. THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1890. . T I i i i i ! i " " : i M ONE OF THE FINEST. Work on Highland Park Pushed Promptly and Vigorously. A BEAUTIFUL BREATHING SPOT. Eeal Estate Cranks Mho Hare Ordinal Schemes for Making Money. AN INTERESTING LEAP FKOM HISTORY The work of improving Highland Park.it seems, is to be pushed promptly and vigor ously, with a promise of fine picturesque eDects, coincident with the completion of the Duqiiesne traction road next summer or fall. The landscape gardener is busy with his part of the work. He took out a wagon load of trees yesterday. It is the intention to convert the old reservoir into a miniature lake, with boats, fancy water fowl, etc, for the delectation of pleasure seekers. There is a splendid drive around the main reser voir, which is to be concreted. From this drive a fine view is obtained of a wide ex panse of country and of the winding Alle gheny. The park, with contemplated additions, will embrace ICO to 200 acres, and during the warm season will, no doubt, be a favorite resort for people from all parts of the East End as well as the city proper. Several fine stone residences will.be erected in the imme diate vicinity during the spring and summer. One of them will be fitted up for a summer hotel. Some very necessary improvements are about completed on Duquesne Heights, in the nature of substantial steps and a good board walk. Quite a demand for building lots has sprung up in this locality within the past few months. aDd building will be on a large scale the coming season. Curious scenes are occasionally witnessed in the real estate offices. Yesterday a well dressed, fine-looking, middle-aced man entered a Fourth avenue office and called for the pro prietor, as be said he had something big on hand, and Mould talk to no one else. To all appearances he was as bright and sharp as anybody. The proprietor, thinking he had a valuable customer, took him into his private office to hear wnat he had to say. The gentle man drew from his pockets a bundle of maps, plans and other papers, and said he wanted to buy an acre lot on Duqnosne Heights as a site for a ten-story business block. This wild scheme satisfied the proprietor at once that his visitor was weak in the upper story. He had brooded over real estate so much that his mind had become unbalanced. The same agent is annoyed almost every day by two or three persons who are known to have neither money nor prospects coming in and making inquiry as to the condition of the mar ket, prices, etc., and suggesting bow fortunes can be made this way and that. They have seen and heard to much about real estate in the lat year or two that they have "lost their heads."' A Reformatory. Penitentiary Visitor My poor man, how did you come to be in here? Prisoner For selling fraudulent goods, and thereby getting money under false pretenses. Visitor I hope you will become an honest man nere, and be a good citizen when you are released. AVhat are you employed at by the State? Prisoner Making warranted solid leather soles for boots and shoes out of pasteboard. Pittsburg is rapidly increasing in population. A gentleman connected with a local directory thinks the issue for this year will contain at least 20.0U0 additional names. The increase is further shown in the demand for dncilings being greater than the supply, notwithstanding great acth ity in building. This is a guarantee of the stability of values of real estate. LOCAL SECURITIES. Apntbx of ibe Traders and Advance! In a Few Favorites. So far as business went, yesterday was a dull day in stocks, but there was a continuation of the broadening tendency in a few of the favor ites started the day before. The only properties showing any activity were Pleasant Valley Railway, Philadelpnia Oas and Allegheny Heating Compauj, sales of which were 162 shares. Heating Company and Pleasant Valley scored handsome advances. The tractions nere firmer. The natural gassers were weak and fractionally lower. Snitch and Siirnal improved a trifle. There was a brisk demand for insurance stocks, but no material change in values. MOBSrSG. ATTEBNOOX. Bid. Asked. Bid. Asked. G0 S7 93 '4 W ... 91 70,f 1 115 17il .... 177 ISO 155 .... 105 .... 205 M 33 36 .... 36 3? 40 45 50 -" X 03 110 113 30 40 31 33 43X 70 41 ;,, 15!a 15JS Mj, 31 X SI J, 313 ..-. "1 .... .... " -t .... !..! 50 51 70 82 : 30S 308 30X sou SI'S 4 .... .... J7 40 37 40 2j 2514 25 : 310 13 19 50 S M u 15, n is oo 45 .... 4S 15J 16K 15S 16f lOSJi llB.'j 104 .... 104 .... Pitts, r. S. Jtil. Ex... Commercial Na. llank. Kxchanpcat. Bank.. i"iftliAe. Bank Iron City Nat. Bank. . Keystone Bank of l"g .Marine .Nat Bank.... Masonic Bank 3Ionabela Nat Ilk .. 1'IUs. irk lor savings. Third at. Bans UermanNat. Bank, All. Second Nat. B., Ally.. Boatman Insurance. Hen Franklin Ins City Insurance Citizens' insurance.... Humboldt las. Co 3IononjratiUa In N atlonal Insurance.... Allegheny Heating Co. flrldjrewaler tias CuartlersV. tiasCo.... Nat. Uas Co. or Y. Va. People's Nat. Gas..... People's N. li. & I'.Co Pennsylvania Gas Co., Philadelphia Co estm'cl'd & Cambria Wheeling Gas Co llaxeluood Oil Co...,. nunaUH Company.... VashlnptouOllCo Central 1 ractlou citizens'1 Traction Plus. Traction Pleasant Vallcv Pitts.. A. S. .Man Pitts. A W.K.CO P. i . prcf. Nortlisldc Bridge Co., La Noria Mining Co... Luster Mlulnir Co...... Kast Knd Blcctrlc. ... estlnxhousc Electric U. h. .tslK- Co Vcstlnboui.eAlrb'ke. Grocers' b & b. Co.... At the first call 100 shares of Pleasant Valley brought25.00 2JJi.and 2 Philadelphia Gas 31. In the afternoon 10 shares of Allegheny Heating Company wentat 110. J. F. Patterson sold 100 shares of Pleasant Valley at 25',,. The total t.ales of stocks at New York jester day were 207,430 shares, including Delaware. Lackawanna ami Western, 0.010; Louisville and Nashville. 9.603: Missouri Pacific 3.200' Reading 112,000; br. Paul. 11,100: Union Pacific 9,910; Western Union, 8,357. HARD CASH. Secretary Windont Satisfied With the Finan cial Condition of the Conntrj. Secretary Windom, it is said, sees no reason for rushing to the rescue of the money market He holds that the supply of funds is sufficient for legitimate business purposes and that tho cry of stringency comes entirely from tho spec ulators. The Secretary is not disposed to give Wall streot any advantage over the rest of the country. There was nothine strikingly new in the local monetary situation j cstcraay. There was a fair demand for loans, a moderate supply of cash and rates were unchanged. Bankers are on the lookout for a call lrom the Controller. Ex changes were $2,490,493 73 and balances S39' 1B7 S7. Money on call at lew York yesterday was easy, ranging from 3 to 5 per cent; last loan 8; closed offered at 3. Prime mercantile paper. 6J7. Sterling exchange active and strong at 54 82i for 60-day bills and SI SO for demand. Government and State bonchs were leature less. Closing: Hond Qnotntlona. U.S. Ai, reir 15H M- K. & T. Gen. 5s 63 U. b. 4fi. coup.... 11. S. 4Sis, res ..J tmu.uai uuioniiS....JUIK ..1034'N.J. C. Int. Cert.. .1UH ..lftJW'Nnrthern l'ac 1SU..1I51 U. &. 4S, coap.. ne racinc6s of'35 116 Northern Pac.2d..H3 jjuuisianasuunpeats wi.ui m.ni cuusois.14.: Missouri 6s 100 INorlhw'n dcbens..lfts Tenn. newtet. 6s... 110 Orecon i Trans. 6s.l0C Tcnn. newset.Ss....l03 St. L. A I. M. lien. Sa 91 Tenn. new net. 3s. .. 73 St. I-Jtb.K. Gen.il. 110 ixnaaa bo. 2il 97H St. 'ul consols ....1:5 Oen. Pacificists 112! lcn. K. G ma. ..lis Ben. & 1L o. 4s 78k D.K.U.West,lsu. Erie, if.; 160V M.X.&X.Qen. 6l.. 75 St. PL Chi & Pc ltu. 1 16 Tx.. Pel- O.Tr.Rn. Sl!i Tx.,PcK.U.Tr.KctI 38H union xac. ibu...mii3 West Shore van New Yoke Clearings, 1121,655.916: balances, J1.313.S25. Boston Clearings, lia.219.0TO: balances, SL 453.91G. Kate for money, 6 percent. Philadelphia Clearings, $13,009,721; bal ances, Jl.715.277. London The amount of bullion gone into the Hank of England on balance to-day is X1S.O01 Bar silver J4d per ounce. Paris Three per cent rentes, SSf 25c for the account. Chicago Clearings $12,044,000. Now York exchange sold at 40c per $1,000 discount. Money unchanged. DPS AND DOWNS. Continued Activity In Oil, but No Improve ment In the Price. There was considerable animation in the oil market at times yesterday, but the stuff moved on a lower level of value. The quotation hung at 93 until about the noon hour, when Oil City made a raid, and the price dropped to the low est point of the day. Shortly before the close there was a fractional rally on covering of shorts, and the finish was steady at next to the best figure The extreme fluctuations were: Opening, Ql highest, 9X: lowest. 92; closing, 92. Tuesday's clearances were 904,000 barrels. Developments m the Hundred-foot district, Butler county, continue encouraging. Another gusher on tho Dambach farm was expected in yesterday evening. No. 1 on the same farm was doing 5 barrels an hour. The Lockwood Co. cushcr on tho Eicholtz farm. 400 feet west of the Dambach, is still increasing its pro duction, making now 850 barrels a day. Green lee A Co.'s Humphrey farm well is in at 50 bar rels a day, and Sutton & Christie's well, on tho O. G. Shannon farm, is good for 50 barrels a dav. Lockwood & Co.'s well, on tbo Wooster farm, is pumping 6 barrels a day. Operations in this field are greatly retarded by bad roads. In the Shannopin field Grace, Jennings S: Co.'s No. 3, on the Ferguson farm, was drilled a little, whicn increased its production to about MX) barrels a day. Their No. 1, on tho Connell farm, is expected in at any time. McKeown'sNo. 8, on the Knox farm, in the Washington field, is in the pay streak and showing up finely, flowing about 150 barrels a day. The South Penn Oil Company got a dry hole in its No. 1 on the Hickey farm In tho Bakers town field, adding another to the large number of dusters brought in there. St. John & Co.'s No. 1. on the same farm, is in the pay streak in the 100-foot sand and standing full of oil. Featnrcs of Yetierdnj's Oil Market. Corrected dally by John M. OaKiey fc Co., 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange. Opened SILowest Highest wldosed 82 925 Barrels. 24,550 G4.a3 53,610 Average charters Average shipments Average rnns................... Kenned. .w York. 7.4JC Kenned. London. 51. Refined, Antwerp, i7r. ltcnned. Liverpool, (xl. Kenned, Bremen. 6.60m. A. B. McGrew quotes: 9i;;94c Pats, Siyic; calls. Other Oil Markets. Bradford, March 5. Petroleum opened at 92Xc; cloert at 92JJc; highest, 93Jc: lowest, 92c Ituns, 63.35.3 barrels: shipments. (A510 barrels; charters, 73,630 barrels; clearances, 54,000 bar rels. Oil Crnr. March 5. Petroleum opened at 92J4c; highest, 93c; lowest, 91c; closed at 92Jfcc Sales, 453.000 barrels; runs, 73,733 bar rels; charters, 73,650 barrels, shipments, 100,974 barrels. New Yohk, March 5. The petroleum mar ket opened steady at 92c and after a slight decline in the early trading moved up to 93Jc A reaction followed, on which the market closed steady at 93Jc Stock Exchange: Opening, 92c; highest. 93Jc; lowest. 92Jic; closing. 93Jc Consolidated Exchange: Open ing, 92?$c; highest, 93Kc: lowest, 92Xc; closing, Sic. Total sales, 417,000 barrels. LAOS AXD HOUSES. Property Still Seine Picked Up In City nnd Sabnrbs. C. H. Love, No. 93 Fourth avenue, sold the property, SOS and 50SK -Fifth avenue, lot 24x 120 to Ann street, with improvements, for J. N. Hoch to Thomas Hackett for JS.000. Baxter, Thompson & Co., 162 Fourth avenue, sold lot No. 562 Vissa Park plan, Brusbton station, frontage of 46 feet on Beechwood street, 137 feet to Wood street, to H. J. Scott forSSOO. W. A. Herron Sons sold lot No. 61, in the Kcnnedv Dlan of lots. Twelfth ward, Allegheny Citv. 20x90 feet, for $150. Black &. Baird. 95 Fourth avenue, delivered the deed for sale of lot of Edward Kahm to George V. McCov, being No. 19 in the Henry Ltiova pian, ironiinj; ou xeet on me west siae oi Ditnndce street and extending back 16S feet, for fo.OOO cash, this being the second sale of this lot since the plan was put on the market. BEwlng&Byers, S3 Federal street, sold for Mrs. L. L. Orr to James N. Cain the property No. S3 Pearl street. Third ward. Allegheny City, consisting of a two-story brick house of seven rooms, ball and attic, with lot 20x90 to a paved alley, for $4,000. James W. Drape fc Co. closed the sale of an interest in a manufacturing concern in the city $15,000 cash. The property is situated In the Seventeenth ward, city. Samuel W Black fc Co.. 99 Fourth avenue, sold for tho Blair estate. Twenty-third ward, city, the three lots corner Elizabeth and Glos ter streets, with a four-room cottage, for a price approximating $2,000. Since the electric cars are running to Glenwoodths property in that vicinity is becoming rcry desirable for residence purposes. Alles Bailcv. 161 Fourth avenue, placed a mortgage for $6,000 at 4J per cent, free of State tax, on property in the First ward, Pittsburg. Baltensperger 4 Williams, 151 Fourth ave nue, sold for U. C. Dodds, Esq., to Jacob Breestle, lot 22x108 on Somerset street, Alle gheny, lor Si. 075 cash. W. Rflamnett, 404 Smithfield street and and Wilkmsburg, sold lot 104, plan No. 2, WI1 kins estate, Wilkiusburg, to Lilly A. Steven son, of Chicago, for $750. EEYERISH AND IRREGULAR. Ilcnvv Trndlns In Eenillng and Sugar Ro- flnerlci Tho Former Ponnded to Death, but the Latter Scores an Advmicc. New Yobk, March 5. The stock market, so far as the general list was concerned, was Inst as dull and as stagnant as during the past week, but the heavy trading in Reading and Sugar Iteflnerles brought the total up to a very respectable figure. The list showed a tendency to advance, but the hammering of the bears upon certain spots gave a feverish and Irreg ular look to the market as a whole. The bears are accused of manipulating the rates for exchanges, and arc said to have bought sterling heavily in order to prevent the decline to a point which would permit of the shipment of gold to this country at a profit. This manipulation may delay for a timo tho coming of gold from Europe, but as Berlin and London owe us a large amount for investment bonds, bought within the last 60 days, to say nothing of tho recent purchases of stocks, the sending of gold from the other side cannot long he checked. Dullness and stagnation marked the opening this morning, and first prices, except for Suirar. which was up 1 per cent, and Manhattan, which was up 2, were only slightly changed from those of last evening. The bears tried their hands upon Western Union at first, being still en couraged by the postal telegraph scheme. Western Union yielded slowly, and when the pressure was lifted almost allot the decline wis recovered. Reading, however, was the great feature of the day, and was weak on a flood of short sales, based primarily upon the dullness of the an thracite coal trade, though Philadelphia was credited with disposing of some larcc blocks of the stock. It w as found to be unprotected, and was rapidly sold down from 39i to 3Gj, closing at the lowest price. With the deci cased de mand for anthracite coal comes an increased one for bituminous, and on this Wheeling and Lake Eric preferred has 6how n marked strength oflatc. To-day it yielded over 1 per cent, but the decline brought in support and it rallied sharply. Sugar made further progress tn the artornoon after hanging around '66 all morning. It rose rapidly toward 2 p. jr. and touched 66 re acted to 66Jf. hut closed at 67J& The report ac companying the upward movement was that the directors would declare a dividend of 2X percent. The general list was very little af fected by the movements In the leaders, and the changes were insignificant a a rule. Louis ville and Nash Hie was also pressed for sale and scored a material loss for tho day. The market finally cloed dull and steady. The final changes of note include only losses of 2 in Reading and 1V in Louisville and Nash ville, with a ne of lj in Sugar Refineries. Railroad bonds were somewhat more active to-iiay, but there was no change in the temper of dealings, and the list, as a rnle. was steady, though some important changes were made in IkhIi directions. The sales of all issues reached $1,271,000. Among those which are hicber, Kansas Pacific, Denver division, lost i to 117JJ. l'ne .Post says: An advance in the rates of foreign exchange is usually unfavorable to prices of stocks and securities, because, under ordinary circumstances, it indicates a move ment of capital from the United States to Europe, and is usuallv accepted as evidence either that foreigners are selling American securities, or else that exports of American products have fallen oft. In either of these cases It would also indicate tho probability of a tight money market. But in the case of the advancoof 2 cents on the pound since Monday it indicates quite the reverse, as this is merely a recovery from an abnormal depression of from 3 to 4 cents on the pound.which occurred between February 17 and March 2. There was then so much apprehension about stringency in tho money market there that bankers' bills were freely sold by people who were merely appre hensive ofa pinch in the money market. About this time, and when call loans on tho Stock Exchange touched 9 per cent on last Friday, there was further selling of bills, which put exchange down to its lowest price on Monday. But yesterday it became clear that, while money might work close all this month, there would be no pinch at present. This stopped the selling of bills and allowed exchange to re cover to its normal state. The Deutsche Bank at Berlin, made an l3sne on February 2 at Berlin and other cities in Germany of 56,000.000 of Northern Pacific con solidated mortgage bonds. This amount was largely over-subscribed, a result which was tho more remarkable because money had been tight in Berlin, and there was a considerable decline at tho Stock Exchange in consequence, and also several failures of provincial banking firms. Tne rouowinjr table snows the prices or active stocks on the New York Stock Excnange yester day, corrected dally for thk dispatch by WHITXETA8TEPI1KMEOK, oldest Pittsburg mem bers of New York Stock Kxcnange. 57 Fourth ave nues Clos lnsr Ulrt. 271. tVi J1H 5' 119 3!i 23 J03 664 113,4 90 y-'A 50 SI 92 io8); 693 97 ; Bl 134 in8 1514 46 fit 17 a4 101 83 V24 J5 Upen lnr. . 26 . 3i'4 .72 High- Low est. eft. 27) 23 ' J2t 63H 119 Am. Cotton Oil Trust Atcn.. Top. ,ts. F... Canadian Paclflc...., Canada southern .... IStf 33 63'4 m a" J03 66 M Central of New Jvrsey.llUM ijcmrai zacinc...... ChesaDeake Ohio.... 23 C Bur. & UuliicT .103 C mil. & St. Paul.... 66V c. jtni.sst. p.. pr C, KoctL 41- 90 U, St. L.& PIUS C at. l. & puts. pr.. ii,4 CSt. P.. 41. &0 3I! c. t. p..M. o..pr. C&Nortnweitern 10314 CAAiormweaiern, nr. .... C, C. C. A. 1 B3H C c. C &l.. pr CoL Coal A Iron 44?; Col. Jt Hockinz vai Dei.. L. &V list Del. 4 Hudson 149'-, Denver & mo B Denver 4 ltio u. nr.... H E.T.. Va. AGa .... fc.T..Va. ftGa.lst pf. .... C T.. Va. AGa. 2d pr. Zi.S Illinois Central Lake Erie & Western.. 17 Lake lirle 4 West. pi.. 62H Lake Snore AM. s I04s Lonlevllle&NasnvUle. MH Michigan central Mobile 4 Ohio 15K Missouri Pactnc 72 New York Central N. r.. L. Is. W ... 25H '. Y., L. E. & W. pf.. 62 N. Y U. A St. L, N. Y.. C A St. L. nf. N.Y.. u. AHt.L. 2d nt .... N. YAN. E 44 N. Y.. V. A W 1TJ1 Norfolk a Western.... 20)t Norfolk Western. pr. 59 2.1 6SJa 90H MH 51H 3IH ws;i 69a an lKJf 149 SVA 51.4 69J i'l'li 134 149 47i 47M 2iii ai 17 62V 10oX 72 17 C2?4" 104 S3Ji 7i;a 1K4 25J ei E1X 60 165. 69 S7 UV 43 41 tit 17H Va 204 20 194 60;B 69 60H .. . .... S0'4 73, 72 72 20J4 ZS'A 35 Z5 36, M 38K IS 39" 38f 36M 20 20H 20J, 78 18 33 88 19 19 1SV titX 63K 6.'! 12 26' 21 25 82 SI',' tlH 70 1.8 69s CS( 654 67 18 17 1754 45 45 45 -nuruiem lacinc... Nortnern Pacine nrcr. 731, Ohio A Mississippi...,. .. . Oregon Transcon 23 PacincMall lUX Peo. Dec. s Evans Pniladel. A Kcadlnsr. 39 Riehmona & W. P. T 2o; KlchmonaA W.P.T.nt .... St. L. ft San Fran St. L. A San irran nf. S't.L,. A San r. let pi.. .. . Texas Paclnc 19. Union faclflo 63i Wabasn Wabash preferred 26K Western Union 81 Wheeling A L. . 70V Sopmr lTusx. 6X National Lead Trust. 18 Chicago Gas Trust.... 45K Philadelphia Htocks. Closing anotatlons of llilladelphta stocks, rur nlshcd by Whitney & Stephenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members .New York Stock Ex change. DM. .. 54M .. 18 '.'. k" .. 51V .. 30 .. 72K Askivt. 514 38 7-16 8 52 51 30 72 Pennsylvania Railroad Heading buffalo, Pittsburg A Western.. Lehigh Valley Lehigh Navigation Northern Pacific , Nortnern Paclnc p re i erred Minlnsr Quotations. NEW York. Jlarcb 5. Minine quotations: Alice. 120: Amatlor. 100: Aspen. 600; Caledpnia B. H.. 190; Commonwealth, 375: ComstockT. scrip, 29 00; Deadwood T., 140: El Cristo. 130; Freeland, 115; Homestake, 700: Horn Silver, 325; Iron Silver, 175; Mount Diablo, 150; Savage, 155; Union Consolidated, 230. THE COKE MAEKET. Slight Fnlllns Off In Consumption No Change in Prices Expected Rail roads Extending Into Undevel oped Conl Fields. fSPICIAl. TILIOIUXTOT&C DISPATCH.1 SfOTTDALB, March 5. There has not been any decided change in the condition of the coke trade since our last report. There seems to be a willingness by all of the consumers nf Connellsville coke to continue ordering, al though not in large lots. The immense and probably unbeaten record of shipments for the month of January bear a marked contrast to the coke sent out last month. Truc.it maybe that some of tb$ consumers were not pleasod at the radical advance in coke prices, and may havo shut off some of their orders for that reason, but the principal cause of the down ward tendency in shipments, is, in a nutshell, the overflowing stockhouscs. Tho trade can not be termed dull, however, as a weekly con sumption of over 6,000 cars of coke and over 115000 tons plainly prove that there is still an enormous amount of business being done in the coke region. The estimated production fiom January 4 to February 1 was over 650,000 tons, and the pro duction for -last month will fall considerably below that. There is a bright future, and a good feeling is prevalent. No change In prices is contemplated, and it may be dotted down as a verity that the present price will rule for the balance of the year. The proposed advance of 10 cents has been knocked silly, as the opera tors say they had not the least provocation for any such move. j.. The West Virginia operators feel that they will get a slice oi trade from the Connellsville region, and are bnilding ovens in view of that. Their product is of Inferior quality, and the iron men have long since realized that fact. Work has been actually commenced on the new branch railroad leading from Hecla to ML Pleasant, and, as The Dispatch mentioned several weeks since, it will be the result of the building nf several hundred new ovens. The White hill farm, which is stretched along the route, consists of many hundred acres, and is underlaid with the best quality of coking coal. There is only a couple of miles yet to be built on the new Hcmpfleld road, which terminates near Arona. Westmoreland county. This will tap a large undeveloped coal field. Thero are one or two new coke oven plants to be erected In tho coke region, but thoy have not yet been given out. All of the H. C. Prick Coke Company's works from horo to Broadford, save Summit, on the northern route, are idle to-day. Fennsville. Dexter, Home, Overton, Emma, Fort Hill and Paull will all be idle one day this week. Speaking of cars, there is an over-supply.and shipping agents have gone to much inconvenience to place them. An operator said yesterday : "The car service is quite different now from that in 1S78, when coke was selling for $4 50 per ton. When the cars would leave Pittsburg a man would be placed on them to sco that they reached the proper destination. There was lots of money in coke then, and it was no strange occurrence for tho right tabs on empty coke cars to be taken off and other ones placed on instead, so that they could get the use of the cars." Coke shipment last week averaged 1,030 cars per day. There was a falling off in Western shipments. The shipments, aggregating 6,180 cars, were consigned to the various points of consumption as follows: To points west of Pittsbursr. 3.475 cars; to Pittsburg and river points. 1,380 cars; to points east of Pittsburg, 1.325 cars. Prices are without change: Furnace coke, $2 15: foundry, $2 45; crushed coke, $2 Co. Freight rates are: To Pittsburg 0 70 To Mahoning and shenango Valleys 1 So To Cleveland. 0 1 70 To Buffalo. N, Y 2 i", To Detroit, Mich 2 33 To' Cincinnati, 0 2 65 To Louisville. Kv 3 20 To Chicago, 111 2 75 ToMllwaukee. Wis 2 85 Tost. Louis. Mo 3 35 ToEastSl. Louis 320 This will make prices at these points, of con sumption, as follows: Point. Furnace. Found; mdry. Crushed. S3 IS 3 25 380 4 00 4 15 4SS 4 70 4 90 483 5 00 S10 5 30 565 585 5 20 5 40 530 550 5 80 6 00 565 685 Pittsburg P85 M. and S. Valleys 3 50 Cleveland 3 85 llullat 4 40 Detroit 4 50 Cincinnati 4 80 Louisville 5 35 Chicago 4 90 Milwaukee 500 bt. Louis 5 50 H. St. Louis 5 ii Drjcoodj. New York, March 5. Thero was no new features to tho market for drygoods. If busi ness is a little less active than last year, results aro more satisfactory. Davy Coykekdall, Hecla, S. Dak., says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best .medicine he ever handled. As he handles over 20 different medicines for coughs and colds, in his drugstore at Hecla, this is a bold assertion,, but is undoubtedly true. wxhsu LOCAL LIYE STOCK. A Larger Run of Cattle With the Quality Below the Average. PRICES LOWER AND MARKETS SLOW The Supply of Sheep and Lambs Good, and the Demand Constant. COOL WEATHER MAKES PORKERS SELL Office of Pittsbuko Dispatch, Wednesday. Jlarcb 5, 1890. The run of cattle for the week was almost 90 loads against 80 loads last week and 65 for the week before. The bulk of the re ceipts was from Chicago, the total from that point being upwards of B0 loads. The quality was scarcely up to recent average, while quantity was much beyond average. There were very few prime cattle on the market this week. Sales were reported at 54 75, and a few choice lots may have brought a shade higher figures but nothing higher could be traced. The general run of the receipts were fair to good butcher stock. The supply of light tidy butcher cattle was scarcely up to demands, while common and low grade stock was m ex cessive supply. Markets were very slow at a decline of 5 to 10c trom last week's prices. Some dealers put the decline at 15c Thero was a very light run of stockers and feeders, and many more would have found a market if they had been forth coming. Not above two loads were offered. Fresh cows were very slow from the fact that little good stock was offered. The rango for those offered was $18 00Q30 00 a head. Fancv stock would havo found ready buyers $15 C0620 00 a head above these figures. Fresh Cows and Springers. The season is now fully on when common fresh cows and springers are in f nil supply. For these markets showed a decline of $3 00 5 00 per head from prices of last week. Thero was a good demand for veal calves, notwithstanding a good run, at prices ranging from 6g6Xc Heavy, rough calves, were very slow at a shade lower prices than a week ago. Markets all along the line have been draggy all tho week, and not a few cattle offered for local trade were shipped eastward for want of customers here. Tuesday's markets closed weaker than Monday's. One dealer who re fused an offer for cattle on Monday, on the the next day said he had made a mistake, as he had gone further and longer to fare worse,. The yards ere well cleaned up this morning, but there is little doubt that odds and ends were disposed of at sacrifice sales. A leading drover said this mornings "We have had this week one of the poorest markets of the season. While stock was a shado higher in Chicago this week than last, prices hero ruled from 5c to 15c per 100 lower, and I can hardly see how it was possible for some ship pers to come out even." Sheep, Lambs nnd Hoes. The run was larger than last week, but prices were fully maintained. Choice stock was in very active demand at prices fully up to last week. Markets opened on Monday rather slow for comfort of dealers, but since then there has been an appreciation of values, ana choice stock was firm at quotations of last week. The run has been light all the week and de mand fully up to supply. Tho frosty weather has. no doubt, had a stimulating effect on mar kets. Top prices this morning ranged from $4 25 to $4 35, the latter for the best selected hogs. At Chicago this morning the ousido price was $4 10. The quality of Chicago lops is regarded by our home packers as an improvement on the best offered at East Liberty, LIVE STOCK MARKETS. The Condition of Business at the East Liberty Stock Ynrda. OFFICE OF PrTTSBUKO DISPATCH, 1 Wednesday, March 6, 1890. f CATTLK Receipts, 672 head: shipments, 600 bead; market dull; prime, 4 504 75; fair to good, S3 754 10; common, S3 253 50; no cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hoos Receipts. 2,710 head; shipments, 1,900 head: market steady; medinm and selected, H 304 40; common to best Yorkers, $4 10 4 25; pics, S3 004; 8 cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts, 1.600 head: shipments, 1,500 head; market slow; prime. So 75SJ6; fair togoocL S4 254 50; common, 2 603 25; lambs, 54 50 625. By TcIcsthdu. Chicago The Drover's Journal reports: Cattle Receipts, 16,000 head; shipments. 6,500 head: market .weaker; beeves, SI 005 25: steers, S3 254 60; stockers and feeders, S2 40 3 60: Texas cornfed steers, S2 853 50. Hogs Receipts, 35,000 head; shipments, 1,000 head; market shade lower: mixed, S3 S54 05; heavy, S3 S54 07; light, S3 S54 10; skips, ts 403 50. Sheep Receipts, 8,000 head; shipments, 2.000 head: market strong and active: natives, S3 50 6 40: western cornfed, $4 805 60; Texans, 53 505 30; lambs, (5 0006 00. New Yobk Beeves Receipts. 700 head; firmer, and all sold at an advance equal to 10c per 100 pounds; common to fair steers sold a 54 004 60 per 100 pounds: good do at S4 65 4 75; bulls and dry cows at SI 603 50. Calves Receipts, 870 head; quiet hut firm, at 58Cc per pound for veals, and at 34c for grassers and Western calves. Sheen Receipts. 5,700 head; sheep were barely steady: lambs a shade firmer: extremes, $5 006 40 for sheep, and S6 007 50 for yearling lambs. Hogs Receipts, 8,200 head; all for slaughterers direct: no sales on the live weight; nominal value, $3 904 50. Buffalo Cattle slow but not qnotably lower: receipts, 95 loads through; 1 sale. Sheep and lambs active and a shade higher for ton grades: receipts. 9 loads through; 15 sale; choice to extra, 55 956 15; good to choice. S5 655 85; lambs choice to extra, S6 907 20: good to choice, S6 C5Q0 85. Hogs fairly active and a shade hig"her; receipts, 27 loads through: 10 sale: mediums and heaw, $4 304 35; mixed, S4 304 35; Yorkers, SI 304 32K- Kansas City Cattle Receipts, 3,900 bead; shipments, 2,300 head; market steady; steers, S3 304 75: cows, S2 003 00: stockers and feed ers. S2 603 40. Hogs Receipts, 6.600; ship ments 1,400; market 2c lower; all grades, S2 S03 80: bulk, S3 72J3 75. Sheep Re ceipts, 1,400 head; shipments, 600 head: market steadv; cood to choice lambs and muttons, S3505 40; stockers and feeders, S5 005 25. LUMBER PRICES TO GO DP. Hemlock Will bo Advanced Two Dollars Within Two Weeks. The price of hmloek lumber will be ad vanced 52 per 1,000 feet within the next two weeks," said W. G. Cowan, the whole sale dealer, yesterday. "T-ie price of pine has also gone up, and consumers will have to pay more for what they use this spring, than they did last year. The supply of hemlock this season will be about 275,000, 000 feet short at 'Willianisport. It is now telling for $10 50 and 511 per thousand. This will be advanced to 513 before the month ends." The cause of the advance is on account of the difficulty experienced by mill owners to get the logs to the mills. Most of the hemlock und pine comes from the northwestern part of Pennsylvania, and considerable is grown in "New York State. So tar this winter, there has been no tuow and as a consequence the mill oi.ners could not haul the logs. Frequently they have to be hauled on the ground five to six miles, and unless there is enough snow to slide them, this can De done only at great ex pense. It is expected that the mill owners will meet in Buffalo or Philadelphia this month to advance the price. At a meeting in Saginaw, Mich., two days ago, the price of piue lumber was increased lrom 55 to 58- Should the logs remain in the woods until summer there is great danger thatthev will be destroyed by fire. In the AVilhamsport district, in this State, there arc at least 300,000,000 feet oi timber "tied up" in the woods, worth several million dollars. The longer these logs remain where they are the drier they get. Their very presence in the lorest increases the danger of fire. Six or eight years ago after a snowless winter a conflagration broke out in the timber in Forest county, and destroyed about a mil lion dollars' worth. From the Everglades of Florida To the forests of Maine, malaria stalks on the mists that rise from morass, bottom land and fen. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters renders the aerial poison innocuous, and uproots it from the system. It rectifies the liver, whose dis order is an Invitation to the disease, strength ens the nerves, and fortifies the system gen erally. It remedies, also, rheumatism, bilious ness, kidney complaints and dyspepsia. MAEKETS BY WIRE. nnMHSW! MARKETS JZlZr - KEW SE.ggg: . i The Snnp Shook Ont of When! Feeling Unsettled nnd Prices Lower Hog Products Tamo nnd Quota tions GlvoWnj. Chicaoo There was a good business trans acted in wheat to-day, but there was not tae snap there was yesterday. Ike feeling was again unsettled, fluctuations in prices being frequent, with the tendency, however, toward weakness, as with each reaction prices touched a lower point. The opening was about the same as yesterday's closing, and under fair offerings declined Jic. then advanced c, touch ing top prices of the day, fluctuated within a small range for awhile, and closing about c lower than yesterday. Shorts seemed to have covered pretty well, and tho longs sold freely. It was intimated that there had been considerable selling by foreign bouses, who, it was supposed, had been long on foreign account. The trade in corn was light, very little inter est being made manifest, and fluctuations nere confined to a fractional range, with operations almost exclusively local. The market opened a shade under closing prices of yesterday, was easier for a time, and ruled steadier. Prices changed with wheat and closed ashadelovier than yesterday. Oats were traded in moderately and a steady feeling prevailed. There was, however, ro new features developed. Ti ading in pork was moderate. Prices ruled 7JI0c lower, the market closing steady above inside figures. A weak and easy feeling prevailed in lard. Prices receded 57c and the market closed tame. There was a fair business transacted in short ribs, but the feeling as easy. Prices on the whole range declined 2K5c, and the market closed tame. The leading futures ranged as follows: Wheat No. 2. March, 78-V7Jiia77?i 77Jc: May. 797978'i78c; July, 778 COBN-No. 2, March. 28J4g2SX2SK:Sc; May. 2829K2929c; July. 3030 Oats No. 2, March, WglWr; May. 21 21VC21J(2Ic: June. 2Ifo21'21lg2Ic. Mess Pork, per bbL March. S9 S2K9 85 69 S09 80: May. 810 07K10 07K10 02K 10 02y2; June, S10 1710 1710 0710 10. Lard, per 100 tts. March, 5 MK5 87K; May. 6 006 005.955 95; June. 56 026 05 6 006 00. Short Ribs, per 100 Bs. March, S4 85 4 85; Mav. $4 904 92K4 S!Kl 90; June, SI U5 64 954 92K04 92K. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour firm, with an advance of 10c in some cases. No. 2 spring wheat, 7777c; No. 3 spring wheat. 66i&bSc: No. 2 red, 77?77c No. 2 corn. 28c. No. 2 oats, 2u;20c No. 2 rye, 42c. No. 2 barley, nominal. No. 1 flaxseed, SI 46. Prime timothy seed. SI 15. Mesa pork, per bbL S9 S00 85. Lard, per 100 llis. S5 87K 5 90. Short ribs sides (loose), S4 8-504 90; dry salted shoulders (boxed), $1 204 25; short clear sides (boxed), S5255 30. Sugars, cutloaf, 7c; granulated. 6c; standard A, 6c. Receipts Flour. 8,000 barrels: wheat, 20,000 bushels: corn, 35L000 bushels; oats, 92,000 bushels; rye, 14,000 bushels: barley. 53.000 bushels. Shipments Flonr.12, 000 barrels: wheat, 36,000 bushels: corn, 1.275,000 bushels: oats, 1S4, 000 bushels: rve. 9.000 bushels: harlev. 34.000 bushels. On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was steady and unchanged. Eggs, 13c New York Flour firm and fairly active. Cornmeal dull. Wheat Spot irregular and moderately .active, closing easy; options fairly active and Kc down, closing weak: free sell ers. Rye firm. Barley dtlll and heavy: west ern, 4G52c: Canada. 5770c. Barley malt weak; Canada, 7287Kc Corn Spot firmer and fairly active; options moderately active and firm. Oats Spot quiet and higher: options quiet and irregular. Hay easy and quiet. Hops weak and quiet. Coffee Options opened steady and unchanged to 5 points up: closed steady at 510 points up: sales, 43,250 b.ics, in cluding March. 16.9517.00c; April. 16.8516.90c: Mav, 16.7516.90c; June. 16.7516.80c; July, 16.65 l0.70c: August. 16.65c; September, 16.50S16.60c; October, ia4016.61c; December, 16.3016.40c: spot Rio steady and fairly active; fair cargoes, 20c; No. 7 flat bean. 18c Sugar Raw firm and quiet; sales. 331 hogs heads and 3,000 bags; English Island Mus cavado, 87 test, at 5c; refined fairly active and firm. Molasses Foreign firm; New Orleans strong. Rice firm and in fair demand. Cotton seed oil quiet. Tallow quiet. Rosin quiet. Turpentine steadier at 42$12c Eegs firm and in good demand; Western, 1516c; re ceipts, 5,009 packaees. Pork easy and quiet. Cut meats slow; middles quiet: short clear, 55 35. Lard easier and qniet; sales, 750 tierces Western steam at $6 2o6 27& closins at S6 25; options, sales 2,500 tierces; March, SO 23; April, 56 25, closine at SB 26; May. S6 30: June, S6 35; July, S6 39(36 41, closing at S6 41; October, S3 59 66. 60, closing at SO 59 asked. Bntter in f-.iir de mand and freely offered;; Elgin. 27c; Western dairy, 518c: do creamery, 1326c; do held at 8 15c; do factory, 518c Cheese firm and in fair demand: Western 1010Jic. Philadelphia Flour firm, with a fair de mand. Wheat Options weak and a shade lower; demand for millers only moderate, but high grades in small supply and firmly held; rejericu, ouimtuc; iair to gooa mining wheat, 7582c; prime to fancy, 8591c; No. 2 red. in export elevator, 83c; No. 2 red. March. 82Ji 83'4c: April, S3X84c: May, Slg-SSc: June, SlJagSSc. Corn Options firm: car lots for local trade quiet but steady; No. 4 low mixed, track and grain depot, 2Sc: No. 4 white, on track, 29c; No. 4 high mixed, on track, 29c; Nn. 3, In export elevator, 33ic; steamer, in do. 34JJc; steamer No. 2 yellow, in grain depot, 36c; No. 2 high mixed, in Twentieth street ele vator, 37c; No. 2 mixed, March, 35S35c; April, 3535e; May. 35K36c; June, S6a36c. Oats Carlots steady: No. 3 white. 29c: No. 2 white. 30c: future quiet but steady: No. 2 white. March, 2S?X29'4c: April, 2829c: May, 2S2Sc; June. 2829e. Egcs quiet but steady, Pennsylvania firsts, 14Kc Minneapolis Wheat Receipts for the day were 141 cars, shipments 33 cars. The feel ing was hardly so strong in the spot wheat mar ket, and buyers demanded some concessions. The easier feeling was based on a small declino in futures, with less disposition to speculate on the long side. Still there was a good inquiry for samples, and when the concessions asked for were granted it waslnot so hard to effect sales. A fair amount of samples were offered, and the demand for them was enough to clear them up. Cloing quotations: No. 1 hard, March. 7SKc: April, 78c: May, SOe: on track. 79 (8,ouc: iso. i nortnern. Aiarcu. line; April. 77c: May, 78c; No. 2 Northern, March, 75lc; April, 75Jc; May, 76c; on track, 75X77Kc St. Louis Flour firm but quiet. Wheat lower and the market unsettled and irregular througbotit the session. The close was weak with May 3c and July Jc below yesterday: No. 2 red, cash, 77c bid: March closed at 77c bid; May, 76c asked; July, 73c. Corn quiet;. No. 2 mixed, cash, 25Jc; May cluscd at 2626Kc bid; July, 27ic asked; August, 28KS2SJ4C asked; SeDtember, 2S-c. Oats irregular, hut closed a fraction better; No. 2, cash, 20c bid; May, 20Jc. Rye qniet: No. 2, 40e bid. Barley dull; Minnesota, 48c. Provisions firm. Pork, 310 12J 10 25. Mil WAUKEE-Flour quiet. Wheat easy; No. 2 spring, on track, cash, 7273c; May, 73c; No. 1 Northern, 81c. Corn quiet; No. 3, on track. 28c. Oats steady; No. 2 white, on track, 22c Rye easier; No. 1. in store. 43c. Barley weak. Provisions easy. Pork, S9 77f. Cheese steady. Toledo Cloversecd dull and steadv; cash and March, S3 25; October, S3 45. BUSINESS X0TES. The circulation of all kinds of currency In this country on January I was $1,430,909,455, or S24.500.000 more than on January 1, 1889. The Engineering Hews says that the work of railway extension during the coming sea son promises more activity than in any year since 1887. A gentleman connected with the Duquesne Traction Company said yesterday that cars would be running to Wilkinsburg before the summer was over. Sproul & Lawrence were advised by wire from St. Louis yesterday that Jay Gould was suffering from the grip, and there was some anxiety as to the result. The Kanawha and Ohio Railroad was sold yesterday under a decree of foreclosure in tho United States Court granted tho Mercantile Trust Company, of New York. 'I he agents of Homans & Co., New York, secured tho road at S505.WW. St. Louis roads have finally been drawn into the Western passenger rate war, and tho an nouncement is niado that on Friday they will all make a rate of So to Kansas City, a cut of S2 50, with corresponding rates to other West ern points. Tho Missouri-Pacific, in addition, announces a S10 rate between Kansas City and Denver. The deed for the lot, corner Penn avenue and Garrison alley, purchased by M. Seihert & Co. about a month ago, was made out yester day and transferred, completing the trans action. Tho price paid wasS65,0U0. The pur chasers will erect an eight-story business house for their own use. The sale was reported in The Dispatch at the time .Ilotnl Mnruct. New iore Pig iron slow. Copper nominal; Lake Michigan. Sll 25. Lead Urnft domestic, f3 92. Tin quiet ana steady: straits. $20 00. HEADACHE '-Carter's Little Liver nils. '-Carter's Little Liver Pills. SICK HEADACHE HEADACHE 'Carter's Little Liver nils. SHJK HEADACHEClrtcr,s Llttle Llver Pills. nols-67-rrssa JL hij. v- 1111XJ.IUU J fc-a I uuLACbutCU iiiiuia, uitc, VA aiuiofvutcu Bv V An Upward Movement of Swiss Cheese and Choice Hatter. NEW MAPLE SYKUP ON MARKET. Ear Corn and Loose II ay Scarce and Mar kets a Shade Ilijrlier. HEMLOCK LUMBER SCAKCB AND FIRM Office of Pittsbbro Iiispatch, J Wkdnesdat, March 5, 1890. Country Produce Jobbing Prices. Swiss cheeses are in active demand and mar kets have taken an upward turn, as an inspec tion of our quotations will disclose. Everything in the cheese line is firm, and all signs point to higher prices. Choice bntter is also firmer, bnt common stock drags. Cold weather has stif fened the price of eggs, and all choico stock is readily taken at quotations. Some dealers re port even higher prices. Good poultry is scarce and firm. There is an active demand for fancy apples at advancing prices. Tropical fruits aro firm. The first installment of new maole syrup has pnt in an appearance within the past week. There is good prospect of a full crop in this lino. Vegetables are unchanged. Good stock readily brings quotations. Butter Creamery, Elgin, 3031c; Ohio do, 2728c; fresh dairy packed, 2223c; country rolls, 19020c. Beans Navy hand-picked beans, S2 002 25: medium, SI 752 00. Beeswax 252Sc 33 J tor choice; low grade. 1820c. uider sanu renneu. s ou: common, a w 5 00; crab cider, $8 008 50 barrel; cider vinegar, 1012e $ gallon. Cheese Ohio. llgllKc; New York, HKc: Limburger, 9llc; domestic Swcitzer. 13 14Vc; imported Sweitzer. 23Jc Kggs 16c straight 1 dozen for strictly fresh. Fruits Apples, fancy, S3 754 00 fl barrel; cranberries, 4 00 1 25 a crate; strawberries, 354510c a box. Feathers Extra live geese, 5060c; No. 1, do, 4045c: mixed lots. 3035c 9 S. Maple Syrup New, SI 0C1 25 a can. Poultry Live chickens, 80085a a pair; dressed, 1213c a pound; ducks,75cSl p pair; live turkeys, 1314c $1 lb; dressed turkeys, 16 17c 13 . Seeds Clover, choice, 62 Its to bushel, S4 00 $1 bushel; clover. Urge English. 62 tts, S4 354 00; clover, Alsike, S3 00: clover, white. S9 00; timothy, choic. 45 ft-". SI 601 70; blue grass, extra clean, 11 lbs, 81 251 30; blue grass, fancy, 11 ft, SI 30; orchard grass, 14 ft', SI 40; red top, 14 ft. SI 00; millet, 50 tts, SI 00; Hun garian crass, 50 tts. SI 00: lawn grass, mixture of fine grasses, S2 50 1 bushel of 14 tts. Tallow Country. 3KC; city rendered, 4c Tropical Fruits Lemons, common. S3 00 3 50; fancy, $4 0004 50: Florida oranges, S3 50 3 75, Valencia, S3 754 00 a case. Messina, S2 00 2 25 a box: bananas. SI 752 00 firsts, SI 001 25 cood seconds, $1 bunch: cocoanuts. S4 004 50 1 hundred; iigs. 6c ?1 ft; dates. 56Kc V ft; laver figs, 12K15c. Vegetables Potatoes, from store, 5560c; on track. 4550c; cabbages, S2 50," 00 a barrel: Dutch cabbage, S16 00 f? hundred; celery 40c dozen; Jersey sweet potatoes ?4 2534 50 a bar rel: turnips. Si O0JB1 25a band onions, SI 25 4 50 a barrel, SI 501 75 1 bushel: Bermuda onions. S3 75 bushel crate; parsnips, SI 75 2 00 H barrel. Buckwheat Flour SI 75Q2 00. Groceries. Green Coffee Fancy Rio. 23K"4c; choice Rio, 2122c; prime Rio. 21c; low grade Rio, 1920c: old Government Java, 27J323c; Maracaibo, 2425c: Mocha, 2930c; Santos, 2121Joj Caracas, 2224Kc; peaberry, Rio, 2424c; La Guayra. 24J4Kc Roasted (in papers) Standard brands,24Jc; high grades, 25J30c; old Government Java, bulk. 3233Kc; Maracaibo. 27K28c: Santos, 2529c; peaberry, 29c; choice Rio. 25c; prime Rio, 24c: good Rio, 23c; ordinary, 21a SPICES (whole) Cloves, 1920c; allspice, 10c; cassia, 8c: pepper, 17c: nutmeg, 70S0c. Petroleum (jobbers! prices) 110 test, 7fc; Ohio, 120, 8Kc; headlight, 150, 8c: water white, 10Kc; globe. 1414c; elaine, 14c; car nadine, 11:: royaline, 14c; globe red oil, 11 llKc, purity, 14c Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 4145c ! gallon; summer, 4043c. Lard oil. 60C5c Syrups Corn syrup, 2629c; choice suear syrup, 303Sc; prime sugar syrup, 3033c; strictly prime, 3335c; new maple syrup. 90c N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop. 4&350c; choice, 47c; medium. SS4.1c; mixed. 4042c Soda Bi-carb in kegs, 3K3Mc; bi-carb in Ks. &Kc; bi-carb. assorted plottages. 56c; sal-soda in kegs, ljjc: do granulated, 2c Candles Star, full weight, 8Kc; stearine,p set 8Kc; paraffiue, ll12c Rice Head. Carolina, 67c: choice, 6 0c; prime, 5Sc; Louisiana, 56Vc. Starch Pearl, 2J4C; cornstarch, o6c; glos3 starch, 44i7c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins. S2 65: Lon don lavers, S2 75: California London layers, 82 75: Muscatels, S2 40; California Muscatels. 52 25; Valencia. 7Jc; Ondara Valencia. 8JJ 9c; sultana, lie; currants, 55c: Turkey prunes, &95&c: French prunes, 710c: Saloni ca prunes, in 2-tt packages, 8c; cocoanuts, fl 100, $0; almonds, Lan tt, 20c; do l7ic.i. 17c; do, shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap, 1415c: Sicily, filberts. 12c; Smyrna figs, 1213c: new dates, 6 lic; Brazil nuts, lie; pecans, ll15c; citron, l tt, 1819c: lemon peel. 18c ?1 tt; orange peel. 17c Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft, 6c; ap ples, evaporated, 9c; apricots, California, evap orated, 1516c: peaches, evaporated, pared, 2426c; peaches, California, evanorated, un pared, 1819c; cherries, pitted. 1313c; cher ries, unpitteu, ofauc: rasooerncs. evaporated, 2627c; blackberries, 77Kc; huckleberries, 1012c , Sugars Cubes, z: powdered, 7c; granu lated, 6c; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A. 67f!c: sott white. 6;6c: yellow, choice, 5 5jjjc: yellow, cood, o-JJoJf,e: yellow, fair, 6 5-!ic: yellow, dark, 5Jc Pickles Medium. bbl3 (1,200), $7 00; medi um, half bbls (600), S4 00. Salt N o. 1, f) bbl, 95c; No. 1 ex. fj hbl, SI 00: dairy, ?! bbl. SI 2fl; coarse crystal, fl bbl, SI 20: HIggins' Eureka. 4-bu sacks, S2 80; Higgins' juureka. id-14 i packets. S3 00. Canned Goods Standard peaches, $2 00(51 2 25; 2ds. SI 651 80: extra peache S2 402 60; pie peaches, 95c: finest corn. SI 001 50; Hid Co. corn. 60S5c: red cherries, 80S5c: Lima beans, 51 20: soaked do, 80c; string do, 60ig65c: mar rowfat peas, SI 101 15; soaked peas. 70M)c; pineapples. SI 3UI 40: Bahama do, $2 75; damson plums. Doc; Greengages. $1 25; egg plums. S2 00; California nears. S2 40; do groen gaces. 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. S0S5c; salmon, 1-tt. SI 651 90; black berries. 65c; succotash, 2-ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green. 2 ft. SI 251 50; corn beef, 2-ft ran, 52 05; 14-ft can, S14 00; baked beans, SI 451 50; lobster, 1-ft, $1 801 90; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled, SI 50; sardines, domestic, l. S4 25 4 50: sardines, domestic K'. S6 7o7 00; sar dines, imported. H $11 5012 50: sardines, im ported, js, Si8 00; sardines, mustard. S3 50: sardines, spiced, S3 50. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, $36 ?? bbl.; extra No. 1 do, mess, S40: extra No. 1 mack erel, shore. $32: extra No. 1 do, mess. $36; No. 2 shore mackerel, $24. Codfish Whole pollock, 4Kc ft; do medium, George's cod. Cc: do 1...D ?,. hrtnlais T...1.-0 In at.lna 41S... .1.. George's cod in blocks. 67c. Herring Round shore. S5 00 fl bbl.: split. $850: lake. S2 90 ft 100-ft bbl. Whlteflsh. S6 50 $1 100-ft half bbl. Lake trout, $550 fl half bbl. Finnan haddock, 10c $1 ft. Iceland balipnr. 13c fl B. Pickerel, Khhl.. S3 00:K bbl.. SI 35; Potomac herring, So 00 fl bbl.: 52 50 per K bbl. Oatmeal S6 COS 6 23 ft bbl. Grain, Flour nnd Feed. Sales on call at the Grain Exchange: One car sample shell corn. 33c, spot, P. R. R.; 1 car No. 2 timothy ,hay. IS. 5 days. P. R. R.; 1 car sample middlings, 815, 15 days. P. K. R. Re ceipts as bulletinod, 29 cars. By Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago, 2 cars of hay, 6 of oats, 5 flour, 1 of corn. 1 of barley. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati ana St. Louis, 4 cars of oats, 1 of bran, 3 of hay, 2 of corn. By Baltimore and Ohio, 1 car of hay, 1 of oats. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, 1 car o ear corn. 1 of rye, 4 of oats, 1 of flour, 1 of malt By Pittsburg and Western. 1 car of oats, 1 of hay. Ear corn is scarco and higher. The.same is true of loose hay, which is kept from markets by the bad condition of roads. Wheat and flour are steady at quota tions. The general tone of cereal markets shows an improvement tbe past few days, a fact attributed by dealers to diminishing re ceipts. Prices below are for carload lots on track. WHEAT New No. 2 red, s2Qs3c; No. 3, 78 80c. Cons No. 2 yellow, ear, new, 37SSc; high mixed, new, 3435c; No. 2 yellow, shelled, old, S6K'937c: new, 34835c Rejected shelled corn, 'Hb'ii 2Sc. Oats No. 2 white. 27K28c: extra, No. 3, 27 QLWc; mixed. 21K2Jc Rye No. lPenusvlvania and Ohio, 5351c; No. 1 Western, 51g52c Flouk Jobbing prices Fancy winter and sprinir intents. $4 755 25: winter straight, H 5u?4 75; cle.ir winter, S4 00! 2-5; straight XXXX bakers'. 3 7534 00. Rye flour. J3 23 3 50. MlLLFF.nn Middlincs, fine white. $15 50 16 00 $ ton; brown middlings, $14 0011 50; winter wheat bran, $13 0013 25: chop feed, $15 5010 00. Hay Baled timothy. No. 1, $11 0011 50; No. 2 do, $9 0UU 50: loose from wagon, $11 G0&14 00. accorumg to quality; io.z prairie nav, 51 0 iaj: pacKing do, to wso to. Bteaw Oat $6 767 00; wheat and rye straw, $6 00Q6 25. ProTlsIons Sugar-cured hams, large, 9"4c sugar-cured hams, medium, 10c; sugar-cured hams, small. 10c; sngar-cured breakfast bacon, 8c; sugar cured shoulders, 6c: sugar-cured, boneless shoulders. TKc; sugar-cured California hams. 6Kc; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 9c;sncar-cured dried beef sets. 10c: sugar-enred dried beef round'. 12e: bacon, shoulders. 5-Jfc: bacon, clear sides, 7c; bacon, clear bellies. c: dry salt shoulders. 5c; dry salt clear sides, 7e. Mess nork, beavy.Sll 00; mess pork, family, 512 00. Lard Refined, in tierces,5jc: balf-barrels,5?ic; 60-tt tubs, 5c: 20-tt pails. 6c; 50-ft tin cans, c; 3-tt tin nails, 6c: 5-B tin pails. 6K 10-ft tm pails. 5c; 5-ft tin pails. 6a Smoked sausage, long, 5c; large. 5c Fresh pork links. 9c Bone less hams, lOKc. Pigs' feet, half-barrels, S4 00: quarter-barrel. S2 15. Lumber, The advance of $1 to $1 60 per thousand on hemlock is fully sustained. Supply is still short of demand. There Is enough and to spare at sources of supply, but the failure of the snow crop in lumber regions and wretched con dition of roads prevents stuff from coming to the front. The season is now here when mar kets are usually crowded with hemlock, but for the reasons given above, not one-half the usual amount is forthcoming. Tho demand for lum ber in general is rather qniet. but the season is not fully open. All signs point to a good year ahead. l'lXE UNPLANED TAED QUOTATIONS. Clear boards, per M S53 0035 00 Select common boards, per M 30 03 Common boards perM 2000 WieathinR 18 00 Pine lrame lumber perM 22 C027 00 bhlnples, No. J, lain, peril 5 00 Shingles, No. 2, 13 In. per M 375 Lath SCO hard wo6ds yahd quotations. Ash, 1 to 4 in 140 00(355 00 iiiacit wainut, green, log run.... Ill ck walnut, dry, log run Cherry Green while oat planfc, 2 to 4 In. Dry white oak plank. 2 to 4 in... Dry white oak hoards, lln West Va. vellow nine. 1 inch 5 Ofta-jO 00 , 6o m&n oo ooivaaooo moaaijoo , Z2 0C&5 00 , OOIYcij0O . aiooacsoo . 23WS30 00 West Va. yellow pine, 1 Inch. West Va. vcllow poplar, to 1 in H 00(325 00 Hickory, lHto3In 13CO25 00 Hemlock building lumber, peril.. 1-1 uu 14 00 MOO jianK rails,.... lioat stnddlnjr , Coal car plank 18 00 PLANED. Clear boards, per M (M00 suriace Doaras.. Clear, S-lnch beaded celling Partition boards, perM Flooring, No. 1 , Flooring. No. 2 , Yellow pine floorlug M'eather-boardlng, moulded, o. 1. Weather-boarding, moulded. No. 2, Weather-boarding, JS-inch , 30 00(335 CO MOO 35 00 30 00 25 00 3O0O4O0O 30 00 25 00 2000 HARD woods jobbing pbiczs. Ash (30 00045 00 Walnut lojr run, preen 25 00r&45 00 Walnut lop run. dry 3.'. avA.y 00 White oak plank, green 17 00(5119 00 White oak plank, dry 20 (was 00 White oak boards, 'dry IS (Wfi23 00 West Va. yellow pine, lln 19 COS2t 00 WestVa. yellow pine, 1J$ in 20 COfaS 00 Yellow poplar IS WaSS 00 Hickory, i) to 3 In a) 00305 on Hemlock 10 O0lt 00 Monk rails 14 00 Boat studding. 14 00 Coal car plank Is 00 BAILR0AD OFFICES ABOLISHED. Tbo Pennsylvania Company ana Dropped the Superintendent of Transportation. General Superintendent Joseph "Wood, of the Pennsylvania Company, has issued an order abolishing the position of Superin tendent of Transportation. Instructions for the movement and distribution of cars will be issued from the General Superin tendent's office in Pittsburg, and all reports of mileage and car records will be sent here and to Columbus until further notice is given. The order abolishes the offices of Superin tendent of Transportation of the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburg, and Pittsbnrg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Companies, held bv Colonel S. H. Church, of Columbus, and Superintendent of Transportation of the Pennsylvania Company, held by Edmund Yardley, ot this city. Mr. Church and his office force of about 35 men will be moved from Columbus to Pittsburg. The chance will probably be made this month. In what manner Mr. Church and Mr. Yardley will be provided for has not been an nounced. Mr. Horner, chief clerk to Colonel Church, has resigned. Colonel Church states he will remove his family to Pitts burg. There is an undercurrent report that some influence other than that suggested by the officials of the road has been brought to bear to secure the transferor Colonel Church on account of his recent domestic troubles, bnt it is not credited by his iriends here. Grent Benefactors. Mr. H. B. Wayne, of "Whiteville, Tenn., says: "I have sold Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and take pleasure in rec ommending it to the general public as being a medicine of great worth and merit The manufacturers of this remedy certainly have been great benefactors to suffering human ity." It does not dry up a cough or cold, but loosens and relieves it, freeing the sys tem of all bad effects of the cold. wtIisu Cheap dress goods; large assortment. Ksable & Shusteb, 35 Filth ave. TT Those who use Pittsburg beer are al ways pleased. Dealers. Or order direct. 'Phone 1186. WHOLESALE -:- H00SB, fl. Embroidery and White Goods Department direct importation from tbe best manufac turers of St Gall, in Swiss and Cambric Edg ings, Flouncings, Skirt Widths and Allovers, Hemstitched Edgings and Flouncings. Buyers will find these -goods attractive both in price and novelties of design. Full lines of New Laces and White Goods. UPHOLSTERY DE PARTMENT Best makes Window Shades in dado and plain or spring fixtures. Lace Cur tains, Portieres. Chenille Curtains, Poles and Brass Trimmings; Floor, Table and Stair Oil Cloths in bes: makes, lowest prices for quality. WASH DRESS FABRICa The largest variety from which to select ToilDuords, Chalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck ers, Imperial Suiting'. Heather & Renfrew Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr Ginghams. Wholesale Exclusively. jal3-r JAS. D. CALLERY President JOHN W. TAYLOR Cashier CITY SAVINGS BAKE, SIXTH AVE. AND SMITHFIELD ST. Capital and surplus. $130,000. Transacts a General Bankiug Business. jyS-TTS RYHPTOMS-Molst. ure; tnteitno ftchlna &ndtlngliiflcf modtat .nlght worse bj 1 Kcratcnins irni B lowed to continue Mtaa.M a tuinur lorn nna ITCHING PILES.rett becoming very nore. SWAYJiE'S UI.NT. JUE.NT top the Itchlne nnd bleeding, buhl ulceration, and In OMtMiHwrnntHih. tn. gnor. Swatub'i Oivtmext 1) tald bj druggliM, or muled ta ay Addreis on reccint of price, 50 eta. a Nx ; 3 boxes, $1.25. Ailrcis letter!. OK. S WAYNE & SON. Pbiladelphla, Fl. A PERFECT Blood Parifler. A purely Vegetable Compound that expels all bad hnmors from the system. Removes blotch es and pimples, aud makes pure, rich blood. ap2S UUOKERS FINANCIAL. VyHlTiSY fcST.rJPH!N30JN', 7 FOURTH AVENUE. Issue travelers' credits through Messrs. Drexel, .Morgan Co., New York. Passports procured. ap2S-l JOHN M. OAKLEY & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS. Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Petroleum. Private wire to New York and Chicago. 15 SIXTH ST, Plttsburc. JflSIPH HORN re 8 Js'W Presents in the most elegant form THE LAXATIVE ANO NUTRITIOUS JUICE OF THB FIGS OF CALIFORNIA, Combined with the medicinal virtues of plants known to be most beneficial to the human system, forming an agreeable and effective laxative to perma nently cure Habitual ponsti pation, and the many ills de pending on a weak or inactive condition of the KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS. It is the most excellent remedy known to CLEANSE THE SYSTEM EFFECTUALLY When one is Bilious or Constipated SO THAT PURE BLOOD, REFRESHING SLEEP. HEALTH and 8TRENCTH NATURALLY FOLLOW. Every one is using it and all are delighted with it. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR MANUFACTURED ONLY BY CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVIUE. KT NEW YORK. U. Y. ll9-77-TTS 3IEDICAL. DOCTOR WHITTIER S14 PENS AVENUE. PITTSBURG. PA. As old residents know and back files of Pitts burg papers prove, is the oldest established and most prominent physician tn the city, de voting special attention to all chronic diseases. spSsNOFEEUNTILCURED MCRfll IQand mental diseases, physical IlLn V UUO decay, nervous debility, Iackot energy, ambitiou and hope, impaired memory, disordered stent, self distrust, basbfulncss, dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, im poverished blood, failing powers, organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, un fitting the person for business, society and mar riage, permanently, safely and privately cured. BLOOD AND SKIN snnt blotches, falling hair, bones, pains, glandular, swellings, ulcerations of tongue, mouth, throat ulcers, old sores, are cured for life, and blood poisons thoroughly eradicated from the system. 1 1 R I M A R V kidney and bladder derange U M I IM rt M I j ments, weak bacK. gravel, catarrhal discharges, inflammation and otlier painful symptoms receive searching treatment; prompt relief and real cures. Dr. Whittier's life-long, extensive experience insures scientific and reliable treatment on common-sense principles. Consultation free. Patients at a dlstanco as carefully treated as it bere. Office hours 9 A. 31. to 8 F..3L Sunday, 10A.3I.tolP.Jt. only. DR. WH1TTIEB, 8H Penn avenue, Pittsburg, Px fe8-23-DSnwk DR. E. C. WEST'S Nerve and Brain Treatment Specific for hysteria, dizziness, tits, neuralgia, wakefulness, mental depression, softening of the brain, resulting In insanity and leading to misery, decay and death, premature old age, barrenness, loss of power in either sex, involun tary losses, and spermatorrhea caused by over exertion of tbe brain, self-abuse or over-indulgence. Each box contains one month's treat ment. SI a box, or six for $5, sent by mall pre-" paid. With each order for six boxes, will send purchaser cuarantce to refund money if tha treatment falls to cure. Guarantees issuedand genuine sold only by EiY.IL G. STUCKY, DBTJGGIST, No. 1701 Penn ave., cor. Seventeenth street, Ito. 2401 Penn ave., cor. Twenty-fourth street; AITD Cor. Wylio ave. and Fulton street fel-TTSSU PITTSBURG. PA. DOCTORS LAKE SPECIALISTS in all cases re. qniring scientific and confiden tial treatment! Dr. S. K. Lake, M. R. C. P. S. is tbe oldest and most experienced specialist ht the city. Consultation free and strictly confidential. Offlca hours 9 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. SI.; Sundays, z to 4 F. jr.Consult them personally, or write. DoctoeS Lake. 328 Penn ave., Pittsburg. Pa, Jel2-45-DWk Joo3s:'S Cotton. .ROOtJ COMPOUND Composed of Cotton Roct, Tansy and Fennvroval a recent discovery Dv an 'old physician. It rucccffvllu udccl mrmtMii Safe. Effectual. Price 31. bv maU. sealed. Ladies, ask your drusgist for Coot's Cotton Root Compound and take no substitute, or Inclose 2 stamps for sealed particulars. Ad dress POND LILY COMPANY, No. 3 Fishes Block, 131 Woodward ave., Detroit, Mich. " .O-Sold In Pittsburg, Pa bv Joseph Flea ing A Son. Diamond and Market sts. se26-23 CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL P9LLS RED CROSS DIAMOND BRAND. Safe and alwiji reliable. Ladle, i ass inu-OJS ior waxxana jtraa. I la rtd9 metallic boxes aemled with l 'blae ribbon. Take no other. -Ail plIU In pasteboard boxes wltn ploX wrap pert are danareronscounterfclta- Send 4e. (ftampa) fot- particulars, testimonials ana -iteiier ior AJiaiea," tn uuer, oj return mall. A'ame Paver. CUetoter Cbeial CoXadkoa SorUIaFa. OC5-7I-TT3 TOW E AKHVl E U Buffering from the ettecta of youthful errors, earlr decay, wasrina weakness, lost manhood, eta, I will send a valuable treatise (sealed) containing full particulars for home cure. FREE of charge. A. splendid medical work should be read by every man who Is nervout and debilitated. Address, Prof. FC.FOWII,ITIoodassCoiixi ocltMS-DSuwk WEAK WOfiVEiM! Save Yourselves. Nerve Beans,' the peat restorer, -will cure weak back, take away that gloorav, tired feeling1, that nervous eibausrion.pat roes ta jour cneei. ongnten your eyes, gire you new iiie, ambition. Pamnl jU Joseph Fleminz & Sou's, 4x3 Market St. rfnoo RESTORED. Rmedt Fair. A. victim of Tonthfnl imnrnripnrv- Imprudence, eausinsr Premature Decay. Nervooa Debility, Loet Manhood, to having tried in rain every known reme dy, has rtwoTered i nimple mntni of nelf-cnre, whicix he will tend (sealed) FKEE to htj fellow-sufferers. Addrecs, J. H. REEVES, P.O. Box 32W, New York CIxt. ocAy-53-TTasa WEAK ER n MEM MA", oeaiea iTeauso. Explaining nr now and perfect IIOilF. CURE. for Lost or Fallinir Manhood. .Ner- aU.Ml. rta.ll1w T..-1. . m ' . Development, rtemnture Decline. Functional Dl orders. Kidney and Bladder Diseases, etc Ali-css S3. lSTOH CO., 13 Pai Him, 8e Tort pSfW WILCOX'S COMPOUND tzmm. gSStmM C 11 i-Mil lj m 2ut I f?6 v- nr telsrrswlc 31 S'J'Ci.Oortain and effectual. wt- M Uuaru." Wilcox, srsiiric co- rkiua.ijku. -J HARE'S REMEDY 1 For men! Checks the worst cases In tore W days, and cures in five days. Price SI 00. at . M -Ln -, , J. FLEMINU'B DKUaSTOKE; f I dS ravS-Sl iaMB-TTSSu 112 Market street.'! A Tf 4 I S " II HB jA