nEEEQE bWKihf EKSEE3ESI rf7- . kA H5-JI! '' 1-ppiJ ,-?rv?' SSBTODisPoSONS'Y; w.y v . AUGUST 5,' l889f ji Mysterious BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, i Explanations are usually very tedious, and so without any introduction or pream tulation I will plunge right into the midst of this uncannv story I ain about to telL . . . "When, some 15 years before the time of which I write, I was a schoolboy at Eton I made close friends with a fellow above me in the school, named Pellham. We were very great chums, and later on we went to Cambridge together, where my friend spent money and time in wasting both, while I read for holy orders, though I never actually entered the Church. Since that time I had completely lost sight of him and he of ine, and. with the exception of seeing his marriage in the papers, had no news at all of his whereabouts. One morning, however, toward the close of Sep tember 1857, 1 received a letter from him, short, precise, and evidently written in a great hurry, asking me to go down and see him at his family 'seat just outside Norwich. I packed my bag and went that very same evening. He met me himself at the station and drove me home. We had hardly re cognized each other at first Bight, so much had we changed in appearance, both being on tne dark side of 35, but our individual characters had remained much the same and we were still to allappearances thebestof friends. My friend was not, very talka- tively disposed, and I kept up a fire of questions until we drew up at the park gates. Going up the drive to the house he brightened up considerably, and gave me plenty of information about himself and family. He was quite alone, I was sur prised to hear, his wife and two daughters with an uncle of his having left for the Continent two days previous. After dinner he seemed quite the old "Cambridge Un dergrad" again, and once settled round the old-tashioned hearth, with cheroots and coffee, we talkod on over the days spent at Eton and Cambridge. We were just dis cussing our third edition of tobacco, when Pellham suddenly changed the sub ject, and said he would tell me now why he had written so shortly to me to pay him this unexpected visit. His face grew grave as he began by asking me if I was still a scep tic as regards ghostly manifestations. "Indeed I am," was my answer; "I have had no reason to change my views on the subject, and think exactly as I used to at Cambridge, when we so strongly differed; but I remember yon then saying that, if e,ver in after years you should come across an opportunity of proving to me your ideas on the subject, you would write to me atonce, and I also recollect giving my word that, if pos sible, I would come. But during the 15 years that have since passed by I have be stowed little, if any, thought on the sub ject." "Exactly," answered Pellham, with a grave smile that did not please me; "but now I have at last heard of a case which will satisly us both, I think, so I wrote to yon to come down and fulfill your old promise by investigating it." ' "Well! let me hear all about it first," 1 said cautiously. I certainly was not over joyed to hear this news, for, though a scep tic to all intents and purposes, still "ghosts" was a subject ior which I had a certain fear, and the highest ambition of my life was not to investigate haunted houses and the like just because I had years ago promised I would should a chance occur. But I repressed my feelings and tried to look interested, which I was, and delighted, which I certainly was not. Pellham then gave me a long account thrilling enough too it was of the case, which I have some what condensed in the following form. Some three or four years before, my friend had bought up a house which stood on the moorland about eight miles pfT. One morn ing before breakfast the tenants of the house, a Mr. Sherleigh (who was there with his family), suddenly burst, into my friend's stndy without airy cereiUony, and, in great heat and excitement, shouted out" the fol lowing words: "You shall suffer for it, Lord Pellham, my wife mad, and the little boy killed with fright, because you didn't choose to warn us of the room next the drawing room, but you shall ." Here the footman entered and at a sign from his master led the ex cited and evidently cracked old man from the room, but not before he had crashed down some gold pieces on the table, with: "That's the last rent you'll get for that house, as sure as I am the last tenant." "Well," continued my friend, "that very day, now two years ago, I rode over there myself and the house was empty. The Sherleighs had left it, and since that day I have never been able tolet it to anyone. Mr. Sherleigh, who was quite mad, poor fellow, threw himself before a train, and was cut to pieces, and Mrs. Sherleigh spread a re port that it was haunted, and now no one will take it or even go near it, though it stands high and is in a very healthy posi tion. Tto nights ago," he went on gravely "I was ridiDg pf st the road which leads up ' to It, end through the trees I could see light in one of the upper rooms, and figures or rather shadows, of a woman's figure, with something in her arms, kept crossing to and lro before the window blind. I determined to go in and see what on earth it was. and tying my horse outside I went in. In a minute or two I was close underneath the window where the light was still visible, and the shadow moving to and fro with a horrible regularity. As I stood there, un decided, a feeling" within warned me not to enter the house, so vivid, it was almost a soft voice that whispered in my ear. I heard no noise inside, the night air was moaning gently through the fir trees which surrounded the house on one side and nearly obscured the upper part of the window from view. I stooped down and picked up a large stone it was a sharp-edged flint and without any hesitation hurled it with all my might at the window pane, some eight or ten feet from the ground. The stone went straight and struct the window on one of the wooden partitions, smashing the whole framework, glass and all, into a thousand splinters, many of which struck me where I stood. The result was awful and unexpected. The moment the stone touched the glass the lights quite disappeared, and in the blackuess in which I was shrouded, the next minute, I could see hiding behind the broken corners of glass a dark face and form for a short instant, and then it went and all was pitch dark again. There I was among those gloomy pine trees hardlv knowing which way to turn. The face I had caught a momentary glimpse of was the face of Mr. Sherleigh whom I knew to be deadl My knees trembled. I tried to I rope my way out of the wood, and stum led from tree to tree, often strikiner mv head agianst low branches. In vain. With the weird light in the window as a guide, I had taken but a few minutes to come, but now all was dark and I could not find my way back again. I ielt as if the dismal tree trunks were living things, which seemed to move. Suddenly I heard a noise on my left. I stopped and listened. Hor ror! I was still close to the window, nnd what I heard was a cracking and splintering of broken glass, as if someone from inside was slowly forcing their way out through the hole made by the stone! Was it he? The fir tree next me suddenly shook vio lently, as if agitated by a powerful gust of wind, and-then in a gleam of weird light I saw a long dark body hanging half-way out of the window, with black hair streaming down the shoulders. It raised one arm slammed down something at mv feet which fell with a rattle, and then" hised out: "There's the last rent you'll ever have for this house." I stood literally stupefied with horror, then a cold numb sensation camo over me and I fell fainting on my face, but not until I heard my horse give a prolonged neigh and then his footsteps dying an ay in the distance on the hard moorland road. . . . . When I recovered consciousness it was broad daylight. I was cold and damp; all night I had lain where I fell. I -t.'dtkLiL. "iisfn'i, ijfMJsisirt stilBstsf f iii iirjjfljfc sS tti fisf'eieffsHaJisEfSeTsr rose and limped, stiff and tired, to the place where I had tied my horse the night before, but no horse was there. .And the horrible sound of his hoofs echoing away in the dis tance came back to me, and I shuddered as I thought of what I had seen. After a terrible trudge for three hours I reached home. A tremendous search had been made for me, of course, but no one dreamt of looking for me where I really was. The horse had found his way home, and I have never found out what frightened him so." My friend's account Was over. He lit his cigar, which had gone out during the nar rative, and settling himself comfortably in his chair said: "Well, old boy, that's a case 1 don't feel at all inclined to investi gate by myself, but I'll do it with your aid. You know, a genuine skeptic is a great ad dition in such things, so we'll get to the bottom of it somehow." My feelings at that moment were not dif ficult to describe. I disliked the whole af fair, and wanted heartily to get out of it; and yet something urged me to go through with it and show my friend that the house was all right, that imigination did it all, that the horse may have been frightened at anything, and that very possibly there really was someone in the house all the time, and imigination had done the rest. Such were the somewhat mixed thoughts in my mind at the time. However, in a few moments all was settled and we had agreed to go the following night, search the house first, and then sit up all night in the room next the drawing room. Then we both went to our separate bed rooms to think the matter over and get a long sleep, as neither expected to get any the following night. Next morning at breakfast we both talked about the coming night and how best to meet its requirements as regards food, etc We agreed to take pistols for weapons, horses as a means of conveyance, and abun dant food wherewith to lortify ourselves against a possible attack of ghosts. The day drew on toward its close. It was very hot aud snltry weather, and not a breath of wind stirred the murky atmos- Ehere, as at 4:30 r. si. we bestrode our orses and made off in the direction of the "White House." A long gravel road, lonely in the extreme, led us acioss the wild uncultivated moorland for six or seven miles, then we saw a copse of fir trees which, mv friend informed me, were the trees which sheltered one side of the house. In a few minutes we had passed through the front garden gate and were among the dark fir trees, and then as we turned a sharp comer the house burst fnll upon us. It was square and ugly. Great staring windows in regular rows met our eyes and conveyed an unpleasant impression to the brain at least, they did to mine. Prom the very mo ment we had passed the front gate till I left the house next morning, I felt a nastv, sick sensation creep over me, a feeling of numbness and torpor which seemed to make the blood run thick and sluggish in my veins. The events of that night have re mained engraved on my brain as with fire, and, though they happened years ago, I can see them now as vividly as then. Only an eye-witness can possibly describe them, should he wish to do justice to them, and so my feeble pen shall make the attempt. It was about 6:30, and we had settled our horses in a barn outside for the night There were only two walls to keep the barn in position, and these were simply a row ot rotten posts, half decayed in places, so we securely tied the horses, and with a good supply of hay, left them for the night. We then approached the door and, after fumb ling in the lock for some time, Pellham succeeded in opening it. A sickly, musty odor prevaded the hall, and the first thing we did after a thorough search, which re vealed nothing, was to open all the doors and windows all over the house, so as to let in what little air there was. Then we went upstairs into the little room next the drawing room, where, according to Sher leigh, strange things had occurred. But the window was all in pieces, and hardly an entire pane of glass was left, and we were forced to select another room on the same floor (i. e., the second) and looking out on the same copse of pine trees, whose branches almost touched the glass, so close were they. It was a very ordinary room; a fire-place, no furniture hut a rickety table and three chairs, one of which was broken. The only disagreeable feature we noticed about the room was its gloominess; it was so very dark. The trees outside, as I have already said, were so close that the .slightest breath of wind rustled their twigs against the win dow. We soon had six candles fixed and burning in different parts of the little room, and the blaze of light was still further in creased by a- roaring fire, on which a kettle was singing for tea, and eggs boiling in a saucepan, and at 7:30 we were in the mid dle of our first ten in a haunted house. It was, indeed, less luxurious than the dinners I had been used to lately, but otherwise there was nothing to find fault with, and a little later the tea things were cleared away in a heap in a corner (where, by-the-by, they are to this day), and we were sitting round an empty table, smoking in silence. The door out into the passage was fast shut, but the window was wide open. The sun had sunk out of sight in a beautiful sky of wonderful coloring. Small fleecy clouds floating about caught the soft after glow and looked unearthly as seen through the thick fir branches. The faint red hue of the western sky looked like the reflection of some huge and distant conflagration, growing dimmer and fainter as the dark engines of the night played upon it, extin guishing the leaping flames and suffusing the sky with a red reflected glow. No a breath ot air stirred the trees. My friend had left the window and was poking and arranging the fire, with -his back turned to ward me. I was standing close to the win dow, looking at the fast-fading colors, when it seemed to me that the window sash was moving. I looked closer. Yes! I was not mistaken. Tne lower-halt was gradually sinking; gradually and very quietly it went down. At first I thought the weight had slipped aud gone wrong, and the window was slipping down of its own accord; but when I baw the bolt pulled across and fastened as by on invisible hand, I thought differently. My first impluse was to immediately undo the bolt again and open the window, but on trying to move good heavens! I found I had lost all power of motion and conld not move a muscle of my body. I was literally rooted to the ground. Neither could I move the muscles of my tongue or mouth; I could not speak or utter a sound. Pellham was still doing something at the fire, and I could hear him muttering to himself, thongh I could not distinguish any words. Suddenly, then, I felt the power of motion returning to me, my muscles were relaxing, and turning, though not without a considerable effort, I walked to the fire-place. Pellham. then. for the first time noticed that the window was shut, and he made a remark about the closeness, of the night, asking me why I closed it. "Hulloa," he went on, before I had time to answer, "by the Gods above! what is happening to that window? Look why it's movingl" I turned. The window was slowly being opened again. Yes, sure enough it was. Slowly and steadily it moved or was pushed up. We could but believe onr eyes; in half a minute the window was wide open again. I turned and looked at Pellham and he looked at me, aud in dead siience we stared at one another, neither knowing what to say or wishing to break the silence. Bnt at length my friend spoke. ti"lwishl were a skeptic, old man, like von are; skeptics are always safer in a place like this." "Yes," I said as cheerfully as I could, "I feel safe enough, and what's more, I am convinced that the window was opened by human agency from outside," Pellham smiled, he knew as well as I that no human fingers conld have fastened the bolt from outaide. "Well," he said briskly, "perhaps you are right; come let's examine the window." We rose and approached it, and my friend put his head and shoulders out into the air. It won very dark, and a strange op pressive stillness reigned ontside, only broken by the gentle moaning sound of the night wind as it rustled through the trees and swept their branches like the strings of a lyre. I followed my friend's example, and together we peered out into the night Soon my eyes rested on the ground below us, aud at the base of one of the nearer pines I thought I could distinguish a black form, clinging, as it seemed, to the tree. I pointed It out to Pellham, who failed to see anything, or at least said so, anyhow, I was glad to believe that my excited imagination was the real cause. We were still leaning out of the window in silence, when several of the trees, especially the one which I had imagined X had seen the shape, were most violently agitated, as though by a mighty wind; but we felt not the slightest breath on our faces. At the same instant we heard a subdued shuffling sound in the room be hind us, which seemed to come from the direction ot the chimney. But neither of us referred to it as we slowly walked back to the fire and took up our places on either side of the two chairs, which were at the best very rickety. "It isn't wise to leave the window open," said my friend, suddenly, "for if there really is anyone outside, they can see all and everything we do; while we, for our part, can see absolutely nothing of what goes on outside." I agreed, and walked up to the window, shutting it with a bang and firmly drawing the bolt. "I brought a book," he went on, "which I thought we might read out aloud in turn to relieve the dullness and the silence. He stopped speaking and looked at me, and at the same moment I raised my eyes to his face. To ray intense horror and sur prise I noticed for the first time a long smear of blood, wet and crimson, across his forehead. My horror was so great that for some seconds I could not find my tongue, and sat stupidly staring at him. At last I gasped out: "My dear fellow, what has happened to you, have you cnt yourself?" "Where? what do you mean?" he replied, looking round him with surprise. For answer I took oat my handkerchief, and wiping his brow, showed him the red stains. But as I stood there showing him this proof and as he was expressing his utter astonishment, I distintly saw some thing that for the moment made the blood rush from the extremities and crowd into my head. Something seemed to tighten round my heart. I saw a large, gleaming knife and hand disappear into the air in the direction of the window. It was too much; my nerves failed me, and I dropped fainting to the floor. . When I came to myself I was lying where I fell by the fire-place. Pellham was sitting beside me. "I thought you were dead," he said, "you've been unconscious for over an hour." He said this in such a queer manner and laughed so fiendishly that I wondered what had happened to him during the interval. Had he seen something awful and gone mad? There was a strange light in-his dark eyes and a leer on his lip. Just then he took up his book quite naturally and began to read aloud, every now and then he made a comment on what he was reading, quite sensibly too, and soon I began to think, as I sipped my brandy out of our flask, that I must had a frightful dream. Bat there at my feet lay the blood-stained handkerchief, and I could not get over that. I glanced at his face, the smear had disappeared, and no scratch or wound was visible. Pellham had not bees reading long, per haps some five or ten minutes, when we heard a strange noise outside among the trees, just audible above the death-like stillness of the autumn night It was a con fused voice like the low whispering of sev eral persons, and as I listened, still weak from the last shock, the blood stood still in my veins. Pellham went on reading as usual. This struck me as very curious, for he must have heard the noise plainly; but I said nothing, and glancing at him I saw the same light in his eyes and the evil leer on his mouth, looking ugly in the flickering glare of the candles and firelight. Suddenly we heard a tremendous noise ontside, altogether drowning the first. The horses had broken loose and were tearing wildly past the house. Long and wild neighs rang out and died away, and we knew our horses were gone. Pellham was still read ing, and as I looked at him a sudden and horrid thought flashed into my brain. It was this: Had he anything to do with this? Was it possible? Before I had time to answer my question Pellham threw down the book and made for tne door, locked it, drew out the key, and opening the window threw it faraway among the trees. I then recognized the awful fact that I was alone with a madman. I glanced at my watch, it was 12:15. Instead of one hour I must have been unconscious for two at least This was 'terrible in the extreme. He was a man of far more powerful physique than L What was to be done? Pellham strode grinning up to the fire, went down on both knees and commenced blowing between the bars with all his might I saw my chance, and quietly walking to the window, without a word I climbed out, and letting myself as far down as my arms would allow I then let go and dropped. It was a distance of four or five feet, but in the darkness I tumbled for ward on my face. As I rose, uninjured, I distinctly heard the sound of running feet close to me, but in my bewilderment I could not make ont clearly in which direction they were going; they only lasted a moment or two. But what a terrific sight met my gaze as I turned the corner of the house, and saw a volume of smoke pouring stead ily out of the windows and roof of the back portion of the house. Now and again a long flame, too, shot up to heaven. "Good God!" I cried, "the house is on fire." No wonder the horses had taken flight. But my poor friend, what could I do for him? The window was too high for me to climb in again, and the doors were locked. In a few minutes the flames would spread to this side of the house and the poor fel low would be burnt to death unless he had enough sense left to jump out of the win dow. Ihurriedbacktothespotwherelhadletmy self down from the win do wjnst in time to see the last scene of the most ghastly experience I have ever witnessed. Pellham was stand ing at the window. In his hand was a red hot poker, and it was pointed at his throat, but the strain was too great for my nervous system and with a violent start I woke up! r After our heavy tea we had both fallen asleep, just as we were in our chairs. Pell ham was still snoring opposite me, and the llVht was stealing in thrnnch thp wimlnTr It was morning about 6:30. AH the candles had burnt themselves out.and it was a won der they had not set fire to the dry wood near them. Twenty minutes later we had re-lit the fire and were discussing the remnant of eggs and coffee. Half an hour later we were riding home in the bright, crisp, morning air, and an hour and a half later we were in the middle of a second and far superior breakfast, during which I did not tell mv dream, but during which we did agree tha't it had been the dullest and most uncomfort able night we had ever spent away from home. Boslon A.4T. LandGr't7s.t07i Atcb. 4 Top. K. B... 36J4 'Boston Albany.. .517 Boston & Alalne. ....! C. 11. . 102 Clnn. San. Ctere. 24!4 Kastern R. K 110 Mexican Cen. com., 143J 31ex.Clstmtg.bds.6s A. Jf. tlineiu... OS N. Y. &.E.7l....S Did Colony. 175 Stocks. Kntland preferred., Wis. Central, com... AUouezMgCo(new) Calumet A Heel..., FranKIm 1'ewable (new) , Qalncr Bell Telephone... ., Boston Land Hater Power Tamarack , 22 . 75 ,230 10 . 2 43 2U , 6 . Hi 101 San Diego , Philadelphia Stocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney A Stephenson, brokers. No. S7 Fourth avenue. Members Aew York Mock Ex change. Hid. Asked. Pennsylvania llallroad siif 52 Heading 22 22 7-18 Lehigh Valley Si 53) Lehigh Navigation C2H S3 Northern 1'aclflc -29S 23 northern Pacific preferred ua MX Saturday's OH Range. Corrected dally by John M. Oaxiey A Co., 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange. Opened WMLpnest V) Highest B9J( Closed wg Barrels. Average rnns . 44.810 Average shipments 101,801 Average charters 82.640 Kenned, New York, 7.40c Krone, London, 5Xd. Rtflnad. Antwtrn. lSKf. Kenned, Liverpool, Xd, A. D. McGrew A Co. quote; Pats, 987.0 99cimUs,H.0o;s. " DOMESTIC -MARKETS. Country Produce Plenty, and the Drift Toward Lower Prices. TOMATOES L0WEB, POTATOES SL0i Oats Weak on Account of Big Crop Spring Patent Flour Of". GEEEN COFPEE UPBUfJABS BTEADI Office ot Pittsbuko Dispatch, SATURDAY, Augnst 3, 1869. J Country Produce Jobbing; Prices. Staff Is plenty, and active trade Is reported by commission men, but no advance. The gen eral drift Is toward lower prices. Tomatoes are on the decline, owing to liberal receipts. Pota toes are slow at SI SO per barrel as the outside figure. Ann Arundel cantaloups and Delaware peaches are coming In freely. Country butter is in improved demand. Reliable eggs are none too plenty. Cheese Is moving out more freely than at the beginning of the week, but prices are unchanged. Apples grow plentler, and prices are a shade lower. Buttzb Creamery, Elgin, 1819c; Ohio do. 17016c; fresh dairy packed, 12l3c; country rolls. 1012c Beasb Navy hand-picked beans, $2 402 60; medium. S2 302 40. Beeswax a30c $ ft for choice; low grade, lS20c . CIDER Sand refined, t0 E07 80: common, 13 604 00; crab Cider, 88 0068 60 ? barrel; elder vinegar, 1012c ?) gallon. . CHEESE Ohio. 8c; Now York, 10c; Lim burger, 89c: domestic Sweltzer, 912c: Imported Sweltzer, 22a California Fruits California peaches, $2 00 f) K-busbel box; cherries, S3 00; apricots, S2 00 a 4-basket case; plums, SI 762 00 a 4 basket case. Egos 15c f) dozen for strictly fresh. Fauns Apples, 82 002 50 barrel; pine apples, (I 0001 25 W dozen; whortleber ries, 75cSl 00 $1 pail; blackberries, 6&8o $ quart; wild coose plums, $2 60 f? crate; currants, $3 S01 V 2-bnsnel stand; watermelons. S15 0023 00 fl hundred; sickel pears, 2 00 2 2S$t bushel crate; Delaware peaches, t2 per bushel. Keatuees Extra live geese, 5060c; No.1, do, 4013c; mixed lots, 3033c fl IX Potatoes SI 251 60 $) barret Poultry Live spring chickens, 5060c ft pair; old, 707oc pair. Seeds Clover, choice, 02 fts to bushel. Si 60 p bushel; clover, large English, 62 tts. $0 00; clover, Alsike, $8 50; clover, white, S9 00; timo thy, choice, 45 Sis, SI 65: blue gra33, extra clean. 14 lis. 90c: blue grass, fancy, 14 lbs, SI 00; orchard grass, 14 fis, 81 65; red top, 14 fi. SI 25; millet, 50 lis, 1 00; German Millett, 50 Sis. SI 50; Hungarian grass, 60 &s, 51 00; lawn gravs, mixture of fine grasses, S2 50 bushel of 14 fis. TAIXOW Country, 4&c;clty rendered, 1 5c Tropical Fruits Lemons, fancy. S5 50 6 00 ft box: Messina oranges, S5 005 50 31 box; rodl. S4 505 00; California oranges, U 504 75 f) box; bananas, S2 25 firsts, II 25 good seconds, ) bunch; cocoanuts, S4 00Q4 50 hundred; new figs, 89c $ ft; dates. 56Kc fl IX. Vegetables Tomatoes, home-grown, $2 2 25 $1 bushel; wax beans, SI ) bushel; green beans, 6075c ft bushel; cucumbers, home raised, SI 50 V bushel: radishes. 2540c fl dozen; home-grown cabbage, 60c lp bushel; new celery, home-grown, 60c $ dozen. Groeerlee. Green coffee advanced to 9 in the East yesterday, and packages are firm. Sugar is steady but unchanged. Green Coffee Fancy Rio. 2122c; choice Rio, 18K20c: prime Rio. 18c; fair Rto, 1718c; old Government Java, 26c; Maracaibo, 2223c; Mocha, 2723c; Santos, 1922c: Caracas 2022c: peaberry, Rio, 2123c; La Guayra, 21 22C Roasted (in papers) Standard brands,22c: high grades, 21J2b4c; old Government Java, bulk. ilS!3$ic; Maracaibo, 2627c: Santos. 24U22Kc; peaberry.25Kc;peabernr,choiceBlo. 4Sc; prime Rio, 21Kc; good Rio, 21c; ordi nary, 2uo. bl'iCEs (whole) Cloves, 2125c: allspice, 8c: cassia, 6c; pepper. 16c: nutmeg, 7080c Petroleum dobbers' nrlcesl 110 tear.7c: Ohio, 120, 8Kc; headlight, 1W, 8c; water white, 10c; globe. 12c; elaine, 15c; caraadine, Uc: royaline, 14c. sybups Corn syrups, 2629c; choice sugar syrupj, S3638c: prime sugar syrnp, 3033o; strictly prime. 8335c: new maple syrup, 90c N. O. Molasses Fancy. 48c; choice, 46c; me dium, 43c; mixed. 4042a Soda lii-carbin kegs, 34c; bi-carb inK 5c; bi-carb, assorted packages. 5J6c; sal soda in kegs, l$c; do granulated. 2c Candles Star, full weight, 9c; atearine, set, tiKc: parafnne, llI2c i KICB Head. Carolina, 77c: choice, 6 7c; prime, 5Ji6Vc; Louisiana, o6Jc Starch Pearl, 3c: cornstarch, 57c; gloss starch, 57c Eoreion Fruits Layer raisins, $2 65; Lon don layers. S3 10; California London layers, S2 50: Muscatel. S2 2a: California Muscatels, SI 85; Valencia, 7c; Ondara Valencia, 7i08c; sultana, 8Kc; currants, 4K5c; Turkey prunes. 4J5c; French prunes, 813c; Salonica prunes, in 2-ft packages, 8c; cocoanuts. $1 100, S6 00; almonds, Lan., per ft, 20c; do Ivlca, 19c; do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap., 1215c; Sicily filberts, 12c: Smyrna ngst 12 16c; new dates, 5K6c; Brazil nuts, 10c; pecan-, 11015c; citron, per !. 2122c; lemon peel, per Si, 1S14c; orange peel, 12'c Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per A, 6c apples. evaporated, 6K6Kc; apricots. Callfor; nia, evaporated, 15lsc; peaches, evaporated, pared. 2223c; peaches, California, evaporated, unpared, 1012fc; cherries, pitted, 2I22c; cherries, unpitted, 56c; raspberries, evapor ated, 2424c; blackberries, 7K8c; huckle berries. lQQUc Sugars Cubes, 969Jc; powdered. 9K 9c; granulated. 9c: confectioners' A. SK 9c; standard A, 8c; soft whites. s)iS)ic: yel low, choice Si4c; yellow, good, 7KSc; yellow, fair, 8c; yellow, dark. 7c Pickles Medium, bbls (1,200), 84 50; medi um, half bbls (600). $2 75. Salt-No. 1. W bbl, 05c; No. lex. S bbl, SI 05; dairy, f? bbl, $1 20: coarse crystal. $1 bbl, $1 20; Hlgglmja. Eureka, 4-bu sacks, $2 80; Higins' Eurekajfe-14 B pockets. $3 00. CAUKtp Goods Standard peaches, SI SO 1 90: 2(h SI 301 35; extra peaches. SI 501 90; pie peaches, 90c; finest corn, $11 50: Hid. Co. corn. 70390c: red cherries, 90o8i; Lima beans, SI 10: soaked do, 85c; string dodo, 7685c; mar rowfat peas. SI 101 15: soaked peas. 7075c; pineapples, SI 4031 50: Bahama do, S2 75; dam son plums, 5c: greengages, 81 25; egg plums, S2; California pears. Si SO; do greengages, S2: do egg plums, 82; extra white cherries, 12 90: red cberrfes, 2 Bs. 90c; raspberries, Jl 4001 50; strawberries, SI 10r gooseberries, SI 30ai 40; tomatoes, 82J492c: salmon, 1-ft, SI 75482 10: blackberries, 80c; succotash. 2 ft cans, soaked. 99c: do preen, 2 Ss, S125l 50: corn beef, 2-ft cans. 82 05: 14-B cans, 814 00; baked beans, 81 4ol 60; lobster, 1-ft. Si 751 80; mackerel! 1-fi cans, broiled, SI 60; sardines, domestics. Ki $4 50 4 60: sardines, domestic Ks, S3 258 60; sar dines, imported, fa, 811 5012 60; sardines, im ported, Js, 818: sardines, mustard, 84 50; sar dines, spiced, 84 50. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel. 836 & bbl.; extra No. 1 do, mess, 840; extra No. 1 mackerel, shore, 832; extra No. 1 do, messed, 836; No. 2 shore mackerel, 824. Codfish Whole pollock, 4Kc V S; do medium, George's cod, Cc: do large. 7c: boneless bake, in strips, 6c; do George's cod in blocks, 6K7Kc Herring Round shore. $5 00 ) bbl; split. 87 00: lake, $2 50 sp 100-S. half bbl. White fish. 87 OC W 100- half bbl. Lake trout, 85 60 half bbl. Finnan haddock. 10c ft. Iceland halibut, 13c V ft. Pickerel. K barrel, 82 00; U barrel, SI 10; Potomac herring, 85 00 barrel, 82 50 V H uarrgl. Oatmeal 88 30fl 60 w bbl, Misers' Oil No. 1 winter winter strained, 5S60c ? gallon. Lard oil, Grain, Floor nnd Feed. Total receipts bulletined at the Grain Ex change, 28 cars. By Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, 2 cars of oats, 1 of straw, 2 of hay, 1 of feed, 5 of corn, 2 of bran, 1 of wheat, 1 of malt. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis. 5 cars of corn, 3 of hay, 1 of oats, 4 of wheat. Sales on call: One car No. 2 w. oats, 31Kc, 10 days, Pennsylvania lines; 1 car, 29J$c, August. Pennsylvania lines. Total receipts for the week, 162 cars, against 196 last week and 192 the week before Oats are weak. In view of new crop, which promises to be the biggest on record. It will be understood that sales for August and September are for new oats. Last year's crop holds up fairly well, but U more or less affected by brlghr prospects for this fall's yield. Spring patent flour is reduced 10 to 15o in Job lots since the.beglnnlngof the week. wheat Jobbing prices New No. 2 red, 83 Mc: No. 2 red. 89Q90C; No. 3 red. 83681c Corn No. 2 yellow ear. 4546c: high mixed ear. 4444Kc; No. 2 yellow, shelled, 4243c; hisrh mixed, shelled, 41012c; mixed? shelled, 404211c A'-N-2yh!te 32K3c: extra. No. 3. SliWlKc; No. 3 .white, 3OS031c; No. 2 mixed oats, 2o27c rR0-lp?P'',"',Ta,''a and Ohio, 5le52e; No. 1 Western, 5151ic: new rye No. 2 Ohio, 47348c Flour Jobbine prices Fancy winter and !P5ES. ?teIl,ts' 5 756 25; winter straight, ? & ?", c,,ar..w'"lt"'v 765 W: straight XXXX bakers', 84 2504 (50. Rye flour, 83 60 Millfeed Middlings, fine white. 814 0 15 00 f ton: brown middlings, 811 1012 00: win ter wheat bran. 5U 00ll 25; chop feed. S15 00 16 00. uay uaiea timotnv, cboice, S1414 25: No. 1 do. 813 6913 75j,No. 2 do, JU 08 12 50: "loose, Xromwaipn.fcl8 00jiio:ipre; 810 0010 60; No. 2, 87 60S8 00; packing do. So 50 , Straw Oats, 80 50; wheat and rye straw 5 606 00L " Provisions. There is Jo reduction on lard, SI a barrel on mess pork and -fto j0 on several other pork products, which an Inspection of quotations will disclose Sugar-cured hams, large, llic; sugar-cured bams, medium, 12c; sugar-curf d hams, small. "2Hc: sugar-cured breakfast bacon,10K; sugar cured shoulders, 7c; sugar-cured boneless shoulders, 9c; sugar-cured California bams, 8c; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 9c; sngar cured dried beef sets, 10Xc; sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 12c; bacon shoulders, 6c: bacdn clear sides, 8c; bacon clear bellies, ike; dry salt shoulders, 6c; dry salt clear sides, 8c tin cans, 6Kc; 3-fttin rails, 7Jc; 5-ft tin palls. 7c; 10-ft tin pails, 6c; 5-ft tin palls. 7c: 10-ft tin pails, 7c Smoked sausage, long, 5c; large, 5c Fresh pork links, 9c Boneless hams, 10c Pigs feet, half barrel, 83 60; quarter barrel, 82 00. Dressed Stent. Armour & Co. furnished the following prices ' on dressed meats: Beef carcasses, 450 to 550 fts.5Kc;550 to 650 fts. 6Vc; 650 to 750 Bs. 6Kc Sheep, oo yl ft. Lambs, 10c jfl ft. Hogs, 6Mc Fresh pork loins. 8c MAEKETS BY WIEE. The Summer Lull Strikes the Wheat Pit Bearish. Reports From the Northwest and From Europe No Material Changes, but All tbo Options Weak. Chicago Trading in wheat was lighter to day than It has been on any day for a month past. There were no outsiders to speak of and apparently but little local interest in the deal outside the scalping crowd. As a result, the market was narrow and fluctuations in prices were within narrow bounds. K covering all the changes. December opened at 78c or just where it left off yesterday, and after a gradual weakening to 78Hc, worked up to T& 78Jc, closing at 78JgC. Gossip as well as news was conflicting. There was a big batch of bearish reports from the Northwest, one Minneapolis dispatch saying that the crep of the Northwest would be 80.000,000 bushels, and another that prices for wheat at country points have been reduced 6c Weather conditions everywhere on this side were again magnificent and just-what the threshers need. Private cables were firm no public ones on account of a holiday. The favor able news from abroad was backed up by good buying orders for cash wheat here. Two of the largest California experts now es timate the crop of that State at 37,000,000 and 39,000,000 respectively, according to a dispatch shown on 'Change to-day, being a material re duction from former estimates. The market closed tame with prices within a small fraction of yesterday's closing price. A moderate speculative and fair shipping business was transacted in command the feel ing developed was easier, the bulk of the trade being at lower prices. The market, opened at about yesterday's closing prices, was steady for a time, but soon sold off 4c. became Inac tive and closed $ic lower than yesterday. Oats were quite active, but weaker, and prices declined Jic, the market closing quiet and steady at about Inside figures. The came for the decline was the large receipts. The percentage ot new was heavier, and the quality on the whole good. Les.i was done in pork. Prices declined 17 20con the whole range, closing steady at Inside figures. Lard market attracted little attention. The feeling was easy and prices ruled about 25c lower and closed quiet. A fairlv active trade was reported in the market for short ribs and the feeling was easi er. Prices declined 57jc and the market closed quiet at inside figures. The leading tntnres ranged as follows: Wheat No. 2 September, 7676JC?76 76c: December, 78678c: year, 76Ji 7T6K76c Corn No. 2 September, 36863535?c; October. 3&363535c; December, SoV"a Oats NA, 2, September. 212120 20Kc; October. 21V21W2I21c; May, 2 e&JgC Mess Pore, per bbl. September, 810 70 10 70105010 60; October, S10 5210 65 10 3510 .35: January. 898009 75. Lard, per 10b fts September, 86 226 23; October, 56 2506 2506 2006 20; year, 85 97U 6 97K05 950595. Short Ribs, per 100 fts. September. 85 45 5 455 37K5 "57: October, 85 4505 37; January, $4 ltt4 ftX Cash quotations were as follows: Flour dnll and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 77lc; No. 8 spring wheat, nominal; No. 2 red. 77Jc No. 2 corn. 36c; No. 2 oats, 2021c No. 2 rye. 434Sc No. 2 barley nominal. No. 1 flaxseed, 81 2901 SO. Timothy seed, 81 43. Mess pork, per barrel, 810 50010 65. Lard, per 1U0 pounds, SO 156 17. Short rib sides (loose), $5 3505 40. Dry salted shoulders (boxed), unchanged. Short clear sides (boxed), unchanged. Sugars unchanged. Receipts Flour. 13,000 barrels; wheat, 198,000 bnshels; com. 295,000 bushels; oats, 245,000 bushels; rye, 3,000 bushels; barley, none. Shipments Flour, 11,000 barrels: wheat, 71,OO0bnsUeH: corn. 222.000 bushelsioats, 135,000 bushels; rye. 19.000 bushels; barley, none. On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was active ana unchanged. Eggs quiet at lie New York Flour heavy and quiet Wheat Spot easier and quiet: options dull, c lower, andsteady. Barley malt quiet. Corn Spot weaker and moderately active; options active, KKC lower and weak. Oats Spot weaker and less active: options lower and fairly active. Hay in fair demand and firm. Coffee Options opened steady and unchanevd to a points ad vance, and cloed steady, 5015 points np; sales, 48,000 bags, including September. 15.2015.S0c: October. 15.1015.20; November. 15.10c; Decem ber, 15.0015.20c: January, 14.95015.15c: March, 10.20c; May. 15.0515.20c; spot Rio stronger; fair cargoes, 18c Sugar Raw dull and weak; fair refining. 6c; centrifugals, 98 test, 7c; refined quiet and unchanged. Molasses For eign dull; New Orleans dull: open kettle, good to fancy, 234S Rice quiet and steady; domestic, 46Vc Cottonseed oil qnlnt; rrude. S5c: yellow, 43046c Tallow quiet; city (82 for packages), 4c Rosin quiet and pteauy. Tur pentine steady and quiet at 4041c Ezgs firm and in fair demand; western best, 11015c: do fair, 1213c; receipts. 2,686 packages. Pork quiet. Cut meats quiet; pickled hams, Ilc; middles weak. Lara easier and dull; sales west ern steam, at S6 60: city, 86 20: September, 86 57; October. 86 5806 59, closing at 86 59 bid; No vember. 86 3706 40, closing at SO 39 bid. But terChoice steady; others weak;western dairy, 1012c: do creamery, 11017c; do factory. 8 12c Cheese strong and quiet; western, 67c Philadelphia Flour Choice old winter flours firm; new wheats very dull and largely nominal in value; springs in fair supply and weak. Wheat weak and lower; No. 2 red.' on track, 85c; do in export elevator, 84c: No. 2 red, August, 8484c: September. 83S4c; Octo ber, 8484e: November, 84JJ08ac Corn Future !4c lower; carlots quiet, but offer ings light and prices c higher; No. 2 mixed, in Twentieth street elevator, 45c; Wo. 2 yel- ImiI. Wrt 9 Bihlta Vtltt Wrt 9nM,. 141r.. cboice, on track, 36c; No. 1 white. 38c; futures dull and c lower; No. 2 white, August, 31 32c; September, 3031c; October, 8031Hc; November, 31Vi31c Eggs steady: Pennsyl vania firsts, 15c Baltimore Wheat Western quiet; No. 2 winter red,9D0t,8181ictAnSrnst.83'ic; Septem ber. 82K83c; October, 81c; December, 85J? 85Jc Corn Western easy: mixed spot, 41c; Au2ust.43c:Septcmber,4343c;sales steamer at 40c. Oats firm at 41c; western white higher 3335c;do mixed steady at2930c:?raded No. 2 wbite. 3535c Rye nominal at 60052c. Hay firm; old wanted: prime to cboice timothy, 815016. Provisions dull. Butter steady; cream ery, 16017c Eggs very firm fresh, 14c Coffee nominal; Rio xalratlSc. St Louis Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat lower: tradlnc licrht: No. 2 red. cash. 7373Jic: August, closed 73473Kc; Sep tember, 7474c bid; December, 77W77c ,J r :i..,i.vr- n" , , L' mi 4WJ.l! August closed S3c; September, 33c asked. Oats lower and verv weak; No. 2 cash. 20c asked; September. 2020e asked; May, 24$c asked: August, 19c asked. Rye dull and easy; No. 2, 40c asked. Flaxseed $1 23 bid for spot, 81 26 for prompt shipment and 81 22 for August. Cincikxati Flour quiet. Wheat quiet; No. 2 red. 78079c; receipts. 22.000 bnshels; ship ments, 11,000 bushels. Corn easier; No. 2 mixed. 37038c Oats unsettled; No. 2 mixed, 2526c Rye dull; No. 2, 46c Pork quiet at 811 37. Lard dnll at 85 95. Bolkmeats easier; short ribs, 85 70. Bacon steady; short clear, SO 75. Butter in fair demand. Sugar steady. Eggs firm at lie Cheese strong. Milwaukee Flour unchanged. Wheat dull; cashnominallvat77c; September, 76c Corn not quoted. Oats dull; No. 2 white. 28c Bar ley quiet; No. 2 September, Kc Rje quiet; No. 1, 43c Provisions easier. Pork, 810 50. Lard. 86 15. Toledo Cloyerseed nominal; cash, 84 60. TlieUrycoods Market. New York, August 3. There was a fair business In dry goods for Saturday, but no new development. Wool market. ST. Louis Receipts, 83,384 pounds. The market Is dull and unchanged. v BCetal Knrkot. New York Pig Iron quiet: American, SIS 60 17 60. Metal nomlnaL :. J4L FEATURES OF TEADE. Abundanco of Fruits and "Vegetables Weakens Markets. SHIPPERS MOST PREPAY FREIGHT. low Price of Cattle Brings a Harrest Time to Batchers, CEREAL OUTLOOiT ADFEESE TO BEARS Office or Ptttsburo Dispatch, 1 Satubdat. August 3, 1889. J The feature of the produce markets the past week has been the great abundance of everything seasonable in fruit and vegetable lines. Said a leading commission merchant: "At the beginning of the week trade was good, but for the past two or three days stuff is being pushed onto the markets beyond our capacity to dispose ot it. Tomatoes and apples are coming in more freely this week than last, and prices are on the decline. The same Is true of California fruit. The facilities for transportation of 'Pacific coast small fruits have been inimenselyi Improved this season, and we are now getting California peaches, apricots and plums in better shape and at lower prices than ever before." An interest ing feature of the trade this week was the ac tion of leading railroads demanding that freights on all produce from the South shall be prepaid. All this season stuff has been so plen tiful and prices so low that it has often oc curred that vegetable! and fruit scarcely paid commissions and freight. Hence railroad com panies have often been losers. From now on shippers must take the risk and prepay all freight. A Liberty street commission man said to-day: "All stuff consigned to me from the South for a few days past has had freight bills prepaid. The farmer and gardener must henceforth take all risks." Live Hock. The week has been marked by the heaviest receipts of cattle for the season at the Liberty yards. Export beeves are not in supply up to demand, and for the good reason that stock on this side Is lower than for a generation, the de cline in Europe has been but slight. It is the harvest time for butchers who pay little above one-half what was paid six or eight years ago, and still sell at the old figures. With prime beeves selling at 84 to 84 35, and choice cuts of beet up to old rates, there must be a comfort able margin to butchers. Exporters, who could pay 7 and 8c a few years ago, and oan now buy tbo finest stock at $4 to 84 85, are certainly having a good thing of it, or were working at a loss in other years. Poultry and Butter. The week shows a stiffening of prices in both lines. Elgin creamery butter was advanced at headquarters 4C on Monday, and country but ter is c higher than the lowest point reached a week age It is evident that butter bot tom has been reached for this season. A peddler from Clinton who pays weekly vis its to our markets said to-day, "I have never known poultry scarcer on my route than it is this season. The cold, backward spring was adverse to young chickens and turkeys, aud it now looks aa If we would have a scarcity the coming fall and winter. Butter has been in larger supply the past two or three weeks than I have ever known it, but, for a few days it shows signs of slackening up and prices are already a shade higher than a week ago. The abundant crops through the section I travel will be oats, wheat, hay, and vegetables of all kinds." The yield in all these lines is unpre cedented. The fruit crop will be below the average, both in volume and quality. Peaches are almost a failure. Apples will not yield one half as great as last year. In regard to food for man and beast, the yield tbronghout Western Pennsylvania, the Fan Handle and Eastern Ohio will pass any season in my memory, and quality is extra good. Cereals. The general, drift for the week has been de mand, notwithstanding receipts were lighter than for the two previous weeks by 30 to 40 cars. The splendid prospects for the new oats crop have had a depressing influence on trade, and sales are made at concessions. Flour job bers report trade as active, and sales larger in volume than last week. Fancy spring patents nave, however, declined 15c per barrel. All attempts to boll breadstuff have proved abor tive, and August wheat has been on the decline for several days. The bear attempts to prove a failure of wheat In the Red river country do not xucceed. Seventy per cent is assured, and quality was never better. While in Eastern Europe there will be a short crop. In England, France and Belgium crop is large. Bull flour movements can hardly win from present out look. THEY HOLD THE FORT. The Business Men of Pittsburg; 'Know No Such Word as FnIL There appears to be something In the flat building scheme of the New Yorker besides wind. A gentleman remarked Saturday: "It looks to me as it it will be a go. Two of my friends who own suitable sites were approached a day or two ago with offers to buy. They were told that the ground was wanted for fats, and that an eastern man was at the bead of the project. I hope it will be a success. We need many such buildings. I think they would soon become popular. Business moved along last week without any thing resembling a pyrotechnic display, but it was 81.400,000 larger tban for the correspond ing week last year. This is a sufficient com ment on the general situation. Under the stimulus of good crops and a better under standing between the railroads, trade of all kinds is In a healthy condition and shows a ' broadening tendency. Local securities had a very good week, sales, so far as reported, being 3,570 shares, La Norla leading in activity. Several of the favorites made substantial gains. Electric and Central Traction being most conspicuous. The market closed firm for nearly everything. Considering the season, there was a good demand for realty, sales showing a very slight falling off. The number of transfers recorded was 168, and the consideration 8420,930. One hundred and seventy-one mortgages were recorded; one for 8500,000, one for 8375,000, and one for 8200,000, the total amount repre sented being 81,362,543. Trading in petroleum was on an improving basis, prices holding very closely to the dollar line. The close was quiet and steady. Brokers do not all think aryl act the same way. One of them remarked Saturday even ing: "Generally speaking, Pittsburg brokers are pretty level-headed, bnt just now some of them are standing In their own light. They are trying to bear the market, and the result is very little business, not a tithe of what it should be. It is my experience that a weak market is nearly always dull. The way to make business is to boom prices. This makes it interesting to lookers and outsiders alike. Nobody feels like sleeping where things are on the jump." CLOSING SCENES At the Stock Exchange Suggestive Rather Thnn Exciting Range of Price. As usual of late, on Saturday, the stock mar"; ket yesterday was productive of more flgnres than business. The total sales were 304 shares, of which Citizens' Traction and Natural Gas of West Virginia contributed 25a The spurt in Philadelphia Gas entirely subsided, and it was lower aud neglected. Nobody wanted It at above 37- The other gas stocks were dull and firm. The tractions were strong and fraction ally higher. Citizens' selling at 70. For Cen tral 31JJ jvas bid and 32 asked. LaNoriawas about steady on the board, but was backed by a less buoyant sentiment. It was rumored that the long-promised statement would be delayed until several good-sized blocks could be absorbed at about 1. twitch and Signal held its recent improvement, 22 being asked and 21 bid. While It may advance still further, there are no reasons o justify expectations of a boom. Apparently, as a religious duty, or from the force of habit, or as an unwritten law of the Exchange, the board was pretty well covered with figures, the result of bids for bank and bridge stocks, but as the buying orders were invariably below the market there were no transactions. To show the perfunctory char acter of these efforts it la only necessary to state that a bid of 128 for any part of LOCO shares of Fourth "National was made In the fnll knowledge that there are not over 800 shares of that stock on the. market, and it was not offered at any price. Pittsburg and Western showed a fractional Improvement, but was dull. Why this stock does not keep pace with the in creasing traffic and earnings of the road is one ofthose things which outsiders can't very well And out. Probably a few on the lnsldeare gathering it in. on the sly. The followine table snows tne prices of active stocks on the New York Stock Kxehanfe yester day. Corrected dally ror The Uispatcu by WiirnrET & HTiPHEKSOir. oldest Plttsburr mem bers of Mew York Stock Excnange, 57 Fourth ave nue: Clos ing lilrts. S3 5 57 Mtf 110 33 23 101 H WH 6M 14 34X 3 10814 140i 72 100!- 21M 132 lU'A 144 45, 70 22 114 17 SStf 102 nM sw ioh S!i 105H 2GX is es 34 49X 1SV 14 K 28 84 If 22 M 32X 7D S7S4 H MH 1I0! 19H 59H 15H 29 84 !4 ern 113 23 M Open- Hlgli- Low Ids', est. est. Am. cotton on a a U7 Atcn Top. A s. F.... H H Canadian faciae STK SIX 3X Canada tfoutnera. Central or .New Jersey. .... Centraiiaelfic. Chesapeake Ohio.... nk "3K ! C. Hur. 4 Oali.tr... ..101U 101ft 10" C, 4111. St. faul.... 10'A 71 7H C. Kocl.r 93 96 SO C, at, L. A f ltts C St. L. la Pitts, pf. C. St. V.. it. A O a. st. i,m. to., pr. C. A Northwestern. ...108M 108M luSVi C.A northwestern, pf. -.. Cl.,CoI.,C1n.I. 11V 72H 7114 Cl.,Col..Cln.AI. pref.ioc lt)j loos" Col. Coal Jt iron.:..... S6jJ TAH t6H Col. A RocklUK Val .. 14 14 14 11.. L. AW 144 144K 141 Uel. AUadson Denver A Itio U.. p . T., Va. AOs .... E.T.,V, AUa.lst pf. E. T.. Vs. A Ga. Id pf. Illinois Central Lake Erie A Western Lake Erie A West. Dr.. SSK 59 MM Lake Snore AM. 8 IK 102 102 Louisville A Nashville. 70 TDM 7u Michigan central Mobile A Ohio Mo., Kan. A Texas.. Missouri faclflc 67tf 67f 67K New fork Central m 105' 106M N. Y.. L. K. A W H 3J 2X N. .. a. A St. L, N. 1.. C A St. L. pr. N.V.. C. AHt.li.2d Of N. YtS. E 49 49J4 43 H. Y.. O. A W Norfolk a Western.... .... Norfolk Western.pt Northern Pacific SSX 28K UK Nortnern faclflc sref. Wi MK M Ohio A Mississippi..... Oregon Improvement Oregon Transcon 31 32 31 K Pacific Mall 34 34) S3H Peo. Dec. A Kvans Phlladel. A Keadlnjr.. 43 t a Btchmona A W. P. T 22!$ ni 22i Klehmond AW.P.T.pf St. P., Minn. A Man HUM. A San Fran 26K 26H 26K St. L. A San irran pr.. bSH tax Wi 8t.li. A San .T.lst pf. Texas Paclfie UnlonPaclno - MH !BX S9tt Wabasn Wabash preferred 2X 29! Z)!i Western Union 85 85 84 i Wheeling-A L. . 67 63 ah Sngar Trust 113 National Lead Trust.. Chicago Gas Trust 575 53j STJf Closing Bond Quotations. U. S. 4s,reg 12S U. S. 4s. coup 12SX M.K. AT.Qen.5s Mutual Union 8s. ., N. J. C. Int. Cert. Northern Pac lats Northern Pac. Ms . S7X .100 .113 u. s. 4HS. reg lti( U. S. 45. coop 106, Pacific tls or '94. US Louisiana s tamped 43 8SV Missouri 6 100S4 Tenn. new set. S8....10S :15 Northw't'n consols. 144 Northw'n deben's..ll4!4 Oregon A Trans. 6S.104K St.L. AI.M. Oen. 5 85 St. L. A S.i. Oen.M.118 St. Paul consols ....125K St.PL ChlAPc.lsU.H7 Tenn. new set. 5s....l03j 'ienn. new set. as.... 73 Canada So. 24s 99 Cen. Pacificists 113 Den. A K. O., lsts.1204 Tx., Pc.L.O.Tr Ks.ax Tx.,Pc.K.arr.Kcu MX lien, s k. u. ss ra D.AB.O.West,lsts. 101 Erie. 2ds VZh M. iL. AT. Gen.es.. 3 union rac. ists.....M West Shore joex L1Y ST0C MABKITS. The Condition of Business at ths East Liberty Stock Yards. OmCI OFPlTTSBtOBQ DISPATCH,"! SATURDAY. August 3, 18S8. J Cattle Receipts, 860 head: shipments, 840 head: market nothing doing, all through con signments; 8 cars cattle shipped to New York today. Hoos Receipts. 1,700 nead; shipments. 1.600 head; market firm; light Yorkers, 84 7001 80; medium and light Philadelphia 84 504 65; heavy hogs, 84 2o4 40; 4 cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 2,800 head; shipments, 1,600 head; market steady; prices unchanged. Bv Telegraph. Kansas city Cattle Receipts. 2,156 head; shipments, LOW head; quality of offerings not so good; native beef steers steady to firm;Texas and western steady to 5c higher; stackers and feeding steers steady: good to choice corn fed steers, 84 0O4 25; common to medium. 83 00t3 60; stockers and feeding steers, 81 60 3 00: cows. SI 504S2 70; grass range steers, 81 602 80. Hogs Receipts, 2,100 head; ship ments, 713 head; light steady; mixed and heavy 5c lower; good to choice light, 84 224 SO; heavy and mixed. 84 004 17. Sheep Re ceipts, none: shipments, none; market strong; good to choice muttons, S3 754 00: common to medium, 82 SU. St. Louis Cattle Receipts, 310 head: ship ments, none; market steady: choice heavy native steers, S3 B0Q4 35; fair to cood native steers, S3 103 90; stockers and feeders, 12 103 310: rangers, corn fed, 82 30433 40; grass fed. 81 902 95. Hogs Receipts. 600 head: ship ments, none: market strong: fair to choice heavy, 84 104 30; packing. 84 154 35; light grades, fair to best, 84 S54 50. Sheep Re ceipts, 700 head; shipments, 700 head; mar ket firm; fair to choice, S3 204 60. Chicago Cattle Recetnts. 3,000 head; ship ments, none; market slow with no change in 3 notations: beeves. S3 60J?4 60; cows, SI 60 00; stockers. 82 553 25: Texas steers, 82 25 3 00. Hogs Receipts, 7,000 head: shipments, none; market steady: mixed. 84 254 55: heavy, $1 204 40; light, 84 304 60.Sheco Receipts. 2.000 head; shipments, none; market steady; natives, S3 75424 S5: westerns, 83 604 15: lambs, 84 7566 U0. Cincinnati Hogs steady; common and light, S3 754 60; packing and butcher. 84 S5ii 4 50. Receipts. 200 head: shipments. 230 head. When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, When she had Children,she gave them Castorla 3p9-77-MWTSU FidelityTitle & Trust Company, CAPITAL, $500,000 121 AND 123 FOURTH AVE. Insures titles to real estate, and acts In all fiduciary capacities. Temporary offices, Nos. 121 and 123 FOURTH AVENUE. fe3-SS-3f ARMOUR'S EXTRACT OF BEEF. ARMOUR & CO,, CHICAGO, SOLE MANUFACTURERS.' This is now conceded to be the best In the market, as witnessed by the fact that wo have just secured the DIPLOMA FOR EXCEL LENCE at the Pure Food Exposition, now be ing held In Philadelphia. CLEANLY IN MANUFACTURE, SUPERIOR IN QUALITY, And with the bright appetizing flavor of fresh ly roasted beef. BEMEHBER. jy5-19-MWF 512 AND 514 SMITHFIELD STREET, PITTSBURG, IA. Transact a General BanMi Bnsiness. Accounts solicited. Issue Circular Letters of Credit, for use of travelers, and Commer cial Credits, IN STEBLING, Available In all salts of the world. Also issue Credits IK DQT.T.AKS For use in this country, Canada, Mexico, West indies. South and Central America. au7-81-MWT WHOLESALE HOUSE, JOSEPH HORNE & CO., Cor. Wood and Liberty Sts., Importers and Jobbers of IIVIIMI Special offerings this week in SUtKS, PLUSHES, DRESS GOODS, SATEENS, SEERSUCKER, GINGHAMS, PRINTS, and CHEVIOTS. For largest assortment and lowest prices call and see us, wholesaleIxclusively ie2E-raS-i . l t.-i-t... -Jl-.ti.H T. MELLON & SONS' BAR! OFFICIAL PTrTSBUK O. fNo:32J " ' AN ORDINANOfc AUTHORIZINO THE grading; paving and curbing of Homo street, from Butler street to Plumer street, la the Seventeenth ward of Pittsburg. Whereas, It appears by the petition and affi davit on file in the office ot the Clerk of Coun cils that one-third in Interest of the owners ot property fronting and abutting upon the said street have petitioned the Councils of said Uty to enact an ordinance for the grading, paving; and curbing of the same; therefore. Section 1 Be It ordained and enacted by the city of Pittsburg, in Select and Common Conn-, cils assembled, and iris hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same. That the Chief of the Department of Public Works be and is hereby authorized and directed to adver tize In accordance with the acts of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the or dinances of the said city of Pittsburg relating thereto and regulating the same, for proposals for the grading, paving and curbing of Horns street, from Butler street to Plumer street, the contract therefor to be let in the manner di rected by the said acts of Assembly and ordi nances. The cost and expenses of the same to be assessed and collected in accordance with the provisions of an act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania entitled "An act relating to streets and sewers in cities of the second class," approved the ISth day of May, A. D. 18S9. Section 2 That any ordinance or part of ordinance conflicting with the provisions of. this ordinance be and the same Is hereby re pealed, so far as the same affects this ordi nance. Ordained and enacted Into a law in Councils this 26th day or July, A. D. 1SS9. H. P. FORD, President of Select Council. Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD. Clerk of Select Council. GEO. L. HOLLIDAY, President of Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Common Council. Mayor's Office. July 26. 1889. Approved: WM. McCALUN, Mayor. Attest: ROBERT OSTERMAIER, Assistant Mayor's Clerk. Recorded in Ordinance Book, VOL7, page 104, 80th day of July, A. D. 1S89. au&6 INo. 35J AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE grading and paving of Mahogany alley, irom Essex alley to Laurel street, in the Six teenth ward of Pittsburg. Wnereas, It appear by the petition and affi davits on aie in the office of the Clerk of Coun cils that one-third in interest of the owners of property fronting and abutting upon the said street have petitioned the Councils ot said city to enact an ordinance for the grading and paving of the same; therefore. Section I Be it ordained and enacted bv tho city of Pittsburg, in Select and Common Coun cil? assembled, and it is hereby ordained and' enacted by the authority ot the same. That the Chief of the Department of Public Works be and Is hereby authorized and directed to advertise in accordance with the acts of Assembly of the Commonwealth ot Pennsylvania aud the ordinances of the said city of Pittsburg relating thereto and regnla tinc the same, for proposals for the grading and paving of Mahogany alley, from Essex alley to Laurel street, the contract therefor to be let in the manner directed by the said acts of Assembly and ordinances. The cost and ex pense of the same to be assessed and collected in accordance with the provisions of an act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva nia, entitled, "An act relating to streets and sewers in cities of the second class," approved the ISth day of May, A. D. 1889. Section 2 That any ordinance or part of or dinance conflicting with tho provisions of this ordinance be and t be same is hereby repealed so far as the same affects this ordinance. Ordained and enacted into a law in Councils this 24th day of July. A. D. 1889. H. P. FORD. President of Select Council. Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD, Clerk of Select Council. GEO. L. HOLLIDAY. President of Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Common Council. Mayor's office, July 28, 1889. Approved: WM. McCALLIN, Mayor. Attest: ROBERT OSTERMAIER, Assistant Mayor's Clerk. Recorded in Ordinance Book, voL 7, page 107, 31at day ot July. A. D. 1889. an3-68 No. 30J AN ORDLXANCE-AUTHORIZING THE construction t a sewer on Gum street, from a point 65 feet south of Cliff street to Webster avenue. 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 the authority of the same. Thit the Chief of the Department of Pnblic Works be and is hereby authorized and directed to ad vertise in accordance with the acu of Assem bly of the Commonwealth ot Pennsylvania, and the ordinances of the said city ot Pitts burg relating thereto and regulating the same, for proposals lor the construction of a pipe sewer 12 inches in diameter, on Gum street, from a point 65 feet south of Cliff street to a connection with sewer on Webster are. nue; provided, that no part of the cost ot construction ot said sewer shall be assessed upon the property on Gum street, be tween Webster and Bedford avenues, which, contributed to the payment of the cost ot the private sewer already constructed therein, which said sewer is to be taken as a rart of the sewer hereby authorized to be constructed, and the whole sewer, when complete. Is hereby de clared to ba a public sewer. The contract there for to be let in the manner directed by the said acts of Assembly and ordinances. The cost and expense of the same to be assessed and col lected in accordance with the provisions ot aa act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, entitled "An act relating to streets and sewers in cities of the second class," ap proved the 16th day of May, A. D. 1889. Section 2 That any ordinance or part of ordinance conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance be, and the same is hereby re pealed, so far as the same affects this ordi nance. Ordained and enacted Into a law in Councils this 22d day of July. A. D. 1889. H. P. FORD, President of Select Council. Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD, Clerk of Select Council. GEO. L. HOLLIDAY. President of Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Common Council. Mayor's office, July 23, 1889. Approved, WM. McCALLIN, Mayor. Attest: W. H McCLEARY, Mayor's Clerk. an3-66 MEDICAL. DOCTOR WHITTIER 814 PENN AVENUE, PITTSBUKO, PA As old residents know ana back files of Pitts, burg papers prove. Is the oldest established and most prominent physician in the city, de voting special attention to all chronic diseases. pTrNOFEEUNTILCURED MCDWnt IC and mental diseases, physical t It V U U O decay.nervous debility, lack of energy, ambition and hope, impaired mem ory, disordered sight, self distrust,bashf ulness, dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, im poverished blood, failing powers,organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, un fitting the person for business-society and mar riage, permanently, safely and privately cored. BLOOD AND SKINiSSTWJ' blotches, falling hair, bones pains, glandular swellings, ulcerations of tongue, mouth,throat, ulcers, old sores, are cured for life, and blood poisons thoroughly eradicated from the system. IIPIMARV kidney and bladder derange UnlnnD Ijments. weak back, gravel, ca tarrhal discharges, inflammation and other-. painful symptoms receive searching treatment, prompt relief and real cures. Dr. Whittler's life-long, extensive experi ence. Insures scientific and reliable treatment on common-sense principles. Consultation free. Patients at a distance as carefully treated as It here. Office hours 9 A. M. to 8 p. u. Sun day, 10 A. St. to 1 p. M. only. DR. WHITTIER, 814Penn avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. Jy9-40K-Psuwk GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE CURES NEftVOUS DEBILITY, LOST VIGOR. LOSS OF MEMOHY. Kull particulars In pamphlet sent free. The genuine Dray's Specific sold by druifrlsts only la yellow wrapper. Price, tl per package, or six for S3, or by mall on recetot of nrlee. bv address bit THE GHAT MEUlcl.VK CO.. Buffalo. N. If soia inriiisDurg oyo. s. tivuLiJitu. corner Smlthdeld and Liberty its, apU-il DOCTORS LAKE SPECIALISTS In all cases re- Sulring scientific and confiden al treatmentl Dr. S. K. Lake, M. R. C. P. S is the oldest and most experienced specialist in the city. Consultation free and strictlv confidential. Office hours 9 to 4 and.7 to 8 T. M.; Sundays. 2 to 4 P. 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