HTni SKSBEIV-3&tHK3lBl KHQBMOHHH -f w pfHp r T-?? - " i rs'iyT: -" sKejs- v$s;i5,8fTr"7t,T'-? , V , rata prrasBtma dispatch, ' Monday, attgust 25, i89o. EMBEm 4 .f WORDS THAT COUNT. The Potency of Mild Language in Overcoming Adversaries. QDAEEELIKG ALWAYS USELESS. An Impossibility to Drive Men to Become " Christians. - BALTAT10H THROUGH THE HEART tsnaxti tanui to the sisrarcB. Cnfcrlf ATI, Anpust 24. Dr. Talmage, who is In this city to-day, discourses on a power which, if it had been used as exten sively as Christ intended it to be used, would have saved the church and the world from infinite discord and sorrow the power of kindness. His text is "A soft tongue break eth the bone." Proverbs xxv, 15. Follow ing is his sermon: "When Solomon said this he drove a whole volume into one phrase. Ton, of course, will not be so silly as to take the words of the text in a literal sense. They simply mean to set forth the fact that there is a tremendous power in a kind word. Al though it may seem to be very insignificant, its force is indescribable and illimitable. Pungent and all-conquering utterance: "A soft tongue breaketh the bone." If the weather were not so hot, and 1 had time, I would show jou kindness as a means of defense; kindness as a means of useful ness; kindnesses a means of domestic har mony; kindness as best employed by govern ments for the taming and curing of crimi . nals; and kindness as best adapted for the settling and adjusting of international quar rels; but I shall call your attention only to two of these thoughts. And first, I rpeak to you of kindness as a means of defense. Almost every man, in the course of his life, is set upon and as saulted. Your motives are misinterpreted or your religious or political principles are bombarded. What to do under such cir cumstances is the question. The first im pulse of the natural heart says: "Strike back. Give as much ai he sent. Trip him into the ditch which he dug for your feet Gash him with as severe a wound as that which he inflicted on vonr soul. Shot for shot Sarcasm for sarcasm. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth." But THE BETTEB SPIEIT in the man's soul rises up. and savs: "Ton ought to reconsider that matter.-" You look up into the lace of Christ and say: "My Master, how ought I to act under these cim cult circumstances?" And Christ instantly answers: "Bless them that curse you, and cray for them which despitefully use you." Then the old nature rises up again and says: "You had better not forgive him until first you have chastised him. You will never get him in so tight a corner again. You will never have such an opportunity of in flicting the right kind of punishment upon him again. First chastise him and then let him go." "No," says the better nature, "hush, thou foul heart Try the soft tongue that brcafceth the bone." Have you ever in all your lite known acerbity and acrimoni ous dispute to settle a quarrel? Did they not always make matters worse, and worse, and worse? Many years ago there was a great quarrel in the Presbyterian family. Ministers of Christ were thought orthodox in proportion as they had measured lances with other clergymen ot the same denomination. The most outrageous personalities were abroad. As in the autumn, a hunter comes home with a string of game, partridges and wild ducks slung over his shoulder, so there were many ministers who came back from the ecclesiastical courts with lone strings of doctors of divinity whom they bad snot with their own rifle. The division became wider, the animosity greater, until alter a while some good men resolved upon'another tack. They began to explain away the difficulties; they began to forgive each other's faults, and, lol the great church quarrel was set tled, and the new school Presbyterian Church and the old school Presbyterian Church became one. The different parts of the Presbyterian order, welded by a ham mer, a little hammer, a Christian hammer that the Scripture calls "a soft tongue." QUABRELXHG WITH XEIQHBOBS. You have a dispute with your neighbor. You say to him, "I despise you." He re plies: '"'I can't bear the sight of you." You say to him: ".Never enter my house again." He says: "If you come on my door sill I'll kick you oft" You say to him: "I'll put you down." He says to you: "You are mistaken; I'll put you down." And so the contest rages; and year after year you act the un-Christian part, and he acts the un christian part. After a while the better spirit seizes you, and one day you go over to the neighbor and say: "Give me your band. We have fought long enough. Time Is so short, and eternity is so near, tnat we cannot afford any longer to quarrel. I feel you have wronged me very mnch: but let us settle all now in one great hand-shaking, and be good friends for all the rest of our lives." You have risen to a higher plat form than that on which before you stood. You win his admiration, and you get his apology. But if you have not conquered him in that way, at any rate you have won the applause ot your own conscience, the bigh estimation of good men, and the honor of your Lord who died for His armed ene mies. "But," you say, "what are we to do when slanders assault us,and there come acrimon ious sayings all around about us, and we are abused and spit upon?" My reply is: Do not go and attempt to chase down the slanders. Lies are prolific, and while you are killing one, 50 are born. All your demonstrations of indignation only exhaust yourself. You might asfwell, on some sum mer night when the swarms of insects are coming up from lhe meadows and -disturbing you, and disturbing your family, bring up some great "swamp angel," like that which thundered over Charleston, and try to shoot them down. The game is too small for the gun. HOW TO COXQDXE. But what, then, are you to do with the abuses that come upon you in life? You are to live them down! I saw a farmer go out to get back a swarm of bees that had wandered off from the hive. As he moved amid them they buzzed around his head, and buzzed around his hands, and buzzed around his feet If he had killed one of them they wonld have stun? him to death. But he moved in their midst in perfect placidity until he bad captured the swarm of wander ing bees. And so I have seetr men moving amid the annoyances, and the vexations, and the assaults of life in such calm, Chris tian deliberation, that all the buzzing around about their soul amounted to noth ing. They conquered them, and above all, they conquered themselves. "0," you say, "that's a very good thoory to preach on a hot day, but it won't wort." It will work. It has worked. I believe it is lhe last Christian grace we win. You know there are fruits which we gather in June, and others in July, and others in August, and others in September, and still others in Oc tober; and I have to admit that this grace of Christian forgiveness is about the last fruit of the Christian sonL "We hear a great deal about the bitter tongue, and the sarcastic tongue, and the quick tongue, and the singing tongue; but we know very little about "the soft tongue that breaketh the bone."' "We read Hndl- bras, and Sterne, and Dean Swift, and the J oincr aposues oi acrimony, but give -little time to studying the example of Him who was reviled, and yet reviled not again. O 'that tbe Lord, by His spirit, would endow as all with "the soft tongue that breaketh thebone." CHRISTIAN KIUDirESS. X pass sow to the other thought that I desire to present, and that is. kindness as V ..means of usefalneis. In nil Bomninnltia t tlnd.ilcntitleni men. ThrmjTii r!r td J JWv" jUcation, or through tb maltreatment of professed Christian people, or through pry ing curiosity about the future, world, there ars a great many people who become skep tical in religious thlhgs. How shall you capture them for God? Sharp argument and sarcastic, retort-never won a single soul from skepticism) the. Christian rejigion. "While powerful books on the "Evidences of Christianity" have their mission in confirm ing Christian people in the faith they have alreadv adopted, I have noticed tha when skeptical people are bronchi into the king dom of Christ, it is through the charm of some genial soul, and not by argument at all. v Men are not saved through the head; they are saved through the heart Astorm comes out of its hiding place. It says: "Now we'll just Touse up all this sea;" and it makes a great blus'ter; but it does not succeed. Part of tbe sea is roused up, perhaps one-half of it, or one-fourth of it After a while the calm moon, placid and beautiful, looks down, and the' ocean begins to rise. It comes up to high water mark. It embraces the great headlands. It submerges the beaches of all the continents. It is the heart throb of one world against the heart-throb of another world. And I have to tell you that while all your storms of ridicule and storms of sarcasm may rouse up the passion oi an immortal nature! nothing less than the attractive power of Christian kindness can ever raise the -deathless spirit to happiness and to God. I have more faith in the prayer of a child 6 years old, in the way of bring ing an infidel back to Christ and to heaven, than I have in all the hissing thunderbolts of ecclesiastical controversy, WASTED ABQUMENTS. You cannot overcome men with religious argumentation. If you come at a .skeptical man with an argument on behalf of the Christian religion yon put the man on his mettle. He says: "I see that man has a carbine. I'll use my carbine. I'll answer his argnment witK my argument" But if you come to that man, persuading him that you desire his happiness on earth and his eternal welfare in the world to come he can not answer it What I have said is just as true in the reclamation of the oDenlv vicious. Did you ever know a drunkard to be saved through the caricature of a drunkard? Your mim icry of the staggering step and the thick tongue and the disgusting hiccough o-aly worse maddens his brain. But if you come to him in kindness and sympathy; if ycu show him that you appreciate the awful grip of a depraved appetite; if you per suade him of the fact that thousands who had the grappling hooks of evil inclination. ciuicnea in ineir soui as urmiy as in uis have been delivered, then a ray of light will flash across, his vision, and it will seem as if a supernatural hand were steadying his staggering gait A good many years ago there lay in the street a man dead drunk, his face exposed to the blistering noonday sun. A Christian woman passed along, looked at him, and said: "Poor fellow." She took her handkerchief and spread it over bisVace, and passed on. The man roused himself up from his de bauch, and began to lodk at the handker chief, and, lol on it was the name of a highly respectable Christian woman of the city. He went to her, he thanked her for her kind ness; and that one little deed saved him for this life, and saved him for the life that is to come. He was afterward Attorney Gen eral of the United States; but, higher than all, he became tbe consecrated disciple of Jesus Christ DYING FOB KIND WOBDS. Kind words are so cheap, it is a wonder we do not use them oftener. There are tens of thousands ot people who are dying for the lack of one kind word. There is a busi ness man who has fought against trouble until he is perfectly exhausted. He has been thinking about forgery, about rob bery, abont suicide. Go to that business man. Tell him that better times are com ing, and tell him that you yourself were in a tight business pass, and the Lord delivered you. Tell him to put his trust in God. Tell him that Jesus Christ stands besides every business man in his perplexities. Tell him . of the sweet promises of God's comforting grace. 'That man is dying for the lack of jnst one kind word. Go to-morrow and ntter that one saving, omnipotent, kind 'word. Here is a soul that has been swamped in sin. He wants to find tbe light of the gospel. He feels like a shipwrecked mari-' ner looking out over the beach, watching for a sail against the sky. O, bear down on him. Tell him that the Lord waits to be gracious to him, and though he has been a great sinner, there is a great Saviour pro vided. Tell bim that though his sins are as scarlet, they shall be as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. That man is dying for ever for the lack of one kind word. There used to be sung at a great many of the pianos "all through the country a song that has almost died out I wiih somebody would start it again in our social circles. There may not have been very exquisite art in the music, but there was a grand and glorious sentiment: "Kind words never die, never die; Cbe.'isbed and blessed." THE WAY TO TEACH. O, that we might in onr families and in our churches try tbe force of kindness. You can never drive men, women or children into the kingdom of God. AMarch northeaster will bring out more honeysuckles than fret fulness and scolding will bring out Christian grace. I wish that in all ourreligions work we might be saturated with the spirit of kindness. Missing that, we miss a great deal of usefulness. There is no need of com ing out before men and thundering to them the law unless at the same time you preach to them the gospel. Do you not know that this simple story of a Savior's kindness is to redeem all nations? The hard heart of this world's obduracy is to be broken before that story. There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the most remarkable pictures I ever saw. It is "The Descent of Christ from the Cross." It is one of Rubens' pictures. No man can stand and look at that "Descent from the Cross," as Bubens pictured it, without hav ing his eyes flooded with tears, if he have any sensibility at all. It is an overmaster ing picture one that stuns you, and stag gers you, and haunts your dreams. One afternoon, a man stood in that cathedral looking at Rubens' "Descent from the Cross." He was all absorbed in that scene of a Saviour's suffering when the janitor came in and said: "It is time to close up tbe cathedral for the nignt I wish you would depart" Tbe pilgrim looking at that "Descent from the Cross," turned around to the janitor and said: "No, no; not yet "Wait until they get Him down." -THE 80FT TONGUE. O, it is the story of a Saviour's suffering kindness that is to capture the world. When the bones of that great Behemoth of iniquity which has trampled all nations shall be broken and shattered, it will be found ont that the work was not done bv the hammer ot tne iconociast, or oy tee sword oi tne conqueror, or by the torch of prosecution, but by the plain, simple, overwhelming torce of "the soft tongue that breaketh the .bone." And I now ask the blessing of God to come down upon you in matters of health, in matters of business; that the Lord will de liver yon from all your financial perplexi ties; that He will give you a good liveli hood, large salaries, healthful wages, suffi cient income. I pray God that He may give J on the opportunity of educating your chil ren for this world, and, through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, of seeing them prepared for the world that Is to come. Above ali, I look for the mercy of God upon your immortal souls; and lest I stand before some who have not yet attended to the things of their eternal interest, in this, tbe closing part of my discourse, I implore them here and now to seek after God and be at peace with Him. O. we want to be gathered to gether at last in the bright and blessed as semblage of the skies, onr work all done, our sorrows all ended. God bless you, and your children, and your children's children. And now I commend yon to God and to tbe word of His grace, which is able to build yon up and give you an inheritance among ali of them that are sanctified. Headache, neuralgia, dizziness, ner Tousness, spasms, sleeplessness, cured by Dr. Miles' Nervine. Sample free at Jos, F If ruing & Bon's, Market it M . STAGE SCRAPS. The music of the "Passion Play" at Ober ammergau is supplied by on qrcbestra of 85 members and a choir of 24, 7 sopranos, 7 altos, S tenors and 5 basses) all of tbe musicians are in habitants of tbe village; the orchestra is placed underground; the singers learn their parts entirely by rote; tbe execution Is accurate and colored, a fact which it is easy to account for when it 13 known that 89 full rehearsals were held under tbe diroctlsn of Schoolmaster Grater, who Is the conductor of the euhIc Mr. Gustay Hinrichs summer season at Philadelphia with his American Opera Com pany bas passed through 13 weeks of great suc cess, which is likely to continue for the remain ing five weeks. Besides a new opera of tbe lighter order by Mr. Hlnncbs himself, entitled "Onti-Ora," "Ernani" "Rigolette," "Masked Bali." "Mlgnon," "Daughter of tboReglment," "Martha," "Huguenots" and other standard operas have been given, "Carmen" and "Lohengrin" are also to be put on before Mr. Hinricbs betakes himself to New York as con ductor for Mr. Hamrnersteln's promising enter prise ot giving permanent opera in English to tbe metropolis. For a period covering 20 years Louis James bas held a prominent place In tbe history of the American stage, and dnring that time he has, as leading man, supported such prominent stars as Clara Morris, Charlotte Cushman, Fahny Davenport Edwin Forrest Lawrence Barrett and many others. For the past seyen years Mr. James bas been engaged in portray ing as a star the leading characters In onr best tragedies. He bas long since overcome the natural opposition to all new exponents of classic roles, and the admirers of his originality and vigor bave grown from hundreds to thou sands in every important city In America. Mr. James' repertory this season consists of "Othello." VHamlet" "Julins Cajsar," "Mac beth." "Richelieu," "Virginius," "Ingomar" and "Maitle Heart" His Pittsburg engage ment commences Monday night September L at the Grand Opera House and continues one week. The opening bill will probably be "Othello," which is one of Mr. James' strongest characters. A New Yoek comic opera manager says; W hile the .Rial to and tbjs agencies cm, with an hour's notice, supply actors and actresses enough to fill a score of dramatic troupes, there is an amazing scarcity of chorus people lor opera companies. The wages -run from (10 to 20 a week, with transportation paid and cos tnmu nrovlded. A dozen managers of ODera tronpes aro in town searching for choristers, and most of them were in despair. It has gen erally been their custom to engage only experi enced singers, bat with the present lack of ma terial they are glad enough to get raw recruits with good voices. Just think of tbe list of opera tronpes organizing now or already organized the Francis Wilson, McCanll, Hamrnersteln's, Hopper's, Minnie Palmer's, Conreid's, Duff's, Carlton's Cormne'e, Marie Greenwood's, Ben nett and Moulton's and a dozen others I could same.' These tronpes employ from 15 to 40 per sons each in the chorus. Besides, the farce, comedy and burlesque companies are contiun ally hiring the cleverest or the choristers for small solo parts, and even In the spectacula. productionss use is now made oi singers. Prob ably there are 1,000 persons who make a living as chorus singers, yet 1 can't fill my troupe to my satisfaction. Fbamcis Wilson appears to have scored the greatest success known since '"The Mikado," by the admirable performance given of his new opera, "The Merry Monarch," attbe Broadway Theater, New York, last Monday night With out a single exception, tbe New York papers have credited the opera with being the best and most laughable work of the kind seen in this country in many years, and in consequence the Broadway Theater is crowded to the doors nightly. The hit appears to be even greater than that scored "by "Ermlnle," for that opera made no such impression on the opening night as "Tbe Merry Monarch" is reported to have made. Beside being intensely funny, possessing a fine dramatic story and ex cellent music, tbe new ploce has been placed upon the stage is an elaborate manner, border ing on extravagance. Hoyt's scenery is said to be magnificent and Hawthorne's and Dazian's costumes, made from sketches by Percy An derson, of London, are described as the hand somest dresses ever shown in a comic opera production. Unfortunately the opera cannot remain in New York this fall longer than seven weeks, when it will go on a tour, but Manager banger has already booked time for It for bis Broadway Theater covering nearly ail of next year, beginning early in tbe fall ot 189U Dakcebs are more in demand nowadays than they have been in years. Premieres Cor nalba, Qualitz and Paris command something like 150 a week. Carmencita, who is the met ropolitan hit at Koster & Rial's, weekly takes in S00 simoleon "-. Dancers like Ida Heath, Kate Seymour, Lillian Ramsden. .Emily Vlvlan-have salaries ranging from $75 to S100 a week. Stac cione, the skirt dancer, who will trip around "The Hustler" this season, passes the hundred limit Good specialty dancers are very scarce. Barney Fagin, one of the best authorities on the subject, says that most women have apti tude for dancing but are lazy. Tote Du Crow, another authority, says tbat women confine themselves to one dance, and never learn anew dance more than once in five years. Jennie Williams, who according to report, is to wed Lord Petre. notoriously danced one dance and that let her ont Tbe advent last year of Syl via Grey and Letty Lind among us. and their terpsicborean success, was productive of a shoal of Imitators. Florence Miller, Yiolette Maicatte and Marie Cahlll are among these linitatory skirt dancers. Tbe prevalence of black skirt daroicg has given rise to a lot of male parody skirt-dancing. Martinetti and Collier, John Kernell and Max Arnold. Don nelly and Girard, Evans and Hoey are adepts in the burlesque of this style of female skirt dancing. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. The Condition of Business at the East Liberty Slock Yards. Office op Pittsbueo Dispatoh. SATURDAY. August 23, KS0. J Cattle Receipts, 1,842 head; shipments, 1,664 head; market nothing doing; all through consignments. Twenty-three cars cattle shipped to New York to-day. . Hoob Beceipts. 2,850 head: shipments. L900 head; market active; selected cornted, 84 40(3 4 50: best cornfed Yorkers. 4 304 40; grassers, S4 004 25; pigs, 13 603 75. Fifteen cars of hogs were shipped to New York to-day. BHBEF" Receipts, 2.400 head; shipments, 1,800 head; market nothing doing. ' By Telegraph. CHICAGO Tbe Evening Journal reports: Cattle Receipts, 2,000 head; shipments, 1,000 bead;market stronger;natlves, S3 505 10;butch era' stock andTexans steady; no rangers on sale. Hogs Receipts, 17,000 head; shipments, 3.500 bead; market lower: common and heavy pack ers, S3 8004 00; prime heavy, SI 104 20; light S4 104 25. Sheep Receipts, 2,000 head: shipments, 500 head; market steady; natives, St0Cl 50; Westerns. $4 104 25; Texans, $4 004 25; stackers, E3 50l 00. ST. LOUIS Cattle Receipts, 700 bead; ship ments, 700 bead; marKet strong at advances; good to fair native steers, 4 254 70; fair to good, S3 904 30; Blockers and feeders, 2 2583 30; Texans and Indians,' $2 4005 60. Hogs Receipts, 1.200 head; shipments, 1, 200 bead; market steady; fair to choice heavy, J4 004 15b mixed grades, S3 90 4 00; light fair to best, S3 954 10. Sheep Receipts., 200 bead; shipments!, 1.200 head; market steady: fair to choice, $4 005 00. CINCINNATI Hogg active and higher; com mon and light S3 154 30; packing and butch ers, S4 154 40. .Cattle in light demand but steady; common, SI 002 25; fair to choice butcher grades S2 60i 25. Sheen in fair demand and firm; common to choice. S2 50 01 75; stock wethers and ewes, $4 005 00; ex tra fat wethers and yearlings. So 003 25. Lambs, spring in light supplv and firm; good to choice shipping, $5 00Q6 00; common to choice butchers, S3 005 00 per 100 lbs. Ventures of Saturday's Oil Market. Corrected daily by John M.Oakley fc Co., 43 Sixth street members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Kxcnange: Barrels. ....4L2 ....81.523 ... 70.4S4 Average charters Avenge shipments Avenge runt n Bfflnea. new rorx. T.S5C Keflned, London, SKd, Kenned, Antwerp. 17f. Keflned, Liverpool. 5 11-1&J. Keflned. .Bremen. e.C0ro, A. B. McGrew, No. 115 Fourth avenue, quotes; Puts, 83K; calls, 86. Entitled to the Beit. All aro entitled to the best that their money will bny, so eyery family should have, at once, a bottle of the best family remedy. Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the .system when costive or billons, for sale In 50c and 1 00 bottles by all leading druggists, B. "W. Hill, Pittsburg Meat Snpply Company, corner or Chnrch avenne, Ander son street and P., Ft W. & O. E. W., Alle gheny, Pa., sold for Messrs. Kelson, Morris & Co., of Chicago, III., for the week end ing August 23, 1890, 183 carcasses of beef, average weight 597 pounds, average price $5 72 per 100 pounds. Exposition1 Notes. Mattings, linoleums, oil cloth's and ca pets made and laid on shortest possible notice. Muslins, sateens and silk draperies in stock and pat up at short notice. Hoppkb BEOS. & Co., 807 Wood street. MW7BSU A REVIEW OF TEADE. The Upward Movement of Comes to a Standstill. Hides WEAKENING TENDENCIES APPEAE. . Harness Lealhtr Still Active 'and Prices Are Advanced. CEREALS AND GEOCEEIES STEAD I Office op The prTTSBUBO.DispATOH; j SATUBDAY, Augnst 23,1890. 1 The upward movement In hides and calf skins noted a week ago has been arrested. The reaction which conservative dealers predicted is here and prices are already off from the highest point reaohed. Buyers and sellers are somewhat apart in their views of values, but it is an admitted fact that there has been a decline from the highest point Markets are not yet estab lished. The seller, however, who is forced to unload finds that piices have fallen c per pound from rates obtained a week or two ago. Tanners are not ready to give what deal ers ask, and, while the decline is not more than a per pound, the drift is plainly down ward, and tbe situation in favor of the buyer, which was not tbe case last week. The harness leather trade continues very ac tive and prices have advanced 2c per lb in the week past The weokly outpnt of the Alle gheny harness leather tanneries Is in round numbers 8,500 sides. All the tanneries are worklngTip to their full capacity, and the fin ished product goes ont as fast as it is ready for the market A representative of one of the leading firms said to-day: "Onr regular cus tomers take all we can turn out and we are frequently obliged to refuse orders. We accept no orders ror future delivery. AH orders booked are on the condltion.that price? ruling at tbe time of shipment are to be paid." Sole leather has not shared in the upward move ment of harness leather, but demand is fair. Oak sole leather is lc per lb hicher than a week ago, bat there is no change in hemlock. The late advance In harness leather and calf skins led regular dealers to lay in mnch heavier stocks than Is their custom. Anticipating higher prices consumers bought beyond their regular wants. Ths speculative feature then entered into markets, and as regular con sumers are well stocked up there has come tbe natural lull and a general weakening. Conser vative dealers predicted this situation at the height of tho boom, and they have not proved false prophets. But notwithstanding tbe pres ent lull, there Is a strong undertone of confi dence among dealers, and when tbe present re action is over, which will bo soon, there will be, no doubt, a healthy fall trade. In l'rodnco Lines. The marked features of the past week's trade have been the upward movement of creamery butter, Ohio cheese, and eggs. All choice dairy products are tending upward. Eastern speculators bave been buying up Ohio cheese In the faith of higher prices. Markets here are very bare of choice stock. Said a leading Jobber in dairy product lines: "Onr principal difficulty this week has been to secure the goods. We have had no trouble disposing of all tbe choice grades of creamerv butter and cheese we could secure, and could bave sold much more than we had on hand." For the first time this season New York and Ohio cheese are the same in price. The situation as to vegetables and fruits varies very little from what it was a week ago. Tomatoes and watermelons are in over supply ana slow. Potatoes are firm and a shade high er. Apples are coming in more freely, but quality Is not good, and prices are weaker. California fruits are In good demand and prices are drifting steadily up ward. In grocery lines the move ment continues very active for this season of the year. Sngar and coffee have both disap pointed jobbers, who predicted an advance at the beginning of the week. Sngar is scarcely as strong as a week ago. Package coffee should advance to keep in line with the rise in the green article. An advance cannot be much longer delayed. Cerenls. Wheat and flour bave been on the advance the past week, but other cereals and hay are in statu quo. Corn and oats are scarcely as strong as at the beginning ot the week. Prices of flour have advanced 25o per barrel since Monday.and jobbers claim that the lay-down price affords little margin at the advance. Wheat is felly 6c per bushel above prices at tbe beginning of tbe week. Kve is very scarce in this market and prices are lOo per bushel above quotations of last Saturdav. The future of cereals is verv Tin. certain, and bnyers and sellers are alike very cautious in view ot the uncertainties. RIVER INTELLIGENCE. A Busy Snndav Abont the Wharf Klver nen See Where They Blade a Mistake The Present 8taso.of Water Mot Ex pected to Lost Very Loner. The movement of towboats yesterday, com bined with tbe usual Sunday excursion traffic, gave tbe harbor a busier aspect than on any previous Sunday since the flowers bloomed. Riverinen are making the most of this oppor tunity to do business, as the present stage ot water will likely be of short duration, and the snow will be flying before another chance likt this presents 'itself. Coal operators are put out because they did not make tbe best of tho high stage about three weeks ago. They now realize that the boats wbioh left for emp ties Saturday, may in all probability be com pelled to remain below, as the reports show that tbe present rise will run out before tbe boats can make this port again, and If tbey had sent their boats out on tbe first rise they would have come up on this high water and go out with loads on the fall rise. Extensive ship ments will likely be delayed as a result of this, but It is of no great consequence to most of the shippers', as they have large supplies in tho lower markets, bringing fair figures, and early shipments would decrease the value at Cincin nati and Louisville. But thoso who have no coal at lower ports are quietly kicking them selves for not sending after empties on the early rise. Notwithstanding that the weather in tbe city was as pleasant as could be desired, great crowds of Deonlo preferred iroin? ont on the excursion boats. Two pacaets left the wharf with good loads of "freight and passengers. The Monon gabela dropped seven inches from Op. m. Satur day to the same hour yesterday evening. Tho marking stone read 7.6 at Market street falling slowly, and 7.2 in the Ohio at Davis Island dam. Arrived: James Q. Blaine, from Brownsville; H. V. Bedford, Wheeling. Driftwood. Brown's tug Corsair was taken off the wh. dock at New Orleans, yesterday. Clxbk Thomas Bond, of tbe Buckeye State, has left lor Cincinnati again, to resume his duties. The Venus came down from Brownsville yester day, where she was on the dock, and resumed in the Cuartler's packet trade. Tm City of Pittsburg made hourly trips be tween the wharf and McKee's Bocks, yesterday, and had big crowds on each trip. Captain yr. H. Brown arrived from Louisville last night, where be was negotiating for the bulldliiK oi an electric street railway. A bntAMBOATMXN's Protective Association will oe organized in .New Orleans this winter. It will be similar to th e organization In this city. The Mayflower left with a crowd that took up all the room that spacious steamer affords, a brass band played classical and sacred selections. The James Q. Blaine left for Brownsville with a heavy load of frelxnt. Arriving there her cargo was transferred to the Adam Jacobs, and she went through to Morgantown. Tus Lower MlsslsaiDpl packet Teche boasts of having the cleverest clerk of them alt Els name Is Antolne Amlratl. Despite tbe affliction ot be ing deaf and dumb, he is quite efficient There will tie no boat to Brownsville this morn ing on account of tbe Uermania laying up for in spection. The James G. Blaine will carry freight for landlnxs this side of Brownsville at S o'clock this afternoon. TnE Big Sandyjmd Pomeroy packet Telegraph laid up at Cincinnati yesteraay, after 14 years of profitable service. Mo attempt will bo made to repair lhe boat and she will be dismantled. Another boat will be built taking the same name, LOWER Mississippi river pilots request that a buoy be placed on tbe upper rock pile, above the Iron Mountain road Incline, near Bird's Point Tills U one of tbe worst places the pilots bave to contend with, 'lhe shtitlng of tho, water neces sitates this precaution. The workmen at tho Manchester ways still hold out and refuse to resume work unless their demands are complied with, and the firm remains equally obdurate, and says the men shall not dic tate to them. Meanwhile the Brownsville dock companies come in for the trade that would other wise go to Heed & Krepps. Boats In port yesterday were the C. W. Batch ellor. John Horn. Little Fred, Nellie Walton, Ceoree Koberts, George Wood, Joseph y. Wal ton, Joseph Nixon, Coal Valley, James Utlmore, Hornet .No, 2, Diamond, Beaver, Smoky City, x.uu n.eeier, d&w '. vvecpu u. uuuams, Iron Duke, Sam Broirn, iron Age, Harry Brown and Jim Wood. ' MABKETS BY WIRE. An Unsettled Feelloc In the Grain Fit Wheat Actlva nod Higher Cora Bobs Up and Oats Steady Pork ffarrownad Quiet. CHICAGO Wheat A large speculative busi ness was again transacted, and an excited market at times was witnessed. Tbe opening was decidedly unsettled, with first sale any where from Jc to ljc higher than yesterday's closing, advanced c more ana then declined &c, fluctuated frequently with several changes and closed e higher for December than yes terday, while September closed higher. Corn was quite active within narrow limits and the feeling developed was a little unsettled. The ocening was a c advance, but offer ings were heavy, and especially of May, which had a depressing influence on the otberf utnres, and the market sold off c A better demand then sprang up, shippers buying September and this and the strength on tho cash market bad a stimulating effect on values, and the market advanced c rnled easy and closed with a slight advance. Oats were quiet and without important feat ures of interest Trading (was lighter and price changes confined to yic range, and the close was about the same as yesterday. Mes Pork Trade was moderate within a narrow range of prices. Prices rnled 2K5o higher early, but settled back again 7M01Oo and closed quiet Lard A lair trade was reported. Early sales showed a slight advance in prices, but a weaker feeling was developed later and prices receded 25c, the market closing quiet at medium figures. Short Rib Sides Trading was moderate. Fluctuations in prices were confined within a small range and closed at medium figures. .The leading tutnres rangea as follows: Wheat No. 2. August SI 05K1 061 05W 1 08H: liecember. SI 09K1 luRSl OokQl 09: Corn No. 2. Auciisil ivxGouxmy !49)f ', o September, 46Joti'tf849; ic; May, Oi())4WOJC. Oats No. Z An trust. September, 880363GS6c;' May, Mess Pork, per bbl. September. $10 62 10 8o10 620 E5;October."S10 75010 7510 75 10 75; May, 812 6512 7212 7212 65. LARD, per 100 Bs. September. $8 32J6 85 68 80B SiH; October. 8 47K08 508 45 6-47K: January. S3 92X06 I ax; January. SO vixm Voiili WtUi D2K. ohukt iima, per iuu us. septem ner, so Mtiw 5 455 42K5 45; October. 85 575 60S5 6u Short Ribs, per 100 fis. September, 5 42; 5 60; January, S6 O2K08 07K6 02X6 05. visiBa quotations were as louows: JTlour unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat $1 06 01 6M: No. 8 spring wheat ?5Kc81 OSX; lio. 2 red. $1 06k. No. 2 corn.49Kc. No. 2 oats,S7K037)ic No. 2 rye. 65c No. 2 barley, 72c. No. 1 flaxseed. SI 87. Prime timothy seed. Si 43. Mess pork per bbl. 111 25. Lard, jmt 100 lbs, S6 2. 8hort rib sides, loose. 55 85Q5 40; dry salted shoulders, boxed, Jo 7s 5 87; short clear sides, boxed. $5 7005 80. Sugars, cnt loaf, unchanged; No. 2 white oats, S7K639Xc;No. 8 white oats, 86K37Kc On the Prodnce Exchange to-day tho batter market was steady; fancy separator, 2222Vc; fine. 18K6!20c; fine creameries, 1618c. Eggs NEW YORK Flour firmer; held 1015c higher on light offerings. Corn meal firm and quiet Wheat Spot dull and l2c up;' options closed lc up, firm and fairly active; shorts covering on Manitoba crop reports. Rye firm and quiet: western, 6566c Barley malt dull; country, 80c; city. 8590c Corn Spot firm, quiet ana a up; options dull and c higher, closing firm. Oats Spot firmer, 'lull and scarce; options quiet and stronger, flops quiet and steady. Hay steady and quiet; shipping, 3540c; good to choice, 6590c. Coffee Options opened steady, unchanged to 10 points up, closed steady 620 points up on better cables: quiet: sales, 23,500 bags, including August 18.30c; September, 17.70017.85c; October, 17.1a 17.25e; November. 16.75Q16.85c; December, 16 55 018.65c; January, 16.0516.10c; February, 16.00c; March, 18.90c; April, 15.85c; May. 15.75c; spot Rio quiet, firm, fair cargoes, 205c; No. 7 flat bean, 19c Sugar, raw, firmer, better demand; fair refining, 5c;centrifngal, 96 test, 6o: sales, 1,140 bbds and 1,055 bags: muscovado, 89 test 6c Rebned steady; more active. Molasses foreign nominahNew Orleans firm, quiet; com mon to fancy, 26045c Rice firm, active; do mestic prime to extra, 6J7ic; Japan, 6a6VfC Cottonseed oil strong and quiet; crude, 80c; yellow. S5c Tallow firm and in good demand, city, (S2 00 for packages), 4 15-165c Rosin steady andqnet; strained, common to good SI 37$Q1 45. Turpentine qmet and steady at41J42c Eggs Choice in demand and firm; Western, 18J2uXc; receipts, 3,145 packages. Pork quiet and steady: mess, 812 50Q13 ?5; extra prime, S10 00010 50. Cutmeats quiet and firm; pickled bellies, 56c; do shoulders. 5c; do hams, llllKc: middles firm and quiet; short clear. SO 20. Lard stronger and in fair demand; Western steam, S6 CO; sales 195 tierces; options sales, 4,000 tierces; Beptember. 56 6606 60, closing at SS 61 asked; October! $6 7608 77, closing at SS 77 asked; .November. 88 85, closing at SS 88 asked; December, 57 00 asked: January, $7 19. closing at 57 20 Butter in good demand and firm; Western dairv. o 14c; do oreamery, 1222tfc; do factory, 812c Cheese strong and moderately active; part skims, 405c; Ohio flat 57c PHILADELPHIA-Flourdnll but firm. Wheat bullish; speculation In the West Influenced an advance in this market of Qlo per bushel; No. 3 red In grain depot, SI 01: No 2 red. August81 061 06Vf ; September, 81 O6K01 06K: October, SI O7V0T 07&; November, Jl 0oV 1 08J4. Corn Options advanced &c, but there was nothing doing and quotations were nominal; car lots held c higher, but local trade demand was light; No. 8 mixed in grain depot 67c: No. 2 mixed short storage ingrain depot 5757c; No 2 mixed on track, 58c; No. 2 high mixed In grain depot, 58c; No. 2 mixed August and September, 56H57c; October, 66 057c; November, 57&o3. Oats Car lots No. 2 white, August 43043c: September, 42ii 042c; October, 42344c: November, 420 4iJic. Provisions firm and in good Jobbing de mand. Butter strong and advancing; Pennsyl vania creamery, extra, 22022c; Pennsylvania print extra, 25079c Eggs scarce and firm; Pennsylvania firsts, 20. ST. LOUIS Flour steady and in fair demand. Wheat Trading was active and the feeling healthy. The opening was at an advance of JJc, and prices further advanced c, but on receipt of bear news declined 04c Later there was an up turn, and the market closed firm and Ho higher than yesterday. No. 2. ....,. i hllil nil. aA.MKn- i fi.vs 7" inal: December, 81 07$: May, 81 13 asked. Corn The volume of business was fair in Sep tember and May and the feeling rather weak. At the opening prices were a trifle higher, but later tbey declined, and tbe close was liSSio off; September, 45c: May, 50&c Oats Lower, dull and depressed. No. 2. cash, 37c; September. 38c; May. 40o Re-No 2. 69Kc bid. Flaxseed easier at SI 33. Pork, 511 75. Lard, $5 0006 10. BALTIMORE Wheat Western firm; So. 2 winter red. Mint iml Anust SI 04X01 043: September, SI 0501 05; October, 81 ot; De cember. 81 lual iu. Corn Western quiet; mixed spot 58; August and September, 55J 55c; October, 555GKc Oats firm; West ern white. 42045c; dodo mixed. 40S42c; erailnfl No. 2 white, 44c Rye firm; prime to choice 70072c; good to fair, 68068c Hay in good demand: prime to choice timothy, 811 00012 00. Provisions firm. Butter Creamery fancy, 22c dodo fair to choice, 19c; do do imitation, 140 15c: ladle fancy, 13014c: do good to obotce. 1J 013c Kggs in good demand at 22c. Coffee quiet and firm; Rio cargoes, fair, 20c; No. 7, 17c MINNEAPOLIS Receipts of wheat were 11.1 cars. Shipment', 66 cars. The inspection shows new wheat arrivals grade 26 cars No. 1 North ern, 17 cars No. 2 Northern, 2 cars No. 3, 2 cars rejected and 1 car no grade Cash wheat was strong and higher to-day. Closing quotations: M o.l hard, August, Si 11: on track, SI 15; No. 1 Northern, August 81 04: September, SI 04K; December, $1 07; on track, SI 0701 12: No. 2 Northern, August, Jl 00; on track, 51 0101 03. CINCINNATI-Flour firm. Wheat strong; No. 2 red. 81 O1K01 02. Corn barely steady; No. 2 mixed, 6353ic Oats easier: No. 2 mixed. 33c Kje in good demand and scarce: No. 2, 72c Pork nominal. Lard firm at S6. Bulkmeats and bacon steady. Bntter firm. Sugar steady. Eggs steady at 1016c Cheese firm. MILWAUKEE Flour firm. Wheat firm; No. 2 spring, on track, cash, SI 0201 04; September, SI OSH" No. 1 Northern, SI 07. Corn firm; No. 3, on tracK, 50C oats firm; No. 2 whlte.on traek, 37K038c Rye firm; No. 1, in store, 60c Barley easy; Nc 2, in store, 63c TOLEDO Wheat dull; cash and August, SI 04; September, SI 05; December, SI 09. Corn Quiet: cash and August, 62c: beptember. 61Uc. Oats quiet; cash, 39c; August 40c. Clorerseed dull and firm; cash, S4 50; October, S4 65: De cember. 84 8a D ULUTH Wheat ranged considerably higher to-day in sympathy with stronger marsets elsewhere. Closing prices are: August. SI 12?: September. SI 0; December, SI VSU; No. 1 hard, SI 12; No. 1 Northern, 31 OS; No. 2 North ern, os New York Drveoodj Slarket. New York. Aujjnst 23. Tho Jobbing trauc was quite active during the. forenoon bat busi ness with agents was restricted principally to orders by mall and telegraph, transactions on tbe spot being light as usual on Saturdays. There was no new feature or change in tho market. When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, When she became Hiss, she clung to Castorla, When she had Children,she gave thein Castorla p9-77-jWrsa DOMESTIC MARKETS. Short Supply of Choice Dairy Prod ucts and Firm Prices. APPIES AND MELONS ARE PLENTY. The Cereal Situation Unchanged, but Markets Are Steady.. ACT1TB M0TEMEKT 0P QKOCBEIUS Office or Pittsburg dispatch, J SATURDAY, August 23. 189a i Country Produce Jobbing Price New York and Ohio cheese bave come to gether, a thing nnnsual this early in the season. The advance of late bas been confined to Ohio cheese. Our markets are very bare of choice dairy products, and outside quotations are readily obtained. .Eggs are scarce and higher. Choice nearby stock in single cases brings 20c per dozen. Potatoes are firm. Water-melons are dull since the arrival of the cool wave. Apples are in good snpply, and prices show a downward drift There is, however, little choice stock on the market Huckleberries and mountain blackberries are still on the market, but their day is nearly over. Grapes are good stock at quotations. Snpply is light and quality much Improved over earlier ICCGlDtS Apples S3 505 00 a barrel. Butter Creamery, Elgin, 2526c: Ohio do, 2324c; fresh dairy packed. 15017c; fancy PnTintFtf rnlle ICffitOfl... sf,nli,a lfiai? Berries Huckleberries, SI 40 a pail;grapes, SI 0001 25 a basket Beans Navy hand picked beans, S2 4002 45; marrowfat, 82 7002 75; Lima beans. 6Jrf6c. Beeswax 2803Oo-f & for choice; low grade. 22025c Cantaloups S305 a barrel; watermelons, $10025 a hundred. Cider Sand refined. 17 50; common, S4 000 4 50; crab cider, S809 fl barrel; elder vinegar, 10012c v? gallon. Cheese Nw Ohio cheese. 9Xc: New York cheese, 9Kc; Limberger, lO0UHc: do mestic Sweitrer, 13013&C, Wisconsin brick Sweitzer. 12K013Kc; imported Sweltzer, 26c EdGS 18019c $ dozen for strictly fresh. Feathers Extra live geee, 5060c; No. 1 do, 40045c: mixed lots, 30035c & iuAri.ii; siaur lOifflnoc a can; mapio sugar, 9010c $t lb. a.o ONEY 15c W ft. POULTRY Surinir chickens, small. SOSfH!)n a. pair; large. 60075c a nalr; dressed. 11012c a ponnd; old chickens, 50080c pair; ducks, 600 70c; turkeys, 809c V ft. Tallo'W Country. 3fc: city rendered. 4c (S Seeds Recleaned Western clover. U 500 G 25; country medium clover. 84 0004 15: tim othy. SI 6001 70; blue grass, SI 5001 55; orchard grass. SI 20; millet 70075c . Tropical Fruits Lemons, choice, $5500 6 00; fancy, $7 0007 50; Rodi oranges, S6 000 6 50; Sorrento oranges. So 0005 50; bananas, SI C0S2 00 firsts, $1 25 good seconds ft bunch; California peaches, 2 00 02 50 V box; Califor nia apricots, SI 7502 25; California plums. 2 00 02 25 f) box: California pear?. 84 0004 60 fl box. Vegetables Potatoes, S3 0003 50 V barrel; Southern sweets, yellow, Si 000 i 50 barrel; red, $3 0003 50; Jer seys,KS5 6005 75: cabbage. 52 0002 60 a barrel; onions, S3 7504 00 a barrel; green onions, SI 25 a bushel; Egyptian onions, $4 50 for 180 ft basket; green beans, home-grown, SI 00 1 15 1 basket; cucumbers. SI 0001 25 fl crate; home-grown tomatoes, 75c a bushel: celery. 30035c a dozen bunches. Groceries. The movement continues active and prices are unchanged. Sugars are quiet and coffees firm. Canned and dried fruits are still tending upward. Rice Is very firm at quotations. The general drift ot staple groceries is toward a higher level of prices. Green Coffee Fancy Rio, 24X025Ke; choice Rio, 22X023Xc; prime Rfu, 23c; low grade Rio, 20f21c; old Government Java, 29X30c; Maracalbo, 25X27Kc; Mocba,30 32c: Santos, 22026c; Caracas, 25027c; La Guayra, 26027c Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 25c; high grades, 2830c; old Government Java, bulk, 33034c: Maracalbo. 28020c; Santos, 26 30c; peaberry. 30c; choice Rio. 26c; prime Rio, 25c; good Rio, 24c; ordinary, 2122Jc SPicES-(whoIe)-Cloves, 17018c; allspice, 10c: cassia, 8c: pepper, 15c; nntmeg, 75080c Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test TJic: Ohio, 120, 81c; headlight 150, 83ic; water white, 10c; globe. 1414Kc; elaine, 14k; car nadine, HHc; royallne. lie; red oil. 11011Ke; purity. 14c Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained, 43045c $ gallon; summer, 38040c: lard oil, 55058c SYEUP Corn syrup, 3234c: choice sngar syrup, 87S9c; prime sugar syrup, 32033c: strictly prime, S5J?S8c: new maple syrup, 90c N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop. 50052c:, choice, 49c; medium, 38043c; mixed, 40042c. Soda Bicarb in kegs, 33?c; bi-carb in 75s. 5c; bi-carb assorted packages. 5J6c; sal-soda in kegs, ljjc: do granulated, 2c Candles Star, full weight c; stearlne. set8Kc:parafflne, U12cT n' RICE Head Carolina, 1hiTXc: choice. 6U 6Jic; prime, 6&Kc; Louisiana, 5j06Kc bTABCH Pearl. 3c; corn starch, &K07c: gloss starch, 5K7c Foreign Fruits Laverraistna m rs. t... don layers. S275:Muscatels,S2 60; California Mns catels,$2 40; Valencia.8Kc; Ondara ValenciaJOX 011c; sultan. lOKQllc; currants, 6J06Vc: Tur key prunes,6K4j'7c; French prunes.9012c:Salon icatprunes. in 2-ft packages. 9c; cocoannts W 100, $6; almonds, Lan., f) ft, 29c; do Ivica, 17c; do shelled, 40c: walnuts, rap., 13014c: Sicily filberts, 12c; Smyrna fig, 12013c; new dates. 0 i&; S2S!1 n.ats 13c; Pecans. 9)10ci citron, W ft, 18019c; lemon peel, 16c f ft; orange peel! Dried Fruits ApDles, sliced, per ft, 6c: apples, evaporated, 15018c; peaches, evap orated, pared, 28030c: peaches, California, evaporated, nnpared, 25026c; cherries, pitted, 22c; cherries, unpitted. 506c;rasoberries. evap orated, 33035c; blackberries, 88ic; huckle berries, 10012c , Su,OA,R3-Ca?es'.c5 Powdered. 6Jic; granu lated, 6kc; confectioners' A. 6c; standard A. 6Vc; soft white, 5K6c; yellow, choice, 5 Kc; yellow, good, 5X05c; yellow, fair.sH 5J4c; j ellow, dark, 5J5c. '" Pickles Medium, bbls. (1,200), J9 CO; me dium, half bbls. (600), 85 00. SALT No. L IP bbl. 95c; No. lex. bbl, $1 00: dairy, fl bbl, Jl 20; coarse crystal. M bbl. 81 20: Higgins' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, 82 80; Higgins' Eureka. 16-14 ft packets, S3 00. canned Goods Standard peaches, 82 70 2 80; 2ds. 82 400.2 50; extra peaches. 82 8503 00 pie peaches. SI 65; finest corn, SI 3501 50: Hfd Co. corn, 8095c; red cherries; SI 4001 50; Lima beans. SI 20; soaked do. 80c; string do 75090c: marrowlat peas. Jl 1001 25: soaked oeas, 70 80c; pineapples, 81 3001 40, Bahama do. S2 5o; damson pln-us, 81 10: greengages, SI 50; egg plums, 2 15; p California apricots. S2 40 02 45; California pears, S2 75; do green gages, 82 15; do egg plums, S2 15; extra white cherries. S2 85: raspberries, SI 3501 40: straw berries, 81 2501 3o; gooseberries 85090c; to matoes, 95c31; salmon, 1ft. tl 3001 bO; black berries, SI 15; succotash, 2-ft cans, soaked. 90c do green. 2-ft, SI 2501 50: corn beef, 2.ft cans 82 00; 14-ft cans. 814; baked beans. 81 40Bi h imported, s. 11 6012 40; sardines, imported US, sib; sardines, mustard, 5123; sardines, spiced, 84 25. . Fisu Extra No, 1 bloater mackerel, $38 ft bbl: extra No. 1 do.mess. $40; extra No 1 mack erel, shore. 828; extra No. 1 do, mess. $32; No 2 shore mackerel. S23. Codfish Whole poliocV 4c f? ft; do medium, Georee's cod. 6c ,iA large, 7c; boneless hake, in strips, ;.: ) Georee's cod in blocks. 6K7Kc. Hrin!? Kound shore, 83 SO j) bbl; split, 60-lake S3 2S itS tVAhJ1 b"" I?'nnan baddies. 10c ft ft. Iceland halibut. 13c 13 ft Piclron.! halfiibl. $300; quarter bbl SI 3!- Potomac her! ring. S3 50 13 bb; J2 00 9 filf fa00 nor jOatmeal-$8 0CQ6 60 ?l bbl. Grain, Floor and Feed. Sales on call at the Grain Exchange, 2 cars No. 2 white oats, 42c, 5 days; 1 car same, 41J4c, Beptember delivery. Receipts as bulletined. 39 cars. By Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railway, 8 cars of oats, 1 of rye, 2 of corn, 1 of feed, 1 of malt, 1 of barley, i of floor. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati And St. Louis, 3 cars of hay. 9 of corn, 1 of oats, 1 of bran. By Pitts- ourg ana mse .trie, 1 car of corn, 2 of oats, 3 of wheat, 1 of flour. Total receipts for tho weeK ending August 22, 309 cars, against 835 cars last week, and 210 for the corresponding week last year. In the receipts of a year ago were 100 cars of oats, against 68 cars this week. Tbe cereal situation has developed no new features since last reports. Markets are steady. Sellers are cantions in view of futnre uncertainties. The undertone of markets is strong. v Prices are for carload lots on track: Wheat-No. 2 red. $1 061 07; No. 8, $1 03 1 04; new wheat. No. 2 red, 81 021 05. CoBtf No. 2 yellow ear. 6J6ic; hiih mixed ear,6061c; No.2 yellow, shelled. 55K56c'higb. mixed shelled corn. 5455c Oats-No. 2 white, 4242c; extra,No. 3. 41 42c RTE No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 6870e; No. 1 Westorn. G768c Floub Jobbing prices Fancy spring and winter patent flour, 16 006 25; fancy spring patent flour, S3 756 00; fancy straight winter. So 60 5 75; famcv straight spring, Jo 505 75; clear winter, to 25g5 50; straight XXXX. bakers'. 85 005 25. Itye flour, 84 (XK34 25. MlLLFEED Middlings, fancv Ann white. $23 00O24 00 1 ton; brown middlings, $20 00 21 00; winter wheat bran, 81717 50. HAY-Baled Timothy, No. 1, 110 0010 50; No. 3 do, S3 0009 60; Ioo.e, from wagon, $12 000 14 00, according to quality: No. 2 prairie bay, 17 5008 00; packing do, 57 0007 50; clover bay, 87 5008 CO. "' BTBA-w-Oat, ts 737 00, wheat and rye, 88 00 ProTlalona. Sugar-cured hams, large, llc; sugar-cured hams, medium, ll'c: sugar hams, small, 12c; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8c; sugar-cured snomuer, Tc; sugar-cured boneless shoul ders. S"ic: skinned shoulders, 8c; skinned hams, llc; sugar-cureo California bams, 9c: sugar-cured dried beef flats, lies sugar-cured dried beef sets, 12c; sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 14c: bacon, shoulders. TJc; bacon.dear Bides, 7Kc; bacon, clear bellies. 6c; dry salt sbouldeis. 6c; dry salt clear sides. 6c Mess Eork, heavy, $13 50; mess pork, family, S13 SO. ard Refined, In tierces, 5Jic; half-barrels, 6c; 60-tt tubs. 6c; 20-ft pails. 6Vc; 50-lb tin cans. 6c; 3-ft tin pails. 6c; S-& tin pails, Cc; 10-ft tin pails, 5c Smoked sausage, long, oc; large, 5c Fresh pork, links, 9c Boneless hams. lOXc Pigs' feet half-barrels, 4 00; quarter-barrels. 2 15. THE PEELING EASIEB. The DenTand Is Smoll and Prices Are Drooping A Small Rally. With Close Dnll nod Heavy The Money Pinch Over. New York, Augnst 23. It became known that the acceptances of bonds yesterday aggre gated abont 83,300,000. and the feeling on the monetary situation was perceptibly easier this morning, and while there was little attention paid to the threatened strike, the chances tbat there wonld be one were believed to be smalL Little demand for stocks appeared, however, and the opening prices were irregular as com pared with those of last evening, tbe changes extending to jer cent either way. The gen era! expectation was to the bank statement, as it would not reflect the purchases of bonds for tne past two days, would show a further loss in the reserve, and the local operators were in clined to take the short side again for a turn, with tbe result tbat prices were drooping throughout the greater part of the session. No special weakness appeared except in Sugar Re fineries, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis and Cbicago Gas in declines of 1, 1 and 1V per cent respectively were forced. The losses in tbe rest of tbe list extended to only per cent, and before the close of the first hour a substantial rally occurred. Ex treme dullness then intervened, and little or no change took place nntil after tbe issue of tbe bank statement, which reflected a deficit of 82,500,000 in the surplus reserve, and the droop ing tendency was resumed. The close was therefore dull and heavy at fractional losses for the day In most cases, though there were some advances, and Sugar Refineries is down 1 per cent Railroad bonds were very dull, the sales be ing only 845,000, and while there was a gener ally heavy tone most ef the active bonds show gains, Louisville Soutbevn firsts rising 5 to 9L Government bonds were active and steady. State bonds were neglected. The following table shows the prices or active stocks on the .New York block Exchange yester day. Corrected dally for TUB Uisfatcu by WHiraETA STEi-niNSON, old Pittsburg mem bers of Mew York Stock Kxchange, 57 Fourth Avenue; Closing-Did. 21 X KM 41M 82J4 52 120H 31 20J4 S2H 101 70 118 844 15 39 30 107X 142 eev Si 49 2s4 40 142 ICO MX 58 18)j 10 71 SIX 104 S8) S3 21 69)4 15 25)4 46: IS Open inc . 22 . 28 .41K High est 22 ax ah 62 Low est. 22 28 41 82 S2!tf Am. Cotton on AmCotton oil Trust.. A ten.. Too. 4 S-F Canadian Paclilc Canada Southern Central of lew Jersey. Central Faclnc,. Chesaxwalte & Ohio.... at il'4 21 53X 21 S3H 101 K 71 116M SoS, 40 lttsg 5 21 52 100.& 70! US' 84J 40" vn'i 66 Ji 98 Chicago bas rrusc .. c. nr. x uuiaoy. ...10154 v.. Mil. scram..... iu U Mil. A St. P.. pt. nsy C, Kockl. & P &' C BtL.& Pitts C, St. L. Pitts., pL. 43 C, St. P.. M.AO C Northwestern ....I0S?i u. N. w. nt. C, C C. i 1 67)$ C, UC.4I. pref..... S6 Col. Coal A Iron Ool. A Hocking Valley 29 Ches. & UMo 1st oref.. 57j Ches. s Ohio 2d pref.. 40 Del.. Lack & Vest,....lH 29 29 57)4 57J4 40 40 143?i 1, 181H ISI3 S8J4 57 Del. s. Hudson........ isih Den. A Klo Grand 1 Den. a Klo Urande. ot. S3 J. T.. Va. A Oa i'A Illinois ieuirai. .... Line trie A West Lake tale A West pr.. ISH 62M Lake Shore AM. a 104 104 Louisville .Nashville. 87 87 Mlenlzan Central. Moaile A Ohio Missouri I'adBc 70H 10X National LeaaTruat.... 21 21M New York Central 104JS N. V.. C Bt. L N. Y .U E. A W Z5( 2SK S.f.ta.K. 47 47 N.Y.. O. AW. 18tf 1H Norfolk A Western Norfolk A Western pf. Northern Pacific 325i 32i Northern Pacific pt... Soft 81 Oregon Improvement .... .... Oregon rranscon tin 44 1'acllIcMall 42 42 Peo.. Dec. A Evans 1'hlladel. A Heading... 42 14 Pullman Palace Car.. 213 214 Ulchmond A W. P. T 20JS 20 Richmond A W.P.T.nr St Paul A Dulntb St Paul A Onlnth pr. Bt. P., Minn. AMan St. L. A San lrran.... SugarTrust. 77JE 77K Texas Paciae. 1?J 19V Union Pacloc MX SSK Wabash ., ..?. Wabash preferred 25 25K Western Union 82H El Wneellug A L. K. 37 Zl Wheeling A L. .pref. 74 74 104 (OH 2034 23if 48 14H 19 C2X 2)4 80!, 45 43 41)4 185j 41 X 3134 73 IS 92 108)4 a 76X 1X 59 11S4 25M 82X 368 T4 32)4 " 4I 41)i" 213 2X 76X" 19 25 S2 37)4 Closing; Bond Qnatatloua. tX. S. 4s. res XT. B. 48, coup... C. 8. 4S4S, rejr-. U. g. 4)43, coup. ...123 ...125 ,. 104 ...105 M. K. A T. Oen. Ss, Mutual Union (to... 70 I02H X.J. C int. urt. nnv Northern Pac. lsls..U3H northern Piu. 2rfa 111 racineasoi 'is.. ...113M. Lou!sianastamped4s 87)4 Northw't'n eousoli.14.1 Northw'n deben's 8alJ0 inissoun os .......... ,iui lenn. newset Ss.. ..105 Tenn. new stt. 5s. ... 104 Tenn. new set. Ss.... 7 uregon s, -irana. as. 108)4 Bt.L A I. 31. Hen. 5s. 93 St.L. AS.F. Hen.M.111 St. PaDl eoimnla i? Canada Bo. 2ds 994 vemrai jracincisis.iuy6 Den. A K. U. Itts... 117)4 St. P. OliIAPc.lets.113 Tx., Pc L.O.Tr.Rs. SO Tx.. Pc.KB.Tr.Ks. 39 xi9a, sa. u. w...,, til ii.&B. Q. Westists. Erie 2ds 102 M.K.ST. den. it.. 81; union iaoiliolats...lipv West Bhore......:.juJ Pblladclphln Slock. Closing quotations or Philadelphia stoekii. fur nished bv Whitney A Stephensop brokeraTNo S7 Fourih avenue, ilembers XiwVork 1 ItoeK ii- 'Bid. ... 53)4 ... 20 ... 914 ... 52 ... 51 ... 32 Pennsylvania Hailroao Heading , f?J?lS,i?l.,,'"b,,w 'Western'" LenlKhVaily Lehigh Navigation ..'".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. Northern Pacific Northern Pacific preferred"".'", Asked. if 10 62 4 52 32)4 81 Mlnlnir Stocks. .EVJ?0RE- August 23. Mining quotations: Alice, 255; Adams Consolidated. 125; Bodie, 100; Caledonia B. H., 190: Chollar, 310: Crown Point, 275; Consolidated California and Virginia, 450; Commonwealth. 250: Eureka Consolidated, 425; Homestake, 1000; Horn Silver. 350: Mexican, 330; Ontario, 4100; Plymouth, 300; Sutter Creek, iio, 1 HOME KTEREST& Too Milnv Wet BlnnUetir for tho Good of the Stock Market. A dull week -in the stocks closed Saturday without a transaction. This was mainly doe to labor troubles and high rates for money East. There was some easing np In this direction Saturday, and the feeling was somewhat more assuring, but it will take several days to get things on their feet again. Most of the price cbanges of the week were declines, stocks showing the greatest losses being Philadelphia Gas, Central Traction, Pleasant Valley and Electric tbe latter lead ing tbe procession. Tbe greatest advance was in Luster, which closed Ave points better than the. opening on Monday. Citizens' Traction improved a fraction. Pennsylvania Water Companv. which snn- plies Wllkinsburgand adjacent towns, made its first appearance on tbe list yesterday, receiv ing a Did of 49 for the preferred stock. HOME MONEY. It Is In Good Supply and Moderate Demand otUiitnl Rntea. There was an easier feeling In the Eastern money market Saturday, which was reflected here to some extent in widening the line of ac commodations, -putting regular customers and outsiders on a more eqnal footing. Consider able money was put out on the basis of 0 per centythis being the inside figure, while 7 was tho other extreme. Routine business was fair, Showing1 that things are holding their owb. Fall prospects are full of encouragement. Bink clearings for the week show a gain of 83,436,000, in round numbers, over tbe same pe riod of last year, and are over 81,000,000 better than those for tbe previous week. Tbe position above tbe 82,000,000 line was firmly held throughout tho week. The Clearing House re port shows: Saturday's exchanges 82,343, 239 5fl Saturday's balances 310,456 94 Week's exchanges H 611,831 73 Previous week's exchanges 11, 403.34 64 Ualn over weeK or 1839 S. 438,154 23 Ualn 1390 to date. 97.489,097 33 Whisky Markets. Cincinnati Whisky active and ftrra; sales 1,263 barrels finished goods on basis SI 13, DIAHOSnS AT THE EES0ET3. ' . Ladles That Spori TficmAreXst Alwnyn the Proprietors of the Jewels. A great deal of the jewelry worn at the summer resorts is rented for the season. Jl gentleman just returned from Bedford Springs, says he was in a PhiladelphiWshop in June and saw ladies dickering on ths price for a set of diamonds for cse during the summer season. He saw the same ladies at the Spring sparkling all oyer with hired brilliants. J New African Money Berlin Letter to the Dispatch.'' The German East African Society has sent me some five copper pfennig pieces jnst struck in the Imperial Mint for exclusive circulation in the German-African Domin ion. They bear the Imperial eagle on one side and some Arabic design on the other. They are very pretty and I only hope that the outlook of the society is as bright as its new coin. THE HOUSEHOLD SSeSBt! ssE3sail 3BB An odorless liquid. Powerful; cheap. Do Stroys disease germs, prevents sickness. A necessity In every home. Invaluable in the sick room my31-3S-ns WHOLESALE -:- HOUSE, Embroidery and White Goods Department direct importation from tho best manufac turers of St Gall, in 8wiss and Cambric Edg ings, Flouncings, Skirt Widths and Allovers, Hemstitched Edgings and Flouncings. Buyers will and these goods attractive both in nnce and novelties of design. Full lines of New Laces and White Goods. UPHOLSTERY DE PARTMENT Best makes Window Shades In dado and plain or spring fixtures, Lace Cur tains, Portieres, Chenille Curtains, Poles and Brass Trimmings: Floor, Table and Stair Oil Cloths in best makes, lowest prices for quality. WASH DRESS FABRICa The largest variety from which to select, ToilDuNords, Chalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck ers, Imperial Suitings, Heather & Renfrew Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr Ginghams Wholesale Exclusively. Jal3-D ProleetYoar Horse. Horseshoelngbe intra most Import ant operation, it is necessary that all shoers should un derstand tbe con struction and dis eases of the foot. The want of knowledge and skill of shoeing of ten generate many diseases, inch aa corns, quarter and cen ter crack, which are very annoy in r . Attention given road, traok and interfering hore. I also manufacture a HOOP OINTMENT, guar anteed to keep horses' teet In good condition. anlO-58-MWT ANDREW PAPENUACU. -piDELITY TITLE ANDrTRUST CO., C 121 and 123 Fourth ave. Capital $500,000. Fall paid. INSURES TITLES TO REAL ESTATE. Acts in all fiduciary capacities. Deals in reli able investment securities. Rents boxes in Its superior vault from 85 per annum npward. " Receives deposits and loans only on mort gages and approved collaterals. JOHN B. JACKSON. Pres't. ,n. JAMES J DONNELL, Vice-Pres't :je68-15M C. B. McVAY. SetfyandTrea. BROKERS FINANCIAL. Whitney & Stephenson, 57 Fourth Avenue. my2 JOHN M. OAKLEY & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS. 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