pp:j If " - ' v ! THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. I MONDAY, "Tfi - 'r. , : : BUBJ TOJTHE SOUL. Temptations Encountered at Fashion able Watering Places, THE MAKY TRAPS SET BY SATAN, A Ito Which the loathful and the Heedless f Are Likely to Fall. HOW TO BEST WITHOUT SIKK1KG rvrrctix iilioilui to ths dpxtcb.i Beookltn, August 3. Dr. Talmage has a timely topic for his sermon for to-day, in the use and abuse of summer resorts. His text it Mark rial: "Come ye yourselves apart unto a desert place and rest awhile." Following is the sermon: Hers Christ advises His apostles to take a vacation. They nave been living an excited as well as a useful lit e. and He advises mat they get out into the country. I am glad that for longer or shorter time, multitudes of our people will have summer vacation. The railway trains are being laden with passengers and baggage on their way to the mountains and the sea shore. Multitudes of our citizens are packing their trunks for a restorative absence. The city beau are pursuing the people with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long, silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals. The crystalline surface of Winnipiseogee is shattered with the stroke of steamer, laden with excursionists. The antlers f Adirondack deer rattle under the shotof city sportsmen. The trout make fatal snaps at the hook of adroit sportsmen and toss their spotted brilliance into the came basket. Al ready the baton of the orchestral leader tans the music stand on the hotel green and Ameri can life pats on festal array, and the rumbling of the tenpin alley, and the crack of the ivory ' balls on the green-baized billiard tables, and the jolting of the bar-room goblets, and the ex plosive uocorking of chamoagne bottles, and the whirl and the rustle of the ball-room dance, and the clattering hoofs of the race-courses, attest that the season for the great American watering places is fairly inaugurated. Mneic Ante and drum and cornet-a-piston and clap ping cymbals will wake the echoes of the mountains. WATER!!? G PLACE TEMPTATIONS. Glad I am that fagged-out American life for the most part will have an opportunity to rest, and that nerves racked and destroyed will find a Bethesda. I believe in watering daces. Let not the commercial firm begrudge the clerk, or the employer the journej man. or I be patient the physician, or the church its pastor, a season of Inoccupation. Luther used to sport with bis children: Edmund Burke used to caress his favorite horse: Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hours of the Church's disruption, played kite for recreation as 1 v is told by bis own daugh terand the busy Christ said to the busy apos tle: "Come ye apart awhile into the desert and rest yourselves." And I have observed that they who do not know how to rest do not know how to work. Bat 1 have to declare this truth to-day, that tome of our fashionable wateringplacesaretke temporal and eternal destruction of "a multi tude that no man can number." and amid the congratulations of this season and the prospect of the departure of many of you for the country I must utter a note of warning plain, earnest, and unmistakable. The first temptation that is apt to hover in this direction is to leave your piety all at home. You will send the dog and cat and canary bird to be well cared for somewhere else; but the temptation will be to leave your religion in the room with the blinds down and the door bolted, and then yon will come back in the antninn to find that it is starred and suffocated, lrtng stretched on the rug stark dead. There is no surplus of piety at the watering places. I never knew anj one to grow very rapialr in grace at the fashionable summer resort. It is generally the case that the Sabbath is more or a carousal than any other day, and there are Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday excursions. FOEGOTTES PBOFESSIOKS. The air is bewitched with "the world, the flesh and the devil." There are Christians who in three or fonr weeks in such a place have Dad such terrible rents made in their Christian robe that thev had to keep darning it until Christmas to get it mended. The health of a great many people makes an annual visit to tome mineral spring an absolute necessity; but take your Bible along with you, and take an hour for secret prayer every "day. though you be anrronndedTjy guffaw and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath, though they ftEnounre you as a bigoted Puritan. Stand off from these in etitutions which propose to Imitate on this side the water the iniquities of olden-time Baden Baden. Let yonr moral and yur immortal health keep pace with your physical recupera tion, and remember that all the waters of Hathorne and sulphur and chalybeate springs cannot do you so much good as the mineral, healing, perennial flood that breaks forth from the "Rock of Ages." This mav be your last summer. If so, make it a fit vestibule ef heaven. Another temptation around nearly all our watering places is the horse racing business. We all admire the horse. There needs to be a redistribution of coronets among the brnte creation. For ages the linn has been called the king of beasts. I knock off its coronet and put tbe crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape or spirit, or sagacity, or intel ligence, affection, or usefulness. He is semi human, and knows how to reason on a small scale. The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of tbe fact that the horse is something more than a beast. Job sets forth his strength, his beauty, his majesty, tbe panting of his nostril, the pawing of his hoof, and bis enthusiasm for the battle. What RosaBonhenr did for tbe cattle, and what Landseer did for tbe dog. Job, with mightier pencil, does for tbe horse. Eighty elgbt times does tbe Bible speak of him. He comes into every kingly procession, and into every great occasion and into every triumph. It Is evident that Job and David and Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and John were very fond of the horse. He came into much of their Imagery. A red horse that meant war; a pare horse that meant death; a white horse that meant victory A DEMORALIZED SPOBT. But we do not think that the speed of the horse should be cultured at the expense of human degradation. Horse races. In olden times, were under the ban of Christian people, and in our day the same institution has come up under fictitious names, and it is called a "Summer Meeting,' almost suggestive of tosl tive religious exercises. Ad it is called an "Agricultural Fair." suggestive of everything that is improving Jn the art of farming. But under the-e deceptive titles are the same cheat ing and tbe same betting, the same drunken ness and the same vagabondage and the simo abominations 'hat were to be found under the old horre racing system. I never knew a man yet who conld give him self to tbe pleasures of tbe turf for a long reach of time, and not be battered in morals. Thev hook up tbelr spanking team, and put on their sporting cap. and light their cigar, and take the reins, and dash down tbe road to perdition. Tbe great day St Saratoga, and Lone Branch, abd Cape May. and nearly all the other-watering places, is the day of the races. The hotels are thronged, nearly everv kind of equipage Is taken up at an almost fabulous price, and there are many respectable people mingling with jockeys, and gamblers, and libertine, and foul mouthed men and flashy women. The barten der stirs up tbe brandy smash. Tbe bets run high. Tbe greenhorns, supposing all is fair, pot in their money soon enough to lose it. Three weeks before tbe race takes place tbe straggle is decided, and tbe men in the secret know on which steed t bet their money. The two men on the horses riding around long be fore arranged who shall beat. Leaning from the stand or from the carnage are men and women so absorbed in the strug gle of bnne and muscle and mettle that they inake a grand harvest for tbe pickpockets, who carry off the pocket books and portemonnaies. Men looking on see only two horses with two riders flying around the ring: but there is many a. man on tbat stand whre honor and domestic happiness and fortune white mane, white foot, white flank are in the ring, racing with Jdebrietv, and with fraud, and with profanity, and with rnin black neck, black foot, black flank, Aeckand neck they go in that moral Epsom. A BUINODS BUSINESS. Ah, my friends, have nothing to do with horse racing dissipations this summer. Long ago the Englisb Government got through look ing to tbe turf fur the dragoon and light cavalry horse. They found the turf depreciates the stock, and It is yet worse for men. Thomas Hughes, the member of Parliament and the author, known all the world over, hearing that a new turf enterprise was being started in this eomitrv. wrote a letter, in -which h (. "Heaven help von, then; for of all the cankers oi out uiu viiiiii.." icic i coining in this country approaching In unblushing meanness, io-rascality holding its head high, to this be lauded institution of the British turf." Another isnfoDsiiwiuu" "" aaw rnauy nne domains bare been inaredamongtbese hosts of rapacious sharks during the last 200 years: and unless the aystem be altered, how many more re doomed to fall .into the same gultr The DakS5f.Hfl2-ltSISS?.?il.Borl" JclnS yrNHrltiec In three years get through hU en- I tire fortune of $330,OCO, and I will say that some of you are being undermined by It. With the bull tights of Spain and the bear battings of the pit may tbe Lord God annihilate the infamous ana accursed horse racing of England and America. I go further, and speak of another temptation that hovers over the watering slac.es; andtnis is tbe temptation to sacrifice physical strength. The-modern Bethesda was meant to recuperate the physical health; and yet bow many come from the watering places, their health abso lutely destroyed! New York and Brooklyn idiots boasting of having imbibed 20 glasses or Congress water before breakfast. Families accustomed to going to bed at 10 o'clock at nifrht ffnt(nln. nnHI tftrf hVlnck in the morn ing. Dyspeptics, tisuallv very cautious about their health, mingling ice creams, and lemons, and lobster ralads, and cocoanuts, until the gastric juices lift up all their voices of lamenta tion and protest". Delicate n omen and brain less young men cbassezlng themselves Into ver tigo and catalepsy. Tbonsands of men and women coming baok from our watering places In the autumn with tbe foundations laid for ailments tbat will last them all their life long. You know as well as I do-that this is the simple truth. s HASTILY FOBMED ENGAGEMENTS. Another temptation hovering around the watering-place is to tbe formation of hasty and life-long alliances.. The watering places are responsible for more of the domestic infelici ties of this Country than all the other things combined. Society is so artificial there tbat no sure judgment of character can be formed. Those who form companionships amid such circumstances go into a lottery where thero are 20 blanks to one prize. In tbe severe tug nf llfo ynu want more than glitter and splash. Life is not a bill room where the music decides the step, and bow and prance and graceful swing of long trail can make np for strong common sense. You may as well go among the gaily painted yachts of a summer regatta to rind war vessels as to go among tbe ligbt spray of the summer watering-place to find character that can stand the test ot the great struggle of human life. Ah. in the battlo of life you want a stronger weapon than a lace fan or a croquet mallet! Tbe load ot lire is so heavy tbat in or der to draw it, you want a tam stronger than one made up of a masculine grasshopper and a feminine butterflv. If there is any man in tbe community that excites my contempt, and that excites the con tempt of every man and woman, it Is the soft banded, soft-headed fop, who, perfumed until the air is actually sick, spends his summer In taking killing attitudes, and waving senti mental adieus, and talking infinitesimal nothings, and finding l.is heaven in tbe set of a lavender Md-glove. .Boots as tignt as an in quisition, two hours of consummate skill ex hibited in tbe tie of a flaming cravat, bis con versation mde up of "Ah's" and "Oh's" and "He-bee's." It would take 600 or them stewed down to make a teaspoon fnl of calves-foot jelly. There is only one counterpart to such a man as that, and that is the frothy young woman at tbe watering-place, her conversation made ud of French moonshine: what she has on her head only equaled by what she has on her back; useless ever since she was born, and to be useless until she is dead; and wbattbey will do with her in tbe next world I do not know, except to set her npon tbe banks of the River of Life for all eternity to look sweetl God intends as to admire music and fair faces and graceful step, but amid tbe beartlessness and the inflation and tbe fantastic influences ot our modern watering-places, beware bow you make life-long covenants! UNWHOLESOME BEADING. Another temptation that will hover over the watering-place is tbat of baneful literature. Almost every one starting off tor tbe summer takes some reading matter. It Is a book out of tbe library or off tbe bookstand, or bought of tbe boy hawking books through the cars. I really believe there Is more pestiferous trash read among the intelllgentclasses in July and August than in all tbe otber ten months or the year. Men and women who at home would not be satisfied with a book that was not really sensible, I found sitting on hotel piazzas or under the trees reading books the index of which would make them blush If theykuewl mat you Knew wnatme dook was. "Oh," they say, "you most have Intellectual recreationP Yes. Thore is no need that you take along into a watering-place "Hamilton's Metaphysics" or some thunderous discourse on the eternal decrees, or "Faraday's Philosophy." There are many easy books that are good. You might as well say, "I propose now to give a little rest to mv digestive organs: and, instead of eating heavy meat and vegetables, I will for a little while take lighter food a little strychnine and a few grains of ratsbane." Literary poison In August is as bad as literary poison m December. Mark that. Do not let tbe frogs and the lice of a corrupt printing pre jump and crawl into your Saratoga trunk or White Mountain valise. Would it not be an awful thing for you to be struck with lightning some day when' yon had in your hand one of these paper-covered ro mances the hero a Parisian rone, the heroine an unprincipled flirt chapters in the book tbat you wonld not read to your children at the rate of 5100 a line! Throw out that stuff from vour summer baggage. Are there not good books that are easy to read baoks of congenial his tory, books or pure fun. books of poetry ring ing wiin merry canto. nooks oi nne engravings dooks mat win rest tne mina as wen as puritv tbe heart and elevate the whole life? My bear era, there will not be an hour between this and the day ot your death when, yon can afford to read a book lacking in moral principle. THE CUP THAT INEBRIATES. Another temptation havering all around our watering places Is the intoxicating beverage. I am told that it is becoming more and more fashionable for women to drink. I care not how well a woman may dress, if she has taken enough of wine to flash hdr cheek and put glassineu on her eyes, she is intoxicated. She may be handed into a $2,600 carriage, and have diamonds enough to confound tbe Tiffanvs she is intoxicated. She mav be a graduate of a great institute, and the daughter of some man In danger of being nominated for the Presidency she is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and vou may say in regard to ber tbat she Is "convivial." or she is "merry," or she is festive," or she is "exhil arated." but you cannot with all yonr garlands of verbiage cover up tbe plain fact that it is an oldLfashloned oase of drunk.' Now, the watering places are full of tempta tions to men and women to tipple. At the close of tbe tenpin or billiard game they tipple. At tbe close of the cotillion they tipple. Seated on the piazza cooling themselves off they tip ple. Tbe tinged glasses come around with bright straws, and they tipple. First they take "light wines," as tbey call them: but "light wlnea" are heavy enough to debase the appe tite. There is not a long road between cham pagne at 15 per bottle and whisky at S cents a glass. Satan has three or four grades down which he takes men to destruction. One man he takes up, and through one spree pitches him into eternal darkness. That Is a rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can yon find a man uho will be sucb a fool as tbat. When a man goes down to destruction Satan brings bim to a plane. It is almost a level. Tbe depression is so slight tbat yu can hardly see. The man does not actually know that he Is on the down grade, and it tips only a little toward darkness last a little. And the first mile it is claret, and the second mile it is sher ry, and the th'jd mile It is punch, and the fourth mile it is ale, and the fifth mile it is port, and tbe sixth mile it is brandy, and then it ret steeper and steeper, and the man gets fright ened and says, "Oh, let me get off!" "No," says tbe conductor, "this is an express train, and it does not stop until it gets to the Grand Central Depot of Siuasbnpton." Ah, "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it glveth its color in tbe cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingethlike an adder." SAFETY FBOM SIN. My friends, whether you tarry at home which will be quite as saf e'and perhaps quite as comfortable or go into the country, arm yourself against temptation. The grace of God is too unij id Bucir, nucbuer in town or country. There are watering places accessible to allot us. Yon cannot open a book ot the Bible without finding out eome such watering place. Fountains open for sin and unclsanll ness; wells of salvation; streams from Lebanon; a flood struck out of tbe rock by Moses; foun tains in the wilderness discovered by Hagar water to drink and water to bathe in; the river of God, which is full of water; water of which if a man drink he shall never thirst; wells of water in tbe Valley ot Baca; living fountains of water; a pure river ot water as clear as crystal from under tbe throne of God. These are watering places accessible to all of we uuuui uvc muuuuus packing un bp- ....... Anil, .t.A th.f,, I.... b -V C fore we start only the throwing away of our LnmsuiCHiuus. ii vyvusuc uoiel bills to Say. it is "without money and without price." o long and dirty travel before we get there it is only one step away. In California in Ave min' utes, I walked around and saw ten fountains all bubbling up, and tbey were all different. And in five minutes I can go through this Bible parterre and find yon 50 bright.parkling foun tains bubbling op into eternal life. A chemist will go to one of these summer watering places and take the water and analyze It. and tell yon that it contains so much of iron and so much of soda, and so much of lime, and so mncb of magnesia. I come to this cosDel well, this living fountain, and analyze the water, and I flndtbat its ingredients are peace, Eardnn, forgiveness, none, comfort, life, eaven. "Ho, everyone that thirsteth. come ye" to tbta watering place! Crowd around this Bethesda to-day! Oh, you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying crowd around this Bethesdal Step in It! Ob step in it! Theane-el of tbe covenant to-day stirs the water. Why do you not step in ItT Some of you are too weak to take a tep in that dlmrtlnn. Then WC take VOU UO in thu irm, nf our closing prayer and plunge you clean under1 uio wave, nopiufi bunk wo i.iud uimy oe as snu den and as radical as with Captain Naaman, Jordan, and after the seventh dive came up, ?'kin roseate-comnlexlonedasthe flesh of a little child. t r THE.HARNESS TRADE ' - Monng Freely and Prices Drifting to a Higher Level. BUFF HIDES AND CALF SKINS FIRM. Absenteeism Affects Demand for Fruits and Tegetahles. FBATUEEB OF THK WEEK'S BD8INE8S OrriCE of PrrrsBTBQ dispatch, I Saturday. August 2. 1S90. The hide market continues to give signs of strength. Buff hides and calf skins are in very active demarld and prices a shade higher. Stock of calf skins is unusually light in the hands of onr dealers. A repre sentative of one of the largest or the -Allegheny harness leather tanneriessaid: "There has been no time for many years when the demand for our products was so nctive as it is now. This demand has been on all summer and gives no sign of letting up, but tbe reverse. We have usually been able to get some stock ahead during summer to meet fall trade. This season the product goes out as fast as it is ready, and more would go it we had It. Harness leather has been advanced 2c a pound in the past few weeks, but not enough to correspond with tbe advance in hides. A year ago light hides dropped to 4c and heavy hides to 6K& Now, tbe same grades are abont Zc per pound above these figures. I consider the harness leather trade in a very healthy condition and outlook unusually good. Tbe present activity is free tram speculative features blch have brought reactions In other years. Trade rests on a solid basis." Ths Sltnntlon In the East. The following Is from an editorial note in the current number of tbe Bo ston Shoe and Leather Reporter: "The tide in the leather traffic turned in May from -ebb to flood, but it has coursed somewhat sluggllsbly since then until this week, except as to rough leather and the finished stook produced therefrom, in which the rise has been very great. The leather market appears to be in a thoroughly sound condition. Holders are doing nothing tbat savors of effort or Inclination to enhance values. They sell all the leather they receive, getting, of course, as good rates for it as buyers "are willing to pay, but not trying to force np the rates Dy witnoiaing tne gooas tney nave on hand from market. For obvious reasons they will not sell in advance at current rates. Tbey have shown suSli a conservative spirit that there has been as yet only an extremely mod. erate advance in prices of tbe majority ot the kinds of leatherthev have to dispose of." The absence of so many customers from the city, say produce commission merchants, has lessened the demand for fruits and vegetables tbe last half of July. The month through, however, shows a larger volume of trade, and much better prices in this line than the coresponding month ot last year. One of our leading Liberty street commission merchants said, to-day, tbat his trade for June and July was largely bejond any two months since be had been in the business. Markets were glutted tbe past week one or two days with Southern tomatoes and cantaloups. The glut was partly do to delayed express trains, which prevented stuff from getting here in time. In the line of dairy products tbe demand has im proved and prices are firmer for good goods. Prodnco Commission Trndr. Manufacturers of cheese are strongerin their views of values and New York has been mov ing very freely the past week. Bottom prices have been touched, and as .this fact is recog nized, sales have been larger this week than any time tbis season. The butter situation is unchanged and eggs have weakened since tbe beginning of the week owing to large arrivals of Western stock. Receipts of tropical fruits are large. Tbe hot weather ot the past few days has ripened bananas very fast and large quantities of cheap over-ripe fruit are on the market. In cereal lines the marked feature of the week's trade has been the upward movement of corn and mill feed. Supply of feed is very scarce in this market. The corn crop esti mates have considerably declined the past 10 days owning to to drought in the corn sections, and a strong bullish movement has been In augurated on the strength of the decline, Oats have barely maintained tbeir steadiness during tbe week, in fact thev are a shade lower. Wheat and flour have advanced. The lay-down price of fancy spring patent flour is about $5 56 in wood. Hay is practically tbe same in price as it has been for a month past. A sharp" upward movement in many lines' of groceries has appeared within the past week or two. Tbe stock of rice in tbe bands of jobbers is almost exhausted, and prices have advanced sharnly within a few days. Advices from New York importers show an extraordinary demand for rice. Canned syrnpsand fruits are steadily moving upward. Said a representative of a v holesale grocery house to-day: "People are wild on the que-tion of canned and dried fruits. Prices bave advanced lnlly20 par cent this week. Tbe quesiion is not what to pay? bat who has the goods. BIVEB UrTEIXIGENOE. Ths Usual Grant bandar Excursion Busi ness Done Yesterdav. Tbe usual quietness of Sundays prevailed on the levee yesterday. All craft were tied up, with tbe exception ot the excursion boats, which carried large crowds down the-nver to McKee's Bocksand Sbingiss Park. Tbe May flower made hourly trips to the park, to which point larze crowds went in quest of a place to escape tbe sweltering beat of the city. The river rose slightly since the last gange was taken. Reports from headwaters show rain,' to which tbe rise is attributed. At 5 P. 1r.1t was 6 feet 3, and rising slowly. The Davis Island mark below the lock-gate showed 3 feet 7 at the same hour. The usual Sunday morn ing packet for up-river points left with a fair sized crowd ot passengers. The Dames Q. Blalno and Adam Jacobs are due from Mor gantown to-day. The Blaine will leave on re turn trip at 8 A. ir.. and the Jacobs at S r. H. The Elizabeth is scheduled to leave at 3 this afternoon for Qenera. Drift wood. THK C. W. Satchellor is still on the dock at Manchester. Captain B. T. Ward left for Louisville yester day on business. Cincinnati is paying a big price for Pittsburg coal at present. Palkstixk Dam, on the Little Kanawha, broke Thursday, suspending navigation. Vobk hat been commenced on a bridge at Parkersbnrg to span the Kanawha. The work on Burner. Springs Dam is being pushed to completion before high water arrives. Captain P. 1. Pokstth arrived at Cincinnati vesterday. He is looking after his coal Interest there. FLAGS were at half-mast In Cincinnati yester day In respect to Captain Charles Boss, who died at his home in Carthage, O., Friday. Boats in port-Iron Age. C. W. Batcbellor, Coal City, Coal Valley, Aellle Walton, Jehu A. Wood, Dauntless, Harry Brown, Ironsides, Plerrepont, Enterprise, W.W.U'Mell, Little BKI. Jim Wood, Iron Duke, Ark, Hark Wlnstt, George Shlras, I. N. Hook, Samuel Miller, Joseph B. Williams, Fred Wilson. Percy Keller, Annie Koberts, Voyager, Joseph Cook aad Samuel Clarke. Impaired Circulation. Dr. Flint's Remedy, by exercising a regula tive Influence over the action of tbe heart and the general circulation, will check at once bleeding from the lungs, and will cure dropsy ot those organs. Descriptive treatise with each bottle. At all druggists, or address Mack Drug Co, N. Y. KWF S. "W. Hill, Pittsburg Meat Supply Company, corner ot Church avenue, Ander son street and P., Ft W. & C. E. W., Alle gheny, Pa.; sold lor Messrs. Nelson, Morris & Co., of Chicago., II U, for the week end ing August 2, 1890, 167K carcasses of beef; ayerage weight 689 pounds, average price $6 26 per 100 pounds. Asmoub & Co., of this city, report tbe following sales o' dressed beef for the week ending Aug. 2. 1890: 200 carcasses, average weight, 609 lbs; average price, $6 14. Pittsbttbo Beef Co. wholesale agents for Swilt's Chicago dressed beef sold ior week ending August 2, 193 carcasses beef, ayerage weight 595 lbs, average price 6.41 cts. When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, Whyn she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, When she bail Children.tBe gate them CastorU ap9-77-Kwrsa 1 -1 - HOME IHTEBESTS. Business and Flnctunilons In Local Stocks for toe Week. The stock market during tbe week was dull, but Aim, with few exceptions. The bnlkof the trading was in Electric and Citizens' Traction rights. Sales in a regular way were 2.480 shares, of which Electric furnished over one half, with Philadelphia Gas second. There was nothing In the way of conditions upon which to base a material departure from pre vious quotations. Closing prices, as compared with those of the previous Saturday, show advances in Phila delphia Gas, Citizens Traction. Pittsburg Traction, Luster and Westlnghouse Electric, and declines in Central Traction, Pleasant Valley and Switch and Signal. The little boom In Columbia Oil. started on Thursday, bad disappeared at the close, with something to boot. There was no actpal demand for bank shares, but they wero inaccessible. Outside of tbe Exchange, and to some extent in it, the feeling was Arm on fair prospects of a livelier marset with the advent of cool weather. Several of the favorites among thm Philadelphia Gas. Switch and Pleasant Val ley are said to be slated for an up turn. Sales were 100 Citizens' Traction rights at J15. 64 Electric rights at 45c. 10 Switch at WA, 10 Pleasant Valley at 26 arid 70 Philadelphia Gas at 3 LIKE A GRTH5K BAY TBEE. Business ot tbe Bnnk Continues Breaking Lnut Yenr'a Record. There was nothing specially new in features or conditions at the city banks Saturday. All of tbe institutions visited reported a good sup ply of funds and a good discount business, for. the season. Bates were unchanged. n The Clearing House report shows a gain of 34,000,000 over tbe same week last year. As this represents real business, not speculatIon.it is peculiarly significant as Indicating the steady development of the activities of tbe city. Saturday's exchanges Saturday's balances Week's exchanges Week's balances l'revlonsweek'acxchanges.... Exchanges week or 1S89 Balances week of 1S89 Exchanges to date, 1590 Exchanges to date, 1888....1... Ualn, 1890 to dale..., ..1 2.KC4S7 71 .. KU.7H Jl . IS, SIS, 273 71 , 011 514 32 , 18,034, 707 , 12,C7,4M6C . 1,078,118 W . 467, 136.895 06 , 378,67S.71O0S . US, 440,092 as NEW YORK STOCKS, An Extreme Dullness on 'the Exchnnge Bnllroad Bonds Tory Quiet How Lnrce Export of Specie Will Benefit the American markets. New York, August i The stock market, especially In the regular lists, reached the ex treme of dullness to-day,' the transactions foot ing up only 20,308 shares of listed stocks and 15,600 of unlisted. The trading throughont was of the tamest character, being entirely con fined to tbe professionals, and tbe attendance of brokers at tbe board was roost meager. The 'business dooe was nothing but scalping for eighths and quarters, and the slight fluctuations possessed absolutely no significance outside of these in sugar refineries. -There was some life in Atchi son and St. Paul, and each advanced a small traction in tbe early dealings, ouly to lose the improvement later in the session. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis furnished Jhe widest fluctuation In the regnlar list, H per cent on further realizations, closing at its lowpst price. Sugar opened up at 81Ji, rose to 81 and declined to 80. Asbarp rise to 81 followed, but it afterward retired to 81, and finally closed at 81. There was no otber fea ture of any kind, and the market closed In tensely dull but steady to Arm at insignificant changes from last evening's figures. Railroad bonds wero just as dull as stocks, the trading being confined to only $18Z,000.for tbe two hours of. business and prices show tio material cbange in any part of the list while tbe number of issues traded in was extremely smalL Exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to 97,153,884, of which $8. 539,564 was in gold and 1818.800 in 'silver. Tbe imports nf specie for tho week amounted to 55.244, of which 524,449 was in gold and $30,795 in silver. The .Portsavs: It 11 to be remembered that whatever gold is sent from here to the other side can only result in greater confidence on the part of English investors in American securities, ana will in the end greatly increase the demand lor our securities. The Important factors in the market during the week were tbe passing of the dividend on the first preferred stock of the San Francico. which bad a depressing influence on tbe Atchison stock and bonos, tbe latter declin ing on a rumor that no interest would be paid on tbe Incomes, but there is good reason to be lieve tbat such is not the case, and that the 2 percent will be paid; the decline on San Fran cisco p'ref erred for tbe week was IS per cent. , Tbe coal stocks were comparatively steadyon tbe improved conaitlon of the trade. The Grangers and Southwestern stocks were all lower. The advance in rates ordered in tbe middle ot the week having been without effect owing to otber bearish Influences. There was a large business in both sugar and silver bullion, and both closed about 4 per cent higher for the week. the folljwinjr tame snows tne prices or active stocks on tne Newltdrk Stock Exchange yester day. Corrected dally for Tin Dispatch by WHITNEY & 8TIFHXH sox. oldest Pittsburg mem bers of Mew York stock JSxcbanxe, 57 Fourtb ave nue: Clos ing Open in c Am. Cotton Oil.. Am. Cotton Oil nref. .. . Hit-h-csu Low est. Bid. S3 30M 4t 79 MJ IF 28 MX 10S 7294 117 91 1SX HIM 144 TJX SOX 63 Am. Cotton OU Trust. . SM( 30 42 78 H A ten.. Ton. ft 3. if Canadian Paclnc. , Canada Southern.. .-4214 - TO Central of New Jersey. .... Central Paclnc Chesapeake & Ohio.... 23H Chlcairo Gas XYust Ml. 2314 MX nosx J2X 118 aiH 2tV( UK 105 72H 118 Si C. Bar. A Qulncr .,M0S)4 c, mu. at. ram. .. v.. Mil. St. P.. pr. C, Kockl. e C St. I,. Pitts . 7IH 118 . 11 C A Northwestern .... CAN. W. Di..- C. C. C. A 1 Col. & Hocklne Valley 73X 783, lues, x unio 131 nrei........ Ches. A Ohio 2d prer.i44M Del.. Lack & West Hl Del, & Hudson Den. & Klo (irand...., .. . Den. & R10Uraude.pl. 1334 K.T.. Va. t Oi Illinois Central Lake trie A West Lake Erie & West pr. .... Lake Shore & M. a Lonlsvllle&HashvllIe. SS Mlcnican Central Monile A Ohio Missouri Paclnc... .".. 71 atlonalLeadTrnst... 21 JJew York Central 107K N. r.. C ft at. L N. Y L. E. i W 25H H. AM. E. N.Y.. O. AW. 183 Norfolk A Western . Norfolk A Western pr. .... Northern PacISc Northern Paclflept.... 81 Ohio A Mississippi Orejron Improvement. .... Oregon rranscon... PacldoMall Peo., Dec. A Evans 44)4 1474 44 147! 167 IS 8334 9 11S H UJ 109 85 96 2I5 71V 2014 10744 ItH 2514 4744 ISM 20 eo &K SIM 24 45 41H aH 20 44X 216 21 H 81 36)4 97 103)4 u 72 Sl!4 20 SIM s 8 78 63 UK S3X U 72 21 107 2SJi 48 18X 71 21 107i- 2$ 48 18V 81 81 rhtladel. A Heading Pullman Palace Oar Ulchmond A W. P. T.. 21H Richmond A W.P.T.pt .... St. Paul A Duluth St. Paul A Duluth pr. St. P., Minn. A Man St. L. A San Fran pr. 2I 21 H at. l.a Ban jr. istpt. Suear Trust Texas Paeiflc , Union Paclfc , Wabash , Wabash preferred..., Western Union . 81X. 81H 8214 Uli 84H SJH eiii li S4 88H 7H ilf Wneellnc A U. &...... 38 Wheeling A L. E.prer. 76 ""Ex-dividend. Closlag Bond Quotation, V. 8. 4a. rei.... U. D. 4s, coup.. lT.a.4Ms. rf.., ,121 M.K.AT. Oen. Ss.. 72K i: 102 Mutual Union 6S....102 - a. J. Clnt. Cert,. .11044 Northern Pas. 1st.. US Northern Pae. 2ds..IIS U. 8. 4)4s, coop. ....'1084 raciooes or ' sua Loulslanastampedts 89 Missouri 6s 101 lenn. new set. ss,. ..107 Tenn. new set. 63..., 104 Tenn. newset. Ss.... 73 Canada So. Ids 100 Central PaclBclsU.109 Den. A 11. U. lts...lisv Den. K. (J. 4s 82)4 D.&K. O. Westlsts. Erle2ds 102 AL K. AT. Gen. 6s.. 84)4 NortliwH'n consols. 1S3 wortnw'n us ben's 5110 Oregon A Trans. Ss. 106)1 Ht.L AI. M. den. Si. 911. St.L. AS.F. Oen.il.110 St. Pael consols. ....ia St. P. ChiAPc. ists 114 lx.. FcL.G.Tr.lti. I Tx.. Pe. Kb.Tr.Ks. 40 Union Pacific lsts.. .110 West Bbore.. ...104 Boston Htorki. Atch. A Ton 42 Boston A Albany... .ISO Boston A Maine 2074 Eastern it. K. 172 H Fltchbur R. R. SO Mass. Central 22 ilex. Central com... 24V H. Y. A N,F.nc 4741 M. Y.A N. Eng. 7S.124X Old Colony. 172 Wis. Central com... 273g Allonesllr. Co 8)4 Atlantic 23 Boston A Mont.;.... 80)4. Calumet A Hecla....S0S Franklin , . SIX . s 44 , 10 127X . 85 .212 . 7 . s)4 22 Huron Osceola l'ewable (new).... Unlncy , santa Fe copper... Tamarack Aunlston I.and Co.. Boston Land Co..... San Diego Land Co. Ut Fnil ljtnrt f2o. 27K Bell Telephone 227)4 I.amson Stores. 33 Watar Power. 6 32 Centennial Mining. Philadelphia stacks. Closing auotatlont of Philadelphia stooks. for iihed bvWhltnev A Stephenson, brokers. No. 87 Fourth avenue. ilembrsew Xorlc Htocx .Ex change: Sid. Asked, Pennsylvania Railroad,.,. . Heading Lenlsrh Valley Lehigh Navigation U. Co's Utr, Jersey Northern Pacific Northern raclflo preferred.. 13H ..... 22 7-1S "H '52M w I 30 sift SaIe, AUGUST ; 4, DOMESTIC MARKETS. Choice Grades of Dairy Products Are Drifting Higher. EGGS AND POULTRY ARE QUIETEB. Cereals Still Steady With Corn and Feed Strong Factors. ACTIY1TT in alJj, UROCKHI USES OTFICE OF PITTSBTJBCJ DISPATCH, 1 SATUBDAY, August 2, 1S80. Conntrj Produce Jobbing Prices. Choice grades of dairy products are firm. Domestic Is active at quotations. Eggs and poultry are quiet and prices are a shade lower than at tbe beginning of the week. The supply of potatoes has improved within a few days and markets are not so Arm. Sweet potatoes are also in good supply and lower. Lentous are good stock, demand being stimulated by hot weather. Oranges are quiet and slowj California fruits are eoming in more freely and prices are a shade lower. Supply of berries is light, but enough for all demands. Mountain blackberries are now at tbeir best. Tomatoes and cucumbers are bringing better prices than for a few days past. Apples S3 5034 00 a barrel. Buttieii Creamery, Elgin, 2021c: Ohio do, 1819c; fresh dairy packed. 1012c: fancy country roils, 1314c; choice, 10L!c Berries Blackberries, SI oO a bucket: cur rants. 10-pound basket, SI 25: huckleberrles,Sl 35 1 60 a pall; Ives grapes. 6075c for 10-pound basket; Delawares, Jl OOgll 2a Beans Navy hand-picked beans, S2 002 10; Lima beans, 6Q6c Beeswax asffiSOc V & for choice slow grade, aoeaac CA.XTAi.ours Ann Arundel, 12 503 00 ft crate; 'nutmegs, 92 50 H crate; watermelons. 115 0025 00 a hundred. Cidib Sand refined. $7 50; common, 14 00 4 50: crab cider. S3 00(29 00 9 barrel; elder vin egar, ioizc W gallon. 1 Cheese New Ohio cheese, 1iTAc: New York cheese. 89c: Llroberger, 10llKc: do mestic Swettzer, 13ffilSKc: Wisconsin brick Sneitzer. 114J12H" imported Sweitzer, 24c. Eqos 1819cP dozen for strictly fresh. Featheks Extra lire geese. oOQGOc; No. L, do, 4045c; mixed lots. 80835c fl &. Maple Stbuf 7595c a can; maple sugar. 810ca. Honey 15c fl ft. Poultry Spring chickens, small, 3040c a pair: large, "WSSOc a pair; dressed, 11612c a ponnd. Tallow Country, &:: city rendered. 4c. Seeds Recleaned Western clover, $4 15Q 4 40; countrv medium clover, S3 50S 75; tim othy. Jl 60Q1 70: blue grass, $1 30l 65; orchard grass. (1 SXI; millet. 7075c Tropical Knurrs Lemons, choice. 6 00 06 50; fancy, S7 007 60; Rod! oranges. IS 00 6 60; Sorrento oranges, S5 005 50; bananas, $2 002 50 firsts, 1 75 good seconds ft bunch; pineapples, J7g9a hundred; California peaches, 12 002 50 box; California apricots. SI 769 2 25; California plums, 82 002 25 f) boxCali f ornia pears, 53 60 IR box. Vegetables Southern potatoes, S3 25433 50 ft barrel; red sweet potatoes, 15 50S 00; yellow, 17 007 60 ft barrel: home-grown cab bage, 82 002 50 $ barrel; onions, S3 60 3 75 a barrel: green onions, 2025c ft dozen; green beans, home-grown. SI 001 15 $ basket; cucumbers, SI 0001 25 fl crate; toma toes, S2 a bushel box; home-grown tomatoes, S3 00(23 60 a bushel; celery, 3035c a dozen. Groceries. The general drift ot trade is toward a higher level' ot prices. Syrups, canned fruits and dried fruits and rice are all moving upward. Coffee and teas are also tending the same direction. Tbe only weak factor of staple gro ceries is sugar, which is quiet at tbe late de cline. All jobbers report unusual midsummer activity. Volume of trade for July was larger than the corresponding period of last year, and outlook for fall business was never better. Greek Coffee Fancy Rio. 24K625J4Y:: choice Rio, 22423c; prime Rio, 23c: low grade Rio, 20K21Hc, old Government Java. 29K30c; Karaoaibo, 2527c; Mocha, 303 32c; Santos2226c; Caracas, 2627c;La Gnayra, 2627c Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 25c: high grades. 2630Xc; old Government Java, bulk, S334Kc; Maracaibo. 2829c: Santos. 28 30c; peaberry, 30c; choice Rio, 26c; prime Rio, 25c; good Rio. 24c: ordinary, 21WQ22KC Spices (whole) Cloves, l718c: allnpice, 10c; cassia, 8c: pepper, 15c; nutmeg. 7580c Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test, 7Uc; Ohio, 120. 84c; headlight, 150, SJic: water white, 10c; globe, 1414Kc; elame, 14c; car nadlne, llic; royallne, 14c; red oil, llHKc; purity, 14c Miners' Oil Ko. 1 winter strained, 434245c fl gallon; summer, 38840c; lard oil, 6553c. STROP Corn syrup, 3234c; choice sugar Sjrup, 37S9c; prime sugar syrup, 3233c; strictly prime, 3536c: new maple syrup. 90a N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop. 5052c; choice, 49c; medium. S843c: mixed, 4042c SODA Bi-carb in keg?, SK3c; bi-carb In K', 6c; bi-carb assorted packages, 66c; sal-soda in kegs, lc: do granulated, 2c Candles Star, full weight, 8c: stearins. Yi act, onvi paraiuiuc, AAiyiv. Rice Head Carolina, 77Vc: choice, 6c; prime. 66c; Louisiana, 56K& bTARCH Pe-irl, 3c; cornstarch, 668c; gloss starch, 57c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, S2 65; Lon don la vers, $2 75; Muscatels,S2 50: California Mus catels, S240;Valencia,8Kc;Onaara Valencia. 10K icy 11c; suitan, lUMiffiic; currants, o?4ot;c: xur prunes, In 2-ft packages, 9c: cocoanuts V 109. S6; almonds, Lan., $ ft, 20c; do Ivlca, 17c: do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap , 1314c; Sicily filberts, 12c; Smyrna figs, 12213c; new dates, 6 6c; Brazil nuts, 13c; pecans, 9K10c; citron, W ft. 1819c; lemon peel, 16c TH ft; orange peel, 17e Dried Fruits Apple, sliced, per ft., 6c; applet, evaporated, 1314c: peaches, evapor ated, pared, 2830c: peaches, California, evap orated, nnpared, 2526c: cherries, pitted, 22c; cherries, unpitted, effitfe; raspberries, evapor ated. 32333c; blackberries, 808Kc: huckleber ries. 10ai2c Sugars Cubes. 6c; powdered, 6c; granu lated, 6c; confectioners' A. 6c; standard A, veuow, cnoice, osts :; yenow, iair, vQ Pickles Medium, bbls. (L200). S3 on? me dium, half bbla. (600), S5 00. Salt No. 1, V bbl, 95c; No. 1 ex. W bbj. SI 00: dairy, bbl. SI 20; coarse crystal, f bbl, SI 20; Higgins' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, $2 80; Hlggins' UUICKU, 1V11 la pdVB.Uk?. 90 W. Canned Goods Standard peaches. S2 70 2 SO; 2ds, 52 402 50; extra peach e. 12 853 00; pie peaches. SI 65; finest corn, SI 351 50: Hf d Co. orn. 8095c; red cherries, SI 251 35: Lima beans. Si 20 soaked do, 80c; string do, 75iK)c: marrowfat peas. Si 10&1 25; soaked peas. 70 SOc; pineapples. 81 301 40: Bahama do, S2 75; damson olnms. $1 10: greengages. SI 60: egg plums, J2 10: California pears. 2 70; do green gages, S2 10; do egg plums. J2 10; extra white cherries. S2 85:raspoerrie,$125Ql 35:strawber ries. SI 251 So; gooseberries. 8590c: tomatoes, 95cSl; salmon, 1-ft, J130Q180; blackberries, SI 15: Succotash, 2-ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green, 2-fis, SI 251 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans. 52-10; 14 ft cans, S14; baked beans, SI 401 50: lobster. 1-ft, SI 801 90; mackerel. 1-ft cans, broiled, SI 60; sardines, domestic, s, to 0005 10: sardines, do mestic. Ks, S7 50; sardines. Imported, Js, I116012M; sardines, imported. K SI8; tar dine, mustard. S4 50; sardines, spiced, S4 21 FISH Extra No, 1 bloater mackerel, S36 f bbl; extra No. 1 ao. mess, HO: extra No. 1 mack erel, shore, S23; extra No. 1 do, mess, S32; No. 3 shore mackerel, S23. Codfish Whole pollock, 4c rl ft; do medium, George's cod. 6a; do large, 7c: boneless, hake, in strips, 4Ke; do George's cod in blocks, 6k7Kc- Herring Round shore, S3 60 bbl; split, W 60: lake, S3 23 100-2 bbl. White fish, S3 50 W 100-ft half bbl. Lake trout, S3 60 f bait bbl. Finnan haddock, 10c ft. Iceland hallbnt, 13c 7 ft. Pickerel, half bbl, S3 00; quarter bbl, SI 35: Potomac her ring, SI 50 bbl; 52 00 half bbl. OATMEAL-S5 60435 75 V bbl. Gralo. Floor and Feed. Sales on call at the Grain Exchange, 2 cars of bran, 518, 5 days. Receipts as bulletined, 17 ctrs. By Pittsourg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railway, "2 cars of oats, 1 of hayand oats, 1 pf malt, 41 of flour, lot hay. By Baltimore and Ohio, 1 car of oats, 1 of malt. 1 of flour. By Pittsburg. Cincinnati and St. Louis, 8 cars of oats, 1 of corn. 1 of hay. Receipts for the week 228 cars against 160 last week and 132 for tbe corresponding week last year. In this week's receipts were 59 cars of oats and 43 ot cord. The general cereal situation is un changed since our last report. Corn and feed are very firm and wheat and flour steady. Prices are ior carload lots on track: Wheat No." 2 red. 9596c; No. 3, 93Q94c; now wheat, .No. 2 red, 91tt2c CORN No. 2 yellow' ear. 594260c; high mixed ear. 5859c: No. 2 yellow, shelled, 6455c; high mixed shelled corn. 63K54c .2AT-No2 nhlte' 42Q44ic; extra. No. 8, 41041Kc: lxed.3839c KYE No.1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 0Q61c; No.l Western; 6959Kc Flour Jobbing prices Fancy .winter and, 8PrinI,Ptent- 605 78: winter straight So 005 25: fancy straight spring. S5 25o 50; dear winter. S4 755 00; straight XXXJC naicers'. $4 50S4 75. Rye flour. S3 7504 01 :?. EED aiioaiings.iancynnewnite.ooo sj2i uu v ton; Drown middlings, S17 001B 00; winter wheat bran. 515 504316 00. HAT-Baled timothy. No. L.S11 75012 00: No. 2 do. S9 O0S9 60; loose, from1 wagon, S14 1)041 If pO, according to quality: new hay, Sll 00 1 VagWESSSBSES p'cUDsao' Btraw Oat, $6 75437 00; wheat and rye, SO" 00 6 25. ' j Provisions- Sugar-cured bams, large, lie; sugar-cured bams, medium, HKo; sugar-bams, small, 12c; sugar-cured breakfast bacon. 8c: sugar-cured shoulders, 7c sugar-cured boneless shoul ders, 8Kc; skinned shoulders, Sc; skinned hams, lllic; sugar-cured California hams, 8JJc; sucar-curei dried beef flats, 10c; sugar-cured dried beet,sets, lie; sngar-cured dried beef rounds. 13d; bacon, shoulders, 65Jc: bacon, clear sides, 7Wc; bacon, clear bellies. 7c: dry salt shoulders, 6Vct aT7 salt clear sides, 6Kc Mess rork, heavy, S13 50: mess pork, family. S13 50. Lard Refined, in tlerce, 6Kc; half-barrels, 6c; 60-ft tubs, 6Jc; 20-B palls, fcc; 60-ft tin cans. Slit?, 3-ft tin palls. 6Xc; 5-ft tin palls, 6c; 10-ft tin pails. OVic Smoked sausage, long, 5c; large, 6c Fresh pbrfc. links. 9c tianeles hams. 10Kc Pies' feet, half-barrels, H 00; quarter-barrols. $2 15. MARKETS BY TOE. ' Another Whirl In Ifae Chicago Grain Pit Caused by Report of Dry, Hot Weather In lh Norlbwest Pork More Active. Chicago, August 2. Wheatr-Tradlug was active and prices higher to-day. It was a sur prise to most onerators and the feeling was very unsettled. The opening was Jc higher, then eased off slightly, but tbe market soon de veloped strength, and with slight fluctuations of 2c eased off some and closed ljic higher for September and 2c higher for December than closing figures of yesterday. Tbe sharp ad vance in wheat was rather a mystery, and tbe reason assigned therefor was the advance in corn, hot weather again in the Northwest and tbe fact tbat operators got short on the recent downturn. Corn There was a heavy trade. A very nerv ous Reeling prevailed, though on the whole, tbe market was sTonger and higher prices the rule. The advance was due to reports of dry, hot weather. Light rains were said to have fallen in Western Iowa and Nebraska, but the weather was hot and clear in Missouri, Kansas and Eastern Nebraska. The market opened V4lc hotter than the closing pricei vester day. was easy fora short time,selling off KKc but soon ruled stronger and advanced 11c. reacted again, rallied, ruled steady and closed IKSlJs'uhighertban yesterday. uais were moaeraieiy achvs. vyflmut; sales were at Vic advance and a further ap preciation or (3)lc was recorded. A reaction "f JiKo followed, and the market closed steady at a net advance of 21c.- Mess pork Trading was moderate. Prices for January advanced 3035c, but were not felly supported. Lard Only a fair trade was reported, prices ruleit 57Ho higher, and closed steady at out side figures. Quite a large business waa transacted In short rib sides. Prices advanced 12H15c, and the appreciation was fairly well supported. The leadinz futures raneea as follows: Wheat-No. 2. Auanst, S992S9aiJic; September, 92J4e)4692Q9ic: Jlecember, 4K96J694K9oJ"c Corn No. i August. 46K047K465i47Kct September. 47Ji48e47,Q48Kc; May, 61 5JK05ie52C Oats No. 2, August S434K3434c; September. S4We313434Hc; May, 37J4 38K037K3SKc. Mess Pork, per bbl. August, Sll 8012 10 Oil 8012 10: Sentember. Sll 2S11 601I 25 11 40rJanuary, Sll 6511 95U 6011 9a Lard, per 1U0 lbs. August. SS 00Q6 OOfJ 6 97K88 00; September. 56 156 20tt 12K0 S6 20; Octobpr. S3 27K?6 32K68 256 S2) Short Ribs, per loo lbs. August. $5 07K 5 255 07K6522Kr September, S5 205 42W 5 205 37k; October. S5 305 505 3005 47& On the Produce Exchange to-day tho butter marice: was steady ana uncnangea. ggs, 1212Kc Cash quotations were as follows: Flour firm rve. 52KC No. 2 barley. 60c No. 1 flaxseed. SI 34. Prime timothy seed. SI 42143. Mess pork, per bbl. 812 00. Lard, per 100 lbs., 56 00. Short ribs sides (loose), 55 20435 :5. Dry salted shoulders (boxed). S5 876 00. Short clear sides (hoxed). SS 655 60. No. 2 white oats, new, S535c; old. Sti337c: No. 3 do do, 34 S4Jc.;old,3o365c NEW YORK-Flour held higher and dull. Corn meal qniet and steady: yellow western, S3 60Q 3 00. Wheat Spot, higher, quiet and unsettled: options excited and fairly active on stronger Continental advices and tbe general bull speculation; prices are up 11C and Arm. Rye Arm; Western, 5S&260C Barley malt quiet; country Sue: city bo0c. Corn Spot unsettled, higher, quiet and firm; options advanced 23c, closing 2K2J$c over yester day; fairly active on crop reports and attempted control by the leaders-. Oats Spot firm and dull: options quiet and KilHa no. Havdull and steady; shipping, S040c: good to choice 65 90c Hops quiet and steady. Coffee Options opened steady, 510 points up, closed steady 104515 points up. Sales, 25,500 baes. including August, 17.65c: September, 17.10I7 20e: Oc tober. 16.60016.60b: December. 15.90016 00c: January 15.6uc: February, 15.50c; May 15.40c Spot Rio dull, firmer; fair cargoes, 20c; No. 7 flat bean, . 1S(31SC Sugar Raw dull but firm: fair refining 4cj centri fugals 96 test, 5i; refined generally dull and unsettled, granulated in active demand; for export tC. 413-164c extra C, 415-16 ay.: wnite extra u, o$o o-iu;yeuow, ouc Molasses Foreign nominal; New Orleans quiet; common tn fancy, 2S45. Rice active and firm:dome3tia&c; Japan. 66.Cottonsefcd oil firm; crude. 30c; yellow, 35c -Tallow strong; and quiet. Rosin dull; strained common to good, SI 401 45. Turpentine dull at!41K42c. Eggs dull and weak: Western, 1718c; re ceipts. 4,2bo packages. PorK firm: me", S13 00014 00; extra prime S10 002)10 50; cut meats strmitr: pickled bellies, 65c, do. shoulders. 6S6J4: do bams, 10llc: middles firm and quiet; short clear, 6c Lard stronger and quiet; Western steam, 56 25: sales. 260 tierces; options sales, 1 250 tierces; September. 56 SS; October, 56 516 5.'; November, S6 65; December, 56 60; January. 56 76. Butter quiet, fancy firm; Western dairy,6llc: do. creamery, 917c; do. factory. 4K10Ki Elgin. 1717kc Cheese quiet- part skims, 325c; Ohio fiat, 36Xc ST. LOUIS Flour strong, but demand light and prices unchanged. Wheat A good busi ness was transacted to-day and the market was strong. The opening prices were c higher, fluctuated irregularly, then advanced 2c previous to the noon call. A relapse of Kc followed, but a stronger feeling developed, and prices shot np lKc or SJ-gC from the bottom, subsequently eased off c, rallied c, and thed declined ic. closing 3c higher for August and September, 23c for December, and Zia for May than yesteruaj ;No. 2 casb,89c;Augusr, 91c nominal; September, 92c bid; December. ; Way. SI 01. Corn Trading was fair, and the market continued strong. The usual discouraging advices forced prices up 1 2c from an opening that was lc higher. Closing rates were Se from the top, and 2 2c above yesterday: No. 2 cash, 46c: August, 4Bc bid: September, 47c; October, 48c: Slay, 51c Oats Higher, cl"ing at top rates, after a suarp advance. andlKc above yesterday's; No. 2 cash, 35Kc askcil; August, 34c bid; September, 35c; Al ay. 39Jc Rye Strong; No. 2. 50c bid. Flaxseed lower, but more doing, SI 29. Provisions firm. PHILADELPHIA-Flour firm but quiet. Wheat strong; options advanced 01!c: No. 2 red, August. 95K95c: September, StiSOUJc; October; 98Ji9ic; November, 96j97$ic Corn Prices of both spot lots and options ad vanced llKc; No. 3 mixed, in Twentieth street elevator, 53c; No.' 3 mixed, on track, 53c: No. 3 yellow, in grain depot. 53c; do, on track, 53c; No. 2 mixed, in grain depot, 53c; do. on track. 64Kc; choice No. 2 high mixed, on track, 55Wc; No. i mixed. August, 52c: September, 52H 63c; October. 63K54c: November, 5354c Oats strong: pnees Ko higher; No. 3 white, regu lar, S4Xc; No. 2 white.Iregnlar. 434c: No. 2 white, August, 39U394;c: September, S8K 33c; uctooer, osjieoac; xnovemoer, smtasupic Eees scarce and firm; Pennsylvania firsts, Vl lBJic BALTIMORE Wheat Western firmer: No. 2 winter red spot, 8&V934'c: August, B3Vfi93Hc: Siptembsr. 94K;94jc; October. 959oJic; De sember, DTJigDoc. Corn Western strong; mixed, spot, m,3Lici Auiust, o2Ji&S24; September, 52Qoc Oats Qulet-and firm: Western while, 47is4Sc; do do -mixed, 47c;. graded. No. 2 white. 48c; do do mixed, 47c Rye firm; choice, fiSQGOc; good ro prime, 54357c: common to fair, 504363c. Hay fairly active; prime to choice timothy. 511 00Q12 60. Pro visions firm. Butter active: scarce for fancy goods. EgcsQrm; very scarce at 17c , MINNEAPOLIS Tbe cash wheat market was slow to-day. The water was out of the canal, and local millers bought little it any supplies. A large part of tbe outside orders were limited below the market. Those tbat were not were soon filled. Prices were some stronger than yesterday. Closlne quotations: No.l hard. Au gust. 95c; on track, 97098c; No. 1 Northern, August, 90Kc;on track, 9293c; No. 2 Northern, AUgUSl, OOC; On UKk, oui(iruv. CINCINNATI Flour steady. Wheat lower: No. 2 red. 94c; receipts, 9.000 bushels; ship ments, 8,800 bushels. Corn strong; No. 2 mixed. 49Q50C Oats easier; No. 2 mixed, 3038Kc. RJe higher: No. 2. 55c Provisions stKidy. Whisky nrmf ;sales. 1,002 barre's. fin ished goods on tbe bals of SI 12. Bntter steady. Sugar weaker. Eggs easy at 11Q11c Cheese firm. DULUTH Wheat was fairly active and strong to-day, adrancicglc from tbe opening fig ures. Closing prices are: August, 95c; Sep tember, 93Jc Wool Markets. LONDON, August a Since the "close or tbe wool sales the transactions have been limited. Tbe Imports during the past week were as fol lows: From New South Wales, 1,000 bales; from Victoria, 722 bales: from South Australia, 91 bales, from New Zealand, 212 bales; from' China. Bit bales, ana irom various otber puces, 245 bales. . Prlcea of Bar Oliver. Nrw Yobk, August 2. Bar Bilver London, SlJid; London, fl 13. ( irvXBTfJCK'HAEKETa: 4- ' r The Condition of Business at the Eaat Liberty KtookVnrda. office or itittsburo Dispatch, Baturdat, August 2. isso. .. CATTLE Receipts. 2.010 bead; shipments, 1,995 head; market nothing doing; all through consignments; 24 cars of cattle shipped to New York -to-day. Hoas Receipts, 3,000' bead; shipments. 2.200 bead; market fair; medium and selected. S4 00 4 10; common to heavy. $3 S0Q3 95; 7-cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day. Sheep Receipts. 1,400 head; shipments, 900 head; market dull at unchanged prices. ' By Telegraph. CHICAGO The Drover? Journal reports: Cattle Receipts. 7.000 bead: market demoral ized: beeves. U 50434 SO; steers, S3 004 40; stockers and feeders, 52 003 20: cows, bulls and mixed, SI 203 OO. Texas cattle, SI 30 3 00. Hozs Receipts. 19,000 bead: shipments. 4,000 bead: market 10c lower; mixed, S3 65423 SO; heavy, S3 503 85? light; S3 6&S 95: skips, 5250 3 50. Sheen Receipts. 2,000 bead; market slow and weak; natives. S3 605 30: Western, S3 Wi 20; Texans, 53 5004 25: lambs, SI 50 6 60. ' ST. LOUIS Cattle Receipts. 600 head; shipments, 1,800 head; market demoralized: good to fancy native steer?,. 54 00Q4 30: fair to good, S3 604 10; stockers and feeders. 52 CO ft 3 80: Texans and Indians. SZ 00-82 75. Hogs Receipts, 1,100 head; shipments, 2,400 head: market steady; fair to choice heavy, 83 70 3 85; packing grades. S3 603 70: light, fair to best. $3 703 SO. Sheep Receipts. JOO bead; shipments, 1,200 bead: market nominal; fair to choice, $4 0035 10. BUFFALO Cattle steadr; receipts. 273 loads through, 10 sale. Sheep fairly active: receipt", 13 loads through, 6 sale; sheep, choice to extra, S4 755 00; good t- choice, 54 304 70; lambs, choice to extra, 55 703S 10; good to choice, S5;405 65. Hogs Steady; receipts, 42 loads through, 26 sale; medium, heavy and mixed. S4 0534 10: heavy 'Yorkers, S4.05; light S3 C54 00; pigs. S3 8533 90. INDIANAPOLIS Cattle Receipts fair: mar ket slow; shipper. S3 654 50; butchers'. SI 50 3 75; bulls. SI 603 25. Sbeep Receiptaligbt; market slow: sheep. S3 7534 75: lambs, S4 50 B 00. Hogs Receipts. 3.500 head: 'market slow; light. $3 80Q3 87K heavy. S3 7503 SO; mixed,S3 653 75; grassers, S3 153 65. CINCINNATI Hogs steady: common and light, S3 7604 00; packlngand butchers'. S3 250 3 90. Receipts, 2.2C0 bead; shipments. 6,800 head. CHAINED IK A GAESET. A 11-Yonr-Old Bay the Victim of n Father's Fiendish Crneliy. St. Louis, Augnst 3. For some time past the neighbors ot Julius Schnell, of 2915 South Broadway have' been discussing with horror tales of barbarous cruelty prac ticed by the man upon bis 11-year-old son Fred. Not only did the man brutally beat the boy, according to the stories of the neighbors, but abont three weeks ago, he resorted to more stringent means of punish ing the lad, and chained him to the floor in the garret. There he kept him for an entire week, according to the neighbors, and but for the intervention of one of the lodgers in tbe house, would hare kept him manacled even longer. Strange stories of how the boy's plight was discovered, his outcries first convincing the neighbors that the house was haunted, and the boy's strange continued absence finally enlightening them as to the cause of the sounds,(were freely bandied about, and finally' came to the ears of police officers of the Second dis trict, who reported the matter to Captain Huebler. Special Officers Connors and Schroeder, who had been detailed to inves tigate tbe matter, made a report tn Captain Huebler yesterdny or what of what they had learned, and wben the report was read by Chief Barrigan, to whom, it' had been iorwarded, he itntuediately instructed Cap tain Huebler to swear oat a warrant against the man to-day. The special officer had in terviewed neighbors, among them a Mrs. Schammer and a Mrs. Oeist, living next door, and had received from them state ments to the effect that Schnell had kept his son chained down for a week, and also secured an admission from the man's wife, that the story was true, except that he had been kept chained np but two days. Paul Keller, who liyes on the first floor of the house of which Schnell occupies the second floor and garret, says the manacling bad been done with a chain as large as Kel ler's thumb. Schnell admitted having' chained the boy to the floor with a dog chain attached to a staple in the floor, the otber end fastened around tbe boy s waist. Me stated that the boy was near a window, how ever, and was regularly' given his meals. 'Tkept him there in the garret three days and three nights," said he, "when Keller told me I must give him tbe key to the gar ret and let him release the boy. Keller reasoned with tbe boy and he promised to do better. He did improve for two or three days, but soon, went bacfc to his old habits. He has been perfectly incorrigible and I had to chain him np to keep him from run ning away. I intend to send him out into the country to-morrow. SPBIATIKG TJICS TUEPHTS. Two Boy Hlghwnymen Chased Tea Mile Before Befog Captured. St. Lotjis, Aug. 3. Yesterday afternoon as Edmond Davis and bis boy wern driving home from market on tbe Olive street road, and. when near the residence of J. H. Giers, about twelve miles from the city, they noticed two little boys in a wagon. Upon approaching nearer tbe children two larger boys, about 16 years of age, sprang lrom the side of tbe wagon and ran as fast as tbey conld across the fields. Davis hurried to bis home, which was near, saddled a horse and pursued the boys, who were ex ceedingly fleet of foot, until his horse be-came-fagged, when Henry Bergler, the con tractor, joined in the pursuit. At Hamilton I avenue and Olive street road J. H. Crowley, tbe plumber, mounted jus none, joined in the chase and ordered his boy to follow. The two boyrfngitives jumped tbe wire fences and ditches which which came in their way like deer, while their determined pur suers were compelled to make detours. After a chase of over ten miles they were finally captured at Wellston, where it was evidently their intention to board a narrow gauge train. . They gave their names as Henry Ott and Fred Carter. They had stolen $8 from the little boys. Henry-Ott is a white boy, 15 years of age. He and tbe other boy, Carter, a colored lad, 16 years old, had been working for Mike Hauler, a contractor, un til tbe day Derore yesterday' when they quit work and started to the country to hunt work. They were overtaken on the road by the two little lads, irom whom tbey asked permission to ride. They were given Ter mitsion, and when they reached the Giers place one of tbe boys pulled bis knife from his pocket and, in doing so, drew out a small package of money, about $8. The negro ordered him to deliver tbe money to him. The little fellow, scared almost to death, readily complied. The highwaymen then scampered away, as related above. 4 r A Case far Diplomacy. Detroit Free Press. George Francis Train proposes (o repeat his globe trotting experiment and to compass the girdling of the earth in 67 days. Here is a chanee for Sir. Blaine to show his gen eral capacity as a diplomatist by haying the Chinese or some other government detain tbe traveler until the present generation of Americans has passed away. An odorless liquid. Powerful; cheap. De stroys disease germs, prevents sickness. A necessity in every borne. Invaluable In the sickroom -mjJl-3S-a mansk. CMoriim Hit: HOUSEHOLD PfiSeiETAIi7 I t T: Fentores of Saturday's Oil IHnrker. " " Corrected daily by John M. OakleV-t C0..4H-7-Slxtb street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange: . Opened.... 884 I Lowest. .S84 Highest 8914 I Closed 89i Barrels. Average charters S,K3 Average shipments. Sx! Average runs... ,....t Jl.SCQ. Innea. NewYorr. 7.3ta. Keflned, London. 54l. Kcflnea, Antwerp, I7L HeOned. Liverpool. 5 1I-I5J. Beflned. Bremen, CSOra. A. B. McGrew quotes: Puts, 88; cans. Drvgoada. I, Nztv YorkI August 2. There were no new developments in the drygoods market and. prices wcra-without chance. , . Pimplgt -AND- Blotches'"- jRB EVIDENCE That the Mood U wrong, and that nature is endeav oring to throw off the impurities. Nothing is so beneficial in assisting nature as Swift's Specific (S. S. S) It ts a simple vegetable compound. Is harmless to the most delicate child, y el it forces the poison to the surface and eliminates it from the blood. .t.con?"',etl "'severe case of blood poisosi thatunfittedmeforbusinessforfouryears. A few bottles of Swift's .Specific (S. S.lcired me. t J. 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UPHOLSTERY DE PARTMENT Best makes Window Shades in dado and plain or spring fixtures, Lacs Cur tains, Portieres. Chenille Curtains, Poles and Brass Trimrmnzs: Floor. Table and Stair Oil - .Cloths in best makes, lowest prices for quality. WASH DRESS FABRICa The largest variety from which to select, , ToIIDuNords, Chalon Cloth, Bath Seersuck ers, Imperial Suitings, Heather fc Renfrew Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr Ginghams. Wholesale Exclusively. Jal3-D BKOKKRS- FINANCIAL. Whitney & Stephenson , 57 Fourth Avenue. my3 JOHN M. OAKLEY & CO. 45 SIXTH ST.. AUTHORIZED AGENTS. " . Leading- English. Investment Syndicates have money to in vest in American manufac tories in large amounts only. JOHN M. OAKLEY & G0., BANKERS AND BROKERS. Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Petroleum. Private wire to New York and Chicago, 45 SIXTH ST, Pittsburg. " -' mv29-81 3IEDICAL. DOCTOR WHITTIER 814 PENS AVUNDE. PITTSBURG. PA. . As old residents know and back files of Pitts burg papers prove, is the oldest established and most prominent physician in the city, de voting special attention to all chronic diseases.4 &SSSN0 FEE UNTIL CURED MLDni IC and mental diseases, physical ll L 11 V U U O decay.nervous debility. lack of energy, ambition and hope impaired memory, disordered sight, self distrust, bathfulness. dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, im poverished blood, failing pat era. organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, un fitting tbe person for business, society and mar-' riage, permanently, safely and privately enrea. 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