yvr ft -: 5'" THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY. JANUARY 13, 1890. mr$ Reaching in paeis. Dr. Talmage Takes as a Text a Leaf From Joash's Experience. STRIKING INCIDEKTLN JERUSALEM. The Necessity of Bis Hiding in Order to Prepare for the Throne. COMPAEISOXS FOR TEE CHUBCHES rsrxcux to tbx diefatch.1 Paeis, January 12. The Rev. T. De "Witt Talmage, D. D.,of Brooklyn, preached in this city to-day. He is making his way home, which he expects to reach in the early part of February. Dr. Talmage' text was: "Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the. king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bed chamber from Athalia, so that he was sot slain. And he was, with her hid in the house of the Iiord six years." II Kings, xi, 2, 3. He said: Grandmothers are more lenient with their children's children than they were with their own. At 40 years of age, if discipline be necessary, chastisement is used, but.at 70. the grandmother, looking upon the misbehav ior of the grandchild.is apologetic and disposed to substitute confectionery for whip. There is nothing more beautiful than this mellowing of old a;e toward childhood. Grandmother takes out her pocket handkerchief and wipes her spectacles and puts them on, and looks down into the. face of her mischieTous and rebellious descendant, and says: T don't think he meant to do it; let him off tbis time; I'll be responsi ble for his behavior in the future." My mother, with the second generation around her a bois terous crew said one day: "I suppose they onght to be disciplined, but I can't do it. Grandmothers are not fit to bring up grand children." Bnt here, in my text, we have a grandmother of a different hue. VIVIDLY RECALLING SACKED SCENES. I nave within a few days been at .Jerusalem, where the occurrence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while I was going over the site of the ancient temple and climbing the towers of the king's palace. Here in the text it is old Athaliah, the queenly murderess. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was a king. Her hus band was a king. Her son was a Icing. And yet we find her plotting for the extermination of the entire royal family. Including her own grandchildren. The executioners' knives are sharpened. The palace is red with the blood of princes and princesses. On all sides are shrieks, and bands thrown up, and struggle, and death groan. No mercy! Kill! Kill! But while the ivory floors of the palace rnn with carnage, and the whole land is under the shadow of a great horror, a fleet footed woman, a clergyman's wife. Jehosheba by name, stealthily approaches theimperialnursery.seizes upon the grandchild that had somehow as vet escaped massacre, wraps it up tenderly bnt in haste, snuggles it against her, flies down the palace stairs, her heart in her throat lest she be discovered in this Christian abduction. Get her out of the way as quick as yon can, for she carries a precious burden, even a yonng king. With this youthful prize she presses into the room of the ancient temple, the church of olden time, unwraps the yonng king and .puts him down, sound asleep as lie is, and uncon scious of the peril that has been threatened; and there for six years he is secreted in that church apartment. Jleanwhile old Athaliah smacks her lips with satisfaction, and thinks that All the royal family are dead. But the six years expire, and it is now time for young Joash to come forth and take the throne, and to push back into disgrace and death old Athaliah. The arrangements are all made for political revolution. The military come and take possession of the temple, swear loyalty to the boy Joash and stand around for his defense! See the sharpened swords and the burnished shields! Everything is ready. SCEXE OF A CLIMAX. Now, Joash, half affrighted at the armed tramp of his defenders, scared at the vocifera tion of his admirers, is bronght forth in full regalia. The scroll of authority isjput in his hands, the coronet of government t9-fn.v on his brow, and the people clipped, and waved, and huzzaed, and trumpeted. ''What is that?'1 said Athaliah. "What is that sound over in the temple?" And sbe flies to see. and on her way they meet her and say: "Why, haven't you heard? You thought you had slain all the royal family, but Joash has come to light." Then the queenly murderess, frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore it to tatters, and cried until she foamed at the month: "You have no right to take the government from my shoulders. Treason! Treason!" While she stood there crying that, the military started for her arrest, and she took a short cut through a back door of the temple, and ran through the royal stables: hut the battle axes of the mili tary tell on her in the barn yard, and for many a day, when the horses were being unloosed irom tne cnariot, alter drawing out young Joash, the fiery steeds would snort and rear passing the place, as they smelt the place of the carnage. The first thought I hand yon from this sub ject is that the extermination of righteousness is an impossibility. When a woman is good, she is apt to be very good, and when sbe is bad, she is apt to be very Dad, and this Athaliah was one ot the latter sort. She would exterminate the last scion of the bouse of David, through whom Jesus was to come. There was plenty of work for embalmers and undertakers. She would clear the land of all God fearing and God loving people. She would put an end to everything that could in anywise interfere with her imperial criminality. Sbe folds her bands and says: "The work is done; it is com pletely done." Is it? In the swaddling clothes of that church apartment are wrapped the cause of God, and the cause of good gov ernment. "WOBTHT OF KINDEST SOLICITUDE. That is Jhe scion of the house of Davidrit is Joash, the Christian reformer; it is Joash, the friend of God; it is Joash, the demolisher of Baalltish idolatry. Bock him tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah, you may kill all the other children, but yon cannot kill him. Eternal defenses are thrown all around him, and this clergyman's wife, Jehosheba, will snatch bim up from the palace nursery, and will rnn up and down with him into the house of the Lord, and there she will hide him for six years, and at the end of that time he will come forth for your dethronement and obliteration. Well, my friends, iust as poor a botch does the world always make of extinguishing right eousness. Superstition rises up and says; "I wi'.ljustputan end to pure religion." Domi tian slew 40.000 Christians, Diocletian slewS44, 000 Christians. And the scythe of persecution has been swung through all the ages, and the flames hissed, and the guillotine chopped, and the Bastile groaned; but did the foes of Christi anity exterminate it? Did they exterminate Alban, the first British sacrifice; orZuingliua. the Swiss reformer; or John Oldcastle, the Christian nobleman; or Abdallah, the -Arabian martyr: or Anne Askew, or Sanders, or Cran mer? Great work of extermination they made of it. Just at the tim when they thought tbey had slam all the royal family of Jesus some Joash would sprint: un and out and uti th throne of power, and wield a very scepter of Christian dominion. I,.IJ!fi'ielitT,Silrs: "ri1 inst exterminate the Bible," and the Scriptures were thrown into the street for the mob to trample on, and they J were piled up in the public squares and set on fire, and mountains of indignant contempt ' were hurled on them, and learned universities decreed the Bible out of existence. Thomas Paine said: "In my 'Age of Reason' I have an nihilated the Scriptures. Yonr Washington is a pusillanimous Christian, but I am the foe of Bibles and of churches." O, how many assaults upon that Word! ALL ASSAILING THE BIBLE. All the hostilities that have ever been created on earth are not to be compared with the hos tilities against that one book. Said one man in his infidel desperation, to his wife: "You must not be reading that Bible," and he snatched It away from her. And though in that Bible was a lock of hair of the dead child the only child that God bad ever given them he pitched the book with its contents into the lire, and stirred it with the totgs.tidspat on it, and cursed it, and said: "Susan, never have anv more of that damnable stuff here!" How many individual and organized attempts have been made to exterminate that Bible? Have they done it? Have they exterminated the American Bible Society? Have they ex terminated the British and Foreign Bible So ciety? Have they exterminated the thousands nf Christian institutions, whose only object it is to multiply copies of the Scriptures, and throw them broadcast aronnd the world? Tbey. have exterminated until instead of one or two copies of the Bible in our bouses we hare eight or ten. and we pile them up in the corners of our Sabbath school rooms and send great boxes of them everywhere. If they get on as well as they are now going on in the work of extermination. I do not know but that our children may live to see the millennium! Yea, if there should come a time of persecution in which all the known Bibles of the earth should be de stroyed, all these lamps of light that blaze in our pulpits and in our families extinguished in the very day that infidelity and sin should be holding a jubilee over the universal extinc tion, there would be in tsorae closet of a back woods church a secreted copy of the Bible, and this Joash of eternM literature would come out and come up' and take the throne, and the Athaliah of infidelity and persecution would fly out the back door ot the nala.ee. and drop her miserable carcass under the hoofs of the horses of the king's stables. Yon cannot ex terminate Christianity! Yon cannot kill Joash! EOTAL LIFE IN THE BALANCE. The second thought I hand yon from my sub ject is that there are opportunities in which we may save royal life. You know that profane history is replete with stories of strangled mon archs and of young princes who have been nut out of the way. Here is the story of a young king saved. How Jehosheba, .the clergyman's wife, must have trembled as she rushed Into the imperial nursery and snatched up Joash. How she hushed him, lest by his 'cry he hinder the escape. Fly with bim! Jehosheba, you hold in your arms the cause of God and good government. Fail, and he is slain. Succeed, and you turn the tide of the world's history in the right direction. It seems as if between that young king and bis assassins there is noth ing but the trail arm of a -woman. But why should we spend our time in praising this brav ery or expedition wuen uoa ass:s toe same thing of you and me? All around ns are the Imperiled children of a great King. They are born of Almighty parentage, and will come to a throne or a crown, if permitted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth to the massacre. Murderous temptations are ont for the assassination. Valens. the emperor, was told that there was somebody in his realm who would usurp bis throne, and that the name of the man who should be the usurper would be gin with the letters T. H. E. O. D., and the edict went forth from the emperor's throne: "Kill everybody whose name begins with T. L E. O. D." And hundreds and thousands were slain, hoping by that massacre to put an end to that one usurper. But sin is more terrific in its denunciation. It matters not bow you (pell your name, yon come under its knife, under its sword, under its doom, unless there be some omnipotent relief bronght to the rescue. Bnt, blessed be God, there is such a thing as deliv ering a royal souL Who will snatch away Jo ash? This afternoon, in yonr Sabbath school class, there will be a prince of God someone who may yet reign as king 'forever before the throne; there will be some one in your class who has a corrupt physical inheritance; there will be some one in your class who has a father and mother who do not know how to pray; there will be some one in your class who is DESTINED TO COMMAND in Church or State some Cromwell to dissolve a Parliament, some Beethoven to touch the world's harp strings, some John Howard to pour fresh air into the lazaretto, some Florence Nightingale to bandage the battle wounds, some Miss Dix to soothe the crazed brain, some John Frederick Oberlin to educate the be sotted, some David Brainard to change the In dian's warwboop to a "Sabbath song, some John Wesley to marshal three-fourths of Christen dom, some John Knox to make queens turn pale, some Joash to demolish idolatry and strike for the kingdom of heaven. There are sleeping in your cradles by night, there are playing in your nurseries by day. im perial souls waiting for the dominion, and whichever side the cradle tbey get out will de cide the destiny of empires. For each one of those children sin and "holiness contend Atha liah on the one side and Jehosheba on the other. But I hear people saying: "What's the use of bothering children with religious instruction? Let them grow up and choose for themselves. Don't interfere with their vo lition." Supnose some one had said to Jehosh eba: "Don't' interfere with that yonng Joash. Let him grow up and decide whether he likes the palace or not. whether be wants to be king or not. Don't disturb bis volition." Jehosh eba knew right well that unless that day the young king was rescued, he would never be res cued at all. I tell yon. my friends, the reason we don't re claim all onr children from worldliness is be cause we begin too late. Parents wait until their children lie before tbey teach them the value of truth. They wait until their children swear before they teach them the importance of righteous conversation. They wait until their children are all wrapped up in this world before tbey tell tbem of a better world. Too late with your prayers. Too late with your discipline. Too late with your benediction. You nut all care upon your children between 12 and 18. Whv do you not pnt the chief care be tween 4 and 9? It is too late to repair a vessel when it has got out of the drydocks. It Is too late to save Joash after the executioners have broken in. May God arm us all for this work of snatching royal souls from death to corona tion. NO SUBLIMEK WOEK. Can you imagine any subllmer work than this soul saving? That was what flushed Paul's cheek with enthusiasm; that was what led Munson torisk his llfeamld Bornesian canni bals; that was what sent Dr. Abeel to preach under the consuming skies of China; that was what gave courage to Fhocus in the third cen tury. When the military officers came to put him to death for Christ's sake, he put them to bed that they mieht rest, while he himself went out, and in his own garden dug his grave, and then came back and said: "I am ready;" but tbey were shocked at the idea of taking the life of their host. He said: "It is the will of God that I should die;" and be stood on the margin of bis own grave and tbey beheaded him. You say it is a mania, a foolhartliness, a fanaticism. Bather would I call it a glorious self-abnegation, the thrill of eternal satisfaction, the plucking of Joash from death and raising him to coronation. The third thought I hand to you from my text is that the church of God is a good hiding place, wuen jenosneoa rusnes into tne nur sery of the king and picks up Joash, what shall she do with him? Shall sbe take him to some room in the palace? No; for the official des peradoes will bunt through every nook and corner ot that building. Shall bus take him to the .residence of some wealthy citizen? No; that citizen would not dare to harbor the fugitive. But she has to take him somewhere. She hears the cry or the mob in the streets: she hears the shriek of the dying nobility; so she rushes with Joash unto the room of the temple, into the bouse of God, and then she puts bim down. She knows that Athaliah andjher wicked assassins will not bother the temple a great deal; they are not apt to go very much to church, and so she sets down Joash in the temple. There he will be bearing the songs of the worshipers year after year: there he will breathe the odor of the golden censers: in that sacred spot he will tarry, secreted until the six years have passed, and he come to enthrone ment. THE BEST HIDING tLACE. Would God that we were as wise as Jehosh eba, and knew that the Church of God is the best hiding place. Perhaps our parents took us there in early "days; they snatched ns away from the world and hid us behind the baptismal fonts and amid the Bibles and the psalm books. O glorious inclosurel We have been breathing the breath of the golden censers all the time, and we have seen the lamb on the altar, and we have handled the phials which are the prayers of all saints, and we have dwelt under the wings of the cherubim. Glorious inclosure! When my father and mother died, and the property was settled up, there was hardly anything left; but they endowed us with a property worth more than any earthly possession, because they hid ns in the temple. And when days of tempta tion nave come upon my som a nave euue mere for shelter; and when assaulted ot sorrows I have gone there for comfort, and there I mean to live. I want, like Joash, to stay there until coronation. I mean to be buried out of the house of God. Omen of the world outside there, betrayed, caricatured and cheated of the world, why do vou not come in through the broad, wide-open door of Christian communion? I wish I could act the part of Jehosheba to-day, and steal you away from your perils and hide you in the temple. How few of us appreciate the fact that the church of God is a hiding place. There are many people who put the church ac so low a mark that tbey begrudge it everything, even the few dollars they give toward it. They make fo sacrifices. They dole a little out of their surplusage. They pay their butcher's bill, and they pay their doctor's bill, and they pay their landlord, and they pay everybody but the Lord, and tbey come in at last to pay the Lord in His church, and frown as tbey say There, Lord, it is; if you will have it, take it now take it, take it; send lie a receipt in full, and don't bother me soon again!" SO FEW AFPBECIATE IT. I tell yon there is not more than one, man out of a thousand that appreciates what the church is. Where are the souls that put aside one tenth for Christian institutions one-tenth of their income? Where are those who. having put aside that one-tenth, draw npon it cheer fully? Why, it is pull and dragahd bold on and grab and? dutch; and giving is an affliction to most people when it ought to be an exhilara tion and a rapture. Oh, that God wonld re model our souls on this subject, and that we might appreciate the house of God as the great ret use. If your children are to come up to lives oi virtue ana happiness, tney win come up under the shadow of the church. If the church does not get them the world wilL Ah, when you pass away and it will not be long before you do when you pass away it will be a satisfaction to see your children in Chris tian society. You want to have them sitting at the holy sacraments. You want tbem min ding in Christian associations. Yon would like to have them die in the sacred precincts. When you are on,your dying bed. and your little ones come up to take your last word, and yon look into their bewildered faces, ion will want to leave tbem undel the church's benediction. I don't care bow hard you are, that is so. 1 said to a man of the world: "Your son and daugh ter are going to join our church next Sunday. Have you any objections?" "Bless you," he said, "objections? I wish all my children be longed to the church. . I don't attend to those matters myself I know I am very wicked hut I am very glad they are going, and I shall be there to see them. I am very glad, sir; I am very glad. I want them' there." And so, though yon may hare been wanderers from God, and though you may have sometimes car icatured the Church of Jesus, it is yonr great desire that your sons and daughters should be standing all their lives within the sacred in closure. ' WHEN MISFOETUNES COME. More than that, yon yourself will want the church for a hiding place when the mortgage is foreclosed; when your daughter, just bloom ing into womanhood, suddenly clasps her hands in a slumber that knows no waking; when gaunt trouble walks through the parlor, and the sitting-room, and the dining-hall, and the nursery, you will want some shelter from the tempest. Ah. some ot yon have been rnn npon by misfortune and trial; why do you not come into the shelter? I said to a widowed mother after she had burled her only son months after I said to hen "How do yon get along nowadays?" "Oh." sbe replied, "I get along tqlerablv -well except when the sun shines." I said: "What do you mean by that?" when she said: "I can't bear to see the sun shine: my heart is so dark that all the brightness oi tne natural world seems a mockery to me." O. darkened soul, O, broken-hearted man, broken hearted woman, why do you not come into tho shelter? I swing the door wide open. I swing it from wall to walL Come in! Come inl You want a place where yonr trouDles shall be in- icrprufeeu, huvid jviu uu.ueus bum. ro "-j strapped, where your tears shall be wiped: away. Church of God, be a hiding place to all these people. Give tbem a seat where they can rest their weary souls. Flash some light from your chandeliers upon their darkness. With some soothing bymu hush their griefs. O, Church of God, gate of heaven, let me go through it! All other institutions are going to fail: but the Church ot God its foundation is the "Bock ot Ages," Its charter is for everlasting years, its keys are held by the universal proprietor, its dividend is heaven, its president is Godl Sure as thy truth shall last, To Zlon shall be given The brightest glories earth can yield, And brighter bliss oi heaven. God grant that all this audience, the young est, the eldest, the worst, the best, may find Ntneir saie ana glorious niaing piace wnere I Joshua found it in the temple. SPECULATIVE MAEKETS. Featnrea of the Week's Close Significant Clearing Bonn Fit-area Last Year's Financial Record Badly Bro ken The Oil Market. There was considerable vim in the stock mar- the short session. The sales were 830 shares. For the week they were 2.440, of which Philadelphia Gas furnished nearly one-half. As had been the case throughout the week, Philadelphia Gas was the leader in strength and activity, bnt it fluctuated more than usual, and on the filling of some good-sized orders, weakened and closed fractionally lower than the highest point. Central Traction showed some improvement, but tbe others were weak and nominal. Switch and Signal sold down to 14 and closed at IS asked. For Luster's new stock 30 was asked. This is equivalent to about 16 for the old. Bank, insurance and railway shares were in gooa demand, but without particular change. Sales were 6 shares of Central Traction at 5SM. 5 at 32. 240 Philadelphia Gas at 32 100 at 32k. 50 at 32J. 50 Switch and Signal at 14, and 10 wheeling Gas at 19. After call, 70 shares of Philadelphia lias brought kjj. The local banks Are keeping up the rapid pace with which they commenced the year, and it already looks a if last year's record will be badly shattered when tbe account for 1890 is closed up. Last week's exchanges exceeded those of the corresponding time in 18S9 by more than a million and three-quarters. Several of the leading banks visited Satur day reported a satisfactory business, although there was no rush. Money was easy and in good supply with a good demand. Discount rates were steady at C7 per cent. Currency and exchange were about even, with a better supply of small notes than usual. Manager Chaplin, of tbe Clearing House, got out another very satisfactory report, which is appended: Yesterday's exchanges. t 5,233,22 13 Yesterday's balances 422.675 3U Week's exchanges 15,321,2(17 14 Previous week's exchanges 14,771.677 39 Exchanges week or 1SS9 ll.S7z.S49 69 Ualances week oMS39 1.837,639 42 Uain for week over 1839 3,748,36725 Money on call at New York Saturday was 34 per cent, closed offered at 3. Prime mer cantile paper. 57. Sterling exchange quiet but firm at 4 82 for 60-day bills and 4 86 for demand. Closing Bond Quotations. U.S. ,K 156 U, S. 4. coup 1SS U. S. 4tts. reg klMX U. S. 4s. conn.... 1W) Pacifiess or95... ,116 Loulslanastampedt 94 Missouri 6s.. 10O Tenn. new set. 6s... 100 Tenn. new set. SS....104 Tenn. new set. 3s.... 72J4. Canada 80. 2ds..,. 93 Cen., Pacificists.. ...Ill Den. &K.G., lata.. .118 Den. A It. U. 4s; 77;,' D.&.Q.West,lsts. 98 Erie, 2tH 1D0H J4.iL T. Gen. ea.. 73)4 M.K. AT. Gen. 53 . 64 Mutual Union 6s. . ..102 N. J. C. Int. Oert...lll Northern Pae. Hte..1HH .Northern Pae.2ds..llJ)i North w't'n Contois. 144 Northw'n deben's.,109 Oregon & Trans. Os.101 SUL. &I.M. Uen.Ga 89 St. I. S. P. Gen. 3L 1 11 ) Su Pant consols ....I24K St. PL Chi & Pclsts. mu Tx., PcL. O.Tr.Rs. HSj Tx.,PcK.G.,lT.Kct 39X union rae. uu.....iioh West Shore 104X EEACT10N IN OIL. It Comes Down From Its Perch at the Standard' Bidding. As anticipated by many, petroleum got too high to suit the Standard, anjl had to come down. Tbe market opened Saturday at 1W highest 103)6, lowest and closing 103 about where it stood before Friday's little flurry. Trading was light at all points. The advance enabled New York to pump in a good deal of the stuff on the local crowd, and they tried to get rid of it yesterday, but it wouldn't go. Nobody wanted it. It looks very much as if the J4ew York contingent were hand in hand with tbe octopus. The ease with which tbey make and unmake the market looks suspicions. v Tbe market was about steady at tbe opening, but it weakened nnder a pressure to sell, and remained in that condition tbe rest of tbe day, closing at tbe lowest point, around which it will probably bang until the N ew Yorkers are ready for another move. Friday's clearances were 608,000 barrels. Those for tbe week were 1058,000. Features of tbe Market. Corrected dally by John M. Oamey A Co., 46 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange, Opened 1C6MI Lowest 104h Highest 106,HUoied ;.104 . Barrels. Average charters Z6.233 Average shipments.. j 79,919 Average runs M &4.D61 Kenned. New York. 7.80c. Kenned, London. 6XH. Refined, Antwerp, ilHZ.' KeHned. Liverpool, s 1-Wd. Kenned, Bremen. 6.95m. A. B. McQrew quotes: Puts, SI 03; calls, SI 05K1 05 MEAT ON THE HOOF. The Condition of Business at the East Liberty Stock Yards. Office of Pittsburg Dispatch, 1 CATTLE Receipts. 1,060 head; shipments, 640 bead: market, nothing doing; all through consignments; 7 cars of cattle shipped to New. York to-day. Hogs Receipts. 4,800 head: shipments, 4,100 head; market slow; all grades S3 703 85; li cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 1,600 bead; shipments, 1,400 head; market slow at unchanged prices. By Telesraph. CHICAGO The Drover? Journal reports: Cattle Recelnts, 400 head; market slow; beeves, S3 005 15; stackers and feeders, 2 25Q3 25; cows, bulls and mixed, $1 503 10; Texas corn fed Bteers, S3 604 00. Hogs Receipts. 23.000 head; market slow and 6c lower: mixed, S3 50 S 75; heavy, S3 603 75; light. S3 6003 77K: skips, S3 003 4a nhcep Receipts, 2,500 bead; market steady; natives, $3 005 30; Westenucorn-fed, $4 505 00; Texans, S3 604 40; lambs. S4 906 40. Kaxsak Crnr Cattle Receipts, 2,900 head; shipments. 900; market barely steady on steers, cows 6010c higher; natives, S3 0004 70: cows, SI 7502 50; stockers and feeders, S2 6003 00. Hogs Receipts 4,600 bead; shipments, none; market steady, closing easv; all grades. $3 550 3 62K; bulk, S3 67X63 60. Sheep-Receipts, 1,900 head; shipments. 300 bead: market stoady and quiet: good to choice muttons, S3 60425 40; stockers and feeders, S3 0003 40. St. Louis Cattle Receipts. 9U0 head: . shipments, none: market steady; good to fancy steers, auigu su: Bwciters ana -leeaers, $1 su 3 10; range steers, S2 003 SO. Hogs Re ceipts, 6,000 head: shipments none: market strong; fair to choice heavy. S3 603 70: pack ing grades, S3 5033 65; light, fair to best, S3 45 3 60. .Sheep Receipts, 300 bead; shipments, none; fair to choice S3 405 00. Buffalo Cattle slow, 10 and 15c lowers re ceipts, 85 loads through, 18 sale. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 6 loads through, 22 sale. Lambs easy and unchanged. Sheep firm. Hogs slow; receipts, 18 loads through, 87 sales medi ums and heary, 13 7003 75! Yorkers and pigs, S3 75. Armour & Co., of this city, report the following sales of dressed beef for the week ending January 11, ISO carcasses,, average weight, coy pounds; average price, fo J. DOMESTIC MARKETS. The Lull. Which Follows Holidays Slow to Eelax Its Grip. CABBAGE AND ONIONS ARE FIRMER Grain Exchange Excited Over the Question of Sample Grain. GOOD KEW CUES IN BETTER DEMAND Office of Pittsbtjbo Dispatch, SATUiuiAr, January 11, 1S90. J Country Produce Jobbing Prices. The weather continues adverse to trade in all produce lines. The lull which fol lows holidays has this season been a lit tle more so than usual br reason of soft weather. Fruit and vegetables of all kinds show very poor keeping qualities, and, as a result, retailers are reluctant to lay in heavy stocks. The producer is forced to' bear the brunt of the downward movement. There is an improved demand for cabbage and onions, and prices on both are a shade higher. Potatoes and apples are very quiet, Florida oranges of late are coming to market in much better shape than for some time1 past, and markets are firm. Tbe first installment of the new crop of pine apples showed up this week, and the quality was never better. The outlook is good for an extra fine crop of pineapples and bananas. Butter Creamery. Elgin, 2829c; Ohio do, 2627c: fresh dairy packed, 22Bc; country r61Is.2021e. Beaks Navy hand-picked beans, $2 002 25; medium. $1 752 00. Beeswax 2S30o V ft for choice; low grade, 1820t . Cider Sand refined, 6 00S GO; common, S3 504 00; crab cider, fS 008 60 V barrel; cider vinegar, 1012c ?l gallon. Chestnuts 83 005 60 1? bushel; walnuts, 6070c $1 busbel. , Cheese Ohio. lllljc; New York, llKe; Llmburger, 9Uc: domestic Sweitter, 11 13Kc: imported Hweitzer, 23Wc. Egos 17018c W dozen for strictly fresh. FBnrrs Apple, fancy. t2 502 75 fl barrel; cranberries, 58 509 60 f barrel; Malagagrapes, large barrel, $8 6010 00. Feathers Extra live geese, 6060c;No.lr do, 4Q45c: mixed lots, 3035c W ft. ir UUJ.1K1-uve cnicxens. oraoac a pair; mnd: ducks OotSiibc t pair: geese, SI 251 SO fl pair: live turkeys. 1315c ?? in; uressea turaeys, iBtgcu f id Seeds Clover, choice; 62 fts to bushel, U 20 4 40 ?! bushel; clover, large English, 62 fts. i 35 4 60; clover, Alsike, $800; clover, white. S3; timo thy, choice, 45 fts, SI 60: blue crass, extra clean, 14 fts, SI 251 30: blue grass, fancy, 14 fts, SI 30; orchard grass, 14 fts. SI 40; red top' 14 fts, SI 25; muiec, ou bs. i uv; iniuet, angiiua n ousoei; Hungarian grass, 50 ,fts, 65c, lawn grass, mix ture of fine grasses, 53 00 f) bushel of 14 fts. Tallow Country, 4Jic; city rendered, 4J 65c. Tropical Fruits Lemons, common, S2 60 8.j uu: tancy, H w&d w; Florida oranges. S3 Z5 3 50; bananas, SI 50 firsts, SI 00 good seconds, bunch; cocoanuts, $4 OOQ'l 50$ hundred; figs, S9c f ft; dates, 5K6Xc ft; new layer ngs, izi)i&!4c; new dates, 7$c ft; pine. apmes, ji on fi dozen. Vegetables Potatoes, from store, 5560e; on track, 4550c; cabbages. $5 007 00 a hun dred: Dutch cabbage. 513 00 1 hundred: celery, 40c $1 dozen; Jersey sweet potatoes, M 00 a bar rel: turnips. Si 001 60 a barrel; onions, $2500 2 75 a barrel. Buckwheat Flour 22c f) pound. Groceries. Green Coffee Fancy Rio, 23024c; choice Rio, 21022c; prime Rio, 20c; low grade Rio, 1519c; old Government Java, 27028c; Mar acaibo. 23K24Kd; Mocha, 2829Xc; Santos, 20K24c; Caracas, 2224c: peaberry. Rio, 23K 24c; La Guayra, 23K24c Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 24c; high grades, 2529c; old Government Java, bulk, 31KS3c; Maracaibo, 2728c; Santos, 21 28c; peaberry, 28c; choice Rio, 25c; prime Rio, 23c; good Rio. 22Kc; ordinary. 21c. Spices whole) Cloves, 1920c; allspice, 10c; cassia, 8c; peeper, 17c; nntmeg, 70080c Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test. 7Jc; Ohio, 120, 8Kc: headlight, 150, 8c: water white, lOWc; globe; 1414)c; elame, 14c: car nadlne, llc; royaline, 14c; globe red oil, 11 HJc; purity 14c Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 46017c f) gallon: summer, 4043c Lard oil, 70c Syrups Corn syrup, 2830c; choice sugar nvrnn SSMSi" Trlm inmr nvmn vnffti9V, strictly prime, 33035c: new maple syrup, 90c,- ' choice, 47c; medium, 3S43c; mixed, 40042c SODA Bi-carb m kegs. 3SJc; bi-carb in iis, SJic; bi-carb, assorted packages, 56t; sal soda in kecs. lc; do granulated. 2c Candles istar, f sll weight, 9c; stearine, 9 ser. 8Jc; paraffine, ll12c Rice Head, Carolina, 67c; choice, 6V 6Jc; prime, 6W6c: Louisiana, 56Jc Starch-Pearl, 2c; cornstarch, 56c; gloss starch, 47c '" Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, S3 65; Lon don lavers. $2 90; California London layers, S2 75; Muscatels, $2 40: California Muscatels. $2 25; Valencia. 7c; Ondara Valencia, 8ii 8K sultana, 9c; currants, 6X5Kc; Turkey prunes, 45c; French prunes. 69Jic: Salon lea prunes, in 2-ft packages, 8c; cocoanuts. ft 100. S6 00: almonds, Lan., ft. 20c: do, J.vica,19e: do, shelled, 40c: walnuts, nap., 1415c; Sicily filberts. 12c: Smyrna figs. 1213c: new dates. 60 6K: Brazil nuts, 10c; pecans, 114815c; citron, V ft, 1920c;lemon peel, 18c 'jR ft; orange peel, 17c Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft, 6c; ap ples, evaporated, 9c: apricots, California, evap orated, 14K16c; peaches, evaporated, pared, 2G02Sc; peaches, California, evaporated, un pared, 192lc; cherries. pitted.l8X14Kc: cher ries, nnpitted, 56e; raspberries, evaporated, 25K2tKo blackberries. 7X8c; huckleberries, 10 12c sugars Cubes, "!c; powdered, 7c: granu lated, 6c; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A, 6Hc; soft white, 66c; yellow, choice, 50 6c: yellow, good, 6J5jic; yellow, fair, 6)i 6c; yellow, dark, 5Jc Pickles Medium, bbls (L200), $5 50: medi um, half bbls (600), J3 25. Salt No. L bbl, 95c; No. 1 ex.$t bbL SI 05; dairy, $ bbl. 81 20; coarse crystal. bbl, $1 20; Higgins' Eureka, 4-0u sacks, $2 80; Higgins' Eureka, 16-14 ft pockets, $3 00. Canned Goods Standard peaches, $2 00 2 25: 2ds, SI 6501 80; extra peaches, 2 4002 60; pie peaches, 95c; finest corn. $1 001 50; Hid Co. corn, 75090c; red cherries. 90cSl; Lima beans, 51 20; soaked do, 80c; string (to, 00065c; mar rowfat peas, SI 1001 15; soaked peas, 70S0c: Sineapples, $1 3001 40; Bahama do, S2 75; amson plums, 95c; Greengage?. SI 25; egg plums. S2 00; California pears, S2 50; do green gages, SI 85; do ege plums, 81 85: extra white cherries, S2 40; raspberries, 95cSl 10; straw berries, SI 10; gooseberries, 81 3001 40; toma toes, 85090c; salmon. 1-ft, $1 65l 90; black berries, 65c; succotash, 2-ft cans, Boaked, 90c; no green, 2-ft, $1 251 60; corn beef, 2-ft cans, 52 05; 14-ft cans. 814 00; baked beans. SI 1501 60; lobster, 1-ft, $1 7501 80; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled, SI 50: sardines, domestic, lis. 84.25 4 SO; sardines, domestic Ms, 86 757 00; sar oines. imported, K. $11 60012 60; sardines, im ported, s, $18 0u; sardines, mustard, $3 30; sardines, spiced, S3 SO. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, $38 W bbl.; extra No. 1 do, mess. $40: extra No. 1 mackerel, shore, S32; extra No. 1 do, mess, $36; No. 2 shore mackerel, S24. Codfish Whole Sollock, 4c fl ft; do medium, George's cod, :; do Iarge,.7c: boneless bake, in strips, 6c; do George's cod in blocks. 667c Herring Round shore, $4 60 ft bbl.; split. $6 60; lake. $2 76 fl 100-ft half bbl. White fish, $6 00 ft lOlA ft halt bbl. Lake trout, $5 60 ft half bbL Fin nan haddock, -10c ft ft. Iceland haliDut 13c SS ft. Pickerel, X hbl.. $2 00; ibbl., SI 10: Poto mac herring, So 07 ft bbl.. $2 oO per K bbl. " Oatmeal S6 00$6 25 ft bbl. Grain. Flonr nnd Feed. There were no sales on call at the Grain Exchange. Receipts as bulletined: 29 cars; by Pittsburg, Ft Wayne and Chi cago, 4 cars of oats, 6 of hay, 3 of flour, 1 of bran, 1 of rye; by Baltimore and Ohio, 3 cars of corn, 1 of oats, 1 of hay: by Pittsburg. Cincinnati and St. Louis, 2. cars of corn and oats, 3 df hay, 2 of bran, lot oats, 1 of corn. Total receipts bulletined for the week: 199,cars, against 234 cars last week and 223 for the previous week. There is an improved demand for bakers' flour. Foreign markets are absorb ing unusual quantities of this grade of flour and markets here are stiffen New corn is in better demand where stock is entirely reliable. Choice oats are also a shade stronger than they were at our last reports. Members of the Grain Exchange were considerably worked up to-day over the matter of sales -ot sample grain being reported, and a committee of three, con sisting of J. C. Houck, R. D. Elwood and G. W. Johnson, was appointed to suggest some action that will either prevent the record of sample stun! or place it in some one of the regular grades. The sale of new sample corn at 30c yesterday, which was put on record, has brought in an avalanche of letters from dealers, com plaining ot prices on graded stuff. Prices below are for carload lots on track. WHEAT;-NewNo.3red,8tt87c;No. 3, 82 SSe- . Corn No. 2 yellow, ear, new, S637c; high mixed, new, 3i35c; No. 2 yellow, shelled, old, SG037c: new, 31035c; high mixed, shelled, 350 86c: new high mixed, shelled, R031c OATS JNa3wnij,,-3fjac: extra, Ho. 3, WMHTie: mixed, Z4J25& K.T ,TE-No. 1 Pennsylvaa.andOhIo. 6351e: No. 1 Western, 6152c. : Babiey Western, '565c;' Canada barley, TO75c. Ki.ouR Jobbine nrices Fancv winter and spring paienu, o uutgo ou; ;Wint?r 5 straight, I S4 2504 60; clear winter, ti 004 25; straight IpCXXX bakers', S3 G03 75. Bye flour, S3 60 10. Millfxed Middlings, fine white, S15 00 16 00 fl ton; brown middlings, S12 0014 00; winter wheat bran, Sll 50012 00; chop feed, $15 601S 00. Hat Baled timothy. Ho. 1, Sll 6012 00: No. 2 do, S3 00Q10 00; loose from wagon, $11 00 12 00, according to quality: No. 2 prairie hay, $7 U08 00; packing do. $6 607 00. Straw Oats $8 757 00; wheat and rye- straw, to UWJSO S3. Provisions. The only change in provision market is a drop of a on lard. Sugar-cured hams,large, 0c; sugar-cured hams, medium, 9c; sugar-cured hams,small,10c; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8c; sugar-enred shoulders, 6c: sugar-cured, boneless shoulders. Tjc; sugar-cured California hams, 6c; sugar-cured dried beet flats,9c; sugar cured dried beef sets. 10c; 'sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 12c; bacon shonlaers, 6VeL bacon clear sides, 7c: bacon clear bellies, 7Kc: dry salt shoulders. 6Kc: dry salt clear sides, 7c. Mess pork, heavy, Sll 60; mess pork, family, S12 CO. Lard Refined, in tierces. 6c; half barrels. 6c; GO-fc tubs, 6c; 20ft palls. tc; 60-ft tin cans. 5Vc;3-ft tin palls, 6c; 5ft tin palls, 6c;10-fttin pails, 6c; 6-ft tin pails, 6c. Smoked sausage, long, 6c; large, 5c. Fresh pork links, 9c. Boneless hams, lOKc Pic;s' feet, half-barrels, 34 00; quarter barrel, $2 15. MABKETS BY WIRE. An Off Day In the Wheat Pit Hoc Products Dnll bnt Avernse a Little Lower All Bound Corn nnd , Oats Easier. Chicago Trading in wheat was very light, and the market was very quiet. An unusually small business was transacted, and the fluctua tions were as narrow as they possibly could be. the entire changes being confined within H i range. This wonld be the best Indication ot the volume of trading. Outside news was scarce. Corn There was very little interest mani fested in tbe market, trading being limited and almost exclusively local, with fluctuations con fined within H4fi range. The prevailing feeling was a little easier, and transactions were at slightly lower prices. Oats were traded in to a moderate extent. An easier feeling prevailed, and prices ranged slightly lower. January was offered fairly, and but little demand existed. The sellers of May outnumbered the buyers, bnt the former' did not press their holdings .on the market with sufficient freedom to cause trouble. In hog products the feeling in a general way was easier. There was no particular pressure to sell, and tho changes in prices were slight but averaged lower for tbe leading articles. Tbe leading lutures ranged as louows: Wheat No. 2. January. 7BJ76?0!76V0 o?4C, may, 01941 Corn No. 2. January. J&J461'2$ c; February. 29K29c; May. 31?! Oats-No. 2,- January. 20J20i2020Uc; February. 20K20c: May, z2i22j22l22Hc Mzss Pork, per bbl. January. S9 47k; Feb ruary. $9 609 52K; May, $9 8509 92X619 850 9 S7K- LiARD, per luu.ms. January. a ww sues 5 77KQ5 80: February, $0 82&5 85; May, $8 02K6 0506 02M6 05. BHORT Ribs, per 100 fts. January, $4 65; February, $4 67X4 67K4 67K4 67K;May, $4 87K4 85. Cash quotations were as follows: Flonr steady and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 765jTr: No. 3 spring wheat, 6577c; No. 2 red. 76il763c. No. 2 corn. 28c No. 2 oats, 20 Zc No.2rye;4444Kc No. 2 barley, 65 67c No. 1 flaxseed. $f 34. Prime timothy seed. SI 17. Mess pork, per bbl, $9 60. Lard, per 100 lbs, $5 80. Bbort ribs sides (loose), $4 6504 75. Dry salted shoulders (boxed), $4 606 25; short clear sides (boxed), $4 950 5 00. Sugars Granulated, 6c 'standard A, 6c Receipts Flour. 13.000 barrels: wheat, 32.000 bushels: corn, 200,000 bushels; oats, 84, 000 bushels; rye. 4.000 bushels: barley, 60,000 bushels. Shipments Flour, 18,000 barrels; wheat, 29,000 bushels: com, 450,000 bushels; oats. 140.000 bushels; rye, 5.000 bushels: barley. 31, 000 bushels. On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was very dull; creamery, 1626c; dairy, 12022c Eggs weak at 13015c New York Flour dull and heavy. Com meal steady; yellow Western, $2 2502 65. Wheat Spot dull: options steady. Rye dull and firm: Western, 57660c; Canada, 6760c. Barlev steady; Western, 4560c; Canada, 68 76c Barley malt dull; Canada; 70085c Corn Spot quier, weak and lower. Oats Spot firmer and quiet; options steady and quiet. Hay steady and quiet: shipping, 40045c: good to choice, 850S(fc Hops strong. Coffee Options opened steady. 10020 points down, closed dull, 16020 points down; sales, 13,250 bags, including: January, 15.90c; February. 15.8515i90c; March, la.uo10.uuc: April, io.uuc: May, vxvow 16.00c; June. 16.00016.05c; July, 18.00c; Sep teraber,15.95ia00c;December,15.V0ia00csipot Rlo.flnn and in fair demand; fair cargoes, 19&C; Bugar Raw steady and quiet; refined firm and active. Molasses New Orleans quiet: open kettle, good to fancy, 38047c Rice quiet and steady; domestic, 4&kc; Japan. 45c Cotton seed oil strong. Tallow quiet Kosin quiet; strained, common to good, SI 201 22. Turpentine quiet and easy at 445c Egss firm; western, 1717Xc; receipts, 1,547 pack ages. Pork firm and quiet. Cut meats easy; pickled bellies. o05c Middles dull. Lard easier and qniet; western steam, $8 15; sales, 500 tierces: options, sales 750 tierces; January, SO 15; February, $6 20; March, $3 28: April, $633; Mav, $6 39: July, $6 5a Butter weak and dull; Elgin, 2828Xc: western dairy, 817c; do creamery. 1326X do held. 917c; do lac torv,S17c Cheese dull and steady; western, 8l0c Philadelphia Flour quiet Wheatsteady, with a fair milling demand lor desirable grades, but nothing doing either on speculation or for export; fair to good milling wheat, 78085c; prime to cbolce longberry. 88092c; choice un graded longberry, in grain depot, 92c; No. 2 red, in elevator. 80c; No. 2 red, January. S0K81c; February, 8lg82Kc: March. 8383Jc: April, 84K84c Corn Options opened ii&e low' er, but subsequently ruled steady, with good demand for export: fair demand from local jobbers lor No. 2 mixed and yellow, which ruled steady; No. 4 mixed, on track, 26c; No. 4 high mixed, in grain depot. 27c; No. 2 mixed and high mixed, in Twentieth street elevator, 37Kc; No. 2 mixed, on track, 37-c; No. 2 mixed Janu ary, S6V36c: February, 36036c; March. 37s037fc; April. 37?i38c Oats Carlots weak; No. 3 white, 28Jic: futures dull and without im portant chance. Eggs dull and weak; Penn sylvania, 16017c. Minneapolis There were a good many out side buyers of sample wheat in market to-day and as a result there wasa good demand for original wills wheat; holders were firm, but some of It was taken for orders that were not filled; tbe low grades did not move well; re ceipts for 24 hours were 283 cars and 20 were shipped ont; the stock in Minneapolis it was estimated would decrease 55,000 bushels for tbe week, as would be shown by Monday's report. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard, January, 80c; February, 80Kc; May, 83Kc: on track, 81c; No. 1 Northern. January. 77Kc: February, 78c; May, 81c: on track. 7879e: No. 2 Northern. January, 75c: February, 75cK: May, 89c; on track, 75076Jc St. Louis Flonr Better feeling forfancyf grades below, dull and slow of sale. Wheat ex ceptionally quiet; fluctuations confined to a range; No. 2 red, cah, 77Jc bid: May, 80JJ 80c, closed at 80K80c lnd; June, 80c. closed at 80c bid; July, 77077ic closed at 77Ko bid. Corn firm; No. 2 mixed, cash, 25c; January closed at 25Jc: February. 28:; March, 25c asked; May. 27c bid; July, 29c asked. Oats lower, bnt demand good at tbe decline; No. 2, cash, 2020Jic bid: Si ay, 2121c bid. Rye No. 2 bad 41c bid. with 42c asked. Barlev easy; Canada, 72e; Iowa. 35c. Flaxseed, $1 30. Provision? doll. Milwaukee Flonr unchanged. Wheat easy: No. 2 spring, on track. 63074c; May, 75c; No. 1 Northern, 86c Corn easy; No. 3. on track, 26c Oats steady; No. 2 white, on track, 22c Rye quiet: No. L in store. 44Jic Barley quiet; No. 6, in store. 45c Provisions firm. Pork, $9 50. Lard, $5 SO. Cheese steady; Ched dars, 99Kc Toledo Cloverseed dnll; cash and January, $3 60; March, 53 55. Boitnn titoeks. A ten. .tTop. B. K-pf S2K Boston A Albany.. .217 Boston & Maine.. ...2!4 C. U. (jr I..VSIH Eastern K. S )37fc Eastern K.. B. 6s ....124 Flint & FereM...... : FUnt&lfereU. nra. S5 Mexican Cen. com.. 17h Mex.Clstmtff.bds. 69 . X. A.NewnK... lVi ow uoionr. M...175H Rutland, com,,...... SX Wis. Central, com... 15 Wis. Central pt... 697g AllouezMk Co .1-65 Calumet A Hecl....16l rranuin H Huron : i'4 Usceolar.. Z7!4 fewable 8 Qnlncy ' 11 Bell Telepnone 203 Boston Land t'A Water .Power 6 Tamarack 1(8 San Diego is Santa Fe copper 1.45 Philadelphia Stocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney & Stephenson, brokers. No. 57 Fonrth avenue. Members New York stock Ex change. ' Bid. Asked. Fennsvlvama Kallroad. .' S3K 53K Beading. : 18 5-16 19& Buffalo, rittsbnrg Western 8fc Lehldh Valley ll'i Thomas McCAffeet, 3509 Butler street,sold forB. Me Williams, to' Ellen Conners, two lots 22x100 feet each, lor S7C0; for W. M. Noble, to Miss Rosa McCleary, lot 20x113 feet, on Fisk street, for 1,400. The most astonishing results in healing wonnds have been shown by Salvation Oil. Pittsbtjeq Beft Co., wholesale agents for Swift's Chicago dressed beef sold for1 week ending Jan. 11160)4 carcasses of beef, average weight per carcass, C5 lbs., average price per lb. 6.69 cts. . PEODUCE AND HIDES. Featnres sf Trade for the Week Show a Sharp Decline la Prices- of Egg and Bnflf Hides Prices Novcr Before So Low. Office of Pittsburg Dispatch,! Saturday. January U. 1890. j The marked feature of the week's trade in produce lines was the drop in eggs. Last Saturday the, ruling jobbing price wasJ 25c, and to-days markets are-slow at 18c per dozen. Continued mild weather has had the effect of bringing large quantities of eggs f 00m the South and West, and for several days past onr markets have boen glutted. Commission men .have declined to accept large offerings. The glut of eggs bas not been confined to Pittsburg. From ail trade centers comes a similar report of overstocked markets. The only salvation of the trade will be a first-class blizzard, of which there are no signs at this writing. Country butter also shows weakening tenden- stock, which is fairly steady. Fancy creamery also manages to hold its own. , As a result of the mild weather fruits and vegetables show very poor keeping qualities. Choice potatoes and apples are hard to secure Poultry is the strong factor of produce mar kets. Its firmness and scarcity for a few days past brought in good supplies to-day from Ohio and West Virginia, but our markets were able to absorb all that came at outside quotations. In general the produce trade of Pittsburg for tbe past week has been qniet. and volume was not up to the week before. The past holiday lull holds on with more tenacity than commis sion men counted on, and this state of things is accounted for by tne extraordinary condition of the weather. Cereals Show a Decline. Receipts for the week show a slight decline from last week, but supplies are still beyond the demands of trade. The weak factor of markets has been new corn. One cause for its weakness is that considerable quantities bave, been coming to market in bad shape. Weather is made tbe scape goat' for much of the poor new corn that bas Peeu coming to our market of late. Choice grades of corn and oats are firmer and a shade higher than they were at the beginning of tbe week. Markets in general show a slightly improved tone over last week. In general grocery lines there have been no changes excepting tbe advance of V,a in sugar. Coffee options are still moving npward, bnt packages are unchanged. A Drop in Hides. Tbe bide market was thought by dealers to be down to bed rock for a few weeks past. But a still lower deep has been reached and prices bave'declinedKctbe past week all along tbe line. Buff hides are particularly weak. Calf skins are fairly steady at last week's rates. In the current number of the 8ioe andLeather Reporter, under date of January 9, the follow ing statement of hide values for the past four years is given: Average price ofconnty hides in Chicago: No. 1 Branded Ban Hides Steers :::::::::$ 8 Steeers 1888. 1887. 188S.: I&S9. m sk 6K 7H 8 6 m 6K tH Mi Vb Heavy countrv steer hides averaged the same price in 1889 as in 1SS8; bnt heavy cows declined more than 1 cent a pound. Buff bides were 20 per cent lower on an average in 1889 than in 1888. Never in tbe history of tbe hide business have tbey ruled so low. Chicago dealers say tbe failures in the leather trade in the East, which bad a depressing effect on rough leather contributed considerably to the weakness in Western light hides." It seems that prices are now below the aver age of last year, as the following rates which are furnished by John H. Stratman & Co. will show: No. 1 green salted. steers, eo pounas ana over No. 1 green salted cows, all weights No. 1 green salted hides, 40 to 60 pounds.. No. 1 green salted hides, 25 to 40 pounds. . No. 1 green salted balls. -. No. 1 xreen salted calfskins No. 1 green salted veal kips No. 1 green salted runner kips No. 1 green steers, GO pounds and over.... No. 1 green cows, all weights ... .No. lgreen balls No. 1 green hides, 40to60poands No. lgreen hides, 25 to 40 pounds No. 1 green calfbktns No. lereenveal kins No.l green runner kips , eneepsKins, ..20c 4 up Tallow, prime. NAER0W AND DULL. Bnllrond Shares Exhibit Yerr Little. Re cuperative -PoYrer A Goad Bank Statement Impnrts Some Life and Strength Bonds Active. New York, January 11. The s'tock market to day showedno change in character from that of the previous days of the week, and except for a few stocks was narrow and dnll without move ment or failure of interest. Tbe general ten dency of prices in tbe absence of pressure was upward, and the bank statement with its heavy increase in the surplus reserve served to give a strong close to a rather uninteresting specula tion. Tbe new common stock of the Wheeling and Lake Erin was traded in upon the board for the first time to-day, and in the first hour rose rapidly from S0)c to 31c, but thereafter was rather neglected and sagged away a fraction. There is said to be a. bull pool in the stock. Reading continued to lead in activity, but the dealings were unimportant and tho changes in its price were very small with those of the rest of the list. New England showed marked strength and rose over 1 per cent, the Traders and Boston houses being most prominent in tbe movement, which was said to be based upon the belief of a favorable statement to be shown In the near future. ' Cbicigo Gas continued its upward move ment, but made only fractional progress, while Sugar was weak again on the same old stories which have done duty throughout tbe week. It ODened off per cent, at 02, and declined to 60J5 after a slight rise, and closed within a I small fraction of tbe lowest price. mere was very uttie me in tne market until after the issue of the bank statement, when prices which bad begun to sag hardened up again and became strong generally at frac tional advances over the opening prices. Ex cept in Sugar, which is down 1 per cent, the final changes are insignificant and about equally'divided between gains and losses. Railroad bonds were again more active than stocks, though there was very little special ani mation outside of the Reading issues, which were weak tbe thirds, however, being the only ones to sbow any material loss at the end of the day. Tbe general list displayed tbe same steady to firm feature; and while the final changes are in almost all cases insignificant, they are oftener gains than losses. Reading thirds lost 2. at 41. Chesapeake and Ohio se ries A also lost 2 atvU7. The sales reached $624,000. Tbe sales of bonds for tbe week were $10,426,000, against only $1,833,000 for last week. The following tame snows tne prices 01 active stocks on the New York Stock Excnange yester day. Corrected dally for The ' Dispatch by Whitney & Stephenson, oldest Pittsburg mem bers of New Kork Stock Xxcaange, orourth ave nue: Clos ing Bid. xK 34 32H 76H S4 IMS mi 1?4 a Open mar. Am. Cotton Oil Trust Am. Cotton UU .... Atca., Top. A s. F 32K Canadian l'aclflc ". Canada Southern MH Central of New Jersey Central Pacini. '. Chesaneake & Ohio.... Z6( C. Bur. a OaliiCT... C Mil. A St. Paul.... eo C illl.&St. P.. pt a. BeckL Al" 91 C, St. L. & Pitts U, St. L. & Pitts. Df. (1. St. P.. it. 40 C St. P..M. &O..Df. Cft Northwestern lngf Ct northwestern; nf. .... C, C. C & I.......... c. a, u. & 1.. vt.i...- ...i Col. Coal & Iron .45 Col. & flocking Vat 18- Deu. L. & V..,- 1J7X Del. & Hudson! 152H Denver & Rio G Denver & Rio G.. ni E.T.. Va. AUa .. . Is. T.. Va. & Ga. 1st nf. 70 E. IV. Vs. AGa. 2d pr. .... Illinois central. Lake Grin A Western.. .... LakeKrteA West. pr.. MX Lake Shore AM. S.....KHH LoulsvlUe A Nashville, sfi Michigan wntral Mobile; Ohio Mo.. Kan. A Texas... 10V talssoan Pacific 73J4 Mew fork Central ;.. N. V.. L..E.& W M. v.. C ASt. li..... N.I., C A St. L. or. N.Y.. V. ASt.li.2d nf .... N. YAH. K it Morfolk a Western Norfolk A Western, of. 6H Northern Pacific .,,. Nortnern Pacific prec .... UnloAMlsslsslDPl..... .... Oregon Improvement. ,V Oregon Tranicon. 243 PacillcMall 28 Pco. Dec. AKvans.... .... Phtladel.-A Heading. S81f Pullman Palace Car.wiw Rlcnmona A W. P.-T.. ?li Richmond A W.P.Tjpf 57K St. P., Minn. A Mao..'U2 St-L. ASsn-Kran j. St. L. A Ban rran-.pt. -.-,11. St.L. A San P. 1st pt. .... Texas Paclflo. .......... Zl Union 1'aclflc..-. 6S1J , High est. 32K S3 1I05S l.'i S 152 MX 434 111 U0X 45 19 I37H 152H 70 64 104H 80 J 10J4 73 41 41 34 37 3SJ 191 S3- IK 191 II it 112$ i- 5H . w. WBjrVneB ...... a..,.. VMM' Wabash urenaied..... .... Western Union S4K Wheeling A L. ...... QjJ Soear Trust. 2 National Lead Trust.. 20Y Chicago tias Trait.... 48J4 S8VC MK tA tH tZH 903 ill 20K 3U4 20 M 6 47 , CANADA'S EOTTJRE. Eraatns Wlmaa Points Ont tbe Paths Open 10 the Dominion Commercial Union Wonld bo bat the Frelade to Annexation. London, Ont., January 12. Erastns "Wiman addressed a meeting here last even ing under the auspices of the Yonng Liberal Club. His subject was "Three Futures for Canada." These be denned as continued colonialism, annexation or an independ ent Bepublic. The speaker believed that if an agreement conld be made between the United States and Canada for commercial freedom Great Britain might continue to hold 40 per cent of her empire on the North American conti nent. If. however, annexation were deemed J desirable, it conld be sooner bronght about by a commercial arrangement between the two countries than by a policy of procedure isolation. Annexa tion in Canada bad been made a disloyal bugbear, which a mock Sentimentality had clothed with features not attractive, bnt upon examination wonld be found to be of the most desirable charater. It was one of the noblest heritages to be an American citizen, and the child born in tbe United States to succeed to the achieve ments of the present generations had more possibilities of a happier future than the . child born in any other land- under the sun. Generous in their instincts, nnstinted in their welcome, progressive, intelligent and successful, there is no people with whom it would be more desirable to.be asso ciated. No nation to whom it wonld be more honorable to be joined. Bnt annexation was not a question for ns to decide, bnt for our children and for their children. Mr. Wiman maintained that the growth of the annexation sentiment in Canada bad been promoted by a discussion of the possi bilities of a commercial union, bnt that as a practical force in politics, it wonld take 25 years to elect 25 members of Parliament of 250 in favor of a separation! from Great Britain. An independent nationality was more at tractive, and there was no reason why the young Canadian should not look, forward to a great Bepublic, in perfect harmony with the United States. Mr. Wiman said the whole question of the future of Canada must be decided in this, tbe last, decade of the present century. At the general election to be held within 18 months, the question, if put squarely before people would result in triumph of the Liberal party, which has adopted as the sole plank in the'ir platform, unrestricted trade relations. Should Congress early express its readiness to meet this overture, no power on earth could prevent a union for all com mercial purposes. Drysoods. New Yoek. January 11. The market was unchanged and the tone continues of a cheer ful character. Confidence in cotton goods is unaffected by weather considerations and the drawback to woolen goods bas been fully dis counted and will be met by an adjusted nro- l duction. Metnl OlarKot. New Yobk Pig iron firm. Conner dnll and steady; Lake. January, $14 60. Lead nominal; domestic. S3 90. Tin steady and quiet; Straits. 20 65. When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When sbe was a Child, she cried for Castorla, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children,she gave them Castoria ap9-77-KWTSo Reduce Your Shoe Bills. 'e-CnT SPs?ffl 5to; lo :oc-. o'S otol Xfto2? srr e- (i O V- Cjwvwv- - . - . ' 31 e' ?' Schurr's Pateqt Shoe Sole Protectors are an absolute protection for the soles of shoes for men working in mines, mUls, foun dries, steel works, blast furnaces, etc ASK YOUR SHOE DEALER FOR THEM. Dealers supplied by Pittsburg Shoe Finding Houses. no7-29-MTh JOHNPLOOKER & CO., ITANtrFACTrjEEES 07 Flocker's Lubricating Hemp Packing FOR RAILROAD USE., Italian and American- Hemp Packing, Clothes Lines, Twines, Bell Cord, Fish Lines, Chalk Lines, Night Lines. Sisal Bale and Hide Rope, Tarred Lath Yarn, Spun Yarn, etc WORKS East street. Allegheny City, Pa, OFFICE AND SALESROOil-Sa Water St, ttsburg. Telephone No. 137a oc22 69-mws TplDELITY TITLE AND TRUST CO., J 121 and 123 Fourth ave. Capital $500,000. Full paid. INSURES TITLES TO REAL ESTATE. Acts in all fiduciary capacities. Deals in reli able investment securities. Rents boxes in its superior vault from to per annum upward. Receives deposits and loans only on mort gages and approved collaterals. JOHN B. JACKSON. Pres'L JAMES J. DONNELL. Vice Pres'S. C. B. MoVAY, Secy and Treas. an20-30K-M BROKERS FINANCIAL. TTTH1TNEY & STEPHENSON, CI FOURTH AVENUE. Issue travelers' credits through Messrs. DrexeL. Morgan & Co., New York. Passports procured, apzs-l THE SAFE DEPOSIT GO. OF PITTSBURG, NO. 83 FOURTH AVENUE. Incorporated January 24, 1867. Charter per petual. Capital $500,000. Burglar-proof vaults lor securities and valuables. Acts as Execu tor, Administrator, Guardian, Trustee and all other fiduciary capacities. DlRECTOnS. A. Garrison. Edward Gregg, Wm. Rea, Thos. Wightman, A. E. W. Painter, Chas. J. Clarke. A. P. Morrison. Felix R. Brunot, John H. Rickctson. OFFICERS. A. Garrison. Presjdent; Edward Gregg; First Vice President: Win. Rea, Second Vice Presi dent: Wm. T. Howe, Sec"? and Treas.; Robe a Moore.Asst. Bec'v and Treas.; Henry A. Miller,. Counsel, No. 153 Fourth avenue.' de4-orwT JOHN M. OAKLEY & CO., ' BANKERS AND BROKERa Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Petroleum. Private wjre to NewlYorlc and Chicago. 45 STXTH ST, Pittsburg. - -K-tT&i V Tlio Groat Extorml xxator Blood 3EoIsoxl. I Air of the opinion 8. S. S. should stand a tbe head of the list of blood remedies. I ar rived at this conclusion from the testimony of scores of persons who have told ma of the good results from its use. I bave been selling; 8. S. S. f or years, and it has won a large sale. C A. Griffith, Mayflower, Ark. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed, free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta. Ua. aul8-55-KWT WHOLESALE JBODSEi' Embroidery and White Goods Department- direct Importation from tbe best manufac turers of St. Gall, in Swiss and Cambric Edg ings, Flouncings. Skirt Widths and Allovers. Hemstitched Edgings and Flouncings. Buyers will find these goods attractive both in pries' and novelties of design. Full lines of New Laces and White Goods. UPHOLSTERY DE PARTMENT Best makes Window Shades io dado and plain or spring fixtures, Lace Cur tains, Portieres. Chenille Curtains, Poles and Brass Trimmings; Floor, Table and Stair Oil Cloths In best makes, lowest prices for quality. WASH DRESS FABRICS. The largest variety from which to select. ToilDuNords, Chalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck ers, Imperial Suitings. Heather & Renfrew' Dress Ginghams, Fine Zephyr Ginghams. Wholesale Exclusively. jal3-D V 12 AND 514 SMITHFIELD STREET. PiXTesirortG, PA. Transact a General Banians Bnaness.. Accounts solicited. Issue Circular Letters of Credit, for use of travelers, and CommerV cial Credits, IN STERLING, Available In all paits of the world. AIsolssuV Credits IN DOLLARS For use in this country, Canada, Mexico, West' Indies, South and Central America. " ' ao7-91-MWT-- - STEAMERS AND EXCTJRSIO.ItV TTTH1TE STAB LINE . fOK QUEENSTOWN AND LIYEKPOOL. Koyal and United States Mall Steamers. Germanic, Jan. 15, noonQerman!c,Feb. 12,11am Britannic, Jan. 2, ti a mllir! tannic, Feb. IMin, Adriatic, Jan. 29. lpm AdrlaticFen.K.lldQam 'Celtic. Feb. 5. 5:30a ra Teutonic Mcb. Mpm From White Star dock, root of West Tenth it. Second cabin on these steamers. Saloon rates, 850 and upward. Second cabin. 35 and npward. according to steamer and location or berth. Ex-, cnrslon tickets on favorable terms. Steerage, fan White Star drafts payable on demand in all ths principal banks throughout Ureat Britain. Ap-i SlrtoJCUN J.ltcCOKMlCK. 639 and -101 Smith eld it., tfttsbnrjr, or J-. BltliCE 13MAI, Oea eral Agent, 41 Broadway. Mew York. JalO-D STATE LIKE To Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and Liverpool. FROM NEW YfjRK EVERY THURSDAT. Cabln nassage f35 to VO. according to locstloa of stateroom. Excursion 165 to $30. Steerage to and from Europe at Lowest Sates. AUSTIN BALDWIN A CO.. General Agents, ' 53 Broadway, MewYort j. j. Mccormick. Agent. 639 and 401 Smithfiold St. Pittsburg. Pi. OC24-D ANCHOR LINE. United Siaies Mail Steamers. Sail every SATURDAY from NEW YORK TO GLASGOW. Calling at MOVILLE, (Londonderry.) Cabin passage to Glasgow, Liverpool or London deny, tCandfU. Itoundtrlo, t90andtl00. Second-class. CO. Steerage, CO. MEDITERRANEAN SERVICE. Best route to Algiers and coast ot Morocco. NEW YORK TO GIBRALTAR AND NAPLES) S. S. BOLIVIA. TUESDAY, FEBHUAKY 11. S. S. CALJFOKNIA, SATURDAY, FEB. 15. Cabin passage to Azores, 3 to S90:. Naples, smoilOO: Venice. S13V Drafts on Great Britain, Ireland or Italy, and letters of credit at favorable rates. Apply to HENDERSON BROTHERS, N. Y.. ot J. j; MCCOKM1CK. 639 and 401 SmlthBeld it. :A.U, SOURER & SOU. 41S SmlthBeld St., Pittsburg; W BEMTLE, Jr.. 165 federal St.. Allegheny. OC2S-KWT MEDICAL. DOCTOR WHITTIER 814 PENN AVENUE. PITTSBURG. PA. As old residents know and back files of Pitt, burg papers prove, is the oldest established! and most prominent physician in the city, de voting special attention to all chronic diseases. SffSSKNOFEEUNTILCURED MCDDIICand mental diseases, physical l L li V U U O decay, nervous debility. lack of energy, ambition and hope, impaired memory, disordered sight, self distrust, bashfulness, dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, im poverished blood, failing powers, organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption.tun fitting the person for business, society and mar riage, permanently, safely and privately cured. BLOOD" AND SKINSSK'SkE blotches, falling hair, bones, pains, glandular swellings, ulcerations of tongue, month, throat, ulcers, old sores, are cared for life, and blood poisons thoroughly eradicated from the system. IIPIMADV kidney and bladder derange UnllNAn I j ments. weak back; gravel, .catarrhal discharges, inflammation" and other painful symptoms receive searching treatment, prompt relief and real, cures. Dr. Whittier's life-long, extensive experience insures scientific- and reliable treatment on common-sense principles. Consultation free. Patients at a distance as carefully treated as if here. Office hoars 9 A. 3f. to 8 p. 3f.' Sunday, 10 A. M. to 1 P. if. only. DR. WHITTIER, oil . Perm avenue. Pittsburg, Pa. jag-12-DSuwk GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE CURES NERVOUS DEBILITY. LOST VIGOR. LOSS OF MEMORY. Full particulars in pamphlet sent free. The genuine Gray' Specific sold by druggists only In, yellow wrapper. Price. (1 pee package, or six for S3, or by malt on recelnt of nrlce. bv address- ng TBE OKAY MEDICINE CO., Buffalo, N. r Sold in Pittsburg byS. 3. HULLANO, corner Bmlthfleld and Liberty its. apl2-53 DOCTORS LAKE SPECIALISTS in all cases ra quiring scientific and confiden tial treatment! Dr. 8. K. Lake, M. K. c. P. ., is tne otaest ana most experienced specialist in. tbe city. Consultation freo and, strictly confidential. Offlco hours 9 to-4 and 7 to 8 p.m.; Sundays. 2 to 4 p. jcConsult them personally, or write. Docrroaj Lake. 223 Penn aye, Pittsburg, Pa. jel2-45-DWk , oil's Ccrtrfccm. EootJ COMPOUND A of Cotton Boot. TansY and, Pennyroyal a recent discovery try an 'old Dhvsician. li suumfuUu vieA monthly Safe, Effectual. Price SL by mall, sealed. Ladles, ask yonr druggist for Cook's notion Root Compound and take no substitute. - or inclose 2 stamps for sealed particulars.' Ad-', dress POND LILY COMPANY, No. 3 Flshe , Block, 131 Woodward avew Detroit, Mich. " -3old In Pittsburg, Pa., br Joseph Flem tag & son. Diamond and Market sts. se28-23 TO WEAK MEN Buffering from, the effects of youthful errors, early decay, wasting weakness, lost manhood, etc, I will send a valuable treatise (sealed) containing fall .particulars for noma cure. FREE .of charge. A splendid medical work: should bo read by every, man who la nervon-.and debilitated. Address, -?ror. y. c. rtwut, iaeoH,t.oR. , ?r OClW3-DttWE.1 -. If M J, V.
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