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8 A TEXAS WONDER. Hull's Great KHscsrery. On© small bottle of Hall’s Great Dis covery cures all kidney and bladder troubles, removes gravel, cures diabetes, seminal emissions, weak and lame backs, rfieumat'.sm and all irregularities of th© kidneys and bladder In both men and women, regulates bladder troubles In chil dren. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mall on receipt of sl. On© small bottle is two months’ treatment, and will cur© any case above mentioned. Dr. E. W. Hall, sole manufacturer. P. O. Box 629. St. Louis. Mo. Send for testi monials. Sold by all druggists and Solo mons C<\, Savannah, Ga. Read Thia. Covington. Ga.. July 23. 189A This Is to certify that I have used Dr. Hall’s Great Discovery for Rheumatism. Kidney and Bladder Troubies. and will say It Is far superior to anything I have ever used for the above complaint. Very respectfully, H. I. HORTON, Ex-Marshal. IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA. NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE DAY IN TWO STATES. Miron to Hove o Tuhllc Wnldlns. Train Daihrd Into Negron and a Wagon Near Madison—Police I.len trnant Pleased With 111* Visit to Savannah—Man Killed by on En gine at Fer no adi no—N> of the CominE Encampment— New Fire- Fighting Device. Maj. Prather of the Franklin Printing Company of Atlanta, has received a letter from Gen. Joseph Wheeler, which states that the General will retire from the army In September. Maj. Prather was on Lien. Wheeler's staff during the Civil War. He is expecting Gen. Wheeier to attend the reunion of the Blue and the Gray. A Public Wedding. A young man whose wedding was to oc :ur on Sept. 20 has notified Mayor Smith of Macon that he will get his affianced to postpone it until the twenty-fourth, so as to marry in public at the street fair, aud get the prizes that have been offered by Macon business men for the man and wo man who will do this. Another man has the option, however, provided he. can find a girl to marry him. He is trying, and has a short while longer in which to settle the matter. Jnmcs nnd Ills Crop. Macon Telegraph: Mr. T. J. James, the most extensive farmer and developer in South Georgia, passed through Macon yesterday, returning to his home at Adrian. He says the cotton prospects are not so good down his way this year, but he is paying very little attention to that crop. He is not certain, that he will make as much as a thousand bales. Mr. James runs 125 plows, and looks after them him self. He says the farm is the only place for a man to live. Georgia's Censns. Atlanta Journal: The census of the state of Georgia will probably go far be yond the 2,000,000 mark. The census of the state In 1890 1,837,353 people, which was an Increase of 18 per cent, over the census of 1880. If the same rate pre vails this time the population of Georgia will be about 2,500,000 as a result of the census recently. Gov. Candler made the estimate this morning. He, says he thinks there has been a great Increase in the population since 1890. NVnnt n Company. Moultrie Observer: An effort Is being made to organize a military company In Moultrie. A number of young men have signed an agreement to go In it, and the required number will be easily obtained. It is probable that the organization will be perfected before may days. There is no reason why we should not have a crack military company. We have any quantity of young men, nnd physically they are as fine a set of fellows as any town of a like size can produce. A good many of them have been members of companies In other places, others have been to mili tary schools, while a few saw service in the late Spanish-American war. Killed Near Madison. The fast Georgia train from Atlanta to Augusta dashed into a wagon in which were three negroes Sunday afternoon, a few miles below Madison, killing one negro. Injuring one, completely demolishing the wagon and killing instantly Ihe horse. One negro escaped by jumping just before the engine splintered the wagon.' The scene of the accident is in a deep cut, about half a mile long. About the center of the cut the road drosses. The negro who was killed was Lige Johnson, a farm hand. It Is supposed that the negroes did not hear the approach of the train on ac count of the cut. Engineer Ewing was in charge of the engine. He says he blew his whistle at the signal post for the road crossing. flnrke AVas Pleased. Ueul. Walter Clarke of the Macon po lice force has returned from Savannah, where he went to attend the Clerks’, Chiefs' and Sheriffs' state convention, rep resenting Chief Boifeuillet, who could not attend. Lieut. Clarke says while the con vention did very little in the way of bus iness, those who attended had a rat tling good time. The people of Savannah, who are famous for their hospitality, royally entertained the members of the association, and Lieut. Clarke says he never had a better time in his life. The convention was a big success, the attend ance being unusually large, and all of the members were delighted with the recep tion they received. A Brntnl Assault. D. W. Dobbs, one of Cobb county’s most prosperous and energetic citizens, was painfully and probably mortally wounded Monday afternoon on his farm about five miles north of Marietta by one. of his farm hands, a negro man. Mr. Dobbs re proved the negro about some trivial mat ter whereupon the negro drewr a long keen-bleded knife and began to advance upon Mr. Dobbs, who is quite old, and was unarmed at the time. Mr. Dobbs turned around ar.d started away from the negro, whereupon the negro ran up behind him and cut his throat, and not satisfied at the already brutal, llendlsh and cowardly assault, knocked the feeble, grav-headed man down upon Ills face and got on his back and cut him and fled for the woods, thinking he had killed him. The negro es caped. , , FLORIDaT The Anson M. Bangs, one of the largest and most substantial tugboats ever seen at Jacksonville, is making preparations for a trip to Wilmington. Del., to which point It will tow one of the large barges recently constructed at Talleyrand by Hughes Bros., & Bangs. The building of these scows has given employment to 200 skilled laborers and mechanics. Killed by nn Engine A workman named J. J. McDonald, em ployed In the tailoring establishment of Horry Goldstein at Fernandina, was run over and killed Sunday morning about 3 o’clock by a switch engine of the Sea board system, on the beach read, near the Intersection of Beach and Third streets. His head was entirely severed from his body, and his body was badly mangled. The OruuKr Outlook. Mr, Harry Bums. th<* Florida passenger agent of the Georgia and Florida Rail road. in speaking of the outlook for oranges this year, ©aid Florida, would ship r®ore of them than ever before. He says he crop Is exceedtngly fine. “Capt. W. W. Carnes, formerly of Macorv, but now of Memphis, Tenn., bought an orchard or grove in Florida last winter,” said Mr. Burns, “and paid $25,000 for it. He has al ready ■ been offered SIO,OOO for the crop of grapefruit and oranges he will gather from it this eeason. YV* M. Houghton Dead. Mr. W. M. Houghton, a well known citizen of Palatka, passed quietly away on Saturday. Mr. Houghton, the grand son of the late Gov. William D. Moseley, find the son of the late Judge T. S. Houghton and Elizabeth Moseley Hough ton. was born in Palatka Nov. 11. 1858. As a young: man, he was a student of the Virginia Military Institute, where he left an enviable record. In addition to his mother and brother and sister, Mr. Houghton is survived by his wife and two children. Branch Killed by Jones. At Newberry r , Emory Jones shot and in stantly killed B. K. Branch Monday night. Jones and Branch with some others, wer© on their way home from Gainesville, and were drinking. It is alleged that Branch went to Jones’s buggy to getadrink, when Jones drew his pistol and went to shoot ing Branch. Jones is a young man. Branch has a wife nnd one. child. Both of these are ex-convicts, having been con victed for murder, and were pardoned out. Jones has been captured by Justice Bailey and Constable Avrielte. Life Sentence©. The three condemned Hewitt brothers, who left Jacksonville last week for the state prison camps, stopped a short titn* in Stnrke. and there met many acquaint ances. These young men were tried and convicted in Jacksonville for killing their brother-in-law in Bradford county, nnd they are under life sentences. The eldest is scarce 36 years qf age, and the youngest only 21. Moss, the elder brother, leaves . wife and children; Dick leaves a child, his wife having died while he was In jail, nnd Bum a widowed mother, who was dependent upon him for support. A Horrible Denth.. A terrible accident occurred Monday at Seymour & Smith’s sawmill, at Ocala, tbit cost Hilliard Woodard, colored, of Lowell his life. It seems Woodard went to the mill to grind his ax on a stone turned by power. The belt that extended from the main shaft to the grindstone became de tached and the man. in attempting to put it back, cought his hand in it. Before the engine could be stopped he was whirled around the shaft. His arm was literally torn out of the socket, and he was almost instantly killed. The body was sent to Howell for interment. Gen. Wm. P. Ilar.cn Dend. Gen. William P. Hazen died at his ho-me at I>ake Thonotosessa Monday afternoon. The General’s death was due to his ad vanced age. coupled with the fact that he had recently been much debilitated. De ceased was a brother-in-law of Dr. L*. W. Weedon and an uncle of Mrs. Claudia Ha zen White, who was born in the General’s home and adopted as his own daughter. He also leaves three sons, Edward and Philander, at the Lake, and Martin in Marion, O. He has a married daughter in California. The remains will be taken to his old home at Marion, 0., for inter ment, being accompanied thither by Mrs. Hazen and daughter, E. E. Hazen and C. 11. McNair. Encampment JVctt*. A telegram has been received by the St. Augustine Encampment Committee from the captain of the Chipley Light Infantry, Pensacola, to the effect that a sufficient number of the members of the company cannot get away to justify their going to the encampment. While this is regretted, the place assigned the Pensacola compa ny will be given to the Miami Rifles. Car penters have 'finished the mess sheds and kitchens on the camp grounds. The mesa sheds are ranged along the sea wall, and w'hile at meals the soldier boys will be fanned by delightful breezes direct from the. ocean and river. Water pipe© have also been laid, and all that remains to be done is to erect the tents, which task wiil be accomplished by the compa nies as they arrive. An S. P, f. A. Formed. Quite a number of Key West citizens called a meeting a few days ago to or- "FREE TREATMENT FREE SAMPLES.” A ‘‘String** 1© Always Attached to These “Cienerou©** Offer©—the Ulti mate Cost I© Lesn nnd Result© Certain When You Are Treated by Dr. Hathaway, the Master Specialist. If your house needs repairing you do not get a blacksmith to do it; why, then, when you ore sick, do you buy a hit-or-miss Js*ome man or pany” or “insti tute” rather graduated and ician and spe-c --i, p Another class [ ©? of men and “in- Tijjß * • stitutes,” etc., J.Nrwton Hathawav.lii.D. be avo j df <l * s The Longest Established *£*** ” a^' Specialist in the Sou.h, '* r J “ f r „ e ! treatment and "free remedies." You may depend upon it that there Is a very strong; "string" at tached to all these offers, and that In the end you pay more than you would to a real doctor—one capable of understanding your case and one whose reputation de pends upon the cures he makes. Most of these "free treatments" consist simply of a few doses of a very powerful stimulant, w'hich, when the effects have worn off, leave the patient In worse condition than before the "treatment." Dr. Hathaway has never resorted to these methods. For twenty' year* he has been h practicing physician—a specialist in the treatment of chronic diseases of men and women. Y’ear by year his prac tice has grown until to-day It is larger ten times over than that of any other specialist in his line in the world. By his method of treatment Lost Vital Forces, Weakened Manly Functions. Vari cocele, Stricture, Syphilitic Blood Poison ing. Kidney nr.d Urinary Complaints, and all other forms of chronic and lingering diseases are cured, and cured to stay cured Dr, Hathaway s office ts permanent; It is not here to-day and there to-morrow. He practices in the community where is known. Consultation and advice free al office or by mail. Always call at office whenever possible J. NEWTON HATHAWAY. M, D. Dr. Hathaway A Cos., 24A Bryan street, Savannah, Ga. Office houts—9 to 12 m., 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. Sundays 10 a. m. to 1 p, m. W. F. HAMILTON, Artesian Well Contractor, OCALA. FLA. Am prepared to drill wells up to any depth u e uao tlrat-clasi machinery, can do stork on snort notice and guarantee satisfaction, THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1900. CASTORIA for Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision for over .‘JO years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good” are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children—Experience against Experiment. The Kind Yon Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THC C-CN-ftPH COMPANY, TT Mu* Wji* STBUT, mwVOUS CITY ganize a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Mr. W. W. Thompson was elected president, Edward L Dome vice president. William Shuman secre tary. and William A. Thompson treasurer. This society was greatly needed, and since its organization has done plenty of good work. The police Justice has sworn in special police, and about forty broken down and sore-back horses have been or dered off the streets in the last few days. The drivers are first warned to lay up their horses, and if they do not heed the warning, they are then taken before the . police justice. Fire-Flftlitint* Dev-lee. Chief A. J- Harris of the Tampa fire department has just completed a simple device which will work a wonderful change in fire fighting. It is an addition to a nozzle that will spread the water and at the same time allow it to have full force. This will be of especial ben efit in fighting a fire in a garret. With the old style straight pipes or the bail nozzle, great difficulty was experienced. The straight nozzle had the power, but thefstream did not spread and had to be moved. The bail spread the water, hut made it into mist and it fell short of the requirements. The simple device Chief Harris has is practical, and is already in good working order. It spreads the wa ter from an ordinary pipe over an area of twenty feet, perhaps, and it all takes with it the same power that a straight nozzle has. VALDOSTA'S COMING FAIR. Committees Organized nnd Uently for Active Work. Valdosta, Ga., July 18.—The citizens here have taken active steps to make the coming state fair a great success. A meeting was held recently at the City Hail, and Mayor Ashley was put at the head of a Citizens' Committee, to solicit subscriptions, and to act as an advisory board with the exposition managers from norv until the fair opens. Mr. T. G. Cranford, who !s president of the Exposition Company, made a brief address showing just what the Exposition Company has undertaken, and asking the citizens to shore the burden with them. Mr. Cranford stated that they were pledged to offer SIO,OOO in premiums, and that other necessary expenses would make a demand upon them for $15,000. He stated that his company stood ready to take 510,000 of the risk, but that he warned the citizens to contribute the other $5,000. The committee to solicit subscriptions and act as advisory board, consists of Mayor C. R. Ashley, A. TANARUS, Woodward, Charles F. Clarke, C. B. Peeples, J. N. Griffin, S. B. Godwin and J. A. Dasher, Jr. The committee met at the Mayor's office yes terday morning and began their work. Reports from all of the counties around here indicate that this entire section of the state is feeling a local pride in the fair, and that the people stand ready to aid Valdosta in making it an epoch-mak ing event in the history of South Geor gia. A hotel company was organized here yesterday, and work Is to begin In a short time upon a sixty-room hotel. It to to cost $36,000, and will be built by a stock company of home capitalists. Another movement Is on foot to build a 200-room wigwam to accommodate vis itors to the state fair. It is to be erected between here and Pine Park, and will be ready when the fair opens. In a week from now, arrangements will have been perfected for accommodating five thous and visitors every day and night. A NEW ARTESIAN WELL. Valdostn Connell to Inerense the Water Supply. Valdosta, Ga., July 18 —City Council has agreed to bore another artesian well as soon as the preliminary arrangements can be made. The well is to be bored on the lot near the present water station, and another reservoir Is also to be built. With the Increased demand there has been danger of a water famine once or twice, and now the question of more water has become a very Important problem. It will be solved, however, by more than doubling the supply. The farmers of this county have been called together to organize a branch of the Georgia Cotton Growers’ Association. They will meet here next Saturday lo take steps toward a permanent organiza tion, which is to be perfected on Aug, 8, at which time Mr. Harvte Jordan, pres ident of the state otganization, is expect ed to be here. Iverson Cook, won of Mr. A. T. Cook, died here yesterday of consumption. He had been n sufferer tor a year or more. Mrs. Preston Hull died suddenly at her home In the western part of the city last week. She was seized with a congestive chill and died before medical attention could reach her. ‘ MOEHKEH'S RPEER STORY. Turned I p Attain After Iloingr Lost for Four A'rars. Phoenix. Ariz., July 18.—John Moehker, who disappeared from here four years ago and who owned considerable land at the i time, has been heard from In Arkansas. At the time of his disappearance blood was I found in his ropm and his wife was sus pected of murder. Proof was not sufficient. Hut she lost the property to Eastern heirs after a bitter fight. Moehker says he was suffering from sunstroke when he left home and knew nothing until a fewr months ago, when he found himself In a California Insane asylum. —Glasgow, which Is famous already for Its experiments In municipal ownership ! of public utilities, Is to inaugurate a mtt | niclpal telephone exchange for o.OhO sub scribers. The plant Is to be of the most j modern kind. It ie expected to pay for ] itself nnd Its running expenses at an Annual charge to each subscriber of about | 127.25. The charge by the private corpora- I tion noiv doing the business ts SSO. But, as a cynical writer suggests, In Glasgow i they do not mix politics and municipal 1 business. OMENS OF PRECIOUS GEMS. P< ople In All Ages Hnve Had Super ntltlnns About Them. From the Baltimore American. Preseious stones in ell times have had, however, more than an intrinsic valuf. for about each of the many kinds have been woven strange and interesting ,su perstttions, many of them dating from times of which history Is silent. Since the Jove of Jewels was born in the East, and since this wonderful world is as well the birthplace of most of the world’s supersti tions. it is from such a fruitful source that many of the oldest and strangest of these come. Many of them have suf fered changes since their introduction to the wefsern world, but there still exists traces of Indian handiwork in the le gends, and where the ancient story has disappeared altogether some narrative of it has been found, to come all the stranger to modern-day readers. Of the many precious stones that are worn to-day, most all of them have lost any odium that may have belonged to them, and the wearers tn many cases have chosen the sparkler merely upon its merits as an ornament. Time was, however, when he who went about the task of choosing a gem. particularly if it was to be worn about the person contin ually, made his way through the maze of clinging superstitions as carefully as a scout through an enemy-infested woods. His decision meant weal or woe, and as the greater number of the stones had omens of ill fortune the chances tn favor of woe were far too numerous for com fort. Gems Held in Disfavor. At this day belief in the potency of these stones to cost gloom or sorrow or to bring fortune and happiness, as the case might have been, have weli-nlgh passed away, nnd now the old stories are only valua ble to amuse. There is, to be sure, a lin gering dislike for the opal and in some minds a prejudice against the pearl, since superstitions cling about them, but the class entertaining these ie a small one, nnd os a mark of the progress of the age is growing smaller. The disfavor into which the opal has fallen is of modern birth, strange to say, and is said to have been due to the use which Sir Walter Scott made of the stone in one of his novels. The Hindoo, who reduced the reading of gem omens to a science, hod only kind words of the opal. I: was supposed—and, for that matter, is to-day among the Hindoos—to influence for good upon the travelers, protecting them from danger while away and bring • ing them safely home again. As the opal combines in itself the colors of all other gems, so the ancients credited It not only with this distinctive virtue, but with all of the virtues credited to other stones. Opals were, therefore, prized most highlv and those ntjt able to own a great variety chose th'is ,to have full value of its wide range of powers. That the pearl is in some disfavor is as well a product of modern times and can oniy be traced to its resemblance to n tear, a fact that has credited it with bringing sorrow. The ancients in ascrib ing the generation of gems to lapidific spirits accounted for the pearl in the most poetic way—that it was formed of the morning dew', drunk in by shellfish, and naught but good fortune came to the wearer, a necklace of pearls being above ail things a good-omened gift for bride groom to give his bride. There Is Luck tn Diamonds. The diamond has enjoyed the unreserved , avor of the ages and to-dav is the peer of all. According to BoetlusT the diamond was regarded as symbolical of justice, and i the Judges in hades were described as having heorts and bosoms of adamant, while the clouds of destiny were shrouded in the same substance. Among the va ; >ious stones the sapphire stands forth with perhaps the greatest amount of supersti tious interest Centered In it. Among the j Hebrews it seems to have been regarded with the highest veneration, n tradition asserting that the vision which appeared [ to Moses on the mount was in a sapphire, and that the tablets of the law given there tvere engraved on this substance. The Hindoo ascribes many powers to this gem. among them that it purifies the blood, strengthens the system, quenches thirst, dispels melancholy, overts dangers and assures honor and prosperity. A strange belief in regard to this stone was that it reproduced its sneezes and hence the title of “male" and "female sapphires, used to-day In the East, as the s, “" es are of a dee P or a light color. lhe emerald is another about which many curious beliefs have been formed. According to Pliny, the ancients atlributed to it the power of healing weak sight its soft green depths having great potency o\er the sight. In addition to this it die . TL falSe witnesses by changing color in tnotr presence. Pliny nnd the Emerald. One of the most curious stories ts re ; lated In all seriousness by Pliny ns relat | mg to the emerald. Says he: "In the Is- I land of Cyprus there Is placed on the ! tomb of King Hermans a lion sculptured i in marble nnd for eyes emeralds were set I in which shone so brightly on the sur rounding sea that the fish were frighten ! ed away, and the fishermen, observing this with dismay, removed the emeralds from the tion. replacing them by stones | not having so much brilliancy." The Pe ruvians considered an emerald th> choicest gift that could be made to one of their Idols, anr) Pizarro mentions one as large as an ostrich egg that was ex hibited by the high priest only at the greatest festivals and was worshipped as the goddess of emeralds. Boctlus. in speaking of other stones ! says that the amethyst dispels drunken^ | ness and sharpens the wit; the Jacinth ‘if ! worn on the finger. Induces sleep: the tur ; quoise preserves from eontnglon, draw | ing upon Itself the threatened sickness, j though only if the stone be present; the I heliotrope renders lee wearer Invisible and and the chrysolite loses Its brilliancy If placed In the vicinity of poison In the East, and particularly to the Hindoo, the cat’s-eye is most highly prized ns a rare talisman that has the power of warding off sickness, and only misfortune can follow the loss, whether accidental or compulsory, of one of the atones. ROSINS CLOSE AT ADVANCE. PRICES JUMP TO AN OUTSIDE FIG URE DURING EARLY HOURS. The Trading Was tn Fair A'olnme In Both Markets. Thongti the Fact Two Prices Were Quoted Caused Hesitation—Cotton Futures Jump 11P33C Points—Neill's Bullish Re port Causes a Rise In Liverpool. Local and Telegraphic Markets. Morning News Office, July 18. The feature of the local markets to-day was the advance in rosins, which went up at the opening call. (This was due largely to the light receipts, and further evidences of a decrease In the yield as the result of many drawbacks which have hindered farmers in gathering stuff. The turpentine market was strong, but no advance was scored, the cloelng being firm at 44(4c, and 4414 c. There was a fair demand. The fact there were in side and outside prices In both the spirits and rosin markets, caused the usual hes itancy on the part of buyers, pending the fixing of prices for a trading basis. Two prices means a backwardness on the part of buyers to enter at the outside. It was a jubilant day for the bulls in the cotton market. Everything seemed to be with them, both at the opening, when strong cables and an advance in Liver pool was reported, caused by Neill's re port to the English trade, which was very bullish. The New York market went up 16 and 36 points, the biggest gains being scored In the July and August options. October and November advanced 18 points each, September 17, and all others 18 points. The bears were panic stricken for a time, and when the advances began pouring in were frantic in their efforts to cover. The wholesale markets were eteady. Lemons jumped to-day in response to an advance of a dollar a box in New York. The following resume of the different markets will show the tone and quota tions at the closing to-day; COTTON. The cotton market closed unchanged to day. There was very little of local inler est to attract the attention of the trade. The rtse in futures was of a sensational character, the market advancing during the early hours from 16 to 36 points. This was due largely to the improved Liverpool, which showed an advance, and the bullish crop report sent across the water by Nelli. The following were the official spot quo tations at the close of the market at the Cotton Exchange to-day; [This | Last I day. | year. Good middling ~|9 15-16*6(6 Middling ,'.|9% jo% Low middling |9% |4% Good ordinary |B% 444 Market, nominal; sales, none. Savannah Receipts, Exports and Stocks; Receipts this day 363 Receipts this day last year 190 Receipts this day year before last.. 33 Receipts since Sept. 1, 1899 1,071,894 Same time last year 1,082.027 Exports, foreign 5,916 Exports, coastwise 738 Stock on hand this day 13,977 Same day last year 9,328 Receipts and Stocks at the Ports— Receipts this day 10.122 This day last year „ 2,090 This day year before last 2,097 Total receipts since Sept. 1, 1899 6,433.573 Same time last year 5,259,305 Same time year before last 8,590,242 Stock at the ports to-day.' 158,131 Stock same day last year 410,585 Dally Movements at Other Ports— Galveston—Quiet; middling 9*4; net re ceipts, 1; gross, 1; stock, 8.508. New Orleans—Steady; middling, 10 3-16; net receipts, 4,572; gross, 7.295; sales, 200; stock, 67,309. Mobile—Nominal; middling. 9 1 *; net re ceipts, 2,726; gross, 2,726; stock, 4,416. Charleston—Quiet; middling, 9%; stock, 3,769. Wilmington—Nothing doing; net re ceipts, 3; gross, 3; stock, 1.590, Norfolk—Firm; middling, 10: net re ceipts, 1,224; gross, 1,224; stock, 10,041. Baltimore—Nominal; middling, 10; gross receipts. 200; stock, 3,923. New York—Quiet; middling, 10; net re ceipts, 971; gross, 1,259; sales, 200; stock. 39,902. Boston—Quiet; middling, 9 13-16; net re ceipts, 42; gross, 582, Philadelphia—Firm: middling. 10(4; net receipts, 220; gross, 220; stock, 2,840. Daily Movements at Interior Towns— Augusta—Quiet; middling, 9%; net re ceipts, 148; gross, 148; sales, 406; stock, 2,c60. .Memphis—Steady; middling, net re ceipts. 10; gross, 10; stock, 13,159. St. Louis—Steady; middling, 9%; net re ceipts, 100; gross, 301; stock, 23,583. Cincinnati—Quiet; middling. 9%; net re ceipts, 161; gross, 151; stock, 8.653. Houston—Quiet; middling, 9(4; stock 2,100. Louisville—Firm; middling, 974. Exports of Cotton This Day- New Orleans—To Great Britain, 5,200; continent, 2,300; coastwise, 3,633. Savannah—Continent, 5,916; coastwise 738. Baltimore—Coastwise, 15. Boston—To Great Britain, 2,466. Total foreign exports from all ports this day: To Great Britain, 7,665; to the con tinent, 8,216. Total foreign exports from all ports thus far this week: To Great Britain. 20,916; to the continent, 13,239. Total foreign exports since Sept. 1, 1889: To Great Britain, 2,232,958; to France, 693,- 029; to the continent, 2.064,101. ■ COTTON FUTURES. Ilnlls Jnbllnnt Over n Jump of From It! to tIG Points. New York, July 18.—It was a day of great anxiety for shorts on the Cotton Ex change, and while the general course of events favored the bull faction, there were several periods when they, too, were much at sea as to just which way to turn. A glance at the Liverpool cable hoard this morning, showed that the Eng lish market had scored one of the most remarkable upturns in many months, If not years. Futures abroad were 8 lo lit, points higher on the active months, and at the time of our opening were soaring at a nerve-trying rate at the best figures, showing a rise of 714 to 15 points. A hasty comparison of information from Liverpool showed that shorts abroad had been thrown into a veritable panic by a clrqu lai of Neill’s, said to claim that the crop had been Irreparably damaged, and that fields were being deserted. Large foreign buying orders helped to increase the con sternation of oversold parties and Imms. diately after the market opened there was a wild scramble to protect short ac counts, and to buy cotton for Investment, the latter being limited almost exclusive ly to European Interests. First sales showed an advance of 12 to 17 points. A brief halt for a better view of the situa tion was followed by renewed efforts of the bears to reach safe ground. By leaps and bounds prices Jumped upward, until August had reached 9.40 c and January 8.31 c. Then came a partial relapse under heavy profit-taking, and moderate selling on the reaction belief. But soon after mlddny stop loss orders began to pour in from outside points, and prices again took the up course at a brisk pace. This spurt of buying carried August to 9 52c, but failed to materially advance the new crop options, which were influenced by excep tionally fine crop reports, and an ideal weather forecast. In mid-afternoon sell- Atig tot both account* became popular, under which prices crum bled rapidly. During the last hour the movement of prices was fitful, though in the main toward a lower level, shorts having pretty well thinned out unprotect ed accounts, while longs, who had held out for still higher prices, became fearful of a bear turn under the encouraging tenor of advices from the cotton belt. The market at the close tvas steady with prices net, 16 to 36 points higher. FLUCTUATIONS IN FUTURES. New York, July 18.—Cotton futures opened firm and closed steady. Prices as follows: | Open.| High.| Low. | Clos. January \~ 8.23| gTsT~j~B 2)' |" 8724 February ....j 8.22 b | 8.25 i 8.25 | 8.25 March | 8.27 I 8.31 I 8.27 j 8.29 April I 8.28 | 8.28 | 8.26 | 8.31 May j .... I 8.34 | 8.33 I 8.34 June | | •••• I•••• I•••• July I 9.58 b | 9.95 j 9.73 | 9.86 August | 9.16 | 9.62 | 9.16 j 9.40 September ...| 8.70 | 8.79 | 8.67 j 8.72 October | 8.40 j 8.47 j 8.38 | 8.42 November ...j 8.24 j 8.34 j 8.23 | 8.28 December ...| 8.21 | 8.30 | 8.20 | 8.24 January closed up 16 points; February 16 up; March 16 up; April 16 up; May 16 up; July 36 up; August 36 up; September 17 up; October 18 up; November 18 up; De cember 16 up. Liverpool, July 18, 4 p. m—Spot. limited demand and prices higher; American mid dling, 6%d; good middling, 6 3-32d; mid dling, 5 29-32d; low middling, 5 20-32d: good ordinary, 5 21-32d; ordinary, 5 10-32d. The sale* of the day were 5,000 bales, of which 500 were for speculation and export, and Included 3,500 bales American; receipts, 1.(00, no American. Futures opened firm and closed steady; American middling, low middling clause; July, 5.45d value; July-August, 5.43d buyers; August-Sep tember, 5.19®3.20d value; September-Oeto ber, 4.59<g4.64d sellers; October-November, 4.46@4.47d sellers; November-December, 4.394j’4.40d buyers; December-January, 4.37d selelrs; January-February, 4.33d sellers; February-March, 4.33d sellers; March- April, 4.32d sellers. New Orleans, July 18.—Cotton firm and steady. July (bid).lo.l7!December ..8.10(58.11 August 9.7l].January 5.11@8.12 September 8.72® 8,7.:! February .. ,5.12@8.13 October .. .8.26® 8.27; March 8.14@8.13 November B.ll®' B.l2;April 8.16@8.17 COTTON LETTERS. New York, July 18.—-Murphy & Cos. say: Cotton closed in Liverpool at an advance of 3-16d on spots, futures, 16-64d higher on old, and 7-64d on new crops, which is very much better than expected here (due to Neill's bullish circular), and caused cov ering of bear sales for local account and an advance of 36 points on August and 21 to 22 points on later months. Europe also bought, realizing sales influenced by fa vorable weather and the complications in China, led to a reaction of 7 to 10 points. The South was the pA’dpal seller, it is rumored that Neill circular was principal ly in the interest of New Orleans bull clique. The bull faction had things Its own way on the Cotton Exchange to-day. Extreme ly favorable cables accompanied by large buying orders in Liverpool and the conti nent, coupled with covering of bear sales by locals caused an advance here to-day of about 4 to 6 points on the near and 2 to 10 on the far months. The bull contingent was favored by a very bullish circular from Neill. Rumors gained circulation that this circular was Issued to affect ma nipulation going on at New Orleans. Cot ton goods market of the world shows slight improvement and if the weather conditions should not continue favorable, in the face of the bullish statistical posi tion, we look for still higher prices. New York,July 18.—Hubbard Bros. & Cos. say: Liverpool advanced sharply, our ca bles stating the improvement to be due to the publication of a very bullish crop statement from Neill, and sharp manipu lation on the nearby deliveries. The strength of that market was most marked on these positions. These advices came as a surprise to the markets after yester day’s government report stating there had been a general improvement in crop con ditions. Large buying orders from Liv erpool and New Orleans appeared at the opening of the market, absorbing all the offerings and advancing prices rapidly. Such sharp fluctuations indicate a market without a large interest as It is difficult to ; execute ordefs to advantage. Weather conditions continue favorable and receipts are heavy, but natural conditions were not considered in a market of this char acter. DRY GOODS. New York, July 18.—The spot market Jor dry goods continues inactive, tew buyers caring to visit the dry goods dis trict during the present hoi spell. Orders have been of about average character. Cotton goods division shows no change in any direction. Woolen goods division slow, some lines of men’s wear light weights for next spring recently opened withdrawn, owing to lack of demand. Dress goods inactive. NAVAL STORES. Wednesday, July 78. SPIRITS TURPENTINE—The market for spirits showed strength to-day, though no advance was scored. The opening was firm at 4474®44V4 cents, with sales of 406 casks at these prices, and the closing firm and unchanged, with further snles of 100 casks. Business was on a light scale after the closing, and it was not under stood much was done owing to hesitation on the part of buyers to get in at the in side price. From the standpoint of buyers the market was firm at 44(4 cents. Factors are holding for the outside. The day's receipts were 1,377 casks, sales 506, and the exports 30 casks. ROSINS—The advance in rosins was the day's feature in the naval stores market. At the opening call grades E and below advanced 5 cents as the outside price, G, H advanced 5, and I, K went up 5 as the outside. It was currently admitted that the market was firm at the outside prices. The demand whs fair, but trading was slow, owing to the hesitancy shown by buyers to enter a two-priced market. The day’s receipts were 2,208, safes 3,838. and the exports 8,242. The quotations were as follows: A $1 30® 1 35 H .’. $1 55 R 1 30®1 35 I $1 60® 1 65 C 1 30@1 35 K 1 70®1 75 D 1 30® 135 M 200 E 1 35® 1 40 N, 2 30 F 1 45 W G 245 G 150 W W 270 Receipts Wednesday- Central Railroad 147 457 S., F. and W. R. R 1 064 1,427 F. C. and P. and Georgia and Alabama ]6 324 Shipments Wednesday— S. S. Alleghany, Bahlmore 2,397 S, S. Alleghany, Philadelphia 100 S. S. City of Birmingham, N. Y. 30 1,776 Italian bark Leopold, Buenos Ayres 3,969 Naval Stores Statement- Spirits. Rosin. Stock April 1, 1900 2,197 142,5*6 Receipts to-day 1,377 2,20s Receipts previously 134,975 2rf0!076 Total since April 1 138,549 404,790 Exports <o-day 30 8,24? Exports previously 110,858 290J97 Exports since April 1 110,888 298,439 Stock on hand to-day 27,661 106,351 Thts day last year 24,670 119J01 Charleston. July 18.—Turpentine market firm at 43c: sales, none. Rosin firm; sales none: unchanged. Wilmington, N. C., July 18 —Spirits tur pentine steady, 4354@43%ic; receipts, 16 casks. Rosin firm, $1.2C®1.25; receipts, 354. Crude turpentine quiet and ed; receipts, 78. Tar steady, $1.40; receipt*. financial. MONEY—The demand keeps fairly up with the supply. FOREIGN EXCHANGE-Market , steady. The commercial demand 15 sixty days, $4.53(4; ninety days $4 Ph francs. Paris and Havre, sw!„ i *' i: 5.20; Swiss, sixty days. sixty days, 94(4; ninety days 94 8 ’ DOMESTIC EXCHANGE _ Stead banks are buying at par and sHlte* ' follows: Amount to and Including 10 cents; $lO to $25, 15 cents; $23 t o Wi cents; SSO to SIOO, 25 cents; S2OO to “vj* H premium; SSOO to SI,OOO. .65 premtn-?' $1,600 and over buying at 1-16 d;™!.™; and selling at 1-16 premium Un * SECURITIES—The tone of market dull and quotations are nominal. * Stock,©. Bid. Az]m Augusta and Savannah R. R....ii 0 1 Atlanta & West Point ’s■>*■ rf 1 do 6 P. c. certifs .""us £ Augusta Factory gj *7* Citizens Bank ...12S iv Chatham Bank ...Ho in Chatham R. E. &I. Cos., A... ’ 55 do do B " Eagle and Phcenix Mfg. co .....105 _ F, Electric Ilium 104 Enterprise Mfg. Cos .100 ioj Germania Bank 133 Georgia & Alabama 27 19 Georgia Railroad, common 210 iy> Graniteville Mfg. Cos jgq 7.1 J, P. King Mfg. Cos .'.102 jS Langley Mfg. Cos 12 0 125 Merchants National Bank no -fj National Bank of Savannah ....147 Oglethorpe Savings & Trus jio j,. People’s Savings & Loan 102 ;(u Southwestern , Railroad Cos no ni Savannah Gaslight Cos. 21U 2514 Southern Bank "!157 Savannah Bank & Trust ,””u8 119 Sibley Mfg. Cos., Augusta 8g g. Savannah Brewing 53 Ift ! Bid Afk Char., Col. & Aug. Ist ss, I*oo. ...106 ,7 Atlanta city, 4>£s, 1322 no in Augusta city, 4s, 1927 "i fl4 <"> *'*■ I*3 „ Ala. Mid. ss, ind'd, 1928, M. &N. % ,fn Augusta Factory, 6 per cent., 1915.100 ro Brunswick & Weslern 4s, 1938.... SO 3. C. R. R. & Banking,collateral 5s 32 <u C. of G. Ist ss, 50-year gold, 1945, F - & A 117 lit C. of Ga. con. ss. 1945, M. & N... 91 C. of Ga. Ist incomes, 1945 44 4, do 2nd incomes, 1945 12% 130 do 3d incomes, 1945 g ‘ 7 C. of G. (M. G. & A. Dlv.) ss! 1947, J. & J 93 gg C. of G. (Eatonton Branch), 5s 1926, J. & D 38 3^, City & Surburban R. R. Ist 75..10914 1,044 Columbus city, ss, 1909 ,06 ,07 Charleston city, 4s. 1945 16, 132 Eagle & Phenix Mills 6s, 1928... 108 109 Edison Electric Illuminating 6s. 1M 106 Enterprise Mfg. 6s, 1903 101 102 Georgia Railroad 6s, 1910 114 11544 G. S. & F„ 1545, J. & J 100 no Georgia & Alabama Ist os, 1945 ..104 196 do consolidated ss, 1915 95 96 1947, J. & J 93 96 Georgia State 3(45, 1930, J. & J... 106 107 do 3>4s, 1915, M. & N 104 106 do 4(49, 1913 117(4 1-H Macon city 6s, 1310, J. & J 117 118 do 4(45. 1926, Jan. quar 107 109 Ocean Steamship 3s, 1926 104 105 Savannah city, ss, quar. October. ‘ 1913 11l ill do ss, quar., August, 1909 111% 112(4 South Carolina State 4(6e, 1933...116 118 Sibley Mfg. Cos. 6s, 1903 101 102 South Bound os 96 97 S., F. & W. gen. mt'ge 6s, 1934.. 123 124 do do Ist ss, gold, 1934 110(4 112% do (St. Johns Div.) Ist 4s. 1934.. 94 96 New York, July 18.—Money on call easy at 1(4®1(4 per cent. Prime mercantile pa per at 3%@4>4 per cent. Sterling exchange easier with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.87 for demand and at $4.84@4.84'4 for sixty days; posted rates. 4.85 and S4.SS. Commercial bills, $4.53%@4.83-%. Silver cer tificates, 61*i®62(4c. Bar silver. 61(40. Mexican dollars, 48(4c. Government bond* were irregular, state bonds were inactive, and railroad bonds were irregular. STOCKS AND BONDS. V ' Trace in the Dull Rank© Leaves Stock© Inactive. New York. July 18 —The bull party fle* ■istfd from their efforts to advance prices to-day and the r3cent appearance of ac tivity, due to their operations, promptly gave place again to semething near to stagnation. While the pressure to realize was not severe, it was evident that the recent demonstrative buying by the bull party has failed utterly to attract any le* mand from outside sources, so that no market is offered for the taking of pro fits. Predictions of dividend action on Bal timore and Ohio are so far discredited that stock went backwards to-day. arid even Union Pacific, which has been ad vanced by much mere aggressive man agement, fell back almest as much, tha latter losing 114 net and the former IV The increase in the dividend rate of Illin ois Central apparently did not add to the credence to predictions of other div idend increase. Yesterday’s violent rife of 4 points in Pariflc Mail and the strength of the Pacific Railroad stocks was more fully explained by to-day’s detailed re ports of the chartering of steamship© in the Pacific by the United States govern ment, and in the Atlantic by the German government for use in the Pacific to trans port military supplies to China. But the inviting prospect thus offered of lucrative traffic for the trans-continental railroad lines was offset to-day by some other con siderations of the results to accrue from war in China. Wall sfreer has not given much attention hitherto to the check in expert trade in textiles caused by the un settlement in China. The uneasiness caus ed abroad by reports of Boxer inroads upon Russian territory brought sales of securities in New’ York for foreign ac count and a reminder that forced liaul dation abroad might throw considerable burdens upon the New York stock mar ket. The day’s shipments of gold were a re flection of the money needs of foreign marke s, which are not unlikely to grow acute if fhe government expenditures for war preparation should become large. To day’s engagements, amounting to $2,000,000, were more than a million l?ss than was anticipated. The immediate continuity of the gold ex pert movement is felt to be in some doubt. But If military operations are to be car rfed on In China the needs of foreign gov ernments for capital will pretty certainly converge upon New York, as this is no©r the cheap st money maikot in the world. Bit is caused by the conjec ture as to the effect upon lhe New* York money marker when the interior deman-1 for moving the c*ops is added to the for eign demand. The money market in New York continues very dull, but funds for time loans for the longer periods are s arce. The bond market continued very dull and the fluctuations were uneven. Total sales par value $903.C00. Unit'd States 3s reglsierfd declined and lhe n'W' 4s in the bid price; the 3 coypon advanced Vi and old 4s %• The total sales of stocks to-dav were 20),700 share*, including Atchison prefer r and, 7.720; Baltimore and Oitfc, 6.236; Chi cago, Burlington and Quincy, 7,59°; Illin ois Oen'ril* n.STifl: Ontario and Western. 7.*00; Ft Paid. 6,330; Brooklyn Transit. 27,- 986; Sugar, 38,930. New York Stock Hist. 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