mmwamm jTjyi &?' SK. "J J TFIIwf v'fllBTPI si -"' ''t THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1890.' SMM'wriSiffTTffMirs DECREASE OF STOCKS. Kew York Pis Iron Market Con trolled by Northern Furnaces. SOUTHERN PKICES SOW SO HIGH That the Dome Article is Preferred Be cause of the Quality. A SHARP ADTASCE ACROSS THE WATER nsrZCtAL TELEGHAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! XewYokk. September 18. The Iron Age quotes the metal markets as follows: The New York market is practically in the control of the Northern furnaces, the Southern companies generally asking prices for foundry grades which are higher than well-known brands ol Xorthern iron equiva lent or superior in quality. From the AVest comes the report that stocks on Sep tember 1 were 35.000 tous lower than on August L This, however, is largely due to the falling off in the supply on hand of a large plant Still, the report shows that the current consumption was capable of coping with production in spite of the drawbacks caused by the hot weather of Aunust. We continue to quote SlTglS for If o. 1. and S16 00 16 SO for No. 2 foundry, good Northern brands, while Southern irons are selling at S17 0017 25 for No. 1. f 16 O0I6 25 for No. 2 and tU 75Q15 25 lorNn. a boutlicrn car wheel iron is quoted 120 5021 00 for Nos. 3. 4 and 5, and S19 5020 00 for Nos. 1 and 2 delivered. Spiegelcisen and Ferro The market is ex reeding! uull, w ith only occasional small trans actions In ferro at declining prices. e quote 20 per cent spiegeleiscn, S30g30 50, and 80 per cent ferro, f69ffi70. Wire Rods There is no chance of doing any business in foreign rods, while domestic rods are selling in a moderate way at 13 50314 at seller's mill Billets There have been rumors that one of the leading Eastern mills has been cutting the market considerable under tho parity of prices in the West, which is 32 50633. Swedish .Material The market shows a de clining; tendency. We quote rivet rods 160 50 W 00, acceding to time of delivery. Steel Rails So far as the Eastern mills are concerned, the market has been exceedingly quiet, and the outlook is regarded as some what unsatisfactory. Orders are coming in very slowly, and In a quiet way are being sharply competed tor. It is acknowledged that $30 has been doue. and it is believed that a price even lower than that has been accepted. The report of the Board of Control shows quite a satisfactory .volume of business, the deliv eries up to September 1 bavins been 912.SS1 gross tons, wnile the sales for 1890 delivery are reported at L353.9C4 gross tons. The 25,000 ton Union Pacific order has been postponed. Manufactured Iron and Steel Plates con tinue very active, there having been a sale of a 500-ton lot ut Iron tank plates at 2.25c. and a lot of 500 tons of steel tank at private terms. Si eel tank is now quoted. 2 60c: suell, 2.65 2.85c; flange, 3.05c and Are box, 4.25c Wrought finished steel shafting is quoted. 2.102.20cat mill, and machinery steel 2.10c base, at mill. Old Rails The market is very quiet, buyers not bemc willing to pav the prices now gener ally asked. $25 50S26 00 for tees. Importers cannot do anything for Western deliverv. be cause it is too risky to attempt to ship by canal. Scrap We note two sales of 500-ton lots of prime selected railroad scrap at private terms. ADVANCE IS TIG IBON. JL Sharp Ilie In England, and Operations At e on a Larger ?cnle. ISrECIAI. TELIGnAlI TO TBI BISPATCTI.I New York. September 18, The lion Age quotes the British iron and metal markets as follows from London: In pig iron warrants there had been a sharp rise all around. Scotch advanced Is. 5d. to 51s: Cleveland Is. 31-2J. to 17s. lOJd. and hematite Is. 10d. to 58s. 3d. during the eek. Operations have been on a large scale, and stimnlated by the prospect of a strike by the furnace workers taking place next month. Keported scarcity of fuel and consequent in creased cost of production also tend to promote speculation, nhile rapidly declining stocks and improvement in the trade demand serve to strengthen the position materially. Copperad anced shandy early in the wcek reacning 61 12s. 6a., ,nder the influence of Heavy outside busing, home of the prominent bulls" then sold freely, causing a reaction to 60 17s. 6d., but since the withdrawal of that pressure prices moved back to 61 10s. The control of the market is in strong hands, and a still further rie in prices is considered likelv. Prices for block tin on the spot advanced to 99 7$. Cd.. selling at a premium over futures. Supplies for near delivery are very scarce and large purchase- have been reported of calls at 100 extending over November. This move ment is attiibuted to threatened small supplies owing to the condition of the market for silver and threatened l.ibor troubles. Available stocks are low and very firmly held for still higher prices. On tin plates buyers and sellers are still wide apart and both sides appear to prefer waiting. Makers are particularly slow to make engagements pending a final settle ment of the American tariff bill. Under the present state ot affairs only nominal prices are quoted. Steel ship plates are now quoted at i.6 10s. at Barrow, and wire rods are up 2s. 6d, button other forms of steel there has been rad ical change. Advices from tne continental markets report a firmer feeling there on both iron and steeL American Manufacturer's Cable Quotations. Scotch Pig Activity in warrants has revived under the stimulus of a variety of "bullish" circumstances, and prices have advanced sharply, touching 51s. For makers' iron prices are higher nearly all along the line and the de mand good. No. 1 Coltncss.... .No. 1 Suminerlee. Gartsheme Xo. 1 l,aiiclan... No. 1 Carnhroe... No. lShotts ...64s. Oik f. o. b. Glasgow ...C-'s. 6d. f. o. b. Glasgow ...61s. Cd. f. o. b. Glasgow ...61s. Od. Co. b. Glasgow ....52s. Cd. f. o. b. Glasgow . ...63s. Od. f. o. b. Glasgow No. 1 Gler.garnock. .tus. u. atArdrossan. .No. 1 Dalmellimrton ...54s. (id. atArdrossan. No. 1 Eglinton 53s. Od. atArdrossan. Bessemer Pig On bematito warrants there has been Is. bd. rise, and prices for makers' brands are firmer with business fairly active. West Coast brands Nos. 1, 2, 3, quoted at 5fs. Cd f. o. b. shipping point. Middlesbrough Pig In sympathy with the rise on Sctch. there has been a stronger market for Cleveland warrants and makers' iron is also doing better. with 47s. 3d47s. 6d, now quoted for No. 3 Middlesbrough, tree on board, Spiegeleisen The market remains firm, and there 1 still a very cood demand. English 20 per cent quoted at 100s. f. o. b. at works. Steel Wire Rods Makers prices have been advanced 2. 6d., and the demand is better. Mild steel. No. 6, quoted at 8 13s. to, b. ship ping port. STEEL RAILS UNCHANGED. Steel Kails There has been no change In makers' prices, and the demand is only fair. Heavy sections quoted at 5 f, o. b. shipping point. Steel Blooms Business is of fair volume, and current sales are at old prices. Bessemer 7x7 quoted .i 17s. 6d f. o. b.sbipping point. Steel Billets The movement in this line is moderate, and prices are without change. Bessemer (size 2x2)4) quoted at 5 f. o. b. ship ping point. hicel bUbs Demand is fair but prices have undeigonc no change. Ordinary sizes quoted at 0 f. o. b. shipmng point. Crop Ends Supplies are moderate and hold ers ask higher prices. Ran of the mill quoted at 3 2s. Cd.CS3 7s. 6d. f. o. b. shipping point. Old lion Jtails Tliere is more demand and the market looks stronger Tees quoted at 3 6s. and double heads at 3 7s. 6d. f. o. b. Scrap Iron Prices are without change, but Improved demand gives the market better tone. Heavy wrought quoted at 2 7s. Od. f. o. b. shipping points. Manufactured Iron Welsh bars have been sold at a slight decline. Otherwise values are steadv and trade is fairly active. Stafford, ord. marked bars. (f. o. b. L'pool) 0 0sPd 9 OsOd common bars 7 2s 0d 7 5s0d black sheet singles 7 15s 0d 8 0s Od Welsh bars, f. o. b. Wales... 6 5s Od 6 7s 6d Steamer Freights Glasgow to New York, TIN, COPPEH AND LEAD. Pig Tin Light supplies here and moderate, shipments irom the East, together with good' consumption, has caused another sharp rise In prices. Straiis quoted at 99 7s. 6d.99 10s. tor spot; futures (3 months), 9S 10s. Copper After receding a fraction, prices bave advanced still further and the market is very strong. Chili bars quoted 61 5s. for spot, 61 12s. 6d. Tor future deliTery. Best selected English. 67 10s. Lead Under good demand prices have turther advanced. Soft Spanish quoted at 13 12 . 6J.13 15s. Spelter Prices show no further change, but the imaml i good. Ordinary Sllesian quoted at 21 10'.25. Tin Plate Thero has been more inquiry, but business is checked by the wide difference be tween buyers' and sellers' ideas. The under tone is strong. I. C. charcoal, Allaway grade, f. o. b. Liverpool 16s, 8d.17s. Od. Bessemer steel, coke finish lot. 9d.16s. Od. Siemens steel, coke finish 16. 0d.tfl6s. 3d. B. V. grade coke. 11x20 15s. 6d.15s. 9d. Dean grade tcrnes lis. Cd.15s. Od. COKE IN GOOD DEMAND. The Maine Old Story or a bbort Supply of Cnrn Orden on the Increase Ship ment! Somenrlint Larger. fSrrCIAL TELIGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! SCOTTPAT.K, September 18. The coke mar ket is still excellent as far as the demand is con cerned, but Its prosperity is hindered by the same old barrier inadequate car supply. The demand is of as large proportions as recorded a couple weeks ago. and if anything is larger. The increase is ascribed to furnaces which were not then taking coke, and which are now sending in orders regularly. The operators experience no diffi culty in filling the mauy orders, but cannot get the coke, at least a good proportion of it, to destination on account of the scarcity of cars. Consumers are still expostulating over not Having sumcieni met to eperaio iueir plants. Their stock bonses are well nigh emptied and they are compelled to economize on their present stock. The efforts of the railroad officials to overcome the de pression in the car supply have not been entirely iutile. either. Last week they succeeded iu making somewhat of an improvement, and the result was a spurt in shipments. The tailroad people say the rush for cars is unprecedented from almost all sources, and that they never knew of them to be so scarce at this juncture of the year. The augmentation in shipments is attributed only to the improvement in transportation. The supply is still scant, however, but there are evidences that it is going to be restored to normal condition. The increase in shipments was not confined to one but to all points. The works are making five days ner week as a gen eral rule. Rainey, Hostetter and the McUlure Company continues to make full time six davs. Coke continues to be piled ud on the yards. The number of Idle ovens have been consid erably diminished. Last week the list of in active ovons was estimated atabout3,450. This week the number is placed'at 2,550. The re sumption of the Standard plant, bv the settle ment of the strike, and some scattering ovens has lowered the nnmber 1,000. This list will also be decreased by the resumption of the Leisenring No. 2 plant of 500 ovens, which has been out for repairs. The Charlotte plant of 87 ovens Is still nut of blast. Shipments last week averaged about 1,072 cars perday, as against 967 cars of the previous week. There was a total increase of 630 cars. Shipments were consigned to points of con sumption as follows: To points west of Pitts burg. 3,650 cars; to Pittsburg and river points, I,w cars; to points east i jrmsuurg. 1,100 cars. Total, 6.430 cars. There is no indications of a chance in the prices for coke. The following prices still rule: Furnace coke, 12 15; foundry, ! 15: crushed. til 65. Freight rates from the region to main points of consumption are: To Pittsburg 0 70 To M&bonlng and bhenango Valleys 1 33 To Cleveland. 0 1 70 Tollunalo. S. V z To Detroit, Mich 2 35 To Cincinnati, O z 65 To Louisville. Ky 3 20 To Chicago, 111 2 75 To .Milwaukee. Wis 2 85 To St, Lonlft, Mo IX To Eas. SI. I.ouls O To lialtimore 2 17 To lioston 4 U0 This will make prices at these points of con sumption as iouoks: Point. Furnace. Foundry. Crashed. S3 35 400 435 490 500 530 its 5 10 550 6 00 585 482 665 Pittsburg z 85 3 i5 31. and a. valleys ioj eu Cleveland 3 S5 115 Buffalo 4 40 4 70 Detroit 450 480 Cincinnati 4 0 8 10 Louisville 5 35 SG Chicago 4'JO 5 20 .Milwaukee 50U 5 30 St. Ixiuls 5 50 S 80 Kan St. Louis 5 .15 i 65 lialtimore 4 3 4 62 Boston 6 15 6 45 New York Flgnres. Xew York Pig iron quiet and steady. CopJ er dull and heavy: lake. September. 16 75. ,ead quiet and Him; domestic, $5 07. Tin strong and livelier; straits, $23 45. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. The Condition of Business at the East Liberty Stock Yitrd. OFFICE OF THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, Thursday. September 18. 1890. Following Is the report of the past week's transactions at the East Liberty Stock Yards: HKCBirTS. CATTLE. HOGS. SHEEP Thro'. Local. Thursday 7C0 .... 2.175,' 2,090 Friday 1.3J0 20 3,430 1,320 iMtnrday 2.0U) 210 1.75 1,100 Sunday 1,100 1.810 7.200 2,750 .Monday..,. 7o0 250 3.17a 850 Tuesday 40 to 1.115 2,200 Wednesday 520 90 4,200 3.C80 Total 6,600 2,490 28,050 13,420 Thursday 5 1.184 233 Friday 919 .... Saturday 6U0 .... Monday 2,050 3,836 J.7G2 Tuesday 45) 841 1,875 Wednesday 90 1,410 1,524 Total 2,595 8,820 5,394 Cattle Receipts, LB06 head; shipments, 1,423 head; maiket no mateiial change; mostly through consignments. Twenty-one cars cattio shipped to New York last night: none to-dav. Hogs Receipts, 2.750 head: shipments. 1.650 head: market slow: best selected, 4 905 00; best Yorkers. $1 704 80: grassers, 54 404 50. Five cars of hoes shipped to Sew York to day. Sheep Receipts. 1,800 head; shipments. 8,100 bead; market fair on natives and slow on Westerns at unchanged prices. By Telegraph. CHICAGO The Evning Journal report gavs: Cattle Receipts. 17,000 head, made up of 3.000 Texans, 2,500 rangers, and the remainder na tives. The sales to-day show that there was a big business, and the best native steers made J5 005 17J second class. U 704 95: third class. $4 004?1 50; common. Fl 003 75; butchers' stock 2025c lower at SI 253 00; Texins un changed; rangers 25'K)c lower than last week. Hogs Receipts, 23.000 head; shipments, 9.000 head. Packers paia $4 00 to S4 10 for commun; $4 15Q4 25 for nrime mixed: ?4 354 60 for prime heavy and butcher weishts: ll"lit, $4 40 4 SO. Sheep Receipts. 8.000 head, and all sold; natives. SI 004 85; Westerns, S4 154 25; lambs. $5 4086 10. ' CINCINNATI Hogs in light demand; prices lower; common and light. S3 254 75: pack ing and botchers'. S5 50425 So; receipts, 1.340; shipments. 1.060. Cattle The demand is light and market easy: common. SI 002 25: fair to choice butcher grades, $2 504 00: receipts, 670 hed; shipments, 120 head. Sheep in good de mand and Arm; common to choice. $2 50 4 75; stock wethers and ewe. S4 25S25 00: extra fat wethers and yearlines, S5 005 25; receipts, 1,500 bead;shipments.900bead. Lambs Spring iu UKUl aunv iiiiu abiuui;, guua 10 cnoiCe shipping. S5 7506 25; common to choice butch ers', 4 005 50 per 100 pounds. NEW YORK Beeves Receipts, 236 head, all tor slaughterers and export; no trade; feel ing firm. Dressed beef steady at 6K7Jic per pound; shipments to-day, 520 beeves. Calves Receipts. 918 head: market firm; veals, $5?00 8 25 per 100 tts.; grassers. S2 253 00; Westerns, S4 004 50. Sheep firm: lambs, steady: sheep, $4 404 50 per 100 Its.; lambs, S3 OOS" CO: dressed mutton firm at 910c per pound; dressed lambs steady at 10llc. Hogs Re ceipts. 3.228 head; market higher at 51602540 per 100 Its. ST. LOUIS Cattle Receipts. 3,400 bead; ship ments, 3.000 head; market slow; good to fancy native steers. 54 404 95; fair to gooit do. $3 804 40: stockers and feeders, S2 253 25; Texans and Indian steers, S3 S0 3 50. Hogs Receipts, 3.300 head: shipments, 3, S00 bead; market steady: fair to choice heavy. 84 504 70; mixed grades. H 104 50; lieht. fair to best, S4 504 65. Sheep Receipts. 6,700 head; Buipmenis, none; market airuue; gooa to Choice, S4 O0a5 10. KANSAS CITY Cattle Receipts, 4,890 head: shipments. 3.720 head; market steady, stronc; steers, S3 254 70: rows. SI 402 50; stockers and feeders, J2 5003 45; ranee steers.S2 00 2 80; ranee cos, SI 502 00. Hoes Re ceipts. 10,670 head: shipments, 5.270 head; mar ket steadv: hulk, $4 254 35; all grades. H 25 4 50. Sheep Receipts, 1,760 head; market slow; atnbs. S4 855 40; good to choice milt, tons. S3 90Q4 45; stockers and feeders. S3253 75. BUFFALO Cattle steady and unchanged; receipts, 90 loads through, 6 sale. Sheep and lambs steady and firm; receipts, 18 loads through, 17 sale. Hcgi firm and a shade higher; receipts, 6 loads through, 15 sale; me dium and heavy. S4 85Q5 00. Mining Stock. New Yoke. September 18. Mining quota tions: Adams C. 200; Bodie. 115; Caledonia B. H ISO; Consolidated California and Virginia, 450; Eureka Consolidated, S95; Gould and Curry, 200: Hale and Norcross, 220: Homestake, 1000; Horn Silver, 350; Del Monte. 100; Ontario, 4200; Savage, 370; Standard, 105; Phcenrx, Ariz., 100; Butter Creek, 130; North Commonwealth. 225. When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, sbeciiedfor Castorla, Wben she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children-sho gave them Castoria apMtonrMu LEADS ALL THE BEST. Pittsburg's Great Advantages for All Kinds of Manufacturing. OPENINGS FOk NEW ENTEKPEISES. Trading in Local Stocks Moderately Brisk, bat Tallies on the Run. THE JCEWS AND GOSSIP OP THE CITI In keeping Pittsburg before the people her advantages as a manufacturing point should not be overlooked. Abundance oi natural gas, coal and coke, at her very doors, affords an inexhaustible supply ot fuel at about half the cost which other com munities are compelled to pay. She is now the center of the oil trade of this country. Her products can be shipped to Southern and Western markets by rail and river. The cost of living here is as cheap as else where. Homes are easily acquired. The climate is salubrious and hcalthlul. Every thing is in her favor. Under such favorable conditions ber pros perity should not excite wonder. It is as simple as cause and effect. Great as she is, she is not finished. No city in the country is growing faster. She has nearly 4,000 in dustrial establishments, but there is room for as mauy more. Manufacturing sites arc numerous and cheap. Capitalists and tollers seeking to better their condition should visit Pittsburg and see vbat she is, and what she is destined to be, before locating elsewhere. Lnw From the Illehrst Conit. The Supreme Court of the United States held, In the recent case of Smith ct al. vs Mc Groarty, that the filing of a voluntary assign ment for the benefit of creditors, and of the assignee's bond, in a probate court, under the statutes of Ohio, did not prevent a creditor who was a citizen of another State and had not become a party to the proceedings in the State court from suing in equity in the Circuit Court of the United States to set aside a mortgage made by the debtor cotemporancnusly with the assignment. The same court held, in the case of Reynolds vs Adden. that a citizen of New Hampshire was not precluded by an assign ment in insolvency proceedings bad In Massa chusetts from attaching goods of the insolvent found in Louisiana. flnilneaa News nnd (.otnlp. Only four permits for new buildings were taken out yesterday, the most important of which was for four frame dwellings, at a total cost of $8,400. The list follows: Antony Plytb, frame two-story dwelling, 16x30 feet, on Morris street. Fourteenth ward. Cost, S585. E. H. Watkins. four frame two-story and attic dwellings. 20x40 feet each, on Parker street, Twentieth ward. .Cost. $8,400. Gustavo Graf, frame two-story dwelling, 18x32 feet, on Smith's way, Ihirty-secondward. Cost, ssoo. Homeopathic Hospital, brick two-story laun dry, 17x50 feet, on property between First and Second avenues. Second ward. Cost, S2.600. Pittsburg business men are ?'.ven credit for a large amount of caution. This is the' time to use it. The foundation for the Hebrew Orphan Aylum, on the Perrysvillo road, is about com pleted, and work on the superstructure will begin at once. Next to laying up treasure in heaven real estate is the best thing to invest in. Financial spasms lose half their terror to a man who has a home of his own. Fate seems to be arrayed against speculation. The Boston failure aids to the difficulties of tho situation. There were 44 mortgages on filo for record yesterday, ths largest of which was for S18.500. The next largest was for $15,000. The smallest was for 150. Seventeen were for purchase money. It was stated yesterday that the Fisher Broth, ers had leased a tract of land in Woods' Rnn hollow, part,of ihe Watson place, and would soon commence drilling for oil. Henry M. Long sold 300 shares of Philadel phia Gas stock at SOJi and SO. Andrew Caster sold 50 shares of Electric at S5K, and 25 shares of Monongahela Water Company at 30. The gross earnings for the month of August for 15 railways were 40,634,120, an increase of 1,581,225 over last year. Whitney Stephenson received the following by wire from Wall street yesterday: The fail ure of Gardner, Chase A Co.. of Boston, was magnified, and was used to depress prices of stocks understood to be largely held in the East, notably Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, Atchison, Sugar and New England. Acreage is in demand for subdivision owing to the rapid sale of lots in the suburban dis tricts. Movement! in IJenl Etmr. Mr. J. Walter Hay, of Allegheny, has pur chased 85 acres of land near Marion. Ind., the center of the great gas belt in that State, which he will subdivide and offer to the Pitts burg pnblic for improvement or speculation. Two other local capitalists are interested in a 90-acre tract in the same locality. TJuncan & King have just closed the sale of 85 acres of coal and timber land in Braxton county, W. Va.. at SSOO per acre, to a Pittsburg gentleman whose name is withheld. Charles Somers & Co. sold to Conrad Dietrich the property 102 Market street. First ward, consisting of a lot 20 feet front by a depth of 60 feet to an alley, with a three-story brick warehouse, for $11,000. Thomas Liggett sold a lot 50x150, on O'Hara street. Twentieth ward, to Mrs. Dewrose, for 2000, James W. Drape & Co. sold a house and lot on Monterey street, Allegheny, lot about 20x100 feet, for S5.750. S. A. Dickie fc Co. sold for Melvin & Smith to F. H. Speer four lots on Kelly street, Murt laud Place plan, 120x135 to an alley, for $3,000. The purchaser intends erecting substantial bouses on these lots at once. Magaw & Goff. Lim., sold for Mrs. Goldner a lot 25x105 feet to a 15-foot alley, on the corner of Mnrray avenue and Fifth street, in Beltz hoover borough, to Mary K. Seliars, for $550 cash. Ewing & Byers sold for Ross Sherman to William Hunter, a vacant lot 26 feet front by 145 feet deep, on Orchard street. West Belle vne, Avalon station, Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad, for $400 casn. Black & Baird sold to Patrick Larnar the property 141 Nineteenth street, Southside, for SL950; also sold to John Lamb lor J. Walter Hay lot No. 97 in Valley View place, Nine teenth ward, for (225. TIGHT M0HET Cnasea of Ihe Stringency Quarterly Settle, mend The Boston Failure. Local bankers drew the lines quite taut yes terday In extending their favors to borrowers, some of them discriminating sharply between regular customers and outsiders. In fact, money was tight. One or two banks were so short that they were compelled to decline con siderable good paper, but managed to satisfy their regular trade. Other institutions had no trouble. As the sum of the situation, it may be said that there is enough loose cash here for ordinary business purposes, but none to put Into new ventures. This condition arises from the fact that most of the city banks have been free lenders for some time. As a cashier put it: "There has been good demand for money all season, and we bave tried to supply it. That's what wa are here for. It we didn't loan when we can we incur the risk of having our funds left on our hands, earning nothing. We can't afford to run risks." One cause "f the existing stringency here Is attributed to preparations for the third quar terly settlements, now almost at hand. Con siderable money will be needed to even up obligations at that time, and itls being hoarded for that purpose. These disbursements out of the way, greater ease Is looked tor. The drift of opinion of local financiers In re gard to the Boston failure, as ascertained in a nnmber of Interviews yesterday, was to the effect that It would have little effect here be yond making bankers still more cautions in ex tending favors. Pittsburg banks bave very rlleht connection with the Hub, and are not affected in the least by the crash. It may seri ously affect the Eastern trade, bnt, as this is a minor Interest here, no bad results to Pittsburg are iiseiy to iouow. Exchange were 12,470,283 44 and baUncesJthat the short Interest, which evidently Mis not $432.100 57. Clerical business was fair. Rates were steady at 6Q7 per cent on call and time loans. Currency was easier. The New York Tribune turns on the light as follows: "The whole of this late money scare is the greatest wonder of the century. There are two sides to it, which are not at all allied in their purposes. Tneoneisfor the creation of a monetary crisis which will compel the Treasury to bo a purchaser of 4 per cent bonds at 126127j the other is only an attempt to frighten real holders of miscellaneous securi ties into the market as sellers, that a large 'short' interest may be covered at a profit, Tho one part wants a high price ior Government bonds,nd tho other a low price for miscellan eous securities. It is a curious combination of speculative forces. But they have during the last three weeks worked in perfect accord for the accomplishment of their separate pur poses." Mr. S. V. White sets a good example of cour. age and firmness to his fellow men in Wall street. He says: "Look upward, not down ward. The worst is over- and the money mar ket will be easier. Heretofore borrowers bave gone with trembling bands to ask loans, and you know how sensitive lenders are to tne way they are approached. Now there will be more confidence, and half of the stringency has come from scare." Monoyoncall at New YorK yesterday was easy, ranging from 3 to 6 per cent; last loan, 3; closed offered at 2. Prime mercantile paper, 79. Sterling exchange qniet and firm at 84 60 for 60-day bills and $4 84 for demand. Cloning Bond Quotation. U. 8. 4s. res.. 123S SI. K. &T. Uen. Ss.. 68 Mutual Union CS....103 N.J. C. Int. cert,. .no;. Northern I'.vc. Isls..ll6) Northern 1'ac. 2ds..IU Northw't'n consols. 140 Northw'n deben's 5sll0 Oros'un X Trans. Os.100), St. 1. 4I.il. Uen. 5s. 94 St.L. &.X.F. Uen.M.l0 St. l'aul consols.. ...12- St. P. Cbi&l'c. lsts.114 lx..FcL.G.Tr.Ks. 91H Tx.. l'c. KG.Tr.Ks. 4I Union Pacific lsts...ll0. West Shore 104 U. S. 46, coup IMS I'. S. 4, rec 104'4 V. S. 4,s, coup 104! raciucosoi 'Uj 114 Loulsianastamped4s 90 Missouri 8s 10O Tenn. new set. 69.. ..1G6 J'enn. nevHt. 5s..., 99M Tenn. new set. 3s.... 72 Canad.i So. 2ds S6!j Central Pacific Jsts.lf9J$ wen. &. It. u. J5IS...IM Den. &K. . 4s S2M U.&B. U. Westlsts. Erie 2ds 102 Al. K.&T. Uen.es.. 80S New York Clearings, $137,944,217; balances, 5,104.164. Boston Clearincs. 13,070,447: balances, $1,719,063. Money. 56 per cent. Puiladkt.phia Clearings. 12.211.371: bal ances. Sl.745,942. Rate of interest, 6 per cent. Baltimore Clearings, $2,221,960; balances, $312,151. Money, 6 per cent. London The amount of bullion withdrawn from tho Bank of Enslani. oa balance to-day is 237,000. Tbo bullion in the Bank of England decreased 496.000 during the past week. The firoportion of the B,mk of England's reserve to iability 1$ now 41.01 per cent. Paris Three per cent rentes, 91f 77c for the account. The weekly statement of the Batik of France shows a decrease ot 11,000,000 francs gold and 2,000,000 francs silver. Berlin The statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows a decrease in specie of 7.140.000 marks. CillCAUO Clearings, $14,271,000. New York exchange was 60c discount. Money rates wero firm on the basis of b7 per cent for call loans. STOCKS OK THE BUH. Connldernble Business Transacted, bnt Yhlties ShowI.nck offrtaylnc Power. The Boston failure had no perceptible effect on the local stock board yesterday. Bidding was livelier than usual, and a fair amount of business was transacted. This, however, was at the expense of values, nearly everything showmg-a lack of backbone. The most active thing on the list was West inghouse scrip. It was wanted in unlimited quantities at 75 and freely offered at 78. It is stated that Mr. Westinghouse will soon issue a circular to stockholders urging those who have not accepted their allotment of new stock to come forward and do so. As showing that buyers are caution. Pitts burg Traction was offered down to 34 and Central to 26K without takers. Philadelphia Gas and Electric submitted to considerable concessions, as did nearly everything else on the active list. With few exceptions closing prices were the lowest of the day. FIRST SECOND THIRD CALL. CALL. CALL. 1! A B A B A P. P. S. M. Ex... 450 500 450 500 455 .... AllcghcnyX.IIank .'.. b .... 6S Diamond N. Bank ISO Jler. A Man. JM. IS. 70 Monon. Nat. Bank 12C 126 .... Safe Deposit Co.... 66 75 66 75 68 75 Citizens' lusur. 35 Monon. Insurance. 35 ftrldiceirater 55 .... 55 .... 55 ("tiartlers Valley. 35 P. N. G. & I. Co 16 15 16 15J4 16 Pennsylvania Uas UH 14K Philadelphia Co.... 29J 30 29K 23 294 23M Wheeling Uas Co.. 19 20 llazclwoodUil Co.. 50 51 SO", 51 : Central Traction.. 26)j 269$ .... Citizens' 1 Taction. 65 66S 66)4 l'ltts. Traction .... 34H 35.S 35 Pleasant Valley.... 27H 28 27 28$ 27$f 28!, Charllers Hallway 54 54 l"Kh, y'lilt'tn ft A. .... 40 40 l'ltts. J. B. It. CO 26k P'Rh, McK. AY 60 .... P'gh. Va.&CK 47 47 P., W. ft Ky. K.K 54 '.lf.& C. li. C. Co. 35 ... 35 36 35 36 Luster Mining.... 233i 24 ZSH 24 23W 24), MIvertonMln.nCo. 1) ,... 1), .... Yankee UlrlM. Co. 2 Westinghouse Elec 35 36 34)4 .... 34 36 Monon. Water Co. 29 U.S. 48. Co 16& 16)4 U.b. &S. pref. 47 Wesfghouse A. B 114 .... W. B. Co. Lim.... 73 75 73 75 P. P. Glass Co ISO Sales at first call, 5 shares Philadelphia Gas at 30. and 2 Switch at 15: also, 320 Electric Scrip at 75. At tnird call. 25 shares of Pipeage wcntatl5K, 25 Philadelphia Gas at 29, 35 Ponnsylvat.ia Gas Company at 14, and 10 Cen tral Traction at 27. Electric Scrip brought 75 and 71. The total salet of stocks at New York yester day were 224,050 shares, including Atchison, 10.795: Delaware. Lackawanna and Western, 32.S00; Missouri Pacific, 8.200: North American. 13.500; Northern Pacific preferred, 10,180; Read ing, 5,900; Richmond and West Point, 3.125; BU Paul, 29,985; Union Pacific, 6,700. ALMOST DESEETED. Oil Brokers Try the Experiment of Letting the Market Ran Itself. There was the smallest nnmber of oil brokers on the floor of the Exchange yesterday prob ably within the recollection of the oldest members. At one time there was only one. There was only one fluctuation, and sales did not exceed 5,000 barrels, s The market opened at the highest and closed at the lowest point, a difference of Jc The range was: Opening and highest, 82c: lowest and closing, 81Jc. Clearings were 40,000 berrels. Nothing was done in Buckeye, nor will there be until the Standard accepts exchange quota tions and makes the cost of deliveringthe same as specified in the certificates 20 cents. Thi, however, is not probable, as it is stated it never was the Intention of the monopoly to allow ac tive speculation in the product. Features of Yenterdn j' Oil Market. Corrected daily by John M. Oakley & Co.. 45 Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange: Opened 82 I Lowest. . Highest 82 I Closed... SI 81 Barrels. ... 49.051 ... 86.517 ... 70,409 Average charters Average shipments Average runs Bellneu. New YorK. 7.40c Keflned, London. 5Krt. Itellned, Antwerp. WHt. Kenned, Liverpool. 5HJ. Kefined, Bremen, 6.60m. Other Oil Markets. On. Crrr. September 18. Petroleum opened at 82c; highest, 83c: lowest, 81c; closed, 81c. Sales, 93.000 barrels: runs, 48.998 barrels: shipments, 63,193 barrels; charters, 74,603 bar rels. BRADFORD.September 18. Petroleum opened at 82Kc: closed, 81c; highest, 83c; lowest, 81c. Clearances, 444.C00 barrels. New York, September 18. Petroleum was practically abandoned iu the morning hours, and no transaction in either Buckeye or National Pipe Line certificates until the after noon, when there was a llttlo trading, on which the market closed steady. Pennsylvania oil opened at 82c: highest, 82c; lowest, 81Jic; closing. 8B4C; October option opened at 82c; highest, 82Hc; lowest, S2c; closing. 82c. Lima oil openned at 33c; highest. 34e: lowest, 33jac; closing, 34c. Total sales, 125,000 barrels. NEW YOBK STOCKS. Wall Street Movement Quiet and Irregular St. Pnnl Selected for Attack Strength In Rio Grande Western. New York, September 18. The stock mar ket to-day was quiet and irregular in its move ments, but displayed a firm undertone, and, notwithstanding the' bear pressure displayed most prominently in the Grangers, the impres sion made upon values outside of St. Paul was insignificant. The buying was steady through out, and the market was active only when the bears endeavored to get pnees down by short sales. There (s a great deal heard from the shorts now about the liquidation which must comojip in any rise in values, but it seems' to attract little attention, and, while the army of buyers Is not large at present, the growing ease in the money market is expected to de velop it soon and the indication ate been seriously diminished by the late decline, must Inevitably furnish a stimulus to any rise which may come. The purchase of the 4 per cents, most of the funds from which will come to this city, was the last final blow to the manipulation of the money market, and, while operators are slow to take bold, the return of confidence must in the near future create not only a wider and'more active market, but an improvement in values as well. Talk is already beard of gold imports, notwithstanding the cry that there would be no cereals for export, but the fact that there is still a larce surplus left over and only one country in Europe has over an average crop, renders a demand for what we have to a certainty, and that at materially higher figures than "were prevalent a year ago. Wt Paul was selected as tbo special point of I attack, but it yielded only 1 per cent on the ......... n,al, luB payment. toUB .i and Northern would be made by an issue of new stock. The efforts to get prices down met with no success in the remainder of the list, however, and before noon a strong tone was again developed, which continued without In terruption for tiieest of the day. The bulls took Lackawanna. Chicago Gas and in Borne specialties the gains were marked. The feat ures ot the lato trading was the strength in the Rio Grande Western stocks and Mobile and Ohio, the latter rising 2 per cent, Rio Grande Western 4. Slight recessions took place toward the close of business, but they were generally recovered, and the market finally closed quiet, but firm to strong, at or near the best prices of the day. Almost everything traded in is higher this evening, and-8ueariup2 Chicago Gas '1. Burlineton IU. Lackawauna 1 and New En gland U4. Railroad bonds wero more active than nsual of late. The sales were S9i6,000, but out of that amount $277,000 were in Atchison 4s. The final changes are generally in the direction of higher figures, but only slight gains were scored as a rule. Reading 4s and Richmond and West Point Trust 5a are conspicuous for strength, but no other feature is to be noted. Govern ment bonds heavy. State bonds steady, dull. The I'ost says now that the question of the Treasury buying any more 4 per cent bonds is settled, money has become decidedly easy, even before one-third 01 the purchased 4 per cents have been paid for. Up to 1:30 o'clock to-day the sub-treasury bad paid for $7,000,000 of the 4 per cent bonds, and on this money was easy all day. Tho highest rate was 6 per cent in the forenoon, from which it declined to 3 in the afternoon. The market was firm for stocks, the highest price of the day having been tnado about 2.o'clock, when everything was from i. to 2J per cent higher than yesterday's closing. The following table shows tne prices or active stocks on ihe .New York btock Kxchange yester day. Corrected dally for The Dispatch by VHITEY.t STEPHENSON, old Pittsburg mem bers of .New Vork Stock Exchange, 67 Fourth avenue: Clo lne Bid. 20 4'IS 23 4IH 79)4 51)4 USX 32 2IS 4Sft 97 67), 115 S2 13 39 Opcn tne. Am. Cotton Oil 20)$ Am. cotton ultprer... 50 Am. Cotton OH Trust.. -3 Atch., 'loo. ft a. 0H Canadian Pacific 7H Canada Southern 532( Central oTNewJersey. .... Central Pacinc 33 High est. 20 1 50 23 41X 73 s 51i S3" 211, 46 97!, 67 IJa 82 Low est. 20 50 23H 40)4 79H 53 3J" 21 43H S6 66), 115 ' SIX Chesapeake ft Ohio. Chicago (as Trust. , C. Bur. ft Oulncv. . . 21)4 44), C. Mil. ft St. Paul. 67 1154 Mil. ft St. P.. pf.. , Kockl. ft P , St. L. & Pitts , at. l. ft Pitts., pf.. , St. P., M. ftU , St. P.. II. S, U. pt. ft .Northwestern .... 89 103 68J 97 46 !' 58 39 144)4 157), 19i 58 8K 109 i 15H 60 107 '4 S6 23V 69 "4 21)4 100 152S 25 45 19(4 61), son 77 21V 42 45V 19)4 41 ia 212 l'JV 76 32K 00 104 75 76K 19 59 II S4M m 40JJ iosm 6S 10S4 60 45" 307i 57)4 1 144M 157 53 81 107H 68 45 30)4 57.t 39 ltt 157!4 57K 8 V.. C. C. ft 1. C. C. C. ft I. nref. Col. Coal ft Iron 45K Col. ft Hocking Valley 3US4 dies, ft Ohio 1st nref.. 57 dies, ft Ohio 2d nref.. 39 Del.. Lack ft West M2H Del. ft Hudson 157J4 Uen. ft Wo Urande Den. ft KloMrande.pl. KM K.T., Va. ft t 8 E. r.. Va. ft Ua.. 2d pf 21?$ Illinois Central Lake Krie ft West ualce Lrleft West pr.. 607, Lake Shore ft M. s 106H Louisville ft Nashville. 86 Michigan Central 92)$ MoDlle ft Ohio U', Missouri Pacific 63$, National Load Trust... 21 New York Central N. r.. C. ft St. L N. Y L, E. ftW 24 JS. K. &N. E. 44), N. Y.. O. ft V IS), .Nor folk ft Western.... 19 Norlolk ft Western pr. .... Northern Pacific 304 Northern Pacific pr.... T!H 60 1 107), 86?i 25 69M 21 60 105 v; 8(. 23)4 BkH 20J) 25 45H 1SH 19X 30 J7)i ivi 46J, 41 212H 19?a 75 24 44 19 30! 76H 43" 45 40X 212 UIIIO dllSSlSSipOl Oregon Improvement. 43 Pacific Mall 15X Peo., Dec. ft Evans l'nlladel. ft Heading... 411 Pullman Palace Oar...2Uk Ulehmonil ft W. P. T 10,'a ltlehmonrt&W.P.T.nt 75 St. Paul ft Duluth St. Paul ft Duluth pr. St. P.. Minn, ft Man St. L. ft San jr. 1st pi augar Trust Texas Pacinc Union Pacific Wabash Wabash preferred Western Union 'Wneellngft L. K Wheeling ft L. E.prer. North American Co... 74 18Ta o$H 24 83V 34 72)4 40 Phllndelpbln. Stoclcn. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur nlshed bv Whitney ft Stephenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members Hew York Stock Ex changes Bid. .. 52 .. 20 Si .. 9X .. 61)4 ... six .. iii .. 77i Asked. 52V 20 11-16 9 cm 52 77)4 Pennsylvania Railroad. Heading , lluffalo. Pittsburg ft Western. Lenlgh VnilOY , Lehigh Navigation Northern Pacific Northern Pacific preferred Boston htock. Atch. ft Top Boston ftAtbany..., Boston ft Maine...., a. b. &q Cin., San. ft Clcv... Eastern H. R Fltcl.hurg K. IE. pf. Flint ft Pere M Flint ft PereM. pre, Mass. Central Mei. Cen. com , N. Y. &N. Eng...., N. Y. ft N. Eng. 7s., Old Colony Kutland preferred. W Is. Cen. common, Wis. Central pi Allouez Mg. Co , 41 228)4 204 , 97 . 29)4 168 88 23)j 92 19)4 . 25 , 444 I24i, .169 , 69 23 55 Atlantic , lioston ft Mont Calumet ftHecla... Franklin Huron Kearsarge . 22V .58)4 ,306 . 24)4 . 6)4 . 19H . 43)s , 12 ,126 . H ,205 .57 8 . 26! ,223 (4 , 31)4 ' 47 Osceola l'ewablc (new) Quincy Manta Fe Conner Tamarack , Annistun Land Co. Boston Land Co West End , licit Telephone Lamson btore S..... Water Power B'Al iCentennlal Mining. Hardware Very Active. The hardware outlook was never better than it is at this time. Summer's trade experienced no lull, as Is the common custom. A leading dealer said: "Ourtrade was never in a healthier condition than it is now. Speculative influ ences do not enter into the present activity of trade. Manufacturers are busy, and we have found it difficult of late to have our orders filled. As a result ot this activity, prices are hardening, and an advance is probable in most hardware lines before many days. The outlook for big fall trade is all that could be desired. Results so far insure the largest volume of business for 1890 we have ever had." Prttbur' LlHht Shines. At a Pittsburg establishment where reflect ors are a specialty it was learned that orders are coming in from the ends of the earth. A missionary in the heart of India, under date of August S, writes that in a new churcb about completed in a city of 0,000 inhabitants they are longing for a PlttsDurg reflector. The same firm has recently placed orders for their light spreading apparatus in mission churches of Japan and China. "Let yonr light shine," is a familiar injunction, and our manufacturers are living up to it by furnishing the means for spreading light all around the globe. Whisky MnrketR. CnfcrwNATi Whisky steady at SI 13. ARE YOU SICK? It is well to remember that three-fourths of all diseases are traceable to bad blood -ALSO-S. S. S. never fails to remove all impurities and enable nature to restore lost health. Treatise on the blood mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. Hoffman's HarmlessHeadach'e Powders rn lh rn1( nf ... ent study and experi menting by an expert chemist, tested In the most severe cases and submitted to the highest medical authority. In dorsed and pronounced nerlectljharmlejj. Thou sands now attest to their virtues, and none need suffer from Headaches If they will use Hoffman's Powders. celS-Kwr A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE. J 74 76V 186 18 5S)t 59 11)4 HH 24 24)4 84 84 35 35 72K 73 40M 41 DOMESTIC MARKETS. Eailroad Blockades Preventing the Arrival of Stuff. PEODUCE QUIET AS A fiESDLT. Cereals Steady and Oats the Strong Factor of Markets. GROCERY B1T0AT105 IS UNCHANGED office or Pittsburg Dispatch, j THURSDAY, September 18, 1890. ( Country Produce Jobbing Price. Baiiroad blockades are responsible for delay of stuff. Liberty street commission men re port a bcaicity of goods. It is probable that large quantities will be dumped on to our mar kets in the latter part of the week, and, as much of the stuff is perishable, quality of re ceipts will be depreciated because of these de lays. There is an improved demand for choice apples and potatoes. Cabbage is dull and slow. Supply of grapes is short of demand for the first time In the past week. Commission men attribute shortage to railroad blockades. Poul try is fairly steady and eggs are firm. Dairy products are quiet. We have reduced our quotations on Elgin creamery batter in accord ance with stnbDorn facts. Our inside quota tions on creamery butter are the ruling rates of markets lor cash job lots. Apples S3 Oul 00 a barrel; fancy, SI S0 5 00. Butter Creamery, Elgin, 2526c; Ohio do, 2324c; fresh dairy packed. lSQIUc; lancy conn try rolls, 1819c: chuice, 1718c. BERRits Huckleberries, $1 25 a pail; grapes. Concords. 56c, Delawares, 7Sc a pound; plums. So ft0tj 00 per bushel. , Beans New crop beans, S2 102 50; marrow fat, $2 752 80: Lima beans, 6KKe. Beeswax 28S30c y S tor choice; low grade, 22,Joc Castaloups S35 a barrel: watermelons, S1O02O a hundred. Cider Sand refined, S9 OOS10 00; common, 50 06 00; crab cider. S10 50 11 00 $ barrel; cider vinegar. 12l3c$! gallon. Cheese Ohio cheese. 10c; August make, lie; New York cheese. 10r; Liraburger, 12313c; domestic Hweltzer, ldK15e: Wisconsin brick Bweitzer, 1313Kc; imported Sweitzcr, 26c Eggs 21622c $1 dozen for strictly Iiesu. Fj-ath ers Extra live zeese, 6060c; So. 1 do, 4u45c; mixed lots. S035u ft. Maple Syrup 75695c a can; maple -sugar, 910c t- Honey 15c $ ft. Poultry Spring chickens. 35P5c a pair: old, G575c a pair; dressed, ll12c a pound; pucks. (J070c Tallow Country, 3c; city rendered, 4c Seeds Recleaned Western clover, S5 COS 5 25; country medium clover, $4 254 50; tim othy, SI 601 65: bine trrass, 2 853 DO; orchard gras. SI 50; millet. 7075c Tropical Fruits Lemon, choice, S5 50 7 00; fancy, 57 1037 50; Jamaica oranges, new rop, S6 007 00 a barrel; bananas, 51 251 50 firsts, SI u0 rood seconds $1 bunch; California peaches. S2 002 50 f) box; Califor nia apricots, $1 752 26; California plums. S2 00 2 25 box; California pears. S4 U04 50 fl box. Vegetables Potatoes, S2 502 75 bar rel; Southern sweets, S2 252 50 fl Darrel: Jersey, S3 253 50; yams, J2 102 cO a bar rel: cabbage. S3 005 0O hundred; onions, S3 754 00 a barrel: green onions, SI 25 a bushel; Egyptian onions, S4 50 for 180 lb basket: trreoti beans, 6575c f) basket; cucumbers, SI 00 bushel; home erovtn tomatoes, 7ScSl 00 $1 bushel; celery, S03oc a dozen bunches. Groceries. The coffee situation is very firm and jobbers here wonder that there has been no advance in packages. Sugars are also strong enough to go np higher. The movement of general groceries continues active, with prices practically un changed. Dried and canned fruits are suffer ing from the reaction, consequent upon specu lative influences which sent prices above real values. Markets in this line are in an unset tled condition. Green Coffee Fancy Rio. 2JK25:; choice Rio, 22K23)c; prime Kio, 23c; low grade Rio, 2021c; old Government Java, 29J30c; Maracaibo. 25K27Jc; Jlocha, 80 32c; Santos, 2226c; Caracas, 2527c; La Guayra, 2627c. Roasted (in papers) Standard brands, 25c; high grades, 2830c; old Government Java, bulk, 3334Kc; Maracaibo, 2829c; Santos, 26 80c; peaberry. 30c; choice Rio. 26c; prime Rio, 2oc; good Rio, 21c; ordinary 2122Kc Spices (whole) Cloves, 15f(Sc; allspice 10c; cassla.'Sc; pepper. 13c; nutmeg, 7580c. Petroleum (jobbers' prices) 110 test. TVXc: Ohio, 120. 8fc; headlizbt, 150. 8Uc: water white, 10Kc; globe, 1414c; elaine, Hc: car- nadine, llc; royaline, 14c: red oil, llflc; purity, 14c Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained 4345c 1 gallon; summer. 3340c: lard oil, 5558c Syrup Corn syrup, 3537c; choice sntrar syrup. 3813c; prime sugar syrup, 3233c; strictly prune, 3536c;new maple syrup, 90c. N. O. Molasses Fancy, new crop, 5052c; choice. 49c: medium. 3S43c; mixed, 40642c. Soda Bi-carb in kegs 3X32Jc: bi-carb in 5?ic;bicarb assorted packages, 56c; sal soda In kegs, lc; do granulated. 2c. Candles Star, full weight, 8Xc; stearine. H set. : parafine. ll12c. RICE Head Carolina, 77Kc: choice, 6 6Jic; prime. 6S6c: Louisiana, b6)a starch Pearl, 4c; corn starch, 6Q6Kc; gloss starch. 6227c Foreign Fruits Layer raisins, S2 65; Lon don layers, 82 7o: Muscatels, $250: California MuscatpRS2 40: Valencia.7k(ffi7?fc! Ondara Va. lenciai9K10c; suItana,10Xllc: currants,5 6c: Turkey prune;, 771c; French nrnnes,10s 12c; Salomca nrnnes, in 21b packages 9c; cocoa nuts. 100, S6; almonds, Lan., p lb 29e:du Ivici 17c; do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap., 1314c; Sicily filberts, 12c; Smyrna figs, K13c: new dates, 6 6c; Brazil nuts, 14c: pecans 10Kllc citron, a, 1819c; lemon peel. 15c Tfl ft; orange peel, lie Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per lb, 10c; apples, evaporated, jo16c; peaches, evapor ated, pared, 2830c: peucbes, California, eva porated, unpared, 2526c: cherries pitted, 28c; cherries,unpitted, 1212c: rasnberries,evapor ated, 3o36c; blackberries, 10llc; huckle berries. Ijc SUGARS Cubes. IKc: powdered. TVs: erann- lated. 6c: confectioners' A- 6J; standard A. 6c; suit white, 656$c; yellow, choice. 6 foojc; yellow, good, o oc; yellow, fair, 5 5Jc: vellow, dark, 55?c Pickles Medium, bbls. (1.200), S8 50: me dium, half bbls. (600), S4 75. Salt No-l, ?1 bhl. 95c; No. 1 ex. bbl. SI 00; dairy, fl bid, 81 20; coarse crystal. W bbl. SI 20; Higgina' Eureka, 4-bti sacks, S2 80; Higgins' Eureka, 16-14 ft packets. S3 00. Canned Goods Standard peaches, S2 80 2 90; 2ds, S2 50Q2 60; extra peaches. S3 O0Q3 10; pie peaches, S2 00: finest corn, SI 351 50; Hfd Co. coin,9icgl 15; red cherries,S140150: Lima beans, $1 20; soaked do. 80c; string do, 7590c; xiiarrowiat peas, ei luti 20; soared peas. 70QI 80c: pineapples, SI 301 40; Bahama do, S2 55: damson plums. 21 IU; greengages, SI 50: egg plums, S2 20; California apricots, S2 502 60; California pears, S2 75; do greengages, S2 20: do egg plums, S2 20. extra wnite cherries. S2 85; raspberrles.Sl 401 45; strawberries. SI 301 40; gooseberries, SI 101 15: tomatoes 95cSl; sal mon, llb,Sl 30180:blackbemes,Sl 15: succotash. 2-ft cans, soaked, 90c; do green, 2-ft. 81 2501 50; corn beef, 2-ft cans, S2 00; 14-lb cans, S14; baked beans, SI 401 50; lobster, 1-ft, 82 00; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled, SI 50; sardines, do mestic, !43. S4 504 75; sardines, domestic ks, 87 00; sardines, imported, ts, 811 60gi2 50: sar dines, imported, Xs- S18: sardines, mustard, 84 25; sardines, spiced, SI 25. Fish Extra So. 1 bloater, mackerel. 829 bbl; extra No. 1 do, mess. S27 GO; extra No. 1 mackerel, shore, $19 50; No. 2 shore mackerel, 822: large ffs. 820. Codfish Whole pollock, 6c 1 ft; do medium. George's cod. 6c; ;do large, 7c; boneless hake. In strips, 6c; do George's cod. in blocks. 6X7c Herring Round shore, $5 50 f? bhl; split. 86 50; lake. S3 25 lOO-ft bbl. White fish, S6 50 W lOO-ft half bbl. Lake trout, $5 50 V balf bbl. Finnan baddies, 10c ft. Iceland halibut, 13c W ft. Pickerel, half bbl. 83 00; quarter bbl. 81 35; Potomac her ring. $3 50 jf bbl: 82 00 V half bbl.; Holland herring, 70c; Walkoff herring, 90c. Oatmeal-56 X)6 50 ?l bbl. Grntn. Flour and Feed. There was one sale on call at the Grain Ex change, namely, a car of sample oats, 45c, spot. Receipts as bulletined, 28 cars; By Pittsbnrg, Ft, Wayne and Chicago Railway, 1 car of oats, 1 of shorts, 1 of middlings, 2 of bay, 2 of feed, 5 of flour. By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis, 6 cars of oats, 3 of corn, 1 of bay, 1 of wheat. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, 1 car ot corn, 2 of rye. 1 of floor. Oat are the strong factor of cereal markets and prospects are good for higher prices. Wheat and flour are steady. Hay is qniet, owing to liberal receipts. Mar kets for grain and hay are stronger than they were a week ago, bnt former quotations still hold good. Prices are for carload lots on track: WHEAT No. 2 red. SI U4l 05; No. 3, SI 01 1 02. CORN No. 2 yellow ear, 6263c; high mixed ear, 6061c; No. 2 yellow, shelled, 6353c: high mixed shell corn, 653c OATS No. L 44K45c; No. 2 white, 43X 44c; extra. No. 3, 4Z42c; mixed oats, 4041c RYE No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 6869c; No. 1 Western, 66Q67C.V Flour Jobbing prices Fnncv spring and winter patent flour, SS 2506 60; fancy straight wintur. S3 500575; fancy mraiglit spring. 85 oi'fl 5 75; clear winter. S5 25Q'5 50: straicht XXXX, bakers' $5 0005 25. Rye flonr, 84 254 5U. ' Millfeed Middlings, fancy fine white. (23 0024 00 $ ton; brown middlings, 20 000 01. Int.p hathMn 1A YVflllR Nl HAT-Baled timothy No. 1,8 WOO 10 SO; No i 2 do, $9 00(39 50; loose from wagon. Sll 00 13 CO. according to qnality; No. 2 prairie bay, 87 5003 00: packing do. 87 007 50; clover hay, $7 508 00. STRAW-Oat,S6 757 00; wheat and rye, SB 00 Q6 25. Provision. Sngar-cured hams, large. He; ugar-cured bams, medium, lljc; sugar hams, small, HKe: sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 8e; sugar-cared shoulders, "Kef sngar-cured boneless shoulders, SJJc: skinned shoulders, 8c; skinned bams. 12c; suzar-cured California hams, 8c: sngar cured dried beef flats, UKc: sugar-cured dried beef sets, lljfc; sugar-cured dried beef rounds. 13Hc; bacon, shoulders, Te; bacon, clear sides, "ilic: bacon, clear bellies, 6$c;drv salt should ers. CJc: dry salt clear sides. CKr- Mess pork heavy, S1250; mess pork, family. S1250L Lard Refined, In tierces. t?An half-barrels, 6c;60-ft tubs, c:20-lb pails. frJi;50.6 tin cans, 6c:3-ft tin pail. 6Kc5-ibtlrf palls, 6c: 10-ft tin pails, S'ic Smoked sausage, long, 5c: large. 5c. Fresh pork, links, 9c Boneless hams. lOKc Pigs feet, half-barrels, 84 00: quarter barrels, 8215. MABKETS BY WIRE. A Nervous Feelins in the Wbent Fir, but Frlcri Scoie n M'glit Advance j Corn Opens rtrong, bnt Weak eta Pork Firm. CHICAGO Wheat There was good specu lative trading to-day, bnt a feeling of nervous uncertainty pervaded th'n market all day. The opening was about 4JKe lower than yester day's closing; held firm and advanced Hc, then a weak spell set In, caused no doubt by the rumor of another failure at Boston which was afterward denied and prices declined V c From this there was an irregular ad vance of fj2c, cased off some and closed about ac higher for December, lje higher for May than closing figures yesterday. Tlere were frequent fluctuations within the estab lished range.- The improvement was perhaps attributable as much to local speculation as to any outside news. Corn There was a good trade. The opening was strong nnd prices were advanced c A decline of z followed. The Price, CurienCt statement that the corn hadn't been injured by the late frost, bnt w.it still immature and light frosts would help the maturiue: process brought about a good rally, and the market closed with a slight gain. Oats were traded in moderately for May. but other deliveries were neglected. Free selling at the start and the weakness In wheat and corn caused a decline of c. After the selling subsided a firmer feeling developed and prices advanced c and the market closed steady at about ortude flgures. Mess 1-ork Trading was only moderate. Prices ruled 710c lower, and the market closed rather firm at about outside figures. Lard Onl j a moderate business was trans acted. At the opening the feeling was rather firm, but after a few orders were provided for at outside figures prices receded 25c, and closed rather firm at medium figures. Short Ribs Some interest was manifested in the market. A few orders were on the market early, and some transactions were made at slichtly improved prices. Later, prices receded 2K5c Near tbo close prices rallied to medium figures and closed steady. The leading tutures rancea as follows: WHEAT No. 2. September. 9SS983 96J98JJc: December.81 021 02KQ1 OlHiSl 0i; My,8l0lg!l 07K1 l)5Kl 07K- Corn No. 2. September: 47'i43fil47Ja 47Vc; October. 47K4S47K47jij:; May, 49 50K4S50?S-C Oats No. 4 September. 3737Q36Ke 37c; October. S7S37J7S7Vc; May, 40K Mess Pork, per bbl. October. 89 759 73 9 7549 75: January, til 95?!2 C011 90 11 97K; May. 812 6S12 65 12 5512 65. Lard, per 100 fts. October. 86 3.1(36 30 6 256 27K: January. 86 706 706 656 67K: May. S7 07KQ7 07K7 0557 07J Short Ribs, ner 100 fts. October. S3 42 5 42K5 405 42: January. S5 855.855 80 5 S2$: May. 86 25a6 256 22KQ6 22. Cash quotations were as follows: Flour unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat. 98Jic: No. 3 spring wheat, S9ffi91c: No. 2 red. iSJic: No. 2 corn. 47JJc; No. 2 oats. 3737ic; No. 2 rvc. 61c; No. 2 barley. SCc: No. 1 flaxseed. 81 55. Prime timothy soed, SI 271 29. Mess pork per bbl, 810 00. Lard per 100 lbs, S6 25. Short rib sides, loose. 35 355 45; dry salted shoulders, boxed, S5 75g5 S7; short clear sides, boxed. S5 895 87. Sugars unchanged. No. 2 white oats,3SKQ40c:No.:i white, 37K63SJc On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was easier, but not qaoiably lower. Eggs at 10017c. NEW YORK Flour Receipts. 23.843 pkgs.: exports, 4,478 barrels and 6.286 sacks; less active and nncbantred; sales, 18,600 barrels. Wheat Receipts, 69.400 bushels; ex ports, 26,452 bushel; sales, 4,264 bushels futures and 344,000 bushels spot; spot market unsettled, closing stronger and dull; No. 2 red, SI OQim 03K elevator; $1 04J1 OJJi afloat; 81 02Vi 03J f. o. b.: No. 3 red. 7c: un graded, rocKSi ikj; no. 1 rnortnern, 81 I7; No. 1 bard, SI 20. Options sold limi down on me xiune;ariau erup Report, out reacteu on a dispatch from the West of snow and rain fully lIc and closed strong at the best of the day. No. 2rd, September. SI 01Q1 023i, closing SI 02JJ; October, SI 021 03. closing SI 03K:-November, SI 041 05$, closing SI 05K; December, SI 0?)1 06 7-16, closing 81 06; January, 81 061 07; closing 81 07: May, SI U8l 11. closing SI 11. Rye firm and quiet: Western, 697Ic Barley qniet and steady. Barley malt dull; country, 8o90c Corn Receipts. 111,550 bushels; ex ports, 51.139 bushels; sales, 1,720,000 bushels fu tures. 128,000 bushels spot. Spot market unset tled, lower and moderately active, closing firm; No. 2, 66c eIeyitor;55K56c afloat: ungraded mixed, 55Ji5G2c; options early were e lower on absence of frost news, longs selling, reacted wjth wheat and closed firm; September closing 56c; October. 5455c, closing 55c; November, 5555Jic, closln; ooc: December, 55455J(c, closing SlMc: May, 56Kg57Jic clos ing at 57c Oats Receipts. 106,000 bushels; exports, 2.524 bushels; sales, 150,000 bushels fu tures, 116,000 bushels spot. Spot mar ket steady and quiet; options dull and firm: September, 44c closing 44c:October.43'X135CCIosine43Kc:November. closing, 43c; -May, -i5c,cIosingat 45c:spor, 25c: white. 43Jl4c; mixed Western, 4246c; white do, 4353c; No. 2 Chicago. 45c Hay d nil and steady. Hops quiet and steady. Collee Options opened barely steady, unchanged to 15 points down, closed barely steady, 5 up to 25 down: sales 40,250 bags, including September, 18.1018.20c; October, 17.4017.50c; November. 16.854J17c: December. 16L6016.70c; January. 16 eilu.iuc: r-eoruary, la.oigiasoc: .uarcn, 10.0U; Aprilfi15.35c; .May, 15.1015.2Oc; Junp. 15c; spot Rio quiet and firm: fair cargoes 20Jic; No. 7, 19c Sugar Ri.w firm; sales, 800 hhds Mns covados 89 test at 5 7-16c; refined steady and In fair demand. Rice active and firm. Cotton seed oil quiet and steady: yellow. 3233c Tallow strong and quiet. Rosin quiet and steadv. Turpentine steady and quiet at 45Kc Eggs firm; fancy in demand; Western, 1920c; receipts, 2.531 packages. Pork quiet and steaav; mess SU 50012 25; extra prime, S10 5C11 GO; cut meats firm and fairly active; pickled bellies. 66c; do shonlders, 5$c: do hams 1Q llfr; middle dull and stead) ; short clear. 86 20. Lard easier and dull; Western steam, 86 47; sales, 250 tierces; options sales. 2,750 tierces; Oc tober, 86 60; November. 86 65, closing at 86 64 asked; Decern ber, 86 746 75, closing at S6 75; January, 86 92. Butter in moderate demand and easy; Western dairy, 1014e; do creamery, 1222c Cheese firmer anu in raoderatn de mand; light skim, 463c:Ohio flats, 67Jic ST. LOUIS Flour steady and quiet. Wheat A large business was reported and a firm feeling was aeveiopeu; me opening was at de clines of c for December and JJ?c for May as compared with yesterday's close, but late in the session there was a reaction, and the Close was firm at advances of a for December and lc for May options, and ll-16c for Mav'over yesterday's latest figures: No. 3 cash, 99c $1 00; December, $1 02 asked; May. 81 0S asked. Corn Business was moderate and tne market slightly higher: the opening was lower, but strengthened np afterward, and the close was firm at an advance ot ll-10c above yester day's close; September. 45Kc: May, fijic Oats Sulet, but closed firmer; No. 2 cash, 36c bid; lay, 46a Rye Demand somewhat better, hut prices easy: No. 2 cash. 6S5Sc Barley Demand fair at steady prices; Iowa, 7074c; Nebraska, 64c: Minnesota. 70c. Flaxseed higher at 81 60. Provisions steady for spot offerings, with a better demand for bacon. Pork. S10 50. Lard. SS 10. PHILADELPHIA-Flourdull and weak. Wheat weak and closed at ic loner; ungraded red In grain depot 98c: No. 2 red September, 98 B3r; October, 9999p; November, SI 01 1 0lJ4; December. $1 021 03. Corn Dull and lower; No. 2 mixed, iu grain depot, 57o8c: No. 2 mixed September, 5555c; October, November and December. 54Q55c Oats Car lots weait; JNo.3wnrte. 4Zc:.iSo. Zwbtte, 43c; futures declined icin sympathy with the West; No. a white. September. 4243c; October, 434S4c: November, 43X43Jfc; December, 4344c Butter dull and weak; Pennsyl vania jprints, extra, 23028c Eggs dull and weak; Pennsylvania firsts, 2121c MINNEAPOLIS Recoipts ot wheat to-day, 206 cars and shipments, 72 cars. Duluth re ceipts. 345 cars. There was a good demand for selections ot No. 2 Northern that would be No. 1 Northern, exeepting for the defective kernels. The early inquiry was mainly for selection of different grades, but were offered at prices that met buyers' views: all sorts of wheat were taken, either for milling, carrying, shipping or for mixing. The closing quotations were: No. 1 hard, September, Sroi; on track, $1 02:'No. 1 Northern. September, 95:: October. 96c: De-' cember. 98c: on track. 9697c: No. 2 North ern, September, 91c; on trace, 92Q94C CINCINNATI Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat (lull; No. 2 red, 98c Corn in good de mand: No. .2 mixed, 51c Oats stronger; N-. 2niixeil, 8ieSSc. Kye "Mree and firm; No. 2.07c Prfc firm- at 810 75. Lard acilvo and firm at 16 10. Bulkrqeats stronger: short rib. So 505 62. Bacon firm. Butter steady. Sugar steady. Eggs strong and higher at 16 16Vc Cheese firm. MILWAUKEE-Flour quiet. Wheat Ann; No. 2 spring, on track, cash, 9o56c; December,' 88c: No. 1 Northern. 99c Corn steady; No. 3, on track. 48c Oats firm; No. 2 white, on track. 3939c Barley Arm; No. 2. in store. 67c Rye firm; No. L in store. 67c Provision easier. Pork-January", SU to. Lard-January, S5 67. BALTIMORE Wheat-Western quietNo. 2 winter, red. spot and September. SJKgilTMc; October. 98Ho bid; December. SI 071 18. Corn Western easy: miiert. suot and September, 5Cc bid: October, oioic; year, 51 bid. Oats firmer. Rye steadv. Hay quiet. Provisions firm. Butter weak. Creamery fancy, 2021c; d.fair to choice. lo19c: do imi tation. 13I5c; ladle fancy, 1213; do good to choice. 10llc; store packed, 8lla Eggs firm, demand 1020c. Coffee firm. TOLEDO Wheat active and firmer: cash and September. 97?ic: December, SI 02; May, 8107JJ. Corn dull; cash. 50c; May, 49Jc. Oats quiet; cash, 33c Clorerecrt active and lower; cash and October, St 30; December, $4 35. t LSw IJ&j "Mr. Max Klecj For medicinal use X order your "Silver Age," and as an alcoholla stimulantit gives perfect satisfaction. "Yours very truly? D. F. MC1NTOSH.M.D., J23-JIW? "Sharpsburg, Pa." WHOLESALE -:- HOUSE, Embroidery and White Goods Department-, direct importation from the best manufac turers of St. Gall, in Swiss and Cambric Edg. lngs, Flouncings, Skirt Widths and Allovers. Hemstitched Edgings and Flouncings. Buyers will rind these goods attractive both in pnes 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. , Toil Du Nords, Chalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck ers, Imperial Suitings Heather & Renfrew Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr Ginghams. "Wholesale Exclusively. jal3-P BROKER FINANCIAL. Whitney & Stephenson, 57 Fourth Avenue. myj JOHN M. OAKLEY & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS. Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Petroleum Private wire to New York and Chicago, 45 SIXTH ST PltUburs. mv29-SJ alEDICAi. DOCTOR WHITT.ER 814 PEN.1 AVKNUE. PITTSBURG. FA. ?As old residents know and back files of Pitt burg papers piove, is the oldest establisha and most prominent physician in the city, de voting special attention to all chronic diseases. Fromrespon-MnrrrilMTII PIIDLTI sible personal lUTLi-im I IL.UUIIL.L MLDni Ifw and mental diseases, physical iMCn V UUO decay.nervous debility, lack of energy, ambition and hope, impaired memory, disordered sight, self distrust, bashfulness. dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, im poverished blood, failing powers, organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, un fitting the person for business, society and mar riage, permanently, safely and privately cured. 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Joseph Fleming Son, Wholesale Druggists and General Agents, -Pittsburg, Pa. WDr. A. A. Beardslee; Allegheny City, Fa wri'es: One box of Email's Magic Balm com pletely enred ma of Itching piles, alter ten, years' suffering. 1 doctored with the best phy sicians In Philadelphia and New York without relief. F. A. Rockwood, Cleveland. Ohio, March 2 1587, writes: "I suffered t r over 20 years wits' itching ami bleeding pile, ortmi at Bight I wus In Midi d.siress i could not sleep. I used numeroui salves, ointments, eta, alt without the least benefit, until Vr. Email's Magic Balm, was recommended for piles. The first aprjliea tlon gavo Instant relief, nd one box cured. me." M7-ocw7a? JOSEPH HORNE & CO. iiiitgjl!iifljiifiliji11 1 '11 21 r7
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