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FREAKS OF VOLCANOES.
UNCERTAINTY OF LIVING NEAR AN
ACTIVE CRATER.
Firework* of Mother Enrth—Height
to Whifh Allies Are Thrown In die
Air—Danger From Water Heaehiim
the Internal Fire*—Takes Year*
for the Lava to Cool—Stream ut
Water Fre<inenll >' Are Obliterated.
From the New York Times.
The great tragedy of St. Pierre and
St. Vincent illustrates the danger and
costliness of having a favorite moun
tain close to one's backyard which oc
casionally vents its spite in deluging
the countryside with hot lava and
molten ashes and cinders. It is one of
the strange freaks of human nature
that peculiar attachment is shown to
nearly all active volcanoes by the peo
ple who dwell at their foot, and while
at times great terror is inspired by
the internal rumblings and overflows,
the danger is soon forgotten. Nothing
can induce the Inhabitants to tiee
permanently from such localities, and
even after severe and disastrous out
breaks they will return to the site of
their former homes and dwell once
more within the shadow of the danger.
Vesuvius and Etna, Cotopaxi and
Stromboli, Coseguina and Kilauea, are
all favorites with the people who live
within the shadow of their stormy
peaks. Stromboli has been almost un
interruptedly emitting hot stones,
ashes and lava from its interior since j
the memory of man; Cotopaxi is near- j
ly always active and violent in its
periodical eruptions, and Etna and Ve- |
suvius have been sources of numerous j
panics as far back as history records j
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions; j
but at their base, or somewhere with
in the zone of danger, there dwell
people who, fully conscious to the ter-,
rlble danger that hangs over their
lives, look with something like pride
and affection upon the mountain which
is the source of so much destruction.
The tremendous force exerted by a
volcano when exploding is not com
parable to any powers yet invented
by man, and the pyrotechnical display
afforded by day or night is beyond the
description of pen. The explosions are
heard hundreds of miles away, and
tons of stones are thrown to great
h.ghts. Cotopaxi, is/one of Its period
ic eruptions, vomited forth a block
of stone weighing 200 tons and hurled
it unbroken nine miles from the mouth
of the fiery crater. Smaller stones
have been hurled a distance of thirty
five miles. In 1538 a series of violent
volcanic explosions occurred in the Hay
of Naples. Within twenty-four hours
a new r volcano. Monte Nuovo, was
formed b> the explosions, which threw
up silth a quantity of stones tha: a
hill was formed above the water 410
feet high and a mile and a half in cir
cumference.
Fyrotelinic* at Vennviua.
Vesuvius has time and again made It
self notorious for its fine display of
fireworks and earthquake vibrations,
hut in 1822 it made a record for itself
lit throwing a shower of its hot ashes
a distance of 105 miles. In Nicaragua,
on this continent, the famous old vol
cano Coseguina broke all records tor
vomiting up ashes and stones in great
quantities. Such enormous quantities
of ashes were hurled into the air that
for nearly twenty-five miles in every
direction they covered the earth to a
depth of eight and ten feet. Indeed,
some of the finer ashes or dust reached
Kingston. 700 miles away, where they
fell in show'ers four days later. This
was probably due to the high currents
of wind caused by the explosion and
eruption.
The wdnd naturally has much to do
with this dust shower, and in the erup
tion or explosion of Krakatoa in 1883
the windwave produced traveled
around the earth three and a half
times before it subsided. It carried
with it the fine dust which caused the
much-talked-of “blood-red sunsets” of
that year. The dust and ashes from
the explosion, it has been estimated,
were carried fullty ten miles into the
air, where they reached upper currents
of wdnd, and this started them on their
Journey around the world. The dust
clouds which frequently follow such ex
plosions were eclipsed by the eruption
of Coseguina in 1335, when Egyptian
darkness hung like a pall over a circle
within a radius of thirty-five miles.
So intense was this darkness that it
was impossible for people to grope j
their way around, and the vivid flashes
of lightning overhead and the fiery
blaz4 of the crater could not penetrate
this cloud or murky blackness. It was
like being buried in a living tomb with
eternal night around.
Steam from water percolating
through to the internal fires nearly al
ways starts the volcanio explosions and
forces its way up through the crater,
if there be one, or makes anew vent
hole, and the superheated rocks,ashes,
dust, and ‘lava followed after. The
volumes of steam ascend to great
heights, possibly miles up in the air.
and then, condensing, produce storms
of water to follow the clouds of ashes
and lava. It was estimated by
French scientists that in the eruption
of Etna over 2,000,000 cubic feet of
water issued from the crater in the
form of steam, which condensed and
ran down the sides of the mountain
In streams or descended as rain. This
steam releases from the subterranean
bowels of the earth poisonous gase
and vapors, which often carry instant
death wherever they go.
Died from Suffocation.
It is probable that thousands of the
people of St. Pierre thus lost their life
through suffocation. These clouds of
poisonous gases kill Instantly. Sul
phuric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulphu
retted hydrogen, and carbonic acid
gases nearly always accompany the
steam clouds of a volcanic eruption.
After the various small eruptions of Ve
suvius the woods and valleys of the
mountain have been found strewn with
dead hares, pheasants, and partridges
which were killed by inhaling the dead
ly gases. No marks of violence or in
dication of burning were visible on
their bodies. They had simply fallen
dead as they flew or ran.
When a volcano vomits forth streams
of lava some very curious, as well as
remarkable, freaks of nature are ob
servable. It requires scientific research
of the lava beds months and even yegrs
after an upheaval before all the relia
ble data can be collected to reveal the
whole story of the explosion. The eye
witnesses of such events are not al
xvays the most reliable reporters. Fear
and excitement make them exaggerate
and distort phenomena, and scientists
are averse to accepting their stories un
less verified by subsequent appearances
of the rocks. asheF, and lava beds.
Every volcanic eruption, however,
leaves indelible marks of its rise and
progress, and geologists can read the
story, chapter by (Chapter, as they un
earth the different parts of it. It Is
Impossible, however, to make a thor
ough examination of the lava beds un
til a long time after the explosion be
cause of the slow process of cooling off.
The top crust of the lava cools within
a short time, but underneath the heat
Is retained for an extraordinary time.
The top crust of lava is a poor con
ductor of heat, and it does not permit
of rapid evaporation from below.
It is scientifically reported that the
lava streams from Vesuvius In 1858
wsrs so hot twelve yeans later that
•team was issuing from the cracks and
crevice#, while the leva bed# from the
eruption of Etna In 17*7 were found
to be steaming hot Just below the top
fruot as late ae U 4. jjul still more
remarkable are the scientific reports
of the volcano Jorullo in Mexico. This
sent forth immense streams of lava in
1759. In 1780 the lava beds were exam
ined by a party of scientists, and it
was found that a stick thrust Into
the crevices instantly ignited, al
though there was no discomfort ex
perienced in walking on the hardened
I crust.
One of the most curious freaks of
lava from a volcano is a large sheet
of ice at the base of Etna, which has
been there for upward of a century.
This fee was originally a mass of
snow. When the stream of lava pour
ed down from Etna it surrounded and
engulfed the snow and ice so quickly
that it had no time to melt, and then,
absolutely protected from the atmos
phere by the hardened bed of lava,
the ice was presedved in its prison.
The impossibility of air reaching the
ice to cause evaporation is given as
the explanation of this queer phenome
non.
The overflow of lava is tremendous
in some instances, and the amount
that is deposited over the sides of the
mountains and poured into the val
leys is almost beyond comprehension.
At .first the lava spouts up into the
air to a considerable hight. and then
pours slowly over the edge of the
crater in an apparently inexhaustible
stream. In the eruption of Mauna Eoa
in 1852 the lava which burst out of
the base of the mountain into the sea
formed a wave from 200 to 700 feet in
hight and 1.00 feet broad that over
whelmed everything in its way.
The rate of movement of a lava
stream depends upon its consistency,
which varies all the way from a sticky,
tar-like substance to very soft molas
ses. At the beginning the movement
is generally very rapid, owing to the
sharp incline of the mountain and to
the fact that no part of the surface has
started to harden, but as it moves
downward it cools and its speed dimin
ishes. At the eruption of Vesuvius in
1805 the lava which poured down the
mountain was so very soft and mobile
that it traveled four miles in as many
minutes, but after that widened out,
hardened, and rapidly decreased Us
pace. The lava from Mauna Loa in
1852 is said to have traveled about fif
teen miles in two hours, probably eight
to ten miles in the first hour.
Streams of water are often oblitera
ted by walls of lava 100 feet thick, and
sometimes inland mountain lakes are
almost immediately formed by blocking
up the water in this way. Walls of
hot lava have melted down rocks and
small peaks that have stood in their
w r ay. They have also preserved almost
intact ordinary articles and convict
ed other things into totally different
substances. When the lava stream
overwhelmed the town of Terre del
Greco in 1794 the glass panes of the
windows in the houses were turned
into transparent stony substances,
while articles of brass, copper, silver,
and iron were completely rearranged in
their structural formation and actually
sublimed and refined of all base metals.
Onr Luxury (Ins*.
John Gilmer Speed. In Ainslee’s.
Few. however, can really afford any
considerable degree of luxury. There
are In the United States about 15,500,-
000 families, and one per cent, of these
own more than half of the aggregate I
wealth of the country. These fifteen .
thousand families, presumably, can i
afford to be luxurious in their living, |
MANHOOD'S DECLINE.
Loss of Vital Power is the Greatest Misfortune
That Can Befall Any Man—Some
Words of Hope.
The startling fact that scarcely one man 1n a hundred is
free from the baneful effects of disease or organic weak
n@SS in some form . is forced upon the attention of the med
leal profession with ever-recurring frequency.
V That this condition of things is due to the mistakes and
... K ■ falacies of the rr*en of to-day is largely true, though In
I can restore V j-nLL many instances >' is the unwelcome legacy from father to
.1 r • fW son, according to the Irrevocable law of heredity.
trie full Victor C ”■ From generation to generation in some luckless families,
_ j !• \risL / S the si n s of the parents are visited upon the children: scrof
3no manliness ulous sores and ulcere, and burning and inflamed skins tell
-t .....ILH I. all too plainly the story of parental transgression.
Of your youth Terrible Blood Diseases.
A The humiliation of wearing though life these badges of
■ k dishonor is indeed pitiable, but, strange to say, the medi
cine given by the ordinary doctor for these deep-seated,
A inherited blood diseases is entirely without permanent ef
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JUNE 8. 1902.
but the standards they make are not
safe standards for any but them
selves. The man with five thousand a
year is sure to come quickly to grief
if he try to live as the man does who
has fifty thousand a year. And so on
down the whole list. If we do not reg
ulate our luxury according to our
means demnition is our certain por
tion.' Here is a tabulated (£>rm that
shows how the wealth in the United
States is distributed, and if my read
ers will examine it. they will see at a
glance how comparatively few of u*
can afford the luxuries which we in
dulge in.
Wealthy classes, property of $50,-
000 and over.
No. in class. 15,500.
Rmount of wealth, $52,000,000,000.
Average, $335,500.
Well to do classes, property of $50,-
000 to $5,000.
Number in class, 1,937,700.
Amount of wealth. $33,000,000,000.
Average, $17,000
Middle classes, property of $5,000 to
SSOO.
Number in class, 6.773.400.
Amount of weatlh. $12,500,000,000.
Average. $1,850.
Poorer classes, property under SSOO.
Number in class. 6.773.400.
Afount of wealth, $2,500,000,000.
Average, 370.
So we see that our wealth is very
much divided, though very unequally.
Even the one per cent, who own fifty
two per cent, of the wealth are not all
millionaires, one ohe-third millionaires.
But they can afford the luxuries, and it
may be that we have no right or rea
son to blame them. Mr. Carnegie says
they are very valuable, and Mr. Car
negie is far from being a lover or an
ppreclator of luxury. He inherited a
love for haggis—that was in his Scotch
blood— and he acquired a love for
scrappel—that was his environment.
This acquits Mr. Carnegie of luxurious
ness. so it is only fair in conclusion to
quote his defense of his kind, who,
unlike him, enjoyed the fleshpots and
who know them on sight. In his new
book he says;
"It will be a great mistake for the
community to shoot the millionaires,
for they are the bees that make the
most honey, and contribute most to
the hive even after they have gorged
themselves full. Here is a remarkable
fact, that the masses of the people In
any country are prosperous and com
fortable just in proportion as there are
millionaires Take Russia, with its pop
ulation little better than serfs, and
living at the point of starvation upon
the meanest possible fare, such fare
as none of our people could or would
eat, and you do not find one millionaire
in Russia, alwaye excepting the Em
peror and a few nobles who own the
land, owing to their political system.
It is the same, to a great extent In
Germany. There are only two million
aires known to me in the whole Ger
man Empire. In France, where the
people are better off than in Germany,
you cannot count one-half dozen mil
lionaires in the whole country. In the
old home of our race, in Britain, which
is the richest country in all Europe—
the richest country in the world save
one, our own—there are more million
aires than in the whole of the rest
of Europe, and its people are better off
than in any other. You come to our
cwn land; we have more millionaires
than in .all the rest of the world put
together, although we have not ohe to
every fen that Is reputed so.”
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Loral anil General Nein of Ships
and Shipping.
The tug Abram Minis is out on Wil
link's marine railway for repairs. This
is the first time the Minis has been on
the railway, and from the city side she
presents the appearance of a huge
craft. Her beautiful lines show up well,
and make her appear almost as grace
ful as when gliding rapidly through
j the water.
Small craft from the neighboring isl
ands are beginning to visit the Market
Dock in large numbers. They bring
vegetables'at present. In a short time
they will be bringing watermelons,
which, from general reports, will keep
them busy most of the summer. It is
reported the islands will produce a full
melon crop.
An important conference on the work
of improving the Delaware and Schuyl
kill channels was held recently at
Philadelphia, there being present, in
addition to that official, Capt. Spencer
Cosby, who has just been placed in
charge of the work for the War De
partment; Director Haddock and Chief
Webster of the Survey Bureau.
Capt. Cosby stated that it was the
intention to advertise for proposals as
soon as the promised appropriation of
$3,000,000 passes Congress. To com
plete the entire dredging, he said,
would require an expenditure of about
$5,000,000.
The Mayor subsequently made public
a letter which he had recently sent to
Gen. Gillespie, head of the Engineer
Corps of the army, in which he stated
that the city would do the dredging in
the Schuylkill, so that the government
could confine its efforts to the Dela
ware. He also stated that there were
still 300 acres in League Island Park
to be filled in, on which the govern
ment could deposit any dregings de
sired.
In three and a half years Japan has
added to its merchant navy 300 steam
ships and 100,000 tonnage, and also 3,000
sailing vessels of 250,000 tonnage. In
1896 the country possessed only a sin
gle steamship over 5,000 tons; it has
now twenty-one of this class.
In 1898 Japan owned 627 steamships
of 429,774 tonnage, and 174 sailing ves
! sels of 24,014 tonnage. In 1899, 679
steamships of 407 tonnage, and 1,485
sailing vessels of 165,710 tonnage. In
1900, 753 steamships of 498.375 tonnage,
' and 2,783 sailing vessels of 270,161 ton
nage. In 1901, 942 steamships of 557,-
166 tonnage, and'3,4l6 sailing vessels
of 315.767 tonnage.
The number of sailors has increased
until in 1901 there were 15,412 officers
and engineers (304 foreign) to the mer
! chant fleet. The small number of for
, eigners is as striking as the increase
! of the commercial navy.
The Marine News and Review is a
new nautical paper which has made
j its appearance at Baltimore. In its ini
i tial issue the paper presents feature
■ 'hat promise to commend it as an in
: teresting and helpful periodical to ship
i pers, but a vast lot of information im
portant to business men In every
branch of transportation.
The shipping interests of the South
I Atlantic and Gulf ports are immense,
so that the News and Review is not
entering a crowded field in giving its
entire attention to maritime subjects
of Southern ports. The paper is six
teen pages, with attractive mechanical
arrangement.
I’asirniieri hy Steamships.
Passengers by steamship Birming
ham, for New York, June 7.—W. .1.
Hanwood, N. C. Dean and wife, H. M.
Morton and wife, W. N. Gress, Miss
M. Gress, W. M. Barbee, Dr. Ray and
wife, R. C. Drake, W. H. Hansman,
Miss Clara Hart, Miss M. J. Welsh,
Miss Dee Cahal, A. Warren Cohen.
W. H. Guthrie, H. C. Schneiker, Miss
A. E. Schneiker. Miss L. F, Schneiker,
Alex Richardson, Mr. West, Mr. Kell
cher, Mrs. Weston, Mrs. Dehellander,
Mrs. H. M. Wilson, F. W. Brantigam,
Emmett, Blanch Lucus, Phoebe Manor,
Mary Xison, E. C. Bell, Clyde John
son and wife. J. Martin and wife,
Laura 'Williamson, Jake Broughton.
Passengers Baltimore to Savannah
on the steamship Hudson, June 5.—C.
Sauer, T. P. Rose, P. P. Taylor, R. T.
Nelson, S. E. Lyeth, Miss Sucan
Crump.
Passengers Savannah to aßltimore
on the steamship Itasca, June 7.—Miss
J. 0. Chisholm, Miss Hudgins, M. M.
Martin. Howard James, Paul L. James
and wife, Albert S. Smith, J. E. Hart,
Miss Nina F. Emory, Miss M. Emory,
Flank Dolan and wife, R. D. DeWolf,
W. W. Thomson, J. W. Kiniston,
George Lamb, O. F. Barnes and wife,
A. A. Maiwell, Miss A. K. Maxwell,
Miss Laura Height, Miss Turner, Mrs.
M. DeC. Williams, Rev. C. F. Patter
son, Rosa Cummings, Mrs. V. A.
Boyle, E. R. Bennett.
Passengers Savannah to Philadelphia
on the steamship D. H. Miller. June
7.—P. F. Black, Maude Whitehead, H.
L. Thompson and wife, N. E. Thomp
son, L. R. Thompson, Miss Biddell,
Mrs. John Biddell. J. H. Ginenback,
Rev. V. J. Rice, Sam Thompson, B.
Colton and wife, S. Cox, Hugh Willis,
George Ross, Fred Roney, William
Kennedy.
Savnunnh Almanac, Toth Meridian
Time.
Sun rises at 5:18 a. m. and sets at
7:27 p. m.
High water at Tybee to-day at 9:17
a. m. and 9:40 p. m. High water at
Savannah one hour later.
l'linsti of the Moon for Jnne.
D. H. M.
New moon 6 0 32 Morning
First quarter 12 6 15 Evening
Full moon 20 8 38 Evening
Last quarter 28 4 13 Evening
ARRIVAL* AND DEPARTIRES.
Vessel* Arrived Yesterday.
Steamship Kansas City, Smith, New
York.—Ocean Steamship Company.
Bark Sylvia (Nor). Halvorsen, Algoa
Bay, light.—Dahl Cos.
Schooner Blanche Hopkins, Harvey,
New Bedford, light.—Hunting & Cos.
Schooner Gen. Adelbert Ames, Dodge.
New "York, light—Hirsch & Cos.
Vessel* Sailed Yesterday.
Sailed, steamship Itasca, Hudgings,
Baltimore.
Steamship Decatur H. Miller, Mc-
Dorman, Philadelphia.
Steamship City of Birmingham,
Burg. New York.
Bark Castello Dragone (Ital), Mari,
Harburg.
Schooner Madaline Cooney, Dunn,
New York.
Schooner Robt. Graham Dun, Mc-
Kown, New York. ■
Shipping Memoranda.
Fernandina. Fla., June 7.—Cleared,
schooner Edward Stewart, Winslow,
New York; John B. Manning. Sprague,
New York; Martha S. Bement, Le-
Blanc. Elizabethport, N. J.; Major
Peekandi, Holden, LasPalmas, Canary
Islands.
Key West. Fla., June 7.—Arrived,
steamers Concho, Evans, Galveston,
and sailed for New York; Mangrove,
Seymour, Port Tampa; tug Osceola,
Tortugas.
Sailed, schooner Equator, Roberts,
Nassau.
Charleston, June 7.—Arrived, steam
er Carib, Ingram, Boston, and proceed
ed for Brunswick;' Arapahoe, Penning
ton, New York.
Sailed, schooners Bessie Whiting,
Bergland, New York; Fannie Reiche,
Buckaioo, New Bedford; Eva B. Doug
lass, Bennett, New York.
Norfolk, Va., June 7.—Sailed, schoon
er Margaret A. May. Savannah.
Barry—Sailed, Euxinia, Tybee Roads.
Philadelphia, June 7.—Arrived,
steamer Berkshire, Savannah; schoon
ers Alma E. A. Holmes, Brunswick:
Annie Anslie and Lizzie H. Patrick,
Jacksonville.
Cleared, steamer Mascot, Brunswick;
brig John McDermott, Charleston.
Baltimore, June 7. —Arrived, steamer
CUy of Nassau, Tarpon Bay.
Sailed, steamer New Orleans, Savan
nah.
Pensacola.. Fla., June 7.—Arrived
steamers Mfddleham Castle (Br),
Lloyd, Galveston; Pensacola. Leech,
Galveston; A. J. Hocken (Br), Bennett;
Neweastle-on-Tyne; Jenney (Aust),
Causolich, Tampa: Horsley (Br),
Northfell, Montevideo; Drumelsier
(Br), Emerson, Rio Janeiro; barken
tine Nora (Dan), Albertson, Para;
schooner Carrie A. Norton, Eastman,
New London.
Cleared, steamer Madrileno (Span),
Luzarraga, Newport, via Newport
News.
Sailed, steamers Sanna (Nor), Chris
tensen, Tampico; Glencoe (Br), Coop
er, Grangemouth; bark Guiseppe de
Abundo, Monte, Buenos Ayres.
Notice to Mariners.
Pilot Charts and all hydrographic in
formation will be furnished masters of
vessels free of charge in the United
States hydrographic office, in Custom
Hbuse. Captains are requested to call 1
at the office. Reports of wrecks and
derelicts received.
Coastwise Exports.
Per steamship City of Memphis to
New York. June 6.-369 bales cotton,
50 bales sea island cotton, 1,341 bar
rels naval stores. 308 tons pig iron,
774,304 feet lumber, 25,505 packages gen
eral merchandise.
Per steamship City of Birmingham
to New York, June 7.—104 bales cotton.
46 bales sea island cotton, 334 barrels
naval stores, 234 tons pig iron, 337,157
feet lumber. 18,641 packages general
merchandise.
TRADE AND FINANCE.
Continued from Fifteenth Page.
Texas. United States and Colorado
Fuel and Iron. The last stock subse
quently reacted nearly 1 per cent, from
the highest. Bank statement failed to
show a special change except moder
ate decrease in loans and loss in cash
of about $1,250,200, whereas a small
gain was expected. The net result was
a moderate decrease in surplus reserve.
The statement failed to cause any in
crease in interest and the market con
tinued sluggish. The market closed
apathetic, but the tone might be de
scribed as ateady. Government bonds
unchanged and railroad bonds firm.
Total sales 55,500. ,
Mlkt E I.LAMfOIK MARKETS.
Note— These quotations are revised
deity end are kept ae near ae possible
in accord with the prevailing whole
■tls price*. Official quotation# are not
used when they filagree with the
prices wholesalers ask
i'uLLiit X -Upi u. *<•<#, beue,
90@$1.10; roosters, 50c; ducks, 60@70c.
EGGS—I7c.
BUTTER—The tone of the market Is
firm. Quotations: Cooking, 23c; El
gins, 25c; extra Elgins, 26%c; fancy,
best, 28c.
CHEESE—Market firm; fancy, full
cream cheese, 13%c for 20 to 22-pound
averages, 28 to 30-pound averages,
13c.
Early Vegetables.
CABBAGE—Native, crates. $1.50®
$2.25.
Blackeye peas, $2.25 .bushel; pigeon
pens, $2.25 bushel.
White Pea Beans. $2.26 bushel.
Breadstuff*, Hay and Grain.
Patent, $4.60®4.75; straights, $4.40;
fancy, $4.15; family, $3.90; spring
wheat, best patent. $4.85.
MEAL—Pearl, per barrel, $3.90; per
sack, $1.80; city meal, per sack, bolted.
$1.65; water ground, $1.75 (Pierce);
city grits, sacks, $1.80; pearl grits. Hud
nuts. per barrel, $4.00; per sack, $1.90.
CORN —The market firm; white, job,
lots, 87c; carload lots, 85c; mixed corn,
job lots, 86c; carload lots, 84c.
OATS—No. 2 mixed, carload, 57c;
job lots, 59; white clipped, cars, Elc;
job lots, 63c.
BRAN—Job lots, $1.25; carload lots,
$1.20.
HAY—Market steady; No. 1 timothy,
job, 57%@1.00; cars, 95%@97Vi; No.
2,95 c: job cars, 90c.
RlCE—Market steady; demand good,
fancy head, 6c; fancy, 5V4c.
Prime 5
Good 444@44i
Fair 4%@4V4
Common 344
Rough rice. 75c—51.00 per bushel, ac
cording to quality.
Fruits and Nuts.
COCOANUTS—S3.OO per 100.
BANANAS—SI.2S@2.OO.
PINEAPPLES—36’s, $3.25; 30'S, $3.50.
LEMONS—Market steady at $3.25®
3.75.
ORANGES—Seedlings. $4.00.
PRUNES—2Os to 30s, 1044 c; 30s to 40s,
9'4c; 40s to 50s, 7%c; 50s to 60s. 74ic;
60s to 70s, 6%c; 70s to 80s, 6%c; 80s to
90s, 5%c; 90s to 100s, 544 c.
PEANUTS—AmpIe stock, fair de
mand; market firm; fancy hand-pick
ed Virginia, 544 c; extras, 444 c; N. C.
seed peanuts, 444 c.
NUTS—Almonds, Terragona, 1444 c;
Ivicas, 14c; walnuts, French 10c; Na
ples, 13c; pecans, 12c; Brazils, 16c;
filberts, 12c; assorted nuts, 50-pound
and 25-pound boxes, 1244 c.
Dried and Evaporated Frnlts.
APPLE'S—Evaporated 1044@llc; sun
dried, 74£c.
APRICOTS Evaporated, 1244 c
pounds; nectarines, 1044 c.
RAISINS—L. L., $2.00; imperial cab
inets, $2.50; loose, 50-pound boxes, 744 c
pound.
PEACHES Evaporated, peeled,
19c; unpeeled, 11c.
PEARS —Evaporated, 1044 c.
Sugar and Coffee.
SUGAR—
Crushed • 5.43
Cut loaf 5.43
Powdered 5.03
XXXX powdered 5.08
Granulated 4.92
Cubes 5.18
Mould A 5.18
Diamond A 4.93
Confectioners’ A 4.73
White Extra C 4.43
Extra C 4.33
Golden C 4.18
Yellow 3.98
COFFEE—
Java *.2444c
Mocha 2244 c
Peaberry 12 c
Fancy No. 1 10 c
Choice No. 2 9 C
Prime No. 3844 c
Good No. 4 8 c
Fair No. 5 744 c
Ordinary No. 6 7 c
Common No. 7 644 c
SALT—Demand is fair and the mar
ket steady; carload lots. 200-pound
sacks Liverpool, 67c; 10-pound burlap
sacks, common fine, 34c; 100-pound cot
ton sacks, common fine, 35c,; 125-pound
burlap sacks, common fine. 42c; 125-
pound cotton sacks, comon fine, 43c.
HlDES—Market firm; dry flint, 1144 c;
dry salt, 944 c; green salted, 6’,4c.
WOOL Nominal; prime Georgia,
free of sand burrs and black wool,
1744 c; black. 1444 c; burry. 10@12c. Wax,
28c; tallow, sc. Deer skins, 20c.
Hardvwure and Building Supplies.
LIME, CALCIUM, PLASTERS AND
CEMENT—Alabama and Georgia lime
in fair demand and sell at 75@80c a
barrel; special calcined plaster, $1.40®
1.50 per barrel; hair, 4@sc; Rosedale
cement, $1.20®1.25; carload lots, spe
cial; Portland cement, retail, $2.75;
carload lots, $1.90@2.00.
LUMBER—Market firm. Quotations:
Sawn ties, per M feet, $12.00; hewn ties,
(7 x9x844), 40c each; switch ties, $12.50;
minimum, easy size yard stock, $14.50
@15.00; car sills, $16.00@19.00; ship
stock, $23.
OlL—Market steady; demand fair;
signal, 45@50c; West Virginia black,
9@l2c; lard, 75c; neatsfoot, 60@75c;
machinery, 16@25c; linseed oil, raw,
62c; boiled, 64c; kerosene, prime white,
1344 c; water white, 13c; Pratt’s astral,
14c; ’ deodorized stove gasoline drums,
1144 c; empty oil barrels, delivered, 85c.
SHOT —Drop, $1.45; B. B. and large,
$1.70; chilled. $1.70.
IRON —Market firm; refined, $2.25;
Swede, sc.
NAILS—Cut, $2.40 base; wire, $2.45
BARBED 'WIRE—S3.4O per 100
pounds.
GUNPOWDER—Per keg, Austin
crack shot, $4; half kegs, $2.25; quar
ter kegs, $1.25; champion ducking,
quarter kegs, $2.25; Austin smokeless,
half kegs, $3.45; quarter, $4.30; three
pound, $2.10; one pound 75c; less 20
per cent, on smokeless.
Cotton Ragging and Ties.
BAGGING —Market firm; jute, 2
pounds, 644 c; sea island bagging, 12c.
TlES—Standard 45-inch arrow,
large lots, $1.10; small lots, $1.20.
Bacon, Hams and Lard.
BACON —Market firm; D. S. C. R.
sides, 10%c; heavy bellies, 11c; light
Eastern bellies, 1114 c; stmoked, C. R.
sides, ll%c.
HAMS—Sugar cured, 1344@14c; pic
nic hams, 10(4c.
LARD—Pure, in tierces, 1144 c; in 50-
pound tins and 80-pound tubs, 1144 c;
dompound, in tierces, 9c; 50-pound tins
and 80-pound tubs, 944 c.
Miscellu neons.
FlSH—Mackerel, half-barrels. No. 1,
$7.75; No .2, $6.75; No. 3, $5.75; kits!
No. 1, $1.25: No. 2, $1.10; No. 8,90 c
Codfish, 1-pound bricks, 6c; 2-pound
bricks, 514 c; smoked herrings, per box,
16@1714c. Dutch herring, in kegs, sl.;’
new mullets, half barrels, $3.75.
SY'RUP--Market quiet; Georgia and
Florida syrup, buying at 25@2744c; sell
ing at 30@ 32 44c; sugar house at 15@18c.
HIGH wines, basis, $1.31.
HONEY—Fair demand; strained, in
barrels, 43c gallon.
OCEAN FREIGHT*.
COTTON—Savannah to Boston, per
100 pounds. 25c; to New York per 100
pounds. 20c to dock; 28c lightered- to
Philadelphia, per bale, $1; Baltimore,
FOREIGN DlßECT—Bremen 22c
Hamburg, 22c.
INDlßECT—Gothenburg, 38c Reval
(via ll.iinburg;, St. Pelersbuig, 39 0 .
LUMBER—By Pail—Freight, active
to Baltimore. $4.50; to Philadelphia’
*6 25 1 t 0 NeW Y ° rk ' ,s ' s °' *° PortIanJ
LUMBER-By Bteam-Savannah to
Baltimore. $5; to P R R , 0 r B. and
O. docks, $6.50; to Philadelphia, 15 2-3
S Pr o CW .Vi 4 < pounil " to foot); to New
York, $6.00 per M to dock; lightered
W 76; to Boston, to dock, $* 75.
NAVAL STORES—The market is
dull, medium size vessels. Roeln—
£grk, lot outers, lit W per barrel o( iUt I
pounds, and 5 per cent, primage. Spirit.
—3s 9d per 40 gallons gross, and 5' D ‘
cent, primage. Large vessels, rosin >1
3d spirits, 3s 6d. Steam, lie per’ hit,
pound on rosin, 2144 c on spirits Sa
vannan to Boston, and 944 c on rosin
and 19c on spirits to New York.
GRAIN, PROVISIONS. ETC.
New York, June 7.—Flour steady
winter patents, $4.00@4.10; Minnesota'
patents, $3.90—4.10. ta
Rye flour steady; fair to good, $3 >o
@3.45.
Corn meal dull; yellow Western
$1.32. . rn '
Rye steady; No. 2 Western, 6544 c
Wheat—Spot quiet; No. 2 red 78% c
Options—A strong wheat market prY
vailed during the forenoon, affected bv
covering, bullish cables, showers in
harvest districts and foreign buying
Later the market sagged off und f r
profit-taking, closing easy 44@4 4c net
higher; July closed, 7844 c; September
76 44c; December, 7744 c.
Corn—Spot steady; No. 2,7044 c Od
tions—Supported by strong cables bul
lish reports from the corn belt owing
to rains and light offerings, corn ruled
active and firm to-day. The market
finally weakened with wheat, closing
easy 44c n,et advance; July closed, 6Sc
September, 6444 c; December, 50'4c’
Oats—Spot quiet; No. 2, 45%c. Options
higher on crop news and covering
Beef firm; family, $15.50@16.50; mess
$14.00; beef hams, 21@22c.
Cut meats quiet; pickled bellies low
1044 c; do shoulders. B'4@ 844 c; do hams
H4i@l2c.
Lard steady; Western steamed
$10.65; refined steady; continent, $lO 85
South America, $11.50; compound, $8 50
@8.75.
Pork firm; family, $19.25@19.50; short
clears, $18.25@21.25; mess, $18.50@19.00
Butter unsettled; creamery, ~l9Ba
2214 c; state dairy, 18%@21>4c.
Cheese irregular; new state fun
creamery, small colored choice, 94/. c
white, 1044 c.
Eggs weak; state and Pennsylvania,
1744@18c; Southern, 13%@14%c.
Tallow weak; city, 614 c; " country
6%c.
Rice firm; domestic fair to extra
4%@6%c; Japan, 4%@5c.
Peanuts firm; fi&ncy handpicked,
444 c; other domestic, 3@ 444 c.
Sugar-Raw firm; fair refining, 2 7 4 c
centrifugal, 96 test, 314 c: refined firm
confectioners’ A, 4.45 c; mould A. $5 00c'
cut loaf, 5.15 c; crushed, 5.15 c;
ed, 4.75 c; granulated, 4.65 c; cubes
4.90 c.
New York, June 7.—The coffee mar
ket opened steady and unchanged, and
throughout the short session followed a
narrow rut, not more than 5 points,
with the close quiet and net unchanged.
Total sales, 13,750 bags.
New York, June 7.—Potatoes-
Steady; state and Western sacks, $1.75
@7.87; Southern barrels, $2.75@3.50.
Cabage—Weak; Norfolk, barrels
$1.25@1.75.
Cotton by steam to Liverpool, 10c.
COTTON SEED OIL.
New York, June 7. —Cotton seed oil
steady and unchanged; prime crude f.
o. b. milLs 37c; prime summer yellow,
4514 c; off summer yellow, 45c; prime
white, 4814 c; prime winter yellow', 49®
50c; prime meat, $28.50@29, nominal.
CHICAGO MARK PIT*.
Chicago, June 7.—Excessive rains
was the bugaboo of the grain bears
again to-day. The cables also told of
the same bad weather abroad. In con
sequence a little support In a dull mar
ket was sufficient to bring strength,
and July wheat closed %c up. July
corn !4@%c higher. July oats a shade
down. Provisions closed a shade to
214 c up.
The leading futures ranged as fol
lows;
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat No. 2
July ....7214 7214 73 72)4
Sept ....7114 7114 7044 7114
Dec ....7214 72% 72 72%
Corn No. 2
July ....63 6344 6244 1314
Sept ....59 6914 5844 59
Dec ....44 44 4 5 4 444 4444
Oats No. 2
July ....39% 3944 39 % 2914
•Sept ...3114 3144 31 81
Dec ....3114 31% 31% 3114
•New.
Mess pork, per barrel —
July ...sl7 40 sl7 47 sl7 35 sl7 42
Sept ... 17 50 17 50 17 40 17 45
Lard, per 100 pounds—
July ... 10 25 10 27 10 22 10 25
Sept ... 10 27 10 30 10 27 10 30
Short ribs, per 100 pounds—
July ... 10 17 10 17 10 17 10 17
Sept ... 10 10 10 10 10 02 10 07
Cash quotations were as follows;
Flour, easy; winter patents, $3.70@3.90;
straights, $3.40@3.80; clears, J3.20@3.50;
spring specials, $4.20; patents, $3.60®
3.80; straights, $3.00@3.30. No. 3 spring
wheat, 70@>72c; No. 2 red, 80c. No. 2
yellow corn, 63c. No. 2 oats, 4244 c; No.
46 1 ,4 c. No. 2 rye, 58%@59c. Barley, fair
46%c. No. 2 rye, 6844@50c. Barley, fair
to choice malting, 65c. No. 1 flaxseed,
$1.56; No. 1 Northwestern, $1.76. Mess
pork, per barrel, $17.50@17.55. Lard, per
100 pounds, $10.22@10.25. Short ribs
sides, loose, $10.10@10.20. Dry salted
shoulders, boxed, B@B%c. Short clear
sides, boxed, $10.60@10.65. Whiskey,
basis of high wines, $1.30. Clover, con
tract grade, $8.35.
Receipts—
Wheat, bushels 11,000
Corn, bushels 189,000
Oats, bushels 123,000
Sunday Excursion*
to
Charleston.
Via
Plant System.
Round trip tickets SI.OO, limited to
date of sale. Trains leave Savannah
at 8;00 a. m. (City Time), arrive
Charleston 12:30 p. m. Returning
leave Charleston 8:00 p. m. (Eastern
Time) Tickets good also to return on
train No. 23, leaving Charleston 11:35
p. m.—ad. ■
Hound Trip Holes to Washington,
D. C. •
Effective May 15 and continuing to
and Including Sept. 30, the Plant Sys
tem will sell round trip tickets to
Washington at rate $28.40.
Excellent sleeping and dining car
service. Train leaving Savannah 2:05
p. m. (city time) carries sleeping and
dining cars, arriving Washington 7:39
a. m. the following morning.
Washington is an ideal tourist re
sort. —ad.
Sunday Excursion to Brunswick. Gn.
Effective Sunday, May 11, and each
Sunday thereafter the Plant System
will sell round trip tickets to Bruns
wick, Ga., on Sundays, limited to date
of sale, at SI.OO. For Information see
ticket agents.—ad.
Cafe Cars
Are operated by Seaboard Air Line
Railway on their trains 31 and 34, be
tween Savannah and Hamlet, serving
lunch and dinner "ala carte.”—ad.
Cheap summer Excursion*.
Summer excurelon tickets are now on
sale via Seaboard Air Line Ry. to Flor
ida Coast resorts —Atlantic Beach.
Pablo Beach, Mayport, St. Simon’s
Island, etc., limited fifteen days from
date of sale. Full information at Tick
et Office, corner Bull and Bryan streets.
Phone 28.—ad.
•1W.40 to Washington and Retorn.
The Southern Railway often rate of
121 40, Savannah to Washington und re
turn. Tickets will be sold through
Kept. 30. with return limit of oet *•
Two trains dally, each carrying dining
cara and Pullman sleeper* City tir*
pOKa, IU Bull eUeet, i'Upuna *#,-**'