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IWIIITTEJ. FORTUE DISPATCH. i
It was a bright Monday morning in 2fo
vyember, and Hannah Lukens had taken her
seat in the cars which were to convey her
from rij mouth to Philadelphia, on a visit
to her daughter, Elizabeth, who had mar
ried Thomas Price, a prosperous merchant
"J of that city. 2ot quite SO.her well-rounded
form, her placid countenance, her gentle
blue cyesall told of a quiet,uneentful life,
and her plain but rich drab silk dress
showed that she belonged to the prosperous
class of Friends. The Dlood ana training
of Quakers from the days of George Fox
had imprinted upon her face an abiding se
renity. Her bonnet was not what the
world's people irreverently styled a "sugar
scood," but year by year as death removed
her associates and she had come to occupy
at meeting a seat on the second tier of
benches facing the congregation, it had
gradually been enlarged so that it concealed
much ol her face, but gave an added charm
to what it allowed to be revealed. By her
side stood her imposing-looking husband, in
his second best suit, and sneer at it as the
world may, 1 have never yet seen anything
so graceful as the "shad-bellied" coat, the
like of which he wore.
"Hannah, thee has all thy bundles, has
thee? Tell Elizabeth that I hope she will
soon be able with her child to pay us a visit,
and that I am gratified that she has called it
after me. for there has been a Jesse in every
generation of our family. Fare we well, Han
nah, I had better leave thee now, for the
starting of the tram may frighten the
horse. I will expect thee back on seventh
dav." "Farewell, Jesse. Yes, I will come back
on seventh-day. Farewell; perhaps the train
mav startle the horse." A minute later, and
she'looked back, but Jesse had gone. "Why.
she knew not, but she felt dissatisfied and
wanted to get one more view of him. Mar
ried over 25 vears, and they had never spent
a night apart. The city was but 15 miles
distant, and she was to return on Saturday,
vet "second-dav, third-day, fourth-day.fifth-day,
sixth-day" it was a long time to be
apart, and she wished she had seen him
once more as she gazed back She looked
up:
"Is that thee, Jesse? I thought thee had
started for home?"
"I had, but the train is delayed for a few
minutes, and I thought thee might have
something else to say."
"Nothing, I believe."
" Wellj then, Haunah, I will bid thee fare
w: again. I will surely expect you on
seventh-day. Farewell." One minute before
and he had not thought of such a thing,
but then he stooped over and kissed her.
As a maiden blushes at the first kiss of her
lo.er, the kiss so tenderly prized, so did the
vie of -more than a quarter of a century.
Ac unwonted light illumined her eyes, and
there were tears in her voice as she re
sponded, "Farewell, Jesse; I will surely
return on seventh-dey," and he was gon-.
He kissed her. She could not remember
that he had ever kissed her before since that
eleventh month, when together they were
gathering the chestnuts. She recalled all
that day. He had been clubbing down the
nuts, and her apron was full of them, and
he descended the ladder and put his arm
about her, and looked long into her face.
It was about three months before Elizabeth,
her first child, was born, and the aureole,
that mingled expression ot the saint and the
woman, which painters place about the
brow of the Divine Mother, proclaimed her
cxp.'Ctaut motherhood, and he said: "Why,
Ha.ni.ah, thee does look so pret so swe so
very well," and he kissed her.
A few minutes later and she saw him on
the platform. She raised the car window
and he said:
"There is a little delay about starting, and
v I thought I would see thee safely offi I guess
the horse will stand quiet. This is second-
a day. and thee w ill not be back till seventh-
- day."
"Ko, Jese."
"Well, I will come and meet thee."
"Jesse, thee will not get back from market
in time to do that"
"I will let Joseph go to market alone on
lYext seventh-day. He has to learn that part
of a farmer's life. I think that is the last
bell. Whv, Hannah, thee doelook so pret
so swe ," and here his Quaker training,
which had taught him to conceal his emo
tions, led him to conclude with, "I am glad
that Elizabeth will sec thee looking so verv
well."
"Farewell, Jesse. I will surely return on
seventh-day, and I will expect thee to meet
me. Farewell."
Jesse did not at once start lor home. He
walked along the railroad track, and then
crossed into the fields and strolled through
the woods. It was a delicious, brisk Xnvpm-
ber day. His bountiful crops were all safely
housed in his ample stone barn; his winter
wheat had set well, promising prosperity for
the coming year; there had been IrosU and
the ground was crisp and springy. On the
denuded field the cheerlul sun shone, and
the gentle breeze seemed to whisper to the
provident farmer: "Well done, good and
faithlul servant." But, influenced as he
doubtless was by his surroundings, he was
thinking only of Hannah, and he would
not see her until seenth-day. Perhaps not
thinking, only musing, he said: "She did
look pretty, she did look sweet," and he was
glad that he kissed her, and he wonld not see
her again until seventh-day.
He returned to the station and drove
home. His chamber seemed verv lonely
that night. He had not noticed it before,
but surely Hannah had a very clear com
plexion, and her face pressed upon the white
pillow looked so pure. The next morning
was yet more lonely, and though she was in
Philadelphia, he found pleasure in saying,
as he had done through long years: "I will
call thee, Hannah, when I have made the
fires." For the succeeding days, his stal
wart hired man had never before tound it so
difficult to keep up with him at his work,
and never before had found him irritable
and unreasonable. Jesse Lukens was being
revealed unto Jesse Lukens. "Yes," he
said to himself, "I will kiss her when I
meet her on seventh-day," and he would
certainly have done so, if the whole yearly
meeting had been looking on.
The spirit had not often moved him to
read the Bible, but then he opened it, and
read: "Husbands, love your wives, even as
Christ loved the church," and he turned
further over to where Paul groans for power
to express his love for his master, and he re
gretted, not that he had been reared a
Friend, but that his education had taught
him to crush down his feelings and to con
ceal his emotions. Evpr nnrt onnn l.o
would repeat: "I am glad that I kissed
ner, anu at. ne recalled Her timid blush
and her shrinking joy, there were tears in
the strong man's eyes that he had not
oftener cheered her life with a husband's
kiss. "Hannah, thee did look pretty; thee
did look sweet." His soul was finding ex
pression. Jesse's life had been uniformly prosperous
and nneventful. He had never been 20
miles away from home. All his children
were yet living, if o sorrow had come to ex
pandjiis nature. He plowed so deep that
seldom did his crops fail, and the beginning
of every year found him with an additional
sum to loan to less prosperous or more ad
venturous friends. At the death of his pa
rents he had come into possession of the
home farm, to which he quietly added ad
joining acres. But for the new stoue barn,
it was really the farm of his ancestors. In
the dreary "best room" they never called it
' "the parlor" used only on noted days,
there were the same formal, uncomfortable,
straight-backed chairs, the same deeply-
cushioned settee, the same sideboard
with the company glasses arranged
thereon, the same absence of
books fond pictures. His library
:was confined to the Xorristown Berald,
the county paper, The Friend's Review,
"Sewell's Defence of the Quakers," and
VJob Scott's "Works." From the hill, on
the summit of which his house stood, the
-ground gently sloped each way, making itj
one of the most desirable locations in the
county; but save a fugitive vine that trailed
its living green up one side, nothing relieved
its blank whiteness. To the south you
conld see over miles of fertile valleys, to
the Chestnut Hills. Snrely the rare sun
sets he must have noticed had developed in
him some love of the beautiful. With no
one to understand him as to bring him out,
because of his deep feelings, he became a
very silent man, and never voiced his emo
tions. '
He kissed her, and henceforth he was a
different Jese Lukens, and it seemed to
him as if seventh-day never would come.
Fondly he dwelt upon one event, when, a
few months before his marriage, Hannah
was lying back in tberockiug-chair. Young
Quaker women in those days were prone to
wear their simple dresses with a modest "V"
cut at the neck, and her pure, white throat
looked so attractive that he bent over and
kissed it. Perhaps she thonght he was too
lrte; perhaps he thought it was too much
after the manner of the world's people, so
he did not repeat it. Seventh-day morning
came at last, and he helped Joseph to start
on his first trip to market alone, and then,
being hours before daybreak, he put on a
fresh back log and laid down before the
open fire on the settee, but not to sleep.
That pure, white throat was before him,
and he regretted he had kissed it but once.
Hannah wiil be back to-day and henceforth
she shall know that her husband loves her.
During the days of her absence he had not
been happy, but, as never before, he had
studied the needs of the human heart, and
he was so glad that he kissed her, and his
refrain was: "Hannah will return to me
to-day."
The hired man, though seeing no need
thereof, yet obeyed him, and washed the
carriage, which was onlv used on rare occa
sions, and Jesse scolded him, for he had not
sufficiently groomed the horse, and when it
was all ready for Hannah's return, the
keenest Quaker eye could discern no speck
of dirt upon horse or vehicle. He must put
on his best coat and hat, which he had not
worn before since they attended Horsham
quarterly meeting together, and he was at
the station full an hour before the train was
due. He walked about enjoying the deli
cious Indian summer, and often consulted
his solid watch, as if that would 1 asten the
arrival of the train; and as if he had heard
no words since then, he heard her pleasant
voice: "Farewell, Jesse, I will surely return
on seventh-day, and I will expect thee to
meet me."
At the depot, at Ninth and Green streets,
Philadelphia, Hannah's son-in-law met her,
and drove her to his house. Elizabeth was
quietly pleased at meeting her mother, hut
was somewhat disappointed that she could
not put her babe in grandmother's arms, for
Hannah was not willing that the child
should be awakened. She took her mother
to the room prepared for her, and when she
had put aside her wrappings, she exclaimed:
"Why, mother, what has come over thee?
Thee looks ten years younger than when I
saw thee last. Mother, thee is real pretty."
"Elizabeth! Elizabeth!"
"But thee surely is, mother, and thee
must kiss me," and'Elizabeth wept, for her
memory could not recall a mother's kiss,
and Hannah's eyes were moist.
"Well, Elizabeth, just turn down that
white spread and I will lie down awhile."
But when Elizabeth was gone, Hannah did
not lie down. There was a large mirror m
the room, and she readjusted her modest'
neckerchief; no worldly vanity was hers,
but as she stood before the glass she saw
that she was comely. Oh. no, she had never
forgotten it, and she was pleased to notice
that her throat was still white and pure,and
then her husband was her lover, albeit she
did not use such a worldly term. "Yes, he
was about to say that I looked so prettv, so
sweet. He did'mean that; I know he did,"
and her blue etes were tender and moist as
she again recalled his parting kiss. Love,
ever young, was bringing to her a youth she
may have imagined, but had never experi
enced. Certainly Jesse appeared a very
fine looking man as he bade her farewell,
and on seventh-day he would not go to
market, as he had ever done for 30 years,
but would meet her at the station. "Jesse,
thee did mean that I looked pretty."
The next day, at Townsend Sbarpless'
store, she purchased a new silk dress, and
Elizabeth easily persuaded her to buy a
brown one instead of a drab one. ''Mother,
brown makes thee look younger, and even
Lucretia Mott wears a brown silk, and I
know father would like the brown the best."
"Does thee really think so, Elizabeth?"
"I know it, mother. I am a wife now, and
I know that every husband likes his wife to
look well and pretty too." Her mother had
kissed her, and the Quaker reserve of years
was gone, and Elizabeth was surprised that
she conld talk to her so freely. "And here,
mother, is a nice, plain collar that will just
suit thy new dress."
"No, Elizabeth, I can not wear that."
"Now, mother, thee must, just to oblige
me, and I am sure that father will like it,
for mother thee has such a nice white throat.
It is so round and pure; it is a youu"
woman's throat, and I am really envious of
it."
"Elizabeth, I am afraid that thy city life
will bring thee into too much conformity
with the world. Does thee think that the
collar would be becoming to me? Perhaps
tuy lamer win not use it.
"2sot like Itl I feel sure that he will like
it, and thongh, man-like, he may not men
tion it, yet it wilt please him, because it
lightens up thy whole face so."
"Well, I will take the collar, and if it
does not please him, I can lay it aside.
"What! is the price of it a dollar?"
Unconscious of the new experience of her
mother, Elizabeth did not find it very diffi
cult to get her to order a new bonnet, not
quite so plain as her old one. Somehow the
daughter had been fully apprised, of her
father's tastes, and her "Ob, how that will
please father," led Hannah to assent to sev
eral modifications of her plain attire, for
back of her daughter's voice she ever heard:
"Why, Hannah, thee does loot so pret , so
swe , so very well." "Jesse, thee did mean
that I looked pretty."
Only once did Hannah kiss the baby in
its mother's presence, but Elizabeth knew
not what to make of it, for several times she
saw her caressing and kissing the child, not
knowing that she was being observed, and
the daughter said to herself: "I guess it is
true that people love their grandchildren
better than their own children." Wherever
Elizabeth wanted her to go Hannah went,
but the daughter thought sheseemed listless
and uninterested. The last day of the week
had come, and as she rose early, she said:
"This is seventh-day, and he will meet me
at the depot" The new silk dress came in
due time, and when she had tried it on, she
was not sorry that she had not carried it home
for Priscilla Evans to make. With some
hesitation she put on the little collar, that
peeped modestly above thebrown silk, mak
ing her throat look yet purer and more
youthful. It was quite an innovation upon
Quaker simplicity, and she said: "Does thee
feel quite sure, Elizabeth, that thy father
will not object to this collar?"
"Object? Certainly not. Oh, mother.
stand around. Thy dress fits thee to a
charm, and that collar makes thy throat
look sweet enough to kiss. I wonder if I
will look so well at thy age; if I do Thomas
will be much pleased." Just let me fix that
fold in thy dress. There, now it is all right.
I wish father could see thee now. Thy visit
has made thee look so young, that he will
soon spare thee to come and see me and
little Jesse again."
"Elizabeth, thee talks very strangely; thy
father will not be apt to notice such little
things," and yet her daughter could not
convince her that it would be better to put
on her drab silk to travel in. And often,
during ber short railroad ride, she saw
Jesse on the platform, and aeain and again
she went over her last words to him: "Fare
well, Jesse, I will surely return on seventh
day." And on seventh-day she returned to him.
The time had not come when railroads were
operated by telegraph, and a breathless
messenger rode to the station at Plymouth,
announcing that, near Conshohocken, about
three miles distant, trains had collided and
that many were injured and some killed.
"And Hannah?" whispered sedate, but
white-faced Jesse to the messentrer, whose
averted gaze prepared him for the worse.
The waiting and impatient horse had tight
ened his hitching strap, so that Jesse had to
break it apart, even then reproaching him
self or the waste, and reproaching bimtelfj
th
still more that he then thought of waste. He
was going to meet Hannah on seventh-day,
yet it seemed cruel to drive his full-fleshed
horse at such an unusual pace up the steep
hill, and he could not understand whv the
next moment, with unwonted blows, he al
most "urged it into a run.
She returned to him on seventh day, and
after a lingering illness was restored to
health, except never more would her para
lyzed ankles support her weight. But she
was not unhappy. He-had kissed her on
that seventh day. and her quickened mem
ory ever retaine'd his words of endearment
The "best room" and the "sitting room"
were thrown into one, and it seemed strange
to them all that there had ever been a time
when there was no such thine as "mother's
room." Facing the south and the Chestnut
Hills an ample piazza was built, and through
the lengthened window Hannah could guide
her invalid's chair, and inclement indeed
pwas the day when Jesse, on reaching the
summit of Walton's am, aiu, not see me
waiting and loved form that urged his horse
more rapidly home. The milkhouse, em
bowered in a'noble oak and a beautiful wil
low, more than ever was her favorite resting
place. The scent of the milk and the rich
odor of the butter had their charm, and the
quiet rippling of the water against tne pol
ished tin pans soothed her. but because it
was so central, Jesse, at his work, passed
there often, and when unobserved jils kiss
of love and quiet words of endearment made
very musical her voice as she uttered: "He
doetti all things well."
"Yes, Jesse, thee must go to Yearly
Meeting. Elizabeth will expect thee, and
thee has never yet seen little Jesse. I
know 1 will be lonely, but it will be a
change for thee, and it will do thee good,
to thee must surely go. That settles it, for
since I got injured you have allso humored
me that you have made me quite a tyrant
who can not bear opposition." Thus pleas
antly urged, and because he saw that she
had "set her heart upon it, Jesse went to
Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia. At Eliz
abeth's house he saw a melodeon. He did
not know exactly what it was, but because
of its similarity to the pianos be had seen
in store windows, he knew it was a musical
instrument, and he wassomewhat displeased
at this appearance of conformity to the
world, but with the reserve of the Quaker
and the caution of the countryman
he said nothing. One evening a few friends
had gathered at his daughter's house, and
a young married woman played the
melodeon and sang a few hymns. He
had been reared in an exclusively Quaker
neighborhood, had never attended any place
of worship but Friends' Meeting, and unless
some stray notes of an election band had
fallen upon his ears, had never before,
listened to any music, and for the first time
in his lite he then heard the human voice in
song. What were his thoughts or emotions
bis impassive Quaker face refused to reveal.
Presently, with one of those clear, tender
voices, so much in demand in religious
meetings, the lady sang "Jesus, Lover of
My Soul," which so interested Jesse thathe
went to her, and in quiet, stately way, said:
"Will thee be kind enough to sing that
again for me?" and when with deeper
pathos she concluded that marvelous hymn,
Jesse was not the only one of the little com
pany who did not dare to trust his voice to
thank her.
Elizabeth was surprised at the almost im
perious tone of her placid father, when,
about noon of the following day, he said to
her: "Next month will be the sixth month,
and the country is then attractive to city
folks, and then I will expect thee to visit
us, bringing thy friend, Emma Lippincott"
"Why. father, of course I will De pleased
to come home, but Emma has a husband and
a young child, and it may notbe convenient
for her."
"Elizabeth, my daughter, thee can, thee
must make it convenient for her. Thy
mother will be glad to have Emma's child
with thy child to visit us, and the country
air will be good for the children. Elizabeth,
thee will bring her, will thee not?"
Strangely moved by her father's pathetic
earnestness, and not knowing whether she
could fulfill her promise, the daughter yet
responded:
"Father, I will bring Emma with me."
"Thanks, my daughter. Perhaps I may
as well tell thee now as later. I have just
bought one ot those melodeons for $160."
"Father! why, father! is that so?"
"Yes," and fearing to expose his emo
tions, and also fearing that his danghterwas
inwardly reproaching him for wasting her
patrimony, he hurriedly added, "tor I
thought it would comfort thy mother."
"But, father, mother does not know how
to play on the melodeon."
"And that is just the reason why I want
thee to bring Emma Lippincott with thee.
Perhaps, she could teach thy mother to play,
and she has so many lonely hours. At any
rate, mother could hear her sing that hymn
she sang last night."
Beading her father's heart for thefirsttime,
with tearful voice, Elizabeth said: "Father,
kiss me; father, kiss thy daughter." He was
with a woman, so he dared to weep, and
there was something of wrath mingled with
his sorrow over the education which, till
then, had made him almost a stranger to
that daughter. '
At every unwonted expenditure, as was
particularly the case when he bought so
costly a melodeon, Quaker thrift would en
ter its protest; but "this is for Hannah"
never failed to win the victory. And she
learned to play, and Jesse thought that she
could sing "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," al
most as well as could Emma Lippincott
That Jesse Lukens, so strict a Friend, sit
ting on the upper tier of seats facing the
congregation, the clerk to the monthly
meeting, should so conform to the world
bore heavily on the consciences of some of
the Friends, but because he was a Lukens,
and Jesse Lukens, they did not deem it wise
to interfere.
Flowers and books and a larger life, a life
in which love was not voiceless, came in
the wake of music, and "mother's room"
was not only the center of the house, but
young Friends on first-day afternoons ac
companied their parents there, finding in
Aunt Hannah's sympathy and tenderness,
which not unfrequently" hallow confirmed
affliction, something, they knew not what,
which elevated them. The years rolled on,
and his whitened locks showed that Jesse
was no longer young, except in heart, and
when Hannah died in his arms, murmuring:
"Jesse. I will return to thee on seventh-
day," he knew when to date the beginning
of his Teal life. Later the large envelope
enclosing his will was opened, but Elizabeth
heeded not its provisions, for the executor
had placed in her hands a small package,
which, on opening, she found was the mod
est collar her mother had bought during her
firsfvisitto her at Philadelphia, v, ith her
fatlipr'n flltnntp lnilltintinn? lT'nfFtif ,.
preserve this.'
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New York. Aueust 3L Belcher, 300; Best
& Belcher, 415; Caledonia B. H., 300; Chollar,
230; Colorado Central, 100: Consolidated Cali
fornia and Virginia. 775; Commonwealth, 235;
Deadwood, 135: Gould 4 Curry, 235; Hale A.
IS ercross, 340; Homestake, 900: Horn Silver, 120;
Iron Silver, 200; Mexican, 500; Mono, 100; Mt.
Diablo. 175: Ontario. 3400: Onhir. 525: H,ivii-i
270; Sierra Nevada. 325; Standard, 100; Union
Consolidated. 400; Yellow Jacket, 340.
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Boston Atalne.....ax
C. B. &U 100
Clnn. San. A Clere. 24
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Flint I'ereJil 28
Flint &i'ereM. pro. 91
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llex.Clstmtg.bds. 67
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Boston Land s
IV aur Power 5X
Milwaukee Flour unchanged. Wheat
steady; cash, 73c; September, 73c. Com
lower; No. 3, 33c Oats dull; No. 1 white, 22
22c Rye rirm; No. L 42c Barley firm; Sep
tember, 60c Provisions easier. Pork Cash,
S10S2K; September, S10 32 Lard Cash,
SO 10: September, S6 10. Cheese unchanged:
Cheddars. SK8?c.
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
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DISPATCH,.
DOMESTIC MAKKETS.
Irish
and Sweet Potatoes Slow-
Peacbcs in Over Supply.
GOOD BUTTER STEADY, EGGS FIRM.
Oats Are Lower and WeakHay Qaiet
Corn Crop Improving.
SUGARS STEADI COFFEES STRONG
OFFICE OF THE PrrTSBTKO DISPATCH,
SATURDAY, August 31, 18S9.
!
"Country Produce Jobbing Prices.
The week's wind-up shows quietness all
along produce lines. Potatoes, both sweet and
Irish, are very slow. Apples are even more so,
owing to the abundance of peaches and graces.
Choice watermelons are scarce and firm. Lower
grades are plenty. Cheese was firmer at the
beginning of the week, but has gravitated back
to Its old position. Choice egs are scarce and
firm at outside quotations. The butter situa
tion is unchanged, bnt good goods are firm.
The main difficulty ot produce commission
men is the largeness of offerings. Stuff in all
lines is in supply beyondlhe wants of tradei
with the one exception, qf hen lruit, and the
general drift is toward a lower level of prices.
Butter Creamery, Elgin, 2sc: Ohio do,
2021c; fresh dairy packed, 1617c; country
rolls, 1416a ..
Beans Navy baud-picked beans, $2 402 60;
medium. $2 30612 40,
Beeswax 2830c fl ft for choice; low grade,
1820c
cider Sand refined, S8 607 50; common,
$3 6004 00: crab cider, ?8 008 60 ) barrel;
cider vinegar. 1012c ft gallon.
CHEESE-Ohio, 8J8Kc; New York. 10c: Lim
burger, 89c: domestic Sweitzer, 9j12c;
imported Sweitzer, 22c
California Fruits Bartlett pears, $3 00
3 SO ft box; plums. SI 752 00 a 4-basket case.
Eggs 1617c f) dozen for strictly fresh.
Fruits Apples, il 602 00 p barrel; pine
apples. Jl 001 25 dozen; whortleber
ries, 75c681 00 $ pail; watermelons, $20 002o 00
hundred; peaches, 81 502 25 V bushel box.
Feathers ilxtra live geese, 6060c; No. J,
do, 4045c: mixed lots, S03oc V ft.
Poultry Live spring chickens, 4045c ft
pair; old, 6570c $1 pair.
Seeds Clover, choice, 62 fts to bushel, $5 60
bushel; clover, large English, 62 fts, J8 00;
clover. Alsike. $3 50; clover, white, S9 00; timo
thy, choice, 45 fts, 81 65; blue grass, extra
clean, 14 fts, 90c; blue grass, fancy, 14 fts, SI 00;
orchard crass, 14 fts, SI bo; red top, 14 fts, SI 25;
millet, 60 fts, SI 00; German millet, 50 fts,
SI 60; Hungarian grass, 60 fts, SI 00; lawn
grass, mixture of fine grasses, S2 50 $1 bushel of
lifts.
Tai-low Country, 4c; city rendered, iX
5c
Tropical Fruits Lemons, common, $4 50
5 00; fancy. $6 006 60; rod! oranges, S5 00
5 aO; bananas, SI 75 firsts, SI 25 good seconds,
$) bunch; cocoanuts. H 004 50 hundred; figs,
8K9c ft; dates. 56c H ft.
Vegetables Potatoes, SI 2501 40 $ barrel;
tomatoes, home-grown, $1 251 60 l bushel;
wax beans, SI f) bushelf green beans, 6075c )
bushel; cucumbers, home raised, SI 60 $1 bushel;
radishes, 2540c ft dozen; home-grown, cab
bages, 50c f bushel; new celery, home-crown,
40c ft dozen; Southern sweet potatoes, S2 75
3 00, Jerseys, SI 004 50.
Grocerlea.
The grocery situation is unchanged. The
downward movement of sugars has been ar
rested, and prices are steady. Package coffee,
though higher than at the beginning of the
week, is relatively tower than the green article.
Wholesale grocers report an active movement,
but very close margins of profit. For a year
past sugar has been the grocer's best card. Of
late sugar is michty uncertain, and only the
greatest caution will prevent grocers from
dropping former gains.
Green Coffee Fancy Rio, 21J22Kc;
choice Rio, 19J0c; prime Rio, 19c: fair Rio,
1819ic; old Government Java, 26c: Mara
caibo, 2223c; Mocha. 272Sc; Santos, 1922c;
Caracas. 2022c; peaberry, Rio, 2224c; La
Guayra, 21g,22c
Roasted (in papers) Standard brands,
I3c; high grades, 256c; old Government
Java, bulk. 3131Jc; Maracaibo, 2627c;
Santo3, 20J22c: peaberry, 25c: peaberry,
choice Rio, 23Kc; prime Rio, 21c; good Rio,
21c; ordinary, 2oc.
Spices (whole) Cloves, 2125c: allspice, 8c;
cas-ia, 8o: pepper, 18c; nutmeg, 7080c ,
Petroleum (jdbbers' prices) 110 test, 7c:
Ohio, 120, SKc; headlight, 150, 8c; water
white, 10c; globe, 12c; elaine, 15c; carnadine,
HKc;roraline, 14c.
SYRUPS Corn syrups, 2629c: choice sucar
syrups, SSfiSSc: prims sugar syrup, S033c;
strictly prime, 3335c; new maple ryrup, 90c
N. O. Molasses Fancy, 48c; choice, 46c; me
dium, 43c; mixed, 4042c
Soda Bi carb In kegs, 34c; bi-carb in s,
6c; bi-carb, assorted packages, 56c; 6al
soda in kegs, l?c;do granulated, 2c
Candles Star, full weight, 9c; steanne, ft
set, Sr; paraffine, ll12c.
Rice Head, Carolina, 77Kc: choice, 6Ji
7c; prime, 53i6Jc; Louisiana, b6Kc
Starch Pearl, Sc; cornstarch. 6ia6c: eloss
starch, 57c.
Foreign Fruits Layer raiins, 82 65: Lon
don layers, S3 10; California London layers,
$2 60; Muscatels, S2 25: California Muscatels,
Jl S5; Valencia, 7Kc; Ondara Valencia,910c;
snltana, 8Kc: currants, 4L;5c: Tnrkev prunes,
4K5c; French prunes. 8X13c; "Salonica
prunes, in 2-ft packages, 8c; cocoanuts, f) 100,
J6 00; almonds, Lan., per ft. 20c: do Ivica, 19e;
do shelled. 40c: walnuts, nap , 12Q15c; Sicily
filberts, 12c: Smyrna figs, 1216c: new dates,
5K6c; Brazil nuts, 10c; pecans, ll15c; citron,
per ft. 2122c; lemon peel, f) ft, 1314c; orange
peel, 12Kc
Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft 6c
apples, evaporated, (M6Xc: apricots, Califor
ma, evaporated, 12i5c; peacues.Ievaporated,
pared, 2223c; peaches, California evaporated,
unpared, 1012c; cherries, pitted, 2122c;
cherries, un pitted, 56c; raspberries, evapor
ated, 2424Uc; blackberries, 7M8c; huckle
berries, lu12c
SUGARS Cubes, 8c; powdered, 8c: granu
lated, 8c; confectioners' A, 8c; standard
A. 8jc; soft whites. 88Jc: yellow, choice.
7c; yellow, good, 77c; yellow, fair, 7ic;
cllow durk. i c
Pickles Medium, bbls (1,200), S4 50; medi
um, half bbls (600), U 75.
Salt No. L f) bbl, 95c: No. 1 ex. V bbl, SI 05,
dairy, ft bbl. SI 20; coarse crystal, bbl, SI 20:
Higgins' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, $2 80, Higgins'
Eureka, lb-14 ft pockets, S3 00.
CANI.ED Goods Standard peaches S2 00
2 25; 2ds SI 501 65; extra peaches, S2 402 60;
pie peaches, 95c; finest corn, SI1 60; Hid. Co.
corn, 7090c: red cherries, 90ctl; Lima beans,
51 10: soaked do, 85e; string do do. 7585e; mar
rowfat peas, SI 10I 15: soaked peas. 7075c;
pineapples, SI 40S1 50; Bahama do, $275, dam
son plums, 95c; greengages, SI 25: egg plums,
S2; California pears, S250; do groengages. S2; do,
egg plums, S2; extra white cherries, S2 90: red
cherries. 2 fts. 90c; raspberries, SI 401 50:
strawberries, SI 10; gooseberries. $1 301 40;
tomatoes, 82J92c; salmon. 1-ft, $ 752 10;
blackberries, bOc: succotash, 2-ft cans, soaked,
99c; do ereen, 2 fts, SI 251 50; corn beef. 2-ft
cans. 2 05; 14-ft cans, S14 00; baked beans. SI 45
1 50; lobster, 1-ft, SI 761 SO; mackerel, 1-ft
cans, broiled. SI 50: sardines, domestic Us,
S4 504 60; sardines, domestic Hi, :$8 258 50;
sardines, imported. Js, $11 5012 60, sardines,
imported, H S18; sardines, mustard, $4 50; sar
dines spiced, $4 50.
Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel. S36 ft
bbl.; extra No. 1 do. mess, $10; extra No. 1
mackerel, shore, $32; extra No. 1 do, messed,
S36: No. 2 shore mackerel, $24.' Codfish Whole
pollock, 4iC ft ft: do medium, George's cod,
6c; do larze, 7c: boneless hake, in strips. 6c; do
George's cod in blocks, 6K7Kc Herring
Round shore, $5 00 ft bbl; split, $7 00; lake
$2 00 f) 100-ft half bbl. White fish. $7 00 SR 100
ft half bbl. Lake trout. $5 50 fl halt bbl.
Finnan haddock, 10c ft ft. Iceland halibut, 13c
ft ft. Pickerel, & barrel, $2 00; i barrel, $1 10;
Potomac 'herring, $5 00 ft barrel, $2 50 ft K
barrel.
Oatmeal S6 306 60 ft bbl. .
Miners' Oil No. l winter strained, 6557c
ft gallon. Lard oil, 75c
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Total receipts as bulletined at the Grain
Exchange, 34 cars. By Pittsburg. Fort Wayne
and Chicago, 2 cars of wheat, 1 of bay, 2 of oats,
2 of flour, 1 ot middlings. By Baltimore and
Ohio, 2 cars of oats. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and St. Louis, 4 cars of bay, 8 of .corn, 7 of oats,
2 of bran, 3 of flour. There was but one sale
on call, viz: a car ot No 2 white oats 26c free
in elevator. Total receints fortbo week 229
cars, against 231 last week and 241 for the week
before Oats are on the downward drift, and,
as will be seen by our quotations, prices are
again reduced. The prospects for a fair
corn crop keep brightening, and unless Jack
Frot comes unreasonably early a fair yield is
now assured. The grain and hay situation is
entirely in buyers' favor at this date, particu
larly as regards oats and hay.
Wheat New No. 2 red, 82c: No. 8. 7779c
CORN NcSyellow, ear, 45J46c; high mixed
ear, 4344c; No. 2 jellow, shelled, 40Klc;
high mixed, shelled, 4040Kc; mixed, shelled,
39K0MC
Oats-No. 2 white, 26K27c; extra No. 3,
2i25c;.mixed. 2122c.
Rye No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 49050c;
No. 1 Western. 4S49c; new rye No. 2 Ohio,
45g46c
Flour Jobbing prices Fancy winter and
spring patents, 85 60B 00; winter straight,
84 7505 00; clear winter, $4 60475; straight
XXXX bakers'. 004 23; Bye flour, 83 600
4 00.
lULLFEEB Middlings, fine .white. S13 50&
-..- ;; j
'T-r
, i TT-' iw ' .
MONDAY SEPTEMBER
1500 fl ton; brown middlings, SI1 60812 00; win
tor wheat bran, 811 0011 25; chop feed. Slo 60S)
ltJOO.
HAY Baled timothy, choice, (13 008 13 50;
No. 1 do, 812 6013 00; No. ado, SU 00 12 00;
loose from wagon, $10 0012 00, according to
quality; No. 1 upland prairie 88 609 00;No. 2,
87 007 60; racking do, $8 757 00.
Straw Oats, tS 50; wheat and rye straw
85 506 00.
Pravlilons.
Sugar-cured hams, large, HMc; sugar-cured
hams, medium, 12c, sugar-cured bams, small,
12Kc; sugar-cured breakfastbacon,10Kc;sugar
cured shoulders, 6c: sugar-cured boneless
shoulders, 9c; sugar-cured California hams,
8c: sugar-cured dried beef flats, 10c; sugar
cured dried beef sets, lie; snear-cured dried
beef rounds, 13c; bacon shoulders, 6Kc; bacon
clear sides, TJfc: bacon clear bellies, $Je; dry
salt shoulders, 6c: .dry salt clear sides, 7c.
Mess pork, hcavj. 812 60; mess pork, family,
$13 00. Lard Refined 1u tlerees. 6c: balf
barrois. 65c; 60-ft tubs, 6Jp: 20-ft palls, 7c: 60-ft
tin cans, 6c: 3 ft tin palls: 7c; 5-ft tin pails,
7c; 10-ft tin palls, 6c; 5-ft tin pails. 7c; lQ-ft
tin pails, 7c Smoked sausage, long, 5c; large,
5c Fresh pork links, 9c Boneless hams, 10c
Pigs feet, half barrel, 83 60; quarter Darrol,
8200.
Dressed Blent.
Armour & Co. furnished the following prices
on dressed meats: Beef carcasses, 450 to 550
fts, 5Kc: 550 to 650 fts, 6c; 650 to 760 fts, 6&Q
7c Sheep, 8c ft ft. Lambs, 9c fl ft. Hogs, 6c
Fresh pork loins, 8c
MARKETS BY WIRE.
Paralysis la the Wheat Pit Caused
by
Contradictory Edlmate of the Itul
Ian Yield Ensllah Labor
Troubles Cause Better
Prices In London.
CnicAQO, August 31. Only a fair aegregate
amount of speculative business was transacted
in wheat to-day, and it was largely of a total
scalping character. Not enough outside orders
to either buy or sell were received to have any
effect upon prices. The weather and commer
cial cables were bearish. SradstreePs was out
with some bear figures to the effect that ex
porting conntrles will have 20,000,000 bushels
more wheat (his year than tne importing coun
tries will require. ATI of these weakening in
fluences, however, were fully offset by Dorn
bussch's report on the Russian crop, which
places the yield for that country at 850 per cen
against 105 per cent In 1888. Export clearances
at the Atlantic seaboard were again fair. At
11 principal points total receipts to-day were
619,000 against shipments from the same points
of 396,000 bushels. It is now figured that the
forthcoming visible supply report will show
little if any increase possibly a decrease.
Outside domestic markets were stronger
and the London cables showed an advance In
the average price for the week in English
country markets of 9d. This is probably due
in part to the labor troubles over there. Fluc
tuations in prices for futures at this point were
within moderate limits and closing quotations
were e above yesterday's latest bids.
May wheat. is cradually coming into more
favor with speculators, and considerable chang
ing over of August and September to May was
done to-day at the current differences. The
cash trade was not very brisk on the regular
market and prices averaged easier for the off
grades. No. 2 red closed a higher at 77c
Corn was quite active at times with feeling
weaker on near futures, while May was rela
tively firm. The influences on the market were
much the same as noted for several days past,
the weakening factors being heavy, receipts
and also the tine weather. A feature to-day
was liberal purchases of year corn by a promi
nent local trader. The market opened at
about yesterday's closing prices, was steady
for a time then declined c, reacted some and
closed with near futures a shade lower and
more distant months about lifi higher. Cash
property was in good demand at lA3fyip lower
than yesterday.
There was a good trade and a weaker feeling
in oats, particularly in September, which was
offered with Increased freedom by longs and
prices receded Ytfi Fair buying at the decline
caused a reaction to almost previous outside
prices, but the market again weakened and
closed quiet and easier.
Activity and irregulanty in prices were the
prominent features in the market for mess
pork. The market opened stronir at 25c ad
vance and a further advance of 8537c fol
lowed. Later the offerings exceeded tne re
quirements and prices receded again. A rally
of2530c was again obtained, but near the
close the market broke suddenly 90c with con
siderable excitement-and rallied lOQlocand
closed quiet. Trading was almost exclusively
in beptember and October deliveries within
abont the same range of prices.
Only a moderate trade Was reported in the
lard market, and the feeling was steadier.
Prices were advanced 25c, and the market
closed steady.
Quite a good business was transacted in the
market for short rib sides. The feeling was
stronger early and prices were advanced 2M
5c, but settled back again to 'about inside fig
ures and closed steady.
The leading futures ranged as follows-
Wheat No. 2. September. 777777
7!iic: December. 78K797oc: year,
7&777677c; May. &. W82;J-e"82c.
Corn Nc 2, September, 33UJ3J:
33c; October, 3333ig33K33c; De
cember. 3333ci35o3c; May, 335a
35K35Mc
Oats No. 2, September. 19K1919
lUc: October. WAm9XmBVlic: May.
22g22c
Mess Pork, per bbl. September. 811 05
11 3d10 2510 40; October, SU 1011 S!li
10 25010 40; January, $9 27K9 279 17i9 2d.
Lard, per 100 fts September. $6 15&0 12K;
October, 86 106 07, January, $5 8ii5 87&
5 85o 85.
Short Ribs, per 100 fts. September, $5 07Ji
(Ufa iwg l?hyo uu; uctouer, cu u.ywwo LiVnQl
5 105 10: May, $4 704 67.
Cash quotations were as folloWa: Flour
dull and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 77
77c: No. 3 spring wheat 7172c; No. 2 red,
77c No. 2 corn. 33c No. 2 oats, 19Jc
No. 2rye, 42J4c No. 2 barley, nominal. No. 1
flaxseed. 81 29. Prime timothy seed, SI 30.
Mess pork, per bbl. 810 3710 50. Lard, per 100
pounds, S6 15. Short rib sides (looie), $ 003
o 05. Receipts Flour. 9,000 barrels; wheat, 113.
000 bnshels; com. 443.000 bnshels: oats, 245,000
bushels; rye, 20.000bushels;barley,10,000bushels.
Shipments Flour, 16,000 barrels: wheat, 103.
000 bnshels: corn. 485,000 bushels: oats, 249,000
bushels; rye 20,000 bushels; barley.3,000 bnshels.
On the Produce exchange to-day the butter
market was active for finest grades; fancy
creamery, 1819c; best gathered creameries, 15
16c; finest dairies. 1314c;fair to good, 910c
Eggs in fair demand at 14c.
New York Flour moderately active and
steady. Wheat Spot unsettled and Jc higher,
closing weak; options moderately active, Vt
c lower and firm; Aueust shorts were
squeezed to the extent of la Rye dull.
Corn Spot dull, weak and lower; options fairly
active, a lower and heavy. Oats Spot dnll
and weaker: options dull and weaker. Hay
easy. Coffee Options 515 points np and
closed dnll: sales.22,750 bags, including Sep
tember. 15.2515.30o: November. 15.4015.50c;
December, 15.43.gl5 50c; May, 15 65c: spot Rio
stronger and fair; cargoes, 19ic Sugar
Raw nominal; refined firm and in fajr demand;
Molasses Foreign nominal; New Orleans
qniet; open kettle, good to fancy, 2846c Bice
in moderate demand and steady. Cottonseed
oil qniet. Tallow strong; city, 4Jc Rosin
steady and quiet. Turpentine quiet. Eggs
quiet and easy; western. 1719c Fork higher;
mess, inspected, 812 6013 00: do, uninspected,
812 3712 60. Cut-meats firm: pickled bellies.
12 lbs, 6?6c: pickled shoulders. 4Kc:
do. bams, 10llc Lard firmer, but quiet:
western steam, $652c: sa'es September, $6 49;
October. 86 47, November, $6 35G 40; Decem
ber. $6 256 30, closing at $6 28U 29; January,
$6 20. Butter Choice firm and in fair demand:
western, 912Kc: 'do creamery, ll18Kc
Cliease quiet and irregular; western, 67c
Philadelphia r"lour Demand light and
prices ruled in buyers' favor. Wheat opened a
shade weaker, bnt subsequently recovered and
closed JiKc higher under stronger reports
from the West; steamer No. 2 red in export
elfivator. 795c; No. 2 red in export elevator,
81Jic; No. 2 red, August. 8Bg81c: Septem
ber. Masic: October. 82$88&c: November.
S3X084U. Corn Option market Uc lower; car.
lots dull but steauy; jmo. nign mixeu. in grain
depot. 434354c; No. 2 yellow, on track, 43c;
No. 2 mixed, August, 41W41Jc; September,
'41?ic; October, 42&42J4c; November,
42J4is2c. Oats Car lots weik and generally
54j)Mc lower; No. 3 white, 2424c; No. 2 white,
2o&2SWc: futures dull and lower; No. 2 white,
August. 26K27c; September. 26J27c: Octo
ber, 27MQi7c; November, 2SJ2Sc Eggs
steady; Pennsylvania firsts, 19c
St. Louis Flour inactive but unchanged.
Wheat Cash lower; options hicher, the close
being lie above yesterday: only light buslnoss
done; No. 2 red, cash, 75c; August, 74c: Sep
tember, 76c asked; October, 76c nominal; De
cember, 78c: Mav. 82cbid. Corn weak; No.
2 mixed, cash, 29Ji293ic; September closed at
iac asKea: uctooer, ):; uecemoer, ausic;
year, 29JJc: Mav. 3232jfo Oats quiet; No. 2
cash. ltc; Mav. ic: September, 18c Rye
dull at 38c Flaxseed firm at $1 25. Provis
ions strong and higher. Pork, $11 5611 75.
Lard Prime steam salable at $6 0UQ-6 10. Xry
salt meat?, shoulders, $4 75; longs and ribs. S5 30
5 3 short clear, $5 455 62X- Bacon, boxed
shoulders. 85 25; longs and ribs, 6 006 10; short
clear, $6 25.
Cincinnati Flour In moderate demand.
Wheat in good demand: No. 2 red,76c ; receipts,
7,000 bushels; shipments. 11,000 bushels. Corn
steady; No. 2 mixed, 85c Oats dnll: No. 2
mixed, 21e Rye dull; No. 2, 4oc Pork In fair'
demand at Sll 00. Lard in good demand; $8 12K
bid: 86 25 asked. Bulkmeats firmer: short ribs,
85 12X. Bacon stronger; short clear, 86 50. But
ter steady. Sugar firm. Eggs easy at 14c
Cheese firm.
tolsdo Cloverseea eteadyf October, U 25;
ioiemuer, a Uft.
j
A' SURVEf OF TltAD'E
In Produce lines, Too' MHokMee
the Main Trade Feature.
PEACtf SUrP'LI IS HOW AT ITS BEST
Cereal Trade Afflicted WItrr Too Macfe&ese
--Oats Heavy.
QUAL1TI OP NEW WHEAT YEET ITKB
Office or Pittsburg Dispatch, 1
Saturday, August 31,1888. j
The marked feature of the week's trade
has' been the over-supply of peaches. The
Southern Ohio peach crop is a month earlier
than last season, and a large amount has
been brought prematurely to our markets
from that source. The strong probabilities
are that peaches touched their lowest price
for the season this week. Late crops will be
light, according to advices from all quarters.
In this section the peach crop is practically a
failure this season. The same is true of plums.
If Pittsburg nere dependent on home supplies
of peaches and plums this season our pantry
shelves would be barren of this kind of fruit
the coming winter. Delaware, Maryland and
Southern Ohio Have come to our rescue, and
the housewife who will take advantage of her
opportunities for the first half of September
will find all sho needs In fruit lines at reason
able rates. There were days the present week
when choice peaches could have been bought
at the rate of $1 pec bushel. It is not likely
that such opportunities will come again this
season.
Sweet potatoes are plenty and steadily drift
ing towards a lower level. Prospecu are good
for a bountiful grape crop. Northern and
Central Ohio will be sendingin their grape crop
by next week, and all signs point to plenty la
this line of fruit.
Apples are a drug owing the abnndance of
other fruits. Later on the apole, orange and
banana will come to the front, but for the pres
ent these fruits are forced to take a back seat.
Cereals.
The situation in grain and hay lines may be
snmmed up in a word, stuff is too plenty an&
sales are only made by concessions. Tbe entire
drift of things for the week past has been
towards a lower level of prices. The oats crop
this season is the largest on record, and tbe re
sult is seen in steadily lowering prices. One of
our leading flour jobbers said to-day: "While
prices of spring patent flour are nominally un
changed, there is not a little cutting going on.
This is tbe great trouble with Pittsburg
flour markets. When prices give the least
symptom of weakness there are always dealers
ready to drop prices In order to affect sales.
The result is we have one of the meanest Jloux
markets in the country.
"At other trade centers prices go up or down
at once in accord frith New York or Chicago
Exchanges. Here we are likely to hear of a
drop very promptly, but when there comes a
rise we seiaom get roe oeneni or ic aooui an
time our jobbers here are ready to catch on to
an advance it has spent its force, and the reac
tion has come" One of our heaviest flour job
bers said to-day: "I do not remember a season
when the new spring wheat and flour were of
such fine quality as this season.
"By the middle of September the new wheat
crop will have passed through tbe sweating
process, and after that time we will have as
good spring wheat flour as was ever made.
The quality of wheat grown in the Northwest
this season has never oeen surpassed, and tbe
volume Is 75 per cent of the average.
"Taking into account the improvement In
quality tbe crop of wheat this season is no
donbt a full average the country over. In
Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio the
crop is as large as any on record, and quality is
equal to anything in the past."
A Clinton peddler, who pays weekly visits to
our markets with two wagon loads of stuff.aaid
to-day: "I have not, in an experience of 15
years, seen oats and hay as cheap as they are
this season. Within the past week I was of
fered 1,000 bushels of the choicest oats at 20
cents per bushel, and never knew them to be
below 25 cents before. A neighbor of mine
proffered to deliver three tons of No. 1 bay in
my barn at 818, or 86 per ton. A farmer from
near Clinton brought a load ot hay to the Pitts
burg market this week and spent a couple of
days trying to sell at SH per ton. It was worth
88 to banl it, and the expense of the two
days' trip knocked out all profits. The wheat
crop in my section this season 'ill average np
close to 25 bnshels to the acre, which is 10
bushels better than last year. The yield of
vegetables, grain and bay, tor 100 miles west of
Pittsburg, this season, will break all former
records. Fruit of all kinds will fall below the
average. Such a yield of potatoes I never saw
as that we will have this season, and this on
top of a good crop last j ear."
The consumer has a second year of plenty
and'low prices. There is no place for the grum
bler in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern
Ohio this season. Nature has a second time
been unusually bountilul in her gifts.
TKADE AND GOSSIP.
What Energetic Bnslueas 9Ien Are Thinking
Abont nnd Doing.
Two gentlemen were closeted with a
Fourth avenue real estate dealer for several
hours Saturday. They were iron manufac
turers, and were negotiating for a site
whereon to erect a plant to cost $400,000.
This is not rumor, but fact. Details cannot
be given, but it may be stated that the deal
has gone far enough to insure its completion
at an early day. The same agent has an
other transaction of a similar kind on hand,
in a neighboring town, but involving consider
ably less moqey. The principals are Pittsburg
men.
There were no extraordinary developments
In the local business situation last week. There
was a small shrinkage in the volume of trans
actions, as compared witn previous weeks, but
coming at the dullest time of the year it should
occasion no alarm. Under the stimulus of
large crops and abundance of money, trade will
soon emerge from the rut. Locally, as well as
generally, the conditions are favorable for an
early improvement So long as there is a good
iron market, and the mills are kept busy, dull
ness can find no peg upon which to bang itself.
As Pittsburg is not a debtor, but a creditor,
the flow of money is steadily in this direction.
This is an advantage of which few other cities
can boast. Failures are few and collections
easy. t
There is a lively demand for boxes in the big
vault of the Fidelity Title and Trust Company,
and another thousand or so will be pnt in soon
to supply the want. Speaking of business, an
official of the company remarked: "We are
doing splendidly mnch better than we ex
pected. We have completed Beveral important
transactions and have others on hand, but
they are not quits ready for publication. The
prospect for a heavy fall trade Is excellent. I
think the flurry about tight money is over for
the season, and that the financial wheels will
rnn smoothly tbe rest of the year."
The drygoods trade of Pittsburg is very
heavy this season. 'This city has within a few
years become an important center of this busi
ness, and more territory is being covered this
year than ever before. Country orders for fall
fabrics are coming in quite freely, and the
work of distribution is being pushed with the
utmost vigor. A leading wholesaler remarked
Saturday that he wonld not be surprised if the
sales this year reached tbe large aggregate of
$25,000,000.
w w
Mills may stop and firms may fail, but our
foreign trade continues to show a marked and
gratifying improvement. Tho report for July
is more favorable at all points than tbe country
has seen in any July of recent years. The im
ports of merchandise amount to 870,778,606, a
level which has not been touched in any pre
vious month since April, 1SS0. when merchan
dise to the value of $74,366,455 came in. Last
year tbe imports of merchandise in July stood
$59,380,645, and the average for the month in the
previous five years, 18S3 to 1887, was but Sol,
6937221 Thus, this year the imports in July are
$11,397,961 larger than in July. 1888, and 816,084,
884 larger than the average for the month in
the previous five years. August will make
nearly as good a record as" July. This Is an im
provement that the country can afford to lean
upon.
La Noria was the only active stock Saturday.
The decree has gone forth, remarked a broker,
that it shall not go below 1, nor much above
1, at present, and the manner in which it is
bandied about seems to justify the remark.
Whllo the rest of the list was dull, there was a
marked Increase In the feeling of confidence in
an early improvement, which lias been a con
spicuous feature of tbe market throughout the
month.
The following table show the prices oractlve
Stockton the Hen York Stock Exchange yester
day. Corrected dally for the dispatch by
Wmisxx ft BTnrmraEOS, oldest Pittsburg mem
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ji.amot m. ......
Csbmb maUtern....
Oeatifl of Httr Jeftey.
UHKuricnu
CfeewoeakeA Ohio....'....
C Bar, Jt Onii.wr,...4MM
C JUL St. raid.... mi
C, Mll.AtK. P., pf....lSS
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cw. l. jt pu....::
C. :. L. A Flu, of.
( 3t " A Jt O.,,, 4f
c. . K.M. o.. pr. m
C. ft ortawetero.... llflj
.a nonswnKSTB, bj.i'
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C. C, C A I., pf-...XH
Col. Co&l & Iron -.
Col. A Hooiloc Yal U
uei., u. x v.. :...nv.
Del. A HuiUoo.-. Util
E.T.. Va. 4(is....... ..t.
E. T.. Va. A (iaJM p.'. 7X
E. 1.. Vs. AG.24pf.v...
ininolsCentm....... ,
Lake Erin A Western
Lake Erie A West. pr.. M54
Lake Shore A M. H..'...4M
LonlrrlUeANajhTllIe. 7IK
Michigan Central...... 8S4i.
MobUe Ohio 1SH
Wo., Kan. A Texas...., UH '
Missouri pacific 74
New Xork Central...,
N. V.. L. . A .....-. H
N.Y.,L.E. AV.pref..v....
H. x., a A bt. L, - ....
K. 1.. C A St. L. pr.
S.Y.. C. A Bt.i,. 34 nf ....
u.txn. X . an
t. r u. A W 1754
Horrolka Western...,-17
Norfolk A Western. pfM
Northern PaclHc , Uii
Nortnern Pacific orct, 73
Ohio A Mliimippl..., 3
Orecon Improvement, .j..
uni HV 14
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74K 74 K
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Oreron Trancon...... 34!
r acme man... .
Peo. Dee. A Kvani 21,
Pbtladel. A Keadlna-.. '
Pullman Palace Car ISO
Richmond A W. P. T 23tf
juenmona a w.i-i.pi .v.
bc tr., siinn. & uan..ice.
at. L. A San Fran 2s:
St. L. San jrran pr.'. eel
St.li. A sanr.lstpf.
Texas Pacific-.....: ZIX
Union Picioc H
Wabssn 17X
Wabash preferred HH
Weatern Union. .S3
Wheeling A L. . 71J
Suffer Tmt :...1W
National Lead Trust.. 24 i
Chicago Gas Trait Wh
71
109
24!
Closing Bond Quotations.
17. S. s,rejs ...1Z7
It. 8.4a. conn 123
tffcT V a.T-nfi.Ka .C7l
onniuat udiod os....uu
N-J. C. Int. Cert..Jr2M
Northern PaclsU..tI61
Northern Pac.Mi..llS
Northw't'n consols. 148
Northw'n debens115
U.S.4XS, : 10i
u. o. 43. conp ... iw
Pacific 6s or '95. IIS
LouUlanaitampedls J
Missouri Ss 10OK
lenn. newaet. Ss.,,.108
Tenn. new set. 5s. ...101
Tenn. new set. 3s.... 73(4
Canada So. Zds 98X
Cen. Pacificists 114
Den. AK.G., Ilts...l21
Den. AR.G. 4s 78
D.AB.G.West,lsts. 105
Erie, 2da n....lX
U. K. AT. Gen. 6s.. 63
tinitmn A. Twf,B A lflft
at. I. AI.M. Uen. Ss 86Xi
St. lxa.r. uen.ji.jiD
MI. Pant consols ....136
St. PL CM A Pe.lsts.lUK
Tx.. Pe.L. G.Tr Ks. SW.
Tx.,PC.K.G.trr.Kcts MM
union rae. ist....u
West Bhore....v...J0S
Philadelphia fltoclta.
Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur
nished by Whitney A Stephenson, brokers. No. 57
fourth aventte. Members New York Stock Ex
change. Asaen.
S3V
213-i
Pennsylvania Ballroad.
Readlna i..
Bnfialo. lltubnr and Western.
LehUh Valley MS
Lehlah Navigation UM
Northern Pacific -....- 34
Northern Paclfio preferred. 74X
Saturday' Oil Range.
Corrected daily by John M. Oaxiey & Co., 43
Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro
leum Exchange.
Opened 9S!4Lowest S3
Highest 98M Closed SS
Barrels.
Average runs 51,580
Average shipments "9,506
Average charters. 47,345
Beflned, New York. 7.3)c
Keflne.', London, 5J'd.
Refined, Antwerp, 17H0
Keflned. Liverpool, 64d.
A. B. McGrew & Co. quote: Puts, 96:;
calls, 99c.
LITE STOCK MAfcKETS.
The Condition of Business at the East Llberrj
Stock yard.
OlTICE OFPlTTSBtTBG DISPATCH,!
SATTBDAT. August 31, 1889.
CATTLE Receipts, 540 headr shipments, 700
bead: market steady on good, slow on common:
ic off from last week's prices; 12 cars of cattle
shipped to New York to-day.
Hogs Receipts. 2,000 head: shipments, 2,000
head; market slow; light Yorkers, $1 7594 75;
grassers, Jl 5004 60; medium and light Phila
delphia!, J4 504 60; heavy hogs, 54 S04 50;
3 cars of bozs shipped to New York to-day.
Sheep Receipts. 200 head; shipments, 200
head; market fair and prices unchanged.
By Telegraph.
Kansas City Cattle Receipts, 444 head;
over 6,000 held over from yesterday, mostly
Texans and Indian; no native dressed beef
steers on sale; weak, dull; good to choice corn
fed steers, $3 8034 10; common to medium, $3
3 70: stockers and feeding steers, S23: rows,
SI 3502 50; grass range steers, $1 353 60.
Hogs-'-Keceipts. 1,571 head; strong, to ex
tent of supply: eood to choice light and light
mixed, 10c higher and quotable at $4 30Q4 45;
heuv and mixed, 3 S04 20, Sheep
Receipts, 246 head; steady; good to choice
muttons, S3 603 85; common to medium,
$2 503 50.
Chicago Cattle Receipts. 600 head; mar
ket quiet and unchanged; beeves, $4 254 65;
steers. $2 854 35; stockers and feeders. SI 85
2 05: cows, bulls and mixed. SI 2 90;
Texas cattle, SI 252 60; natives and half
breeds, S2 803 50: winter Texans. $2 403.
Hogs Receipts, 5,000 head: market strone,
5c to 10c higher: mixed. S7954 40; heaw, S3 75
4 30; light, S4 104 70; skins S3 4004 40.
Sheep Receipts, 1,000 bead; shipments.none;
market steady to lower: natives, S3 404 35;
western feeders, S3 503 80; Texans, $3.5004 10;
lamDS lower, n iijoav.
St. Louis Cattle Receipts, 400 head;
shipments, 3.400 head: market steady; choice
heaw native steers, S3 904 15; fair to (rood
do. S3 404; stockerVand feeders, 12 002 70;
range steers, S2 202 GO. Hoes Receipts.
400 head: shipments, 1,100 bead: market higher;
fair to choice heavy, $3 704 00: packing
grades, S3 703 95; light trades, fair to best,
$4104 50L Sheep Receipts, 70U bead; ship
ments, 2,500; market steady; fair to choice, S3 05
3 25.
Bdtpalo Cattle receipts, 236 carloads
through; 12 carloads sale; quiet and unchanged.
Sheep and lambs Receipts, 19 carloads
tbrongh;0 carloads sale; slow and unchanged.
Hogs Receipts, 38 carloads through; 40 car
loads sale; market 10015c lower on Yorkers;
steady on other grades; mediums and heaw,
S4 254 55: mixed, S4 75S4 SO; corn York
ers, S4 804 90; grass Yorkers, 54 404 75;
pigs not wanted; others unchanged.
Cincinnati Hogs in light demand; com
mon and light, S3 604 60; packmgand butchers.
S4 104 25; receipts, 900 head; shipments, 700
head.
Tbe Drygoods Market.
New" York, August 3L The drygoods mar
ket continued unchanged. An important pack
age sale of blankets and flannels, the produc
tion of several mills, was announced fornext
Wednesday at auction.
Dr. Shafer, one of the physicians of tbe
Polypatblc Medical Institute, at 420 Pcnn ave.
Mr.C. V. Pulpress,ofNo- 46 Liberty street,'
Allegheny, had fur a long time suffered from a
weak, tired feeling, no ambition, pain across
tbe small of his back and palpitation of tbe
heart. His complexion was very sallow, and as
the diseased condition of bis kidneys from
which be suffered further progressed, bis stom
ach became involved. He had bloating, belch
ing of gas and distress after eating. He lost
flesh, his memory became poor and bis mind
became so affected that he conld neither read or
think, and was In constant fear of becoming in
sane. He often felt dizzy, so that everything
seemed to be in a whirl, and be became so
nervous as to entirely unfit him for any busi
ness. Having read in the papers that tbe
physicians of tbe Pnlvpathic Medical Institute
make a specialty of kidneyand urinary diseases
he began treatment with them. His own words
state the result: "This is to certify that I have
been enrefl by the physicians of the Polypatblc
Medical Institute at 420 Penn avenue.
C. V. PULPRESS."
Office hours. 10 A.M. to4P. at., and 6 to 8 P. K.
Sundays, lto P. H. Consultation free,
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WHOLESALE EXCLUSIVELY!!
ARMOUR'S
EXTRACT OF BEEF,
ARMOUR & CO., CHICAGO
SOLE MANUFACTURERS.
Thfa ta now conceded to ha tnft Bea1 fa tsiA a
market, as witnessed br the facttlwtwehiTe-;
LKNCE at the Pure Food ExpoaHieB, now be- 1
ing neia in -nuaaeipnia.
CLKANLY IN MANUFACTURE
SUPERIOR IN QUALITY.
And with the bright appetizing flavor of fcett
ly roasted beet " .V
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512 AND 514 SMITH FILD STREET.
PITTSBURG,
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ox ireait, ior txso ox travelers, ana i.omraer
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Available In all salts of the? world. Also issue
Credits - -
IN DOLLARS
For use In this country. Canada, Mexico, "West'-
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FIDELITY TITLE&TRUSTC0.
121 AND 123 FOURTH AVE.
Capita! $500,000. Full Paid.
INSURES TITLES TO REAL ESTATE.
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ni;u in nit riuuuaijr uajjabmca. ,
-DIALS ET- -iVd
Reliable Investment Securities.
Rents Boxes in its Superior Vanllf "
from 85 per annum upward.
Receives Deposits and loans only on mort
gages and approved collaterils.
JOHN B. JACKSON. Pres't.
JA3IES J. UONNELL. Vice Pres't
C. B. McVir, Setfy and Treas.
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BROKERS FINANCIAL.
-VTTH1TNEY & STEPHENSON,
CT FOURTH AVENUE.
Issue travelers' credits through Messrs. DrexeL
Morgan fc Co., New York. Passports procured.
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MEDICAL. ' '
DOCTOR
WHITTIER
814 PENN AVENUE, PITTSBURG, PA
As old residents know ana back files of Pitts
bnrg napers prove, is the oldest established
and most prominent physician In the city, de-
voting special
ng special attention to all chronic diseases.
Fromrespon-MflCFrilMTII niRETl
rom respon
sible persons
MrntflMO and mental diseases, physical
1 1 L. D V U U O decay.nervous debility, lack of.
energy, ambition and hope, impaired mem
ory, disordered sight, self distrustjbasbf ulness,
dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, emotions. 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 cured.
BLOOD AND SKIN 2BT.5WS
blotches, falling hair, bones pains, glandular
swellings, ulcerations of tonue. mouth, throat,
ulcers, old sores, are enred for life, and blood
poisons thoroughly eradicated from the system.
IIDIMADV kidneyand bladder derange
Unlllrtn Is ments. weak back, gravel, ca
tarrhal discharges, inflammation and other
painful symptoms receive searching treatment;
prompt relief and real cures.
Dr. Whittier'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 if here. Office hours 9 A. M. to 8 p. M. Sun
day. 10 A. 31. to 1 P. art only. DR. WHITTIER,
814 Penn avenue, Pittsburg; Pa.
auS-16-rjSuwk
GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE
CURES
NERVOUS DEBILITY,
LOST VIGOR.
LOSS OF MEMORY.
Knll particular;. In pamphlet
sent free. The genuine Grays
fcpeclflc sold by drngglsts only til"
yellow wrapper. Price, fl nor
nactaee. or six for S3, or bv matt
oi recelnt of price, bv address-
M...W .1.V l.P,,,,,t Wl- rff, UmW.Ih V V
bold lnPlttsbnr,; byS. 3. HULLAHD. corner
Smith flplil and Liberty sti. apU-iJ
'DOCTORS LAKE
SPECIALISTS in all cases re
quiring scientific and confiden
tial treatment! Dr. S. K. Lake,
M. R. C. P. S-, is the oldest and
most experienced specialist in
the city. Consultation free and
sc-ictlv confidential. Office
hours U to 4 and 7 to 8 P. M.; Sundas. 2 to 4 P. .
M.Consult them personally, or write. Docrona
Lake. 906 Penn ave, Pittsburg, Pa.
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Bed Cross Diamond Brand.
Th .nlv rellAbla ofll flir talc. Safe ul
sore. Ladles. otf Vmsslrt for uw Dla.
noad Brand, la red mnaUta bora, Katoil
lta blue ribbon. Tate no other. S5ld4r.
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sealed. Ladles, ask your druzgist for Cook's
Cotton Boot Compound and take bo snbstKate,
or toolose 2 stamps for sealed particulars. Ad
dress POND LILY COMPANY. No. 3 Flabff
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