THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, BTTNDAT. MARCH 81, 1889. -JSB PROPHETS OF EVIL Tut to Inglorious Flight by a Few Figures From Official Sources. TRADE BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE Pittsburg's Business Standing Contrasted With That of Other Cities. LiST IEAE IS LAID IN THE SHADE Hope is an element of success in business as well as other affairs of life. Courage is another. Without these failure in almost any undertaking is almost certain. A 'whining, complaining man or woman is un fitted to assume the direction of any enter prise where important interests aro in volved. They are wet blankets, chilling and paralyzing the best efforts of braver people to remove tbo obstructions from the path of progress. They not only refuse to pnt their own shoulders to the wheel, but discourage others from doinjr so. The world is lull or such people, and the Injury they do to the communities in which they live is past computation. Occasionally one of these lugubrious charac ters, with a long face and mournful counten ance, looking very much as If he bad lost all of his friends and was anxiously awaiting his own apotheosis, is encountered in Pittsbure. It is true there is no room here for such persons, but they manage to get a foothold somehow, and sptnd their time In predicting awf nl things for everything and everybody. They can see no good in anything. Their stock argument is that tho country is going to tne dogs, and there is no use trying to save it; that business is flat and constantly growing flatter ana they gen erally wind up their haranguo by predicting a grand smashup, compared to which those of 1S37.1S37 and lS72wero mere trifles. This seems to be tho only pleasure they enjoy. "Why won't they look at tho facts and read the figures? Several of these gentlemen have devoted most of their time for the last two or three months in efforts to show that Pittsburg was far behind every other city in the country in the amount of business transacted. Every sensible man nho reads the daily papers and watches the course of the market5, knows that this is not true. What are the factsT The bank clearings printed every Monday in The Dispatch show that Pittsburg is seventh in the list of cities making returns, being ex ceeded only by New York, Bolton, Philadel phia, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, and is far ahead of Baltimore, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Louisville, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Montreal. What docs this prove Bank clearings tell no lies. There is no better busi ness barometer. When they are small, busi ness is light: when they aro large, business is beaTy. Of course they embody an element of speculation, but this cuts a small figure here. If it were eliminated from the returns of St. Louis, Chicago and ban Francisco it would give the Gas City a still higher standing. But this is not alb The weeping Jonahs re ferred to have been bold enough to assert that this year's business, so far, shows a f aUing off as compared with the same time last year. It is easy to make a statement, but sometimes hard to prove it. What do the figures show? Take March, the business roll of which was made up yesterday, as a sample of the three expired months of this year. During this month the clearings have been 12,735,139 9L This is a pretty big sum for one month, isn't it? It required a great deal of hustling to produce it But there it Is, as entered by Manager Chaplin on the books of the Clearing House. There is no dodging the fact. List year, as will be remombered, was one of tho most pros perous in the history of the city, and when the books were closed on the last day of January a red line was drawn around the clear ings to emphasize the fact that all previous records had been broken. This Mas pardonable pride under the circum stances. Not to go over each month of 18SS. What were the figures for March? Here they are: Clearings, S41.089.21S Si This shows a difference of $3,(35,022 96 in favor of the cur rent month. The gains for January and Febru ary were almost as great. Does this indicate that business is flat as a flounder? The man who would venture to say so would be valuable as a museum attraction. But there is additional proof that business is in a satisfactory condition. There is more money in tho savings banks than at the same time last year. Labor is more fully employed. There are no important strikes in progress. Public and private credit is good. Budding operations are, or soon will be, on a larger scale than ever before. Within the past two weeks 124 permits have been taken out for new structures of various kinds, which will cost, it is estimated, over 150,003. The most of these will be owned and occupied by working people. At this rate of Increase Pittsburg will soon divide the honor with Philadelphia as a city of homes. A large part of the property purchased this year has been paid for in cash. Several millions of money have been loaned on mort gage, but at least 75 per cent of it has been borne capital. Our people are not under the necessity of going into Eastern markets for money. ' . Stocks and oil were active the first part of the week, but who orders became scarce later on, and both closed dull and generally lower. Heal estate maintained its activity, th sales being numerous and some of them important. Values were steady. There was more inquiry for iron and a better feeling was developed, with greater firmness in prices. Produco was inovcrsupply and very dull. Drygoofig were active, one house reporting sales amounting to over S3, 000 in excess of the same week last year. Pittsburg is becoming an important center for .his trade. THE FAT0EITE8 1I0YE DOW. WcstlnElionie Electric and Philadelphia Gbi Close Dnll nnd IiOTvrr. There was very little animation In the stock market yesterday, everything being dnll, and, with two or three exceptions, ldwcr, the excep tions comprising La Noria, which Bold at 1. Switch and Signal, which went at Si and 23K Charticrs Gas, with sales at SI, against 50 bid the day before, and Central Traction, with 22 bid and X moro asked. It sold on Friday at 21J4- These stocks have been comparatively quiet for some time, and it is thought in some quarters that this is a favorable time to load up. The favorites of the weok. Electric and Philadelphia Gas, were for some cause ne glected, only fire shares of tbo former and 120 of the latter changing hands. lectnc dropped 4 and Philadelphia below Friday's quota tions. It should not be taken for granted that these stocks are intrinsically weaker nor that there is probability that they will yield to fur ther depression, although this may be the re sult of the downward movement; but rather that the orders lor them having been filled, speculators are desirous of testing their staying qualities on their own merits that is, without the help of outside influence before beginning a new deal. Should they hold their own under present conditions the probability of a further advance will be largely increased. Sales on 'Change during the week aggregated some 8.000 shares, of which Philadelphia Gas and Electric were the principal contributors. Private sales were also large. Bids and offers: EAMC STOCKS. EM. Asked. AllechenvNational Bank mn Bant of Pittsburg. 5 .... Commercial National Bank .. 100 Diamond atlonal BjnU. 1W .... nxchsnze Satlonal Bank.......... Mjf Farmers' Deposit Aational Bank 400 K?jfatlonalBank. PlttsburR 170 Fourth National Bank 1-4 .... Firth Avenue Wank .... 40 Freehold Bnk....A"j;- 6- Fidelity Title and Trust Co 125 .... Iron CUT Satlonal Bank.. .91 Iron and Glass Uollsr Savin Bank ..128 Xevstone Bank of I'lttsbcrir 57if .... Marine National Bank..... 58 60 Mechanics' National BCnk..............l05 Mer. and Manufacturers Nat. Bank... BUf .... Metropolitan National Bank 93 Odd lellows Bavlnes Bank 65 70 Pittsburg National Bank Coiuinerce....Z3 .... Pitt.burg UanK rbrSavlngs 210 People's National Bank JOf Third National Bank C Tradesmen's National Bank. -211 fcecond National Bank, Allegheny 1ft) M0 GAS STOCKS. Allegheny Gas Co. (lllnm.) 33 J'lttsburjt Uas Co. (Ilium.) fcoathslde Gas Co. (lllnm.) 36 UndRetrater Gas Co.. 42 Charttera Valley Gas Co MM 61 AtnrAl .V".,!o- r W- Va E7H 68 Ohio Valley Gas Co 40 19 MM S3M 3M 90 40 22" o" si 67M 49 100 125 37 S3 13 IK 15 3 lax . 64 155 $ , 70 3 ntSCBASCE STOCKS. Artisans' Insurance Boatman's Insurance. ........ ; Ben Franklin 1v tnsnmnrA ....... ....... 60 40 45" 40 KM S3 41 60 Citizens Insurance Co Humboldt Insurance 40 national insurance Pennsylvania Insnrance Pittsburg Insurance Union Insurance RAILROAD STOCKS. Ashtabula and Pittsburg.. 28 Tittchiirf.nd ConncllsTllle.. ........... ... 30 25 Pitts., McK. A lough. K. B, Co Pitts., Cln. A St. LmuIs Pittsburg and Western Railroad Co.... FlttBburgand Western preierred n 16 Ex-div. The sales were 20 shares of Philadelphia Gas at 3 100at3S. 5 Electric at 61& loO La Nona at 1 and 125 at 1. After call 150 shares of Switch and Signal sold at 23K and 10 shares of Chartiers Gas at 51. Messrs. Robinson Bros, report the sale of S19.U00 McKeesport and Bellvernon Railroad 0 per cent bonds at $105 and interest. At New York esterday the total sales of stocks were 14151 shares, includine: Atchi son, 27,115; Delaware, Lackawanna -and West ern, 12.000: Lake Shore, 2.915; Louisville and Nashville. 0,000; Missouri Pacific 2.7C0; North western, 6,055; New Jersey Central, 1,825; Northern Pacific preferred. 1,505; Reading, 12, 800; Richmond and West Point 1,000; St. Paul, 3,320; Union Pacific, 19,200: Western Union, 2,200. ENCOURAGING FIGURES. March Nearly Nine millions Ahead of Same Time Last Tear. . The local money market shows a slow but steady improvement. Tue usual expansion in business circles at Cilsseisonof the year, to gether with April settlements, has caused a better demand for fundi, and resulted in a slight appreciation in rates. The outgo of cur rency the past week was almost equal to the In come. There was a fair demand for discounts yesterday, while checking and depositing were quite active. Tho clearing house report'was quite satisfactory, indicating that general trade is in a prosperous condition, closing up the first quarter of the year with a large increase over 1SSS. Exchanges u I 1,864,231 01 Balances 317,640 49 Exchanges for the week 12,745,87923 Balances for the week 2,364,483 84 Exchanges, dailr average -... 2,124,313 21 ExchangesweekoriSSs 8,674,878 24 Balances week of 1SS3 1,385.22 42 Exchanges for the current month.... 52,735, 1J3 91 Balances for current month H, 365,213 91 Exchanges March, 1SS8 44,099.216 85 Total exchanges to date, 1S39 153,319.207 63 Total exchanges to date. 18SS , 139,598,465 87 Gain, l&S0Terl8S3. to date 13,720,741 78 Money on call at New York yesterday was easv at per cent Pnmo mercantile paper, 4K6 Sterling exchange dull but firm at $1 bo' for 00-day bills and H SS for demand. The weekly statements of the New York banks, issned yesterday, shows the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $1,243,800; loans, decrease, (288,200; fcccie. decrease, 1,697,000; legal tenders, decrease, $443,300; deposits, de crease, 53,563,000; circulation, increase, $15,700. The banks now hold $5,150,025 in excess of tho 25 per cent rule. The exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to $1,514,760, of which $718,800 was in gold and $295,900 silver. All the silver and $190,000 gold went to Europe, and $522,800 in gold went to South America. The imports of specie for the week amounted to $72,116. of which $35,050 was in gold and $37,096 silver. !ib 19 eskiuiaieu ai iuu treasury jjepariment that there has been a decrease of $12,000,009 in the public debt since March 1. Government Bonds. Closing quotations in Now York furnished The Dispatch by Robinson Bros.. Wood street Local dealers charge a commission of an eighth on small lots: U. 8. 48. reg 108 laiOSlf U. 8. 45. coups 108 aiOSM U.S. 4s, rcg .(., ;..12Sj4!al29 U. a. 4S, coups .).. .i..,129i180 Bid. Currency, 6 per cent 1895 reg 120 Currency, 6percent 1895 reg. 121 Currency, 6 per cent lS97reg 126 Currency, 0 per cent, 1883 rcg. lajf Currency, percent 1839 reg. 132 Sales to-day of 110,800 reg. 4s at 12SJ(. l New York Clearings to-day. $119,254,63; balances, $6,232,212. For the week Clearings. $612,426,2S5; balances, $35,335,850. BOSTON-Clearings to-day, $15,073,606; bal nces, $1,621,519. Money, 2 per cent Baltimore Clearings to-day, $1,639,710; bal ances, $255,213. . Philadelphia Clcanngs to-day, $13,847, 312; balances. $1,723,559. For the weeK ended to-dav the clearings were $67,772,777; balances, $10,657,459. . . , St. Loins Clearings to-day, $2,556,230; bal ances. $512,629. For this week Clearings, $17, 107,101; balances. $3,611,995. For lat week cleanngs, $18,504,251; balances, $3,777,855, For corresponding wfiek last year Clearings, $14, 941,007; balances, $2,958,335. For this month Cleanngs. $79,774,733; balances, $14,691,250. For March, 18S8 Clearings, $75,136,605; balances, $14,757,499. Chicago Money unchanged. Bank clear ings, $S,OS0,000. THE SITUATION IN OIL. Bearish Field News Increased New Pro duction for Dlarch Extreme Views. There was nothing in the oil market yester day to dazzle either dealers or outsiders. It lacked vim from start to finish, being so life less at the close that the boys put in part of the time singing snatches of popular airs. It opened at 90f, held at that figure for some time, and about 11 o'clock sold up to 90. It then weakened and closed at 90 the opening price. The fluctuations were too few and nar row to afford even scalpers an opportunity to turnau honest pen ny. The market was held up more to tide over the bearish news, probably, than anything else. The monthly report of field operations, due to morrow, will show, it was stated, a larger new production than for any previous month since tho shutdown began. From tho best informa tion obtainable the new production for March will be between 4,000 and 6.000 barrels, while tho reduction of stocks will fall below that of Febrnarv. The McKeown well was reported making 60 barrels an hour. The output of tho Mashey well was reported on Friday as 450 barrels. It should have been 150. Sixty cent oil was talked of after the close by some whose wish was father to tho thought Tho Derrick correspondent, Mr. Harrison, offered to bet it would not fall below SO. These aro the bearish influences which at present dominate the market On the other hand, a redaction of stocks is steaddy going on, certificates are becoming scarcer, and the for eign demand is increasing. New uses for oil are also being developed. Arguing from these facts, the bulls claim that the bottom has been reached, and that the next movement will be In the direction of an advance. Striking an average between these two extremes, it is pretty safe to say there will be no material change in the situation for some time. That's the way it looks to an outsider. A. B. McCJrew & Co. quote puts, 90; calls, 91. The following table, correcied by Lie Witt D1I worth, broker In petroleum, etc.. corner Fifth avenue and Wood street Pittsburg, shows the order of fluctuations, etc. 1 renmtlvanta Gas Co Philadelphia Co 1'lneltun Westmoreland and Cambria Wheeling Gas Co JII6CELLAXEOUS STOCKS. Central Traction Citizens' Traction Pittsburg Traction Pleasant Valley Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester. N. Y. &C. Uas Coal Co Ewalt (Forty-third street) Northside Bridge Co Union Bridge l.i Norla Sllnlnc Co Westlnehouse ilectric. Union Switch and hlgnal Co W'estlnrhonse Air Brake Co Westlnghouse Brake Co.. Mm Pittsburg Plate Glass Company. Columbia Oil Co Washington Oil Co Time. Bid. Ask. Time. Bid. ABk. Opened MM Sales 11:15 P. M.. 005 90K 10:15 A. H.... MH 'J 11:30 P. St.... 90V 90K 10:30 A. K.... S0H 90)4 11:45 r. II.... VOfe BOA 10:45 A. .. VOX O04 viaa ., BOH .... llrOOA.M.... (Oh wa Closed. ...... flnjnfti1- QOUl: hlffhp.e. nnX'i. lmn. onLr.. closed, SOMc Barrels. DtUy runs 03.2)3 ATerageruns 47,040 liauysblnmenu . 68 W7 Average shipments 72.422 Ball? charters 42.003 Average charters . 40,871 Clearances .........2, 493,000 ew York closed si 0Uo. Oil City closed al SOSjc Bradiora ciosea at Soic lew VorK. rettned. 7o. London, renned. 54. Antwerp, reflneo. IStfr. A GOOD FINISH. The Week Wound Up With Several Impor tant Reel Estate Deal. S. J. Fleming, 147 Fourth avenne, sold a farm of 133 acres, with improvements, in Beaver county, for $7.G80; also sold brick bouse of eight rooms, with lot 21x120, on Carson street, South side, for $8,000. and placed mortgages lor $950 and JL600 on city property at 6 per cent for four years. Ho also sold lot 25x100, Shadyside, adjoining the Watterson property, for$k000, or $40 per foot front He also sold a property at Shadyside, lot 43x120, with seven-roomed frame house, for $5,350. Alies & Bailey, 164 Fourth avenue, sold three mortgages, one for 51,000 on property in the Thirty-first ward, at 6 per cent for three years, "one for $100 at Pcrrysville, at 6 per cent for five years, and one for $500 in the Thirty-second ward, at 6 per cent for three years. John F. Baxter sold lot No. 21, Bank of Com merce addition extended. Brushton station, tnangle shaped lot, 850x635x110 feet, to H. K. Foster, for S2.000. L. O, Frazier, corner Forty-flfth and Butler stroets, sold for tho Gross estate lot 60x120 feet, situate on the north side of Liberty avenue, Twentieth ward, to Mrs. Mary G. Carr for $3,000, and placed a $1,100 mortgage on Twen tieth ward property for three years at 6 per cent Ewing & Byers, 107Federal street, Allegheny, placed a mortgage of $3,000 on Fourth ward property, Allegheny, for one year at 6 per cent Also one of $b00 on Sixth ward property, Alle gheny, for fivo years at 6 per cent HOMES FOE THE FE0PLE. Brick, Lumber nnd Klortnr Flying About In All Directions. Last week was a busy ono in building cir cles, permits for IS houses being issned by In spector Frank. The estimated cost of these new homes for the people is $72,660. The fol lowing is the list: Mrs. Mary Sarimer, brick two-story and attic, 20x32 feet, on Sydney, between Twenty third and Twenty-fourth streets. W. G. Conrad, frame one' and one-half story dwelling, 16x32 feet, on Berg streot, be tween Sterling and Property line. Mary Rcddlngton, frame two-story dwelling, 16x18 feet, on Berg street, between Sterling and Property line. Martin Kakanski, frame two-story dwelling, 17x36 feet, on Kosciuski, between Josephine and Lebanon streets. Samuel Boseman, frame additional dwell ing, 20x13 feet, on Grace street, near Lowen street Mrs. A. S. Murray, brick two-story dwelling, 14x31 feet on Ross street, between Second and Third avenues. Simon Mozersky. brick three-story dwelling, 24x60 feet, on Franklin street, between Logan and Townsend. R, W. A Simmons, two brick two-story dwellings. 24x34 feet on Crawford street, be tween Clark and Reed streets. Robert E. S. Ward, brick one-story storage room, 20x40 feet ou Robert street, between Center and Reed streets. Martin Lavm, frame one-story shop, 15x13 feet, on Kirkpatrick, between Center and Reed streets. John Griffith, frame one-story dwelling, 24x 16 feet, on the corner of Thirty-third and Ridge streets. Mrs. John Bashaw, frame two-story and mansard, 17x32 feet, on Maurice street, between Second and Forbes avenue. Aueust Miller, two frame two-story dwell ings, 30x32 feet, on rear of Penn avenue, near Main street John F. Beighley, frame two-story, 20x28 feet. Rural avenue, between Beatty and Euclid. Mooney & Herron, frame two-story dwelling, 21 ft 6 in. by 42 feet on Clayburn street, be tween Graham and Noble. W. R.4EG. Mooney, two brick two-story dwellings. 22x44 feet each, on Westminster, be tween Lilac and Aiken streets. Samuel Chadwick, frame addition one-story blacksmith shop, 16x20 feet, On Lincoln avenue, near Lemington avenue. George Sies. frame and glass one-story copy ing room, 10x20 feet, on rear of 10 and 12 Sixth street, between Penn and Dnquense way. Rev. C. Maurice, frame one-story dwelling, 24x19 feet on Thirty-seventh street, between Butler and Bank streets. Charles P. Graff, frame one-story kitchen, 10x14 feet, on Miller street, between Reed and Colwell. Mary Keating, frame two-Btory and basement dwelling, 17x18 feet on Mary street, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second. Joseph Keeling, brick two-story and attio dwelling, 42x33 leet, on Washington, between Washington and Sharon. H. W. Wilker, frame one-story kitchen, 6x10 feet on Elm street, betweed Franklin and Fifth. James Little, frame one-story office, 14x20 feet, on Wylie avenue, corner Vine street, Eighth ward. t August Walker, frame two-story dwelling, 18x18 feet, on Kearsaree street between Syca more street and Grandview avenue. George Fox, two brick two-story dwellings, 27x32 feet on Forty-second street, between North and Willow. Albert Detliug, frame two-story stable, 26x 13 feet on Cedar, bet een Penn and Liberty streets. Mrs. McBride, frame two-Btory dwelling, 20 x30 feet, on Maple avenue, corner Chestnut alley. Mrs. Anna Hopkins, frame two-story dwell ing, 16x30 feet, on Brownsville avenue. Thirty first ward. James O'Neill, frame two-story and mansard dwelling, 18x32 feet, on. Homo street, between Fifty-second and McCandless. Jacob Wurthuer, frame two-story dwelling, 12x16 feet on Seventeenth street, Twenty eighth ward. Jos. A. Crozier, brick two-story and mansard, 21x33 feet on Liberty street near Main street Louis Mosbrook, frame tno-story dwelling, 20x15 feet, on Maple avenne, between Excelsior and Washington streets. August Wiedenmyer, frame two-story, 20x30 feet, on Knox avenue, between Arbngton and city line. W. S. Mellon, two frame two-story dwellings, 18Kx32 feet, on Walnut street, between O'Hara and Walnut streets. George Lang, frame two-story dwelling. 17x31 feet, on Eccles street near Conway street Charles F. Fritz, frame two-storv dwelling, 17x16 feet, on Hartford, between Brownsville avenue and Birmingham road. Samuel Beebe, frame two-story dwelling, 17x 82 feet, on Shelly street. John Hughe!, two frame two-story dwellings, 82x30 feet, on Keystone street, near Staunton avenue. Patrick Nestor, frame story dwelling, 12x12 feet, on the Hillside, between Carson and Grandview avenue. Mcliill. Manchester & Co., brick one-story office, 10x29 feet, on Smallman street between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets. Rev. J. Holllday, three brick two-story dwell ings, 40x28 feet, on Wyllo avenue, between Rob erts and Granville streets. William Eberlie, brick two-story and attic dwelllntr, 20x31 feet, on Dinwiddle street, be tween Rose and Reed streets. J. R. NlPbanm, brick two-story and mansard dwell ing, 24x32 feet on corner Hazel and Elm streets. J. R. Voskamp, brick two-story and mansard dwelling, 23x18 feet on Moultrie street, between Fifth avenue and Ann street Mrs. E. F. Bartley, two brick two-storv and mansard dwellings, 25x36 feet, on Bedford street nearSomers. G. W. FneseL two brick two-story and man sard dwellings, 25x36 feet, on Bedford avenue, near Homers. GETTING ON THEIR FEET. Stocks Continue Their TJpvrnrd Wnrch Not withstanding Sharp Drive by tho Bears All of the Leaders Fractionally Ilicher Bonds Quiet. New Ydsx, March SO. The reaction from the extreme depression of tho past few days, which made some headway yesterday, was con tinued to-day, and while there was a sharp drive mado at the stocks which have been the most prominent objects of attack, the effect produced was only temporary, and the final fig ures this afternoon show fractional gains all over tho list The temper of the room this morning was somewhat mixed, but there was a disposition among the smaller shorts especial ly to cover their outstanding contracts, and, with some foreign purchases, the opening was made at advances which in the general list ex tended to KPer cent, while the Improvement in Atchison was 1 per cent The bears, however, renewed their tactics of yesterday, and a sharp drive was made at all tho stocks which were prominently weak yes terday, and in a quarter of an hour the lowest prices of the day were reached all over the list Atchison dropped 1, Lackawanna and New England IK. and others fractional amounts, with Chicago Gas. Union Pacific, Rock Island, Burlington, Missouri Pacific and Jersey Central most prominent. The stubborn resistance met with atthe concession, however, caused an abandonment of the demonstration, and covering was freely indulged In after that time, the rally being almost as sharp as tho decline. Louisville and Nashville proved to be the Strong point on the list, and rose 1 per cent, without sharing in the early decline. There was but little further change In the market, though there was some reaction toward 11 o'clock, but the upward movement was soon resumed through New England, which became very prominent Union Pacific and Atchison again were forced off to the neighborhood of the low est figures. After this flurry was over the Im provement was continuous until the close, which was active and strong at about the best prices of the day, notwithstanding the fact that the bank statement again showed a marked de crease in the surplus reserve. Almost the en tire list is fractionally higher, but Louisville and Nashville andSan Francisco preferred rose 1 per cent each. Kallroad bonds were again quiet and without special feature of any kind, and while the mar ket was generally firm in tone, the changes in quotations were in but few cases for more than small fractions, and these were vorv evenly di vided between gains anil losses. The sales of all issues acgregated $C33.X). The sales of bonds for the week were $7,261,000, against $7,403,000 for last week. The following table snnws tne prices of active stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Corrected dallj for The Dispatmi by Whit ney & Stephenson, members of New York Stock Exchange, 57 Fourth avenue: Clos- ' l ' ' Open- High- Low- ing Ing. est. est Bids. Cotton Oil - W - 65,1, Atcn.. Top. &. F.... 41,f 41K canaaian racinc Canada Southern.! 6lJa Central I'aclflc. 34 Chesapeake A Ohio.... Hit C, Bur. ft Qulncy....,9I C, Mil. St faul.... 62K c; iui.&st.j?.. pr.f..iooa C, JtOCKl. &1. SO C, bt. Li. & Pitts a, st Lh& Pitts, pt c,at.i..M.&o soh c, st. r.,M.&o pr. .. . C& Northwestern. ...losjj CS .Northwestern, pf.lM C. C. C. &!.. Col. Coal & Iron SOU Col. Hocking Val Dei., L. &W tsstf Del. & Unison Denver &KI0U .... Denver Bio U., pr... 41 E.T., Va.Ha. E.T.,Va, &Oa.. lstpf .... E. T., Va. & Ga. 2d pf. .... Illinois Central Lake Etle.fc Western.. 1SX Lake Erie A West pr.. .... Lake Shore & M. S.....I01 Louisville & Nashville. 61 Michigan Central S3 Mobiles; Ohio Mo., K. ATcxas 12 Missouri Pacific 6S N. "V.. L. E. & W 27X N. r., L. E. W.pref .... N. Y., C. ASUlt 4 N. X., C St. L. pf. N.Y.. O. &St.L.2dpf .... N. Y&N. E 43K N. r., O. W 16J Norfolk ft Western Norfolk ft Western, pf 49X 62 34 16W rSi 100K 00,'i ', 31 iraJi " ! 17 161'si 62X 16M 12 65H1 21H 68 & 27 i 17 C3 40 it 49Jf 25 tan 20 47 S9, 23 43H 179,4 25X 33 sun S3 21 87 107S 185 69H 12!4 2H 84 64X 43X 49Js " 59kj 20 32, " i; 93" A oruiern-jraciuc. Northern Pacific prer. S9H Ohio Mississippi... . 20j Oregon Improvement .... Oregon Transcon S2H Peo. Deo. & Evans I'hlladel. ft Beading.. 437f Pullman Palace Car Richmond ft W. P. T.. 2554 Bt. Paul ft Duluth St. Panl ft Dnluth pf. St P., Minn. Asian... 83X StL. A San Fran St. L. ft San Fran pr.. SSU St. L. ft San F.lst pf. Texas Pacific 18U Union Pacific 6954 Wabash Wabash preferred Western Union S3 Wheeling ft L. E (HX Ex-dividend. 20X 32Ji 43), 23 93), M 18J, MH S3K MX S8 MABEETS BY WIEE. Wbcnt Slightly Lower for All the Early months Corn Higher and Oats Strong or Bog iProdacU Unsettled but Close Steady. Chicago In wheat to-day a quiet and easier feeling existed. The only feature in the market was the rather free selling of May wheat, partly on stop orders. Trading was fight at best from all sources. May opened about the same as yesterday's, closing to lo higher, declined to a point 2Kc, and closed about 2c lower. July sympathized with the weakness in May, and declined Jic, closing a lower than yesterday. There was no encour agement in outside market advices. Home markets were weaker. Lower barometer gave indications of a change in the weather, possibly snow or rain, and this in duced selling of tho new crop futures, and increased tho weakness of some. Corn was quiet and steady early, and moder ately active and firmer later. Opening sales were at about the close of yesterday, and steady for a time. Operators who usually trade in wheat then came into tho pit and pur chased fair quantities and local shorts In cov ering, bid the market up and prices advanced He, reacted HKC. ruled steady, closing a shade higher than yesterday. Oats were stronger and yi&ifi higher early, but outside prices were not maintained until the close. Trading was fairly active in mess pork. Opening sales were made at a slight advance, but the offerings were slightly increased and ? rices receded 1517o. Later prices rallied K20c. but settled back again 1215c and closed steady. A comparatively light trade was reported In lard and the feeling was easier. Trading In short ribs was only fair and ranges slight Prices were reduced slightly, but the market was firm at the reduction. The leading futures ranged as follows: WHEAT-No. 2 May. Jl 041 051 01X 1 013: June. 9SQ9SE!95?ifiJ54c: Julv. 8Sfctf8S HtSO'asyic; :: jear, bOWSOK797S?ic 2 May. 35,c; June, Sc uuiin nu. 85?4c;July,3&V, OATS No. 2 Mav, 2fic; 5K2525 ;jsc( juiyi?swaj?i. Mess Pork, per bbk Mav, $1287V12 90 iz iusaiz iim June, J12 77K12 60; July, Auenst $7 17K. 8R0M P.rna, per 100 Bs. May, S3 S26! 6 S25 27MS0 27K; June. $8 358 406 8o C 56; July S6 45(28 4oG 37K 6 40. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour quiet and steady; No. 2 spring wheat Jl 001 00k; No. 3 spring wheat 60c; No. 2 red, Jl 001 OtftJ. No. 2 corn. 234c No. 2 oats, 25Vc No. 2 rye. 43c. No. 2 barley, nominal. No. 1 flax seed, fl 5 Prime timothy seed. Jl 281 30. Mess pork, per barrel, S12 E012 85. Lard, per 1001b. S700S7 0214. Short ribs sides (loose). tO 250 SO. Dry salted shoulders (boxed). $5 60 5 75. Short clear Bides (boxed), 86 628 75. Sugars unchanged. Receipts Flour, 7,000 bar rels; wheat, 23,000 bushels: corn, 103,000 bushels: oats. 101,000 bushels: rye, 2,000 bushels: barley, 37,000 bushels. Shipments Flour, 8,000 barrels: wheat 3i,000bushels; com. C2, COO bush els; oats, 97,000 bushels; rye, 2,000 bushels; bar ley. 18,000 bushels. On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was easy and unchanged. Eggs weak atlOKc. BEITISH IRON. A Fair Amount of Bnstness Doing and Prices Steady to Firm. Special Bcport by Cable for the American Manu facturer. Loudon; March 23. Scotch Fig A, good business is doing and the market continues firm. No. IColtness 66s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Summerlee E5s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Gartsherrie 52s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. lLangloan 55s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Cambroe 40s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. IShotts 63s. Go. f. o. b. Glasgow No. lGlengarnock.... 60s. Cd. atArdrossan. No. 1 Dalmellington ..Aon. 6d. at Ardrossan. No. 1 Eglinton 44s. bd. at Ardrossan. Bessemer Pig Strong prices and market continues aetive. West Coast brands quoted at 4Ss 6d for Nns. 1, 2, 3, f. o. b. shipping point Middlesbrough Pig Market active and pi ices firm. Good brands quoted at 37s. 9d. for No. a .o.b. Spiegololsen Firm market and demand fair. English 20 per cent quoted at 60s. f. o. b. at works Steel Rails This market holds firm, with good business. Standard sections quoted at 4 7s. fid. f. o. b. shipping point Steel Blooms Barelv steady market trade moderate. Bessemer 7x7 quoted 3 17s. 6d. I, o. b. shipp.ng point Steel Billets Trade is merely fair, but mar ket is steady. Bessemer (sizo 2Kx2) quoted at 1 5s. f. o. b. shipping point Steel Slabs This market is held steady as a fair amount of business is doing. Ordinary sizes quoted at 4 0s. Od. f. o. b. shipping point Crop Ends The demand has improved and prices are held firmlv. Run of the mill quoted at 2 12s. Gd. f. o. b. shipping point Steel Wire Rods No material change slnco last week. Mild steel. N o. 0, quoted at 5 17s. 6d. f. o. b. shipping port. Old Rails Dull marketandprlcesuncbanged. Tees quoted at 3 5s. Od. and double heads at 3 12s.-Od. c i. New York. Scrap Iron No change in prices; market In active. Heavy wrought quoted at 2 6s. Od. f. o. b. shipping points. Manufactured Iron Market continues active and strong. Stafford, ord. markedbars(f.o.b.L'pool)8 2s 6d " common bars 0 0s0d512sGd " hlk. sheet singles 0 Os 01? 712s 6d Welshbars,f. 0. b. Wales... 6 6s 0d 0 OsOd Steamer Freights Glasgow to New York, 4s. Od. Liverpool to New York. 9s. Od.; LIY STOCK MAKEET& Condition of tbo Market at the Cast Liberty Stock Ynrds. OFFICE OF PlTTSBUEO DISPATCH, SATUEDAT. March 30, 1889. J CATTLE Receipts. 4S0 head: shipments, 360 bead. Market, nothing doing; all through Con signments. No cattle shipped to New York to day. Hoos Receipts. 2,600 head: shipments. 2,700 head. Market active; all grades selling at 85 15. Four cars of hogs shipped to New York to day. SHEEr Receipts, 1,000 bead: shipments, 600 head. Market fair at unchanged prices. BOSTON ST0UKS. Tbo Starket Closed Wonk far Bonds, but Steady on Stocks. Boston, March SO. For bonds of the Atchi son family this was the worst morning of the year. Atchison stock had a trifle more than held its own, while the rest of the stocks are rather lower or unchanged. At the close the market was weak for bonds and steady for StOCKS. Atch. &Tdp..lst7s. 117 A.4T. Land tir't7s. 103 Rutland preferred.. S5 AllouezM'xCo. (new)90 Calumet ft Hecta.,.,2a CatalDa lo Franklin KH Huron 2 AtCh. 4 'lop. K. K... 41 Boston ft Maine 169 C. B. ftU 91 Clan. San. ft Cleve. 24 Eastern It it...... .. SI Flint rere.81 27 Flint JU'ereM. pfd. 96 Little It ft Ft. 3. 7s. 10O M, C, IstMort. bds. 67K .-1. ftNewEns... 42 N. V.ftNrwEng 7S.1ICJJ Ogd.ftL.Cham,com.' 6 Osceola UH rewaDio (newj...... d Hell Telephone 223 BoslonLand 6K Water Bower 6 Tamarack. 120 san Diego 22 ASKING $50,000 FOE AN ARM. Will Dr. Joseph Dickson Appear This Time In an Important Amputation Suit? Sov eral Bits of Litigation. Messrs. Moore and McGlrr yejterday filed a second suit In the case of Mary Carroll against Dr. J. Gay McCandless for damages for alleged improper treatment of an injured arm, rendering amputation necessary. Al the trial of the first case the plaintiff tookanonsnit as Judge Slagle was charg ing the jury, for the reason, it was stated, that they were unable to make ont their case without the testimony of Dr. Joseph Dickson, who had assisted in amputating the arm. Dr. Dickson did not appear, and an attachment had been issued for him, but tho orBcers failed to find him. The amount of damages claimed is $50,000. Monday's Trial Lists. Common Pleas No. 1 Kunkle-"vr Gillig, ad ministrator; First National Bank of Mercer vs Montgomery; Knapp vs Bplehe; Harden vs Holland; Natcher, for use, vs Scalfe Foundry Comnany; McGeary vs McGeary; Matson vs Balp'h; Silat et al vs Tenneyotal; Butler vs McGulre; Wellington vs Wood, garnishee; Janeck vs Shoenberger & Co.; Will iams vs McCracken et al; Wallace vs Cham bers; Hough &Co. vs McFall; McDermottvs Glass et al. Common Pleas No. 2 Argument list Criminal Court Commonwealth vs Joseph Kirsch, Michael Hohan, B. Kenyon, Hattle Raymond alias Sbafer, Timothy Healey, James McBratney alias Green, William Lamb, Will iam Armstrong, John Shlndehette, Albert. Moorbead alias Wood, Frank Jefferson, Mary Manldn. Monday's Andlt List. Estate of Accountant Charles A. Black Bose A. Black. Maud I. Kay et al Peter Ivory. Mary iluerkle Kev. S. Q. Molllnger. Samuel a. It. Love ...J. L. Orr. Albert May Marietta May. David Auld Alex. 1. Foster. tiustav Schlelter Joseph Abel. Mary Evan Fidelity Title ft Trust Co. Wm. Evans Same. Wm. Wentz George T. Hetzeb Lines From Lecal Quarters. James McLabex and H. L. Christy were ad mitted to the bar yesterday. A charter was granted yesterday to the German Evangelical Lutheran St Andrew's congregation. Judge jIagee yesterday appointed George Cochran and James Hollis auditors of Beltz hoover borongh in place of Georce Sellars and W. B. F. Brown, who were elected in February but resigned. Mrs. Louisa J. BEcnTOLD yesterday filed an application for the transfer of the liquor license issued to her husband, Egidins S. Bechtold, of No. 74 Federal street Allegheny, who died recently. April 9 was fixed for a hearing before Judge Magee. A charter for the Burns Copper Welding Company was filed in the Recorder's office yes terday. The capital stock of the company Is 31,000. divided into 20 Shares of $50 each. The directors are W. J. McKeever, P. L. Bonnen, F. D. Morris and James Burns. 12? THE inquest on the sanity of George L. Struble, of Port Perry, held before Judgo Ewing, tho jury yesterday found Struble to bo of unsound mind. The proceedings were in stituted by Struble's cbildren.who alleged that ho was squandering his property.. The hearing in the habeas corpus proceed ings to secure the release of Margaret Besen. dorf, better known as Daisy Hutchinson, from tho St Francis Hospital has been postponed until April 13, pending a decision in the lunicy proceedings before Commissioner Shoemaker. Jaxes M. Peebles, of McKeesport, was registered in the Prothonotary's office yester day as a practicing physician. Dr. Peebles was United States Consul to Turkey and Asia during President Grant's administration and was located at Turbo sond, on the Black Sea. He removed from Hammondton, N. J., to Mc Keesport Articles of association were filed yester day in the Recorder's ofilce for the Pittsburg Homestead Co-operative Association, formed for the purpose of buying and holding real estate, etc. The incorporators are J. F. Gels enhamer, Theodore Doerfllngcr, John W. Bell, Morton Hunter and J. E. McCrickart The capital stock of tho company is 10,000. W. G. Scott yesterday filed his affidavit of defenseln the suit for damages brought against him by Chambers & Coale, who alleged that he assigned to them contracts for f nrnisblng ties to the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Rail road and the Pennsylvania Company, and then did not live un to his agreements. Scott de nies that be sold or assigned to Chambers & Coale the contracts, for the reason that the railroad companies would not agree to such a transfer. Ik the Criminal Court yesterday T. D. and L. H. Cort, who were tried for selling liquor to minors, were found not guilty, but ordered to pay the costs. Sentence was suspended upon payment of costs in the cases of John Kehoe, John Kemp and James Durkln, convicted of larceny, and Henry Braun, convicted of re ceiving stolen goods. An order was mado by Judco Magee, fixing the ball of. James Irwin, held by tho Coroner for tho killing of William Rogan, who was injured In tho Harrison City gas explosion, at $3,000. H. C. Frick and W. F. Richmond went his security. LATE NEWS IN BEIEF. An excursion train from Southnort for London, loaded with persons on their way to witness the Cambridge-Oxford boat race, yes terday, was derailed at Penlstone and wrecked. One person was killed and 14 others were seri ously hurt The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that John liorsey, the Chicago and Atlantic engineer who ran his locomotive into a passen ger train at Koutz last October, and killed one of the passengers, besides injuring several otbers. must be tried on tho charge of man slaughter. R. V. Belt who was recently confirmed as Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs, yes terday took tho oath of office, but he will re main in his present position as Chief of the In dian Division until hissneccssor becomes some what familiar with his new duties. Mr. Harry C. Tillman, of Detroit, has been appointed to the place, but it is not certain that be will ac cept At about 1 o'clock yesterday morning the Methodist parsonage at Sydenham, Ont, oc cupied by Rev. R. Stilwell. was shattered by dynamite, which it is supposed Was placed on the floor of the veranda. The doors were blown off, the glass in tho windows broken, and the house otherwise damaged. None of the occu pants were hurt There is no cluo to the per petrators of the deed. The report of the bookkeeping expert who has been at work overhauling the books of ex County Treasurer Cole, of Marshall. 111., shows that for the years 18S3 aud 18S4, Mr. Cole was short the sum of 56,000. Cole's bondsmen are considerably worked up over the apparent shortage. The investigation will be continued to cover the two remaining years. Mr. Cole was until recently Mayor of the city, resigning his ofilce about a month ago. Advices from Myrtle, Neb., state that on Wednesday nighty James Clark, a prominent citizen, shot and killed a young man named James Byrnes, who had been paying attentions to Clark's daughter. Byrnes bad been forbid den the house, but the girl continued to meet him, and Wednesday evening went riding with bim. When Clark learned it be mounted his horse and followed, and on coming up with tho couple shot Symes. Clark has been arrested. At 11:30 Friday nleht a terrible explosion occurred in a house in Holbrook, .Mass., occupied among others, by ten non-union Suedes em ployed at the shoe factory of Kdmund White since tho last strike. The house was complete ly wrecked, but strange to say, no one uas In jured. Everything goes to prove that a dyna mite bomb was thrown through the cellar win dow. The town is in a great staff of excite ment Mrs. Lillla Kemmler, the woman assaulted with a hatchet by her husband, William K. Kemmler. in Buffalo, Friday, died at tho hos pital at 12X0 yesterdasmornlng. She never re gained consciousness! The prisoner Says she was not bis wife, and that he eloped with her from Philadelphia a year and a halt ago. He had been living under the name of John Hort, but says bis right name Is Kemmler. He will give no explanation of his motive for tho crime. It is tbnngbt be Is insane, and a modi cal examination is being made. Paper From Sugar Cane. The JRevue ScienUfiqut is urging French planters in tbo sugar-producing colonies of the Republic to turn their attention to the manu facture of paper from sugar cane. The fibers of the cane, says the journal named, give an excellent paper, and chemical and mechanical processes are easily carried out. A Mr. Walter Forbes, of New Orleans, has lately exhibited i in that city a dozen samples of white paper prouucea irom sufcar uaoe, wuicu hbib uru .nounced very good. The first quality costs 21 francs per 100 kilogrammes, and 500.000 kilo grammes or stalks will produce 10,000 kilo grammes of paper worth 2,100 franca, There is no nse to sacrifice the sugar itself In using tho cane for this purpose, and sugar growers have therefore an opportunity of making a profit which will to some extent balance their losses from the declining value of sugar owing to its over-prouueuon. NATIONAL GUARD GOSSIP. Colonel Noritau M. Ssrrrn goes east to morrow on business partly connected with mil itary matters. First Ltjettteitaxt Chable3 Mat, of Company F. Eighteenth Regiment, has tend ered his resignation. The many friends of Captain R. W. A. Sim mon. will be sorry to hear of his illness from typhoid fever, at his home on Crawford street. The members of the Seventh New fork Regiment claim to have spent an average of $15 per man while in Washington, or a total of The entire National Guard of Mississippi will be in tho big parade in New York City on April 30. They make the trip both ways by steamer, and will live on the vessel during their stay. Governor Beaver and staff and the mem bers of tho State Legislature bave made ar rangements to leave for New York the last of the month in a special train to witness the Centennial celebration. An election has been ordered in Company K, Fourteenth Regiment, for next Saturday eve ning, April 6, to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Captain Hill. The election will bo conducted by Captain James R. Murdock, of the brigade staff. A school for non-commissioned officers has been started in Company G. Eighteenth. The first meeting was held last Friday night at tho regimental headquarters. Fifth avenne, Captain Hamilton, of Ohio, being the in structor for the evening. The 14-year old son of Lieutenant Thomas Conncely, Inspector ot Rifle Practice of the Sixteenth Regiment, is the proud wearer of a markman's badge won last season. He made a score of 27 with an old EO-cahbre gun the first trial. Lieutenant Conneelyi3 one of tho best shots in the guard, and the son is evident ly a chip of the old block. Lietjtenast Colonel Robert Adams, Jr., aid de camp on the staff of Governor Beaver, was appointed during the week as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary to Brazil. Colonel Adams has been a member of the Guard slnco 1374, formerly being a private in the City Troop of Philadel phia, and is well known in this city. The Superintendent of the State, War and ,Navy Department building in Washington has in his possession an old regimental battle flag that has probably seen service in tho late war, and a Springfield rifle, both ot which were left by a Pennsylvania regiment quartered in the building during the inauguration ceremonies. He will deliver them to the owners if he can ascertain who they are. Company Iof McKeesport, moves into its new armory in the Rink building to-morrow. A lease for a term of years has been secured and the building will be put in flrst-class shape, after which the company will give a formal opening and show its friends the new quarters. Captain O. C. Coon, who has been on the siek list for several weeks, resulting from exposure at Washington, is now able to be about again. The regular monthly meeting of the Wash ington Infantry will bo held next Tuesday evening, April 2. The Captain requests that all members report promptly, as considerable business mnst be transacted. Among other things to be taken up will be a revision of the by-laws, and the question of going into camp next summer. Tne company has decided to turn out on April 30 as escort to the Select Knights. Cojipant B, Eighteenth, has moved its armory from opposite the Union depot to Fourth avcuue, below Wood street Company D, of the same regiment, will move to Water street next week. Company commanders, in looking for new quarters, find rooms larga enough to accommodate a company very scarce in the central portion of the city, and real estate agents extremely loath to rent to members of the guard. p Local members of the Guard, who have had any hopes of the militia in this end of the State being taken to New York next month, may as well give the matter up for good. While the authorities at Harrisburg have let commandants of regiments continue in the belief that there was a possibility of going, yet it has been known there from the first that there was not the slighest chance for the Sec ond or Third Brigades. Several battalions from Philadelphia will go at their own expense, and as this is Governor Beaver's last year, .as littlo expense as possible will be put upon the State. Captatk r. a McKeever, of St Paul, a member of the National Gnard of Minnesota, was in the city during the week visiting friends. Ho spoke in a very complimentary manner of several of the local companies which be had seen, and stated that the trouble with tho guard in most of the Western cities is that they have adopted uniforms of such a flashy nature that tho real idea of the soldier is lost In one particular, however, he was quite surprised, and that was in regard to the miserable quarters in which the men here are required to drill, bis own city but lately having voluntarily mado a donation of 2100,000 for armory purposes. Orders relative to the regular spring in. spoctions are expocted very shortly now, and as this is one of tho important events of mili tary Ife in tho Guard, company commanders are beginning to bustle around lively. In the Eighteenth Regiment there will be no prelimi nary inspections, as the companies were pretty thoroughly Inspected just before tho Washing ton trip. In the Fonrteentb, however, it Is probable that several of the city companies will be given a preliminary rehearsal. As the reports of the Adjutant General's office for last year have not j et been Issued, strange to say, captains may be somewhat at sea as to the points in which to give most attention. Skir mish drill and guard mounting, however, may ue coumea upon as oeing ox prime importance. GATES IS RELEASED. A New York Judgo Finds No Evidence to Ilold Him. New Yoke, March 30. Some time sinoe "W. E. Gates, agent of the Hammond Type writer Company, of Cleveland, was arrested on a charge of embezzlement and discharged. He then came to this city, when he was re arrested on a telegram from Cleveland. Without any evidence to substantiate the telegram Gates was committed. He was before Jndee Lawrence in the Supreme Court chambers to-day, on a writ of habeas corpus, and was immediately discharged. MEXICO OBJECTS. No Adulterated American Lard Will be Al lowed to be Sold. St. Louis, March 30. Late advices from the City of Mexico say the Board of Health of that city has pronounced American lard an adulteration, unfit for use, and pro hibited its sale. This action has been sus tained by Minister Eubio, and will be ef fective throughout the Republic, and in structions have been given to all customs officers to that effect. The Old Doctors Drew blood, modern doctors cleanse it ; hence the increased demand for Altera tives. It is now well known that most diseases are due, not to over-abundance, but to impurity, of to Blood ; and it is equally well attested that no blood medicine is so efficacious as Ayer's Sarsaparilla. " One of my children had a large sora break out on the leg. "We applied simple remedies, for a while, thinking the sore would shortly heal. But it grew worse. Wa sought medical advice, and were told that an alterative medicine was necessary. Ayer's Sarsaparilla being Recommended above all others, we used it with mar velous results. The sore healed and health and strength rapidly returned." J. J. Armstrong, Weimar, Texas. "I find Ayer's Sarsaparilla to be an admirable remedy for the cure of blood diseases. I prescribe it. and it does the work every time." E. L. Pator, M. D., Manhattan, Kansas. ""We have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla here for over thirty years and always recommend it when asked to name the best blood-purifier." "W. T. McLean, Druggist, Augusta, Ohio. "Ayer's medicines continue to be the standard remedies in spite of all com petition." T. "W., Bicbmond, Bear Lake, Mich. Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BT Dr. J. C. Aycr it Co., Lowell, Mass. I Fries $1 ; six bottles, fii Worth $5 a bottle. 1 --1 r: NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. I II Yes, and. 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Inflammation and oth painful symptoms receive searching treatmei prompt relief and real enres. Dr. Whittier's life-long, extensive experiea Insures scientific and reliable treatment t common-sense principles. -Consultation fre Patients at a distance as carefully treated as here. Office hours 9 a. st. to 8 p. JtSundn 10 A. SI. to 1 p. M.only. DR. "WHITTIER, 9 Penn avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. feS-fJ-DsaW RMOW THYSELF, ns-i 1.1 sOTEaVCB O'S' TI h'l A Scientific and Standard Popular Medical Treatise c the Errors of Youth, Premature Declme.Nerron aud Physical DeDUuy, impunues oi ineuiooa. Resulting trom Folly, Vice, Ignorance. Excesses I Overtaxation, Enervating and unfitting the victl f orVTork,Buslness, the Married or Social Belatlo) work. blndincr. mall, post-paid, concealed in plain wrapper. IHa tratlve Prospectus Free, if yon apply now. Tl distinguished author, Wm. II. Parker. II. IX. n cdved the COLD AND JEWELLED MEDA from the National Medical Association for the PRIZE ESSAY on NERVOUS an PHYSICAL DEBILITY. Dr. Parker and a cort of Assistant Physicians may be consulted, eoni dentlally, by mail or in perion, at tha afllcaic THE VEABODY MEDICAIi rNSXITUTJ No.415uinnch St., Boston. Mass., to whoa a orders for books or letters for advice should b directed as above. jaI5-TnrsuwJ: v PILLS EI3 C2CS3 ILUK33 EZiiD. Ortrtttsl. tort, talj gmfn and rcuasiB piu tor tuo nimiiuti Aftk for OfcJUttaf XngtU&C Diamond Brand. In red ma- uliu toxe MsUect villi blot ril bun. At Bmrsl'ta Aeeept no ather. AJIdLUJ In Daua bort toxei, pink wrapper tn a f mamtt eaaeantcrflfi Bnd 4e. Citsmpoi s punictilara and KcUTfor Ladle, Lndleaa" tT ntnra mail. 10.000 tuait alHalAQIESwhefisraaMdmem. VvaTvr.wm leutr, or ninrn mail. iu,vw 1 Chichester Uiemica w, JUOiKa SqiUlAT HARE'S REMEDY i For men! Checks the worst cases in thrt days, and cures in five days. Price $1 00, at"5 J. FLEMING'S DRUGSTORE, jaS-13-TTSsn 412 Market street Isnffertnjf from tbe fects of youthful er. ran. earlr decar. loll manhood , eta 1 will senu & valuable treatlM (sealed) containing fun" particulars for home con, frM of PROF. F. C. FOWLER, Moodus, Coiwl i-nos-gJCDSuwic II IB Th d CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL MMSk sr imotinS A 1 ' . ! i& i..jf fci,i.u. 1 3ljw , !.- Ti 'ii
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