W - Vy -f THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, TUESDAY, APRIL 16. L889. I to1 k'A 5f SURVEY OF TRADE. &dfc Tone of Produce Markets Better Creamery nutter firm. EASTER EGG BOOM DISCOUNTED. Ohio Buff Hides Weakened tj Boston Tan nery Failures. LOW GEADE SWISS CHEESE QUIET Office of Pittsbubg Dispatch, 1 MONDAY. April 15, 18S8. J According to the general testimony of produce commission merchants, the tone of trade shows a slight improvement since the beginning of the month. There has been for the last week a very active movement in butter. The demand has been unusually strong from surrounding towns. At this time of the year, between hay and grass, cutter is usually scarce through the country, and smaller towns obtain their supplies from the city. A countryman at Diamond Market thus puts tho present butter situation: "Cows are just getting enough grass to keep them from bay and fodder and not enough to do them any good, but a few more days of grow ing weather will bring things all right. By an other week there will be plenty good grazing and the creamery butter trade will slacken up." The expected boom In eirgs as Easter draws nearer has failed to materialize as yet. While the movement has been active for the week past, any attempt to advance to 12c at once brought a chill on the markets. Said one old time country peddler: "Hook for no Easter advance this year, because eggs have been cheap so long that dealers are much better sup plied than they commonly are at this time. Customers of mine to whom I have sold as high as 300 dozen a week or two before Easter wanted only a couple of cases this week, saying that they were already well stocked." Said the same dealer concerning poultry: "1 lave never known the country through which 1 travel weekly as bare of poultry as now. For the first time in rive years I came to Pittsburg with not a single chicken or turkey."' The trade in staple cheese has held its own for the past week both as to prices and volume. There is a scarcity of good Ohio cheese, which now varies little, if any, from New York in Erice. The fact is due to the abundance of the itter and scarcity of the former. Swiss cheese is verv quiet and has been all season. On all but the highest grades of domestic Sweitzer large concessions are made to the cash buyer. A jobber here reports that a lot of low grade Ohio Sweitzer was recently consigned from here to New York with permission to drop more than half on quotations In order to effect a sale. Groceries. In grocery lines the marked feature of the past week has been the sharp advances in sugars, with which commercial reporters found it difficult to keep pace. There appears at the endofaweqk of almost daily advances no let up to the onward movement, as markets closed verv firm. With an advance of almost 1c on green coffee there was general expectation of a rise in packages. Prices, however, remain as a week ago. Hides. Another heavy failure of a Boston tannery amounting to $700,01X1 has had a depressing in fluence on the markets here, as all over the land. Up to the failure Ohio buff hides were Eellingat6c There was at once a drop of c in Eastern markets. Pittsburg is a leading source of supply in this line to Eastern tanners. Vhile our dealers have not yet reduced prices paid to butchers, the demand has so much fallen offn the past few days, that a Mc drop is almost certain the coming week. A leading hide dealer speaking of the Boston failures said: "While markets have been depressed of late, and these failures will have their tempor ary influence to depress them still more, the hide and leather business here is on a sound basis and there is little doubt we will come around all right. "Our home tanners, as a rule, are well fixed, and in possession of more capital laid up in good years than they are able to use in their business. These late failures are probably due to local causes or to i variety of reasons which we here cannot know. Our Allegheny tanners are as firm as the hills and it would require a trade cyclone of the first magnitude and long continued to knock them from their base. Twenty years ago there were twice as many tanneries here as at present. We have had a survival of the fittest. 1 could name two tan neries now, whose odtpnt is greater than the 2S tanneries which were in existence 20 years ago." LITE STOCK MARKETS. Condition of tbo Market at the East Liberty Stock Yard. . Office of Pittsbcko Dispatch, 1 Monday, April 15, lbS9. J Cattle Receipts, 2,140 head: shipments, 1,240 head; market slow at unchanged prices. Twenty-eight cars of cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hogs Receipts, 5,000 head: shipments. 3,800 bead: market steady; all grades, S3 005 10. Eleven cars of hogs shipped to New York to day. Sheep Receipts, 3,600 bead: shipments, 3,400 bead; market slow and a quarter lower. Here's Island. Cattle The run of cattle was larger than for many months past, and 123 bead above last week's receipts. Prices at Chi cago were 25c more than last week, but buyers here were unwilling to pay the advance, and drovers were forced to concede. The range for "Western beeves, 1,500 to 1,600 pounds, was S4 85 to S5 05: for 1,200 to 1,400 pounds, $4 75 to $4 85; and for prime light cattle weighing 900 to 1,100, S110toS4 35. The quality was below average, there being a larger proportion than usual of light cattle. A number of loads which passed for butcher cattle were really only fit for stockers. Cows were scarce, but there was little demand for them. Calves were too plenty with a range of 4)c to 5c,but very few. if any. went above 5c Receipts Irom Chicago, I. Zeigler, 116 head: L. Gerson, 96 head: A. Fromm, 69 head; H. Hirsch & Co., 37 head; Dellenbach & Co., 83 bead: L. Iiowenstein,T8head; E. Wolf, 18 head; Roth schild & Co., 69 bead; various owners, Pennsyl vania, 24 head; total 500 head; last week, 467; previous week, 511. Sheep and Lambs. Last week's advance and more was lost, on account of big run and unfavorable advices from East and west. The range for clipped was 4c to 4c; for wool, 6c to 5Jic; last year's lambs, 6c to 7c; spring lambs, 7c to 10c. Receipts L Zeigler. Chicago. 277; S. Lowen Btein. Chicago, 226; Rothschilds & Co., Chicago, 215; J. Langdon, Ohio, 20; Fleming fc Co., Penn sylvania, 1S7; J. Cruikshank, Pennsylvania, 23: D. O. Pisor, Pennsylvania, 15; "G. Klein, Pennsylvania, 15: William Craig, Pennsylvania, 70: total, LOIS; last week, 639; previous week, 512. Hogs. Supply fair, with $5 10 to $5 20 as the range for heavy weights, and $5 25 to $5 35 for light selected bogs. Receipts L. Gerson. Chi cago, 111; Needy fc Smith, Ohio, 330; J. Lang don, Ohio, 45; J. Cruikshank, Pennsylvania, 28; D. O. Pisor. Pennsylvania, 9: G. Klein, Penn sylvania, 9; S. Hillerman, Pennsylvania, 7; William Craig, Pennsylvania, 23. Total, 662. Last week, 639. Previous week, 612. Br Telegraph. New York Beeves Receipts, 3.900 head. Including 10S carloads for exportation, 74 car loads for city slaughterers direct and 58 car loads for the market; total for the week, 11,000 bead: the trading was anil and prices were a . fraction lower; common to prime steers sold at S3 7504 70 per 100 &s; extra do at H 01 90; bulls and dry cows at $2 003 4a Exports to dav include 500 beeves: for the week 3,700 beeves. 2.300 sheep and 10,100 quarters of beef. Seep Receipts. 14,500 bead, making 41.500 bead for the week; the market was weak and closed heavy; unshorn sheep sold at 56c per ; clipped do at 45Kc; nnshom yearlings at 6 n(c; clipped do at 65Jc; spring lambs at 12 00 5 00 each. Hogs Receipts, 12,500 head, mak ing 32,400 for the week; market about steady Jor Uve hogs at 55 205 40. CHICAGO Cattle Kecelnts. 11,500 head: ship ments 4,000 head; market strong at Saturday's onces: choice to extra beeves, 4 404 50: steers. S3 S04 25: stockers and feeders. 2 45 S70;-Texas steers, S3 253 90 Hogs-Receipts. 11000 bead: shipments, 8,800 head; market strong and 610c higher; mixed. 70495; heavy. 84 75Q5 05; light, $4 S05 05; skips, $3 60 4 40 Sheep Receipts, 8.000 head; shipments. 1,000 head; market 61W lower- natives. S3 903 5 50: Western cornfed, $4 S0Q5 50; Texas, 60; Iambs. M 756 00. The Srovert' Journal cable gram from London quotes light supplies of - cattle, steady demand and unchanged prices. Bt steers are selling at 12Xc per pound, . dressed weight. ((Kansas crnr-Cattle-Recelpts. 2,195 head; shipments, none; dressed beei and shipping steers 1015c higher; cows strong to 5810c higher; stockers and feeding steers strong. Jood to choice cornfed, $4 2064 45; common to medium, J3 104 10; stockers and feeding eteers, S2 003 45; cows. Jl 753 10. Hogs Re ceipts, 3,374 head; shipments. 665 head; market active; good to choice. $4 60JJ4 00; common to medium. U ZiQi 45. Bheep Receints, 1,515 head: no shipments; market strong and active; good to choice muttons, 54 604 75; common j. o medium. S75ffi4 10. , Cdtctknati Hogs steaSy; common and A MJlght. H 0Q4 80: packing and butchers', $1 65 & & J85 "ceipts, 3,700 head; shipments, 675 head. MABKETSJY WIRE. VTheat Stronger and the July Option Higher on Favorable Cable Corn and Oats Quiet Bog Products Show an Advancing Tendency. CHICAGO There was fair trading in wheat to-day, and a stronger tone pervaded the mar ket. J uly, in which the principal interest cen ters, opened J6K higher and advanced c more, or ljc above Saturday's closing, and closed just lc higher. Cable adyiccs denoted more strength on the other side, and private reports quoted Id advance and an improved de mand. The decrease in the visible suDplywas greater than bad been calculated upon, and helped to strengthen the feeling. After the noon hour the market weakened somewhat un der increased offerings. Parties who had bought at lower prices realized on their pur chase but the closing was strong., Some ship ping demand existed here. There was only a moderate business in corn, which was dull during the entire session, fluc tuations being confined within Y$Qiic range, and operations were limited to transactions of room traders. The feeling was comparatively steady, and final quotations were a trifle better than Saturday's closing. Oats were fairly active but unsettled. The opening was easy, and a fractional decline fol Jowed the first sales. Good buying, however, produced a firmer feeling, and pnees advanced taKc A recession of K6Kc followed the appreciation, and the market closed quiot and Ji!4o above Saturday's last sale. Only a moderate trade was reported in hog products and the feeling was steady. Prices averaged slightly higher on the leading articles, and the market closed qniet at medium figures. Trading was confined almost ex clusively to May and July contracts. The leading futures rancea as follows: WHEAT No. 2 May, 898iftS8S7Ke; June, 8SS9g87V88c; July, S2M683K 82K83Kc; year. 77K77?ic CORN No. 2 May. 3434c: June, S535c; July, 35e3e35M35-. Oats-No. 2ilay, 242621K21c; June, 2424Jc; July, 24K24c. Mess Pork, per bbL May, $11 53ll 62U Oil 62kll 60; June, $11 65U 70; July, ill 75611 t0ll 72KU K- Lard, per 100 tts May, $6 806 82K; June, 56 856 S7k6 856 S July, SS 90gtj !K SHORT RIBS, per 100 ttV Mav, $5 905 95 June, SS 006 00; July, $6 056 106 056 01. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady and unchanged. No. 2 sprine wheat, 87yS7c; No.3 springwheat,7070c;No.2red,86?i86j2c No. 2 corn. 31Hc N o. 2 oats.2424c. No. 2 rye, 43c. Barley nominal. No. 1 fiaxseedLtl 64, Prime timothy seed. $1 301 32. Mess pork, per barrel, $11 55&11 60. Lard, per 100 lbs. SO 8a Short ribs sides (loose). S5 905 95. Dry salted shoulders (boxed)! $5 37J5 50. Short clear sides (boxed), $6 3765u. Sugars Cut loaf, SJc; granulated, 6yic; Standard A, TJgc. Re ceiptsFlour. 10.000 barrels; wheat, 15.0U0 bush els: corn. 21,000 bushels; oats. 94,000 bushels; rye, 1,000 bushels: barley, 17,000 bushels. Ship mentsFlour. 24,000 barrels; wheat. 63,000 bush els; com. 93,000 bushels; oats, 92,000 bushels; rye, 61,000 bushels; barley. 6,000 bushels. On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was active but unchanged. Eggs firm at 10c New York Flour barely steady and in bet ter demand. Wheat Spot firm and llc higher; options Iglc higher, active and ir regular. Barley quiet. Barley malt dull. Corn Spot stronger and active; options firmer and quiet. Oats Spot firmer and fairly active; options steady. Hay steady and quiet. Coffee Options opened steady at 1525 points down; closed steady at 510 points down: sales, 35.000 bags, including May, 16.4516.55c; June. 16.55 16.65c; July, 16.70ffil6.75c: August.16.8016.b5c; September, 16.8517.00c; October, I6.9517.05c; November. 17.0017.05c; December, 17.00 17.10c: January and February, 17.15c; March, 17.10c; spot Rio unsettled,fair cargoes, 18&C. Sugars Raw excited on London advices and much higher; fair refining. 6c; centrifugals, 96 test, 7 3-16c; safes at 55c; refined firm at Hl4c higher and in demand: C, 6K7Kc; ex tra C, TKSTc; white exti a C. 7 9-167 ll-16c; yellow, 6k7c; off A, 7IM67Kc: mould A 8c; standard A Sc: confectioners' A, 8iic; cuiloat, 9Vc; crushed. 9Vc; powdered, 9c; gran ulated, S?ic; cubes. 8fcc. Molasses Foreign strong and quiet; 50 test. 28c; New Orleans dull. Rice steady and quiet. Cottonseed oil weak and dull. Tallow quiet; citv, 4Jic, Rosin steady and quiet. Turpentine dull at 48c Eges in iair demand and firm: western, 10)ll&c: receipts, 11.210 packages. Pork quiet; old mess. S12 5012 75: new mess. $13 501S 75; extra prime, $12 5a Cut meats quiet; pickled bellies, 6K"Mc; pickled hams. 1010c:" pickled shoulders, 5c; middles slow; short clear, 56 7a Lard easier: closed steady; fair export and speculation; sales western steam, $710712K; cfcr. S6 70; April. $7 14; May. $7 117 18. closing at $7 14: June, $7 157 16, closing at $7 17: July, 57 2072L closing at $720; August, $7 21, clos ing $723; September, $7 247 26, closing $727. Butter firm and in moderate demand; western dairy, 1220c; do creamery, lb26c; Elgifis, 27K2Sc Cheese quiet and unsettled: western. 810c St. Lotus Flour quiet but steady. Wheat higher. There was a better feeling and demand on stronger and higher cables and encouragine weather reports; No. 2 red, ca'h, 86c nominal: May. 85K68&KC closed at 86c asked; June. 82B4c closed at 84c asked; Julv. 777S5c. cosed atTSJe asked; August, 77V77Jic closed at TTJgc bid. Corn weak and lower; No mixea,casb, 30c; May,30M30Wc, closed at 30Vc afked; June, 30c, closed at 3oKc bid: August. 32J6c Oats lower: No. 2, cash! 2425c: Slay! 24K25c Rye dull; No. 2, 42c Barlev steady: Wfsconsion. 4570c Flaxseed, $1 45. Provi sions unusually dull for Monday. Cincinnati Flour heavy; family, S3 75E) 3 90; fancy, $4 254 50. Wheat steady: No2 red, 85S86ca-eceints.6w);shipments,l,50a Corn in fair request and firm; No. 2 mixed, S535ic Oats in light demand and weaker; No. 2 mixed 27c Rye quiet and flrm:Nd. 2, 50c Pork, quiet at $12 5a Lard quiet at $6 75. Bulk meats neglected; short ribs, $6 2i Bacon steady; short clear, $7 45, Butter firm; fancy Elgin creamery, 2827c; choice dairy roll, 16 18c Linseed oil strong at 5658c Sugar firm hard refined, SK9c; New Orleans, 5K6c Eggs and cheese steady. Philadelphia Flour very dull, and prices weak and unsettled. Wheat Options dull and nominal: car lots qniet, but firm. Corn Spot steady, but quiet; nothing doing In futures. Oats Car lots a shade weaker; futures dull and nominal. Provisions steady and in fair lobbing demand. Pork Mess, new, $14 0014 50; do prime mess, new, $13 50; do family. $15 001550; hams, smoked, 1012c Lard Pure refined, 88Jc Butter firm and active; Pennsylvania creamery extra, 27c: do prints extra, 29c Etrgs stiong and active; Pennsylvania firsts, 12c Cheese dul 1; part skims, 63c MlLWAtTKEE Flour steady. Wheat firm; cash. 82KC: May and July, 83c Corn firm; No. 3, 33S;31c Oats steady: No. 2 white. 2 29c Rye qniet; No. L 44)c Barley dull; o. 2, 67Wc Provisions firm. Pork, $11 4a Lard, $6 75. Cheese steady; Cheddars, 10llc Baltimore Provisions slow. Butter firm; Western packed, 2021c; creamery, 2623c Eggs steady at 12c Coffee steady. Toledo Cloverseed dull and steady; cash. $4 70; April, $4 60; receipts, 48 bags; shi? ments, 694 bags. British Breadstuff's. London, April 15. The Mark Lane Exprets, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says: English wheat Is pressed for sale and prices have dropped is Id on the week, making a decline of Ss 8d in a fortnight. The quality is inferior. The sales of English wheat during the past week were 43,933 quarters at 29s Jld, against 41,551 quarters at 30s 3d during the cor responding week last year. Flour is down 6d. Foreign wheats are further depressed by abun dant shipments from Russia. Liverpool shows a decline of Id per cent. Corn is steady. Bar ley is a turn lower. Rye is down 6d. Oats are firm. At to-day's market English and foreign wheats were 6d lower. Flour was depressed. Corn w3 slow of sale. Brazilian Coffee Market. Rio Dr Janeiro. April 15. Coffee Regular first, 6,200 reis per 10 kilos; good sec ond. 5,650 reis; receipts during the week, 37,000 bags; purchases for the United States, 49,000 bags; clearances for do, '35,000 bags; stock. 379,000 bags. Santos,, April 15. Coffee Good aver age 5,700 reis per 10 kilos; receipts during the week, 51,000 bags: purchases for the United States, 20.000 bags; clearances for do, 20,000 bags; stock, 275,000 bags. Drygoods. New York. April 15. There was a fair Monday trade with jobbers, but no special in cident. Agents were In receipt of many filling in orders, particularly from the southwest, in moderate sized lots, in which Btaple cottons as well as patterned fabrics received attention. The market continues unchanged and for the most part steady, low grade cottons in some in stances being in favor. A good demand con tinues for novelties in prints. ST. Loots Cattle Receipts. L400 head; shlo ments, 100 head: market strong; choice native steers, $3 904 60; fair to good do. $3 104 00; stockers and feeders, fair to good, $2 10 3 20; rangers, corn-fed. $2 753 60: grass fed. $2 002 95. Hogs Receipts. 3,100 head; shipments, 1,800 head; market strong; choice heavy and botchers' selections, S4 7004 SO; light grades, ordinary to best, $4 654 8a Bhpep Receipts, 100 head; shipments, none; market strong; fair to choice, $3 004 9a Buffalo Cattle Market slow and 5c lower than last Monday; receipts, 1,400 head through: 8.200 head sales: good, $3 604 oa Sheep and lambs slow and 1020c lower than last Monday; receipts, 00 bead through: 12.000 bead sale: sheep good at $4 765 00; lambs good at $5 65g6 25. Hogs active ana 510c higher; receipts, 8,000 bead throngb: 10,000 head 'sale; mediums and Yarkers, $5 055 lu. A LIVELY MOTEMEN'F. The Feeling in Favor of Widening Diamond Street Said to be MATERIALIZING VERY FAST. Inside Pacts and Figures Concerning the Wilkinsburg Water Works. PERMITS TAKEN OUT FOB 62 HOUSES From very reliable authority it may now betaken as almost a settled fact that the wideningofDiamondstreetto the dimensions oi 50 feetbetween Smithfield and Liberty will take place. The great majority of the prop erty is in hands favorable to it, and such ob jections as were met with are stated to be al most entirely surmounted if the spirit which has been manifested of making fair agreements as to assessing damages is carried out. The part of the street above Smithfield has not been considered much yet, as the de velopment of the portion below is for the pres ent regarded as the main thing. Occasional references to the projected water works at Wilkinsburg have been made during the past week or tno, but nothing definite could be learned until yesterday. The work is being done by the Pennsylvania Water Com pany, which has been chartered and is com posed largely of local capitalists. The reser voir will be located on what is known as" the Puckety road, between Sandy Creek and Wilkinsbnrg. This is said to be the highest point in the county. The base will be about 200x250 feet, and Jt will have a capacity of 5,000,000 gallons. Wa,ter will be drawn from the Allegheny river at Wildwood station, 7,000 feet away. The reservoir is 60 feet above the water level, assuring sufficient pressure for all ordluary purposes. The pumping station at Wildwood win be provided with two engines, each having a capacity of 2,000,090 gallons daily. Wilkinsbnrg people expect to have a fall supply ot water by July 4. D. Blair tc Bros, yesterday took out a permit for six two-story brick dwellings on Penn ave nue, Sixteenth ward. The estimated cost of them is $10,000. They are to be finished during the summer. Last week permits for 56 build ings were taken out, the estimated cost of which is $48,000. The building industry is doing remarkably well for so early in the season. The Consumers' Gas Company, ot Toronto, advertises in The Dispatch for proposals for coal to the amount of 33.000 tons. Tenders will be received up to Monday next. The company waswisoin coming to the right market. In this connection it may be stated that some, if not all, of the local coal companies are emerg ing from the difficulties involved by the intro duction of natural gas as a fuel. They have opened up extensive and profitable markets in the North and Northwest, which almost, if not entirely, compensate them for the partial loss of the home trade One ot these companies the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Com panyis doiug so well that it is understood it is rapidly approaching a dividend-paying basis. Within the past two or three days $7,000,000 of New York City bonds have been placed in that city at 2 per cent the lowest rate of in terest ever known on that class of securities. With money so abundant and cheap, there is no good reason why all kinds of business should not flourish and It will though it may be a little slow in starting. Another good feature of this plethora of the sinews of war is that it renders a financial crash this year next to im possible. Louisville, Ky., will soon be using natural gas. The Kentucky Rock Gas Company has persisted, against censure and opposition, and now has the pipe line complete from the wells in Meade county, about SO miles distant, into the heart of the city, and by May 1, or sooner, many factories and mills will be using the gas. a good beginning; Indication of a Strong and Active Stock Market All Week. Stocks opened up wltb a vim and a vigor yesterday that foreshadowed a strong and active market all week. Electric was higher and firm. The gassers were all strong, with a sharp advance in Chartiers. Citizens'iTraction was wanted at 71, and Central at 23. The movement in Pittsburg and Western preferred was continued. Switch and Signal was firm and in active demand. La Nona started off well, but weakened in the afternoon. The prospect that the Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway will be improved withont cost to the stockholders is the reason for the boom in that stock, which was so conspicuous last week. There were no transactions in it yesterday, for the reason that none was offered. Bids, offers and sales are appended: , MORSTKO, Bid. Asked. afternoon. Bid. Asked. Pitts. Pet. S. & M. Ex. . (15 625 lioatman'slns .... Bridgewater Gas Pitts. GaB Co 62 People's flpeage Oas. .... Chartiers Val. Gas Co. 63) 3a S3 "is tax 63 PhlladelphlaCo 8: H J8H nneeun? uasuo .. Central Traction Glutens' Traction. PlttsburK Traction.... ritts.,Cln.bt.L. K.K. Pitts. & Western K. K. P. & W. R. E. pref.... Consignee Mining Co.. La Morla Mining Co... bllverton Mining Co... 'Westlnghonse Electric U. bwltch Signal Co. U. 8. A Big. Co. pid... 29 SO 29 293 i B 23 23 71 .... 71 .... 49K .... 49X .... 18 04 10 .... 10 19 .... 1SH 19 21 30 18 .... vk 1 ...? 2 E8 6S "59 "S9J 25tf 2SS 25 28 SU .... Sales at the first call were 160 shares of Phil adelphia Gas at 3S, 100 La Noria at $2, 100 at 1. and 150 Switch and Signal at 25X. A membership sold at $525. In the atternoon 85 shares Chartiers Gas went at 53U, 10 Wheeling Gas at 295, 50 at 29V, 10 Philadelphia Gas at S 800 Pittsburg and Western preferred at 18JJ, 50 at 19, and 100 Electric at 59K- Robinson Bros, sold $16,000 McKeesport and Bellevernon firsts at $105 and interest. The total sales of stocks at New York yester dav were 220,427 shares, including: Atchison. 49,750: Louisville and Nashville, 13,689: Missouri Pacific, 5,400; Northwestern, 6,310; Northern Pacific preferred, 8.520; Oregon Transconti nental. 10,100; Reading, 2S.4S0; Richmond and West Point 2,021; St. Paul. 16,178; Union Pa cific, 6,000; Western Union, 9,438. A BIG JUMP. The Clearing House Makes the Best Report of the Year. That there is active movement In the local money market is shown by yesterday's Clearing House report, the exchanges being $3,254,643 37 and (he balances $678,379 02. This is the best report for any day this year. While part of the money represented in these totals was .applied to the payment of weekly or semi-weekly bills o$ manufacturers and merchants a good share of it was used in the expansion of business, or in the betterment of established enterprises in either case affording fresh evidence of a gratifying improvement in the mercantile and industrial situation Money on call at New York yesterday was easy at 8 to 4 per cent: last loan 3, closed offered at 3. Prjme mercantile paper, 4K6. Sterling ex change dull and easier at $4 S6i for 60-day bills, and $4 88JJ for demand. " Government Bonds. U.S. u reg lCTCiaiOSK u. s. 4s, coups lmTjiaios-i U. 8.43. rcg ..., 129 (Sl292 U. B. 4S, coups 129 129)Z Kid. Currency, Bpercent, 1895 reg 120 Currency, 8 per cent. 3896 rcg. 123 Currency, spercent, 1837 reg 128 Currency, Bpercent, HflSreg 129 Currency, Spercent, 1899 reg ui New Yoek Clearings, 876,197,131; balances, $5,830,673. Boston Clearings, $16,502,196; balances, 8L 475,089; money, Kper cent. Baltimobe Clearings, $2,392,909; balances, PHH.ADKLPHIA Clearings, $10,618,517; bal ances, $2,058,515. Chicago Money unchanged. Bank clear ings, $lL5S5,00a St. Louis-Clearings, $3,112,755; balances. $406,553. London Tbo amount of bullion gone into the Bank of Eugland on balance to-day is 47,0Oa Pabis Rentes, 86f 80c for the account Mining Stocks. New York, April 15. Mining quotations: Aspen, LOeO; Amador, 100: BoiiTe, 100: Cale- en f donia, B. H., 200; Consolidated California and Virginia, 787; Commonwealth, 525; Eureka Consolidated, 100; El Crlsto, 160; Hale & Nor cross, 410; Homestake, 750; Horn Silver, ISO; Iron Silver 300; Mexican, 470; Mutual, 115; Ply mouth, 1,000; Savage, 270; Sierra Nevada, 820; Standard. 100; Union Consolidated, 400; Yellow Jacket, SOD. . PROFESSIONALS DISC0UEAGED. The Oil Market So Flat That Dealers Lose , Interest lq It. The oil market yesterday was so dull and narrow that even the brokers took very little interest in It The squeezing process which is being pursued by the Standard, and the in difference of the public are killing the trade. While this condition continues there is no ground to hope for an improvement Some of the brokers yesterday said they would not be surprised If the price dropped to 85o or even lower. The market opened at OOJfc The highest point reached was BOJc, and the lowest 90c, which was the closing quotation. Carrying was from 10 to Ocents. Puts were offered at 89Jic. and calls at 90Jic This indicates very little confldence.in the future on the part of pro fessionals. Field news was to this effect: Union Oil Company Knox's No. 3 was doing 30 barrels per hour; Union Oil Company's Hagerty No. 3 was filled up and not flowing; McKeown No. 6 was doing 20 barrels per hour; Knox No 12 was doing 63 barrels per hour; Knox No. 13 was at the top of the sand; Shamrock, on the White farm, was doing 250 barrels per day: the Fisher well, on the Gardner farm at Turkcyfoot was doing 200?3arrels per day; the SlcKeown well at Turkeyf oot was due. A. B. McGrew & Co. quote: Puts, 89M89ci calls, 90Jic The rouowing taMe, corrected vj Oe Witt Uil worth, broker In petroleum, etc.. corner ruth avenue and Wood street, Pittsburg, shows tne order of fluctuations, etc s Time. Bid. Ask.1 Time. Bid. Ask. Opened 0H Sales 1 12 :r. M.... 80H S0M 10:15A. M.... SOU, W'4 1:00 F. M... WX WA 10:30 A. M.... SOX ,0014 1:15 P. M.... 80S 90)4 10:45 a. M.... 90X 90W 1:30 F. II.... SOX 90M 11:00a. it.... 90X 90)4 1:P. a.... 80 H HOW 11:15 A. M.... WH SOX S:00P. X.... BOX 60' 11-.30A. M.... 90 00k 1:15 P. M.... 90 90X ll:45A. V.... 90 90X, 1:80 P. M.... 90X 90X 12:00 M 90 (OX 2:45 P. V.... 90 90X 12:15 P. M.... 80S 90X Closed 90 ,12:3pp. m.. COX 9X Opeued. 90Xc; highest 90Mc; lowest, 90ci ciuBvu, tare. Barrels. Daily runs.... , Averannma .., it... 40,864 98,398 73,708 96.904 34.841 Dally shipments Average shipments DallT charters Average charters Clearances ... New York closed at SOXa. Oil City closed at 90c Uradroro closed at 90c New ror. rellned. lu London, reined. SJ.u,' Antwerp, refined. i6Xt ...m. 832,000 Other Oil Markets. Oil cmr, April 15. National transit cer tificates opened at SOgc; highest 90c; lowest 90c; closed, 90c. Beadfobd, April 13. National transit cer tificates opened at 90Kc; closed at 90c; highest 90c; lowest. 90c TrrrBVILLE. April 15. National transit cer tificates opened at 90c; highest 90c; lowest 90c: closed. 90c New York, April 15. Petroleum opened steady at 9(c, and moved up to 90c, but then sagged back to the opening figure, and became very dull, remaining so until the close- wblob was dull at 90Kc Sales, 264,000 barret, EVER1B0DI WANTS IT. No Flagging In the Real Estate Movement Tbe Latest Transactions. Black & Batrd, No. 95 Fourth avenue, sold for G. D. Simen a large donble brick residence, on Thomas street Boulevard place. East End, with lot 120 feet front tot $12,500. Tbey also sold to Henry J. Walters for the People's Sav ings Bank, a lot on Vine street Southside, be ing 40x140 feet through to Glenco street tor $500. W. A. Herron & Sons sold lot So. 12 in the Moore plan, Oakland avenue, Oakland, size 50x150 feet, for $3,500. They report quite a de mand for lots at Edgewood, nearly all the vacant property at that point having been dis posed of.' some recent purchasers having made handsome profits. . Samuel W. Black & Co., 99 Fourth avenue, sold to D. Gambol, for $3,800, a lot 110x116 feet, on the west side of Iowa street Thirteenth ward, Pittsburg. A fine residence will be erected on the lot at once.' Ewmg & Byers. No. 107 Federal street sold for W. A. Blackjo Mrs.2f. C. Weddell lotNo. 166 on East End avenue, 20x170 feet in W. A. Black's plan of lots, Tenth ward, Allegheny, near Perrysville avenue. James W. Drape & Co. closed a mortgage of $18,000 at 6 per cent on two blocks of houses and lots in Versailles township, this county. Mellon Bros, sold lot 38 and one-half of 37 in Mellon's plan of Copeland lots, Copeland sta tion, Pennsylvania railroad, to Mrs. S. J. Speedy, for $575. Thomas McCaffrey yesterday sold for Baird Bros., to Montgomery Sautz, two lots, 40x100, on Keystone, near Fifty-third street, for $1,300. Thomas McCaffrey placed a mortgage yester day for $1,800 at 6 per cent for three years on property in the Twentieth wstrd. Reed B. Coyle fc Co., 131 Fourth avenue, sold for tbe Freehold and the First National Bank to Elizabeth J. Prltchard a property on Robin son street near Fifth avenue, Oakland, con taining three acres of ground with an eight roomed brick house for $i0.000. Smithson & Moore, auctioneers, sold 20 lots in Kreunig plan. Tenth ward, Allegheny, yes terdav, ranging rn prices from $157 to $250 each; also SO feet on Perrysville avenue by 140 in depth, for 82,000. GOULD'S HAND Agnin Seen and Felt in Wall Street, Result ing In Some Weakness Pittsbarg and Western Scores a Gain of Two Points. New Tobk, April 15. The stock market was feverish and weak during the most of the time to-day, and while some stocks show ad vances the great majority are fractionally lower than on Saturday. The market was quiet all the way out as there was little dispo sition to buy stocks. The dealings for the most part were in the hands of the professionals and traders and outside interests were "very quiet, London doing little and Chicago almost noth ing. The news of the day was vejy meager, and commission people, while doing some buying, were not a factor in the course of prices. The ooeninc prices were somewhat irregular but generally lower. Atchison was down and Rock Island Jf." though Louisville and Nashville, which bad the support of London, was up half per cent Considerable pressure was brought against Atchison again, and the trouble between the Union and Northern Pa cific over the Oregon business, resulted in the marked weakness of the Orezon stocks, all of which made material declines, though the larger lines were well held throughout After some feverish movements the market settled down to dullness before noon, but it was generally kept on a level with the opening prices until well into the afternoon, when the attack was made upon Burlington, and the grangers led the downward movement among the active shares, St Paul being affected by the report ot Its business for the calendar year of 1887, Tne general uncertainty over the position of Mr. Gould upon the market re sulted in some weakness in his stocks.aud Man hattan, Missouri Pacific and Western Union all retired more than the general list A few of the specialties showed considerable strength. Pittsburg and Western was espe cially prominent rising about two points to ward delivery hour, when the market received some support Short Line recovered a portion of its sharp loss of the forenoon. Sharp pres sure was brought upon Reading also, and after it had sold higher than, at anytime last week, it was sagged off -slowly, though Its loss was confined to A small fraction, and the other Coalers, with the exception of Jersey Central, sympathized in tbe movement Consolidated Gas made a sharp spurt up in tbe last hour, and everything else moved up slightly and the close was comparatively firm, though dull at the fig ures. Large amounts of Reading were called in and the stock commanded a premium for use of l-64th. but the operation seemed to have no ef fect upon the stock. The final changes are generally fractional losses. Oregon Navigation lost 3, Manitoba . Short Line 2, Manhattan 2, and Burlington 1, while Consolidated Gas rose 1. Railroad bonds were quiet but there was a fair business done, as usual distributed over a large number of issues, and although tbe Den ver and Rio Grande assented bonds, Ft Worth and Denver firsts and Canada Southern seconds were more active than the rest their sales were not specially larec The total was $1,612. Tbe market was in close sympathy with stocks throughout and most issues traded in are lower this evening. The principal losses Include Chicago, Santa Fe and California lsts2fto 87K and Hocking Valley 5s 2 at 79. The following table snows tne prices of aotlve stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Corrected daily for The Dispatch by Whit ney t Stephenson, members of New York Stock Exchange, 57 Fourth avenue: Open ing. Am. Cotton Oil 3CX Atcn., Top. &.S. P.... 41X Canadian Pacific Canada Southern....... S3 Central of New Jersey. 9I& Central Pacific. Chesapeake & Ohio ... I7X C, Bur. & Qnlncy..,.. 95 Clos-High- Low- lng est. est. Bids. 66X 41,X Wh 41 60 M Wi Hii S8X KM MX 1'7'x , ii" i"X 96 . S3tf KH C, Mil. & St Paul.... C33) C, ItU.iSt. P., pf...,103 , C, KocKl. AF KT4 C, St I,. A Pitts C, tit. L. & Pitts, pf. C St. P.,M.&0...... 33 c, st. p.,m. o pr. .... C & Northwestern. ...1P8X C. O. C. &I TO Col. Coal & Iron 27 Col. & Hocking Val .. 21 Del., L.tff." I37X Uel.& Hudson. 134.H E.T., Va. ftUa E. T..VS, & Ga lstpf .... It T.. Va. ft Oa. 2d pf. .... Illinois Ceniral Lake Erie A Western.. 18X Lake Erie A West. pr,. 88X Lake Shore A M. S 103 Louisville A Nashville. 81V Michigan Centrar. 86X Mobile A Ohio...,. Mo., &. ATexa 12i Missouri Pacific 70X J. X.. L. E. A W 28X N. it, L. E. AW.nref 69M J. It., C. ASUL Jl. "., C. A St. L. pr. N.V., C. ASt.i..2dof .... K.riK. E 43 . Y O. A W 17X Norfolk A Western Norfolk A Western, nf Northern Pacific 28X Nortnern Pacific pref. 61X Oregon Improvement 1K Oregon Transcon 32Jj Pacific Mall Pco. Dec A Evans l'hlladel. A Heading.. Wi Pullman Palace Car.. .182, Richmond A W. P. T.. 28 Kichmond A W.P.T.pf 79X St. Paul A Uuluth Bt. Paul A Duluth pf.. 87 St. P., Minn. AMan... 96X St. L. A San Fran St. L. A San Franpf.. t& St.L, ASanF.Utpf.-. ... Texas Pacific iW UnlonFadfle 6s Wabash Wabash preferred Western Union Bifi Wheeling A L. E G7X 63J S3 63X 103X 104X 104)9 93 K'A 92 ..., 15 38 33X S3 KK .... .... 91M locx itax losx 70 70 89 T7 27 v 24 21 20Jf 21 137X 137 138)5 1HX 133ft 133 .. 9 68 21 112 18 I8X 18X MX W S3 103 102X 102V 63 64X 84X 87M sax m &H 12X MX 70. (OH 69X 23X 28X 28 W 68.X 89 70 40 43 42M 42 17X 17X "34 ... 18 80 28U 28X Wi 6l 61 61 47X 47 45 . Si$ J1X '154 38 . .. .... 23X 48X 43 41X 183 132X 182 26X 3 Hh 78X 79 79 -...: .... 32 87 87 85 MX 84 95 ... .... 23 50 J) 59X 59 X 110X 20 15X IPX 611f 61X 81X 13 25 85X HH 84X 67 wh m BOSTON STOCKS. Weakness Was the Only Noticeable Feature of the market. Boston, April 15. The only feature of the stock market was its weakness, Atchison's de cline dominating stocks, with limited excep tions, while bonds were dull, but steady. ' Atch. A Top.. 1st 7s. 116X Old Colony. 17254" Kntland preferred.. 38 tVls.Central.com... 18X A.llouezM1eCo.(new 1 Calumet A Hecla....209 Franklin 10 Osceola .... 10 Pewablc (new) 3X Qnlncy 50 Bell Telephone 230 Boston Land 6X mm. aiop.K. a... tii BoBtonA Albany.. .2141 oosion a jaaine.....i7a C. B. AU. 94 Clnn. San. A acre. 24 Easterns. K 81 Flint A PereM 26 K.C.St.J.&O.B. 73.120 Mexican Cen. com.. 12J -N. If. ANewEng... 42X N. Y.AN. E.7S....127 Tamarack 110 Philadelphia Stocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney A Stephenson, brokers, No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members New York Stoct Ex change. Bid. Asked. Pennsylvania Railroad .-..MX . H Reading Railroad 22 1-18 22 Bnflalo. PlttshnririlTilWpatPTO 11W 12 benign valley 53X Lehigh Navigation SIX Central Transportation Co 17 Allegheny Valley bonds 11IX Northern Pacific 25X Northern Pacific preferred ,, SIX W 28X 61X Business Notes. The Reading Railroad reports that its coal shipment (estimated) for last week, ending April 13, was 88,000 tons, of which 21,000 tons were sent to Port Richmond and 12,000 tons were sent to Port Liberty. The shipments from the mines of the Cum berland coal region for the week ending April 7 were 17,015 tons, and for the year to that date 756.583 tons, an increase of 71,931 tons as com pared with the corresponding period of 1888. Ahono the mortgages recorded yesterday was one for $200,000 given by the Pittsburg and Castle Shannon Railway Company to the Fidelity Title Insurance and Trust Company, and a purchase money mortgage lor $10,000. The Pennsylvania Railroad reports that the quantity of coal and coke originating on and carried over its lines east of Pittsburg and Erie for the week ending April 8 was 259,170 tons,, of which 176,912 tons were coal and 82,258 tons coke. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the City Savings Bank yesterday, Mr. James D. Callery was elected President of the bank and Mr. William V. Callery a member of the Board of Directors, to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofIames Callery, Sr. Grain in Sight. Chicago, April 15. The visible supply of grain, in comparison with that ot a week ago, as reported by tbe Board of Trade, is as follows: Wheat, 27,787,000 bushels; decrease, 992.000 bushels. Corn, 16,245,000 bushels; de crease, 236,000 bushels. Oats, 0.858.000 bushels; decrease, 161,000 bushels. Rye, 1,519.000 bushels; increase, 3,000 bushels. Barley, 1,052,000 bush els; decrease, 131.000 bushels. Metal Markot. New Yoek Pig Iron quiet Copper nom inal; lake, April. $14. Lead dull and steady; domestic $3 07K. Tin easier and less active; Straits, $20 65. Wool markets. St. Louis Wool quiet and unchanged. i Whisky Uarket. There is a fair demand for finished goods at $103. OFFICIAL PITTSBURG. . No. 326.1 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE opening of Copeland street Irom Ells worth avenne to Walnut street Section 1 Be it ordained and enacted by the city of Pittsburg, in Select and Common Coun cils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by tho authority of tbe same. That the Chief of the Department of Public Works be, and is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be surveyed and opened within 60 days from the date of the passage of this ordi nance, Copeland street, from Ellsworth avenue to Walnut street, at a width of 40 feet in ac cordance witji a plan on file in the Department of Public Works known as McFarland Grove plan, approved December 28, 1870. Tbe dam ages caused thereby and the benefits to pay the same to be assessed and collected in ac cordance with the provisions of an act of As sembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act authbrizing and directing Councils of cities of the second class to provide for the improvement of streets. lanes, alleys and publio highways, sewers and sidewalks, re quiring clans of streets, providing for tbe ap pointment of a Board of viewers of Street Im provements, prescribing their duties, granting appeals to Councils and Court providing for tbe assessment and collection of damages and benefits, authonzlng the use of private prop erty and providing for filing liens and regulat ing proceedings thereon, and prohibiting tbe use of public streets without authority of Councils' approved the 14th day of June, A. D.1887. Section 2 That any ordinance or part of or dinance conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance be and tbe same is hereby repealed so far as the same affects this ordinance, f Ordained and enacted into a law in Coun cils this 16th day of March AD. 1889. H. P. FORD, President of Select Council. Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD, Clerk or Select Council. GEO. L. HOLLIDAY, President of Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Common Council. , Mayor's Office. March 22, 1889. Approved: WM. McCALLIN. Mayor. Attest: ROBERT OSTERMAIER, Assistant Mayor's Clerk. Recorded in Ordinance Book, vol. 7, page 22. 12th day of April, A. D. 1889. ap!6-32 ArNo.382J N ORDINANCE-AUTHORIZING THE opening of Mahogany alley, from Essex alley to Laurel street Section 1 Be it ordained and enacted by the city of Pittsburg, in Select and Common Coun cils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by tbe authority of the same. That the Cnlef of the Department of Publio Works be ana is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be surveyed and opened within 60 days from tbe date of the passage of this ordinance. Mahogany alley, from Essex alley to Laurel street at a width of 24' 7", in accordance with Joseph Patterson's plan recorded in the Re corder's Office. Allegneny county, vol. 3, pages 6 and 7. Tbe damages caused thereby and the benefits to pay the same to be assessed and col lected in accordance with the provisions of an act of Assembly of tbe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act authorizing and directing Councils of cities of the second class to provide for the improvement nf streets, lanes, alleys and public highways, sewers and sidewalks, requiring plans of streets, providing for the appointment of a Board of viewers of Street Improvements, pre scribing their duties, granting appeals to Coun cils and Conn, providing for the assessment and collection of damages and benefits, authorizing the use of private property, and nrovldlngfor filing liens and regulating pro ceedings thereon, and prohibiting the use of publio streets, without authority of Councils," approved the 14th day of June, A. D. 1887. Section 2 That any ordinance or part of or dinance conflicting with tbe provisions of this ordinance be, and tbe same is hereby repealed, so far as the same affects this ordinance. Ordained and enacted into'a law in Councils this 18th dav of March, A. D. 1889. H.P. FORD. President of Select Council. Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD, Clerk of Select Council. GEO. L. HOLLIDAY, President of Commcu CounclL Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Common Council. Mayor's Onlce, March 22, 1889. Approved: WM. McCALLIN', Mayor. Attest: TIOBT. OSTERMAIER, Assistant Mayor's Clerk. Recorded in Ordinance Book, vol. 7, page 12, 18th day of April, A. D. 1889. ap!6-32 DOMESTIC MARKETS. A More Active Movement in Frnit and Vegetable Lines. BUTTER AHD EGGS IN GOOD DEMAND Shell Corn and Hay StrongOats Weak on Heavy Becelpts. PACEAGE COFFEE OH EDGE OF BISE Office of Pittsbttbo Dispatch, J Monday, April 15, 1889. 5 Country Produce Jobbing Prices. Produce trade has been good for blue Mon day, the best .for weeks on that day. Apples and potatoes are moving out freely at the low rates, dealers being determined to clean up old stuff at whatever it will bring, to get ready for the new, which begins to come in freely. The best that eggs can be sold f or is HKc The cash customer with an offer of He would hardly be permitted to go away empty. The active movement of butter still holds on its way, but a let-up is likely to come before the week is out The heavy demand from surrounding towns is expected to fall off as grazing im proves. BtrrrzE Creamery, Elgin, 2S29e; Ohio do, 2526c; fresh dairy packed, 2021c; country rolls. 2023c; Chartiers Creamery Co. butter, 2829c. Beans Choice medium, $1 90; choice peas, $2 052 15. Bee3vax 2830c ft ft for choice; low grade. 1820c Cider Sand refined, $6 5007 50; common, $3E04 00: crab ciderT $8 008 60 f) barrel; elder vinegar, 1012c V gallon. , Cheese Ohio cheese, fall make, I212c; New York, fall make, 12fll2Kc; Llmburger, lie; domestic Sweitzer cheese, ll12c. Dries Peas $1 251 35 $ bushel; split do, Eoos llllKc p dozen for strictly fresh. Fruits Annies. SI 500)2 00 1 barrel: evat orated raspberries, 25c ft fi; cranberries, S3 CO w Darrei, a sufsa ou per ousnei; strawoemes, 30c a quart. .Feathers Extra live geese. 60060c; No. 1 do.. 40045c: mixed lots. 3035c ft fi. Honey New crop, 16017c; buckwheat, 13 Kjiac, HoMrtrr S2 652 75 ft barrel. Potatoes Potatoes. 8035c ft bushel; $2 50 2 75 for Southern sweets; $3 2o3 50 for Jer- SflV SWQfitSa PoraiET-Live chickens, 76QS0s ft pair; dressed chickens. 13ffll5c 1 B: turkeys. 18020c dressed, ft fi; ducks, live, 8085c ft pair; aresseo. laeiiic ft s; geese, lixtjioo p o. , Seeds Clover, choice, 62 fis to bushel, 36 ft bushel; clover.large English, 62 fis.S6 25; clover, Alsike, t8 50; clover, white, $9 00: timothy, choice. 45 fis, $1 85; blue grass, extra clean, 14 fis, $1 00; blue grass, fancy, 14 fis, $1 20: orchard grass, 14 fis, $2 00; red top, 14 fis, $1 00; millet 50 fis, $1 25; German millet 50 fis, $2 00: Hun garian grass, 48 fis, $2 00; lawn grass, mixture of fine grasses, 25c per J. Tallow Country, 45c; city rendered, 65Kc. Tropical Fruits Lemons, fancy, S3 60 4 00 ft box; common lemons, $2 75 ft box; Mes sina oranges, $3 0Q4 00 ft box: Florida oranges, $4 505 00 ft box; Valencia oranges, fancy. $5 50 7 00 ft case: Malaga grapes, $9 0010 00 ft keg; bananas, $2 60, firsts; SI 60, good seconds, ft bunch; cocoanuts, $4 004 60 ft hundred; new figs, lOQllc ft pound: dates, 5K6c ft pound. Vegetables Celery, 4050c doz. bunches; cabbazes, $1 502 00 ft hundred: new cabbage, S2 002 50 ft crate; onions, 5075c ft 'barrel; onion sets, fancy Eries. S3 253 50; Jersevs, $2 753 00; Western, J2 502 75; turnips, 25 80c ft bushel. Grocorlea. Package coffee is firm enough to go higher before many days, being relatively lo lower than tbe green article. Sugar also continues firm, notwithstanding recent sharp advances. Other groceries continue in the old ruts. Green Coffee Fancy Rio, 224523c: choice Rio, 2021c; prime Rio, 20c; fair Rio, 1819c; old Government Java, 27c, Maracalbo, 2223c; Mocha, 30K31Kc: Santos, 1922: Caracas coffee, 20K22c; peaberry, Rio, 2123c; La guayra, 21622c Roasted (in papers) Standard brands. 24c; high grades, 2628c; old Government Java, bu:k,32K33Jt;c;Maracalbo,27K28Kc,Sauto8, 2224c; peaberry. 27c; peaberry Santos. 2224c; choice Rio, 25c; prune Rio, 23c; good Rio. 22Kc; ordinary, 21?. . Spice's (whole) Cloves, 2125c; allspice, 9c; cassia, 89c: pepper, 19c: nutmeg, 7080c. Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test 7c; Ohio, 120. 8Kc: headlight, 150. 8K water white, lOKc: globe, 12c; elalne, 15c; carnadine, HKc; royaline, 14c Syrups Corn syrups, 26029c; choice sugar syrup, 3333c;prime sugar syrup, 3033c; strict ly prime, iutaax; new mapie syrupv N. O. Molasses Fancy, 48c; chb: Iolasses Fancy, 48c; choice, 46c; me- aium, acj mixea, 4ugi2c. Soda Bi-carb in kegs, 34c; bi-carb in s, 5c; bi-carb, assortea packages. 56c; sal soda in kegs, Bic: do granulated, 2c. Candles Star, full weight 9c;stearlne,per set 8c: paraffine, ll12c. RICE Head, Carolina, 77Kc: choice, 6J4 7c; prime. 56Vc; Louisiana, b6kc Starch Pearl, 3c; cornstarch, 67c; gloss starch, 67c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, 82 65; Lon don layers, $3 10; California London layers, $2 50; Muscatels, $2 2o: Caifornia Muscatels, $1 85; Valencia, new, 67c; Ocdara Valencia, 7K8c; sultana, 8Kc; currants, new, 4oc: Turkey prunes, new, 4JJ5c: French prunes, 8H13c: Salonlca prunes, in 2-fi packages, 8c; cocoanuts, per 100, $6 00; almonds, Lan., per fi, 20c do ivica, 19c; do shelled, 40d; walnuts, nap.. 12W15c; Sicily filberts. 12c; Smyrna figs, 12 16c: new dates, 66c; Brazil nuts. 10c; pecans, ll15c; citron, per fi, 21022c; lemon peel, per fi. 13Q14c; orange peel. 12c. Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft, 6c; apples, evaporated, 66c: apricots, Calif or nea, evaporated. 1518c; peaches, evaporated, pared, 22023c; peaches, California, evaporated, unpared, 1012.Kc: cherries, pitted, 21022c; cherries, unpitted, 5dc; raspberries, evapor ated, 2424Kc; blackberries, 7X8c; huckle berries, 1012c Sugars Cnhes, 99c; powdered, 909c; granulated, 8c; confectioners' A. 88c: standard A. Kfc: soft whites. 7Sc: yellow, choice. 7K7Jic; yellow, good, 77Vc; yellow, "fair. 7Kc: yellow, dark; 6c PlCKLES-JIedium, bbls. (L200), $4 50; me diums, half bbls. (600), $2 75. Balt-No. 1 ft bbL 95c: No. I ex, ft bbl, $1 05; dairy, ft bbL $1 20; coarse crystal, fi bbl. $1 20; Higgln's Eureka, 4 bu sacks, $2 bO, Higgin's Eureka, 16-14 fi pockets, $3 00. Canned Goods Standard peaches, $1 30 1 90; 2ds, $1 SC1 35; extra peaches. $1 5D1 90; Ele peaches, 90c; finest corn, $1 001 50; Hfd. o. corn, 70090c: red cherries, 90cSl 00; Lima beans, $1 10; soaked do, 85c; string do do, 75ffl 85cr marrowfat peas, SI 1001 15; soaked peas, 70075c; pineapples, $1 401 50: Bahama do, $2 75; damson plums, 95c; greengages, SI 25; egg plums, $2 DO; California pears, $2 50; do greengages. $2 00; do egg plums. 2tOO; extra white cherries. $2 90; red cherries, 2 fis, 90c; raspberries, $i 4001 50; strawberries, $1 10: gooseberries, $1 2001 30; tomatoes, 8292c; salmon, 1-fi, $1 7502 10; blackberries, 80c; suc cotash, 2-fi cans, ooaked, 99c; do green, 2fis, SI 2501 50; corn beef, 2-fi cans, $1 75; 14-fi cans, S13 50; baked beans. $1 40Q1 4a; lobster, 1 ft, SI 7501 80; mackerel. 1-ft cans, broiled. SI 50: sardines, domestic s, $4 1501 50,' sardines, domestic Ks, S3 2508 50: sardines, imported, Ks, SU 60012 60; sardines. Imported, Ks. $18 00; sardines, mustard, $4 00. sardines, spiced, $4 25. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackereL $36 ft bbL: extra No. 1 do, mess. $40; extra So. 1 niackerel,shore, $32; extra No. 1 do. messed, $36: No. 2 shore mackerel, $24. Codfish Whole pollock. 4c ft ft.; do medinm, George's cod, 6c; do large, 7c; boneless hake, in strips. 6c; do George's cod in blocks, 67kc. Herring Round shore. $5 CO ft bbl.; split " 00; lake, $250 ft 100-ft. half bbL White fish. $7 ft 100-ft. half bbL Lake trout, $5 50 ft half bbL Finnan haddock, 10c ft ft. Iceland halibut 13c ft fi. Buckwheat Flour 22c "ft ft. OATMEAL-S6 3006 60 ft bbL Miners' Oil-t-No. 1 winter strained, 6860o ft gallon. Lard oil, 75c Grain. Floor and Feed. Total receipts bulletined at tbe Grain Ex change, 30 cars. By Pittsburg. Ft Wayne and Chicago, 1 car of oats, 1 of hay, 7 of flour, I of tow. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis, 1 car of hay and straw, 8 of hay, 2 of oats, 1 of bran, lof flour. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, 3 cars of oats, 1 of hay, 1 of corn, 4 of rye 1 of flour. By Pittsburg and Western, 1 car of grain,! of flour. There was one sale on call, lz., a car of high mixed shell corn at 38Kc, o days. Oats are the weak factor of cereal mar kets, owing to heavy receipts. Shell corn is the firm factor of markets. Hay is firm on light receipts. Wheat and flour are as uncer tain as they can well be. From all points of the compass, and from over the seas, comes the news of slow markets in both lines. Wheat Jobbing prices No. 2 red, 9899c; No.3red,SS91c Corn No. 2 yellow ear, 4040c: high mixed ear, 36K37c; No. 1 vellow, shelled, 38 89c; No. 2 yellow, shelled. 38K039; high mixed, 28' ;ye No. 1 Western. 7WB7Sc! No. !L fACOAe- Barley No. 1 Canada, aravto No. 3 Cana da. 8588c; No. 3 Canada, 7072c; Lake Shore 7880c FLOUR-Jbbbing prices, winter patents, $6 O06 25? spring patents, $6 2506 60; winter straight $5 255 50; clear winter. $4 7505 00; straight XXXX bakers", $4 604 75. Rye flour. $400. MnxFEED-Middllngs, fine white, $15 00 16 00 ft ton; brown middlings, 812 00012 60; winter wheat bran, $13 00013 50; chop feed, $15 00016 00. Hay Baled timothy, choice, $15 60016 00; No. 1 do, $14 25014 50; No. i do, $12 00013 00; loose from wacon, $18 0020 00; No. 1 upland prairie, $10 00010 25; No. 2. $8 0003 50; packing do. $5500860. Straw Oats. $8 000825; wheat and rye Straw, $7 007 608 00. Provisions. Hogs were 10c higher at Chicago to-day than Saturday, the top price there being $4 95. Sugar-cured hams, large, 10c; sugar-cured bams, medium. He; sugar-cured hams, small, HKc; sugar-cured breakrast bacon, 10c:sugar cured shoulders, 8c; sugar-cured boneless shoulders, 9c; sugar-cured California bams, 8Jc; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 8Kc; sugar cured dried beef sets, 9c; sugar-enred dried beef rounds, Uc; bacon shoulders, 7 bacon clear sides, 8c; bacon clear bellies, 5c: dry salt shoulders, 6c: dry salt clear sides, 7Jic Mess pork, heavy, $14 00; mess pork, family. $14 60. Lard Refined in tierces, 7Kc; half barrels, TKc; 60-ft tubs, 7c; 20-ft palls. 7c; 50 ft tin cans, 7c: 3-fi tin pails, 8c; o-ft tin pails, 7c; 10-ft tin pails, 7c Smoked sausage, long, 5c; large, 5c Fresh park links, 9c Pigs feet, half barrel, $4 00; quarter barrel, $1 90. Dressed Meat. Armour & Co. furnish the following prices on dressed meats: Beef carcasses, 450 to 550 fis, 5Vc: 650 to 650 fis, 6Vc: 650 to 750 fts,6Kc Sheep, c, Fresh pork loins, 9c A Planter's Experience. "My plantation is in a malarial district where fever and ague prevailed. I employ 150 bands; frequently hair of them were sick. I was nearly discouraged when I began the use of Tutt's Pills The great result was marvelous. My men be- further trouble. With these pills. I woula not tear to live in any swamp." Ji ax v jlij, .Bayou Sara, La. Sold Everywhere. Office, 44 Murray street, New York. ttssu TENDERS m COAL. THE CONSUMERS' GAS CO. ' OF TORONTO, ONT. Will receive Tenders until noon on Monday, April 22, Next, For the supply of 33,000 TONS OF COAL -.--. AS FOLLOWS: Nine Thousand Tons (ot 2,000 lbs.) of Grate S'ize Screened Scranton, Pittston, Wilkesbarre or Lehigh Anthracite Coal, TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND TONS (of 2,000 lbs.) of Westmoreland or Youghio- gheny Lump Gas Coal, to be screened over a one and a half Inch screen, and ONE THOUSAND TONS of Cannel CoaL Tenders will be received for delivery by ves sel, f. o. b., at Toronto, or on the cars at tbe Suspension or International bridge. The coal to be delivered in equal monthly quantities be tween May 1 and October 31 next. The kind of coal offered must be specified. Payments must be accepted at the Gas Com pany's weights. Payments to be made at To ronto one month alter delivery. Contractors to prepay all railway charges to the bridges. ' Tenders to state specifically what difference, if any, will be made in the price provided the Company accept only a portion of the above quantities. Tenders mnst be addressed to the President. Security to be given for the fulfilment of the contract if required. No tender necessarily accepted. W. H. PEARSON, GENERALMANAGERAND SECRETARY. Toronto, April 10, 1839. aploTT The Deer Creek and Susque hanna R. R. Co. First Mortgage 5 Per Ct. Gold Bonds. PRINCIPAL DUE 1919. INTEREST PAYA BLE JULY 1 AND JANUARY 1, IN BALTIMORE. MERCANTILE TRUST AND DEPOSIT CO., OF BALTIMORE. TRUSTEE. Issue, $300,000. Principal and interest guar anteed by the Maryland Central Railway Co. This bond is a nrat mortgage on 16 miles of road now under construction from Belair, Md., connecting with tbe Maryland Central Railway Co., to Stafford. Md. The Marvland Central Railway Co., Baltimore to Delta, Pa. (45 miles), was reorganized In December, 1888, and is now on a sound financial basis, doing a prosperous business. Tbe York and Peach Bottom Railroad Co York. Pa., to Peach Bottom (40 miles), has been acquired by the Maryland Central Rail way Co., making a system of 101 miles, which will be operated by the Maryland Central Rail way Co. we recommend these bonds as a desirable In vestment, and offer a limited amount for sale at 95 per cent and accrued interest, subject to ad vance in price REA BROS. & CO., Bankers and Brokers, 423 WOOD STREET, PITTSBURG, PA. ap9-72-D WHOLESALE HOUSE. JOSEPH HORNE & CO.. Cor. 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