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THE LOGIC OF TRUTH.
Imple ETidence from the Most Trust
worthy Witnesses of
THE SAYIKG POWER OF CHRIST.
Skeptics' Arguments Controverted hj the
facts of History.
THE H1GHTT INFIiUEKCE OF FAITH.
tSFZCUX TXLZGKAX TO TH DISPATCH. 1
Beatbice, Neb., July 6. Dr. Talmaee
preached here in the open air to an immense
congregation which had gathered from the
surrounding country to hear the famous
preacher. His text was: "We are wit
nesses." Acts iii:15. Following is his
sermon:
In the days of George Stephenson, the
perfector of the locomotive engine, the sci
entists proved conclusively that a railway
train could never be driven by steam power
successfully and without peril; but the
rushing express trains from Liverpool to
Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to Lon
don, have made all the nations witnesses of
the splendid achievement. Machinists and
navigators proved conclusively that a
steamer could never cross the Atlantic
ocean; but no sooner had they successfully
proved the impossibility of such an under
taking than the work was done, and the
passengers on the Cunard, and the Inman,
and the National, and the White Star lines
, are witnesses. There went up a guflaw of
& wise laughter at Prof. Morse's proposition
m to make the lightning of heaven his errand-
boy, and it was proved conclusively the
thing could never be done, but now all the
news of the wide world, put in your hands
every morning and night, has made all na-
tions witnesses.
So in the time of Christ It was proved con
clusively that it was impossible for Him to
rise from the dead. It was shown logically
that when a man was dead he was dead, and
the heart and the liver and the lungs hav
ing ceased to perform their offices, the limbs
would be rigid beyond all power of friction
or arousal. They showed it to be an abso
lute absurdity that the dead Christ should
ever get up alive; but no sooner had they
proved this than the dead Christ arose, and
the disciples beheld Him, heard His voice,
and talked with Him, and they took the
witness stand to prove that to be true which
the wiseacres of the day had proved to be
impossible; the record of the experience and
of the testimony is in the text: "Him hath
God raised from the dead, whereof we are
witnesses."
THE SKEPTIC'S AKGTJME1TT.
Now let me play the skeptic for a mo
ment "There is no God," says the skeptic,
"for Ibave never seen Him with my physi
cal eyfesigbt. Your Bible is a pack' of con
tradictions. There never was a miracle.
Xazaius was not raised from the dead, and
negater was never turned into wine. Your
eligion is an imposition on the credulity
f the ages." There is an acred man mov
ing over yonder as though he would like
respond. Here are hundreds of people
1 with faces a little flushed at these announce
ments, and all through this assembly there
is a suppressed leeling wtucb would like to
speak out in behalf 01 the truth of our
glorious Christianity, as in the days of the
text, crying out, "We are witnesses 1"
The fact is, that if this world is ever
brought to God, it will not be through ar
gument, but through testimony. You
might cover the whole earth with apologies
for Christianity and learned treatises in de
fens e of religion you would not convert a
soul. Lectures on the harmony between
science and religion are beautiful mental
discipline, but have never saved a soul, and
never will save a soul, -fat s man ol the
world and a man of the church against each
ctheritjid the man of the world will in all
probabiNty get the triumph. There are a
thousand things in our religion that seem
illogical to the world, and always will seem
illogical. Our weapon in this conflict is
faith, not logic; lalth, not metaphysics;
faith, not profundity; taitb, not scholastic
exploration. But then, in order to have
faitb, we must have testimony, and if five
hundred men, or one thousand men, or five
hundred thousand men, or five million men
get up and tell me that thev have felt the
religion of Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort, a
help, an inspiration, lam bound as a fair
minded man to accept their testimony. I
want just now to put belore you three prop
ositions, the truth of which I think this
audience will attest with overwhelming
unanimity.
THE RESULTS OF MISSION 'WORK.
The first proposition is. We are witnesses
that the religion of Christ i? able to convert
a souL The gospel may have had a hafd
time to conquer us, we may nave lought it
back, but we were vanquished. You say
conversion is only an imaginary thing. "We
know better. "We are witnesses." There
never was so great a change in our heart
and life on any other subject as ou this.
People laughed at the missionaries in Mada
gascar because they preached t?n years with
out one convert; but there are 33,000 converts
in Madagascar to-day. People Iauzhed 'at
Dr. Adoniram Judson, the Baptist mission
ary, because he kept on preaching in Bur
mah five years without a single convert; but
there are 20,000 Baptists in Burmah to-day.
People laughed at Dr. Morrison, in China,
lor preaching there seven years without a
single conversion; but there are 25,000 Chris
tians in China to-day. People langhed at
the missionaries for preaching at Tahiti IB
years without a single conversion, and at
the missionaries for preaching in Bengal 17
years without a single conversion; yet in all
those lands there are multitudes of Chris
tians to-day.
Butwhy go so far to find evidence of the
gospel's power to save a soul? "We are
witnesses." We were so proud that no man
could have humbled us; we were so hard
that no earthly power could have melted us;
angels of God were all around about us,
they could not overcome us; but one day,
perhaps at a Methodist anxious seat, or a a
Presbyterian catechetical lecture, or at a
burial, or on horseback, a power seized us,
ana mie us get aown, ana made us trem
ble, and made ns kneel, and made us try
for mercy, and we tried to wrench ourselves
away from the grasp, but we could not. It
flung us flat, and when we arose we were as
much changed as Gourgis, the heathen, who
went into a prayer meeting with a dagger
and a gun to disturb the meeting and de
stroy it, but the next day was louud crying,
"Oh, my great sins I Oh, my great Savior!"
and for 11 years preached the gospel of
Christ to his fellow mountaineers, the last
words on his dying lips being, "Free
grace 1" Oh, it was free grace 1
THE REFORMED DRUNKARD.
There is a man who was tor ten vears a
hard drinker. The dreadful appetite had
sent down its roots around the palate and
the tongue, and on down until they were'in
terlinked with the vitals of bodv, mind and
soul; but he has not taken any stimulants
lor ten years. What did thai? Not tem-
Seraoce societies. Not prohibition laws.
Tot moral suasion. Conversion did it
"Why," said one upon whom the great
change had come, "sir. I eel just as though
I were somebody else!" There is a sea cap
tain who .wore all the wav lrom TTph- "VnrL-
to Havana, and lrom Havana to San Fran
cisco, and when he was in port he was worse
than when he was on the sea. "What power
was it that washed his tongue clean of pro
Janities, and made him a psalm-singer?
Conversion by the Holy Spirit There are
thousands of people in this assemblage to
day who are no more what they trnce were
than a waterlily is a nightshade," or a morn
ing lark is a vulture, or day is night
Now, If I should demand that all those
people here present who have felt the con
verting power of religion should rU r f.r
from being ashamed, they would spring to"1
men a .. u.v.k .vi,vv wao tney ever
sprang to the dance, the tears minglinc
with their exhilaration as they cried: "We
are witnesses!" And if thev tried to sing
the old Gospel hymn, they would break
down with emotion by the time they got to
the second line:
Ashamed of Jesus, that dear Friend
On whom my hopes of heaven depend?
Uo! When I blush, be this my shame:
That I no more revere Bis name.
Again I remark that we are witnesses ot
the gospel's power to comfort There are
Christian parents here who are willing to
testify to the power of this gospel to com
fort Your sou had just graduated from
school and college and was going into busi
ness, and the Lord took him. Or your
daughter had just graduated from the young
ladies' seminary, and you thought she was
going to be a useful woman and of long life;
but the Lord took her. and you were
tempted to say: "All this culture of 20
years for nothing!" Or the little child
came home from school with the hot fever
that stopped not for the agonised prayer or
for the skillful phvBician, and the little
child was taken. Or the babe was lilted
out of your arms by some quick epidemic,
and you stood wondering why God ever
gave you that child at all, if so soon He was
to take'it away. And yet you are not re
pining, you "are not fretful, you are not
fighting against God.
COMFORTED BY FAITH.
What has enabled you to stand all the
trial? "Oh," you say, "I took the medicine
that God gave my sick soul. In my distress
I threw myself 'at the feet ot a sympa
thizing God; and when I was too
weak to pray, or to look up, He
breathed into me a peace that I think must
be the foretaste of that heaven where there
is neithera tear nor a farewell, nor a grav."
Come, all ye who have been out to 4he
grave to weep there come, all ye comforted
Eonlij get off your knees. Is there no. power
in this gospel to sooth the heart? Is there
no power in this relieion to quiet the
paroxysm of grief? There comes up an
answer from comforted widowhood, and or
phanage, and childlessness, saying: "Ay,
ay. we are witnessesi
When a man has trouble the world comes
in and says, ''Now, get your mind off this;
go out and breathe the fresh air; plunge
deeper into business," What poor advice!
Get your mind off it! When everything is
upturned with the bereavement, and every
thing reminds you of what you have lost
get your mind off it! They might as well
advise you to stop thinking. You cannot
stop thinking, and you cannot stop think
ing in that direction. Take a walk in the
fresh air! Why, along that very street or
that very road she once accompanied yon.
Out of that grass plat she plucked flowers,
or into that show window she looked, fas
cinated, saying: "Come, see the pictures."
Go deeper into business! Why, she was
associated with all your business ambition,
and since she has gone yon have no ambi
tion lclt Oh, this is a clumsy world when
it tries to comfort a broken heart I can
build a Corlear's engine, I can paint a
Bapbael's "Madonna," I can play a Beetho
ven's. "Eroica Svmphony" as easily as this
world can comfort a broken heart And yet
you have been comforted. How was it done?
Did Christ come to you and say, "Get your
mind off this; go out and breathe iresh air;
plunge deeper into business?" No. There
was a minute when He came to you per
haps in the watches of the night, perhaps in
your place of business, perhaps along the
street and He breathed something into your
soul that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet so
that you could take out the photograph of
the departed one and look into the eyes and
the free of the dear one and say, "It is all
rights she is better off; I would not call her
back. Lord, I thank Thee, that Thou hast
comforted my poor heart"
CONFRONTING THE GRIM MONSTER.
Again: I remark that we are witnesses
of the fact that religion has power to give
composure in the last moment I never
shall forget the first time I confronted death.
We went across the cornfields in the country.
I was led by my father's hand, and we came
to the farmhouse where the bereavement had
come, and we saw the crowd of wagons and
carriages; but there was one carriage that
espscially attracted my boyish attention,
and it had black plumes. I said: "What's
that? what's that? Why thdse black tassels
on the top?" and after it was explained to
me, I was lifted up to look upoo the bright
face of an aged Christian woman, who
three days before had departed in triumph;
the whole scene made an impression I never
iorgot
In our sermons and in our lay exhorta
tions we are very apt, when we want to
bring illustrationsof dying triumph, to go
back to some distinguished personage to a
John Knox or a Harriet Newell. But I
want you for witnesses. I want to know
if you have ever seen anything to make you
believe that the religion of Christ can give
composure in the final hour. Now, in the
courts, attorney, jury, and judge will never
admit mere hearsay. They demand that the
witness must have seen with his own eyes,
or heard with his own ears, and so I am
critical in my examination ot you now; and
I want to know whether you'have seen or
heard anything that makes you believe that
the religion of Christ gives composure in
the final hour.
"Oh, yes," you say, "I saw my father and
mother depart There was a great difference
in their deathbeds. Standing by the one we
felt more veneration. By the other, there
was more tenderness. Before the one, you
bowed perhaps in aw. In the other case
you felt as if ylu would like to go along
with her. How did they feel in that last
hour? How did they seem to act? "Were
they very much Irightened? Did they take
hold of this world with both hands as
though they did not want to give it np?
"Ob, no," you say; "no, I remember as
though it were yesterday; she had a kind
word for us all, and there were a few me
mentoes distributed among the children,
and then she told ns how kind we must be
to ont father in his loneliness, and then she
kissed us good by and went to sleep z
calmly as a child in a cradle."
A CHRISTIAN MOTHER.
What made her so composed? Natural
courace? "No," you say, "mother was
very nervous; when the carriage inclined to
the side of the road, she would cry out; she
was always rather weakly." What, then,
gave her composure? Was it because she
did not care much for you, and the pang of
parting was not great? "Oh," yon say,
"she showered upon us a wealth of affection;
no mother ever loved her children more
than mother loved us; she showed it by the
way she nnrsed us when we were sick, and
she toiled for us nntil her strength gave
out" What, then, was it that gave her
composure in the last hour? Do not hide,
it Be frank and let me know. "Oh."
you say. "it was because she was so good;
she made the Lord her portion, ana she had
faith that she would go straight to glory,
and that we should all meet her at last at
the oot of the throne."
Here are people who say, "1 saw a Chris
tian brother die, and he triumphed." And
some one else, "I saw a Christian sister die
and she triumphed." Some one else will
say, "I saw a Christian daughter die and
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seen the last moments of a Christian and
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give testimony in this cause on trial. Un
cover your heads, put your hand on the old
family Bible iroin which thev used to read
the promises, and promise in" the presence
of high heaven that you will tell the truth
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!
With what yon have seen with your own
eyes, and fiom what yon have heard with
your own ears, is there power in this gospel
to give calmness and triumph in the last
exigency? The response comes from all
sides, from young, and old, and middle
aired: "We are witnesses!"
You see, my friends, I have not put be
fore you to-d-y an abstraction, or chimera,
or anything like guess work. I present you
affidavits of the best men and women living
and dead. Two witnesses in court will es
tablish a fact Here are not two witnesses,
but.tbousands of witnesses on earth mill
ions of witnesses, and in heaven a great
multitude of witnesses that no man can num
ber, testifying that there is power in this re
ligion to convert the soul, to give com Tort in
trouble and to afford
COMPOSITRE IN THE LA8T HOUR.
If ten men should come to you when yon
are sick with appalling sickness and say
they had the same sickness and took a cer
tain medicine, and it cured them, you wonld
probably take iti- Now. -suppose ten other
men should come up ana say, "We don'tbe-'
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credit their testimony. The skeptic may
come and say, "There is no power in your
religion." "Have you ever tried it?" "No,
no." "Then, avannt!" Let me take the
testimony of the millions of souls that have
been converted to God, and comforted in
trial, and solaced in the last hour. We will
take their testimony as they cry, "We are
witnesses!" J "
Some time ago Prof. Henry, of Washing
ton, discovered a new star, and the tidings
sped by submarine telegraph, and all the
observatories otEurope were watching for
that new star. Oh. hearer, looking out
through the darkness of thy soul to-day,
canst thou see a bright light beaming on
thee? "Where?" you say; "where? How
can I find it?" Look along by the line of
the cross ol the Son of God. Do you not
see it trembling with all tenderness and
beaming with all hope? It is the Star of
Bethlehem.
Deeo h orror then my vitals Ooze.
jPeatb-struck, I ceased the tide to stem.
When suddenly a star arose
It was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearer, get youreyes on it It is easier
for yon now to become Christians than it is
to stay away from Christ and heaven.
"When Madame Sontag began her musical
career she was hissed off the stage at Y.ienna
by the friends of her rival, Amelia Bteinin
ger, who had already begun to decline
through her dissipation. Years passed on,
and one day Madame Sontatr, in her glory,
was riding tbrongh the streets of Berlin,
when she saw a little child leading a blind
woman, and she said, "Come here, my little
child, come here. "Who is that you are
leading by the hand?" And the little child
replied, "That's my mother; that's Amelia
Steininger. She used to be a great singer,
but she lost her voice, and she cried so much
about it that she lost her eyesight" '"Give
my love to her," said Madame Sontag, "and
tell her an old acquaintance will call on her
this afternoon." The next week in Berlin a
vast assemblage gathered at a benefit
for that poor blind woman, and it
was said that Madame Sontag
sang that night as she had never sung be
fore. And she took a skilled oculist, who
in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor
blind woman. Until the day ot Amelia
Steininger's death Madame Sontag took care
of her, and her daughter a ter her. That
was what the quern of aong did for her
enemy. But, oh, hear a more thrilling
story 'still. Blind immortal, poor and lost,
thou who, when the wojrld and Christ were
rivals for thy heartj didst hiss thy Lord
away Christ comes now to give thee sight,
to give thee a home, to give tbee heaven.
With more than a Sontag'a generosity He
comes now to meet your need. With more
than a Snntag's musie He comes to plead
for thy deliverance.-
GOLD IN GEORGIA.
THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF AN ALLEGED
BONANZA.
A Yield of Over 811,000 to the Ton of Ore
A Large Htock Company Formed to
Operate la the Field A New Rail
read. Gold ore that assays $11,303 80 worth of
precious metal to the ton. Such fabulous
richness of deposit is almost incredible.
Bnt it is so, nevertheless. And it is in
Georgia, too. This wondrous richness is
ehown by a test made by Prof. McCandless.
A prospecting party in search of a widely
different mark came upon this Georgia gold
field, so rich that it almost rivals the richest
mines in sunny California's history. Early
in June Mr. John M. Brosius. and several
other gentlemen interested with him, paid a
visit to North Georgia to investigate some
mineral property there.
After Captain Brosius and his friends had
paid their visit to the property to investi
gate which they went to Lumpkin county,
they started in a wagon on the return trip
to the railway station. Half way to the
depot they were held up in the middle of
the road by an unknown man a rough-
looking farmer, browned by the not sun
ravs and begrimed with the dust Of the
field.
"Cap'n," he said, "if you'll all just get
out of that wagon and step over here a min
ute, I'll tell you somethin' that'll pay you
bette.r'n that old mine you've been up th'ar
looking at"
Captain Brosius and his friends, not
knawing just what to make of the situation,
got out of the wagon and followed the coun
tryman a few paces oS lrom the road.
"I don't want your driver to hear what
I'm tellin', nor nobody else but yourselves,"
he continued.
Then after a little dickering about the
conditions, the party of prospectors set out
through the woo'ds and over the north Geor
gia Mountains, following the lead of the
countryman guide, who, on the way. unfold
ed the particulars of the gold field they were
pursuing. The man had known of the place
for a long time. But he was very poor a
vertable native of the mountain fastness
and had never been able to make auything
of consequence out of It After a wearying
tramp Captain Brosius' party came to the
fabulous ground. It did not need, Captain
Brosius said, a close inspection to discover
the great richness of the place.
"You could take your penknife," he said,
"and ebip the gold from the rocks, and pour
a enpful of vater through a handful of sand
and glean the precious dust in amazing pro
portions.
A bueketful of ore was picked np and
carried back to the wagon, and then withont
delay to the aisay of Prof. McCandless.
When his work was finished and the un
dreamed of richness of deposit discovered,
not an honr was lost by Captain Brosius and
his friends in vesting themselves with the
titbs to the place. 40 acres, taking in fonr
distinct veins were purchased. The deeds
thereto have been made and are now on
record.
Vein No. 1, Prof. McCandless reports
after his assay, will yield $11,303 80 worth
of gold to the ton; No. 2 is assayed at
$2,786 31 per ton and No. 3 at $45 47 per
ton.
"I have been oyer the property very care
fully," said Captain Brosius, "and I am
confident that I can easily dig 50 tons of ore
that will come up to the highest assay by
Prof. McCandless, thatis-50 tons that' will
yield $11,303 80 to the ton. How mnch ot
the other two grades there is it is impossible
to tell."
Captain Brosius leaves for "Virginia in
the interest of the Atlanta and Pittsburg
Bailroad, which is to run through this min
ing property of North Georgia.
Two years ago 300 whales were driven
ashore on the estate of a Mr. Brace, at Sum
burg, In the north of Scotlaud, and they were
killed and sold. Mr. Bruce at once demanded
that a third of the value of the whales (40U)
shonld be paid to htm, in accordanoe with an
ancient custom, by which the "laird" of this
property was entitled to claim ''thirds1' ot all
salvage. The Sheriff opposed the claim on the
ground that Mr. Bruce bad taken no part in the
capturing of the whales, and the Court of Ses
sions has npheld the Sheriff. The Judge in
timated that although the landlord's demand
was justified by precedent. It was based neither
upon principle nor upon justice, and it was
time for a new rule.
III Excellent Qualities
Commend to public approval the California
liquid finit remedy Syrup of Figs. It Is pleas
ing to the eye and to the taste, and by gently
acting onk the kidney, liver and bowels, it
cleanses the system effectually, thereby pro
moting the health and comfort of all who
use It
S. W. HILL, Pittsbure Meat Supply
Company, corner ol Chnrch avenue, Ander
son street and P. Ft. W. & C. By., Alle
gheny, Pa., sold for Messrs. Nelson Morris
& Co., of Chicago, III., for the week ending
Julv 5, 1890, 136 carcasses of beef; average
weight, 697 pounds, average price $5 79 per
100 ponndsT
When baby was sick, we gave her Castdrla,
When she was a Child, sbeciIedforCaStorla,
When she became Miss, she clung tOjCastoria,
When she bad Cbildren.she gave theajCaatorU
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A STRIKING CONTRAST
Between the Corporation Laws
Pennsylvania and Illinois.
of
A WIDE OPENING FOR SCHEMERS
Found in the Yery Loose Statutes Prevalent
in the West
THE HAHT POINTS OP DITEEGEHCB
rCOBBXSrOHPZXCX or thi dispatch. 1
Chicago, July 6. To a business man,
one of the most striking differences between
this city and Pittsbure and Philadelphia is
the large number ot businesses which are.
carried on in the form of a corporation. In
Pennsylvania the purposes for which a cor
poration may be formed are comparatively
few, and are specifically enumerated in the
statute. In Illinois the statute provides
that corporations may be formed "lor any
lawful purpose" except real estate broker
age. ,
In Pennsylvania there must be paid to
the State Department, besides other liberal
fees, a bonus of per cent of the capital stock
before the charter issues. -In Illinois no
bonus is required at all and the fees for incor
porating a company amounts to just $5 SO,
even though its capital stack may be several
million dollars.
ANOTHER DIFFERENCE.
In Pennsylvania before the charter is'snes
a certain per centage of the capital stock
must be paid in in money or in the equival
ent of money. In Illinois, though
the entire stock must be sub
scribed, it is not necessary that one
cent should be paid on the subscriptions.
In Pennsylvania the stockholder' is liable
for double the Value of his stock. In Il
linois his liability ends when he has paid
his subscription. The corporation laws of
the two States stand out in sharp contrast
with each other. In Pennsylvania the pol
icy of the law seems to be to discourage the
formation of corporations by making it ex
pensive and difficult to charter them, and
thus to force the business man to carry on
business as an individual, or as a part
ner, with unlimitedliability.
In Illinois, on the other hand, the policy
of the law seems to Joe to facilitate the for
mation of business corporations and to place
every inducement be Tore the business man
to do business not as an individual or as a
partner with unlimited liability to his cred
itors, but as a stockholder with a liability
limited to the amount of his stock subscrip
tion. As a consequence, business corpora
tions have been formed for every conceiv
able purpose, and, within the last three or
four years, the number of those formed in
Chicago has Increased with amazing ra
pidity. THE OEEAT ATTB ACTION.
The chief attraction about this form of
doing is of course the limited liability of
those engaged in it If a man wishes to open
a cigar store or a grocery and is unwilling
to expose himself to liability for the acts of
his partners, he forms a stock -company with
a capital stock of say $5,000. He subscribes
for $2,600 of it hims'elf, and thereby obtains
a controlling interest, and $2,600 is, for all
f Tactical purposes, the 'limit of his
lability. The acts of his fellow
stockholders may involve the company
in debt, but after be has paid in the full
amount of his subscription the creditors
of the company have no" further hold upon
him. An incfdental advantage of this is
that an investor may have an interest in a
score of business enterprises stores, saloons,
amusement devices, factories and the like
and know precisely to what amount he can
be held financially responsible in the event
of the failure of any or all of them.
To a" schemer, the Illinois corporation law
has one other grett attraction. ' There is no
restriction whatever as to the name of a
business corporation. In Pittsburg the cor
porate title must begin with the word The'
and end with tbe word Company, but not so
in Illinois. Consequently, when the firm
of Smith & Jones may become a corporation,
very frequently they do not change the firm
name, but continue in business under tbe
same style as betore. Smith may own one
share of stock in the corporation and his
liability may be limited to $100; Jones may
be in tbe same situation and the bulk of the
stock may be held by wholly irresponsible
parties who alone can be held liable to the
creditors in the event ot a failure.
ONE OF THE FEATTTBES.
The corporate name is frequently so
formed that the leading individual name in
it is that of a man of good financial stand
ing, though he may not hold more than a
single share of stock. The strength of his
name is thus obtained for the corporation
and unthinking people may give it credit
on that account which they would other
wise withhold, only to find after a few
months that they have been taken in, tbe
responsible parties in the company being
worthless. Thus supposing John Smith, of
Chicago, to be a man of great wealth a
corporation may be formed with the name
John Smith & Co.
On the strength of John Smith's name on
the sign and on the letterheads, it gets
credit., and the creditor who tries to collect
his claim discovers that John Smith owns
only one share of stock, and having paid for
it, is not further liable, and that the other
stockholders who may be held liable are
worthless. Such cases are of frequent oc
currence, but it is usually tbe ignorant and
the unwary who are victimized.
A business man invariably resorts to a
commercial agency or finds out where the
stock is held belore he gives credit The
commercial agencies speak favorably of the
present corporation law of this State. Its
workings are satisfactory to them. Thev
like it especially, because from the recorded
charter they are able to make a prettv close
guessas to the financial backing of the cor
poration and to guard against imposition.
The tendency in Pennsylvania just now
seems to be gradually to conform their cor
poration law to that of Illinois. At every
session of the Legislature the number of
specific purposes for which corporations
may -be formed is increased until only a
short step will have to be taken when they
are all swept away, and a provision inserted
instead authorizing the formation of corpora
tions for any lawlul purpose."
A SWEETHEARTS PEHAHCE.
Ioanc Her Lover, Sim 'Stny Indoor the
Bnlnnceol Her Life.
A singular person has just died at Ofen,
in HuugarJ. Fraulein Lina Eisterhof had
not for 30 vears gone outside her house.
The fraulein was the daughter of well-to-do
parents. Thirty years ago she was
a pretty girl, and was about to be 'mar
ried. Her lover one day, "to test her
obedience ami love," desired her on a cer
tiin least day not to go into the streets.
She promised she would not, but did not
keep her promise, and went into the
town. The next day her lover came
to see her, and straightway released her
from her engagement, saying that a lady who
could not make so small a saprifice was not
suitable to be his wile. Miss Lina, by way
of "castigation and exercise devout," there
upon made a vow that never again during
her lifetime would she leave her house and
she kept her word!
Smidcn Denib.
Heart disease 4s developed by modern civiU
ration, and is increasing to an alarming extent
Let him who suspects the existence of this
cause of sudden death take Dr. Flint's Remedy
and let all persons read his treatise on "Heart
Disease." At all druggists, or will be sent on
application by-Mack DrugCo., N. Y. MWr
Pittsburg Beef Co. wholesale agents
for 8 wilt's Chicago dressed beef sold ior
week ending July 5, 196 carcasses beef,
average weight 611 Q?, average price 6.52 cts.
Abmoub & Co., of this city, report the
following sales of dresse beef lor tbe week
ending July B, 1890: 221 carcasses, average
weight, 613 lbs; average' price, $6 38.
HEWS OF YESTERDAY.
Summary ol Ibe Events Chronicled la the
Snnday Dispatch.
Twenty broad, bright pages yesterday carried
to the readers of Thi Dispatch, in addition
to a choice magazine of literary matter, all the
news from every corner of the globe. A brief
summary Is appended:
Dispatch Special Cables.
Cholera has broken out at Genoa; the Italian
Government Is endeavoring to suppress the
facts.... The English Tories are greatly dis
couraged by their crushing defeat at Bar
row.. ..Gladstone's return to 'power and the
success of Home Rule cannot long be de
layed.. ..The Nihilists caught In France con
victed and sentenced to prison... .British tele
graph operators may strike.. ..The Island or
Heligoland will be turned over to Germany
with much ceremony.. ..English narval authori
ties experimenting with a most powerful tor
pedo.. ..Americans In Paris object to there
moval of Con-ul General Rathbone.... France
has established a prohibitive duty on Ameri
can corn.. ..Errand, tbe Strangler, now a
physical wreck.... The Turkish situation is
becoming serious and may result in a general
outbreak in tbe Balkans, which would Insure
war tbronghout Enrope.... Prince Bismarck
will not enter the German Reichstag.. ..Minis
ter Phelps is hopeful that the restrictions upon
American pork will be removed... .A secret
understanding exists between England and
Germany against France and Russia.
Home TelearnphlcNews.
Explosion of keg of blasting powder at Scott
Haven causes fatal accident to fonr children,
and three others received serious injuries....
James Flynn and Wash Dillon qnarreled at
Pigeon Creek, W.Va. Flynn is dead.. ..The
Knights of Pythias are holding their annual
camp at Ml lnaukee. . . . A probable murder oc
curred at Round Lake, Jf. r.... American
cattle are being shipped to Scotland and the
North of England by way of Montreal....
Two Philadelphia sharps rob a man at
the pistol's point..., Indianapolis boasts a
youthful firebug named Johnny Hamp
den A white man shoots a negro
boy at St. Louis for accident); stepping on his
loot.. ..Boat capsizes In tbe Delaware and two
lives are lost.. ..Two 'longshoremen in New
York come to blows and one Is instantly killed
by a blow... .A newly-married couple make a
bridal trip in a balloon, and tbe frail convey
ance nearly meets with disaster on landing.. .
The wedding of an Italian couple In New York
was interrnoted by a lnsilade of.bullots flrfid
by cousin of the bride.. ..The Chicago stock
yards, reported to have been sold to English
capitalists,bave passed Into tbe hands of Ameri
cans, and will be pushed for all
there is in them.... The steamer wrecked
at the time of the ereat storm
at Bamoa will be sold to pay taxes.... Tbe bat
tle of Antiatam will be observed on Its 28th an
niversary by tbe dedication of several monu
ments.. ..a wronged wue uemoiisne an v.
P." bouse in Girard, Kan..'.. A traveling man
loses 83,900 In a Wabash train.... An ice famine
is feared at Kansas City.... P. T. Barnum cele
brates his 80th birthday.. ..The Coroner's jury
at Chicago discharge Garrard for the murder
uf Brennan. tbe light weight pugilist who re
ceived fatal injuries in a sparring match.... An
Ironton young lady claims to bave been fright
ened so that she remained unennsciuus
for 48 hours.. ..Mrs. Miry Connelly gave
birth to a son and heir on a Morris
and E'jex train near Newark, N. J.. ..Reed
still rules Congress with a rod of iron, and no
bill has been pawed that was opposed by bim.
... .Returning excursionists meet with a serious
accident on Long Island Sound.... A substitute
is being spoken of for the Federal election bill.
....At St Paul tbe second day's session of the
National Council of Educators was occupied
by the discussion of sex In schools.. ..Cape May
is proving beneficial to the health of the Harri
sons. . ..The Coroner's Inquest into the cause of
tbe Dunbar disaster will open to-day.. ..Trimble
is brewing in South America, and war is Immi
nent.... Wdol men have issued an address to
their constituents. ,
State and General Politic.
Rival Presidental aspirations in tbe Senate
may interfere with the passage at the Federal
election bill through the Senate.. ..Some of
the candidates are jealous of -Speaker Reed
and his measures.. ..A Republican Pattlson
Club with 300 members to be organized at
Braddock.... Senator George has a plan to
insure white control of Mississippi.. ..A Farm
ers' Alliance man may run for Conn-ess in the
Erie-Crawford district.... Prohibition an issue
in tbe North Dakota campaign.... Democrats
havine trouble to select a candidate In Mc
Kinley's district.
Local and Snbnrbnn.
Supervisor Oliver jogs Superintendent Por
ter on several important matters.... Iron manu
facturers object to Mr. Porter's questions.... -Allegheny
City preparing to celebrate her fif
tieth birthday, which occurs on July 17.... A
gigantic electric Illuminating and motive power
projected in Pittsburg.... Delegates leave lor
Baltimore to legislate in tbe interest of the
American glassworkers.... Mr. Quay visits the
city and talks a little on the situation, and be
lieves tbat Delamater's majority will be
50,000... .A Rochester grandmother is accused
of cruelty and .neglect and is given an op
portunity to refnte it.... Owen McNally
an old offender, is arrested for robbery.. ..Sec
retary Watcborn talks about an invention to
convey air, food and consolation to miners in
tbe bowels of the earth.. ..Pittsbure' milk
supply considered above par, and all her dairies
neat and clean.. ..Allegheny policemen are ar
rested, charged with cruelty to horses... .A
long list ot accidents occur ou tbe day follow
ing the Fourth. ...The Americus Club Indorses
the State Republican ticket.... A Steubenrille
husband is arrested in Pittsbure; for knocking
his wife's eye out.. ..Mrs. Little's attempt to
raise an orphan proves a miserable failure....
Jndge Collier creates 15 new citizens.... Agent
Houghton, of tbe Pennsylvania, says that
tramps are on the increase.
ETVEE rNTELLIGEHCE.-
Nothlng Done on the River Yesterday to
Mar the Snnday Quietness.
Nothing was done to mar the usual dullness
of Sundays about the river yesterday. Tbe
only boats doing any business were tbe pleas
ure boats, which took large crowds down the
river during the day. The water has gone
down below the S-foot mark. At 6 o'clock last
evening the Market street marks showed 2
feet and 9 inches. This is a drop of 1 foot in
24 boms. At Davis Island the Ohio registered
at 4 feet and 8 inches, and the indications
pointed to lower water.
Drift.
The H. K. Bedford will leave for Wheeling
at noon to-day.
The C. W. Batchelor left Cincinnati last
night for this place.
The Louis A. Sherley Is doing a fine business
between Cincinnati and Pomeroy.
THE-Ben Hur arrived from Parkersbnrglast
night and will leave this afternoon.
The Scotia will reach Cincinnati to-night,
and start on the return trip to-morrow.
The Dick Fulton arrived from Louisville
yesterday morning with a large tow of empties.
THE Lizzie Bay arrived from Kanawha river
points. She is scheduled to leave to-morrow
evening.
The Olivette was still at the wharf last night
It will leave for Morgantown some time this
morning.
The Keystone State Is billed to arrive this
morning from Cincinnati with a large number
of passengers.
The Elaine arrived from Wheeling this
mornlne with a larce cargo. She will depart at
noon for the same place.
THE Oermania will be tbe packet to Browns
ville this morning, and the James O. Blaine
will go through to Morgantown in the after
noon. The Scotia left Cincinnati for Wheeling and
Pittsburg Satnrday evening. Captain Jobn
Phillips In command, with R. H. Kerr in tbe
office.
THE Hudson left Cincinnati Saturday for
Wheeling and Pittsburg. Captain J. E.
Ellison Is in command and the office in charge
ot Dan Liacey.
THE C. W. Batchelor left Cincinnati for
Wheeling and Pittsburg at 4 p. sr. Saturday.
Captain George E. O'Neal is in command and
Ira.Hnntington has charge ot the office.
Captain W. J. Wood left Cincinnati for
Pittsburg Saturday night, and was accom
panied by his niece. Miss Latta Grubbs, daugh
ter of Captain L W. Grubbs, tbe coal ganger.
The Nellie Walton, L N. Hook, Olivette,
H. K. Bedford, D. T. Watson, Dauntless, Harry
Brown, W. W. O'Neil, Enterprise, Little BUI,
LudKeefer, Fred O'Neil, Coal Valley. Coal
City, Joseph Nixon, Jas Gilmore, Time,
L N. Bunton, 8am Clark, Tom Reese,
Beven Sons, Pirrepont, Hornet No. 2,
Diamond, Beaver, Annie Roberts, Josh Cook,
Smoky City. Jos. B. Williams. Tom Dodswortb,
Hininel Miller, Iron Age, Ed. Roberts, Iron
Duke, John Moran. Clifton, Wm. Brown, Iron
Hide. Ark, Alex.' Swift, W. G. Horner, Jno.
F. Walton, Tide, Dick Fulton, George Rob.
erts, were the boats tied up at this port yester
day. Headache, neuralgia, dizziness, nerv
ousness, spasms, sleeplessness, cured by Dr.
Miles' Nervine. Samples free at Joseph
Fleming & Son's, Market st
DOMESTIC MAEKETS.
Eeceipts of Produce Light and Stuff
Pretty Well Cleaned Up.
CHOICE CEEAMERY BDTTER FIEM.
Corn and Oats Steady and ill Cereals Are
In Better Demand.
GENEEAL GROCERIES ARE UNCHARGED.
" OFFICE OrPlTTSBTTEO DISPATCH,
SATURDAY. July 5. 1800. i
Conn try Prrftloce Jobbing- Price.
Demand was active for all stuff tbat ap
peared, and commission houses were weU
cleaned up early in tbe day. Strawberries are
over for this season. Red raspberries of good
quality are scarce and firm. Blackberries are
coming In freely and prices are tending lower.
Demand is good for all iresh nearby eggs
that appear and outside quotations are ob
tained with ease. Market for potatoes is
steady. Supply of good stock is not above de
mand at prices quoted. Dairy products are
unchanged Choice creamery butter is a shade
firmer than it was a week ago. Cheese is quiet
with a tendency to lower prices.
Apples H 05 00 a barrel.
BUTTEB Creamery, Elgin. I819c; Ohio do,
1617c: fresh dairy packed, lu12c; country
rolU,79c
Bebries Gooseberries, $8 006 50 a stand;
black raspberries, 10c $ quart; red raspber
ries, 12I3c; blackberries, 910o a quart; cur
rants. &f 75 a stand.
Beans Navv hand-picked beans, 12 002 10.
Beeswax 2830c ? tt for choice: low grade,
.2022c J
Cantaloupes $ 004 M ?) crate; water
melons. $30 0035 00 V 1 it
Cidek Sand refined, S7 50; common, S3 00
i OU; crab cider, 17 6008 00 barrel; cider vin
egar, 10 12c J? gallon.
Cheese New Ohio cheese.7K8c: New York
cheese, 9c: Llmberger, 012c: domes
tic Sweltzcr. 15c: imported Sweitzer, 24c.
Eaos 1515Kc fl dozen for strictly fresh.
Feathers Extra live geese, o060c; No. 1,
do, i045c: mixed lot. 3035c lb.
Maple Syrup 75U5c a can; maple sugar,
10Uc ffl ft.
HONEY-15C f? ft.
Poultry Lire chickens, E085c a pair;
dressed, 12Hc a pound: ducks, 6575c a pair.
Taxlow Country, 3?c: city rendered. 4c
Tropical Fruits Cemons, common. S4 50
Hi 75; fancy. So 50 8 00; Rod! oranges, S3 00
6 50: Sorrento oranees, S5 005 50; bananas,
S2 002 50 firsts, (1 75 good seconds ft bunch;
pineapples,S9Q12a hundred; Calllornia peaches,
J2 00Q2 50 $ box; California apricots, J2 25
2 50.
Vegetables New Southern potatoes, $3 75
i 00 V barrel; cabbage. $2 002 25 ft large
crate; home-gron n cabbage, SI 151 25 yl bushel
basket; Florida onions, S3 751 00 a barrel
green onions, 2025c IP dozen; green beans,
home-grown, SI 0001 15 r? basket; wax beans,
home-erown, SI 25 fl basket; cucumbers, SI 25
I GO y box; tomatoes, SI 002 00 box crate.
Groceries.
Gbeex COITEI Fancy Rio, 24K25Kc;
choice Rio, 2223c; prime Rio, 23c: low
grade Rio, 2021jc; old Government Java.
29H30c; Maracalbo, 25K27J4c; Mocba, SO0
32c; Santos2226c; Caracas, 2527c;La Guayra,
2627c
Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 25c;
high grades. 2S30c; old Government Java,
bulk, 3334$c; Maracalbo. 2829c; Santos, 26
30c; peaberry, SOc; choice Rio, 26c; prime Rio,
25c; good Rio. 24c: ordinary, 21KfB22c.
Spices (whole) Cloves. 1718c: aINpice,
10c; cassi?, 8c: pepper, 15c; nutmee. 7580c
Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test, 7Vc;
Ohio, 120, 8Kc; headlight, 150, 8Vc: water
white, 10c; globe, 1414Kc; elatne. AHe; car
nadlne, 1! jfc; royaline, 14c; red oil, llllc;
purity, 14c
Miners' Oil Bo. 1 winter strained. 4345c
TP gallon; summer, 3S40c; lard oil. 555Sc
Syrup Corn syrup, 2830c; choice sugar
syrup, S638c; prime sugar syrup, S033c;
strictly prime, 3335c: new maple syrup, 90a
N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop. 47018c;
choice. 4Cc; medium, 3S43c: mixed, 4042c.
Soda Bi-carb in kegs 3X3c; bi-carb In
K&, 5c; bi-carb assorted packages. 66c;
sal-soda in kegs, lc: do granulated, 2c
Candles Star, full weight, 8c: stearlne,
$ set, SXc; parafflne, 11QI2C
Rice Head Carolina. 77r: choice, n
6Jc; prime. 66c; Louisiana, 53i6$c.
STARCH Pearl. 8c: cornstarch, 66c;
gloss starch,57c. a
FOBEION Fruits Layer raisins, S2 63; Lon
don la)er8,S275;Muscatefs,S250: California Mus
catels, 240; Valencla,8Kc;Ondara Valencia. 10K
lie; sultan,1010c; currants, 5K6c;Tnrkey
prunes, 6K6c: -Trench prunes, 912c: Salon-
ica prunes, in 2-ft packages, 9c: cocoanuts ft
100. 86; almonds, Lan., fl ft. 20c; do Ivlca, 17c:
do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap., 1314c; Sicily
filberts, 12c; Smyrna figs, 12lSc; new dates, 60
6c; Brazil nuts. He; pecans, 9K10c; citrou. W
ft, 1819c; lemon peel, 16c Ifi ft; orange peel,
17c.
Dried Fruits Applet, sliced, per ft., 6c;
apoles. evaporated. lOfiilOc: peaches, evanor.
ated, pared. 2426c: peaches. California, evap
orated, unpared, 1718c; cherries, pitted, 12W
13c; cherries, nnpitted, 60c; raspberries,
'evaporated. 3233c; blackberries. 7QTic:
huckleberries, 10ol2c
Sugars Cubes. 6J&c: powdered. 7c; granu
lated, 6)c; confectioners' A. 6Jc; standard A,
6c; sott white, 66Vc: yellow, choice. 6
6c; yellow, good, &Atooc: yellow, fair, 5
5c; yellow, dark, 5&5Ke-
PICKLES Medium, bbls. (L200), 59 00: me
dium, half bbls. (600). So 00.
SALT-No. 1. t1 bbl. 95c; No. 1 ex. W bbl. SI Oft
dairy, ft bbl, SI 20; coarse crystal. $ bbl. SI 20;
Higgins' Eureka, 4-bn sacks, S2 80; Higeins'
Eureka. 16-14 ft packets. S3 00.
Canned Goods Standard peaches, S2 00
2 25; 2ds, SI 651 SO; extra peaches S2 402 60;
Ele peaches. SI 25; finest corn, SI 251 40; Hfd
o. corn, 6590c; red cherries, 90tSl; Lima
beans, SI 20; soaked do, 80c; string do, 6o70c;
marrowfat peas, SI 10l'2o; soaked pea. 70
SOc; pineapples, 81 30fi)l 40; Bahama do, S2 75;
damson plums, 95c; greengages. SI 50: egg
plums, SI 75; California pears. $2 40; do green
gages, SI 75: do egg plums, SI 75; extra white
cherries. S2 40; raspberries. 95cef 1 10: strawber
ries, 95cSl 10; gooseberries. 85390c: tomatoes,
85a90c; salmon. 1-ft, $1 301 80; blackberries,
60c: succotash, 2-ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green,
2-ft, SI 251 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans, S210; 14-ft
ctns, S14; baked beans, SI 401 50; lobster. 1-ft,
i auigii. vu; macxerei. i-m cans, broiled, 81 50:
sardines, domestic, Js, SI 254 35: sardines, do
mestic. Ks. W 75W; sardines, imported, Vs.
(U5012S0; sardines. Imported. &'. 18; sar
dines, mustard. S3 35; sardines, spiced. S3 5a
Fish Extra No, 1 bloater mackerel. S3S ft
bbl; extra No. 1 do. mess, S40: extra No. 1 mack
erel, shore, 23; extra No. 1 do, mess, $32; No. 2
shore mackerel, $23. Codfish Whole pollock,
4c ft ft; do medium, George's cod. 6c; do
large, 7c; boneless bake, in strips, 4fc; do
George's cod in blocks, 6k7Kc Herrine
Ronnd shore, S3 50 ft bbl; spilt, $6 50: lake, S3 25
ft 100-ft hbU White fish, S3 50 ft 100-ft half bbL
Lake trout, $5 50 ft half bbl. Finnan haddock,
10c ft ft. Iceland halibut, 13c ? ft. Pickerel,
half bbl. S3 00; quarter bbl, SI 35; Potomac her
ring, S3 SO ft bbl;42 00 ft half bbl.
Oatmeal $5 0005 25 ft bhi-r
Grain, Floor and Feed.
Sales on call at tbe Grain Exchange 1 car of
No. 2 white oats, 86c, 10 days; 1 oar same, 35c,
July delivery. Receipts as bulletined, Pitts
burg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railway, 2 cars
of wheat, 10 of flour. By Pittsburg and West
ern, 1 car, of ear corn. Receipts for tbe week
ending July 4 were 143 cars, against 164 cars
last week and 225 for the previous week. For
tbe week ending July 6, 1889, receipts of grain
and hay were 133 cars, only 5 cars less than for
tbe corresponding week this year. The tone of
cereal markets is better than for a week or two
past. Corn and oats are a shade higher. Hay,
while ncbanged in price, is in better demand.
Flonr is quiet, but prices have evidently
touched bpttom.
Prices are lor carload lots on track:
WHEAT New No. 2 red. 9091c; No. 3,87
88c.
Cobn No. 2 yellow ear. 4344c: high mixed
ear, 40J41c: No. 2 yellow, shelled, 4141c;
hizh mixed shelled corn. 404Ic.
OATS No. 2 white. 3535Xc; extra. No. 3,
34I031XC; mixed. 3232c. ,
Rye No. 1 Pennsylvania and Onitr, 604261c;
jxn. i vyetiorn, rotsouc.
XXXX bakers', $4 254 50. Rye flour, $3 50
3 75.
-MlXFEED Middlings, fine white. $15 50
18 00 ? ton: brown middlings. S13 6014 00;
winter wheat bran, $11 5012 00.
Hat Baled timothy. No. 1, J8 50S10 00; No.
2 do. $7 508 00; loose, from -wagon, $10 O0
13 00, according to quality: No. 2 prairie bay,
$0 5007 00; packing do, $8 0006 50; clover hay,
$4 0005 00.
STBA-w-Oat, $S 757 00; wheat and rye, $8 00
68 25.
u vintvu Ajm ,..6. nillici.
Provision.
Hams and shoulders bave been advanced He,
as quotations below will disclose. Other articles,
in tbe provision line are unchanged.
Sngar-cured hams, large. He; sugar-cured
bams, medium, lljfc; sugar-hams, small, 12c:
sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8Vc; sugar-cured
shoulders, 7&c; sugar-cured boneless shoul
ders, SVc; skinned shoulders, 8c: rklnned
bams, HJc: sucar-cured California bams, 8Vc;
sucar-cured dried beef flats, 9c; sngar-ctired
dried beef sets, 10c; sugar-cured dried beet
rounds. 12c; bacon, shoulders. 6c; bacon, clear
sides, 7&c; bacon, clear bellies. 7Wc: dry salt
shoulders, 5Kc: dry salt clear sides, c. Mess
pork, heavy, M3 0; ' mess pork, family, $13 6a
Lard Refined, In tierces. 69c; half-barrels, 6c;
60-B tubs, 6Kc; 20-tt pails, 6&c; EO-ft tin cans.
6c; 3-ft tin palls, 6Kc; 6-tt tin palls. 6c; 10-B
tin pails, 6mc Smoked sausage, long, 5c;
large, 5c Fresh pork, links. 9c Boneless
hams, lOJic Pies' feet half-barrels, MOO:
quarter-barrels. $3 15k.
TRADE RETROSPECT.
THE HEAT AND THE H OLIO AY LE88ENED
THE VOLUME.
Basinets In General, However, la Fnllr Up
to lbs Averaga of tbe Season Country
Produce Especially W la Good Demand.
OITICE OF PITTSBUBO DISPATCH,
Satubdat. July 5. 1890. J
The week past has developed few new fea
tures in trade lines. Extremely hot weather
In the early part of the week andhollday doings
in tbe latter part interfered somewhat with
wholesale grocery, live stock and grain trade,
and volume of (business in these lines showed
a slight decline from last week. Shippers of
cattle were at the mercy of buyers owing to
heavy receipts and hot weather, and prices
were off 25c per hundred from rates of the
Previous week and 75c from rates of a month
ago. Receipts of grain and hay have been
light, and markets are a shade stronger at the
close of the week than they were at tbe begin
ning. Corn and oats show an upward
tendency, and even bay, which has
been a drug in tbe market for a month past,
gives signs of improvement. Flour Is un
changed, but the leeling of jobbers Is that bot
tom has been reached. There is an increased
demand for bakers' flour, and a stiffening of
? rices. In general prodnce lines demand is
ally up to supply and prices are well main
tained. It is still difficult, as it has been for
several weeks past, for jobbers to obtain a full'
snpply of potatoes, and markets are firm at
prices of last week. Home grown potatoes
should soon be on the market,but tbe season for
vegetables of all kinds is fully two weeks be
hind the averaee In this section. Home crown
cabbage has been coming in freely to market
tbe past week, and the Southern article Is well
nigh supplanted.
Kcnrclty of Watermelons. '
Watermelons bare suddenly become scarce,
and prices advanced sharply witbln a few days.
Last week they were ,a drug and dropped to S20
per hundred. Our commission men notified
shippers to withhold stock, as there was little
left after freight was paid. Prices are to-day
$10 to $15 higher than they were a week ago.
As tbe melon crop is reported good, there is
little doubt that the present scarcity will be re
lieved within a few days. , .
It is not often that produce commlssionnouses
are so well cleaned upon Saturday at this pro
lific season of the year as they were to-day.
Demand for tropical fruits is active. Lemons
and bananas are firm and tending higher. Ono
dealer reports sales of 12 car loads of bananas
in tbe past ten days. Oranges are not so firm,
and prices are a shade lower than last Sat
urday. In the line of dairy products Ohio cheese Is
In larce supply and markets are weak. Said
one oi our leading joDDers: -audio i u vuu;
to the cbeese manufacturer at present prices of
milk. Prices are lower than a year ago, when
there was little profit, and nowl do not see how
thri malr,r nf phnMfl can come ont even."
Swiss cheeses are In light supply. Makers
are withholding stock from market in the hope
of better prices. But unlike domestic cbeese,
tbe Swiss Is blgber in price than at this time a
year ago. while the yield is said to be larger
now than then.
Products of Farm snd Dairy.
At Elgin prices of creamery butter are the
same this week as last, with a tendency to
greater firmness. It is plain that tbe lowest
price for butter this season has been touched,
and that future changes will be toward a higher
level. The egg market also shows an upward
drift. Fancy nearby stock Is very scarce. De
mand exceeds supply.
The grocery feature of tne week has been the
firmness of sugar, which for a few weeks past
has been on tbe decline. Canned fruits are
steadily moving upward, and prospects are
tbat higher prices will be paid tbe coming win
ter than for a number of years past. The
strawberry season was unexpectedly short,
and fruit preservers did not secure their usual
supplies.
Said a representative ot one of our leading
wholesale giocery houses to-day: "There is a
very light stock of pie peaches and gallon i
Ai iaIa &! 4 ntnw btiiI T ilnlihf "
apples in too uauus u juuuw "u uuuu.
whether any cocslderable quantity can be
bought anywhere."
Tbe Cincinnati J'riee Current estimates the
wheat crop for this year at 425.000,000 busbels,
which Is below the average of the last 10 years
and about 85,000,000 bushels short of last year's
crop. If this estimate is correct and it comes
from one of tbe most reliable trade authorities
higher priced wheat is probable within a few
weeks.
LIVE STOCK MAEKETS.
By Telegraph.
CHICAGO Cattle Receipts. 3.000 head: ship
ments, none: market quiet and steady; beeves,
$4 504 SO: steers. S3 404 40; stockers and
feeders. $2 303 50; cows, bulls and mixed, SI 00
3 10; Texas cattle, 81 353 25 Hogs Receipts,
8,500 head: shipments. 2.5C0 head; market
strong and 10 bighen mixed. S3 703 90: heavy,
S3 703 95; light S3 704 00; kips, S3 00
3 40. Sheep Receipts, 500 head; shipments.
none; market steady; natives, S3 was w;
Western. S3 904 80; Texans, S3 00Q4 00; lambs,
$5 006 10.
BUFF ALO Cattle steady and unchanged; re
ceipts, 211 loads through; 2 sale. Sheep and
Iambs Fair demand, and stronger on good
quality; receipts. 94 loads through; 9 sale;
sheep, choice to extra, $4 755; good to choice,
$4 504 70: lambs, choice to extra. 50 757;
good to choice, S3 45S 70. Hogs active,
stronger and bigher; receipts. 33 loads throngh;
30 sale: mediums, heavy and mixed. $44 05;
heavy Yorkers, S44 05: pigs, $3 8003 9a
Export of Specie.
NkwYobk, JulyS. The exports of specie
from the port of New York during last week
amounted to $428,468. all gold, of which $243,000
went to Europe and $185,463 to South America.
The Imports of specie for the week amounted
to $498,329, of which $479,850 was in gold and
$18,479 sliver.
London Wool Suits.
Lokdok, At the wool sales to-day
9,707 bale9, comprising a good selection, were
offered. There was a fair attendance and tbe
competition was sustained. Uselul wools were
In better demand. So far the to'al purchases
for the United States amount to 3,000 bales.
LIFE OH A BANCH.
A Pierce County, Wnslilncton, Settler Who
Hits Shot Forty Varmints.
William E. Singleton is a resident of
what is known of the Burnt Point country,
which is bounded by Hale's passage and
Henderson bay. During a five years'
residence there he has killed a
number of bears and says he has
shot no less than .0, tbe larger
number of which escaped, however. The
other day he presented a scalp at the
County Auditor's office and received the S3
bounty offered by the State.
To a reporter of the Tacoma Kewi Mr.
Singleton detailed his experience in 'pursuit
of this particular bear as follows:
"About 9 o'clock last Thursday morn
ing," said he, "I heard my dogs making a
terrible racket in the thicket, and, taking
my rifle, started in pursuit. A big
black bear had been disturbed by
the dogs and was making away for
the deep woods. I followed lor
some distance, hoping to get a good
shot at the auimal, but saw that he was
gaining on me. I fired twice, both shots
apparently taking effect, lor he began the
race the harder, 1 following at full speed
over brush and logs, stopping occas
ionally to take another shot. Finally the
wounded animal dropped to tbe ground ex
hausted by exertion and loss of blood, dying
before I could reach him. He dressed 195
pounds, and lrom the sale of the meat, I
netted $11 50. The scalp brings me S3, and
I still have a bear skin left to dispose of.
This is the oorib bear I've killed since
June 20, 1889."'
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few bottles of Swift's Sc(S7s!S?red
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makes Window Shades la
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Cloths in best makes, lowest prices for quality.
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Acts in all fiduciary caoacities. Deals in reli
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Receives deposits, and loans only on mort
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814 PENN AVENUE. PITTSBCRG. PA.
As Old residents Irnntr an1 hftlr filuc nf PlttA.
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