THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY." SEPTEMBERS 3 -188ft'
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DEM' MALM'S RESOLY
THE STORY OF A
The rector of "Wilbur y was dead. He was
an old, old man, who had been born at the
verv end of the last century, and, alter suc
cessivelyfillinc;tbe posts of Scholar, Fellow,
and Tutor of his college, with great credit to
himself, his college, and his university, had
in his old ace, despairing of ever obtaining
the Mastership, accepted the living of Wil
bury. There in the little village, hidden
awav in a narrow valley that ran like a
long furrow through the plains of Down
shire, the brilliant mathematician had
passed the evening of his life, forgotten by
the world, buried in his bocks, correspond
ing with a few learned societies, and giving
his parishioners a kindly nod and word or.
week dare, and on Sundays a sermon which
thev valued all the more because they could
notunderstand its learning.
The end had been expected for some time,
and vet there was no little commotion in
the Combination Room of SL Martin's when
his death was officially notified to the col
lege; for it was a tradition that the living,
although it was of no great value, should be
held by a scholar of reputation and attain
ments. For nearly two centuries a succes
sion of the most learned men in the college
had retired to spend their last days in the
old rectory on the edge of the Downs; and to
have the refusal of the living was a high
compliment, and an honor that set the seal
to a notable career.
That evening after Hall, the Combination
Boom was fuller than usual; the younger
Fellows, instead of looking in for a moment
and then hurrying off to some musical
partv, or returning to wife and familv in a
brand-new villa residence in the outskirts,
hung about in groups talking nervously and
fidgeting Irom one leg to the other, avoid
ing the topic of the vacant living, and yet
unwilling to go and leave the field to
others. ot that there was any great
choice of candidates for the Downshire rec
torv; most of the junior Fellows were lav
wen and the senior Fellows who were in
orders either held college offices or better
livings than "Wilbury.
The Bursar, the mater-mind of the col
lege, sat in his accustomed armchair by the
the fire, every now and then dancing with
grim amusement at the unwonted assem
blage, but uttering no word. Opposite to
him sat the senior Tutor, a thin shy man,
with a painfully nervous manner, whose
habitual unrest was aggravated by the feel
ing that all men were thinking of him as
the new rector. He sat twiddling his fingers
and shaping the castles of his youth in the
glowing embers of the fire with twitching
lips and elevated brows. The younger Fel
lows stood in a wide circle round the hearth
or bv the table, discussing the situation in
low"tones, until tht old French clock that
ticked solemnly on the mantel-piece
warned them that the occupants ot the
modem villas were awaiting their
coming with impatience. One by
one they trooped out until only the usual
three of four renamed, and then at last the
Bursar spoke: "I suppose you will take the
rectory, Bowles?"
The Tutor started guiltily from his day
dream. "No, I think not," he stammered.
"I am too old; lam unfitted; and I could not
leav the college."
""Well, well. Best have some leaven in
the mass," growled Roebuck, the Bursar,
glancing contemptuously toward the door,
which had just closed on the youngest Fel
low. "Poor old Cawthorn!" went on the Tutor
after a pause; "he was a clever man."
"Bora three-quarters of a century too
soon. If he had deferred his entry into the
world, he might have had as many "pups'
and have made as mnch money as any
coach' in the university, I think that is
the correct form of words, is it not, Mai
ton?" The man addressed by the Bursar an
swered in a low, soft voice rather labored in
its precision of accent and phraseology: "I
believe so; I have heard some such expres
sion made use ot bv members of this col
lege." "There are few men of his standing left,"
said the tutor, still thinking of the late
rector. "I suppose it will be offered to
Thompson."
"He won't take it," said Roebuck; "his
own plare is much better, and not such an
exilel You'll have to take it, Bowles."
"I? Oh no. i should never make a
parish priest; I could not live away from
the college."
"Then Malton must have it."
Malton blushed. He was a man not much
over 30, with small eyes, no features to
speak ot, a complexion like pale yellow
soap, and on each cheek a wisp of black
whisker that looked as it it had accidentally
slipped down from his hair. He hesitated,
and muttered something about the offer be
ing a great compliment. Here was a new
idea, and one that seemed likely to be the
ultimate solution of the difficulty. Some
how the suggestion seemed to have put an
end to the conversation. They sat in
silence, looking into the fire and turning
the matter over in their minds, but without
pursuing the subject any lurther. As
usual, Malton was the first to retire, leav
ing the two elder men sitting by the fire,
with the founder of the college, a chan
cellor, three bishops and several noblemen
looking solemnly down at them from the
walls.
Ths Bev. Joseph Malton went back to his
rooms with his mind in an unusual state of
ferment He lighted his lamp, which his
gvp had placed ready for him, and seating
himself at Ms desk, tried to take up the
thread of his work as on every other even
ing. He was engaged on a learned treatise,
which the undergraduates averred dealt
completely and exhaustively with the
subtler properties of the common pnmp;
but his hand had lost its cunning and
strange visions kept floating belore his
eyes. He sighed, put away his papers, and
drawing his heavy armchair nearer to the
fire, settled himself down to read hut to no
purpose. The Bursar's suggestion that he
should be the new rector of Wilburv had
strangely agitated him. After all, whv
should he not take It, and he onlv thought
it in a whisper marry? It was true he could
marry as he was; but the position of a married
Fellow, with a wife and familv in a
draughty villa outside the town. "did not
appeal to his imagination; whereas the
status of rector in a country parish seemed
to him lull of dignity and of all that gives
interest to life. The book he was trying to
read slipped from his grasp and slid into
the fender; but he took no heed of it, he
was so absorbed in his reflections. He was
35, and Fellow.Deau and Classical Lecturer
of St. Martin's. He had almost reached
the Eummit of his ambition: but never till
that evening had the idea of merging the
college don in the country rector crossed his
mind.
The entry of his gyp Turner to put out the
tea-things and give a last look round inter
rupted his reverie. Turner was an untidv,
shiftless creature, with a talent for breaking
china, and with a Cockney accent ingrafted
on the intonation of East Anglia. The un
dergraduates on his staircase were always at
war with him on account ot his forgetlulness
and incapacity, and he lived in a constant
state oi expostulation and self-excusing. He
did his best with the Dean, for he knew it
was well to have the authorities in
his lavor; but the other resident
Fellows agreed that only a man so
little exacting as Malton conld have
stood Turner's peculiarities so long.
Turner finished h' perfunctory look
round the room, and having placed the tea
ready, said: "Shall you want anything
more to-night, sir?"
"Ho, thank you," replied the Dean.
"Goodnight, air."
"Goodnight, Turner."
The door closed upon the gyp, and abrupt
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COLLEGE LIVING.
ly shut out a war whoop that rang up the
staircase to summon Turner to one of his
indignant undergraduate masters.
The Dean picked up his book, made his
tea, and resumed his reverie; but Turner's
entrance had given his thoughts a new di
rection. His memory cast back to his boy
hood, to his hopes and ambitions as a grow
ing lad, to the work he had set himself to
accomplish, and to the life, devoid of pleas
ure and almost of recreation, that he had
led till within the last few years, when his
mode of living had become sterotyped, and
his nervonsness in society confirmed. He
saw himself once more a little boy in the
house of his father, who had been a small
tradesman in the town; and it was almost
with a shock that he remembered how in
those far-awav days he had actually
looked up to" his shiftless gyp Turner,
and had listened with awe and reverence
to the stories of dons and undergrads that
his playfellow used to retail. Five-and-twenty
years ago Turner's father had lived
next door to the Maltons, and the Turners
held their heads high, for Turner was gyp.
and his wife bedmaker at St. Martin's; and
they considered themselves as belonging to
the'university; whereas old Malton and his
wife only belonged to the town. He re
membered how he had envied young Turner
his intimacy with the ways and traditions
of college and university life, and with
what absorbing eagerness he had swallowed
all the accounts of the respect with which
the Master and Fellows of St. Martin's
asked for and followed the advice of their
gyp and bedmaker. and how he had always
considered old Turner as virtnal ruler
of St. Marti us; and as a person
age to whom even the the great
vice chancellor himself owed no small por
tion of his glory. In his mind he ran over
his entrance with Turner at the grammar
school, how he had worked and slaved even
as a lower schoolboy, with the hope of
being able to win a scholarship, and see
that glorious university life at first band
and with his own eyes; and how the idleness
and mischievous tricks of young Turner had
been the despair of the masters and the ad
miration of his schoolfellows.
The intimacy between the two had natur
ally lessened when Turner was taken from
school and sent for two years as boots
to a London hotel, before joining his
father as a sort of assistant gyp
at St Martin's. In London, Turner bad
farther studied the art of giving the maxi
mum of importance to a minimum of work;
while Malton had been rising steadily to
the bead of the school, and had succeeded
in persuading his father that he was not a
nseless dreamer after all. The Dean smiled
a little sadly when he recalled the over
whelming rapture with which his election
to a school exhibition had filled him, and
his hopes and fears as he entered for scholar
ships at several colleges, finally becoming
senior classical scholar of his year at St.
Martin's. Old Turner had" been the
first to bring him the news
of his election, and the Dean well
remembered the half-patronizing, half
deferential manner with which the old
man had congratulated him. He could
have wished that his success had been
gained at some other college, for the Tur
ners were inclined to presume on old ac
quaintance and to be unpleasantly familiar
with the new scholar; but as they all be
came more used to their respective positions
this teeling of awkwardness wore away, and
there remained only so mnch friendship
between them as could be expected to exist
between a university man and a gyp.
Then another figure crossed the field of
the Dean's recollections, the figure of the
girl who had prompted the idea of mar
riage in a -country rectory. Mary Andrews
had been the only girl the Dean had ever
so much as thought of admiring; she had
been the Cbloe and the Delia of his school
and college compositions, and on her shrine
he had secretly heaped all the worn and
exaggerated "compliments that are the stock
in trade of lyric and elegiac verse. He
had been very lond of her, or rather of the
ideal he had created from her, in his quiet
subdued way but he could not help con
fessing to hicnelf that Turner, with his im
pudent assurance and fund of anecdote, had
been more in her good graces than
ever he had been. It was with a sort of
guilty feeling that he remembered that he
had not even seen his Chloe for 10 or 12
years, and that by now the little short
irocked maiden, with the laughing blue
eyes and tangled golden hair, must be a
lull-grown woman of 25 or 26, if she were not
long since married.
The Dean excused his 'remissness to him
self by the reflection that he had always
been too busy to think of love-making. He
remembered "how hard he had worked as an
undergraduate in order to become Seventh
Classic, and to get a place low down among
the Senior Optimes; and since then how his
duties as Fellow, Classical Lecturer and
Dean had taken up all his time and thought
Anyhow, if she were still unmarried,
26 was a very good age for a clergyman's
wife, especially lor one who would have
to support the responsibilities which a coun
try rectory entails. The Dean's mind was
easier; he would accept the living of AVil
bury if it were offered to him, and with that
as a wedding gift, would go in search of a
wife. Thereupon, he roused himself, made
his tea, resumed his studies, and finally
went to bed determined to sleep upon the
matter.
"When the Dean awoke next morning his
resolution was unshaken. The project
seemed as excellent by daylight as bv
candlelight. He shaved himself, and con
ducted morning service in the college
chapel to a strange undercurrent of thought
that perhips he had only a few more
weeks in the dear old place. The idea filled
him with a subdued sadness; but when he
returned to his rooms he noticed for the first
time how dull a solitary breakfast is. He
was not in love with Mary Andrews, he
knew; he bad not seen her since she was
grown up; but he thought of the pretty
little girl who had been the object of his
silent boyish admiration, and determined
that he would be a married rector without
delay.
Turner seemed possessed with a snirit of
uneasiness that morning while clearing
away the breakfast; he banged the things
about beyond his wont, and was more than
usually reckless with the massive stoneware
cuns with which the Dean had invself-de-fense
provided himself. The Dean mar
veled at this agitation, but held his peace.
Old Turner had now been dead
some years, and his son had,
chiefly through the Dean's influence,
been given the staircase, on which the
widow still continued as bedmaker. "When
everything had been hurled into the gyp.
room, Turner approached his master and
coughed meaningly. Malton recognized the
signal, and looking up, said:
"Beg pardon, sir," said the gyp; "mother's
growing old."
"Is she?" replied the Dean, who had no
ticed no alteration in Mrs. Turner's appear
ance for the last 20 years. "I'm sorry to
hear it," he added rapidly.
"Yes, sir," went on Turner; "she ain't
what she was."
"She's not ill, I hope?"
"No, sir; not ill, sir; but I was thinking
she might want a little help. The gentle
men's beds is heavy, yon know, sir."
"Dear me," said the Dean, "perhaps she
can recommend someone to the college?"
"Well, sir, yes, sir," stammered Turner,
blushing furiously; "the fart is,sir, begging
your pardon, I was thinking ot getting mar
ried." "Dear me," thought Malton; "how very
curious; just what I wag thinking of. my
seU;" but he only said: "Indeed? Oh, I
see; you would like your wife to succeed
your mother?"
"That's it, sir," cried Turner, greatly re
lieved; "If you could speak for me, sir.
"Certainly, I will do all in my power," re
plied the Dean; "you may rely upon it"
Thank you, sir. thank you," said Turner,
knowing that the matter was as good as
settled.
"And when is it to -be, Turner?"
"Directlv, sir; and I took the liberty of
sending her with mother to-day, sir, just to
help, like."
5 "Certainly, certainly. Is she here now?"
"Yes, sir," said Turner; and without more
ado, he opened the door and beckoned to
some one outside.
The astonished Dean saw his rooms in
vaded by a woman, other than Mrs. Turner,
for the first time during his occupancy of
them. It was now his turn to blush, as a
stout young woman with rosy cheeks and a
quantity of straw-colored hair entered shvly
and began courtseying to him. He quickly
recovered his composure, however, and re
marked: "So this is vour future wife, Tur
ner? Well. I'm very'glad to see her. And
when is the ceremonv to be?"
"We did think of next Sunday, sir," said
Turner doubtfully, and as if his banns had
not been duly read for the three necessary
Sundays.
"You must allow me to marry you," con
tinued Malton. "I shall take it as a favor
on your part"
"Thank you, sfr; I-was going to ask you
if you would be so kind."
"And I will see thatMrs. Turner is allowed
an assistant After so many years' service
in the college, she has some claim upon us.
You may depend upon me."
With many expressions of gratitude, the
gyp and his promised bride left the room;
aud the Dean prepared to take the classical
lecture, all the while meditating on the
curious coincidence that both Turner and
himself should contemplate matrimony at
exactly the same time. His gyp's suceess
seemed a good augury for the prosperity of
his own schemes, and be gathered up his
books and papers and quitted his rooms
more resolved than ever to accept the col
lege living.
Turner had lost no time in making sure of
his betrothed's position in the college. The
Dean found the young woman on the stair
case preparing to "wash the stairs under the
eagle eye of Mrs. Turner. He nodded good
morning to the old woman, and as he did so
the younger one stood aside to let him go
past. The light fell upon her face, and
something about her struck him as familiar.
He stopped and asked her name. With an
accent of surprise and reproach in her tone,
she replied: "Mary Andrews, sir!"
The Dean Went down the stairs and across
the quadrangle to the lecture room. His
castle in the air had collapsed like a house
of cards. The Mary Andrews of reality was
far from being his ideal; he had hardly
recognized her. He felt that Wilbury rec
tory would never have owned her as its
mistress had she been tree. He sighed once
over the grave of his hopes and passed on.
The Bev. Joseph Malton is still Dean of
St. Martin's, and his old schoolfellow and
his first and only love are respectively gyp
and bedmaker on his staircase. Chamber'
Journal.
THE PRINCE OP DOCTORS.
An American Lady Finds It Agreeable to be
nn Invnlid.
A'cw York Bun.l
"I have met the prince of doctors," said a
vivacious woman just home from a year of
European travel, "and I found him in
Interlachen. I had been ill for several days
with a digestive disorder, but kept up until,
after 24 hours of continuous journeying,
dnring which time I dared not taste so
much as a sip of water lor fear of increas
ing my distress, I reached that lovely
Striss town and sought the refuge of a
hotel. Here I tumbled into bed, bidding
the landlord send a doctor to me. I was
too wretched to care who or what he was,
and when a small, dapper, blond man, with
spectacles and slightly bald, sat down by
my bed I had scarcely the interest to give
him a second look. But presently his ques
tions aroused my curiosity. He began with
my infancy. I think he asked me when I
cut my first teeth, and continued making a
most careful inqniry into my habits, previ
ous illness, constitutional tendencies, and,
indeed, all the physical minutiie of my
career up to the moment of meeting him.
Then he carefully looked me over, feeling
my pulse, taking my temperature, looking
in my throat etc; and then he wrote a pre
scription and rang for the landlord.
"The prescription was to be filled and he
would wait for its return, and on the spot
the landlord received a written memoran
dum of my diet for tne day. Beef tea plain,
beef tea with zwieback, a light wine with
biscuits these came at intervals alter he
had himself administered a potion and a
powder. The next day and throughout my
illness, which I prolonged to the last possi
ble limit, he exercised the same espionage
over my meals, and I must say the landlord
was as zealous as himself. I never was
more agreeably sick. Beside being so care
fully attentive, the doctor was the most
cheery and sympathetic ot visitors, and his
manners were the perfection of delicate
courtesy. When I asked for my bill I
found that lor this model treatment I had
only to pay a few cents over $1 a visit."
Watches AfTected br the Heait's Action.
Philadelphia Becord. I
A Market street jeweler said yesterday:
"I had a man in here lately whose watch
would not run properly just because he wore
it over his heart. It's odd, but if a man is of
active temperament it makes his watch run
slow."
LITE STOCK MARKETS.
The Condition of Business at the East Liberty
Stock Yards.
Office of Pittsburg Dispatch,!
Saturday, September 21, lbS9. f
CATTLE Receipts, 760 head; shipments,
740 head; market nothing doing: all through
consignments; six cars of cattle shipped to New
York to-day.
Hoas Receipts. 2.800 nead: shipments. 3,000
head; market slow; light Yorkers, $4 50iJ
4 60; medium anil litrht Philadelphia:, 51 40
4 60; heavy hogs, Si 304 40: eight cars of hogs
shipped to New York to-day.
SnEEP Receipt'. 1,000 head; shipments,
600 head; market firm at unchanged prices.
IJy Telegraph.
ITiWOId fl'l' V TTottlo Paitalnfa 9V, 1. -. J.
shipments, 1,311 head: market steady, except
for cows, which were btrong to 5c higher: good
to choice cornfed steers. S4 004 25; common to
mediura.S2 903 25; stockers and feeding steers,
$1 003 15: cows. SI 352 60: crass range steers.
81 602 70. Hogs Receipts. 3,786 head; ship
ments, 891 head: market weak and fully 10c low
er; good to choice light, S4 12i4 25; heavy and
mixed. $3 604 05. Sheep Receipts. 551 head;
shipments, none; market steady; good to choice
muttons, S3 604 00; stockers and feeders. 2 00
3 00.
CHICAGO Cattle Recelnts. 4,000 head; ship
ments, none: market steady: choice to extra
beeves, 84 S54 70: steers. $3 104 30; stockers
and feeders. $1 853 10; cows, bulls and mixed.
$1 252 90: Texas cattle, 51 5003 00; Western
rangers, S2 003 75. Hogs Receipts, 15,000
head: shipments, 6,UO0head: market weak anil
o10c lower; mixed. $3 754 35; heavv, $3 6TO
4 05; light, S3 904 10; skips, S3 59. Sheep
Receipts. 4,500 head; shipments, 1.000 head:
natives, $3 504 70: Western. $3 7004 15
Texans. $3 404 15: Uinbs, $4 256 00.
St. Louis Cattle Receipts, 1,100 head; ship,
ments, 700 head: market strong; choice heavv
native steers, $4 0004 55; fair to good do. S3 80
4 10; stockers and feeders. 52 002 80; range
steers. 52 253 00. Hoes Receipts. 500 head;
shipments, 400 head; market steady: fair to
choice heavy, $3 804 10; packing grades, S3 70
SU 0J; light, fair to best. $4 104 35. Sheep
Receipts,S0u head; shipments, 1,500 head; mar
ket steady; fair to choice. S3 204 25.
Buffalo Cattle steady and unchanged,
receipts. 127 loads through; 6 sale. Sheep and
lambs active and firm, with advancing tendency;
receipts, 12 loadi through; 22 sale. Hogs dull;
receipts, 26 loads through; 66 sale; mediums
and heavy, $4 004 40; corn Yorkers, S4 60
4 60; pics. 5S504 60; graspers, S4254 35;
roughs, $3 253 50; stags. S3 003 25.
movements of Specie.
New YpRK, September 21. The exports of
specie from the port of New York last week
amounted to $313,875, of which 56,900 was in
gold and 5306,976 silver. Of the total exports
5292.200 In silver went to Europe, and $0,900 in
gold and 814.775 in sliver went to South
America. The Imports of specie for the
week amounted to 549,451, of which 510,430 was
in gold and $39,111 silver.
Metal Mnruets.
New York Pig Iron steady; American,
815 6018 00. Copper unchanged: lake. Septem
ber, 511 00. Lead easy; domestic, S3 95. Tin
quiet and fairly steady; Straits, $21 25.
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Country Produce Rising and Dairy
Products Are Firm.
POTATO PROSPECT UNIMPROVED.
Week's Grain Receipts Light, and Flour
ActiTe and Firmer.
CHOICE HAI IS IN EXCELLENT DEMAND
OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
Saturday. September 21. 18S9. J
There has been difficulty for a few days past
in securing a sufficient amount of stuff to meet
demands. One of our leading jobbers of cheese
and creamery butter reported to-day that he
could have sold a double quantity if he had
been able to secure the goods. The few peaches
showing up are mostly clings and of a poor
quality. There Is complaint that the apple
crop, which is below average In quantity, also
lacks in keeping quality. Commission men
vary In their views as to the potato prospect.
Some maintain that the rot will bring supplies
below average. Others hold that there will be
an abundance. One dealer offered to furnish
any reasonable amount next week at SI GO per
barrel, while others put the price at $2. Sweet
potatoes are a shade firmer. The general drift
In all nroduce lines is UDward. and it is plain
L that the era of low prices is past for this year.
The Ruling Prices.
Butter Creamery, Elgin, 2827c; Ohio do,
2425c: fresh dairy packed, 2123c; country
rolls, 1920c
Beans Navy hand-picked beans, $2 252 40;
medium, $2 302 40.
Beeswax 2830e ffl ft for choice; lowgrade,
1820c.
Cider Sand refined, S6 507 50; common,
S3 504 00; crab cider. S8 008 50 fl barrel;
cider vinegar. 1012c ?) per gallon.
CHEESE-Ohlo, 99ic; New York, lOQICKc;
Limburgcr. 89c; domestic Sweitzer,9i12Kc;
imported Swcitzer, 22c.
EGOS 1920c f! dozen for strictly fresh.
Fruits Apples, SI 502 00 i) barrel: whortle
berries, 75S0c f? pall; peaches. 81 502 50 IS
bushel box; grapes, 45c $ pound: Bartlett
pears, $5 00 $ barrel; quinces, 83 004 00 $ Bar
rel, cranberries. Jerseys, $3 003 25 ?) bushel
box.
Feathers Extra live geese, 5060c; No. 1,
do, 4045c; mixed lots, 3035c i? ft.
Poultry Live spring chickens, 40015c
pair; old, 6570 $ pair.
Seeds Clover, choice. 62 fis to'bushel. So 60
?1 bushel: clover, large English, 62 its, S6 00;
clover, Alsike. S8 50; clover, white, S9 00; timo
thy, choice, 45 ft. $1 65; blue grass, extra
clean, 14 lbs, 90c: blue grass, fancy, 14 fts, 51 00;
orchard grass, 14 fts, 81 65: red top, 14 fts, 81 25;
millet. 50 fts, 81 00: German millet, 60 fts.
81 50: Hungarian grass, 60 fts, 51 00; lawn
gra-s, mixture of fine grasses, 52 50 ?t bushel of
14 fts.
Tallow Country, 4jc; city rendered, i
5c.
Tropical Fruits Lemons, common. $6 00
6 50; fancy, 57 007 50: oranges. So 006 00:
bananas, $1 75 firsts, 51 25 good seconds, )
bunch; cocoanuts, 54 004 50 hundred; figs,
SK9c fl ft; dates, 5K0c $ ft.
VEOETABLES-Potatoes, $1 752 00 ft bar
rel; tomatoes, home-grown, 50c bushel:
wax beans. 50c 59 bushel; green beans, 4050c $
bushel; cucumbers, home-raised, 75cSi 00 f?
bushel; home-grown cabbages, 51 2ol 50 bar
rel; celery, 40c $ dozen: Southern sweet pota
toes, 82 75, Jcrteys, S3 2-5.
Groceries.
Greeh Coffee Fancy Rio, 2223Kc;
choice Rio, 2021c; prime Rio, 20c; low grade
Rio, 1819Kc; old Government Java, 27c; Mar-
acaibo, 2324c; Mocha, 2S29c; Santos, 20
23K"; Caracas, 2123c; peaberry, Rio, 2325c;
La Guajra. 22023c
Roasted (in pipers) Standard brands,
23c: hi?h grade. 252(iXc; old Government
Java, bulk, 31K-!4c; Slaracaibo, 2627c:
Santos. 2123c; peaberry, 26c; choice Rio. 24c:
prime Rio. 22c: good Rio, 2lJc; ordinary. 21c.
Spices (whole) Cloves, 2125c; allspice, 8c;
cassia. 8c; pepper, 18c; nutmeg, 7080c.
Petroleum (jobbers' prices)-110 test, 7c;
Ohio, 120, oKc: headlight, 150, 8Kc; water white,
10c; globe. 12c; elaine, 15c; carnadine, llc;
royal mc, 14c
Syrups Corn syrups. 2629c; choico sugar
syrups, 3338c: prime sugar syrup. 3033c;
strictly prime, 3335c; new maple syrop, 90c,
jm. u. jsiolasses rancy. 4c: cnou
medium. 43c: mixed. 4042c.
Soda Bi-carb in kezs. 3K4c: bi-carb In Vs.
5c; bi-carb, assorted packages, 66c; sal
soda in kegs, lc: do granulated, 2c
Candles btar, full weight, 9c; stearine, $
set, SJc; paraffine, ll12c
Rice Hpad. Carolina, 77Kci choice, 6
7c; prime. 56Vc: Louisiana. 636Kc'
Starch Peail, 3c; cornstarch, 66c; gloss
starch, 57c
Foreign FRUns-Layer raisins, $2 65; Lon
don layers, S3 10: Calilornia London layers,
52 50; Muscatels 52 25; California Muscatels,
51 85; Valencia, 7Jc; Ondara Valencia, 0JJ10e;
sultana, 8c; currants. 45c: Turkey pi unes,
45c; French prunes, 613c; Salonica
pruues. in 2-ft nacjeages. 8c: cocoanuts, 100,
$6 00; almonds, Lan., fl ft, 20c: do Ivica. 19c;
do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap.. 1215c;.hicily
filberts, 12c: Smyrna tigs, 1216c; new dates,
5Ji6c, Brazil nuts, 10c; pecan-, ll15c; citron
per ft, 2122c; lemon peel, f) ft, 1314r; orange
peel, 12c
Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft 6c:
aoples. evaporated, GKg6c; apricots, Califor
nia, evaporated. 12Kloc; peaches, evaporated,
pared, 2223c; peaches, California evaporated,
unpared, 1012Kc; cherries, pitted, 2122c;
cherries, nnpitted, 5Cc; raspberries evapor
ated. 2i(aiikc: blackberries, 7Sc; buckle
berries. lu12c
Suoars Cubes. 8c; powdered, 8c; granu
lated. 8Jc; conlectioners' A, 8c: standard
A, 8)c; soft whites. SffiSc: yellow, choice,
7jc;ycllow. good, 77JJc, yellow, fair, Tc;
yellow, dark, 7c
Pickles Medium, bbls (1,200), 54 50; medi
um, nait ddis (uuu). i.
S alt-N o. 1. bbl. 95c; No. 1 ex,
dairy, $ bbl, 81 20; coarse crystal;
Higglnb' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, 82
Enrcka. 16-14 ft nockets. S3 00.
pbhl.81C5:
bbl, 81 20;
0; Higgins'
Canned Goods Standard reaches, S2 00
2 25; 2ds SI 501 b5: extra peaches, 52 402 60;
pie peaches, 95c; finest corn, 511 50; Hid. Co.
corn, 7090c: red cherries, 90cSl:Lima beans,
51 10; soaked do, 85c; string dodo, 7585c; mar
rowfat peas, 51 101 15; soaked peas, 7075c;
pineapples, SI 401 50; Bahama do, 52 75; dam
sonplums, 95c: greengaees, 51 25; egg plums,
82; California pears. 52 50; do greengages, 52; do,
egg plums. 52: extra white cherries, $2 90; red
cherries, 2 fts, 90c: raspberries, 51 401 50;
strawberries. $1 10: gooseberries, $1 301 40;
tomatoes, 8292c; salmon, 1-ft, 81 752 10;
blackberries, BOc; snecotab. 2-ft cans, soaked,
99c; do green. 2 fis. 51 251 50; corn beef. 2-ft
cans, 52 05; 14-ft cans, S14 00; I aked beans, 51 45
1 50; lobster, 1-ft, 81 751 80; mackerel, 1-ft
cans broiled, 51 60; sardines, domestic s,
54 504 60: sardines, domestic. Vs. 58 25Q3 oO;
sardines, imported, Ks-su 5012 50; sardines,
imported, s, 518; sardines, mustard, 54 50: sar
dines, spiced, 54 50.
Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, 36 $
bbl.: extra No. 1 do, mess, $40: extra No. 1
mackerel, shore, 532; extra No. 1 do, mcscd,
$36: No. 2 shore mackerel, $24. Codfish Whole
pollock, 4Xc ?! ft; do medium, George's cod,
6c; do large, 7c; boneless hake, in strips, 6c; do
George's cod in blocks, 67c. Herring
Round shore, 55 00$ bbl; split, 57 00; lake,
52 00fUO0-fthalfbbl. White fl-ib, $7 00 100
fi half bbk Lake trout, 55 60 $ hill bbl.
Finnan haddock. 10c $ ft. Iceland halibut. 13c
ft. Pickerel, barrel, S2 00; i barrel, $1 10;
Potomac herring, 85 00 $ barrel, 82 50 fl ,
barrel.
Oatmeal S6 30ffi6 60 $ bbl.
Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained, 5557c
$ gallon. Lard oil, 75c
Grain, Flonr nnd Feed.
Total receipts bnlletined at the Grain Ex
change, 18 cars. By Pittsburg. Fort Wayne
and Chicago, 2 cars of hay, 2 of wheat, 4 of
flour. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis,
1 car oats, 2 of middlings, 1 of rye, 1 of corn, 1
of flour. By Pittsburg and Western. 1 car of
hay. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, 1 car of
flour, 1 of malt. Sales on call, 1 car of No. 2
white oats, 27c, 10 days. P. R. R.; 1 car of No.
2 white oats, 26c, October delivery. There is
active demand for corn, oats and choice hay.
Grain Exchange reports are very slight indica
tions of the condition of trade. Flour is a
shade firmer at sources of supply, but jobbers
are more than willms to fnrnish all that is
wanted at our quotations. The abundance of
hav on the market has a depressing influence
on "low grades. Total receipts for the week as
bulletined at the Grain Exchange were 140
cars, against 209 for last week and 241 for the
week before. The steady decline of receipts
serves" to Improve the tone of trade. Prices
below are for carload 'ots.
Wheat New No. 2 red, 81S2c; No. 3, 75
77c
Corn No. 2 yellow, ear, 4243c; high mixed
ear, 4041c; yo. 2 vellow, shelled, 40c; high
mixed, shelled, 3SK39c; mixed, shelled, 370
88c.
Oats No. 2 white, 2727c; extra No. 3,
2526c; mixed, 2223c
RYE No. 1 PennsUvanla and Ohio, 5051c;
No. 1 Western, 4649c; new rye, No. 2 Ohio,
FLOUHJobblng prices Fancy winter and
spring patents, $5 255 75; winter straight,
84 6VM75; clear winter, 54 251 60; straight
XXXX bakers', S3 754 00. Ryo flour, 53 60
4 75.
Meclfbed Middlings, fine white, 816 00
16 50 f) ton; brown middllncs, 512 5013 00: win
ter wheat bran, 811 50Q11 75; chop feed, 815 60
16 00.
Hat Baled timothy, choice, 814 0014 25;
No. 1 do, 812 OGgU 50; NO. 2 do, f 11 00U 50;
loose from wagon, 811 0013 00, according to
Quality; No. 1 upland prairie. 88 509 00; No. 2,
87 007 50; packing do, 57 758 00.
Straw Oats. W 5007 00; wheat and rye
straw, 86 006 25.
Provisions.
Bug&r.cured bams, large, llc: sugar-cured
hams, medium, llc; sugar-enred bams, small,
IZc: sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 10c;sngar
cured shoulders, 6c; sugar-cured boneless
shoulders, 7c; 'sugar-cured Calilornia bams,
c; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 10c; sugar
cured dried beef sets, lie; sugar-cured dried
beef rounds. ISc; bacon shoulders, 6Vc; bacon
clear sides. 7JJc; bacon clear bellies, 7Kc; dry
salt shoulders, 5JJc: dry salt clear sides, 7c
Mess pork, heavy, 811 60; mess pork, family,
812 00. Lard-Reflned. in tierces, 6c: half
barrels, 6c; 60-ft tubs. 6c; 20-tt palK 7c;50-ft.
tin cans, 6c; 8-ft tin pails. 7Kc; 6-fi tin pails.
7c; 10-fi tin pails. 6c:fi tin palls. 7c: 10-fi tin
pails, 7c Smoked sausage, long, 5c; large, 5c
Fresh pork links, 9c Boneless hams, 10cK
Figs feet, half barrel, 84 00; quarter barrel,
8215. " '
Dressed Menr,
Armour &Co. furnished the following prices
on dressed meats: Beef carcasses 450 to 650 fts,
6c; 650 to 650 fts, 6c; 650 to 750 ft', 6M7c
Sheep, 8c 51 ft. Lambs, 9c fl ft. Hogs, bc
Fresh pork loins, 8o.
MAEKETS BY WIRE.
Wheat Tame nt the Opening-, bat Livens
Up on Important Ball News From
Canndn Nothing Exclltnc in
Corn and Oats Hok
Prodacls Feat-
nreless.
Chicago Saturday's trade In wheat ruled
rather dull, but the undertone was decidedly
firm. News was scarce, and as the market got
pretty well evened up in the shnflle yesterday,
the crowd was disposed to await developments.
Outside business was next to nothing. Open
ing figures were about on a level with yester
day's close, and in a short time the market
stiffened np c, December going toSOc and
May to 83c
The most Important bull news received here
was a Minneapolis dispatch saying tbat Cana
dian millers had advanced their buying prices
for wheat 68c per bushel in Manitoba, and
tbat some oi them bad recently bsen setting
supplies at Toledo. Under the influence of this
news and the reported working of 100,000
bushels more here for export, the aarnet took
on decided strength late iu the session, and
during the last minutes a lively trade was wit
nessed, and the best prices of the day were at
tained. The final closing showed a net gain of
Cora was moderately active and easier early,
but firmer later as the session advanced. The
free movement created considerable pressure
to sell the near futures, and the market opened
a shade under yesterday's closing prices, was
easy and declined KsCi ruled active and
firmer,closlng Jc'lower than yesterday on near
futures and z higher on deferred futures.
Oats were quiet and easier, with the bnlk of
trading in May. A fair number of buying
orders for that month were on the market at
22c, and all offerings at that figure were
reauny UKen.
A light business was done In pork, and the
feeling was rather easy. Prices ranged about
the same as reported yesterday.
A qniet and dull feeling prevailed In lard
and prices ruled easier.
Trading was light in ribs, and the feeling was
easy without much change in prices.
ane leaning lutnres ranged asioiiows1
TQS,roiy -. Tiyool-
Corn No. 2, October, 3231Kc; November,
315j31-3131c; December, 31K31
3lk3$c:Afay.3$c
Oats No. 2, October, 19K19Ke: December,
19e?19M195;19c; May. 2222C
Mess Pork, per bbl. October. 810 75
11 0010 7511 00: November. 89 229 22k;
January, 89 109 169 109 12&
Lard, per 100 fts. October, So 87; No
vember, 55 755 77K5 75Q5 77K; January,
55 77.
Short Ribs, per 100 fts. October, 84 77K
4 82Mi Tiyi&i SO; November, 84 62K4oo;
January, 84 62K4 62&
Cash quotations were as follows: Flonr
steady and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat,
7Wic; No. 3 spring wheat, 6668c; No. 2 red,
78Jic No. 2 corn. 32c A o. 2 oatB, 19c No.
2 rye. 41c. No. 2 barley, nominal. No. 1
flaxseed. 81 25. Prime timothy seed, 81 28.
Mess pork, per bbl, SU 00. Lard, per 100
pounds, 55 95. Short rib sides (looie), $4 95
6 00. Receipts Flonr, 12,000 barrels; wheat,
110,000 bushels; corn, 423,000 bnshels; oats,
1W.000 bushels; rye, 19.000 bushels; bar
ley, 19,000 bushels. Shipments-Flour, 24.000
barrels: wheat, 76.000 bushels: corn. 133,
000 bushels: oats, 260,000 bushels; rye, 8,000 bush
els; barley. 40,000 bushels.
On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter
market was unchanged. Eggs, lolo$c
New YORK Flour dull and steady. Wheat
Spot dull; options dull and HJ4C higher on
the early 'business, closing weak at abont yes
terday's prices. Rye quiet: Western, 4852c
Barley dull; Canada, 7075c asked. Barley
malt quiet; Canada, 8595c. Corn Spot mod
erately active and weak; options dull and
weaker. Oats Spot dull and weak; options
quiet, irregular and weak. Hops qniet ana
easier. Coffee Options opened steady and
unchanged to lOpoints decline; closed Septem
ber and October firm; others barelv steady and
unchanged to points up; sales, 20.000 bags, in
cludinc October, 15.651585c; November, 15.65
S 15.70c: December. 15.G015.80c; January. 15.65
15.75c: February and March. 15.7015.85c:
May, 15.8015.90c; June. 15.0515.75c; July, 15.75
15.o0c; spot Rio firm and quiet: fair cargoes,
19c. Sugar Raw dull and nominal; refined,
Kb lower and quiet; C. 6V6c; extra C. 6
6c: white extra C, IQliic: yellow, 66Vc;
off A, 77 9-16c; mould A, 8c; standard A,
7Kc; confectioners' A, 7c:cut loaf,8c: crude,
fc; powdered. 8c; granulated. 8c: cubes,8Jc.
Molasses Foreign nominal; New Orleans
qniet; open kettle, good to fancy, 2040c Rice
steady and in fair demand; domestic 4b)c;
Japan, 4K5c Cottonseed oil dull and
weak: crude, new, 32031c; yellow, 3840c
Tallow weak; city (82 for packages), 4
4 9 16c Rosin quiet and steady; strained, com
mon to good, 12k17Kc Turpentine quiet abd
steady at 4SX49c Eggs firmer: western,fresh,
20c; receipts, 2.454 packages. Pork quiet and
steady; mess. Inspected, 812 2512 75; do un
inspected, 812 25; extra prime. 810 23010 50.
Cutmeats quiet; pickled bellies. 12 pounds,
Gc: pickled shoulders, 4c; pickled nica,
10V10c; middles qniet; short clear, S5 62.
Lard steady and quiet; western steam, 56 35
6 37; sales, September, 56 35; October, 86 31;
November, 56 18; December. 56 16; Jan
uary. 54 18: February, 56 20; March.
SO 25. Eutter Fine, firm; western dairy, 9
12c: do creamery, 1223c; factory. 712c
Cheese steady and quiet; western. 6jSc
PHILADELPHIA iTlour quiet but steady.
Wheat Options qniet; near deliveries Jie
lower, Dut .uecemuer open was a snaae nrmer;
car lots dull and weak; No. 2 red, September,
MS0i4c; October, 8(S0c; November. 81
fife.!e: December. 83&83c Corn dull and
lower: No. 2 mow mixed, in crain depot. 40c:
No 2 mixed, in do, 41c: do do in Twentioth
street elevator, 40c; No. 2 yellow, in grain
depot. 41; No. 2 mixed, September. 40J
40c; October. 4040!c; November, 4041c;
December, 3940o. Oats Car lots moderately
active and Arm; No. 3 whlto, regular, 30c; No. 2
white, regular, 27c: choice do do, 27c; options
quiet and steady; No. 2 white. September. 26
fi27c: October, 27K-?7Kc; November, 28
2Sc; December, 292JJc .Butter Table
grades firm and in good demand: Pennsylvania
creamery, extra, 23c; prints, extra, 2628c
Eggs steady, good demand for fresh stock;
Pennsylvania firsts, 21c
St. Louis Flour quiet and unchanged, but
firm. Wheat rather quiet but firm, the close
being Hc above yesterday; No. 2 rcd,jcasb,
78c: beptember. 78K78c, closing at 7SJc
bid; December, 7879Kc closing at 7979c
asked:year, 77c closing at 77Jc bld;May. 824
S3c,closing at 834c.Corn dull;No. 2 mixed,casb,
29cc asked; October closed at 29c: December.
ISXc; year, 28c; January. 28c; May. 30
3ln2c. Oats quiet; No. 2 cash, 18cjMay, 22
22c; October, 18c asked, 17c bid. Rje
lull at35r asked. Barley steady; Minnesota,
6507c: Wisconsin, 65c Flaxseed, 51 23
1 24. Provisions dull and not enough done to
establish prices.
Milwaukee Flonr dull. Wheat firm;
cash, 73c; October, 73c Corn steady: No.
.'!. 33c Oats dull; No, 2 unite, 22c Rye firm;
No. 1,44c. Barlev firm; September. 60c Pro
visions stcadv. Pork Cash. SU CO; October,
511 05. Lard" Cash. 55 90: October, 55 95.
Cheebe steady; cheddars,88Jic
Toledo Cloverseed active and firm; cash,
and September, 54 05; October, $4 10; Novem
ber, $4 17; December, 54 20; January, 54 25.
Baltimore Provisions unchanged. Butter
and egirs unchanged. Coffee entirely nominal;
Rio, fair, 19c
Dry Goods.
New York, September 2L There was a
very fair business in drygoods for Saturday
with both agents and jobbers, and-an active
movement of good on account of recent sales.
The market was without cbangoof any kind,
the situation being very steady with an im
proving tendeucy. Fabrics now ready for next
sming are receiving very good attention, and
the outlook for this season and next is favor
able to a continued good business. There is
little of new interest.
Minlne Blocks.
New York. September 2L Caledonia
B, H., 800; Colorado Central, 100; Consolidated
California and Virginia, 800; Denver City
Consolidated, 700; Del Monte, 14o; Eureka Con
solidated, 200; Gould fc Curry, 190; Home
stake, 000; Horn Silver. 183; Holjoke. 2.200;
Mexican, 870: Ontario. 8,400; Ophir, 440: Ore
gon and Miller, 140; Occidental, 140: Plymouth,
200; San Sebastian, 300; Ward Consolidated,
Wool Market.
St. Louis Wool baa a firmer feeling, but
prices Sre unchanged.
CAHHED' GOODS EISE.
An Allegheny Fruit Preserver Pre
sents Facts of Interest
GATHERED FB0M A TRIP ABROAD.
Fruit in the Old World a Lnxnry for the
Eer Only to Enjoy.
MS PRODUCT IS B0DSD TO ADVANCE
Office of Pittsburg dispatch, 1
Saturday, September 21. 18S9. J
An interview to-day with George It
Cruikshank, the well-known fruit preserver
of Allegheny, who recently returned from
an extensive tour through Great Britain,
developed many facts ol interest in commer
cial lines. He said:
"One of my leading purposes in taking
this trip was to look into the business
methods of England and Scotland, and
ascertain for myself how much further the
dollar would go there than here in purchasing
the necessaries of life. The retail price ot
bams in London was 16c per pound and bdeon
12c For tenderloin steaks the cost was a shil
ling aponnd and boiling pieces 12c. Potatoes
were 4 shillings a bushel and tomatoes 16c a
pound.
"There is nothing like the variety of vegeta
bles on the London stalls there is In Pittsburg.
About all I could see In the former city, at the
very height ol the season, were carrots, turnips,
string beans and onions. These were reason
ably cheap. Tomatoes, which were sold here
at 40 cents a bushel, were a luxury in which
only the rich could indulge In London and
Glasgow. I can buy in Pittsburg a larger loaf
of bread for 5 cents than can be bought in any
city of Europe for the same price.
Frnlt Mnrket Differences.
"In looking up features of trade, I naturally
gave particular attention to my own line,
namely fruits. On the London stalls the only
fruits I saw which were abundant and reason
able In price were black and red enrrants.
These were served up in some shape at nearly
every meal. The strawberries were far ahead
of ours in quality, being large and firm and of
delicious taste, and sold from 16 to 24 cents a
quart. Gooseberries also were of a quality
and flavor beyond any thing I had conceived
of, and brought 16 cents a pound.
"Pears were scarce and sold at 15c a pound.
Apples, at a penny a piece, were so small and
poor tbat no dealer here would load his stall
with them. Peaches, like tomatoes, were a lux
ury only for the rich: a good large one sold as
high as a shilling and small ones at 10c apiece
The grapes I saw in London were very fine and
large: but the price, 3 shillings a pound, placed
them beyond any ordinary purse. The fruit
season across the water is as poor a one as
here, and the prices given are no doubt above
those of the average year.
"In the city or Glasgow there are not less
than 100 establishments engaged in the manu
facture of marmalade, into which the skins of
bitter oranges enter largely. In one of the ex
pensive items of preserving fruits they have a
great advantage over us here, and that is In
the cost of sngar. The ruling price for granu
lated sugar in Glasgow July last was 5o a
pound.
"Dried f rnits, I discovered, were mnch less
used In England and Scotland than here. The
people there do not seem to take as kindly to
this as to their miserable marmalade, which
was very unpleasant to my palate.
The Sources of Supply.
"Paisley and Dundee are noted sources of
supply for canned goods, at Glasgow leads in
marmalade This season large quantities of
canned fruits and vegetables have been ordered
from America for the Paisley and Dundee
canning factories on account of the great
scarcity of home-grown stuff."
In the interview with Mr. Cruikshank It was
developed that this has been the poorest sea
son for many years to obtain frnlt for canning
and preserving purposes, as last was the best
for many years. The price paid for f nit -this
season in general has been 100 per cent greater
than last, and even at the increased rates, it
has been next to impossible to seenro what is
needed. Said Mr. Cruikshank on this point:
"Last season our establishment put up 2.000
bnshels of raspberries and nearly the same
quantity of plums, with cherries, strawberries,
quinces, etc, in larger quantity and better
shape than lor ten years previous. A great
deal of this fruit was put up -whole in whisky
barrels. Some of last year's suppliet are still
left, hut-are now last disappearing at a nice
advance over the rates of last winter and
spring, when it was bard to give canned fruits
away. We have not been able this year to get
any raspberries or plums, and bat very few
strawberries.
"Ayearazo we bonzht sucar for 6 cents.
while now it is S? to 9 cents. With fruit
scarce and sugar high, it is plain that there Is
a good aud sufficient reason for the late stiffen
ing up in prices of preserves and canned goods.
As an illustration of the change, July and Au
gust, which are nniformly the off months for
our business, were as good as any months of
the year. The scarcity of fruit has given an
extra midsummer boom to preserves. The
outlook points to still greater activity and
higher prices all along the line of our in
dustry." PICTUEES0F TEADE.
Nothing Like a Boom, bat a Steady Broad
ening and Widening The Standing
of the Local Stocks Satur
day Oil Market Range
Daniel Webster in his reply to Hayne
said: "Massachusetts needs .no defense.
There she is; look at her." The same may
be said of business. There it is; look at it.
It is good, and is getting better right along.
Dun & Co. say so. Sraistreet's say so.
Pittsburg bankers, merchants and manu
facturers tell the same story.
There is no hurrah about it, no pyrotech
nics, no boom, nothing exciting, but a slow,
steady healthy expansion which touches
and vivifies every part of the industrial system.
Fortune smiles and the conntry prospers. Dr.
Croaker might as well take in his shluglc
The traction stocks, with the exception of
Central, have been for some time almost en
tirely neglected, owing mainly, it is surmised,
to the refusal or neglect of the companies to
furnish the public information as toearnings
and profits, compelling investors to take alt the
chances. Central has recovered somewhat from
the scare caused by the Fourth avenue grade
complication. Bank and bridge stocks are in
first-class demand, with frequent appreciations,
as was shown yesterday, when 135 was bid for
Fidelity Title and Trust Co'mpany.
The bidding denoted an active demand for
insurance stocks, but tho figures wero for the
most part nominal. The year's losses have been
heavy, but as business is improving the out
look for them is encouraging. Yankee Girl
still holds her bead high among the mining
stocks. Her recent strength is due to a report,
apparently well substantiated, tbat the lost
vein has been found. So far a the public
knows, La Noria never bad a vein to lose.
w
There is always something new under the
sun. The latest business venture, and one en
tirely new in its inception and scope, is the
organization in New York of tho Drygoods
Credit Guarantee and Indemnity Company, for
the purpose of extending to the general field of
commercial credits not confined to the dry
goods trade (as the name might seem to imply)
the same or a like protection to that afforded
by fire and life insurances in their respective
lines. The capital is $1,000,000, with an indem
nity fund of $100,000. deposited in the Treasury
of the State of New York. The primary object
of the company Is the making good to the cred
itor bad debts: and it starts out with good
promise of a successful career. Orlando M.
Harper, a son of President Harper, of the
Bank of Pittsburg, and formerly a resident of
this city, is one of th promoters and stock
holders. There continues to be a healthy movement in
realty down the Fort Wayne Railroad at Bell
vue and vicinity, and if all the projects that are
nnder nay aro carried out, as tbey no doubt
will be, that district will soon claim the distinc
tion of being one of the handsomest around
Pittsburg, as well as one of the most populous.
Surveyors are laying out the Bayne tract, 110
acres, sold some time ago for $100,000. It will
be subdivided and made ready for the market
by spring, or sooner. Work on California
avenue is progressing, and it Is being extended
through Bellvue and on down toward Ems
worth and Dixinont. As soon as this fine thor
oughfare is finished, work will begin on one
or both of the electric roads, which, with the
Fort Wayne, will give citizens of the valley
transit facilities equal to those of any other
district in the vlcinity-of the etty. The Boat
End must look to its laurels.
Monnt Washington is another district that Is
coming to the front, a large number of lots
having been sold there recently. The demand
shows no signs of falling off. It is a beautiful
place. Nature has done a great deal for it, and
art Is doing more. The Mount should not be
overlooked by those desiring good building
sites at moderate figures.'
The following table mows tne prices oractlve
taction the Hew York Stock Kxenaaze yester
day. Corrected daily for The Dispatch by
WniTintT & Stephenson, oldest Pit ubnry mem
bers of .New York Btocx Bxchtnge, 47 Fourth ave
nue: ,,
Clos-Open-
High- Low- lnr
lor. est. est. Kid.
Am. Cotton Oil SO W! SO XH
Atcn., Top. & a. F.... 3H aoS 39'
Canadian Pacific CSV 6SH H
Central of New Jener.iaWtf 12Z ISOtf J21J
Central Pacini M
Chesapeake Ohio ... 25V OH 2M( 2!
CVnar. A Quli.T.....ltsX 109X is?i lesft
a, uii. a St, Paul.... 73 73 Tth nx
U, Mii.&st. P-pr....ns 11 Hi lisM lil
C. ItocKLtf 102 103J4 mn iez
C. lit. L. A f ltU 15
0., St. L. & Pitts, pt .... X7H
C St. P.. il. O J6H
c. st.P-M.&o.. pr.101
C. ft .Northwestern.-.. .1IJX
C.ii Northwestern, pr. ....
U., tt, C. I MX
C C. UAL, pr....M0
Col. Coal A Iron 33
Col. a Hoctlng Vai .. 16V
Dei., L. AW H7M
Del. a Hudson vaX
E. T.. Va. 40a - 11
E. T Va. A Ga. Irt p. K'-i
C T.. Va. A Oa. 2d pr. SH
Illinois Central.... . .. ....
Lake Erie a Western
Lake Erie & West. pr.. M
LaieBhdre A M. 8.....1ttj
LonlsvuieAMuhvUle. 77
MlcUlian central SI
Mobile a Ohio....
101H
11414
17
USH
132
nH
76
233
6H
10SH
77
91
108M .
23 !
Mo.. Haa. a Texas.... 12V
Missouri Pacific 1M4
New ifork Central 108V
. X L. E.& W 29
N. Y..L.E. A W.pref.. 69
a. v.. a a st. l,
h, x c. a st. 1.. nr.
N.X.. V.&bUb.Z&Vt ....
N.IAN. E 60
N. y.. O. A W US
ftorfolkA Western.... ISM
Norfolk Western. pf. ....
Northern Paeifle SIM
Nortnern faclflc nref. 1Vi
Ohio A Mississippi..... ....
Oregon Improvement
Oreeon Transeon...... &H
PaciflcMall 33H
Peo. Dee. A Evans.
Phlladel. A .Beading.. 63,
Pullman Palace Car.. .182
Richmond & W. P. T 3M
St. P., Minn. & Man.,1103
St. L A San Fran 26
St. h. A San Fran pf.
st.L,. a sn jr. in pf.
m
is
an
ait
sj2
2
111
iuu r&cino......
Union Psclflc ,
Wabasa
.. 63X MM S31(
Wabash preferred M
Western Union 65
Wheeling A L. . 71K
Snjrxr Trust 1C2K
National Lead Trust.. 23ft
Chicago Oas Trait.... S7
Closing Bond Qootatlona.
U.S. 4s, ng 12S3
V. a- 4. coup .127
U. S.4.8,reK. 103H
D. 8. 4Hs, conn.... 105ft
Pacific ffs of '95. 118
Loulsianastampedls 91
Missouri s 101
Tenn. new set. 6s... 109
Tenn. new set. 5s. ...102
Tenn. newset.3.... 71
Canada So. Ms X
Cen. Pacificists 113
Den. & K. O., Ists...l21
Den. A K. G. 4s W(
D.&K.G.'W'est.lsta. 110
Erie, Zds 104H
a. K. AT. Gen.es.. 63)4
M.K. AT. Oes.Ss . ESX
nuiaai union es.... va
N.J. O. Int. Uert.,
Northern Pac. 1st)
Northern Pac. ids
Northw't'n consols. OU
Northw'n deben's.JH
Oreeon A Trans. 6a. 105
St. U. AI.M. Uen. Ss 80K
St.L.AS.b.Gen.J1.119
St. Pant consols ....IK
St.PLChl&Pc.Uts.ll8
Tx., PcUO.Tr Bs.tl
Tx.,PcK.O.Tr.Kcti tin
union rae. nt... -11554
West Shore J06)i
Boston
Stocks.
Aten. A Ton.. 1st 7s. 113S
A. AT. Landar't7s.l07H
AtCh.ATop.ltK... X$i
Old Colony. 177K
Kntland preferred.. 46
Wls.Uentnl.com... Z3K
Wis. Central pf,... 61
AllonezMgCo 60
Calnmet A fled.... 214
rranKUn. .
Huron 25
Pewable 2
Onlney 49
Bell Telepoone 201
Boston Land......... SK
Water Power Hi
Boston & AiDany...2is
Boston A Alain e.... .202
C U. AO. 109
Clnn.- San. A Cleve. X
Eastern It. R .100
Eastern It. B. 6s ....127K
Flint A Pere M 25
Flint APereM. DM. 93
Mexican Cen. com.. 15V
Mex.C.lstmtfr.bds. 67K
. r. tMnrHnt... SI
N. Y. A N. E. 7s. ...1273
'Tamarack ICfl
San Diego... 27
Philadelphia Stocks.
Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur
nished by Whitney A Stephenson, brokers. No. 57
Fourth avenue. Members New York Stock Ex
change. 1
Hid. Asked.
Pennsylvania Ballrosd ,. 53V 51
Heading a 7-11 23J
Bnftalo. Plttsbnre and Western fi Wli
LehUh Valley 533S S4
LehlKh .Navigation MM 53
Northern Pacific 3IMI 92
Northern Pacific preferred 74 74&
Saturday's Oil Range.
Corrected dally by John if. Oaxuey A Co, S
Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg'Petro
Ieum Exchange.
Opened 10051 (Lowest 100K
Highest hWilt'losed luojj
Barrels.
Average runs , 43,310
Average shipments 79,994
Average charters '...".. 43,564
Refined, New York. 7.20c.
Keflnei. London. $Xd.
fieflned, Antwerp, i;r.
Kenned. Liverpool. CXd.
A. B. McGrew 4 Co. quote: Puts, 99?c;
calls,S10( -141
FAME OP MAEK TWAIN.
An American Whose Nora de Plume ia
Known All Over the World.
Correspondence Hartford Conrant.;
The only American you are sure of meet
ing m every town of Europe is Hark
Twain. On board oar Danish ship the
captain and first mate used to spend hours
exchanging stories from "Innocents
Abroad," "Eoughing It," "A Tramp
Abroad," and so on. That was not to be
wondered at, for they touched New York
once a'month. But after we bad heard tbe
name of Hark Twain in small country vil
lages of Norway and Sweden, in Denmark,
all through Germany and at every little
way station in Switzerland, we realized
that neither Hartford, nor Connecticut,
nor the United States, owned Mr.
Clemens. At Geneva yesterday we mot a
German professor who had been staying for
awhile in Argentiere, a bit of a village near
Chamounix. On our inquiring if he knew
the English lady there who ascended Monte
Blanc in January and afterward married
her guide, he said that he had just come
from her home. He added that an Amer
ican, "Mr. Twain," bad written np a his
tory of tbe ascent and marriage, and there
were some slight inacenracies in the de
tails. The account had been sent on from Ger
many and a sort of family council had been
held, to which the guests of tbe house were
admitted, M. Jansen, the famons Parisian
scientist, and our professor, among others.
Madam Charlet insisted that she did not
freeze three of her fingers, as'is stated by
Mr. Twain, and the proiessor trusts that a
correction will be made in the next edition
ot the work.
A Canine Anarchist.
London Globe.l
The latest dog story is told by Mr. J. Mi
Hulbert, of Oxford: My old dog, "Scara
mouch" disliked being washed, and when I
showed-him a large Graphic picture ot a
child scrubbing a fox-terrier in a tub, he
turned his head away ruefully and would
not look at his brother in adversity.
Here's Another Mystery.
Detroit Free Press.i
The editor of an Eastern literary paper
has discovered that eighth-tenths of the
marriase engagements are made during the
full of the moon, but why he cannot pretend
to explain. Hang it! can't we everget these
things cleared np.
When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla,
When she was a Child, she ci led for Castorla,
When she became Miss, she dune to Castorla,
When she had Childrtn.she gave them Castorla
ap9-77-srwT3u
FUDELIT Y TITLE AND TRUST CO.,
JJ 121 and 123 Fourth ave.
Capital 500.0CO. Full paid.
INSURES TITLES TO REAL ESTATE.
Acts In all fiduciary capacities. Deals in reli
able investment tecnrltfes. Rents boxes in its
superior vault from S3 per annum upward.
Receives deposits and loans only on mort
gages and approved collaterals.
JOHN B. JACKSON, Pres't
JAMES J. DONNELL. Vice Prea't.
C. B. MOVAY, Betfy and Treas. .
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Xlio Great Usttwrailaater
Blood. FoSson.
T am of the cmialoH 8. S. 8.aMU.lm4'
the head ottfce'lls 0 Need remesHcs. Ts-
rived at thte conclaeiea free fee toetfaMariaf
Annul nt riM-joM whe kave toigl jMttttlkt
good results from its we. I have Vm sifllfif
S. & 8. for years, and It has won a hw sat.
C. A. Gbititx, May4Mrr, Arte.
Treatise on Blood aad Skta DtoiMis assfs
free.
Tnfc 8wut SPECino Cct, Drawer a, Attsata,
Ga. aJ--rwT '.
WHOLESALE HOUSE.
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Cor. Wood and Liberty & ,
Importers aad JetoeM f '
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Special off etinfis we ta
STTirTfl, PLU3H3S,
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ARMOUR & CO., CHICAGO!
SOLE MANUFACTURSBbV
This la now conceded to be tbe beat Isttbf
market, v wltaeiedbytBe-fctJa4WfsM
Inst 6ecnred tbe DIPLOMA FOR KtK
LENCE at the Pnra Food Bxnoaitiea. Mr Wb -S
ins held In Philadelphia. f3- ,
nT.Ti'J NT.V TV MAVnTAPTTTRB tr,
SUPERIOR IN QTjALlTJEtfi
Andwitntno Dngntappeuof:MwiiiH
17 roasted Beei.
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512 AND 514 SMITHFIELD. STMCT. ,mi
TrGt a General Mm
Accounts solicited. Iswe Ditdnttr
of Credit, lor use of travelers, ami I
cial credits,
m STERLING,
Available la all paita of tfce.weckL AsmIhw
Credits
nr DOLLARS
For use in this country. Canada, Msilea, IF JM
inoies, Boron ana ueatrat Am t wen.
asMI-i
iraOKEKS-FUMNCIAL. '
TTTHITNET&STEPHENSC-N, ".
U FOURTH AVBSU&
Issue travelers' credits tflrebgs M earn Dun st'
Morgan & Co. New York. Passports IwesVusZ
ap2S-l
A Home SecufiK
Five Per Cent Merest
- ratcwr ijjaa. $
L CD I L il t T A V CT sssf . .
The Fidelity Title and Trust Coapaay ep
f or sale, atjl 02Kand accrued latere, '
ited number ot 30-year first mortgage boa m-
tne n. u. dmck uoice uompaar. un
stock of -which is 15.000.000. f ally BM is.
These bonds are redeemable by aslnMag
fund at the rate of $100,000 per annais. at H Mw
commencing Julv 1, 18W, Interest beto;paM
semi-annually, January and Jaly J, at Mw '
office ot this company. -
We have carefully examined Into the sound
ness of this security, and can rteommend M as'
one ol tbe most desirable investments 09 the'
market.
FIDELITY TITLE & TRUST COMFASY,
121 123 Fonrtb aveB 1
se!5-C8 PltubgTg, f
MEDICAL.
-n
DOCTOR 'i
WHITTIER
814 PENN AVENUE, PITTSBURG, VL,
As old residents Know and back flies of FMss
burg papers prove, is tbe oldest established
and most prominent physician in tbe city, de
voting special attention to all chronic diseases.
l&SSSm FEEUNTILCURED
MCDnilOand mental diseases, pbjsieal
Vi L. II V U U Odecay, nervous debility, lack ox.
enerjry. ambition and 'hope. Impaired mem
ory, disordered sicht, self distrust, basbfulaesfl,
dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, fas .
poverished blood, failing powers, organic weak
ness, dyspepsia, constipation. coasumptloaUB
fitting the person for business, society and mar-
mA vAni tiAftfls sat aIv ssn nvl biiaIv jfrvsr-vA.S
Dl nnn AlVln CIIMdfseases to aT
UL.VJUU rVllU OI 1 11 stages, ernptiefr
blotches, falling balr, bones pains, alaadater
swellings, ulcerations of tontrue, mouth, threat,
ulcers, old sores, are cured for life, and MeeeV
poisons thoroughly eradicated from thesrstea..
1 1 DIM A RV kidney and bladder deraaffe
Unilinn I j ments, weak back, gravel, oa-,
tarrbal discharges, inflammation and otfcse
painful symptoms receive searching treatment,
prompt relief and real cures.
Dr. Wbittier's life-long, extensive experi
ence, insures scientific and reliable treatise'
on common-sense principles. Cosseltatiea
free. Patients at a distance as carefully treated
as it here. Office boars 9 A. X. to 8 p. H. Stm
dav, 10 A.M. to I P.M. only. DR. WHITTIKB,.
811 Penn avenue. Pittsburg, Pa. '
selO-40K-l3uWk ,
GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE;
CURES ...,
NERVOUS DEBILITY,
LOST VIGOR.
LOSS OF MEMORY. ,
Jfnll particulars la prapsH.
sent free. Tire genuine Gray's
Specific sold by druggists obIt Is
yellow -wrapper. Price, tt per
nadCAre. or al-r fnp In. nr h, taaj
- JJA A ,'Con "celp f price bv address-
oS,?i,1,?WtarSf by 3. S. HOLLAR O. conwr
Bmltliflclrt and Liberty sts. apC-OJ
DOCTORS LAKE
SPECIALISTS in all eases re-1
S airing scientific and caaSfies-'
al treatmentIDr.S.K. Lake,
M. R. CP. &. is the oldest aad
most experienced specialist to
tbe city. Consultation free aal
stvlctlv confidentiaL OSes?
hours 9 to 4 and 7 to 8p.x.; Sunda,a, 2to4p;
M. Consult them personally; or write. DOCTORS
LAKE.S23 Penn ave., Pittsburg, Pa. X
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Qg's Cottoax ROO .
COMPOUND
imcosed of Cotton Boot. TaasT aael .
Pennyroyal a recent diseoTerr braa
'old Dbvslcian. It nucaafuSu uiso!
monutftf-tiare. .cnecsiai. nice ji, oy as,
sealed. Ladies, ask your druggist for Geek's
Cotton Boot Compound and take no anbstHuta,
or Inclose S stamps for sealed partlouHrs. Ad-
dress POND LILT COMPANY, No. 3 FlsksjC
Block, 131 'Woodward aveDetroKf Mtoh.
as-Sold in Pittsburg, Pa., by Joseph F).
lng & Hon, Diamond and ilarKet sts 'kK ' '
CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH-
PENNYROYAL MILS. -'
Bed Cross Diamond Brand.
TStralynUstitoviaikrMte. afeias.7
im. Lsdlea, oak BnnM ftr is Ma,.,
mosdUriid,!a red nwuUIbosf,MW
irtthbtiM ribbon. TsteiiasMly. StS 1. '
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