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COTTON EXCHANGE ( OPEN FOR BUSINESS Trading Brisk and Nervous for First V Few Minutes?Normal Dealings in One Hour. New York, Nov. 16?The New York cotton exchange reopened for unrc- ii stricted trading at 10 o'clock this o morning. It had been closed since t July 31, when the market went into ti convulsions and three firms failed v through the demoralization created v by impending war in Europe. h The floor of the exchange was t thronged with brokers when the gong n sounded today. During the first few minutes trading was extremely brisk c and somewhat nervous. There was a 1 little confusion because of unfamiliar- ( ity with the new style contracts and T the new rules imposed on the market 'I by the operation of the so-called cot- I i? iuii i u tui law. v Early trading was confined almost p entirely to December cotton sold on li old style contract. The market open- b ed at 7.45 and dropped quickly to 7.40. a A low level of 7.39 was reported in s the first half hour. The market then grew steadily and the nervous tone s departed. ci At the end of the first half hour g trading appeared to be normal and p the number of brokers on the floor n had dwindled to usual size. Prices were approximately three cents be- p low what they were when the ex- e change closed on July 31. January C sold at 7.75 to 7.85, March at 7.85 to e 7.88, May at 8.10 to 8.12, and October n at 8.40 to 8.50, all on new style con- a tracts. t< Wall street brokers, inactive he- b cause of the darkened stock exchange, n were interested spectators at the h opening. A sprinkling of other spec- { tators, friends and families of cotton : brokers were in the galleries. A general laugh greeted the read- ( ing of a letter of congratulations ; s from members of the Liverpool cotton P association. The letter was read from the rostrum shortly after the V opening gong sounded. New Orleans Opens. j P New Orleans, Nov. 1(5.?With the 15 exchange gayly decorated with palms j ? and flowers and women crowding the ^ visitors' enllerv. the rnttnn mnrknt opened to normal trading conditions' at 9:05 this morning, after a suspen- . sion of almost three months and a J half. The first trade between New Orleans and Liverpool went through to 1 completion, passing censors' hands ^ and all in 17 minutes. j c First trades in local options did not , r show much change from last week's ] liquidation trading. January's first j transaction being at 7.50. The market ^ was somewhat complicated because j trading was carried on in two style , j, of contracts, one being the form used a up to the time of the suspension last | u July and the other framed to meet a the federal cotton futures act. Old j, style March brought 7.(51 and the new 0 style 7.8(5 on the first call, showing f that the trade was willing to pay a 0 premium of a quarter of a cent a a pound for the new style. c RACE HORSES SPECIALS d ARRIVE IN CHARLESTON t A "Race Horse Special," composed j of two Pullmans, a dining cai and six horse cars, was expected to arrive in Charleston early this morning over! fl the Atlantic Coast Line, coming here j j direct from Latonia, Ky. This is the largest single shipment ! c of horses to come into Charleston this j ? year. About twenty shipments of ^ about 100 horses in all have already | arrived for the meet. Thirty Bonds Rejected. 1 Columbia, Nov. 12.?Thirty South ( Carolina (5 per cent bonds of $1,000 ' each, issued in 1809, presented for j f payment at the state house today by ; r an attorney representing the State of 1 J New Hampshire, $vere rejected as i void by the Comptroller General, A. W. Jones, who said these securities were among those repudiated by the general assembly in 1878 as "put up- ' on the market without any authority T in law." 1 # c Notice to the Public. ' i All persons or parties are hereby u notified not to bury in the old Presbyterian cemetery unless party or J parties have a plot of land that is ' enclosed or graves otherwise marked. * Parties disregarding this notice after ' due publication may expect to be ^ handled. Undertakers are hereby ^ warned not to dig graves in the cein- r etery if thev are uncertain as to the 1 boundaries of the plot. Relatives who have their dead buried in this cemoterv ar? also ronuestod to havo frrnv.- : - marked or otherwise outlined, so that ' there may be no confusion hereafter. By order of the session of the First Presbyterian church. n F. M. Farr, Clerk. " Union, S. C., Nov. 10, 1914. 47 3t Jj ), The plant of the Southern Oil com- t pany at Darlington was burned down (| Thursday, with a loss of $75,000, in- b eluding .'100 tons of seed, 200 tons of fl meal and a large quantity of oil. The n origin of the fire is not known. ? h How To Give Quinine To Children. ] FKBRILINTtlsthetrade-mark name given to an il improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas- ^ nnt to take and docs not disturb the stomach. u Children take it and never know it is Quinine, v Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Dors not nauseate nor e cause nervousness nor rigging in the head. Try ,? it the next time you need Quinine for any pur- $ pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The ti name FgBRIL,INl*; is blowif in bottle. 25 ceuta. f) " y C. F. Hampton, aged 35, a merchant R of h'lorence, shot himself dead with a ^ pistol in his store Friday. He leaves Q a wife but no children. His business ^ seemed to be prospering, and there is 0 no cause assigned for the suicide. ^ No. Six-Sixtv-Six ? . w c This is a prescription prepared especially j( for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, and ^ if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It nets on the liver better than j Calomel and does not ({ripe or sicken. 25c s t )PENS CAMPAIGN FOR PROHIBITION Vill Procure Petitions For Election Next September on the Liquor Issue. Plans for a prohibition campaign n South Carolina have been announc(1 from the headquarters of the pary in Columbia. The committee from he mass meeting of citizens which >fas held in October, in connection .*ith the movement for Statewide proibition. have named a central execuive committee for the active managelcnt of the campaign. Members of the central executive | ommittee are: D. W. Robinson, J.l ^raser Lyon, E. G. Quattlebaum, A. !. Hammond, W. B. DeLoach, L. S. 'rotti, the Rev. C. E. Hurts, 1). I >. i 'his committee has named J. K.I Ireedin as its secretary. Mr. Brcedin /ill have active charpe of the camaipn, with offices at room 22, Carona National hank buildinp, Columia. lie is editor of the Manning HerId and was formerly dean of Andcron collepe. A peneral executive committee, conistinp of one member from each ounty in the State, charped with the ;encral supervision of the entire cavnaipn, has also been selected. The ames will be announced later. The purpose of the campaipn is to rocure petitions from qualified votrs at every votinp precinct in South Carolina, addressed to the next penral assembly, askinp for the enactlent of a law which will authorize n election on Statewide nrohibition. o be held about the middle of Sepember, 1915, and also for the enactment of strinpent laws to enforce proibition if voted in.?The State. Columbia's Hip Fipht. The demand for law enforcement eems to be patherinp wcipht in all arts of South Carolina. Anderson; as been makinp a hard drive to put K.. 1.1;...1 i;. ? * ~e ? : ... ?/ii.iii uul. U1 UUSIIICSS inCl'e. 'lorence people made known where hey stood at a great mass meeting eld a week or two ago. Greenville ? iust emerging from a fight for a leaner city. In Lancaster an agitaion against illicit liquor selling is aking definite shape. Columbia ofliials are openly threatened with lie ecall unless they put a stop to the old and flagrant violation of State nd municipal ordinances in that comnunity. It will be of special interest to ratch the outcome of the movement 11 Columbia. The situation there, acording to the speakers who discussed natters with the Columbia citv conni! on Wednesday, is worse than it has ven been before?at least in recent imes. Mr. T. S. Bryan, of the R. L. fry an company, said that he had been n business in Columbia for *10 years nd that "conditions in respect of liqlor selling and gambling were worse ,t present than at any other time in lis experience, worse even than when pen saloons flourished." Mr. Bryan urther stated that "the descrcration f the Sabbath was such in Columbia ,t this ti ne that some men hardly ared to bo Been on Main street Sunlays." Several other speakers emphasized his same point of Sabbath desecraion, and the city council in the resoutions which it adopted at the close f the meeting instructed the chief of loliee to enforce rigidly not only the irdinanees against illicit liquor soling and gambling but all the ordilances. What will be the practical onsequences of such a policy, in the ivent it is put into operation, remain o be seen. The sentiment against dind tigers and gambling dens aptears to be quite formidable, despite he fact that the mayor of the citv i cas elected only a few months ago on in announced policy of regulation as mposed to exterminatoin of such daces. But will a "rigid enforcenent" of "all laws and ordinances" he racticable at tho nrosent timn (I... "apital City It is certainly a quesion. The Columbia movement has taken he form, apparently, of a straiirhtout no test against lawlessness and imnorality of all forms and descripions. To succeed it will have to revive the endorsement of the communty at larpre. It'is a l>iur programme f Columbia has really been as lethirgic repardin^ these matters as her iwn citizens say. The issue has been ucadened to take in much more than iquor selling. The moral temper of he people is about to be put to the est. They will not be only ones who vill be anxious as to the outcome.? >Jews & Courier. VION EY SHIPPED INTO NEW BANKS lillions Transferred Without a Hitch and Things Start For Business. Washington, Nov. 17.?How $170,00,000 in gold and lawful money /as shifted without a hitch yesterlay from the hanks which are memers of the federal reserve system to heir reserve banks was told in tolay*s reports to the federal reserve oard. Between $70,000,000 and $80,00,000 is yet to he transferred to neet present reserve requirements. The first day of the 12 reserve anks apparently was devoted largcy to the usual ceremonies accompanyig tht. launching of a new organizaion. A few million dollars of paper /as discounted. There is close to $300,000,000 of mergency currency and possibly 100,000,000 clearing bouse loan ccrificates outstanding or in the hands f banks and all secured by paper, /hich officials believe in most intances would be subject to rediscount y the reserve banks. It is pointed ut there is more currency in circuition than is needed and treasury fficials probably will use their inluence to avoid further issues. The State stands to lose about $1,00 by reason of the contract for hairmaking at the penitentiary, folDwing the closing of the hose mill. Oharlestonians are planning for a 100,000 steamship line. The details iave not been given out, hut the men lehind the proposition guarantee its uccess. PEACE NOW IN SIGHT IN WAR TORN MEXICO Messages From American Government A Rents in Southern Hepublic Says Cur ran/, a May Resign?Villa to Leave. Washington, Nov. lit.?Peace in Mexico, after weeks of dissention among the generals of the victorious constitutionalist army, at last seemed in sight todav, according to messages from United States government agents in the southern republic. Soon after American Consul Silliman telegraphed from Mexico City early in the day that hostilities between the forces of the Aguascalientes convention and those loyal to Gen. Carranza had ceased, came a message ; from Leon Canova, special agent of! the American government at Agua< calientes, stating that Carranza had telegraphed his intention of resigning. Secretary Bryan made public Canova's message, which was dated 7 n. j m. yesterday, but did not comment on ; it. Although the dispatch was delayed in reaching here, no word of a similar nature has come from other | suurces 111 Mexico. liolh May Leave. Previous messages, however, had described the efforts of the various generals to reach a compromise and officials tonight thought it not unlikely that in the interests of domestic peace, both (Jen. Carranza and Gen. Villa would leave Mexico while tin \ national government was being reor- i ganized. It was suggested in some quarters I that Eulalio Gutierrez, the new pro , visional president, might name Villa { to a foreign military mission, per-1 haps as an observer in the European' war. Carranza, it is believed, might j also leave the country. The White House todav made nub-; lie a message received by President Wilson from Provisional President | Gutierrez setting forth the latter'.* aim for reconstruction in Mexico. The message made no reference to recognition but was interpreted as a bid for it. BITSINESS IMPRESSION FAST DISAPPEARING Kedlield Says Winter No Longer Will Cast Its Shadow of Terror. Washington, Nov. 17.?All information reaching government depai"-' ments here indicates that the depn sion which overtook business ont< prises in the United States when the European war heiran is vanishing", i The hopeful outlook for America:); ventures was summarized today !v. Secretary Red field in a letter to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in which he declared: "l.et the worst he said and admitted that can be said respecting exist-! ing business difficulties "> America.! our condition still remains not only1 relatively bright, but rapidly improving and in many respects both prosperous and bright." " One can not but sympathizeswith the misfortunes that have bcfalli^iiv-* dustries in all the beligerent coun-1 tries," said Mr. Redfield, "and t herefore, be so much more grateful that no like fate threatens our own. No observer of the large movement of our commerce today fails to recognize the great improvement that has been made in business cond't'ons wiiinn iut- nisi tow wooks and which is s<;ll progressing. "The course of exchange has become more normal, Clearing house certificates are being retired. 1 irge sums of emergency notes have been withdrawn and with the openin. of the federal reserve system great additional supplies of loanable lands have become available. There no longer is serious concern over our financial future. "Cotton prices have begun to move and existing arrangements promise relief from the shadow which so long has hung over the South. "The coming winter throws no such dark shadow before as was feared a few weeks ago, and the statement is beginning to be heard here and there that goods can not be delivered as promptly as they are wanted because the factories are too busy. "We may be grateful, therefore, in a sense both calm and confident, not only that we are far better off than our suffering brethren beyond the sea, but that we are better placed our solves at home thar. we were :t few weeks since. We may be glad that the present is good; thankful that it is growing better and hopeful for the coming months." A woman's strength lies in her knowledge of a man's weakness. William Steel was given a verdict of $10,000 in Florence on Thursday against the Atlantic Coast Line for damages caused by the crushing of his hand and wrist while coupling WE.LL PUT NEW HANDLE EARS on your bicycle in a couple of minutes if your old ones have been put out of business. We'll do any other repairing your wheel needs just as promptly. We are readv for .my emergency in bicycle repairing. Have all the tools, all the facilities, ah the parts, and materials and plenty of skill. Keep our address in mind W. NEWELL SMITH AUTO COMPANY. UNION, S. C. I ..He IDem You are cor our Hot Soc IJJAY, JNOV. from 8 to 10 Music We will be this demonstr one of our ms Hot Drinks | time, also deu | ity of WHITr I will be glad t( J Phone 69 The Southern Railway Announces | Special Wound Trip Rates to Florence. 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