.
“ "set down on his head, maw, he’ll
holler next,’ sez she, ‘like he wuz a ra-
geous boss. I never set on his head, but
I put his pillar on hit an hilt im ez best I
could tell she had him all done up and
tied.
“Then she took er towel and made a
tollabul good gag.
“ ‘I kinder hate to do ’im so bad,’ sez I,
whilst she wur a tyin’ uv hit.
“ ‘Hate to,’ says Biddy, givin’ is head a
rap with her knuckles like town folks does
when they wants to come in.|‘I don’t want
him bellerin so’s’t ye kin hyer him ter
th’ tabemickul, ’ and have them elders
down on us, doncher?’
“ ‘Now,’ sez I when she got done, ‘less
run.’
“ ‘Why, maw,’ sez she, ‘ef we go now
they’ll send hyer by six o’clock to see wby
we don’t come to the sealin’ house, an'
they’ll find him an’ take aifter ns, and
ther hain’t nary train er keer we kin git
away on till 2 er clock this evenin’. I
am a-goin’ to the sealin’ house now.’
“Well, I wuz po’ly, but I didn’t need to
be sicher fool ez I wuz. I hollered an’
cried and baiged her not to go amongst
them Mormins. Said they’d git her, and
’lowed I couldn’t stay in th’ house erlone
with the ole man done up so hejous and
lookin’ like a corp, nohow.
“Biddy alius wuz a masterful little trick
fum the time she cud talk—an’ fore thet
—and she did what she aimed ter do, but
I low she wanted mighty bad t’ give me a
good beatin’.
“Well, she come back ’bout 1 o’clock.
Bein’ uneasy in her min’ she had cried
most er th’ time and said she wondered
why her paw didn’t come, and they never
suspicioned her. She said to ’em she
reckoned he’d forgot, an’ she thought he
was a-doin’ her scainellous, an’ one ole
elder'lowed he’d hev her sealed to him
self to spite th’ ole man fer a doin’ her
that away, but she tole .’em she didn’t
wanter ma’y nary man but her paw, an’
finally the sealin’ time was over an’ she
come home.
“We tuck some money twuz in th’
house, laid by to buy a fahm, ’n sich
things as we cud grab handy, and lef.
“We lef’ doors an’ windows open t’|look
like we’uz t’home, an’ my! how skeert
we wuz t’ we’d meet some ’erthem elders
an’ he’d ax us wlier wuz we agoin’.
“But we didn’t, an’ when I got on th’
keers I just keeled over an’ was plumb
dead fer an’ hour. I tell ye that skeerd
Biddy wuss’n a Mormin.
“We cum right back kyer’n Biddy mar-
ry’d my cousin Jinsey’s oldes’ boy. She’s
powerful ole now,” (she might have been
26) “an’ had a heaper chillern, but I
think she cud hoop out a passell er Mor
mons yit.”
“Maw thinks thet’s a mighty fine tale,”
interposed Biddy rather shamefacedly,
She had been listening in the intervals
when she was not attending to the wants
of her numerous offspring, and was evi
dently somewhat embarrassed at the po
sition of heroine. “She tells hit to every-
buddv ’t’ll listen to hit.”
“Well, so do I,” I replied, slipping a
quarter with a hole in it on a red ribbon
and tving it around the neck of the baby,
whose fuzz of hair was so much redder
that it made my ribbon look pink.
Alice MacGowan.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
New York, October 4.—-The weekly
bank statement shows the following
changes:
Reserve decrease
Loans increase
Specie increase
Legal tenders decrease
Deposits increase 6,1«7 .‘.WO
Circulation increase 25,700
.. *2,56t,200
... 7,089,500
401.090
1.420,900
The banks now hold $11,511,200 in ex
cess of requirements of 25 per cent. rule.
A SWISS MURDERER ARRESTND IN ENG
LAND.
London, October 4.—Castionia, the
Ridical who shot and killed Councillor
Bossi and Belizoni in Canton of Ticino,
Switzerland, during the recent revolt
there, was arrested today at a house in
Chelsea, in which he had secured lodgings.
He will be arraigned in Bow Street Police
Court, where application for his extradi
tion is to be made.
THE SUB-TREASURY BILL
VIEWS OF COL GRIGSBY E. THOM
AS, JR., OF COLUMBUS.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL FEATURES DIS
CUSSED—A REMEDY SUGGESTED
for Belief of the
FARMERS.
•The Gordon Press of this week contains
the following interesting letter, by Col.
Grigsby E. Thomas, Jr., of this city, ad
dressed to Mr. R. T. Brewer, the editor, in
response to a request to give his views on
the great political issue of the day:
Columbus, Ga., September 30, 1890.—
Dear Sir: At your request I submit the
following as my personal views in regard
to the sub-treasury bill, proposed as a re
lief by the farmers of our country, to the
present banking system, as now in force.
They may be crude, yet in such a move
ment as this, I deem it every one’s duty to
speak a word in aid of the object aimed at:
1. United States currency as it now ex
ists was brought about by the terrible civil
war, wherein the Government was obliged
to put foath its every effort to preserve the
Union. Of course it required money, and
an immense amount of it, and the Gov
ernment was soon compelled to issue
its treasury notes and bonds and
some one had to circulate them. The
Government, of course, called together the
capitalists of the land and they were in as
bad condition as the Government. They
only held railroad and bonds of cities,
counties and States. Tfieir cash had long
ago gone to the Government. Hence they
agreed one with the other as follows:
The Government to establish a currency
and bonds on what it owed and if the
Government let the capitalists have its
bills in exchange, or as collateral, on what
the other corporations owed, the capital
ists would give the Government treasury
notes a circulation and keep up their
value in the market. Afterwards national
banks were established upon the
owners of said bonds depositing them
with the Government and getting in
exchange a limited amount of United
States currency for circulation. Thus
the debtor or bonded classes got
possession of the finances of this great
Government and established a system of
banking on what was owed and not on
what was owned, either by the people or
the Government. To keep up this ficti
tious system of banking they will not al
low any national bank to loan money on
real estate or personal property—other
than on some bond—which is simply what
some other corporation owes and not what
it owns, or personal security endorsement
by another on a promissory note which
two persons must sign, as a pledge of not
what they owned but what they ow
ed. The above illustration I hope will
illustrate to you the fact that the present
banking system is established entirely up
on what is owed and not upon what is
owned. Hence the possession of bonds of
all kinds have been sought in preference to
real and other property because they could
be used at bank as collateral and loans
obtained thereon, and you can perceive
why the bondholders desire to keep it as it
is. So pawerful has it become that even
the gold and silver miners and owners of
precious metals have to bend to their ulti
matum as to values of their metals in com
parison with their bonds. However, the
gold and silver owners petitioned and
fought them in Congress till at last, by
putting silver and gold in the United
States treasury, they could demand gold
and silver treasury certificates, as well as
the bondholders who only deposited bonds
and got United States currency in ex
change therefor. The supply of currency
for 60,000,000 of people being thus limited,
the capitalists in large cities can corner
on the crops of the country and get
them at their own price and hold
and sell them at a profit. The
farmer with his lands mortgaged
to make the crop and the debt in whole or
part maturing at a set time of the year,
the capitalists had but to combine and the
poor farmer had to sell to meet his mort
gage engagements, and the result has been
one of universal ruin for the first twenty
years after the war. The South, with her
seven millions of bales of cotton per an
num and the West and Northwest with its
millions of bushels of wheat and other
grain, saw the farmers grow poorer and
the cities and capitalists grow richer year
by year. Their millions af bales of cotton
and bushels of wheat, ete., represented
nothing in the markets or at the banks if
there was a contraction of currency at
headquarters and no money to buy them
to be had.
In their extremity the farmers began to
combine. Misery loves company, and the
friendship born in adversity is the most
lasting, and they formed a Farmers’ Alli
ance, born in the direst afflictions finan
cially. The bond of alliance has been
welded together in the crucible of trial,
and after two years of growth it today pe
titions the Government through its Con
gress to allow them to get United States
treasury certificates also by depositing with
its sub-treasurer—not bonds, nor gold, nor
silver—but the “products” of this God-
favored land; that which gives to a
country its true wealth, viz; its products.
What would gold, silver,or bonds be worth
without the country “produced” some
thing for the support of its people, while
bonds, gold and silver, can get Govern
ment certificates on deposits shall the
products of the country get nothing except
as gold, silver and bondsmen will allow?
We answer, yes! A nation’s “products”
are its true wealth and should be allowed
to get currency from the Government to
protect it from the greed of the corners
effected by gold, silver and bonds.
If a thief should enter the storehouse or
barns of a farmer and steal one-fourth of
his crop, the neighbors would rise in
arms and search for them and punish
them. A few men of large means can con
spire and combine together and contract
the currency and rob a whole section of
our country of 25 per cent of the real value
of its products, and in the name of justice
I ask who is the worst enemy to society,
the sneak thief or the combine trust men
who rob a whole nation? Can the Gov
ernment stand by and see it done and lend
no helping hand? Even when her suffer
ing people send a delegation to Congress
and present a petition for aid? (I will not
say how that petition was acted upon when
presented.)
Some say it is unconstitutional, when
they know’ it is not. Others say it is un
democratic, when history tells ns it is the
boast of the Democratic party, headed by
Andrew Jackson, that they once before
slew this national currency system, which
had fastened its fangs upon this country
when in its war for independence, and
was growing rich upon the life blood of its
victims; audit took a man like Jackson to
give it its death blow and freedom to its
people from a tyranny worse than Eng
land’s.
What is the remedy? I would suggest
that the Government make each of its na
tional banks sub-treasuries and supply
them with product certificate notes, to be
issued and paid out to any owner of any
non-perishable product of this land upon
said owners depositing with said bank the
warehouse receipt of any warehouseman
or commission merchant (who would enter
into a bond with the United States Gov
ernment as such), together with a sample
and certificate of its grade in the market
from any United States inspector, the
price of said article as established by
act of Congress as the Government value
of said product; or in other words, let the
Government fix the maximum price of
the products of this country and when
the minimum price was reached in the
market the Government to be the pur
chaser. .Or if the market price was above
the minimum price as fixed by the Govern
ment, then the banks could loan these
United States product certificates to the far
mer upon his depositing his warehouse cer
tificate for same with said bank as security,
and take his note therefor, payable to said
bank as agent of the Government, and if
not paid at maturity, said bank, upon pro
testing said note for non-payment, the said
products become the Government’s prop
erty. The Government fosters manufac
turing and other industries by the tariff;
subsidizes steamship lines and mail routes;
why should she not foster and fix the
value of its products beyond loss to those
who toil in summer’s heat to make its
product of the field?
Some say this is paternal. All correct.
I would not give a fig for a Goverment
that was not paternal. Governments were
first patriarchial; then the patriachs formed
themselves into tribes, and tribes into na
tions, and nations into kingdoms and em
pires and republic. The Latin word patra
for country, is synonimous with pater,
meaning father. A Government founded
upon the will of the people is paternal, and
as a father, should protect the interest of
all its children alike and show no
partiality, and, if any are in need
should aid and help them. It is be
cause England recognizes in each of
her subjects “a child,” and will protect
that child whether in the deserts of Asia,
the mountains of Abyssinia or the jungles
of India, that has caused her empire to
extend around the world, and we who
have children should teach them to look
upon this Government of ours as paternal
—one that we should respect, love, and in
return the Government should -listen to
the petitions of her people from every
quarter and grant all answerable requests.
This sub-treasury petition is revolution
ary but constitutional, just, Democratic
and patriotic, as it pledges the products of
the country to redeem the currency it may
issue. Yours truly,
Grigsby E. Thomas, Jr.
NOTES FROM SEALE.
A GOSSIPY -LETTER OF THE EVENTS OF
THE WEEK.
Seale, Ala., October 4.—[Special.]—
The Alliance met here Wednesday, but as
the public were not admitted, there is
nothing to report of that body. A very
small number attended the meeting here
Wednesday. Among them were Captain
G. A. Ferrell, president, R. E. Lindsay,
J. R. Bickerstaff, and others.
Russell county Circuit Court convenes
at Seale November 14, and court officers
are busy preparing for it. The case of the
State vs. Ann Patterson, for murder, is
one of interest. This woman and one
other, as bad as herself, decided to get rid
of their husbands, and agreed on poison as
the agent of destruction. Ann managed
to give it to her husband by the help of an
accomplice. The man died, and suspicion
being strongly aroused as to the cause of
so sudden and painful a death, the body
was exhumed, and certain parts sent to
the college at Auburn for analysis. The
analysis established the fact that the dead
man’s stomach contained arsenic. When
Professor Lupton’s letter was read to her,
stating that the man was given arsenic,
the woman committed herself by exclaim
ing, “it wasn’t no arsenic; ’twas rough on
rats.” The other woman never did ad
minister the poison to her husband, being
deterred by the arrest of Ann and
the certainty of detection. The
husband of would-be murderess No. 2,
when informed of the cup of cold poison
put away for him, was terribly frightened
and viewed the departure of his unloving
spouse for the “jail house” with unmixed
joy.
The crop of wild fruits, muscadines,
grapes, nuts, etc., is a failure this year.
Housekeepers find it difficult to get
enough grapes to make jelly and preserves.
The small wild grape commonly known as
the fox grape, by the way, makes a beauti
ful and delicious jelly, quite as good or
better than currants. With game it is de
licious.
Chickens around here are dying with
sore-head, and to those who care to know
I will say that a mixture of sulphur and
lard applied with a feather will cure that
disease. The mixture must not be too
strong of sulphur; put in just enough to
give a pale canary color, except in bad
cases it may be stronger. I cured a poor
little chick which had been blind three
days. Two applications opened its eyes.
Feed the chickens, else they will starve to
death, being blind.
Sugar cane is plentiful now. Everybody
will be glad to see the new syrup. .
Mr. E. F. Pye will move with his family
to Montgomery next Monday.
Miss Nelly Screws left last Wednesday to
attend the Normal School at Nashville,
Tenn.
Mr. W. N. Martin is quite sick at his
home at Villula.
Mr. Emri J. Vann received a telegram
some days ago stating that his mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Vann, had been quite
painfully hurt. Mrs. Vann is visiting rela
tives near Macon, and the accident oc
curred there. Another tel >gram announced
that Mrs. Vann was recovering from the
hurt, but gave no particulars.
The Western Uuion Telegraph Com
pany’s repa ! r car has been several days,
with a force of workmen employed in re
pairing telegraph poles and wires.
IDAHO GOES REPUBLICAN.
Bois City, Idaho, October 4.—Returns
from all but three counties in the State
give the entire Republican State ticket
over 2,000 majority. The Republicans
have elected forty-four of fifty-four mem
bers of the Legislature. The Statesman
says this insures the election of Duboise,
the present Congressional delegate to the
United States Senate.- It claims that
nearly every Republican member of the
Legislature is pronounced in Duboise’s
favor. Geo. L. Shoup, Governor elect,
and William H. Claggett are the only
prominent candidates mentioned in con
nection with the second Senatorship.
COMMERCIAL REPORTS.
Local cotton.
ENQUIRF.B-Srx OFFICE. j
COLUMBUS, October 4. 1890. j
(Corrected daily by Carter & Bradley.)
Cotton market quiet; good middling 9*4®—c,
middling 9% a c, low middling 9*/ 4 ®9%c, good
ordinary —c.
. RECEIPTS. SHIPMENTS.
Today .To date. Today .To date.
Bv Rail 509 6540 935 11,830
“ Wagon* 315 7285 0 0
“ River 54 4169 0 894
Factory taking*.. — — 139 1307
Total* 877 17,994 1074 14.031
Stock Sept. 1,1889 590
Receipt* to date 17,994—18.584— Stock.
Sbipped to date.. —14,031— 4553
Sales today, 403; to date. 10,586.
Market Report* by Telegraph.
Liverpool, Oct 4—Noon—Cotton steady,
f-ir demand; American middling 5*44; sale*
8000, speculation and export 500, receipts 3200
—American 32u0. Futures steady.
Futures—Americans middling, low middling
clause, October delivery 5 45-64d; October and
November delivery —d; November and De
cember delivery d; December and January
delivery d; January and February delivery
5 40-64d; February and March delivery 5 41-Old;
March and April delivery 5 44-64d; April and
May delivery 5 46-Old; May and June delivery
5 48-34U.
1 P. M.—Futures: American middling, low mid-
ling clause, October delivery 5 44-6M; October
and November delivery 5 04-64d; November and
December delivery 5139-64; December and Janu
ary delivery 5 39-64d; January and February de
livery 5 39-64dt; February and March delivery
5 40-64d*; 51 arch and April delivery 5 42-64d*;
April and May delivery 5 44-64d*; May and June
delivery 5 46-64d.* Futures closed steady.
tSellers. *Buvers. ^Values.
New York, Oct 4.—Noon—Cotton steady;
sales 193 bales; middling uplands 10%c, Or
leans 10 9-16c.
Futures—The market opened steady, with
sales as follows: October delivery 10 16c; Novem
ber delivery 10 17c; December delivery 10 21c;
January delivery 10 26c; February delivery 10 33c
March uelivery 10 40c. /
4 p. M.—Cotton easy; sales today 119 bales;
middling uplands 10%c, Orleans10 9-16cc; net
receipts 40,341, exports to Great Britain 19,924;
France 9591, continent , stock 331,545 bales.
6 P. M.—Cotton—Net receipts 00, gross re
ceipts 6124. Futures closed steady, with sales of
34,200 bales, as follows:
October delivery 10 16@10 ISc, November de
livery 10 17®10 18c, December delivery 10 21®
c, January delivery 10 26®10 27c, February
delivery 10 33®10 34c; March uelivery 10 40®
10 41c, April delivery 10 47®10 48c; May de
livery 10 54®10 55c, J une delivery 10 61®10 62c
Julv delivery 10 67@10 68c.
Freights to Liverpool steady; cotton %d.
Galveston, Oct 4—Cotton, middling 9 15-16c;
net receipts 8314, gross receipts 8314, sales 1259,
stock 53,955 bales; exports to Great Britain 8.06,
coastwise —, continent ; market iinn.
Norfolk, Oct 4—Cotton, middling 10; net
receipts 395), gross receipts 395), sales 2537, stock
26,604 bales; exports to Great Britain , coast
wise , continent ——, market linn.
Baltimore, Oct 4.—Cotton, middling 10*40;
net receipts 0, gross receipts Hfcg; sales 00; stock
3183 bales; exports to continent 2573, coastwise
154; market quiet.
Boston, Oct 4.—Cotton, middling 10%c;
net receipts 630, gross receipts 630; sales 00; stock
; experts to Great Britain 575 bale; market
steady.
Wilmington, Oct 4-Cotton, middling 9 13-16c;
net receipts 1464,gro8S receipts 1464, sales 0; stock
23,228 bales; exports to Great Britain , coast
wise 82; market firm.
Philadelphia, Oct 4.—Cotton, middling
10%o; net receipts 6, gross receipts 12, sales
, stock 2399 bales; exports to Great Britain
bales; market firm.
Savannah, Oct 4—Cotton, middling 9%c;
net receipts 9124, gross receipts 9124, sales 1225
stock 66,175 bales; exports to Great Britain ,
continent 303, coastwise 2967; market Arm.
New Orleans, Oct 4.—Cotton, middling
10c; net receipts 9513, grogs receipts 10,296, sales
2450, stock 57,574 bales; exports to Great Britain
2641, France , coastwise 1446, continent 1015;
market steady.
Mobile, Oct 4.—Cotton, middling 9%c; net
receipts 3194, gross receipts 3199, sales 20U, stock
12,981 bales; exports coastwise 1323 bales; market
steady.
Memphis, Oct 4.—Cotton, middling 10c;
ngt receipts 884, shimnents 1200, sales 1015,
stock 8349 bales; market Arm.
Augusta, Oct -4.—Cotton, middling 9%c;
net receipts 2177, shipments 1174; sales ,
stock 14,960 bales; market steady.
Charleston, Oct 4—Cotton, middling 9*4;
net receipts 3349 gross receipts 3349, sales 10UU,
stock 45,430 bales; exports coastwise 7407; mar
ket Arm.
Atlanta, Oct 4.—Cotton, middling 911-16;
receipts 1303 bales; market quiet.
Blocks and Bonds—New York, Oct 4—
Noon—Stocks dull and heavy; money easy at 3®
- percent; exchange—long $43S2®4.82 1 /4; short
54.87S4.87V4; state bonds neglected; govern
ment bonds dull but steady.
Evening—Excnange quiet but firm, $4.82%®
88; money easy at 3®-per cent, closing offered
at - per cent; government bonds steady;
new 4 per cents 122, 4% per cents 104; state
bonds neglected.
Coin m the sub-treasury •151,649.000; currency
•5,800.000.
Closing quotations of the Stock Exchange:
Alabama bonds, class A, 2 to 5 105
“ “ class B, 6s 107
Georgia 7s, mortgage 100
North Carolina 6s 124
4s 98
South Carolina Brown Consols 100
Tennessee 6s.... 106
5s 101 Vs
“ settlement, 3s 72%
Virginia6s 50
consolidated 48
Chicago and Northwestern 106*4
“ “ preferred 135
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 143*4
Erie 23%
East Tennessee, new stock 8*/?
Lake Shore 106%
Louisville and Nashville 82%
Memphis and Charleston 63
Mobile and Ohio 26%
Nashville and Chattanooga 98
New Orleans Pacific, lets 91%
New York Central 104%
Norfolk and Western preferred 59
Northern Pacific 28%
“ “ preferred 74%
Pacific Mail 39%
Reading 36%
Richmond and West Point Terminal 18%
Rock Island 77%
St. Paul 61%
• preferred 108%
Texas Pacific 18%
nessee Coal and Iron 41
Union Pacific 51
New Jersey Central 114%
Missouri Pacific 67V4
Western Union Telegraph 81%
Cotton Oil Trust Certificates 20
Brunswick 27
Mobile and Ohio. 4s 66
Silver certificates 112*%
Cotton Hood OIL—New Yoee, Oct 4—
Cotton seed oil quiet; crude 27®28c. yellow 32.
Ro*in and Turpentine—Nrw TORE, Oct. 4
—Rosin steady; strained, common to good
•1 40® 1 45. Turpentine quiet, 41®41%e.
Wilmington, Oct. 4—Turpentine firm, 37*.
Rosin firm; strained 90c; good strained
96c. Tar firm; fl 55. Crude turpentine firm:
bard $1 20, yellow dip tl 90, virgin fl 90.
Savannah, Oct. 4.—Turpentine firm, 37%o
Rosin firm, •! 25® 1 35.
Charleston, Oct. 4.—Turpentine See*.
37%c. Rosin qniet, good strained 91 lz%.
whisky.—Chicago. Oct. 4—Whisky •! IX
Cincinnati. Oct. 4.—'Whisks steady. *113.
THE CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
Grata.—Chicago, Oet. 4.—Cash quotations
were: Flour weak and lower. No. 2 spring
wheat 98%c, No. 2 red 98%c. Corn, No. 2
49*/ 4 c. Oa s. No. 2. 39e.
Futures. Opening Highest Closing
Wheat—October 98 93% 98%
December 1 61% 1 02 102
May 1 06 1 06% 1 06%
Corn — October 48% 49% 49*/ 4
December 48% 49% 49%
May 50% 52 52
Oats — October 38% 39 39
I) camber-.... 39 39% 39%
May 41% 42% 42%
Baltimore. Oct. 4.—Flour market quiet,
Howard street and western superior 53 00
®3 50. extra S3 75@4 60, family S4 75®5 25,
city mills, Rio brands, extra S5 19@5 25. Wheat,
southern firm; Fultz 92c®$l 02, Longberry
97c@Sl 02 western firm, No. 2 winter red, spot
and October 97® . Corn, southern, quiet;
white 57®59c. vellow 56a57c western firm.
Cincinnati, O., Oit. 4. — Wheat higher;
No. 2 red 99c@l 00. Com firm, No. 2 mixed
53c. Oats firm; No. 2 mixed 43c.
Provisions.—Chicago, Oct. 4.—Mess pork
I 60®9 65. Lard $6 29®6 22%. Short rib sides,
loose, $5 27® ; shoulders, 45 62%@5 75; short
clear sides, $5 70®S5 75.
Futures.
Opening
Highest
Closing
MJ*ork—October ..
9 60
9 60
9 60
May
. 12 32%
12 35
12 32%
Lard — October ..
. 6 17%
6 20
6 20
May
6 87%
6 90
6 90
S. Ribs—October ..
5 25
5 30
5 30
May
6 10
6 12%
6 12%
Cincinnati, Oct.4.—Flour, active, stronger;
family 83 90@4 35, fancy $4 60®4 75. Pork steady,
$10 50. Lard firm, $6 00. Bulk meats
steady; short rib sides $5 37%. Bacon steady;
short clear aidee 16 62%.
wool and Hide*.—New York, Oct 4.—
Hides firm—wet salted. New Orleans selected,
50 and 60 pounds, 5%®6c; Texas selected, 50 and
60 pounds, 5%®6c. Wool, steady; domestic
fleeoe 35®38c, pulled 26®34c. Texas 17®24c.
Petroleum-New York. Oct 4—Petroleum
steady, qniet; Parker’s 57 25, refined, all ports,
•7 40.
REVIEW OF SPECULATION IN THE GR AH®
AND PROVISION MARKETS.
Chicago, October 4.—Wheat—Them
was more life to the market and a higher
range of prices established. The feeling
was decidedly stronger. To the oversold
condition of the market was the sharp ad
vance of the day, no doubt, attributable.
Many of the traders who were buyers tho
past day or two were sailers, and the sell
ers of the past few days were
buyers. The u ex >ected happened,
and the operators ielt a little nervous
over the situation. Some parties
thought the market was a healthy one.
Others rather doubted, and thought it only
a scare to force in some large shorts. The
firmness (n the cables, in spite of the
weakness in the American markets, was
deemed a favorably feature. The opening
was f to fo higher than yesterday's clos
ing, and some excitement attending the
first sales, then eased off fc for December
and fc for May, advanced to the top prices,
and closed If to 2c higher than yesterday.
Corn attracted more than usual atten
tion, a large volume of business being
transacted within a broader range than any
day this week. The feeling developed was.
much stronger, and higher prices were the
rule on all futures. The advance was due
largely to the purchases of May by several
large local houses, two of whom took, in
all, about 1,000,000 bushels. Reports
were received from the West stating that
corn was husking out poorly. The first
trades were at an advance of J to |c, the
market selling up another ic, reacted ic,
then sold up lc, eased off fc, ruled firmer,
and closed with 4- to ic gain.
Oats—The animation and advance in
wheat and corn had a good effect on the
market for oats. The opening sales were
at ic advance for May, and a further ap
preciation of fc was recorded. The others
advanced 4 to 5-8c with light trading, and
the market closed steady at about outside
figures.
Mess pork—The trading was moderate.
The opening sales were made at 2fc ad
vance, but prices settled back again 5c,
with very little business reported. Later,
prices rallied 5 to 74c and closed quiet.
Lard—The trade was only fair. Near
deliveries were quiet, rather slow, with
little change to note in prices. Longer de
liveries were firmer and 2f to 5c higher,
with fair trading.
Short rib sides—A fair business was
transacted. Offerings of near deliveries
were light. Longer deliveries were in fair
request. Prices ruled 2f to 5c higher, and
the market closed steady at outside fig
ures.
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