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TALMAGE IN LONDOII.
Brooklyn's Divine Preaches on the
Thilippian Earthquake.
WHAT FAITH DID FOE PRISONERS.
Credentials of the One in Whom Men Are
Asked to Trust.
ASSURANCE TOR TIMES OP UPHEAVAL
rEFXCXAI. TO THI DISPATCH.:
Loxdcht, January 19. The Rev T. De
"Witt Talmage, D.D., of Brooklyn, preached
in this city to-day, taking for his text Acts
xvi., 31: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved.'" He said:
Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome
places even now; but they were worse in the
apostolic times. I imagine, to-day, we are
standing in the Phllippian dungeon. Do
yon not feel the chill? Do you not hear the
groan of those incarcerated ones who for ten
years have not seen the sunlight, and the
deep sigh of women who remember their
father's house, and mourn over their wasted
estates? Listen again. It is the cough of a
consumptive, or the struggle of one in a
nightmare of a great horror. You listen
again, and hear a culprit, his chains rattling
as he rolls over in his dreams, and you say:
"God pity the prisoner." Eat there is another
sound in that prison. It is the song of joy and
gladness. What & place to sing ml The
music comes winding through the corridors of
the prison, and in all the dark wards the whis
por is heard: "What's thatT What's that?"
It is the song of Paul and Silas. The; cannot
sleep. Thev have been whipped, very badly
whipped. The long gashes on their backs are
bleeding yet. They lie flat on the eold ground,
their feet fast in woodon sockets, and of course
they cannot sleep. But they can sing. Jailer,
hat are you doins with these people? Why
have they been put in here? O, they have been
trying to make the world better. Is that all?
That is all. A pit for Joseph. A lion's cave for
Daniel. A blazing furnace for Sbadrach.
Clubs for Johu Wesley. An anathema for
Philip Melancthon. A dungeon for Paul and
Silas.
BELEASED BT XS EARTHQUAKE.
But while we are standing in the gloom of
that Phllippian dungeon, and we hear the
mingling voices of sob, and groan, and blas
phemy, and hallelujah, suddenly an earth
quake! The iron bars of the prison twist, the
pillars crack off, the solid masonry begins to
heave and rock till all the doors swing open,
and the walls fall with a terrific crash.
The jailer, feeling "himself responsible
lor these prisoners, and feeling suicide to be
honorable since Brutus killed bimselt, and
Cato killed himself, and Cassius killed himself
puts his SKord to his own heart, proposing
with one strong, keen thrust to put an end to
his excitement and agitation. But Paul cries
out: -Stop! Stop! Bo thyself no barm. We are
all here." Then I see the jailer running
through the dust and amid the ruin of that
prison, and I see him throwing himself down
at the feet of these prisoners, crying out:
"What shall I do? What shall I dor Bid
Paul answer: "Get out of this place before
there is another earthquake:put handcuffs and
hopples on these other prisoners, lest they get
aar" No word of that kind. Compact,
thrilling, tremendous answer; answer memor
able all through earth and heaven: "Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shaltbe
saved."
WelL we have all read of the earthquake in
Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo and in Caraccas;
but we live in a latitude where in all our
memory there has not been one severe volcanic
disturbance. And yet we have seen 50 earth
quakes. Here is a man who has been building
up a large fortune. II is bid on the money mar
ket was felt in all the cities.
WHERE HE HAKES HIS MISTAKE.
He thinks he has got beyond all annoying
rivalries in trade, and he says to himself:
"Now I am free and safe from all possible per
turbation." But a national panic strikes the
foundations of the commercial vorld, and
crash ! goes all that magnificent business es
tablishment He is a man who has built up a
very beautiful home. His daughters hare just
come borne from the seminary with diplomas
of graduation. His sons have started in life,
honest, temperate and pure. When the even
lug lights are struck, there is a happy and an
unbroken family circle.
But there has been an accident down at the
beach. The roung man ventured too far out
in the surf. The telegraph burled the terror
up to the city. An earthquake struck under
the foundations of that beautiTul home. The
piano closed: the curtains dropped; the laugh
ter hushed. Crash! go all those domestic
hopes, and prospects, and expectations. So,
my friends, we have all felt the shaking down
of some great trouble, and there was a time
when we were as much excited as this man of
the text, and we cried out as he did: "What
shall I do? What shall I dor The same reply
that the apostle made to him is appropriate to
us: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
thou Shalt be saved." There are some docu
ments of so little importance that you do not
care to put any more tnan yonr last name under
them, or even your initials; but there are some
documents of so great importance that you
write out your full name. So the Savior in
some parts of the Bible is called "Lord." and
in other parts of the Bible he is called "Jesus,"
and in other parts of the Bible he is called
"Christ;" but that there might be no mistake
about this passage, all three names come In
together "the Lord Jesus Christ."
HIS LIFE HIS CREDENTIALS.
Now, who is this being you want me to trust
in and believe in? Men sometimes come to me
with credentials and certificates of good char
acter; bat Icannot trust them. There is some
dishonesty in their looks that make me know
I shall be cheated if I confide in them. You
cannot put your heart's confidence in a man'
until yon know what stnff he is made of, and
am I unreasonable this morning when I stoi to
ask you who this is that you want me to trust
in? "No man would think of venturing his life
on a vessel going out to sea that had never
been inspected. No, you must have the cer
tificate hunc amidships, telling how many tons
it carries, and how long it was built, ana who
built it, and all about it. And you cannot ex
pect me to risk the carco of my immortal inter
ests on board any craft till you toll me what it
is made of, and where it was made, aDd what it
is. When, then, I ask you who this is you want
me to trust in. von tell me he was a very at
tractive person. You tell me that the con
temporary writers describe him. and they give
the color of his eyes, and the color of his hair,
and they describe his whole appearance as
being resplendent. Christ did not tell the
children to come to Him. "Suffer little chil
dren to come unto me," was not spoken to the
children; it was spoken to the Pharisees. The
children had come without any invitation. No
sooner did Jesus appear than the little ones
pitched from their mothers' arms, an avalanche
of beauty and love, into his lap. "Suffer little
children to come unto me. That was addressed
to the Pharisees; not to the children. Christ
did not ask John to put his head down on His
bosom; John could not help but put his head
there. Such eyes, such cheeks, such a chin,
such bair, such physical condition and appear
ancewhy, it must have been completely capti
vating and winsome.
A LOOK AT HIM MEANT LOVE.
1 suppose a look at him was just to love Him
O! how attractive bis manner. Why, when
they saw Christ coming along the street they
ran into their bouses, and tsey wrapped up
their invalids as quick as they could, and
brought them out that He might look at them.
O! there is something so pleasant, so inviting,
so cheering in everything He did, in His very
look. When these sick ones were brought out
did He say: "Takeaway these sores; do not
trouble me with these leprosies?"' No, no;
there was a kind! look, theie was a gentle
word, there was a healing touch. They could
not keep away from Him.
In addition to this softness of character,
there was a fiery momentum. How the old
hypocrites trembled before Him. How the
kings of the earth turned pale. Here is a
plain man with a few sailors at His back, com
ing off the Seaxif Galilee, eoing up to the pal
ace of the Caesars, making that palace quake
to the foundations, and uttering a word of
mercy and kindness which throbs through all
the earth, and through all the heavens, and
through all the ages. O! He was a loving
Christ. But it was not effeminacy, or insipid
ity of character; it was acompanied with maj
esty, infinite and omnipotent. Lest the world
should not realize his earnestness, this Christ
mounts the cross. You say: "If Christ has to
die. why not let Him take some deadly potion
and lie on a cnuch in some briehtand beauti
ful home? If He must die, let Him expire amid
all kindly attentions." No, the world must
hear the hammers on the beads of the spikes.
The world must listen to the death rattle of
the sufferer. The world must feel His warm
blood dropping on each check, while it looks
up into the face of His anguish.
SAD ITECESSITIES OP THE CASK
And so the cross must be lifted, and the hole
is dug on the top of Calvary. It must be dug
three feet deep, and then the cross is laid on
tbe ground, and the sufferer is stretched upon
it, and the nails are pounded through every
nerve, and muscle, and bone, through the right
hand, throuch tho left band: and then they
shake his right hand to see if it is fast, and
they shake his left foot to see if it is fast, and
then they heave up the wood, half a dozen
shoulders under the weight, and they put the
end of the cross to the mouth of the hole, and
theyplunro it in, all the weight of bis body
coming down for the first time on the spikes;
and while some hold the cross upright, others
throw in the dirt and trample it down, and
trample it hard. Ob, plant that tree well and
thoroughly, for it is to bear fruit such as no
other tree ever bore. Why did Christ endure
it? He could have taken those rocks, and
with them crushed his cruciflers. He
could have reached np and grasped
the sword of tbe omnipotent God and with one
clean cut have tumbled tbem into perdition.
But no, he was to die. He must die. His life
for ray lite. His life for your life. In one of
the Kuropean cities a young man died on the
scaffold for the crime of murder. Some tlmo
after, the mother of this young man was dying,
and the priest came in. and she made a con
fession to the priest that she was the murderer,
and not her son: in a moment of anger she had
struck her husband a blow that slew him. The
son came suddenly into tbe room, and was
washing away the wounds and trying to re
suscitate his father, when some one looked
through the window and saw him, and sup-
Sosed him to be the criminal. That young man
led tor his own mother. You say: "It was
wonderful that be never exposed her." But I
tell you of a grander thing. Christ, the Son of
God,died not for His motbor.not for His father,
but for His sworn enemies. O, such a Christ as
that so loving, so self sacrificing can you not
trust Him?
A PLAIN HUMAN TKUST.
I think there are many under tbe spirit of
God who are saying: "I will trust Him if yon
will only tell me how?' and the great question
asked by thousands of this assemblage Is:
"How ? how ?" And while I answeryour ques
tion I look up and utter the prayer which Row
land Hill so often uttered in the midst of his
sermons: "Master, help!" How are you to
trnst in Christ ? Just as you trust anyone.
You trust your partner in business with im
portant things. If a commercial house give
you a note payable three months hence, you
expect the payment of that note at tbe end of
three months. You have perfect confidence in
tbeirwordandin their ability. You go borne
to-day. You expect there will be food on the
table! You have confidence in that. Now, I
ask yon to have the same confidence in the
Lord Jesus Christ. He says: "you believe; I
tase away your sins?' and they are all taken
away. "What!" you say, "before I pray any
more? Before I read my Bible any more?
Before I cry over my sins any more ?" Yes,
this moment. Believe with all your
heart and you are saved. Why, Christ is only
waiting to get irom you wnat you give to
scores of people every day. What is that? Con
fidence. If these people whom you trust day
by day are more worthy than Christ, if they
are more faithful than Christ, if they have
done more than Christ ever did. then give
them the preference; but if you really think
that Christ is as trustworthy as they are, then
deal with Him as fairly. "Oh," savs some one
in a light way, "I believe that Christ was born
in Bethlehem, and I believe that Ho died on the
cross." Do you believe it with your bead or
your neanr l win illustrate tne amerence.
You are in your own house. In tbe morning
you open a newspaper, and you read how Cap
tain Braveheart on the sea risked his life for
the salvation of his passengers. You say:
"What a grand fellow he must have been! His
family deserves very well of the coun
try." You fold the newspaper and sit
down at the table, and perhaps do not think
of that incident again. That is historical faith.
But now you are on tbe sea, and it is night, and
you are asleep, and are awakened by the shriek
of "Fire!" You rubh out on the deck. You
hear, amid tbe wringing of the hands and the
fainting, the cries: "No hopel We are lost
We are lost!" Tbe sail puts out its wings of
fire, the ropes make a burning ladder in the
night heavens, the spirit of wreck hisses in
tbe waves, and on the hurricane deck snakes
out its banner of smoke and darkness. "Down
with the lifeboats!" cries the Captain. "Down
with the life boats!" People rush into them.
The boats are about full. Boom only for one
more man. You are standing on the deck be
side the Captain. Who shall it betYou or tbe
Captain? The Captain says: You." You
jnmp, and are saved. He stands there, and
dies. Now, you believe Captain Braveheart
sacrificed himself for his passengers, but you
believe it with love, with tears, with hot and
long continued exclamations, with grief at his
loss and with joy at your deliverance. That is
saving faith. In other words, what you believe
with all the heart, and believe in regard to
yourself. On this binge turns my sermon; yea,
the salavation of your immortal souL
LIKE FAITH IN A BRIDGE.
You often go across a bridge you know noth
ing about. You do not not know ho bnilt the
bridge, you do not know what material it is
made of; but you come to it. and walk over it,
and ask no questions. And here is an arched
bridge blasted from the ".Rock of Ago;," And
built by the architect of the whole universe,
spanning the dark gulf between sin and right
cousness, and all God ask3 you is to walk across
it; and you start, and you come to it, and you
stop, and you go a little way on and you stop,
and yon fall back and you experiment. You
say: "How do I know that nridge will bold
me!" instead of marching on with firm step,
asking .no questions, but feeling that the
strength of the eternal God is under you. O,
was there ever a prize offered so cheap as par
don and heaven are offered to you? For how
much? A million dollars? It is certainly worth
more than that. But cheaper than that you can
have it. Ten thousand dollars? Less than that.
Five thousand dollars? Less than that. Ono
dollar? Less than that. One farthing? Less
than that. "Without money and without
Srice." No money to pay. No journey to take,
o penance to suffer. Only just one decisive
action of the souL "Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, aud thou Shalt be saved." Shall I try
to tell you what it is to be saved? I cannot tell
you. No man, no angel can tell you. But I
can hint at it. For my text brings ine up to
this point: "Thou shalt be saved." It means a
happy life here, and a peaceful death and a
blissful eternity. It is a grand thing to go to
sleep at night and to get up in the morning,
and to do business all day feeling that all is
right between my heart and God.
NO PERMANENT HAEM PERMITTED.
No accident, no sickness, no persecution, no
peril, no sword can do me any permanent dam
age. I am a forgiven child of God, and He is
bound to see me through. He has sworn he
will see me through. The mountains may de
part, tbe earth may burn, the light of the stars
may be blown out by the blast of the judg
ment hurricane; but life and death, things pres
ent and things to come, are mice. Yea. farther
than that it means a peaceful death.
Mrs. Hemans,Mrs. Sigouraey, Dr. Young and
almost all the poets have said handsome things
about death. There is nothing beautiful about
it When we stand by the white and rigid fea
tures of those whom we love, and they give no
answering pressure of the hand, and no return
ing kiss of the lip, we do not want anybody
poetizing around about us. Death is loathsome
ness, and midnight, and the wringing of tbe
heart until the tendrils snap and curl in the
torture unless Christ be with us. I confess to
you to an infinite fear, a consuming horror, of
death unless Christ shall be with me. I would
rather go down into a cave of wild beasts or a
jungle of reptiles than into tbe grave, unless
Christ goes with me. Will you tell me that I
am to be carried out from my bright home, and
put away in the darkness? I cannot bear dark
ness. At the first coming of the even
ing I must have tbe gas lit, and
the fnrther on in life I get, the
morel like to have my friends around about
me. And am I to bo put off for thousands of
rears in a dark place, with no one to speak to?
When the holidays come, and the gif ts-are dis
tributed, shall I add no joy to the "Merry
Christmas" or "Happy New Year?" Ah, do
not point down to tbe hole In the ground, tbe
grave, and call it a beautifnl place; nnless
there be some supernatural illumination, I
sb udder back from it My whole nature re
volts at it
A TEANSFORMATION.
But now this glorious lamp is lifted above tbe
grave, and all the darkness is gone, and the
way is clear. I look into it now without
a single shudder. Now my anxiety is
not about death; my anxiety is that I
may live aright for I know that if
my life is consistent when I come to the last
hour, and this voico is silent, and these eyes are
closed, and these hands with which I beg for
your eternal salvation to-.lay are folded over
the still heart, that then I shall only begin to
live. What power is there in anything to chill
me in tho last hour if Christ wraps around me
tbe skirt of His own garment? What darkness
can fall upon my eyelids then, amid the
heavenly davbrcak? O death, I will not fear
tbeetben! Back to thy cavern of darkness,
thou robber ot all tbe earth. Fly, thou de
spoiler of families. With this battle ax I hew
thee in twain from helmet to sandal, the voice
of Christ sounding all over tbe earth and
through the heavens: "0 death, I will be thy
plague. mO grave, I will be thy destruction."
To he laved is to wake up in the presence of
Christ You know when Jesus was upon earth
how happy He made every bouse He went into,
and when He brings us up to His bouse how
great our glee. His voice has more music in it
than is to be heard in all the oratorios of eter
nity. Talk not aoout banks dashed with efflor
escence. Jesus is the chief bloom of heaven.
We shall see the very face that beamed sympa
thy in Bethany, and take the very hand that
dropped its blood from the short beam of the
cross. O. I want to stand in eternity with Him.
Toward that harbor I stpvr Ton-am . n-noi
I run. I shall be satisfied hen I awake in His
likeness. O, broken-hearted men and women,
hOW 8Weet it Will be in that f-nnri land tn nnnr
all yonr hardships and bereavements and losses
into tne loving ear or Christ, and then have
Him explain
WHY IT WAS BEST
for yon to be sick, and why it was best for you
to be widowed, and why it was best for you to
be persecuted, and why It was best for you to
be tried, and have Him point to an elevation
proportionate to your disquietude here, saying'
"You suffered with me on earth, come up now
and be glorified with me in heaven."
Some one went into a bouse where there bad
been a good deal of trouble and said to the
woman there: "You seem to be lonely." "Yes,"
she said, "lam lonely." "How many in the
family?" "Only myself." "Have you had any
children?" "I had seven children." "Where
are they?" "Gone." "All goner' "All."
"All dead?" "All." Then she breathed a long
sigh into the loneliness, and said: "Oh, sir, I
have been a good mother to the grave." And
so there are hearts here that are utterly broken
down by the bereavements of life. I point you
to-day to the eternal balm of heaven. Are there
any here that I am missing this morning? O,
you poor waiting maid) yonr heart's sor
row poured in no human ear, lonely and sad!
how glad you will be when Christ shall disband
all your sorrows and crown vou queen unto
God and the Lamb toreverl O, aged men and
women, fed by His love and warmed by His
grace for three score years and tenl will not
your decrepitude change for the leap of a hart
when you come to look f ac6 to face upon Him
whom, having not seen, you love? O. that will
be tbe Good Shepherd, not out in the night
and watching to keep off the wolves, but with
tbe lambs reclining on the sun-lit bill. That
will be tbe Captain of our salvation, not amid
the roar, and crash, and boom ot battle, but
amid His disbanded troops keeping victorious
festivity. That will be tbe Bridegroom of the
Church coming from afar, the bride leaning
npon His arm while He looks down into her
face and says: "Behold, thou art fair, my lovel
Behold, thou art fair."
AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.
Hlsa Brown, or the Female College, Run
Over br an Express Wagon.
Miss Millie Brown, of Deny, a student of
the Pittsburg Female College, met with a
very painful accident Saturday afternoon,
the result of careless driving. The young
lady was standing on Liberty street, near
the corner of Sixth street, awaiting an ap
proaching car, when she was struck and
knocked down by an express wagon, both
wheels passing over her right foot, crushing
it terribly. In a moment she was rescued
from her perilous position, and enrried to
the drugstore of E. E. Byers, nearby.
Drs. Shaw and Phillips were immediately
summoned and were soon on hand. Exam
ination revealed the fact that the wheels
had cut the entire bottom of the foot nearly
off, almost severing three large arteries
and fracturing one of tbe smaller bones.
The work of taking up these arteries in the
terribly lacerated condition of the foot in
volved great surgical skill and care. The
flow of blood prevented their being im
mediately located and adjusted, and probes
had to be used very freely in accomplishing
it For more than two hours the fair suf
ferer unflinchingly bore the excruciating
agony. No narcotics or stimulants were ad
ministered, and the nerve and patience of
the fair sufferer greatly assisted the surgeons
in their work.
A BOSTON MANUFACTURING FIRM
Can Save S100,000 a Tear by Locntln(r
In ThU Vicinity.
tSrECUX. TELKOKAJt TO THX DISPATCH.
Gbeknsbueo, Pa., January 19. An
other large manufacturing establishment
will in all probability be located here.
"William P. Tyler, representing a Boston
firm, is heie looking after a site upon which
to build a mammoth tnbe works. He says
that bv locating near Pittsburg they can
save $100,000 per year in fuel and $50,000 in
freight.
At present the firm employs about 250
men, and their specialty is steel boiler tubes.
A committee waited on Mr. Tyler this
afternoon and made him an offer to locate
here. He will consider the offer a few days
and then give an answer.
STATION AGENTS.
The Officers) ot the Local Lodge Installed
by the Grand Dlvivlon PreaMent.
The fourth annual meeting of the Bailway
Station Agents was held Saturday evening at
the Hotel Anderson. The officers for the new
year were installed by President Albert
Cline. Traveling Auditor of the Pittsburg
and "Western. The new officers are: Presi
dent, P. Colligan; First Vice President, C,
V. Wood; Second Vice President, James
Aiken; Third Vice Presideut, "W. C. Had
ley; Fourth Vice President, F. G. Crusan;
Secretary, M. N. McGeary; Treasurer, A.
31. North. The annual grand division
meeting will be held at Cleveland on May
13. The Association of Station Agents is
coming rapidlv to the front among the rail
way organizations.
S0H0 NIGHT SCHOOL CLOSED.
An Entertainment Given by the Students
Teachers Thanked.
The Soho night school closed on January
17 until next November. A pleasant even
ing was spent by the pnpils and friends.
There was a song by Evan Thomas, recita
tions by John Larkin and Hartley Brown,
and an essay by Joseph Davis. The first
honors in writing were awarded to Johu
Larkin. tbe second to Thomas Grogan.
Thomas Ford secured 100 percentage for at
tendance. Thanks were voted to the effi
cient teachers, Misses Louden, Hopkins and
Hume.
A BATCH OF CASES.
Magistrate Grlpp Disposes of 36 Offenders
at the Central.
Magistrate Gripp had 56 cases to dispose
of at tbe Central station hearing yesterday
morning. Most of the prisoners arrested in
the Carpenter alley raid on Saturday night
left deposits of $5. and did not appear yes
terday morning. Those who were less for
tunate were fined $3 and costs. Harry Mor
ton, a supposed leader of the crowd, was
sent to the workhouse for 30 days. Jack
Beed, an old offender, was sent up for 90
days.
A WATCH FOR A GIFT.
Citizens' Employes Remember Their A"
slstant Superintendent.
Assistant Superintendent "W. V. Smith,
of the Citizens' line has become the Super
intendent of the Wylie avenue road. Satur
day the Citizens' employes presented him
with a fine gold watch at the East Liberty
power house as a token of their regard. Mr.
Smith accepted the gift with thanks.
A number of speeches were made, and a
general good time.was indulged in.
Officers Installed.
The regular meeting of the "Walhalla
Manee was held yesterday afternoon in the
lodgeroom, corner of Fourth avenue and
"Wood street Otto Schmit was initiated as
a member, and the names of M. Mnller and
Albert Wiegle were proposed for member
ship. District Deputy George M. Schafer
was present and installed the following offi
cers: August Loder, President; Conrad
Thoma, Vice Presideut; Conrad Dollhopf,
Secretary, and"W"illiam Fehringer, Treas
urer. An adjournment was made until
February 2.
An Ocean Cable Broken.
New York, January 19. The Punta
Passa and Key West cable is broken, cut
ting off communication between the "West
Indies and South America by way of Key
Vest
Fob a disordered liver try Beecham'g Pills.
Pears' Soap the purest and best ever made
Abjiotje & Co., ot this city, report the
following sales of dressed beef for the week
ending January 18: 154 carcasses, average
weight 669 pounds; average price 5c.
When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla,
When she bad Children,she gave them Castorla
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Produce Men Carrying Light Stocks
-Tone of Trade Better.
MORE ACTIVE MOVEMENT OP EGGS.
Light Cereal Receipts for the Week Helpful
to Markets.
PROBABLE ADVANCE IN SDGAE SOON
OFFICE OF PlTTSBUBO DISPATCH, t
Saturday, January 18, 1890. f
Country Produce Jobbing Prices.
There is a slightly improved tone to cheese
since our last report, and prices will probably
advance within a short time. The time is at
hand for an upward movement, but weather
has upset all calculations this season. Eggs
are moving more freely, and maikets are a
shade firmer without any advance. The condi
tion of country roads prevents produce of all
kinds from coming to market, and commission
men are, as a result, carrying much lighter
stocks than for some weeks past. Choice ap
ples are scarce and firmer. Poultry is quiet. A
consignment of a carload of dressed hogs to W.
H. McGowan, a Liberty street commission
merchant, is one of the features of this week's
trade.
Butter Creamery, Elgin, 2930c; Ohio do,
2627c; fresh dairy packed, 2223c; country
rolls, 19G20c
Beaks Navy hand-picked beans, S2 002 25;
medium. 1 752 00.
Beeswax 252So 9 a for choice: loir grade,
1820c
Cider Sand refined, $6 607 00; common,
H 004 50: crab cider, S3 008 50 V barrel;
cider vinegar, 1012o f) gallon.
nitarnuTB jo uui&o ou ousnei; waiuuta,
6070c $ bushel.
Cheese Ohio. llQllKc; New York, HKc;
Limburger, 9llc; domestic Sweitzer, lf
13Kc: imported Sweitzer, 23c.
EoQ8 1516c 9 dozen for strictly fresh.
Pbuits Apples, fancy, 82 03 00 p barrel;
cranberries, $8 509 50$ barrel; Malaga grapes,
lanre barrel, S3 5010 00.
Feathers Extra livo geese, 6060c;No. 1,
do, 4045c: mixed lots. 3035c V &-
Poultry Live chickens, 5065c a pair;
dressed, 1214c a pound; ducks T5S5c $4 pair:
geese, SI 251 SO $ pair: live turkeys, ll12c $)
lb; dressed turkeys, 1516c ffl ft.
Seeds Clover, choice, 62 ms to bushel, Sf 20
w p uusnei, ciover, large .Cjngii5D,02 ids. oioq
4 60; clover, Alsike, $8 00; clover, white. 59; timo
thy, choice, 45 lbs, $1 50; blue crass, extra clean,
14 D3, SI 251 SO: blue grass, fancy, 14 Its, SI 30;
orchard grass, 14 fis, SI 40; red top 14 fis. SI 25;
millet, 50 fis. SI 00; millet, 6070c $1 bushel:
Hungarian grass, 50 Ita, 65c, lawn grass, mix
ture of fine grasses, S3 00 bushel of 14 fis.
Tallow Country, 4Jc; city rendered, 4J
5c
Tropical Fruits Lemons, common, S3 00
3 50: fancy, H 005 00; Florida oranges. 54 00
&i 50; bananas, 81 50 firsts. SI 00 good seconds,
W bunch: cocoanuts, 54 00424 SO 33 hundred; flgs,
8K9c ft; dates, 56c f! fi; new layer
tigs, 12Kl6Kc; new dates, -7Ko V fi: P'ne
apples, 8 50 dozen.
vegetables Potatoes, from store, 55G0c;
on track, 4550c; cabbaees. S5 007 00 a hun
dred: Dutch cabbage. S13 00 hundred: celery,
40c dozen; Jersey sweet potatoes, 84 00 a bar
rel: turnips, SI 0081 25 a barrel; onions, S3 O0
3 50 a barrel.
Buckwheat Flour 2JJc pound.
Groceries.
A rise in sugar will probably be here within
a day or two. Coffee is steady. Other groceries
are unchanged.
Green Coffee Fancy Bio, 2324e; choice
Rio, 2122c; prime Rio, 20c; low gTdde Rio,
18)f 19c; old Government Java. 2728c: Mar
acaibo, 23X24c; Mocha, 2829Kc; Santos,
2024c; Caracas, 2224c: peaberry, Rio, 23
24c; La Guayra, 23&Zic
Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 24c;
high grades, 2529c; old Government Java,
bulk, 31K33c; Maracalbo, 2728c; Santos, 24)
2Sc; peaberry, 28Xc; choice Rio, 25c; prime
Rio, 23Xc; good Rio. 22Xc; ordinary. 21c
Spices (whole) Cloves, lU2Uc; allspice, 10c;
cassia, 8c; pepper, 17c; nutmeg, 70080a
Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test, 7Vc;
Ohio, 120, 8Kc: headlight, 10 S&c: water
white, lOUc; globe, 1414c; elaine, 14c; car
nadinc, liKc; royaline, 14c; globe red oil, Il
Uo; purity lie.
Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 4&S17e
f) gallon; summer, 4048c Lard oil, 70c.
Syrups Corn syrup, 2830c; choice sugar
syrup, S33Sc; prime sugar syrup. 3033c;
strictly prime, 33-335C; new maple syrup, 90c
N. O. Molasses Fancy, pew crop, 4S50c;
choice, 47c; medium, 3S43c;''mixed, 4042c
80DA Bi-carb in kegs. 33c; bi-carb in K',
5c; bi-carb, assorted packages, 56c; sal
soda in kecs, ljc; do granulated. 2c
Candles bear, full weight, 9c; stearine, $
set. 8c: parafflne, U12c
Rice Head, Carolina, 67c: choice, 6V
6c; prime, 5W6c: Louisiana, 5&Kc
Starch Pearl, 2Jc; cornstarch, 56c; gloss
staicb,4?i7c
Fokeion Fruits Layer raisins, S2 65; Lon
don layers. 82 90; California London layers,
S2 75; Muscatels, 82 40: California Muscatels.
S2 25; Valencia. 7c; Ondara Valencia, 8V
8c; sultana, 9c; currants, 5Jiac: Turkey
prunes, 45c; French prunes. 69ic: Salon
lea prunes, in2-B packages) 8Kc; cocoanuts. 31
100. S6 00: almonds. Lan., ft fi. 20c:do. Iylca,19c;
do, shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap., 1415c; Sicily
Alberts. 12c: Smyrna figs. 1213c: new dates. 6
6c: Brazil nuts, 10c; pecans, llf$15c; citron, $1
ft, 1920clemon peel, 18c $ fi; oiange peel, 17c
Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per B, 6c; ap
ples, evaporated, 9c; apricots, California, evap
orated, 14K16c; peaches, evaporated, pared,
262Sc; peaches, California, cvanorated, un
pared, 1921c; cherries, pltted.lSHKe; cher
ries, unpltted, 5tc; raspberries, evaporated,
25J26Kc; blackberries, 7K8c; huckleberries,
10012c.
faUGARS Cubes, 7o; powdered, 7Jc: granu
lated. 6Jc; confectioners' A 6c; standard A,
6Jc; soft white, 6J6Vc; yellow, choice, 6
6c: yellow, good. 55jc: yellow, fair, b!4
5Jc; yellow, dark, Sjjjc
Pickles Medium. Dbls (1,200), 85 50; medi
um, ball bbls (600), 83 25.
Salt-No. L f) bbl, 95c; No. 1 ex,jl bbl, SI 05;
dairy, bbl, $1 20; coarse crystal. bbl. 81 20;
Higgins' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, 82 80; Higgins'
Eureka, 16-14 fi pockets. S3 00.
Canned Goods Standard peaches, S2 00
225: 2ds, 1 fcl 80; extra peaches, (2 402 60;
pie peaches, Hoc; finest corn, 81 001 60; Hid Co.
corn, 7590c; red cherries, 90cSl; Lima beans,
SI 20; soaked do, 80c; string do, 60S5c; mar
rowfat peas. 81 101 15; soaked peas, 70S0c;
pineapples, $1 S01 40; Bahama do, $2 75;
damson plums, 95c; Greengages. SI 25; egg
plums. 82 00: California pears. S2 50: do pran-
gages, SI fco; do ege plnms, SI 85: extra white
cherries, S2 40; raspberries, 95cSl 10; straw
berries, SI 10; gooseberries, 81 301 40; toma
toes, 8590c; salmon, 1-fi, 81 65 I 90; black
berries, 65c; succotash, 2-fi cans, soaked, 90c;
do green. 2-fi, $1 25Q1 50; corn beer, 2-ft cans,
82 05; 14-fi cans. 814 00; baked beans. 81 151 50;
lobster, 1-fi, SI 751 80; mackerel, 1-fi cans,
broiled, 81 50: sardines, domestic. ls. 84 25
4 50; sardines, domestic, M. S3 7507 00; sar
aines. imported Vs, 811 5012 50; sardines, im
ported, K. 818 00; sardines, mustard, S3 30;
sardines, spiced, S3 SO.
Fish Extra K o. 1 bloater mackerel, 836 f?
bbl.; extra No. 1 do, mess, 810; extra No. 1
mackerel, shore, 832; extra No. I do, mess, $38;
No. 2 shore mackerel, 824. Codfish Whole
pollock, 4Jc ip fi; do medium, George's cod,
6c; do large, 7c: boneless hake, in strips, 6c; do
George's cod in blocks, 6K7c Herring
Round shore, $4 50 Ifl bbl.; plit, 86 60; lake,
82 75 13 100-B half bbl. White fish, SO 00 V 100
& halt bbl. Lake trout, $5 60 jfl half bbl. Fin
nan haddock, 10c $ B. Iceland haliDat, 13c
B. Pickerel, K bbl.. 82 00; i bbl., 81 10: Poto
mac herring, 85 00 fl bbl., 82 oO per U bbl.
Oatmeal $6 0086 2i bbl.
Grain. Flonr nnd Feed.
Sales on call at tbe Gram Exchange: 1 car
timothy and clover hay, 810, 6 days. Pennsyl
vania Railroad; 1 car brown middlings, 8U, 5
days, Pennsylvania Railroad. Receipts as bul
letined, 28 cars. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
St. Louis, 1 oar of wheat,'2of corn, 5 of oats, 3
of bay, 1 of bran, 1 of miilfecd, 1 of oats. By
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, 5 cars of
flour, 1 of oats. By Baltimore and Ohio, 2 cars
of corn. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, 1 car of
malt, 1 of oats. By Pittsburg and Western. 1
car of corn, 1 of malt. Total receipts bulletined
for the week 170 cars against 199 last week, and
234 the week before. The drop iu receipts has
slightly improved the tone of markets. New
corn is not so weak as it was last Saturday.
Choice grades of all cereals readily bring quot
ations. WHEATr-New No. 2 red, 85S6c; No. 3, 820
Corn No. 2 yellow, ear, new, S738c; hih
mixed, new, 3435c; No. 2 yellow, shelled, old,
36037c; new, S536c; old, hich mixed, shelled,
3536c Rejected shelled corn, 30031c
Oats No. 2 white. 27K02Sc; extra, No. 3,
26U27c: mixed. 2425c
Rye No. 1 Pennsylvania, and Ohio, 63054c;
No. 1 Western, 5152c
Barley Western, 4565c; Canada barley,
7075c
Flour Jobbing prices Fancy winter and
Bpring patents. S5 005 50; winter straight,
S4 25ia); clear winter, 54 004 25; straight
XXXX bakers', 83 603 75. Rye flour, 83 608
4 75.
Millfeed Middlings, fine white, $15 00
16 00 & ton; brown middlings, S12 00Q14 00;
winter wneat- orau, ill aiaui ov: clioo feed,
115 50018 00.
Hay Baled timothy. No. 1, 811 6012 00;
No. 2 do, 89 50Q10 00; loose from wagon, 311 00
012 00. according to quality: No. 2 prairie bay,
87 0068 00; packing do, 83 067 00.
?S7 00; wheat and rye
Provisions.
Sugar-cured hams, large, 9c; sugar-cured
bams, medium, 9c; sugar-cured bams,
small, lOc; sugar-cured breakfast bacon,
8c; sugar-cured shoulders, 5JJc: suear-cured,
boneless shoulders. 7c; sngar-cured California
hams, 6c; sugar'-cured dried oeef flats,9c; sugar
cured dried beef sets, 10c; sugar-cured dried
beef rounds. 12c; bacon shoulders, 6?; bacon
clear sides, 7c: bacon clear bellies, 7Kc: dry
salt sboulders. Su; dry salt clear sides, 7c.
Mess pork, heavy, $11 60; mess pork, familv,
812 00. Lard Refined, in tierces. 6Jc; half
barrels, 6c: 60-fi tubs, 6c; 20fi pails, t?ic; 50-fi
tin cans. 5Kc:3-fi tin pails, 6-Xc; 5B tin pails,
OKc; 10-fi tin pails, 6Jc; 6-fi tin palls, 6c
Smoked sausage, long, 6c: large. 6c. Fresh
pork links, 9c. Boneless hams. lOKc Pigs
feet, half-barrels, 84 00; quarter barrel, S2 15.
CLOSING PEICES
On Saturday' 'Channel Local Stocks Firm,
but Dnll Satisfactory Clearing
Home Flsnres In ThU City
Saturday's Oil.
The stock market was firm and dull Satur
day, Central Traction and Charters Gas being
the only things in which there was any mover
ment. The former contributed 65 and tbe
latter 3 to tbe total of 68 shares sold.
Philadelphia Gas was strong, with plenty of
bidders and no sellers. The tractions were
about steady. Pittsburg and "Western
Railway developed fresh strength on the report
of Increasing earnings. Electric and Switch
and Signal showed a fractional improvement.
Bank and insurance shares took up advanced
positions, but bidders were too timid to secure
any of them. Mining stocks were featureless.
Nearly everything closed at the best figures of
the week.
Money is so abundant, and so much of It un
employed, that brokers look forward to brisk
times in local securities.
LEAYIAG LAST TEAE BEHIND.
The Record of 1SS9 Already Badly Broken
Flsnres for Pessimists.
The local money market maintained its cus
tomary activity Saturday, there being a fair
demand for discounts and a good counter busi
ness. The weak spot was hi the checking,which
showed a decrease as compared with the
previous days of the week. Thii indicates that
the yearly settlements have been made and
business restored to its normal condition.
That business is going full tilt is shown by
the Clearing House report. The bank clearings
are leaving 1SS9 a far behind as those of that
year did 1BSS. Tbe clearings last week were
nearly 83,000,000 greater than those for the cor
responding time in 1SS9. This is all the more
encouraging when it is considered that it is the
result of natural expansion and legitimate busi
ness. The report follows:
Yesterday's exchanges. S 2,274,682 80
Yeiterday's balances 401,439 71
Week's exchanges 15,302,374 30
Previous week's exchanges 19,321,207 14
Exchanges week of 1S83 12,378,818 59
Balance! week of 1S89 2,191,056 71
(Jain for weefcoter 1889 2.93,555 71
Money on call at New York Saturday was
easy; no loans; closed offered at 3 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 57. Sterling ex
change dull but steady at $4 82 for 60-day bills
and 84 86 for demand.
CloalnirBond Quotations.
U. 8. &,....
U. S. 4. coup...
U. S. 4KB, reg..
D. S. 4Hs, coup
PaelficSsof'Sa.
..128
..12s
M. K. AT. Gen. 3a .
Mutual Union 8a....
N. J.C. Int, Cort...
Northern Pac lata..
Northern Pac. 2da..
Northw't'n consols.l424
Northw'n dcbens..no
Oregon & Trans. M.lO'.jJ
3UU&I.M. Uen.ss 89
..104W
JUl)i
IIS
Loulslanas tamped 4a iSH
Missouri 6s 100
Tenn. new net. 6a... 105
Tenn. new set. 5s... .102
Tenn. new set. 3s.... 72!4
Canada So. Ids S8H
Cen. Pacificists llOVj
Den. A K. O., lata... 118
Den. AR. G.4s
D.&K.O.West,UU.
St. I..4 8.F. Gen.yt.112
St. Pan! consols ....128W
St.PL ChlAPc.Uts.llS
Tx., Pc.L. O.Tr.Ra. DOS
Tx.,PcK.Q.Tr.Bcts 3SK
Union Pac. lata..... HI
West Shore 104X
jine, zas,
U.K.
AT. Gen. 6a..
Government and State bonds are firm and
dull.
Snlnrday's Oil Ranee.
Corrected dally by John M. Oakley & Co., 45
Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro
leum Exchange
Opened lCSHILowest I04K
Highest lOdttlUosed 105
Barrels.
Average charters 27,71)2
Average shipments 76,855
Average runa.. 54.1W
Boflned. Mew York. 7.60c
Refined, London. 6d.
Refined, Antwerp, 1734T.
Refined, Liverpool. 6i,
Refined, Bremen, 6.S3m.
A. B. McGrew quotes: Puts, 81 04K; calls,
8105.
TRUSTS GIYE WAY.
They Constitute the Only Live Feature of
the Day in Wall Street, bnt Yield
to Heavy Pressure.
New Yobs, January 18. The trusts supplied
all the feature there was in the stock market
to-day, being again decidedly weak and scoring
material declines, while the stocks of the reg
ular list were generally extremely dull but
firm for the greater portion of tbe time, but
showing irregular and slight changes from last
night's prices at the close.
The opening was steady and tame, bnt the
pressure upon Cotton was resumed immedi
ately, and rumors were circulated that tbe
company's affairs were in bad shape, and that
insiders had been endeavoring in tbe past few
days to market their holdings. The stock re
sponded with a drop to 2 against 29K last
evening, and after a slight rally further de
clined to Zjyi, closing at the lowest figure
Sugar sagged off in sympathy, but was fairly
well held until the last half hour, when it
rapidly declined, also closing at its lowest.
There was undoubtedly realizing on tbe recent
rise, but there was heavy bear pressure in the
stock, and meeting with no support it yielded
readily.
In tbe regular list Rock Island was the most
prominent for weakness, and being sold by Chi
cago interest with numerous bear points npon
it In circulation. The coalers were affected by
rnmors of rate catting among the companies,
but the belief that a large interest was accumu
lating Lackawanna was a supporting influence.
The covering of shorts continued in Union
Pacific, and that was one of the strongest
stocks on the list.
The bank statement, which was issued com-
Jiaratlvely early, was a favorable factor in the
ate dealings, and assisted materially in mak
ing a firm close. Sugar is down 2 and cotton
oil 24, but the other changes are fur fractional
amounts only, though declines are the most.
Railroad bonds were more than usually ac
tive, tbe sales of all issues being 8820,000 for tbe
two-hours' session, but, while tbe Milwaukee,
Lake Shore and Western 6s were agrin the fea
ture, they failed to make any material advance
or reach a total of importance. Mobile and
Ohio 4s rose 2 to 63. The sales of bonds for the
week aggregated only $7,232,000, against $10,426,
000 for last week.
The following tame snows tne prices or active
atockaon tbe Mew York Stock Excnange yester
day. Corrected daily for The Dispatch by
Whitney ft STEriiENeON. oldest Pittsburg mem
bers of Mew York Stock Kxcnange, 6 1 ourth ave
nue: Clos
ing Bid.
27
35
SOW
7695
K
122
S3K
M)J
106
6S!
113V
MX
4
47
S2
95
110
140
71M
07
44
20U
135)4
150
K'i
Open
ing. . 29Jt
. 35
. 30
. 76
Straw Oats. J8
straw. 6 006 25.
High- Low.
est. est.
29J 27
25 35
30 30
76H 76
55 54H
26 26
! 105
63 68
114 113V
86 85
Am. Cotton Oil Trnst..
Am. Cotton Oil
Atcn., lop.A S.F.....
Canadian 1'aclflo
Canada Southern
Central of New Jersey,
54fe
iKntrai racist
Chesapeake A Ohio.... 26M
C Bur. A Ouli.cr. ....1051.
C Mil. a St. Faul.... 68
C, MU.ASt. P pr,...114M
C, KoctL AP 96
C St. U & Pitts
a, SL L. A Pitta. DC. 461i
C. St. P..M. AO
C. St. P..JI. AO..tr.
C A Mortn western 1U9X
C A Morth western, cf. ....
C, C. C. A 1 71
C C. O. A I., or 98
Col. Coal a Iron UX
Col. A Hocking Vat .. 20
Dei.. L. A V 136
Del. A Hudson
Denver A KloU
Denver A Rio G.. nt
E.T.. Va.AUa ....
E.T..Va, AGa.lst pf. ....
E. T Va. AGs. Zd pr. ....
Illinois Central
Lake Erie a Western.. 18
Lake Erie a West, pr.. 65
Lake Shore AM. S 104
LonlavUlcAMaahrtlle, HH
Michigan Central 94
Mobile A Ohio 14
Mo., Kan, i Texas.... 10
Missouri Pacific 72
Mew ITork Central lufl
47
46
1C9 lOOX
7IM
98
44H
20
13C
70H
87
20
1S3S
em
21
119
18
65S
154 i
86H
93
14M
1
70 1
37
UK
19
21J4
61
30H
73S
ilii
45
14
38X
18
S6M
192
JOS
TG
111
IS
SS
85
20
66
m
18
65
104
mh
94
MH
10
72
ice
Is
C5
104
86H
93
14
ri
72
106
M. L.. L. J5. A W -.
M. V.. O. A St. L.
M. r.. C A St. L. or.
N.X.. if. ASt.L.2d pf .. .
M, YAM. IS 443
M. .. O. A W 19
.Norfolk a Western
Norfolk Western. pr."....
Nortnern Pacific
Nortnern Pacific pret 73
Ohio A Mississippi.... ....
Oregon improvement. Wi
Oregon Tranaeon...... .. .
PacinoMaU 38
Peo. Dee. a Krana..... 17
Phlladel. A Reading.. 36
Pullman Palace Car
Rlcnmona A W . P. T.. 20
ltlchraond A W.P.T.pr 'Hi
St. P.. Minn. A Man.lll
St. L. A San Fran
St. L. A San "ran pf.
St.L. A San r. lat pt
Texas Paclfio DH
Union Paotno sift
Wa&isAitt mii ttt ttM
x
44H
41
18
73
H
ilii
13
363
ivi
76H
73
38
17
36
20
76
lUX
20
00
lil
20
63
28
81 H
83
an
4IX
Boaion Stocks.
Atoh. &TOP.R.B. .. 30)jj
Wis. (Antral, com... 33 V
AllouezMgCo 14
Calumet A Becla....263
L'atalpa 20
tranmn li
Huron 4 ,
Useeois. 27X
Fewabla 8
Qalncr - 73
Bell Telepnone... ..210
Boston Land S
Water .Power 6H
.DU81UU A &iuaur...zia
Boston & JUame. ....211)4
C. B. itl. 105SV
Olnn. ban. & Cleye. 24
Eastern K. K 137
Eastern K. K. ss ....124
Flint Fere M 24
Flint Fere M. pro. 4J
Little B. & Ft. b. 7S.10O
Mexican Cen. com.. 17
Mex.C.lstmtfr. bds, 693
. Y. .New.Enr... UH
Old Colony IT5)$
Rutland, com 7
Tamarack 158
San Diego WA
Santa 7e copper..... 1.:
Philadelphia Stocks.
Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, far-
nlshed by Whitney & Stenhenson, brokers. No. 37
, brokers, .no. a
York Stock Ex-
Fourtu avenue.
uemoers .new
change.
, Bill.
Pennsvlvania Batlroad. KM
Keaamg 18
Lehigh Valley B2
Lehigh .Navigation Sl
Northern Pacific SD'
Nortnern Pacific nreierrea 7314
Asked.
sx
18 3-16
62
30t
I3
MAKKETS BY WIBE.
More Bnoynncy In the Wheat Pit.
bnt
Short Caver nnd Weaken Vnlnei
Clearances and Visible Sup
ply Pork Stronger.
Chicago Wheat There was a fair business
in a speculative way, and the volume of trading
larger than yesterday within a lower range of
prices. New York was reported as buying
some wheat here to-day, and it was also ru
mored that a prominent Chicago trader sold
quite freely to New York traders. Shorts cov
ered to-day, and at the same time the decline
in prices brought out straggling lots of long.
Hence, between the selling of long wheat and
the buying of shorts a fair volume of business
was transacted. The feeling eaily was heavy,
being a continuation of yesterday's weakness.
The ODening was Vc lower than yesterday's
closing, and sold off c more, then firmed up Y,
Wifi, out Decame easy and declined 9Wc,
then held steady for awhile, and shortly before
the close took an np turn of c, due to parties
covering who got short at tho low prices and
assisted some by the buying on the part of a
prominent local trader, and closed about He
lower than yesterday. There were only light
exported clearances yesterday from three ports
aggregating 20.500 barrels of flour and 18.000
bushels of wbeat equal to about 110,000 bush
els of wheat. For tbe week clearances from
four ports were reported at 238.000 packages of
flour and 451,000 bushels of wheat, which was
100,000 packages lesson flour and 7,000 bushels
more of wheat than last week.
It is estimated that the visible supply of wbeat
might show a decrease of about 4o0,000 or 600,000
bushels, and If the 238,000 bushels of wbeat de
stroyed by fire at Baltimore is taken out of the
stock the visible may show a greater decrease.
A cargo of 400,000 bushels No. 2 spring was re
ported taken here for export, to go via Balti
more, and Baltimore reported the taking of
eight loads of wbeat to go to Marseilles.
Corn A moderate speculative business was
reported and the feeling was easier, trading
being at a slightly lower range. The selling
was done by the local crowd, tbe weak feeling
in wbeat having its influence in this market.
Receipts were smaller than expected, but did
not cat much figure in a speculative way,
though tho sample market was stronger.
Oats To all appearances there were no
speoial new or important features. Attend
ance of operators on the speculative market as
for several days past was light. At times mod
erate offerings of May delivery appeared. In
this future, which remains the center of trade,
there was a moderate business, but other
futures possessed hardly enough life to give
tbem a recognized place in tbe market. Of
May delivery the offerings rather exceeded tbe
demand. Bales were rather slow and an easy
feeling prevailed. Prices, however, were not
subject to fluctuations or changes.
Mess pork A more active trading was wit
nessed than for several days and the feeling
was decidedly stronger. Local shorts and man
ufacturers purchased rather freely, while tbe
offerings were fair. Tradipg was mainly In
May contracts. Prices were advanced 17W20c
on tbe whole range, but receded again 67c
and closed comparatively steady. Shipping
demand was moderate, and cash lots were
quotable at 89 COS9 62-
Lard The market tor lard attracted very
little attention and trading was moderate.
Offerings were not very large and the demand
was only fair. The feeling was firmer and
prices were advanced 2c and closed compara
tively steaay.
Short rib sides More was doing in this mar
ket and tbe feeling was stronger, the course of
prices being influenced by the same features
as strengthened the market for mess pork.
Prices were advanced 710c per 100 pounds,
and the market closed comparatively steady at
the appreciation.
Tbe leading futures ranged as follows:
Whxat No. 2, Jannarv, 76V076K76
70c; February, 767776t377c;May,8o;i5
81jS0Jffi80.
Cork No. 2, January. 28285iQ28
2Sic: February. 29H29K29Ha29ic; May,
3131KSlK31c
Oats No. 2, January. 20K20Uc; February,
20K20Vc; May. 22222222c
Mess Pore, per bbl. January.SS 479 60
9 47K99 60:February.S9559 67kffi9 55b9 67K;
May, 89 909 5C9 90Q9 50.
Lard, per 100 As. January, 85 82K5 82
5 82KS5 82K: February, to 87K5 905 87$
o Bipi; May, to utvgio lutso u5(($0 U'v
Shobt Bibs, per 100 As. January. 84 72W
4 72M4 Tiii&i 72K February. 84 7264 75
4 724 75; May, 84 92K4 9?K4 92
4 97J4-I
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
quiet and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat,
76Kc: No. 3 spring wheat, 6S72c;No.2 red,
76Hc No. 2oorn. 28c No. 2 oats, 2020tic
no.zje.uyc. no. a nariey, ox. no. i nax
seoo, 81 35. Prime timothy seed. 81 18. Mess
pork, per bbl. S9 62. Lard, per 100 lbs, $5 lm
5 85. Short ribs sides (looso), 54 7004 80. Dry
salted shoulders (boxed), 84 204 30; short
clear sides (boxed), 84 755 00. Sugars, un
changed. Receipts Flour. 19,000 barrels:
wheat, 10,000 bushels: corn, 145,000 bushels; oats,
154,000 bushels; rye. 9,000 bushels: barley, 50.000
bushels. Shipments Flour, 15,000 barrels;
wheat, 70,000 bushels: corn, 485,000 bushels: oats,
149,000 bushels; rye, 3,000 bushels; barley,
73,000 bushels.
On the Produce Exchange to-day tbe butter
market was quiet and unchanged. Eggs,
steady and unchanged.
New Yobe Flour dull. Wheat Spot dull;
options dull, c down, and steady. Rye
firm. Corn Spot quiet and weaker; options
steady and moderately active. Oats Spot
quiet and steadier; options dull. Hay steady
and quiet: shipping, 404oc; good to choice.
658oc. Coffee Options opened dull, 6Q15
point down; closed dull, unchanged to 6 points
down; sales, 10,000 bags. Including: January,
15.85c: March. 15.8515.50c: May. 15.95c: June.
15.90c; July, 15.95c; September. 10.00c; Octo
ber, 15.95c; spot Rio firm and in fair demand;
fair cargoes, 19Ve; No. 7, Vliic Sugar Raw
firm and in fair demand; fair refining, EJc;
centrifugals. 90 test, 5c: sales, 10,000 bags
brazils, 81S3 test; 4K4c flat; refined
steady and In fair demand. Molasses
Foreign, nominal; New Orleans easy;
open kettle common to fancy, 3144c
Rice steady and quiet; domestic, 46c:
Japan, 45c Cottonseed oil firm; crude. 28
2SKc; yellow. 34c Tallow steadv. Rosin
steady: strained, common to (rood, tl 2001 23.
Turpentine dull and nominal at 4343c
Efzs firm: Western. 16t316Kc: receipts.
pacKazes. r-ors quiet ana nrm; mess. Old,
89 750)10 25; do new, 810 60Q11 00; extra prime,
S9 259 75. Cut meats in moderate demand;
pickled bellies, 55c; pickled shoulders, 4
4Kc; pickled hams, 8Sc; middles dull; short
clear, 85 25. Lard stronger and qniet; sales 331
tierces choice at $6 25, closing at 86 22 bid;
options, sales 500 tierces January at 86 18; Feb
ruary, S6 22; March, 8 31 bid;..pril, 8637; May,
SG 43; July, 86 55 bid. Butter Choice steady,
others weak; Elgin, 2828Kc; western dairy, 8
616c; do creamery, 122bXc; do factory, 16c
Cheese quiet; western, 810c.
Philadelphia Flour steady but quiet.
Wbeat Choice grades scarce and firm, with
fair inquiry from millers. Options declined
KKc; rejected, 5565c; fair to good milling
wbeat, 78S5c: prime to choice, do, 8S92c;
No. 2 red, Januarv, 81081Jc; FeDruary, 8242
81c: March. 83K83c; April, 84e8c.
Corn ruled a shade easier and closed firm.
Cariots firm and in fair demand; No. 4
mixed, on track. 28c; do in craln depot.
80c;No. 3 low mixed, on track, 84c: No. 3
high mixed, on track, 35c; steamer No. 2
maid, on track. 37c: No. 2 maid, in train riennt
SSc; No. 2 yellow, in Twenty-ninth street ele
vator. 3SJc; No. mixed, January, 86V36kc;
February. 36p36ajc; March, 3737ic; April.
Sl3Ic. Oats Cariots steadv: No. 3
white, 27JicezriS: No. 2 white, 28028
Features quiet but steady; No. 2 white. 28i
23c: February, 28K2S; March, 2S2S3ic;
April, -:o4c. .eggs una ana easyiextra firsts,
15c.
St. Lotus Flour firm, with light business.
Wheat again lower: discouraging advices from
other markets and lower cables caused a weak
feeling throughout, and tbe close was a
lower for May and !4c for June, while July was
about the same as yesterday: No. 2 red, cash.
77Kcbid; March closed 7SKC bid; May. 80c
bid; June. 79Jc bid; July, 76Mc bid. Corn
quiet: No. 2 mixed, cash, '2&c February
closed at 26K2fcc: March, 2627c
bid; May, 2bc hid: July, 29e bid.
Oats quiet and weaker; No. 2, cash.
21c bid; May. 21c bid; January, 20K? bid.
Rye stronger: No. 2 sold at 41Jc Barley
stronger; No. 1 sold at 41c Barley steady,
with demand fair; Wisconsin, 45S60c: Dakota,
30c Flaxseed, 81 80. Provisions very firm, at
quotations.
Minneapolis Local receipts for the past 24
hours were 127 carSjShipments 43 cars, against
posted receipts of 203 cars and 41 shipped yes
terday. The early demand for cash wheat was
oor, buyers being somewhat cautious in tak-'
ighold owing to th llnap In othu markets.
Wabash preferred 31H
Western' Union 84
Wheeling A L. . BS'i
Hnicar Trnst. saw
National Lead Trust.. SOU
Chicago Uas Trust.... 45)j
x-dlvidcnd.
Sellers were inclined to some firmness early in
the day receipts, but later in order to effect
sales granted slight concessions. Closing quo
tations: No. 1 hard, January and February,
79c; May, S2Uc: on track. 79c: No. 1 Northern,
on tTack,77K77&e; No. 2Northern, May, 77c;
on track, 7475c
Milwaukee Flourdullandsteady. Wbeat
unsettled; No. 2 spring, on track, cash. 7273c;
May. 74c; No. 1 TJorthern, 83c Corn Quiet:
No. 3, .on track, 2727jc Oats quiet: No. 2
white, on track. 22Vc Rva steady: No. L in
Toledo Cloversecd dnll and easier; cash,
January and February, 83 60; March, 83 52.
HIBES AND HOGS.
Firmer Tone to Light Hides Harness
Leather Falls of Its TJsnal January
Activity Strong Export De
mand tor Lard.
Office of Pittsbubo Dispatch, 1
SATtTBDAT, January IS, 1890. (
The market for light hides has evidently
reached bedrock, and large dealers in Chi
cago have been refusing orders at market
prices of late. The strike ot journeymen
tanners and curriers at Woburn, Mass.,
where there are 23 firms operating in tbe line
of tanning huff hides, is declared off within a
few days. This strike lasted a number of
weeks, and since difficulties between capital
and labor hare been adjusted there is an im
proved tone and better demand for light hides.
While we cannot report any advance as yet, it
is plain that the tide has turned and that any
change in markets henceforth will be toward a
higher level of prices. Heavy steer bides are
dull at last week's prices. Sealers are well
supplied with this grade and tanners are well
stocked, and therefore not anxious to buy.
Tbe situation of the heavy bide market gives
little sign of strength, and prices may go even
lower. Calf skins are scarce and steady. There
is no accumulation of stock in tbe hands of
tanners, and but for the fact that some large
tanners have withdrawn from the market
prices would before this have advanced. The
following clipping from the current number of
the Chicago SAoe and Leather Review will no
doubt be of interest to dealers and manufact
urers In hide and leather lines:
Larsre Gain la Shipments.
Shipments or hides from Chicago were 26,000,000
pounds more than in 1888. Light hides, common
ly known aa buffs, declined 20 per cent last year.
They averaged a little over 6c for 1833: In 1889
they averaged 5c. As these are the principal
hides received from Chicago, the shrinkage Is of
considerable Importance. The cheapness of grain
leathers, small price for spills and disasters in the
rough leather market In tbe East, contributed to
depress tanners and compelled them to protect
themselves by buying raw material cheaply or
ceasing production. Then again, in the aprlng
and early summer, some 150,000 cow hides
were held at the stock yards. and
this was a constant menace to tbe
country hide market. Besides this, tanners
evinced little comparative Interest In-buffs; by a
system of Indifference, that seemed almost pre
arranged, they kept prices Bteadlly down, even In
the fall, when hides were In prime condition.
Thia strange condition of affairs puzzled the old
eat dealers In hides, who In tbelr 30 years' experi
ence in Chicago never remembered so low a price
as 4,c. at which buffs stood weak at the close of
1889. In calf and kip, qnotatlons were very low,
owing. It is alleged, to the competition or goat,
cordovan and kangaroo leathers, which for a brief
time depressed the market for waxed calf and kin.
Toward the close of the year this leather began to
assert lta undeniable good qualities, and as prices
stiffened, the raw stock baa steadily maintained a
small advance.
Harneaw Leather.
Tbe Allegheny tanners report markets very
quiet without any change in prices. A year
ago at this date markets were much more
active than they are now, and stock was mov
ing about as fast as it could be turned out.
According to tbe experience of tbe past few
years, the harness leather trade should now be
booming. As it Is there is very little accumula
tion oi stock. Xhe condition or weatner ana
country roads, in the view of the tanners, is the
great hindrance to trade. Once tbe roads be
come passable, trade will no doubt soon catch
up to its regular volume. The only difference,
according to the faith of our tanners, will be
that tbe boom will be a few weeks later than
its accustomed time.
Hoc Products.
The week closes with a much firmer feeling
in markets for heavy bogs and lard. This is
mainly due a strong export demand having
sprung np within a few days. At Chicago to
day heavy hogs were quoted at S3 90, while the
outside price of selected packers was 83 70.
All this season, until this week, tbe light
weights have commanded the best prices. Now
tbe tables are turned and, as it was in olden
times, heavyweights take the lead. Lard and,
in fact, all provisions remain nncbanged in this
market. Hams are very firm, with a prospect
of going higher soon. All along tbe provision
line the tone is a shade better than last week,
but there is still largo room for improvement
before a satisfactory basis for trade is reached.
MEAT OS THE HOOF.
The Condition of Business at the Boat Liberty
Stock Yards.
OmcE or Pittsburg Dispatch, (
SATtTBDAT. Jan nary 18, 189a s
CATTLE Receipts, 520 head; shipments, 260
head; market nothing doing; all through con
signments; no cattlo shipped to New York to
day. Hoas Receipts. 2,700 bead: shipments. 2,500
head; market firm: Philadelphia, S3 753 SO;
Yorkers, 83 8083 90; heavy hogs, $3 603 70: 9
cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day.
Sheep Receipts. 1,600 bead; shipments, 2.000
bead; market steady; prime, 85 605 80; good,
S5 205 40; fair to good.. S3 253 80; common.
82 003 00; Iambs, 84 008 75.
By Telegraph.
St. Louis Cattle Receipts, 7U0 head;
shipments, none: market steady; good to fancy
native steers, 84 304 -90: fair to good dc
83 404 35; stockers and feeders, 81 903 10;
ranee steers, 82 003 20. Hogs Receipts, 5,000
head; shipments, none: market strong; fair to
choice heavy. S3 603 72: packing grades,
83 603 70; light, fair to best, S3 503 65. Sheep
Receipts, 200 head; shipments, none; market
firm; fair to choice, 84 205 50; lambs. 85 00
6640.
Kansas Crrr Cattle Receipts, 3.200 head;
shipments, 1,300 bead; market steady to
stronger; steers, 83 1004 CO: cows, $1 752 60;
stockers and feeders, 82 403 10. Hogs Re
ceipts, 7,200 head; shipments, none: market
2Q5chieber;all grades. 83 67J3 75; bulk.
83 703 72.Sbeep Receipts, 2,100 head; ship
ments, 500 head; market steady; good to
choice muttons, 83 505 40; stockers and
leeaers, $3 wan iu.
Chicago Cattle Receipts. 2,000 head; mar
ket steady; beeves. 84 605 15; steers, 83 00
4 60; stockers and feeders, S2 253 10; Texans,
S1603 40. Hogs Receipts. 21,000 head; mar
ket steady: mixed and light. S3 603 85; heavy.
S3 6003 S7K; skips, 83 003 55. 3beep-Na-tives.
83 50; western corn fed, S3 60Q5 60; lambs.
84 75Q8 5a
Buffalo Cattle feeling stronger; receipts,
199 loads through, 4 sale. Sheep and lambs
fairly active and firm; unchanged; receipts. 3
loads through, 23 sale. Hogs firm and a shade
higher on light; receipts, 21 loads through, 40
sale: medium and heavy, 83 753 80; mixed.
83 85; Yorkers. 83 S03 95; pigs. 83 00.
Golng Like Hot Cakes.
Samuel W. Black & Co. sold No. 23 in Oak
land square plan of lots. Fourteenth ward, be
ing a two-story and mansard nine room brick
dwelling, with lot about 100x130, price approxi
mating 810,000. This makes 24 houses sold, and
leaves but two houses for sale in this square.
Also sold lot No. 14 in Crawford and McHendry
plan of lots in East Bellevue, being 60x125 feet
to an alley, for 865a
Ewiag & Byers on Saturday placed a mort
gage of 83,500 on Alpine avenue property. Sec
ond ward, Allegheny, for three years at 6 per
cent. .
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war is being waged against trusts and com
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and if the bills now pending pass, no com
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of the soil or manufactures, and of regulat
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in Mississippi, and any person operating
such trusts or combines will be liable to fine
and imprisonment, and when corporations
are found guilty of violation of the laws
their charter will be revoked, and all guilty
parties phnished by fine or imprisonment,
or both.
The Attorney General and grand jury
have their attention specially directed to
this kind of lawlessness.
Pittsbubo Beef Companv, wholesale
agents for Swift's Chicago dressed beet,
sold for week ending January 18, 188 car
casses of beef; average weight per carcass,
643 poundi; average price per pound, A, 76
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