IRON TRADE KEHEW. The Elevation of Coke Adds to the Cost of Production, bat So Far PRICES HATE HOT BEEN CHARGED. A Feeling in the West that the Prospects Are Encouraging. AN IMPKOTED DEMAKD AT 2TEW I0RK Transactions for the week past have been light, and no new features of special inter est haTe been developed. The advance of 40c per ton on cote has increased the aye rage cost ot production from 606 to 65c per ton. The increased cost of producing mill iron will reach 76c per ton in many cases. Bessemer iron, in the production of which richer ores are used, may be produced at an advance of 40c under the most favorable conditions, but even this will be the excep tion to the rule. There are no signs in sight of any ad vance in iron and steel by reason of the ad vance in coke. Nor are there any signs of a decline. If there is any change from last week, markets in some lines are a shado firmer. Bessemer iron is certainly stronger than It was a week ago. Said one of onr heaviest dealers to-day: There is now no longer any danger of lower prices. The price of producing has ad vanced, and while there has been no material advance in prices the tone of markets is strong, and bat for the reason that consumers have stocked np well we would have bad an advance before this time. As it is markets are strong, and any future changes are certain to be toward ' a higher leveL" The present policy of consumers of iron is .the hand-to-mouth policy. There is a strong undertone of confidence in the future of the Iron trade among all onr leading dealers. Following are the latest quotations as fur nished by leading operators, and any conces sions on these rates which may be made are nn brands that are not standard or by speculators anxious to nnload: H eutral mill All-ore mill Ho. 1 foundry, native ore .... o. 1 foundry. Uteore Bessemer Spiegel Uuck bar .......... M Steel blooms........ Steel slabs Steel billets Steer K.C. ends Steel bloom ends Old Iron rails, American Ts Old steel rails, short pieces.., 0. 1 W. acrap Jo. 2 tV. erap Steel rails, new bteel K. lleht sec 1" 75&18 00 cash 19 H&S0 00 cash JO M&3) 15 cash (23 s-casn. gSSCO .U LU .18 SO -18 00 Bar iron 1 Steel nails, cer kei. usual dls.... 2 So Wire nails, per keg 2 90 2 St Ferro manganese 103 00 PIEH AT PHILADELPHIA. "Any Blight Deduction tn Southern Prices Has Not Changed the Market. " rKrECIALTrLIGRAlf TOTirBDISri.TRH.1 Pnn.ADEl.rsiA, February 11 A disposition was noted eariy in the week among Southern t urnacemen to shade prices on pig iron, but if prices were lowered it had no effect upon the general market. Many of the Southern fur naces are operated by the railroad companies, and what the producers may lose upon the manufacture of iron is more than overcome by the receipts obtained by transporting the prod uct to market. As tolls have lately been advanced on Southern roads the price of iron at the furnaces may be shaded, bat when laid down in consumer's yards it will cost as " mnch as before. The principle is the same as .that pursued by the Reading Railroad Com pany with its coal and iron company. One fact which producers point to uphold their position is that the amount of production re mains stationary, indicating that the furnaces are working to their full capacity and that the output cannot be increased. Among the an thracite furnaces 107 stacks are in blast, the same number that was operated in Feb. ruary, lsS9. Their capacity, however, is in creased from 38,726 tons per week to 43.903 tons. Among. the coke furnaces there are 169 stacks In blast, against 150 one year ana Their capac ity is 118.308 tons, against 103.726 tons in Feb ruary, 1889. The stacks now idle are no more than the usual quantity outof blast for repairs. Still some furnaces are behind in their orders and one case is noted where an order for 600 tons of pig which should have been delivered in January has not been filled yet. The orders which were booked during the close of 1SS9 were generally for the first three months of 1890. If it be true, therefore, that there is delay In filling orders already taken it would appear that the producers have the up per band, for buyers will need to place their new orders early in order to obtain pig iron where it is required. No change can be noted in prices, the quotations being S3) for No. 1, $19 'for No. 2, and $18 for gray forge at tidewater, with 50c extra for fancy brands. The ap parent strength of the pig iron market is hardly shared by the market for the manufac tured project. An enthusiastic steel-rail man ufacturer estimates that the railroads will use 1,000.000 tons of steel rails this year and that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company alone -will use 30,000 tons. He argues, with some rei--son. that traffic is so heavy that railroad mana gers will need to lay additional sidings and and third third tracks tn prevent a blockade." Quotations are $21 &02z 90 for Bessemer, Sb 00335 50 for new steel rails at the mill, 27 S028 00 for old rails, 37 60 for billets, $44 00 45 00 per ton for run out anthracite blooms and $31 7532 00 for mnck bars. Bar iron is in better demand at L9o2c per nound. Skelp, 1.952c grooved, 2.10c sheared. Plates are quiet on a basis of 2.S02.25c for tank iron. 2.652.75c for steeL 2.65c shell iron. 33.1c for steel. 3.25c for flange iron, 3.253.35c for steel, 2.3'J2.75c for steel. Structural lronlis not active. Iron bridge plates are worth $2 S6&2 40; angles, $2 30 2Si AN IMPK0TED DEMAXD. The General Conditions of the Iron Trade Are Considered Fnvorable. tSFECIAL TELEOBAM TO TRZ DISPATCH. 1 New York. February 14. There are some advices this week of an improving demand. Iron and steel makers complain that margins are close on finished iron, bat on steel billets, structural and plate iron and Bessemer pig there is certainly no cause for complaint. Conditions of trade are considered favorable generally. Users of iron and steel prod ucts are fnlly employeM. There is a renewed disposition to anticipate requirements. Steel raits are quoted at $35 00638 00 in Eastern mills. One or two exceptionally large contracts for structural iron have just been placed In Pennsylvania, and others are expected to follow soon. The American Iron and Steel Associa tion reports that the total quantity ot Bessemer steel rails made in the United .States in 1889 bv works producing their own ingots was 1,644,234 net tons or 1.468,066 gross tons, a gain of only -102,145 gross tons over the production in 1SS1 Although the Bessemer steel rail production 'of 1SS9 is shown to be little larger than that of the year 1888, yet the production of Bessemer steel Ingotslast year was about 400,000 gross tons larger than 1883. and closely approached the quantity prodnced in 1887, the year of the larg est production in the United States of Besse mer steel, when there were made 2,933,033 gross tons of ingots. The copper market has been dull all through the past week. The metal dropped in one dav in London from 48 7s 8d to 48 3s 4d for spot Jots. In that market loans have been made as ilgh as 8 per cent within a few days. At Bos ton prices are much the same as those in Lon don. Outsiders are offering lake ignot at lfic, ' but there are no taken above 14c BETTER BUSINESS AHEAD. The Iran Market at Si. Lonli l In a Hopefal Condition. tSTICIAX. TXLEQBAM TO TU DISPATCn. BX. LOUTS, February 14. Rogers, Brown A Mescham say: The report of this week is a re petition of the preceding one, the conditions of cur market being practically unchanged. 'While actual sales are chiefly on a carload basis, there is a sub-current ot inquiries which points to better business ahead. Favorable reports from other markets and the strong position sustained by furnaces tend also to strengthen this market. The settlement of tbe wages dispute in the Connellsvllle .district re mains a disturbing element, while increasing the price of best foundry coke 20 cents per ton. We quote for cash f. o. b. St. Louis, best blast, coke and charcoal: Southern Coke Mo. 1 SI9 Wffiffloo boathern Coke "No. 2...... 19 OU&19 SO Southern Coke No. X IS SOtaiSi oo Southern Gray Forge 18 CX18 SO Southern Charcoal No. 1 20 5CZ1 at Southern Charcoal No. 2 20 affix SO Missouri Charcoal o. 1......... 21 0C(2l 50 Missouri Charcoal No. 2 SJ sctel 00 Ohio Softeners 30 50aso Car wheel and malleable irons: Lake Superior - $24 6025 00 Southern S2 UXgZi So Connellsvllle foundry cote: East St. Louis f S 63. tU Louis S 89. New Yorlt Qaotntlon. 2?W Toss Pig iron quiet; American, 17 . 230U 370U . 30 OWE . 35 Meg . 35 00(3 . 35&U330 . 11 Xat!4 SO . Soi3KI . ociSesoo . S2 6t.&3 JO . 3St34 00 . to 00 . S3CO36 00 . 35 00(337 00 85 200 2a Copper quiet but firm; lake, February, 14 2a Lead dull and easier; domestic, $3 77X. Tin in moderate demand and' firmer; Straits, $2065. THE KITCHEN MARKET. Quietness la Ocean Products, Activity la Flower and Staple Meats. OFFICE OrPlTTSBDBO DISPATCH, 1 Fridat. February 14. 1890. J Tbe retail markets for market basket filling have developed few new features the week past. Fish and oysters have been quiet, a con dition of things which dealers report as common immediately prior to the Lenten season. Oh the other hand, florists report that their trade has been livelier than usual the past week, for the reason that many of their best customers flit toward Florida on the eve of Lent, and society doings are unusually active at this time. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Florists are favored by tbe winds this week. Their Innings Later On. A leading dealer In ocean products said this morning: "Oar trade is always quiet tbe week before Lent, for the reason that many of our good customers indulge more freely In meat at this time. We look for a lively trade in our line next week, and will, no doubt, soon make up for lost time. In tbe line of vegetables th ere is no change in the situation since last 'Saturday. Poultry and eggs in a jobbing way are firm, but retail prices are practically the same as last week. There is more activity in staple meats for the reason given above namely, the near approach of Lent. Delicious strawberries from Florida are on the stalls at 50c per quart a rare thing this early in tbe season. Following are the retail prices of market basket filling as furnished by leading dealers: Staple Meats. The best cuts of tenderloin steak range from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very fancy; sirloin, best cuts, from 15 to 18c: standing rib roast, from 15 to 20c; chuck roast. 10 to 12c; best round steaks, 15c; boiling beef, 5 to 8c; sweet breads, 20 to 50c per pair; beef kidneys, 10c apiece; beef liver, 5c a pound; calf livers. 25c apiece; corned beef from 6 to 10s per pound. Veal for stewing commands 10c: roast, 12X to 15c; cutlets, 20c per pound; spring Iambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters, 15c, A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime quality, brines 12c; fore quarter, 8c; loin of mutton, 15c; giblets, 5c per pound. Garden Stuff. Potatoes. 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota toes, 25c per half peck; cabbage, 5 to 10c; new Bermuda potatoes. SOc per quarter peck; cauliflower, 75c to $1 each; tomatoes, S5c a quart: celery, 5c a bunch; bananas, 15 to 20c a doien: carrots, 5c a bunch; lemons, 29 to S5o per dozen; oranges, 25 to 40c; lettuce, 5c per bunch, 6 for 25c: beets, 8 for 10c; string beans, S5c a quarter peck; onions, 20 to S5c a half peck: Spanish onions, 5 to 10c each; turnips, 20c per half peck; cranberries, 15c a quart; cucumbers, 16 to S5c apiece: mushrooms, SI a pound; Bermuda onions. 35c per peck; Key West tomatoes. SOc a quart: radishes. 7c a bunch; beets, 15c a bunch; asparagus, 35c a bunch; strawberries. SOc a quart. Choice creamery butter, 35c Good country butter, SOc. Fancy pound rolls, 35c The retail price for fresh country eggs is 20c The range tor dressed chickens is 76c to SI 25 per pair. Turkeys, 20 to 25c per pound. Ducks, $1 25 to $1 50 per pair. Ocean Products. Following are the articles in this line on the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 12c; Cali fornia salmon, 40c per pound; white -fish, 12c; herring, 4 pounds for 25c; red snap pers, 15 to 20c per pound; Spanish mackerel, 30c to 35c a pound; sea salmon, 40c a pound; blue fish, 25 to SOc; perch, 10c; halibut, 25c; rock bass, 30c; black bass, 20c; lake trout, 12c; 20c small, 40c large. Oysters: N. Y. counts, $1 75 per gallon; clams, $1 25per gallon; scol lops, 60c a quart; frogs $2 00 per dozen; soft shell crabs, 75 per dozen; deril crabs, 85c per dozen. Flowers. La France roses, $3 per dozen; Mennets,$2 50 per dozen; Brides, $2 50 per dozen; yellow and white. $1 50 per dozen; American Beauties, $1 to $1 50 apiece; Magna Cbarta, $1 to $1 50 apiece; lilies $3 a bunch; tulips, 75c per dozen; violets, (2 50 a hundred. lite stock markets. The Condition of Business at the East Liberty Stock Yards. Office of- PrrrsBtma Dispatch, ( FBJDAT. February 14, lS9a ( CATTLE Receipts, 1,344 head; shipments, 1,323 head; market nothing doing; all through consignments; no cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hoas Receipts. 2,400 head: shipments, 3.S00 head: market slow; medium and light Philadel phia. $4 304 S5; heavy bogs, 14 154 20; York ers. $4 204 30; pics and extra light, $4 004 10; 10 cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 2,600 head: shipments, 2,000 bead; market slow at unchanged prices. Br Telegraph. New York Beeves Receipts. 49 carloads for exportation. 43 carloads for home trade slaughterers dlreet, and 10 carloads to be sold. Tbe limited trading was at about former prices and included native steers at $3 004 65 per 100 pound?, and bulls at $2 102 9a Calves Receipts, 200 head: market dnll and lower at 5 Sc per pound for veals and23c forgrassers. Sheep Receipts, 2.750 head: market dull and easier for both sheep and lambs, with more offered than could be sold. Sheep sold at $4 600 6 SO; lambs at $5 S07 25, with one carload at $7 S7K. Hogs Receipts. 3,900 head: none- of fered alive; nominal value, ;H 10Q4 50, "and ruled steady. BtTFFALO Cattle dull and heavy; receipts, 96 load through. 15 sale. Sheep and lambs Receipts. 6 loads through, 20 sale; top grades, fairly active, a shade lower; sheep, choice to extra, $5 856 00; good to choice, $5 6005 75; common to good. $5 005 50; Iambs, choice to extra, $6 857 00; good to choice, $8 600-6 80; common to good, $6 006 GO. Hogs Receipts, 50 loads through. 40 sale; market slow,' 1015e lower: medium and heaw, $4 20; mixed and Yorkers, $4 20; pigs, $1 004 05; roughs, S3 25 63 6a Chicago Cattle Receipts, 9,600 head; ship ments, 3,000 head; market slow and steady; beeves, $4 755 20; steers. $3 005 20; stockers and feeders. (2 403 50; Texas cornred steers, $2 803 4a Hogs Receipts, 25.000 bead; ship ments, 11,000 bead; market steady; mixed, $3 80 4 00; heavy, $3 804 05; light, $3 804 10:skips, $3 003 7tt Sheep Receipts, 5,000 head; ship ments, L000 head: market steadv: natives, S3 90 5 80: Western cornfed. $4 80Q5 50: Texans. S3 605 00; lambs. $5 0086 8a St. Loots Cattle Receipts, 1,200 head; ship ments, L000 head; market steady: good to fancv native steers, $4 305 00; fair to (rood do, S3 404 40; stockers and feeders. 2 00 tS3 50: ranee steers. $2 003 70. Hogs Re ceipts, 3,300 bead; shipments, 2,500 bead; market strong: fair to choice heavy, $3 803 90; parking grades, S3 803 95: light, fair to best, $3 854 Oo. Sheep Receipts, 9U0 bead; ship ments. 100 head; market firm; fair to choice. $4 30Q5 50; lambs, $5 006 5a Kansas Cttt Cattle Receipts 3.600 bead; shipments, 2,400 head; market 510c lower; steers, S3 154 75: cows, SI 752 SO; stockers and feeders, $2 503 4a Hogs Receipts, 6,800 head: shipments, none; market 6Q7c lower; all grades. S3 700375. Sheep Receipts. L200 head; shipments, 400 head: market steady; good to choice lambs and muttons, S3 6005 40; stockers and feeders, S5 005 25. Chicago Cattle Receipts. 10,000 head: mar ket doll, weak and lewer: beeves, S3 005 00; stockers and feeders, $2 253 60. Hoes Re ceipts, 16,000 head; market fairly active and steady; light, $3 854 10; rough packing, $3 75 (23 80; heavy packing and shipping, S3 854 05. bheep Receipts, 5.000 bead: market steady; muttons, $3 90Q5 90; cornfed western, So 003 5 7a Indianapolis Cattle Receipts 5C0 head; values continue steady: shipper. $2 704 75; butchers, SI 003 60; bulla. SI 503 (XX Hogs Receipts, 3,900 bead; market active and bifrher; choice heavy and medium. S3 95(g4 07V: mixed, $8 9004 00: lights. S3 900405. Sheep Receipts, light; market steady; lambs, S3 506 00; sheep, $26035 oa Drrcoods. New OfOEr, February 14. The recent Im proving conditions of trade were manifest with both aeents and Jobbers. Tbe strength of cotton goods continued a prominent feature and as cotton is still advancing, there Is every prospect that goods will be higher. Tbe prices of Piedmont and Augusta 4-4 brown sheetings were advanced to-day an additional Ho a yard. Prints were somewhat more active, and stocks on hand are light. Woolens were in fair re quest. Swedish Treatment for Inebriety. Detroit Free Press.1 When they get hold of an old drunkard in Sweden they send him tip for IS or 20 days and give him a diet of bread soaked in his favorite liquor. l"or the first fonr days he thinks he has a soft thing, but after that he begins to whoop for a change, and by the time he comes out cold water is good enough for him. Such treatment here would be de clared unconstitutional, as tending to reduce the income of saloons. 1YFI T. TWE Bas been, down in Kentucky. lllLili 11 1 El He says it is a great land, and describes some odd characters he found: alo, a hanging. Bee to-koekotTs Dispatch. THE PITTSBURG- VIEWS OF EXPERTS. They Beport an Unusually Active Demand for Small Properties. A BLY HIHT TO THE LAMDLOEDS. Business Men Think the Point Will Soon Get Entirely Out of the Ent. 1 PITTSBURG DEAL IN HEW ORLEANS la regard to the movement in real estate all the brokers on Fourth avenue concur n reporting a brisk inquiry for small proper ties and fair for large. Messrs. Herron & Sons say: "Muddy streets in tbe East End hurt renting and selling. Medium-sized houses are scarce. There is on that account some danger of owners putting rents too high and having empty houses." No. 18 Wylie avenue, lot and three-story brick dwelling and storeroom.changed own ers yesterday for $13,000 cash. The seller was George N. Monro, the well-known at torney. The purchaser, who desires to re main in the background, will Improve the prop erty, but the present tenant will remain in it. A wealthy Pittsbureer. who is in Hew Orleans temporarily, bas sent a special commu nication to James W. Drape, urging him to go down there and manage a real estate deal in the business part of the city, involving about $253,001 Several Pittsburg capitalists are in terested in the transaction, tbe exact nature of which could not be ascertained, as secrecy was said to be necessary to success. Mr. Drape in timated yesterday that he would go to New Orleans some time next week. The advantages of what is known as tbe Point district from a business point of view have always been recognized, and ereat bas been the wonder of those who took only a sur face view that improvement in that part of the city has been so slow. This is easily explained. Property could not be bought. The Schenley holding was not in tbe market, and other hold ers demanded prices which even the boldest capitalist regarded as extravagant. The result is seen. Other parts of the city less favorably situated for business have undergone a com plete transformation, while the Point has stood still, or retrograded. There is a prospect that this condition of apathy In the very heart of the city will be changed to one of activity before 1890 is rung out. The opening of the Schenley property to purchase and Improvement is a long step in this direction. "I consider tbe opening of the Schenley property to purchase almost equiva lent to its donation to the city," remarked Henry A. Weaver yesterday. "It will soon be bought np and covered with business houses and factories, and present an appearance ot thrift in strong contrast to its present aspect of desolation." he added. Other real estate men expressed slmilarviews. The work of improvement has,indeed,already begun, and not on paper either. A Liberty street produce merchant proposes to buy one of the Schenley lots as soon as possible and put a fine business house ou it. A manutacturing firm wants a good slice of the Duquesne front. Tbe Allegheny County Light Company will build. Other improvements are talked of, but are not sufficiently advanced to be given to the public Tbe marketing of the Schenley prop erty, and a good deal besides, will largely in crease tbe interest and movement in real es tate, not only at the Point, but all over the city and put a large amount of new business in the hands of the brokers. The following bids were received a few days ago for an iron bridge at Warren, R. L It is to have a 135-foot wrought iron draw span: Berlin Bridge Company, $3,959; Dean & Westbrook, $10,225 and $7,550: Pittsburg Bridge Company, $8,700; Pennsylvania Bridge Company, $7,450; Wrought Iron Brlfge Company, $7,950; Smith Bridge Company, $9,650 and $7,850; New Jersey Iron Company, $5,721; Boston Bridge Company, both structure and superstructure, $22,408. Since the bids were received a modification of the plans was taken under consideration, and the award bas not been made. The following mechanical patents have ex pired, and they may be appropriated by anyone so disposed: Fire plate for steam boilers, E. Boileau; pulley, C. C. Moore; pipe cutting tool, O.K. Haynes; nail cutting machine, C. W, Gledden; converting circular into reciprocating motion, L. Dame; composition for coating iron, etc, F. J. Seybold; converting castlron articles into steel, R. A. Jackson; metallnrglc gas fur nace, H. Frank; reciprocating steam engine, Simpson and Gardner: iron bridge, Hammond, Adler and Abbott. STILL BROADENING. Local Securities Recorded With More Favor Some Notable Advance. The stock market yesterday. If not the most active, was the strongest of the week, the broadening tendency noted for the past few days making considerable progress. Orders are coming in quite liborally. but great caution is exercised in placing tbem. A heavy buyer of Philadelphia avoids suspicion bj raking in, say 100 shares, and selling 10 or 25. The same course is being pursued with several other stocks. The weakness of the Tractions, it is generally believed, comes from the inside. There are tricks in all trades. The features of the market were further ad vances in Philadelphia Gas, Pleasant Valley and People's Pipeage, f or all of which the de mand exceeded tbe supply. Central Traction was lower, and the others weak and neglected. Electric also lost jrround, but favorable litiga tion in the Fast is relied upon to lift it out of the rut. Sales were 201 shares. VOENISO. ATTIBlrOON'. Hid. Asked. Bid. Asked. Allegheny Nat. Bank.. 62 .... , Commercial .Sa. Bank.. 85 Duquesne .Nat. Bank.. ISS .... Exchanire Ma. Banc... 82 H Keystone Bank of l"g .... 71 Marine Nat. Bank.... 100K Masonic Bank s Mon'sahela Nat. Bk.. IIS Birmingham Ins 45 Allegheny Uas Co.. Ill 41 Souths de Gas Co., 111. ... a Allegheny Heating Co. 100 .... loo Brldgewater Uas 29 40 CbartlersV. QasCo.... 39 40 Beople's X. U. ft f.Co IS ... J5M is Fhiladelpbla Co S2K SZV S3 33W Wne Knn Gas 8j Westmoreland & Cam. ... 21 Hazelwood Oil Co SO El Central Traction 30V 31M 30V 30K Fltta. Traction !X .... tou rieasaut Valley 23H 24 23f 25 Allegheny Valley 3 4 Chartlers Railway 43 , F'ST. You'g't'n & Ash. 30 33 rltts. Junction ILK. Co .... 31 1"., V. iC.lt-B.Co.... 41K La Nona Mining Co. jj X Luster Mining Co 24 21 23 bllrerton Mining Co lit Yankee UlrlMIn. Co 3 Westlnghouse Electric 46 47X 46K 47 MongahetaKav. Co 8S U. 8. ASIg. Co 16 17 .... 17 U. S. Big. Uo. pfd 69 At the first call 132 shares ot People's Pipe age brought 15. 20 Central Traction 81, 9 Phila delphia Gas 32, 20 Electric 46. In tbe after noon 10 shares of Central Traction sold at 31, and 10 Philadelphia Gas at 33. Knhn Bros, bought 100 shares Pleasant Val ley at 23K. C. L. McCutcheon sold 60 shares of Electric at 46. Andrew Caster sold 100 shares ot Pleasant Valley at 23J and 60 Luster at 23. W. F. Maxon sold 10 shares of Pleasant Valley at 2 Rea Bros.' t Co., sold 80 shares of People's Natural Gas ana Pipeage Company at 1 The total sales of stocks at ft ew York yester day were 210,803 shares, including Delaware. Lackawanna and Western. 10.950: Louisville and Nashville, 8,446; Missouri Pacific, 9,980; Read ing, 10,900; St. PauC,910; Union Pacific, 8,150. IN GOOD SHAPE. The Condition of tbe Local Money Market Satisfactory All Ronnd. The general features of the local money mar ket presented the same aspect yesterday as-for some time past. "While we have nothing new to tell, we have nothing bad," remarked a cash ier. "We have a fair supply of tnads for busi ness purposes, and there is a good, steady de mand for loans." Kates ruled at 67 per cent, with most of tbe business at tbe inside figure. Currency was not as plentiful as desired. The exchanges were $2,835,081 94, and the balances $394.52142. Money on call at New York yesterday was easy, ranging at 34 per cent, last loan 8, closed offered at 2 per cent. Prim e mercantile paper. -W DISPATCH. Rterllnir axehanpa dull and Steady at for 60-day bi'ls and $4 87 for" demand. Closing Bond Quotations. D, 8. 4s,reg... U. 8. 4s. eonn. 122W :z:9 M.K. AT.Gen.Ss .68 Mutual Union 8s... .101 .x r T ffert-.-lllW U. B. 4s, rear. J?? U. S. 4HS. conn IM Northern lae. Northern rac. 2ds. .I4! PaeincSsof'QS us Loalslanaitampedta 9l)i Missouri s 100 Term, new set. 6s... 107 Tenn. new set. Ss....l02 Tenn. new set. 3s.... 74 Canada Bo. 2ds 100 Cen. I"acino.lsts.....lll,S Den. AH. G., liu... 118 Den. 4 It. O. 4s 76)1 D.&K.Q.West,lsts. - Erie, Ms I01K 11. ii. Js T. Gen. 6s. . 74 su.tkUlii annsnla14?Ssf nwrwiw'-uwme-3 SUH.Chl4bPe.lsts.li; Tx.! PC K. G.Tr.Kcts S9K union rac. mk. ..;, West Bhore Ko. Nsw Tobx Clearings, $112,256,823; balances, $5,181,431 BosroK-Clearlngs, $15,090,498; balances, L. 439,799. Money, 4KQ5 per cent. , . , Phtx.aoei.pkia Clearings, $9,319,144; bal ances, $1,499,675. Baltxiiobb-Clearings, $2,218,4U; balances, $280,835. LoNDOjf The amount of bullion gone into the Bank of England on balance today is 63,000. Bar silver, 43d per ounce. , Paris Three per cent rentes, 87f 95c for the account. . CHIOAOO-Clearings, $10,526,000. New York exchange,25c discount. Money rates unchanged. A illXED FEELING. Scalpers Furnish the Oil Market All tbe Strength It Has. The feeling when the oil market opened yes terday was somewhat mixed, owing to uncer tainty as to what the drift would be. The first sale was at $1 06, but a few offers caused a rapid decline to $1 05K, tbe lowest point of tbe day. The market bung around this point, with scarcely anything vdoing, until 2 o'clock, when the scalpers got to work and bid it up to $1 0.6, which proved to be the high-water mark. The demand was soon satisfied, and a slump fol lowed, the market closing about steady at $1 0 There was more wind than business. Wednesday's clearances were 62,000, counting each sale as two transactions. The real busi ness was only 81,000 barrels. Lockwood iX-'o.'s Eicholtz farm gusher, in the Butler field, bas decreased somewhat, but is still producing at the Tate of 1,200 barrels a day. C. A, Hite has struck a small well of ten barrel capacity on tbe Hite farm, near Petrolia. At Cailery Junction the South Penn Oil Com pany's No. 1, on the Stable farm, is producing 800 barrels a day: the Casbdollar No. 1 150, and Forst's No. 8. on the Irwin farm. 100. T. W. Phillips' No. L on tbe DoUthett farm, is mak ing close to 600 barrels a day, and is increasing its production at an encouraging rate. Long fc Co.'s No. 1, on the Wabl farm on Big creek, was shot, cleaned herself out nicely, and will make a 60-harrel well. White & Co. have located close beside this lease, on the Marshal heirs' farm. The Fisher OU Company's well on the Fer guson farm, Shanopin, is holding Its own, and their No. 1, same farm, is doing 15 barrels an hour, Tbe South Ponn Company's well in tbe eastern edge of Taylorvllle pool is reported filling 500 barrels a dav in the fourth sand. Large bonuses are being paid for territory. THE BUTLER W0HDER. The Lockwood Well Still Keeps Vsf OS Barreia Per Hour. rSFXCIAL TELEQBAM TO THI DISPATCH.'1 BUTXKR, February 14. The Lockwood & Co. well on the Echoltz farm is a wonder. When it was struck there was only one tank on the premises. Very little of the production was lost, however. When it spurted several tanks were borrowed and rapid connection for a big well made. Tbe well is still doing 65 barrels per hour and great excitement reigns here as a result. The well bas not been agitated since the sand was tapped, when it made 75 barrels per hour. . . The condition of the roads Is still very bad, working against operations. A Glade Run contractor has been trying to get 1,000 feet of lumber hauled to a lease for over a week and is only able to get two or three boards hauled at a time. Features of the Market. Corrected daily by John M. Oaiuey & Co., 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange. Opened 1C6MI Lowest IMM Highest 10)cioed ,1MH Barrels. Average charters SJSS Average shipments - irfrl Average runs - 6,618 Refined. New Yorlr. 7.S0C Reanei), London. Mfi. Iteflned, Antwerp, i7r. Hen 'ed. Liverpool. 6tt. iteflned, Bremen. S.SSm. A. B. McGrew quotes: Puts, $1 05; calls, $106 Otber Oil Markets. Bradford. February 14. Petroleum opened at $108; closed, SI 06; hicb est. $106; lowest, $1 05. Clearances, 290,000 bbls. On. Crrr, February 14. Petroleum opened at $1 06ii: highest, $1 06: lowest, $1 05; closed at 11 06 Sales. 87, OuO bbls; no clear ances reported; charters not reported; ship ments, 66,103 bbls; runs. 68,998 bbls. New York, February 14. Petroleum opened firm at $1 05 for spot, and after a long period of dullness moved up slightly and closed firm at $1 06J.- March options opened firm at $1 0 declined to $105$, then vallibd and closed firm at $1 06. Stock Exchange: Opening, $1 05; highest, $1 06; lowest, $1 05; closing. $1 ObK. Consolidated Exchange: Oponlng, $1 06V; hichest, $1 06: lowest, $1 05; closing, $1 0U& Total sales, 2o6,000 barrels. A LIVELY M0YBUENT. Lands nnd Houses Changing Owners nt a Two- Forty Kate. J. C. Reilly, 77 Diamond street, sold for George N. Monro. Esq., the three-story brick dwelling and storeroom, No. 18 Wylie avenue, lot 20x70. for $13,000 cash. C. Beringer & Son, 103 Fourth avenue, sold to H. C. Scott for Mrs. A. J. Pryor, nine acres of land, with three frame dwellings, at Glenfield station, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, for $5,000. Alles & Bailey, 164 Fourth avenue, sold for J, Fagan, a three-story brick dwelling of ten rooms and all improvements,lot 16 feet 8 inches, Dy 48 feet, corner Logan and Franklin streets. Seventh ward, Pittsburg, for $4,300. Renben Miller, Jr., was the purchaser. Samuel W. Black & Co., 99 Fourth avenue, sold a property on the west side of Bnquet street, north ot Fifth avenue, known as House No. 1, betas a three-story frame of ten rooms, with lot 20x71 feet, more or less, to a 10-foot alley, for $4,000. Jamison t Dickie, sold two lots on Bennett street, near Homewood avenue, to W. E. Tay lor for (850; also, for Frank Killian a six-room frame house on Meadow street, East End. lot 23x100 feet, to James P. Craighead, for $3,200 cash. Black & Baird, 95 Fourth avenue, sold for Henry Renter to Herman Schelnemann, No. 122 Howard street, Allegheny City, consisting ot a six-roomed frame dwelling and lot 24 feet on Howard street by 74 feet deep and 20 feet wide In rear, for $2,800. W. A. Herron & Sons sold No. 12 Clark street, a brics: bouse of five rooms, for $1,600, on easy terms. Magaw & Goff. Llm., 145 Fourth avenue, sold for the City Improvement Company, Llm., in Etna Park Place, lot No. ISO, 25x107, on Hous ton street, to Mrs. Maggie Howard, for $125, on easy payments. Building Is going on very briskly in this plan. Thomas McCaffrey, S509 Butler street, sold for P. B. McWIUiams lo C. and F. O'Brien, lot 22x110 for $375, on Kin can) street. Nineteenth ward, and for T. L. Duff to Pauline Wnnder lien, lot 23x100, on Daulphln street, Nineteenth ward, for J620. James W. Drape & Co. made a very im portant sale in the city ot a piece of property for a special purpose, consideration being about $25,000 cash, lull particulars of which are with held for tbe present. They also placed two mortgages of $12,000 at 6 per cent on a residence property in tbe East End: also a mortgage of $15,000 on a suburban property at 6 per cent; also five mortgages of $7,600 at 6 per cent on properties In McKeesport and in tbe city. They also sold a small house ana lot, adjoining Lari mer avenue. East End, for $2,100 cash. Charles Somersi Co., .313 Wood street, sold for Francis S. .Reynolds to Daniel Reardon a residence property, being No. 103 Cliff street, city, a two-story brick house of five rooms. with lot 21x78, for $2 cash. EwIng&Byers, 93 Federal street, placed a mortgage of $2,500 ou Eleventh ward property, Allegheny, to run three years, at 6 per cent. LOST THEIR SNAP. Railroad Share. Featureless Stories of the Cnrnegle and B. ot O. Deal Worked to Good Advantage Hngar Mores Up. New Yobk. February 14. The dealings In railroad stocks continues, to steadily decrease, and to-day the transactions in the unlisted de partment came "within 4,000 shares of those in tbe regular list. Of course, there was an un usual amount of trading in Sugar Refineries, which augmented the total of unlisted stocks, but out of tbe large number of stocks traded in only Reading and Lackawanna reached a total of five figures, and they are both K stocks. Sugar was the only real feature in the mar ket Tbe certificates onened down Miser cent at 64 and almost steadily made an advance -until tbe last hour they touched 6 There action from the best price was only alight, Tbe VfG' tf tit" t ; c Saturday; .February ; J sr other trusts did not fully respond to the strength in Sugar, and Lead was heavy In the forenoon on a rumor that conversion of tbe stock bad been abandoned, and later Cotton Oil joined the downward movement, losing 1 per cent. The dispatches from Cblcago this morning were again of a more disturbing character, and the market being Intensely dull, there was a bearish feeling among the traders, to whom almost all tbe trading seems to be left, and prices sagged away throughout the forenoon, although tbe movements were confined to small fractions. After that time there was a rumor started that an effort was to be made to nullify the withdrawals of the Northwestern and the Union Pacific, and also one that tbe funding bill would be brought up in committee to-morrow. This stimulated buying of Union Pacific, and that stock improved 1 per cent, tbe others following with smaller movements. The only marked feature among tbe stocks of the regular list, however, was the activity and strength in Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburg preferred, induced by the stories of a deal be tween' Mr. Carnegie and the Baltimore and Ohio. Tbe stock rose from 49 to 5 and closed at tbe highest figure. Late in tbe day sugar attracted all the attention, and the mar ket finally closed dull, but firm, at insignificant changes for the day. Sugar is SK and Chicago, St, Louis and Pittsburg preferred. 2: but the other changes are about equally divided be tween small gains. There was a quiet business In railroad bonds, with no feature of interest, but slight changes in quotations as a rnle. The trading amounted to $1,123,000, and the only noticeable movement was the continued decline in Wisconsin Central incomes, though tbey failed to score a material loss for the day. Among those which are higher to-night are Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw sixes, 2 to 104. The losses include Atlantic and Pacific, 4K- The roliowing table snows the prices ol active stocks on the New York Stock xenange yester day. Corrected dally for Tmt Dispatch by Whitney & stefhenOn. oldest Pittsburg mem bers of New York stock isxcnange. i7 Fourth ave nue: Clos lne Kid. m 74K 6314 118)4 23 UH 107M 681 2 HM SIX KH 93 109)4 143 KH 96)4 49 133 151X 9M 72)4 22!( IIS 17 KH 105K 89 93 17 9 7J 306)4 1634 6994 S7X Open- , IDS. Am. Cotton Oil Trust.. 28K Atcn.. TopC&a.r..... 323t Canadian Pacific Canada Bontbern MH Central 0f.NewJsrseT.n8 Central Pacini Chesapeake a Ohio.... 24!4 C Bur. X gulicT.....107K a. iiiu ot. faui.... esK C iill.tst. y nt....H5 High est 29 23 mi 118 2sU 107!4 68X 115 83)4 173? E2 Low. est. 27)4 323? 53) 118 24" J07 68 115 io3 17)4 499 u.v itocs:!. jr C, St. L. ft Pitts c, st. 1m & Pitts, nt. C St. P.. XL. 40 49)4 C. St. r.M. &0..of.. .. . CANortnwestarn 10914; C Nortnwestern. pr.143 C, C. C. A 1 6914 C. c, C 1.. nr 96K Got. Coal A iron 43H lieu. L. 4-ff 136 Del. Hudson. 151 X E.T.. Va.AGa 9J4 fc.T..Va. AGs. 1st nr. mi IS. T V a. Alia. 2d pr. .... Illinois central Lake Erloi Western.. 18 Lake trie West. pr.. 65J4 Lake snore AM. B 105?, LoulsvllleAMasbvllle. KH Michigan Central Mobile Ohio 17!4 Mo.. Kan. sTexas.... 9V Missouri faolfle 73$t Mew Kork Central 106H x. ?.. a A St. L Jw. x., U St. L. pf. S. I .. C A tJt.1.. 2d pr 3SX X.Y&H. JC 46H It. r., O. A V 18)1 .Norfolk a Western.... 21H Northern Pacmc 31H Nortnern faclac prsl. 74J4 ObloA Mississippi..... .... Oregon Improvement. .... Oregon Transcon S Pacific Mall KH Peo. Deo. A Evans PnlladeU A Heading. 40 r oilman Palace Oar... 189 Klcnmond A W. P. T.. 22 Richmond ft W.P.T.PI .... St. .. Minn. A Man..li: tit. lH ft San Fran 18 St. L. A San Jrran nr.. S8H Texas Pacific 20 Union Pacific 5531 Wabasa Wabash preferred 2794 Western Union 841 Wheeling A !. 69)4 Sugar Trust. .64H National Lad Trust. 1SH Chicago Uas Trust.... 47 109X 143 eon 98)4 49 S 155), 151 9! Tin 18 65)4 IDS). 90)4 "ii 9 73H 106)4 17 65)4 1054 89M h" 9K J2H 106M 88J4 46$ 1814 21 H 31 M 74 1H 18)4 2.2 74 31 74 21 45 3594 38 18 K 40 188M 21 78 112 17 S&X 204 68 IS 27 84)4 68 68 8!4 4J S3 38)4 40l 159)4 22 liiii 18 38)4 20 ESX 354 WH 39 188M 22 iii 17H 65 H) 81(4 (9)4 64 4 17 46 69S 68V 1S 47)4 Boston Stoeks. Atch. &T0P.B.B. .. il Boston ft Albany.. .220 Uoeton & Maine. ....213 C. B. ftU. 107 Clnn. San. A Cleve. 24 Eastern R. K 139 Eastern B. It. 6s ....124 Flint PereM 24 Flint APereM. era. 91 K.C3t.,r.&a.B.7s.l21 Mexican uen. com.. 18)4 Mex.C.lst mtg. bds. 70 . . Aftewjcng... 46 Ogd.ftL.Chara.com. 6 Old Colour l"S Rutland preferred.. 70 Wis. Central, com.. Wis. Central pr... AIIonezMg Co Calumet A Hecla.., irrankiln Huron Osoeola. Pewablc Qniner Bell Teiepnone... , Boston Land Water Power Tamaraok bsn Diego Santa f e copper.,,, . 23 . 60 . 1 .255 . 13 . 27 . 9 . 71 .223 . H . 6 .162 . 18 . U Philadelphia Stock. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney ft Stenheuson, brokers, if 0. 57 Fourth avenue. Members Mew x"ork Stock Ex change. Bid. Asked. Pennsylvania Kallroad. 54 54 Heading 20 20 Buffalo, Pittsburg ft Western 9 Lehigh Valley 52 53 Lehigh Navigation 62 52 horthern Pacific l 31)4 northern Pacific nreterred 74 74 Business Note. The talk in Wall street is still bullish, but without mnch to show tor it, Tbs Second National Bank of Pittsburg has been made a Government depository. These is more doing in local stocks than reaches tbe surface. Many office sales are not reported. The Independent Natural Gas Company, of Sewickley, bas declared a 23 per cent stock and scrip dividend. It was stated yesterday that Central Traction cars would be started next Monday night or Tuesday morning. Monet was easy In New York yesterday. It is thought to-day's bank statement will show a large increase in resources. Countkt people say tbe mud is causing a new disease among horses, affecting their legs and hoofs. Quite a number of animals bave been retired lor treatment. Merchandise exports from New York for the past week were $5,708,733, a total since Jan uary 1 of $33,463,207 as against $40,812,424 same time in 18&9 and $35,824,694 in 1888: ELOPED WITH A CHINESE WOMAN. A Boston Boy of 15 Buna Away With a Mongollnn's) Wife, IKFSCIAI. TBLXORAM TO THE DISPATCH. I Boston, February It The Chinese quarter of the Hub is in an uproar because of the elopement of the wife of Sin Foam, a prosper ous Harrison avenue merchant, with Thomar H. Slaton, aged 16 years. Sin Foam is quite an Americanized young man. He married a Bos ton girl and supplied her with everything that money could buy. Master Slaton lives with his mother and stepfather on Harrison ave nue,and up to this evening worked at cigar mak ing. He and Mrs. Sin Foam often met. She came so often to Slaton's home to see nim that the young man's mother finally ordered her out of tbe house. To-day the couple disappeared from their respective homes, and this evening they left for New York by the Providence route. The young man's mother made a complaint at po lice headquarters and a telegram was sent to Inspector Byrnes, at Now York, -to detain the young man when be arrived in that ciiy. Sin Foam started after his "Melican" wite in a later train. A MEAS JOKE ON THE TK0OT. An Expert Angler Puta Vp a Job-and Cap tnres a Wary Pish. Macon (Gs.) Telegraph. - A man living in Pickens county some time ago worked a neat trick to catch a lartre trout that had long refused to betaken. The trout declined, with thanks, any bait that was handed to him on a hook. He had a certain hole under the bank that he conld just crawl into on his hands and knees, and when any suspicious-looking object came around he would always crawl in and p'ull the hole in after him. And by monkeying with that hole the trout got his foot in it. One day a man put a hollow chunk under the bank and the fish went into it, and when the man lilted the chunk out of the water the fish was so overcome with surprise that he fainted. The Use of Gymnastics. Detroit Free Press. 1 John Boyle, a Cincinnati father, refused to allow his two boys to attend a gymnas ium, saying that athletics was all bosb', and now the public is poking fun atbim because he fell head first into a barrel of water and was drowned. Gymnastics would have flopped him out before his hair was thor oughly wet. THE WORLD'S FAIU?hned Jffi should have in it. Is what Miss Grundy, Jr., has interviewed tbe Washington ladies upon for 10-moeeow's Dispatch. ?-Tftc -. 15, 'flfio. ; MABKET8 BY WIBE. Speculative Commodities Stronger TJndsr a Ra)ly All 'Alone the Wee Even Hob Prodncts Show Up Bet terGood Trading. H Chicago Wheat Trading was larger and tbe feeling unsettled to-day. with the tendency of prices not altogether so one sided as of late. Outside orders were more numerous and local operators also showed more disposition to trade. Tbe market opened a shade easier than the close yesterday and prices soon declined He then under good buy ing tbe market reacted and prices were ad vanced with- numerous fluctuations lc, and tbe closing was about c higher than yesterday. There was active buying by tbe short inter est and large lines were covered. There was a growing feeling tha t prices are or ought to be pretty close to. the bottom, and this belief no doubt Induced some buying on long account. The Influences were again mainly in the inter est of holders and some quite bullish news was received, but there wai a bard fight between the bull and bear Interest to gain the mastery of tbe market. Tbe weather bureau indicated colder weather, and this following the rain of last night was taken as a strengthening feature. Corn Another large trade was transacted, and though fluctuations kept within Kc range, large quantities of property changed hands. Tbe easier feeling was attributed mainly to the large movement, Tbe large sales of a promi nent local trader early in this section bad some influence, though tbe same operatoi purchased later in tbe day. Oats were active but unsettled, and sold i8t e lower at the opening, but later the market became stronger and tbe loss was more than re gained. The interest centered chiefly In May. Speculative trading was more active in May pork, and beyond and under free covering by aborts and some. In vestment demand prices ruling firmer. There was a net gain of 7K 12Uc In prices. 'lnerewas a fair interest shown in lard, but trading was of smaller volume than noted In pork and ribs. Prices were firmer and Stronger and there was more doing in cash property. Moderate activity characterized the market for short ribs, and prices for futures improved 2Kc. '1 be leading futures ranged as follows: Wheat No. 2, February. 7476U7K 75c; May. 77KQ776K77Jic; Julyr75Ji8 76Q75ffi76Vc Cobn No. 2, Februai May, wssoaua; Oats No. 2, February. 204220K2020Vc: May. 2121a)Ji21Jc: June, 2(212u?i 21c Mxss Pork, per bbb February. $9 80 9 8009 77K9 7K; March. $9 809 82V 9 8U9 82V; May, $10 0010 0210 OOffllO 07. Lard, per 100 Sis. February, $5 805 82X45 fi 805 82)$: March, $o tj2586; May, $5 06 a vitaio vofQo vtft. Shout Bms, per 100 Bs. February, $4 77K 4 80a 4 774 80; March, $4 77 804 7 4 80; May. $4 8504 904 82k&4 90. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 75kc; No. 3 spring wheat. 68c; No. 2 red. 767o4c; No. 2 corn. 27c No. 2 oats, 20H20Jc No. 2 rye, 42c, No. 2 barley, 65S7c; No. 1 flax seed. $1 38. Prime timothy seed. $1 20. Mess pork, per bbl. $9 829 85. Lard, per 100 lbs, $3 80S82. Short ribs sides (loose), $477K 4 80. Dry salted shoulders (boxed), un changed; short clear sides (boxed), unchanged. Sugars, cut loaf, unchanged. Receipts Flour. 11,000 barrels: wheat, 17,000 bushels: com, 139.000 bushels; oats, 169,000 bushels; rye, 5,000 bushels; barley. 47,000 bushels. Shipments Flour, 11,000 barrels; wheat, 21,000 bushels: com, 177,000 bush els; oats, 154,000 bushels; rye, 2,000 bushels; bar ley, 35.000 hostels. On tbe Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was firm and unchanged. Eggs, 13Kc New York Flour heavy and fairly active: free sellers. Cornmeal dull. Wheat Spot quiet and t up; options active and a up, closing strong. Early in the day thei e was free selling on western and local account, but later Russian crop reports strengthened tbe position. Rye steady. Barley steady. Barley malt quiet. Corn Spot active, lower and weak; options active, Vn&Ac down and weak, Oats Spot less active; mixed weaker, whites firmer; options fairly active and firmer. Hay weak and quiet. Hops quiet and steady. Coffee Options opened steady, 6010 points up, closed firm, 610 points up: sales, 13,600 bags, including March, 18.0516.10c; May, 18.0016.05c: July, 15.90c; August, 15.85c: September, 15.80c; De cember, 15.70c: spot Bio higher and active; fair cargoes, lSc; No. 7. 17Kc. Sugar Raw steady and iairly active; sales, 6 cargoes centrifugals. ?o lest, ai. oo c j. i., .wtt. uags ou Domingo centrifugals, 96 test, at 5c: refined firm and iairly active. Mo lassesForeign firm; 50 test, 22c; New Orleans strong. Rice firm and in fair demand.- Cot tonseed oil quiet. Tallow quiet. Rosin firm. Turpentine firm. Eggs firmer and in Jair de mand; Western, 15c; receipts, 4.317 packages. Pork firm and moderatelv active. Cutmeats dull; pickled bellies, $5 0005 60; pickled shoul ders. $4 12K4 25; pickled hams, $8 2508 75. Lard firmer, quiet; sales, 13.312 tierces: West ern steam, $8 20; option sales 650 tierces: Feb ruary, SB IS bid; March, $3 18, closing at $3 19; April, $6 21; May, $8 30; June, $6 35; Julv,$6 34. Butter firm. In fine demand; Elgin, 2S28Kc: Western dairy, 8017c; do creamery, 1227c; do held, 8Q15c; do factory. 618c. Cheese firmer and more active; western, 810c. Minneapolis Receipts of wheat were 159 cars, and shipments none. Demand for sam ples good and choice No. 1 Northern sold higher than grade wheat for .May delivery. The offerings were all picked, excepting some off grade stuff that went slowly as usual. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard. February. 76c: March, 76c; May, 78Jc:ontrack,77Kc;No. 1 North ern, February, 75c: March. 76c: May, 76Jic; on track. 76g76lc; No. 2 Northern, February, 72Xc; March, 72c; May, 74c; on track,73Q74c St. Louis Flour firm. Wheat, cash, lower; options higher. Market ruled firm on outside advices and closed with May K. June c July JiffiKc. and August Jjo aDove Yester day's, Corn lower. Rye firm, 41K-42c Barley quiet. Flaxseed quiet at $1 30. Pro visions firmer bnt quiet. Pork higher, at $10 12K10 25. No essential change in other hog products. Milwaukee Flour unchanged. Wheat easier; No. 2 spring, on track, cash,7173c;May, 72KC; No. 1 Northern, 80c CornqMiet; No. 3, on track, 28c Oats steady; No. 2 white, on track, 23c Rye steady; No. L in store. 43434c Bar ley easier; No. 2j in store. 41c Provisions easy. Pork, $9 7a Lard, $5 8a Cheese Ched dars, 9(29Kc. Philadelphia Flour dull and weak. Wheat dull and prices of options nominal: choice milllntr grades continue scarce and firm; rejected, 6070c: fair to good milllne wheat, 7g85c; prime to fancy Western, 8792c; No. 2 red, February, 794S0c: March, 80X381c; April, 81K82c: May,S2i83c Baltimore Provisions steady. Mess pork, $10 00 old, $11 00 new. Bulk meats loose, shoulders, $5 00; long clear and clear rib sides, 5Jic Lard Refined, 7Jc. Butter steady; west ern packed, 1621c; best roll, 16t)18c; cream ery, 2G2Sc Eggs easy at U13c Coffee Toledo Cloverseed easier: cash and Febru ary, $3 35. 1IADE A HIT IN IDAHO. A Daintily Embroidered Table Scarf Warn ns n Slnfller. Augusta (Me.) Journal. A certain young lady native of Belfast wishing to please an absent friend Christ mas, sent her to her home in Idabo a daintily embroidered silk table scarf. In dne time a letter came, with grateful acknowledgments, and saying: "A thou sand, thousand thanks for the lovely pres ent you have so kindly sent me. It is ex quisitely beautiful, and came just in tbe nick ol 'time for me to wear to onr Christ mas ball. It is very, very becoming to me, and you couldn't have chosen better colors. It is a new thing here and has made a great hit for the girls are fairly wild over it, and everybody is having one." AN OBSEKTAST YOUNGSTER. A Bostonlan 4-Year-Old Who Notes Gram matical Niceties. Boston Times. 1 There is a bright little 4-year-old miss who accompanied her parents to Europe last summer. She is more than entertaining as she relates to her iriends(all abont her "trip to Europe." On the voyage home on a Vrench steamer she accosted one of the ship's men on deck one day with much deference: "Bon jour. Monsieur!" "Bon jour, 'Madamel" was tbe reply. "He called roe, Madam," said the little miss to her mother afterward, "because he saw my rings and thought I must be mar ried." STfiAiNT.LED Bt AN APPLE. Strange Death of an Ascrd Diss Near the Tlllase of Snxton. tSFXCML TXt.XGB.UI TO THE DISPATCH.! Huntihgdon, February 14. George Will iams, 8S years of age, raiding with his Son Bicbard. near Baxton, met his death night be fore last in a very peculiar way. Bis grand daughter offered him an apple to eat wbicb he accepted and takm? a bite it lodged in his throat and choked him, and notwithstanding all efforts of tbe family to dislodge be soon died of strangulation. DOMESTIC MARKETS, Hoist Weather Proves a Damper to Usual Friday Trade. EGGS AHD POULTRY ABE STEADY. Supplj of Grain and Hay Beyond the Capacity ot Markets. SUGABS ADTAKCED COFFEES FIB1T Office or PirrsBtJEO Uispatch, J FeTDAT, February 14, lKXL Country Proilnce Jobbing: Price. Friday is ordinarily tbe best day of the week in this line, but heavy and continuous rains to day proved a damper to trade. Markets in general present no new features. Eggs and poultry are steady at quotations. Choice cab bage and onions are firm. There is a better supply of apples than for some time past and markets are quiet. Good potatoes are very firm at quotations, for tbe reason that very few are to be had. Commission men report that it is next to impossible to obtain choice potatoes of late. Tropical fruits are slow, owing to the soft weather. Markets are overstocked with Florida oranees. and holders are disposed to shade prices for a cash customer. Butteb Creamery, Elgin, 303lc; Ohio do, 2S27c: fresh dairy packed, 2223c; country rolls, 1920c Beans Navy hand-picked beans, 52 002 25: medium, $1 752 00. Beeswax 2o28c ft lor choice: low grade, 1820c Cideb Sand refined. $7 50: common, $1 60 5 00; crab elder, $8 008 50 '$ barrel; cider vinegar, 1012c ) gallon. Chestnuts $5 005 50 bushel; walnuts, 60070c $ buaheL Cheese Ohio, llllKc; New York, HKc: Limburger, 9Kllc; domestic Sweitzer. 11 13Kc; imported Sweitzer, 23c Eoos 1516c straight $ dozen for strictly fresh. Fbutts Apples, fancy, $3 0023 75 fl barrel; cranberries, ti 001 25 a crate; strawberries, S510c a box. Feathees Extra live eeese, 5060c; No. I, do, 40045c: mixed lots, 3035c $ ft. Poultet Live chickens, 7580 a pair; dressed. ll14c a pound: ducks, 75cSl f) pair: live turkeys, 13Hc & dressed turkeys, 17g 18c B. Seods Clover, choice. 62 Ss to bushel. $1 20 4 40 bushel; clover, lame English. 62 As, S4 354 60; clover, Alsike, $3 00: clover, white. $9 00; timothy, choice. 45 &. $1 601 70; blue grass, extra clean, 14 ft', $1 251 30; blue grass, fancy, 11 S3, $1 30; orchard grass, 14 S, $1 40; red top, 14 tt. $1 00; millet, 50 lis. $1 00; Hun garian grass, GO Sis. $1 00: lawn crass, mixture of fine grasses, $2 50 f) bushel of 11 Bh. Tallow Country. 4c; city rendered. 5c Tropical Fruits Lemons, common. $3 00 3 60; fancy, $4 OOiffio 00: Florida oranges. S2 GO 3 50: bananas. $1 752 00 firsts, $1 001 25 good seconds, fl bunch: encoanuts, $4 004 50 W hundred; figs, 89c w ft; dates. 67Kc f ft; new layer figs. 12Xl&Kc; new dates, 7c v ft: pine apples. $2 50 ?) dozen. Vegetables Potatoes, from store, 6560c; on track, 45Q50c: cabbages, $2 P02 60 a barrel: Dutch cabbage, $16 00 9 hundred; celery 40c Tp dozen; Jersey sweet potatoes, $4 254 60 a bar Tel; turnips, $1 001 25 a barrel; onions, $4 50Q 6 00 a barrel. $1 G01 75 j3 bushel. Buckwheat Flour 22c pound. Groceries. The upward movement of sugars bas at last culminated in an advance, as our quotations will disclose. Coffees are very firm, and any change is sura to be toward a higher level. General groceries move along in tbe same old ruts, but there is a more active movement than tbe past week. Green Coffee Fancy Rio, 2324c; choice Bio, 2122c; prime Bio. 20c; low grade Rio, 18H19K old Government Java, 2728c; Mar acaibo, 23&24Xc: Mocha, 28X29&c; Hantos, 20K24c : Caracas, 224221c: peaberry. Bio, 23 24c; La Guayra. 23K24c Boasted (in papers) Standard brands. 24c high grades, 2529Kc; old Government Java, bulk. 81K33c; Maracaibo, 2728c: Santos, 24K t28Kc:peauerry,28Kc: choice Bio. 25c; prime lo, 23c: good Bio, 22fc; ordinary. 21c Spices (whole) Cloves, 1920c; allspice, 10c; cassia, 8c: pepper, 17c; nutmeg, 7080c Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test,7fc; Ohio, 120. 8Kc; headlight 150, 8Vc: water white, 10Wc; glpbe.'l414Jc; elaine, lic; car nadme, like: royaline, 14c; globe red oil, 1I HX0. P11"'?! l4e- Misers' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 4546o fl gallon; summer, 4043c Lard oil. G065c HTRUPS Corn syrup, 2629c; choice sugar syrup. 3638c; prime sugar syrup, S033c; strictly prime, 8335c; new maple syrup, 00c N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop. 4S50c; choice, 47c; medium, asigwc; mixed, lvaiic. SODA Bl-carb In kegs, 8X3Jfc; bi-carb in Xs.5Kc: bi-carb. assorted packages, 5J6c; sal-soda in kegs, lc: do granulated, 2c Candles Star, full weight, 9c;stearine, ?l set. 8Kc; parafflne, ll12c kice ueao. Carolina, ojioc: cnoice, oia 6c; prime, 6K6c: Loui-iana, 5&Vc BTARCH Pearl. 2c; cornstarch, o6c; gloss starch, 47c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins. $2 65: Lon don laver, $2 90: California London layers, $2 75: Muscatels, S240: California .Muscatels. $2 25; Valencia, Tc: Ondara Valencia, 6X9 lc; sultana, lie; currants. 5Xc: Turkey prunes, 45c: French prunes, 610c:Saloni ca prunes, in 2-S packages, 8Kc; cocoanuts, $1 100, $6; almonds, Lan, ft Hi, 20c; do Ivica. 17c; do, shelled. 40c; walnuts, nap, 1415c: Sicily, fllDerts. 12c; Smyrna figs, 12 13c: new dates, 6a 0c: Brazil nuts, lie; pecan. ll15c; citron, yl ft, 1819c; lemon peel. 18c 1 ft; orange peel. 17c Dried Fauns Apples, sliced, per lb, 6c; ap ples, evapo-ated. 9c; apricots, California, evap orated, 1516c; peaches, evaporated, pared, 262Sc; peaches, California, evaporated, un pared, 18019c; cherries, pitted, 1313Xc; cher ries, unoitted. ota6c: rasnherries. evaoorated. 25V26kc; blackberries, 77Xc; huckleberries, 1012c Sugars Cube. 7Jc: powdered, 7c; granu lated, 6Jgc; conlectiouers' A, t5Xc; standard A. 6c: sott white, 6K96c: yellow, choice, 5M 5J?c: yellow, good, 65oc; yellow, fair, 6X ojicf yellow, dark, 5J4c Pickles Medium, bbls (1,200), $6 GO; medi um, half bbls (COO), $3 75. Salt No. 1, ?t bbl. 95c; No.l ex. $ bbl. SI 00: dairy, V bbl, $1 2fl; coarse crystal. $ bbl. $1 20; Higgio' Eureka. 4-bu sacks, $2 80; Higgins' Eureka, 16-14 & packets, $3 CO. Canned Goods Standard peaches, $2 0042 2 25: 2ds. $1 651 80; extra pea,che. S2 4002 60; pie peaches, 95c: finest corn. SI 0001 50; Hid Co. com, 65S5c: red cherries, 90c$l: Lima beans, $1 20; soaked do. 80c; string do, 60065c: mar rowfat peas. El 1001 15: soaked peas, 70080c; pineapples, $1 3uI 40: Bahama do, $2 75; damson plnms. Sac; Greengages, $1 25; egg plums $2 00; California peats. $2 40: do green gages. $1 85; do egg plums, $1 85: extra white cherries, $2 40; raspberries. 95 S1 10; straw berries. SI 10: gooseberries, SI 3001 40; toma toes, 8590c;.sa!moD. 1-fi. $1 6501 90; black berries. 65c; snccotHSb. 2-ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green. 2 ft. $1 2501 50: corn beef, 2-ft can, $2 05; 14-& can. $14 00; baked beans, $1 4ol SO; lobster, 1-ft, $1 7501 80; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled, $1 60; sardines, domestic, Ks. $4 25 4 GO: sardines,- domestic X. $6 7507 CO; sar dines, imported. K8. $H 50012 CO: sardines, im ported, X3, $18 OU; sardines, mustard. 53 40: sardines, spiced, $3 60. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, $36 ? bbl.; extra No. 1 do, mess, $40; extra No. 1 mack erel, shore. $32; extra No. 1 do, mess. $36; No. 2 shore mackerel, S24. Codfl'h Whole pollock, 4Xc $1 ft; do medium, George's cod. 6c; do large, 7c; boneless bake, in strips, 6c; do George's cod in blorks. 6X7Xc Herring Bound shore. $4 GO ft bbl.: sunt. K)50: lake. $2 90 & 100-ft bbl. WbltetHh. 5(700 ?) 100-& half bbl. Lake trout. $5 60 half bbl. Finnan haddock, 10c 31 ft. Iceland hallput. ISc ft ft. Pickerel, XhbUS2 00:i bbl.. $110; Potomac herring, 65 00 ft bbl.: 2 50 per X bbl. OATMEAL $6 0006 25 ft bbl. Grain, Flour nnd Feed. There were no sales on call at the Grain Ex change. Total reoelpts as bulletined, 48 cars, of which 26 were by the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago, as follows: 6 cars of nay, 2 of com, 9 of oats, 2 of feed. 2 of barley, 3 of flour. 1 of rye. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis, 1 car of bran. 8 or corn, 2 of wheat. 2 of bay, 4 of oats. By Baltimore and Ohio, 1 car of hay. By Pittsburg and Western, 1 car of oats, 1 of flour. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, 1 car of flour. The cereal situation presents no new features since onr last report. Trade is dull all along tbe line, and the situation continues in favqr ot buyers. Supplies are beyond the power of our markets to absorb, particularly tor common and low grade stock, which seem to preponderate this season. Markets are over stocked with law grade bar. Choice grades readilv bring quotations, owing to their scarc ity. Tbe flour situation is unchanged, but mar kets are quiet. Prices below are for carload lots on track. Wheat NewNo.2red,e4s5c; No. 3, 810 S2c. Corn No. 2 vellow. ear, new, 383SXc; high mixed, new. 34S5c; No. 2 yellow, shelled, old, 3637c: new. 83034c; old. high mixed, shelled, S536c Bejected shelled corn, 28030c OATS No. 2 whitp. 2S28Xc: extra. No. 8, 27 27Xc; mixed. 24X25c. Rye Ntf. 1 Pennsylvania, and Ohio, S354c; No. 1 Western. 51052c Flour Jobbing prices Fancy winter and sprine patents. J5 0005 50: winter straight, U 2504 50; clear wirier, $4 0001 25: straight XXXX bakers'. $3 6003 75. Bye flour, $3 60 4 75. MnxFEES Middlings, fine white, $15 60 IS 09 fl ton; brown middlings, $12 00U 00; v ii winter wheat bran, $13 5012 75; cbop feed, tio OU01O uu. 2c according to quality: No. 2 p BTBAW-Oat $8 7507 00; whsat ad ry straw, $3 00S 25. Provisions. Sugar-cured bams, large, 9e. sugar-cured hams, medium. 10c; sugar-cured hams. smau. lOXc; sugar-cured breakfast bacon. 8c: sugar cured shoulders, 6Xc; sugar-cured, boneless shoulders, c; sugar-cured California bams, 6Xc; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 9c; sugar-cured dried beef sets, 10c; sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 12c; bacon, shoulders. S3e: bacon, clear sides, "Xc; bacon, clear bellies. 7Xc: dry salt shoulders, 5Vc; dry salt clear sides, 7c Mess porfcr-ieavy. ttl 00; mess pork, family, 112 (XX Lard Refined, in tierces, 5c; half-barrels. 6c; 60-ft tubs, 6c: 20-ft palls, 6c; 50-fi tin cans, 5c; 3-B tin palls, 6Xc; 5-& tin pails. 6Jjc:10-fttia fialls. 6c; 5-ft tin pails. 6c Smoked sausage, ong, 6c; large, 5c Fresh pork links. 9c Bone less bams, lOXc Pigs' feet, half-barrels, $4 00; quarter-barrel, $2 15. WHAT DID TAG PBEACHEB MEAN? Remarks at a Funeral That Might be Vdrl- onslr tonitrned, Boston Budget.1 There recently died a man who had for years kept a drugstore in Medford. He was respected, and when death came it was natural that his funeral should bs largely attended. The clergyman thought it wise, as a part of the funeral service, to say a good word lor him. He spoke of him as invariably honest in his dealings, and as being especially skilled in his profession. "X always traded at his store," he continued, "and it is but just to say that he always recognized my clotb." whether this was said as an expression of gratitndefor past favors in special discounts or as a hint to the deceased druggist's suc cessor, no one knows. A CLEBGIMAS'3 AWKWABDNBSS. He Attempts to Speak Extempore and Makee a Bless of It. Philadelphia Times.! Many a clergyman who can preach a capi tal sermon is veiy unhappy as a speaker'out of the pulpit. I beard oi a clergyman the other day whose duty it was to Introdnce to an audience a missionary from Ceylon, and did so as follows: 'This faithful missionary of the Cross comes from Ceylon, a land where, as you all know, 'every prospect pleases and only man Is vile. " The Itliasloa of a University. Philadelphia Times.! James Bussell Lowell, in an informal talk delivered belore tbe members of the Harvard Art Club, was once asked by an inquiring student what was the mission of a great university. "Without a moment's hesi tation the veteran diplomat and scholar re plied: "To teach nothing that is useful." A Brekteaa People. Detroit Free Press.1 Saw mills had been working away in this country for 80 years before anyone discov ered that sawdnst had a value. It is esti mated that the dust thrown away in the last half century would sell for enough to-day to add a considerable fleet to the navy. What Betting Costs. Detroit Free Press.1 The amonnt of money wagered on base ball, horse racing, rowing matches, prise fights' and other so-called "sports" is com puted at $25,000,000 per year. SICK HEADACHECarter,jlJttjeUTetpUlfc SICK HEADACHE -Carter's Little Liver Pills. SICK HEADACHECartet,irjmeljTerpiUfc SICK HEADACHEc,rter,iIJttl8LlTerpmji nolt-67-TTSSa THE NEW TJ ZSZI'X.OSZ'vJi JVL a LIMITED JL M. AMOUNT OF STOCK 1V1 B ETTHE E N EMMENSTTE EXPLOSIVES, N S GUNS; AND AMMUNITION CO. Sj J. For Sale T LYMAN 6 HABBIS, T E 98 FOUBTH AVE. E fel4-87 JAS. D. CALLEBY President JOHN W. TAYLOB Cashlei CITY SAVINGS BANK, SIXTH AVE. AND SMITHFIELD ST. Capital and surplus. $130,000. Transacts a General Banking Business. lyS-XTS WHOLESALE -:- HOUSE, Embroidery and White Goods Department direct importation from the best manufac turers of St. Gall, In Swiss and Cambric Edg lng Flounclngs, Skirt Widths and Allovers, Hemstitched Edgings and Flounclngs. Buyers will hud these goods attractiva both in price and novelties of design. Full lines of New Laces and White Goods. UPHOLSTEBY DE PABTMENT Best makes Window Shades In dado and plain or spring fixtures; Lace Cur tains, Portieres. Chenille Curtains, Poles and Brass Trimmings: Floor, Table and Stair Oil Cloths in best makes, lowest prices for quality. WASH DBESS FABRICS. The largest variety from which to select. TollDuNords, Cbalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck ers, Imperial Suitings Heather t Renfrew Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr Ginghams. Wholesale Exclusively. Jal3-D A PERFECT A. purely Vegetabl Compound that expels all hart hnmnrt fl-rtm thu f system, Removes blotch es ana pimpies, ana makes pure, rich blood. ap2-53 PILES: SYHPTOHft-Xvlct are latea Itoklatf and tlaclacl MM al IE a i wre ot ermtealac IT al lowed t omtU I ITCHIHG PILES.iyi.Ss: bMonlat very Mr. SWAVNTS OLT. MEVT um tb ltohtmv mrf blMllas. heal n vleertlB.aadlamoteaMreaTMlfet assra. Sw4TW'Oiwmt If ioklb7dncifSa,r Billed dt addjeta a relpt of prlM, 10 ts. t Sox; SbaxM,SUa Ulna laden. PS. SWATHS SON. nilnblpala, fa. JSROKEBS-FINANCIAI. VtrHTTNEY 4 STEPHENSON, 7 FOUBTH AVENUE. Issue travelers' credits through Messrs. Drexst, Morgan & Co, New York; Passports procured. JOHN K. OAKLEY & CO, BANKEK3 AND BBOKEB3. Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Petroleum. Private wire to New York and Chicago. 45 SIXTH ST, Pittsburg. , n a JsSKlfgSiisR SBk gJalMtMMm sdMSESSKiHb aaaatSMMiVw 1 'i .:. - 1 m M m Y .
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