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THE FATHER'S KISS
Lovingly Bestowed Dpon the Prodigal
Sod, Returning Eepentant
AFTER IEARS OF WANDERING,
Tjplcal of the Welcome That ivaits ETerj
BInner Who Turns
FBOM WICKED TO KIGHTEOCS WATS
zsrcctAL m.xatJM to tot cisrATcn.1
Bkookltjt, June 15. Dr. Talmage's ser
mon for to-day is on the "Prodigal Son,"
and his text. Luke xv., 20: "When he was
yet a great war off, his father saw him and
lad compassion, and ran. and fell on bis
neck and kissed him." Following is the
sermon:
One of the deepest wells that inspiration ever
opened is this well of a parable which we can
never exhaust. The parable. I suppose, was
founded on facts. I have described to you the
goiug away ot this prodigal son from his
father's house, and I have showed you what a
hard time he had down in the wilderness, and
what a very great tnistako It was for him to
have so beautiful a homo for such a miserable
ilocrt. But he did nnt always stay in the
wilderness; he came back after a while. We
do not read that his mother came to erect him.
I suppose she was dead. She would have been
the tint to come nut. Tho father would have
Eivcn the second kiss to the returningjirodigal:
the mother the first. It may have been for the
lack of her example and prayers that he be
came a prodigal. Sometime the tather does
not know how to manage the children of the
bonsenoid. Tne chief work comes upon the
mother. Indeed, no ono ever gets over the
calamity of losing a mother in early life. Still,
this jounc man was not uugrceted when he
came back.
However well apparelled we may be in the
morning w ben we start out on a journey, be
fore night, what with the dust and the jost
ling, we bavo lost all cleanliness of appearance.
But this prodigal, when he started from the
swine-trough, was ragged and wretched, and
bis appearance, alter be had gone through days
of journeying and exposure, jou can more
easilv imagine than describe. As the people
Fee this prodigal coming on homeward, they
wonder who he Is. Theysay: "I wonderwhat
prison he has broken ont of. I wonder what
lazaretto he has escaped from. I w onder with
what plague he will smite the air." Although
these people may have been well acquainted
with the family, yet they do not imagine that
this is the very young man who went off only a
little while ago with quick step, and ruddy
cheek, and beautiful apparel. Tho young roan,
I think, walks very fast. He looks as though
he were intent upon something very important.
The people stop. They look at him. Tbey
wonder where he came from. They wonder
where he is going to.
THE TATHEK'S SOBKOW.
Ton bavo heard of a son who went oS to sea
And never returned. All the people in the
neighborhood thought the son would never re
turn, but the parents came to no snch conclu
sion. They would go by the bonr and day, and
sit npon the beach, looking off upon the water,
expecting to see the sail that would bring home
the long-absent boy. And sol think this father
of my text aat under the vine looking ont
toward the road on which his son had departed:
but the father bad changed verv much since we
saw him last. His bair has become white, his
cheeks are furrowed, his heart is broken.
AVhat is all his bnnntilnl table to him when his
son may be lacking bread? What is all the
splendor of the wardrobe of that homestead
when the son may not have a decent coat?
What are all the sheep on the hillside to that
father when his pet lamb is gone? Still be sits
and watches, looking ont on the road, and one
day he beholus a foot traveler. He sees him
rise above the bill: first the head and after
awhile the entire bod ; and as soon as he gets
a fair glance of him he knows it is his recreant
son. He forgets the crutch, and tho cane, and
the stiffness of the imnts, and bounds away.
I think the people all around were amazed.
They said: "It is only a footpad. It is only
some old tramp of the road. Don't go out to
meet him." The father knew better.
The change in ihe &ou's appearance could
not bide the marks by which tne father knew
the boy. You know that per-ons of a creat
deal of Independence of character are apt to in
cicateitin their walk. For that reason the
sailor almost alwajs has a peculiar sten, not
only because ho stands much on shipboard
amid the rocking of ibe sea, and be has 10 bal
ance himself, but he has tor the most pari an
Independent character, which would show in
his gait, e en If he never went to the sea; and
we Know from what transpired before, that his
prodigal son was uf an independent and lrank
nature; and I suppose that the characteristics
of bis mind and heart were the characteristics
of bis walk. And so the father knew him. He
puts ont bis withered band toward hira; he
brings his wrinkled fare against the pale cheek
of bis son; be kisses the wan lips: he thanks
God that the long agony is over. "When ho
was yet a great way off, his father saw him,
and bad cmpasMon, and ran and fell on bis
neck and kissed him."
THE BEST MEMENTO.
Oh, do yon not recognize that Father ? Who
was it? It is God! I have no sjmpathy with
that cast-iron theology which represents God
as bard, severe and vindictive. God Is a father
kind, loving, lenient, gentle, loug-uffering,
patient, and He flics to ur immortal rescue.
Oh, that we might rcal.ze it. A wealthy lady in
one of the eastern countries was going off for
some time, and she akcd her daughters for
some memento to carry w ith her. One of the
daughters brought a marble tablet, beautifully
Inscribed; and another daughter brought a
beautiful wreath ot flowers. The third daugh
ter came and said : ".Mother, I brought neither
flowers nor tablet, but here is my heart. I hate
inscribed it all over with j our name, and wliere
veryougoit will go with you." The mother
recognized it as the best of all the mementoes.
Oh, that our soul, might go out toward our
Father that our beans might be written all
over with the evidences of His loving kindness,
and that we might never again forsake Him.
In the first place, 1 notice in this text, the
Father's eyesight; in the second p'ace, I notice,
the Father's haste; and, in the third place, I
notice the Father's kiss
To begin: the father's eyesight "When he
was a great way off his father saw bim." You
have noticed ho n old people sometimes put a
book off on the other side of the light. They
canseeata distance a gieat deal easier than
they can close by. I do not know whether this
father could see ell that which was nearbr,
but I do know be could see a great way off.
-'His father saw him." Perhaps be had been
looking for the return of that bo especially
that day. I do not know but that he had been
in prajer. and that God had told bim that that
day the recreant boy would come home, "i'he
father saw him a great way off." 1 onder if
God's eyesight can descry us when we are com
ing back to Him? The text pictures our
condition we are a creat w ay off. That young
man was not farther off troni his father's
bouse, sin is not farther off lrom bolinesc, boll
is not farther off from heaven, than we have
been by our sins away off from our God: aye.
so far off that we could not hear His voice,
though vehemently He bas called us year after
year.
VEET FAR FEOM. HOME.
I do not know what bad habits jou may have
formed, or In what evil places you have been,
or what false notiijps you may hat e entertained j
but jou are ready to acknowledge, if your
neait has not been changed by the grace of God,
that you are a great way off aye, so far that
you cannot get back of yourselves. You would
like to come back. Aye, tub moment jou would
start, if it were not for this sin, and that habit,
and this disadvantage. But I am to tell you of
the Father's evesight. "Ho saw him a great
way off." He 'has seen all your frailties, all
your strnggle. all your disadvantages. He
bas been longing lor jour coming He has not
been looking at you w itli a critic's eye or a
bailiff's eje. but with a Father's eve; and if a
parent ever pitied a child, God pities you. You
say: "Oh, 1 had so many evil surroundings wuen
I started life." Your Faiber sees it. You say:
"I have so many bad surroundings now, and it
is very difficult for me to break away from evil
associations." Your Father sees it, and if you
should start beat en ward a I pray you may
your Father would not sit idly down and allow
yon to struggle on np toward Him. Ob. not
feeeingyou a great way off. He would fly to the
rescue. How long does it take a father to leap
into the middle of the highway if bis child be
there, and a swift vehicle Is coming. ad may
destroy bim? Five hundred times longer tnau
It takes our heavenl) Father to spring to the
deliverance of a lost child. "When be was a
great way off hiB father saw bun."
And this brings me to notice the father's
haste. The Bible sais be ran. No wonder! He
did not know but that the young man would
change his mind and go back. He did not
know but that he woulu dropoown from ex
haustion. He did not know but that some
thing fatal nngnt overtake him before be got
to the dtmmll; and so the father ran The
Bible, for the most part, i-peaks ot God as
walking. "In the fojrth watch uf the ulcb:,"
it says, "Jesu came unto t hem walking on the
sea." "He lketh upon the wings or the
wind." Our first parents heard the voice of
the,Lord, walking in the garden in tho cool of
the day: but wuen a sinner starts forUodthe
Father runs tu meet him.
WHEN HELP IS MOST SEEDED.
Oh! it a man ever wants belp. It is when be
tries tOjbecome a Christian. The world says to
him: "Back with you. Have more spirit
Don't be hampered with religion. Time enough
yet Walt until you get sick. Walt until you
get old." Satan said: "Back with you: yod
are so bad that God win have nothing to do
with yon;" or, "You are good enongh, and need
no Redeemer. Take thine ease, ear, drink and
be merry." Ten thousand voices say: "Hack
with you. God is a hard master. The church
is a collection of hypocrites. Back into your
sins; back to your evil indulgences: back to
your prayerless pillow. The silliest thing that
a young man ever does is to come home alter
he has been wandering." Oh, how much help
a man does want when he tries to become a
Christian! Indeed, the prodigal cannot And
bis way home to bis father's house alone. Un
less some one comes to meet him he had natter
have stayed by the swlne-tronghs.
When the tide comes in you might more
easily with your broom sweep back the surges
than you could drive back the ocean of your
un forgiven transgressions. "What are we to
do? Are we to fight the battle alone, and
trude on with no ono to aid us, and no one to
shelter us, and no word of encouragement to
cheer us? Glory be to God, we have in the text
the announcement: "When bo was yet a great
way off. his father ran." When the sinner
starts tor God, God starts for the sinner. God
does nnt come out with a slow and hesitating
?iace. The Inflnito spaces slip beneath His
eet, and He takes worlds at a bound, "The
father ran.' Oh, wonderful meeting, when God
and tho soul come together. "The father ran.
You start for God and God starts for you, and
you meet: and, while the angels rejoice overthe
meeting, your long injured Father falls upon
your neck with attestations of compassion and
pardon. Your poor, wandering, sinful, polluted
soul, and the roving, the eternal Father, have
met
I remark upon the father's kiss. "He fell on
his neck." the text sajs, "and kissed him." It
is not everv father that wonld bavo done that
way. Some wonld have scolded him, and said:
"Here, you went off with beautiful clothes, but
now you are all in tatters. You went off
healthv, and come back sick and wasted with
your dissipations." H e did not say that The
son, all haggard, and ragged, and filthy, and
wretched, stood before his father. The father
chargrd htm with none of his wanderings. He
just received him. He just kissed him. His
wretchedness was a recommendation to that
father's love. Oh, that father's kiss !
WELCOMING THE -WANDERER.
How shall I describe tbo love of God? the
ardor with which He receives a sinner back
again? Give me a plummet with which I may
fathom this sea. Give me a ladder with which
lean scale this height Give me words with
which I can describe this love. The apostle
says in one place, "unsearchable;" in another,
"past finding ont" Height overtopping all
height: depth plunging beneath all depth;
breadth compassing all immensity. Ob, this
lore! God so loved the world. He loves you.
Don't you believe it? Has He not done every
thing to make you think so? He has given you
lire, health, friends, home the use of your
hand, the sight of your eye, the hearing of
your ear. He has strewn yonr path w Ith mer
cies. He has fed you. clothed yon, sheltered
vou, defended you, loved yon. Importuned yon
all your life long. Don't you believe He loves
you? Why, if now you should start up from
the wilderness of your sin. He would throw
both arms around you.
To make you believe that He loves you. He
stooped to manger, and cross, and sepnlcher.
With all the passions of His holy nature
roused. He Btands before you to-dav and would
coax you to happiness and heaven. Oh, this
Father's klssl There Is so much meaning, and
lore, and compassion in it; so much pardon In
it; so much beaven in it I proclaim Him tbe
Lord God, merciful, gracious and long-suffering,
abundant in goodness and truth. Lest
you would not believe Him, He goes no Gol
gotha, and, while the rocks are rending, and
the graves are opening, and the mobs are
bowling, and the snn is hiding. He dies for
you. See Him! See Him on the Mount of
Crucifixion, the sweat on His brow tinged
with the blood exuding from bis lacerated tem
ples! See His eyes swimming with death!
Hear the loud breathing of the Sufferer as He
pants with a world on His heart! Hark to the
fall of the blood from brow, and band, and
foot, on tbe rocks beneath drop! drop! drop!
Look at the nails! How lde tbe wounds are)
Wider do they gape as His body comes down
upon them! Oh! this crucifixion agony! Tears
melting into tears. Blood flowing Into blood.
Darkness dropping on darkness Hands of
men joined with bands of devils to tear apart
tbe quivering heart of the Son of God!
Oh! Will He never speak again? Will that
crimson face never light up again? He will
speak again; while the blood is suffusing His
brow, and reddening His cheek, and gathering
ou nouril and lip. and too think he is exhaust
ed and cannot sneak. He cries out until all tbe
ages hear Him: "Father, forgive them, thev
know not what thev do!" Is thero no emphasis
In such a scene as that to make your dry eyes
weep, and your bard heart break? Will you
turn tour back upon it and say by yonr actions
wbat'tbe Jews said by their works: "His blood
be on us. and on our children?" What docs it
alt mean, my brother, my sister? Why, it
means that 'for our lost race there was a
Father's kiss. Love brought Him down. Love
opened tbe gate. Love led to tho sacrifice.
Love shattered the grave. Love lifted Him up
In resurrectlnn. Sovereign love! Omnipotent
love! Infinite love! Bleeding lovel Et crust
ing love!
Oh. Tor this love let rocks and rills
'lliclr la.ilnc silence break;
And all harmonious huinnn tongues
Ihe saviour's praises speak.
THE LORD CAN SATE YOtT.
Now, will you accept that Father's kiss? The
Holy Spirit comes to you with His arousing,
melting, alarming. Inviting, vivifying Influence.
Hearer, hat creates in thee that unrest? It is
the Holy Ghost WTIat influence now tells thee
that it is time to fly, that to-morrow maybe too
late; tbat there is one door, one road, one cross
one sacrifice, one Jesns? It is tbe Holy Ghost
My most urgent word is to those who, like the
young man of my text, are a great way off, and
tbey will start for home, and they will get
home. Tbey will yet preach tbe Gospel, and on
communion days carry around the consecrated
bread, acceptable to everybody, because of
their holy life ana their consecrated behavior
The Lord is going to save you. Your home
has got to bj rebuilt Your physical health
has got to be restored. Your worldly business
has got to be reconstructed. The Church of
God is going to rejoice over your disclpleship.
You are not gospel hardened. You have not
heard or read many sermons during the last
lew years. You do not w eep, but the shower is
not tar off. You sigh, andyou have noticed that
th-re is always a sigh in the wind before the rain
falls. There are those who would give any
thing ir they could find reliet in tears. They
sav: "Oh, my wasteful life! Ob, the bitter
past! Oh. tbe graves over which I have stum
bled! Whither shall I fly? Alas for the future!
Everything is dark so dark, so dark. God
help mel God pity me!" Thank the Lord for
that last utterance. You have begun to pray,
and when a man begins tu petition, that ets
all heaven flying this way, and God steps in
and beats back the hounds of temptation to
their kennel, and around about the poor
wounded soul puts the covert of His pardor.
Ingmcrcv. Hark! I hear something fall. What
was that? It is the bars of the fence around
the sheep-fold. The shepherd lets them flow n,
and tbe hunted sheep ,f the mountain bound
in; some of them their fleece torn with the
brambles, some of them their feet lame with
the dogs; but bounding in. Thank God!
Saved for time, and saved for etermtv.
A SELF-CLOSING INKSTAND.
It Keeps the Fluid From Evaporating and
Becoming Thick With Dirt.
It is well known that only a compara
tively small portion of the ink put in ink
stands is ordinarily used. The constant
evaporation from open inkstands causes a
rapid reduction and thickening ot the
liquid. The fine lint and dust sweeping!
that float in tbe air find their way to the ex
posed ink, and form a clogging mass on the
pen-point when used, and the supply of ink
has soon to be replenished. All this can be
obviated by a sell-closing inkstand which
has just been patented. The closing device
operates by gravity, and a small arm pro
jecting at one side is provided with a deli
cate wing or plate, which comes convenient
ly in the way of the third finger when dip
ping the pen. This arm being deflei ted, the
plate swings back, affording a clear opening
for the pen. "When the pen is withdrawn
tbe action of gravity will instantly swing
the plate to its normal, closed position.
The Phonograph as n Cash Register.
It has been suggested that the phono
graph shall be used as a cash register.
Every sum the cashier receives might be
called in the phonograph and there recorded
as a check ou the accounts.
Pernicious Effect! of Tobacco.
Dr. Flint's Remedy is the only antidote
against tho influence of tobacco which tbo
smoker or chower of the weed has. and it
should be taken regularly to prevent the heart
from becoming diseased. Dcscrlptne treatise
with each bottle. At all druggists, or address
Mack Drug Co.. N. Y. uw
S. W. Hltl, Pittsburg Meat Supply
Company, corner Church avenue and Ander
son street and P., Ft. W. & C. R,K.. Alle
gheny, Pi, sold for Nelson Horns & Co.,
ot Chicago, III., for we;k ending June 14,
1890, 237 carcasses of beef; average weight,
623 pounds; average price, $0.75 per 100
pounds. ' -t'- t-w tr
THE
TEADE RETROSPECTS.
Best Wtfck of (he Tear According to
Reports of Produce Dealers.
SEASONABLE STUFF IN DEMAND.
Delicious California Frnits Appear for Ihe
Plrst Time.
.ETOLETIOff IN GLiZED KID SKINS
Omen or PrrrsBtnto Dispatch,
Saturday, June 14, 1800. (
In volume of trade the past week: has
been the best of the year so far in general
produce lines. Supplies of vegetables and
frnit have been large and demand active for
all choice stuff offered. The commission
men along Liberty street are all smiling,
over the results of the week. A number re
port sales amounting to over 51,000 per day
for the week. One commission man reports
sales averaging $1,500 per day for the month
of Jane. As there are about 25 produce
commission houses in Pittsburg, it is evi
dent that the quantity of goods handled
this week was immense. By reference
(o the domestic market column, it
will be seen that over 30 car
loads of bananas, or in round numbers
10,000 bunches were received in this market
since last Saturday. Home-grown strawberries
are now at their best and will hold the fort for
a week to come. Quality was never better in
this market; and demand has boen fully up to
supply for all choice stock.
One of tbe marked features of the week has
been tbe great scarcity and Arm prices of the
Swiss style ot choese. Ordinarily by the 1st of
Juno markets are overstocked in this line and
prices drop. This season is an exception,
owing to backward spring, and it is not possible
so tar to supply demand. Regular cheese is
plenty, and there bas been a decline of lc per
pound during the weok.
New Thins" In tho Murker.
Among tho new things which have nut in an
appearance the past week are raspberries,
California apricots, peaches and plums. Judg
ing from those already in the quality of fruit
this season will be fully np to par. OJd pota
toes have been retired, and new are active and
firm. There has been an upward movement ot
lemons and oranges during the week. Fancy
stock is firm at outside quotations.
The feature of the grocery trade has Deen
the steady advance in sugar. Prices are fully
lc per pound above those of a few weeks ago.
The advance furnishes enormous dividends to
members of tbe Trust.
Cereals were lower than they -were a week
ago and tbe week closes with tame markets.
Wheat and floor are both on the decline.
Favorable crop reports from tho Northwest
and from Europe have brought all bull move
ments to a standstill. All along cereal lines tbe
situation favors buyers.
Provisions are the same as last Saturday
During tbe week hogs dropped in Chicago to
$3 70, but to-day tbey are steady at S3 95 to J4.
Demand is good and prices are stead) in pro
vision lines.
Hides nnd Goat Skies.
There have been no new developments in this
line during tbe week. Prices are practically
tbe same as last Saturday. There is a good de
mand for stock. One dealer reports shipments
of fonr carloads during the week at the same
prices as prevailed last Saturday. Sheep skins
are scarce. Farmers are withholding stock
from the market in expectation of higher
prices.
In tbe current number of tbe Shoe and
Leather Renew is a three-page article richly
illustrated on glazed kid skins, showing the
processes by which they are prepared for the
market.
Following is an extract from tbe article: The
tanning and finishing ot goatskins into upper
leather baa been established in this country for
half a century. During tbe past decade tbe
Industry has made almost ohenomenal nroeress.
For miny years pebbles, straight grains and
brush kid v ere produced in limited quantities
tbe supply of fine glazed kid for ladies' shoes
being Imported from abroad, to the extent of
$4,000,000 or $5,000,000 worth per annum. The
imports of French kids have been reduced
three-fourths, owing to tbe enterprise and
assiduity of the manufacturers of Philadelphia,
Lynn, Wilmington. New York, Brooklyn and
Newark. In connection with Its remark,
able growth, it is "noteworthy tbat tbe
industry has received bnt meager protection
from the tariff. While many articles or manu
facture have enjoyed an almost prohibitory
duty, tanned goatskins have been admitted for
10. and finished stock for 20 per cent.
Goatskins have greatly deteriorated in quali
ty during tbe past few years, owing to the in
creased demand for them.
The finest kia is made from Brazil skins.
They have a large spread, are plump out to the
edge, have a fine grain and art. very soft.
LITE STOCK MARKETS.
Tbe Condition of Bnsinesn nt th But Liberty
Stock Yards.
Office of PrrrsBUKQ Dispatch, i
SATURDAY. June 14, 1S90.
CATTI.K Receipts. 1,469 head; shipments.
1,344 head: market, nothing doing; all through
consignments, 33 cars cattle shipped to New
York to-day.
Hogs Receipts. 2,900 head: shipments, 1,756
bead; market firm; medium and selected,
S4 004 05: common to best Yorkers, $3 80
8 90: pics, S3 503 75; 6 cars of hogs shipped to
New York to-day.
Sheep Receipts, 500 bead: shipments, 400
head; market, nothing doing; nothing on sale.
Bv Telesrnnh.
CHICAGO The Uroiert' Journal reports:
Cattle Receipts, 2,500 head; shipments none:
bead; market steady; beeves, J4 G04 90;
steers. $3 254 50: stockers and feeders,
12 4003 90; cows, bulls and mixed, SI 50
3 30; Texa steers, 82 404 00. Hogs Re
ceipts, 10.000 head; shipments, none: market
sln, and 510c lower: mixed. S3 70S 93;
heavy, S3 754 00: light, S3 703 90; skips, (3 10
i 50l Sheep Receipts, 1,500 head; shipments
none: market slow; native". $4 005 50: West
ern, 24 255 10; Texans, S3 254 10; lambs, 5 00
6 00.
ST. LOUIS Cattle Receipts. 900 head;
shipments, 2,400 head; market strong; good to
fancy native steers, S4 504 90; fair to good
native steers. M 004 50: stockers and feeders.
$2 803 90; Texans and Indians. S2 753 95.
Hogs Receipts, 1,400 head; shipments. 3,100
bead: market steady: fair to choice heavy,
S3 703 80: packing grades S3 603 70: light
fair to best. S3 603 72. febcep Receipts,
100 bead; shipments, 1,300 head: market tteadv;
fair to choice clipped, S3 805 00.
CINCINNATI Hogs active and higher; com
mon and light, S2 753 80: packing and butch
ers. S3 754 10. Receipts, 2,100 head; ship
ments, 1,300 head.
A SH0ET BICE CHOP.
Values Grently Enhanced nnd Fnrtber Up
ward Movements Assnrrd.
In view of the fact that the United States is
this year largely dependent on tbe foreign rice
to supply tbe deficiencies in its own crop, the
quantity and quality of the Eastern crops and
tendencies of the markots abroad are of moro
interest than for several years past. Messrs.
Dan Talmage's Sons in their circular of this
dato (14th instant) state :
Tbe rice crop throughout the world is short,
and some sections which have hitherto exported
largely are importing to supply their own wants.
Outward movement this year of Japan, January
1 to date, is 19.600 bags (cleaned rice of two cwt.
each): last year similar period 1.037,500 bag.
Tiip total output of the Kast since J.inuar 1.
3.903,600 bags; last jear cqu-il period, 5,310,000
bjg. Tbe diversion of rice from one produc
ing section to another hs greatly diminished
the supply of the world at large; stocks in
English, Continental and American markets
are far short of previous jear. Amount on
hind. American markots, Kt instant, 10,000
bag: equal d ite 1889, 105,000 bag-. The crop of
tbe United States is practically exhausted at all
primary nnd milling centers, and tbey n ill have
to buy foreign to some considerable extent to
supply their wants until new can be reached.
In view of the great shortage, values are al
ready enhanced, and further and radical ad
vances aro anticipated, especially in the better
grades, such as are up to tne standard require
ments of the markets of this country.
Drvgoods.
NEWYOEK.Jnne 14. Business in drygoods
was light. Demand was irregular as of late,
new specialties for fall receiving tbe most at
tention and brow n cottons being more active
than bleached at the moment.
Headache, neuralgia, dizziness, nerv
ousness, spasms, sleeplessness, cured bv Dr.
Miles' Nervine. Samples iree at'Josepti
Fleming & Son's, Market si,
-
PrrrsnrjBO Ueef Co., wholesale agents
for Swift's Chicago dressed beef, sold for
week ending June lC 217 carcasses of
beef; average weight, 591 fix; average price,
6.70 centr
. ...
PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,
VOID OF EXCITEMENT.
Tbe Market! Sbaivlnc a Disposition to Lag
The Only Pllmplitlon Noticeable Being
In bng-nr Citizens' Gas of Brook
lyn Advances n Munll Fraction.
New 'iokk, June U. Thero was scarcely
any stock market to-day. while tbe fluctuations
were strictly upon a parity with the trading. In
no stock but sugar was there any real fluctua
tion, and that was very moderate for tbatstock.
The general maispositlon to trade, pending the
settlement of the silver question one way or
the other, extended to-day to even the pro
fessionals and traders, and tbe operations ot
that class of operators were restricted to the
smallest limits possible. Tbo dullness was most
intense even from the start, and prlcer, as
usual, got a drooping tendency which sufficed
to carry sugar down to 82, after sales
at 83 but in nothing else was there
movement worthy of notice. The bank
statement rhowed a marked increase in the
rurplus reserve of the banks, and this finally
did away with tbe little influence exerted by
the shipment of gold yesterday, and good buy
ing at the concessions established came in and
tbe early losses were in almost all cases made
up again, sngar rallying nearly to its highest
point, and closing within H per cent of its last
night's prices. The feature among tho special
ties was Citizens' Gas. of Brooklyn, which ad
vanced a small fraction, selling ex-dividend.
Railroad bonds were as dull as stocks, and
displayed the same temper, tbougb there was
more uniformity and tbe firmness lasted
through the session. Sales 349,000. Govern
ment bonds dull and steady. State bonds dull
and firm. The exports of specie from the port
of New York during the past week amounted
to S1.S90.000, of which $1,330,950 was in gold and
$69,050 Bllver. Tbe Imports of specie for the
week amounted to 5107,550.
Ihe following tawe snows tne prices or active
stocks on tne New ork btock Exchange Yester
day. Corrected dally for IHE Uisi'ATcn by
Wiiitkky ,t BTJ.rijEXKON. oldest Plttsburic mem
bers of Mew York stock Exchange. 67 Fourtn ave
nue:
Clos
ing Jlld.
27
08
30!
47
8JJ
SUH
12-1)4
34
23 i
ice1,
76
120
91
17
43
iVi
11134
14.1
78K
52 V
21 V
1I5J4
168
18
53
10
116W
14
6614
112
89 W
101 H
75
27 J
I7i
43
2U!i
22
62
J73C
83H
24
49H
49
43
21
46V,'
206
Zla
es4
113)4
3)
64
22
66J
!
27
85H
S3!i
2I
S3J
Open- Hlfth
tmr. est.
Am. Cotton Oil
Am. Cotton Oil nref.
Am. Cotton (Ml Trust.. 30 30!
Atch., lop. &S. K 4GSi i'H
Canadian Pacific
Canada bouthern -W-4 K.
Central of JiewJersev.IioJi 1KJ4
Low
est. Central l'aclnc
, M iHH
31i
Chesapeake Ohio...
C. Bur. & (Julacy ..
C, Mil. & St, Paul....
C, Mil. A St. P., pf..
C KocKl. &P
C St, kt Pitts
U, St. U A Pitts., pf.
C. St. P.. M. 4U.....
C.A Northwestern, ...
C. A I. W.. pi
C., C, C. 4 1
C, C..CAL, pf.
Col. Coal & Iron
Col. & Hockinir Val..,
Del., Lack A West....
Del. Hudson
Den. A Klo Urande...
Ki 76
75K
si"
43
34
111
, 94
. 17
. 48
, 31
111
'ivi
', S3"
9t',
43
31
111
;& is'n
S3
53
Hi'A H5S 145M
Den. a Klo Grande, pi
J. r., vx. A ua....
10
Illinois central ....
Lake Erie & West
Lake KrleA West pr,. (M
Lake Shore AM. S 1124
Louisville A Nashville. S9H
Mlcntcan Central 102!
Missouri t'aciflc 74b
. Y.. L. K. A VY Z!
KH CSV
112 112
89H 894
1MH 102
K'A 71 a
279 27i
1754 1-H
48M 4S!t
20H 20M
X. X.. C. A St. i...
H. X. AN. E.
N. Y..O. AW
.Norfolk A Western
. 17.
, 48!
, MX
N' on oik A Western pf. S3
Northern Paclflc it
Northern Paclflc pf.... 83
Ohio A Mlsslsstnm
63
SiH
63
J7
S3
Oreiron Improvement.
Oregon Transcon ......
PacldcMall
Peo.. l)ec. A Evans...
Plilladel. APeadlnir...
Pullman Palace Cnr..
Ulehmond A . P. T..
. 49
. 4.1K
. SIX
. 46H
SO
43Jf
21 a
234
49H
4TH
21
46!
. ZiH
Richmond A W.P.T.pI
St. P., Minn. A Man
St. L. A San Fran
St. L. A San Fran pf.
Texas Paclflc 21
Union Paclfc 63
Wabash 121,'
AVabish preferred 27M
Western Union
Sugar Irnst...... 83'4
National Lead '1 rust. .. liii
Chicago Gas 'trust U
an
6GK
12H
2744
83V
21X
53.H
a.
27H
Cloning; Bond (notations.
D. S. 4s. res 121
U. S 4s, coup IS
U.S. 4s, reg 103
U. S. 4)4s, coop 103
Paclflc 6s of '95 113
U.K. AT. Gen. 53.
Mutual Union 6s...
. J. C. Int. Cert.,
-Northern Pac. lsts.
Northern Pac. Ids.
. 75
.100
.113
.119
.11214
I.ouIslanastampccHs 91)4
Northw1t,n consols. 142H
Missouri is iui
nenn. new set. GS....1Q9
lenn. neweet. 5s...,10.'i
nonnw'nueoen'sasiuB's
Oregon & trans. 6s. 106
M.I.AI. JI. Gen. Ss. 94K
bt.L. iS.F. Gen.M.m
st. Paul consols 12)
St. P. CliI&Pc. lsts.ll6V
lx.. Pc. f,.G.Tr.Ks. 92
Tenn. newset. 3s., . 7414
Canada So. 2ds W)i
ventral racinc lsts. 111
Den. & It. G. Ists, ..117
lien. A K. U. 4s 84
D.&R.U West lsts.
Erie Ms 104H
M. K. & T. Gen. 6s.. SSX
Tx.. Pc. K (..Tr.lls.-tt-.'
Union racinc lsts...1I2)4
West bhore 106 '4
Boston Stocks.
Atch. & Ton 47)J
Boston & Albany. ...En
o, ti.&ii 108
Clnn., San. & Clev.. 30J4
Eastern It. H. 16;
Jlass. Central 18
31 ex. Central com... 2S!s
H. Y. 4N.Eng 48H
Old Colony. 1741$
Kutland preferred.. 72
W Is. Central com... 28W
Allonez Jig Co 7,4
Atlantic 26)i
Boston & Mont 651;
Calumet & Hecla....319
Catalpa 40
franklin 21)1
Hnron 6
kearsarge uQ
Otceota 47S4
Qnlncy 128
Santa Fe cooper 9
Tamarack. MJ
lioaton Land Co a
San Diego Land Co. 23
est End Land Co.. 23
Bell Telephone 2J7X
I.ainson Stores 3'JM
Water Power SJ
Centennial Jllnlng. 39
Phllndelphln Stocks.
Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur
nished uv Whitney & Stephenson, brokers. So. 57
Fourth avenue. Members J,ew York stock Ex
change: Bid. Asked
Pennsylvania Kallroad mi
Heading 23 3-16
BuQalo, Pittsburg & Western II li
Lelllirh Valley 52H
Lehigh Navigation 524
Northern Paciilc 37X
Northern Pacific preferred S3H
2354
11V
52
52S
37i
Si
Features or Saturday's Oil Marker.
Corrected daily by John M. Oakley fc Co., 45
Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro
leum Exchange:
Opened 90X I Lowest
lilguest WH i Closed
, 8914
90H
Barrels.
.... I3.1S7
77.859
6s, 330
Average charters ,
Average shipments ,
Average runs ,
Iteiinen, New York. 7.10c
Krflued, London, 5)d.
Kenned, Antwerp, l7J4f.
Kenned, Liverpool. 5 11-164.
Kerlned. Bremen, 6.90m.
A. B. McGrew quotes:
y2XS02ji.
Puts, S9K; calls.
HOME SECUEITLES.
All tbe Llfo Centered In the Tractions
Tnloes Abant Strndy.
The stock call Saturday was productive of
fewer figures than usual on Saturday, while
business was an unknown quantity. Before
call 100 shares of Citizens' Traction brought
68. After call 10 shares of Central Traction
went at 18.
What few orders there were favored the
bearish side of the market, showing that in
vestors are watching and waiting for the ex
pected guinmer slump. There were no price
cuanges ni importance, .cveryimnganoutneiu
itsground. Sales on 'Change for tho week
were a trifle over 1,000 shares, about tbo same
as those of tbe previous week.
A GOOD EEC0HD.
Tho Week nt the Tlnnlo Mjows nig Gains
OverI,nt Ycnr.
Money will be easv during tho week with a
moderate demand at C per cent as the prevail
ing rate. Hankers reported the situation as
entirely eatlsfactory for tho season. Checking
showed a slight loss as compared with the pre
vious week, but depositing gained enough to
maLc good the shrinkage. There was no dif
ference between currency and exchange.
The Clearing House report for tbe day and
week is a cheerful and choering document. It
shows a gain in bank clearings of nearly S3, -000,000
over the corresponding week last year,
indicating an active movement among tbe
trades and traders. The following are the
principal Items:
Saturday's exchanges S 2,621,905 47
Siturd-ir's halances 315,249 88
Week's exchanges 14,798, 104 51
Week's bManrc 1,997.31163
Previous week's exchanees 15.126,4565.!
KxchsllKes week or 1889 11.978 637 18
Balances week of 1889 2.4S3.12OO0
Total exchanges to date, 18S0. ........ 334.263, 170 74
Toti.1 exclninjcts to date, I8S9 292,644,033 59
(lain, 1839 over 1839, to dale 61.619,107 13
New Hind of Protective Tariff.
Father Clara, what game was that you
were playing hen I looked in tbe parlor
last night?
Clara Hide and seek.
Father What was the kissing for?
Clara Oh, that was the duty on the
hides.
THE liberal use of Piatt's Chlorides is wis
dom and economy combined.
Akmouk & Co., of this city, report the
following sales of dressed beei'ior tbe week
ending June 14, 1890: 232 carcasses, average
weight 624 pounds; average priee $6 69.
MONDAY,' JUNE 16,
DOMESTIC MAKKETS.
A Week of Very Great Activity in
Conntry Produce Lines.
DAIRY PRODUCE PLENTY AND SLOW
Receipts of Grain and nay Big and Market
In Buyer's Favor.
SUGAli AND COFFEE CONTINUE FIRM
OTFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH, 1
SATCBDAY. June 14, 1890.
Conntry Produce Jobbing Prices.
The week has been one of the best of the
year as regards volume ot stuff handled. New
domestic cheese is coming in freely and prices
are a shade loner with markets active at tbe
decline. Swiss cheeses are scarce and firm.
Creamery butter is steady at prices of a week
&ro. Country rolls are whatever can be ob
tained. Prices are nominal and dealers prefer
not to receive consignments. ' Egfts are steady
for fresh stock. Strawberries are plenty and
only the best stock bnngs outside quotations.
New potatoes are active and firm at quotations.
Bananas are very plenty and markets are weak.
Receipts for the week havo been over SO car
loads, accreKatlng fully 10,000 bunches. The
week closed with perishable c stuff unusually
well cleaned np.
BUTTftR Creamery, Elsln, 17ej Ohio do,
10c: fresh dairy packed, 1012c; country rolls,
79c.
liETtltlES Strawberries. 815o a box: $4 500)
5 50 "(1 two-bushel stand; conseberriet. $-2 25
2 50 a bushel box; black raspberries, 15JCc y
quart; gooseberries, S2 75 a bushel.
Heans Navv hand-picked beau", 52 002 10.
Beeswax 2SS0c il lb for choice;low grade,
2022c
Cherries Red. 010c $ quart.
Cantalouiks 14 505 50 crate.
Cider Sand reflncl. $7 50; common, S3 00
4 00; crah cider, S7 50S 00 Tfl barrel; cider vin
egar, 1012c $1 gallon.
Cueese New Ohio cheese. 8Kc: New York
cheese, 9K10c: Llrnberger,10esl!c: domes
tic bwettzer. 1419c: imported Sweitzer, 21c.
Eggs 1515c V dozen for strictly fresh.
Ffathers Kxtra live geese. oOQOOc; No. 1,
do, 4045c; mixed lot. 30835c jR &
AIaple Syrtjp New. 7695o a can; maple
sugar. 10llc ? ft.
Honey 15c f) lb.
Poultry Live chickens. SOcSSl 00 a pair;
dressed, 1214c a pound.
Seeps clover, choice, 62 lbs to bnshel. 4 00
V bushel; clover, large English, 02 lbs, & 35
4 60; clover. Alsike, 28 00; clover, white, J8 50;
timothy, choice. 45 lbs. SI 651 70; blue grass,
extra clean, 14 lbs, SI 2ol 30: blue grass, fancy,
14 lbs. SI 30: orchird eras. 14 lbs. II 40: red too.
14 lbs, SI 00; millet, 50 93, 75c; Hungarian
gras., 50 lbs. 75c: lawn grass, mixture of fine
grasses, $2 50 f) bushel of 14 tts.
Tallow Country, 3JJc: city rendered. 4c
Tropical Fruits Lemons, common, $4 00
434 25; fancy, S5 005 60; Messina orangcs,tS 00
0 50: bananas. SI 752 00 flrts. SI 50 good
seconds ft bunch; pineapples, 912 a hundred;
California, peaches, S2 002 50 jp box; Califor
nia apricots, 52 504 00.
Vegetables New Southern potatoes,
S3 003 50 V barrel; cabbage, 52 003 25 V
crate; Bermuda onions, S2 25 fl bushel crate:
greer. onlous, 1520c $ dozen; asparagus, 25
50c bunch: green beans, SI 501 75 halt
barrel basket; wax beans, $2 002 25; green
peas. SI 752 00 fl basket; cucumbers, SI 00
2 00 $ box; tomatoes, 52 7o3 00 V box.
Groceries.
Sugar Is very firm, but unchanged in this
market. It is now costing all it brings. Coffee
options are see-sawing under the influence of
bull and bear movements, but the real stuff is
steady at quotations. The movement of gen
eral groceries continues active.
Greek coffee Fancy Rio. 24X2Sc;
choice Rio, 2223Kc; prime Rio, 23c; low
1 grade Rio, 2021c; old Government Java.
2930c; Maracaluo, 25;27c; Mocba, S0
32c; Santos'2226c; Caracas, 2527c;Ia Guayra,
2627c v
Roasted (In papers) Standard brands, 25c;
high grades. 2830Kc; old Government Java,
bulk, 3334c; Jlaracaibo, 2?2"c; Bantos, 26
30c; peaberry, SOc; choice Rio, 26c; prime Rio,
25c; good Rio. 24c; ordinary, 21K022Xc.
Spices (whole) Cloves. 17lSc: allspice,
-10c; cassia, 8c: pepper, 15c; nntmeg. 75S0c.
Petrolxuh (Jobbers' prices) 110 test, 7ic:
Ohio, 120, 8Kc; heidllght, 150, 8c: water
white. 10c; globe, 1414kc; elaine, 14c; car
nadine. llfic; royaline, 14c; red oil, 11011c;
"purity. 14c.
Miners' Oil Wo. 1 winter strained. 4345c
ft gallon; summer, 3S40c: lard oil, 555Sc
Syrtjp Corn syrup, 2830c; choice sugar
syrup, SC3Sc: prime sugar syrup. 3033c;
strictly prime, usdoc: new mapie syrup, vuc.
jm. u. iiOLASSES rancy. new crop. 4S4
choice. 46c: medium. 3S43c: mixed. 4021.'c.
SODA Bi-carb in kegs 3X3-c; bi-cirb in
A 5c; bi-carb assorted packages, 6c;
sal-soda in kegs, lc: do granulated, 2c
Candles Star, full weight, 8c: stearine,
f? set, 8Kc; parafllne, ll12c
RlCB Head Carolina, 77Jic: choice, 6
6Jic; prime, b0c; Louisiana, o6c.
Starch Pearl, 3c; cornstarch, 5X0c;
gloss starch, 57c
Foreign Fruits Layer raisins S2 65; Lon
don Iavers,S2 75; Muscatels,S250: Calif ornia M us
catels,S2 40; Valencia,8Xc; Onuara Valencia. 10X
Qllc; sultan,1010c; currants, 56c:Turkey
prunes, OXSic: rench prunes, 012c: Salon
ica prunes, in 2-B packages, 9c: cocoanuts $1
100, S6; almonds, Lan., $1 lb. 20c; do Ivlca, 17c:
do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap , 13I4c; SicIIv
filberts, 12c; Smyrna figs, 1213c; new dates, 681
ojc: Brazil nuts, 11c; pecans, vyjtaiivc; citron, ft
lb, lS19c; lemon peel, 16c $1 ft; orange peel,
17c
Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per lb., 6e;
apDles, evaporated, 1010!c: peaches, evapor
ated, pared, 2426c: peaches, California, evap
orated, un pared, 174218c; cherries, pitted, 1214J
13c; cherries, unpitted, 53(Jc; raspberries,
evaporated. 3233c; blackberries, 77c:
huckleberries. 1012c
SuoArs Cubes, 7c: powdered, 7Je; granu
lated, 7Xc; confectioners' A. 6c: standard A,
6Vc; sou white, 6X6c: yellow, choice. 6V
6jc; yellow, good, 64itc; yellow, fair, 62
60s yellow, dark. 55Kc
Pickles Medium, bbls. (1,200), SS 00; me
dium, half bbls. (GOO), $5 00.
Salt No. 1, sp bbl. 85c; Ms. I ex. W bbl.Sl OK
dairy, Tfi bbl. SI 20; coarse crystal, ff bbl, $1 20;
Higgles' Eureka, 4-ba sacks, S2 80; Higgins'
Eureka, 16-14 lb packets, S3 00.
Canned Goods Standard peaches, S2 00
2 25; 2ds, SI 65 1 80; extra peaches. S2 402 60;
pie peaches. SI 05; finest corn, SI 251 40; Hfd
Co. corn, 6500c; red cherries, 90cSl; Lima
beans, SI 20; soaked do, SOc; string do. 6570c:
marrowfat peas. SI lOtI 25; soaked peas 70
SOc; pineapples, $1 SOffil 40; Bahama do, S2 75;
damson plums, 05c; greengages. SI 50: egg
plums, SI 75; California pears. S2 40; do green
gages, SI 75; do egg plums. Si 75; extra white
cherries, $2 40; raspDerrles, 95cSl 10: strawber-
lies. 80c; gooseberries. 85&0c: tomatoes,
8590c; salmon. .1-ft, $1 30180; blackberries,
60c:succoiash, 2-lb cans, soaked, 90c; do green,
2-ft, fl 251 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans, S210; lift
cins, S14; baked beans, SI 4U1 60; lobster. 1-ft,
SI 801 90; mackerel. 1-ft ca-is, broiled, SI 60;
sardines, domestic is. J4 254 35; sardines, do
mestic, Xs. SB 757; sardines, imported, ,
Sll50li60; sardines, imported. X". !8; ar
dines, mustard. S3 35; sardines, spiced. S3 50.
FISH Extta No, 1 bloater mtckerel, 538 V
bbl; extra No. 1 no. mess, $10: extra No. 1 mack
erel, shore, 23: extra No. 1 do. mess, 532; No. 2
shore mtckerel. S23. Codfish Whole pollock.
4X v1 B! do medium, George's cod. 6c; do
large, 7t; boneless hake, in strips, 4Xc; do
George's cod In blocks. 6XS7Xc. Herring
Round shore, S3 50 bbl; split, to 50: lake, S3 25
T? 100-ft bbU White fish, S3 50 1 100-ft half bbl.
Lake trout, $3 50 W half bbl. innan haddock,
10c yt ft. Iceland halibut, 13c -p ft. Pickerel,
half hlil. S3 00; quarter bbl, SI 35; Potomac her
ring, S3 50 ft bbl; S2 00 1 half bbl.
Oatmeal 55 005 25 V 1)bI-
Grain, Flour and Feed.
There was but one sale on call at the Grain
Exchange to-day, viz: a car of sample corn,
34c Receipts as bulletined, 27 cars. By Pitts
burg, Ft, Wayne and Chicago Railway. 2 cars of
oats. 1 of wheat. 2 of Iny, 4 of flour, 1 of feed.
By Pittsburg. Cincinnati and Sr. Louis, 1 car
of hiv, 1 of oats, 2 of corn, 2 of bran. By Bal
timore and Oblo, 5 cars of hav, 1 of oats, 1 of
rye. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie. 1 car of rje,
1 ot hay, 1 of oats, 1 of flour. For the week
closing June 13 receipts of gram and hay were
247 cars against 208 cars tbe previous neck.
Oats have tbe lead this week, receipts being 58
carloads against 42 last week. Hay is next in
volume. 51 carloads having been lecelved this
week. Markets are slow all along the lino of
cereals. With receipts mnch larger than a
week ago, markets are Inclined to drag.
Prices are for carload lots on track:
Wheat New Wo. 2 red. 9192c; No. 3, 88
89c
CORN No. 2 yellow ear. 41X42c;blgh mixed
ear. 40X41c: No. 2 yellow, shelled, 3S38Xc;
high mixed shelled corn. SIHQSSc
Oats No. 2 white, 3333Xc; oxtra. No. 3,
3232Xc; mixed, 30X31c.
RyeMo. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, OOaoic;
No. I Western, 5960c
Flour Jobbing prices Fancy winter and
spring patents. J5 505 75: winter straight.
So 0)5 25: clear winter, 84 7535 00; straight
XXXX bakers', 54 254 .50. Rye flonr, S3 5001
3 75.
Milfeed Middlings, fine white S15 60
16 00 ip ton: brown middlings. S13 50014 00;
winter wheat, bran. III 5C12 00.
HAY-Baled timothy. No. L SU OOQll 25: No.
2 dr 59 oO10 00; loose, from -wagon, S13 00
15 00, according to quality: No. 2 prairie hay,
f7 p07 50; packing do, 16 506 75; clover hay,
57 60S O0L
STRA-w-Oat, 16 757 00; wheat andrye,S6 00
so 25. '
1890.
Provisions.
Sugar-cured hams, large. 10c; sugar-cured
hams, medium, 10c; sugar-hams, small, Il&c:
sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8Xc; sugar-cured
shoulders, 6ic; sugar-cured boneless shoul
ders, bic; sugar-cured California hams, 8c;
sugar-cured dried beer flats, 9c; sugar-cured
dried benf sets, 10c; sugar-cured dried beef
rounds. 12c; bacon, shoulders, 6c; bacon, clear
sides. 7Xc; bacon, clear bellies, 7X rtrT al
shoulders, 6Xc: dry salt clear sides, 7Kc Mess
Eork. heavy, $13 60: mess pork, family, (13 50L
ard Refined, in tierces, SVc; half-barrels, 6c;
60-ft tnhs, 6c; 20-ft pails, 6c; 50-ft tin cans.
fic; 3-ft tin pails, 6Xc; 6-ft tin palls, 6Kc; 10-ft
tin palls. 6Vc Smoked sausage, long, 5c;
large, 6c Fresh pork, links. 9c Boneless
bams, 10X& ' Pigs' feet, half-barrels, S4 00;
quarter-barrels, S2 15.
MABKETSBY WIRE.
Speculation In th Windy Clly Shows Con-
Idernble Decndence Wbent Lower
Hog Products Give Wny Ail
Along Ihe Line.
CHICAGO In wheat to-day there was but
moderate trading, and part of yesterday's ad
vance was lost, Tbe opening was firm at
full yesterday's closing prices to a shade better,
but became easy under fair offerings and only
limited demand, ana prices gradually eased off,
declining lffilXe with only very slight fluctua
tion, improved 'slightly and held steady,
closing about HXc lower than closing figures
of yesterday.
Corn was quiet tbe greater part of the ses
sion, most of tho trading occurring early
around the opening, after which it became very
quiet. The feeling prevailing was steady and
no special changes in prices were recorded.
Oats were quiet and firm, and changes in
prices confined to a 54c range.
Hog products A quiet and dull feeling pre
vailed in this market. The receipts of products
were liberal, epccially of meats, and tbe ship
ments of all descrf'ions quite large. Trading
was limited and mainly for July and Septem
ber. Prices ruled lower on all leading articles,
but tbe market closed steady.
Tbe leading futures ranceu as follows:
Wheat-No. 2. June. SSX!8?i087X87e:
Julv. 89X89t38SXOSc,; August, 889X
sskussxc
Corn-No. 2. June. Si'i3iMlAS3iiie;
JulVa34Jf843434Jic;Angust, 35X35X
35835Xc
Oats-No. 2. July. 2728Xffl2723Kc;
August. 2020Ji25;i26c; September, 25-
25&25X!25J;c. 1
Mess Pork, per bbl. Julv, 512 7012 95
12 7012 85; August, S12 7512 75; Semember,
S12 S012 85012 S012 85.
Lard, per 100 fts. July, S5 955 955 DO
5 92K: August. 56 02X6 02X; September,
S 17X6 17X6 12X66 15.
Shout Ribs, ner 100 lbs July. $5 055 05
5 00(85 02X; August. 55 12U5 12X; September,
S5 25-85 27X36 205 22X-
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
quiet and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat.
87Ji87Xc; No. 3 spring wheat. 76085c; No. 2
red, 87ic No. 2 corn, 34K34Xc No. 2 oats,
2Sc No. 2 rye, 45Xc No. 2 barley, steady.
No. 1 flaxseed, 1 39. Prime timothy seed,
SI 3701 39. Mess pork, rrr bbl. $12 75012 85.
Lard,, per 100 lbs . S5 8505 8 Short rib
sides (loose). 55 0005 10. Dry salted shoulders
(boxed). 55 O05 10. Short clear sides (boxed),
55 4505 50. Sugars Cut. loaf. 7K07c: granu
lated, 7c; standard A. 6c On tbe Produce
Exchaugn to-day. butter and eggs unchanged.
NEW YORK Flour weak and moderately
active. Cornmeal more active and easier; yel
low Western, 52 102 45. Wheat Spot dull
and nominally Xc down; options dull. 0c
down and weak. Rye qmet: Western. 50057c
Barley dull. Barley malt dull. Corn Spot firm
and quiet; options dull and steady. Oats
Spot dull and firm; options steady. Hay easv
and quiet; shipping, &04Oc; good to choice, 60
0S5c slops quiet and firm. Coffee Options
opened steady 5 points down to 10 points up;
closed steady and unchanged to 15 points up;
sales, 15 800 bags Including June, 17.50c; July,
1720017.25c: August, 17.0517.10c; September.
18 80016.90c; October. 16.45c: November, 16.20c;
December. 16.10c; February, 15.95c; March.
15.9016.00c: May, 15.8515.00c: spot Rio dull;
fair cargoes, 20c; No. 7 flat bean, I8Xc. Sugar
Raw quiet and easy; centrifugals, 96 test,
&Xc bid: refined fairly active and firm.
Molasses Foreign quiet; 50 test. 19c; New
Orleans dull; common to fancv, 3104oc. Rice
quiet and steady; domestic 6X6c; Japan,
&X06XC Cottonseed oil do'l. Tallow steady;
city (82 00 for packages). 4Jc. Rosin firm;
strained, common to good, 51 4501 50. Tur
pentine firm and quiet at 3SJi39Jic Eigs
firmer; Western, 13X0132c: receipts, 6,117
packages. Pork firm; mess, 513 75014 25; ex
tra prime, fll 00. Cutmeats firm: bellies 60
Mr: do hams. 901Oc; middles il till ; short clear,
0.20c Lard dull, easier: casn. S6 15: sales. 1.G0O
tierces: options, sales, 750 tierces; July, 50 17;
August, So 32, closing at S631; September. 5642;
October. 56 48; December, 56 43, closing at (6 41.
Bntter in .good demand and firm; Western
dairy. 6010c; do creamery, 7015c; do factory,
4010c; Elgin, 15c. Cheese steady and quiet;
Western. 78c
PHILADELPHIA Flour very dull, prices
weak. Wheat Spot ruled firm under a fair
demind; futures weak and nominal; rejected,
7278c; fair to good milling. 8S93c; prime to
choice. 95098c: prime to choice nngratlerl for
milling, 9(J09Sc; No. 2 red, June, 9OV091Xc;
July.Augustand September, 90Ji91Xc Corn
Options firm: carlots quiet; Bo. 3 mixed,
track, 40c; steamer in export elevator, 39c;
No. 2 in do, 4OX04Oc; No. 2 mixed in grain
denot. 41c: No. 2 mixed June. 40-4UJc: Julv.
410114c; August, 42042Jc: September, 42X0
4Jc Oats Car lots opened shade weaker,
closed firm; No. 3 white, 34e; No. 2 white, 35c:
futures dull; No. 2 white. June. SlK34c;
Julv. 3434c: August, 3132Xc; Septem
ber. 3O03OXC Butter firm; Pennsylvania
creamery, extra. 14X015c; do prints, extra, 180
23c Eggs dull; Pennsylvania firsts. 14X015c
MINNEAPOLIS Receipts or wheat were 75
cars, and shipments 27 cars. The demand was
fair for good selections of sample wheat for
milling in the early part of the dav. A heavy
break came to futures before tbe middle of
tbe session, and buyers of samples drew off,
leaving many cars unsold. Later, aftertbe
break in futures bad been checked, sample
buyers were in the market again, but bidding
very much lower prices, and such lots tbat
were not especially choice were slow to move.
Closing quotations' No. 1 hard, June, 85c:
July, 85c; on track, 8787Xo; No. 1 Northern,
Jnne. 84e; Julv. Sific asked; August, 85c; on
track, 86Xc; No. 2 Northern, Jnne and July,
82c; on track, 82084c.
ST. LOUIS Flour dull but steady. Wheat
opened better, hut soon declined, and alter
fluctuating considerable, closed 0Jc below
yesterday; No. 2 red. cash, 89c; Julv closed
SGXc bid; August, SSJfc; December. S9Jgr.
Corn easier; July ytc lower; other months nn
changed;No. 2 cash, 32c: July closed at 33Xc;
August. 32Xc bid; September, 83Xc Oats
opened higher, but fell down and closed below
yesterday: No. 2, cash, 28Xc; August, 26c
asked; September. 26c Rye lower; No. 3
sold at 41c Flaxseed nominal; casb, SI 35;
salesAugust, SI 30; September, 81 29. Wbiskv
steady. SI 09. Provisions dull and weak, and
only a small job trade done at previous prices.
BALTIMORE Wheat Western quiet: No. 2
Winter red. spot aud June. 88c: .Inlv and
August. 88Ji08SJic; September, 89X089?C
Corn Western firmer; mixed, spot, 4OX041e:
Jnne. 4O04lXc; Julv. 4041c: August.
4141Xc: September, 41Jc bid; steamer, SrtN'c
asked. Oats steady aud unchanged. Rye
quiet and unchanged. Hay anil and Un
changed. Provisions steady and unchanged.
Butter firm and unchanged. Ezzs steady at
14XC
MILWAUKEE Wheat easy: No. 2 white, on
track, casb, 85c; July, 85jc; No. 1 Northern,
91c Corn quiet; No. 3 on traifc, 34c Oats
steady; No. 2 white on track, 29Xc. Rjo firm;
No. 1, in store, 46c bid. Barley Arm: No. 2. In
store, 4949Jic Provisions firm. Pork. 512 75.
Lard. 55 85. Cheese unchanged; Cheddars. TU
Sc
TOLEDO Wheat dull and steady; cash. 89c;
July. 89Kc; August, 88:; September, 8SKc
Corn active: cash and July, 36c: August, 37c.
Oats quiet; casb, 29c; August, 27Xc Clover
seed steady; cash, S3 25.
HOME-MADE ICE CHEAM.
How Illost Dellclona Hot Weather Dishes
Can be AInde Easily.
Ice cream as good as any confectioner's
can be made by the following recipe: Use
pure cream, unmixed with milk or water
so long us the cream is not unusually thick
and fresh fruits. If you want to make1 straw
berry ice cream take a full quart of straw
brriesand a quart of cream. Slash the straw
berries, put some sugar on them and let
them stand for an hour or two. Then mix
with the cream ind sweeten to taste. Put
tbe mixture into a freezer, turn the crank,
and when Irozen the ice cream will be per
fect. For orange water ice take the juice of
a dozen oranges and three lemons and put
with it as much water as there is juice, with
sugar to suit the taste; then freezj it. The
reason why home-made ice cream is nearly
always a failure is that housewives will put
milk or even arrowroot into it.
I .
Improved Albnm. .
A new album leaf is divided or folded.
The photographs are inserted between the
halves of each lea', and the latter are then
folded and locked upon each other to retain
the photograph. The advantage of this con
struction is that the album will retain its
normal thickness, whether full or empty.
Another advantage, which, will doubtless be
much Appreciated, is that the photographs
cannot be extracted except by the possessor
ol the key. , ,
CARRIES PIGEON'S SPEED.
One
of Ibe Winged Uessenieri Bents a
Train From Dover to London.
A race from Dover to London took place
recently between the (Jontineutal mail ex
press train and a carrier pigeon, conveying
an urgent document for the French police.
The rails, carriages and engine of the ex
press train were, as might be expected, of
tbe best possible construction for power and
speed.
The pigeon.which was known as a "Belgi
an voyagenr." was tossed through tbe rail
way carriage window bv a French official
as the train left the Admiralty Pier, the
wind being west, and the atmosphere hazy.
Tbe train bad made more than a mile
beiore the poor bird decided which direction
to take. It circled up in tbe air, rising all
the time in wider rings, while the train,
which made no stop, was speeding along at
the rate of GO miles an hour, and .the rail
way officials were ready to loy any odds on
their train.
Rut the race was not to the strong, for a
telegram announced the arrival of the bird
20 minutes before the train was heard oi i
IIGHTnifi rjr PH0T0GBAPHT.
Not Enongh Attention Is Given Ordinarily to
Simplicity.
Some excellent advice is given bya recent
writer on the production of artistic effects
by judicious lighting in photography. He
says that if photography 'seeks to- follow in
the footsteps oi art, it should free itself
from the limitations of lighting in portrait
ure imposed bv the narrow confines of sky
lights and reflecting screens. Were more
study given to simplicity in lighting, the
more successlnl would be the average por
trait. "This Is exactly tbe study of the painter,
simplicity in his methods. WI17 does the
amatenr often beat tbe professional? Be
cause he is backed with more artistic judg
ment, and freed from the conventions of tbe
skylight, works with greater simplicity.
What has m ide the success of some of tbe
best or our photographers, and what has led
Sarony now-a-days to discared backgrounds
and bric-a-brae altogether? Nothing but
this."
TESTIHG DEAFNESS.
An Apparatus That Wilt Record the Decree
In Which tho Victim Suffers.
A modification of Prof. Hughes' sonom
eter, for testing tbe degree of deafness, and
also for detecting the conscripts who plead
deafness as an excuse for not serving in the
army, has been devised by Dr. Cheval, ot
Brussels. It is called tbe electric acoumeter,
and consists of a series of coils, an electrical
tuning fork, a microphone, switches, plugs
and other accessories. The individual
whose hearing is to be tested is placed with
his back to the apparatus, and has two tele
phone receivers fixed tightly over his ears.
Various sounds are then produced, tbe two
outer coils being moved gradually away
from the center one until no noise is heard
in the telephone receivers. The distance
through which the coils have been moved fs
a measure of the hearing power ot the indi
vidual. CIOTH PEOM WASTE GLASS.
It
Prettier Than Silk, More Elastic and
Easily Wnshed.
The manufacture of cloth from waste glass
has been recently practically tested in En
gland. Besides utilizing hundreds of tons
of a broken and useless substance, tbe new
textile will have many advantages over all
other tabrics; it is incombustible, and can
be manufactured in ail colors, and of any
desired strength or thickness. The property
of incombustibility will render it invalua
ble to those working near or with fire. It is
also used for ladies' dresses, and lor other
purposes in. place of .silk, than which it is
more glossy and lustrous, and more easily
washed, as welt as softer aud more elastic
GOLD IN THE ARTS.
The
Amount -Used In Glldlnir Alone la a
II envy Drain on the Supply.
bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
In gilding a picture frame 10x8 feet, 60
books of gold-leaf are required, 35 leaves to
the book, each book laying IS inches
square. The book-gold costs 40 cents a book,
the actual value of the metal is 20 cents.
So, to say nothing ol the labor, $20 worth of
gold leaf books, having $10 worth of metal,
were used on this one frame. Multiply this
by the hnndreds of thousands of picture
frames in the country and take into account
tbe millions of sign letters made of pure
gold, one may well inquire how long the
gold is going to last.
MUTTON FOB MONTHS.
A Railroad Wreck Tbnt Offers a Useful Hint
to the Redskins.
Becently on the Atlantic and Pacific
Bailroad a train of cars, loaded with
6,000 fine merino sheep on the way
from California to the Chicago market,
was wrecked, and every car but two
was destroyed, more than 1,000 sheep being,
killed outright. The Indians in the vicin
ity took advantage of the occasion to sup
ply themselves with mutton in sufficient
quantities to last them for months to come.
Some anxiety is now ielt lest the wily red
man, having'onre realized the advantages of
"accidents," should arrange them in iuture
to suit the exigencies of his larder.
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Ronitnbom nt Church or Elsewhere and
the Leveea Deserted.
The river is still rising, but Its rise is a slow
as yesterday's business on tbe wharves was.
Although no bustling prevailed, however, there
was a good deal of, bustling, for tbe two excur
sion packets, not to mention Innumerable
small fry in the way of skiffs, punts, rafts and
demi-rafts, took out loads of merry makers.
All the roustabouts must have gone either to
church or speak-easy, as the levees were de
serted by the river craft.
What the Wnvrletn Whisper.
TirE Buckeye btate deoarted from Louisville
yesterday for Memphis.
THE City of Pittsburg likewise took a sneak with
a big lot of excursionists.
The Andy Pulton and Hotspur placed the last
caisson of the new bridge at Louisville In position
Friday.
CAFTirx Green, of Cincinnati, has bought the.
Bedford trom Nashville parties, and she Is on her
way np to Pittsburg.
THE Slayflower sailed out yesterday with Its
usual Sunday load oflorcsick couples. The Mozart
Orchestra wss ou board, and played a soul-Insplr-Ing
"rum-tl-lddv-iy" kind of air as the big boat
swept Over the frlghtencd-rat-colored waters.
A 7CSST scene occurred above Eighteenth
street bridge on tbe Allegheny yesterday. Some
twenty boys went in swltninlng In tbe water, and
son e io police went a-sktdug ihcresfter. Hot
the gay kfds unset the rolllcklnjr skltt Into the
dtnclng'nivelets. It was flue sport for the bTi
as llio cops" can swim even worse than they can
do anything else. However the officers' lai-ge
boats saved their owners by acting- as floats, aud
the pursuers icot to shore, but only to And the pur
sucua long, long distince away,
TuX boat Is tbe thing to travel on. after all, es
pecially t this season or the year. True, they
are not In is much of a hurry as the average "can
non ball" train or the "lightning express," but
a man bas the satisfaction of feeling and knowing
tbat when he starts for a place on a steam boat he
generally goes there, but when he gets on board
a train nowadays ho don't know whether he'll
ever sret there or not. He can't tell, scooting
through tbe world at tbe rate or a mile a minute,
when or where some old (4 cow will contest the
right of way, and be thrown Into the woods,
dnmped dowu an embankment or be palled ont of
a pile of ruins, or swept up after being cremated
and sent home In a cheese box. What If a man
gain an hour or life and loseihhls valise by taking
a train. Uetter take a boil, go slow, and take the
chances on swimming ashore, thin to so whizzing
tlirongh life at the rate of GO miles an hoar on an
uncertalultv. Courier Journal.
When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla,
When she was a Child, she c. led for Castorla,
When she became Miss, she clung, to Castorla,
When she bad Cbildreajhe gave them Castorla
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AS BIG AS A CABBAGE
Must bo tbo Itniton-IIols rtonqaot of the
Very Proper Yoong Man.
Boston Herald.
The button-hole.ns we now term Ie bouton
niere. increases in size at a fearful rate. A'
small cabbage stuck in milord's coat would
not be more conspicuous than some of the
bououets which now decorate the chest of
howling swells when they are in grande
tnue. The carnation, oue bloom of any
flower, indeed, is not sufficient; there must
be a big bunch of them, if Algernon Plan-tagenet-Jones
would look like his model ia
London.
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tut obtained no relief; the sort
gradually grew worse. I finally
took S. S. Sn and was entirely
cured after using a few bottles?
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Henderson, Tex,
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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 Mud these goods attractive both in price
and novelties of design. Fnll lines of New
Laces and White Goods. UFHOLSTEKY DE-PARTJIENT-Bcst
makes Window dhades in
dado and plain or spring fixtures. Lace Cur
tains, Portieres. Chenille Curtains, Poles and
Brass Trimmings; Floor, Table and Stair Oil
Cloths in best makes, lowest prices for quality.
WASH DRESS FABRICS.
The largest variety from which to select
Toll Du Nords, Cnalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck
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Receives deposits and loans only on mort
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JOHN B. JACKSON, Pres't.
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As old residents know and back files of Pitts
burg papers prove, is tbe oldest established
and most prominent physician in the city, de
voting special attention to all chronic diseases.
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1 1 L fl V U U O decay.nervous debility, lack of
energy, ambition and hope, impaired memory,
disordered sight, self distrust, bashfulness.
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poisons thoroughly eradicated from tbe system.
1 1 D I M A DV kidney and bladder derange
Unilinfi I j menu, weak back, gravel, ca
tarrhal discbarges, inflammation and other
painful symptoms receive searching treatment,
prompt relief and real cures.
Dr. Wbittier's life-Ions extensive experience
insures scientific and reliable treatment on
common-sense principles. Consultation free.
Patients at a distance as carefully treated as it
here. Office hours, 9 A. St. to 8 P. M. Sunday.
10 A. it. to 1 p. M. only. DK. W HITTIEH, 814
Penn avenue, Pittsburg. Pa.
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