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i>akt TWO.
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
i hi: >k s or the two states
TOI.O IX PARAGRAPHS.
synopsis 1)1 the P‘‘l‘ ort * On tlu-
I'reeeze Received From Every Seo
,ion of Florida—Lively Time Over
„ Minins' Venture at Gainesville,
supposed Murder Mystery at Co
s (l nil> ns Exploded—Hankins Coin
mission of Georsia to Sleet Soon.
GEORGIA.
r, v. Leonard G. Broughton has accepted
t! , t , lia torate of the Third Baptist church
lones avenue at Atlanta, and will fill
the pulpit there on the first Sabbath in
March.
Capt- Lewis Kenan, who was for several
terms connected with the Southern Mili
ury Academy at Atlanta, has accepted a
, I'tir ind the commandant’s position at
the military college at Douglasville.
In the municipal election at Wrightsville
Saturday the entire democratic ticket was
elected as follows: Mayor. J. W. A. Craw-
f (j! ,i- councilmen. Dr. J. IV. Col.
A F. Daly. Dr. E. New, E. A. \V. Johnson,
X). G. Blount.
The election held at Swainsboro Satur
day for mayor and council for the ensuing
year, resulted as follows: For mayor, J.
Alex Smith: councilmen, John C. Coleman,
11. C. Edentfeld, D. L. Christian, Dr. L. P.
Youmans. and H. S. Tolbert, and W. R.
Newby for recorder.
The new city council of Gainesville, has
selected officers for the city as follows:
City clerk. G. P. Boone; chiej of police,
\V E. Smith; police, J. A. Lyle, R. E.
Spence and J. AV. Taylor: street overseer,
W s Wills; electrician, Fred Koeber;
treasurer. W. E. McKinney: attorney, J.
C. Boone; sexton, J. D. Gaddis; mayor pro
tern., John Blats,
A remarkable coincidence that will be
shown in the report which Chief W. R.
Joyner, of the Atlanta fire department,will
submit to council on Monday is the fact
that in fires 1897 tied exactly with 1896.
There were 101 fires during the past year,
the same number that oecurretl in 1896,
but the loss in 1896 was a little* over $200,-
o*t. while during the past year it was less
than SIOO,OOO.
The supposed murder mystery which
caused so much excitement in Columbus
has developed into a farce. The box in
which was found the body of a man which
was shipped from Atlanta, who was sup
posed to have been murdered, simply con
tained the skeleton of a man sent from the
Atlanta Mc-dical College by a student. The
body had been dissected and the bones
given to a young man, Snipped them
away.
Miss Ada Elam, former postmistress of
the state House of Representatives, who
attempted suicide at Atlanta by taking poi
son two weeks ago is still under treatment
at the Grady hospital. Miss Elam has re
covered from the effects of the poison, but
her condition is still serious, owing to the
shock to her nervous system. She suffers
a great deal at times, but has become more
cheerful and the hospital physicians say
there is no reason why she should not
speedily recover.
Dr. H. G. Freeman's residence and drug
store at Carnesville. was burned Sunday
afternoon. The loss on the drug stock is
$609. The furniture was a complete loss,
some SSOO, and no insurance. The house
belonged to Dr. H. M. Freeman, and was
worth SI,OOO, without any insurance. The
next building that caught was the drug
store of Dr. J. R. Tucker, which was
worth about S6OO, and it was a complete
loss. Then the furniture store of A. W.
McConnell, which was vacant, was a full
loss, valued at SBOO. The office of the Press
Organ and the residence of Mrs. T. V.
Fredericks was badly damaged.
The audience at the Lyceum theater at
Atlanta Saturday night that heard Ernest
William of the Fields and Hanson min
strels sing "Mother, I Love You So,” did
not know what a storm of grief was rag
ing in his breast. He was applauded, and
sang the song the second time. The audl
< 'ice did not see the tears that flowed down
his cheeks; they did not know that his
mother was dead; that she had seen her
boy for the last time and that while he
sang of her she lay asleep ill death. Just
before the curtain was rung up on the first
part a telegram was handed Williams.
It simply read; "Mother is dead.” He left
for his home at Harrisburg, Pa., immedi
ately after singing his song.
The bank commission, appointed by Gov.
under a recent act, to report upon
the advisability of revising the banking
laws of the state, will meet soon upon the
• ill of Chairman Colvin. He has not yet
s t a date for the meeting, but it will prob
ohiy occur some time during this month.
The commission was created by the legis
bi (lire ot the suggestion of the governor,
who called attention to the report of State
Treasurer W. J. Speer, pointing out impor
tant defects in the present law. Among
* hose are the latitude which it allows in
the matter of loans and security. Under the
present system bank officers can 1/orrow
largely of the funds of the i>ank without
making themselves amenable to law. Mr.
Speer thinks the banks are allowed too
much latitude in the matter of reserve,
which may Include securities which are
1 ot really quick assets. Another objection
m (hat a honk may lend on its own stock,
a practice which is considered unsound and
liable to cause trouble in times of panic.
H. Henley (Bush is held at the Hunt
house, at Gainesville, under a special
guard, on a charge of embezzling and mis
appropriatlng $5,000. The charges are pre
ferred by T. C. Parker, proprietor of the
Brown house, at Macon. Bush arrived at
* j./inesville last summer as the ugent of
''u>l. Eugene Fre/l Gustave May May no,
whose huge bubble al traded the attention
“f all interested In Georgia gold mines.
IV lien the Mayne project fell through and
hs clever promoter disappeared, his agent,
Mr. Bush, associated himself with W. P.
Epperson, Moyne's secretary, an/l one or
'WO others in the organization of the
■’emthem Gold Mining Company, which
was launched and began operating the Mc-
r leaky mines, near Gainesville. In the
progress of the company. It seems, W. P.
Epperson's father, of Macon, was induced
1 " Put $5,000 into the enterprise. It'was
understood the other members of the con
' iii were to put up SIO,OOO additional. It
•'opears they never did this. It also ap
(" ars that Mr. Parker of the Brown hbuse
Banished, the elder Mr. Flpperson the
$'.600 he invested In the mining company’s
00k. When the $5,000 had been consutn
■ ! in the operation of the MoClesky mine
'be progress of the 'Southern Goi/1 Mining
1 ompany came to a standstill. Monday
■'(. Parker quietly arrived In Gainesville,
• mployed counsel and instituted proceed
Pjc JUofitinij fSetotf.
*ng s against Bush, as president of the com
pany. for misappropriating the $5.0.0 put
into the scheme by Mr. Epperson. Mr.
•Bush is tinder special surveillance at his
room. His associate. Air. Epperson, left
for Afacon. Bush claims that he will re
fund the $5,000 as soon as possible.
FLORIDA.
The total phosphate shipments from
Port Tampa during November aggregate
over 165,000 tons.
The total phosphate shipped from Punta
Gorda in 1897 was 50,147 tons to domestic
ports and 51,140 tons to foreign ports.
J. D. Palmer, secretary of the Cassa
daga Association, is making preparations
for the .usual annual meeting at Lake
Helen, near DeLand.
Last year in Orange county fifty white
and thirty-five colored couples were li
censed to marry in Orange county. In
1896 113 were licensed.
7j. T. Hidin' .shipped seventy-one boxes
of tangepine oranges from his place north
of DeLand last week. They netted him
over $7 per box, or over SSOO for the seven
ty-one boxes.
Capt. C. E. Garner of Jacksonville has
purchased the steamer Welaka. one of the
best known vessels on the St. Johns river,
and which has been run for a good many
years. The owner was Air. Hodges of
Satsuma. She is to be overhauled and
then taken around to Tampa, and be run
in the Manatee river business.
A bill has been filed in the clerk’s office
of the circuit court at Jacksonville by Liz
zie Ehrlich, praying for a legal separation
from Louis J. Erhlich. The latter now re
sides in Atlanta, and the wife alleges that
she was married to the defendant Jan. 17,
ISSB, in Jacksonville, and on July 15, 1893,
he deserted her while residing in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., and has never returned to
her.
The new steamship Aliami, for the Flor
ida and ilahama steamship line, to be
operated by the Florida East Coast Steam
ship Company, will leave Philadelphia on
Wednesday, Jan. 5, and is due at Jack
sonville on Saturday, Jan. 8. After a
short stay, the steamship wiil depart for
Aliami, to be in readiness for the service
between Aliami and Nassau to lie gin on
Jan. 17.
The damage suit in the sum of $15,000,
brought by P. J. Clancy against the Flor
ida East Coast railway for injuries sus
tained by him on June 8, 1896, at Aliami by
a collision between two East Coast trains,
on one of which he was a passenger, and
which was on trial last week in the United
States court at Jacksonville, is now no
nearer a settlement than it was several
months ago, owing to the jury failing to
agree on a verdict.
R. Smith and W. Land while visiting Mr.
Hollinger's family at Bryants, new year’s
day, had an unloaded pistol, which they
kept snapping at the girls of the family
to frighten them. The young men walked
off a pace from the girls when Sihith
slipped a cartridge into his pistol and
put it in his pocket. On returning, Land
took the pistol out of Smith’s pocket and
pointed it at Aliss Kate Brown, pulled the
trigger, and shot the young lady in the
shoulder, the ball penetrating and lodging
behind the shoulder blade. Miss Brown is
paralyzed in her body and lower limbs,
ller recovery is doubtful. Land threaten
ed to shoot himself, but was prevented.
The news from the Jacksonville Times-
Union and Citizen correspondents, cover
ing every section of Florida, is to the ef
fect that the cold weather did consider
able temporary ‘damage to vegetables, but
none of a permanent character. Orange
trees will in some instances lose their
foliage, and where situated In exposed
places in the northern border of the or
ange belt, will lose a part of their tender
growth. Owing to the fact, however, that
the sap was down, the trees themselves
were able to resist unscathed even a lower
temperature. Reports from the pineapple
belt of the East Coast indicate that the
damage to pineapples was trifling. The
fall crop of tobacco in all parts ot the
state was injured badly. Blooms on
strawberries were killed. Early straw
berries iu the northern section were frozen
on the vines ap/J. the plants themselves set
back fully six weeks. The tenderest gar
den crops in all sections as far south as
Tampa, while lacking protection by for
est, stream or lake, were badly injured;
but exposed gardens do not represent more
than half the area in truck, growers hav
ing learned by experience the wisdom of
selecting well protected spots.
1111 l YSWICK'S BUDGET.
Coming' Re-election of E. H. Muson
An llnyor nnd Its Significance.
Brunswick, Ga., Jan. s.—The coming
election by council of ex-Mayor E. H.
Mason is but the culmination of a plan
presaVne/T (o have been mapped out some
time ago. when It became known that
Mayor Johnson would probably resign with
the opening of the 'New Year. Mr. Mason
will be elected, regardless of the winning
side in the coming aldermanic contest case
now hanging between Judge Sweat and
Ordinary Dart. Both the administration
and Good Government people realize that
Mr. Mason ir fitted in every way to make
Brunswick progress, and his election wiil
be satisfactory to every element and the
business community in particular.
Temporary insanity is the most logical
construction placed on the acts of ex-Ex
press Agent Mabry. On every hand evi
dences of ills queer doings a few days
previous to his flight are being discov
ered. One of the most noticeable instances
is related by one who quotes Hon. Jacob
L. BCaoh, prison commissioner. Mr. Beach,
who is a very observant man. was in the
express office Christmas eve day. He was
attracted <0 Mabry by his peculiar man
ner. On his return home he told his fam
ily that Mabry was most certainly a crazy
man and described things that had just
been noted by him. It also develops to
day that insanity runs in Mabry's family.
He has an aunt now In the Insane asylum,
w ho is described as suffering from nervous
dementia.
Dr. R. K. I*. Burford to-day again as
sumed charge of Brunswick’s quarantine
station, after a month’s vacation. Dr.
Nydegger, formerly of Sapelo, who relieved
him, wili proceed to New Orleans at once
and report for duty.
1 Prize Porker.
Tennille. Ga., Jan. 4.—There was a hog
of the red Jersey, razor-back, breed exhib
ited here recently by a Washington county
farmer which tipped the beam at 1,164
pounds, was three feet high, and measur
ed nine feet from tip to tip.
—A Transvaal correspondent o' a Lon
don paper says that President Kruger has
the wonderful art of saving ten limes his
salary dvery year
SAVANNAH. GA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY .1, ISOS,
ADVICE TO THE MICRO.
Some I’net* Presented by the Negro
Progress in Georgia.
President R. R. Wright, of the Georgia
State Industrial College for colored youths,
delivered the address at-the celebration of
the Emancipation proclamation at Colum
bus, Ga., on Jan. 1. In the course of his
address he said:
That the hope of the race is the devel
opment of all of its native energies, and
the hope of the nation is for the harmo
nious progress of the two races.
Let us take our own state as an exam
ple. Beginning without a dollar, the col
ored people of this state pay taxes on $12,-
941,230 worth of property. Within the past
ten years they have increased their prop
erty 59 per cent., while our white neigh
bors have increased their property only 2!
per centum. The Georgia colored people
pay taxes on more than 1-32 of the entire
assessed property of this state. This es
timate is proportionately true of the en
tire south. It is not an extravagant esti
mate to say that the colored people of the
United States pay taxes on quite $100,000,-
000 worth of property. From this state
ment it is fair to presume that the negro
is drifting into a property holder.
Now as to the supposed or suggested
remedies for our Ills.
It is suggested:
1. That African immigration is the pan
aca.
2. That amalgamation or absorption is
the ultimate destiny and solution of our
difficulties.
As these are sure to fail, I suggest the
devotion of our energies.
1. To the establishment of good families
and homes—the bulwark of civilization.
2. The proper training of our children.
3. The blotting out of corruption and
bribe-taking among our voters.
4. The general education of the masses.
I think the white jteople of the south
ought to grant to the colored voter mi
nority representation in many branches of
the government—city, state and national.
This, in mv judgment, would go far to
ward the putting of a stop to bribe-taking,
as there would then be some additional
incentive to vote from principle. Taxa
tion without representation affects the
negro as does the white man.
I wish to conclude this address with a
few suggestions. Let us hope that a wise
statesmanship and a true Christianity shall
right all wrongs and prudently adjust ail
differences between labor and capital and
the Anglo-Saxon and the Afro-American.
You well know that it is progressive ideas
and integrity of character which save a
nation. I wish to suggest to you co-oper
ation and sympathy among yourselves. No
race has ever risen to independence that
has depended wholly upon another race
to advise an/j lead them.
Following these suggestions, the status
of the Afro-American in this country is
most hopeful. The present is auspicious
and the future is full of encouragement.
This is our home; this is our home. Let
this fact be fixed in our minds and also
the additional fact that we are to main
tain the integrity of our race and then let
us continue in the future a* In the past to
strive to live on as amicaWe relations as
possible with our white fellow citizens.
Let us continue to enter into mercantile
and business relations; buy stock in then
railroads and their other corporations;
open grocery stores, establish banks and
such institutions a,s our means permit; new
avenues of business will be open to us.
Of late the mills have thrown open their
doors to the employment of men. Let us
give faithful service wherever employed.
Let us not abandon the farm. We under
stand this better than other employment.
Let us advise our folks that in so far as
they can to stick to agriculture. In fine,
let us accumulate every species of prop
erty; educate our children; serve our God
and love our country. But let us never
cease to agitate until every right with
which God has endowed us, and the con
stitution of our union has guaranteed us,
shall be cheerfully acknowledged and fully
enjoyed. Then alt will be well.
HISTORY OF ll'E-MAKING.
I ni/|lie Method* Followed l>> the \n
eieutn.
F’rom Cassier’s Monthly.
The most ancient method of making ice
is practiced in India. Holes are made in
the ground, dry straw is put at the bottom
of these, and on it, at the close of the day,
are placed pans of water, which are left
until the next morning, when the ice that
is found within the pans is collected. This
industry is carried on. only in districts
where the ground is dry and will readily
absorb the vapor given off from the water
in the pans. The freezing, of course, is due
to the great amount of heat absorbed by
the vapor In passing from its liquid to its
gaseous form.
Another process was practiced in the
days of ancient Rome, when the wealthy
are said to have had their wines cooieil
by having the bottles piaeed in water in
to which saltpeter was thrown, the bot
tles being the while rotated.
Dr. Cullen, in 1775, discovered that the
evaporation of water could be facilitated
by the removal of the pressure of the at
mosphere, and that by doing this water
could be frozen. Nairn, in 1777, discovered
that sulpurie acid would absorb the vapor
of water if placed in a second vessel sepa
rate from that containing the water, but
connected with it. This discovery he put
to use in 1810 by constructing an apparatus
for absorbing the vapor of the water that
it was desire/1 to cool or freeze. This ap
paratus greatly facilitated the freezing op
erations of a vacuum freezing machine.
Jacob Perkins was the father of what is
now known as the compression system,
having Invented the first machine of the
kind in 1834, and, as these machines, im
proved, are at the present /lay more in use
than any other, a description of Perkins’
patent may be of interest. His apparatus
consisted of an insulated vessel, in which
was inclosed a second vessel containing
ether; a vapor pump, a worm and worm
tub, a tube between the second vessel and
the pump, another between Ihe pump and
the worm, a third between the worm and
the bottom of the ether vessel, and the
necessary valves.
As afterward constructed, the apparatus
was made up of a jacketed pan, within
which was the water to be cooled; an in
suiaP’/I box, In which was placed the pan;
a pump to extract the vapor from the
jacket; a worm in which the vapor was
condense/1 after It left the pump; a worm
tub containing cold water to cool the
worm, and by means of the latter the va
por within it; and pipes connecting the top
of the pan jacket to the pump, the pump
with the upper end of the worm, and the
lower end of the worm with the under
side of the pan jacket. The refrigerating
agent used with this apparatus was one
derived from the destructive distillation
of eaoutchoue. James Harrison improved
upon Jacob jerkins’ apparatus In 1856, and
it has been further improved by many
others since.
THE MARKET STEADY.
NO 4 HINGE IN THE 4i OTATIONS OF
I.E\DING DKPAH'I MEATS.
Cotton Market Steady and l nelinng
rtl With Sales of 711 Hales—Spirits
Turpentine Firm at ItO-q Cents Bid,
Rosin Firm and l 11 fliuugeil.
Wholesale Markets Steady—Mar
kets by Telegraph.
Savannah, Jan. 4.—Trading was resum
ed at {he various cotton exchanges
throughout the country to-day. There
was no great enthusiasm displayed at the
controlling markets and at the close the
values were but slightly changed from
last Friday’s figures. The local spot mar
ket remained steady and unchanged, with
sales of 711 bales reported. The reported
f. o. b. sales were 2.2C0 bales. There was
a good demand for spirits turpentine and
30% cents was bid for the receipts. The
rosin market remained firm and unchang
ed. The wholesale markets resumed ac
tivity after the dullness experienced dur
ing ihe holidays and there was a fair
movement in the various departments.
The following resume of the different
markets will show the tone and the quo
tations at the close to-day:
COTTON'.
The local market was steady and un
changed from the quotations of last Fri
day. The business, after ihe two holidays,
opened up quietly. At the first call at the
Cotton Exchange the market was bulle
tined steady and unchanged, with sales of
205 bales. At the second call it was the
same with sales of 484 bales. At the last
call the market closed steady and un
changed, with further sales of 22 bales.
The following were the official spot quo
tations at the close of the market at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
Good middling 5 7-16
Middling J 5 3-16
Low middling ! 474
Good ordinary 4 9-I6
Market steady; sales, spots, 711; f. o b.
2,200.
Savannah Receipts, Exports and Stocks:
Receipts this day 10,908
Receipts this day last year 4,378
Receipts this day year before last... 2,811
Receipts since Sept. 1. 1897 877,532
Same time last year 632,501
Some time year before last 538,859
Exports, continent, this day 12,355
Exports, coastwise, this day 2,094
Stock on hand this day 155,506
Same day last year 100,420
Receipts and Stocks at the Ports—
Receipts Saturday ...... 41,417
Receipts .Monday 45,704
Receipts this day 79,296
This day last week ' 72,192
This day last year 30,981
This day year before last 23,504
Receipts past four days 166,477
Same days last year 89,780
Same days year before last 75,453
Total'receipts since Sept. 1,1897 5,672,839
Same time last year 5,001,305
Same time year before last 3,578.340
Stock at the ports to-day 1,260.625
Stock same day last year 1,244,803
Receipts This Week Last. Year-
Sa t tirday 20,903 Wednesday 24,927
Alonday 37,896 Thursday 21,672
Tuesday 30,981 Friday 32,286
Daily movements at other ports—
Galveston—Holiday; net receipts, 2,393;
stock, 210,129.
New Orleans—Steady; miiMling, 5%; net
receipts, 42,824; gross, 45:762; sales, 6,500;
stock, 493,570.
Mobile—Steady; middling, 5*4; net re
ceipts, 491; sales. 1,400; stock. 68,010.
Charleston—Quiet; middling, 5%; net re
ceipts, 5,534; stiles, 125; stock. 50,106.
Wilmington—Firm; middling, 5 7-16; net
receipts, 1.024; stock, 37.904.
Norfolk—Steady; middling, 5%; net re
ceipts, 2,440; sales, 746; stock, 90.312.
Baltimore—Nominal; middling, 5%;
net receipts, 2,213; stock, 28,021.
New York—Dull; middling, 3 15-16; net
receipts, 1,646: sales, 7,900; spinners, none;
Stock. 124.874.
Boston—No market, Hfcliday ;net receipts
1,936; stock, ,514.
Philadelphia—Quiet; middling, 0 3-16; net
receipts, 896; stock, 9,178.
Dally movements at Interior towns—
Augusta—Steady; middling, 5 9-16; net
receipts. 1,810; sales, 67; stock, 52,308.
Memphis—Steady; middling. 5 9-16; net
receipts, 3,180; sales, 67; stock, 47,580.
St. Louis—Quiet; middling, 5 7-16; re
ceipts, 9,880; shipments, 9,221; sales, none
reported; stock, 68,798.
Louisville—Unchanged.
Exports of Cotton This Day—
Galveston—To France, 4,961.
Aiobile—Coastwise, 1,511.
Savannah—To the continent, 12,355; coast
wise, 2,091.
Charleston—Coastwise, 2,386.
Norfolk—Coastwise, 1,261.
New A ork—To France, 1,562; continent
7,308; forwarded, 2,502.
Total foreign exports from all ports this
day—To Great Britain, 11,707; to France,
6,523; to the continent, 19,663.
Total foreign exports from ail ports thus
far this week—To Great Britain. 22.073; to
France, 14,577; to the continent, 66,883.
Total foreign exports since Sept 1, 1897
To Great Britain, 1,792,985; to France. 509 -
076; to the continent, 1,503.568.
Liverpool. Jan. 4.—Closing cotton, spot
fair demand; prices steady; American mid
dling, 314*1. The sales of the day were 12.-
000 bales, of which 1.0/X) were tor specula
tion and export, and Included 10,900 Amer
ican. Receipts since laat report 47000
bales, including 41,400 American.
Futures opened quiet, with a moderate
demand, and closed steady, American
middling, low middling clause, January
3.11d buyers; January-Februarv sale buy
ers; February-. March, 3.10fr3.Ud sellers;
Alarch-April. 3.11*1 buyers; April-May, 3 12d
buyers; iMay-June, 3.13d buyers; June-
July, 3.14d buyers; July-August, 3.15d buy
ers; August- September, 3.l<d buyers; Sep
tember-October, 3.17d buyers; Oetober-No
vember, 3.17®8.18d buyers; November-De
cember, 3.18d buyers.
New York, Jan. 4.—The New York mar
ket in cotton opened very disappointingly
after tieing closed with the English mar
ket since Friday. There was not the
broadening of speculation that some claim
ed would appear with the opening of the
new year. At the call there was a de
cline of lf£|2 points on most options, and
later this increased to 3 points. The hop
ed for Increase in the speculation did not
appear, and there was a feeling of dis
couragement in the 1 rade. The principal
factor of the weakness was the heavy
movement at the ports and indications of
a heavy movement at the Interior. The
market closed steady, with prices finally
unchanged to 2 ppints lower, as compared
with Friday’s final figures.
New York, Jan. 4, noon.—Cot ion futures
opened steady: sales. 6,900 baies; January
5.77 c; February, 5.79 c; March, 5 83c; April,
5.86 c: May, 5.92 c; June, 5.96 c; July, 6.00 c;
Aagust-September and October, 6.05 c; So
vember, 6.12 c.
New York. Jau 4. 4 p. ni. - (’ott,.ii fu
tures closed steady: sates. *> 1, . . ,1 ~,.
uary, 5.77 e; February. 5.8' M n h. -
April, 5.88 c; May, 5.92 c; June, .l.iiy,
6.00 c; August, O.Oio; September, 1 e|, , (
tober, 6.05 c.
New Orleans, Jan. 4.—Cotton futures
qulel and steady; sales. 16..a/,; January.
e.35®0.36c; February, 5.68% 5.39. ■; Mar, li, ,i ;
4/5.44c; April, 5.4804.49 c; May, ..
.June, 5.60715.61 c: July, 5.6. V&, \ ,
5.69((i0.71c; September, 5.714/5.7 tc; 0. ■
6.744/5.76c.
Netv York. Jan. 4.—Riordun &Cos ,y ~f
cotton: “The first days tin liny of in. \, w
Year did not result In lifting the rot ton
market from the rut in which 11 In*
long been. The business to-da> v.n very
small, with prices a shade easi. r. 1 v, i |iool
cables were practically unchanged this
morning. Our market opened otn /,> 1 W( >
points lower. May selling on the li: t ,11
at 5.92 c. There was no feature t.> stiinu
late activity except the receipts, which
were very large for Saturday and Monday
and were enormous to-day, laith at the
ports and Interior towns. This caused the
market to ease somewhat after the .. .. 11
ing, but Ihe demand was fair, an 1 as
there was a toiul indisposition to sell 1
gresslvely, prices recovered. May fluctuat
ed between 0.90 c utnl 5.93 c, closing at 5.92 c
to 5.93 c, with the tone of the market
steady. The strength of the market in the
face of the receipts is astonishing \\Y f, at
that unless they diminish there will he
some decline.”
DRY’ GOODS.
New York, Jan. 4.—Continued dulltn .-s
Is the rule in dry goods, the market being
without feature to-day in tlie direction or
improvement. Spot business is ligli; and
mall orders slow, with no improvemoi •
in numbers or'extent. Prices on fancy
prints for spring show universalis low
prices. The buying is not stimulated l.v
these announcements as it should be.
Naval stores.
Spirits Turpentine—There was a good
demand for the very light offerings to-day.
At the Hoard of Trade at the firs! call the
market was bulletined firm at 30% cents
bid with sales of 335 casks. At the lad
cull it closed firm at 30% cents bid, with
no sales reported. The receipts for the
day were only 304 casks.
Rosin—The market remained firm and
unchanged. There was said to be a fair
demand, but no report of sales was made.
At the opening and closing of the market
the quotations were bulletined as follow
A, B, C ~.sl 20 Isl 7;,
D .1 20 K is,
E 1 25 M 2hi
F 1 25 N 2 > 5
135 W G 250
H 1 60 W W 3 (10
Naval Stores Statement-
Spirits. Rosin.
Stock on hand April 1, 1897 .. 4,836 177,339
Received this day 304 7’
Received previously 293,352 933,499
Total 298,493 1,118,216
Exports to-day 1,261 1,816
Exports previously 253,100 921.958
Total since April 1, 1897... .254,361 923,774
Stock on hand this day 44,131 194,472
Stock same day last year .. 33,088 259,'364
Receipts same day last year. 688 7.1 b;
Charleston, S. C„ Jan. Turpentine
market firm; 30%c; sales, none. Rosin
firm and unchanged; sales, none.
Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 4.—Spirits tur
pentine dull; 30%c. Rosin firm; $1.15f,1.20
Crude turpentine quiet; $1.40 and sllß/
Tar firm; $1.05.
New York, Jan. 4.—Rosin steady slOl
Turpentine quiet; 33>/*®33%c.
RICE.
Market steady The following quo
tations are for round lots in first hands-
£ a,r .
<*©<%
Rough—7sc to SI.OO per bushel.
FINANCIAL.
Railroad Bonds—Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds
0 per cent. Inlerest coupons, 117 bid.
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage 5 per cent, gold bonds* due
1924, 108 bid, 109 asked; Augusta Southern,
firsts ss, 1324, bid, 93 asked; Central Rail
road and Banking Company collateral 5s
92 bid, 93 asked; Central of Georgia Rail
way first mortgage ss, 50-year gold bonds,
117% bid, 118*4 asked; Central of Georgia
railway first consolidated mortgage ss, 92
bid, 93 asked; Central of Georgia rail
way first preferred Incomes, 43% bid, 4i%
asked; Central of Georgia railway, second
preferred Incomes, 15 bid, 15% asked; Cen
tral of Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, 8 bid, 9 asked; Georgia rail
road 6s, 1910, 113 bid, f14% asked; Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta first ss, 110 bid, 111
asked; Chariotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage 7s, 116 bid, 117 asked,
Georgia Southern and Florida new ss, 1(8)
bid, 101 asked; South Georgia and Florida
first mortgage 7s, 102% Did. 103% asked;
South Georgia and Florida second mort
gage 7s, 103 bid, 105 asked; Ocean Steam
ship 5 per cent, bonds. 192‘J, 104 bid.
asked; City and Suburban railroad first
mortgage 7 per cent, bonds, 84 bid, ask
ed; Alabama Midland 5 per cent, indorsed
90 bid, 91 asked: Brunswick and Western
4s, 75 bid, 77% asked; South Bound rail
way ss. 70 bid, 75 asked; Georgia an/1 Ala
bama first preferred ss, 102 bid, 103 ask/d;
Georgia and Alabama cons. ss, 80 bid, 82
asked.
Money-Market steady.
Foreign Exchange The market Is
steady. The following are net Savannah
quotations: Commercial, deman/I, $4.8.3%,
sixty days. $4.80%; ninety /lays, $4.79%:
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days, 5.23%;
Swiss, sixty days, 5.27%; marks, sixty
days, 94%.
Domestic Exchange—Steady; hanks are
buying at % per cent., discount and sell
ing as follows: Up to $25. 10/ premium;
$25 to SSO. 15c premium; SSO to SIOO, 20c pre
mium; S2OO and upward at par.
Securities—The market Is quiet and
dull.
Stocks and Bonds—State Bonds—Georgia
3% per cent, bonds of 1930, 106 bid, 108
asked; Georgia 3% per cent., due 1915, 103
bid, 107 asked; Georgia 4% per cent, bonds
1915, 116 bid, 118 risked; Grorgia 4 per
cent., due 1926, 112 bid, 114 asked; South
Carolina 4%5, JOS bid. 109 asked.
City Bonds—Atlanta 7 per cant., 103 bid,
104 asked; Augusta 4%5, 1925, 103*% bid, 104
asked; Augusta 7 per cent., 106 bid, 107
asked; Augusta 6 per cent.. 107 bid, 108 ask
/d; Columbus 5 per cent., 103% bid, 104 ask
ed; Macon, 6 per cent., 114 bid, 115 asked;
Ivlacon 4V'aS, 1926, 104 bid, 106 asked: Sa
vannah 5 per cent., quarterly January cou
pons, 111 bid, 111% asked; Savannah 5 pet
cent., quarterly February coupons, 119%
bid, 111% asked; Charleston 4s, 93 bid, 95
asked.
Railroad Stocks—Augusta and Savannah,
93 bid. 94 asked, eX-diy.; Georgia common.
172 bid, 175 asked; Southwestern, 93 bid, 91
asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and West Point
stock, 102 bid, 104 asked: Atlanta and
West Point 6 per cent, certificates, 101%
bid. 103 asked: Savannah Construction
Company, 76 bid, 80 asked.
Gas Storks—Savannah Gas Light stock.
22 hid, 23 iisk/'d; Electric Light an/1
Power Company, 65 bid. 70 asked.
Batik Stocks. Etc. Citizens Hank. 109
bid, asked, ex-.11v.; Chacham Bank, 45
bid, asked, ex-diw; Germania Bank, 108
bid. 109 asked, ex-div.; National Bank
of Savannah. 126 bid, 13tt asked; Merchants
National Bank, 90 bid, 91 asked; Ogle
thorie Savings and Trust Com
pany. 103 bid, asked, ex-div.;
Southern Bank of the Stat" of Georgia,
140 bid, 145 asked, ex-div.; Savannah Bank
and Trust Company. 101 bid, asked;
Chatham Real Estate and Improvement
Company, A, 54% bid 55% asked; B, 54 bid,
5i% ask. 1. ex-div.; Peoples Savings an/I
Loan Company. IK! bid, 100 asked.
Factory Bonds—Augusta Factory 6s, 101
bid, 102 asked; Enterprise Factory 0, 100
bid. 101 uskezl; Eagle and Phenix Manu
facturing Company 5 per cent., bonds,
bid, 40 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s. 101 bid, 102 asked.
Factory Stocks—Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, bid. 15 asked; Augusta Factory,
Si bid. 83 asked; Urnnlteville Factory, 146
bid. 151 asked; Langley Factory, 104 bid,
105*4 asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
93 bid, 96 asked; .1. It. King Manufacturing
Company, 104 bid, 105 asked; Sibley Manu
facturing Company, 70 bid, 76 asked; Sa
vannah Brewing Company, 82 bill, 84 asked.
N/ w York. Jan. 4. 3 p. m.—Money z>n call
was firm, 3%'/i4 per cent.; the last loan at
p er cent., and at the closing otTered at
"V'tl Per cent. Prime mercantile paper,
3%'ztl per /Tilt. Sterling exchange Arm,with
actual business in bankers bills al $1.8474
for demand, and at $4.82%4zi.82% for sixty
days; posted rates, $1.83 and $4 55®4.86;
commercial Dills/, $1.81%. Silver certificate*,
.6%fr/58c. Bar silver. 56%/'. Mexican dollars,
46c. Government bonds strong. State bonds
were /lull. Railroad bunds were firm.
Washington. Jan. 4.—To-day’s statement
of (he con/UPon of the treasury shows:
Available ish balance, $231,302,314; gold re
serve, $161,005,169.
New York. Jan. 4.—The Evening Post's
London financial cablegram says: “The
stock mark/Is here were quiet and rather
• lull to-day, the only feature being a strong
inquiry for Argentines, which have risen
sharply. Americana were dull on New
York weakness, the operators here await
ing a lend from the other side. There Is
no initiative here, where the disposition Is
id center speculative activity on Argen
titvs a 11/I mines with .1 weather eye open
to Americans if inclined to move. Impor
tant engagements are proceeding here as
to a Chinese loan.”
New York. Jan. 4 —(Prices of stocks show
a further decline to-day, and there was
nothing to indicate that the decline was
due to any other cause than the prepon
derance of those who desire to s/ ll over
those who desire to buy. There was some
short selling by the professional bears, but
no marked recuperation such as would be
caused by the covering of shorts was man-
Ifested, and ihe hears, If they sold, were
apparently content to leave their contracts
open.
The specialties continue to absorb the
largest share of attention, but the market
stiowed a broader tendency and the liqui
dation extended more generally through
I the list.
j Metropolitan Street Railway was fever
ish and erratic throughout, moving over
11 range of 2% points, anil / losing with a
gain of .1 fraction. The stock at one time
shared in the weakness of the general list
and fell 1% points. Manhattan was under
pressure all day, ufter a momentary gain
at tile opening, and fell 10 the lowest, 110,
only a li tie before the close, with a feeble
raily. There w;ih obvious hear pressure
against this stock.
Net losses of a large fraction are general
I lirouglioul (lie list, and a numlierof prom
inent specialties and railroad stocks, nota
bly among southern nnd southwestern
roa Is and the coalers, showed net loss of
a point and over.
Yesterday's flurry In the money market,
which carried rates up 6 p,er cent., was not
repeated to-day, but the market was firm
er. Most of the transactions were made
at 1 per cent., with exceptions at 8%.
The clearing house statement discloses
that the January disbursements of Inter
ests resulted In the transfer of a little over
J4,<4.0,060 from the treasury to the New
York money market, as indicated by to
day's treasury debit balance. To-day's 1111-
/■ langes hi tile clearing house ran up to
til/' enormous total of $230,731,265, and the
balances fooled up over $16,500,000.
To-morrow’s Lnion Pacific payment of
$8,500,000, which is to be covered into the
treasury in / ash, doubtless figures In theM
transactions, but there were heavy bank
ing opz-raMons ire addition, quite sufficient
to account for the Hurry in the money
market yesterday. In view of the pro
portionately small surplus reserve, there
al/' not such confident predictions heard
of any Immediate easing of the rates for
money as were current last week, al
though tile exchange market holds firm
on .1 deman/I which is based on the pre
sumption of lower rates for money in the
near future.
The demand for bonds was not heavy to
day, but prices were well held. Total
sales, $1,650,000. United States old 4s, reg
istered, were %r lower bid, and the 5s were
'sc higher.
Toial snles of stock to-day 201.700 shares,
Including: Atchison preferred, 3,955; Louis
ville and Nashville, 3,630; Manhattan. 26.-
483; Metropolitan Street Railroad, 6,080;
Missouri Pacific, 7,415; Northern Pacific
preferred, 3,890; Rock Island, 5.990; St.
Paul, 21,177; American Tobacco, 7.450; Chi
cago Great Western, 4,120; People's Gas.
12,260; Sugar, 19,883; Western Union, 3,685.
New York Closing Stocks.
Atchison 12%; do nref !42%|
do pref 29%;3t. p. * Om. .. 75 |
11. &■ Ohio 13%, do do pref 148 I
Can. Pa 81% St. P M. & M...J21
Call. So 51 (So. Pa 20
Crn. Pa 10% So. Ry 8%
C. & Ohio 21 %j do pref 30
C. & Alton I*2 ;Tex. * Pa 11
C„ B. & Q 98%!U)1. Pa 25%
C. * E. 11l 52%'U. P. D. & G. .. 6%
C. & St. L.. 33 |Wabash 7*4
do do pref .... 75 I do pref 17%
I). & Hudson ...111 jW. * L. E 2
D. L. Hr W 165 j do do pref 8
Den. & Rio G... 11 jA/lama Bx 158
do pr< f 45% American Ex. ..115
Erie (newt ll%jUnlted States ~ 38
do Ist pr/'f .... 37 (Wells Fargo- 110
Ft. Wayne 168%|A. Cot. Oil 21%
Gt. N. pref 130 j do pref 75
Hock. Valley ... s*4|Am. Spirits 7%
111. C'eri 103 | do pref 19
L. E. & W 15%;Am. Tobacco .... 88
do do pref .... 70%; do pref 113
Lake Shore ....170 (People’s Gas .... 96
L. & N 55%|Cons. Gas 177
Man. 1 110 |Com. C. Cos 175
Met. St. Ry. ...130%|C. F. & Iron .. 24%
Mich. <Vn 100 | do do pref 75
M. & St. L 25 |Geti. Electric .. 33%
do do Ist pref . 85 |III. Steel 35
Mo. Pa 32%|La Clede Gas ... 44
M. & Ohio 28%| Lead 36%
Mo. K * T 12%| do pref 106
do r>ref 31% Nat Lin. Oil .... 17
Ind. & L. B%r>re. Imp. Cos. .. 18
do do pref .... 30 ;Pa. Mall 29%
N. J. Ceniral ~94%(Pu11. Palace 172% ■
N. Y. Central ..105% Sil. Certificates . 06%
N.Y. C. & St. L. 12% S. Rope & T 3
do do Ist pref . 65 Sugar 140%
do do 2nd pref 32%; do pref 115
Nor. & West .... 14 JT. C. & Iron .... 25%
PAGES 0 TO 10.
No. Am. Cos. ... 4*4 U. s Leather ... 6%
No- 20*2 do pref 63
do pref r. s Rubber ... 15%
tint. & W 15*4 .1.) pref 61%
Ore. R. & N iv. ;:6 \\. Union 89%
Ore. Short Line, 30 Northwestern ...119%
|%ttburg His do pref 153
Reading 21% St. 1. 4 \y 4
Rock Island x*'i 9 q 0 pref 9%
St. L. * S. F. 7% C. & G. W 14
do do Ist pref. 361, k. G. \* 22
do do Slid pr.-f, i'4*„ do pref 59%
St. Haul 92% Haw (’. Cos 28
Bonds.
V.3. new 4*. reg.l2B No. Pac. His 116
do do coup —l2B | .1.1 go 3s 60%
U. S. 4s 113 c do /to 4s $6%
do do coup —113% N. Y. C. & St.
do do 2n/ls 99%. L. Is 106%
U. 9. ss. reg 114% Nor. & W. 65....123
do do ss. c0up.114% Northw. con 144%
District 3s. '6:.s 109% do deh. 5s 116%
Ala. class A 107 O. Nav. lsts 112%
do do B 107 O. Nav. 4s 93%
do do C 10l |Q. S. Line 6s,
do currency ...10l j t r 124
Atchison 4s 89*1 O. S. Line ss,
do adj. 4s 58 I. r 96%
Can. So. 2nd* ..l/oi* 4 O. Imp. lsts. t. r.lOo
Chi. Terminal .. 83% do do ss, t. r... 45%
C. * Ohio 5s 114% Pacific fis. '95 103%
C. H. & D. 4%s.KM V Reading 4s 83%
D. & R. G. lsts.loß', R. G. W. lsts.... 82
do do 4s 89% St. L. & Ir. M.
East Tenn. lsts.lo6 I con. os 88%
Erie gen. 4s 70 |St. L. & San F.
F. W. &D. lsts j gen. 6s lIH
t. r 70 j St. P. con 137*4
Gen. Elec. ss. ~100%; St. P. C. & P,
G. H. & S. A. 6s. 105 lsts 118%
do do 2nds 100 ! do do os’ 116
H. & T. C. 65...108%|9. Carolina non
dodo con. 65.. 105 | fund %
Iwa. C. lsts I*9 jSo. Ry. 5s 92**
Kan. P. con. t. r 84%'S. Rope & T. 6s. 58
K. P. Ist (Den. )Tenn. new set 3s. 85
dlv.) t. r 113 [Tex. Pac. L. G.,
La. new con. -Is. 101%; lsts 97%
L. * N. uni. 45.. 85%| do do reg. 2nds. 28**
Missouri 6s 100 jU. P. lsts 103
M. K. & T. 2nds. 63%jU. P. D. & Gulf
do do 4s 86%’ lsts 4814
N. Y. Cen. lsts.ll6 fWnb. Ist 5s 108
N. J. Cen. 6s —llO do 2nds 80%
N. Carolina 65..125 jW. Shore 4s 109
do do 4s 101 |Va. Centuries ... 68
do deferred 3%
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
The following are the Savannah Roard
of Trade quotations:
Bacon—The market is steady. Smoked
clear sides. 6*,4c; dry salted clear rib
sides, 5%c; bellies, 5%0; sugar cured hams,
9%c.
|g*rd—Market firm; pure, In tierces, 5%c;
50-pound tins, /•; compound, in tierces,
4%c; 50-pound tins, 4%c.
Butter—Mark/ t steady; fair demand; Go
ehen, 16®>17%c; gilt edge, 22//f23c; creamery,
23®24c: fancy Elgin*, 26®27c.
Cheese—Market firm; fancy full cream
cheese, ll@ll%e; 20-pound average, 11%®
12c.
Flour—Firm; patents, $5.40; stralgths,
©T.OO; fancy. $4.90; clear, $4.08; family, $4.10.
Corn—Market steady; white Job lots, 49e;
carload lots, 47/'; mixed corn, Job lots, 48c;
carload lot*, 46<
Oats—Carload lots, 36c; job lots, 38c.
Texas rust proof, Job lots, 45c.
Southern seed rye, sl.lO.
Rice—Job lots, ralr, 4%@4%c; good, 4%®
sc; prime. 5@5%c.
Bran—Job lots, 86c; carload lot*. 80c.
Hay—Market steady; western. Job lots,
80c; carload lots, 75c.
Meal—Pearl, per barrel, $2.15; per sack,
95c; city meal, per sack, bolted, 90/',
city meal, water ground, 95c; pearl grits,
per barrel. $2.20; per sack, SI.OO.
Coffee—Steady; Mocha. 26c; Java. 27c;
Peaberry, 17c; standard No. 1. 14c; No. 2,
13c; No. 3. 12%c; No. 4, ll%c; No. 5, 10%c;
No. 6. 9%e; No. 7. 8%0.
Sugar—Equality Prices—Savannah quo
tations: Powdered, 5.62 c; standard gran
ulated, 6.43 c; cubes, 6.63 e; confectioners'
A, 5.30/:; while extra C, 4.80 e; extra C,
4.79 c; golden C, 4.36 c; yellows, 4.43 c. Tone
firm.
Cabbage—Northern, barrels, per head.
6@7c.
Onions—Crates, $1.00; barrels, $2.75; large
Spanish, $1.65 crate.
Potatoes—lrish, $2.75.
App1e5—53.73444.50.
Orange—Florida. $3,504/5.75.
Lemons—Market quiet; Messina, new
per box, $3.00®3.26.
Dried Fruit—Apples, evaported, 9c;
common, 5®6%c.
Nuts—Almonds, Tarragona, 12c; Ivlcas,
10%c; walnuts, French, 10c; Naples, 11c;
pecans, 10c; Brazils, B%c; filberts, 10c; as
sorted nuts, 50-pound and 25-pound boxes,
10®)10%c; cocoanuts, $3.75 per 100.
Raisins—L. L., $1.65; %-box, $1.00; loose,
60-rx>und boxes, 6%c per pound.
Peanuts—Ample stock; fair demand;
market steady; fancy hand-picked Vir
ginia, jter pound, 4%c; hand-picked, per
pound, 4c.
Eggs—Market firm; candled per dozen,
21®22c; country, 2c less.
Poultry—Steady; fair demand; half
grown, 25®35c per pair; three-quarters
grown, 404/50c per pair; full-grown fowls,
65Q63c per pair.
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. j, 93c. Codfish, 1-pound
bricks, 6%c; 2-pound bricks, 6c. Smoked
herring, per box, 20c; Dutch herring, in
kegs, $1.25; new mullet, half-barrel, $3 50.
Syrup—Market quiet; Georgia and Flor
ida syrup buying at 22%@25cj selling at 25®
30c; sugar house at 19(&32c; Cuba straight
goods, 23@30c; sugar house molasses, 15®
200.
Salt—Demand Is fair, and the market
steady; carload lots, f. o. b.. Liverpool,
200-pound sacks, 57c; job lots, 65®90c; com
mon fine salt, 125-pound, in burlap sacks,
carload lots, 3Gc; common fine salt, 123-
pound, In cotton sacks, carload lots, 39c.
Hides, Wool, Etc.—Hides—The market
firm; dry flint, 14c; dry salt. 12c: green
salted, 7%e. Wool—Firm; prime Georgia,
free of sand, burrs and black wool. 18c;
blacks, 16c; burry, 6#9e. Wax, 23c. Tallow,
2c. Doer skins, 15c.
Oils—Market steady; demand fair; sig
nal, 45®50c; West Virginia black, 9®l2<;
lard. 48(ff56c; neatsfoot, 60®75c; machinery,
15@25c; linseed, raw, 39c; boiled, 42c: kero
sene, prime, white, 8c; water white, 9c;
fire-proof, 10c; deodorized stove gasoline,
barrels, B%c.
Gun Powder—Per keg. $4.60; half keg,
$2.25; quarter keg, $1.25; Champion duck
ing. quarter keg, $2 25; Austin, Dupont
and Hazard, smokeless, half kegs, $11.25;
quarter kegs, $5.75; 1-pound canisters, $1.00;
less 25 per cent.
Shot—Drop, $1.75; B. B. and large, $1.50;
chilled. $1 65.
Iron—Market very steady; Swede, 4@4%c;
refined, $1.55 base.
Nails—Cut, $1.55 base; wire, $1.85 base.
Advanced national list of extras, adopted
Dec. 1, 1896.
Dry Goods—The market is firm; demand
brisk; prints. 3%@6c: Georgia brown shirt
ings, 3c; %, 4e; 4-4 brown sheetings, 4%©
6c; white osnaburgs. 6c; checks, 4®sc;
brown drillings. 5%®6%c.
Lime, Calcined Plaster and Cement—Ala
bama and Georgia lime in fair demand,
and selling at 75c per Itarrel, bulk and car
load lot special; calcined plaster, SLSO per
barrel; hair, 4@sc; Rosedale cement, sl.lo®
1.20; carload lots special; Portland cement,
retail, $2.20; carload lots, $2.00.
OCEAX FREIGHTS.
Cotton—Market easy; rate* quoted are