! w. v THE PITTSBUEG-' DISPATCH. SATUEDAT, JANTTART 11, - 1890. II ;-v-. IffiOtf TRADE EEYIEW, AStrongand HealthyToneAIl Around Kotcd in Home Circles. EXCELLEHT OUTLOOK IN HEW YORK. Confidence There in Heavy Production and High Prices. THE MAKKEIS IN pTHEE CITIES The iron and steel situation has developed Jew new features in the past week. Prices are well maintained since the beginning of the year, and while there is no active move ment, there am no signs of a reaction to the recent boom. Bessemer and gray forge iron are in good demand for this time of the year, and any change of prices will be up ward. Merchant bar iron, which dropped last summer to $1 65, the lowest price for many a long year, is now very firm at $1 95 to 52 00 per ton. Said a representative of one of our leading iron firms to-day: "I have never If nown tbe outlook better than it is at this time. Orders axe brisk and prices are firm all along tbe line. In tbe middle of October pig iron was qnoted in Mew York and Liverpool at 117 per ton, now it is firm at $18 SO. Tbe advance in Bessemer pig tbe past six months has been fully $S per ton. - TTHEIJE THE BOOM STARTED. The upward movement of iron and steel started across the sea. lost July steel rails were dull in England at $18 per ton. Now they are brisk at nearly double that fignrc. The quotations on steel rails December 31, 1SS9, in Britain were 7 2s. OcL.whJcii is nearly toe same as quotations at tbe Edgar Thomson works. Tbe advance in pricet of steel has been much greater across the water tban here. The lowest figure reached on steel rails this side was $26 per ton. Now the entire product of the Edgar Thomson is sold ahead" till summer at $10 ad vance on this rate. With the upward movement in Enrope and firmness of prices there, there is no likelihood of a reaction to the iron and steel boom on this side of tbe poud for tbe year to come. All our iron masters are very firm in their views of markets, and tbe biggest year on record is be fore ns in this line nnless all signs fail. THE BULETO PBICES. Following are the ruling prices, and on these prices tbere is no longer any disposition to con cede, as tbere was a few months ago: Central mill ..S18 00(3118 SO-cash All-ore mill 18 50iai9 DO casll o. 1 ronnrtnr. native ore 19 0(ai9 SO casn No. 1 foundry, lake ore 19 S19 75-cafcli Jleescmer 3 3S(a24 zz i -cash bplegel swatsaw Muck bar 30 50332 CO Mecl blooms. ......... ...... fcteel slabs MccI billets. ......... fcteel K.C ends Mcel bloom ends Old Iron rails, American Ts, Old steel rails, short pieces.. o. 1 W. scrap......... ?to. 2 W. scrap....... ... ...... fclecl rails, new Steel R. li'Msee Mi so . 35S03S00 . 35 5t3S50 . 24 IC&M SO . 22 0C&2?50 ', 22 5iS W , 3 5((J4 00 , 10 00 . r mass oo . 3J0O339 00 Bar Iron : 193 SCO Iron nails, per Leg, usual dls 2 35 btrel nails, per kej, usual dls.... 2 Si Wire nails, per Leg 2 SO 2 95 Ferro manganese 103 CO AN EtfCELLEKT OUTLOOK. Continued Henry Production and Higher Prices Confidently Expected. IFICt,i.L TELIGBJLM TO THE DISrATCK.1 New York, January 10. The iron trade of 'S3 was very satisfactory. There was a moder ate increase in production during the first half, a continuation of tbe movement during tbe concluding half of 'S; but during tbe six months ended December 31, 1889, the production was quite heavy, amounting at the close of the period last named to some 20,000 tons weekly more than It did in July last. Manufacturers hare acted conserva tively in that they have declined to mark prices up sharply or to otherwise stimulate a boom, the new year starting in with No. Ji foundry pig irons only $2 per ton higher than one year previously, an advance of 11 per cent, pr from $18 to $20 on tbe year. Tbe heavy demand for iron came from gas and water and other Iron pipe makers and from railway companies, tbe latter having done an enormous .amount of business at re newing and increasing rolling stock, which calls for great quantities of iron. Tbe Increased useotiron(aswellassteel)in building,aswellas for bridges, must likewise be taken into ac count, and with items previously mentioned will account for the bulk of the increase in production of pig iron. Tbe closing quotations for the year were uniformly the highest. Tbe outlook for 1890 is for continued heavy production and higher prices. We cannot get extra supplies from abroad with which to keep down prices here so long as consumption equals or barely leads production: and tbe moment a boom starts prices will co as high as it suits them to. The United Kingdom, Belgium, Ger many and France have no iron to send us, be ine crowded with business for future delivery. Hignest and lpwet prices for tbe vear 1BS9: At New York: Pig iron Anthracite No. 1 opened at $20, closed at $18 per ton: Anthracite No. 2 opened, at $19, closed at $17 per ton; Gray forge opened at $18, closed at $16 tier ton. Steel rails Opened at $35, closed at $283ft Copper Lake, 1417.30c per pound. Lead Common, domestic, 3.S53.90c per pound. Tin Straits, 2l21.90c per pound. Spelter Common, domestic 5.505.90c per pound. At New York City tbe trade in lead has been about equal to that of former years. The stock or lead in store is about 11,000 tons, of which 2,500 tons were accumulated durine'89. Tbe average price or lead for the year is S3 85. At tbe lose values are about $3 90 for corrod ing, with $3 85 bid. The average prices of pig lead in Chicago in late years, compiled by Everett fc Post, Chicago, 11U. are $3 67K in 18S9; in J8S8, $4 30; in 18S7, $4 31; in 1886, $4 50; in 18S5. $3 83: in 1884. $3 58. Tbe copper market has been conspicuously irreeular, the opening of '89 bringing with It a price of 17Jc for lake at New York 'and very firm at that, with copper stocks well cornered by the French-English syndicate. In March the copper corner collapsed and the price at New York broke to 13Jc and in Mav, after tbe failure of negotiations be tween the American and foreign delegates to a "copper conference" to agree upon a policy for holding available stocks tbe quotation atNew York sank to 12 cents and in June to 11 cents per pound. A price was finally arranged at 12 cents for the American trade in August, but It disappeared a month later and tbe quotation became lOJc, the occasion being toe final col lapse of the American combination. At lie for lake, tbe trade came forward with free orders in October, and the demand since then has been brisk, advancing the price steadily from 12c in November to 14Uc in December ana uy,c prior to ine close or tne year. Tin opened at 21.95c per pound at New York, drained slowly to 21.05c after the collapse of the copper corner at the end or March, and to 20fc a month and two months later, and to 19.65c in in June. From Jnly on until the end ot the year there was a moderate increase, in strength and appreciation inpnee, until in October 22 cents was reached. From this until the close of tbe year reaction was the order, the closing price being 21.15c. Importations of tin into tbe United btates were lareer in 1889 than in 1888, when they aggregated 31,294,135 pounds. A Quiet, but Expectant Week. 1SPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THI DISPATCH.! St. Louis, January 10. Rogers, Brown 4 Meacham say: Quietness and expectancy have characterized the week. Furnaces remain very firm in their views, and prices here continue without appreciable change since last week, tbe apparent increase in quotations being addi tional 'freight. We quote for cash f. o. b. St. Lonis: Hot blast coke and charcoal Southern roke No. L $19 5020 00; Southern coke No. 2, $19 00I9 60: Southern coke No. 3, $18 60019 00 honthcrn gray forge. $18 0I8 50- Southern charcoal No. 1. $20 00621 00; Southern charcoal No. 2. $19 5020 03: Missouri charcoal No. 2. $21 00i2 00: Ohio softeners. $20 602l 60; car wheel and malleable irons. Lake Superior. $23 7524 50; Southern. $21 0024 50; Connellsi ville cose, East St. Louis, $525; St. Louis. $5 4a Prospects Uniformly Favorable. VPKCTAI. TBtrORAM TO TBI DISPATCH.! Ciircnw ATI, January 10. In their Iron Cir cular, Rogers, Brown & Cov, say: As was to have been expected, tbe first few days of the sew year have been rathecquiet. Foundries and mills have been occupied with taking stpcx and counting tbe year's business. Judging from expressions from 'many leading concerns, the results have been almost uniformly gratify, ing, and all agree that so far as the new year has developed, prospects are uniformly favora ble. Toward tbe close of the week tbere was a noticeable Increase in demand aud tbe market again took on some appearance of activity. 1 be last advance in Southern freight rates add ed to full prices at furnaces have thrown figures for Southern coke irons at most northern points beyond what buyers are willing to pay. Furnaces, however, are so heavily sold that tbey feel strong in their position. Collapse In the Scotch Iran Market, Glasgow, January 10. There was a collapse j in the pig iron market to-day, owing to large selling orders. Scotch warrants have fallen Is, and Cleveland warrants Is, 6d, and a further drop is expected. DDLL, BUT QUITE F1EJT. Seasons fop the Present Condition of Affairs la Philadelphia. t SPECIAL TELXOBAU TO TUX DISPATCR.1 Pbh.adei.fhia, January 10. The iron mar ket is dull but firm. So many large orders were placed during the latter part of 1SS9 that the demand which would create new business Is light. Numerous contracts were placed for three months, while others ex tended for six months or a year. Tbe manu facturers are thus kept busy, and the product of furnaces abd mills being sold In advance, prices are well maintained. Prices on pig iron at tidewater are $20 per ton for No. 1 Foundry, $19 for No. 2 Foundry, and $18 Grey Forge, and anything fancy on either grade is held at 50 cents per ton above these figures. The range on old rails is fairly covered at $2 8 to 29 per ton and a fair volnm e of business is being transacted $2860. Steel rails are quiet but firm at $36 per ton, free on board atthemill. Muck bars show an advance of fully 50 cents per ton for tbe weekat$32to$33 at the milLOther grades of manufactured iron are worth as fol lows: Plates 2.25 to 2,25, angles 2 to 20 to 230, tees 2.60 to 2.75, beams and channels 3, Lmercbant bars 2,1, sbeep groved 1.9 to 2 cents, sbeep sheared 2.1 to 2.2 cents. One of tbe im portant contracts in the West thisweek was an order for 5,000 tons of steel plate at $60 per ton at the mill placed by the American Steel Com pany, of Duluth, with Andrew Carnegln. The production of pig iron in the South has in creased from 212,722 tons m 18S0 to 1,396,903 tons inlSSSL An Active Demand Expected. tSrZCIAI. TEX.K3BAX TO TBS PISPATCIM Chicago, January 10. Rogers, Brown 4 Co., in their weekly review, say: Inquires are com ing in freely lor small requirements of fonn drymen, and occasionally large buyers sound the market for round lots for long-scattered deliveries. The amount of business rounded up during the week has not been large, but sellers think there is every reason to look for an active and healthy demand as soon as busi ness incident to stock-taking is ont of the way. Lake Superior charcoal iron is very firm, and sellers are holding to $23 60 cash or higher. There has been some tradinc in Southern coke irons, but their, prices still rule rather high for this market. BEITISH IRON MABKfiTS. Prices Baling- on the Other Side of the Ocean Daring the Week. - The American Manufacturer in its- cable letter of January 8, gives tbe following quota tions: Scotch Pig Speculation in warrants has been very active.and prices have ad vancecLmov ing up to 65s. 6d. in both London and Glasgow, Prices for all makers' brands are strong, and the demand continues good. No. IColtness 80s. 6d. f. o. b. Glasgow No. lSummerlee 79s. Od. L-o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Gartsherrie 7os. 6d. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Langloan 78s. 6d. f.0. b. Glasgow No. 1 Cambroe -6Ss. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Shorts 80s. Od. to. b. Glasgow No. lGlengarnock 78s. 6d. atArdrossan. No. lDaUnellington.,.708. Gd. atArdrossan. NclEglinton 68s. Gd. atArdrossan. Bessemer Pig There has been an active speculation in hematite warrants, with sales at as high as 83s. Makers' iron is in good demand and the market strong, with West Coast brands at 82s. 60. for Nos. 1, 2, 3, f. o. b: shipping point. Middlesbrough Pig Active speculation has carried prices up fully 3s. Tbe market Is still excited, and prices are strong at the advance. Good merchant brands quoted to-day at 65s. Od. for Na 3, tab. Spiegeleisen Tbere has been a very heavy advance in holders' prices, and offerings are light for early delivery. English SO per cent, quoted at 130s. f. o. b. at works. Steel Wire Rods Not much doing in these, and previous prices are named but nominal. Mild steel. No. H, quoted at 7 7s. 6d. t o. b. shipping port. Steel Rails The market continues very strong, and makers' prices have advanced 5s. Beavy sections quoted at 7 7s. 6d. t o. b. ship ping point. Steel Blooms There is little doing in this line, bnt higher prices are asked. Bessemer 7x 7 quoted 6 15s. t o. b. shipping point. Steel Billets Demand continues active and prices higher, with 13s. 0L advance paid. Besse mer (size 2x2) quoted at 7 1 o. b. shipping point Steel Blabs Tbe dealings moderate, but mak ers asking higher prices. Ordinary sizes quoted at 7 2s. 6d. 1 o. b. shippinc point. Crop Ends Only a moderate trade doing In these. Ran of the mill quoted at 3 12s. 6d 3 103. 1, o. o. snipping poinr. Old Rails Demand quite prisk and bids bet ter, but holders' fiirures too high, for business. Tees quoted at 3 15s, and double beads at 4 t o. b.. Scrap Iron There is a fair demand and prices are very firm. Heavy wrought quoted at 33 2s. 6d. S. o. b. shipping points. Manufactured Iron Sharp advances have been made in all prices and the market is active as well as strong, Stafford ord. marked bars. (to. b. L'pool) ..10 OsOdQ 0 OsOd " common bars 8 15s 0d 9 OsOd " black sheet singles 0 0s0d1015s0d Welsh bars, f. o. b. Wales... 8 7s 6d 8 12s Gd Steamer Freights Glasgow to New York, 2s. Od. Liverpool to New York. 10s. Od. Pig Tin Anxiety to realize by holders and pressure by tbe bear interest has unsettled tbe market, ana prices dropped 1 10s.. closing weak. Straits, 95 15s. lor spot; futures (3 months) 96 6s. Copper Large purchases have been made for consumption and speculation has continued active, resnlting in about 1 15s. advance in prices for bars. Chill bars. quoted 51 12s. 6U. for spot, 51 15s. for future delivery. Best selected English, 59. Lead Prices a shade higher and the market fairly active. Spanish quoted at 14 5s. Spelter There is a fair demand. Prices higher and very firm. Ordinary Silesian quoted at 24 10s. Tin Plate There has been a better demand, bnt sellers will not accept offers at better than within 3d. of last week's prices and only for moderate quantities. Tbe stock at shipping point amounts to 450,000 boxes, the largest in several years. THE KITCHEN MARKET. New Vegetable! From Bermuda and Florida on the Local Stalls. The features of the week in prodnce lines have been tne drop in eggs and country butter. Last Saturday jobbing price of eggs was 25c per dozen. Now markets are slow at 18c Soft weather is responsible for tbe drop. Poultry of all kinds is scarce and prices are firm at an advance on last week. Fresh Bermuda onions and Florida tomatoes are to be found on the stalls, a thing unknown by tbe oldest inhabitant this early in the sea son. Another remarkable feature of the mar kets is the presence of fresh fish from the lakes. Frozen stock is in light supply, but this is offset by tbe fact that fishermen are still able to secure a supply of fresh fish, a thing almost unknown at wis ume oi me year in former seasons. Following are tbe retail prices of market basket filling as furnished by leading dealers) ' Staple Menu. Tbe best cuts of tenderloin steak range from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very fancy; sirloin, best cuts, from 15 to 18c; standing rib roast, from 15 to 20c; chuck roast. 10 to 12c; best round steaks, J 5c; boiling beef, 5 to 8c; sweet breads, 20 to 60c per pair; beef kidneys, 10c apiece; beef .liver. 6c a pound; calf livers. 25c apiece; corned beef from S to 10c per pound. Veal for stewing commands 10c; roast, 12 to 15c; cuilets, 20c per pound; spring . lamDS, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; bind quarters, 15c A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime quality, brines 12c; .fore quarter, 8c; loin of mutton, 15c; giblets, 6c per pound. Garden Stuff. Potatoes, 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota toes, 25c per halt peck; cabbage, 5 to 10c; cauliflower, 75c to $1 each; tomatoes, 35c a quart: celery, ac a Duncn; bananas, 15 to 20c a dozen: carrots, 6c a bunch; lemons, 25 to 35c per dozen; oranges, 25 to 40c; lettuce, 5c per bunch, 6 for 25c: beets,' 3 for 10c; string beans, 85c a quarter peck; onions, 20 to 85c a half peck: Spanish onions, 5 to 10c each: pie pumpkins, 10 to 85c according to size; Malaga grapes, 20 to S5c per pound; turnips, 20c per half peck; cranberries, 15c a quart: cucumbers, 15 to 85c apiece: mushrooms, $1 a pound; Bermuda' onions, 85&c per peck; Key West tomatoes, 60c a quart. Choice creamery butter, 85c Good country butter. 80c Fancy pound rolls, 80c Tbe retail price for fresh country eggs is 25c Tbe range for dressed chickens is 60c to $1 per pair. Turkeys, 20 to 25c per pound. Prairie chickens, f 1 00 a pair; ducks, SI 00 to $1 25 per pair. Ocean Product. Following are the articles in this line on the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 12Kc; Cali fornia salmon, 40c per pound; white fish, -12c; herring, 4 pounds for 25c; red snap pers, 15 to 20c per pound; Spanish mackerel, 80c to 85c a pound; sea salmon, iOo a pound; blue fish, 25 to 80c; perch. 10c; halibut. 25c; rock bass, 80c; black bass, 20c; lake trout, 12Jc: lobsters, 25c: green sea turtle, 26c; mackerel, 20c small, 40c large. Oysters: N. Y. counts! $1 75 per gallon; clams, tl 25 per gallon; scol- '"S!' C0?, a 5naJ?! frTS W 00 per dozen; soft shell crabs, 75 per dozen; devil crabs, 85c per.dozen. - ' BIG MONET FOR LAND. People Stirred Up Over the Eecord Breaking Deal on Fourth Avenne. THE LOCATION STILL IN THE DARK. numerous Wise and Unwise Guesses Bade, bnt None of Them Hit tbe Ball's Eye. AN EAST WAT TO ACQUIRE HOMEB The publication in The Dispatch of yesterday of .the sale of a business property on Fourth avenue, "not two squares from the Dollar Savings Bank," at the rate of $4,400 a front foot, furnished occasion for a great deal of talk among business men of all classes, and many inquiries were made as to 'its location. A number of guesses werS hazarded, but none of them -hit the mark. An evening caper Ventured the assertion that it was the McCombs property, corner of Fourth avenue and Wood street, and that the Tradesmen's National Bank was the purchaser. "Wliile the location of the prop erty cannot be given for a day or two, owing to some legal formalities which have not been adjusted, it can be stated in the most positive terms that neither of the above statements is correct It is not the Mc Combs property, and the Tradesmen's Na tional is not the purchaser. The sale was bona fide, ana the price realized was, as stated in The Dispatch, the highest on record in Pittsburg. In connection with this it may be stated that $5,000 a foot front has been offered for a piece ot Fifth avenue property, not very far from the postofflce. The owner acknowledges this is a high price, but thinks be can get a little mor, He may, however, accept the $5,000 offer. ' " . An institution which would advance loans to persons of small means to buy homes and en able them to pay for them in small installments has long been needed in Pittsburg. After a great deal of effort W A. Herron fe Sons have supplied the vacuum by making an arrange ment with the United Becurity Life Insurance and Trust Company, whereby the purchaser, by paying down 20 or 25 per cent of tie pur chase price of the property, can arrange to ad vance tbe remainder of tbe money and Day cash for his property, and thus bny at the lowest price and pay back the money advanced in 5, 10. 15 or 20 years in monthly or quarterly payments of small sums, and at tbe same time cave his life insured. If the purchaser should die before full payment is made the debt would be canceled, leaving tbe property clear to bis widow or heirs. It is understood that tbe new company will have close relations with the Fidelity Title and Trust Company, several ot tbe leading stock holders of the latter being interested in it This alone will serve to recommend the new ventnre in the highest manner to tbe local public, and will at once give it high standing. Prot Edward Orton, State Geologist of Ohio, recently read a paper on tbe rock pres sure of natural gas, of which the following is th concluding paragraph: "There is no danger that the great gas reservoirs of to-day will 'cave in' or 'blowup' after the gas Is withdrawn from them. The gas will not leave the porous rock until the salt water obliges it to by driv ing it qnt and taking its place The doctrine lays the ax at tbe root of all the optimistic theories which blossom out in every district where natural gas is discovered, and especially among the real estate operators of each new field, to the effect that natnre will not fail to perpetually maintain or perpetually renew tbe supplies which wo find so delightfully adapted to our comfort and service. So far as we are concerned, it is certain that nature has done . abont all that she is going to do in this line. Judging from tbe .present indications, the Trenton limestone gas in Ohio is not likely to be longlived. It seems entirely probable that the term of its future duration can be ex pressed within the limits of a number of one digit. In considerable sections of tbe field the salt water is very aggressive. It requires a steadily increasing pressure on the wells to hold it back. Tbe importance of Pittsburg as an oil center and'tbe rapid development of territory In the surrounding country, lend special interest to the movements of this product in other parts of tbe world. Among .the latest and most In teresting contributions to petrolenm history is the report of United States Consul Pettns, at Peking, China, regarding the consumption of oii in that country and of Russian operations at Baku. He says: "One of the most striking features of recent customs returns is tbe immense and rapid growth in the import of Russian kerosene oil into this country. Indeed, judging byjic leaps and bonnds by which the new trade has ad vanced, one might, with reason, conclude that the American oil was giving way before that of the Muscovites. Brother Jonathan had snrely needs bestirliimself or the oil wells of Pennsylvania and other States will cease to supply this illuminant to the far East as they have done for years past. It is not hard to ex plain the reason of tbe progress of Russian oil here. It is somewhat cheaper than its older rival, and its sources of production at Baku are simply unlimited, "Mr. Charles Marvin, in that highly interest ing volnme, "Tbe Region of Eternal Fire," writing of tbe oil snpply at Baku, which he terms "tbe real base of Russian operations against India," and, contrasting the resources of the Russian with those of the American oil supply, says that he saw 400 wells around Bakji, all at different depths, and therefore appar ently springing from independent reservoirs. Some of these wells varied in depth from 295 'to 630 feet while one well which had been worked for generations was only 70 feet below tbe surface. Tbe famous Droobja fountain well, 'spouting oil 300 feet high at the rate of 2,000,000 gallons per diem, came from a depth of 674 feet which shows the enormous natural forces which must have been at work below, while all around were small wells of 300 feet deep, throwing up their spouts of tbe valuable oil quite unaffected by the giant well or Droob ja. Many of thepumpings had been worked from remote times without any apparent dimi nution of their resources. The whole peninsula of Apsheron is honeycombed with tbonsands of oil wells, one of which had given 1,500,000 bar ren, and yet the pumps were drawing the oil as freely as when it was first tapped years ago. "The wells in America are much deeper, and a man thinks nothing of boring 1,000 feet for oU, but 300 feet appears to be the average in tbe Baku region. In 1883 two flowing wells at Baku threw np SO, 000, 000 gallons apiece of oil in two months, and they were finally plngged to '-cork up" for future use, N obel Brothers, the Russian oil kings and rivals of the Devoes, have 14 such gigantic reservoirs corked np, be cause the crude petroleum will not fetch more than a few pence a ton at Baku, and the deep est of these basins is only 800 feet from the snr-, face, while in the Bradford region in America' there are numbers of wells 2,000 or 8.000 feet deep, and one in West Virginia which is ever 6.000 feet deep." J. C White, Professor of Geology in the State University of West Virginia, said in a recent interview; "For years I believed that the oil fields of Western Pennsylvania ex tended down well into WestVlrginla, If not clear across the State. The same geological formation paralleled the same mountain range, and I conld not see why oil should not be found. Oil was struck in the Washington district in the strata known as the "manifold sand,' and X knew the same sand to exist through West Virginia, The sand gave but one big well in Washington county, and oil men thought it too 'spotted' and uncertain to invest money in West Virginia for a long time, but finally, in 1885 and 1880, they commenced trying, and now there are fully 80 wells in the State. They are mostly in Monongalia county, just across tho line from Greene county, Pa, and now drilling is being pushed far south of that, I pushed farther south in the next county, and put down a well which is doing only a few barrels a day, but enough to show what there is In the field, and it Is only a ques tion of a year or two until an oil belt will be developed clear across the State to the Big Bandy river." - A BALL! IN STOCKS. Business and Prices Show u Dfelded Im provement Philadelphia Still Leads. The stock market was active yesterday, and prices were almost invariably stronger. The sales were 878 shares. There was a good run of buying orders for nearly all the specialties. Prices, offers'and sales are appended. xttBirata. APTiBWooirt ltia. Atked. lild. Asked. Fiftn Avenue Bank 43 Masonic Bank.. Xnterprlse savings.... .Boatman's Insurance. ilan.iller.ini .- . Chartlers Valiev G.Co. Allegheny Heating Co. Pennsylvania Gas Co.. Pine linn Oa,... ...... Ohio Valley Philadelphia Co Wheeling Gas Co Columbia Oil Co... Central Traction ,. Citizens'1 Trantlon u 40 H SB zvi Pitts. Traction Pleasant Valley n Pt.. Ya. 4C.K.K.CO.. .t.. Pitts. & W. K. B. Co.. .... P. 4 W pref. Lt .Noria Mlnlnjr Co... Luster Minlnjr Oo 19 Yankee HlrlMlntngCo .... Westlnuhouse Electric 46V Union 8. sijrnal Co 13 WestlnghouseAlrb'ke. .... no At the morning call 20 shares of Philadel. phia Gas brought 32, 100 82K: 110 Pleasant Val ley 22, 150 Luster 29, and 00 Electric 46K. Bales at the afternoon call Trere 200 shares of La Noria at k. 160 Philadelphia Gas at 32f and 48 Pleasant Valley at2 Andrew Caster sold 200 shares of Luster at 29 and 30. J. C. Forse sold 10 sbares Central Traction at S2J Edward P. Long sold 100 shares Peasant Valiev at 2 Henry M. Long bought 150 shares Pleasant Valley at 21& and sold at 22. Tbe total sales of stocks at New York yester day were 226,901 shares, including Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, 10,720, Missouri Pa cific 8,390: Oregon Transcontinental, 3,322; Reading, 69,650; St. Panl, 6,240. ,A COHFOBTABLE CONDITION. Money Market In Good Shape and Work ing Toward Greater Ease. A decrease In the volume of checking was about the only item ot interest in local banking circles yesterday. This was not due to any ma terial falling off in general trade, but to the fact that the rush incident to annual settle- ments Is abont over and bnsiness moving along in its usual channels. Tbe exchanges were $2,231,596 50 and the balances $455,112 28. Tbe demand for money was moderate, and rates were steady and unchanged at 6 per cent on call and 7 on time loans. One banker reported a $5,000 loan at a fraction be low 6. The indications are that tbe market will work easier as tbe season advances. Money on call at New York yesterday was easy, ranging from 4 to 6 per cent: last loan, 4; closed offered at 4. Prime mercantile paper, 6. Sterling exchange quiet but steady at $4 82i for 60-day biUs and $4 86K for demand. Closing Bond Quotations. U. 8. 4s,reg 128 U. 8.4s. coun 128 U.K. AT. Gen. Ss .84 Matusl Union M.. 102 N. J. C. Int. Cert...l11K Northern Pac lsta..lHH Northern Pac. 2di..ll3j Northw't'n consols.144 V.n.iH'.rcg 10434 U. S. 4)is, conn.... KMH Pacific Ss or '85. 116 Louisiana tamped ts 94)4 Aussounos .....iw Tenn. new set. da... 106 Tenn. new set. 5S....101X Tenn. new set. 3s... . 72M Canada Bo. ids S3 Cen. Pacificists Ill Den. A K. B., lsts...HS Den. AB.G. 4s 7Cg D.AB.G.Wut,lsts. s Erle,M 0I Ji. X. AT. Gen. 6s.. 7434 Northw'n deben's..l09 Oreeon & Trans. 6s. 101 8t- L. AI.M. Uen. Ss 88 St. L,. B. f. Gen.il, I11H Su Panl consols .... 124)4 St.Pl Chi A Pclsts. thf Tx.,Pcli.G.Tr.Rs.H Tx.,PcK.G.l-r.Ketf 39X union xrac. isis....uu9fc West Shore 104X Government and State bonds continue firm firm and unchanged. New Yobk Clearings, $12L72,625; balances, $4,197,232. Bostok Clearings, $15,692,344; balances, IL 840.393. Money, 2K3 per cent. Philadelphia, Clearings, $11,257,663; bal ances, $1,726,528. Baltuiobe Clearings, $2,361,274; balances, $271,299. Pabis Three per cent rentes, 87f 65c for tbe account. Berlin The statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows an increase in specie of 7.330,000 marks. Chicago Clearings. S1L4S9,000. New York Exchange par. Bankers continue 'to quote money steady at 6 per cent on call and 7S per cent on time. A SPORT IN OIL The Market Boosted by Pipe Line Reports nnd Enitera Balls. Several influences combined to make a lively oil market yesterday. The effect of the pipe line report had been discounted, bnt its bullish features had tbeir 'legitimate effect upon prices. It shows a decrease of $953,000 of cer tificates; a decrease of net stocks of 67,483; a decrease ot gross stocks of 7Z7.4S0, and an in crease of credit balances of 278,889. The last item shows where some of the certificates went The market opened firm at $1 04, sold np to $1 06 during the day, and closed at $1 06i the highest since November 12, when the quotation was $1 12J. Trading was good at all points. Pittsburg was on the bull side, and bid the market up when It was discovered that New York was a buyer. Bradford was bearish. The real strength of the market came from New York, which had been preparing for such a movement for some time, and depended upon Plttsbnrg as an ally in carry in c out tbe scheme. Whether the advance will hold is extremely doubtful. Some think it a speculative flurry, which will subside in ia day or two. Be this as it may, tbe outlook is good so far as surface In dications are worth anything, and brokers are encouraged. The ranee was: Opening. $1 04; highest $1 06; lowest, $1 04; closing. $1 OSK, j.no aiepnenson company's no. z, on tne Fer guson farm, strnck top sand yesterday, and was giving good indications for a 250 barreler. Washington County Oil Output. ISPECIAI. TELXQRAX TO TUB DISPATCH. I Washington, Pa, January la There were no new developments in the oil field to-day. Work is still progressing at the Moninger wild cat. Fergus & Co.'s McQuay No. 2 is completed in the fifth sand, but got no Increase. Tbe out put of all tbe wells in the Washington field is estimated at about 10,000 barrels. The runs of the Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line Com pany for the first seven days in January ag gregated 94,790 barrels. Featnrea of the Marker. Corrected daily by John M. Oasiey A Co., 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange, Opened 1C4 (Lowest ....104 Highest I06)cioied 1C6X Barrels. Average runs (4.345 Average shipments 81.663 Average charters 29,609 Kenned. New York. 7.SOC Reflnet1, London. 6)44. Kefined, Antwerp, i.Kf. Kenned. Liverpool. 6 1-Hd. Kefined, Bremen, 6.95m. ' A, B. McGrew qnotes: Puts, $1 05; calls, $1 07J. Oil Markets. ' New Yoke. January 10. Petroleum opened firm at $1 03 and after some slight fluctua tions In the early trading moved noward and continued advancing until the close, which was strong at $1 05 Stock Exchange: Opening, $1 03; blehest. $1 05; lowest, $1 03; clos ing, $1 0 Consolidated Exchange: Open ing, $1 04: highest, $1 06V; lowest, $1 035; closing, $1 06. Total sales.lOOO barrels. diLCrrr. January 10. Petrolenm opened at $104; highest. $1 06; lowest, $103; closed, $1 06V; sales, 107.000 barrels; no clearances re ported; charters, 82,778 barrels; shipments, 88, 68S barrels: runs, 64,858 barrels. Bradford. January 10. Opened, $1 C4W; closed at $1 0 highest. $1 06; lowest 1 03j; clearances, 202.000 barrels. H0YMENT8 IN EEALTI. Demand Keeps Up nnd Good Sales to Show for It. Samuel "W. Black & Co., 99 Fourth avenue, sold property on Ackley street. Second ward, Allegheny, 20x100, having erected thereon a dwelling bouse, for $3,600 cash. Jamison A Dickie sold for J. W. Moora two lots on Lang avenue, near Willard, 50x120 feet each, to J. A. Edie for $2,100, and for F. C. Mil ler, lot 120x130 feet, on Emerson street East End, to Mrs. W. a Taylor, for $4,250. L.O. Frailer, corner "Forty-flfth and Butler streets, sold for Joseph J.Slenn.lot 20x100 feet, to a 20-foot alley, situated on the south side of Howley avenue, near Thirty-ninth street, Six teenth ward, to Theodore wenk, for $900. Tbe purchaser will build at once. Reed B. Coyle & Co.. 131 Fourth avenue, Iilaced a mortgage of $4,000 on Second ward.Al egheny, property two years at 6 3-10 per cent. Alles & Bailey sold a mortgage for $1,000 for three years at 6 per cent, on property in tbe Eleventh ward. Thomas McCaarey,8509 Butler street, sold for C. C. Winsberg to P. C. Byrne, property corner Fifty-second and Butler streets, lot 42x114 feet, with two frame dwellings, for $5,300, for .Bracken Bros to H. Sehaeffer two lots on Car negie avepue, 20x100 each, lor $1,550, and for B. McWUllams to Ellen Brennan' two lots, 22x110 feet each, on Eencald 8treet,.fto $706. W. E.Hamuett,or-i04SmithrfBld street, and Wilkinsburg, Mid lot 73, plan 2, Wllklas' estate. Wilkinsburg, to & B. Donaldson,. Esq., for Bjack Baird, No. 95 Fourth avenue, sold to Adam Redenbough a lot situate on Lytle street, with tbe buildings thereon, being in size 64x 100 feet for $2,500; sold for James H, Willoci. 'CHANGES IN WALL STEEET Surer Trnst nod Reading- Monopolize the Attention of Stock Speculators The Former Benches Loir Water Mark Bonds Steady. New Souk, January 10. In the stock mar ket to-day, and especially during the forenoon. the entire interest in the speculation was mo- J nopoiized by Sugar Henneries ana iteaaing stocks, the remainder even of the coal stocks being dnll and uninteresting; .with extremely narrow fluctuations. Daring the day the trad ing in the leaders slacked off, and many of the specialties were taken in hand and material advances were established on a much larger business, which extended to the general list The opening of sugar was made at last night's price of iy,a per cent on tbe announcement that an injunction had been obtained against tbe payment of any more dividends or tbe con veyance of any of its property to any other cor poration, and the lowest price ever reached was touched. The treasurer of the Trust soon came out with a statement that the late asser tions in regard to tbe comparative output of the Trast refineries and tbe independent ones was erroneous; that there were no funds at present in the hands ot tbej trustees, and that there was no Intention of conveying any prop erty, while tbe injunction was only temporary. Tbe traders thereupon proceeded to cover tbeir shorts upon the ground that all the bad news was out, and in the afternoon when the market assumed a more healthy appearance, it railed 2K per cent. A drive was made at Reading in the early dealings, but its price was forced off a fraction only, and some of the large foreign houses ap peared with buying urders, which gradually lifted its price above 37. The demand resulted in more activity for the. stock, though tbere was plenty of it for sale. The declines in tbe incomes failed to have any appreciable effect upon it however. Among the specialties Chi cago Gas, Texas Land Trnst Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan, Wheeling and Laks Erie preferred and, at times, Wisconsin Cen tral and Colorado Coal were prominent for strength, as was also Consolidated Gas on the rumor mat a large oiock oi tne stocic naa neen taken off the street by an investment interest. In the unlisted department Illinois Coal and Coke continued its steady advance upon a mod erate bnsiness. The general list after opening off fractionally, generally recovered these losses in the afternoon, and the close was quiet but firm at fractions better than the opening figures. Money was easy, but showed a stiffen ing tendency. " The list to-night is generally hieher. Delaware and Hudson which became prominent in the last hour rose 2, Texas Land Trust 1, Wheeling and Lake Erie preferred 1. Chicago Gas , and Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan and Sugar refineries each 1 per cent. Railroad bonds were less active, with a gen erally steady tone, while among tbe active bonds there was considerable irregularity, the Reading and Kansas and Texas issues being specially weak, while others showed marked improvement in many cases. The business done reached $1,595,000, of which Wisconsin Central incomes contributed 3109.000. New Jer sey Midlands rose to 115, Reading firsts lost 1 the seconds 2, at 49, and Ohio Southern in comes 4, at 65. The lollowinK tanie snows tne prices ot active stockson tbe New York Stock Eicnanjre yester day. Corrected dally for lira dispatch by Whitkxt A Stepbenson, oldest Pittsburg mem bers or .New xorkotock fcxenange. a Irourtb ave nue: Clos ing Bid. 31 S3 54 as 107M 69H 114 97K IS 44 33M 86 i 11044 HOtf 7U) 97 45W !2? 13734 152 IS 49V x 69 21 119 644 104 M ten 94 K KH 73 H 10614 Open Inr. Am. Cotton OU Trnst.. 30X Am. Cotton Oil 33 Ateh., Top.AB.r SiH Canadian Pacific 76M Canada Southern Mtj Central of New Jersey.lSSH Central paelflt Z4 CnesaDeakeA Ohio 27 gh- Low. t. est. so 35 14 123H 14 4 263t K W7H H 69)4 C Bar. A OnlhT.....107K C Mil. A St. Paul.... 69)4 v., juu.sos. jr.. pi. C, xtocEl. AP c. at. u ft eitts.... 7M mii Hii c, at. l. a ruts. pr. C. 8t. P..M. ao ua C. St. PM. AO..ur.. S6 C. A Northwestern 11U3 CA Northwestern, pf. .... C C. C. A 1 7u C. C, C A I., pr 87 Col. Coal A iron 44' Col. A Hoctlne Vat .. nH Dei.. L. A IV 137K Del. A Hudson ISO DenverAKloG Denver A EloO.. ot E.T.. Va. AGs , .. . fc.T.. Va. AGa.lst pf. .... E. T.. Va. A Ga. at pr. 21)4 Illinois Central. 119)4 LakelLrloA West. Dr.. MH Late Shore AM. B.....lCUJa Louisville A Nashville. tfi)4 Mlcnlran central Mobile Ohio Mo.. Kan. A Texas....' I0H Missouri faolflc TDi New York Central... .,107 N. V.. L.E. A W 2SM n. y.. a a at. i, n. i u t st. u nr. N.X.. O. ASI.1..M pf .. . N. Y A N. E 13H N. y., O. A W - 19)i Norfolk A Western Norfolk Western. pr. .... Northern Pacific ... Nortnern Pacific pref. 74K Ohio A Mississippi..... .... Oregon improvement Oregon Transcon 34 Pacific Mall ST I'eo. Dec. A Brans 18 Philadel. A iteadlni.. XI Pullman Palace Car Richmond A W. p. T 21)4 Richmond A W.P.T.pf "i'A St. P.. Minn. A Man.. 112 St. 1. A Sin Fran 16 St. L. a San Jrran pf. Ht.L. A ban r". 1st pt. ss Texas Pacific 21V 33)4 66 110 H0 97 97 43K 44 10H 19)4 "7)4 13SX UVt 150 21 64(4 104H 86), 119)4 643s US KH 10X J07 Z6X 10!4 na 107 28S4 70 43V 19)4 744 74 S3) sax 7X ziii- 78)4 112 J 7J 111)4 im an 66 16 28K S4 63 UX 96 ish 28JS S4H S1i union Paolfle Wabasn Wabash preferred.... Western Union Whreling A L. ....., Sugar Truss. National Lead Trust.. Chicago Gas Trnst.... . 184 . 13H , S4H . 68X 91 . 20H , 44X SO 204 20)4 AH 44)J Philadelphia Htocka. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney & Stephenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members Mew York Stock Ex change. Asked. 3M 1S7-H1 S 33 StH 31V UK Pennsylvania Kallroad. , Kenamir Buffalo, Plttsbnrg A Western.. Lehigh Valley LeMjrh .Navigation , Northern faclao...... northern Pacinc preierrea Boston Stocks. Atch.ftTop.B.B.pfS2K Rutland, com SH Wis. Central, com... 36)4 Wis. Central pf,... 70 AUouezMKCo 1.63 Calumet ft ilecla....263 rranxun. 17H' Huron 4t4 J3DBIOU A .A10Iir...ZJO Uoston & Jtlaine. ....214 C. B. &U. 107 Linn. Ban. ft Clere. 24H Eastern R. K 130) cistern K. a. os ....124 Flint Fere J! H rilntftl'ereAI. CM. 94 K.U.at.J.&C.B.Ts.m Little K, & Ft. 8, 7s. 190 Mexican Cen. com.. 18 Mex.C.lstmtr. bds. 70 Osceola. XJfi I'ewablc..... 8 Qolncr 72 Bell Teiepnone 207 Boston Land BH (Vaier Power CJi ramarack 15S -V X. tliewUnr... 44)4 -a. I. C XI. JS. 7S....1CT Old Colony. 1H ban Diego la Santa Fe copper..... K Business Notes. The fire losses in tbe United States in 1889 aggregated $131, 949,25a The Safe Deposit Company, of Pittsburg, announces a semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent. The Cash Insurance Company has made a six months' dividend of 4 per cent, and the Ben Franklin Insurance Company one of 3 per cent. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie will sopn begin the construction of six new iron bridges to take tbe places of the light ones now in use between Erie and Union City. THE Keystone Bridge Company has some im portant contracts on band. It has recently shipped a roundhouse for a South American company to be erected at Rio Janeiro. It Is reported that tbe Pennsylvania Railroad proposes to consollaate the Panhandle, the Little Miami, tbe Chicago and Pittsburg, and Xouisville Short Line roads. Tbe proposition is to consolidate with a capital stock of $75,- W. C. Berinqer, of C. Beringer 4 Son, real estate agents. Fourth avenue, returned yester day from a three weeks' trip to New Mexico, He reports things looking well in that part of tne country, mining Deing active ana tne came trade picking,up. The present daily outpnt of the Cambria Iron Company's works, at Johnstown, wbich were so badly damaged by the flood, is as fol lows: Steel works, 900 tons; blooming mill. 1,100: Gactier steel department, 150 tons. The latter is only partially rebuilt. The Wool Markets. St. Louis Receipts of wool 6,412 pounds. Market unchanged. New York Wool qniet and steady: domestic fleece, 3238c; pulled, 2738c; Texas, 1428c Dnaooda. New York, January 10, Business in dry goods continued fair. The features of tbe market are unchanged and steady. Improving business is looked for under favorable weather. S-COME FORTH, a Biblical romance of tbe time of Christ, will appear in TO-MOR-BOWS 20-PAGE 1BSUE. Read the opening chapters of this serial, the latest and greatest eort of Waabeth Btart FaelBS. MABKETS BY WIEE. Mo Yin lo tho Wheat Pit and Prices Break Down Hog Products Actlvo and. Strong at Mediant Figure. Chicago The wheat market was quiet, and tbere was no special feature to note. Fluctua tions were confined within narrow limits, and prices did not vary particularly Irom yester day's .cloalntr. Tbe opening was about the same as the close of yesterday, eased OS c, improved JiK"c receded again to Inside fig ures, and closed c lower tban yesterday. The offerings were fair, and some selling was done on New fork account. Tbe undertone was apparently weak, due to lack of confi dence ori the part of trading. Corn was traded in to a fair extent, the mar ket opening firm on the damp weather and small receipts, bnt later ruled easier on the! selling by a prominent local trader, and also for bit Louis account. Transactions were larger in May, which received tho most attention. Tbe market opened firm, a shade above tbe closing of yestetday, was strong for a time, then became easier, declining c, and closed a trifle lower than yesterday. Oats were fairly active, but weaker and JgC lower. January which was strongest and showed the greatest advance yesterday devel oped tbe most weakness and decline to day. The change was attributable to selling by tbe largest holders through brokers. More life was manifested in tbe market for hog products and a largor business was reported tnan lor some time past, ine advance in prices gained near tbe close of change yester day tended to bring out a little property held by the long interest. Tbe receipts of hogs were moderately free and prices were well sustained. There was rather more pressure to sell lard and short rib sides than mess pork, consequent ly the latter showed more steadiness than the other articles. Opening sales were made at about outside figures, but a weaker feeling was developed later. During the latter part of the session trading was only moderate and the mar ket closed at abouf medium figures. Tbe leading futures ranttea as follows: WHEAT Mo. 2, January, 7(Hi76ji76? 76c; February. 7878aT7?i774c; May, 81 82815S81Mc. Cobn Ho. 2. January. 2928B2829c: February. 29?i2?29ffl29$c; May, 3232 Oats No. 2, January, 20te20?ie2(9i20Vc: February. 20)i20ici May. 2222H22 22c. Mess Pork, per bbt January. $9 479 60 9 479 60: February. $9 529 55; May, $9 92KB9 9509 8509 92. Labdv per 100 tts. January. $5 805 82 5 805 82K: February, $5 67K5 87i: May, $9 07K6 07K&8 0S;6 07&. Short Ribs, per 100 Bs. January, $4 72K 4 724j4 704 70; February, $4 7504 75 i 72K4 72K. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady, with & moderate demand: wheat patents, $4 504 75; straights, $3 7504 25; winter wheat flour, $4 30. No. 2 spring wheat, 76c: No. 3 spring wheat, 6Jcf No. 2 rtd. 76c: No. 2 corn. 28229c No. 2 oats. 202QMc. No. 2 rye.4444c. N o. 2 barley, 5557c No. 1 flax seed, tl 34. Prime timothy seed. $1 17. Mesa pork, per bbl, $9 50. Lard, per 100 lbs. $5 80 6 82 Short ribs sides (loose), $4 704 SO. Dry salted shoulders (boxed), $4 224 25; short clear sides (boxed), $4 9o5 00. Hugars, cut loaf, 8c; granalated. 6c standard A, 6c. Receipts Flour. 18,000 barrels: wheat, 23.000 bushels: corn. 223,000 bushels; oats, 141, 000 bushels; rye, 6,000 bushels: barley, 48,000 ousneis. shipments Flour. 17,000 barrels; wneat, iv.wo ousneis: corn, 33o,uuu Duneis: oats, 133,000 bushels; rye, 6,000 bushels; barley, 18, 000 bushels. On the Prodnce Exchange to-day the butter market was very dull; creamery. 1625c; dairy, I221c Eggs very weak at 1315c. New York Flour dnll and steady. Con meal steady. Wheat Spot firmer and dnll. options dnll; January and February o up, others c lower andsteady. Bye strong: Barley steady. Barley malt dnll. Core Spot steady and quiet; options dull, c lower and weak. Oats Spot steady and moderate ly active: options quiet, o up and firm. Hav quiet and steady. Hops firm. Coffee Options opened steady at 520 points up, closed firm, up, better cables and quiet; January, 15.95S16.00c; February, 15.85 16.00c; March. 15.9016.10c: May. 15.9316.15c; June, 16.1010.15c; July, 16.05l6.10c; August, 16.05c; September. 16.06lfl.15; October. 16.05 16L10c; December, 16.05c; spot, Rio firmer and fair demand; fair cargoes, 19c Sugar Raw firmer and Muscavado lower; centri fugal, fair refining, 5V.c; sales 67 hogsheads Barbadoes, 89 test. 6V,c; 1,200 Cuba centrifugals. 96 test, 5 9-16c a cargo nf centri fugals. 96 test, 3c. c. i. f.. and 64,000 Mats Manilla on p. t: refined fairly active, firm. Molasses New Orleans steady. Rice steady, Suiet, Cotton seed oil strong. Tallow quiet. ;osln quiet. Turpentine quiet, steadier, at 4415c Bdrgs steady, moderate demand; western, 1717c; receipts, 2,968 packages. Pork active, strong; mess old, $9 75: do new. $10 501I 00; extra prime, $9 259 75. Cut meats steady; pickled bellies, 6Voc; pickled shoulders, 4c: pickled bams, 88c Middles slow; short clear. $5 30. Lard quiet, steady: sales, 1250 tierces: western steam, closing $6 1714: February. $6 21. closine $6 22 bid: March. $3 30 bid; April, $635 bid; Mav, $6 406 41. closing $0 41 bid: July, $6 52 bid. Butter quiet, easy; Elgin, 2828Xc; western dairv, 817C; do creamery 1626c: do held. 9I7c; do fac tory, 5l7c. Cheese quiet; western, 810c Philadelphia Flour dull. "Wheat Op tions dull; desirable milling grades scarce and firm, with a fair demand; fair to good milling wheat, 7888ct choice and fancy longberry, 8894c; No. 2 red, Jannary, SOSSlUc: Feb ruary, 81M82Vc: March. 83S3Jie; April, 84 84Jc. Corn Market with fair inquiry from shippers; steamer in export elevator, 35c; No. 2 mixed in Twentieth street elevator, 37c; No. 2 bigb mixed, in grain depot, 37c; old No. 2 mixed, in Twentletb street elevator, 38c: No. 2, in export elevator, 86c; No. 2 mixed Janu ary, 3636c: February. 3637c; March. 3737c; April. S83oXc Oats-Carlots dull and lower; No. 3 white, 2&c: No. 2 white 29c; futures weak; No. 2 white January. 2bJ29c; February. 20Ji29Kc; March, 29 28c; April. 2929c Eggs dull and weak: Pennsylvania firsts, 16c. Receipts Flour, 148,000 barrels: wheat. 9,800 bushels; corn, 46,000 bnshels: oats, 14,000 bushel". Shipments Wheat, 4,800 bushels; corn, 124,600 bushels: oats, 16.500 bushels. St. Louis Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat The market onened at l-16c decline. ruled dull and closed ii lower tban yester day: jn. z rea, casn. i'c: uanuary 7?ftc; May,8Qc closed at 87c; June, TOJic closed at 91c bid. Corn firm i; rio.amixed,cash.25c; Tebruary. 253i25c at 25c bid; iuaruiciuseuatnv uiu; Jnay, 20c Dm; iuiy, 29c bid. Oats steady; No. 2. cash, 20c bid: May, 21Jfc; other months uezlected Rje 41c bid for No. 2. Barley very slow. Provisions firm. Minneapolis Local receipts of wheat for the past 24 hours were 204 cars and 30 shipped out. Tbe demand for cash wheat, of the hither grades, was good, bnt buyers showed a disposi tion to force concessions. Tbe "poorer lots of the npper grades and the under grades in some cases seemed to drag. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard. Jannary 80c; February. 80c; May, 83c; on track, 80c: No. 1 Northern. Jannary, 7c: February, 78c: May, 81c: on track. 79c: No.. 2 Northern, January, 74c; February, 75c; May, 78c; on track, 7477c Milwaukee Flour steady. Wheat quiet; No. 2 spring, on track, 74075c; No. 1 Northern, 83c Corn dull; No. 3, on track, 2627c Oate dull; No. 2 white, on track, 22c Kye active: No. L in store. 44c Barley quiet: No. 2, in store, iRic. Provisions Arm. Pork, $9 60. Lard, $5 80. Cheese unchanged; Cheddars, 99c Toledo Cloverseed dull; cash and January. $3 50; March, $3 55. Wool Mnrkets. Boston There has been a very good de maud for wool and a number of buyers have been on the market, bnt the sales aggregate only a fair amount 2,446,000 ponnds of all kinds. Buyers are not yet just ready to purchase. The principal sales were of territory for which the market was rather weak, particularly for Eastern Oregon. Sales, of these wools have been made on the scoure basis of 67c for fine and fine medium, and the best territory does not bring mncn more than that. Medium wools range from 60c to 53a In fine delaine fleeces there is a firm feeling, and tbere have been considerable sales, including Ohio at35 86c, and Michigan at' 3l35c. No. 1 combing wools scarce and firm. Unwashed combing sells at 2729c Fine washed fleeces quiet but held firm. Pulled wools dnll. In foreign wool tbere have been sales ot importance. Flowers. La France roses. $3 00 per dozen; Bride roses, $2 60 per dozen; Perles. $1 60 per dozen; Do Wattvllle roses. $2 50 per dozen; Papa Gontier roses, $1 25 per dozen; Niphetos, $1 50 per dozen; Bennetts, $2 50 per dozen: American Beauty, $10 per dozen; Mermets,$2.50 per dozen; carna tions, 50c a dozen: Maiden Bair fern, 60c per dozen fronds; lily of tbe valiev. $2 00 perdozen; chrysanthemums, $1 00 to $3 CO per dozen; violets, $1 50 to $2 00 a dozen; hyacinths, $1 00 a dozen. ' And One 1 a Constable, Too. Alderman Gripp yesterday commitieed a Chartiers Constable named Jobn F. dish orn, charged by his wife with desertion, drunkenness and cruelty to his children. 'The same magistrate will hear the case ot John C. Morton, colored, who is charged by bis wife. Flora, with desertion, and both hearings will be on itonday next. This Iron City Brewing Co.'s ale and por ter are tbe most popular seasonable drinks. Phone 1186. 49-SUN SPOTS and storms end solsr dls. turbances will be fnlly explained by Henry C. Maine to TQ-MORHOW'SaS-PAOE ISSUE. DOMESTIC MARKETS. Conntry Batter Slow Poultry Firm EggsJJrifling Down. CEEEALS STILL IN BUIEES'FAYOR. New Corn Sacrificed Became of Its Poor Seeping Quality, BDGAES ADTANCED COFFEE QUIET 01TICX OF PlTTSBtntO DISPATCH, I FaiDAT. January 10. 1890. J Country Prodnce Jobbing Prices. Rainy weather is still adverse to trade. Coun try butter is very slow. Choice creamery ii fairly steady. There is a great scarcity of poul try, and markets show an upward drift. The egg market gives no signs of revival ffom the late depression, and unless cold weather comes to tbe rescue of trade, no improvement can be looked for. Large quantities of eggs are com ing iu from the South and West, where hens are getting in tbeir work much ahead of their average time. Cold storage and pickled eggs, which are usually in good demand at this sea son ot the year, are hard to give away. Tbe open winter has spoiled a multitude of plans for gain in prodnce lines, and there is now no bone of recovering lost ground, no matter what the weather bureau may do for trade. BtrrTEB Creamery, Elgin, 2930c; Ohio do, 27?Sc: fresh dairy packed. 2126c; country rolls, 2021c Beans Navy hand-picked beans, $3 252 30; medium. $3 102 20. Beeswax 2S30c fl a for choice; low grade, 1820c CIDER Sand refined, $6 607 50; common, $3 504 00; crab cider,$8 008 50,i? barrel;clder vinegar, 1012c ft gallon. . Chestnuts 5 005 60 $1 bushel; walnuts, 6070o $ bushel. Cheese Ohio, Ullc; New York, llKc; Limburger, 9Kllc; domestic Sweitzer, if 13Kc: imported Swoitzer, 23 Koos 184519c gt dozen for strictly fresh. Fntrrrs Apple-, fancy, $2 602 75 ft barrel: cranberries. $10 00U 00 ft barrel; Malaga grapes, large barrel, ZS 5OQ10 00. Feathebs Kxtra live eeese. 604260c: NcvL do. 4045c: mixed lots, 3035c ft &. Poultry Lire chickens, 065c a pair; dressed. ll12c a pound: ducks, 6o75c ft pair; geese, $1 251 SO ft pair: live turkeys, 1315c ft B: dressed turkeys, l820c ft fi. Seeds Clover, choice, 62 fis to bushel, $420 4 40 ft bushel; clover, large English. 62 tts, $435 4 60. clover, Alsike. $8 00: clover, white. $9; timo thy, choice, 45 tts, $1 50; blue grass, extra clean, 14 tts. $1 251 30; blue grass, fancy, 14 tts. $1 30; orchard grass, 14 tts, $1 40: red top, 14 B. $1 25; millet, 60 tts, 31 00; millet, 6070c ft bushel; Hungarian grass, 50 tts. 65c, lawn grass, mix ture of fine grasses, $3 00 bushel of 14 tts. Tallow Country, 4Jc; city rendered, 4J 5c Tropical Frutts Lemons, common, $2 50 300; fancy, $4 005 00; Florida oranges, $2 50 63 00; Jamaica oranges. $6 006 50 ft barrel; bananas, $1 50 firsts, $1 00 good seconds, ft bunch; cocoanuts, $4 00fi!4 50 ft hundred; figs. 8U09c ft ft: dates ,6K6Kc ft. ft: new layer figs. 1215Kc; new dates. TKc ft ft- Vegetables Potatoes, from store, 5560c; on track, 4550c; caDbages. $5 0007 00 a hun dred; Dutch cabbage $13 00 ft hundred; celery, 40c ft dozen: Jersey sweet potatoes, $4 a barrel; turnips, $1 001 50 a barrel; onions, tl 75 a barrel. Buckwheat Floub 22q ft pound. Groceries. The firmness of sugars the past week has cul minated in an advance of c. Coffees are quiet: Estimates of crops a few weeks ago are proved to be short of facts. The Brazilian complica tions have not bad their expected effect, and as crops are panning oat beyond estimates, mar kets are slow. General groceries move along in the old ruts. Green Cofitee Fancy Rio, 2324c; choice Bio, 21 22c; prime' Rio, 20c; lowgradeRio, 1819c; old Government Java, 2728c; Mar acaibo.23a24j4c; Mocha, 2S29Kc! Santo. 2024c; Caracas. 2224c; peaberry, Rio, 23 24c: La Guayra, 23(24c. Roasted (In papers) Standard brands, 24c; high grades. 2529c; old Government Java, bulk, 3133c; Maracalbo, 2728c; Santos, 2428c; peaberry. 28cr chtice Rio, 25c; prime Rio. 23c; good Illo, 22e: ordinary, 21c Spices (whole) Cloves, 1920c; allspice, 10c; cassia, 8c; pepper, 17c; nutmeg, 70080c. Petroleum (Jobbers price) 110 test, 7J4c; Ohio, 120. 8c: headlight, 160, t&c: water white, lOKc; globe, 1414c;elalne. 14c: car nacune, lic; royaline, 14c; gldbe red oil, 11 UC purity 14c Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained, 4647c ft gallon; summer, 4043a Lard oil, 70c SYRUPS Corn syrup, 2S30c; choice sugar syrup, 833Sc; prime sugar syrup, 3033c: strictiv prime. 3335c; new maple syrup. 90c N.dl Molasses Fancy, new crop, 4850c; choice, 47c: medium. 3843c; mixed, 4042c SODA Bi-carb in kegs. 33c; bl-carb in , 6c; bl-carb, assorted packages, 56c: sal soda in kegs, lc; do granulated, 2c Candles star, full weight. 9c; stearine, ft set. 8c: parafflne, ll12c Rice Head, Carolina. 67c: choice, 6 6c; prime, 56c: Louisiaua, 66c Starch Pearl, 2Jic; cornstarch, 56c; gloss starch, 47c. Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, $2 65; Lon don layers, $2 90: California London layers, $2 75; Muscatels, $2 40; California Muscatels, $2 25; Valencia,7c; Ondara Valencia.8e8c; sultana, 9Kc;currants,65Jic; Turkey prunes, 45c; French prunes, 69c; Salonica prunes, in 2-ft pacKages. 8c: cocoanuts, ft 100, $6 00; almonds. Lan., ft 36, 20c; do. Ivica, 19c; do, shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap.. 1415c: Sicily filnerts, 12c: Smyrna figs, 1213c; new dates, 66c: Brazil nuts, 10c; pecans. ll15c; cit ron, ft tt, 1920c; lemon peel, 18c ft tt; orange peei. lie Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ttj 6c, ap ples, evaporated. 9c: apricots, California, evap orated, I4Q16c; peaches, evaporated, pared. 266228c: peaches. California evaporated, nn- pared. 1921c; cherries, pitted,1314c; cher- rie, snpittea, oqjdc; raspoerries, evaporated, 2526c: blackberries, 7K8c; huckleberries. 1012c SUGARS Cubes, 7Jc; powdered, 7Jc; granu lated, 6c; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A, 6Kc: soft white, 6bVc; yellow, choice, 5JJ 6c; yellow, good. 52ic; yellow, fair, 5 6c; yellow, dark,5c Pickles Medium, bbls) 1,200), $5 60; medi um, balf bbls (600). $3 25. SALT No. 1. ft bbl. 95c; No. 1 ex, ft bbL $1 05; dairy, ft bbL $1 20; coarse crystal, ft bbl, $1 20: Higglns' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, $2 8u; Higglns' Eureka. 16-14 tt pockets, $3 CO. Canned Goods Standard peaches, $2 00 2 25;2ds, $1 65 1 80: extra peaches, $2 402 60; pie peaches. 95c; finest corn. $1 001 50; Hid Co. corn, 7590c; red cherries. 90cSl; Lima beans, $1 20; soaked do. 80c; string do, 6065c: mar rowfat peas, $1 1U1 15; soaked peas, 70S0c: nineannles $1 3(1(3)1 40: Bahama do. $2 75: damson plnms, 95c; Greengages. $1 25; egg plums, $2 00; California pears, $2 50; do greengages, $1 85; do egg plum j, $1 85; extra white cherries. $2 40; raspberries, 95c$l 10; strawberries, $1 10; gooseberries, $1 3U1 40; tomatoes, 8590c; salmon, 1-&, $1 651 90; blackberries, 65c; succotash, 2 ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green. 2-tt, $1 25Q1 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans, $2 05; 14-& cans. $14; baked beans, $1 45 1 50: lobstei, 1-tt, $1 751 80; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled, $1 0; sardines, domestic , $4 254 50: sardines: domestic Ks. $6 7507W; sardines, imported. s, $11 5012 60; sardines, imported. s, $18; sardines, mustard, $3 30; sardines, spiced. $3 60. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, $36 ft bbL: extra No. 1 do, mess, $40; extra No. 1 mackerel, shore. $32; extra No. ldo, mess, $36: No. 2 shore mackerel, $24. Codfish Whole pdllock. 4c ft ft; do medium, George's cod, 6c; do large 7c; boueiess bake in strips, 6c; do George's cod in blocxs, 67c Herring Round shore, $4 60 ft bbl.; split, $8 50; lake, 82 75 ft 100-ft half bbl. White fish, $6 00 ft 100 tt half bbl. Lake trout, $5 50 ft balf bbL Fin nan haddock, 10c ft ft. Iceland halibut, 13c ft ft. Pickerel, bbL $2 00; Ki bbl, $1 10; Poto mac herring. $o 00 ft bbl, $3 50 per bbL Oatmeal $6r006 25 ft bbL Grain, Flonr nnd Feed, Sales on call at the Grain Exchange, 2 cars sample com. 30c, 5 days, P. R. R.; 2 cars of No. 2 w. oats, 27c for the year, on the P. R.R. Total receipts as bulletined, 26 cars. By Pitts burg; Cincinnati and St. Louis. 11 cars of corn, 1 of bran, 1 of straw, 3 of oats. By Baltimore and Ohio, 1 car of oats. By Pittsburg and West ern. 1 car of corn. 'There is not a little com plaint of new corn coming to market in poor shape Tbe we&ther has been so soft that new corn beats very quickly, and much that is of fered has to be sold at sacrifice, being so uncer tain. Receipts of oats are light and demand is improved. The situation of cereals in general is in favor of the buyer. Only choice stock finds customers at quotations. Low grade stock goes begging. Prices below are for carload lots on track. WHEAT-NewNo.2 red, 86387c; No. 8,820 83c CORN No. 2 yellow, ear, new. S536c: high mixed, ear, old; 8940c; new, S435c: No. 2 yel low, shelled, old, 3637c; new. 3032c: high mixed, shelled, 35 Wc; newblgh mlxed,shelled, 80831c OATS No. 2 white, 27KS28c; extra, No. 3, 26K27c: mixed, 24K825C Rye No, 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 68854c; No. 1 Western, Slgoic Barley Western. 45066c; Casaoa barley, tlZ' ,,. ,v .-. ..a sprlsg patents. $6 096 66: winter rtrsjeht. Jri36)t8; clear wister, (4 0964 2; MfeJgat XXXX bakers', $3 603 7a. Rye flour, $3 500 s a. MlLLTEKD Middlings, fine white. $15 009 16 00 ft ton; blown middlings. $12 0014 OO; winter wheat bran, $11 25U UK cnop feed. $15 5016 0CL r . HAT-Baled timothy. No. i, $1L5012 00V No.2do,$a0010 00;Joose from wagon, $U'0O 12 00. accordingto quality: No. 2 prairie hay, $7 008 00: packine do. $6 607 00. Stbaw Oats. $6 757 00; wheat and rye; straw, $6 00S6 25. Provisions. 8ngar-cured hams, large, 9c; sugar-cured! hams, medium, 9JJc; sugar-cured hams, small,!. 10c; sugar-cared breakfast bacon, 8c; sugar. . Cured shoulders, 6c; sugar-cared boneless shoulders, 7Jc; sugar-enred California hams, 6c; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 9c; sugar-curedl ' dried beef sets, 10c: sugar-cured dried bee? rounds, 12c; bacon shoulders. 6c: bacon clear sides, 7c; bacon clear bellies, 7c: dry salt -shoulders, 6c; dry salt clear sides, 7c Mesa. port, neavy. til. oo; mess pork, family, $12 00.' Lard Refined. In tierces, oKc; balf-bxrrelil 6cj60B tubs, 6c;20-tt palls. 6c; 50-ft tin cans!' 6Jc; 3-tt tin pails, 6c; 5-ft tin pails, 6Kc; 10-tt-tin palls, 6c; 5-ft tin pails. 6c. Smoked sausage, long, 5c: large, 5c Fresh porklinksJ 9a Boneless bams, lOXc. Pigs' feet, half bar reL $4 00; quarter barrel. $2 15. MEAT ON THE HOOF. Tho Conditio? of Badness at tho East Liberty Stock Yard. Omcx ot Pittsburg Dispatch, 3 ( Fbldat. January 10, 139ft t CATTLE Receipts, 740 head: shipments, 720 bead: market steady at unchanged prices No cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hogs Receipts. 2,700 head: shipments. 2,900 bead: market verv dnll: Philadelphia, $3 S0Q 8 90; Yorkers, $3 7503 90. Eight cars of hog shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 1,600 head: shipments, LSOt head; market steady at unchanged prices. By Telegraph. New York Beeves Receipts 36 cars fo home trade slaughterers direct, 55 cars for ex port direct, and 33" carloads to be sold: market dull and lower. Poor to good steers. $3 90 4 65; dressed beef. 57c for sides; exports. 1,063 beeves and 2,320 quarters of beef. To-day's Liverpool cable quotes American refrigerator beef steady at scant 7c per pound. (Jalves Receipts 1S4; firm and steadv and all sold;, grassers and western calves, $2 254 00 per IOO Sounds: veals. $6tt. Sheep Receipts, 300 ead; sbeep closed firm at $4 250600 perlOO pounds; lambs steady at $6 507 65; a few cull Iambs bringing $5 50; dressed mutton firm at 8ffl 10c: lambs dnll and weak at 10llc Hogs neceipis, a,iw neau: ail lor Slaughterers di rect: no trading in live hogs; nominally dull at $3 904 20. Chicago The Drover't Journal reports? Cattle Recelnts, 13.000 head; shipments. 4,000head: market stowaod steady, closing easyr beeves. $3 005 20; stockers and .fenders. $2 253 25; cows, bulls and mixed. $1 &0300 Texas slop-fed steers, $40 1ft Hogs Receipts. 33.0C0 bead; shipments. 7,000 head: market steady; mixed, $3 503 SO; beavy. $3 553 80; light. $3 553 85: skips, $3 003 6ft riheep-i Receipts, 9,000 head; shipments, 2,000 head; market lower for heavy; llzht steady; na tives, $3 005 40; 'Xexans, $3 504 40; lambs. $4 75g6 50L Kansas Crrr Cattle Receipts, 4.100 head; shipments. 2,500; market strong for good? lower tor others. 5c to 10c; natives, $3 004 70; cows, $1 752 50; stockers and feeders. $2 50 3 Oft Hogs Receipts 11,000 head: shipments, none; market opened strong and closed weak: all grades, $3 653 65: bulk, $3 60S3 62. Sheep Recelpts.1,500 head; shipments,300heaa-' market 1015c higher: good to choice muttons, $3 505 40; stockers and feeders, $3 003 40. , Buffalo Cattle easier, but not quotabtyl lower on top grades; receipts, 72 loads through,, 12 for sale. Sheep Receipt. 11 loads through, 18 for sale; sheep scarce and bicher; Iambs., easier; sheep, choice to extra, $5 6C5 75:- good) to choice. $o 25o 60; common to good, $4 75 6 20; lambs, choice to extra. $6 757 00; good to choice, $6 406 65. Hogs dull and lower; re ceipts, 12 loads througb, 60 fur sale: mediums? and beavy, $3 753 85; mixed, $3 753 85. St. Louis Cattle Receipts. LOW) head;' shipments, none: market steady; good to fancv native steers. $4 205 00: fair to eood do, $3 40 4 40: stockers and feeders. $1 903 20: ranga steers, $2 0003 30. Hogs Receipts, 5.000 head;' shipments none: market steady; fair to cboica. beavy, $3 553 70: packing grades, $3 003 60;' light, fair to best, $3 453 60. Sheep Receipts, none; shipments, none; market strong; lair to choice $3 405 00; lambs, $4 6U5 75. -83-ROSEBUDS of society who are In the matrimonial market at Washington are clever ly pictured and paragraphed by Frank G. Car penter for TO-MORROWS 20-PAGE NUM. BKR. SICK HEADACHEc,rter,5 UMe LiTttPmt SICK HJSADACHE.c,,,,, r.mi9 river Pflls. SICK ' HEAlACHECarter,J ume xjTerrai SICK HEADACHE '-Carter's Little Liver rau. nol5-7-TTSSa DISEASES SWAYNE'S . ABSOLUTELY CURES. OUsTMENT Simply apply "Swathe's OnmnsT." Noln, ternai medicine required. Cures tetter, eczema, itch, erysipelas, all unslzhtly eruptions on tha face, hands, nose, etc, leaving the skin clear, white and healthy. IU great beallngand enrativa powers are possessed by no other remedy. Ask; your druggist for swathe's Uinthx.it. test JAS. D. CALLER President JOHN W. TAYLOR Cashier, CITY SAVINGS BANK, SIXTH AVE. AND SMITHFLELD ST. Capital and surplus. $125,000. 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