THE - PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SATURDAY, .JANUARY 18, 1890. 11 IRON TRADE EEYIEW. Consumers Well Stocked Up and Hills Covered for Months Ahead. THE MAKKET QUIET IN THE WEST, Bat a Good Volume of Business is Still Being Transacted. BRIGHT PKOSPECTS JOE THE FDTUEE There are as yet no signs of reTival from the quietness of the holiday season. Nor are there any signs of reaction from the late boom. Prices are well maintained, but there is little movement compared with the closing weeks of the year past Con sumers of iron and steel stocked up well in December and are in no hurry to lay in additional supplies. Many of our mills are covered for a month or two ahead and some even longer, and until their stock is worked up there is no likelihood of any great activity to markets. Sales of besseiner iron this week a shade under our quotations are reported, but this must have been by speculators anxious to realize on investments. Tne tone of all iron and steel products is strong, and there is no probability of a drop this year. Tne present price of Bessemer iron will no doubt be main talned for the balance of the season, as the sup plies of ore for this grade of iron are limited, and it will be next to impossible to overstock markets. STEEL KAILS ADVANCED. Bet steel nails b'ave advanced 15c per keg since the beginning of the year, and present rates are 52 50 tor carload lots. The movement of iron ores is active, ana holders are not press in; stock, knowing that tne drift of prices is upward. With the present outlook it will be all that ore shippers can do to meet the demands of trade this comlnr year. A conservative esti mate of receipts of Lake Superior ores here in 18S9pnts the amount at 3.000,000 toes. It will be safe enongh to add 1,000,000 to this for the re ceipts of this year. There are at this date no pessimists connected with our iron and steel in dustries. The outlook for the year before us was never better. While the present lull may last the month out, there are no signs of a check to the up ward movement, and a year of unusual pros perity ahead is assured. The only fear enter tained by large manufacturers is thattraae will boom too mnch and prices reached under spec ulative influence be followed by reaction and depression. To manufacturers in all iron and steel lines there is now a comfortable profit on their goods. If speculators will but keep bands off manufacturers and regular dealers are as sured of a bountiful harvest for a year or two to come. THE LATEST QUOTATIONS. Following are the ruling prices for iron and Steel, and on these prices holders are firm. Heutralrnlll 118 00018 50-cash All-ore mill 18 S0I9 00 cisti o. 1 toundry, native ore 19 5t3eo 00 cash Jo 1 foundry, lake ore 2 iC2l 00 cash Jtcsemer IS ou24 00 cash bnlreel 37 OOfiSJ 00 Muck bar Mooa-CCO htrel tilooms 35 VlSnG 50 bleel slabs 35 5036 00 Steel billets 35 BOMS SO 24 aM 50 SOuSLEoO bteel K.C. ends bteel bloom ends Old Iron rails, American Ts.... Old steel rails, short pieces . Jto. 1 W. scrap .. Ivo. 2 W. scrap .. bteel rails, new btee K. light sec liar Iron Iron nails, per keg, usua' dis .. bteel nails, per kez, usual dls . "W Ire nails, per kez ferro manganese . 27 0"2j OO .. 22 Sitaa v . 23 5t2 00 20 00 .. S3 (KKS3S 00 .. 35Oa3S00 . 1 tbi 2 (0 ..2 35 .2 60 . 2 903 2 85 ..103 00 SO DECIDED CHANGE In the Condition ol the Iron market Noticed at Kerr York. rsrrciAt. telegram to thb nispxTcrt.1 New York, January 1 .No decided change has taken place in the iron and steel market. A heavy consumption of all kinds of material is in progress In all parts of the country. A large amount of material is under negotiation. Pig iron is particularly strong in all markets. A pressure has been brought to bear upon Southern companies to name lower prices for large lots for delivery daring the first six months of the year, bnt as yet no concessions have been made, and there seems to be no disposition to grant any. The demand lor Southern Iron is very urgent and the companies there are in a position to dictate terms. Certain large buy ers In the West are willing to place contracts for iron for the last half of the year if conces sions are granted. Throughout the North pie iron is very strong and furnace production is maintained at maximum limits. The contem plated blowing in of new furnaces is reported at several points. Nails are very strong East and West. Bar iron manufacturers are well supplied with orders, bnt there is not the same urgent demand for deliveries after 60 davs that was ob tened in December, bkelp iron is stronc Wrought iron pine mills are expecting a heavy demand. The sheet iron makers report ur gent inquiry. Rivets, small railway mate rials, tubes and barb wire are all under active inquiry and some large contracts are about being placed. The car builders are being heard from very favorably and the de mand from that quarter will assume large pro portions, judging from the present indications and inquiries. Structural iron makers re pirt an increase In inquiry for material for elevated railroad work, public buildings, ware house and factory purpose. One very large contract for shaped iron has just been placed at a Pittsburg mill for a Chicago enterprise. Bteel rails are strong at $35 in Eastern and $37 In Western mills. Iron and steel prices (at mill or furnace): Jan. 17, Jan. 10, Jan. IB, Lowest. 9a 80. 89. 1884. ' Piglron and anthracite. No. 1, ton. $20 00 $20 00 $18 00 518 00 Steel rails,ton. $33, $35, S2728. $26. Compara tive price of other metals tin store): Copper, lake, ft, 14.55c, 14.50c 17.25c. 10K&- Lead, com! moo domestic, ft, 3.8oc, 3.87jf c. a85c, 3Xc Tin. straits, ft, 20.50c, 20.65c, 2L6oc, 16ic Spelter! common, domestic, ft, 5.45c, 4& THE BOOM CONTINUES. No Dlscouraglnc Feature Cnn bo Noticed in Iron nt Philadelphia. rSVECIAL TKXXQBAX TO THE DISP.A.TCH.1 Philadelphia, January 17. The number of Iron furnaces in blast has been steadily in creasing during the past six months, and 333 furnaces are now in operation with a capacity of 174.U38 tons per week, while onlv 2S5 furnaces with a capacity of 111,419 tons were at work in July, 1SS9. In this State 258 stacks are casting each week 20,404 tons of pig Iron. There is a stiff market up on ore,and that helps to sustain the price of pig iron, while the increase in wages of mill hands causes a ten acity among manufacturers to hold for higher prices. bteel rails advanced on on Thursday in Pittsburg, where the mills are running day and night. No advance in theEatlsyet noted. Shipments of ore from Ashtabula harbor to supply the furnaces of the Mahoning Valley in Ohio and at Pittsburg amount to 700,000 tons per week. It is interesting to note that while the great mills at Chicago and Jollet, Ilu, comprising the plant or the Illinois Steel Company, employ 9.247 men, Andrew Carnegie employs at his iron, works in this Bute 17,000 men. .Revised quota tions show the value of No. 1 foundry nig to be ETOfO 50 per ton; No. 2. S19Q19 50; gray force. JliglS 50; mucKbar. $31 5032 at the mill; soft steel billets. $38 6039 00: Anthracite blooms. $44 O0Q45 00; charcoal blooms. $51 0056 00. skelp grooves. $1 85; skelp sheared. 42 15: tank plates, $2-So2 7b: angles, 2 302 75 Bteel rails are firmly held at $36. and some passed ont of seco&ihands at $35 50 at tide. Old T rails re worth $28 O0S2S6U M The -Chicago OInrkct Quiet. :srECTAI.TELIOBXir TO THE DISPATCltl Chicago, January 17. Rogers, Brown & Co. cay: In the main the Chicago market is quiet A good carload business is going on supplying the wants of the smaller foundries who are compelled to buy from day to day to meet actual requirements. The larger con sumers are pretty well filled up until March and April, and some even longer. New car contracts that have already been let, or shortly will be let, point to a large inquiry for pig and bar iron from that branch ol the trade. Lake Superior charcoal iron is the strong est feature of the market, and It promises to remain so for some time to come. Production as shown by report of Jan uary X is at the lowest point for several months and is apparently being reduced rather than in creased, while demand is very active. It is stated that 52,000 tons have been contracted for ue in making irteel. this being about one fifth of estimated output. A Good Volume of Business. rSFECIAL TELEGKAX TO THE PI8PATCH.I CrsconfATi, January 17. Rogers, Brown & C&, say: The general tone of the market for the week past has been quiet, but a consider able volume of business has been transacted nevertheless. This has been mostly for charcoal irons andNorthemcoke brands and softeners. In Southern coke irons business is practically suspended by reason of the firmness of the leading companies who hare declined to ab sorb the late increase in freights. This, added to full schedule prices prior to the freight ad vance, makes piices at most Northern points higher than buyers are vet prepared to pay. There is no combination among Southern producers, but a disposition is apparent to work in harmony and prevent what is deemed unnecessary cutting between different representatives of the same district. The prospect of the Connellsville coke strike throws a further element of uncertainty into the situation. Latest advices are that the coke w orkers are determined to insist upon de mands that the operators cannot and will not acceed to. THE EITCHEN MAEKET. A Slow Week for the Retail Trade Dellcn cles That Come High. Market basket materials have undergone few, if any, changes the week past Trade in general has been quiet. "Weather has a depressing influence on almost everything. Eggs are not often as plenty and cheap at this season of the year as they have been the past week. The drift of country butter and poultry has been toward lower prices. Other farm products are practically the same as a week ago. New radishes and beets, the first of the season, are on the market stalls. The snpply of choice oysters is scarcely up to demand. In fish lines markets are now almost entirely de pendent on frozen stock. A few fresh shad are coming in from Eastern shores, but the bal ance of offerings is frozen. Choice oysters are selling in Pittsburg at the same price as in Bal timore, and all efforts to advance rates have been futile. Following are the retail pricci of market basket filling as furnished by leading dealers: Staple Meats. ' The best cuts of tenderloin steak range from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very fancy; sirloin, best cuts, from 15 to 18c; standing nb roast, from 15 to 20c; chuck roast, 10 to 12c; best round steaks, 15c; boiling beef, 6 to 8c; sweet breads, 20 to 50c per pair: beef kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver, 5c a pound; calf livers, 25c apiece; corned beef from 5 to 10c perponnd. Veal for stewing commands 10c; roast, 12J to 15c; cutlets, 20c per pound; spring lamos, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; bind quarters, 13a A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime quality, brings 12c; fore quarter, 8c; loin of mutton, 15c; giblets, 6c per pound. Garden Stuff". Potatoes, 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota toes, 25c per half peck; cabbage, 5 to 10c; cauliflower, 75c to $1 each; tomatoes, 85c a quart; celery, 5c a bunch; bananas, 15 to 20c a dozen; carrots, 5c a bunch; lemons, 25 to 35c per dozen; oranges, 25 to 40c; lettuce, 5c per bunch, 6 for 25c; beets, 3 for 10c; string beans, 35e a quarter peck: onions, 20 to S5c a half peck: Spanish onions, 5 to luc each; pie pumpkins. 10 to 35c, according to size; Malaga grapes, 20 to 35c per pound; turnips, 20c per half peck; cranberries, 15c a quart; cucumbers, 10 to ac apiece: mushrooms, $1 a pound; Bermuda onions, 35Jic per peck; Key West tomatoes. 50c a quart: radishes, 7c a bnnch; beets, 15c a bunch. Choice creamery butter, 35c Good country butter. 30c. Fancy pound rolls, 35c The retail price for fresh country eggs is 25c The range for dressed chickens is 50c to $1 per pair. Turkeys, 20 to 25e perpound. Prairie chickens, $1 00 a pair; ducks, $1 00 to $1 25 per pair. Ocenn Products. Following are the articles in this line on the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 12c; Cali fornia salmon, 40c per pound; white fish, 12c; herring, 4 pounds for 25c; red snap pers, 15 to 20c per pound; Spanish mackerel, SOc to 35c a pound; sea salmon, 40o a pound; blue fish, 25 to SOc; perch, 10c; halibut, 25c; rock bass. Sue; black bass, SOc; lake trout, 12c; lobsters, 25c: green soa turtle, 28c; mackerel, 20c small, 40c large Oysters: N. Y. counts, $1 75 per gallon; clams, $1 25 per gallon: scol lops, 50c a quart; frog-, S2 00 per dozen; soft shell crabs, 75 per dozen; devil crabs, 85c per dozen. THE DOG KNEW THE MOST. Means It Adopted to Prevent It Master From Choking It. Philadelphia Inquirer.! A rare instance of brute intelligence was witnessed on Chestnut street the other even ing in a dog which was at the wrong end of the rope: a drunken man was at the right end, or, in other words.the relative positions of the two should have been reversed. The attention of several men who were passing was first attracted to the pair by the antics of the dog. The brute that is, the four leeged one was almost a fully-bred pointer, and, when first noticed, was jumping up in the most singular manner, each jump succeeding a tag of the rope in the hands of the man. At times tho canine, man and rope would become tangled up in the most inextricable snarl, as the man and the dog made their way up the street It was in one of these tangles that the mystery of the dog's actions was solved. "Just watch that dog," suddenly said one of the men who were looking on. 'He knows more than the man, by Jove!" The man, dog and rope had just got out of a snarl, when the man gave tie rope a vici ous tug. It was then noticed that the rope, which was about the thickness of a lanvard. was fastened around the dog's neck in a slip knot no collar being around the dog's neck. At each tug of the rope it was plain that the brute the four-legged one was almost strangled, and when the strain was removed the dog made his regular jump. One of the onlookers indignantly started to rescue the suffering quadruped when he was stopped by one of his companions, who said: "Let them alone. Just see what the dog will do." The dog had just completed one of his jumps when it was seen that he had taken the rope in his teeth and thus relieved the strain on his throat He then trotted along contentedly until the man gave another tug and pulled the rope from between the ani mal's teeth. This had evidently cone on for some time, to judge by the weariness of the dog. lint the animal pluckily tried again and again and succeeded each time in saving himself a choking. "There's a clear case of a dog having more sense than a man," said one of the group who had followed the couple for a whole square. AJAX'S OPINION. He Roaati tho Afro-American League In Strong Terms. The following delegates, selected by the Don Cameron Club of this city, will attend the convention of the Central Belief Bureau, for the amelioration of the condition of the colored people, to be held in "Washington City on Monday, February 3: Ajax Jones, Broadax Smith.-Jarues Delphey, Eichard Keyes and J. M. Fawcctt Speakin? yesterday of the convention of the Afro-American leagues in Chicago, Ajax Jones said: "They are a lot of fel lows who are busted and want to touch somebody. The meeting will not amount to anything." A league exists in this city with a membership of about SO. It has sent two delegates to the Chicago convention. SHE DIDST APPEAE. Mrs. Sarah Bnmmil Bus Her Bail Forfeited bv Judge Gripp. Mrs. Sarah Hammil. the proprietress of a speak-easy on Thirty-third street, who was arrested last week and came to Central station in a sealskin sacqne, was to have had a hearing before Magistrate Gripp yester day afternoon, but she failed to appear. After waiting an hour and a half beyond the hour appointed for the hearing, the Magis trate dismissed, the witnesses and declared the woman's bail forfeited. Her bondsman was Louis Yeager. agent for Frauenheim & Vilsack. the amount being $1,000. v Masonic Ushers. The following gentlemen have been asked ,to officiate as ushers at the organ recital in Free Mason's Hall on the evening of the 30th of this month: James 8. McKean, George A. Howe, "William St. C. D. Corcoran, Charles S. Holmes, Andrew J. Xawrence, Harry "W. Dnnlap and John J. Kramer. The official notification was issued by John E. Haines, Secretary. None but 32 Ma Eons and their ladies will be present. HAND IN THE BOOKS. Lawrence Bank Depositors Impeding the Work of the Assignee. DELATING THE FINAL STATEMENT. Some Good Deals in Realty Closed Up and Many People Hade Happy. A EULE FOR DETECT1SG QUEER MOSEY Up to yesterday evening only 1,119 books and certificates of deposit of the suspended Lawrence Bank had been handed in to the assignee, the Fidelity Title and Trust Com pany, leaving about 1,400 outstanding. This carelessness or indifference on the part of depositors is protracting the labor of pre paring a statement As these books and certificates are evidences of the bank's in debtedness to depositors, nothing can be done toward a final accounting nntil they are all in. The importance of handing them in to the assignee as soon as possible is, there fore, apparent to all interested in an early set tlement. There was the usual activity in real estate circles yesterday, and a number of deals were closed up. A $25,000 transaction occured in the East End, but particulars -were withheld until to-day. The two big deals referred to yester day were left open on account of the sickness of one of the principals. Black & Baird sold about a half acre of gronnd on Lowrie street. Hazelwood, tor $5,600. It will be subdivided and put on the market. W. C. Stewart sold a lot in the Lloyd Circle plan. Shadyside, for $5,000. Alles fc Bailey found customers for 11 lots in the Eleventh ward for 5,000. The Penn sylvania Railroad purchased the Mcllbaney property, opposite McKeesport, for 50,000, It is said the proposed bridge will cross the river at this point, and that shops and yards for the McKeesport and Bessemer road will be located on the purchase. s a A Fourth avenne expert in detecting coun terfeit notes said yesterday: "The United States notes are printed in sheets of f onr notes of one denomination on each sheet. Each note is lettered in its respective order, in the upper and lower corners diagonally opposite, A B, C, D. The Government has the following system for numbering its notes: All numbers, on being divided by 4, and leaving 1 for a remain der, have the check letter A; 2 remainder, B; 3 remainder, C; even numbers, or with no re mainder, D. Any United States note, the num ber upon which can be divided by 4 witbont showing the above result, is a counterfeit. While this rule is not infallible, it will enable anyone to detect a large number of the counter feits in circulation." A fireman, while driving an engine at a rapid rate to a fire in Detroit, was jolted off by a wheel dropping into a hole in a defective street. He was injured, and brought suit for damages. The jury awarded him 210,000, and the city carried the case to the Suprem Court, the court of last resort in Michigan. The court held that the fireman was not guilty of contributory negligence in driving at a rapid rate, as his duties required him to do so; alto that he could not be considered a "fellow work man" in the sense in which it is legally applied, and affirmed the judgment with costs. A company of Pittsburg capitalists has pur chased several hundred acres of valuable mineral land in Taylor county, W. Va., whet e it will next spring begin the manufacture of coke and firebrick. It is claimed that the land contains some valuable veins of bituminous coal and a 14-foot vein of the finest fireclay. The main line of the Baltimore and Ohio runs through the center of the tract, and the facili ties for shipping the products are very favor able. During 1S89 the Connellsvillo coke operators marketed 326,220 cars of coke, aggregating 6, 825,000 tons. A large portion of this immense output, the greatest in the history of the great est coke region in the world, was sold at prices near the dollar mark, yet the average price of the total output was about 1 40 per ton, at which rate the spot value of the yearly output would be about 13.150,000, The output for 1888 was in round numbers 6,000,000 toes, of the average value of $1 20, making a total value of $6,000,000. These figures show a decided in crease in trade during the past year in spite 6f the very dull manner in which it opened. t The following, extracted from the Franklin, Pa., Jfews, is or interest to consumers as well as producers of natural gas: "As to the pos sibility of gas wells giving out, attention is called to a well in the Titnsvllle region, the first, in fact, from which gas was piped, and which, after a service of 18 years, is flowing as freelv as ever. The people of Western Penn sylvania, who have used gas for so many years, have ceased to feel alarm at the possibility of the fuel giving out, though occasionally the subject is discussed for speculative and other purposes. The Commissioners of La Verde county, Tex., advertised for bids for the erection of two iron bridges and received thefollowing: Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Works. $4,396, 682: Pittsburg Bridge Company, 4,910, $736; King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Com pany, $4,430, $690; Penn Bridge Company, $4,620, $612; George E. King Bridge Company, Des Moines, -la.. $4,510, $636; Kansas City Bridge and Iron Company. $4,936, $715; Iron Substruc ture Company, Colnmbus, O., $992 71, $1,260 50; Berlin Iron Bridge Company, East Berlin, $3, 984, $516. The contract was let to the Berlin Iron Bridge Company for the two bridges at $4,500. An electric railway ordinance has been adopt ed by the Indianapolis, Ind., Board of Alder men which will be of interest to the'Iectric railway and telephone interests of the country. The following section is especially interesting: "That if electricity Is adopted and the over head system used, then the Citizens' Street Railway Company shall place iron poles be tween their double tracks and suspend the wires from an arm on the said poles, and the said poles, wires and fixtures shall be so placed and maintained as not to interfere with the reasonable and proper use of existingtelephone BULL IMFROYIXG. The Local Stock Market Thought to be Firmly on Its Feet. The stock market opened yesterday with an improving tendency, and maintained that atti tude until the close, final prices in most cases being the best of the day. Sales were 551 shares. The active properties were Philadel phia and Chartiers Gas, Luster and Central Traction. Philadelphia Gas continued Its upward move ment, selling at 32 at tho first call, and closing firm at 31 bid. It is expected that the forth coming report will show an increase of earn ings as compared with previous statements, Chartiers Gas "was steady around 41. The Tractions were practically stronger. Luster sold at 22 and closed at 21 bid. Electric Switch and Signal and Airbrake were dull but a trifle firm. The broadening tendency of the market is due to greater ease in money and to a better disposition to speculate on the part of in vestors. Orders have been quite liberal for several days. Morarraa. Hid. Asked, ATOB1TOOX. Hid. Asked. 82 .... Exchance Ka. Kane, Allegheny HeatlnxCo, .... Chartiers Vallev U.Co. .... Ohio Valley People's Nat. Gas. 1'eople's M. U. & I'.Vo. 14 Vcnnsylvanla Gas Co.. 12K Philadelphia Co. !L l'lne Kuu Gas Wheeling Gas Co 17 Tuna Oil Co "Washington Oil Co 81 Central Traction 3 Citizens' Traction FltU. Traction Pleasant Valley 22 Allegheny Valley sj 1'ltls. Cln. &bt. Louis. 23 Pitts. W. K. B. Co . 11-i P. & W., pref. 17 1a Morla SllnlnK Co... i Luster Minlnz Co ISM Tiverton Mining Co... .... Westlnghouse Llectrlc 4G 3J4" 4D Jlou'gaueia v ater co - 30 u. a. & stg-. co is is U.S. &Sl. Co. pfd 15 IS WestlngnouseAlrb'ke. lcs; 110 .,. ... At the first call 10 shares of Pittsburg Trac tion brought 47, 10 Chartiers Gas 41,. and SIS' Philadelphia Gas 81?f. At the last call 8 shares of Philadelphia Gas wentat 82, 100 at 3 00 at Z1U, and 48 Luster at 22. , . CllMcCutcheonsold 100 shares of Phila delphia Gas at 31 ji. Sproul & Lawrence sold 400 shares of Philadelphia Gas at 31K. I. H. Patterson sold 100 shares Exchange National Bank at 83. Andrew Caster sold 60 shares Pan handle at 24, 17 Switch and Signal ata4, and 25 Central Traction at 32. , . The total sales of stocks at New York yester day were 147,073 shares, including Delaware. Lackawana and Western. -22.300; Missouri Pacific, 6,400; Reading. 19,700; St. Paul, 6.100; Union Pacific, 7,200. A SDEPUIT OP PDSDS Predicted by n New York FInancIci -The Iiocnl BInrkec. A. fair amonnt of business was transacted at the banks yesterday, but there was no rush. Money was plenty and. In moderate demand at 67 per cent. Depositing was of good propor tions, and probably exceeded the outflow. The trend of cash is toward greater ease. The ex changes were $2,466,564 65 and tho balances $256,681 4a President Simmons, of the Fourth National Bank, New York, says of the financial outlook: "There is no reason at all why funds should loan at a higher rate than 6 per cent. Money is plentiful enongh tbronghout the country, and people who want accommodation can find it very readily, with any of the banks, nrovided they submit! acceptable collateral. I cannot understand the recent manipulation because all out customers were supplied, and we should be very glad tb do business at the recognized rate. Money ii coming back to this center, and the IndlcationiVre that we shall shortly have a surfeit of f undsif' Money on can at New York yesterday was easy, ranging fora 35 per cent, last loan 3, closed offered as 1. Prime mercantile paper, 67. SterllngexchangednllandfirmatH 82 for 60-day bills and $4 b6 for demand. Closing Bond Quotations. u. d. u,re; ..em U. a. is. coun 118 H K. T flen.Sa . 63 Mutual Union 6S....100X N.J. C. Int. Cert.. .111 Northern PaC Uta.AUM Northern Pac.!ds..llSH Northw't'n consols. H2S Northw'n deben'S..UOK U.B.4,s.reir. 104 g- & &. coop.... WX Paclflc6aofg us Loulslanasumpedta 95H Missouri 6s... loo Tenn. new set. 6s... 105 H-HH ... ... .. IM Oregon A Trans. 6.I0; St. UftLM.Gen.se 89 auu. .ion Bb OB....AU4 Tenn. new set. as.... 72 Canada So. 2ds 83 Cen. Pacific, lsts..... Ulii Den. AK. G., 1sU...11S Den. AB.O. 4s 77 U.&B.G.West,lns. S74 at. L.&S.F. Uen.il. 112 Hi. Panl consols ....IZSH Dt.PLUM&Pclst.llS ti.,Pc.UG.Tr.Ks.80 r-..PcK.G.Tr.Ksts 38 ilon Pae. lsts., .111 Krte,ia. ICOJifVYkst Bbore 1MK U. H.4T. Qen. 6s. . 73)4 New York Clearings, $11?L845,886; balances, $6,411,948. . Boston Clearings, 115.812,420; balanoes, 11, 854,946. Money, 23 per cent. Philadelphia Clearings, )jl3.O27,703; bal ances, $1,497,711. Baltdcobs Clearings, $2,640,701; balances, $440,041. 1 London The amonnt of Iranian crone into the Bank of England on balance to-day is .ia,uu. uar suver, a per ouncl Pakis Three per cent rentes, Jpf 67&e for vqb account. Chicago Clearings $10558,000. Exchange, 25c discount. Money, 6 call and 78 per cent on time loans. Jew . ork Ser cent on DULL AND STEADY. OH Holds Up Snrprlalnsly for the Amount of Business. The oil market was very quiet at thelopenlng yesterday, and it was a fnll half noun before the first sale was made. Local scalping then gave it a small boost, which was maintained the rest of the day, the close being steady at next to the highest figure, and a point better than the windup of the previous day. I The opening was 10 highest 105 lowest 10 closing 105. About 60,000 barrels of long oil were dumped. Refined was off at Lon don and Antwerp. Thursday's clearances were 371,000 barrels. Field news was scarce, opera tors holding off for the roads to settle. Feature of the Market 1 Corrected daily by JohnM. OaKiey & Cp., 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg petro leum Exchange. i Opened K5Lowest I05 Highest 105Hctosed .'1&H Barrels. Average charters 27.S29 Average shipments 761713 Average runs , 6iC33 Kenned. New York. 7.60c Kenned, London. Sd. Kenned, Antwerp, HHt. Kenned. Liverpool. 6.1. , Kenned. Uremen. S.S5m. A, B. McGrew quotes: Puts, $1 05f ; calls, $1 ojg. Other Oil Markets. OilCitt. January 17. Petroleum opened a u ua; nignest. Si U5; lowest, $1 05; closet i vjya., Bbaspokd. January 17. Opened, $1 056 uoseaaiti v; nignest, 81 Uo; lowest, $1 my,. New York. January 17. Petroleum opened irregular, spot oil being steady at $1 05. while February option was firm at 81 05 After the first sales a slight eain was made, and the mar ket then became quiet, and closed steady at $1 05. Stock Exchange opened at $1 05; highest, $1 05K; lowest, $1 05; closing, $1 05. Consolidated Lxchange opened at $1 0oj: high est, $1 0 Total sales, 2G2.000 barrels. HOLDS ITS OWN. Real Estate Still Blovluff at a Brisk Pace Latest Deals. C. H. Love, 93 Fourth avenue, sold the prop erty No. Ill Wood street, lot 20x90, for the estate of Mrs. Juliet B. English, to Hartje Bros., for $20,000. Thomas McCaffrey, 8509 Butler street, sold for A. M. Fetzer a lot 20x100, in the Garrison plan, for $150, and for Ben Darlington to Joseph Sipper a lot 20x100 on Butler street, Nineteenth ward, for $2,540. Alles & Bailey, 164 Fourth avenue, sold for E. U. Meyers, of the German American Insurance Company, 11 lots, baying a frontage of 300 feet, and being bounded by Wick. Davis and Col well streets. Eleventh ward. Charles and Frederick Muegle were the purchasers. The consideration was $5,000. .. ' J. E. Glass, 138 Fifth avenue, sold for William Mooney to Mrs. Shannon a lot on Howe street, near Roup street, size SOxlOo, for $1,050 cosh. He also placed a morteage of $1,500, for three years at 6 per cent, on a bouse and lot on Grazier street. Twenty-first ward. James W. Drape fc Co. sold a honse and lot on Seventeen street, Southside, for $d,0u0 cash; also a lot, 60x170, at Edgewood, for 375; also an interest in a honse and lots InOakland,nearBates street, for $10,000 cash; also placed a mortgage of $3,000 at 6 per ceut on a business property at Oliver Station: also sold a bouse and lot near Chestnut street and Forbes avenue, city, for $2,250 cash; also placed a mortgage of $3,500 on a farm near Wiluierding at 6 per cent; also placed five other mortgages of $18,000 on city and subui ban property at 5 and 6 per cent. Jamison ft. Dickie sold a lot on Edwin street. East Eiui, 135 feet front and 120 deep, to Thomas P. Marshall, for$fl,7b0; also for George F. Kinn a six-room brick house, with lot 01 feet front on Fifth avenue. Oakland, and 250 feet deep to a 50-foot street, to Mrs. Ellen Gordon, for $15,000 cash. Black Baird, 95 Fourth avenue, sold to the Linden Club a lot on Linden avenue, Boulevard place, 62x180 feet, for 82,700. The club Is erect ing a beautiful building on this lot, which will ue reauy lor ucuuHauiy eariy ia lue spring. W.C. Stewart, 114 Fourth avenne, sold for Edward Jtobm to George L McCoy a lot in the Llovd circle plan, Shadyside, being 60x175 feet, for $5,000 cash. He also placed a mortgage for $6,000 on city real estate at 5 per cent and tax. Black & Baird sold about one half acre of ground on Lowrie street, Hazelwood. for $5,500. Samuel W. Black & Co., 8a Fourth avenue, sold, throngb Barnett r Chaplin, No. 20 Oak land square. Fourteenth ward, Pittsburg, being one ol those fine two-story and mansard, eight room brick dwellings erected by Messrs. O'Neill and Book, price $7,750. BEAES HAUL Oil To ttepalr Damages or Cover Shorts A Dull bnt Firm market. With Gain In Iho SInJorItT Bonds Are More Active. New Yobk, January 17. The Btock market again showed a diminished volume of business to-day, the sales in both departments of the Ex change being materially smaller than those for any day recently, while the fluctuations, except In few special stocks, were entirely insignifi cant. Lackawanna and Reading, the two most active stocks of the day, were traded in over a range of veT cent respectively, which is a sufficient commentary upon the character of the day's market. In general, there was a firm undertone displayed, and for the first time in weiks the bears were inactive in the market, or were covering shorts in a small way. This was more conspicuous in the coalers than anywhere else in the list, but there was also some buying for the long account in those stocks. The feature of tire trading was activity in the low-priced specialties. In which the Vander bilts were the most important. Canada Southern early attractedattentlou by Its sharp and sudden me on a limited business, and later in the day Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi cago and St Louis common performed the same feat, and although the purchases could be traced to no source, the effect upon the rest of the list was stimulating, though without much practical effect. There was a disposition to sell the Boston favorites in the early trading because of the great fire in that city, but in New England and Union Pacific there was con siderable stock wanted at going figures, and the selling ceased. In the unlisted department there was consid erable pressure upon Sugar in the early deal ings and a decline of 1 per cent was effected, but the general improvement brought that up too, and it closed with a fractional rise again to-night. Cotton Oil, however, was specially weak for no especial reason, and after a drop ot IV per cent It recovered only K- Wisconsin Central, helped by the report of its earnings and the strengthening of its alli ance witn tne .northern racinc, maae anoiner sharp turn in the upward direction and scored a material improvement for the day. The market closed dull and steady, but gen erally at small fractions above opening figures. The final changes are almost invariably in the alrectlon of higher prices, but only Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, with 1, and Wisconsin Central, with lj&show more than small fractional advances. Cotton Oil is down 1 per cent. Railroad bonds displayed more activity and more features to-day, with a decided firm tone throughout. The sales reached 81,430,000, and Mobile and Ohio 4s contributed $171,000, the Milwaukee. Lake Shore and Western exten sion 53 $168,000, and the Illinois Central 4s, of 1952. $113,000. The first two bonds mentioned with the Wisconsin Central common were the strong features of the day, the last named working back to 67 from 64 in sympathy with the stock. Mobile and Ohio 43 rose 2 to 6L The rollowinir tame snows tne prices of active stocks on the New York Stock fcxenange yester day. Corrected dally for The dispatch by Wuitmet Stephenson, oldest Pltuburg mem bers of New York Stock Xxcnange. o7 irourth ave nue: Clos ing Hid. 28H 33 SO px u 122X 26 105 6SH 113). SS W 46 1H 71)4 Sii 44 19)4 13o 150 18 ii to 3 67 a 119 I7K 64 104S! 93 14 9 IVi 106 26 17 70 38 44 19 21 61 'A 73 ft 34 38 16 36 192 11 76 112 16)4 83 SO 20 65 16 31 83 68 66 20 43 Open- High ID 7. est. Am. CottonOll Trust.. 30f 30jj Am. Cotton Oil 35 S5 AtcnM lopjjfc b.F S0 si Canadian Pacific 77M 77 Canada southern 14 55 Central of New Jeraey.l2U4 172! Chesapeake A Ohio.... 16)4 ?&H C.. Cur. A Ouli.cy.....luaH 106 C. mi. a. at. Paul.... 6SH CSK U, iin.aat. p.. pr v., KockL AP &5K 96K U, St. L. & Pitts IS 16 C, St. L. A Pitts, pf.. W4 47 C A North western lWi 110 C, C O. A 1 70 72 C. C. C. A I., pf S3 S3 Col. Coal A iron 4474 mi Col. A Booting Vat .. 20 !0H Dei.. L. A W 138 1!6H Del. A Hudson ISO ISO Denver &Klo Denver A KloU.. nl Low. est. 29 33 303 77H M ia 105H esg S5K 16 UX 109H 70K 87 44 nsji IN) E. T.. Va. AUa 9S fc.T.. Va. AUa.lst pf. .... 1 1 Va. A Oa. Zd pr. IVi Illinois Central. 119 Lake Grin A Western Lake Erie A West. pr.. SVi Late snore A M. S 104H Louisville A Nashville. t& MlchUan central 94 Mobile Ohio 14 Mo.. Kan. A Texas.... 10!4 Missouri paolflc 72j New York Central N. Y L.JJ. A W 26 N. Y.. a A St. Li N. Y., IX & St. L. pf.'. .... N.Y.. U. ASt.L.2dPf .. . N. YAN. E UH N. Y.. O. A W 19 Norfolk A Western Norfolk Western. pf. .... Nortnern Pacific prer. T2H S!4 2IH 118 64K 104 87 94 l 1014 11H 1MH SSX 26M 44 44 , 19 73J, 7& unioa Mississippi..... Oregon UnnroTement Oregon rranscon 34 MX PacifieMaU 335f S8Jj Peo. Dee. A Evan 17 17 Fhlladel. A Heading-. ZaH KM Pullman Palace Car. ..193 93 Klchmona A W. P. T.. "OH 21 Klchmond A W.P.T.pr St. P.. Minn. A Man.. 113 113 St. I,. A San Fran St. L. A San KTan pr.. 33 2$H bt.L. A San IMS! pr.. SO 90 Texas Paolfle ZOJf 203 Union Pacific Wi 66 Wabasn Wabash preferred SIX 31J( Western Union 84 84 Wheeling A L. . Sugar Trust. V Efl National Lead Trust.. 20 20X Chicago Uas Irnst.... 48 46!4 I S3 Z3H 16 SGJ4 192)4 20 112), 4$ Doaton fltoeka. Atch. ATOP.B.B. .. 31 Boston A Albany.. .216 Boston A Maine. ....210 C B. AQ. 106 dun. san. A Cleve. 24 4 Eastern B. it 137 Flint PereM 2 Flint Fere M. pro. 95 K.CSt.J.AC.B.7s,122 Little K. A Ft. S. 78.100 Mexican Cen. com.. 17 Mex.C.lstmtg. ids. 69K N. Y. A New En-... 44 OKd.AL.Cham.com. 6 uid ooionr. 175 Butland, com 6 Kutland preferred.. 62 Wls.Ccntrai.com... 34 AUonezMaOo 1 Calumet A Hecla....2S7 Kranuin. 16X Huron 4 Osceola. 27 Pewablc 8 Uulncv 72 Bell Telepnone 20D Boston Land S Water Power 644 Tamarack 158 San Diego 16 Santa te copper lft Philadelphia Stocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney A Steohenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members New York Stock Ex change. Blrt. Pennsylvania Railroad. .. 53 Beading 1814 Buffalo, Pittsburg A-Western 8 LehlKh Valley V-Ti LeMsh Navigation 52 Nortnern Pacific 30 Nortnern Pacific preierrea 73 Asked. 63 18 5-16 8 53 52 31 !3J BUSINESS NOTES. It is probable that 6lectric cars will be started on the Pleasant Valley road to-day. The Atlantic Mining Company has declared a dividend of $1 60 per share, payable Febru ary L 1THK New York Tribune announces the com- Pkciflc. or the first two weeks in January the visi ble snpply of copper is said to have decreased 1,700 tons. :al estate agent said yesterday that it to him a3 if all desirable tenements, par- krlys small ones, would be picked up be- ovlng day. iter at Sargent, Neb., tested the act of producing corn last year. After hiring all the necessary labor done, be esti mated toat his corn cost him 12c per bushel, delivered in his cribs. The total mileage of new railway track laid during II was 5,300 miles in the United States, 827 miles ii Canada, and 434 miles InftewMex- ico. This a smaller amount of new road n built in any one year since 1885, than has bete A Boston correspondent says: "The boom is fairly on iu the copper stocks. The trans actions for tneweek are the largest recorded for 12 months and there is every indication of an active business and higher prices in the nearfbture." The smallest day's business done on the Stock Exchange lat year was 54,645 shares on December 24 and $3X2,000 in bonds on July 19. The biggest da)y in stocks was May 24, with total sales or4i7,i72, and in bonds January 28, in which $3,783,001!! were traded in. Whitney & sItephenson received the following from New York: "The talk uptown last nieht was fairly conservative. No one ap peared to look for aW big movement for the time being, but the neneral impression was that the bears were weakening and that unless they attacked Some particularly vulnerable stock in the market they would be Inclined to rest on their oars for tne time and await the coming of some favorable event which would enable them to cover some oi their stocks at a profit." IN ONSET BAY. Dr. Frazler, the Mesmerist, and George A. Barnard Are I.lTin There. The little colony of Onset Bay, Mass., whose residents are made up principally of spiritualists, mesmerists andjpeople of like ilk, is quite worked tip on the permanent settlement in their midst of a trio, two of whom were former well-known citizens of Allegheny. The central figure around whose peculiar methods much interest cen ters is a "Dr." James Frazier, a spiritualist, who resided for about a yi.ear in Allegheny, the guest of George A.) Barnard,, former foreman of Oliver Bros.' 'Vyoods' Kun mill. During the doctor's stay .at Mr. Barnard's home he so wound himself around the hearts or the family that 6n taking his de parture Mrs. Barnard concluded to accom pany him, In this having the full consent of her husband. The disappearance of the couple created considerable I comment at the time, but with the continued indifference of Mr. Barnard, which was sol plainly shown when the subject was discussed, the general interest in the matter finally Subsided. Eenewed interest has befen awakehed, however, by the discovery (just made that the aforesaid three are now living at Onset Bay, the "doctor" practicinp his "profes sion," assisted by Mr. Barnard, and their handsome cottage home presided over by Mrs. Barnard. She is a remarkably hand some and attractive womanof perhaps 30. She was formerly a Miss JJavenport, and was oricinallr ironi Massachusetts. Mr. Barnard is 30 years her senior. Freezing Knocks TUrm Ont. Though the freeze has ms de the roads in the oil fields worse than b :fore, it will, if continued a week, make the n good. Haul ing has lately been so expensive that work has been practically given c ver for a month or two past where 'a well wus any consider able distance ironi a railroadl MAEKETS BY T7IEE. Not Enongh Lire In the Wheat Fit to 8ns- tnln Prices Corn and Oats Tame No Pressure to Sell Pork. Chicago A dull feeling was developed in wheat to-day, and while the opening was firmer, there was not sufficient life to the market to sustain prices, and a gradual eas ing up in values followed. Yesterday there was plenty of bnll news, and the market, aside from showing some strength, failed to respond in the way of better prices. To-day there was a dearth of news and operators looked for the export buyers to take mare definite shape in clear ances. Shorts covered rather freely in the day, and opening sales were at Uc advance, but a prominent local operator was reported as sell ing freely, and some selling was also reported on account of New York parties. The market became weaker, prices eased off gradually Kc, then held steady; but shortly before the close broke off c more and closed about c lower than yesterday. Corn ruled dull, trading being smaller than at anytime for weeks past, and confined al most exclusively to May. There was nothing new developed of interest to operators, aDout the only feature being the selling of May by a prominent local trader, who sold perhaps 2,000.000 bushels at 31c. There was no chance in oats from the quiet ness which has prevailed for several days. The receipts were again rednced until they have be come qnite small. Offerings of pork were light and the demand was limited. Shorts purchased a few lots in a qniet way, and there was no particularpressnre to sell. Prices were without material change. Demand on shipping account was light, and cash lots were quotable at $9 50. Very little interest was manifested in the market for lard. Offerings were moderate, and the demand was comparatively light. Prices exhibited very little change. A fairly active trade was reported for ribs, and the feeling was steadier. Inquiry was chiefly for May. Prices a little more favorable to sellers. The leading futures ranged as follows: WHEAT No. 2, January, 77K77K76 7Bc; February. T77777K77Kc; May, 8lfl81818L CORN-No. 2, January. 28J128Q28 2S4c; February. 29K29f4284J9Kci Mm. 3lk813131c. . ' Oats No. 2, January, 20c: February, 20Jc: May. 2222J2222c Mess Fork, per bbL January. Sv 259 600 9 259 45; February. $9 509 52Kffi9 50&9 52; May. $9 909 909 8769 90. LABI), per 100 fta. January'. $5 82K5 850 5 fc-iKffio 82K: February. $5 82K5 So; May, $ 07KQ6 07&6 056 07i. Shobt Bibs, per 100 Bs. January, $4 70 i 70; February, $4 67K04 704 674 70; May, $4 924 924 904 92. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 7676Xc: No. 3 spring wheat. 6472c; No. 2 red, 7676Jlc. No.2corn.28c.No.2oats,2020t4:c. No.2rye.44Kc. No.2bariey,6557c. NclfUx seea. $1 35. Prime timothy seed. $1 20. Mesa pork, per bbL $9 50. Lard, per 100 lbs, $5 82. Short ribs sides (loose), $4 650175. Dry salted shonlders (boxed), $4 124 25; short clear sides (boxed), $4 9505 00. Sugars, un changed. Receipts Flour. 11,000 barrels: wheat, 25,000 bushels: com. 204.000 bushels; oats, 117,000 bushels; rye. 11,000 bushels: barley, 49.000 bushels. Shipments Flour, 17,000 barrels; wheat, 13,000 bushels: corn, 270,000 buhels; oats. 110.UUU ousneis; rye, mi nusneis; oariey. 37,000 bushels. On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was qniet; creamery, 17026c; dairy, 14020c Eggs. 1414c New Yobk Flour moderately active and unchanged. Wheat Spot dnll and nominally lower; options qniet and 0c down, closing weak. Bye strong; Wentern, 5760c; Canada, 57060c. Barley steady; Western. 45060c. Bar ley malt quiet. CornSpot steady and qniet; options fairly active and weaker. Oats Spot fairly active: white easier; options qniet and firmer. Coffee Options opened steady and 6 010 points up; sales, 21.750 bags, including: Januarv, 15 90i15.95c: Febru ary.. 15.90c; March, 159016.00c; May, 15.93016.00c; October, 16.00c; spot Rio steady and in fair demand; fair cargoes, 19c; No. 7, 17Kc Sugar Raw firm 'and in fair demand; sales centrifugals. 96 test, 3c: refined fairly active and firm. Molasses New Orleans qniet. Rice in fair demand and steady. Cottonseed oil quiet Tallow steady. Rosin quiet. Tur- Jientine dull and lower at 43043Kc. Kggs in air demand and firm; Western, 16016c; re ceipts, 4,800 packages. Pork quiet and firm: old mes, $9 75010 25; new do. $10 5O01L Cut meats quiet; middles dull. Lard quiet and steadv; sales 220 tierces western steam at $6 22 6 25, closing at $6 22: options, sales 5 00U tierces February at $6 206 21, closing at $6 21 bid; March. JJ 31, closing at SO 29; April. $639; May, $6 4106 42, closing at $6 40 bid. Butter qniet and weak; Elgin. 18c: western dairy, 8 16c; )o creamery, 1216c. Cheese dull; western, 810c Philadelphia Flour dnll and unchanged. Wheat steady; fair to good millinc wheat, 780 84c: prime to choice, do, 88092c; ungraded, in grain depot, 86c; do prime, on track, 88c; choice longberry, on track, 92c; No. 2 red, January, 81 082c; February, 8283e;. March, 8384c; AiMl, 84?S8aic Corn firm; No. 4 white, on track, 47c; No. 4 low mixed, in grain depot. 28c; No. 4 mixed, on track. 28030c; Mo. 3 mixed track, 35c; steamer, for local trade, 360 37c; No. 2 mixed, in grain depot, S3c; No. 2 yel low, in grain depot, 3839c: No. 2 mixed, January. 36f6036c; February. 86V037c; M-ircb, 3737c: April. 37JjS8c Oats Carlots dull and weak; No. 3 white, 27027c; No. 2 white, in Twentieth street elevator, 2SJic; do in grain depot. 2S2Sc: futuros dull and c lower; No. 2 white, January, 27 28c; February, 2SK2o March. 282o:; April, 29c. Eggs weak; Pennsylvania firsts, 15c. , St. Louis Flour very quiet, the demand be ing light. Wheat lower: the opening was M6c advance, on better markets elsewhere; the bears hammered late and the close was kc lower than yesterday: No. 2 red, cash, i7-Kc; May, 8080c, closed at 80Jc bid: June, 79K 80fe, closed at 79c: July, 6577Kc, Closed at 7bc asked. Corn higher and strong; No. 2 mixed, cash, 26c; February, 262Sc, closed at 26Vc asked; March, 27c, closed at 27c asked; May,28028c, closed at 28c asked. Oats firmer: No. 2, cash. 21021Jc. bid: May. 21lf21Kc: February, 23Jc bid; June. 21c bid. Rye No. 2, 41c bid. Iiarley in improved demand: Wis consin, 50057c; Minnesota, 50055c Flaxseed saleable at $1 30. Provisions firm. Pork at $9 8710 CO. Minneapolis Local receints of wheat for the day were 202 cars, shipments 32 cars against 227 received and 44 shipped. There was a good demand most of the session for good mining wuear, inougn witn smauer competi tion than yesterday, as there were fewer buy ers. Most of the wheat went to local millers. Some buyers for shipment were in the market, bnt they were less active than on some former days of the week. Elevator buyers were in quirers for wheat, but did not appear to take much. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard, Jan nary 79c; February, 79Jic; May, 82fc: on track. 79c: No. 1 Northern, January. ffaJc: Febru ary. 77c; May, 80c; on track, 770772c; No. 2 Northern. Januarv and February, 74c: May, 77c; on track, 74076c. Milwaukee Flour unchanged. Wheat weak; No. 2 spring, on track, cash, 72073c: May, 75Kc; No. 1 Northern, 82c Corn quiet; No. 3, on track, 27c Oats quiet: No. 2 wblte, on track, 22c Rye steady: No. 1. in store. 4c Barley quiet: No. 2, in store. 42c Pro visions steady. Pork, $9 45. Lard, $5 85. Cheese steady; Cheddars, 99c. Toledo Cloverseed dnll and steady; cash and January, $3 0; March, $3 53. Philadelphia Wool quiet; prices steadv; Ohio, Pennsrliania and West Virginia, XX and above S3035c;X. 31034c; medium, S6 SSc; coarse Su36c; New fork, Michigan. In diana and Western fine or X. ind XX, 29031c: medium, 3637c: co-irse, 35036c; fine washed delaine and XX, 33obc; medium washed combing and delaine, 3941c; coarse washed combine and delaine. S637c; Canada washed combing, 3335c; tub washed, 33041c: medium unwashed combing and delaine, 270 81c; Montana, 16025c; Territorial, 15022c Drjgoods. New Yobk. January 17. Transactions are yet mainly of moderate size and duplicate or ders Indicate a conservative disposition. Cot ton goods show some increase in strength, and especially coarse yarn goods. Therois a good deal of curtailment of production by sickness of mill hands, and cotton continues to advance DEATH Oh A DtKfilCK. An TJnpnrnlleled Accident nt a Washington County OH Well. Two wooden plugs were put into an aban doned well, known as No. 1, bored by the Fisher Oil Company on the Hickman Farm, near Canonsburg. After they had been packed with 'drilling, debris, and water soaked nntil they were supposed to be per manently located, John Moore, a tool dresser, and another man went to the top of the derrick 82 feet high to change the ropes. "While so engaged there was an explosion caused by the collection of gas under the slugs. Theywere blown out. and onastruck Moore and killed him instantly. His body .warpickcd up a shapeless mass ironi tne fj rtv. a..... Tkr i r- .AMnn with slight injuries, though he was tor the time blinded with mud ami sand blown out of the well. miTP QUflERNATORIALCANDIDATES, flrUU tbelr achievements, characteristics, and home life, in to-moeeow's so-vaqe Dis patch. Profusely illustrated. DOMESTIC MARKETS. Wanted-By Produce Commission Men A Healthy Blizzard. BETTEE INQUIRY FOE HEW FRUIT. Members of the Grain Exchange Are Agoniz ing Oyer the EIGHT PLACE TO HOLD WORLD'S PA1E OrPlCE OJ" PlTTSBtTKG DISPATCH, I Fbiday. January 17, B90. ( Country Produce Jobbing; Prices. The situation of markets is practically un changed. There" is a better inquiry for eggs and prices are a shade firmer, owing to frosty weather and the fact that roads are in such a wretched condition in this section that it is next to impossible to get nearby stock to mar ket. Cold storage and pickled eegs are dead stock. It is difficult enough to sell the choice fresh stock. The butter situation is unchanged. Elgin creamery is the same at headquarters this week as last. Country butter is slow, and only the choicest brands are in demand at quo tations. If the present cold snap will show staying qualities, which is very doubtful at this writing, markets will undoubtedly stiff en up In all produce lines. Wanted by tradesmen in general a first-class blizzard. Butter Creamery. Elgin, 2930c; Ohio do, 26927c; fresh dairy packed, 2223c; country rolls. 19020c Beaks Navy hand-picked beans, 82 002 25; medium. SI 752 00. Beeswax 2528c 1 ft for choice; low grade, 1820c Cider Sand refined, 16 507 00; common, ti 001 50; crab cider, S8 003 50 $ barrel; cider vinegar, 1012c ?t gallon. Chestnuts $5 005 60 fy bushel; walnuts, 6070c ft bushel. CHEESE-OBio. lieilHc; New York, UKc; xjimourger, a)iic; domestic esweitzer, ua 13Kc: imported Sweltzer, 23c Eggs 15016c fl dozen for strictly fresh. FBU1TS Apple, fancy, S3 503 00 fl barrel; cranberries, J8 6009 60?) barrel; Malagagrapes, laree barrel, $3 5010 00. Feathers Extra live geese, 5060c;No. L do, 4045c: mixed lots. 305c fl ft. Poultry Live chickens, 60065c. a pair; dressed, 12llc a pound; ducks 75$85c ft pair: geese, SI 251 30 $ pair; live tnrkeys, ll12c $1 ft; dressed turkeys, 1516c fl ft. Seeds Clover, choice, 62 63 to bnshel. Si 20 i 40 p bnshel; clover, large English, 62 fta. Si 35 4 60; clover, Alsike, $3 00; clover, white. S9; timo thy, choice, 45 fts, SI 50: blue crass, extra clean, 14 fts, SI 251 30: blue grass, fancy, 14 fta, SI 30; orchard grass, 14 fts, SI 40; red top' 14 fts. fl 25; millet, 50 fts. SI 00; millet, 6070c V bnshel: Hungarian grass, 50 B, 65c, lawn grass, mix ture of fine grasses, $3 00 fl bushel of 14 fts. Tallow Country, 4Jc; city rendered, 4? 5c Tropical Fruits Lemons, common. S3 00 63 50: fancy, S400500; Florida oranges. S4 00 4 50; bananas, SI 60 firsts, SI 00 good seconds, bnnch; cocoanuts, SI 0004 50 fl hundred; figs, 8K9c fl ft; dates, 5Ko&c f S; new iayer figs, 12K15VCc; new dates, 7c ft ft; pine apples, i 50 ff dozen. Vegetables Potatoes, from store, 5560c; on track, 45050c; cabbages. S3 000700 a hun dred: Dutch cabbage. S13 00 $ hundred: celery, 40c fl dozen; Jersey sweet potatoes, S4 00 a bar rel; turnips, SI 0001 25 a barrel; onions, S3 00 3 50 a barrel. Buckwheat Flour 22c ft pound. Groceries. Green Coffee Fancy Rio, 23021c; choice Rio, 21022c; prime Rio, 20c;low grade Rio, 18019c; old Government Java, 27023c; Mar acaibo. 23K24Kc; Mocha, 2S029Kc; Santos. 2024c; Caracas, 2224c: peaberry, Rio, 23K 24c; La Guayra, 23024c. Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 24c; high grades, 2529c; old Government Java, bulk, 31M33c;Maracaibo, 2723c; Santos, 24 2SKc; peaberry, 2SKc; choice Rio, 25c; prime Rio, 23Xo; good Rio, 22Jc; ordinary, 21c Sfices (whole) Cloves, 19020c; allspice, 10c; cassia, 8c; pepper, 17c; nntmeg, 70080c. Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test, nie; Ohio. 120, 8&c: headlieht, lfi0, S&c: water white, 10Kc; globe, 14014c; elame, 14&c: car nadine, llKc; royalme, 14c; globe red oil, 11 UKc; purity 14c. Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 46047c fl gallon; summer, 40043c Lard oil, 70c Syrups Com syrup, 28030c; choice sugar syrup, 33038c; prime sugar syrnp, 3O0J3c; strictly prime, 33035c; new maple syrup, 90c. N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop, 485Qc; choice, 47c; medium, 38043c; mixed, 4042c Soda Bi-carb in kegs. 301c: bl-carb in s, 5c; bl-carb, assorted packages, 606V:; sal soda in kegs, ljc; do granulated. 2c Candles Star, full weight, 9c; stearine, ft set, Kc; parafflne, 11012c Rice Head, Carolina, 67c; choice, 6Ji0 6c; prime, SW6c; Louisiana, 66c Starch Pearl, 2c; cornstarch, 56c; gloss starch, 407c Fobeiom Fruits Layer raisins, S2 65; Lon don layers. S2 90; California London layers, S2 75; Muscatels. S2 40: California Muscatels. 82 25; Valencia. c; Ondara Valencia, 854 8Kc; sultana, 9kc; currants, 5J40c: Turkey prunes. 45c; French prunes. 69Xc: Salon !ca prunes, in 2-ft package', 8c; cocoanuts. fl 100. S6 00: almonds, Lan., fl ft, JOc: do, Ivica,19c; do, shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap., 1415c; Sicily filberts. I2c: Smyrna figs. I213c: new dates. 6 6Kc: Brazil nuts, 10c: pecam, 11015c; citron, fl ft, 19020c; lemon peel, 18c fl ft; orange peel, 17c Dried Fruits Apples sliced, per ft, 6c; apple-, evaporated, 9c: apricots, California, evap orated, 14)016c; peaches, evaporated, pared, 2628c; peaches, California, evaporated, un pared, 19021c; cherries, pitted.l3J14Kc; cher ries, nnpitted. 506c: raspberries, evauorated. 25K02tKe; blackberries. 7K8c; huckleberries, 10012c bUGARS Cubes, 7c; powdered, 7Jc: granu lated. 6c; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A, 6c;solt white, uK63c: yellov choice, bJi 6c: yellow, good. 5Js05jc: yellow, fair, 6i &c; yellow, dark, 6c Pickles Medium, bbla (1,200), So 60; medi um, hall bbls (600), S3 25. Salt-No. 1, ft bbl, 95c; No. 1 ex.ft bbl, $1 05; dairy, ft bbl. Jl 20; coarse crystal, ft bbl, SI 20: Higgins' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, J2 80; Higgins Eureka, 16-14 ft pockets, S3 00. Canned Goods Standard peaches, $2 00 225: 2ds, SI 6. 01 80; extra peaches, S2 4002 W; pie peaches, 95c; finest Am, SI 0001 50; Hid Co. com, 75090c; red cherries, 90cSl; Lima beans, 51 20; Boaked do, fc'Oc: string do. 6065c; mar rowfat peas, SI 1001 15; soaked peas, 7U08Oc: pineapples, SI 301 40; Bahama do, ii 75; d-imson plums, Hoc; Greengages, SI 25; egg plums. S2 00; California pears. S2 50; do green gages, Jl 85; do ege plums, $1 85: extra white cherries, $3 40; raspberries, 95cSl 10; straw berries SI 10; gooseberries, SI 3001 40; toma toes, 85090c; salmon. 1-ft, SI 6501 90, black berries, 65c; succotash, 2-ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green, 2-ft, SI 2501 50; torn beef, 2-ft cans, 52 05; 14-ft cano. S14 (JO; baked beans, $1 45l 50; lobster, 1-ft, 1 751 80; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled, tl 50; sardines, domestic. Vs. S4 250 4 50; sardines, domestic Ks Sd 7507 00; sar dines. Imported is, Sll 50012 50; sardines, im ported, s, SI8 So; sardines, mustard, S3 SO; sardines, spiced, S3 60. Fish -Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, $38 fl bbl.; extra No. I do, mess. $10; extra No. 1 mackerel, shore, S32; extra No. 1 do, mess. $36; No. 2 shore mackerel. S24. Codfish Whole pollock, 4c ft ft; do medium, George's cod, 6c; do large, 7c: boneless bake, in strips, 6c; do George's cod in brocks, 6K67J$c Herring Round shore, $4 50 fl bbl.; plit, S6 50; lake. tl 75 M 100-ft half bbl. White fish, Sfl 00 ft 100 B halt bbl. Lake trout, So 50.fl half bbL Fin nan haddock, 10c ft ft. Iceland halinut, 13c fl ft. Pickerel, bbl., J2 00; V. bbl., Jl 10: Poto mac herring, Jo 00 ft bbl., S2 60 per K bbL Oatmeal $6 00S6 2J ft bbl. Grain, Floor nnd Feed. There wero no sales on call at the Grain Ex change. Cereal markets are quiet all along the line. New shelled corn is weakest of the list, and this Is due more to quality than anything else, weather having been all the season a hindrance. Total receipts as bulletined, 26 cars. By Pittsburg. Ft. Wayne and Chicago, 1 car of flour, 2 ot corn, 2 of oats, 3 of hay, 2 of rye. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis, 1 car of wheat, 4 of corn. 2 of oats, 2 of feed. By Bal timore and Ohio. 1 car of bay, I of floor. By -tsbnrg and Lake Erie, 1 car ol rye, 2 of oats, 2 of flour. At the Grain Exchange, after call, the principal bone of contention was as to the proper place to bold the World's Fair. The Board of Directors, it seems, bad committed the Exchange to Washington as the proper place for the Fatr. Since this committal new light appears to have dawned on the Exchange, and a committee appointed a few days ago of fered resolutions In favor of Chicago, these resolutions were apparently the sentiment of the Exchange, but after some earnest discus sion a motion was carried to let the whole mat ter lie over until next Monday. Chicago evl acntly has the field so far as tne Grain Ex change is concerned, but Washington and New York are not without friends. The President is understood to favor New York, and one of the leading operators said to the reporter: "I have no hesitation in saying that the place for the World's Fair is in the American metropo lis, namely, Now York. Prices below are for carload lots on track. WHEAT-NewNo. 2 red, 85086c; No. S, 820 83c Cobs No. 2 yellow, ear, new, 36037c: high mixed, new, 31033c; No. 2 yellow, shelled, old, S6037c; new, 28030c; old, high mixed, shelled, 353Gc Oats No. 2 white. 27Xt28c; extra. No. 3, 26KZ7c: mixed, 2425c Rye No. 1 Pennsylvania, and Ohio, ft&c; No.l Western, 51854c, . V Barxit Western, 45S65c; Canada, barley, 70075c Flour Jobbing prices Fancy winter and spring patents. S5 0005 60: winter straight, $1 2504 60; clear winter. S4 0004 25; straight XXXX bakers', S3 603 75. Rye flour, 93 00 4 75. Millfeed Middlings, fine white, J15 003 16 CO fl ton; brown middlings, J12 00014 00; winter wheat bran, Sll 50012 00; chop feed, 115 50016 00. Hay Baled timothy. No. L 111 60812 00; No. 2 do, S3 00010 00; loose from wagon, Sll CO 012 00, according td quality: No. 2 prairie hay, J7 0003 00; packing do. S6 6007 CO. Straw Oats J6 7507 00; wheat and ryo straw. S3 0006 25. Provisions. Sugar-cured hams, large. 9c; sugar-cured bams, medium, 9c; sugar-cured hams, small, 10c; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8c; Sugar-cured shoulders, 5c: sugar-cured, boneless shoulders. c; sugar-cured California hams, 6c; sugar-cured dried Deef fla ts,9c; sugar cured dried beef sets. 10c; sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 12c; bacon shouluers, Sc; bacon clear sides, 7c: bacon clear bellies, TKe: dry salt shonlders. 6Jc: dry salt clear side. 7c Mess pork, heavy, Sll 50; mess pork, familv, $12 00. Lard Refined, in tierces. 5c; half barrels. 6c: 60-ft tubs, 6c; 20ft palls, bc; 50- tin cans. 5Jc:3-ft tin palls, 6c; 5ft tin pails, 6c:10-B tin pails. 6c; 5-2 tin pails, 6c Smoked sausage, long, 5c; large, 5c Fresh pork links, 9c Boneless hams, 10Kc Pigs' feet, half-barrels, 14 00; quarter barrel, $2 15. HEAT ON THE HOOF. The Condition of Buslnesn at thsEaat Liberty Stock Yards. Office of Pittsburg Dispatch, I Friday. Jan nary 17, 1890. Cattle Receipts, 1,000 head: shipments, 1,000 head; market nothingdoing; all through consifcnmentsrno cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hogs Receipts. 2,200 head: shipments. 1,800 bead: market firm: Philadelphia, S3 75S 80; Yorkers, S3 8003 85; 5 cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts, 3,000 head: shipments, 1,400 head; market firm at yesterday's prices. Br Telegraph. New York Beeves Receipts. 50 carloads for home trade slaughterers direct; 30 carloads for exportation, and 23 carloads for the market. Prices were about as previously reported for like qualities and the pens were well cleared; poor to fair steers sold S3 404 40 per 100 lbs; bulls at S2 0002 80; no choice or extra stock shown; exports to-dav 200 beeves and 800 quart ers beef. Calves Receipts, 700 head: nearly nominal at S3 7503 25 for grassers and 15 5009 00 for veals. Sheep Receipts. 6,100 bead: firm for both sheep and lambs, with sales of sheep at $4 506 50, and of Iambs at SS 0007 60. Hogs Receipts, 1,600 head: none for sale alive; nom inally steady at S3 7004 10. St. Louts Cattle Receipts. 700 head; shipments. 900 bead: market strong; good to fancy native steers. S4 3004 90: fair to good do. S3 3004 35; stackers and feeders. Jl 90 3 10; range steers, S2 0003 15. Hogs Receipts, 6,6O0head; shipments, 1,600 head: market strong; fair to choice heavy. S3 6003 70: packing grades. S3 6003 65; light, fair to best, 13 450 360. Sheep Receipts, 600 head; shipments, none; market strong; fair to choice, S4 2505 6U; lambs, J5CU064OL Chicago Cattle Receints, 8,000 head; ship ments, 3,000 head: market slow; beeves. S4 80 05 25; steers.S3 004 75; stockers and feeders, 52 1003 15; Texas cattle, SI 7003 3a Hogs Re-. celpts. 30,000 bead; shipments, 7,500 head: mar ket strong: mixed, S3 6003 80; heavy. S3 600 S S7 light S3 6003 85. oh eep Receipts, 7,000 head; shipments, 1,000 head; market strong: natives. S3 6005 70; western corn fed, to 005 65; Texans. S3 o04 25. Kansaa City Cattle Receipts. 6,023 head; shipments. 2300 head; market 510c higher; steers, S3 1004 60; cows, SI 8002 60; stockers and feeders, $2 4003 10. Hogs Receipts, 8,600 head: shipments, none: market 2K05c higher; all grades. S3 62K03 7 bulk, S3 673 70. Sheep Receipts. 2,000 head; shipments,, 4,000 head; market steady; good to choice muttons and lambs. S3 5O0o 40; stockers and feeders, 53 0004 40L Buffalo Cattle dull and unchanged; re ceipts, 140 loads through. 5 sale. Sheep and lambs Receipts, 2 loads through. 16 sale; sheep firm, lambs steady. Hogs steady; 5c higher on Yorkers: receipts, 10 loads through, 40 sale; medium and heavy, S3 40; Yorkers, $3 8503 90; pigs, S3 8503 9a A TALE OF THE SOUTH SEA. Escape of two hundred Maoris from exile. Thrilling account by Edward Wakefield In To-morrow's 20-page Dispatch. tilCK HEADACHE '-Carter's Little Liver nils. SICK HEADACHE.pjjjjjgjjpjjj SICK HKADACHECartex,,IJttI(IIjTepralJ SICK HEADACHE '-Carter's Little Liter Pills. nolS-67-Trssn JAS. D. CALLERY President JOHN W. TAYLOR Cashier CITY SAVINGS BAJtfK, SIXTH AVE. AND SMITHFIELD SZ Capital and surplus. J125,00a Transacts a General Banking Business. jy8-TTS THE UNION TRANSFER AND TRUST CO., 121 and 123 Fourth av , FIDELITY BUILDING. Capital, J250,00a Acts as Transfer Agent and Registrar for Corporations. Correspondence solicited. A. W. MELLON, ' President. WM. A. CARR, Sec'y and Treaa. jall-44-TTS WHOLESALE -:- HOUSE, Embroidery and White Goods Department direct Importation from the best manufac turers of St. Gall, in Swiss and Cambric dg lngs, Flouncings, Skirt Widths and Allavers, Hemstitched Edgings and Flouncings. Buyers will find these goods attractive both in price and novelties of design. Fnll lines of New Laces and White Goods. UPHOLSTERY DE PARTMENT Best makes Window Shades in 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, Toll Du Nords, Chalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck. ers. Imperial Suiting. Heather & Renfrew Dre3s Glaghams, Fine Zephyr Ginghams. Wholesale Exclusively. jal3-r PILES! BYMPTOMS-jr.b nrei hteiH Itaklu udstlaclxKI mortal SIM virig mj flerslealnr. 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