Hester's Statement to Date. Half Million Bales Behind Last Year, Decrease 400,-J OOO in Amount Brought Into Sight. New Orleans. Noy. 2.-Seoretary Hester's New Orleans cotton exchange statement issued today covers the monthly movement to Oct. 31. Com? pared with last year, the month is behind ia round figures 549,000 bales and behind year before last 152.000. The amount brought into sight for the two months of September and October shows a decrease of 396,320 under last year, a decrease of 109,167 nuder the year before last. The movement from the first of September rn October 31st shows re eeiots at all Uoited States delivery ports 1,916,385, agaiost 2,415,060 last year ; net overland movenaeut by rail? roads across the Mississippi. Ohio and Potomac rivers, 299,430, against 192,784 last year ; southern mill takings, exclusive of quantity consumed at southern outports. 269,863, agaiost 245,463 last year ; interior stocks in excess of those held at the commence? ment of the season, 366.491, against 396,174 last year and 314,750 same time in 1896. These make the total amount of the crop brought into sight during the two months ending Oct 31st, 2,852,160 against 3,248,491 last year. Foreign exports for the first two months of the season have been 1.242, 898. showing a decrease under last seasca of 177,946. Shocks at the seaboard and the 29 leading southern interior markets at I the close of October were 1,473,681,1 against 1.528.871 the same date last j year. Including port3 and interior towns left over from the previous season and the number of bales cf the current crop brought into sight during the two mantas* ?.&3 supply ba3 beea 3,471, 067. against 3,516,057 last year. Up to this cate last year 28 81 per ce3t. of the cottoo crop had been mar? keted, and for the same months in 1897 the percentage of the crop brought into sight was 26 44, and for the same time ia 1896 the percentage marketed was 36. Dan's Review Reports Prices i Still on the Rise in Va? rious Lines. New York, Nor. 3 -R. G Dun & Co 's Weekly Review of Trade will say tomorrow : British disasters in South Africa have brought to view something besides the steady self reliance of the British people, that Sney hold not many Americao secu rities to be dislodged io any time of alarm, but as inclined to take more when money looks for safe invest? ment. A decline of 3 8 in wheat and H-c in corn does not binder exports, though it is some evidence that growers think they have ample sop plies. Atlantic exports of wheat for five weeks have been, flour included, 15,686 598 bushels, against 18,182, 631 last year and Pacific exports 2,713,551, agaiost 3,917,434 " last year Western receipts of wheat have continued heavy, but have not rivalled last year's extraordinary out? pouring, amounting to only 35,958, 078 bushels in five weeks, against 49,640,791 tast year, but western corn receipts rou ahead of last year's in the same weeks, and the exports Slave been 18,684 044 bushels, against 11.558 158 last year The prior tunas sa1 es of wooi at Boston, 21,557,500 pounds reported, making 25.oo8,700 at the three chief markets this week, ate extremely im? portant That not ali are for con Btrption, as tiie trade is naturally tempted to believe, may b? true, and j yet actual purchases by the milis of1 ; half that quanti;* would imply ex traordmary encouragement respect- ; ing the demand f?r woolen goods The prices have b;?en generally ad j vanced to an average scarcely below thdt of May, IS9*J! and f->r Onio was ? ? hghf and da:k unwashed and pulled J ; woo*, slightly higher Expectation j ? of higher p'ices at L >n.don prompt j j muc; speculative buying The cot j j ton maM?'acturat of this 20,000,000 there is idle j 1 imo enough wasted, even by those who . would be willing to work, to furnish ! 1 1,000,000 good operatives ?" I 1 To recrulate rh? meases, >.<'?[> flooding ?nd co frequent appearance ot m^ns?*3, take Sim-I 1 n<>::3 Squaw v"ine]W;r.eor Tablets. I Temporary derangement cf digestion, [ \ brough ove! work, worry ur emotional ex- ? } .i'emeot, are quickly rectifi <1 by \): M A , Simmons' Liver Mecicirie. _ ( The State of Georgia yesterday i ?old the Northeastern R \i. to the : Southern fur $307..000. The road is | i 10 miles long, running from Athene ; o Lula. ? 1 Interesting Resume Of Our Achievments. Republican Paper Throws Light on Philippine Sit? uation. Chicago, Oct 28.-The Tribune prints a summary of the situation in the Philippin? islands from its special correspondent there, Richard H Lillie Tne latter, which is dated Manila, Sept 14. says : "Here are some figures, made seven months and a half after our campaign against the Filippinos began Say it is five miles to Angeles, we hold pos session of the railroad up to that point. We can fairly claim possession of the land a half mile on each side of the track We have possession of the wagon road and, let us say, a half mile on each side from San Fernando, through Bacolor. to Santa Rita, eight miies, with four miles to Guage We have a road from M0I0I03 to Balianag. ll miles northeast We can ciaim ll equate miles here " We have Manila, out as far as the waterworks, five miles away. That gives us, say 25 miles around the city. "Then we have the road and a half mile each side down 18 miies to Imus. Then we have Calamba and some other points on the lake that Geo Lawton captured before he was ordered back. These towns are not approached by road, but by boat, across the Laguna de Bay, and we only control tbe land they stand on. '.Adding up our total possessions, we find we have 117 square miles "The island of Luzou contains 42, OOO square miles. ' Outside of Luzon the insurrec- j tion seems to be growing. The in sargents hold ports in Mindanao, the nest largest island to Luzon in the Philippines, and said to be incalcul ably rich in gold and silver mines, iron and copper ores, and other t?VnB?^'s, Ws\&?% ?c^ssee&iug wonder ful forests of hard wood No Amer icans have dared venture there as yet, as Gen Otis has sent no troops to the island. Englishmmen and Ger? mans are prowling about the island getting ali the "?ncessions they can. It is said several prospecting parties are at work "Gen. O'is reports co:.?icts between the 'robber binda' and American soldiers in Negros and Cebu The Nineteenth and the S?xtb ac? one battalion ot the Twenty-third infantry are now in tbe?e islands fighting the rubber bands, who dig trenches and occupy tcwos and make ni^ht attacks after the fashion of the insurgents in Luzon. .'A late report from Cebu is that some 2.000 'robbers' were menacing our forces and a collision was immi? nent "The next campaign is going to be different from the last. We will get out of the flat, open country, into mountainous, thiokly wooded country. If we do not end the war here we will have to carry it into the high, rockribbed mountains of Luzon. "It will be no violation of a State secret to fay that the fir*: object of the next campaign will be to get thc regt of the railroad from the bands of the insurgents. The insurgents ought to be firmly convinced by tnis time that we want the Manila and Dagupan railroad, as wc have fought along that line seven months They know we want it, and they also know that we are going to get it, for they are already tearing up the traok, burning the ties and buryiog the rails north of Angeles. "The country east of the railroad, north of Angeles, to Dagupan, is much like it is south of Maatla, except high? er and brcken. Weet of the railroad are high mountains that will offer the insurgents better opportunity to retreat and escape than they bad io the low country. With the taking of tho rail? road, we will have cut off the provinces j of Zimbales. Pagasican, Tarlac, Pan- I panga and Bataan from the main part j of the bland, and can lay claim to a 1 good deal more country than the pre? cise amount of real estate 00 which our army is now 03mpiog "From the railroad Aguinaldo's army oan hardly retreat anywhere but northward, across the mountain to the fertile valley of the Rio Grande de Cagayary. "The 'wailed city' cannot tinder stand why the army has so muoh trouble with the railroad. When the officers in the field notify the 'walied city? that the rails have been torn up from tbe seotion of track just com? pleted, and that the ties have been barned and the grade destroyed, they get an order to 'Ox it.' So, after a few miles of railroad are completed the soldiers have to scatter up and dowo Lbe track and go mining for steel rails. The insurgents bury the rails ?vo or sis fee* deep They observed that the Americaos located thc rails by sound? ing with a crowbar, so they resorted j to thc expedient of putting a ?ayer of j tics over the rails To replace thc i bumed ties, the quartermasters' depart moot were foroed to usc nlar:k>-, two ' boards each, two inches wide, being : Bailed together fir ties Tho side? track, wherever p')*Mbl<\ ail the wi.y back to Manila, was jerked up. carried j ff and put down where the rails eouia j aot he found "The American army is badly in j seed of railroad ties and steels. "Another groat nesd of the army is light draft steamboats for use on the ! many rivers and lakes of Luzon. There is hardly a plane io the world where ao army could use river steam? ers to greater advaotsge The Rio Grande, the Chico, the Rio Grande Papaoga, the Agno, the Bicoi and ?the I Pasig all flow through fertile and densely populated valicys and offered i mears to the army of bringing up sup ! plies aud swiftly transporting large j bodies of soldiers that would be invalu I able were it utilized. ''From what can bc learned of the insurgents, they are well f-atitfied with the present condition cf affairs Their congress bas ju3t returned a commnni cation to the American peace commis sioa declaring that, while they would have accepted autocomy from cur gov? ernment if they bad been properly dealt with at first, they will now con? sider no proposition excepr. indepen? dence With almost 42 OOO miles of territory from which io draw supplies, and with beats coming io without any opposition from Hong K002 and from Cdotral and South America, and Australia, the insurgents probably ere doing well as far as supplies are con? cerned.1' CUBAN OIL cures Cuts, *T} J>urns, Bruises, Rheuma? tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts. Sold by Hugbson-Liijon Co. An exchange tells us that the pro? per method to keep apples in winter is to wrap them io old newspapers so as to exclude thc air. The news paper, however, must be one on which the subscription has been paid otherwise dampness resulting from what is "dew" may cause the fruit to spoil Wm. T. Stead, editor of the Lon don Review of Reviews, believes that thc Emperor of Germany has de cided to block England's plans in the Transvaal, and he gives good reasons for the belief, too. England is paying a terribie price for sovereignty in South Africa. At the battle ct Eiaodelaagte the Gordon Highlanders went into action 500 strong and lost 108 killed and wound? ed ; the Imperial Light Horse went Toto sttttug, rad 52. in. killed and wounded, and the Devon? shire regiment, out of 1,000, lost 33. Mrs F J Dickson, Westminster, S C, writes: Eleven years ago I was for 6 months unable to do my work aod Ur il A Simmons' Liver Medicine restored me to g*,cd health Think o.?e package of ic worth a doz?n of Z?lin:s. Count D' Almenos created a sensa? tion in the Spanish senate yesterday when he declared that three islands of the Philippine group, the two Bateneces and the Catalian islands, were not included in the treaty trans fericg the Philippines to the United States. South Carolina and Georgia Si tension R, R. Company. ..... _?0r^mj^^^ Schedule No. 3-Io effect 12 Ol a. m , Sun? day, October 1, 1898. Between Camden S. C., and Blacksburg, S. C. West *35 J EASTERN TIME, j East *32 1st C?as?, j STATIONS. J 1st Class. p. m. a. m. 12 40 Camden 12 10 1 05 Dekalb ll 37 1 17 Westville ll 25 1 45 Kershaw ll 10 2 05 Heath Seringa 10 57 2 10 Pleasant Hill 10 52 2 3J Lancaster 10 35 2 45 Riverside 20 20 2 55 Springdell 10 10 3 05 Catawba Junction 10 00 3 15 Leslie 9 50 3 35 Rock Hill 9 40 3 40 New Port 9 15 3 50 Tirzih 9 10 4 00 Yorkville 8 55 4 20 Sharon 8 40 4 35 Hickory Grove 8 25 4 50 Smyrna 8 15 j 5 20 BlacUsbcrg 7 55 p. m. a> m. Between Blacksburg, S. C., and Marion, N. C. 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