'JDflEMAEKETSEASIER. i. ..SW. Special Change Noted in General Iron Situation. the $k BETTER IKQUIRY NOTICED. Rjf in England is Eeported as Being De- cidedl7 Dull. STEL SAILS ABljUT THE SA3IB FIGUEE rFrtCIAL TELXGRAX TO THE DISPATCIM Hew Yobk, February 27. The Iron Age .review of the market contains the follow ing: American pig, with the exception of an occasional small lot from second hands of fered at figures below our quotations, the market continues steady, but very quiet. Some sales agents report that inquiries are coming in more freely, but as they do not seem to have led to any transac tlons o magnitude In this immediate vicinity. Some of the merchants still have iron to dis pose ot purchased during the rie. This iron is now coming due and in some cases is not vet placed. We continue to quote 19 5020 00 for No. 1;?1S 5019 00 for So. 2. and $17 501S 00 for era forge, tidewater delivery. ThcSpiegeleisen and Ferro-Manganese mar ket ha1: been very dull and easy, no transac tions of any consequence being reported. We qnote 20 per cent bpiegeleisen 135 50638 00, with the market in buyers' favor. In Ferro Manganese business has been light, with 80 percent at EX) for April and May delivery and $SoS7 for second half of the year. We are in debted to S. G. Brock, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, for the following statement, which Feuarates for the calendar year 1SS9, the quan tities of Spiegeleisen from the other kinds of pig iron imported and entered for consump tion: a cojiAabatiye statement. Articles. 18SS. 1SK) EnlectlPlsen tons 71.GM 9U.4SI All other pig Iron tons W.SS7 51,469 Totals 105.191 150,950 Of course the quantity of mangamferons ma terial, expressed by manganese units, has increased even more, since it is well known that the imports of ferro were much larger In 18S9 than they were in lSSS. The true method of reporting on manganllerons material would, of course, be to state the total manganese con tents of the stock imported, which is now prac ticallv impossible. In 'billets the market is very dull. It is re orted that a small lot of foreign material for . special purpose has been offered at a price lower than that asked bv domestic milK Ke oorts from Wheeling and Pittsburg indicate a slightly better feeling. THE WIRE MAEKET. In wire rods there is some inquiry. The market is distinctly easier, and it is reported that $53 to S53 50 could be done for tidewater delivery. It is stated that options have been secured on both the continuous mill and gar rett mill patents. The initiation in the move ment has ben taken bv a Pittsburg concern. If successful, the consolidation would bead off the projects for the building of rod mills by outside parties. In steel rails the aggregate sales of Eastern mills foot up to 20,000 tons, of which 10,000 tons ' was for a Southern road. Rumors of addi tional sales have not been verified. The feel .ing is -easier, the market being 34 50035 00 at Eastern mill, while Pittsburg quotes 35, with 'reports afloat that loner prices have been mane. F0EEIGN JIETAL MAKKETS, PJr Iron Prices Fluctuating The Tin Snec ulntor Discouraged. rPrZCIAL TELXGBJJi TO THE DISPATCtt. i New Yoke, February 27 The Irm Act has received the following special cable dispatch from London: The block tin market has con tinned irregular and unsettled, recovering to 91 2s 6d after a sharp decline and settling back to 59 17s Cd. Speculative holders seem to be thoroughly discouraged, and little or no resistance has been offered to the movement to depress prices. America has been buying some tin, but not sufficient to lend any support to the market. Pri;esfor pig iron warrants have fluctuated widelv, but the amount of business done has been smaller the past week than for some months past. At this time there is a rather better feeling. There is only a fair business passing in makers brands of facotcb, and prices for the same are rather easier. Cleveland warrants, are somewhat stronger, owing o small stock in makers' bands and likelihood of a strike among the collieries. It is reported that Cumberland makers are con sidering a proposition to restrict the production of hematites, but speculation in this, as in other pigs, is tame. For copper there has been more demand and purchases by consumers show some increase. A parcel of 400 tons merchant bars changed hands at 46 12s Cd ana several smaller Darcels at 16 10s and 17. Speculative demand has improved and ap pears to be cncouraccd by the easier rates for money. The demand from consumers is im I proving and prospects are considered f avorabio ! lor a good spring trade. It is understood the principal French holders have decided to realize at less than 50, it being considered very likclj that prices will recover, in view of the fact that North American supplies are small and that a good part of the French holdings will be wanted for consumption by present owners. In tin plate business has been small, and Liverpool buyers are gradually tapering prices. The half vearly meeting of the Plate Workers' Union was had Saturday, and 103 delegates, representing 72 works, were present. It was decided to cease work altogether during the second week in , March, and every effort will be made to ad here to 36 boxes output in eight louri until the stock at shipping ports shall haieDeen re duced to 250,000 boxes. During the week pre ( viuus to the meeting makers closed 70 mills, in cluding those of the Baldwin, Williams, Con way Brothers. Lewis, Thomas Germant, Fair wood, Treforrcst, Burry and Old Castle Com panies. American Manufacturer's Cable Quotations. Scotch Pig Operations in warrants have been smaller, but prices continue irregular and unsettled. In maker's iron there has been more doing, but at rather lower prices: N o. 1 Coltness 75s. Od. Lo. b. Glasgow If o. 1 Summerlee .73s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow 'a 1 Gartsherne 73s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Langloan 72s. Od. f.o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Carnbroe 54s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 S lotts 75s. 0(1. f. o. h. Glasgow No. 1 Glengarnock.....73s. Od. atArdrossan. No. 1 Dalmellington ...62s. Od. at Ardrossan. No. lEglinton 55s. Od. atArdrossan. .Bessemer Pig Buyers and sellers are still wide apart on prices and business continues moderate. West Coast brands at 80s. Od. for Nos. 1, 2, 3, f. o. b. shipping point. Middlesbrough Pic Warrants have Im proved in price under the influence of con tinued decrease in stocks and trade: demand is somewhat better. Makers quote No. 3 at 58 60s. f . o. b. Spiegeleisen Demand has continued good and makers keep well sold ahead. English 20 per cent quoted at 130s. f. o. b. at works. Steel Wire Rods There has been a further drop of 5s. in prices and only a moderate busi ness at the decline. Mild steel. No. B, quoted at 9 2s. Cd. f. n. b. shipping port. Steel Rails The demand at present is light. Makers qnote 5s. Cd. lower, and further concessions would doubtless lie made. Heavy sections aro offered at 7 2s. 61 t o. b. ship ping point. Steel Blooms In these there has been a very fair trade but prices are lower. Bessemer 7x7 Quoted 6 17a. 6d. f.o. b. shmoln? nnint Steel Billets Prices are somewhat lower with business freer at the decline. Bessemer (siie 2Kx2X) quoted at 8 17s. 6d. f. o. b. Shipping point. Steel Slabs Inquiries are fewer and the market is a shade weaker. Ordinary sizes quoted at 6 17s. 6d. f. o. b. shipping point. Grop Ends Demand is slow and prices are more or less nominal. Run of the mill quoted at 3 12 6d f. o. b. shipping point. Old Iron Rails Tu ere is little demand and bids are considerably under sellers figures. Tees held at 4 2s. Od., and double heads at 4 5s. f. o. b. Scrap Iron Only moderate sales making. Prices rather weaker. Heaw wrought quoted at 3 ls f. o. b. shipping points. Manufactured iron Business in this line has fallen, off. Staffordshire makers quote previ ous prices, but there is a further decline on Wefshiliara. Stafford ord. marked bars. (f. o. b. ITpool) W0sPdS 0 OsOd " common bars..... 9 Os 0d 0 Osod " black sheet singles 11 Os Od 0 Ps Od Welsh bars, f.o.b. Wales... 7 Us 6d$ 0 Os Od Steamer Freights Glasgow to New York, 2s. Od. Liverpool to New York. 10s. Od. Pig Tin The market has been unsettled and irregular, with quite extensive realizations. Prices went as low as 69 17s Cd and recovered to 91 2s td. afterward reactinc. Straits quoted to-dav at 83 17s 6d for spot; futures (3 months), 9015. Copper Prices havo still fnrthcr declined under the wcicbt of freer offerings, bnt a. change for the better soon Is expected. Chill bare quoted 47 for spot. 47 15. for future dclirery. Best selected English, 54. Lead Veiy little chance tne past week. Trade has been quiet Soft Spanish quoted at 12I7s. Od. Spelter There has been a fair business at f previous prices. Ordinary Sileslan quoted at 22 !. Tiu Plate Makers have agreed to a curtail ment of production next month, and will en deavor to reduce present stock one-half. X. C charcoal, Allaway grade, f. o. b. Liverpool 17s. 6d.01Ss. Od. Bessemer steel, coke finish 16s. Sd. Os. 0d. Siemens steel, coke finish 16s. 6i.& 0s. Od. B. V. grade coke. 14x20. 15s. 6d.G15s. 9d. Dean grade tern es Hs.Gd.15s.0d. THAT SOUTHERN 11105. The Ulen Who Handle It Take Exceptions to Criticisms br Pittsburg Brokers. To the Editor orTbeDlspatcb: Our attention has been called to an article in a late Issue of The Dispatch In relation to the 5,000 tons of Lady Ensley iron recently shipped from Sheffield, Ala to Pittsnurg by water. In rebuttal of the depreciating re marks made in reference to the quality of this Iron. we. who are the sales agents for the Lady Ensley iron, take pleasure in handing you herewith some documentary evidences of the superior quality of the Lady Enslev iron. Geokge H. Hum. & Co. LOUISVIIXE, Ky February 26. onio Falls Ibojt Works, ) MwAlDiXT, IND., January 21, 1S90. ) Messrs. George II. Hull i. Co.. Louisville, Ky.: GEVTLKjtEj. ltererring to your telephone this moraine tn regard to Lady Eniley put lrtm. of which we have bonght since the furnace 6tarlea over 1,500 tons, sir Its use has been entirely satl factory the months we hare used it. Last month we were working a mixture in our forges in Milch were two pigs or Ladyhnsley Grey Forge and w ere working on a contract for a cstern railroad, all the Iron of which was re quired to stand a tensile strength not less than lu 2-Inch section sol less than IS per cent. All 43,1X10 pounds to the square inch, and Uongation the iron went very much over this, one sixes Inch by 1 inch, which receives on account of its size comparatively little work, showed at the Louis ville Bridge and Iron Company a tensile strength of 50.000 pounds totlie square inch, eloncatlon In 6-Ineli section 19.7 per cent, and one pice from same bar sent to Pittsburg reported to us. was tensile strength 51.6o0 pounds to the square inch, elougation In 2-lnch section 25 per cent. The writer Invcstignted to And where these properties came from and concluded very much of this strength and elongation was from Lady Ensley Greyrorge. We have reduced our mixture to one nig Lady Ensley, as that is enough to produce the result desired. A foundry man here, to whom we sold a ton for special use last week, reported to me the 17lh In stant that It was very fluid and very strong. Yours trulv, (blgned) Peter K. bTor. Vice President. From the Press: These works have Just com- Filetcd a contract w Ith a firm In Missouri Tor a bar ran to be used for the Kansas City, r t. Scott and Memphis llailroad. In which the Iron was re quired to stand a tensile strength of SO, UOO pounds to the squaic inch, and an elongation of 20 per cent In a I-incii section. A number of samples from the bars as they were made were sent to Chi cago to be tested, from time to time, and a'l stood the required test. In come cases the bars were reported as standing a tensile strength of over 56.000 pounds. One piece ot iron 8 Inches wide and 1 inch thick of the Iron for this order was sent to Pittsburg, l'a., to be tested. The report of the test to the companv here was: Elastic limit, 30,410 pounds; tensile strength, SL.G50 pounds: elongation in two Inches, 25 per cent; reduction of area, 2L60 per cent; fracture fibrous with S per cent crystals. This Is a remarkable test, and demonstrates the quality of the lrou being made by the Ohio Falls Iron Works. THE STOEAGE QUESTION. Transient Facilities Abundant Wholesale Men tho Pnrtlea Who Need Ware houses A State of Things Caused by the City's Rnpld Growth. An interview with one of our leading mer chants published in this column of Wednes day's Dispatch, as to the need of storage houses in the central part of tt a city, is liable to misinterpretation. The facilities for transient storage are fully up to demand. The advertis ing columns of The Dispatch are sufficient proof on this point. The Pennsylvania Storage Company. 39, 40 and 41 Water street, furnishes every facility in this line. All classes of mer chandise and household goods are afforded storage to any extent and for auv period de sired. In addition to this are the Union Stor age Conmanv. which is inst completing a down- town warehouse; the Hoevelers', near the Union depot, and that of tbe Dilworths, and no aouot otners. Tbe jobber who was quoted in the former in terview reports that there is no lack in the fa culties now furnished lor storage purposes. The point he aimed to make and if it was not made in tne article reierreu to, tue lauit is not with tbe merchant was that our wholesale merchants, as a rule, are greatly cramped 'for room; that their warehouses are not, as a gen eral thing, capacious enough to carry the neces sary stock of goods for these times. Said he: "lhe wholesale merchants of the city are gen erally lacking in facilities for storing goods. We did not build big enongh jears ago, not having any idea of the city's future, and are now in the condition of the uan spoken ot in the Bible who bad no room to bestow bis fruits and his goods. If warehouses could be rented, we could bridge over our present difficulties until such times as we could enlarge. Bnt for the present there is a difficulty on the part of mostof the jobbers of the city in securfnc the space needed for tbe carrying on of their grow ing trade. All wholesale men are crowded for room. "When the Pennsylvania Railroad Company built their immense freight depot at the foot of Liberty street many years ago it was the gen eral opinion that a large part of the space was entirely useless. Now It is crowded to its ut most and a building twice tbe capacity would be fully occupied. So it is with our warehouses." EAST LIBERTY LITE STOCK. Complete Statistic of Receipts and Sales for tbe Past Week. Office of Pittsburg Dispatch,! Thuesdat. February 27. 1890. f Following is a report of the transactions at these yards for the week: RECEIPTS. CATTLE. HOGS. S1IEEF Thro'. I Local. Thursday , ridav , Saturday bunday Monday , Tuesday Wednesday , LI30 G60 2.775 MO 1.8S0 1,4) 3,410 330 4,210 330 4,S7o 4.6o0 5.025 3,425 I.63 2,850 L2 80 170 S.10 250 130 10 13) 3U0 Total.. 3,610 1.2901 5,S35 13.3S0 Last week Previous week.. 4,110 4.850, 1,500 1,300; 31,275 2175 16,830 11,410 Thnrsday S 663 .... Friday , list fcaturday t .... is 5i4 Monday 1,013 3,477 2.735 Tuesday 200 1.577 2,638 Wednesday 24 700 479 Total 1,269 8,091 5,650 Last week. 1,473 9,592 6,444 Prevloasweek 1,384 12,363 6,595 By Telegraph. New York Beeves Receipts. 720 carloads all for exportation and for slaughterers direct; no trading in beet cattle; extremely dull for dressed beef at PVJ7Jfc per lb for poor to extra citv slaughtered sides. Exports 550 beeves and 71 sheep. To-day's cable advices from Lon don and Liverpool quote American steers steady at ll)12c per ft for the dressed weight, sinking the offal, and American refrigerated beef dull at scant 9c per ft. Calves Receipts, 100 head; dull and easier at 57Je per ft f or fair to good veals and at 34:c ber ft for West ern calves. Sheep Receipts. 4,200 head: very slow trade with the tendency in favor of buy er: sheep sold at Si 7506 2o'per 100 fts; lambs at55 75712K. Hogs Receipts, 2,000 head; none offered alive: dull and easier at the na tianal range of S3 S01 40 per 100 fts. Chicago Cattle Receipts. 12.000 head.- shipments. 5,500 head: market steady tn strong: beeves. II 504 90; steers, is 50 i 40; stockers and feeders. $2 403 60; Texas cornred steers, 52 803 40. Hog Receipts, 22.000 head: shipments. 9.000 head: market steady: mixed. J3 40Q4 00: heavr. S3 854 05; light, $3 804 05; skips. $3 403 7a Bheep-Re-ceipts, 6,000 head; shipments, LO0O bead: mar ket slow and shade lower; natives, $3 505 50; Western cornfed, $4 9005 00; lambs, 5 006 3a St. Louis Cattle Receipts. LfiOO head; ship ments, 500 head: market steady; good to fancy steers, (4 304 90; fair to good do. $3 40 I 30; stockers and feeders. 2 20f3 60: ranze steers. 52 303 5U Hog Receipts 4,100 head; ship ments. L980 head; market firm: fair to choice heavy, $3 S5S3 9o; packing grades. 3 S03 90; light, fair to best, J3 893 SKX Sheep-Receipts, 300 head; shipments. 400 bead; market steady: fair to choice. Si 005 7a Buffalo Cattle steady and unchanged: re ceipts. 112 loads through; 1 for sale. Sheepand lambs slow; receipts, 6 loads through, 18 for sale; sheep, choice to extra, J5 856 00; good to choice. 5 6o5 80; lambs, choice to extra. $0 857 (JO; good to choice, $8 656 bU Hogs slow; receipts, 44 loads through, 15 for sale: mediums and heavy, $4 254 3D; mixed, S4 SO: Yorkers. SI 25g4 SO; pigs.S4 15 4 2a Kahsak Crry cattle-Receipts. 3.500 head; shipments. 2.500 head; market stetdy but slow; steeis. S3 204 80: cows. $1 902 90: stockers and feeders. $2 5u3 4a Hogs Receipts, 5.000 head: shipments 900 head; market 2X3e lower; all grades, S3 703 75; bulk. S3 7a. SheepRe ceipts. 1.600 bead; shipments, 500 bead; market more active; good to choice Iambs and mut tons, $3 50S5 40: stockers and feeders. So 00 5 25. Indianapolis Cattle Receipts light: mar ket unchanged; shipper. S2 254 60: butchers. sioo3 00: bmiiffEaeieoL HogZ-Rewipw; Z150 head; market active and higher: choice lieavv and mixed. J3 90Q4 00: mixed. S3 85 3 o: light. S3 90ei4 Oo. bbeep Receipts light: rnarket steady; lambs. S3 505 50; sheep, S2 50 C.I,F?;frATIHoIS,'owerJ common and light, $3 60i 10; packing and butchers, S3 904 10: receipts, 2,275 head; shipments, L425 headT MYSTERY NO LONGER. The Schmertz and Beamer Properties Gobbled by a Corporation. BIG DEAL IN ALLEGHENY CITY. One Hundred Thousand Dollars Wanted for the University Juilding. IKON 1IEK TAKING TO PETROLEUM A mystery in real estate, which has puzzled many people for some time, -was cleared up yesterday when it leaked out that the purchase of the Beamer and Schmertz properties on Fifth avenne, from Craig to Neville street, was for the Daquesne Trac tion Company, a new rapid transit project. The company will proceed at once to erect a large car house and other necessary build ings on the property. The sale was made by Messrs Black fc Baird about two months ago, and tbe price paid was SH1.000. As intimated yesterday, Messrs. Herron & Sons closed the sale of a large business prop erty corner of Federal street and North ave nue, Allegheny, lot 23x74 feet, with a large four story brick building, now occupied as a drug store, offices and dwellings. It was sold for the account of the heirs of Isaac Taylor, and tbe purchaser was Levi Wade. The price was S20, 000. The new owner will put some improve ments on the property, and hold it as an invest ment. Tbe Ames Shovel Works at North Easton, Mass., are using coal oil as a fuel with complete success. It is claimed to bo much more econ omical than coal, both in cost and in time saved in beating the furnaces. Oil is also successfully used in Chicago, Johnstown and other places as a fuel in the manufacture of iron and steel. Should natnral gas fall, of which there is no indication, petroleum may by that time be suf ficiently developed as a fuel to readily take its place, in which case Pittsburg will still be on top. Another attempt will be made to-morrow to sell tbe county buildings at public auction. Commissioner McWilliams says the lowest price that will be accepted for the University building is 100,000. The lot fronts 100 feet on Diamond street and has a depth of 115 feet to Ross street. It cost the county SS0.O0O in 18S2. Tho employes of the Bethlehem, Fa., Iron Company's works have been notified of an ad vance in their wages ranging from 10 to 15 per cent, dating from February L This affects men in the rail mill, merchant mill, heaters and day laborers. This announcement was followed a day or two later by a similar one by the Ulendon Iron Company, at Easton, Fa., the voluntary in crease in the latter case: being 10 per cent all round, and to take effect to-morrow, March L A standard authority on precious metals Herr Ottomar Haupt has just completed his report of tbe amount of the great treasures in the world. He figures that of gold coin and bullion there is $1,408,000,000 and of silver S791, 000.000. It is comforting to possess this inform ation, whether it can -be made available or not. It is well enough to know that business is in no immediate danger' of suffering for want of financial support. DOWN THE! WENT. An Unaccountable Break In Local Securi ties All the Booms Nipped. Yesterday was another bear day at the Stock Exchange. The brokers manifested a good deal of vim, which was encouraging, but they were all after cheap stuff, and some sf them got it. All the booms were smashed. Conces sions were made throughout the entire active list. Sales were 275 shares. Just why a wave of depression should sweep over local securities at this time, with condi tions and prospects favoring an advance, is difficult to say. In the case ot Central Trac tion, -which was a particularly weak spot, tbe talk was of difficulties in tho way of operating the road and the -great liability to accidents from crossed cables. The other tractions also lost ground. Pittsburg closing at 37 bid, the lowest point yet reached by it. Even Pleasant Valley, which has been a strong favorite all along, and regarded in tbe light of an invest ment, was swept along by tbe ebbing tide and dropped a fraction. Philadelphia Gas broke to olii in tbe forenoon, but recovered a fraction before tbe close. Chartiers Gas showed good staying power, In spite ot discontented stock holders. Allegheny Heating Company was the only strong feature, advancing to 107 bid. Manu facturers' Gas was offered at 20. Electric con tinued in tho dumps without any apparent reason. Switch and Signal and Luster mining were neglected. La Noria was wanted in blocks at 12 cents, but holders refused to let go at that figure. They still hope that the un expected may happen. MOUNISG. ATTKBlTOO-y. Hid. Asked. Hid. Asked. l,ittSb'gF..S.&M.Ex. 465 4S3 Commercial Ma. Ban t. 98 I'lflh Ave. Bank 71 .... .... Iron Citv flat. Bank. 90 Keystone Bank of P'g rajf M. & 31. .Nat. .Bank.... C6 1'eoplc's at. Bank... ICO becond atlona! Bank .... 71 170 240 Union National Uauk. 330 becond Nat. B., Ally. 205 City Insurance 32 .... Mononcaliela Ins 40Ij Allegheny Heatln; Co. Chartiers V. UasCo.... Manufacturer's Gas Co Xat.UasCo.ofW. Va. Pennsylvania Gas Co.. Philadelphia Co estmoreiand & Cam. Wheellncr Gas Co Central Traction Citizens' Traction lltts. Traction Fleasant Valley ntts., A. A. Alan Pitts. W.K. Co P. A V. pref. N. Y. A CI. G. C. Co.. LaNorl&Mlnlne Co... Luster Minlne Co...... Kast End Klectrlc W estlnzbouse Electric Mon'ganela Water Co. Union btorageCo. .. . 107 41X 107 42H V 43 29 70 15 . 13& K 325i 14 328 21 I91( 20 21 18X 21 S054 .... 31 ei'A sf .... 38tf 37 38 2i 247 25 3U 38 SOU 04f 37 SIX 31 "19 55 19 31 11 58 43 20M 35 60 15 V. b. &hlg. Co 15 16M .... 16"4 M cauuu'.uauxuu kc. ... .... 1U9 iiu Grocers' 3. S S. Co.... 104 105 104 104)4; At the forenoon call 25 shares of Pittsburg Traction sold at 3S, 10 Pleasant Valley at 2a, 10 Central Traction at 31. 40 at 3L 10 at S o at 30. 10 Philadelphia Gad at 32, and 10 char tiers Gas at 41. At the afternoon call sales were 60 shares of Electric at 45. 60 Philadelphia Gas at 32Ji, 10 Pittsburg Traction at 37, 10 Central Traction at 30. and 20 at 30. C. L. McCutcbeon sold SO shares of Philadel phia Gas at 32k. Henry M. Long sold 100 shares Pleasant valley at 25V, and 50 shares Philadelphia Gas at 23. Rea Bros. 4 Co. boucbt 28 shares Pleasant Valley at 23, 10 Central Traction at 3C and sold 10 Pittsburg Traction at 37. The total sales of stocks at New York yester day were 190,000 shares, including Delaware", Lackawanna and Western. 10,100; Erie. 3,100; junu isvme anu w asuTiiie, 0,201; jviissonn racinc, 9.540; Beading, 1.E30; St. Paul, 9.937; Union Pacific, 23,49a 1IARD CASE. The Local Market In Good Shape New York Losing Her Grip. While there is not a plethora of loose money In this market, there is enough for all business purposes, and gilt-edged collateral is readily discounted at 6 per cent. Cnecking and depositing were active yesterday. The ex changes footed up 2.589,494 92 and the balances S10LS11 7a A call from the Controller of the Currency is daily expected, and local banks are paying out as little as possible so as to make a good show ing. The hardening of the money rate in New York will have very little effect on the country atlarge. In fact,NewYork does not absolutely rule the money market. Time was when financiers all over tbe country took their cue from the metropolis: but that time has gone by. The expansion of business West and South has made it necessary to havo a steady and reliable supply of funds in those sections not affected by tbe exigencies of Wall street, and this has built up a number of distributing centers Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, New Orleans and others where rates are made to conform to tne local demand, and are not continually subject to Eastern manipulation. This has proved of great advantage to business, and especially to the agricultural community. The money rate is more stable in Pittsburg than in any other city in the country, for tbe reason that this is a creditor city, which means that the flow of money is steadily In Its favor. And for the same reason the supply ot funds Is always generous and reliable. Money famines have been of rare occurrence here. Money on call at New York yesterday was easy, ranging from 33 per cent; last loan closed offered at 8. Prime mercantile paper, i 6. Sterling exchange dnll and -weak at 54 iifti for 60-day bills and $1 85 for demand. Closing Bond Qoatntlons. U. 8. 4s,reg ltBi" M.K.&T. Gen.Ss . Wi Mutual Union 6s.. ..102 V.J. C. Int. Cert.. .Ill Northern f ae. lsts..U5K Northern fac. 2d..114s Northw't'n consols. Hi Northw'n deben's.. 110(4 Oreeon A Trans. 6s. 106)4 St. I.. &I.M.Gen.53 00 St. U1S.(. Oen.il. 110 St. l'aul consols ....tG si. PI 1'hl Ik Pe.lau.116 U. D. M. COUP....,...!.. V. 8. 4Ss, rer .1C3S U. 8. 4MS. eonp.,.. 1CH4 Pacific 6s or '95 lie Lonlslanastamped4s 97X PllBBUUn OS....t......JUU Tend, new set. 6s... 109 Tcnn. new set. 5S....M2M xenn. new set. as,... 7a Canada So. 2ds S9H Ccn. l'aclflc lata. ....Ill1 Den. & K. U., lts...llSH Den. & It (x. 4s 77; D.&K.G.West,lsts. - Erie, Ids 100 Jj U.K. AT. Gen. 6s.. 74 Itx., Pel.. G.Tr.Bs. 91K TX.,PcR,G.Tr.KctI 3SH union rac. ists...-u: V est Shore 10o New York Clearings, $121,538,962; balances, S6.925.904. Boston Clearings, 113,336,408; balances, Jl, 170.399. Money 5 per cent. PHrx.ADEXPHiA Clearings, ?12,4S5,183; bal ances, S1.697.3S9. Baltimore Clearings, (2,462,284; balances, S233.0iS. London Tbe amount of bullion gone into the Bank of England on balance to-day is 50.000. The proportion of the Bank of En gland's reserve to liability is now 47.33 per cent. Bar silver. 44d per ounce. Paws Three per cent rentes, 88f 35c for the account. The weekly statement of the Bank of Franco shows a decrease of 1,375,000 francs gold and an increase of 175,000 francs silver. CniCAGO Clearings. 111,327,000. New York exchange steady at 4050c discount. Money, 56 per cent on call and 67 per cent on time. St. Loins Clearings, 13,070,295; balances, 570,713. BEARS ON TOP. Oil Drops Below the Dollar Lino nnd Stays There. Oil valnes, following the course of local stocks, took a decided tumble yesterday, drop ping below- the dollar mark soon after tbe open ing and remaining on the nether side of it the rest of tbe day. It was the first time that the price h ad been below a dollar since November 21 of last year. Tho market opened weak at SI 00. It quickly sold down to 9Sc rallied and sold back to about 99c, then broke to 98c firmed up a trifle and closed at 99c bid. lhe extreme fluctuations were: Openintr $1 00, highest $1 00?g. Iotiest97c. closed mc The weakness came from New Vork and Oil City, and also from some local longs getting tired and -dumping their stuff. This, in the absence of buyers, there being no support from the shorts, and no outside interest, was more than tbe market could withstand. The feeling at the close was weak, as shown by bids tor puts, which were 2 cents below the market. Notwithstanding a great amount of chinning a very small amount of trading was done. After the hammer fell, a broker said be thought tho Standard had engineered tber break. Activity in the field, which will be greatly increased when the roads settle, prob ably bad as much to do with the slumps as anything else. Jennings tt Co. struck sand Wednesday night at their second well in the Crafton field, but fire broke out and destroyed the rig. The well is on the South farm and gives evidence of being a good one. The well on the Ivory farm was doing ten barrels an hour yesterday. Three more good wells have been struck on tbe Fer guson farm in theShannopln field. One of them was turning out 20 barrels an hour yesterday. Another made 350 barrels in the first 24 hours. AVith these three good strikes at Sbannopin came in a duster. McCoy & Co.'s wildcat, south. west of Shipping Point, being the unfortunate one. The Kanawha Oil Company's No. 1, on the Young farm, near tbe Lockwood gusher in the 100-foot district of the Butler field, is not so large as reported. The Hundred-root Oil Company's Cable farm well is a 50-barreI pro ducer, and tbe Souih Penn Oil Company's Wm. Cashdollar farm well is completed and good lor hut 15 barrels a day. Brennan & Hlto'sNo. 2on the Brown farm in tho Brush Creek extension, is a 75-barrcl well. Poth & Pepper's So. 6, in the Washington field, was struck by lightning, and the rig and tank burned. The well came in two years ago as a 100-barreler and was doing 20 barrel! a day when overtaken by misfortune. BDTLEE OIL FIELD, Producer's in a Continuous State of Ex cltciucot Over Kevr Wells. .SPSCIAI. TILED RAM TO TBB DISPATCH.! Butleb, February 27. The panicky market on the one hand, and the bringing m of several gassers on the other, kept oil circles in a con tinuous state of excitement to-day. Forst & Co's. No. 4 on the Irvine farm at Myoma, was drilled into a rich pay streak to day and in making 50 barrels per hour this evening. It is the largest well ever struck in the field and its great productiveness is a sur prise to the trade. Feaiurcs of tho Marker. Corrected daily by John M. Oakley & Co.,' 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange. Opened ICOHII.owest 97K Highest 100tciosed sail Barrels. Average charters 27,556 Avcraeo shipments 75.979 Ave.-aire runs 69,820 Refined, New York. 7.50c, Reflne London. 51d. Refined, Antwerp, I7r. Kefined, .Liverpool. 64. lteflned, Bremen. 6.S5m. A. B. McGrew quotes: Puts, 96597c: calls. 51 001 OL "Kwvic, Olber Oil Market. Bradford. February 27. Petroleum opened at 81 00: closed. 93c; highest. SI 00?i; lowest. 95c Runs, 9,117 barrels; shipments, 76,901 barrels; charters, 31,745 barrels; clearances. 890. 000 barrels. On. Citt. Feoruary 27. Petroleum opened ai si uu: nignest. si uu: lowest, VT; closed, 99c bid. Runs, 75,201; shipments, 66,695; char ters, 31,746 barrels. ' IdEW York, February 27. Petroleum onened stetdyatSl 00. but went down under forced to 98c. A reaction of followed on which tbe market closed steady at 99Jc Stock Ex chance: Opening. SI 00; highest, SI 00; low est, 9bc; closing. 99e. Consolidated Exchsnce: Opcninc $1 00; highest, SI 00: lowest, 97c; closed, 99ic Total sales, 928,000 barrels? MOYEMENTS IN EEALTT. Many Deals Show Hie Demand is Active nnd Hegulnr. Alles fc Bailey, 164 Fourth avenne, sold to Charles Apphelbock a vacant lot, rear of 803 Wjlie avenue, size ISKxOO feet to an alley, for John Ward; also lot 18Jx60 feet to an alley, with frame house erected thereon, rear of 806 Wylie avenue, near "WandleBS street, for Con rad Habn, for 51,200 cash. Kellv & Rogers, 2?o. 6315 Station street, sold for John Magin to George Williams, a lot 75x120 on O'Hara street. Twentieth ward, for $2,950; also sold for David Herron to a. Newberry, a lot 50x100 and brick house, on Marcaretta street, for $3,400; also sold for Charles Kins to S. M. Taylor, 11 lots in the Freehold Bank plan on Kelly street. Twenty-first ward, for SoToOO; also sold for W. H. Zimmerman to Wm. Up still, a seven-room frame house and lot 22x111 feet on Meadow street. Twenty-first ward, for J3.625. rW. A. Herron fe Sons sold Ho. 221 Coltart square, Oakland, being tbe sixth house sold by them in this square within three weeks, and leaving only three of these 6,300 houses now nnsold. Black & Baird, 95 Fourth avenue, sold to John Foerster for John and Joseph Stratman, Nos. 171 and 173 Liberty street, Allegheny, with an irregular shaped lot, size about in feet front and averaging 3o feet m depth,1! or 13,200. ALAEGE .SHORT IKTEBEST. It Acts Like n Wet Blanket on Share Specu lation Lower Prices Rrcorded Snear nnd Tennessee Coal tho Weakest Spots. New York. February 27. The stock market was still more quiet to-day, and the fluctua tions in most of the list reflect the general apathy of operators, being confined to tho smallest fractions except in the few stocks which are now objects of attention from the bears and traders. The general opinion is that all the trading except the little buying from time to time by the insiders when their favor ites are unduly depressed is for the short ac count, and the selling seems to be of the same character, so that the outstanding short inter est in comparison with the dimensions of the umket is undnly large. The foreigners have shown a disposition to buy of late, and to-day in London tbe prices before the openlnc of the board here were ma terially higher than ours of last evening, and tbe opening, while responsive to a limited ex tent to tbe advance in London, was only slightly higher, and under pressure from tho bears this advantage was soon wiped out. A desperate attempt was made during the day to break New Eneland, tho opportunity being taken to offer it down when no one was trading In tbe stock. There was no bad news to make a decline, and although bankers aro waiting anxiously for some action at Washing ton, which will make money more plentiful and easier and so have a bearing on the situa tion in Wall street of a favorable nature, there was no lack of funds, and rates were easy throughout tho day. Beside New England, tbe only weak point in the regular list was Union Pacific, which was sold down by the traders. Sugar refineries was weak all the way out, however, tbe bears selling It down on the story that tbe courts would Interfere with the pay ment of tho next dividend. Tennessee Coal was rather weak again, notwithstanding the publi cation of &"bnll article upon the property in an influential morning paper. Tbe Grangers were less active and were traded in over a narrow range without exception. -The market closed dull and heavy generally at close to the lowest figures. The final changes are in most cases in the direction of lower price, but tbe only ones of importance are losses otl in Sugar and 1 per cent In Tennessee Coal. Railroad bonds were again auiet to dull, and to-day again displayed a ceneral drooping tendency, though the declines were for tbe most part insignificant and the only feature was the selling of Reading down below the stock a tain. The sales of all issues reached 1,001,000, but this business was very evenlv di vided between a large nnmber of bonds. Tbe principal losses were Central Railroad of Georgia 5s. 2 at 99. and Reading 3ds, 2 at 38. The few gains included Louisville, New Albany and Chicago firsts. 2 to 119. The -Post says: The early prices In London were to 1 per cent higher for all stocks than they closed here last night, and It was mainly to tnis fact that the higher prices here this forenoon were due. There is no reason to doubt that with tbe easier money market there. London bas become a buyer of stocks, and that one of tbe causes of the decline in foreign ex change this week has been the sales of bankers' bills drawn in pavment for stocks and bonds. The closer money market here this week bas probably been tbe most effectual obstacle to an advance in tbe stock market which would naturally follow London buyiug, and though this may be relloved to some extent Dy tbe payments ot Interest on United States bonds on Saturday, March 1, the continued absorption of tbe circulating medium of the country by tbe treasury is lUely to keep the money market working close until in April. But, so far as tbe stock market Is concerned, it is already so much over-sold, on the pros pects of tight money, that unless there should come some severe pinch in the money market a strong upward reaction m prices is probable before long. Tne following table snows the prices oi active stocks on the New York Stock Excnanfte yester day. Corrected dally for The Disfatcu by WHiTHET&BTltPllKNEON, oldest Pittsburg mem bers of New York Stock Exchange, 57 Fourth ave nue: Clos- Open- IIIeq- Ixiw- mi IDff. est. est. Bit. Am.CottonOllTrust.. 265 265, 2634 X!6 Atch.. lop. S. IF 3J! 33M 33 S3' Canadian Pacific 74k; Canada southern hl hZ tt)4 Si'A Central ofNewJeraey.120 1J0 12j 1.-0 Central i'acinc 3-jv C. Bar. & Oun.eT. ....iaii ya ma lain C, Mil. & at. faul.... 67t 67 H G7Jb 67? C Jill. St. P.. pr....lllk 114!4 IH'-i 113, C, BockLAP BUM 90 fclSi 63 W C St. L. & Pitts 17X 17 17& V. C, St. i,. & Pitts, pr. 52 C. St. P.. U. & 0 31 a. st.i.M. .to.. or. si C. 4 Northwestern 103 108 107 X 10794 CANortnwestern, pr. 141i C., C C. & 1 67H 67 67K 6714 c. a. c & i.. nr ma ma 97& vm Col. Coat & Iron 4i 45i 44H 44H Col. & Hockinz val .. 20U 20! 20 20 Del.. L. AW 135M 135X 135J4 KV4 Del. & Hudson 148J4 Denver A KloG 15" Denver&KioG.. nr... 47Ji E.T.. Va-iUa 3 fc.T..Va. AOa.lst p.'. 71 E. T.. Vs. AOa-M pr. 21a Illinois Central VVi Lake Erie Western.. 17 1754 17) 1714 Lake trie & West. pr. S Lake Shore &M. S 104V 104V VH lHTi Louisville & Nashville. Si'A 85M 5 85 Mlchlean central HI Mobiles Ohio 16 Mo.. Kan. Texas.... 714 "S 7 rH Missouri Pacific 72 725 7254J 72(4 New fork Central lOgfe 106I4 106 106 N. .. L. JS. W .... 28 26 25 26 N. V.. C &SU L I6M 1M. r., C. 4 St. L. nr. 6"Si N.X.. c. iSt.L.2d nr a;t N. Y&N. JS 44H 4454 4434 4134 N. X.. . S V 1H 173 174 VH Norfolk s. Western 20 Norfolk Westerner. 6I!4 6IH 814 61 Northern Pacinc 30S4 30' 30!i 30K Nortnern Pacific pref. 7334 733 733a Hit Oregon improvement 45 Oregon Transcon 35 35 343a !434 Pacific Jlall 37 37 36 38 Peo. Dec. & Evans 18 Pniladel. & Kcadtnt. 39X 3DJi 39 3934 Pullman Palace Car 187 Klchmona.4 W. P. T.. 20V 2034 20V 204 Richmond 4 W.P.T.pr 7734 77s 77X TlH St. P.. Minn, s Alan ill St. L. A San Fran 18 bt. L. A San .Fran nr.. 39 33 3834 3834 St. L,. A San r. 1st D! 83 Texas Pacific 19V 19V 1934 I'S Union l'aclflc 64'4 6434 S3V 6334 Wabasn KH Wabash preferred 26J4 2CJ4 2114 26J4 Western Union n3 83 83 83 Wheeling & L. . 67 67V '634 6034 Bugar Trust 63 61 6134 6134 National Lead Trust. 17M I7J4J 17)4 17U Chicago Gas Trust.... i'M 463a i 45V Boston Atch. 4 Top. H. II. .. tSM Boston Albany. ..219!) Uoston 4 Maine J15 C. B. &U. 112, Clun. San. A Cleve. 24 Kastern R. P. 14a Eastern II. U. 6s ....1MH Flints Peroil 24!4 Flint SPereM. ord. 03 K. C St. J. A C. B. 7g. 129)4 Little li. 4 Ft. S. 78.100 Mass Central 15 Mexican Oen. -om.. 174 Mex.Clstmtg.bds. 69V N. X. Newne... 44 Old coionr. 176 Kutland orererred.. 70 Wls.Oentrai.com... 28V Wis. Central pt... 60 Stocks. AllouezMgCo 234 Atlantic ISM Boston 4 Mont 45Jt Calumet A Hecia.,,,254 cransun 13 Hnron 2V Kearsarge ,.. 9)4 Osceola. 26 Pewablc 8 Qolncy 63 Santa Fe copper 1 Tamarack 156 Annlston Land Co.. 57 Boston Land 6)4 "in Diego 18 West End Land Co. 24)4 Bell Tciepnone 217 Lamson Stores 2834 Water Power....,.,. 5Jf Philadelphia Stocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia, stocks, fur nished by Whitney 4 SteDhenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members New x"ork Stock Ex change. BM. Asked. Pennsylvania SaUroad,..,, 5434 5134 Heading 19)4 19 11-16 buffalo, Pittsburg 4 Western S SM Lehigh Valley 52V Lehigh Navigation 52 5234 Northern Pacific , 30)4 30V N ortnern Pacific prcierred 73J4 735j BUSINESS NOTES. John 11. Oaklet is home from a trip to Bermuda. The pension payments for February will amount to about 518,000.000. The Central Elevator Company has declared a semi annual dividend of 3 per cent. Forty-five mortgages were filed for record yesterday. The largest was for $36,164. Twenty one were for purchase money. The Bedford, Pa., Coal and Iron Company bas been chartered with a capital of $200,000. Bon. John Cessna Is one of the directors. Of about 1.500 books and certificates of de posit originally held by Lawrence Bank deposi tors. 1,000 are still ont They should be handed In at once. The lake lines are refusing to agree to tho differentials proposed by tbe rail lines, and the usual spring Northwestern demoralization seems inevitable. The Bryden Horseshoe Company, of Cata sauqua. Pa., recently received a largo order for horseshoes from the Great Horse Railroad Company, ot Berlin, Germany. The Reading Company has cut down its active operation to 25 collieries ont of 56, and these are not run to their full capacity. The open winter has been bard on tho coal trade. The National Tube Works Company, of Jlc Keesport, is making a nnmber of extensive im provements at its works. A number of new puddling furnaces are being erected and a com plete set of new pumps is being bnilt. Dry Goods. New "Vouk, February 27. lhere was little change In the situation at first hands in dry good. Business continues fair as a whole, and moderately active in special goods, with a good business in wide sheetings and bleached shirtings. The tone oi cotton goods continued firm. Tbe jobbing trade was moro active and promising well. Clothing woolens at first hands were in slightly better request, but the demand continues uneven, and overcoatings are stdl slow on sale. Wool aimkels. St. Louis There Is a fair movement of fine and fine medium wools of stroiic sample and good length, but all else except tub washed and choice bright unwasbed is weak and declining. fllclnl Olnruct. New York Pig iron steady. Copper neglected: Lake Michigan, $14 05. Lead steady; domestic, $3 87K. Tin brisk and easier; Straits, $24 05. More Money for a Good Cause. The collections for the South Side Hospi tal yesterday were: F. F. Kossler, and employe, hardware. $ 5 00 Wm. Kossler, and employes, hardware.... 5 00 Louis Bodensteinr boots and shoes 1 00 E V. Babcock , 1 00 T. V.McMullin 1 00- James Redmond 1 00 L. O'Connor 1 00 L. J. Fritz and employes, mold makers. ...15 00 $30 00 There was $1,181 71 previously reported, making a total to date of $1,211 71. When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cfiedfor Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children,shetave them Castoria j,: p8-77-lrWTSU DOMESTIC IAKKETS. Dairy Products of Choice Grades Steady at Quotations. PODLTEYQUIET-FKESH EGGS FIRM Groceries Active-Drift of Higher Prices. Cofee is to ALL CEREALS WEAKFLOUB DECLINES Office op PrrrsBtrao dispatch, J THURSDAY, February 27, 1S90. ( Conntry Produce Jobblnc Prices. Commission mercbants report a very qniet trade. Markets are not materially different from former reports. There is an improved de mand for fruits both domestic aud tropical, and outside quotations are easily obtained for choico stock. Dairy products of bigh grade are steady. Cheese is moving very freely, and an advance cannot be far away. Demand for cboice eggs is fully up to supply, and markets are firm at quotations. Poultry is quiet, owing to liberal supplies. Potatoes are steady, and good stock is very firm. Onions and cabbage and turnips are quiet. Continued mild weather has been all along the adverse element of produce markets. Butter Creamery, .Elgin, 3031c; Ohio do, 272Sc: fresh dairy packed, 2223s: country rolls, 1920C. Beaks Navy band picked beans, $2 002 25: medium. $1 752 00. Beeswax 2o2Sc 3 fi for choice; low grade, lS20c Cider Sand refined. $7 50: common, SI 50 5 00; crab cider, $8 003 50 ? barrel; cider vinegar, 1012e $ gallon. Cheese Ohio, llHKc; New York, HKc: Limburger, 9Kllc; domestic Sweitzer, 11 13Kc; imported Sweitzer, 23c. EGGS 1516c dozen for strictly fresh. Fruits Annies, fancy, S3 00S3 75 $ barrel; cranberries, S4 004 25 a crate; strawberries, 35Q40c a box. Feathers Extra livo geese, 5060c; No. 1, do. 4045c: mixed lots, 3035c t3 B. Poultry Live chickens, 7580 a pair; dressed, ll12c a pound; ducks,75cSl & pair; live turkeys, 12013c $ tt; dressed turkevs, 15 16c tt. Seeds Clover, choice, 62 fis to bushel, $4 00 $1 bushel; clover. Urge English. 62 lis, S4 354 60; clover, Alslke, S3 00: clover, white, $9 00; timothy, cboice, 45 fts $1 601 70; blue grass, extra clean, 14 fis, $1 2ol 30; bine grass, fancy, 14 fis. $1 30; orchard grass, 14 as, SI 40; red top, 14 Sis, SI 00; millet, 50 fis, SI 00; Hun garian grass, 50 fis. SI 00: lawn grass, mixture of fine grasses, $2 50 ft bushel of 11 fis. Tallow Country. 3?c; city rendered, ic Tropical Fruits Lemons, common. $3 00 3 50; fancy, E4 0OS4 50: Florida oranges, 52 50 3 50, Valencia, S3 7o4 00 a case. Messina. J2 00 2 25 a box: bananas. SI 752 00 firsts, SI 001 25 cood seconds. 1 bunch; encoanuts, 84 004 50 fl hundred; flgs, K9c 1 B; dates. 67Ke fi; new layer figs, Ll3c; pine apples. $2 50 1 dozen. Vegetables Potatoes, from store, 5560c; on track, 4550c: cabbages, S2 503 00 a barrel: Dutch cabbage, $16 00 ? hundred; celery 40c dozen; Jersey sweet potatoes, $4 254 50 a bar rel; turnips, SI 00 1 25 a barrel; onions, S4 25 5 CO a barrel, $1 501 75 f? bushel: Bermuda onions. $3 73 bushel crate; parsnips, SI 5 2 00$ barrel. Buckwheat Flour $1 752 00. Groceries. Coffee options advanced 15 points in the East yesterday. While markets are fluctuating day by day under the manipulations of bulls and bears, the general drift is toward a higher level. All signs point to an early advance in package coffee, as it bas been for some time back relatively too low for the price of the green article. General groceries are ac tive. Green Coffee Fancy Rio. 23K21c; choice Rio, 2122c; prime Rio, 21c; low grade Rio. 1920c; old Government Java, 2723c; Maracaibo, 2425c: Mocha, 2930c; Santos, 2124c; Caracas, 22$224Jc: peaberry. Rio, 2424c; La Guayra. 2421c. RoASTKD(in papers) Standard brands,24c; high graded, 25K30c; old Government Java, bulk. 3233Kc;Jflaracaibo, 27K28Xc: Santos, 2529c; peatierry, 23c; choice Rio. 25c; prime Rio, 21c: good Rio, 23c; ordinary, 21Kc , Spices (whole) Cloves, 1920c; allspice, 10c; cassia, Sc: pepper, 17c; nutmeg, 70SOc Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test.Tlfc; Ohio, 120. 8Kc; headlieht, 150, Sic; water white. 10jc; globe. 1414c; elaine. like; car nidine, llc: royaline, 14c; globe red oil, 11 llKc, purity. 14c SllNERS' OIL No. 1 winter strained. 4546o zallnn: summer, 4043c Lird oil. 6065c Syrups Corn syrup, 2629c; cboice suzar syrup, 3638c; prime sugar syrup, 30S3c; strictly prime, 3335c; new maple syrup, 00c. N. O. MOLASSES Fancy, now crop, 4SQ50c; cboice. 47c: medium. 3Si-!c: mixed. 40Bi2c Soda Bl-carb in kegs, 332c; bi-carh in s, 5c; bi-carh. assorted packages. 56c; sal soda in kegs, lc; do granulated, 2c. Candles Star, full weight, 9c; stearlne, S set. 8Kc: paraffine, ll12c. Rice Head. Carolina, 67c; choice, 6Ji 6Jfc; prime, 6K6c; Loui-iana, 56J4.c- STAEClt Pearl. 2c; cornstarch, o6c; gloss starch, 4J7c. Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, S2 65: Lon don layer", S2 00: California London layers, S2 75: Muscatels, $240; .alifornia Muscatels. $2 25; Valencia, TJic: Onaara Valencia, 8 bc; sultana, lie; currants, 55Kc: Turkey prunes, 45c: French prunes, SK10c:Saloni ca prunes, in 2-fi packages, 8c; cocoanuts, f) 100, $0; almonds, Lan, ? fi, 20c; do Ivica, 17c; do, shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap, 1415c; Sicily, filberts 12c; Smyrna figs, 12l3c: new dates, 6 Kc: Brazil nuts, lie; pecans, ll15c; citron, fl fi, 1819c; lemon peel. 18c 9 B; orange peel, 17c Dried Fruits Apple", sliced, per fi, 6c; ap ples, evaporated, 9c; apricots, California, evap orated, l516c: peaches, evaporated, pared, 2b2Sc; peaches, California, evaporated, uu pared, 1819c; cherries, pitted, 1313c; cher ries, unpitted, 56c; raspberries, evaporated, 25W26Kc; blackberries, 77Kc; huckleberries, 1012c faUGARS Cubes, 7Jc: powdered, 7c; grauu latea, 6c; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A, 65c: soit white, 6K6c; yellow, cboice, 5JJ 5c: yellow, good, 6oc: yellow, fair, 6x 5Jc: yellow, dark, 5Jic PICKLES Medium, bbls (1,200), $6 50; medi um, half bbls (600), S3 75. SALT No. 1. ?? bbl, 95c; No.l ex, ?1 bbl, SI 00: dairy, 1 bbl, SI 2o; coarse "crystal. $ bbl, SI 20; Hlggins' Eureka. 4-bu sacks, $2 80; Higgins' Eureka. 16-14 fi packets, $3 00. Canned GOODS Standard peaches, S2 OOQ 2 25: 2ds. $1 651 80: extra peache 52 402 60; pie peaches, 95c: finest corn. SI 0001 50; Hid Co. corn, 6585c: red cherries, 90cSl: Lima beans, $1 20; soaked do. 80c: string do, 6CQ05c: mar rowfat peas, $1 101 15; soiked peas, 70M)c; pineapples, $1 S01 40: Bahama do, S2 75; damson plums, 9oc; Greengages. SI 25; egg piums cz uu: uaiiioriuaoears. es w: uo green paces. SI 85; do egg plums, SI 85: extra white cherries, S2 40; raspberries. 95cSl 10; straw berries. SI 10; gooseberries, SI 301 40: toma toes, tS90c; salmon, 1-fi. SI 651 90; black berries. 65c; saccotasb. 2-fi cans, soaked, 90c; do irreen. 2 fi. SI 25(5)1 50i corn beef. 2-fi ran. S2 05; 14 fi can". S14 00; baked beans, SI 451 50; lobster, 1-B, $1 751 80; mackerel, 1-fi can", broiled, SI 50; sardines, domestic, lis. $4 25 .4 50; sardines, domestic Ms. S6 75Q7 00; sar dines, imported. As, $11 5012 50: sardines, im ported, s, $18 00; sardines, mustard, $3 40: sardines, spiced, S3 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, mss. $30; No. 2 shoro mackerel, $21. Codfish Whole pollock, 4c ft lb; do medium, George's cod. 6c; no large, 7c; boneless hake. In strips, 6c; do George's cod in blocks. 6?7c Herring Round shore. $4 50 fl bbl.: sent. $050: lake. $2 90 ffl 100-fi bbl. Wbltetish, $6 00 V IPO-E half bbl. Lake trout. $5 50 fl half bbl. Finntn haddock, 10c fl fi. Ice'aud hallpur. 13c fl fi. Pickerel, Hbbl..S200:Ji bbl SI JO; Potomac herring, $5 00 ft bbl.: 1 50 per K bbl. Oatmeal $6 006 25 ft bbl. Grain, Floor und Feed. Sales on call at tbe Grain Exchange, 2 cars of No. 2 yellow ear corn. 35c, 5 uays, P. R. R.; 1 car blown. middlings, $14 50, 10 days, P. R. R. Receipts as bulletined. 19 cars. By Pittsburg and Western, 4 cars of corn, 3 of bay, 1 of flour, lot feed. By Baltimore and Ohio. 1 car of oats. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis, 1 car of corn, 1 of hay, 1 of oats. By Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago, 1 car of barley, 3 of hay, 1 of flour, 1 of corn. The cereal situation has de veloped no new features since our last reports. Buyers have tbe advantage all along tbe Hue. Tbe weakness of flour for the past week or two has culminated in lower prices, as our quota tions will aiscloae. Prices below are for carload lots on track. Wheat New No. 2 red, s2B3c; No. 3, 79 80c Corn No. 2 yellow, ear, new, 3536o; high mixed, new, 33K34Jc: No. 2 yellow, shelled, old, S6K37c: new, 5i$3lc Rejected shelled corn, 2a!gic. Oats No. 2 white. 2728crextra, No. 3, 27 27Kc; mixed, 24K2oiu Rye No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 53054c; No. 1 Western, 51052c Flour Johbln:' prices Fancy winter nnd spr'nc intents. $4 755 23; winter straight, S4 504'7o: iler winter, $4 004 25: straight XXXX bakers'. $4 00S4 25. Rye flour. $3 io 3 50. MILLFEED Middlings, fine white. $15 50 16 00 ft tun; brown middlings, $12 0014 00: winter wheat bran, $12 012 7s: chop feed, $15 5016 00. 2 do, S9 0069 50; loose from wagon, $11 00012 09, according to quality; No. 2 prairie bar, $7 00 8 00: packing do, $6 60S 75. Straw Oar, $6 7507 00; wheat and rye straw, $6 008 25. Provisions. Sugar-cured hams, large, 9c sugar-cured hams, medium, 10c; sugar-enred hams, small. 10c; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8c; sugar cured shoulders, 5c; sugar-cured, boneless shoulders, 7Jc; sugar-cured California bams, 6Kc; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 9c; sugar-cured dried beef sets, 10c; sugar-cnred dried beef rounds. I2rt bacon, shoulders, 5c: Dacon. clear sides. 7c; bacon, clear bellies. 7c: dry salt shoulders. 6Jc; dry salt clear sides, 7c Mess pork, heavy. $11 00; mess pork, family. $12 00. Lard Refined, in tierces, or; half-barrels. 6c; 60-fi tubs. 6c: 20-B pails, 6c;53-& tin cans. 5c; 3-fi tin palls. 6c: 5-fi tin palls. CKc:J0-fi tin fiails. 6Kc; 5-fi tin pails. tc Smoked sausage, ong, 5c; large, 5c Fresh pork links, 9c Bone less nam?, u)c pigs' feet, naif-narreis, $ w; quarter-barrel. $2 15. MAEKETS BY WIRE. Wheat Bulled by Reports of Damage to the Growlnc Crop Floods in tbe Ohio Valley Give Corn a Boost. Chicago There was a good business in wheat again to-day, and the feeling was stronger, with prices averaging h'ieher than yesterday. Tbe opening was a lower than yesterday, but soon a better feeling began to develop, and prices were advanced c then eased off c, again ruled firmer, and tbe clos ing was o higher than yesterday. One of tbe principal reasons for tbe advance to-day was tbe record of a .telegram from Al bion, Mich., cancelling an order to sell wbeat, and which reported tbe growing wheat in that vicinity badly damaged. From Randolph county all crops were reported in lair condi tion. The early speculative offerings were qnite large, but were steadily absorbed by a prominent trader, who was credited as being a seller in yesterday's niaiket. Later it was found tbere was but little wheat for sale, wbicb. together with the bull news, started shorts to covering, tbe advance holding until the close. A large business was done in corn, tbe mar ket being more active than for several day3 past. Transactions were largely in May, though July received attention, and the firmer tone was due largely to receipts not running up to the calculations ot Mav. tbe strength in wheat, and the rumors of floods in the Obio Valley. The market opened at yesterday's closing, was firm, advanced in all c. eased off a little, ruled strong, closing KJie better than yesterday. Oats were active, strong and higher. May was the feature of tbe trading, and prices ad vanced c On the bulge offerings in creased aud prices receded He, but tbe market closed steady at c higher than yesterday. But little was done in pork. Prices were favorable to sellers. Not quite so much doing in short ribs. The market was stronger. Prices were advanced 25c on deferred deliveries, and the Improvement was fairly well sup ported. The leading futures ranged as follows: Wheat No. 2, February. 75Ji76a75V 76c: May. 7778777Sc; July, 76Q70K 7576&c Corn No. 2, February, 2S28c; May, 330K2930Kc; July. 3u31i3uji OATS No. 2. March, 20K20K20i20Ke: May. 2I21K2121c: June, iQ21420K 21Kc Mess Pore, per bbh March. S9 659 72K 9 65J 72K: May. $9 9310 009 !KQ10 00; June, $10 U2KM 07X10 02 10 05. LARD, per 100 fts. Jiarch.to 7o5 77K5 77K; May.587k?590:Junc,S5 92K5 Si5g5925 ft). Short Ribs, per 100 fis. March. i4 70 4 77X1 704 T!H; Mav. $4 8024 87K1 80 4 87: June, $4 854 804 854 90. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour firm and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 76f76c; No. 3 spring wheat. bo67Kc: No. 2 red, 76 7&Kc;No.2cora.2Sc No. 2 oats, 20c No. 2 rye. 42)c No. 2 Barley nominal. No. 1 flaxseed, $1 4201 45. Prime timothy sepd. $1 17. Mess pork, per bbl, $9 709 75. Lard, per 1001b". S577K. Short ribs sides (loose), S4 754 SO. Dry salted shonlders (boxed), $4 124 25. Short clearsides (boxed), $5 00 5 00. bugar?, cnt loaf, unchanged. Receipts Flour, 18.000 barrels: wheat, 16,000 bushels: corn, 262. 000 bushels; oats, 135,000 bushels: rye, 3.000 bushels: barley. 28.000 bushels. Shipments Flour. 10,000 barrels; wheat. 22,000 bushels: corn, 210,000 bushels: oats, 239,000 bushels; rye, 2,000 bushels: barley, 53.000 bushels. On tbe Produce Exchange to-day the bntter market was steady and unchanged. Eggs. 13014c New York Flour stronger and more active. Cornnieal quiet. Wheat Spot higher; options active and c higher; good outside buying, stimulated ny better export position; closing strong. Rje i a lk; western. 5I55c. Barley weak; western, 4t!b3c; Cacada, 3975c Barley malt quiet; Canada, 72J9Uc. Corn bpot fairlv active. o up and firm; options more act ive, fSc np and Arm. Oats Spot quiet and higher; options more active and higher. Hay quiet and easy. Coffee Options opened steady, a pomt3 down to 5 points up, closed "teadyand unchanged to 5 points up; sales, 47,250 bigs, in cluding February. 16.6016.70c; March, 16.50 16.55c; April, 16.45 16.50c: May, 16.40 16.45c; June, 16.4016 46c; July, 10.3.5 010. JOc: Angust. 16.2516.30c: September, 16.20 Cllttc; December, lts.UDlo.lOc; January, 16.10c; spot Rio firm and In fair demauu; fair cargoes, 20c; No. 7 flat bean, 18K18Kc Sugar Raw, firm and quiet; ccntrifuzal, 96 test, 611-16; sales, steamer cargoes centrifugals for Boston, 96 test, at 35-lSc and c i. f.; refined firm and in good demand. Molasses Foreign firm, 50 test, 2223c; New Orleans firm. Rice fairly active ana firm. Cottonseed oil steady. Tallow steady. Rosin dull. Turpentine nominal at4343c Ezgs steady and in fair demand; Western, U14c; receipts. 6,357 packages. Pork steady and active. Cut meats dull; pickled bellies 55c: pickled shonlders, 4c; pickled bams, M8c; middles slow. Lard stronger and quiet; sales, 650 tierces; Western steam, $6 158617; closing. $8 15 bid. Options sales 2o0 tierces; March. SJ 14; April. $6 IS bid; Mar. $6 23; June, $6 28; July, $6 33 bid; October, 0 52. Butter quiet and weak; Elein. 28c: Western dairy, 817c; do creamery, 1226c; do held. 815c; do factory, &18c Cheese strong and in good demand; Western, 810c Philadelphia Flour Very quiet Wbeat Options weak aud lower; fancy milling grades ware in fair request and firm, but car lots in export elevator dull and lower: fair to good milling wbeat, 7582c; prime to fancy. 65 91c; No. 2 Pennsylvania red, in export ele vator, E6c; fancy ungraded Western, in grain depot, lc: no. a red, in export elevator. 8lc: No. 2 red. Febrnary, 81Klc: March. 81Q 82c; April, 81KS3c: May. 8S4Kc. Corn Options KQiic higher; car lots for local trade quiet but steady: No. 4 mixed, track, 29c; No. 4 yellow, track. 80c; No. 3, in export elevator, a noted at 33c: steamer, in export elevator, 34c; o. 2 high mixed and yellow, in gram depot, 37c: No. 2 vellow, in Twentieth street elevator, 37Kc: No. 2 mixed, February, 35K35c: March, 3535K:; April. 35J35Kc; llav. SoK36c Oats Car lots firm hue quiet; No. 3 wbite, 29c;No. 2 wbite, in Twentieth street elevator, 30Kc; do. in grain depot. 31c; options ruled firm and futures beyond this month advanced H under good speculative demand; Hn. 2 white, February, 30305c: -March, 2SK29Jc: April. 2SK29c: May, 5BJje. Eggs dull and weak; Pennsylvania first, UQllJc. Minneapolis The receipts of wbeat for the past 24 hours were 175 cars, with 133 shipped out. The demand was good for spot wbeat all aronnd with prices advancing in sympathy with the general upward movement in other markets. Local millers were good buyers at the small advance and advance orders were in here from the outside to buy wbeat for ship ment. A few of them were limited too low-to fill. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard. February, TTJfc; March and May, 79c: on track, 78)c; N. 1 Northern, February, 86c: May, 765c; June, 7778c; on track. 757CXc; No. 2 Northern, Feoruary, S4c; March, 7IKcJ May, 75c; on track, 73&75ic St. Louis Flour nncbanged; demand and business light. Wheat higher, after advancing and receding frequently during tbe session: on outside advices tbe market closed with May and July at p above yesterday; No. 2 red, cash, 76c; May, 75K76c; closed, 7GKc bid; June. 76Vic closed, 76K bid; July, 73K74c, closed 7374c bid. Corn higher; No. 2 mixed, cisb, 21Jic; Febrmry closed 25c bid; March. 251j;cbid; May. -28c; July, 27Kc bid; Augusr, 28Jic: September, 2Sjc bid. Oats higher: No. 2. Cash, 20Kc bid; May, 2121c Rye quiet: No. 2 cash 40c bid. Barley; Minnesota, 4Jc Flaxseed strong. $1 35. Provisions qniet aud unchanged. Milwaukee Flour qniet. Wheat firm; No. 2 spring, on track, cash, 7173c; May, 73c; No. I Northern, SOc Corn firm; No. 3 on track. 27Kc Oats steady. Rye No. L in store. 43J 44c Barley quiet: No. 2. in store, 40K41c Provisions firm. Pork, $9 70. Lard, to Tift, Cheese unchanged; Cheddars, 99c Baltimore Butter steady: Western picked, 1621c: best roll. 1618c: creamery, 2527c Eggs quiet at 1313c Coffee firm; Biu car goe, lair, 193iOc Toledo Cloverseed dull and firm; cash, March and April. $3 15. 12 AND 514 SMITHFIELD STREET. Transact a General BanMi Bnsiness. Accounts solicited. Issue Circular Letters of Credit, for use of travelers, and Commer cial Credits, HT STERLING, Available In all paits of the world. Also Issue Credits IN DOLLARS For use In this country, Canada, Mexico, West Indies, South and Central America. , ao7-8irwnr T. MELLOI & SONS' BAM. SEW ADTEBTTSEarEirTK. WITT'S SPECIFIC FOR renovating, thi entire system, eliminating ' ' all Poisons from the Blood, whether of scrofulous of malarial origin, this prep aration has no equal. ! rt msaem "For eighteen months I had an eating sore on vtj tongue. 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