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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY. JANUARY 13, 1890.
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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
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shoes for men working in mines, mUls, foun
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ASK YOUR SHOE DEALER FOR THEM.
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Acts in all fiduciary capacities. Deals in reli
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Receives deposits and loans only on mort
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A. P. Morrison. Felix R. Brunot,
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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,
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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
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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
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Adriatic, Jan. 29. lpm AdrlaticFen.K.lldQam
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From White Star dock, root of West Tenth it.
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Steerage to and from Europe at Lowest Sates.
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814 PENN AVENUE. PITTSBURG. PA.
As old residents know and back files of Pitt,
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voting special attention to all chronic diseases.
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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,
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Dr. Whittier's life-long, extensive experience
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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,
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