THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1890. THE SCARLET SIGNAL Dr. Talmage Back in Brooklyn, Where Bo Preaches of Eahab. A LESSON TADGBT BI THE SPIES Who BaTed the Only Douse that SurviTed the Fall of Jericho. WHiT SCARLET MEANS TO A CHRISTIAN rSPZCIXI. TO THXDIErXTCH.I Brooklyn. February 9. The Bev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., resumed preach ing in Brooklyn this morning, after his visit to the Holy Land, and the Academy of Music was crowded. Thousands of people were not able to get into the bnilding. The subject of his discourse was "The House on the Wall." Dr. Talmage took for his text Joshua vi, 23: "And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Bahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and ill that she had." He said: When, only a few weeks ago, I visited Jericho, I said, can it be possible that this dilapidated place is the Jericho that Hark Antony gave as a wedding present to Cleo patra? Where are the groves of palm trees? Where are Herod's palaces that once stood here? Where is the great theater from the stage of which Salome told the people that Herod was dead? Where is the sycamore tree on the limb of which Zaccheus sat when Jesus passed this place? Where is the wreck of the walls, that fell at the blowing of the ram's horns? But the fact that all these have disappeared did not hinder me from seeing in imagination the smash of everything on the fated day, save one house on the wall. That scene centuries ago comes back to me as though it were yester day. There is a very sick and sad house in the city of Jericho. What is the matter? Is it poverty? No. Worse than that. Is it lep rosy? No. Worse than that Is it death? No. Worse than that. A daughter has forsaken her home. By what internal plot she was induced to leave I know not; but they look in vain for her return. HOPE CBUSHED TO EABTH. Sometimes they hear a footstep very much like hers, and they start up and say: "She comes!" but only to sink back again into disappointment. Alas! Alas! The lather sits by the honr, with his ftce in his hands, saying not one word. The mother's hair is becoming gray too fast, and she begins to stoop so that those who saw her only a little while ago in the street know her not now as she passes. The brothers clench their fists, swearing vengeance against the despoiler of their home. Alas! will the poor soul never come back? There is a long, deep shadow over all the househoold. Added to this there is an invading army six miles away, just over the river, coming on to destroy the citv; and what with the loss of their child and the coming on of that destructive army, I think the old people wished that thev could die. That is the first scene in this drama of the Bible. In a house on the wall of the city is that daughter. That is her home now. Two spies have come from the invad ing army to look around through Jericho and see how best it may be taken. Yonder is the lost child, in that dwelling on the wall of tne city. The police hear of it and soon there is a shuffling of feet all around about the door, and the city government de mands the surrender of those two spies, first, Bahab for that was the name ot the lost child first, Bahab secretes the two spies and gets their pursuers off the track; but after awnile she says to them: "I will make a bargain with you. I will save your life if you will save my life, and the life of my lamer ana my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, when the victorious army comes upon the city." HOME SEVER FORGOTTEN. O, she had not forgotten her home yet, you see. The wanderer never forgets home. Her heart breaks now as she thinks of how she has maltreated her parents, and she wishes she were back with them again, and she wishes she could get away from her sin ful enthrallment; and sometimes she looks up in the face of the midnight, bursting into agonizing tears. No sooner have these two spies promised to save her life, and the life of her father, and mother, and brothers, and sisters, than Bahab takes a scarlet cord and ties it around the body of one of the spies, brings him to the window, and, as he clam bers out nervous lest she have Dot strength to hold him with muscular arms such as a woman seldom has, she lets him down, hand over hand, in safety to the ground. Not being exhausted, she ties the cord around the other spy, brings him to the window, and jnst as successfully lets him down to the ground. No sooner have these men untied the scarlet cord from their bodies than they look up, and they sav: "You had better get all your friends in this house your father, your mother, your brothers and your sisters; you had better get them in this house. And then, after vou have them here, take this red cord which you have put around our bodies and tie it across the window; and when our victorious army comes up, and sees that scarlet thread in the window, they will spare this bouse and all who are in it. Shall it be so?" cried the spies. "Aye, aye," said Bahab, from the window, "it shall be so." SECOND AND THIRD SCENES. " That is the second scene in this Bible drama. There is a knock at the door ot the old man. He looks up, and says: "Come in," and lol there is Bahab, the lost child; but she has no time to talk. Thev ratner in excitement around her, and she says to them: "Get readv quickly, and co'with me to my house. The army is coming! The trumpet! Make haste! Fly! The enemy!' That is the third scene in this Bible drama. The hosts of Israel are all around about the doomed city ot Jericho. Crash ! goes the great metropolis, heaps on heaps. The air suffocating with the dust, and hor rible with the screams of a dying city. All the houses flat down. All the people dead. Ah no, no. On a crag of the wall the only piece of the wall left standing there is a house which we must enter. There is a family there that have been spared. Who are they? Let ns go and see. Bahab, her jaiuer, uer mumer, ner Drotners, her sisters, all safe, and the only house left standing in all tbejeity. What saved them ? Was the house more firmly built? O, no; it was built in the most perilous place on the wall; and the wall was the first thing that fell. Was it because her character was any better than any of the other population of the citv? O. no. Why then was she spared, and all her household? Can you tell me why? O, it tras the scarlet line in the window. That is the fourth scene in this Bible drama. When the destroying angel went through Egypt, it was the blood of the lamb on the door-posts that saved the Is raelites; and nowthat vengeance has come upon Jericho it is the same color that as sures the safety of Bahab and all her house hold. ITTST BE MEANS OF RESCUE. My friends, there are foes coming upon us, more deadly and more tremendous, to overthrow our immortal interests. They will trample us down aud crush us out for ever, unless there be some skillful mode of rescue open. The police of death already begin to clamor for our surrender; but, blessed be God, there is a way out It is through the window, and by a rope so satu rated with the blood ofthe cross, that it is as red as that with which the spies were low ered; and if once our souls shall be deliv ered, then, the scarlet cord stretched across the window of our escape, we may defy all bombardment, earthly and satanic. In the first place,' carrying out the idea of my text, we must stretch this scarlet cord scrossthewindowofourrescue. There comes a time when a man is surrounded. What is that in the front door of his soul? It is the threatening of the future. What is that in the back door ot his soul? It is the sin of wepasi. no cannot get out oi eitntror I A kysWsrfllMiatiitSlilail those doorways. If he attempt it he will be cut to pieces. What shall, he do? Escape through the window of God's mercy. That sunshine has been pouring in for many a day. God's inviting mercy. God's par doning mercy. God's all-conquering mercy. God's everlasting mercy. But, you say, the window is so high. Ah there is a rope, the very one with which the cross and its victim were lifted. That'was strong enough to hold Christ, and it is strong enough to hold you. Bear all your weight upon it, all your hopes for this life, all your hopes for the life that is to come. THE BEST ALTERNATIVE. Escape now through the window. "But," you say, "that cord is too small to save me; that salvation will never do at all for such a sinner as I have been J' I suppose that the rope with which Bahab let the two spies to the ground was not thick enough; but they took that or nothing. And, my. dear brother, that is your alternative. There is only one scarlet line that can save you. There have been hundreds and thousands who have been borne away in safety by that scarlet line, and it will bear yon away in safety. Do you notice what a very narrow escape those spies had? I suppose they came with flustered cheek and with excited heart They had a very narrow escape. They went in the broad door of sin; but how did thev come out? They came out of the window. They went up by the stairs of stone they came down on a slender thread. And so, mv friends, we go easily and una bashedly into sin, and all the doors are open; bnt if we get out at all it will be by being let down over precipices, wriggling and helpless, the strong grip above keeping us from being dashed on the rocks beneath. It is easy to get into siu,young man. It is not so easy to get out of it A. young man goes to tne maroic counter of a hotel. He asks fer a brandy smash called so, I suppose, because it smashes the man that takes it There is no intoxication in it. As the young man re ceives it he does not seem to be at all ex cited. It does not give any glossiness to the eye. He walks home in beautiful apparel, and all his prospects are brilliant That drink is not going to destroy him, but it is the first step on a bad road. THE SCARS OP THE TEARS. Years have passed on, and I see that young man after he has gone the whole length of dissipation. It is midnight, and he is in a hotel perhaps the very one where he took the first drink. A delirium is ou him. He rises from the bed and comes to the window, and it is easily lifted; so he lilts it Then he pushes back the blinds and puts his foot on the window, sill. Then he gives one spring, and the watchman finds his dis figured body, unrecognizable, on the pave ment O, if he had only waited a little if he had come down on the scarlet ladder that Jesus holds from the wall for him, and lor you, and for me; but no. he made one jump and was gone. A minister of Christ was not long ago dis missed from his diocese for intoxication, and in a public meeting he gave this account of his sorrow. He said: "I had a beautiful home once, but strong drink shattered it I had beautiful children, but this fiend of rum took their dimpled hands in his and led them to the grave. I had a wife to know her was to love her but she sits in wretch edness to-night while I wander over the earth. I had a mother, and the pride of her life was I; but the thunderbolt struck her. I now have scarcely a friend in the world. Taste of the bitter cup I have tasted, and then answer me as to whether I have any hatred for the agency of my ruin. Hate itl I hate the whole damning traffic I would to God to-nis?ht that every distillery was in flames, for then in the glowing sky I would write in the smoke of the ruin: "Woe to him that putteth the bottle to his neigh bor's lips." That minister of the Gospel went in through the broad door of tempta tion: he came out of the window. A K ARROW ESCAPE AT BEST. And when I see the temptations that are about us in all countries, and when I know the proclivities to sin in every man's heart, I see that if any of us escape it will be a very narrow escape. U, it we nave, my mends, got off from onr sin, let us tie the scarlet thread by which we have been saved across the window. Let us do it in praise of Him whose blood dyed it that color. Let it be iu announcement of the fact that we shall no more be fatally assaulted. "There is now no condemnation to tbem that are in Christ Jesus." Then let all the forces of this world come up in cavalry charge, and let spirits of darkness come, on an infernal storming party attempting to take.our souls, this rope twfsted from these words, "The blood of Jesus Christ cleansethirom allsin," will hurl them back defeated forever. Still further: We must take this red cord of the text and stretch it across the window of onr households. When the Israelitish army came up against Jericho, they said: "What is that in the window?" Some one said: "That is a scarlet line." "O," said some one else, "that must be the honse that was to be spared. Don't touch it" That line was thick enough, and long enough.and conspicuous enough to save Bahab, her father, her mother, her brothers and her sis ters the entire family. Have onr house holds as good protection? You have bolts on the front door and on the back, and fast enings to the window, and perhaps burglar alarms, and perhaps an especial watchman blowing his whistle at midnight before your dwelling; but all that cannot protect your household. WHAT SIGN IS THERE? Is there on our houses the sign of a Savior's sacrifice and mercy? -Is there a scarlet line In the window?" Have your children been consecrated to Christ? Have you been washed in the blood of the atonement? In what room do you have family prayers? Show me where it is you are accustomed to kneel. The sky is black with the coming deluge. Is your family inside or outside of the art? It is a sail thing for a man to reject Christ; but to lie down in the night of sin, across the path to heaven, "so that his family come up and trip over him that is terrific! It is a sad thing lor a momer to reject unrist; out to gather her family around her, and then take them by The hand and lead them out into paths of worldliness, away from Godand heaven, alas! alas! There may be geranium and cactus in that family window, and upholstery hover ing over it, and childish faces looting ont of it, but there is no scarlet thread stretched across it Although f bathouse may seem to be on the best street in all the 'town or city, it is really on the edge of a marsh across which sweep most poisonous malarias, and it has a sandy foundation, and its splendor will come down, and great will be the fall of it. A home without God 1 A prayerless father ! An undevout mother ! Awful I awful I Is that you? Will you keep on, my brother, on the wrong road, and take your loved ones with you? Time is so short that we cannot waste any of it on apologies or indirections or circumlocutions. You owe to your children, O father. O mother, more than food, more than clothing, more than shelter vou owe them the example of a prayerful, consecrated, pronounced out-and-out Christian life. You cannot afford to keep it away from tbem. MEMORY OF A CHRISTIAN HOME. Now, as I stand here, you do not see any hands outstretched toward me, and yet there are hands on my brow and hands on both my shoulders. They are hands of -parental benediction. It is quite a good many years ago now since we folded those hands as they began the last sleep on the banks of the Baritan in the village cemetery; but those hands are stretched out toward me to-day, and they are just as warm and they are just as gentle as when I sat on her knee at 5 years of age. And I shall never shake off those hands. I do not want to. They have helped me so much a thousand times already, and I do not expect to have a trouble or a trial between this .and my grave where those hands will .not help me. It was n,ot a very splendid home'; as the world calls it; but we had a family Bible there, well worn by tender genual; and there was a family altar there, -where we knelt morning and night; nd there Vas a holy Sabbath there; and stretched in a straight line oriung in loops or festoons, there was a scarlet line in the window. O, the tender, precious, blessed memory of a Christian home! Is that the impression you are making on your children? When you are dead and it will not be lone before yon ftro - wnenyon are dead, will your cnild say: "If there was ever a good Christian father, mine was one. If there was ever a good Christian mother, mine was one?" Still further, we want this scarlet line of the text drawn across the window of our prospects. I see Bahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and sisters looking out over Jericho, the city of palm trees, and across the river, and over at the army invading, and then up to the moun tains and the sky. IT MARS NOTHING. Hind you, this honse was on the wall, and I suppose the prospect from the win dow must have been verv wide. Besides that, I do not think that the scarlet line at all interfered with the view of the land scape. The assurance it gave of safety must nave added to the beauty of the country. To-day, my friends, we sit in the window of earthly prospects, and we look off toward the hills of heaven and the landecapeof eternal beauty. God has opened the win dow for us, and we look out We now only get a dim outline of the inhabitants. We now only here and there catch a note of the exquisite harmony. But blessed be God for this scarlet line in the window. That tells me that the blood of Christ bought that home for my soul, and I shall go there when my work is done. And as I pnt my hand on that scarlet line, every thing in the future brightens. My eyesight gets better, and the robes of the victors are more lustrous, and our loved ones who went away some time ago they do not stand any more with their backs to us, bnt their faces are this way and their voices drop through this Sabbath air, sayinir with all tenderness and sweetness: "Come! Comet Come!" And the child that you think of only as buried why, there she is, and it is May day in heaven; and they gather the amaranth, and they pluck the lilies, and tney twist tbem into a carland tor her brow, and she is one of the May queens of heaven. O do you think they could see our waving to-day? It is quite a pleasant day, pretty clear, and not many clouds in the sky. I wonder if they can see us from that good land? I think they can. THE HEAVENLY RESPONSES. If from this window of earthly prospects we can almost see them, then from their towers of light I think they can fully see us. And so I wave them the glory, and I wave them the joy, and I say: "Have you got through with all your troubles?" and their voices answer: "God hath wiped away all tears from our eyes." I say: "Is it as grand up there as you thought it would be?" and the voices answer: i,ye bath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for those that love Him." I say: "Do you have anv more struggle for bread?" and they answer: "We hunger no more, we thirst no more." And I say: "Have you been out to the cemetery of the golden city?" and they answer: "There is no death here." And I look ont through the heavens, and I say: "Where do you get your light from nights, and what do you burn in the temple?" and they answer: "There is no night here, and we have no need of candle or of star." And I say: "What book do you sing out of?" and they answer: "The Hallelujah Chorus." And I say: "In the splendor and magnificence of the city, don't you ever get lost?" and they answer: "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne leadeth us to living fountains of water." HOW MUCH THE SCARLET MEANS. O, how near they seem! Their wings do you not leel them? Their harps do you not hear them? And all that through the window of our earthly prospects, across which stretcheth the scarlet line! Be that my choice color forever. Is it too glaring for you? Do you like the bine because it reminds you oi the sky, or the green because it makes yon think ot the foliage, or the black because it has in it the shadow of the night? I take the scarlet because it shall make me think of the price that was paid for my sou!. O the blood! the blood! the blood ot the .Lamb or uod that taketh away the sin of the world. I see where you are. Yon are at the cross roads. The next step decides everything. Pause before you take it; bnt do not pause too long. I hear the blast of the trumpet that wakes the dead. Look out! Look ont! For in that day, and in our closing moment on earth, better than any other defense or barricade, however high or'broad or stupendous, will be one little, thin, scarlet thread in the window. BUYING ALL AROUND. Several Piece of Sown Town Bnnines Property Chnnge Ilnnd Good bnt Not Fancy Price Saturday' Closing Prices. The most important event in real estate that was allowed to reach the surface Satur day was the sale by Black & Baird of a three-fourths interest in a business property on Smithfield street, near the new Postoffice bnilding. Property in this part of the city is beginning to be appreciated. Samuel W. Black & Co. completed the transfer of a business property on 'Wood street, near Second avenue, for $22,000. The name of the purchaser could not be obtained, but it was stated that he would either improve the present building or put up a new one. Still another piece of downtown property was picked up at a price approximating $17,000. It belonged to the Mrs. Phebe Phillips estate. Mr. V. C. Koebne is the reputed purchaser. It was reported that the McKelry farm, near Swissvale, had been purchased by a syndicate of local capitalists, who wonld subdivide It. The price mentioned was 550,000. The report could not be confirmed. Business at the stock call Saturday was re stricted to People's Pipeage, Philadelphia Gas Trust and Switch and Signal. Quotations showed no special change, but the list taken in its entirety, was firmer. On the weak side. Central Traction was the most conspicuous, 31 being bid against 31ii the day before. The other tractions were weak and neglected. Natural gas stocks about held their own. Philadelphia Gas Trust sold at 28. This was a surprise to some, and the transac tion was regarded as a feeler, A quotation was made, but too far from the regular to be ac cepted as a precedent. The conditions do not warrent such a difference. As a bear move it was not a success. Railroad shares were in demand at full prices. Bank stocks were firm and dull. Insurance Companies were steady and neglected. Sales were 160 shares. For the week they were 1,694, and for the previous week 4,798. The features were weakness in street railways and dullness as compared with previous weeks of the year. The close was at something better than lowest prices, but with no signs of material improvement. The bank clearings last week showed a gain over those of the same time last year or $3,378, 984 27. For the week they were 114,691,069 63. against S13.704.728 34 the previous week. So far this year there has been a large and steady gain In the volume of trade over 1SS9, showing, despite many drawbacks, a degree of prosper ity never before known In this line of industry. The money market was quiet, discounting being only fair, and the ruling rate 6 per Cent. Funds were sufficient for all requirements. Clerical business was up to the average of recent times, and currency and exchange about even. The Clearing House report follows: Saturday's exchanges 1 2.274,086 32 baturday's balances 415,118 48 eek's exchanges 14,691,069 3 Previous week's exchanges 13,704.728 34 Exchanges week of 1889 11.412,085 38 Uain for week over 1889 3,278,884 27 Sletnl Itlnriiot. NkwYobk-PIe iron quiet; Scotch, $24 000 27 75; American, I7 0020 00. Copper quiet; lake, February, S14 2a Lead firm; domestic SSKl. 'Unsteady. Whisky Mnricet. CHICAGO Advices from producing points hed goods at SI 02. show a good demand for finis "Thebe may be virtue in yonr but nothing equals Dr. Bull's Syrup." remedy Cough PrrrsBUEG- Beef Co., wholesale agents for Swift's Chicago dressed beef, sold for week ending February 8, 157 carcasses of beef; average weight per carcass, 627 pounds; average price per pound, 5.71 cents. Abmotjb & Co., of this city, report the following sales of dressed beef for the week ending February 8: 175 carcasses, average weight 586 pounds, average price 5 66. n.,.v liiisiff .tiii r , DOMESTIC MARKETS. A Quiet Wind-Up to a Quiet Week in Groceries and. Produce. SUGAES BfiOP AGAIN, COFFEE FIRM. Heavj Kecelpts of Grain and Hay for the TYelc,and.Toneof MARKETS CONTINUES YERI WEAK. Office of Pittsburg Dispatch, BATOBDAT, February 8, 1890. i Conntry Produce Jobblne Prices. The week's wind-up was slow in all lines of conntry produce, with poultry as the exception to the rule. There was a scarcity of choice poultry, and hence firmer markets. The down ward movement of the egg market has been arrested, and holders are firmer in their views. Prices, however, are unchanged. Choice onions and cabbage are very firm atquotations. Sweet potatoes are ditto. Irish potatoes of good quality are steady. There Is seldom a season when so much inferior stuff has been dumped on to onr markets as this, and hence choice goods are at a premium all the time. The open winter has had the effect of very much reduc ing the average quality of produce, and only good coods find ready sale. Butter Creamery, Elzin 3031c; Ohio do, 2627c: rresh dairy packed, 2223c: country mils, 1920c. Beans Naw hand-picked beans, $2 002 25: medium, $1 752 00, Beeswax 2528o f) ft lor choice; low grade, 1820c Cider Sand refined. (7 50: common, 4 50 5 00; crab cider, $8 008-50 $ barrel; elder vinegar. 1012c P gallon. Chestnuts 5 0005 50 59 bushel; walnuts. 6070c y bushel. Cheese Ohio. llUXc; New York, 11K Ijimbnrger9KUc; domestic Sweitzer, 11 13Kc; imported Sweitzer, 23Jc Eogs ll15o straight f) dozen for strictly fresh. Fruits Apples, fancy, $3 (XX3H 00 barrel; cranberries, $4 004 25 a crate; strawberries, 3K3H0c a box. Featiiers Extra live ceese, 6060c; No. 1, do. 4045c: mixed lots. 8035e fl ft. Poultry Live chickens, 7580 a pair; dressed, ll14c a pound; ducts, 75c$l $ pair; live turkeys, 1314c ?) ft; dressed turkeys, 17 18c $t ft. Seeds Clover, choice. 62 fts to bnsbel, S4 20 4 40 W bnsbel; clover, laree English, 62 En, 84 354 60; clover, Alslke, $8 00: clover, white. $9 00: timothy, choice. 45 fts. SI 6001 70: bine grass, extra clean, 14 Its, SI 251 SO; bine crass, fancy, 14 Sis, 51 30; 'orchard crass, 14 &9, 1 40; red top, 14 ft. SI 00; millet, 50 fts, SI 00; Hun garian crass, 50 lbs. SI 00: lawn crass, mixture of fine grasses, $2 50 f) bushel of 14 fts. Tallow Conntry, 4c; city rendered, 5c Tropical Fruits Lemons, common, S3 00 63 50; fancy, S4 0O5 00: Florida oranges. S3 00 4 00: banana". SI 752 00 firsts, SI 001 25 cood seconds, $ bunch: cocoanuts, S4 00?4 50 f hundred; figs, 89c ft ft; dates. 67Uc f ft; new layer figs, 12J1dKc; new dates, 7c $ ft: pine apples. S2 50 ft dozen. vegetables Potatoes, from store, 5560c; on track, 4550c: cabbaces, $2 002 60 a barrel: Butch cabbage, $15 00 $) hundred; celery 40c dozen; Jersey sweet potatoes, $4 504 75 a bar rel: turnips, SI 001 25 a barrel; onions, 54 B0& 5 25 a barrel, SI 501 75 1 bushel. Buckwheat Flour 22Jc pound. Grocerle. , The expected drop in sugar has occurred, as our quotations below will disclose. Coffees are very firm, but price of packages is un changed. Jobbers report a quiet week's trade in general groceries. Green Coffee Fancy Rio, 2324c; choice Rio, 2122c; prime Rio, 20e; low grade Rio, 18$19Kc: old Government Java, 2728c; Mar acaibo, 23V24Xc: Mocha, 28K29fc; Santos, 20K24c: Caracas, 2224c: peaberry. Rio, 23 24c; La Guayra. 2324c. Roasted (in papers) Standard brands. 24c; high grades, 2o29Kc; old Government Java, bulk. 31K33c; Maracaibo, 2728c; Santos, 24 28Kc: peaberry, 28HC; choice Rio. 25c; prime Rio, 33c: good Rio, 22c; ordinary, 21c. Spices (whole) Cloves, 1920c; allspice, 10c; cassia, Sc: pepper, 17c; nutmeg, 70S0c Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 testTJic; Ohio, 120. 8c; headlight, 150, 8Jic: water white. 10kc; globe. 1414c; elaine, 14kc; car. nadine, llc: royaline, 14c; globe red oil, 11 HKc. Duriiv. 14c Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 454sc )) callon; summer, 4043c. Lard-Oil, 6065c. SYBUrs Corn syrnp, 2629c; Choice sugar syrnp, 3638c; prime sugar syrnp, 30S3c; strictly prime, odoc; new mapie syrup, wc. h.kj. j: lOLASSES-Fancv. new crop. 4S choice. 47c; medium. 3S43c; mixed. 4042c Soda Bl-carb in kegs, 33:; bi-carb in JfooKc: bi-carb, assorted par leases, 66c; sal-soda in kegs, lc; do granulated, 2c. Candles Star, full weight, 9cj stearine, ?1 set, 8c; parafline. ll12c Rice Head. Carolina, 6Ji7c: choice, 6K 6Jc; prime, 5Bc: Louisiana, 66Vc Starch Pearl, 2JC; cornstarch, o6c; gloss starch, 47c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, $2 65; Lon don laver, $2 90; California London layers, S2 75: Muscatels, 52 40; California Muscatels, $2 25; Valencia. 75c; Ondara Valencia, 8 8Jc; sultana. He; currants, 5Ji5c: Tnrkey prunes, 4Joc: French prunes, 610c: Salon 1 ca prunes, in 2-B packages, 8Kc: cocoanuts. 100, S6; almonds, Lan, fl ft, 20c; do Ivica, 17c; do, shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap, 1415c: Sicily, Alberts. 12c; Smyrna figs, 12l3c: new dates, 6 c; Brazil nuts, lie; pecans, 11615c; citron, fl ft, 1819c; lemon peel, 18c 33 ft; orange peel, 17c Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft, 6c; ap ples, evaporated, 9c; apricots, California, evap orated, 1515c: peaches, evaporated, pared, 2628c; peaches, California, evaporated, un pared, 18019c; cherries, pitted, 1313c; cher ries, unpitted, 50c: raspberries, evaporated, 25K26.kc; blackberries, 77c; huckleberries, 1012c bUGARS Cubes, 7c; powdered, 7c; granu lated, 6c; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A, 6Jc; sott white. 66Jc: yellow, choice, 5V 5JJc: yellow, good, 55aoc; yellow, fair, 6J oc: vellow. dark. 5wc Pickles Medium, bbls (1,200), SO 00; medi um, half bbls (600), S3 5a Salt N o. 1, $ bbl, 95c; No. 1 ex, $ bbl. 81 00: dairy, V bbl, $1 2q; coarse crystal. $ bbl, $1 20; Higgins' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, 2 80; Hlceins' Eureka. 16-14 ft packets. 53 00, Canned Goods Standard peaches $2 00 2 25: 2ds. 51 651 80; extra peaches, S2 402 60; pie peaches, 95c: finest corn. SI 001 50; Hid Co. corn, 6585c: red cherries, 90cJl; Lima beans 1 20; soaked do, 80c; string do, 6065c; mar rowfat peas, SI 101 15; Boaked peas, 7080c; pineapples. 51 3ul 40: Bahama do, S2 75; damson plums, 95c; Greengages, 51 25; egg plums. 52 00; California Dears. 52 40; do green gaees, 51 85; do egg plums, SI 85: extra white cherries. $2 40: raspberries. 95cSl 10: straw. berries. SI 10; gooseberries, SI 301 40; toma toes, 8590c; salmon, 1-ft. SI C5l 90; black berries. 65c; succotash. 2-B cans, soaked, 90c; do green. 2 ft, $1 2501 50; corn beef, 2-ft ean 52 05; 14-ft cans, $14 00; baked beans, 51 451 50: lobster, 1-ft, tl 751 80; mackerel, 1-ft can broiled; SI1 50; sardines, domestic, Ws. $4 25 4 60; sardines, domestic s. 56 757 00; sar dines, imported, is, $11. 5012 60: sardines, im ported, Js, $18 UO; sardines, mustard, S3 40: sardines, spiced, 53 60. Fisn Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, S36 a bbl.; extra No. 1 do, mess, $40: extra No. 1 mack erel, shore. 32: extra No. 1 do, mess, $36; No. 2 shore mackerel, 521 Codfish Whole pollock 4Jc V B: do medium, George's cod. 6c; do large. 7c; boneless hake, in strips, 6c; do George's cod in blocks. 67Kc. Herrinc Round shore. S4 SO J3 bbl.: sunt, 5650: lake 52 90 W 100-ft bbl. Whltefish, $0 00 $1 100-ft half bill. Lake tront, 55 50 V half bbl. Finnan haddock, 10c R ft. Ice'and hallput, 13o W ft. Pickerel. K bbl.. 52 00: 5 bbl.. SI 10; Potomac herring! So 00 ?1 bbl.: 52 50 per bbl. a' Oatmeal 56 006 25 $ bbl. Grain, Floor nnd Feed. There were no sales on call at the Grain Ex change. Total receipts, as bulletined, 32 cars, of which one-half were by the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago, as follows: Three cars of flour. 2 of oats, 9 of nay, 2 of barley. By Pitts burg, Cincinnati ana Bt, Louis: "one car of corn, 2 of oats, 3 of hay. By Baltimore and Ohio: Three cars of hay, 1 of shell corn. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie: One car of rye, 1 of flour. By Pittsburg and Western: Three cars of corn, 1 of oats, 1 of hay. Total receipts bulletined for the week, 240 cars, agalntt 204 last week and 177 and 179 for the two previous weeks. The great increase in this week's re ceipts is in hay, and for this reason markets are weak and lower than they wore last Saturday. High grades of corn are steady, by reason of the scarcity In this line. Flonr is quiet. Bran is firm and a shade higher. Prices below are for carload lots on track. WHKAT-NewNo.2red,its5c; No. 3, 81 COKN No. 2 yellow, ear, new, 3835Kc: hleh mixed, new. S435c; No. 2 yellow, shelled, old, 3637c: new. 33034c; old, high mixed, shelled. 85S6c. Rejected sheljed corn, 2830c. Oats-No. 2 white. 2823&c: extra, No. 8. 27 27Kc; mixed. 24K25c. ,o.o,i Rve No. IPennsvlvanIa and Ohio. 53054c: No. 1 Western. 61652c- ' Flotjb Jobbing prices Fancy winter and spring patents. 55 005 50: winter straight. &JJ ?", clB?r.wi!!I?r' M 4 25; straight XXXX bakers'. S3 603 73. Rye flour, S3fi) 4 75. MttWEED Middlings, fine white, S15 00 16 00 ton; brown middlings, $12 00014 00; winter wheat bran, $11 75SI12 25: chop feed. HAT-Baled timothy, No,'L til 25811 73; No. 2 do, $9 010 GOi loose from wagon, 5U 00018 00, iTitifitfrir r--y -r- f m- according to quality; No. 2 prairie bar, V 8 00: packingMo, E6 7507 00. Straw Oat $8 757 00; wheat and straw, J6 008 25. rye Provision, 'The only changes in provisions aro an ad vance of 50c per barrel on family pork and a drop of ia per pound on bacon shoulders. Sugar-cured bams, large, 9Jc. sugar-cured hams, medium, 10c; sugar-cured hams, small. vic; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, sc: sugar cured shoulders, 5c; suear-cured, boneless shoulders. Tc; sugar-cured California bams, 6Kc; sngar-cured dried beef flats, 9c; sngar-enred dried beef sets, 10c; sngar-enred dried beef rounds, 12c; bacon, shoulders, 6Jc: bacon, clear sides, 7fc; bacon, clear bellies, 7Kc: dry salt shoulders. 6c; dry salt clear sides, 7c. Mess Eork, heavy, ill 00; mess pork, family, S12 00. ard Refined, in tierces, 5c; half-barrels. 6c; win mus, oc: am pans, tc; ou-js tin cans, oc; 3-ft tin pails, &c; 5-ft tin pails, 6c; 10-ft tin flails. tc; 5-ft tin pails. (c Smoked sausage, ong, 5c; large, 5c. Fresh pork links, 9c. Bone less hams, 10c Pigs' feet, half-barrels, S4 00; quarter-barrel, 52 15. AT THEIR OLD TRICKS. The Bears Make a Raid on Wall Street Heavy Xo la the Bank Reserve Saear a Strong Fcntare. New York, February 8. The stock market to-day was as usual of late, nairow and dull for the general lists, while a few stocks monopo lized all the interest taken in the speculation. The general tone was strong and even bnoyant until the issue of the bank statement, which, at its nnexpected loss in the surplus reserve, in duced bears to try their band once again in an attack upon the marker. The heavy loss in the reserve is attributed in part to complications arising from the recent failures of the three banks. thouch the effects of f these troubles have all developed by this time uuu passed away, me Dears wno nave Deen roughly handled of late in Louisville and Nash ville, Reading and Lackawanna, were not so aggressive, and the losses occasioned by their demonstration were small in every case hut one. Lackawanna, Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, Richmond and West Point and Sugar Refin eries were the strong points, though the final raid carried away most of the gains in all ex cept the last named stock, on which as well as Lead the attack was qnite bullish, though Lead failed to respond. The events oi the past two or three days have tnrned a number of onera. tors on the street from the bear to the bull side and rumors ot the common settlement of matters important to the trade are circulated. The market finally closed rather heavy on the raid and at small fractions below last night's closing prices, as a rule. Atlantic and Pacific fours rose 4 to 75; Jersey Central converti bles. 3Ktol28, and -Reading convertible in comes, wi to 46. The sales of bonds for the week aggregated 58,058,000 against 59,823,000 for last week. The rouowinr tame snows the prices ot active stocks on the New York Stock lSxcnanze yester day. Corrected dally ror Thi Dispatch bv Whitnit & Stephinson; oldest Pltuburir mem bers of .New York Stock Kxcnange. 67 Fourth ave nue: Clos- Low- lne eft. Hit. 33 33 32V 32 74H UH 117 117 J08 107 695 69H US 118 16M 15 Open in r. Am. Cotton Oil Trust.. 27H Am. Cotton OH 33 S Atch., Top.ftts. r 33)t Canadian Pacific IVi Canada Southern Central of New Je.nej.WH Cheuneake a Ohio.... 25H 0.. Bar. A yuincT. ....10S a. Mil. & SC aul.... 69H a, iiu.tst. p.. pr....iis C, Kock 1. &P 93K C St. L. & Pitts 16M C St. L. k Pitts. pL C. St. P.. M. & V 33 c. st.p..tt.&o..or. C. A Northwestern 110 CSNortawestern. or. 142 High est. 27K Z3H 33H IVi link 252 108)4 69 116 94H 16 33 142 72W 7 J Sl)i 2Hf 137 151) "sii 24" I8 6S 106 90 S3 n'6" 141 i 71 97 SO 2'K 137 151 "i'k 23 33 So 109X Ulii 72 97 49V 21 )J 13IH 151 16 9 72 235 in im C, C. C. il 725 a. c. a & i.. or nii Col. Cost A Iron 50M Col. A Hoctlnz vat .. 21 Dei.. L. 4 W 137X Del. Hudson, 151H Denver Bio U K.T.. Va. ilia )f K.T..VS. ftUa.lst of. .... K. T.. Va. A Oi. 2d pr. mi Illinois Central Lake Erin A Western.. I8k . Lake Erie A West. Dr.. 66'2 Xake Snore A M. 3 106H Louisville & Nashville. 89 Mobile Ohio Mo.. Kan. A Texas.... lost Missouri faclnc 75 W Mew York Central 106 N. Y.. Ii.lE.Jtff N.Y..L..E. AW.pref. 21. X.. U A St. L c. 1.. C A St. L. Of. N.lf.. u. Afctt.lj.24 Dt .... S.X&H. U 48 X. X.. O. A W .... .Norfolk a Western.... 21 -Norfolk A Western, or. .... Northern Pacine Nortnern Pacllle pref. Kii Ohio MlsslaslDpl..... ..... Oregon improvement. .... Oregon Transcoa 37 PacincMall 39X Peo. Dee. A Evans Pnuadal. A tteadlnc.. 42 Pullman Palace Oar Blcnmona A W. P. T.. 22 Richmond A W.P.T.nl 79 St. p.. Minn, a Man St. L A San Fran St. L. San irran sf.. 33 18 inn 106! 89J M I06M 89)2 10 74 109 10) 74 1C7 306 28 62 70), 39 47 18 S3 32 75 2 f KM 3 Ha 42 18S 22 79 112 17 33 84 21 67 13 28 84 69 60 19 47J4 48H 21 47 21 75X 75 37 39 42 41 22 79 si. l,. a san tr. in pr. Texas Paclfio Union I'acinc Wabasn Wabash preferred.... Western Union Wheeling A L. ..... Snirar Trust. .21 57, is 59 21 674 28 M 69 61 19 7 21 87 28 81 69 58 19X 47 National tread Trust.. 19K cnicago oas Trust. Ex-dividend. . 47J1 Boston Stocks. Atch. ATop. B.K. .. 32 Boston A Albany.. .217H Boston A Maine. ....207 C, . At 108 Wis. Central pC... 63 AllouezMgCo 2 Calumet A Hecla....253 franklin 13 Huron..... 3 Osceola. 27 Pewable .8 Uulncr 70 Bell Telepnone 223 Boston Land 6 W ater Power 5 Tamarack ill uvstern u. rt 140 Eastern 11. K. 8s ....124 Flint A PereM 22 Mexican Cen. com.. 17 Mex.C.lstmtg. bds. 90 . t. ANewlSng... 48 ugu.L..unam.com. 6 Old Colony...... 176 Rutland, com 9 Kutland orererred.. 73 Wls.Centnu.com... 32 San Diego 17 Santa Fe copper..... 1.25 Philadelphia mocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney A Stephenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members Mew xorK stock Exchange. BM. Asked. 54) 55 21 21 1-18 8 9)1 52 53 52? 52X 32 32M 75 75 Pennsylvania Railroad. . Heading Buffalo, Pittsburg A Western.1 , ;' Lieuign vaiiey Lehigh .Navigation Nortdern Pacific Kortnem Pacific nreierred Closing-Bond Quotations. U. 8. 4,reg van U.S. 4. coup 123X U. s. 4s, reg. van D. 8. 4)i9. conn.... 104)6 Pacific 6s of '90. lis Irfralfilanastampedts 97K Missouri 6s 100 Tenn. new set. 6s... 107M U.K. AT.Gen.ss . C5M Mutual Union 8s.. ..102 N. J. C. Int. Cert.. .111 Northern Pac. lsts..H4H Northern Pac. 2ds.-tl4M Northwt'n consols. 142 Northw'n deben's.,110 Oregon & Trans. Cs.lOi'4 St. L. &I.M. Gen. 6s 91W ienn. new set. M....lir..'4 Tenn. new set. 3s.... 74 Canada So. 2ds 100 Cen. Pacificists HIM lien. A K. U., ISU...11SS Den. It. U. 4s 78- D.&K.G.'West.lsts. - Sricsus 102 U.K. AT. Gen. s.. 7H St. fi.AS.f. Gen.Jl.llO Sv. Panl consols ...,126 St. PI. Chl&PclJU.lI6 Tx., PcU G.Tr.Ka. KH Tx.,PcK.t.Tr.Kcta 40), umuu xac. UIS.....IUK West Shore 105) Saturday's OH Range. Corrected dally by John M. Oauey & Co., 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange. Opened, , K6jj Lowest... 107 Iciosed..., If6?& 1C6.H 1) arrets. 39.788 79,211 65.317 till highest Average charters Average shipments Average runs Refined, Mew York. 7.50c Keflned, London. 6 13-16d. Beflned, Antwerp, 17r. Keflned. Liverpool, tid. Keflned. llremen. 6.50m. A. B. McQrew quotes: $10. Puts, $1 06S; calls. Business Note. Duqtjesne Heights is to he improved by a new board walk' and steps. Both are badly needed. Owtnq to warm weather East, the Reading Railroad Company shut down another Urge colliery. TnERK is a good demand for business prop erty and choice residence sites in all parts of the city and suburbs. Baxter, Thompson t Co., real estate brokers, are permanently located at No. 162 Fourth avenue, where their friends will always find tbem "at home." Several business men spoken to yester day Objected to any site for the Carnegie Library below Grant street, They preferred East Liberty to Suquesne way. A 'well-knciWX capitalist remarked yester day that at least three flats would be erected In Pittsburg or Allegheny thisvear. It is his intention to introduce the system here. If pos sible. The annual meeting of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company for the election of officers and directors, will be held on Wednesday of this week, at 10 A.M., at the company's office on Wood street, TV. W. McNeill t Bro., 105 Fourth avenue, have placed a mortgage of $400 for four years at 6 per cent on Second ward, Allegheny, prop erty. Also a mortgage ot $8,000 on Allegheny City business property, for tnree years, at 6 percent. Chaeih Bonus, Coi, 818 Wood street, J tjritmiiMlMmtohaMl have sold for George Herring to Prof. Bobert Martin a residence property at Avalon station, Fittsburg. Ft Wayne and Chicago Railroad, beine a six-room cottage house, with lot 75x100, for 53,200 cash. The visible snpplyof rettned oil for the seven principal continental ports, January 17, was 568,000 barrels; decrease, 25,000 barrels. Taken for consumption from the same ports July 1, 1889. to January 17,3,220,000 barrels; In crease, 627,000 barrels. A BETTER FEELING. Slore Activity In Cerenli and Hoe Products, With Some Improvement In Prices Wheat Boomed by a Cold Wave. Chicago Wheat A fair business was trans acted, and the feeling developed was firm and with a stronger undertone to the market. Fluctuations -were slight, and confined within c range. The firmness was attributed to colder weather, with fears of damage to the growing crop, which in some cases is reported to be in an un usually advanced growth for this season of the year. The export clearances, too, were fairly large. The receipts for the week at the princi pal receiving points were about the same as last week, and, with exports larger, it is fair to presnme that the visible supply will show a decrease estimated at' from 400,000 to' 600,000 bushels. Corn received moderate attention, trading being fairly active within narrow limits, and the feeling developed on the whole was steady. The Influences on tne market were much the same as of late, and no new feature was pre sented. The market opened at about yester day's closiug prices, was easy for a time, be came firmer, and closed a trifle easier than yes terday. Oats There was more trade, and a quiet and easy feeling prevailed. Receiving houses were free sellers of May, July sold at lo decline, with very little trading. Mess Pork Trading was quite active, and the market in a general way exhibited consid erable strength. Local operators purchased to some extent, and shorts provided for a few con tracts. Prices were advanced 1012Kc on the whole range, and the advance was moderately well supported. - Lard Only a fair business was transacted, and the feeling was steadier. Prices were a little more, favorable to sellers, though jio material change was noticed. Short Rib Slides Trading was more active and chiefly on local account. Prices advanced 2K5c. and the Improvement was fairly well supported. The leading futures ranged as follows: WHKAT-No. 2. May. 78$782785785c: Jnne. 78787SS7!9ic; July. 77K77K77 77Vic. CORN No. 2, March, 29K3K29K295ic; May, 31K31J3131c; July. 3313i31 May, 3 3lgfc. Oats No. 2. May. 22V022X02ZiX022a Mess Pork, per bbl. March. $9su983 9 80&9 SO; May, $10 1010 07K0 95010 05; June, $10 1010 10Q10 1010 10. Lard, per 100 fts. March, J5 8505 85S5 85 5 85; May. S5 97K6 005 87K6 00; June, $6 056 07K6 056 05. Short Ribs, per 100 Its. March, $4 77K 4 804 77K4 60: May. S4 S7K4 904 870 i 90; June, $t 954 954 954 95. Cash quotations were as follows: Flonr steady unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 76c; No. 3 spring wheat. 70c: No. 2 red. 76c No. 2 corn. 2S2Sc No. 2 oats, 20Vc. No. 2 rye. 42c. No. 2 barley, 5557c. No. 1 flaxseed. $1 33. Prime timothy seed. $1 20. Mess pork, per bbl. $9 75 70. Lard, per 100 lbs, SS 80. Short ribs sides (loose), $4 804 85. Dry salted shoulders (boxed), unchanged; short clear sides (boied), unchanged. Sugars, cut loaf, unchanged. Receipts Flour. 21.000 barrels: wheat, 16.000 bushels: corn, 189.000 bushels; oats, 112,000 bushels; rye, 3.000 bushels: barley, 39.000 bushels. Shipments Flour, 9,000 barrels; wheat, 19,000 bushels: corn, 240,000 bushels; oats, 147,000 bushels; rye, 2,000 bushels; barley, 39,000 bushels. On the Prodnce Exchange to-day the butter market was firmer; fancy Elgin creamery, 270 27Kc: fine Western, 2123c: finest dairies, 19 22c; fine. 1418c Eggs, 13Kc- New York Flour unchanged; moderate business. Uornmeal dull. Wheat Spot dull and firmer; options dull, c up srhcl steady. Rye steady. Barley steady; western, 4S63c; Canada, 69Q75c Barley malt steadv; Canada, 72K9a Corn Spot dull and steady; options dull and unchanged to 18c up and steady. Oats Spot dull and steady: options firm and dull. Hay quiet; weak shipplnir 40c; good choice. 652i 85c. .Hops strong and quiet. Coffee Options steady and unchanged to 5 points down: sales, 18.000 bags, including February. 16.0016.05c; March, 16.00316 05c; April, 15.90c: May, 15.85 15.80c; Jnne, 15.80c: July, 15.7515.80c: Sep tember, 15.7015.75c; October, 15.6515.-70c;De- cember. 15:65c: spot Rio firm and quiet; fair car goes, 19c; No. 7, 17J417Jc Sugar Raw, easy and quiet; fair refining. 5 l-16c; centrifugal, 96 test. c do C. & F., 3 3-16c: sale, 470 hogsheads; Porto Rico, 89 test, 51-18c; refined more active and firm. Molasses Foreign, strong; sales, 2 cargoes Cardenas at 21c for oO test; New Orleans strong; common to fancy. 3144c. Rice active and strong: domestic, 4K6c; Japan, liSLAc Cottonseed oil strong; crude, 28c; crude yellow, 34c. Tallow quiet. Kosln quiet and steady. Turpentine qniet and steady at 42 42Kc. Eggs steady; Western, 13J415c; re ceipts, 632 packages. Pork firm and quiet; mess, old. $1025fl075: do new, $1076011: extra prime, S92o975. Lard qniet and stroneer; sales, 1,050 tierces Western steam at $8 20, clos ing at $u 20; options, sales. 1.250 tierces; Febru ary, S6 17: March, S3 196 20, closing 18 21; April, J6 27: May, $6 33, closing; at $6 32; June, $637; July, $6 43. Butter quiet; Elgin, 2S2Sc: western dairy, 817c; do creamery. 1217ic; do held, 815c; do factory, 518c Cheese firm and moderately active; western. 810c Philadelphia Flour weak 'and unsettled Wheat firm: fair to good milling wheat, 78 85c; prime to fancy western, b792c: No. 2 red February. 8080Jic; March, 81K815c; April. S2X82c; May. 83K84c. Corn-Carlots dull; options ifi higher; No. 4 mixed and high mixed, in grain depot, 32c: steamer, in export elevator 353oc; No. 2 mixed, in erain depot, 37Kc:Nn. 2 mixed, February, 36936c: Marcb,S636c; April. 3637c; May, 87 38c Oats Car lots quiet but firm; No. 3 white. 29c; No. 2 do. 30c: futures quiet and steady: No. 2 white, 2929e: March, 2829Jc; April. 2829Kc: May, 2929c Eggs dull and weait; f-ennsyivania nrsts, lJfticeiic. Receipts corn, 113.000 bushels: oats, 3,000 bushels. Ship mentsWheat. 4,100 bushels; corn, 79,700 bushels: oats, 11,200 bushels. ST. Louis Flour quiet, except for patents, which are active and firm at $4 054 20. Wheat was dull and draggy, but closed K!c higher; No. 2 red. cash, 76c: May, 7777c closed at 77Kc: July. 7474c, closed at 74Q74Kc bltf; August, 74X74c Corn was heavy and lower all through and closed fgp below yes terday; No. 2 cash. 28c; March, 25Je26c. closed at 25c asked : May. 2727c, closed at 27lic asked; July, 28J. Oats lower; No. 2, cash, 20j?c asked; May, 21c Rye dull; 42o bid. Barley dull; small sales of Nebraska at 80c. Flaxseed quiet at SI 251 SO. Provisions firmer: pork, 810 1210 25. Minneapolis Wheat Local shipments were 34 cars; the sample market opened quiet; as is usually the case on Saturdays, but there was a slightly improved demand as the day ad vanced, and the volume of business though not fully up to expectations was fairly satis factory. Local millers were tbe principal buy ers, and a .few outside orders were filled. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard. February, 77c; March, 77Uc: May, 80c; on track, 78c: No. 1 Northern, 7575?ic; March, 76c: May, 77c:on track. 76K77c: N o. 2 Northern,72c; March, 73c: May, 75c; on track, 7374c Baltimore Provisions Steady, un changed. Butter Steady; western packed, 1520c; best roll, 16g22c; creamery, 2527c Eggs Firm, 21X23c Coffee Steady; rio.lOKc Receipts Flour, 13,500 bushels; wheat. 28,000 bushels: corn, 12.000 bushels; oats, 13,500 bush els; rye, 1,500 bushels. Shipments Corn. 22,000 bushels: sales, wheat, 90,000 bushels; corn. 253. 600 bushels. Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 spring, May, 735c: No. 1 Northern. 80c Corn auiet: No. 3. on track, 2828fc Oats steady; No. 2 white, on track, 23c Rye steady; No. L in store. 43&C Barley quiet; No. 2. in store. 42c Provisions firmer. Pork, 9 75. Lard, $5 85. Cheese steady; cheddars.99Kc Toledo Cloverseed dull and steady: cash. $3 30; March, S3 30 Md. LITE STOCK MAKKETS. By Telegraph. Chicago The Drovert' Journal reports: Cattle Receipts. 2,000 head: shipments, none; market strong; beeves, H 80S 00: steers, S3 00 04 70; stockers and feeders, S2 253 40: Tex ans. S2 4023 6U Hogs Receipts, 16,000 head; shipments. 5,000 head; market strong, 5c higher; mixed and heavy, '$3 7o4 00; light, $3 754 05: skippers, $3 0003 70. Sheep Receipts, 2,000 bead: shipments, none: market strong; natives. $3 KMo 90; western cornfed. $4 75 6 75: Toxans, $3 5005 00; lambs, $5 008 25. Cincinnati. Cattle Receipts, 340 head: shipments, 310 bead: In light demand, but steady: common, $1 502 50; fair to medium butcher grades, 52 753 50; good to choice, $3 601; kood to choice shippers, $3 9004 25. Sheep Receipts, 50 head; shipments, 50 head; are in light supply andstrong; common to fair, $304 50; prime to choice $505 50; extra wethers and yearlings, $5 605 75. Lambs are in good demand and steady; medium to choice ship ping, 6 2506 60. Buffalo Cattle Steady;"recelpts, 167 loads tbroucb. 5 sale, hheep and limbs Top grades stronger: lower grades dull; receipts, T loads through, 22 sale; sheep, ohntce to extra,$585) 6: good to choice, $5 Co5 80: common to good. $505 0: lambs, choice to extra, $6 8307 10: good to choice. $0 60B 80; common to cood,-60S 50. Hogs Receipts, 81 loads through. 25 sale; heavy steady; pigs and. light Yorks easier; mediums and heavyv$4 25: mixed, $4 25: York ers, H 204 25; plge, tt; roughs, W 2igg 60. ST.Lomj-Cattle-KeeeipM, SO hediihlp- ments, 800 head; market strong; good to fancv .native steers, 54 304TflO; fair to good. 53 40 4 35: stockers and feeders, tl 903 30: ranee steers, S3 0063 4a Hogs Receipts, 2,000 head; shipments, 1,300 head; market strong; fair to choice heavy. S3 9004 00; pack ing grades, S3 503 95: light, fair to best, 53 753 9a Sheep Receipts, none: shipment". 200 head; market firm; fair to choice. Si 30 5 40; lambs, S5 106 4a ' Kahsar' Cmr Cattle Receipts 2,800 head; shipments, 1,300 head: market steady; steers, S3 254 75: cows, St 75432 70: stockers and feeders $2-3003 2a Hogs Receipts, 4,500 head: shipments, lO.OOO.head: market steady, but closed weak: all grades. S3 703 50; bulk, 53 75. Sheep Receipts 400 head; shipments, 700 head: market steady: good to choice mut tons and lambs, S3 5005 40: stockers and feed ers, 555 25. THE TEENDJF TEADE. Demand for Harneu Leather More Active Pittsburg's Product at a Premium Upward Movement of Light Illdea Arrested Light Demand for Shoes. 'Office of Pittsburg dispatch, 1 Saturday. February 8. 1890. J In the past few days there has sprang up a very active demand for harness leather. Last Saturday we reported a very sluggish trade in this line, and an unusuallylaree accumu lation of stock at the, Allegheny tanneries. It Is a pleasure to record a decided revival since that date, and orders are already in sufficient to cleanup tbe accumulated stock. Prices so far are unchanged, but with a continuation of the present activity for a few weeks advanced rates are sure to prevail., Harness leather has been down to bard pan, and even below hard pan for many months past, and any future changes in markets are bound to be toward a higher level of prices. The tide has at lasttumed. Allegheny harness leather is always the first to reap any benefit from advancing markets, being at a premium of at least lc per pound over other harness leather. Said one of onr leading manufacturers of harness leather, who a week ago was rather blue over tbe outlook: "I do not think we will see leather as dull and low again this season as it was during the month of January, in all my knowledge of the business, tbe past month has been the poorest. Prices were lower than ever before in my memory. Now I feel confident that the worst is over, and that we will not see as low prices, or as sluggish markets this year, or for many years to come." Hide Bttll Doll. The activity which has made its appearance in the harness leather department has not shown Itself in the hide trade The latter is expected .to reap the benefit later on. bnt at present there are no signs of Improvement. Some dealers report green steer hides as slight ly lower than they were last week. Certain It is that markets show weakening tendencies. Bull bides, which have been very active and moving upward for a few weeks past, have been arrested in their upward course, and are now drifting slowly back to their old level. Tbe reason for the upward movement wa3 a heavy export demand, which no longer exists. Added to tbe exDort demand there came strone SDecu- lative influences which sent tbe light-weight hides sharply upward for a few weeks past. Calf skins are in good demand and prices are steady. Prices of hides and calf skins are no doubt now at their lowest for this season. There is a strong feeling ot confidence among dealers over the outlook. With an active de mand for leather, which has already started, it is only a question of short time when tbe ac tivity will reach the bide department, and any future changes will inevitably be for the bet ter. Local Jobbing Shoe Trade Goes Slow. The Jobbing shoe trade, so far as local demand is concerned, is very slow. Orders are coming freely from points at a distance, but from our nearby towns orders are very light. A repre sentative of one of the leading jobbing houses thus reports tbe situation: "Our local trade is unusually light, for this time in the year. Re tailers In this vicinity are evidently carrying light stocks of goods. Knowing that tbey can seenre their goods on short notice, tbey pursue the hand to mouth policy and thus the jobber is forced to carry the burden. Onr customers at a distance are obliged to keep more stock ahead, and from them we are getting more than tne average amount of orders for spring trade." Notwithstanding the lightness of local orders onr shoe dealers are strong in the faith of a good year before us. Said one who has been associated with the trade a generation or more: "The people must nave their usual quantity of foot covering Our city is growing fast and the region which looks to Pittsburg for its supplies is developing at an unprece dented rate. The increasing populations must bare boots and shoes, and while there may be temporary lulls and spurts In our trade, we have no fear that the outcome for the year be fore us will show a larger volume of trade than any previous year. The local spring trade starts out slow, but it will be all the heavier when it once makes a start." CAPTDEED THE C00ET. Amusing Story That li Told ot a. Retired Brooklyn Janice. Brooklyn Eagle. Once upon a time Justice Charles Kiehl, now retired, was sitting in awlnl dignity upon the bench, trying with all his might to look stern and wise, as befitted the majesty of his position, and being helped very much in his endeavors by the snowy whiteness ot his long and bushy beard. The late Arthur Bassett was appealing to him with all his native eloquence for the discharge of a de fendant, but had (ailed to soften the magis trate's heart. Finally Mr. Bassett sprang upon His Honor a long and striking sen tence in an unknown tongue. It had an immediate effect, for the Judge, who had been getting a little drowsy, looked up with a start and remarked, "Say that again, Mr. Bassett." Mr. Bassett' couldn't say it again, for it was manufactured gibberish, but he said something that sounded very like it and was equally unintelligible and impressive. Judge Kiehl looked admiringly at the learned advocate, ana determining to get at the full meaning of the words of wisdom which had been uttered, said: "Couldn't that be put in English?" "It could, Your Honor. It is one of the most familiar of legal maxims," and then Mr. Bassett gave an impromptu translation of a kind, everyone wno ever knew him may be sure, to exactly fit his client's case. Jndge Kiehl digested it thoronghiy and said: "You're right. I hadn't thought of that before. The prisoner is discharged." A DETECTIVE KJIiLED After Hot Words Edward Flndlny Draws and Shnota Six Times. Kansas City, February 9. Ed Find lay shot and killed Joseph Carr, yesterday aiternoon. Edward'Findlay is a politician, and one of the best known sporting men in the "West. Carr is a private detective whom Findlay long ago discovered dogging his footsteps. Findlay caused his arrest on a charge of attempted robbery, as Carr stopped him on the street at 1 o'clock in the morn ing and acted suspiciously. .It turned out, however, that Carr had been hired by Find lay's wife to shadow him and report to her his misconduct. Since that time Findlay and Carr have looked upon each other with suspicion', and Carr, it is alleged, has threatened Findlay's life. The two men met lace to face this after noon, exchanged a few angry words, and then Findlay drew his revolver and fired six shots into the detective's body. Carr died almost instantly. Findlay was ar rested, arraigned betore Justice Worthen and committed without bail. The Second Cabinet Catastrophe. Buffalo Courier. The distressing affair at Washington re calls the catastrophe early in 1844, when, by the explosion of a gun on board the Govern ment.ship Princeton, A. P. Upshur, Secre tary of State; T. W. 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