TZ&rj -""VP -tFiTr "W? rr. "(J-!?1 THE PITTSBUEG DISPATCH. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1890. THE DREAD OF DEATH And the Ghosts of the Vanished Past That Hake One Wish He Might ' LIVE HIS EAKLI LIFE OYER AGAIN. The Service of Satan Kesponsible for Such Tormenting Rt jrrets. FIKDLG TIIE FOUNTAIN OP TOOTH KriCIAI. TELEGBAM TO TBI DIRFATCH.1 Brooklyn. March 0. The Eev. T. De. Witt Talniage, D. D., preached in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, this morning, to an overflowing congregation. After ex pounding appropriate passages of Scripture he announced his subject to be: "Would Von Like to Lire Your Life Over Again?" His text was Job ii. 4: "All that; a man hath will he give for his life." He said: That is untrue. The Lord did not say it, but Satan said it to the Lord, when the evil one wanted Job still more afflicted. The record is "So went Satau forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils." And Satan has been the author of all eruptive dis ease since then, and he hopes by poisoning the Wood to poison the so nl. But th e result of the diabolical experiment which left Job victor proved the falsity of the Satanic remark: "AH that a man hath will he en e for his life." Many captain who has stood on the bridge of the steamer till his passengers got olf and hedrownod; manj an engineer who has kept Ins hand on the throttle valve or his foot on the brake until the mon of the train was saved while he went down to death through the open draw-bridge; many a fireman who plunged into a blazini; house :o get a sleeping child out, sac rificing bis life in the at empt, and thousands of martyrs who submitted to fiery stake and knife of massacre and headsman's ax and guil lotine rather than surrender principle, prove that in many a case m text was not true, when it savs: "All that a man hath will he give for his lift" But Satan's falsehood was built on a truth. Life is verj prpciou and if we would not give tip all there are many things we would surren der rather than surrender it. We see how pre cious life is from the fact that we do every thing to prolonc ir. Hence all sanitary regula tions all study of hygiene, all fear ot draughts, all natc-proofs, all doctors, all medicines, all struggle in crisis of accident. KEGUET FOK TIIE PAST. An admiral of the British navy was court martialed for turning his ship around in time of dancer and so damaging the ship. It was proved against him. lint when his time came to be heard he said" "Gentlemen, I did turn the ship around and admit that it was dam aged, but do you want to know why I turned it? There was a man o crboard, and I wanted to save him, and I did savo him. ana I consider the life of one sailor worth all the vessels of the British navy." No wonder ho was vindi cated. Life is indeed very precious. Yea, there are those who deem life 60 precious they would like to repeat it, they would like to trv itanain. Thev would 'iko to ga back from 70 to 60, from CO to 50. from 50 to -40, from 40 to 30, from SO to 3). I purpose for very practical and usefnl purpocs, as will appear before I get through, to discuss tne question we havo all asked of others and others have acain and again asked of us, w ould yon like to live your life over again? The fact is that no intelligent and ncht fear ing man is satisfied with his past life. AVe have all made so many mistakes, stumbled into so man blunders, said so many things that ought not to have been said, and done so many things that ought not to have been done that we can sugcest at least 95 per cent of im provement. Kot, would it not be grand if tbo good Lord would say to vou: "Vou can go back and try it over again. IwiU by a word turn jour hair to brown or black or golden, and smooth ad the wrink'es out of your temple and cheek, and take the bend out of your shoul ders, and extirpate the stiffness from the joint and the rheumatic twinge from the foot, and 3 ou shall be 21 3 ears of ago and just what you were when on reached that point before." If the pro -osition were made, I think manv thou sands vould accept it. Thatfceling caused the ancient search for what was called THE FOCXTAIN Or YOUTH, the waters of which taken would turn the hair of the octegenanan into the curly locks of a boy, and however old a person who drank at that fountain he would be young again. The island was sal'! to belong to the group of the Bahamas but lay far; out in the ocean. The great Spanisu explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, fellow voyager with Columbu, I have no doubt felt that if he could discover that Fount ain of Yonth ho would do as much as Ins triend had done in discovering America. So he put out in 1512 from Port Rico ana cruised about among the Bahamas in searh of that fountain. I am glad he dia not find it. There 13 no such fountain. But if there were and its waters w ere bottled up at a thousand dollars a bot tle, the demand would be greater than the supply, and many a man who has come through a lite of uselessness, and perhaps sin, to old ago would be shaking up the potent liquid, and if be were directed to take only a teaspoonful after each meal would be so anxious to make sure work he would take a tablespoonful, and if directed to take a tablespoonful would take a glassful. But some of vou would have to go back further than to 21 years of age to make a fair start, lor there are many who manage to get all w rong before that period. Yea, in order to get a fair start some would have to go back to the father and mother and get them corrected; yea. to the grandfather and grandmother and have their life corrected, for some of you are suffer ing from bad hereditary influences which started a hundred jears ago Well, if your grand father lived his life over again and you Uvea your life over again, what a cluttered up place this world would be, a place filled with miserable attempts at repairs. I begin to think that it is better for each generation to have oulyone chance, and then for them to pass off and give another generation a chance. LESSOKS OF EXPERIENCE. Beside that, if we were permitted to live life over again, it would be a stale and stupid expe rience. The zest and spur and enthusiasm ot life come from the fact that we have never been along this road before, and everything is new, and we are alert for what may appear at the next turn of the road. Suppose j ou, a man of mid-life or old age, were, with jour present feelings and largo attairments, put back into the thirties or the twenties, or into the teens, what a nuisance you would be to others and w hat an unhapplness to yourself. Your cotem porarics w ould not want you and you would not them. Things that in your previous journey of life stirred your healthful ambition, or gave you pleasurable snrprise, or led jou into happy interrogation, would onH call forth from you a disgusted "Oh. pshaw!" "You w ould be blase at 30 and a misanthrope at 40 and un endurable at 50. The mrwt inanp nnrl ctnnM thing imaginable wonld be a second iournc of life. It is amusing to hear people saj "I would like to live mi lire over atrain, if I could take my present experience and knowledge of things back with me and begin under those improved auspices."' Win. what an uninteresting boy jou w ould be with j our present attainments in a child i mind. No one would want such a boy around the house A philosopher at 20, a scien tist at 15, an arch.-cologist at 10 and a domestic nuisance all the time. An oak crowded Into an acorn. A Kockv Mountain eagle thrust back into the egg shell from which it was hatched. Beside that, if you took life over again vou would have to take its deep sadnesses over again Would 3 ou want to try acain the griefs and be reavements through which you have cone? What a mcrcj that we shall never be called to sutler them again! Wo may have others bad enough, but those old ones never again. Would you wanttogothrongh the process of losin yonr father again or your mother again or your child again? if you were permitted to stop at the sixtieth milestone or the tirtieth milestone or the fortieth milestone and retrace yonr steps to the twentieth, vour experience would be something like mine one day last .November in naiy. ALONE IN TOMPEII. I walked through a great city with a triend and two guides, and there were in all the city only four persons and they were those of our own group. We went up and down the streets, wo enteied the houses the museums, the tem ples, the theaters. We examined the wonder ful pictures on the walls and the most exquis ite mosaic on the floor. In the streets were the deen worn ruts of wagous. but not a wagon in the city. On the front steps of the mansions the word "Welcome." in Latin, but no human being to greet us. The only bodies of any of the citizens that we saw were petrified and in the museum at the gates. Of the 35,(10 people who once lived in those homes and worshiped in those temples and clapped in those theaters, not one left! For JoOO jears that city of Pompeii had been buried before modern exploration scooped out or it the lava of Vesuvius. Well, he who should be per mitted to return on the pathway of tils earthly life and live it over again would find as lonely and sad a pilcrimage. It -would be an explora tion of the dead past. The old schoolhouse, the old church, the old home, the old play cround either gone or occupied by others, and for you more depressine than was our Pom peian visit in November. Beside that, would you want to risk the temptations of life over again? From the fact that you are here I conclnde that though in many respects yonr life may have been un fortunate and unconsecratcd vou have got on so far tolerably well, if nothing more than tolerable. As for mj self, though my life has been far from being as consecrated as I would like to have had it, I wonld not want to try it over again, lest next time I would do worse. W hy, just look at the temptations we have all passed through and just look at the multitudes who have gone completely under. Just CALL OVEK THE KOLL of your school mates and college mates, the clerks who wero with you in the same store or bank-, or the operatives in the same factory with just as good prospects as you. who have come to complete mishap. Some young man that told you he was going to bo a millionaire and own the fastest trotters on Westchester turnpike and retire by the time ho was 35 jears of age. you do not hear from for many years. and know nothing about him until some day he comes into your store and asks for 5 cents to get a mug of beer. You, the good mother of a household and all vour children rising up to call jou blessed, can remember when vou were quite jealous of the belle of the village who was so transcendeutly fair and popular. Bat while jou have these two honorable and queenly names of wife and mother, she became a poor waif of the street, and went into the blackness of darkness forever. Live .life over acain? Why, if roanj of those who are now respectable were permitted to experiment, the next journey would be demolition. Y'ou got through, as Job sa) s, by the skin of the teeth. Next time you might not get throuch at all. Satan wonld say: "I know him now better than I did before, and have for 50 years been studying his weaknesses, and 1 will weave a stronger web of circumstances to catch him next time." And Satan would con center his forces on this one man, and the last state of that man would be w orse than the first. My friends, our faces are in the right direction. Better go forward than backward, even if we bad the choice. The greatest disaster I can think of would be for you to return to boyhood in ISM. Oh. if life were a smooth Luzerne or Cajuga lake I would like to get into a jacbt and sail over it, not once, but twice iea,a thousand times, iiut Iiie Is an uncertain sea. and some of the ships crash on the icebergs ot cold indifference and somo take fire of evil passion and some lose their bearing and run into the skerries and some are never heard of. Surely on such a treacherous sea as that one voyage is enough. Beside all this, do you know if you could have your wish and live life over again it would put vou so much further from reunion with your friends in heaven ? If 5 ou are in the noon of life or the evening of life you aro not very far from the golden gate at which you are to meet your transported and emparadised loved ones. Y'ou arc now. let us say, 20 years or 10 v ears or 1 year off from celestial conjunction. Sow suppose you went back in your earthly life 30 years or 40 j ears or 50 years, w hat AN AWFUL POSTPONEMENT of the time of reunion ! It would be as though you were going to San Francisco to a great banquet, and jou got to Oakland, four or five miles this side oi it, and then came back to Uoboke.i or Harlem to get a better start; as though you were going to Englaud to be crowned and having come in sight of the mountains of Wales you put back to Sandy Hook in order to make a better voyage. The farther on you get in life, if a Christian, the nearer you aro to the re newal ot broken up companionship. No; the wheel of time turns in the right direction, and it is well it turns so fast. Three hundred and sixty-five revolutions in a year and forward, rather than 365 revolutions in a year and back ward. But hear ye! hear ye! while I tell jou how jou may practically live your life over again and bo all the better for it. Y'ou may put into the remalmnc tears of vour life all von have learned or wisdom in your past life. You may the column 10 years worth the preceding 40 or 50 years. When a man savs hew onld liko to live his life over again because ho would do so much better, and yet coes right on living as he has always lived, do you not see be stultifies himself? He proves that if he could go back be would do almost the same as he has done. If a man cit green apples some Wednesday in cholera time and is thrown into fearfnl cramps and says on Thursday: "I wish I had been more prudent in mj diet; ob, if I could live Wednesday over again," and then on Friday cats apples just as green, be proves that it would have been no advantage for him to live Wednesday over again. And If we, de ploring our past life and with the idea of im provement, lorg for an opportunity to try it over again, j et goon making the same mis takes and committing the same sins, we only demonstrate that the repetition of our exist ence would aSord no improvement. It was green apples before and it would be green apples over again. As soon as a ship captain strikes a rock in the lake or sea he reports it and a buoy is swur g over that reef and mariners henceforth stand off from that rock. And all our mistakes in the nast oucbt to be buors warning ns to keep in the right channel. There is no excuse for us if wo snlit on the same rock where we split before. Going along the side walk at night whero excavations are being made, we frequently seo a lantern on a frame work, and we turn aside, for that lantern says, keep out of this bole. And all along the path way of life lanterns are set as warnings, and by the time we come to midlife we oucbt to know where it is safe to walk and where it is unsafe. THE BEST ATOXE3IENT. Beside that, we have all these years been learning how to be useful, and in the next decade we ought to accomplish more for God and the church and the world than in any pre vious four decades. The best way to atone for past indolence or past transgression is by future assiduity. Y'ct jou otten find Christian men who wero not converted until they were 40 or 51), as old age comes on, saying: "Well, my work is about done and it is time for me to rest." They gave 40 years of their life to Satan aud the world, a little fragment of their life to God. and now they want to rest. Whether that belongs to comedy or tragedy I say not The man who gave one-half of his earthly exist ence to 1110 wonu ana 01 tue remaining two quarters one to Christian work and the other to rest, would not, I suppose, get a very bril liant reception in heaven. If there are any dried leaves in heaven they would be appropriate for his garland; or if there is any throne with broken steps it would be appropriate for bis coronation: or any harp with relaxed string it would be appropriate for his fingering. My brother.you give nine-tenths of your life to sin and Satan and then get con verted and then rest awhile In sanctified lazi ness and then go up to get your heavenly reward, and I warrant it will not take the cashier of the royal banking house a great while to count out to you all your dues. He will not ask yon whether jou will have it in bills of large denomination or small. 1 would like to put one sentence of my sermon in italics, and have it underscored, aud three exclama tion points at the end of tbo sentence, and that sentence is this: As we cannot lire our lives over again, the nearest wo can come to atone for the past is bv redoubled holiness and in dustry in the future! If this rail train of life has been detained and switched off and is far behind tbo time table, the engineer for the rest of the way must put on more pressure of steam and go a mile a minute in order to arrive at the right time and place under the approval of conductor and di rectors. As I supposed it would be, there are multi tudes of joung people listening to this sermon on whom this subject Has acted with the force of a galvanic batter. Without my sayinc a word to them they have soliloquized, saving: "As one cannot live his life over again, and I can make only one trio. I must make no mis takes; 1 nave out one chance and 1 must make the most of it,' ilyvoung friends. I am glad jou wade Luis application oi tue sermon your self. When a miuister toward the close of his sermon saj s: "Now a f ew words by way of ap plication," people begin to look around Jor their hats and get their arm through one sleeve of their overcoats and THE SEKMOKIC APPLICATION is a failure. 1 am glad jou have made your own application and that you are rcsolvod, like a Quaker of whom I read years ago, who, in substance, said: "I shall be along this path of life but once and so I must do all the kindness I can and all the good I can." My hearers, the mistakes of jouth can never be corrected. Time gone is gone forever. An opportunity passed the thousandth part of a second has by one leap reached the other side of a great eternty. In the autumn when the birds mi grate you look up and see the sky black with wings and the flocks stretching oat into many leagues 01 air, ana so to-aay 1 iook up and see two large wings in full sweep. They are the wings of the firing j ear. That is fol lowed by a flock of 305. and they are the flying days. Each of the Using days is fol lowed by 24, and they are the fi ins hours, and and each of these is followed by GO, and these are flying minutes. Where did this great flock start frcm? Eternity past. Where are they boundf Eternity to come. You might as well go a-gunninc for the auails that whistled last year in the meadows, or tbo robins that last year carolid in the sky as to try to fetch down and big one of the past opportunities of your life. Di not sav. "I will lounge now and mako it up afterward." Y'oung men and boys, you can't make it up. My observation is that those whoinjonth sowed wild oats, to the end of their short life sowed wild oats, and thac those who start sowing Genesee wheat alwavs sow Genesee wheat. And then the reaping of the harvests is so different. There Is grandfather now. He has lived to old age because his habits have been good. His eyesight fur this world has got somewhat dim. but his eyesight for heaven is radiant. His hearing is not so acute as it once was, and he must bend clear over to bear what his little grandchild says when she asks him what he has brought for her. Bat he easily catches the music raised from supernal spheres. Men passing in the streets take off tbeir hats in reverence, and women say: "What a good old man he is." Seventy or 80 years all for God and for making this world happy. Splenaid! Glorious! Magnificent! He will have hard work eetting Into heaven, because those whom he helped to get there will fill up ard crowd the gates to tell him how glad they are at his cominc until ho savs: "Please to stand back a little till I p18s through and cast my crown at the feet of Him, whom having not seen, I love," I do not know what yon call that. I call it the harvest of Genesee wheat. HEAriNG AND SOWING. Ont yonder is a man very old at 40 years of age, at a time when ho ought to be as buoyant as the morning. He got bad habits on him very early, and those habits have become worse. He is a man on fire, on fire with alco holism, on fire with all evil habits, out with the world and the world out with him. Down and falling deeper. His swollen bands in his threadbare pockets and his eyes fixed on the ground, he passes through the street, and the quick step of an innocent child or the strong step of a young man or the roll or a prosperous carriage maddens him, and he curtos society and he curses God. Fallen sick, with no re sources, ho is carried to the almshouse. A loatusome spectacle, he lies all day waiting for dissolution, or in the night rises on his cot aud nfrnts annarltlnns nl what Tin mirrht nave ueeu and of what be will be. He started in life with as good a prospect as any man on the American continent, but there he is a bloated carcass waiting for the shovels of public chanty to put him five feet undpr. He has only reaped what he has sowed. Harvest of wild oats ! "There is a way that secnieth right to a man, but the end thereof is death." Y'oung man, as jou cannot live life over again however you may long to do so, be sure to have your one life right. There is in this august assembly I wot not. for we are made up of all sections of this land and from many lands, some young man who has gone away from home aud perhaps under some little spite or evil persuasion of another, and his parents know not where he is. My sou, go home! Bo not go to Bet! Don't go to-night where you may be tempted to go. Go home! SWEET FOKGIVENESS. Your father will be glad to seo you, and your mother, I need not tell you how she feels. How I would like to make your parents a present of their wayward boy, repentant and in his right mind. I wonld like to write them a letter and you to carry the letter, saying: "By the bless ing of God on my sermon I introduce to you one whom yoa have never seen before, for he has become a new creature in Christ Jesus." My boy, go home and put your tired head on the bosom that nursed you so tenderly in your childhood years. A yonng Scotch man was in battle taken captivo by a band of Indians, and he learned their language and adopted their habits. Years passed on, but the old Indian chieftain never forgot that he had in his possession a younc man who did not belong to him. Well, one day this tribe of Indians came in sight of the Scotch regiments from whom this young man had been captured, and the old Indian chieftain said: "I lost my son in battle and I know how a father feels at the loss of a son. Do you think jour father is yet alive?" The jounzman said: "I am the only son of my father, aud I hope he is still alive." Then said the Indian chiettain: "Becausoof the loss of my son this world is a desert. You go free. Return to your country men. Revisit sour father, that he may rejoire when he sees the sun rise in the morninx and the trees blossom In the spring." Sol say to you, j ounj, man, captive of way wardness and sin: Your father is waiting for you. Your sisters are waiting for you. God is waiting for you. Go home! Go home. EEC0ED BREAKING The Order nt tho Clearing Home A Big Jump Dnrlna the Past Weett Sat- nrdny's Closing Quotations on All tho Excbnnges. There is no disputing a statement when it is backed up by solid fact. It has been claimed all along since the beginning of the j car that business was active and expanding at a rate never before known. Those who took only a surface view doubted this, or, at .least, wanted proof for it. This is being furnished every day, week and month by tho Clearing House and cannot be disputed. This authority shows that the bank clearings, last week were 3,000,000 in round numbers greater than those for the corresponding week last year. Returns for January and February showed large gains over the same months of 1SS9. As clearings are based on aotualbusiness, and are made up the same way from year to year, they are of uniform value as a gauge of nrosDeritv. When, therefore, they disclose the fact that ittsburg is smashing all former records there is no room for doubt. The report for the day and week follows: Saturday's exchanges.. ......... Saturday's talancis Week's excninpes Previous week's exchanges.... Exchanges weeK of 1SS9 Balances week of 1&99 ,.t 2,287,453 64 447,135 2J . 14,')m,4o9 88 . 15.S47.501 89 . 11.841,539 52 . 2,331,331 92 The money market ruled easy and quiet, with a moderate inquiry for discounts and a supply sufficient for all business purposes. Rates were quoted at C7 per cent. Currency was scarce. KEITBER WIND 10R Till. Stock Brokers Still on tbo Fence More Gain Than Loc. Stock brokers wero on their good behavior during the short session of the exchange Sat urday. They were neither noisy nor voracious, but made tbeir bids in a listless sort of way as it they didn't care whether school kept or not. They wero evidently waitiug for the unex pected to happen, but it didn't. There were bids on 71 stocks, covering pretty much the entire list, with total sates of only 40 shares. A strong market under such circumstances is not a little surpf isinc hut it not only held its own, bnt scored a few advances. The natural gassers were steady, with Wheeling a shade higher. Street rail ways wero stronger, and so were Pipeage, Electric and Switch and Signal. Luster was the weakest spot. Bank shares were strong and in demand, Farmers' Beposit National was bid up to 500. This is an advance of 50 since the first of the year. Nothing transpired during the week to affect values for the worse. The excellent business and good financial condition of the Westing house Electric Company, as set forth in their statement to stockholders, not only sustained the stock, but caused a fractional advance. Allegheny Heating Company closca with a net loss of S2 a share, but with a promise of full recovery. Sales were 10 shares of Central Traction at 30. 10 Pleasant Valley at 25, and 20 at 24. Kea Bro. Co. bought 1,000 shares Pleasant "Valley 5s at 103 and interest, Henry M. Long sold 35 shares Electric at 4G, and 20 shares Airbrake at 1W C. L. McCutcheon sold 60 shares Philadelphia Gas at 31. E. P. Long sold 100 shares Pleasant Valley at 25, and 75 shares electric at 46. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. The Condition of Business at the Eoat Liberty Stock Ynrds. OFFICE OF PlTTSBnitO DISPATCH,"! Satohday. March 8, 1890. f Cattle Receipts. 1,302 head: shipments, 629 head: market nothing doing; all through consignments; 1 car cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hoas Receipts. 4,300 head: shipment','2,350 head; market firm; medium and selected, 4-404 45; common to best Yorkers, $1 200 4 S3; pics, $4 004 10; 6 cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 1,400 head; shipments, 400 head; market steady at unchanged prices. By Telceraph. Chicago Cattle Receipts. 3,500 head: ship, ments, 3,100 bead; market steady; steers. 3 25 4 75; stockcrs and feeders, ?2 403 50; cows, bulls and mixed, SI 303 30; Texas cornfed steers. S3 003 60. Hog Receipts, 14.000 head; shipments, none: market a shade higher; mixed. S3 854 05; heavy and lieht, S3 S5l 05; skips. (3 20?3 80. Sheep Receipts 2.0U0 head; shipments, none: market steadi; native', S3 50 6 00: Western cornfed, SI 805 65; Texans, S3 5065 30: lambs, S5 006 25. St. Louis Cattle Receipts, 2.000 bead; ship ments, 1.C00 head; market steady; good to fancy native steers, S4 204 90; fair to good do, S3 304 40; Blockers and feeders. 12 2503 45: ranie steers, S2 203 GO. Hogs Receipts. 2,000 head; shipments. 2,600 head; market stronger; iair to cnoice ueavy, to uo w; pacKinc graaes, S3 603 90: light, fair to best, S3 85j 95. Sheep Receipts, 400 beadj'Ebipments, 100 head; mar ket firm: fair to choice. S4 005 60. Kansas Cm Cattle Receipts. 2,100 head; ruii'uii:iik, j,vw uuAui maiit;i, weaK; steers, $3 354 75: cows. S2 O03 00: stockers and lecders. $2 bu3 45. Hogs Receipts. 4,200 head: shipments, 2,b00 head: market 5c hisher; all grades. S2 b7J$l 80: bulk", S3 723 80. Sheep Receipts. fcOU head; shipments, 200 head: market stead ; good to choice lambs and mut tons, S3 50ffi5 40; stockers and feeders. S5 00 3 25. Ijjdiakapolis Cattle Receipts, light; mar ket steady; shipper". $2 251 60; butchers. SI 00 3 50; bulls. SI 501 00. Hogs Receipts, 3,450 head: market active; choice heary and me dium, S4 004 10; mixed, S3 904 05; light, S3 95 i 10. Sheep Receipts light; market firm; lambs. S3 505 60; sheen, S2 505 00. BUFFALO-Cattle active and firm; receipts 2S4 loads through and 4 sale. Sheep and lambs slow, but not quotably lower; receipts, 13 loads through, 23 sale. Hogs active and higher; re ceipts, 49 loads through, 12 sale: mediums and heavy, S4 304 6C; mixed and Yorkers, (4 30 4 35. . .--,-, J FLOUK AND COFFEE. A Miller's Views Regarding the Wheat and Flonr Situation. KO EXPORT OR SOUTHERN DEMAND. The Present Upward Movement of Coffees Promises to Continue. AIDES REDUCED HARNESS ACT1TE OFFICE OPPlTTSBTJBO DISPATCH, 1 Saturday. March 8. 1890. J A representative of one of our leading manufacturers of flour, thus puts the situa tion oi his industry: "In a long experience I have not know a time when low grade flours rere such a drag as they have been the past few months. We have generally found a market for this class of flour in the South and Europe. This season there is scarcely any demand from these sources. The export demand has been cut off by the large supplies in Eastern Europe; larger than tho highest estimates last fall. Through the South the corn crop was unusually large last season, and the colored people have evi dently not indulged as much in flour as in former seasons. Even foundry flour is in light demand, and sells lower than I havo ever known. This is the lowest grade, and is used in molding, being mixed with the sand to make a smooth casting. Wheat has been relatively higher than flour all this season. It has been anything but a profitable season for millers. We get very low prices for the offal. Bran has been lower than hay for the past six months, a thing unknown before. With the low price of bran and middlings it pays to feed this in preference to hay. The latter is only used for tne neeutui roughness In feeding stock. "Altogether the wheat and floursituation has been different from anj thing in my experience this season. Within a few days there has been a stiffening in prices of wheat, and flour of tho high grades is firmer, but low grades give no signs of improvement," Prospect lor Higher Coffer. It will be seen by reference to domestic mar ket column that package coffee has at last yielded to the pressure and moved upward. The advance of c is in the view of onr leading jobbers far less than the situation warrants. Green coffees have risen fully lc per pound the past week, and before tho rise packages were relatively too low. Said a leading jobber: "There has not been a time for many vears when the stocks of coffee in tho hands of New York merchants were as lowastbeyare at this time. In addition to this all advices from Brazil point to a short rrop the coming season. It is to my mind about as cer tain as anything future can bo that we are to have higher priced coffee, and the c rise this week is only the beginning of the upward movement," Hnrness Leather nnd Illdes. The week past shows improvement in demand for harness leather. February's trade was not up to expectations, and, in fact, fell below tne corresponding month of last year. Since tho 1st of March there has been a manifest im provement. Orders are coming in more freely, and Allegheny tanners report that there is no longer any accumulation of stock. Goods are going out about as fast as produced, and from now on there is little doubt that markets will absorb the entiro output. The weakness of heavy steer hides for a few weeks past has culminated in a drop of c. The decline has been in the air for a month past, and is at last recognized by the tanners and hide dealers of this city and Allegheny, who have agreed on the folio-vine scale of prices to go Into effect Monday, March 10: Green steer hides, trimmed, 75 pounds and up, per pound Green steer hides, trimmed, 60 to 75 6K 4 pounds. Der pound Grccu steer hides, trimmed, under 60 pounds, per pound Orien cow hides, trimmed, all weights, per pound Green bull bides, trimmed, all weights, per pound 3K K0 SQUEEZE. Money Unexpectedly Ensy In Wall Street shares Improve Early, bat Weaken Later Lowest Prices Were Recorded pi tbe Finish. New York, March 8. The stock market was fairly active to-day, but developed a rcactionary tendency under the effects of tbe general ex pectation of abad bank statement. Money, how ever, is much easier in all tbe financial centers, and the money received by the banks during the last few days of thjs week must have the effect of making next week's statement of a more favorable complexion. Tho surplus re serve was nearly wiped out, but the statement is undoubtedly made upon rising averages, and as there has been no stringency in money even before the large purchases of bonds, there is no fear of a squeeze on the part of tbe holders of stocks. o Railroad earnings continue to show the same proportion of increase as usual. Tbe impetus from last evening's rise was still felt this morn ing, and the foreigners were liberal buyers of their specialties, which made the first prices from ii to per cent better than last night's figures. Further improvement was made all over the list, notwithstanding the fact that sugar soon developed weakness again and ran off nearly 1 per cent. Tne regular list soon fol lowed, and the early gains were In almost every case wiped out. The final losses, however, are generally insignificant. The roiiowinir table shows tne prices or actlva' aiuc&Boir me .ew tor siock ixcnange yester day. Corrected dally ror 'IKS Dispatch by Wiiitnet &STKruKh'EON, oldest l'lUiburr mem bers of .hew Yore Stock lixcnange. e7 Fourth ave nue: Clos ing Dirt. 27H 33 is 7354 S3 119 3214 24 1WK 67 114i Open Am. Cotton Oil Trust.. 27 Atcn.. Top.&s. F 337a Canadian faclflc Canada southern .... 51 Central orewJnriey Central 1'aclflt Cbesaoeake tc Ohio ... 21 C Bur. & OuIi.ct 1044f C, Mil. 2 St. faul.... S7) c, J111. & st. r.. pi.. ..115 C, Kocll. 1' Slti c, st. l. & t'm j u. st. Lu a i'ltts. nr. c. at. P...M. jtu Csortncstern lCJJf Ulrt- esL 27 ZZli 54" low est. mi 24 : lis 91 24 104K 67 115 aiX H1J6 17 51 31 1095S 142 eav 384 44V, 135JS 149 15 4t4 m 71 23 114 17lf 6i 105 84 "4 9J 73 toil 61 KH fc"4 37 44 Hli 1SS COW SOW lW-i 70X .ix iionu western, pi. C, C V. A- I. 70JI C. C, C & I., pr. Col. Coal & Iron... Oei.. t,. 4 Del. Hudson . 4sSb 45 1JC-4 4i 1S55S Denver & ltlo li Denver & lilo J. pf. F.T.. Va. Oa .... K.T.. Va. tUa. 1st pf. .... E. I-.. Va. Ua. 2d pr. .... Illinois central Late din A Western Lake Erie A West. nr.. 63Vf La to snore AM. S 105'i LoulavlIle.tMisnvllle. Mh Mlehliran central G3W I04lo sin 305'J 85i Mo.. Kan. Texas Missouri iaclnc.... ler VorK Central. . 73 74 73 I. v.. L. K. & W H. Y..L. E. JtW 2.TVC 01 5i 25 J6& . pr.. Gin A. 1.. U. .tSt. L lO'fc N. r.. c & St. I,, nr. N.Y.. l, sst.L. 2d nr .... H. Y&.N. E 45 . r.. o. W 17H .Noriou a Western Norfolk Western. pr. .. . Northern Facia 3 -Nortnern faclttc prer. "JV ObioA Mississippi..... "J0M Oregon improvement. 4V Oregon Transcon 3C74 Pacific ilall 57M 45 17K 44 ,' 17H 30'$ 71W MM 4i? 17J Z1X S0? s4 4.) 37)4 20 ij lii" 73H 20' 451i sum tin 18 3SM Ml 20 JJ 7S 112 n 37 63 20 tax 12 Xii si's 70 66M 1734 44 reo. uec. a rcvans Pnlladet. A ltradln. Pullman I'altce Car... Klchinona X. XV. f. r.. 87i as 21" 21" Klchtnona.t w.l'.l.pr ... St. 1'.. Minn, a Man.. 11 112 st. Li, & san ran. St. L. a San rran nr.. St. i. & ban r. 1st ot. . Texas l'aclhc Union Pacific U abash Wabash prererred Western Union Whtieline L. , siifrar Trust National Lead Trust. Chicago Uss Trust.... SJ'i r.a 37K 20f b4H MS 70 C7H w4 20 CI, 825 70 6S'i IS'4 U4 MX iili S2 7l eos IS Closing Bond Qnolnllons. U.S. s,rec 12'(M.K. &T. Gen.ss 61 u. a. 4S. coup ich U. S. 4s,rejr 103 '4 V. S. 4s. coup low Mutu-il Union 6s.. ..102 N. J. C. Int. Cert...tll Northern Pac lsts..lli Northern Pac. 2ds..U3 North w't'n consols. 142 Northw'n deben's..HOMt paciucesoi yo jiu Loulslanastampedls 96J4 Missouri 4S 1IJ Tenn. new set. 6s... 1'0 'lenn. new set. ts....I04 Oregon A Trans. 6s.lu5 St. L. A I M. (Sen. S3 91 St. l,. S. P. Gen.M. 110 St. Paul consols ....123 St. 11. ChlAPe.lsls.116 Tenn. newsct.3j.. 731$ Canada So. 2ds 97M Con. Pacificists llSPi Den. & IC u., 1SU...1IV Den. ill. tt. 78X D.&B.G.Weat,l3t3. Erie, Ms 101 M.K. ST. Gen. Cs.. 75 TX., Pc.L. U.Tr Ks. Sl4 rx.,Pc.im.Tr.l!ctf 39 Union Pac. lsts U3H West Boore 10?X Philadelphia Mocks. Closing onotatlons of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney A Stephenson, broken. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members flew XorK stock Ex change. .Bid. Asked. Pennsylvania Banroad, .. mi UH 19 1-16 8V 53, ivi Boston Stocks. Atch.&Toc 33V1 HlouezatirCo Atlantic I2"4 Boston & Mont Vi ( nlumet a Uecl....2oO ousiuii Ainany...ir4 jjusiun. as jiaine zia C. Jl. &U UHlj Chin, svn. & Clere. ah Catalpa 19 Mawrmi, it 151 Eastern K. K. 6s ....124 Flint I'ereM...... 25 Flint JtferoM. ofd. S5 1... K. & it. h. 7S....I0O Mass. Central 14 Alex. Central com... 17J6 . If. AewKnir... H N. i.jtAewEns; 75.126 .& LakeCh. com. 7 Old Colonv 178 Kntlamt oreferred.. 70 wu.Oentrai.com... OS Wis. Central pr.... W rraukiia.. ........... ; Huron. 3M KcvrsarRe 'H Osceola 26 Pewrable 8 Santa re copper 97J$ I'ainaracK 153 Annlston Land Co.. 55 Boston Land cs Sin Diego 17 West Enu I.ana co. zva toll 'lelpnnone... ,.221 l.amsnn btorcs 2IV Water rower o;a Fen I ores of Sniurdnj'n Oil Market. Corrected daily by John M. OaKiey & Co., 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange. Opened 95HI.owest 94K Highest W( I Closed HH Barren. Average charters 13,359 Averajje shipments 64.332 Averaireruns 56,769 Refined. New Yorlr. 7.4ic. KeflnecJ, London. 511-I6d. , Keflned, Antwerp, 17f. Kenned, Liverpool, 8.1. Kenned, Bremen. S.Som. A. B, McGrew quotes: Puts, 93K93Kc: calls. S5-JJ96c MARKETS BY WISE. , The YVhcnt Pit Bndiy Hnndicnpped by Con- 'illciinff Crop Reporis Nearly Evcryililuji Dull nnd on n Lower Level. Chicago A moderate business was transacted in wheat tc-day, although at times the market ruled very quiet; the feeling was rather weak and prices averaged slightly lower than yesterday. There was no special demand and the offerings were fair, and the market acted as though somebody nas unload ing some wheat anj trjingto sustain the mar ket as much as possible at the same time. The market opened the same as yesterdav's closing, eased off Kc more, then rallied v. declined c. held steadv and closed about lie lower than yesterday. Reports regarding the growing crop aro conflicting. Kentucky reports winter killings; Tennessee reports con siderable damage, aud from different sections, though many operators look upon these reports with suspicion. A moderate business was done in corn, the tone of the market being easier. The weaker feeling was attributed mainly Co the anticipated larger receipts. The market opened at jester day's close, was steady for a time, but tho un dertone was weak, and when the receipts for Monday came in sold off X'c, changed some and closed a shade lower than yesterday. Oats were active, but weaker and prices He clincd4c and the market closed tame at al most inside figures of the day and veek. There was alittle raoro interest manifested in the market for mess pork and the feeling was stronger. Prices ruled 57c nigher early in the day, but settled back againdunngthelatter part ot the session and closed quiet. A fairly active trade was reported m lard and a firmer feeling was manifested. Ptices were advanced 25cfand the appreciation was fairly well supported. 1 here was a fair business transaction in ribs and the market exhibited considerable strength. Prices were advanced 57Kc. the market clos ing steady at medium figures. The leading futures ranged as follows: Wheat Mo. 2. March. 77K77M77V 77Kc: May. 787SK7!7SKc; Jul, 70Q 767GQ76c. Corn No. 2, March, 2727Kc; May. 29 2S2)K20Kc; July. S0fc3O4i30J$30c: Oats No. 2. .March, 20e; May. 2lfi21j& 2121c: June. 20K620K2020c. MESS PORK, per bbU March. 8U 82V9 82; May. 810 05 10 12010 0510 07U; June, S10 17K01O 17K10 ioia ijard, ser luu ns. iiarcn. So ao4$o uog 5 92iim i)M: May. June. SO 07&(a0 07KS6 0528 07 tU UUVVU VUUUU WltU V47b, Short Ribs, per 100 Bs. March, S4 87K m 87X; May. S4 87K614 97K1 87K4 92U; June. S4 9705 001 97K4 974- Cash qnotations were as follows: Flonr dnll and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat. 77Ji78c; No. 3 spring wheat, 79c; No. 2 red. 77i77Kc No. 2 corn. 7c. No. 2 oats, 20c. No. 2 rye. 42c No. 2 barley, nominal. No, 1 flax seed, 81 48. Prime timothy seed. SI 17. Mess pork, per bbl. $9 859 90. Lard, per 100 lbs. $5 9oo 97K. Short ribs sides (loose), S4 85(9 4 90; dry salted shoulders (boxed), $1 204 25; short clear sides (boxed). 85 20tg5 25. .Sugars unchanged. Receipts Flour, 12,000 barrels: wheat. 13,000 bushels: corn.x24S.000 bushels; oatR. 119,000 bushels; rye, 8,000 bushels: barley. 24.000 bushels. Shipments Flour. 7,000 barrels; wheat, 15,000 bushels: corn, 23o,000 bushels; oats, 154,000 bushels; rye, 3,000 bushels; barley, 3'J.OOO bushels. On the Produce Kxchange to-day the butter market was steady and unchanged. Eggs, 13c. New Yoke Flour moderatoly active and steadv. Cornmeal steady; yellow Western, S2 252 55. Wheat Spot steadier; options dull and unchanged to c up and weak. Rye firm. Barley quiet; Western, 4652c: Canada, 57 70c. Barley malt quiet: Canada, 7286Jc Corn Spot steady and moderately active; options dull and firm. Oats Spot steady and moderately active; options dull and firm. Hay quiet and easy; shipping, 3540c; eood to choice, 6085c. Hops quiet and weak. Coffee Options opened steady, 5 pomt up to 5 points down: closed steady, unchanged to 10 points up; sales, 36.250 bags, including March, 17.o5c:Apnl. 17.2517.30c; Mav, 17.1017.20c; June. 17.00 17.10c; Julj, 16.9517.03c: August, 16 90017 00c; September, 16 8516 95c: October, ia8'16.90c; November, 16.75c; December, 16.60I6 70c; Jan uary, 16.00c: spot Rio higher ana quiet: fair cargoes, 20Kc; No. 7 flat bean, 18JJ18c ougar rvaw 11 rm ana qniet;iair renning, 0 6 loc; centrifugals 06 test, 51M0c; refined active and firm: standard A, 6 5-16c: granu lated. 6 7-16c Molasses Foreign firm; 50 test. 23c; New Orleans firm, common to fancy, 3I45e. Rice fairlv active and firm; do mestic, 46c: Japan, 4J45c Cottonseed oil firm: crude, 27K2bc: yellow, 33U34c- Tal low 6teady; city (S'i for packages), 4 o-16c Rosin steady; strained, common to good, SI 1001 15. Turpentine steady at 42c. Eggs hrm; West ern, 1616c; receipts 4,307 packaces. PorK firm; uiess, old, S10 0010 5J; do, new, S10 75 II 25; extra prime, 89 2509 75. Cut meats in active: pickled bellies, 45Jic; pickled shoul ders, 4c; pickled hams. 8fe9c; middles dull, short clear, S5 35. Lard stronger aud quiet: cash is scarce; unusually large exports taking place; Western steam. 86 35; sales, 2,250 tierces; March, 86 32; April, S6 32: May. 6 356 40. clos ing at 8635: June, 86 41; Julr. $6 41), closing at 86 45; October, 83 60 asked. Butter steady and tairly active; Western dairy, 518c: do cream, ery, 1526c; do hold at 815c; do factorv, 6j 18c Cheese strong and in good demand; West ern lV'fflUfcC. Philadelphia Flour quiet, but firm. Wheat quiet; fair to eood milling wheat, 75 82c: prime to fancy, 8591c; No. 2 red, March. SCajgaic: April, S334$S4c: May, SlKSSoJc; June, S4S5Kc. Corn .Market a shade firmer underligbt offerings and fair inquiry for export; carlots for local trade quiet but steady; No. 4 mixed in grain depot, 30c: No. 3 jellow in do. 35c: No. 2 hich mixed in crain depot. 37c: No. 2 mixed. March. 3536c; .April, 3536c; May. 3636lic; June, 36Ktt365a Oats Car lots weaker: No. 3 white. 29c; No. 2 white. 30c: do, choice, 30Xc; futures quiet but steady: No. 2 hite. March, 2S329Kc; April. 28U29c; May, 232S3i"c; June. 28X29c Butter fairly active and steady; Pennsylvania creamery, extra, 2627c; do prints, extra, 3134 Eggs steady; Pennsylvania firsts. 15c. Minneapolis Wheat Receipts of wheat for the day were 213 cars; shipments 23 car. 'Ihe demand for spot wheat was unusually light, with millers and shippers all holding off. It was late In the day before it took hold much to buy, and then the purchases were slow and usually after more or less concessions had been made by holders. Altogether it was the hard est dav in wheat that lias been experienced in considerable time. Closing qnoutions: No. 1 hard, March, 77c; April, 77c: May, TiVc; on track, 78Xc: No. 1 Northern, Marqb. 7Cc; April 70c; Mav."77c: on track, 77c; No. 2 Northern! March. 74c; April, 74c: May, 75kfc; on track. 74fOT5Xc bT. Louis Flour quiet and unchanged, Corn quiet and easy; No. 2 mixed, cash, 2ic; March clused at 25c aked: May, 25c bid: July, 27Jc; September. 27c. Oats aull; No. 2, cash, 20c bid: May, 204.S)c asked. Rve un changed. Barley slow: salei of Iowa at 3537c Flaxseed higher, SI 41. Provisions strone at essentially unchanged fleures with the excep tion of pork, which was 1012c higher. Milwaukee Flour unchanged. Wheat steady: No. 2 spring, on track, cash, 7273c; May, 72c; No. 1 Northern, 81c. Corn dull; No. 1, on track, 27Kc Oats easier; No. 2 white, on track. 22J23c Rj e lower; No. 1. in store. 43?43JJc. Barley quiet; No. 2, in store, c Pmvisions quiet. Lard, S5 95. Cheese stead: Cheddars, 99c Baltimore Provisions firm and unchanged. Butter activo for fresh. Eggs strong at 14Jjc , Whisky Mnrltct. CniCAGO-An active demand exists for finished goods and tbe price rules firm aj. SI 02. PlTTSBUKG BEEP Co., wholesale agents for Swilt's Chicago dressed beet, sold lor week ending Mch. 8, 163 carcasses of beel. Average weight per carcass, 640 pounds; average price per pound, 6.21 els. Armour & Co., of this city, report the following kales of dressed-beef for the week ending March 8, 1890: 178 carcasses, average weight 697 pounds, average price $5 84. Iteaainc 19 Buffalo, Pittsburg Western &X Lehleh Valley 52 l.eniirh .Navigation Northern i'actiie 301 Northern Pacific preierred 73k DOMESTIC MARKETS. The First New Cabbage From the South Arrives Opportunely. POULTRY AND EGGS VERY FIBM. Coffee at Last Moves Upward and" Promises to Go Higher. TOSB OP CEKEAL JlAEKEf STRONGER Office of Pittsburg Dispatch, Satureay, March b, 1890. J Conntry Produce Jobbing Prices New cabbage from the South has put in an appearance within a day or two, and its arrival proves very timely, as markets hero have been bare in this line of late. Poultry is scarce and firm, with an upward tendency. Choice, new eggs readily bring out sido quotations, and in single cases lc per dozen more is paid. There is an improved demand for cheese. Buyers begin to take hold, as it is now rednced to a certainty that any changes will be toward a higher level. Choice butter is firm at quotations, but prices are unchanged. Markets aro a shade easier at Elgin. BCTTER-Creamery, Elgin, 303Ic; Ohio do, 27!c: fresh dairy packed, 2223c; country roll. 19:0c Beaxs Navy hand-picked beans, 82 002 25; medium. SI 752 00. BEtbWAX 2o28c ?) lb for choice; low grade, 1820c Cider Sand refined, $7 50; common, 84 50 5 00; crab cider. S8 008 60 f) barrel; cider vinegar, lt)12o qallon. Cheese Ohio. HQlIKc; New York. HKe; Limbnrger. 9KHc; domestic Sweitzer. lJ 14Kc; imported Sweitzer, 23C J.ogs 16c straight 33 dozen forstrictly fresh. Fruits Apples, fancy, 83 754 25 $ barrel; cranberries, 84 004 25 a crate; otrawberries, 35!0cabnx. Feathers Extra live geese, 5060c; No. 1, do, 4045c: mixed lots, 30S35c il ft. Maple branr-New. 81 00I 25 a can. Poultry Live chickens, bOfS5c a pair: dressed, 1213c a pound; ducks, 75tSl V nair; live turkeys, 1314c 1 It; dressed turkeys, 16 11c v a. Seeds Clover, choice, 62 lbs to buhel, 84 00 F bushel; clover, large Enelish, 62 &s, 84 35 60; clover, Alsike, 88 00; clover, white, $9 00; timothy, choice. 45 As, SI 601 70; blue grass, extra clean, 14 Bs, SI 251 30; bine grass, fancy, 14 lis, SI 30: orchard gras , 14 lbs, SI 40; red top, 14 B, SI 00; millet. 50 i&s, 81 00: Hungarian grass 50 As. 81 00; lawn grass mixture 01 nne grasses, $2 50 fl bushel of 11 lis. Tallow Country. 3c: city rendered, 4c Tropical Fruits Lemons, common, S3 00 3 50, fancy, S4 004 50; Kionila oranges, S3 50 3 75. Valencia, S3 75 1 00 a case. Alessina. S2 00 2 25 a box; bananas. SI 7502 00 firsts, SI 001 25 "ood seconds, bunch: cocoanuts. SI 0004 50 V hundred; Acs. 6Xc i? ft; dates. 5KebKc fl ft; laver tigs 12K115Mc Vfgetatjlls Potatoes, from store, 55S60c: on track, 4550c; new Southern cabbage. 83 75 ono barrel crate: Dutch cabbage, $17 00 1 hun dred: celery. 40c p dozen; Jersey sweet pota toes, SI 254 50 a barrel: turnips, SI 001 25 a barrel; onions, SI 254 50 a barrel, 81 501 75 ?I bushel: Bermuda onions, S3 75 bushel crate; parsnips. SI 752 00 59 barrel. Buckwheat Flour SI 752 00. Groceries. The long-looked for rise in coffee has come, as our quotations below will disclose. TheXc advance on packages is regarded by our job bers as too small, considering the price of green coffee. Another jump is due. as stocks are very low, lower than for years, and the out look for the cominc crop is not at all bright. Sugars lose nothing of their firmness and prospects are good for further advances In the near future. Green Coffee Fancv Rio. 2125c; choice Rio. 2223c: prime Rio 22c; low trade Rio, zuaic: old unvernmeni Java. 23$sc; niara caibo, 2527c: Mocha, 29K31Kc: Santos 21 25Kc; Caracas 24826c: La Gnayra. 25264c. Roasted (in papers) standard brands, 25c; high grades 2630Kc; old Govern ment Java, bulk, 3331c; Maracaibo, 2S29c: Santos. 2630c: peaberry. 30c: choice Rio, 26c; prime Rio, 24Kc; good Rio, 23c; ordinary 21 22Kc Spicks (whole) Cloves, 1718e: allspice 10c; cassia 8c: pepper, 17c: nutmeg, 7080c Petrolfui (jobbers' prices) 110 test, Kc; Ohio, 120 8Kc: headlieht, 150 8Jic; water white, 10Kc: clobe. 1414c: elaine, 14c; car nadine, HKc; royaline, 14c; globe red oil, 11 11c: purity, 14c Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 4445o $1 callon; summer. 4013c. Lard oil. 6065c Syrup Corn syrup, 2629c; choice ncar syrup. 364533c; pfimo sugar syrnp, 3033c; strictly prime, MiCJoe: new maple syrup, an N. O. Molasses Fancv. new crop. 4850c; choice. 47c; medium. 3S43e; mixed, 4042c Soda Bi-carb in kess. 3&3c; bi-carb in H' c; bi-carb, assorted packages. 66c; sal-soda in kezs, lc; do granulated, 2c Candles Star, full weight, 8Kc; stearine, $1 set. 8Kc; parafflne, ll12c. Rice Head. Carolina, bj7c: choice, 6J4 6J4C; prime, 5J6c: Louisiana, 56c. Starch Fearl, 2Jc; cornstarch, o6c; gloss starch, 4J7c. Forfion Fruits Layer raisins S2 65: Lon don laters, 82 7o: California London layers, 82 75: Muscatels S2 40: California Muscatels. S2 25; Valoncia, TJc: Ondara Valencia. S 9c; sultana, lie; currants, 55Jc: Turkey prunes, 55Ve; French prunes, 710c; Salon lca prunes in 2-ft packages 8Kc; cocoanuts. 1 100. 86; almonds, Lan , fl ft20e; do Ivica. 17c; do, shelled, 40c: walnuts, nan., 1415c; Sicily filberts. 12c; Smyrna figs, 1213c: new dates, 6 6c; Brazil nuts, lie; pecans llI5c: citron, fl ft, 1819c; lemon peel, 18c f? ft; orange peel, 17c. Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft. Cc; ap ples, evaporated, 9c: apricots, California, evap- oriTeu, loQiioc; peacnes, evaporaten. pared, 2426c; peaches. California, evaporated, on pared, 18019c: cherries, pitted. 1313c; cher ries, unpitted. 56c: raspberries, evaporated, 26tfS27c; blackDerries, 77Kc; huckleberries, 10012c Sugars Cubes, 7c; powdered, 7c: granu lated, 6Jc; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A. 6c; sort white, 6K6c: jellow, choice, h 6c; yellow, good, 54r.oc; yellow, fair, 6 53ic; vellow, dark. 5K5Jc Pickles Medium, bids (1,200). $7 00; me dium, half bbls (600), 84 00. Salt No. 1. V bbl.SSc: No. lex. V bbl. 81 00; dairy, fl bbl. SI 20; coarso crystal, ft bhl, $1 20; Higgins' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, 82 SO: Higgins' Eureka. 16 14 ft packets, S3 00. Canned Good? Standard peaches $2 WKg 225;2ds 8165180: extra peaches. 82 400260; pie peaches. 95c: finest corn. 81 001 50: Hid Co. corn, G085c: red cherries. 8085c: Lima beans, SI 20: soaked do, SOr; string do, 6065c; mar rowfat peas, SI Ml 15: soaked peas, 7O0S"c, pineapples. 81300140: Bahama do. 82 75; damson plums 95c; grecngagps. 81 25; egg plums m uu; uaiuornia peirs. rz iu;ao green gaces SI 85: do egg plums. $1 85; extra white cherries. 82 40; raspberries 95cl 10: straw berries. 81 10; cooeberries. $1 WJl 40; toma toes, S0S85c; salmon, 1-ft. 81 651 90; black berries, toe; succotash. 2 ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green. 2 ft, SI 21 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans, $2 05; 14 ft cans $14 00: baked beans, 81 451 50; lobster, 1 ft. 81 8001 90; mackerel. l-"tt cans, broiled. SI 50; sardines, domestic, (i, S4 25 4 60; sardines, domestic. Ks S6 757 00: sar dines, imported. 'Js. Sll 50(812 50; sardines im ported. K". H8 00: sardines, mustard, S3 50; sar dines, spiced, S3 50. Fisn Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel. $36 $ bbl ; extra No. 1 do, mes $40: extra No. 1 mack erel, shore. J32; extra No. I do, mess, $36: No. 2 shore mackerel, S2J. Codfish Whole pollock. 4K" If ft: do medium. George's cod. 6c; do large, 7c; boneless hake, in strips 4c; do George's cod in blocks 65J7c Herring Round shore, 85 00?? bbl; plit, Sb 50; lake. $2 90 59 100 ft bbl. WliltHftsh. S6 50 fl 100-ft half bbl. Lak trout. So 50 ?1 half bbl. Finnan haddock, 10c $ ft. Iceland halibut. 13c Jl ft. Pickerel, half KM. S3 00; quarter bid. 81 35; Potomac her ring. S5 00 51 bhl : S2 50 fl hal f bbl. OATMEAL-r6 0OS6 25 fl bbl. Grnin, Flour nnd Feed. There was but one sale on call at the Grain Exchange, namclv, a car of No. 2 prairie hay, S7 00. five days. Pennsylvania Railroad. Re ceipts as bulletined, 20 cars. By Pittsburg. Ft, Wayne and Chicago, 1 car of middlings, 6 of hay, 1 or barley. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis, 1 car of oats. By Baltimore and Ohio. 3 cars of hav. 1 o" ear corn, 1 of barley. By Pittsburg and Western, 1 car of corn. 3 of hay, 2 of bran. For the week ending March 7 the total receipts bulletined were 187 cars, against 276 last week and 324 the previous The heavy falling off in receipts this week is no doubt due to the fact of trains being delayed by snow blockades. Lizht receipts hare had the effect of improving tone of markets Corn. oat and hay are in much betterdemand than a week ago. The breaking of the blockade will, however, without doubt bring plenty of stuff to market. Prices below are for carload lots on track: WHEAT New No. 2 red, 8283ci No. 3, 79 80c. CORN No. 2 cllow, ear, new, 373Sc; high mixed, new, 3435c:Jfo. 2 yellow, shelled, old, SbJ4K37-; new, 3536c Rejected shelled corn, 25&2SC Oats No. 2 wbitp. 27J28c; extra, No. 3. 27 27sc: mixed. 24K25Kc Ryu No. 1 Pennsylvania and OhIo,6354c: N. 1 Western, 5152c Flouk Jobblnir prices Fancy winter and sprlm; patents. $4 755 25; winter straight, $4 60(6)4 75: dear winter, $4 004 25: straight XXXX bakers', t3 7504 00. Rye flour, $3 25 8 50. Millfeed Middlings, fine white, 815 509 17 00 ton; brown middlings. 814 002J14 50; winter wheat bran, $13 0013 25; chop feed. $15 5016 00. HAY-Bailed timothy. No. I. $11 5012 00;No. 2 do, 89 O0Q9 50; loose from wagoD, SU 00311 00, according to quality: No. 2 prairie hay, 87 00 8 00; pacKing do. Jfi 7507 00. Straw Oat, 86 7o$7 (Kh wieat and rye, 6 006 25. Provision. The only changes made in provisions are a re duction of He on breakfast Dacon and an ad vance of Kc on California hams. Sugar-cured ham, large, 9Jc; sugar cured hams, medium, 10c; sugar-cured hams, small, 10Jc; sugar-cured break fast bacon, 7JJc; sugar-cured shoulders, 5Kc; sugar-cured boneless shoulders, 7Jr; suar-cureil Cilifnrnia. hams. Ic: supir-cnred dried beef flats, 9c; sugar-cured dried beef rets, 10c; sugar-cured dried beef rounds, 12c: bacon, shoulders, 5:: bacon, clear sides 7Ke: bacon clear bellies. 7J$c: dry salt houldors. 5tic; dry salt clear sides, 7c Mess pork, heavy, Sll (A); mess pork, family, 812 00. Lard Refined, in tierces, 5Jc; half-barrels, 6c: 60-ft tubs, 5JJc; 20-a pails, 6c; 50-ft tin cans oc: 3-lb tin pails 6Jc; 5-ft tin pails, 6Kc; 10 ft tin pails, 5c; 5-6 tin pails, 6c Smoked sausage, long. 5c; large, 5c Fresh pork links. Vc Boneless hams, lOiic Pigs' feet, balf-barrels, $4 00; quarter barrels, $2 15. Drysoods- New York, March S. Business In dry roods was of the usual decreased proportions of Saturday, both orders bv mail and transac tions on the spot being fighter than on other days of the week. There was no new develop ment and the situation at both first and second hands was unchanged. Mlnlne Slocks. New York. March & Mining quotations on last call. 10.30: Alice. 125; Aspen, 900: Comstock scrip. 30 00; Deadwuod T.. 140: El Crlsto, 135; Homestake, 7 50: Horn Silver, 235; Iron Sil ver, 200; N. B. Isle. 110; Ontario, 38 00. tsntter Creek. 160. When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castona, When she had Children.sue gave them Castoria an9-77-MWFSu Is the MOST ELEGANT TOILET SOAP Of all Druggists, but beware of imitations I OFFICIAL PITTSBDUG. SEPARATE AND SEALED PROPOSALS will bo received at the office or the City Controller until 2 o'clock r. jr., MARCH 19. IS90, for furnishing and delivering good lump bitum inous coal, slack and coke, per ton of 2,000 pounds, and natural gas at garbage furnace, situated on Hill street. Sixth ward, during the year commencing April 1. 1890. Roods in dou ble tho amount of the bid must accompany each proposal, said bonds to be probated before the Mayor or City Clerk. The Department of Awards reserves the right to reject any or all bids. J. O. BROWN, Chief of Department of Public Safety. Pittsburo, March 8, 1S90. mhS-29 fNo.245. AN ORDINANCE-GRANTING UNTO the Howe Street Railway Company, its successors, lessees and assigns the right to en ter tipon, use and occupy certain streets, lanes, alleys and highways and to lease its franchises and property, or either. section 1 Be it ordained and enacted by the city of Pittsburg. In Selectand Common Coun cils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of tbe same. That the Howe Street Railway Company, its lessees successors and assigns shall have tbe right and is hereby authorized to enter upon the streets, lanes, alleys and highways inclnded within its ronte, to wit: Beginning at the intersection of Aiken avenue and Center avenue; thence along Aiken avenue to Howo street; thence along Howe street to Denniston avenue; thence along Denniston avenue to the intersection thereof with Fifth avenue: thence returning with double lines of track, or with single lines of track, with tho necesary sidings turnouts and switches alongDennistonavcnueandHowo street to College avenue; thenco with single lines of track along College avenue to Walnut street; thenco alone Walnut street to Aiken avenue, and thence returning along Aiken avenue with double lines of track, or with single lines of track, with the necessary sidings, turnouts and switches to the place of begin ning, and forming a continuous and complete circuit witn its own lines 01 tracir, ana mere construct, maintain, operate and use during the term named in its charter its railway with double track or with single tracks, with tho necessary sidings, turnouts and switches, and to use electricity as a motive power, and also to erect, maintain, operate ana nse an overhead electric system for tbe supplyof motive power, and to erect, maintain and use in the streets, alleys or highways before mentioned such posts, poles or other supports as said company may deem convenient for the support or mainten ance of such overhead system, under and subject, however, to the provisions of a general ordinance, entitled, "A general or dinance relating to the entry upon, over or un der, or tho use or occnpation of any t treet, lane or alley, or any part thereof, for any purpose by passonger or street railway companies, or by companies operating passen ger or street railways, and providing reason able regulations pertaining thereto for the pub lic convenience and safety," approved the 25th day of February. A. D. 1890. Section 2 Tbe said Howe Street Railway Company sball have tbe rignt. and consent Is hereby given to said company, to lease its prop erty ana irancniscs to tneuuquesne araction Company, or to any Incorporated traction or motor power company which may desire to op erate the railway of said company. Section 3 That any ordinance or part of ordinance conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance be and tbe same is hereby re pealed so far as tbo same affects this ordi nance. Ordained and enacted into a law in Councils this 27th dav of February, A. D. 189a H. P. FORD. President of Select Councik Attest: GEO. 8HEPPARD, Clerk of Select Council. G. L. HOLLIDAY. President of Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Common Council. Mayor's office. February 3, 1890. Approved: WM. McCALLIN, Mayor. Attest: W. H. McCLEARY, Mavor's Clerk. Recorded in Ordinance Book. vol. 7, page 274, 6th day of March. A, D. lb&O. mh7-32 JN o. 217.1 - AN ORDINANCE GRANTING UNTO the Wilkinsburg and East Liberty Street Hallway company, its successors, lessees and assiens tbe ri;bt to enter upon, use and occupy certain streets, lanes, alleys and highways, and to lease its franchises and property, or either. Section 1 Be it ordained and enacted by tbe city of Pittsburg, in Selectand Common Coun cils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same. That tbe Wilkinsborg and East Liberty Street Railway Company, its lessees, successors and assigns shall have the rigbr, and is hereby authorized to enter upon tue streets, lanes, alleys and highways included within its route, to wit: Bfginnlngntthe Eastern terminus of Penn avenuo at the city line, and thence along Penn avenue to a point at or near tbe end of Ells worth avenue, and returning along Penn avenuo witli doublo or second lines of track or with tbe slnglo lines of track with tbe necessary sidings, turno.its and switches to the place of beginning, and there construct, maintain, operate, and use during tbe term named in its charter its railway, with 'double tracks or with sinzle tracks, with the necessary sidings, turnouts and switches and to use electricity as a motive power and also to erect, maintain, operate and use an overhead electric system for the supply of motive power, and to erect, maintain and use the streets, alleys or highways before mentioned, snch posts, poles or other supports as said company may deem convenient for tbe support or main tenance of such overhead system, under and subject, however, to the provisions of a general orainance enuueu, "A. general orainance relat ing to the entry upon, over or under, or the use or occupation of any street, lane or alley, or any part thereof, for any purpose by passenger or street railway companies or by companies oporatingpassenger or street railways, and pro viding reasonable regulations pertaining thereto for tbe public convenience and safety," ap proved the 25th day of February, A- D. 1890. Section 2 The said Wilkinshnrir and Rast Liberty Street Railway Company shall nave too right, and consent is hereby given to said com- Siny. to lease its propertyand franchises to the uqnesne Traction Cumpany, or to any incor porated traction or motor power company which may desiro to operate the railway of said com pany. Section 3 That any ordinance or part of ordinance conflicting with tho provisions of this ordinance be. and tbe same is hereby repealed, so far as the same affects this ordi nance. Ordained and enacted into a law In Councils this 27th dav of February. A. D. ljaXX. H. P. FORD. President of Select lonccll. Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD. Clerk of Select Council. G. L. HOLLIDAY, President of Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Common Council. Mayor's office, February 28, 1890. Approved: WM. McCALLIN. Mayor. Attest: W. H. McCLEARY, Mayor's Clerk. Recorded In Orainance Book, vol. 7, page 278, 6th day of March. A. 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