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I" :J- ' - TBE SKMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1898. 5 rl s f i I'- mm BEER For the past two weeks to change my ad in The Messenger, but I will tell you of th few specially cheap things I am running on this week. Fine Gilt Edge Bleaching 3c per yard. Fine Smooth Unbleached Cotton at 2V2C per yard. Nice Checks at 3c per yard. Nice Shallie at 3c, Calico at 3c and 4c, Fine Colored Lawn at 4c, "White Lawn at 4c, Cross Bar Lawn at 4c, Beautiful Bookfold Lawn at 5c, Linen Crash at 7c. Foolard Cloth worth 10c for c. Dimity at 5c. All styles of fine goods in Percale at 7c. Sea Is land best Percale at 10c. White Swiss at 12V!c up to 35c. Black Nuns Veiling all wool, a job at 8c. Cashmeres, Seri es, Flannels and Muslin, all prices. Beautiful Mohairs at 35c and 50c per yard Lace Curtains from 43 to $1.00 and up. Fine Lace Curtain Swiss at from 12c to 15c per yard. Men's Mack suits of Clothes from GEO. O. GAYLORD, Proprietor a pi i a. PI 17 ,.?.:.r-....i fl "il i-.U, ' lllib PENNYROYAL P US fe Ask for B. . MOTE'S PEUHYBOYATj PILI.S and take no other DR.. MOTT'J?, TraVLEGAJL. CO., - Cteveliuyl, Oliio, For by W H. Green & Co. Groceries ! Grcceries ! CAR GOOD LUCK BAKING POWDER JUST ARRIVED. SO Barrels Molasses, 25 '25 15 50 5(H) Svrups, Whole Rice, Broken Rice, Mess Pork, Flour, all Grades. E. R. STONE & CO. WHOLESALE GROCEIiS, 5 and 7 SOUTH WATER apl 10. MOLASSES. MOLASSES. 500 Barrels All (trades. 25 Barrels Early Rose AND OTHER GRADE PL A WING PO TATOES. 25 HUSH ELS UPLAND SEED RICE AND OTHER GOODS. ID Ti. Gore. 120. 122 and 124 N. Water Street. a pi 5 v sever ELY'S CliEAitf I5AL.7M ig a positive cure. Arply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 60 cents at DrueRiBts or by mail ; samples 10c, by raaiL ELY BKOTUEKS, 6G Warren SL, New York City THE HISTORY OF THE LEATHER PURSE. The organ of the1 German leather trade, Der Ledermarkt, regrets that last year was not duly oibserved as the "jubilee of the modem leather purse." The older folk among us will remem ber some of th predecessors of 'the "portemonnaie." The most popular of these waa a knitted tube or pipe, closed at each end, with tern opening on one side, and provided with two metal slip' rings. The neat and hand portemon naie was the invention of a German rtvokbinder's apprentioe in America, Karl Heue by name, and his novel purse first came into the market in the year 1847. The inventor i.eglected to P-ttent his new leather portemonnaie with a steel clasp and it was quickly imitated all over the world, otherwise Heue would probably haw ibecocne a 'very rich man. Since that date the portemonnaie has undergone a series of evolutions in form, material, and completeness, but th3 young Heue, ac cording to the Ledermarkt, provided the germ out of which all our modern pocket purses have been developed. London Daily Xews. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. "Wheelmen toil and they also spin yarns. The average fish story is a romance of reel life. Writer's cramp may effect either the wrist or stomach. False teeth are never perfect unless they appear Imperfect. It makes a man feel -cheap when a woman calls him dear in public It is often hard to bring- a girl of the period to a full stop. Ctfore than a fair profit is realized on the articles sold at a church fair. After a girl marries she begins to lose interest in curl paper and love stories. Some politicians, like corkscrews, are more or less crooked. Trot they have a strong pull. i vrv f, w ' va Til BUSY $2.00 to $3.75. Clay Worsted from $3.00 up to $10.00. Fine Suits from $4.23 to $10.00. Odd Pants at any price from 29c up to 50 and up. Overalls from 23c to 75c a pair. Jumpers at same prices. Boy's odd Pants at 23c a pair. Boy's Suits from 69c to $2.00 and up. We have a complete stock of Sum mer Goods and I can safely say they are cheaper than ever before. Come to us and bring your card and get it punched with every cash pur chase. You will find here everything that Is kept in a first-class dry goods store, covering 15,000 square feet of floor room, with an electric elevator connecting the three floors, with all the up-to-date system. Send us your or ders. We guarantee satisfaction or money refunded, at Wilmington's Big Racket Store, 112 North Front Street, opposite the Orton Hotel, near the PostofTlce. TAKE A DAY OFF And Investigate the standing of the Com pany that has written your policy of fire insurance. It may pay you to have it ' done before the time arrives for adjust dng a loss, when investigation will be too late. If you're insured with us, however, there's no cause for alarm, as every com pany we represent is as sound as the Rock of Gibraltar, and their policies are as good for their face value in event of i loss as a Government Bond. Willard & Giles, The only safe, sure anc reliable Female PIL.I ever offered to Ladies especially recomruand S3 ed to married Ladies HE WAS BROUGHT LOW. A.w'ay up 'the crest of the Cumberland range I sat talking and smoking with a mountfa'Lneer an front of his caJbin af ter the humible meal called supper, when a "native" came down tlhe tralil on a mule and halted to say: "'Howdy, Tan? Polks all peart?" '"Yes, rather pe'artish," was the reply. "Got a Bible yet?" "Noap." "'I'm a-sellin' Bibles for a dollar now." "Hain't got no dollar to buy with." "Shoo! Say, Ian Hawkins, yo' orter hev a Bilble 'in itihe house. It's mon strous like 'heathen not 'to hev a Bible. Yo' jess orter ibe ashamed of yo'se'lf." I reckon I kin git along." The man on the mule was a comhina tion of preaefher, circuit rider and col porteur, and he seemed considerably dhlagrined at not making a sale. He presently got off 'Wis mule and Tegan to take off his coat, and ibhen mine host inquired: "What yo' gwine to do, Tom?" "Look-a-here, Tan Hawkinis. -yo' haa g"in out that no man in this country has ever laid yo' on yo'r 'back!" "That's true." "If I lay yo' thar' will yo' ibuy a Bible?" "I will." '"Then, with the help of the Lord, I'm goin to do it! The Scriptur' eays that the stiff-necked and high-headed must be brought low, and that's whar I'm groin to bring yo'. Come out yere and be laid!" "Tom, ye 'can't do It can't do it no how!" replied the settler as he rose un ar.'d prepared for the conflict. "I've got to, Dan!" said the preacher as ne pulled ott Tris vest. "'I'm com- munded 'by the Lord to sell yo' a Bible ana tne wa win strengthen my arms to lay you flat!" They dodged around if or a m'lnute looking 'far an opening, and tihen the preacher suddenly rushed in and got a back hold and Dan didn't last fifteen seconds under the strain. Wt was a fair 'fall, and as he rose up he took a silver dollar from Wis pocket and (handed It out 'in exchange for a Bible. "Didn't I say the Lord would help me?" asked the preacher as he mount ed his mule to ride On. "Yes; 'but it wasn't quite fa'r!" growl ed Dan as he stood with the Bible in his hands. "'But the stranger says it was. What ar yo' compTainin' of Dan?" "Of the Lord. I've lived right yere fur twenty-five y'ars, and this is the fust and only time He has come within twenty miles of Itnis cabin! 'Tain't right to jump right in on a man all of a isuddent, and yo know it hain't, and. Uie fust time I catch you without the Lord on yo'r side I'll make all yo'r ribs crack and yo'r heels draw up!" Detroit Free Press. A TRIBUTE TO CHRISTLAITY. In this age of widespread skepticism a profession of sincere religious con victions hy a man of eminence is refreshing.- A notable instance was pre sented when Captain A. F. aiahan, the world's foremost writer and authority on naval subjects, delivered an address at a recent Len'ten service in the Epis copal Church of the Holy Trinity, in Brooklyn. Captain llahan made no claim to heing an expert in theology, but he declared that for thirty years he had 'been an earnest believer in Christianity, and had trusted in a per sonal God. He had found his faith a source of happiness, and it had com forted and supported him in times of trouble and trial. The appearance of a man of the Captain's great ability and world-wide reputation, in a Christian pulpit is a spectacle w-hich should ap peal strongly to all thoughful minds. It signifies that, despite all the preva lent doubt and un'belief, man has a re ligious nature and religious needs which must and will assert themselves, and that religion is still, and must continue to be, a mighty power in the world. Leslie's Weekly. There are a million reasons why a man can love an heire.s and each one of them is the size of a dollar. A law suit is apt to wear out at the pockets first. The man who always pays cash often sleeps on tick. TO GO TO THEIFUOXr Army Officers on Detail at Stat ;Schoola Expecting Orders A Great Variety of Weather la one Day The Qaeatlon of Fusion Raleig-h. N. C, April 18. Messenger Bureau Major E. M. Hayes, on duty at mili tary headquarters here, and Captain J. C. Gresharn, military instructor at the Agricultural and Mechanical college here, expect orders tomorrow to at once Jofnjtheir Regiment, the Seventh cavalry, wilted la ordered to one of the ports on ifoe Gulf of Mexico for an advance on Cufba. Both officers say they receive this news with joy. . Adjutant General A. D. CoWles is a candidate for the position of secretary- treasurer of the North Carolina rail way, which i3 made vacant by the death of E. S. -Walton, of Morganton. The -place pays $2,000 a year. Cowles has written Governor Russell, with whom he is a great favorite, asking the apodntment. His duties as adjutant general are purely nominal, as all the work is done by officers here at head quarters. fThe Asneville company (F.) of the Fourth regiment has recruited to 116 men. There is reported to the state board of health one case of smaH pox at Ashevine. The infected person is a tramp, who i3 quarantined o-u.1 of the town. The Odd Fellows are making much preparation for their annual meeting of the grand lodge here May lOt'h. The local Masons are also preparing for the meeting of the grand encampment, grand commandery and mystic shrine here late in May. The supreme court will at the pres ent term 'hear the free pass cases against the Seaboard Air Line and Southern railways. These are the cases wh'ic'h came up on appeal from Wake superior court, which fined each road $1,000 for issuing free .passes. (Next "week there -will be a. 'trial in the super ior court a't Croldsboro of a similar case against the Atlantic Coast Line. One of the queerest damage- suits on record begun at Salisbury yesterday ag-ains't the Southern railway.. A man jumped from ia moving train, fell audi broke his shoulder -blade. There was no reasoin for1 his jumping from the train. Judige Purnell expects to hold the term of federal court at Statesville next week, owing to Judge Simon ton's sick ness Thursday was a singular day in this state. 'In the east istrawHerries and early truck were being g-athered and shipped. In the middle part of the state there was hail. In the mountain section there was quite a, lively snow fall. 'April 17, 1881, nearly fourteen tndhes of snow fell here. 'April 15, 1849, over a foot fell, there was a hard freeze and. 'all the fruit and vegetation was killed. If what the press of the state says foe true. Senator 'Butler has not a dem ocratic friend in the state. (There is an outcry against fusion with the popu lis'ts. A populist commit teteman says tjiat there will be an "enrptaon in f avor of populist-democratic fusion" "before tiie end of 'May. lA member of the dem ocratic state cpmmit'tee said today that he had made careful inquiries in a typical eastern agricultural county and was told that if the democrats and pop ulists fused probably twenty demo cratic vote's would be lost, but that not more than half of the populists would vote that fusion 'ticket. He says he discovered, further, that the belief was that if the democrats make a straignt fight they will get nearly as many pop ulists as they would toy the other course, provided that the republicans and populists fuse again. In other 'words, there are a lot of populists who will not submit to republican fusion and there are also many who want just that sort of things. Chairman Caldwell, of the railway : commission,, will "be here next "Wednes day to see what Governor Russell will do as to appointing a successor to him. Armifield and Turner of Statesville are his attorneys. .Caldwell expects to take hl3 seat as chairman. He (has odd ways j -terday told all 'the reporters here save ! one that he had not a word to say. j While to that one he unbosomed him self freely, and then there was quit an interview in a paper which has de nounced Caldwell as a traitor, turncoat and renegade. A republican comment ing on this said: "It seems that some of the populist brethren enjoy being kicked." (Most of the inquiry today was as to war matters. The delay has "been great and there has been so much talk that perhaps three-fifths of the people one meets do not in the .least believe there will ibe war. Some of these doubters, say Spain will back down, while some say this government is afraid to fight and will itself let everything drop as it did after the Virginius butchery in 1873. The owners of the largest fruit farm in eastern 'North Carolina say the frosts and freezes of last week did not do a particle of damage. COLLEGE SPORTS Cont8Jtsthe UnUersiry-The Carolina Virginia Game a Tl. (Special to The Messenger.) f Cfiapel Hill, N. C, April 16. The re sult of the contests between the pre paratory schools of this state which took place here today are as follows: Fifty yard dash Carter, of Oak Ridge. Time 5.4 seconds. Running high jump Linville, of Oak Ridge, height 4 feet 10 inches. Putting 12-pound shot Reid, of Wil liam Bingham, distance 35 feet 2 in ches. Running broad jump Linville, of Oak Ridge, distance IS feet 8 inches. One hundred yard dash Carter, of Oak Ridge, time 10 seconds. Putting 12-pound hammer Brake, of Oak Ridge, distance 86 feet 10 inches. Pole vault Linville, of Oak Ridge, height 7 feet 8 inches . Two hundred and twenty yard low hurdle Oldham, of William Bingham, time 30 seconds. One mile relay race Won by Oak Rige team. Five mile road bicycle race Turren tine, of Horner. Base ball throwing Reid, of William Bingham, distance 316 feet 4 Inches. There were many visitors. The prizes were awarded at base ball game this afternoon. The base ball game in the afternoon between Harvard and Carolina result ed at the end of the ninth inning In a tie score 10 to 10. fThe telephone girl haa a speaking: ac quaintance with a great many Deo Die ' that she don't recognize. NORTH CAROLINA Klnston Dally free Pres. Secretary F. C Dunn received a. check yesterday from Richmond for stock in the KinMcm cotton mills. So far a. little over .Vi.ov stock in th;s enterprise has been paid up. iHifham Sun: Irvin Mason, a colored boy. waa playing around the Southern railroad track yesterday afternoon and tried to jump on a passing- freight train and ride. lie got on- several times and got off. and from what we could learn was trying himself to see how well he could do around a moving traJn. Fin ally he fell and broke his riht leg and oruisea ni3 shoulder. j Raleigh News and Observer: Captain Bradshaw. who has charge of the grad- ' inr of the new railroad from Raleign to ! LillLngton. was in the citv vestenl.iv. "He eays the bed has now leen completed aa lar in s may as Caraleigh mil's, and the camp will moved Ave miles fur ther south today. Seventy-six hands are now actively engaged in the work and the entire rood will be ready for the rails by the 1st of July. Lumberton Robesonian: "A little son of Mrs. Jessup. whose home is at Duffle, on the Red Springs and Bowmore rail road, came near being killed one day last week by jumping from the tram while In motion. The train had stopped for lumber near the station where the little fellow succeeded in climbing upon the engine, and in passing his home, the train yet running slow, be jumped to the ground. Striking a post he was thrown under the wheels, crushing his legs and both feet to a pulp. At last accounts he was alive, but suffering great agony. . Charlotte Observer: Major Clement Dowd breather his last this morning at eight minutes to 2 o'clock, at his resi dence on Xorth Tryon street. He had been an acute sufferer with Bright's dis ease for a year. Clement Dowd was born three miles from Carthage. 'Moore coun ty. N. C, August 27, 1S32. He was of Scotch-Irish decent. His father, Wil lis D. Dowd. was a farmer by occupa tion, a man of prominence and a mem ber of the legislature. Major Dowd was reared on the farm and learned the les sons of industry. He attended the old field schools and began teaching at 17. H) entered the university in l-v2 and graduated in 1856. For two years he taught In Carthage Academy, and in the meantime studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1839, and began to practice at Carthage. In he married Miss Lydia Bruce, of 'Moore. In April 1S61 he entered the confederate army and was made first lieutenant of Company H, Twenty-sixth North Carolina state troops. After the battle of New Bern ho was made captain of the company. Subsequently he was made major, but in 1C2 his health failed and he was re turned to hLs home. STATE PRESS. Let us all encourage our corporations encourage enterprises that will give em ployment to labor. Our farmers specially instead of permitting themselves to be misled hy designing, bad men. should do all they can to sustain those corporations we have and secure more. Raleigh Post. The fusion despoilers, feeling and knowing that the people have found them out and that extraordinary efforts are necessary to even give them a ghost of a show in the future, are now. engag ed in setting forth divers and multifar ious schemes to catch and entrap the honest, unsuspecting voter of the coun try. Their last and latest scheme is to offer co-operation with the democratic party, intending all the while to fuse with the republicans. Lexington Dispatch. North Carolina is receiving more atten tion just now than ever before. In every quarter of the state there are evidences of a deep interest in our history. Socie ties are being organized, magazines are being established, individuals are making private investigations, and counties, towns and communities are gathering to gether the facts about their past. North Carolina has everything to gain and noth ing to lose from a full and correct writ ing of history. There is a deep interest in ecclesiastical as well as civil and polit ical history. Fayetteville Baptist. Can the democrats win alone? This is a grave question, and we are honest to say a very doubtful one. Two classes of democrats went from their party to the populist organization. Some honestly believed that better times and better gov ernment could be obtained by a new party, and they honestly believed that the republicans and negroes were going to vote with them and help them to right the peoples' wrongs. They never dream ed that they were going to vote with the republicans and negroes to advance the party they had fought all their lives. But step by step their self-appointed lead ers led them on by false charges against democrats and false promises of their own. of the wish of the republicans to aid them in their fight for reform. They were made to believe the democrats, were abusing them worse than they were abusing the democrats. They got mad with all democrats and unfortunately for us Cleveland gave them additional caiu-e and all democrats were confounded with a few. But these men were honest and will honestly confess that they have been fooled, and they will help to riht the wrong they helped to create. Windsor Ledgt r. MOVEMENTS OF TALL TOWERS. It is announced that the Eiffel tower h&s fbeen vibraiting to such an extent that many of the excitable Parisian public have become alarmed lest It come about their ears. Colonel Bassot has found that th expansion and con traction of ithe iron in the tower causes ti to describe a "torison movement be tween sunrise and sunset, which tra verses a curve of four inches. A back ward movement equally as great occurs during the night. CBut In spite of this movement the tower could not flail. It Is quite as rigid as though constructed of a solid piece of steel, and, if any thing, more so. Our own Washington monument moves backward and for ward several Inches every day, yet nothing short of a convulsion of na ture could displace It. The tall tower on the Philadelphia city hall is also noted for Its capacity to lean to one side. The great dome on the capital building in Washington, T. C, moves quite a distance every day, and In thU connection a curious experiment was tried to &how how far out of plumib It usually goes. A thin wire was hung from the inner topmost point of the dome. On the lower end of the wire was a plumb-bob, in the lower point of which waa inserted a lead pencil. It just touched the floor of the rotun da, on which a large sheet cf white pa per was laid. As the dome moved It dragged the pencil with It, and conse quently left the tracing of Its course on the paper. An oval fully a foot in length was marked out every day. showing that the apex f the dome of the capitol moves that much in twenty-four hours. Pittsburg Leader. SAD END OF A COLONEL'S CAREER "I have letters from fifty veterans of my old command," paid the Colonel, signifying their willingness to fight under my leadership once more." "You'll form a company, then. In case of war?" "No," said the Colonel, sadly, "I feel my fighting days are over. My eye sight is falling me. Why only last week I tried to shoot a man who wasn't twenty steps away, and I miss ed him entirely didn't even scratch him and I wore spectacles too!" At lanta Constitution. The middle aisle of a church is often used as a bridaf path, WEIMGTOH 0AMETS. 1. COTTON KHPORT. Wilmington. N. C. April 15, Receipts of cotton today 13S tviles. Receipts amo day last yar--lS3 b&len. ThU sAn's receipts to date bales. J Receipts lo fame date iat year 2233? bales. Tho quotations posted at 4 o'clock ta day at the exchange: Cotton Arm. Ordmary 3 2-1? Oood ordinary 4S Low middling 5 5-1$ Middling 5 Good middling 6 Sam day last year. 7c. NAVAL STORES. Spirits turpentine steady; macaiae bar rels Sc; country barrels Zc. Rosin dull at 11.05 and 91.10. Tar firm at iCo. Crude turpentine quiet; hard JIJ5; soft S1.S0 and 1.SJ. Prices same day last year Spirits tur pentine ZTc and 364c; rosin $1.35 and L); tar SCc; crude turpentine Jl.SOt $LJ and J1.90. Receipts today 12 casks spirit tur pentine, 1.1G2 barrels rosin. 1"S barrels tar. Receipts same day last year M cxka spirits turpentine. C23 trrvLs rosin. n barrels tar. 5 barrels crudd turpentine. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Peanuts Nerth Carolina, prime 55ff60c per bushel: extra prime. Cc: fancy, 72Hc Virginia Extra prime. 4O045e. Rice Uplands. 65yS0c; lowlands, fl.103 $1.15. Corn North Carolina Raeon Hams, 15511c: shoulders, 6Ji6Hc; sides. TViSc- Chickens Firm: spring lOQISc; hens 1S6i25c; roosters. lS22c. Turkeys (Live). 7 to 10c per pound. Effgs Slow at 5c. Shingles Per 1.000 five inch, hearts and saps. 1.50$2.10: six Inch. $2.50ii3.50. Timber at $3.00 to $5.00 per 1.000 feet. HAMETS 6T TELEGRAPH FINANCIAL. New York, April 10. Money on call steady at 2 per cvnt., last loan at 2 p?r cent. Prime mercantile paper SHSrC per cent. Sterling exchange steady with ac tual business in bankers bills at $4:S3Ur $4.S3'i for demand and at $4.79j4.SO for sixty days, rested rates at $4.S)US?4.S1 and $4.KH.S4U. Commercial bills at $4.7JK?4.79I.2. Silver certificates WV'Jie. Bar silver f."TiO. Mexican dollars 4T1ie. State bonds dull; government bonds weak. STOCKS. Atchison Baltimore and Ohio lo1. Chesapeake and Ohio 13. Chicago and Alton 154. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 91. Delaware and Hudson lOG'-i. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 144V4. Fort Wayne ICS. Illinois Central Louisville and Nashville 4S. Manhattan L M. Mobile and Ohio 27. New Jersey Central 93. New York Central 109!. Pittsburg 16S. Reading 16V&. Southern Railway 7,2 Southern Railway, preferred, Texas and Pacific 10. Union Pacific. Denver and Gulf C'i. Wabash, preferred, lAi Wheeling and Lake. Krie 1"h. Wheeling and Lake Erie, preferred, fy. Adams Kx press 99. American Kxpress 122. United States Express? 23. Wells Fargo Express 114. American Cotton Oil 16. American Cotton Oil. preferred, CTVi American Tobacco lOOU American Tobacco, preferred, 112. People's Gas 90V4 Consolidated Gas In. General Electric Zl'k Tyead 28. National Linseed Oil 14. Pacific Mail 22i. Pullman Palace 170. Silver Certificates &5s;. Sugar 116. Tennessee Coal and Iron lfi Western Union, ex-dividend, 85si. BONDS. United States New 4's Registered llSVi. United States New 4's Couion 119. United States 4's Registered 10SU United States 4s Coupon lOT'A. TTni.tPil States 2's 95. United States 5's Registered l'Fi, United States a's Coupon 111. Alabama Class A l'W.. Alabama Class B 105. Alabama Class 0T. Alabama Currency 95. Louisiana New Coupon 4's 97'. Louisville and Nashville Unied 4's Missouri 0's P0. New Jersey Central fi's Ill's. North Carolina l's 12". 'North Carolina 4's 102. Pennsylvania C's of '95 VC. South Carolina non-fund . Southern Railway 9. Tennessee New Set 3's S5. Virginia Centuries 66. Virginia deferred 3. COTTON. Liverpool, April 151 p. m. Spot cotton good demand, but business only moder ate; prices hardening: American middling 3 15-32d. The sales of the day were 12.000 bales, of which l,00o were for speculation and export and included 10.700 American; receipts 11KX) bale?, including 10,700 Am erican. Futures opened steady with a moderate demand and closed firm. American middling, low middling clause: April 3 27-64I. sellers; April and May 3 27-64d, sellers; May and June 3 27-64d. sellers; June and July 3 27-64d, buyers; July and August 3 27-64d, buyers; August and September 3 2&-64d, 3 27-64d, buyers: September and October 3 25-64 d, buyers; Octobej- and November 3 25-64d. 3 26-64d. sellers: November and December 3 24-64d, 3 25-64d, buyers; December and January 3 24-64d. 3 25-64d. buyers: January and February 3 24-64d, 3 25-64d, buyers. New York. April 16 Cotton steady; midding 6 5-16c; net receipts G07; groes re ceipts 1.310; forwarded 216; sales 1.106; spinners S06; stock 1S5.S09. Total today and Consolidated Nert re ceipts 118.1S6; exports to Great Britain 400; to France 5,0); to the continent 1.S04; stock CSS.911. Total since September 1st Net receipts 8.059,139: exports to Great Britain 3,056. GOS; to France 754, 3"9; to the continent 2.61S.20S. Futures closed steady; sales 112.200 bales; April 6.04: 3Iay 6.0S; June 6.09; July 6.12; August 6.14; September 6.12; October 6.12; November 6.13; December 6.15; Janu ary 6.17. Spot cotton closed steady: middling up lands 6 5-16c; middling gulf 6 9-16c; sales 1,1 bales. PORT RECEIPTS. Galveston Quiet at 5c; net receipts i 2 349 Norfolk Firm at 5Tc: net receipts 4H. ! Baltimore Nominal at C'ic; gross re eeoint S71. Boston Quiet at 6'ic; net receipts 2.312. Wilmington Firm at &sic net recipts "Philadelphia Firm at 6 S-l&c. Savannah Steady at 5c; net receipts 1.63S. New Orleans Firm at Dc; net recipt3 4 47 Mobile Steady at 5ic; r.c-t receipts C9. Memphis Steady at 5Hc; net recipts 103. Augusta F!rm at 6c; net recipts 135; gToss receipts 10. Charleston Steady at 5Hc; net receipts 122. Cincinnati Quiet at G-ic; net receipts V Louisville Quiet at 5;c. St. Louis Steady at 5 ll-16c; net re ceipts 109; gross receipts 1.061. Houston Steady at Cc; net receipts 436. J - GRAJV Avn PROVISION. I Chicago. April 16. The leading futures were as follows; . Open. Ilich. Low. CI a jr. Wheat 3Ur July September .... Corn May July ep! ember ...r Oats May July 1.10 1.10 I.O.I i.eo S5S S7H S5S 7SS 79 7s 7J S- 3-V 7 :1U 32 31 31 22, 33 ri 3T, 2 2h r.- 2-v; S'i S 23' 4 32' Meat pork, per bbl May S91 9.W July Lard, per 100 lbs May f yw July fi.22H iSZt 9 77 9 77 3.17i ft r 5.17H piemiwr .... 5.M 6J5 Short ribs, per 1 lbs M?m kir-i J"r S? 6 39 3 SeSteraber .... 5.27 &.27'i S 27 i.TJ Cah quot.ulT!s were as fotlows: Fltmr sieoay: winter ptrnt HtciST.; strihf. J4 3ii4-50; prtnc special : mpring- jvttents $4.9wj&.10; tr.Jghtj H V M fcv. No. 2 red 11. OK; No. 2 corn x i oats 2SVc: No. 2 whitv f o b 3iS2.-; ? M white f.o.b. INMi'o; nies port pr bar rel $3.'v,r9.-,; Urd pr WO pound J5.174; short rib sides (love J.YrtV,jtf.v tJry s.ilte.1 shoulders (loxed St 2vJ4.T3: horr clear sides (boxed) J5.45iirG.55: whtskey distil'en llnlhWI roo.l. per ir.illon fi.an. New York. April 16. Flour stronrrr bur quotably higher; city mill patent $5,7 5joo. Wheat Spot stronger; No. 2 red fl.!l: op: Ion opened stronjr and higher on jur prjinely firm Uvorpool eabW: nh.wts were havy buyers most of he forvnoun. covering yestrnlay' sale and lnflunce.1 nl.o !y renewal of war tatk. cl.wod 7if 2c net hiKhvr; May closed JI.(6; Juiy clo.! SCSo. Iird Steady: western (inif.l cl! at -".l7S: city 1V15; May closed 15 5 nominal: refined Arm. I'ork Steady: me?w V 75?I0 ; shart cbvr $l2.2TprtM2.&: family 11 Tin. Corn Siki tlrm: No. 2. Sfic; option were bulllshly affe'te! by stronc cat! ami bi cleamnces. advance! all the fore noon and closed nt b'.nhor; May cloel Xi'-ho; July "S-wcJ 4. O.tts Spot Arm: No. 2. Xi'VtiSl.; op tions quiet but firmer with th th- r d--p.irtments. closing lo higher; M;iv cU. ed 29-e. Kcrs Steady : State anl Pnns lv.ini i 10'iHic; western fresh 10'c; outher:v 9'i''i9-i,. Cotton See.1 Oil-Dull, prim crude l?'-'; prime yellow 22V.i22"ic. I'etroleum dull; Cnit-I cl-el no mar ket; retlnM New York $5.7"; Phil.idelphi.t and Baltimore $5.65: !o. in btilk I'. lu. Ble Stanly; domestic f.Ur to xtrx 46V. ;Molas-s Quiet ; New Orleans opcu kettle koo.1 ti choice C'nttTc. "offet1' Options opened stvl with prices unch.nKtl to 5 points hlnlr; rulexl qub-t with April how:nj r-l.tiv strength on short covering and fpot cof fee llrm on buying: N-ars ncrvoiM iwlnc to thr.-.xtencd break of war cloud and marked fal!'nr off In vl$!b!e supply: July $5.75: Sv. t Rio steady; No. 7 Invoice C"v-; No. T poltMnr 7o. Su car Raw quiet: fair reflnlnr 3 9-PV; Centrifugal '.' test 4 1-b-': n-tin.-d qui.-t; mould A 5 7-16e: rranulate.I 5 3-16c. NAVAL STORES. New York Rosin easy; strained com mon to pool $1.42'v'145. Spirit turpen tine steady at .Vi 5t"4c. Savannah Spirits turp-nt In-e firm at 25ic: stiles 47S; reclts 1.21. Rn'n firm and unchanged: sabvs 629: rice,'pts ln'i?. Charleston Spirits turp-ntlne mtrk-r firm at 26Uc: sale none. Rosin llrm and unchanged; sales none. Weekly Hank Statement New York, April 16. The weekly bank statement shows the following changes. Surplus reserve. Increased $2,309,600: loans, decreased $7. 69 7,900; specie, increased $4,554,400; legal ten ders, decrensed $3,824,200; deposits, de creased $6,317,600; circulation. Increas ed $55,600. The banks now hold $37,373, 075, In excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. The Financier says: Despite tho heavy and continued demand for funds from the Interior, the clearing houso banks, according to their statement for the current week, were able, not only to bold their own In the way of cash, but added over $2.000,0k to tho surplus reserve, making the latter Item the largest reported since January 1st. In the light of present events the state ment must be regarded as favorable since It reveals the wonderfully strong position of the banks. Ordinarily It would mean lower money rates this week, but unless a pacific solution of the Spanish crisis presents Itsif, n. such reduction may be handicapped. The operations of the week brought about a shrinkage of $7,697,900 in loan4, due to continued liquidation and th" entire absence of nv business, tho banks confining themselves to the needs of their own customfr. Out of town banks, it is worthy of note, ar doing some buying in this market, tempted by the stringent rates. Deposits were reduced $6,317,6ou. ow ing largely to withdrawals of balance. The interior movement is shown In th loss of $3.824. 200 In legal tenders. Sped.. Imports account for the gain of $4,554. 400 gold and the net result was an In crease of nearly three-quarters of a million cash. The loss in deposits low ered the reserve requirements $1,579. 400. This added to the cash gain swell ed the surplus as above. The country has now Imported or engaged over $60,000,000 of gold, but the New York banks today hold only $2,00o,00 moro cash than when the movement started. The specie received has merely replac ed the "withdrawals by Interior banks and It Is a problem whether the fu ture demand on New York will be as heavy as anticipated. Domestic exchange Is at a heavy dis count at Interior cities and from all that can be learned the cash with drawn Is not belnf? employed at home. The fact that outside Institutions ar loaning money here, is not without sig nificance. The outlook favors con tinued Imports of gold, and these.wlth the heavy disbursement made by th treasury, may operate to produce an easier state of affairs. It would not be surprising If present rates proved t be the maximum for the year. The country has so much money that It Is prepared to meet expendi tures of an extraordinary magnitude without embarrassment. The trouble now is that this Is being hoarded, rath er than put into use. THE YUKON RIVER. Th? mouth of the Yukon Is abou a hundred miles broad that is. from on side to the other rti Je; but there Is noth ing to suggest a river about t noth ing but small streams. sSoug'ha, islantLs. innumerable ani diacxrnoerting. It t4 like be-hwr brought face v face with a hundred gates, only one of which osen the way which you are Becking, while the others lead to destruction. This Is the difficulty la navig-ating at the start ing point, and the eort of thing en countered all the wiay to Circl? City. It Is touch and co, or touch and not go; and you may get through, or may stick on a bar end not budg An Inch for marry days or wy-ks. IXghteerx hundred and fifty miles of river are be fore you on your way up to Dawson; and It takes about fifteen days. If you meet with no accidents, days of vast, wonderful and ever changing aoenery; nlghta of silent grandeur, when you seem to be all alone, surrounded by an untrodden wilderness, silent, aw$ame. mysterious. John Sidney Yeb th Century. r