THE PITTSBUKG DISPATCH, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1890. fr-PHE WISDOM OF RUTH A Beautiful Lesson From the Story of the MoaMte Sisters. CHKISTIAKS YBO START BRAVELT But Whose Timidity, Like That of Orpah, PreTents Them From COKTIKUIKG TO THE JODEKEI'S END rsrrcLU. tilioram to thz dispatch.! Brookltsj June 22. Dr.Talmage gives another evidence of his genius in his sermon lor to-day. The Book of Buth has fur nished the subject for many sermons, but they have naturally been concerned with the central character of that beautiful story; it remained for the popular Brooklyn divine to find in the character of the less conspicu ous widow material for spiritual lessons. His text is Buth i, 14: "And they lifted tip their voices and wept, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Buth clave unto her." Following is the sermon: Moab was a heathen land. Naomi is about to leave It and go i:to tlio land of Bethlehem. She has two daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah, who conclude to go with her. Naomi tells them they had better notleave their natlTe land and undertake the hardships of the jour ney, but they will not be persuaded. They all three start out on their journey. After awhile, Naomi, although she highly prized the company of Ler two daughters-in-law, attempted again to persuade them to go back becanse of the hardship and self-denial through vthich they would be obliged toga. Ruth responds in the words from which I once discoursed to yon : ".Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to retnrn from following after thee, for where thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy pcoplo shall be my peo- rle and thy God my God; where thou dlest will die and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part thee and me." Not so with her sister Orpah. Her determination had already been shaken. The length and peril of the journey began to appal her, and she had worshiped the cods of loab so lonj; that it was bard to give them up. Prom that point Orpah turned back, the part ing being described in the words of my text : And they lifted up their voice and wept again, and Orpah kissed her mother-m-law. but Kuth clave unto her. THE LESSON' OF THE STOBT. Learn from this story of Orpah that somo of those who do not leave the Moab of their iniquities are persons of fine susceptibility. It was compassion for Naomi in her widowhood and sorrow that led Orpah to start with her toward Bethlehem. It was not because of any lack of affection for her that she turned back. We know this from the grief exhibited at parting. 1 do not know but that she had as much warmth and ardor or nature as Ruth, but she lacked the courage and persistence of her sister. That there are many with as One susceptibility as Orpah who will not take up their cross and follow Christ, is a truth which needs but little demonstration. Many of those vho have become tbe followers of Jesus hare but very little natural impressibilitr. Grace often takes hold of the hardest heart and the most unloTely character and transforms it. It is a hammer that breaks rocks. In this Christ often shows His poner. It wants but little generalship to conqner a flat country, but migbt of artillery and heroism to take a fort manned and ready for raking cannonade. The great Captain of our salvation has forced His way into many an armed castle. I doubt not that Christ could have found many a fisher man naturally more noble-hearted than Simon Peter, but there was no one by whose conversa tion He could more gloriously have magnified His grace. The conversion of a score oi Johns would not have illustrated the power of the Holy Ghost as much as the conversion of one Peter. It would have been easier to drive 20 lambs like John into the fold than to tame one lion like Peter. God has often made some of His most efficient servants out of men naturallv unimpressionable. As men take stiff and un wieldy timbers, and under huge-handed ma chinery bend them into the hulk of great ships, thus God has often shaped and bent into His ueryice me most unwieiuy natures, wnueinose naturally impressionable are still in their un changed state. THKT IOXOEE THE SAVIOR Oh. bow many, like Orpah, have warm affec tions and yet never become Christians! Like Orpab, they know bow to weep, but they do not know how to pray Their fineness of feeling leads them into the friendships oi the world, but not into commnmon with God. Tbey can love everybody but Him. who is altogether lovely. All other sorrow rends their heart, but they arc untouched by the woes of a dying Christ. Good news fills them with excitement, but the glad tidings of great joy and salvation stir not their soul. Anxions to do what is right, yet they rob God. Grateful for the slightest favors, they make no return to Him who wrung out the last dron of blood from His heart totleliver them from going down to the pit. They would weep at the door of a prison at the sight of a wicked cap tne in chain, but have no compassion for tbeir own souls over which Satan, like a grim jailer, bolds the lock and key. When repulsive, grasping, unsrmpa thetic natures resist the story of abavinr's lore, it does not excite our surprise; but it is among the greatet of wonders that so many who exhibit Orpah's susceptibility also exhibit Orpab's impemtency. we are not surprised that there is barren ness In a desert, but a strange thing is it that sometimes the Rose of bliaron will not grow in a garden. On a summer morning we are not surprised to find a rock without any dew on it, but it, going among a flock of lilies, e saw in them no glittering drops, we would say, "What ioui sprite bas been robbing these vasesT" "We are not surprised that Herod did not be come a Christian, but how strange that the young man Jesus loved for bis sweetness of temper should not have loved the Redeemer. Hard-hearted Felix trembled: proud Nebuch adnezzar repented, and cruel Manasseh turned unto the Lord; but many a nature, affectionate and gentle, has foucbt successfully against divine influences. Many a dote hag refused to come in the wiDdow of the ark although finding no rest tor the sole of her foot. THE FAINT-HEARTED. Again, the history of Orpah impresses upon me the truth that there are many who make a good starting, but after awhile change their minds and turn back. "When these three mourners start from their home In Moab there Is as much probability that Orpah will reach Bethlehem as that her sister Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi will arrive there. But while these continue in the journev they com menced, Orpah after awhile gets discouraged and turns back. This Is tho history ot many a souL Perhaps it was during a revival of relig ion they resolved upon a Christian life, and made preparations to leave Moab. Before that they were indifferent to the sanctuary, churches were necessary evils. Alas! Alas! Starting out for beaven is a very different thing from arriving them. Remcn,. Lot's wife. She looked back with longing to the place from which she came, and was de stroyed. Halfway between Sodom and the city of refuge that strange storm comeB upon her, and its salt and b lmstnne gather upon her garments until they are so stiffened she cannot proceed, nor can she lie down, because of this dreadful wrapping around lier garments and limbs; and long after her life has gone she still stands there so covered up bj the strange storm that she is called a pillar of salt, as some sailor on ship's deck in the wintry tempest stands covered with a mail of ice. Ten thou sand times 10,000 men have been destroyed half way between Sodom and the city of refuge. Orpab might as well never have started as af terwards to turn back. Yet multitudes have walked in her footsteps. Go among those the least interested in sacred things and you will find that tbey were once out of the land of Moab. Everyone or them prayed right heartily and studied their Bibles, and frequented the sanctuars. but Lot's wife looked back wist fully to Sodom, ana Orpah retreated from the company of Ruth and Naomi. It is an impres sive thought that after Orpab had gone so far as actually to look over into the land of Bethle hem, she turned back and died in Moab. DANGER IS TTJENINO BACK. Again: let our subject impress upon us the truth that those who have once felt it their duty to leave their natural state cannot give up their duty and go back to hardness of heart without a struggle. Alter Orpah had thoroughly made up her mind to go back to the place from which she started, she went through the sad scene of Darting with Ruth and Kamm m. - .. "They lifted up tbeir voice and wept." Ah. my hearer, it requires more decision and persever ance to stay away from the kingdom of God than to enter it. Although she did not know It, Orpah passed through a greater struggle in turning back into the land of Moab than would have been necessary to take her clear thrtu-h to Bethlehem, bn ppose you that those perwrns who have remained In their evil wass have had no struggle? Why. they have been obliged to figbt every inch of tbeir way. The roid to death Is not such ea.-y traveling as some minl terskave been accustomed to describe It. From beginning to endit Is fighting sgaiust the sharp sword of the hpirit. It is cliuibirc over 'lie cross. It is wading through the deep blood'of the Son of God. It is scaling mountains of privilege. It is wading through lakes of sor-row.-It is breaking over communion tables and baptismal fonts and pulpits and Bible". It is wedging one's self through between pious kindred who stand before and press us back and hold on to us by their prayers even after we have passed them in our headlong down ward career. No man ought to think of undertaking to go back into 'Moab after having come within sight of Bethlehem unless he have a heart that can not be made to quake, and a sire foot that will not slip among infinite perils, and an arm that can drive back the Son of God, who stands in the center of the broad road, spreading out His arms and shouting into the ear of the thought less pilgrim, "Stop! Stop!" , Wo talk about taking up the cross and fol lowing Jesus, but that cross is not half eo heavy as the burden whioh the sinner carries. It Is a very solemn thing to be a Christian, but it is a more solemn thing not to be a Christian. There are multitudes who, afraid of the self denials of the Christian, rush into the harder self-denials of the unbeliever. No voke but Christ's, however tight and galling! Orpah goes back to her Idolatries, bnt she returns weeping; and all who follow her will find the same sorrows. Just in proportion as gospel ad vantages have been numerous will be the dis turbance of the heart that will not turn to Christ. JTO EAST WAT TO HEAVEN. My friends, there is no solid happiness in any thing but religion, I care not how bright a home Orpah has in Moab, when she turns away from duty she turns away from peace. Amid the baccbanalla of Belsbaxzar's feast, and the glitter of chalices there always will come out a handwriting on the wall.f earf ully ominous; Tekel weighed in the balances and found wautmg." When vou can reap harvests off bare rocks, and gather balm ont of nightshade, and make sunlight sleep in the heart of se pulchres, and build a firm house on a rocking billow, then can au unpardoned soul find firm enjovment amid its transgressions. Then can Orpab go back to Moab without weeping. Again: This subject teaches that a religious choice and the want ot it frequently divide families. Ruth and Orpah and Naomi were ten derly attached. Tbey were all widows, and their life had been consecrated by a baptism ot tears. In the fire of trial their affections had been forged. Together they were so pleasantly nnited you can hardly imagine them separated. Yet a fatal line is drawn dividing them from each other, perhaps forever. Naomi cannot live in a heathen country. She must go into Bethlehem, that there among the pious she may worship the true God. Ruth makes a similar choice, but Orpah rebels. "And tbey lifted up their voice and wept again, and Orpah kised her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her." The history of this family of Klimelech is the history of many families of this day. How often it is that in a circle of relatives, while they look alike, and walk alike, and talk alike, there is a tremendous difference. Outwardly united in the affectional relations oi tnis me. they are separated in the most important re spects. Some now are the children of light and others the chddren of darkness. THE AMERICAN JUGGERNAUT that crushes more men than the great car of the Hindoos. To It they say their morning and evening prayers. A little of Christ's re ligion may creep into the Sabbath, but Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the dajs devoted to this Ameri can idol. Every hour there is a sacrifice on the altar. Home duties, health of body, manly strength and Immortal affections mnst all burn in this holocaust. Men act as though tbey could take their bonds and mortgages and saws and trowels and axes and daybooks with them into the kincdom of heaven. There are many who have no unholy thirst for gold, yet who are devoting themselves to their worldly occupations with a ruinous inten sity. Men of the stock exchange, men of the yard stick, men of the saw, men of the trowel, men of the daybook, what will become ot you if unforgiven in the great day when there are no houses to build and no goods to sell and no bargains to make? It is possible to devote one self even to a lawful calling until it becomes sinful. There is no excuse on the earth or un der the earth for the neglect of our death less spirit. Lydia was a seller of purple, jet she did not allow her extensive occupation to keep her from becoming a Christian. Daniel was Secretary of State and Attorney General in the empire of Babylon, and yet, three times a day be found time to pray with his face toward Jerusalem. The man who has no time to attend to religion will have no time to enter heaven. But tbere are others who, while their worldly occupation has no particular fascination over them, are entirely absorbed In the gains that come to that occupation. This is the worship of Mammon. The ring of dollars and cents is the only litany they ever utter. Though in the last day the earth itself will not be worth a farthing, a heap of ashes scattered in the whirl wind, they are now giving tbeir time and eter nity for the acquisition of so much of it as you might at last bold in the hollow of one band. The American Indian who gave enough land to make a u.ateout or. lor a string ot oeaus. made a princely bargain compared with the speculation or tnat man wno gains tne wnoie world and loses bis own souk How much comfort do the men take who died unforgiven ten years ago. LEAVING LARGE FORTUNES To their heirs f Do they ever come up to count the gold they hoarded or walk through the mansions tbey built? Though they could have bought an empire, they have not now as much money as you have this moment in your pocket. Solomon looked upon his palace and the grounds surrounding it, pools rimmed with gold, and circling roads along which, at times, rushed his 1,400 chariots. whUo under the out branching sycamores and cedars walked the apes and peacocks, which by the navy of Hiram had been brought from Tarshish, and from the window curtains with embroidered gold and purple througb which came out the thrill of harps and psalteries mingling with the song of the waters. When Solomon saw that all these luxuries of sight and sound bad been purchased by his wealtb, he broke forth In tho exclamation, "Money answereth all things." But wo cannot receive it as literal. It cannot still the voice of conscience. It cannot drown the sorrows of the soul. It cannot put a bribe in the band of death. It cannot unlock the gate of heaven. But it was not only the gods of Moab that made Orpah leave her sister and mother-in-law. She doubtless bad a dread of the hardships to which they would be exposed on the journey to Bethlehem, and Orpah was not alone in the fear. Doubtless some ot vou have been annalled and driven back by the self-denials of the Christian life. The taunt of the world, the charge of hypocrisy which they would some times be obliged to confront, has kept many away from the land ot Bethlehem. Theyspend their life in counting the cost and, because a Christian life demands so much courage and faith, they dare not begin to build. Perhaps tbey are courageous in every other respect. They are not timid in presence of any danger except that of trusting in the infinite mercy of Cbnst. The sheep are more afraid of the shep herd than of the wolves. They shrink awav from the presence of Christ as though He were a tyrant rather than a friend who sticketh closer than a brother. Tbey feel more safe in the ranks ot the enemy, where tbey must suffer infinite defeat than in THE ARMY OF CHRIST which shall be more than conquerors through Him that hath loveu them. Men shiver and tremble before religion as though they were commanded to throw tbeir life away, as though it were a surrender of honor and manliness and reason and self-respect and all that is worth keeping. What has God ever done that His mercy should be doubted? Was there ever a sorrow of His frailest child that He did not pity? Was there ever a soul that He left uu helped in the darkness? Was there ever a martyr tbatHe did not strengthen in the flames? Was there ever a dying man to whose relief He did not come at the cry ot "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit," Aye, my sonl, what has God done that so basely thou bas doubted Him? Did He make the whole earth a desert? Are all the skies dark and storm-swept? Is life all sick ness? IS" the air all plague? Is there nothing but rods and scorpions and furnaces? God knew bow many suspicions and unbeliefs men would entertain in regard to Him and therefore, after making a multitude of plain and precious promises. He places His hand on His own heart and swears by His own existence: "As 1 live, saith the Lord God. I have no pleasure in the death of him that dietb." Why tben fight against God? This day the battle rages. Thou art armed with thy sins, thy ingratitude, thy neglects, and Christ is armed against thee, but Ilia weapons are tears, are dying agonies, are calls to mercy, and the battle cry which He this day sends over tby soul as He rushes toward thee is '"save tbee from going down to the pit for I have found a ransom." I'would not envy thy victory, O hearer, it thou dost conquer, for what wilt thou do with the weapons thou bast snatched from the armed Redeemer, what with the tear.-, what with His dying agonies, what with bis calls to mercy? Would God that Orpah would get tired of Moab! Would God that Orpah w ould go to Bethlehem. SUNDAY MORNING'S NEWS. Summary of the World's Events Recorded In the Columns of xesterdny's Dispatch, Yesterday's Issue of The Dispatch was up to its usual standard of excellence. It was made up of 20 eight-column pages, and beside the entertaining contributions of the best writers at home and abroad, contained all the news of the world and a complete record of local hap penings and current gossip. A summary of the more Important events Is appended: Political Straw. Pattison men figure 14 out or the 21 Alle gheny county delegates to Democratic Conven tion. McWUllams and Boyle neck and neck for County Commissioner. Democratic pri maries hard to sum up.... Quay sees local leaders and maintains faith in Delamater's success.. ..Chief Brown chosen Chairman of the Allegheny delegation to Republican Convention. ...Rody Morgan, ot Harris burg, thinks Pattison will win In Blair ....The Montooth boomers will move on Harrisburg Tueday morning.. ..Lycoming Democratic delegates Instructed for Wallace after a stormy convention and cries of fraud from Pattison men.. ..Pattison captures tbe bulkot the Montgomery delegation. ...Clarion Democrats unanimous for Pattison.. ..Somer set and McKean Democratic primary returns not all In, but believed to favor Pattison.... Mercer County Farmers and Laborers' Conven tion adopt revolutions to tax all property, abol ish offices of Poor Director, Jury Commissioner and Superintendent of Schools, and nominate a county ticket September 1 Congressman Outhwalte re-nominated by Ohio Democrats. Local nod Knbnrbnn. Sharpsburg excited over mysterious death of Thomas Pryle.and family demand investigation. . . . .Rumored severe illness of Father Molhnger denied.... Bananas captured from unlicensed peddlers given to hospitals.. ..Grand Army Day Committee to meet July 19, to discuss parade. ....Daniel Herman dies suddenly at 263 Forbes street.. ..Orders issued to keep ladies out of ,Mt- Gretna Militia Camp.. ..Census Supervisor uiirer says complete returns will oe naa Detore be closes his office.. . Electric light war cuts rates in Wilkinsburg.... One hundred applicants for 31 vacancies on Allegheny police force.... Man ufacturers satisfied with Amalgamited scale ....Sudden death of Eccles Robinson, labor leader.... Chambers . McKee introduce new machinery to make decorated glassware.... O'Hara and Sbaler township folk organize to check tbe bilariousness of Sunday desecrators ....Overcrowded Italian tenements located bv Dispatch reporter.. ..Commission appointed to inquire into sanity or murderer Smith.... McUandless prise awarded to best bread bakers of Grant School Mamie Kelly, Mt. Washing ton; Pearl Ruch and Blanche Ward, Bellefield ....Miss Louisa Simendinger enters suit for alleged defamation of character, asking $30,000 damages. Mrs. Margaret McNeill, or divorce snit fame, defendant.. ..Mayor Gourley will make personal canvass tor money to defray ex penses of grand Fourth of July celebration.... Cloudburst causes damage at Wheeling.... Trouble at Tutter Coke Wmrks, Scottdale, set tled. ...Death of the third of tbe Newton quad ruplets at ScottdaIo....No trace of the im prisoned Farm Hill miners. Home Telegraphic News. Gompers sails into Powderly. calls him a charlatan and his followers an organized band of "scabs.".. ..Rival steamboat lines between Cincinnati and Louisville recall old-time boat lngaays.... Tyranny of Mexican Government causes an incipient revolution.and leads observ ers to predict that Diaz will sonn proclaim him self Dictator.. ..Austin Corbln will resign Presi dency of Reading, and A. A. McLeod will take his place Original package man disturbs tho Kansas Chautauqua Assembly, and 13,000 has ueei suDscriDea to run mm out oi tne neigh borhood. ...Mississippi whites map out a clan to deprive tbe negroes of suffrage.... Sugar Trust agitated over adoption of conference re port on anti-trust bill by the House.. ..Crooked census work at St. Paul and Minneapolis as sumes scandalous proportions.. ..Philadel phia's population estimated at 1,040449; Boston over 400.000: Cincinnati about 300,000; New Orleans, 238,300; New lork. 1,627,227: Brooklyn, 900,000 Political work combined with tbe cen sus in Indiana.... Louisiana lottery managers offer 9 000,000 for a franchise.... Boston saloon keepers are not obliged to furnish food with drinks.. ..Body of Niagara Falls suicide found on beach in Lake Ontario, 40 miles away from cataract.... Sudden death of Actor Stuart Robson's wife.... Railroad telegraphers ad journ to meet in St. Louis next June.. ..Whar ton Barker. Philadelphia, arrested for ma licious mischief.. ..Hou-e refers Senate free coinage silver bill to Coinago Committee, sus taining Speaker Reed. ...Story that Harrison said be will not run in '92 confirmed.. ..Federal election bill to be rushed through this week.... Mormon bill passes Senate. Dlpnlch Special Cabin. It Is the belief in German official circles that both England and Germany have profited by the agreement relative to African territory.... It is believed that the Czar intends to actively interfere in the Balkans, and Turkey is alarmed.... Tbe German clericals offer to aid tbe Government to carry the army credits pro vided the Catholics are given effective control of primary schools Shrewd English political observers predict the early overthrow of the Salisbury Government, and the Gladstonites are in a hanov frame of mind.... Cholera is de creasing in Spain. ...Mohammedan fanatics are planing the assassination of tbe Sultan.. ..Lon don's new chief of police is a one-armed tiger slayer ....At the open-air demonstrations against the liquor endowment bill speakers emphatically denounced Salisbury from a dozen platforms.. ..Signs of civil war in Servla and Bulgaria.. ..By the official recognition of tbe Republic of Brazil by France, tbe interests and territory ot the latter will be materially in creased. ...French merchants are excited over tbe new American tariff laws and regulations ....The Marquisde Mores, arrested for inciting rioters on labor day in Paris, has been paroled ....The arrivals of Americans at Paris shows an increase over all previous years. TRADE RETROSPECTS. A Week of Unusual Activity in Gen eral Produce Lines. GOOD STOCK BUIKGS GOOD PRICES. Straws Showing That Pittsourff Prospers Beyond Other TEADE CENTERS BOTH EAST AND WEST HE HIT MRS. CLEVELAUD. Occasional Fnlntncs. Dr. Flint's Remedy taken when vertigo, occasional falntness, nausea, loss of appetite, and inability to sleep appear, will prevent the development of inflammation of the brain, of which these are the first symptoms. Descrip tive treatise with each bottle. At all druggists, or address Mack Drug Co., N. Y. itwr S. "W. Hili,, Pittsburg Meat Supply Company, corner of Church avenue, Ander son street and P. Ft. W. & O. By., Alle gheny, Pa., sold for Messrs. Nelson Morris & Co., of Chicago, 111., lor the week ending June 21. 1890, 155 carouses of beef; average weight, 619 pounds, fverage price $6 79 per 100 pounds. Unhappy Experience of an Admirer Who Plnyeo Walter for Her at Rlnrloe. Boston Globe. I "It was a young admirer of ex-President Cleveland, named Joues, that hit Mrs. Cleveland with a stopper last summer at Marion. You see Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Hicks, every evening before they retired, would have bottles of soda lemonade served them in their rooms. One night they, as usual, ordered two bottles. Joues, who was standing by, begged the privilege of the waiter of acting as his substitute. The waiter cheerfully assented, and Joues was the happiest man in the world lor a few minutes. "He was soon In Mrs. Cleveland's recep tion room. Jones set the trav and bottles on the renter table and undertook to draw the corks. Mrs. Hicks was seated at the further side of tbe room, while Mrs. Cleve land sat close to the table reading a book. She looked up to him, gave him a nod and pleasant look, as much as to say go on. "Ihe first exploit was to break the cork screw. Down stairs he flew and got another one. ay mis time ne was considerably stirred up himself, and in his nervousness don't you think he pointed the bottle in such a way that when the cork flew out it struck Mrs. Cleveland plump On the shoulder, and in his excitement over the catastrophe be immediately added another by overturning the bottle itself, so that a portion of its contents went sizzing into her lapl By this time he was little better than a raving maniac, and in hurriedly stooping to right the bottle, out from his hand and inner coat pocket slid a jackknife and three cigars to the floor. "Mrs. Cleveland, now vexed, but greatly amused, rose and went to brushing off the we t from her clothes, at the same time tell ing the poor fellow not to mind it at all 'twas only a harmless accident!' "But he did mind it, nevertheless, and after emptying the other bottle, which he managed to do without further mishap, he hurried out ot the room, bis face as red as a boiled lobster, and wishing, for all the world, that his unlucky, star had never guided him to that fateful spot." TWO SOLDIERS DEAD. OFFICE or FITTSBTntO DISPATCH, ? Saturday. June 21, 189a J The week past has been one of great ac tivity in general produce lines, and volume of trade has seldom been as large. Though receipts of berries have been large, markets have at no time been glutted with good stock as in former seasons. Demand has been fully up to supply for choice fruit. In vegetable lines, cabbage and tomatoes show a downward drift the past week, but new potatoes are very firm at prices of a week ago. In fact, it has been impossible to secure all the stock in this line that was needed lor the local trade. Prices are ad vanced at sources of supply 25 cents per barrel, but dealers here have made no change. The time is now close at hand when home grown cabbage, tomatoes and potatoes will be on the market. A Neville Island gardener reports that he will have new cabbage for sale next week. Home-grown potatoes will be due about July 4, but this season Is hardly up to time in vegetable lines, owing to backward spring. It is doubtful if tbero has been in any other city of the land as active a produce market or as high prices tbe past week or two as in Pitts burg. In a vilt to a city of Ohio, with a popu lation of 15,000. last week, it was ascertained that tbe outside retail price of home-grown strawberries there was 6c per quart, and other thing in proportion. Here two quarts for 25c bas been considered cheap. These are straws that point to the general prosperity of our city. Our working peoplo find ready employment and good wages and the number of mouths to feed are rapidly increasing, and the assertion is made without hesitation that no city of the continent ls enjoying greater nrosneritv than our own. While the expense of living here is greater than in most of the other greater centers of trade, tbere is the com pensation that the wage-earners are better paid here, as a rule, than in other cities. A Good Week for Trade. Said a leading prodnce commission merchant to-day: "I have never had as good a week for trade, and could have sold much more stuff than I was able to obtain. My sales ono day reached 81,800, the best day 1 have had this sea son." Others report in tbe same strain. Tho present odtlook is that next week will show no falling off in tbe volume of trade. Tbe only marked feature of trade In dairy nrnrinr.t for tho week has been the advance in Elgin creamery butter. Ohio creamerv is un changed, and the effect of the rise has been to increase tbe demand for tbe latter, which Is coming to market In very fine sbape. New Ohio cheese bas declined &C during the week, and is moving out freely at the decline. Eggs are stationary bnt steady. Guaranteed stock is a shade higher than a week ago. The crocery trade does not show the same activity as last week, or for several weeks past. The feature In this line bas been the drop in sugar. A second drop for the week e roxniMori tikiiir. Tbis decline has come at an unusual time, a time when sugars are usually strongest. Speculators, however, anticipate the rise by a few weeks, and are now havi ug the resultant reaction. Jobbers report that the future of the sugar market is in the hands of refiHers. , . . Cereal markets in the main continue In buyer's favor, oats being the exception. Wheat and flour are practically unchanged tbe past week, with markets quiet. Hay of all grades Is weaker, owing to liberal receipts. , . , In tbe line ot oats, bulls have the field and dealers predict still higher prices in the next month. Hides and Harness. The hide and leather situation is unchanged. Markets are quiet at prices of a week ago. Harness leather tanners report light stocks on band, and are glad of tbe present lull to enable them to accumulate assorted stock. For a few weeks past they have been unable to promptly All orders in all lines of leather. A loading manufacturer or horse equipments said to-day:, "I have never had as lively a dc, mand for my goods as I have had through the months of May and June, and my experience covers a quarter of a century and more. We aro just as busy as we care to be working up stock for home trs.de. If oar business is any index to trade Pittsburg is in tbe midst of a healthy prosperity beyond any thing in the past I hare not worked up as much stock in tbe same time the past 25 years as I have done since the beginning ot May. Collections, too, are unusually prompt." We aro altogether satisfied with the situa tion. TOBEES STBAIT ISLANDEES. BLAINE'S HAND Seen In Wall Street to the Dlsndvnntaso of the Sngnr Bosses A Raid on tbo Trnst and a Big Break. New York, June 2L Mr. Blaine's utterances upon the McKmley tariff bill, tbe anti-trust legislation in Congress, and Mr. Bpreckels' ac cusations were made tbe occaslou of a deter mined raid upon Sugar Refineries by the pro fessional element in the stock market this morning, and a decline of 1 per cent was es tablished in tbe certificates, which had also tbe effect of inducing sales ot the stocks of the reg ular list to some extent. The fraying in the lat ter, however, was good throughout, and a com plete rally occurred, and prices only yielded Anally to another vigorous raid in the last few minutes of business. The general situation was more favorable than yesterday, the advices from Chicago being more hopeful and the prospects of a final agreement at Washington being much better. Foreign exchange was weaker, and tbe fears of gold exports sufficient to Influence the money market were dissipated, though the bank state ment showed a moderate decrease in the sur plus reserve, owingto tbe gold exports of the week past. The traders and professionals were all bearish for the time being, however, and as there was a scarcity of orders the depression of prices was comparatively an easy matter, though the final concessions were insignificant in most of the active stocks. . Chicago Gas sympathized most closely with Sugar, and late considerable pressure was brought against Oregon Transcontinental and Atchison, but without material effect. The close was heavy to weak on the raid and gener ally at small fractions below last night's fig ures. Sugar Is down 1. Chicago Gas IK- and Louisville and Nashville . Railroad bonds were unusually dull, the sales of ill Issues reaching only $316,000. Tbe sales of bonds for the week aggregated $3,714,000. Government bonds have been dull and steady. State bonds have been dull but Arm. the following tame snows tne prices or active stocks on tue New York Stock Exchange yester day. Corrected daily for IBB DIsrATCR by Wuithet & Stephenson, oldest Pittsburg mem bers of liew York Stock Exchange, 67 Fourth ave nue: ,. Open ing. Am. Cotton Oil Am. cotton oil prer. Am. Cotton Oil Trust Atch.. lop. & a. P iVi Canadian J'aclflc Canada bouthern Central of ew Jersey. .... Central Pacinc Chesapeake & Ohio C. Bur. & Qulncy .. .KB; C, Mil. A St. Paul 73 C, Mil. A St. P.. pf. C, Kocfc I. & p Via C. St. L.& Pitts C. St. L. & Pitts., pf.. .. . 0.. St. P., M. SO S3M C, St. P.. M. A O. pi 0.4 Northwestern ti, C. C. A 1 7X C. C.,CAL, pr. 99H Cot. Coal A iron .... Col. AUocklntr Yal Del., Lack A West WH Del. A Hndson Den. A Mo Grande Den. A Kio Uraude, pt 54 K.X.. Va. Alia Illinois Central Lake fcrle A Weit Lake Krie A West pr.. 60X Lake Shore All. S lliu LonliTllle A Nashville. 83 K DOMESTIC MARKETS. Supply of Potatoes and Strawberries Not Up to Demand. PRODUCE HOUSES WELL SOLD OUT. Cereal Receipts Light and Oats Tending to a Higher Level, SUGAB OFF AGAIN, ASD COFFEE FIBlt Highest. lowest. 45H UH 1035a 75 105K 74 KM DIM SIX 33X 83JJ 74 89 141 UiH The Clans Are Marked on iho Back and All Are Great Fighters. Illustrated American. Prof. A. C. Haddon, Dean of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, recently gave a discourse, at the Royal Institution, on "Manners and Customs of the Torres Straits Islanders." It was pointed out that geolog ically tbe islands in question may be spoken of as part of sunken Australia. The old "igneous" rocks are to be found there, but the islands themselves are of coral origin, and the whole history of the denudation, contour, sculptnring, and action of rain and rivers is within about ten feet above sea level. The remarks of the lecturer were mostly in reference to two islands close together. Even in suchja limited population there were distinct tribes, each with its own totem. Tbere were daugoug people (dog people), and so on, and it was recognized mac a man must not Kill bis own people, though he might fight one of another "clan." Sometimes, when they weri not in "clan" fight, many "clans" would join against others. The professor said he had made many good friendships among men, who had told him what the older people were like some years ago. It was, he whs told, a custom for tbe "clan" to be marked on the back, but he only found four old persons so marked, and their backs he photographed. The young girls had taken to European petticoats. A, large portion of the discourse was given to descriptions of marriage customs. In some clans tbe women propose, and the young men are very shy, bashful and blush-' ing. In other clans the parents puta young man through an examination in war dancing, etc., belore giving consent. The proiessor found large masks used, carried on a pole, In connection with re ligious ceremonies. "Boys of the same clan were initiated into the mystery-meaning of them. If they told boys of another clan what they meant, they were, if detected, killed by having their skulls broken. Mlclilcan Central IOCS, Missouri Pacific 731 New York Central . N. T L. X. W 26K H. r.. C. A St. L X.r. AM. E. 47 K.T..0.1W Norfolk A W estern Norfolk A Western pr. J Northern Pacific &h Northern Pacific pr.... S2X Oregon Improvement Oregon Transcon li PacliloMall " Peo., Deo. A Evans Phlladel. A Beading... 44W Pullman Palace Car... .... Richmond A W. I". T.. I2X Klchmond AW.P.r.pl 84X St. PaulADuluth St. Paul A Duluth pr. .... St, P., Minn. A Man..lllK St. L,. A San Fran pr.. .... Texas Pacific 21 Union Pacific 65 Wabash Wabash prererred J6X Western Union 84H Wneellnc A L. JS. 77H Snarar Trust 7SU National i.ead Trust. .. nu Chicago Gas Trust MM 66'4 HIM sax JU034 74 S3 24 B2H am mi, ss loos 73 63 82 47M 40i 44 lll!4 HIM 21 63 f6 77K 75 im MM 77 7 1 54 Clos ing Jiid. 25 4i 82 57 li 124 34. HH 105 74 118 SI H 16 4a U 95 110 7H( S9 51 24 144 167X "X 4s T UiH im 65 111H 83 100K 26? 18V 4SH 19 22 C2 eiu 45 46 43 20V AM 205 22 84 r 95 111 603 20H 64 r.H 26 84 77 69 19 54 Philadelphia Stocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished bv Whitney A Stephenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avsnue. Members Mew York stock Ex change! Bid. Asked. Pennsylvania Itallroad 51 M'4 Heading 8 22 Buffalo, Pittsburg A Western 11 11H Lehigh Valley 62 S2 Lehigh Navigation. 52 52 Philadelphia and Krie S4 35 Northern Pacific 3.1M l& Northern Pacific preferred 82 82 OFFICE OFPlTTSBUHO DlSPATCn.l Batubday. June 21, 18B0. J Conntnr Produce Jobbing Prices. Markets were unusually bare of potatoes this morning. Commission men were not able to nil orders. One reason for this was the wreck of a freight train out the Panhandle road, which kept stuff from comine to market. But aside from tbis delay, demand has all the week been fully up to supply. One dealer reports sales of 1.300 barrels tor tbo week, and could have sold 00 barrels more if he could have ob tained them. Strawberries were not so plenty to-day as they have been of late, and prices are a'shade blgber. The week closes with produce unusually well cleaned up along Liberty street. It is not often that pavements are so bare in front of the commission houses as they were at noon to-day. The week has made a handsome record in produce lines. Volume of trade has been largo, and good prices were obtained for all choice stuff. BrrTTEn Crramsre Kli-In 17031f!e! Dhln dn 16c: fresh dairy packed, 1012c; country rolls, 79c. tsEnnrzs strawDerrles, oloc a box: $4 tm 5 50 ft two-busbel stand; gooseberries. 52 25 2 60 a bushel box; black raspberries, 1215c f) quart; red raspberries, 15lSc; blackberries, 15c a quart. Bkas Naw hand-picked beano, $2 D02 10. Beeswax 28J0c ?! ft for choice;low grade, 2022c. Cherries Red, 9S10c f? quart. Cantalodfks S4 S05 50 $ crate; water melons. 35 00 ?? 100. Cidek Sand refined. $7 60; common, S3 00 i 00; crab cider, $7 S0S 00 gl barrel; cider vin egar, 10 12c ft gallon. Cheese New Ohio cheese. 8Kc: New York cheese, 910c: Iiiraberger,Hf3l2Kc: domes tic Sweltzcr, 1516c: imported Bweitzer, 24C Eggs 1515Jc f! dozen for strictly fresh. Feathers Extra live geese, oOg&Oc; No. t, do, 4045c; mixed lots. 3035c V E. Maple syrup New, 7595o a can; maple sugar. 10llc $ B. Honey 15c $t ft. Poultry Live chickens, EOcGJl 00 a pair; dressed, 120 He a pound. Seeds Clover, choice, 62 lbs to bushel, $4 00 V bushel: clover. lar?e Eneliab. 62 lis. S4 XH8 i 60; clover. Alsike, $8 00; clover, white, 86 50; timothy, choice. 43 fts. 1 6521 70; blue grass, extra clean, 14 Ss, II 2ol 30: blue grass, fancy, 14 lbs, $1 30: orchard grass. 14 B. f 1 40; red top, 14 lbs, SI 00; millet, 60 lbs, 75c; Hungarian gras 50 lbs, 75c; lawn crass, mixture of nne grasses, 82 50 bushel of 14 lis. Tallow Country, 3c: city rendered. 4c Tropical Fruits Lemons, common. 84 00 CS4 25; fancy. So 005 50; Rod! oranges, S6 00 6 50: Sorrento oranges, 85 005 50; bananas. ei uti w ursis, 91 ou gooa seconas ouncn; pineapples,8912a hundred; California peaches. 82 002 60 V box; California apricots, 82 50 3 00. Vegetables New Southern potatoes, 83 003 25 barrel; cabbace, 81 752 50 $ crate; Bermuda onions, 82 25 ) bushel crate; green onions, 3035c )R dozen; green beans.81 50 1 75 $ half-barrel basket; wax beans, 1 60 1 "5; green neas. 81 752 00 1 basket: cucum bers, 81 002 00 $) box; tomatoes, 82 0002 25 t box. 87 C0ffl7 25; packing do, 86 6066 75; clover hay, 87 608 00. Straw Oat, 86 757 00; wheat and rye, 86 00 6 25. Provisions- Hams and shoulders were advanced Jc by our packers to-day. Other things in the pro vision line are uuchanced. Sugar-cured hams, large, 10c; sugar-cured bams, medium, lie; sugar-bams, small, HKc: sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8c: sugar-cured shoulders, 7c; sugar-cured boneless shoul ders, eVc; skinned shoulders, 7Kc; skinned bams, llKr; sugar-cured California hams, 8c: sugar-cured dried beef flats, 9c: sngar-cured dried beef sets, 10c; .sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 12c; bacon, shoulders, 6c; bacon, clear sides, 7&c; bacon, clear bellies. 7c: dry salt shoulders, 5Kc: dry salt clear sides, "Mc Mei pork, heavy, 813 50: mess pork, family, 813 50. Lard Refined, in tierces, 6Kc; half-barrels, 6c; 60-ft tubs, 6c; 20-ft palls, 6c; 60-ft tin cans. 6Jc; 8-ft tin pails, 6&; 5-ft tin pails, 6c; 10-ft tin palls, bVc Smoked sausage, long, 6c; large, 5c. Fresh pork, links. 9c Boneless hams, 10Kc Pigs' feet, half-barrels, 84 00; quarter barrels, $2 15. WHY WE SMILE. Figures That Itlnko n Good Show Ing for tho Census Year. There was a good money market Saturday, discounting being active and depositing and checking about up to tbe spring mark. Rates were steady at 6Q7 per cent, with most ot the business at tbe inside figure. Instead of business showing an inclination to halt, it is going ahead with accelerated speed. All provions summer records are already broken. The bank exchanges last week were over 84,000,000 larger than those for the corre sponding time last year. Tbe gain of 1890 over 1889, to date, is nearly 866.000,000. The Clearing House report Is appended: Saturday's exchanges 2,517,580 59 Saturday's balances 401,573 85 Week's exchanges 15,546,082 71 tYeek.'s balances 2,336,71)4 4S- Previous week's exchanges 14,798.104 si Exchanges week of 1889 11,369.375 16 Total exchanges to date. 1890 369,809,253 45 Total exchanges to date, 1839 304,013,338 66 faaln, 1890 over 1839, to date 65,795.914 79 Cloning Bond Quotations. M. K. A T. (Jen, VS. S. 4s. reg 121 u. s. ss, coup JZZ U.S. 44s. reg 103 U. S. 4s, coup 103 Pacific 6s of '95 113 I.oulslsnastamped4s 94 Missouri 6s 101 lenn. new set. 6s. ...108 lenn. newett. 5s.. ..103 lenn. new set. 3s.... 75 Canada So. Ids 99 central racine isis.111 Den. a. k. t. lsis.. .119 lien. A U. U. 4s 84 1I.AK. O. Westists. Erie 2ds 103 M. K. AT. Oen. 6s.. 86 5s., 71 Mutual Union 6s. ...1018 S.J. C. Int. Cert...IU .nurmern rac. lilt. .11744 Northern Fac. 2ds..H23( Northw't'n consols.141 Northw'n deben's 6sl08 Oregon A Trans. Os.iojv St LAI.J1. Hen. 5s. 95 St.L. AS.F. Uen.M.114 St. Paul consols 128 St.P. ChlAPc.lsts.117 lx.. F&L.O.I't.Rl mu Tx.. Pc. K o.Tr.Ks. 4l2 Union Pacificists.. .112 West Shore 106 Attfeecht'S Elite Photograph Gallery, 16 Market st, Pittsburg. Prices lowest An Epitaph of the Seventeenth Century That Telle or Religious Persecution. Here is an epitaph which was copied about a year ago by the writer, and is to be found in County Down, Ireland, in a field owned by a gentleman named John McKee; this is far removed from any bury ing ground, and I am told that the men were buried just where they fell in the bat tle. Thelollowingisthe inscription: Here lys ye Bodys of John & William Cullies uo was kill' d April ye 2th 16S8. In defence of the Protestant cause. Aemoub & Co., of tbis city, report the following sales of dressed beef for the week ending June 21, 1890 : 201 carcasses; aver age weight, 620 pounds; average price, 6.54c WEAEIKfi AWAY FAT. Ilenvy-Weight Brokers and Club Men of New Tork Now Skip tbe Rope. Mew York Times. It is no uncommon sight on a brigbt,clear morning to see well-dressed men running or skipping the rope in Central Park. And almost all the persons thus occupied are accompanied by professional trainers. It bas become a fad of wealthy men who find themselves growing stout aud a trifle apo plectic to hire an experienced tutor in ath letics to take a regular course of early-morning out-door exercise. T ere are half a dozen reputable professional trainers who have their bunds full of this kind of work tu the dry season. Their patrous are mostly down town brokers, lawyers, and club men. The skipping rope exercise is designed to divert the mind us well as to exercise the muscles of the body. In cases where busi ness cares or other mental anxieties appear to be the chief cause of bodily ailments the trainer will make it his first duty to soothe the brain by some peculiar and pleasing diversion. Platt's Chlorides, a true disinfectant, odorles liquid, very Uisap and efficient. Fen t urea of Saturday's Oil Market. Corrected dally by John M. Oakley & Co.. 45 Hlxtb street, members of tbe Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange: Opened 90 I Lowest. .....t 90 Highest.... SO (Closed 90 . . Barrels. Average charters 26.649 Average shipments 79 371 Average runs .. 66,645 KAtlned, New York. 7.t0c Krflned, London, 5d. Kettned, Antwerp, I7f. Kenned, Liverpool, 5 11-lSd. Keflned. Bremen, 6.55m. A. R McGrew quotes: Puts, S9K; calls. OOJfr Boston Storks. Calumet A Hecla....S15 "X Groceries. Tbe promised decline in sngar has come the second drop for the week. Coffee options fluc tuated from day to day, but tbe real article is Arm. General groceries are not so active as tbey have been for a few weeks past, but trade continues good. Green Cofeek Fancy Rio,- 24K25Kc; choice Rio, 2223Kc; prime Rio, 23c: low grade Rio, 2021c; old Government Java. 2930c; Maracaibo, 2527Kc; Jiocba, 30 32c; Santos'2226c; Caracas, 2527o;La Guayra. 2627c Roasted (In papers) Standard brands, 25c: high grade'. 2830Kc; old Government Java, bulk, 333I34c; Maracaibo. 2829c: Santos, 26 30c; pea berry, 30c; choice Rio. 26c; prime Rio, 26c; good Rio. 24c: ordinary, 21022Xc Spices (whole Cloves, 1718c: allspice, 10c: cassia. 8c: pepper. 15c: nntmee. 7.1H!8n- Petrolkum (Jobbers' prices) 110 test, 7Kc; ,r.' Ohlo;120. 8Kc; headllgbt, 150. 6S: water : Apn!' itu ne, juo; k'uue, iihh)C; eiaine, i?$c; cut nadlne, llc; royaline, 14o; red oil, llllc; Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained. 4345c V gallon; summer, 3S40c; lard oil. 555Sc SYBur Corn syrup, 2830c; choice sugar syrup, 30S8cr prime sugar syrnp, 3033c; strictly prime, 3335c: new maple syrup, 9oc N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop. 4748c; choice, 46c; medium, 3843c: mixed, 4042c.t Soda Bi-carb in kegs, 33Jc; bi-cirh in K, 5c; bl-carb assorted packages, 56c; sal soda in kegs, Jc: do granulated, 2c. Candles Star, full weight, 6c: stearine fl set, 8Kc: paraf&ne, lll2c RICE Head Carolina, 77J4c: choice, 6UQ Gic; prime. 66c; Louisiana, 53i6$c Starch Pearl, 3c; cornstarch, 56c; gloss starch, 57c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, 83 65; Lon don laver8,S275;Muscatels,S250: California Jlus catels.82 40; Valencia,8Jc;Onaara Valencia. 10K lie; sultan,I010c; currants. 5K6c: Turkey prunes, 6ibia t rench prunes, 912c; Balon lca prunes. In 2.1b nackacen Or" pticnmiita so 100, 88; almonds, Lan., fl lb, 20c; do Ivica, 17c: do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap , 1314c; Sicilv filberts, 12c; Smyrna figs, 1213c; new dates, 6 6c; Brazil nuts, lie; pecans, BK10c; citron. W lb, 18lBc; lemon peel, 16c $) lb; orange peel, 17c Dries Fruits Apple', sliced, per lb., 6c; apples, evaporated. luiffllOUc: ceaches. evannr. ated, pared, 2426c: peaches, California, evap orated, unpared. 17Q18c: cherries, pitted. 12 13c; cherries, unpitted, SffiBc; raspberries, evaporated. 3233c; blackberries. 77Kc: huckleberries, 1012c Scoars Cnbes, 7f c; powdered, 7Jc; granu- laieu, oTic; couiecuoners' a, oyfcc: standard A, 6Kc; sou white, 6VlEo6Kc: yellow, choice. 6 otbc, yeuo 5Kc; yello Pickles Mediu dium. half bbls. (600). So 00. 8ALT-N0. 1, bbl. 95c; No. 1 ex. $ bbl. 81 001 dairy, ty bbl. 81 20; coarse crystal. $ bbl, SI 20; Higgins' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, 82 80; Higcins' Eureka. 16-14 B packets, J3 00. Canned Goons Standard peaches. 82 00 2 2o; 2ds, 81 651 0; extra peaches. 82 402 60; corn, irzol 40: Hfd MARKETSBY WEE. Rains nnd Rnst In tbe Northwest Take the Snap Ont of tbe Wheat Pit Corn, Oat nnd Pork Lifeless. CHICAGO The wheat market was sluggish and there was a gradual weakening in prices. The opening was firmer and ilS'Ac higher, but speculative offerincs were quite large and prices declined ll4c and closed Kc lower than yesterday's. Rains were again quite gen eral in the Northwest and there were more re ports of rust In spring wheat. Corn was quiet and inactive the greater part of the session. The feeling prevailing was steady, and prices varied but little. Oats were traded in fairly and a steadier f eel loe prevailed. Price changes were confined to a a ranee. Pork Very little business was transacted, and only slight changes to note in prices. Lard Trading was decidedly light. Prices ruled about 2c lower, and the market closed verv quiet. Ribs A very light demand prevailed. Prices exhibited very little chanc. Tbe leadlneiutures rangea as follows: Wheat-No. 2. June. &6USB4&oyiSSXc; Julv. 86K86SiKeS6c; Auaust, b7K8fj e86K8Gc Corn No. 2. June, 31343ft34tc: i..JJ" W01?4rfavaiMvaC; August, aoswiio Oats-No. 2. July. 292a"""' 29Vc; Aucusr. 2752727ffi27j!c; Si tember, X'i Mkss Pork, per bbl.- Julv. 812 80012 83 12 7512 85; August. 812 U 612 40gl 4lJ 4j; Sentember. 812 30ffll2 301. 30Q12 . Lard, per 100 fts.-Jnl, w ..5 905 87K 5 90; Angnsr. ' 86 02KQ6 SakG 006 00; September. 86 12j6 126 foes la Short Ribs, per 100 ft. July. 85 105 12MG1 5 1035 10; August, 85 2005 205 20 6 20; September, 85 305 30S5 S025 30. Cash quotations were as follows: iHour steady and unchanged. No. Z spring wheat, 854c; No. 3 sorlnc wheat, 7277c; No. 2 red, 85c No. 2 corn, 34c No. 2 oats. 29c No. 2 rye. 46c No. 2 barley nomlnil: No. 1 flaxseed, 81 39. Prime timothy seed, 81 35. Mess pork, per bbl, 812 60. Lard, per 100 lbs., 85 85. Short ribs sides (loose). So 0505 10. Dry salted shoulders (boxed). 85 00iffi510. Sugars. unchanged. No. 2 white, oats, 3030c; No. 3 white. 29030c On the Produce Ex change to-day tbe butter mirket was steady and unchanged. Eggs, llllc NEW YORK Flour heavy and dull. Corn meal steady; yellow We'tern. '82 102 45. Wheat Spot weak and moderately active lor export; options dull andc down; closing weak. Rye qniet; Western. 5657c Barley auiet; Western nominal; Canada, 6072Jc arley malt quiet; Canada, 75g90c Corn Spot quiet and steady; options dull, liKc down and steady. Oats Spot dull and easy; options fairly active and firmer. Hay eaty and quiet; shipping, 3540c; good to choice. 6085c Hops quiet and firm. Coffee Options opened dull and 5 points up to 10 points down, closed near steady; others barely steady and 10 np to 10 down: sales, 11,750 bag', including June, 17.50c; July, 17.0517.10c: September, 16.6516.70c; Oc tober, 16.20c; November, 15.95c: Decem ber. 15.8515.90c; January, 15.75c; Feb ruary. 15.70I5.75c: spot Rio dull and nominal: fair cargoes, 20c; No. 7 flat bean, 18c Sugar Raw dull and barely steady; refined dull and easy; A. 5 15-166c Molasses For eign nominal: 60 test. 19c: New Orleans quiet; common to fancy, 4145c. Rice qniet and steady: domestic 606c; Japan, 66c Cottonseed oil dull; erode, 33c; Yellow. 3C 36c Tallow dull and weak. Rosin firm. Turpentine firmer at SSfyic. Eggs quiet and steady; Western, 1414c; receipt", 4.365 packages. Pork qniet; mess. 813 5014 00; ex tra prime, 810 0010 60. Cut meats firm; pickled bellies. 55: do shoulders, 5c; do bams, (10c Middles weak; short clear. 86 10. Lard steady; Western steamer.. 86 10 bid: ;. sales. 750 tierces. Julv. SS 11 asked: August, 83 32: September, 89 39 asked. Rut in good demand and firm: Elgin. 16c: Western airy, 610c; do creamery, 815Kc Cheese light, 82 75S3 85; packing and butchers. S3 65 3 80; receipts, 1,400 bead; snlpments, 770 head. London Wool Snles. London It is expected that American buyers will devote greater attention than here tofore to tbe coming wool auctions, which will close on Ancust L The arrivals available tor tbe fourth series of sales are 6,495 bales of New South Wales, 670 Queensland. 561 Victoria. 153 South Australia, 14.915 New Zealand, and 13,639 Cape'of Good Hope and NataL Tbere were imported daring tbe week from New South Wales 931 bales; from Victoria. 154; from New Zealand. 750: from the Cape of Good Hope and Natal, 4,759; from Germany, 1.737; from France, 828; trout Russia, 8K6; from Morocco, 864; from. Belgium, 132; from China, 3,439, and from var loos other places. 15L tmm ERADICATES BLOOD PON SON AND BLOOD TAINT. wta 2tEoS2a IMLi&WMI. JOSEPH IM1 d CO. llKOhEk- FINANCIAL. Whitney & Stephenson, 57 Fourth Avenue. ott white, 6VEo6Kc: yellow, choice. 6 sllow. good. Vi0:ec; yellow, fair, f 3llow,dark,55ic ies Medium, bbls. (1,200), 89 00; me- knl4? I1tn tttfVW 4V fA Atch. & Ton UH liosum a AiDany....ju ISO-ton A Maine 135 '. H. &Q 1U5 Eastern it. u. imj Flint APerc M 33 Flint & PereM. pre. loo Mass. Central 19 Mex. Central com... 27 N. Y. & N.Eng..... tt KJ.4H. Kng. 7s.i:4!4 uia joionr.l 17 Kutland preferred.. 72 Wis. Central com. .. 27.H AiioueiMg. uo "i Atlantic 17 .Boston & Mont 66M Catama Franklin 22 Huron M Kearaarae 23X Osceola 46 Pewablc (new) 12 Qulncy )25 Santa Fe copper 80 lama rack 215 Annlston Land Co.. 59 San Diego band Co. Z2 West End Land Co.. 29 Belt Telephone 240 Lamson Stores SO! Water Power 5W Centennial Mining. 20) An PittSburg Beef Co., wholesale agents for Swirt's Chicago dressed beef, sold for week ending June 21, 226 carcasses of beef; average Weight, 631 lbs; average price, 6.88 cents. THE BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS. With Tbeir Aid No Poor Itlnn Should Hnvo to Work After He Is Fifty. Show me a man with a wile and children who saves a little money every month, and give me five minutes' talk with him, aud at the end of that time I'll have him a mem ber of one of the building associations of Pittsburg, said a well-known citizen yester day. I have been studying building asso ciations for ten years, and I firmly believe tbat through them any industrious man who spends $10 less a month than he makes can place himself in a position to stop working bard for other men by the time he is 60 or 55 years old. I think that the building as sociations ol the city have already worked a great improvement in the condition of peo ple of small means in this city, and their work is just begun. pie peaches. SI 05; finest Co. corn, G590c; red cherries. 90i$I; Lima uc&os, i av; soaKea ao, euc; string do. ooTUc; marrowfat peas. Si 10&1 25; soaked pea.". 70 80c; pineapple". Si 301 40: Bahama do, 12 75; damson plums, 95c; greeneazes. SI 60: egg plums, SI 75; California pears. S2 40; do green gages, SI 5; do ecu plums. SI 75; extra white cherries, 12 40; raspberries 95c S1 10: strawber ries. 80c; ooselierrie, 8.j&Wc: tomatoes, 85390c; salmon, 1-ft. SI 301 80; blackberries, Wl: succotash, 2-fc cans, soaked, 90c; do trrecn, 2-tt, SI 251 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans, S2 10; 14 & cans, S14; baked beans, SI 401 50: lobster. 1-ft, SI 801 90; mackerel. 1-ft cans, broiled, SI 50: sardines, domestic, Ws, $4 254 35: sardines, do mestic, ' W 75227; sardines, imported, lis, S115012 50; sardines, imported. K". 18; ar dines, mustard. S3 35; sardines, spiced. S3 50. Fish Extra No, 1 bloater mackerel, S36 f) bbl; extra No. 1 do. nes, S40: extra No. I mack erel, shore, S2S; extra No. 1 do. mess, S32; No. 2 shore mackerel, S23. Codfish Whole pollock, 4c y lb; do medlnm, George's cod. 6c; do large, 7c; boneless hake. In strips, 4c; do George's cod In blocks, 0K7Kc Hernne Round shore, $3 50 bbl; split. SI 50: lake. S3 25 n iuu-n dou w nne nsn, to ou ft iw-jb hair btu. Lake trout, $5 50 $ balf bbl. Finnan haddock, 10c y ft. Iceland halibut, 13c 1 ft. Pickerel, balf bbl, S3 00; quarter bbl, SI 35; Potomac her ring, $3 50 yt bid; 12 00 fl half bbl. Oatmeal 55 oo5 25 V bbl. When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for CastorK When she became Missshe clung to Castona, When she had Children.she gave them Castorla an3-77-irwrsu wi 2t 15 Grain, Flonr nnd Feed. There wero no sales on call at the Grain Ex change to-day. Receipts as bulletined, 20 cars. By Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railway. 8 cars of bay, 1 of leed, 1 of floir and teed, I of flour. By Baltimore and Ohio, 1 car of oats, I of rye, 1 of bay, 1 of wheat. By Pittsbure, Cincinnati and St. Louis, 3 cars of corn, 1 or oats, 1 of hay. Receipts for tbe weekending June 20. 226 carloads, against 227 for tbe corre sponding week last year, and 247 for tbe week ending June 13 of this year. Oats are very firm at a shade higher prices. Sealers report that oais cannot oe lain down nere anu sold at a profit at present prices. Futures are very stronc. Corn is steady, and bay very weak, particularly for low Rrades. Prices are for carload lots on track: Wheat New No. 2 red, 9192c; No. 8,830 89c Cobn No. 2 yellow ear. 40Ji41c; hich mixed ear, 39K40c: No. 2 yellow, shelled, S83Sc; hich mixed shelled corn. 3737c Oats No. 2 white. 34Q34c; extra. No. 3, 3333Kc; mixed, 3131Jc Rie No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 60fl61c; No. 1 Western. 5960c FLOUR Jobbiug prices Fancy winter and sprinir pttent. 5 605 75: winter straight. So 00Q3 25: clear winter, S4 7r5 00; straicht XXXX bakers'. 14 25 1 oO. Rye flonr, S3 500 3 75. MruEED Middlings, lino white. S15 50 16 00 $ tun; brown middlings. 813 5014 00; winter wheat bran, Sll 50012 00. HAT Baled tlmothv. No. L Sll OOail 25: No. do. S9 60010 00: loose, from wacon. 113 000 . - ..- -... " 1.-.- 1 uu, accoroing to quality; ao. 2 prairie nay, steady aud quiet. PHILADELPHIA Flour weak. Wheat Options opened a shade higher, but subse quently lost improvement and closed weak: re jected, 7278c; fair to eood milling, SS93c; primeto choice, 9598c;No. 2 red, June, S9 90c: July, 89891c: Ausust and September. 8SKS9c. Com Options qniet; carlots for local trade scarce and Kc buyer, but buyers operating only for immediate wants; No. 2 yel low, on track, 42c; steamer, in export elevator, 40c; No. 2, in do, 41c: No. 2 mixed, on track and in Twentieth street elevator. 42c; No. 2 mixed, June. 4141c; July. 41K41lc; Au gust, 41KQ41c; September, 4242Jc Oats Carlots firm but quiet; No. 3 white. 34c; do clipped, 35Jic; No. 2 white, regular, 34c;No. 2 white, on track, 35Kc;No.l cllpoedwbncSSc; iu. wuite. June, osipyoic; July, oowtffidoc: August, 3i33t.; September, 31Ji31c Butter firm but quiet; Pennsylvania creamery, extra. 15K16c: do prints, extra, 1923c Eggs firm; Pennsylvania firsts, 15c ST. LOUIS Flour quiet, steady and un changed. Wheat early advanced &c, immedi ately broke and declined c, rallying, but again declined c before noon. A gradual recovery followed tbe early depression, and for a while held steady, but slumped Vz and closed with July and December a and AngustJc under yesterday; No. 2 cash, 87c; July closed at 85c; Auenst, 84c bid; December, 87c Corn quiet: N o. 2 casb, 32c; J ttly closed at 32 33c; August. 32c Oats was weak early, but later became stronger and closed liAc higher than yesterday: No. 2 cash, 28c bid: July. 29c! August, 28c Rye dull and lower; No. 2. 45c. Flaxseed quiet; spot nominal at SI 35; Ancust SI 30 bid; September, SI 29. Provisions firm. Pork. Sll 50. Lard Prime steam, S5 65. MINNEAPOLIS The receipts of wheat for tbe day were 44 cars; shipments, 47 cars, lba milling demand was light, and there was some inquiry from outside millers, and several orders of tbat character were followed and were filled from among tbe best samples of No. 1 hard and No. 1 Northern. A fair amount of sample wheat was offered, with considerable of it not taken at tbe close. No 1 hard, June. S4Uc: July. 8414c: on track. 86c; No. 1 Northern, Jnne and Julv. 83c; September. 83c; on t rack, 84c; No. 2 Northern, June and July, 80c; on track. 8082c MILWAUKEE Flour unchanged. Wheat easy; No. 2 spring, on track, cash, 8282c; Jnly. 81c: No. 1 Nortnern, 87c Corn firm; No. 3, on track. 34c Oats stead y; No. 3 wbite. on track, 3030Xc Rye quiet; No. 1, In store. 47c. Barlej qniet; No. 2, in store. 47Kc Pro visions easier. Pork, cash. 12 70; Jnly, 512 75. Lard, S5 85; July, S5 9a Cheese steady; Ched dars. HKc BALTIMORE Wheat Western, firm; No. 2 winter, red pot, June. July, August and Sep tember. 8888iC Corn Western firmer; mixed, spot, June and July, 4041c: August, 41K41JJc: September, 41Jc;steamer, 8o36c Oats steady and unchanged. Rye nominal. Hay we ik; prime to choice timothy, 112 00 13 (XX Provisions steadr. Butter active ai d steady. Eggs firm, at 14$15c. TOLEDO Wheat dull; casb, gSc; July.87c; August, 87c; September. 87c; December. 89c Corn dull; cash, 35c;July, 86c Oats quiet; casb, 29c: August. J7&c Clover seed quiet and steady; casn, S3 23; October, S3 40. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. The Condition of Business nt tbe East Liberty Stock Yards. Office of Pittsburg dispatch, 1 Saturday. June 21. 189a ( Cattle Receipts. 2,150 head; shipments. 1,460 head; market nothing doing; all through consignments; 24 cars cattle shipped to Naw York to-day. Hogs Receipts. 3,550 bead: shipments. 2,000 head; market fair; medium and selected, S4 05: common to best Yorkers, S3 904 00: Sigs, S3 603 85; 13 cars of hogs shipped to Tew York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 2,600 bead: shipments. 1,800 head; market firm at unchanged pries. f my3 T L JOHN M. OAKLEY &X0, BANKERS AND BROKERS. Stocks. Bonds, Grain, Petroleum. Private wire to New York and Chicaga 45 SIXTH ST Pittsburg. rar2Ml SlfcUlCAU. DOCTORS LAKE SPECIALIST'S in all cases re quiring scientific and confiden tial treatment! Dr. S. K. Lake. M. R. C. P. S., is the oldest and most experienced specialist in the city. Consultation free and strictly confidential. Office hours 1 to 1 and 7 to 8 p. jr.; Sundays. 2 to 4 p. jcConsalt them personally, or write. Doctors LAX& ..o r. Penn arc ..nd 4ih 3 L, Pittsburg, Pa. je3.7.-DWk; "Wood's FlxosaJa-ocl i t q. THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY. ,ci Youthful forty Ceveral bottles of Swift's Specific (S.S. S.) entirely cleansed my system of contagious blood poison of the very worst type. Wit, S. Loomis, Shreveport, La. CURES SCROFULA EVEN IN ITS WORST.' FORMS. T had scrofula In 1884, and cleansed my system entirely from it by taking seven bottles of S. S.S. I have not had any symp toms since C. W.Wilcox, Spartanburg, S. CV ', HAS CURED HUNDREDSor CASES OF SKIN CANCER. Treatise on Blood and SHn Diseases malfcd fcee. Swift Specific Co, Atlanta, Ga, 512 AND 514 SMITHFIELD STREET, PITTSBURG, J?A. Transact a General Banto Bnsiness. Accounts solicited. Issue Circular Letters of Credit, for use of travelers, and Commer cial Credits, IN STERLING, Available In all paits of the world. Alsolssua Credits IN DOLLARS For use In this country, Canada, Mexico, West Indies, South and Central America. je8-155-jrwT FflOLESALE -:- flODSH; 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 priest and novelties of design. Full lines of New Laces and White Goods. DPHOLSTERY DE PARTMENT Best makes Window Shades in dado and plain or spring fixtures. Lace Cur tains, Portieres, Chenille Curtains, Poles and Brass Trimmings; Floor, Table and Stair Oil Cloths in best makes, lowest prices for quality; WASH DRESS FABRICS. Tbe largest variety from which to select. Toll Du Nords, Chalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck ers, Imperial Suitings. Heather A Ronfrew Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr Glnsbams. Wholesale Exclusively. Jal3-x -T71IDELITY TITLE AND TRUST CO., J 121 and 123 Fourth ave. Capita $500,000. Full paid. INSURE8 TITLES TO REAL ESTATE. Acts in all fid uciary capacities. Deals in reli able Investment securities. Rents boxes in its superior vault from J5 per annum upward. Receives deposits and loans only on mort-. gages and approved collaterals. JOHN B. JACKSON. Pres't JAMES J DONNELL. Vice-Pres't. eB-15CM C. B. McVAY. Sec'yandTreas. DOCTOR WHITTIER 814 PKNN AVENUE. PITTS BU KG. PA. 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. erapre3nn,N0FEEUNTILCURED MLDf HI IO and mental diseases, physical IM Cn V UUo decay.nervous debility. lack of energy, ambition and hope, impaired memory, disordered sight, self distrust, bashfulness, dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, im poverished blood, falling powers, organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, un fitting tbe person for business, society and mar riage, permanently, safely and privately cured. BLOOD AND SKIN .1! blotches, falling hair, bones, pains, glandular, swellings, ulcerations ot tongue, month, throat, ulcers, old sores, are cored for life, and blood poisons thoroughly eradicated from the system. 1 1 pi M A D V kidney aud bladder derange Unlit All 1 1 ments, weak back, gravel, ca tarrhal discharges, inflammation and other palnf nl symptoms receive searching treatment. prompt renei ana real cures. Dr. Wbittier's life-long, extensive experience insures scientific and reliable treatment on common-sense principles. Consultation free. Patients at a distance as carefully treated as It here. Ofllce hours. 9 A. jr. to 8 P. X. Sunday. 10 A. M. to I P. M. only. DR. WHITTIER, SU , Penn avenue. Pittsburg; Pa. je-15-D?nwt Used for 35 years Guar anteed to evre all forms of Nerrous Weakness. Emis sions, spermator- rnea. impotency. and all the effects. waMrsp blr d After. Photo from Life. and theexcesse or later years. Givea imwidiata $trenfftk and tiff' or. Ask druggists ror wood's Phoe nhodlne : take no substitute. Ona Write for pamphlet warn nackaee. SI: six. S5. bv mall. Address The ood Chemical Co., 131 ave., Detroit, men. .OS-Sold In Pittsburg. Pa by Joseph Fleming A Bon. Diamond and Market sts. apS-Mwrawkx wk By Telegrnpb. CHICAGO Tbe -Droters' Journal reports: Cattle Receipts, 2,500 bead; shipments, I.C00 head: market steady; beeves, S4 755 00: steers, S3 (S04 6U: stockers and feeders. S2 5003 90; cows, bulls and mixed, SI 503 50; Texas cattle, SI 803 20. Hogs Receipts, 13,u00bead; shipments, 4,000 ,head; market strong and active: mixed, S3 753 90; heavy, S3 704 00; light, S3 75ffi4 00. Sheep Receipts, J.500 bean; shipments, none; market strong; natives, S4 00 5 50; Texans,S3 204 40; lambs, $8 0007 00. ST. LOUIS Cattle Receipts. 2,600 head: shipments, 2,200 head; market strong: good to fancy native steers. S4 804 80: fair to good, S3 8084 35; stockers and ireiters, S2 80S 3 80; Texans and Intlians. S2 653 Z0. Hog- Receipts, 2,000 bead; shipments. 1,700 head; market itrong; fair to choice heavy, S3 703 80: packing grades. S3 65Q3 75: light lair tn best. S3 C0Q375. Sheep Receipts, 1,700 bead; shipments, 300 bead; market steady: fair to choice clipped, S4 005 15. CINCINNATI Hogs dull, easy; common and TO WEAK MEN Buff erintr from the effects of youthful errors, early decay, wasting weakness, lost manhood, eta, I will send a. valuable treatise (sealed) containing fall particulars for borne cure. FREE of charge. A splendid medical work: should be read by erery man who Is nerrouv and debilitated. Address, Prof. P. C. FOWLERi OToodus,CottH oclt-4J-lJSUW WEAK MANHOOD XarlxDeeafUd Abate, JmpmU . , . cjtMie iiiir,u.UiiejuuiiiuiT restored. Tirieecel nrr4. Parts enUrged.strenpthened ItwUuuTrutlwMnt free and sealed l9FriiJU4l.4, GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE. CURES NERVOUS OEBIUI TY. LOST VIGOR. L08S OF MEMORY. rull particulars in pamphlet sent tree. The genuine Uray's bpeclilo sold by druairlsts only la yellow wrapper. Price, 1 per package, or six for S3, or by malt on recelnt of price, bv address. IB THE GRAY MEUICINK CO, Buffalo, It r soiu in .rjiuourg- oj o. a, aisiijA..n v. cornec BmithOeld and Liberty its. mhl7-M-DWk i I i f M i A t