HOT GAIN, BUT LOSS
Shonld be Reckoned the Money That
is Accumulated Through
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. MONDAY, APRIL 14. 1890.
DISHONEST IJUSIXESS METHODS.
Botil-Destrorinff Ways of Dealing Analyzed
by Dr. Talmace.
fNULTII THAT EKDUEES FORETER
tSrrClAL TELEGRAM TO TBI rJISr-ATCH.
Brookltk, April 13. At the service in
the Academy of Music this morning Dr.
Talmage, after reading appropriate passages
of Scripture, gave out the hymn:
So let our lips and lives express
The holy Gospel we profess.
He announced as his text Proverbs 20: 14:
"It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer:
but when he is gone his way, then he boast-.
eth." Following is his sermon in full:
Palaces are not such prisons as the world
imagines. If you think that Hie onlytime kings
and queens come forth from the royal (Sites is
in procession and gorgeously atteoaed, you are
mistaken. Incognito, by day or by night, and
clothed In citizens' apparel, or the dress of a
working woman, they come out and see the
world as it is. In no other way could King
Solomon, the author of my text, have known
everything that was going on. t rom my text i
am sure he must, in disguise, seme day bare
talked into a store ot ready made clothing in
Jerusalem and swod near the counter and
overheard a conversation between a buyer and
a seller.
The merchant put a price on a coat, and the
customer began to dicker, and said: "Absurd!
that coat is not worth what you ask for it.
Whv. just look at the coarseness of the fabric!
See that spot on the collar! Besides that, it
does not fit. Twenty dollars for that? Why,
it isn't worth more than 10. Tbey have a bet
ter article than that, and for cheaper price,
down at Cloathem, Fitem & Brothers. Besides
that. I don't want it at any price. Good morn
ing." "Hold," said the merchent: "don't go
off in that way. I want to sell yon that coat.
I have some payments to make, and I want the
monev. Come now, how much will you give
for that coat" "Well," savs the customer, "I
will split the difference. Von asked $20, aud I
said S10. Now. I will give you 815." "Well,"
saisthe merchant, "it's a great sacrifice, but
take it at that price."
BOASTING OF A BABGA1K.
Then Solomon saw the customer with a roll
under his arm start and go out and enter his
own place of business, and Solomon in disguise
followed him. He heard the customer as he
unrolled the coat say: "Boys. I have made a
great bargain. How much do you guess I gave
for that coat?" "Well," says one, wishing to
compliment his enterprise, "you gave $30 for
It." Another says, "I should think you got it
cheap if you gave J25." "No," says the buyer
in triumph, "I got it for $15. I beat him down
and pointed out the imperfections, until I
really made him believe it was not worth hardly
anjtlnng. It takes me to make a bargain. Ha!
Ha!" Oh man, you got the goods for less than
they were w orth by positive falsehood: and no
tx ouder, when Solomon went back to bis palace
and had put off his disguise, that he sat down
at In-, writing desk and made for all ages a
crayon sketch of yon: "It is naught, it is
naught, saith the Duyer. but w hen he is gone
his waj, then he boasteth."
There are no higher styles of men in all tne
world than those now at the head of merchan
dise in Brooklyn and New York and in the
other great cities of this continent. Their
casual promise is as good as a bond with piles
of collaterals. Their reputation for integrity
is as well established as that of Petrarch resid
ing in the family of Cardinal Colonna and
when there was great disturbance in the family
the Cardinal called all his people together, and
put them under oath to tell the truth, except
Petrarch, for when he came up to swear, the
Cardinal put away his book and said, "As to
you, Petrarch, your word is sufficient." Never
since the world stood have there been so many
merchants whose transactions can stand the
test of the Ten Commandments. Such bargain-makers
are all the more to be honored be
cause they have withstood, year after year,
temptations which have flung many so flat, and
flung them so hard, they can never recover
xucmseivcs. une all positions in life have
powerful betetments to evil, there are specific
forms of allurement which are peculiar to each
occupation and urofeiMon. and it will be useful
to speak of the "peculiar temptations of bui-
THY BUSINESS MEN FAIL.
First, as in the scene of the text, business
men are often tempted to sacrifice plain truth,
the seller by exaggerating the value of goods,
and the buyer by depreciating them. We can
not butadrmre an expert salesman. See how
he first induces a customer into a mooa favor
able to the proper consideration of the value ot
the goods. He shows himself to be an honest
and frank salesman. How carefully are the
lights arranged till they fall just right upon
the fabric. Beginning with goods of medium
quality, he gradually advances toward those of
more thorough make, and of more attractive
pattern. How he watches the moods and
whims of his customer. With what perfect
calmness be takes the order, and bows the pur
chaser from bis presence, who goes away hav
ing made up his mind that be has bought the
goods at a price which will allow bim a living
margin when he again sells them. The goods
were worth what the salesman said they were,
and were sold at a price which will not make it
necessary for the house to fail every ten years
in order to fix up things.
But with what burning indicnation we think
of the iniquitous stratagems ""by which goods
are sometimes disposed of. A glance at the
morning papers shows the arrival at one of our
hotels of a jouug merchant from one of the
Inland cities. He is a comparative stranger in
the great city, and. of course, he must be shown
around, and it will be the dutv of some of our
enterprising houses to escort him. He is a
large purchaser and has plenty of time and
money, and it will pay to be very attentive.
The evening is spent at a place of doubtful
amusement. Then they go back to the hotel.
Having just come to town, they must, of course,
drink. A friend from the same mercantile es
tablishment drops in. and usage and generosity
suggest that they must drink. Busiuess pros
pects are talked over, and the stranger is
warned against certain dilapidated mercantile
establishments that are about to fail, and for
such kindness and magnanimity of caution
against the dishonesty of other business houses,
of course it is expected they will and so they
do they take a drink.
SOUL-DESTBOriNG METHODS.
Other merchants lodging in adjoining rooms
find it hard to sleep for the clatter of decanters,
and the coarse carousal ot these "hail fellows
well met" waxes londer. But they sit not all
night at the wine cup. They must see the
sights. They stagger forth with cheeks flushed
and eyes bloodshot. The outer gates of hell
oFen to let in tne victims. The wings of lost
souls flit amontr the li-hts, and the steps of the
carousers sound with the rumbling thunders of
the damned. Farewell to all the sanctities of
home! Could mother, sister, father, slumber
ing in the inland home, in some vision of that
night catch a clnnpsc of the rum wrought they
would rend out their bair by the roots and bite
the tongue till the blood spurted, shnekincouf
'God save him!"
What, suppose you. will come upon such
business establishments? and there are hun
dreds of them in the cities. They may boast of
fabulous sales, and they may have an unprece
dented run of buyers, and the name of the
house mav be a terror to all rival -an c.
this thrifiy root there may spring up branch
houses in other cities, and all the partners of
the d ni may move into their mansions and
drive their full-blooded span, and the families
roay sweep the street with the most elegant
apparel that human art ever wove or earthly
magnificence ever achieved. But a curse is
gathering somewhere for those men. and if it
doe-, not seize hold of the pillars and in one
wild ruin bring down the temple of commer
cial glory, it will break up their peace, and they
will tremble with slcknes-es and bloat with
dissipations.and,pushed to the precipice of this
life, they will try to hold back, ana crv
for help, but no help will come; and they will
clutch their gold to take it along with them,
but it will be snatched from their grasp, and a
voice will sound through their soul, "Not a
farthing, thou bejrgared spirit!" And the judg
ment will come ana tbey will stand aghast be
fore it, and all the business iniquities ot a life
time will gather around them, haying. "Bo vou
remember tbr-f" and. "Do vou remember
that?" And clerks that they compelled to
aisbonesty, and runners and draymen and
bookkeepers who saw-behind the scenes, will
bear testimony to their nefarious deeds, and
some virtuous soul that one; stood aghast at
the splendor ana power of these business men
will sav. "Alas! this is all that is left of that
great firm that occupied a block with their
merchandise and overshadowed the city with
their Influence, and made righteousness and
truth and purity fall under- the galling fire of
avarice and crime."
COMMERCIAL TSA.VSS.
While we admire and approve of all acnte.
ness and tact in the sale of goods, we must
condemn any process by which a fabric or
product is represented as possessing a value
which it really does not have. Nothing but
sheer falsehood can represent a perfection
boots that rip, silks that speedily lose their
luster, calicoes that immediately wash out,
stoves that crack undertbe flist hot fire, books
insufficiently bound, carpets that unravel, old
furniture rejuvenated with putty and glde,
and sold as having been recently manufactured,
gold" watches made out of bras, barrels of
fruit, the biggest appies on the top. wine
adulterated with strychnine, hosiery poorly
woven, clots of domestic manufacture shining
with foreign labels. Imported roods repre
sented as rare and hard to get, because for
eign exchange is so high, rolled out on the
counter with matchless display. Imported in
deed! bnt from the factory in the next street,
A pattern already unfashionable and unsalable
palmed off upon some country merchant who
has come to town to make his first purchase of
drygoods and going home with a large stock of
goods warranted to keep.
Again, business men are often tempted to
make the habits and customs of other traders
their law of rectitude. There are commercial
usages which will not sued the test of the last
day. Yet men in business are apt to do as their
neighbors do. If thn mainritvof the traders
in any locality are lax in principle, the commer
cial code in that community will be spurious
and dishonest. It is a hard thing to stand close
by the law of right when your next-door neigh
borbyhis looseness of dealing is enabled to
sell goods at a cheaper rate and uecoyyour
customers. Of course you who promptly meet
all your business engagements, paying when
yon promise to pav. will find it hard to compete
with that merchant who is hopelessly in debt
to the importer for the goods purchased, and
to the landlord whose store be occupies, and to
the clerks who serve him.
There are a hundred practices prevalent in
the world of traffic which ought never to be
come the rule for honest men. Their wrong
does not make your right. Sin never becomes
virtue by being multiplied and admitted at
brokers' ooard or merchants' exchange. Be
cause others smuggle a few things in passenger
trunks, because others take usury when mfti
are in tight places, because others deal in
fancy stocks, because otuers palm off worth
less indorsements, because others do nothing
but blow bubbles, do not, therefore, be over
come oi temptation.
HONESTY PAYS BEST.
Hollow pretension and fictitious credit, and
commercial gambling may awhile prosper, but
the day of reckoning cometh, and in addition
to the horror and condemnation of outraged
communities, the curse of God will come, blow
after blow. God's will forever and forever is
the only standard of right and wrong, and not
commercial ethics. Young business man. avoid
the first business dishonor, andyou will avoid
all the rest. The captain of a vessel was walk
ing near the mouth of a river when the tide
was low, and there was a long stout anchor
Chain, into one ot the great links ot wmen
his foot slipped, and it began to swell and he
could not withdraw it. The tide began to rise.
The chain could not be loosened nor filed off in
time, and a surgeon was called to amputate the
limb, but before the work could be done, the
tide rolled over the victim, and bis life was
gone. And I have to tell you, younc man, that
just one wrong into which yon slip may be a
link of a long chain of circumstances from
which you cannot be extricated by any in
genuity of your own, or any help from others,
and the tides will roll over you as they have
over many. When Pompey, the warrior, wanted
to take possession of a city, and they would not
open the gates, he persuaded them to admit a
sick soldier. But ihe sick soldier after awhile
got well aud strong, and he threw open the
gates and let the devastating army come in.
One wromr admitted into the soul may gain In
strength until, after awhile, it flings open all
the avenues of the immortal nature, and the
surrender is complete.
Again, business men are sometimes tempted
to throw off personal responsibility upon the
inonej ed institution to which tbey belong. Di
rectors in banks and railroad and insurance
companies sometimes shirk personal responsi
bility underneath the action of the corporation.
And how often, when some banking honse nr
financial institution explodes through fraud,
respectable men in the Board of Directors say.
" by. I thoucht all was coins on in an honest
way. and I am ntterly contounded with this
misdemeanor I" The banks, and the fire and
life and marine insurance companies, and the
railroad companies, will not stand up for judg
ment in the last day. but those who in them
acted righthously will receive, each fur himself,
a reward, and those who acted the part of
neglect or trickery will, each for himself, re
ceive a condemnation.
UNLAWFUL DIVIDENDS
are not clean before God be;auso there aro
those associated with you who grab just as big
a pile as you do. He who countenances the
dishonesty oi the firm, or of the corporation, or
of the association, takes upon himself all the
moral liabilities. If the financial institution
steal, he steals. If tbey go into wild specula
tions, he himself is a gambler. If they need
lessly embarrass a creditor, he himself is
guilty of cruelty. If they swindle the unin
itiated, bo himself is a defrauder. No finan
cial institution ever had a monev vault strong
enough, cr credit stanch enough, or dividends
large enough, or policy acute enough to hide
the individual sins of its members. The old
adage, that corporations have no souls, is mis
leading. Every corporation has as many souls
as it has member.
Again, many business men have been tempted
to postpone their enjoyments and duties to a
future season of entire leisure. What a seda
tive the Christian religion would be to all our
business men it. instead of postponing its uses
to old age or death, they would take it into the
store or factory or worldly engagements now!
It is folly to go amid the uncertainties of busi
ness life with no God to help. A merchant in
a New England village was standing by a horse,
and the horse lifted his foot to stamp it in a
pool of water: and the merchant, to escape the
spiasu, stepped, into tne aoor ot an insurance
agent, and the agent said: "1 suppose you have
come to renew your fire insurance." "Oh," said
the merchant, "I have forgotten that." The
insurance was renewed, and the next day the
house tnat had been insured was burned. Was
it all accidental that the merchant, to escape a
splash from a horse's foot, stepped into the in
surance office? No, it was providential. And
what a mighty solace for a business man to feel
that things are providential! What peace and
equilibrium in such a consideration, and what
a grand thing if all business men could
realize it!
Many, although now comparatively straitened
in worldly circumstance'', have a goodly estab
lishment in the future planned out. They have
in imagination built about 20 years ahead a
bouse in the country not difficult of access
from the great town, for they will often have
business, or old accounts to settle, and invest
ments to look after. The house is large enough
to accommodate all their friends. The halls
are wide, and hung with pictures of hunting
scenes and a branch of antlers, and are com
fortable with chairs that can be rolled out on
the veranda when the weather is inviting, or set
out under some of the oaks that stand sentinel
about the house, and rustling in the cool breeze,
and songful with the robins.
THE TIME TO SERVE GOD.
There Is just land enough to keep them in
terested, ana its crops of almost fabulous rich
ness springing np under application of the best
theories to be found in the agricultural
journals. The farm is well stocked with cattle
and horses, and sheep that know the voice and
have a kindly bleat when one goes forth to look
at them. In this blissful abode the children
will be instructed in art and science and re
ligion. This shall be the old homestead to
which the boys at colletre will direct their let
ters. and the hill on which the houe stands
will be called Oakwood or Ivy Hill or Pleasant
Retreat or Eagle Eyrie. May the future have
tor every business man here all that and more
beside! Bui are jou postponing your happiness
to that time? Are vou adjourning jour joys to
that consummation?
Suppose that you achieve all you expect
and the vision I mention is not up 'to the real
ity, because the fountains will be brighter, the
bouse grander and the. scenery more pictur
esque the mistake is none the less fatal.
What charm will there be in rural quiet for a
man who has 30 or 10 years been conforming
his entire nature to the excitement of busi
ness? Will flocks and herds with their Meat
and moan be able to silence the insatiable
spirit of acquisitiveness which has for years
had full swing in the soul? Will the hum of
the breeze soothe the man who now can find
his only enjoyment In the stock market? Will
leaf and cloud and fountain charm the eye that
has tor three-fourths of a lifetime found its
chief beauty in hozshcads and bills of sale?
Will parents be competent to rear their chil
dren for high aud holy purposes, if
their infancy and boyhood and girlhood were
neglected, when they are almost ready to enter
upon the world and have all their habits fixed
and their principles stereotyped? No, no; now
is the time to be happy. Now is the time to
serve your Creator. Now is the time to be a
Christian. Are you too busy? I have kuown
men as busy as you are who had a place in the
store loft where they went to pray. Someone
asked a Christian sailor where be found any
place to pray in. He said: "I can always find
a quiet place at mast-head." And In the imi.
est day of the season if yoor heart is right you
to get educated, just as boys are sent to school
and College. Pmcbase and sale, loss and gain,
disappointment and rasping, prosperity, the
dishonesty of others, panic and bank suspen
sion, are but different lessons in the school,
ihe more business, the more means of grace.
Many have gone through wildest panic unhurt.
Are you not afraid you will break?" said some
one to a merchant In time of creat commercial
excitement. He replied, "Aye.-1 shall break
when the fiftieth Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth
verse, 'call upon me in the day of trouble and I
will deliver thee."'
The store and the counting house have de
veloped some of the most stalwart characters.
Perhaps originally they had but little spright
liness and force, but two or three hard business
thumps woke them up from their letharcy. and
there came a thorough development in their
hearts of all that was good and holy and ener
getic and tremendous, and tbey have beenmo
the front men in Christ's great armv, as well as
lighthouses in the great world of traffic. But
business has been perpetual depletion to many
a man. It first pulled out of bim all benevo
lence, next all religious aspiration, next all
conscience, and though he entered his voca
tion with large heart and noble character he
eoes out ox it a Skeleton, enough to scare a
ghost.
RICHES THAT ENDURE.
Men appreciate the importance of having a
good business stand, a store on the right side of
the street, or the right block. Now every place
ot business is a good stand for spiritual cul
ture. God's angels hover over the world of
traffic to sustain and build up those who are
trying to do their duty. To-morrow if in your
place of worldly engagement you will listen for
it. you may hear a sound louder than the rattle
of drays and the shuffle of feet and the chink
of dollars stealing into your soul, saying, "Seek
ye first the kingdom oi God ana His righteous
ness, and all other things shall be added unto
you." Yet some of those sharpest
at a bargain are cheated out of tneir
immortal blessedness by stratagems more
palpable than any "drop-game" of the
street They make investments in thlncs ever
lastingly below par. They put their valuables
in a safe not fire-proof. They give full ciedit to
influences that will not be able to pay one cent
on a dollar. They plunge into a labyrinth from
which no bankrupt law or "two-thirds enact
ment" will ever extricate them. Tbey take into
their partnership the world, the flesh, and the
devil, and the enemy ot all righteousness will
boast through eternal ages that the man who
in all his business life could not be outwitted
or over-reached, at last tumbled into spiritual
defalcation, and was swindled out of heaven.
Perhaps sumo of you saw the fire in New
York in 1835. Aged men tell us that it beg
gared all description. Some stood on tue
housetops of Brooklyn, and looked at the red
ruin that swept down the streets, and threat
ened to obliterate the metropolis. But the com
mercial world will yet be s.artled by a greater
conflagration, even the last. Bills ot exchange,
policies of insurance, mortgages and bonds
and Government securities will be consumed
in one lick of the name. The Bourse and the
United States Mint will turn to ashes. Gold
will run molten into the dust of the street.
Exchanges and granite blocks of merchandise
will tall with a crash that will make the earth
tremble. The flashing up of the great light will
show the righteous the way to their thrones.
Their best treasures in heaven, they will go up
and take possession of them. The toils ot bus
iness life, which racked their brain and rasped
their nerves for so many years, will have for
ever ceased. "There the wicked cease from
troubling, and the weary are at rest."
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Potatoes and Swiss Cheeses Tending
to a Higher Level.
B0TTEE AND EGGS AEE DECLINING
Floor Advanced a; Sources of Supply and
Mast Rise Here.
16 00, according to qualitv: No. 2 prairie hay,
?7 008 00: packinc dn. J8 7507 00.
Straw Oat, $6 757 00; wheat and rye, $8 00
ALL CEREALS AKB SCARCE AND FIRM
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
The Condition of Business at the East Liberty
Stock Yards.
Office of Pittsburg Dispatch, i
Saturday. April 12, 1890.
CATTLE Receipts. 1.176 head: shipments, 630
bead: market nothing doing; all through con
signments; no cattle shipped to New York to
day. Hoos Receipts. 2,650 bead: shipments, 2.600
head; market slow; medium and selected, 1 40
4 50; common to best Yorkers. U 204 35: pics,
H 00 15; 8 cars hogs shipped to New York to
day. Sheep Receipts. 3,200 head: shipments, 3,000
head; market steady at unchanged prices.
Offfice of PnTSBuno Dispatch,
Saturday, April 12, 1890. J
Country Produce Jobbing Prices.
Potatoes are growing firmer every day, and
prices must soon advance in accordance with
the upward movement at other trade centers.
The quality of the offerings of late shows im
provement. Butter and eggs are still on the
decline. The latter were offered in large lots
to-day at 12c per dozen, and failed or any great
activity at this figure. Sweitzer cheese ot high
grade is very scarce in the market, and prices
have been advanced within a few days. In
general produce lines Saturday's trade was
quiet, with no marked change in prices other
than those named.
Butter Creamery, Elgin, 2i25c, Ohio do.
2123c: fresh dairy packed, liQ20c; country
rolls, 1719c
Bkaxs Navy hind-picked beans, $1 751 SO.
Beeswax 2528c fl ft for choice; low grade.
Cider Sand refined. J7 50; common. S3 00
4 00; crab elder, 7 50S8 00 ffl barrel; cider vin
egar, 1012c fl gallon.
Cheese Ohio, llgUIKc: New York, 12
12Jc;Limberger. 14KI5c; domestic Sweitzer,
iurssi'c; imported sweitzer. ;a$c
iGG8-1212Kc f? dozen for strictly fresh.
Fruits Apples, fancy, $4 004 50 fl barrel;
cranberries, J4 505 25 a crate; strawberries.
ouwc a oox.
Feathers Extra live geese. 5060c; No. 1,
do, 4045c; mixed loss. 3035c ft.
Maple Syrup New, 90Q95c a can.
Hoxey 15c f? ft.
Poultry Live chickens. 85D0c a pair:
dressed, 1415c a pound; ducks, 75c$51 ? pair;
dressed turkeys, 1820c fl ft.
SEEDS Clover, choice. 62 fts to bushel, 4 00
V bushel; clover, large English, 62 fts, U 35
4 60; clover, Alsike, 18 00: clover, white, 9 00;
timothy, choice, 4t . SI 60l 70: blue grass,
extra clean, 14 fts 81 251 30: blue grass, fancy,
14 fts SI 30; orchard grass, 14 fts, SI 40; red top,
14 fts, $1 00; millet, 50 tt. SI 00; Hungarian
grass. 50 fts. $1 00; lawn grass, mixture of fine
grasses, S2 50 fl bushel of 14 fts.
Tallow Country, 3Jc; city rendered, 4?c
Tropical Fruits Lemons, common, S3 00
63 50: fancy, 54 004 50; Florida oranges, S4 00
04 25; Valencia, (4 004 50 for 420 case, Jamaica,
S7 00 a barrel; bananas, SI 50482 00 firsts, SI 25
good seconds. $) bunch; cocoanuts, S4 00
4 50 B hundred; dates, 6K"c ?) lb; layer tigs,
12K15Jc
VEOhTABLES Potatoes, from store, 7-580c:
on track, 6070c: new Southern cabbage, H 50
one barrel crate; celery, 75cl $ dozen; Jersey
sweet potatoes. 84 50 a barrel; onions, S4 50
4 75 a barrel: Bermuda onions, S3 00 bushel
crate: green onions, 2025c a doz.; parsnips,
S2 00 barrel; onion Bets, 82 503 50 it bushel:
kale, SI 2501 50 $1 barrel; asparagus, 4070c f)
bunch.
Buckwheat Flour SI 752 00.
Provisions.
Sugar-cured hams, large, 9c; sugar-cured
hams, medium, 10c; sugar-hams, small, 10c:
sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8c; sugar-cured
shoulders, 6cj sugar-cured boneless shoul
ders. 7Jc: sugar-cured California hams, TKc;
sugar-cured dried beef flats. 9c; sugar-cured
dried beef sets, 10c; sugar-cured dried beef
round". 12c; bacoD, shoulders, 5c: bacon, clear
sides, 7c; bacon, clear bellies, 7Kc; dry salt
shoulders. 5)c; dry salt clear sides, 7c. Mes
ork, heavy, 812 00; mess pork, family. S13 00.
nrd Refined, in tierces, 5kc: half-barrels,
5c:60-ft tubs, 5c; 20-ft pail". 6c; 50-ft tin
cans. 5Jc; 3-ft tin pails. 6Kc; 5-lb tin pail?, 6c;
10-fttin pails, 6c; 5 ft tin pails, 6Kc Smolted
sausage, long, 5c: large. 5c. Fresh pork, links,
Oc. Boneless hams, lujic Pigs' feet, half-barrels,
S4 00; quarter-barrels, $2 15.
SO STK1ELNG FEATURES.
Stock Broken Moke Things Easy for Snn
dnj A Quiet Mnrker.
Trading in local stocks Saturday was not very
heavy, brokers following the old rule of carry
ing as little as possible over Sunday. Still It
was fair for a short session. Sales were 240
shares, contributed by Philadelphia Gas,
Electric and Pipeage.
Price changes were few, and, with two ex
ceptions, unimportant. Fidelity Title and
Trust lost a dollar, and Westinghouse Electric
sold down to 41, but improved later and closed
at 41 bid. The tractions were about steady,
and the natural gassers a trifle stronger. In
surance and bridge stocks were neglected.
There was the usual demand for bank shares
with the usual result.
In regard to Electric it may be said that it has
good backing. Faith in its future is so strong
that holders of the stock smile when asked for
concessions, and express frigid indifference
whether they sell or not. They had rather not.
The affairs of the company are prosperous,
and the probable settlement of the war of
competition in a short time cannot hut improve
its standing in the market.
By TeleernDb.
CHICAGO Cattle Receipts. 3.500 head;
shipments, 1,000 head: market slow; beeves,
84 605 00; steers, S3 302)1 75; stockers and feed
ers. S2 503 90; cow, bulls and mixed, $1 60
3:35: Texas cornfed steers, $3 003 70; grassers,
S2 503 00. Hogs Receipts, 9.000 head; ship
ments, 3,500 head: market firm and 5l0c
higher: mixed, $4 204 40; heavy, S4 204 47;
light, 84 154 35: skips, S3 504 00. bheep
Receipts, 4,000 head: shipments. 2.000 head;
market stead v; natives, 4 006 25: western
cornfed, S5 00570: Texans, $3 755 60; lambs,
85 25S5 70.
ST.LOUIS Cattle Receipts. 100 head; ship
ments, 1,200 head: market strong: good to lancv
native steers. S4 254 85; fair to eood do, S3 30
4 35; stockers and feeder). 2 25(3 60;Iudun
and Texas steers, 82 40Q3 90. Hogs Receipts.
1,800 head; shipments, 6,400 head; market
strong; fair to choice heavy, 84 204 30; packing
grades. 84 15 4 25; licht, fair to best. 84 05
4 2a Sheep Receipts, 100 bead; shipments
100 head;marketsteady: fairto choice, f45 85.
CINCINNATI Hogs strong; common and
light, S3 50JJ4 25; packing and butchers. $4 15
&4 40: receipts, 1,310 head; shipments, 480
head.
THE DOIXGS OP WOMEN.
FIXD A TLACE TO PEAY.
Broadway and Fulton street are good places
to pray in as you go to meet your various en
gagements. Go home a little earlier and get
Introduced to your children. Be not a galley
slave by day and night, lashed fast to the oar
of business. Let every day have Its hour for
worship and intellectual culture and recrea
tion. Show yourself greater than your busi
ness. Act not as though after death you
would enter upon an eternity of railroad stocks
and coffees and ribbon. Roast not your man
hood before the perpetual fires of anxiety.
With every yard of cloth yon sell, throw not in
your soul to boot. Use firkin and counting
room desk and hardware crate as thn tf rr
glorious usefulness and blebost Christian char
acter. Decide once and forever who shall be
master in your store, you or your business.
Again, business men are often tempted to let
their calling interferejrith the Interests of the
oaL ..God sends men into the business world
Eliza Arclinrd Conner's Interesting Collcc
tlon of Novel Informnflon.
IWBITTEX FOE TDK DISPATCH. 1
Ienny June Croly is Vice President of the
Now York State Forestry Association.
The father of Miss Grace Dodge, of New
York, left her nearly $3,000,000. This she is said
to have doubled by judicious investments.
Gertrude Magill, daughter of the Dresi
dent of the Quaker college of Swarthmore. Pa.,
is moved of the spirit to study for the ministry.
The newspapers announced that Bishop
Hurst's wile "died at the residence of her hus
band." Cannot a woman have a home of her
own, even to die in?
Margaret Flago. of Chicago, has pat
ented a hydro-carbon furnace,, and Louise
Stevenson, of Morristown, N. J., has patented
an ice cream freezer.
They say that Frances Hodgson Burnett has
an income of $30,000 a year from her books and
from the play of "Little Lord Fauntleroy." For
one serial she gets 815,000.
A eemarkable intellectual activity has
sprung up among Jewish ladies. Their minds
are traveling outside the traditional domestic
circle, and demanding the widest, deepest cul
ture on all lines.
Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphaut Is one ot the
most versatile ot writers. Once she proposed
to the editor of a macazine to write all of one
number, the serial story on which she was then
engaged, and Ave other articles on different
topics and in different styles.
THE women artists of New York have set a
good example to their sex elsewhere. A num
ber of the strongest of them have formed a
club of their own. called the Woman's Art
Club. They have grown in influence and in
numbers till they are now able to give art re-
cepuuuo ui bucu uwu, auu very creuitaoie ones,
too.
The Ladies' Health Association, of New
York, offered to aid the street cleaning depart
ment in keeping the thoroughfares in order,
and the commissioner promptly accepted the
proffered help. Why not turn the street clean
ing department of towns altogether over to
women? At the worst they would do belter
than the ward politicians who now have it in
hand.
Girls, if there is any worthy work you know
you have talent for, prepare yourself faithful
ly for it by all the means at your command
and then go and do it. Do not stop for fear of
Mrs. Grundy. Mrs. Grundy applauds more
loudly than any body else at success, and suc
cess is dead sure to come to those that work
and wait. The way Is sure to open up if you do
not lose sieht of your purpose.
A minister recently attended a ban
quet at which 150 women were present, and
many ot them made dinner speeches. They had
toasts and a toastmaster, and a rule forbidding
any woman to speak more than two minutes.
The speeches were not only able and witty, bnt
they were audible. "1 shall now," said the min
ister, "feel more at liberty to urge the women
to take part in prayer meetings."
Eliza Archard Conner.
Headache, neuralgia, dizziness, nerv
ousness, spasms, sleeplessness, cured bv Dr.
Miles' Nerviue. Samples free at Joseph
z ieming & oon s, .iiarset st. t
S. W. Hill, Pittsburg Meat Supply
Company, corner of Church avenue, Ander
son street and P., Ft W. & C. R. "W".,, Alle
gheny, Pa., sold for Messrs. Nelson, Morris
& Co., of Chicago, 111., lor the week ending
April 12, 1890, 154 carcasses of beef. Av
erage weight, 622 pounds; average price,
$6 27 per hundred pounds.
Pittsburg Beef Co.,wholesale agents for
Swilt's Chicago dressed beet, sold lor week
ending April 12, 172 carcasses of beef;
average weight per carcas, 633 pounds;
average price per ponna, cos cents.
Abmouk&Co., or this city,-report the
following sales of dressed beef lor the week:
ending April 12, 1890: 175 carcasses, aver
age weight 632, average price $6 9.
Groceries.
Coffee options are still on the advance, and
packages are very firm. Another rise in the
latter is due. Sngar is fairly steady. The
movement of general groceries has been active
for the week past without any material change
in prices.
Green Coffee Fancy Rio. 2425)c:
choice Rio, 2223Kc; prime Rio, 23c; low
grade Rio, 20K21c; old Government Java,
28J3nc; Maracaibo, 2527fc: Mocha. 30
32c: Santo, 2226c; Caracas, 2426fc; La
Guayra, 2627c.
Roatsed (in papers) Standard brands,
23Jc;liigh grades. 26J(J?31c; old Government
Java, bulk, 33JSoc: Maracaibo, 2829c:
Santos, 26i3(Jie: peaberrv. 30Kc: choice Rio,
26J'" prime Rio, 25c; good Rio, 24c; ordinary,
21X23c. ,"
bPicES (whole) Cloves, I718c: allspice,
10e: cassia, 8c; pepper, 17c; nutniec. 70S0c
Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test, 7Uc;
Ohio, 120. 8c: headlight. 150, 8c: water
white, 10c; globe, 1414c; elaine, 14c; car
nadine, llc; royallne. 14c; globe red oil, II
HKc; purity. 14c
Miners' Oil No 1 winter strained. 4244c
fl gallon: summer. 3840c. Lard oil 6065c
Syrup Corn Tsyrui), 2629c; choice sucar
syrup, 363Sc: prlmo sugar syrup, 3033c;
strictlv prime. 3335c: now maple syrup, 90c
N. O. Molasses Fancv, new crop. 4748c;
choice, 46c: medium, 33343c: mixed, 4042c
Soda Bi-carb in kegs. 36Jc; bi-cart- in
Ki 5Je; bi-carb. assorted packages, 5JJ6c;
sal-soda in kegs, lc: do granulated, 2c.
Candles Star, full weight, Sc; stearine,
?) set. 8Kc; parafflne, 11012c.
Rice Head, Carolina. 67c: choice, 6
6Jc: prime, 5K6c: Louisiana, 56Vc.
STARcnPearl, ZJc; cornstarch, 56c; gloss
siarcii. jtc.
Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, S2 65; Lon
don lavers, t- to: uainornia. Lionuon lavers,
S2 75; Mucatels, 82 50: California Muscatels.
82 40: Valencia. Sc: Ondara Valencia. 10
lie; sultana. 14c: currants, 5J$Gc: Turkey
prunes, 66c: French prunes, 8llc: Salon
ica prunes, in 2-ft packages. 9c; cocoanuts. $1
100, 16; almonds, Lan., $ ft, 20c: do Ivica. 17c;
do. shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap.. 1314c; Sicily
filberts, 12c: Smyrna figs, 1213c: new dates,
66Kc: Brazil nuts, lie; pecane. 910c; citron,
V ft, 1819c; lemon peel, 18c V ft; orange peel,
17c.
Dried Fruits Apples sliced, per ft, 6c; ap
ples, evaporated. lOKQUKc; appricots, Cali
fornia, evaporated, 1516c;peacbe, evaporated,
pared, 2426c: peaches, California, evaporated,
unpared, 1820c: cherries, pitted. 1313c;
cherries, unpitted, 56c; raspberries, evapo
rated, 29K30c: blackberries, 77c; huckel
berries, 1012c
Sugars Cubes, 6Jc: powdered, 6Jc; granu
lated. GJJc; confectioners' A. 6c; standard A,
6c: soft white, 55c: yellow, choice, 5K6!
5c; yellow, good, 55Kc; yellow, fair, 5
5-Xc: yellow, dark, 5Kc.
Pickles Medium, bbls (1,200), S7 50; me
dium, half bbls (600), SI 25.
Salt No. 1. 1 bnl. 95c;No. 1 ex. 1 bbl. SI 00;
dairy. $1 bbl, SI 20; coarse crystal, f bbL SI 20:
Juggins rjurega, 4-ou sacics, ?z eu; muggins'
Eureka, 16-14 ft packets, S3 00.
Canned Goods Standard peaches, $2 00
2 25; 2ds. SI 651 80; extra peaches. 82 402 60:
pie peaches, 95c; finest corn. 81 001 60; Hid Co.
corn, CO85c; red cherries, 8085c; Lima beans,
81 20; soaked do. 80c; string do, 6570c; mar
rowfat peas, SI 101 15; soaked peas, 7o80c;
pineapples, SI 301 40; Bahama do, S2 75;
damson plums, 95c; greengages. SI 25; egg
plums. S2 00; California pears, 82 40: do green
gages, si box oo egg piums, ii bo: extra white
cherries, 82 40; raspberries, 95c$l 10: straw
berries. bOc; gooseberries, SI 30Q1 40; toma
toes, 838Sc; salmon. 1-ft, SI 50a 1 85; black
berries bOc; succotash, 2-fi cans, soaked, 90c;
do green, 2-ft, SI 251 60; corn beef. 2 ft cans,
$2 05; 14-ft cans. 814 00; baked beans. SI 401 50;
lobster, 1-ft. 81 801 90; mackerel, 1-ft cans,
broiled, 81 50; sardine, domestic ", U 25
4 50; sardines, domestic Ms, S6 757 00; sar
dines, imported, s, 511 50012 50; sardines, im
ported, Ks. S18 00; sardines, mustard, S3 50; sar
dines, spiced. 83 50;
Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel, S36?t
bbl; extra N". ldo. mess, S40; extra No. 1 mack
erel, share. 832: extra No. 1 do, mess, S30; No. 2
shore mackerel. S24. Codfish Whole pollock,
4c ft; do medium, George's cod, 6c; do
large, 7c; boneless hake, in strips, -c: do
George's cod in blocks, 6c Herring
Round shore. So 00 bbl; split, t5 50 lake, S2 90
a? 100-ft bbl. White fish, S6 50 9 100-ft half Ubl.
Lake trout, 85 50 fl half bbl. Finnan haddock,
10c fl ft. Ice'and halibut. 13c fl ft. Pickerel,
half bbl. S3 00: quarter bbl. SI 35; Potomac her
ring, 85 00 f? bbl; S2 50 fl half bbl.
Oatmeal S6 006 25 f) bbl.
HOT MUCH OP A DRAG.
The FInnnelnl Thermometer Indicates Fair
Weather for Plttsbars nnd Vicinity.
The local money market worked smoothly
Saturday. There was a fair discount move
ment and an abundance of funds to meet it,
Kates were unchanged. It is thought much of
the idle cash will Boon find employment, hence
lenders are holding out for full 6 per cent.
Checking and depositing were the active feat
ures. The Clearing House report shows that the
week was a good one for business. The gain
in bank clearings over the same time last year
exceeded two and a quarter millions, and the
spring trade hardly opened. This is doing
well, but better will be the word a little later.
The report follows:
Saturday's exchanges 1 2,563.847 90
saiuraays Daiances K.dl'j 84
Week's exchanges 15,765,070 97
weeK's Daianres
Previous week's exchanges (5 days),
Exchanges week of 18S9 ,
Total exchanges to date, 18)0
Total exchanges to date. 1839
Ualn, 1880 over 1839, to date
2,965.784 72
14,430,846 07
13.43l,.0 26
214. 260, 398 05
179,871.82! 8
34,388,575 19
NEW YOKE STOCKS.
A Little Lively Trndlnc In Spite of tho Bears'
Aggressiveness Rumor of Negotia
tions Between the Gould nnd
Vnndoibllt Interests.
New York, April 12. The stock market was
more active to-day than during the same hours
for many days, and on the whole showed more
strength than at any previous time this week.
The bears were again active and aggressive in
the early trading, encouraged by considerable
London selling. The grangers were still the
point of attack, and Rock Island, Burlington
and Qnincy and St. Paul were leaders both in
point of activity and weakness. The Gould
stocks, on the contrary, were quite firm, and
Missouri Pacific showed great strength around
70, giving evidence of inside buying. Pacific
Mail was in all probabilities bought for elec
tion purposes, the election taking place
next month. There was literally
nothing in the unlisted department. Toward
the close the report was circulated that nego
tiations between the Vanderhilt and Gould in
terests would probably result in bringing the
Missouri Pacific into the association, and the
bank statement being more favorable than the
general expectation, there was a liberal cover
ing of shorts in the last half hour, which had
the effect ot rapidly advancing prices all over
the list, and as a rule the early losses were en
tirely wiped out. Tennessee Coal declined 2
per cent, while Colorado Coal displayed marked
strength, especially in the last hour, when it
rose H- The market finally closed quiet but
firing and with generally insignificant changes
from last evening's figures. The final changes
are in most cases advances, out for slight frac
tions only.
Railroad bonds were dull and without feat
ure The sales of all issues reached only 185,
000 and the only marked movement was an ad
vance of 2 in Burlincton, Cedar Rapids and
Northern Consols to S9. The sales of bonds
for the week aggregatedS7,246,O0OagaInstS6,606,
000 for last week.
Ihe following table shows the prices or active
stocks on the New ork Stock Exchange yester
day. Corrected dally for The dispatch by
WHITNEY & Stepiiinron. oldest Pittsburg mem
bers of Hew York Stock Exchange, 57 Fourth avenue:
Clos
ing Bid."
19
26
37M
72
54
1171$
30'4
22X
HUM
67M
113
89)j
13,'
48H
30'A
1I0X
1h
71 !i
98
MARKETS BY WIEE.
i
t, nnd a
cedented Flurry In Pork II otn Com
modities Excited nnd Higher,
With Heavy Trading-.
CHICAGO Activity andbuoyancywereagaln
manifest In the wheat market. Trading was
again active in 'all futures, and outside busi
ness, judging from the way the orders came
pouring in, were more numerous than any day
since the board discontinued the sending out of
quotations. The country is evidently operat
ing, and there is enough business from this
source to make itself felt on the market. The
course of prices was very irregular and fluctua
tions were rapid and irequent. The ooening
was very unsettled, aiid prices varied KKC ln
different parts ot the crowd, ruling lower in
some instances than the closing ot yesterday.
From the inside prices May advanced 6Jc,
June 6c and July lKc.ruling easicr.and closed
3c higher for May, 3Jc higher for June and
?c higher for July than closing on 'Change
yesterday.
The outside range of to day represents an ad
vance of 5Jic for Maj and 9Jc for July, above
the lowest point, and nearly all of this advance
since the quotations were cut off. Shorts
again covered freely, and parties who had sold
yesterday were buying to-day. Crop news con
tinues to come in bad. and from some sources
the worst of the kind yet received. European
market prices were favorable, qnotlng better
demand and higher prices.
The Daily, Trade Mullelin says: Consider
able excitement was exhibited in the market
for hog products to-day, attended with wide
fluctuations in prices for mess pork. The sur
prise of the wbolealfair is the moderate amount
of the tradlmr in all the lcidinr sneculative
articles, scarcely exceedingthat of the previous
day. There uaspiotbing developed to really
account for the sudden advance in prices only
an instance where the market was taken from
under the control of any one in particular;
everybody got excited and somewhat rattled,
and were anxious to provide for outstanding
contracts; the small amount of property of
fered for sale creating very brisk competition
and resulting in the unusual advance in prices.
It has been evident that outside parties have
been buying mess pork freely within the past
two or three days, and that foreign orders also
have been liberal. It was hinted that the first
advance of 25c was made to feel the market, to
ascertain if the property could bo forced out.
and develop the extent of the line of shorts.
When this appreciation was gained, the market
quickly got beyond the control of those who
were searcning lor Knowledge oi the situation,
and for 20 minutes prices advanced S3 89 for
May and S4 for June unprecedented in the
history of the trading in pork at Chicago. On
the upward ca!e only a moderate trade was re
ported at outside figures. The market weak
ened and gradually settled back again with
light trading to the clo'se and the greater por
tion of advance lost.
While mess pork attracted most attention,
there was considerable interest manifested in
lard and short ribs, and they shared in the ad
vance to some extent, but declining during the
middle of the session. At the close, however,
they were active and prices rallied agaln.rnling
rather firm.
The leading futures raneed as follows:
Wheat April. No. 2. 84g90K83
May. 84Ke9184US8Kc; June. 8490i
Brooke; juiv, tui!0tf;n,JS(gi!U$!H,4c.
Corn-No. 2, April, 31431K31Kffi3ic;
May, 31K32K3132i;c; July, 33033
32?i33c.
Oats No. 2, May. 23K232302356c:
June. 23K232323c; July, 23&23?i
2323c.
Mess Pork, per bbl. May. 811 5515 25
11 52K13 25: June. Sll 6515 1011 6513 37U;
July, 811 7515 7S11 75J813 60.
Lard, per 100 fts. May. 86 306 t7U6 27K
6 42K; June. 6 376 506 326 45; July.
to "iyw oooo 3i&o oo.
Short Rib Sides, per 100 fts. Mav, S5 37K
5 605 37K5 52U: June. So 40 5 600 J 40
5 57J; July, S5 455 705 45 5 K
Cash quotations were as lollowi: Flour
firm and I015c higher. No. 2 spring wheat.
87Ji8Sc:No.33nring wheat. 7177$c: No. 2
red. 8788Kc No. 2 corn. 31c. No. 2 oats,
23c No. 2 rye, 47c. No. 2 turley, nominal.
No. 1 flaxseed. 81 50. Prime timothy seed. St 22.
Mesa pork, per bbl. 513 25. Lard, per 1U0 lbs.
86 40. Short nbs sides (loose), 85 50; dry salted
shoulders (boxed), higher; short clear sides
(boxed), higher. Sugar Unchanged: granu
loted, unchanged: standard "A," unchanged.
Receipts Flour. 13,000 barrels: wheat. 37.000
bushels: corn, 398.000 bnsbels: oats, 103,000 bush
els; rye, 2,000 bushels: barley. 23,000 bushels.
Shipments Flour, 14.000 barrels: wheat, 94,
000 bushels: corn, 410,000 bushels; oats, 190.
000 bushelsr rye, 25,000 bushels; barley, 17,000
bushels.
On the Produce Exchange to-day the bntter
market was weak; fancy Elgin creamery, 18K
19c; finest Westerns, 1718c: fine, 15l6c:
finest dairies, 1416c; fine. ll13c Eggs,
lb19c
A BOOM IN CEREALS.
Belief That Present High Prices Are
Likely to Continue.
A BIG MOiNEI INTEREST INVOLVED.
Manufacturers Complain of Lfclit Demand
for Fertilizers,
OUR CITY A GROWING TRADE CEXTEE
0SS4JS
Opening.
, HH
. wx
.1I0S4"
.' 70M
'. 4MJ
. 21V
..135H
Grnln, Flour nnd Feed.
Sales on call at the Grain Exchange: I car
sample oats, elevator, 33c: 2 cars No. 2 white
oats, 31c, May delivery. Receipts asbulletined:
2 cars of oats by the Panhandle, 2 of hay and 2
of birtey by the Ft Wayne Railroad. For the
week ending Friday, April 11, receipts of grain
and hay were 213 cars against 243 the previous
week. Receipts for the week corresponding to
this a year ago were 182 cars. Markets are sel
dom as bare of cereals as they are at this time
and holders are very firm in their views.
Weather and roads being on the mend, there is
little douht that markets will be amply supplied
within a few days.
Jobbers of flour are selling at the old rates,
but a rise of 25c per barrel on Monday is well
nigh certain. Flour cannot now be laid and
sold at present prices with a profit. At all
leading trade centers, East and West, the ad
vance has already been made.
Prices below are for carload lots on track:
WHEAT New No. 2 red, 9192c: No. 3. 87
89c
CORN No. 2 yellow, ear. 4516c; high
mixed, ear, 4i45c; No. 2 yellow, shelled, 41
42c; No. 3 yellow, shelled, 4041c; high mixed
shelled corn. S940c: mixed shelled. 3839c
Oats No. 2 white. 3333$cj extra. No. 3,
3232Kc: mixed, 29S0c.
Kte No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 6354c:
No. 1 Western. 5152c
Flour Jobbing prices Fancy winter and
sprins patents, 51 75!J5 25; winter straight,
S4 504 75: clear winter. S4 004 25; straight
XXXX bakers', S3 754 00. Rye flour, S3 25
3 50.
MlLLFEED Middlings, fine white, SIC 00
17 00 ton: brown middlings, 516 0016 50;
winter wheat bran, S16 0016 50; chop feed,
115 501 00.
HAY Haled timothy. No. L 114 00014 50; No.
200,112 00012 50; loose from wagon, f 14. OOQI
Am. Cotton Oil
Am. Cotton Oil Trust
Atch., Top. 4 a. P...,
Canadian Pacific
Canada Southern
Central ofKewJersey.HS
central X'aciuc......
Chesapeake Ohio.... Z$i
C. Uar. 4 Qulncy... .I0JX
C, Mil. & St. Paul IVA
c, 3iu. & st. l'., pr. .
C Kockl.&P
C. St. L. 4 Pitts
C, St. U A PIUS., pf.
(;., at. r.. ai. , u...
U. & Northwestern.
C. & N. W., pf
C, C, C. & 1
C C..O&I., pr....,
Col. Coal & Iron
Col. & Hockimr Val
Del.. L&ckA West...
Del. Hudson 151
Den. Jfc Klo Grande
Den. & RloOrande, pf ....
E.T., Vi. AUa
E. T.,Va. &Oa., lstpf ....
E. T., Va. A Ga., 2d pr ....
Illinois Central
IRc Erie & West
Lake Eric & West pf. 6i'4
Lake Shore 51. S 107
Louisville Nashville.
Michigan Central 87i
Mobile A; Ohio
Missouri I'aclHc 69J(
New York Central
N. Y., I. E. A W 24
N.Y..L.E. A W.prer.
S.Y., C. A St. L.
N. Y., U A St. L. pr.
N. Y..C. A St. L. 2dpr S
H.X. AN. E 45W
N. V.. O. A W 17X
M or folk A Western
Norrolk A Western pi ....
Northern Pacific 30)4
Northern Pacific pr... 7SJJ
Ohio Mississippi..-.
Oreron improvement.
Oregon Transcon SGH
1'acldcMall 39
Pco.. Dec. A Evans 20'4
Phlladcl. A Heading... 40
Pullman P.ilace Car
Klehmond A W. p. T.. 20X
Itlchmond AW.P.T.pl 'S
St. P., 3llnn. A Man '.110
St. L. A San Fran 17J4
St. L. A San Fran pr.. 37
St. L. A San if. 1st pt.. 8SS
Texas Pacific 19J
Union Pacllc G2K
Wabash 12
Wabash prererred 25
Western Union MH
Wheeling A L. E. 71i
Sunar Trust 62f
National Lead Trust. .. 17K
Chicago Gas Trust 41
Ex-dlvldcud.
High
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10K
67H
80M
110H
Low
est. 26"
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Closing Dond Quotations.
U.S. 4s, ret;
U. S. 4s, coup...
U. S. 4S$, reR...,
U. S. 4)4s, coup.,
iraciacbs OI 'Uo..
...122
...122
...103
...1014
..utf
Loulslanastampedts 95f
Misauun D5...........1W
Tenn. new set. 63....1C8
Tenn. new set. 5s.... !M
Tenn. new set. 3s.... 74
Canada So. 2ds 98
Central Pacific lsts.ltlj
Den. A It. G. lsts... 11844
Den. Alt. G. 4s 7S
D.AR.G. Westlsts.
Erie 2ds v'4
M. K. A T. Gen. 6s.. 74,4 1
M. K. AT. Gen. 5s.. 64
Mutual Union 6s....l03'4
N.J. C. Int. Cert...IlH
Northern Pac. lsts. .110
Northern Pac. 2la..mu
Nortliw't'n consols. 142'A
nuriuw 'ii ueoen'S OS11U
Oregon A Trans. 6s. 107
St. I, A I. M. Gen. Ss. 88K
St.1. AS.F. Oen.M.111
St. Paul consols 127
St. P. ChlAPc.ists.119
IX.. PC. L.G.Tr.Ks. 92tf
Tx.. Pc It G.Tr.Ks. 37j
Union Pacific lsts...H2
West Snore 105
Phltndelpliln Stocks.
Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur
nished by Whitney A Stephenson, brokers. No. 57
Fourth avenue. Members New York Stock Ex
change: Bid. Asked.
Pennsylvania Railroad UH 51
Reading 20 30 1-13
Buffalo, Pittsburg A Western 9 9
Lehigh Valley..... 8I
Lehigh Navigation HH 52
Northern Pacific 30 30fcf
Northern Pacific preferred 73 74J4
Features ofSninrdny's Oil ainrkrt
Corrected daily by JbnM. Oakley & Co.. 45
Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro
leum Exchange:
Opened 79 I Lowest 79V
Highest.... 81 I Closed six
A. aUcGrew quotes: Pats, 80cj calls, 83c
NEW YORK Flour firm and qniet. Wheat 1
Spot unsettled, closing steadier: options
active, irregular and KJc down, closing
steady, ttye strong; Western. siijloSfic. war
ley malt steady: Canada, 75.'Kc Corn-
Spot higher and active, chiefly for export;
options moderately active and firm. Oats
Spot quiet and firmer; options fairly active
and firmer. Hay quiet and steady; shipping
S3540; good to choice, S7090. Hops easy and
quiet. Coffee Options opened steady: 510
points down, closing steady, 1020 points
down; sales, 27,250 bags, inclnding April.
17.C017.7Oe: Mav, 17.50c; June, 17.2U17.2oc;
July. 17.0517.15c: September. 16.7516.85c;
October. I6.boc; December, ia2516.30c; Jan
nary. 16.75c; February, 16.20c; spot Rio steady,
qniet; fair cargoes, 20c; No. 7 flat bean.
196c Sugar Raw Arm and quiet; fair
refining, 4c; centrifugal, 96 test,
5 7-16c; sales 155 hhds.; Muscavado 89
test, 4c; refined, active and firm: confection
ers "A." 5:. Molasses Foreign quiet, 50
test, 25c: New Orleans steady, common to
fancy, 3140c. Rice firm and in good demand;
domestic. 4jao5e: Japan, oyic; cottonseed oil
strong; crude, 282Sc; yellow, 34c Tallow
dull: city (S2 for pk.gs). 4c. Rosi n firm:
strained, SI 27 Turpentine dull at 4242Kc.
Eirgs steady: Western, 1212c; receipts, 7,203
packages. Pork strong and excited with sales
of May at Sll 4011 50;cutmeats firm; pickled
bellies, 65c; do. sbonlders, 6c: do. bams.
10c; middles strong: short clear. 50 25. Lard
higher, because of squeeze in pork at the West.
dull; Western steam, S6 70; options, sales. 3,250
tierces April. S6 70; May, S6 5906 79, closing at
S6 71: June. S6 74 bid: July, S6 736 88. closing at
$6 80; Ancust, S6 85; September. S691!6 92;
October, S6 95. Butter steady, better demand;
Western dairv. 713c; do creamerv. 1018c;
do held, 6Mllc; do factory, 413c: Elgin,
19K20c C8ese, best firm, Western, 9Ji10J4c
PHILADELPHIA Flour market qniet, as
buyers and sellers are generally 1015c apart
on prices. Wheat options weak; desirable
milling grades scarce and firm: rejected, 67
74c: fair to good milling. 81S7c: prime to
fancv. 8994c: No. 2 red. April, 87K88c: May,
87J$88Kc;June.87?:(8!Kc: July. 86S74e.
Corn opened about Ju lower, but with strong
cables and better export inquiry in prices fullv
recovered and closed Jc higher for all
months except July, which left off steady; car
lots for local trade firm with good demand: No.
4. 3435c; No. 3 mixed, track and craln depot.
S&yg&Slc; steamer No. 2 high mixed In Twen
tieth street elevator. 3Sc; No. 3 high mixed
in Twentieth street elevator. 40 c: No. 2
mixed, April, 3oV3SK'; Mav. 3SK3SJc:
June, 3939Kc; July. 30V39c Oats-Car
lots firm though quiet: No. 3 white, 33": do
choice, 35c; No. 2 white. 33Kc: do clipped. 33e:
futures beyond this month J4c hieher: -No. 2
white. April, 3232Hc: May. 31431Cc; Jnne.
3131J4c; July, 3163IKC. Provisions firm and
prices of pork nominally 50c per barrel higher
because of the sharp speculative advance in
Chicago. Lard was alo a shade stronger.
Pork Mess, new, S1212 50; do prime mess,
new, $11 50; do family. S12 50013 00. Lard, west
ern steam, JG SOgG 90. Eggs firm with moder
ate demand; Pennsylvania firsts, 1212c.
MINNEAPOLIS Receipts of wheat for the
day were lsl cars; shipments, 25 cars. The
demand for ca3h wheat was a little slow most
of the day, though there was a fair inquiry for
the better grades early in the session. A few
outside millers bonjrht a liitle wheat, but only
enough to meet immediate requirements. Not
much wheat as bought by local consumers
Poor grades were dull and neglected. Local
elevator companies were fair buyers late in the
day. Closing quotations: No. 1 hard, April,
864c: May, 86&c; July, 87Jc; on track, 85Kc;
No. 1 Northern, April, Sx; May, 8SJJc: Juiv.
S6Kc; on track, 84S4Kc: No. 2 Northern. April
and;May, 81c; July, 83c: on track, S0S2c.
ST. LOUIS Flour fairly active and some
what firmer. Wheat higher: the opening was
weak, closed with May and June c. JulyJic
and Auttnst a abovo yesterday: No. 2 red
cash, 84Kc asked; May and June closed at 84 c
asked: July, 82c asked; Augnst. 81Kc asked.
Corn firm: No. 2 mixed cash. 29J429)8c; May
closed at 29Jc asked; July, 30jc bid: August,
30e bid; September. 31Jc bid. Oats easy: No.
2 cash, 23Jc; May, 24c bid at close; July, 23JJc
bid. Rye in demand at 42kc Barley stronir.
Flaxseed. SI 40. Provisions higher. Pork,
S14 50. Lard. tS 12 bid.
BALTIMORE Wheat Western, firm and
steady; No. 2 winter red spot and April. 85K
85c: May. 8585Jc: July. 85ic bid. Corn
firm: cash, mixed. mi&Zc; May.3SK39c;
OFFICE OF FITTSBCIIO DISPATCII )
Satubday. April 12, 1S90.
It is a question that will involve a good
many dollars before it is settled whether the
present boom in cereals will show staying
qualities or is only a temporary thing,
caused by bad roads and the consequent
difficulty of getting stuff to market. There
is little doubt that there is plenty of grain
aud hav in the land, but receipts at this
market have been very light for the past week
or two. and principally for the reason given.
The time for planting and seeding has been
so much delayed that farmers will have other
fish to fry in the coming weeks than bringing
produce to markets. Bulls are strong in the
faith that we are to have active and advancing
grain markets for some weeks to come. It will
be seen bv reference to the domestic market
column that cereal markets are still on the as
cending scale. Corn has not railed to advance
a cent or two every day this week. Wheat
joins in the upward movement to-day, and
there is little doubt that we will advance our
quotations on flour within a day or two. Al
ready there has been an advance both East
and West, bnt Pittsburg jobbers, true to their
conservative instincts, wait a little longer, and
still sell at the old rates.
Northwestern millers report to customers
here that they are shoit of wheat, and have
put up prices this week. The Pittsburg jobber
cannot now do as well by 15c per barrel, in lay
ing down flour here, as be could have done for
several weeks past.
The Demand for Fertilizers.
There is but one firm in this city engaged in
the manufacture of fertilizers. Chicago.
Buffalo and other cities have their represent
atives In this industrial line, but only one estab
lishment in this city produces the fertilizers.
The plant is located in Allegheny, and has had
an existenco of about five years, each year
showing an increasing volume of trade. A dozen
or more wagons are employed gathering up
bones, meat, blood, etc.. from the butchers of
the city and surrounding towns, to bo utilized
in preparing that which will enrich the farms
and gardens of Western Pennsylvania and
Eastern Ohio. A member of this firm in an in
terview to-day said: "For the first time
since we started in- this industry spring
trade has been very slow. We have plenty of
orders but find it impossible to deliver the
goods owing to the Bottomless condition of
country roads through the territory where our
trade lies. The farmer's season for plowing
and seeding has been so much delayed by the
unpropitious weather that the majority will be
content to go on plowing and planting without
the customary fertilizing.
"This is a misfortune, as fertilizers show their
true value, and yield their best results, when
ground is wet as it is at this time. There is a
little doubt that we will do a much larger fall
trade this year, owing to the inability to place
our goods in the spring. Of course, we would
rather place our products now for the reason
that a bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush, but what can't be cured must be endured,
and so we try to make the best of the situation,
in the faith and hope that the signal service
will be more propitious in the fall than it has
been this spring.
Pittsburg No Longer a Way Station.
"The railroad companies are slowly waking
up to the idea that Pittsburg is something
more than a way station. Within the past year
or two Southern and far Western stuff is com
ing directly to our city without resbipment at
Chicago, St. Louis or Cincinnati. A very short
time ago our jobbers were forced to buy their
Sonthern and Western produce at one or other
of these three trade centers. Now it is discov
ered that as a trade center Pittsburg is ahead
of Cincinnati, and in another decade will pass
St, Louis. Even Cblcrgo, with its World's
Fair and all will have to look to its laurels.
"No longer do we have to go to our neighbor
ing cities for Southern fruits and vegetables.
A car load of oranges direct from the Pacific
reached here this week without switching oil
at Chicago. From Florida and Tennessee
vegetables and fruit are within the past year
coming directly to our commission houses.
Producers through the great Southwest and
Northwest of America are more and more
realizing that at the forks of the Ohio is an im
portant trade center."
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Embroidery and White Goods Department-
direct importation from the 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 Be'.t 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 la best makes, lowest prices for quality.
WASH DRESS FABRICS.
The largest variety from which to select.
Toll Du Nords, Chalon CIoth, Eath Seersuck
ers, Imperial Sniting. Heather & Renfrew
Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr Ginghams.
Wholesale Exclusively.
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814 PEX.N AVENUE. PITTsBUKG. IM.
As old residents know and back files of Pitts
burg papers prove, is the oldest established
and most prominent physician in the city, de
voting special attention to all chronic diseases.
Sb?empe3rsPoOnnsN0 FEE U NTIL CU RED
MCpniQand mental diseases, physical
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disordered sight, self distrust, bashfulness,
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1 1 Rl M A R V k'dney and bladder derange
U nil inn 1 1 ments, weak back, gravel,
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Dr. Whittier's lite-long, extensive experience)
insures scientific and reliable treatment on
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Patients at a distance as carefully treated as if
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10 a. SI. to 1 p. M. only. DR. WHITTIER. 811
Penn avenue. Pittsburg, Pa.
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Drysoods.
New York. April 12. There was a light
trade in drygoods to-day, as usual on Satur
days, but the fine weather and the nearness of
fall demand were realized with good effect
upon the spirit of the market, the undertone of
which seemed stronger than a little while ago.
Mining Stocks. -New
Yoke, April 12. Mining quotations:
Alice, 110; Comstock T. bid, 2900; Comstock
scrip. 2S00; Caledonia B. H., 175; Consolidated
California and Virginia, 500; Deadwood T 125;
El Cnsto, HO; Homestake. 850; Horn Silver.
225; Iron Silver. 195: Mexican. 385: Ontario,
3000; Potosi, 575; Sierra Nevada, 275; Sutter
Creek. 150.
When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children,she gave them Castoria
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June. 39K3Jic: July, 3940c; August. 40
4OV4C; steamer, 37Jr, Oats firm: Western
white. 3132c: do mixed. 2930c; graded No. 2
white, 32c Rye firm at 5557c Hay firm;
prime to choice timothy, $12 5013 00. Pro
visions medium. L3rd, refined, TW Butter
unchanged. Eggs steady at 12c. Coffee quiet
and steady; Rio fair at 2020Xc
MILWAUKEE-Flour firmer. Wheat exclled;
No. 2 spring, on track, 81c; May, 79Kc hid: No.
J, Northern, S687c. Corn firm; No. 3, on
track. 31c. Oats flnp; No. 2 white, on track.
23K-6Kc Ryo higher; No. 1. 47Kc. Barley
1c lower; No. 2. on track, 4752c Provisions
higher. Pork, $13 10. Lard, ?6 35. Cheese un
changed; Cheddars, lOffilOKc
TOLEDO Wheat active and firm; cash.
86c; May, 88c: July. 86c: August, 85c Corn dull
and firm; cash, 34c; May, 335c: July, 34c
Oat s quiet; cash. 24c Cloverseed firmer: cash,
13 85; April, 3 3a
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