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THE. PITTSBURG DISPATCH; MONDAY, ' mM0H ' 2,' 1891
AMERICA'S BIG' EVIL
Second of llie Series of Sermons Upon
the Cities' Ten Plasties.
A5 ATTACK UPON IKTEMPECAXCE,
With a Stronc Appeal to tbe Churches to
Arouse to Action.
DMXKIXG BTEADIM OX THE IXCEEASK
frKCIAX. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Sew Yoke, March 1. Dr. Talmage con
tinued to-dav the series of sermons he com
menced last Sunday on the "Ten Plagues of
New York and the Adjacent Cities." The
plague which he places second on tbe list is
intemperance, and on that subject he dis
coursed this morning in the Academy of
Music, Brcoklvn, and this evening in New
York. At the close of the service in the
New Yort Academy of Music, Dr. Talmage
went over to the Union Square Theater,
where his son, Mr. Frank DeWitt Talmage,
was holding an over-flowing meeting, and
briefly addressed the crowded house. Tbe
text of the Doctor's sermon was taken from
Genctii ix.20, 21: "Noah planted a vine
yard; umi he drank of the wine and was
drunken."
This "oah did the best and the worst thine
for tbe world. He built an ark against tbo de
luge of water, but introduced a deluge against
which th. human race has ever since been try
ing v ".id an ark the deluge of drunkenness.
In my texr we near his staggering stops, fchem
and Japhet tried to cover up the disgrace, hut
there he is, drunk on w ine at a time in the his
tory of tbe world when, to say the least, there
wano lack of water. Inebriation, having en
tered the world, lias noijretrcated. Abigail,
the lair and heroic wife, whti t.avcd the flock
of NabaL her husband, from confiscation
by invaders, goes home at night and
finds him so intoxicated sho cinnottcll bitn the
story of his narrow esiapc. Uriah came to ce
Dai id, and David cot him drunk, and paved
tbe way for the despoliation of a household.
Even tbe church bishops needed to be charged
to be sober and not given to too much wine, and
m familiar were people of Bible times witn tbe
stagcering and falling motion of tbe inebriate,
that Isaiah, when becomes to describe the final
dislocation of worlds saj: ,lho earth stall
reel to and fro like .1 drunkard."
Ever since annles and grapes and wheat
rrcw the world has been tctupted tounhcalth
fnl stimulant's. But tbe intoxicants of tbe
olden time were an innocent beverage, a
harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup, a peaceful
sodi water, as compared with the liquids of
modern inebriation, into uhich a madness, and
a fury, and a Rloora, a'id a lire, and a suicide,
una a retribution bale mixed and mingled.
Fermentation was always known, but it uas
not until a thousand lears after Christ that dis
tillation was invented. While wo must confess
that ome of tbe ancient arts have been
ln.t. the Christian era is superior to
all others in the bad eminence
of whisky and rum and gin. The modern
drank is a hundred fold worse than tbe ancient
drunk. Noah, in his intoxication, became irn
lecile. but the victims of modern alcoholism
have to strutrclc with whole menageries of wild
beasts and j unfiles if hising serpents and per
ditions of blasnhcming demons. An arch fiend
arrived in our viorid, and he built an invisible
caldron of temptation. He built that cal
dron strong and stout for all ages and all
naions. First be squeezed into tbe caldron
tbe juice of tbe forbidden fruit of Paraditc.
Then he gathered for it a distillation from tho
harvest fields and the orchards of the hemi:
pherts. Dad Ingredients Without Xumber.
Then he poured into this caldron capsicum,
and conperas, and logwood, and deadly night
shade, and as-ault and battery, and vitriol, and
opium, and rum and murder, and sulphuric
acid, and thelt, and potash and cochineal, and
red carrots, and poverty, and death and hops.
But it was a drj compound, and it must be
moistened, and it must be llqnehed. and so the
arch-fiend poured into thai caldron the tears
fif centuries of orphanage and widowhood, and
he poured in tbe blood of 20.00(1 assassinations.
.And then the arch fiend took up a shovel that
he had brought up from the furnaces beneath,
and he put tbat sbovel into tins great caldron
and began to stir, and the caldron began to
heave, and rock, and boil, and sputter, and hiss,
and smoke, and the nations gathered around it
ui:h curs and tankards and demijohns and
kegs, and there was enough for all. and the
arch-fiend cried: "Aha! champion fiend-am "
Who has done more than I have for coffins
and graveyards and prisons and insane asy
lums, and tbe populating of the lost world?
And when this caldron is emptied I'll fill it
again, and I'll silr it again, and it will smoko
again, and tbat smoke will join another smoke
the smokn of a torment that ascendeth tor
ever and ever. I drove 50 ships ou tbe rocks of
Newfoundland and the Skerries and the Good
wins. I have ruined more Senators than gather
tins winter in tbe national councils. I have
ruined more lords than are now gathered in the
House of Peers.
The cup out of which I ordinarily drink is a
bleached human skull, and the upbolsterv of
my palace is rich .a crimson because it isdyed
in human gore, and the mosaic of my floors is
made up ot the bones of children dashed to
death by drunken parents, and my favorite
music sweeter than Te Dnura or triumphal
march my faiorite music is the cry of daugh
ters turned out at midnight on the street be
cause father has come homo from the carousal.
and the seven-bundred-voiced shriek of tho
sinking steamer, because the captain was not
himself when he put the ship on the wrong
course. Cnamp'.on fiend am 1 1 I have kindled
more fires. 1 have wrung out more agonies. 1
hare stretched out more midnight shadows I
haie opened more Golgothas, 1 have rolled
more Juggernauts, I have damned more souls
than any other emissary of diabolism. Cham
pion fiend am 1 :"'
Greatest Dill of the Time.
Drunkenness Is tbe greatest evil of this na
tion, and it takes no logical process to prove to
this audience that a drunken nation cannot
long be a free nation. I call your attention to
the fact tbat drunkenness is not subsiding, cer
tainly that it is not at a standstill, but that it is
on an onward march, and it is a double-quick.
There is more rum swallowed in this country,
and of a worse kind, than was ever swallowoa
since tbe tint distillery began its work of death.
Wheie there was one drunken home there are
ten drunken homes. Where there was one
drunkard's grave there are 2u drunkards'
grave-. It is on the increase. Talk about
crooked whisky by which men mean the
whitky that does not nay the tax to Govern
ment 1 tell jou all strong drink is crooked.
Cloaked Otaid, crooked Cognac, crooked
schnapps, crooked beer, crooked wine, crooked
whisk berSU"-c it makes a man's path crooked,
and his death crooked, and his eternity
crooked.
If I could gather all the armies ot the dead
drunkards and have them come to resurrection,
and then add to that host all the armies of liv
ing drunkards, fiic and ten abreast, aud then it
1 could have you mount a horse and ride along
that line for review, you would ride that horse
until he dropped from exhaustion, and you
would mount another horse and ride until he
fell from exhaustion, and you would take an
other and another, and you would ride along
liuui .1111.-1 uuui, iii.u uay aiier uay, ireat uost,
in regiments, in brigades. Great armies of
them. And then if jou had voice stentorian
enough to make .hem all bear, and you could
give the command, "Forward, march!" their
first tramp would make the earth tremble, I do
not care which way you look in the community
to-day, tbe evil is increasing.
I call attention to the fact that there are
thousands of people born with a thirst for
strong dtink 4 fact too often ignored. Along
some ancestral lines there runs the river of
temptation. There are children whose (-waddling
clothes are torn oil the shroud of death.
Many a father has made a will of this sort: "In
the name of God, amen. I bequeath to my
children niv houses and lands and estate: share
and share shall they alike. Hereto 1 affix my
hand and seal in tbe presence of witnesses."
Aud jet perhaps that very man has made
another will that the people nave never read,
and that has not been proved in the courts.
That will put in writing would read something
like this: "In the name of disease and appetito
and death, amen. I bequeath to my children
my evil habits, inr tankards shall be theirs, my
wmecup shall be theirs, my destroyed repu
tation bhall he theirs. Share and share alike
shall they In the infamy. Hereto I affix my
hand aud seal m tbe presence of all tbe ap
plauding harpies of helL"
The Expenditure of Money.
Gather up the money that tbe working classes
hat e spent for rum during the last SO years and
I will build tor every workingman a house and
laj out for him a garden, and clothe his sons in
broadcloth and bis daughters in silks, and
ttandat bis front door a prancing span of sor
rels or bays, and tecuro him a polfcy ot life in
surance so that tho present home mav be well
maintained ficr he is dead. The most per
Fistent. most overpowering enemy of the work
ing classes is IntoncaMng liquor. It is the An
archist of the centuries, and has boycotted, and
la now boycotting the body and mind and soul
of American labor. It annually swindles
industry out of a large percentage of
its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicita
tions to the mechanic or operative on his way
to work, ana at the noon-spell, and on his way
borne at eventide. On Saturday, when the
wages are paid. It snatches a large part of the
money tbat might come to tbe family and sac--rifloes
it amoag the saloonkeepers. Stand the
saloons ot this countryside by side, and ft is
carefully estimated tbat they would reach from
.New Yo"rk to Chicago.
This evil Is pouring its vitriolic and damnable
liquors down tbe throats of hundreds ot thou
sands ot laborer;, and while the ordinary
strikes are ruinous both to emplOTers and em
ployees, I proclaim a universal strike against
strong drink, which strike, if kept up, will be
the relief of the working classes and tbe salva
tion of tbe nation. I will undertake to sav that
there is not a healthy laborer in the United
States who. within the next SO years, it he will
refuse ail intoxicating beverages and be sav
ing, may not become a capitalist on a small
scale.
Oh. how many are waiting to see If something
cannot be done for tbe stopping of intemper
ance, auousanusnt uruuKarus waning woo
cannot go ten minutes in any direction without
having the temptation glaring before their eyes
or appealing to their nostrils, ther fighting
against it with enreebled will and diseased ap
petite, conquering, then surrendering, con
quering again and surrendering again, and
crying: "How long, oh! Lord, how long before
these infamous solicitations shall be gone."
And bow many mothers are waiting to see If
this national curse cannot lift. Ob, is tbat tbo
boy who had tho honest breath who cnme
home with breath vitiated or disguised? What
a change! How quickly those habits of early
coming homo have been exchanged for the rat
tling of the night key in the door long after the
last watchman has gone by and tried to see
that everything was closed up for tho night.
Duty of the Churches.
The Protestant and I toman Catholic Churches
to-day stand side by side with an impotent
look, gazing on this evil, which costs this coun
try more than Sl.000.000,000 a year to take care
of the 800.000 panpers, and the 315,000 criminals,
and tho 30.000 idiots, and to bury the 75,000
drunkards. Protagoras boasted that out of
the CO rears of his life -10 years he had spent in
ruining youth; but this evil mav make tbe more
infamous boast that all its life "it has been ruin
ing the bodies, minds and souls of tbo human
race.
Put on vonr spectacles and take a candle.
and examino the platforms of tne two leading
political parties of this country, and see what
they are doing for the arrest of this evil and
for the overthrow of this abomination. Reso
lutions oh! yes. resolutions about Mormonisml
It is safe to attack that organized nastiness
two thousand miles away. But not one resolu
tion against drunkenness, which would turn
this entire nation into one bestial Sale Lake
City. Resolutions against political corruption,
but not one word about drunkennes. which
would rot this nation from scalp to heel. Reso
lutions about protection against competition
wl h foreign Industrie', but not one word about
protection ot family and church and nation
against the scalding., blasting, all-consuming
damumg tariff ot strong drink put upon every
financial, individual, spiritual, moral, national
interest.
1 loot in another direction. The Church or
God is tbe grandest and most glorious institu
tion on earth. What has it in solid pbalanx
accomplished for the overthrow ot drunken
iiess? Have its forces ever been marshaled?
No. not in this direction. 2Jot long ago a great
ecclesiastical court assembled In Now York
and resolutions arraigning strong drink were
uucieo, anu clergymen witn strong ctnnKon
their tables and strong drink in their cellars de
feated the resolutions by threatening speeches.
They could not bear to give up their own lusts.
Itell this audience what many of voumaynever
have thought of, that to-day not'in the millen
nium, but to-day the Church holds tho balance
Of power in America: and ir Christian people
the men anil tbo uonien who profess to love the
Lord Jesus Christ and to love purity and to be
the sworn enemies of all uncleanness and de
bauchery and sin if all such would march side
by side and shoulder to shouloer this evil
would soon be overthrown. Tbi-k of three
hundred thousand churches and Sunday schools
in Christendom marching shoulder to shoulder!
How very short a time it would take them to
put down this evil, if all tbe churches of God,
transatlantic and cisatlantic, were armed on
this subject!
FEATUfiES OF" TRADE.
rirst Arrival of Fruit From Gult of Mexico
This tVeek Dairy Products Tend. Up
ward Receipts of Grain and nay
Light and Demand Also Light.
OFFICE OF FrrTSBUEG DISPATCH,
Saturday. Feb. 2s. j
In Produce Lines.
Among the features of the past week has
been the arrival ot new strawberries and cu
cumbers from the Gult of Mexico These first
arrivals are somewhat ahead of tbe average
time, a fact no doubt due to tbe mild winter. In
the line of dairy prodncts .prices are steadily
hardening ot late, especially for high grade
creamery butter and good cheese. Stocks are
very light in the hands of jobbers, and pros
pects are good for further advances in price.
New York prices of Elgin creamery butter and
fresh eggs have been below those of Pittsburg
for several days past, whereas tbe difference is
usually tbo other way. .Fresh eggs have been
higher in Pittsburg tne past few days than any
where else in tbo land. In Cincinnati aud St,
Louis the jobbing price has ruled 3c to 4c per
dozen lower than here. This has been partlv
due to the floods in the Ohio Valley, whence
a large part of our supplies come. Large quan
tities are awaiting the first opportunity of ship
ment, and there will no doubt be plenty the
coming week and lower prices.
But as to choice dairy products, there is no
fear of an over supply, and tbe drift is sure to
be toward higher prices. There has beon a
good movement of potatoes the past week at
outside quotation?. In other lines of vegetables
the situation has been favorable to the buver.
Cabbage and onions are particularly quiet. The
same is truo of apples. The high price of ap
ples has very much curtailed demand. With
tropical fruits so abundant and low as they
have been the past winter, there has been a
very light consumption of tbe dear domestic
article.
Cereals and Groceries.
It will be seen by reference to domestic mar
ket column tbat receipts of cereals have been
light tho past week. Demand has been also
light, but priceB are firm with corn and oats
higher than tbey were a week ago. There has
been little life to bidding at the Gram Ex
change,tbougb stuff has been offered at prices as
low as at sources of supply. Since the stoppage
of street improvements by the decision of
courts, the retail trade has perceptibly de
clined. Retailers are evidently buying only to
supply immediate wants. The feature of tho
week in grocery lines has been tbe upward
movement ot sugar. At the beginning of the
month the general expectation was that prices
would steadily move downward until April 1,
when snear goes onto the free list. And in
this expectation jobbers were carrying light
stocks. Now it xceins there is danger of a
scarcity the coming month, and hence prices
are tending higher. Green coffee advanced o
per pound the past week in Eastern markets,
but tbe advance fails to reach tho roasted arti
cle as jet.
Package coffee is relatively 1c per pound
lower thin tbe green article. The pork pack
ers of the city agreed on a redaction of c on
hams, and Kc oft bacon, shoulders and sides
at their regular meeting to-day.
The Illda Market.
Tho stronger tone to light hide market noted
aueekago. has developed Into an advance of
lie per pound, and our quotations are advanced
accordingly. Steer hides are fairly steady, but
prices are unchanged. The same is true ot
calfskins.
Following are prices paid by tanners and hide
dealers:
No. 1 green salted steers, CS pounds and
over 7JJ
o 1 green salted cons, all weights &
io. 1 preen salted hides 40 to 60 pounds.. 5
No. 1 green salted hides, 25 to 40 pounds.. 5!
No. 1 irreen salted bulls S.
Jo. 1 xreiu malted callklns 7
Ao. 1 preen salted veal kips. 5
Io. 1 jrrccn sailed runner Mps 3
So. 1 jtreeu teerb. ,o pounds and over.... 7
Ao. 1 preen cows. allweUhls 44
'o. I preen bulls 4
Jo. I preen lildrs. Ji to B0 pound's 414
No. 1 erecu hides. Zitottnounds 4W
o. 1 preen callsLlus 6
So. 1 preen veal Lips. each 03
No. 1 preen runner kips, each CO
bheepskilis 15c3l2D
'iallow, prime 4
These prices subject to cliaupe without notice.
Kcductlun lor No. 2 stock Uc per pound on steers
and Ilpht hides: lc ou bulls aud 2c on calfskins.
Leather.
The Chicago Shoe and Leather Beview has
this to say of the situation:
There is noticeable a decided improvement
in and about the leather marts of trade. Tan
ners and dealers aro comparatively happy, and
co about tbe streets not as mourners, but with
an independent, go-as-you-please sort of an air.
The replies to trade-paper interviewers are not
as long drawn out as formerly, but crisp and
to the point. "Trade Is fairly good," they say;
"there is more inquiry and more goods moving
every day than has been the case since the new
year came in. Prices are firm and there is less
disposition to beat down, and tbe outlook is
quite eucouraging for future business."
Oil Markets.
New Yokk. Fell. Lb. Petroleum ws neg
lected and cut a transaction in either cash or
options. Brokers hid 75Jc for March option at
one time, hut thi-re were no offers.
BnAirroRD. Feb. 28. National Transit Cer
tificates opened at ToJc: closed at 76Jc;
highest. 76Kc; lowest, 5ic; clearances. 29S.U00
barrels.
Olt, City. Feb. 28. National Transit Cer
tiflcates opened at75Jic; hiebeit.76:: lowest,
75J4c; closed. 7&Kc; sales, 251,000 barrels; clear
ances, 62,000 barrels; charters, 162.697 barrels;
shipments, 81.023 barrels; runs, 111,816 barrels.
Metal Market.
New York Pig iron steady, .quiet; Amer
ican, 5 60QI7 6a
Special To Let Lists This Horning.
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
A. Quiet Close to a Quiet Uontb. in
Country Produce Lines.
BDTTER AKD EGGS STILL FIKM.
Corn and Oats Are Tending- Upward at
Sources of Scpply.
nOG PRODUCTS FIND A LOWER LETEIi
OFFICE OF FlTTSBUEQ DISPATCH, 1
SATDKDAT, Feb. 28.
Country Produce Jobbing Prices.
February wound up its careor in a storm, but
trade was quiet in lines of country produce.
Usually tho short month is the dull month of
the year, and there is no exception to tho rule
this year. Commission merchants all report
slow trade for the past few weeks. The recent
cold wave has checked the slownward move
ment of eggs and markets are firm at outside
quotations. There will, no doubt, be plenty in
tbe market and lower prices in tho next few
days. Advices from the West point to higher
prices for creamery butter the coming week.
Tho stock or choice grades of cbeese Is very
lichtin the bands of jobbers and an advance is
looked for at an early day. Tropical fruits
show an upward tendency tho past few days.
Oranges and lemons are a shado higher. All
things in the vegetablo line go slow, with tbo
exception of potatoes, which are active and
firm.
Apples ti 506 50 a barrel.
Butter Creamery. Elcin. 3233c: Ohio do,
27028c; common country butter, lu15c; choico
country rolls, lS20c; fancy country rolls, 23
25c
Beans New crop beans, navy. 52 302 35;
marrows. J2 332 40; Lima beans. 5S6a
Beeswax 2830c?l lb for choice; low grade,
222oc
Cider Sand refined, $10 0012 00; common.
to 506 00; crab cider. S10 O0S11 OU 1 barrel;
cider vinegar. ll15c V gallon.
Cheese Ohio cheese, fall make, lie; New
York cheese, llUc: Litnburger. 13X14e;
domestic Hweilzer, 11015c; Wisconsin brick
Swcitzor. 15c; imported Sweltzer. 2GKc
Cranberries Cape Cod, $3 751 00 a box;
11 5015112 00 a barrel; Jerseys, S3 GU3 75 a box;
Sll 001I 50 a barrel.
Drkssed Hogs Largo, 45c ft; small.
56c
Kqgs I718c for strictly fresh.
Featuers Extra live ireese, 5(60c; No. L
4045o; mixed lots, 304f35c ft.
11ojky New cron white elovcr. 2022c W ft;
California honey, l"15c J ft.
MArtE SYRnr New. WkGSl 00 p gallon.
New Maple Sugar 10c $ E.
Nuts She! bark hickory nuts J150l 75 a
bushel: peanuts, SI 501 75, roasted: green, i
J6o p ft: pecans, I6c S ft; new French walnuts,
710c V to.
Poultry Alive Chickens, 7590c a pair;
turkevs, 1213c a nound; ducks. 8090c a pair;
geese," choice. $1 00 a pair. Dressed Turkeys,
i6S17capound:dncks.H15capouud; chickens,
1415c: geese, DjJIOc.
Tallow Country, 4c; city rendered, 5c
Seeds Recleaned Western clover. SI OOfi)
6 15; limolhy. SI 50I 55; blue crass, 82 853 00;
nrchatd grass, SI 85; millet, 7590c; lawn grass,
25c lb.
Tropical Fruits Lemons, $3 50; fancy,
S4 00; Jamaica oranges.JOgG 50 a barrel; Messina
nrances. S2 503 00 a bjx: Florida oranges,$3 CO
3 50 a box; bananas, fl 75 firsts. SI 25 good
seconds, fl bunch: Malaga grapes. S7 O0U12 50 a
halt barrel, according to quality; figs, 1516c V
Jb: dates, 4KHic $ ft.
Vegetables Poutoes,$l 10ffll20 $ bushel;
Jersey, S3 5003 75; cabbace, t34 f? hundred;
German cabbaee,J12)13;onions.S4 0Uffl4 25fl bar
rel; celery, 75cSl O0adozenbunches:parsnips,
35c a dozen: carrots, 35c a dozen; parsley, 15c a
dozen: horseradish, 507oc a dozen; turnips,
75cSl fl barrel.
Groceries.
Sugars are very firm at the recent advance.
Green coffees aro higher in the East, hut
roasted coffee fails to respond to tbe upward
movement. The upward movement awaits the
action of one or two leading firms, bnt must
come before lone. Tbe movement of groceries
is slow as it always is immediately prior to
monthly settlements.
Green Coffee Fancy, 2425c; choice
Rio, 22K23j;c: prime Rio. 23c; low grade Rio,
20H21Kc; old Government Java. 2930c;
Maracaibo, 25K27Kc; Mocha. 30S2c: Santos,
222Gc; Caracas, 25027c; La Guayra, 2b27c
Roasted (in papers) Standard brands,24Jc;
high grades, 2730c: old Government Java,
bulk. 3133Kc: Maracaibo. 282Uc; Santos, 2C
30c; peaberrv, 30c: choice Rio. 25Xc; prime Rio,
Z4c; trood mo. Z3$c: oruinarv, zi&zzc
hncES (whole) Cloves, 1516c: allspice, 10c;
cassia, 8c; pepper, 13c; nutmeg, 75S0c
Petroleum (jobbers prices) 110 test, 7ic;
Ohio, 120. SK headlight, lo0, 8c; water
white. 1010c; globe, 1414Kc; elaine. 15c;
caruadine, llc; royaline, 14c; red oil, Ullc;
purity, 14c: olelne, lie
Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained, S9llc
$t gallon: summer. S335c; lard oil, 555Sc
Syrup Corn syrup, 2730c; choice snear
syrup, 3136c; prime sugar syrup, 3233c:
strictly prune, 3I3oc.
N. O. Molasses Fancy, now crop, 42c:
choice, SS40c; medium, 3336c; mixed, 34
36c
Soda Bi-carb in kegs. 3KS3Jic; bi-carb in
Ks. 5?ic: bi-carh, assorted packages, 56c; sal
soda, in kegs, l$c; do granulated, 2c
Candles btar, lull weight, 9c; stearine, $
set, 8r: paraffiue, Il12c
Hici; Head Carolina, 7lr: choice, 6
65c; prime. CgOJjC; Louisiana, 5ji6c
isTARcn Pearl, 3c, com starch, 66c;
gloss starch, 67c
Foreign Fruits Laver raisins. 2 Co: Lon-
don layers, S2 75; Muscatels, 2 25: California
Muscatels. J2 152 25: Valencia. 77Vc; Ondara
Valencia, SVsjc: sultana. !S20c; currants,
55Kc: Turkey prunes, TJJSSc: French prunes,
10K(llKc: Kalonica prunes, in 2-ft packaces,9c;
cocoaouts. 100. ?6: almondsy Lan., fl ft, 20c;
do Ivica, 17c: do shelled, 40c; walnnts, nap., 13
14c; Sicilv filberts, 12c: Smyrna figs, 1314c:
new dates, 566c: Brazil nuts, 18c; pecans. 14
llic: citron. 1 ft, 17fi'lSc; lemon peel, 12c fl ft;
orange peel, I2c.
Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft, lie;
apples, evaporated. 1415c; peaches, evapo
rated, pared, 2SQ30c: peaches. California, evap
orated, unpared, lSii21c: cherries, pitted. 31c;
cherries, unpitted. 1313c raft. berries' evap
orated, 3233c: blackberries, lI0c; huckle
berries. i5c.
Sugars Cubes. 7Kc; powdered, 7c; granu
lated, 6c; confectioners' A, 6c; standard A,
u?2 cull, nunc, V74!vgi . jciiuw, cnoice. KHQi
CHc: yellow, good. oJj5K-; yellow, fair, 6
5Jic; yllow. dark. bbic
Pickles Medium, bhls (1,200), ES 00; me
dium, half bbls (000). 1 50.
Salt No. 1 fl bbl. SI 00. No. 1 ex. V bbl,
$1 10: dairy. V bbl, $1 20: coarse crystal. bbl,
SI 3): Higgins' Eureka, 1-hu sacks, 82 80; Hlg
glns' Eureka, 10-11 fi packets, S3 00.
Caused Goods Standard peaches, f2 SOS)
2 00; 2nd. f2J02 CO; extra peaches. S3002
3 10: pie peaches, 1 85; finest corn. 1 3ol 60:
Hfd. Co. corn, 05c31 15; red cherries, 51 10
1 50: Lima beans, SI 35; soaked do. 80c: string
do, 756'JOc: marrowfat peas. SI 101 25; soaked
peas. &"75c; pineapples. $150IC0; Bahama
do, S2 55; damson plums. SI 10; greengages. SI 60;
eee plums, $2 20; California apricots, S2 25
250; California pears, (2 75: do greengages.
SI 90; do etrg plums, SI 90: extra white
cherries, $2 85; raspberries, SI 1001 16; straw
berries. SI 3001 10; gooseberries, SI 10(3)1 15;
tomatoes, 95c!l: salmon. 1-ft, $1 301 80; black
berries, SI 00; succotash, 2-S cans, soaked, 90c;
do green. 2-fi. SI 26I 60: corned beef. 2-fc cans,
SI 90; 1-ft cans, SI 00: based beans, SI 100 1 50:
lobter, lft, S2 25: mackerel. 1-ft cans, broiled.
Si 50; sardines, domestic. Jis, ti 501 60; sar
dines. d"metic is. $7 00: i-ardines lmnorted.
6J4 sott white, ciiBGJSc: yellow, choice.
4, Sll 50312 50; sardines, imported, jjs, SIS;
snrdines, mustard, SI 50: sardines, spiced, SI 25.
Fish Extra 'No. 1 bloater mackerel, J20 fl
bbl; extra No. 1 do mess; $2850; extra No. 1
mackerel, shore. $2100: No. 2 shore mackerel,
522: large 3's, $20: CodBsh Whole pollock, 5c
V ft; do medium, Geonre's cod, 5c; do large,
7c; boneless hakes. In strips, 5c; do George's
cod, in blocks, Gffl7Kc Herring Kound
shore, $5 50 bbl; siilu. Mi 50: lake, $3 25 ?1 100
ftbbl. Whltelish.S700IO0-ftbalf bbl. Lako
trout, S5 50 "fl half bbl. Finnan baddies, 10c $
ft. Iceland halibut. 13c f) ft. Pickerel, half
bbl. H 50: quarter bbl, SI 60. Holland herring,'
75c; Walkuff herrinc. 90c
Oatmeal $0 506 75 $? bbl.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
There were no sales on call at tho Orain Ex
change. Receipts as bulletined, 22 cars, of
which J2 cars were by PitlsDurg. Ft, Wayno
and Chicago Hallway, as follows: 1 car of
middlings, 1 of oats and rye, 1 of rye. 1 of bay,
1 of bran, 1 of flour. 3 of barley. By Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and St Louis, 4 cars of bay, 2 ot
bran. By Pittiburc and Lake Erie. 1 car of
bay, lot oats, lot wheat, lot flour. Receipts
for the week ending February 27, 1S91, 194 cars,
for the previous week, 205 cars; for tho corre
sponding week last year, 235. Cereal markets
remain essentially the same as at last report.
Prices are steady to firm. While corn and oats
are not quotably higher here, tbey are bizher
at sources of supply and It is only a question of
short time- when prices here must advance.
Prices lor carload lots on track:
Wheat-No. 2 red, II 0201 03; No. 3. 9793c
Corn No. 2 yellow shell, 6162c: high
mixed, 5960c: mixed shell, 57Q57Kc; No, 2
yellow ear, 6364c; hich mixed ear, 61661Xc;
mixed ear corn, 5959Kc
OATS No. 1, 63k54c; No. 2 white, 52K53c;
extra. No. 3, 50K51c: mixed oats, 4950c.
Btk No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 8889e;
No. L Western. 878Sc
Flour Jobblnc nrices Fancv snrinc and
,s winter patent flour, tS 75S8 00; fancy straight J
winter, $1 S55 15; fancy straight spring. H S5
25 15; clear winter. S175500: straight XXXX
bakers'. S01 75. Ryo flour, Ji 004 25.
Buckwheat flour. 2K3r $ ft.
MlLLFEEri No. 1 white middlings, S23 50
24 00 ft ton: No. 2 white middlings, S21 OOiJ
22 00; brown middlings, 820 50ffl21 00; winter
Wheat btan. 21 50ffi22 00.
Hay Baled tlmotbv. No. 1, 19 6009 75: No. 2
do, $8 50S9 00; loose from wagon. $11 00013 00,
according to quality: No. 2 prairie bay, $7 253
7 50; packing do. SO 757 00. ,
Straw Oat, J7 W)7 75: wheat and rye, J7 25
7 50. '
Provisions.
Hams are reduced c and breakfast bacon,
shoulders and sides Jc as our quotations will
disclose.
Sugar-cured hams, large, 8c; sugar-cured
hams, medium, 9c: sutrar-cured hams, small,
940; sugar-cured breakfast bacon. Sc; sugar
cured shoulders, 5c: sugar-cured boneless
shoulders, TJc: skinned shoulders. 7c; skinned
bams, 10jc; sugar-cured California hams, 6K;
sugar-cured dried beof flats, 9 sugar-cured
dried beef sets, 10c; sucar-cured dried beef
rounds, 12c; bacon, shoulders, 6c; bacon,
clear sides. 6Jfr: bacon, clear bellies. 6c; dry
salt shoulders, 5)c; dry salt clear sides. 5-c.
Mess pork, heavy. $11 50; mess pork, family.
$11 5a Lard Refined, in tierces, ojic; half
barrels, 5Kc; 60-ft tubs, 5c: 20-lb pails, (SKc:
50-lb tin cans. 5c; 3-ft tin pails. 6iic; 5-11) tin
pails, 6c; 10-ft tin pails, 6c Smoked sausage,
lone, 5c; larce, 5c Fresh pork links, 9c Bono
less bams, 10c Pigs feet, half-barrels, II 00;
quarter-barrels, $2 15.
NEW YORK STOCKS.
Pacific Mall and Burlington Again Drop,
the Latter to the Lowest Point for Ten
Tears The Share Market Other
wise Featureless.
New York, Feb. 28 Tbo stock market was
again dull aud stagnant for the general list,
but was relieved from entire monotony by tbe
bear movements in Pacific Mail and Burling
ton, which, however, monopolized all the inter
est taken In the dealings. Tbo room was In
clined to be bearish upon tbo expectation of a
material decrease lc tho surplus reserve in tbe
banks, as tbo statement to-day reflected all the
gold which has been exported. The statement,
however, was something of a disappointment,
as tbe loss was only about bait that anticipated,
and the expected decline did not follow, al
though its early publication gave ample oppor
tunity for such i demonstration had it been
deemed advisable.
The opening, however, was steady, but Bur
lington was selected for a vigorous assault, con
sidering tbe extent of the speculation and tbe
pressure actually forced it off per cent to
79 the lowest price the stock has seen in ten
years, and below the lowest point of the No
vember drop. The action of tbe House, in
amending the postal subsidv bill was regarded
as dangerous to tbe bill, and Pacific Mail was
knocked off after tbe opening from 38 to 37, a
partial recovery following.
Tbe rest of tbe market was absolutely devoid
of feature, though the Grangers sympathized
slightly in the wcaxness of Burlington. The
close was dnll and rather heavy, generally at
Insignificant fractions under first prices. The
final changes are of no importance, except in
Burlington, which is down , and Pacific Mail
'Ine follnwlnp table snows tne prices of active
stocks on the New York Slock Exchange yester
day. Corrected dally for THE Dispatch by
Whitxiy & STiCPHENSox. oldest ilttsburp mem
bers of the New York Mock Exchange, 57 Fourth
avenue:
ClOS.
Low- me
est. Bid.
20
4S
22J6
26JI 2Sf
7ni 764
.... 50J4
.... 1IC
29
18
4254 ti
79 79h
H S5)n
.... 112!
67 67
UM
83
106)4 106)4
Open, nieh
tne. est.
Am. Cotton Oil
Am. Cotton on orer... .... ....
Am. Cotton Oil Trust.
Atcb., Top. AH. F...,
Z7ii
70),
27H
T6J4
Canadian 1'icinc
Canada Southern
Central or NewJcrsey.
Central faclnc
Chesapeake & Ohio..,
Chicago Uas Trust. ...
C. Bar. Oulncv. ...
C Mil. St. faul.. .
:.. Mil. &. M. v.. Dr..
. 424
. 80U
. 5iH
42',
son
C. Kock 1. A 1. 67)4 7j
C. St. P.. il. & o
C. St. 1'.. M. ao. ni
C s. Nortnwestern. .. I06K
C. N. W.nt 133
1MV
C C. C. 1 6-JK eia C&
C. C C. & l.prer..... 95.U 03H 0li
Col. Coal & iron
Col. Hocklnc Valley
Chcs. Ohio 1st Drer.
Ches. Ohio 2d prer
Del.. Lack & West.... .137tf H7ji 13714
Del. & Hudson ,
Den. Jt Ulo Grande.... .... .... ....
Den.Altioiiraude.pl
K.T.. Vs. Jt Ua
Illinois Central
61H
4 fe
35
20
SI
31
J37
IU
18
59)4
SS
95
14
56V
111)4
14
90S
3SU
67
19
MK
M)i
51
36)4
lf
13)4
'
274
7I4
17)4
23)4
S7"4
IDS
390
ISM
74K
25
85
104
8.1)4
14)4
43H
Lake Erie ft West 14
unto Erie ft West Dr.. &64
Lasosnore 4t M. a... .111H
LoulsvIUeftNashvllle. li'i
II
S6t'
111)4
67
vix
36)4
sili
273
71,
iis'is
38)6
14
S6V
111)4
743,
3814
67
19
5i
36"
Micuteran central
MoDile ft Ohio 28)4
Missouri faclnc (7
National jieadTrusL.. 19
-N. I- C.XSU L....
N. Y L. 1H W 1SK
N. V., L. E.ft W. pd. ....
H. K. ftN. E. 36)4
N.i.. O. ft w
Norfolk ft Western
Norfolk: ft Western nr. 54!4
Nortbern raciflc 17)4
Northern I'aclnc of.. 7IJ
Ohio ft Mississippi
Oregon lmurovement. 20
Sl!
27S
71J4
28
37
PacineMall 3si
Fee, Dec. ft tvans
fullman Palace Car...
Richmond 4 W. P. T .
Aichmond ft W.F.'i.pi
St. faul ft Dulutn
St. Paul ft UulutD or..
St. P.. Minn, ft Man..
Suarar Trust.
Texas Paclnc
UnlonPaclPs
Wabash
Wabasu nrererrea
Western Union.
Wncellneft L. E.
l"H 18H
18)4
83Vi
144
45)4
is"
8114
32
83 M 8.1
UH 14t.
43 43)1
18)4 is '
1H 80f
32H 8l-7
72 72
18)4 Wi
IS'a
sou
31
71
1SX
14
43
Whectlufrftl..lc.Drer.. 1i
North American Co... 13)4
P.. C, C. ft St. L
P., C, C. ft St. L. pr
Closing Bond Quotations.
IT. S. 4s, ree. 120
V. S. 4. conn 121
M. K. IT. Uen.59.. 40K
Mutnul Union 6s. ..104
M.J. C. Int. Cert.. UGH
Northern Jrac. lsls.,115
Northern I'ac. ids.. 113
Nortliw't'n consol.136S$
Kortw'n deben'sSs.lO'M
Oregon & lTans. Os.
St.L41. il. Gen. 5s. 93
St.L. & b.jF.Uen.M.lG7
St. Paul consols 122
U.S. 4a, ree 101JS
u. a. 414s, conp 103
Pacific lis of '9-5 no
Louisiana stamped45 92
Missouri Gs
lenn. newset. 6s.. 103
Tenn. new set. 5a. ...103
Tenn. newset. Is.... 70y
uinaaa so. as vn;s
Central Pacific lsts. 108)jj
St. F, Chtttfe. lits.115
lx.. Pc L.G.Tr.Rs. 87K
Tx.. l'c K G.Tt.Kj. 32
jsen. a rt. K. jsb..u(
Den. IK. O. 4s 82Ji
I). tit. (i. Westlsts.
Erie MS 100
M. K.T. Oen. 6a.. 77
Union I'aclnc I9U...III1
Wt Shore lO-'W
Ulo Grande W. lsts. TCJs
Philadelphia Stocks.
Closlnjr quotations of Phlladelphli stocks, fur
nished bv Whltner i Stephenson, brokers. o. 57
Fourth avenue. .Members Mew Iotk stock Ex
change: Eld.
I'ennsvlvanla ttallroad. K
Kcarilns 16!
huffalo. Ncw.York and Philadelphia '3Ji
Lenlirh Vailev .10
Lenten f ftvijratton I7)
Philadelphia and Erie
.Nortnern Pacific common 'I7
Northern Pacific preferred ',.
Sale.
Astel.
51
16'4
iili
475?
30
I7K
Boston Stocks.
Atch. ft Top L.G.Ts 263 Kearsarjre.. 13
Boston 4 Albany.. ..203 Osceola..... 37K
C IJ. AQ 79ft liulncy 95
Pltcl.huricJt. Ik. ... 83 Santa Fe Copper.... 65
3faas. Central 19 Tamarack 145
-Mex. Cen. com :iJi Boston Land Co SK
X. Y. N. Ens. .... :-' San Diego Land Co. 21
Old Colony 1G7 West End Land Co. 21H
Wis. Cen. common. 20 Bell Telephone 14J
AlIouezM. Cu.(iiew) 27s Lamson Store S 2lJi
Atlantic 15 Water Powor VH
Boston & Mont 42 Centennial ;iilnlnr. 15Vj
Calumet & llecla....:J N. Ens. Telephone. 50H
Catalna 25 Butte Bost.copper 15H
Franklin 17
HOKE SECTJBITIES.
Electric Winds Up Weak and Neglected
Waiting for tho Promised Statement.
Interest In stock trading durine the week was
largely devo'ed to Electric, but toward tbe
close Philadelphia Gas came to the front and
claimed recognition as an active interest. Total
sales were S.7S7 shares, against 7.H02 tbe pre
vious week. Electric sold to ibe oxceut of 820
shares, while of Philadelphia Gas 1JS0 changed
hands. Tbe majority of changes, as compared
with the close of tbe previous Saturday, were
small trains.
Electric was dull and weak, both hare and In
tbe East, Saturday. There were no orders for
it. and no disposition to trade either way.
Everybody was waiting for the arrival of Mr.
WeBtinghouse and the aDpearaccd of the
promised statement. It is thought It will be
fortbcomlng on Monday or early in the week.
Confidence in tho stick seems to be somewhat
sluken, and quite a number ot early sub
scribe! s tn tlio preferred have sold our, Mit all
this maybe changed by the figures which will
be presented by tbe beail-ot'the cmnpanv.
There u as a nood demand in Philadelphia for
Philadelphia Gas Company stock, and orders
were sent here to buy jt. .There was no per
ceptible home inquiry. It closed steady. Sev
eral thousand shares of It have been sold here
within the last three or four days nearly all
on Eastern account.
Luster closed steady at tbe best figures of the
week, due to the division of tbe proposed is
sue of stock, which will be at S10. 1
Switch and Signal more than held its own
during tbe week, closing at the highest point
bid. This was due to tbe expectation .of an
early dividend, though upon what ground is
not known. ?
People's Pipeage was in demand and mater
ially stronger, advancing without sales be tween
two and three points. It has never passed a
dividend. There is one due in April.
Tbq Tractions shoved little change either.
way. There was the 'usual inaulry for bank
stocks, in gome eases at higher figures. In
surance interests'were neglected. Sales were:
Philadelphia Gas 200 shares at 13 50 at
ISVf 50 at 15 10 at 1 50 at 13.
Electric iu shares at UK.
After call 20 shares of Electric at 1 30 at
HK.10atllf.
Electric scrip S94 at 48. $400 at 60.
M. F. Hippie A Co. sold tp J. P. McCrea lot
No. 44 in the Baum Grove plan, on Centre ave
nue. Twentieth ward, 50x150 feet, for $3,500.
S. A. Xlickie & Co. sold to F. B. Lewis two
lots on Brushton avenue. Bank of Commerce
addition plan, 50x130 each, for 12, 400.
MWTEY MABKET.
February's Record Good Enough to Afford
Encouragement to Weak-Kneed People.
Taking it all in all and making necessary al
lowances for unfavorable influences coming
over from tbe old year, February made a good
record for business, and closed with a favora
ble outlook.
Yesterday's movements in financial circles
were characterized by a fair demand for loans,
plenty of cash to meet it, and a good run of
counter business, at which depositing was tbe
feature. Tbe last item reflects an excellent
condition of general trade. Interest rates
ruled steady at 0Q7 per cent on all classes of
loans.
The prospect of business expansion leads
some financiers to auticipate something of a
stringency in the money market during tbe
season. There is nothing uncomfortable about
this. It is better to have capital employed even
to the extent of tightness than be idle and
hawked about like common merchandise.
Saturday's exchanges'. J 1,953,357 66
Saturday's balances 4 59. Z3S 31
f.ichanres for week (five days) 11, 736, W9 08
Balances for week .
1.898. 2)1 43
Mxchanges for month
Balances for month
Kxchan jrcs for rebruary, 1891.
Balances for .February. 1890...,
49, 409, 793 02
8, 14a 793 79
!B,C4j,C77 02
8,974,193 83
MAEKETS BY WIRE.
X.ower Grain Markets in the Face of
Bullish Cables Reports of Damage
to the French Wheat Crop Re
peated Provisions Depressed.
CHICAGO Tbe cables came easier for wheat
from English sources, continental dispatches
were bullish in tone and the weather was cold.
Undor tbese influences there was a general de
sire to buy wheat when the market opened, and
quite a number of transactions were effected
at 07cfor Jlayat the first brush. Thi desire
to buy was immediately succeeded by efforts to
unload, and weakness took the place of
strength.
The leading futures ranged as follows, as cor
rected by John M. Oakley Co., 4a Sixth street,
members Chicago Board of Trade:
Open- High- low- Cloi-
Abticles. Inz. eat. eat. lng.
WHEAT, O.S
February 91 9( 8.1rf 3Si
May ST n Mifj tii
July. 93i V3.S KH S2.H
COUK. XO. 1
february H n 53' 3.1V
J1.1V X'i 56i S5M iH
JlIlT Wi M.'j I3!i 53J,
OATS. NO. J
May t, 8S GH tl4
June 47J,, K 46, A&H
July 43 J( 43)j 43i
MSS POKX.
Alarch 89 60 S9 63 9 52H V i-H
May 90 9 95 SKS 9 83
July 10:5 10 30 10 ny 10 17M
Lard.
March 362 5M 8 H 5 KM
May 5 67K 5 90 iW HI
July 610 eio emu 6 07K
Short Kins.
March 4 63 4 70 4J 4 62
Mar 4 Kii 4 Viy, 4 85 4 S7i
July. 310 5 ZO 5 K 5 15
Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour firm; winter patents, $4 005 00; spring
patents, $4 601 90; bakers. S3 303 75; No. 2
Sonne wheat. 93J91X" No. 3 soring wheat,
8786c; No. 2 red, 96c: No. 2 corn. 5AKc:
No.2 oats, 46c: No. 2 rye, S6c: No. 2 barley
nominal; No. 1 flaxseed, SI 20; prime timothv
seed, SI 251 28. Mess pork, per bbl. SS 50
9 55. Lard, per 100 lbs. So 62 Short rib sides
(loose). SI 554 65; dry salted snoulders (boxed),
S3 954 05; short clear sides (boxed), SI 804 9a
Sugars unchanged. No.2 white oats, 4718c;
no. o wane, iofcic; no. 3 uaney, 1. o. a..
6171e: No. 4, f. o. h., 6361c. On tho Produce
Exchance to-day the butter market was firmer;
extra creamery. 2S29c; extra firsts, 2o26c;
firsts. 2123c: extra dairy, 24026c: extra hrsts,
2022c; firsts, I618c Eggs, 15ai6Kc
NEW YORK Flour dull and unchanged
Cornmeal dull; yellow Western, $2 S53 35.
Wheat None spot: spot market dull and
weaker; No. 2 red, SI 1001 10Vi in elevator;
SI HJi afloat: SI 111 12J f.o.b.: No. 3 red,
n0il4lO5H: No. 1 Northern, 81 17K: No.
1 hard, SI 201 21. Options early advanced
Ji4c on foreign buying, declined Kc on
realizing, closed weak; No. 2 red
March, SI 091 10. closing SI 09 May,
SI 05 15-161 06 916, closing at SI 06;
June. SI 03?iJl 0li. closing at SI 03?i: July,
SI 00 13-16SI 00, closine at 1 00: Aurust. V6
97c, closing at 96jc: September, BS14Q
97Kc doling at 96Jc; December. 98?;JSKc.
closing at 9SJc Rye quiet, nominal. Barley
quiet and easy: No. 2 Milwaukee, 8082c;
ungraded Western, 7781c. Barley malt nom
inal; Canada country made, 11 001 15. Corn
Spot market weaker; moderate business; No.
2, 65c elevator. C5K66c afloat; un
eroded mired, 6466ic; steamer mixed,
6l865c; No. 3, e3c-. options dull l,eM
lower and weak; .March, &Jg64c closing at
64c; May. 6162c, closing at 62c: June. 60
gtSlc, closing at 60c: July. 6o60c,
closing at 60c Oats Spot market dull
and weaker; options dnll, heavy and lower;
May, 53Hc. cloiine at 53Kc: Julv, G2Jc;
spnt No. 2 white. 51?i55c: mixed Western.
6356c: white do. 556.!c: No. 2 Chicago, 56c.
Hav dull and weak: shipping, 40c; good to
choice, 5560c Hops quiet and easy; State,
common to choice, 2231c; Pacific coast, 22
31c. Tallow quiet and firm; city, 411.16c
Eggs firm, fair demand; Western, ISSlSKc
Hides firm and qniet; wet alted New Orleans
selected, 45 to 75 pounds, 78c; Texas selected,
60 to CO uounds, 6Sc. Pork steady; moderate
demand; old mess, SO 2510 00; new mess, 81050
11 00: extra prime. 9 O09 50. Cm-meats in
active and steady; middles quietand easy. Lard
about steady and dull: Western steam, 8 00;
March. 85 97 bid; Anril. S6 01 bid; May. S6 09:
July, S6 31 asked. Butter good demand and
firm: Western dalrv. 1423c; do creamery,
2231c: do factory. ll23c;EI:in. 32c Cbeese
stronc; wanted; light skims, 59Uc; Ohio flats,
810Kc.
ST. LOUIS Flonr firm and quiet. Wheat
opened Arm at Qc up, but immediately
started down rapidly and became panicky near
the close, last sales being SWifJSKc lower than
Friday: No.2 red. cash 9697c; Slav. 9797c,
closing at 9797c asked; July, '87K87c,
closing at 87Ko hid; August, 85t!6Hc, ch.s
ing at 85c Corn was quiet to steady and
He higher at the opening, but quickly weak
ened, and prices gradually gave way till tbo
close, which was o lower than yester
day; No. 2, cisb. 52H52Jc: May. 72$73c;
July, 51KK52lc closing 51J51c bid. Oars
weifc ami lower; No. 2 casu, 46c; May, 47
47c, closing at 47c Rye in demand and
higher: No. 2, 85c bid. Barley quiet and un
clianged. Butter firm and active; creamery,
2325c; separator, 2628c; dairy, 2223c Eggs
highor at 14c Provisions firmer but trading
light- Pork higher at $10. Lard, 85 40. Dry
salt meats Boxed shoulders, S3 75: longs and
ribs, $4 75; short clear, $4 87K4 90. Bacon-
Boxed shoulders, $4 50: longs and ribs, (5 15
5 20; short clear, $5 2o5 3a
PHILADELPHIA Flour weak. Wheat Op
tions dull and lower; high grade scarce and
steadilr held; No. 2 red, February and March,
SI 0501 05H: April and May, $1 0bJil 00.
Corn steady: No. 2 high mixed and yellow on
track and iu elovator.&lc; do do in grain depot,
64c; No. 2 mixed. February. March and April.
6vJ04c; May, 61K62c. Oats weak: specula
tion quiet: No. 3 white, 54c; No. 2 white, recu
lar, 54c: do, choice. 55c; do. fancy, 53X55c;
do, clipped, 67c; No. 2 white. Februar3 51j
o4Xc: March, April and May, &i51fc Butter
firm with very small supplies; Pennsylvania
creamery, extra, 31c; do, extra, 3336c. Eggs
scarce and firm; Pennsylvania-flrsts, 17c
MINNEAPOLIS The cash market for wheat
was less active to-day. with prices about as
highasuual. Tho feeling after the first was
weak. Receipts for tho week were 626,730
bushels; shipments 218,400, making a necessary
decline in stocks lor the week as the mills
ground some 500,000 bushels. Closing quota
tions: No. lhard, February, 96c: ou track, 97c;
Nc 1 Northern, February and March. 93c;
May, 91Kc; No. 2 on track, 45c; No. I Northern,
February, 92c
MILWAUKEE Flour quiet and unchanged.
Wheat auiet: No. 2 EDrlne. on track, cash.
9105c: May, 92c; No. 1 Northern. 98c. Corn
steady; No. 3. on track,54c Oats quiet! No.2
white, on track, 4Sc Barley firm; No. 2, in
stoie, 67c Rye steady; No. L in store.
87c Provisions quiet. Pork May, $9 95.
Lard May. $5 92
BALTIMORE-Wheat-Western easy; No. 2
winter, red. spot and February. SI 02; May,
$1 Wl OlJi. Corn Western easy: mixed, spot
February aud March, 62Ki May and steamer,
61c. Oats firm and uncnauged. Rye quiet.
Hay firm. Provisions dull. Butter active,
scarce and unchanged. Eggs strong; strictly
Iresh. 16c
TOLEDO Wheat dull and lower; casb,
99c: May. 81 00:' August, 90c Corn dull
and steady: cash and May. SSJc Oats quiet;
casb, 49c Cloverseed active aud steady; cash
and March, $4 601
DULUTH Wheat opened strong but closed
weak and Mc lower. Closing prices were May,
99c; No. 1 hard. 94c: No.-l Northern, 91ct
No. 2 Northern, 87Jc
Drygooda Market.
New York, Feb. 28. Business in drygoods
was fair. The condition of the market was un
changed and prices remained steady In spite of
the plea of cheap cotton.
Soectal To Let Lbts Tbjj MornIn.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Child. "Everybody lovesyou, gran'ma; Iwish everybody would loveme."
Mrs. Pixkhaji. "Everyone will love you, my child, if they can
confide in. you."
The above dialogue tells Its own story; even the littlechild,"ivlthont
knowing why her grandmother is so universally loved, sees in her face a
light of intellectual sympathy that satisfies her. That sympathy has ex
tended itself all over the world, for wherever civilized women exist, Mrs.
Finkham is known and reverenced. Send stamp for "Guide to Health and Etiquette."
LYDBA E. PBMKHAIVi'S vegetable
Is the only Positive Cnre anil legitimate Remedy COMPOUND
for the peculiar weaknesses and ailments of women. "
It cures the worst forms of Female Complaints, that Bearing-down Feeling, Weak
Back, Falling and Displacement of the Womb, Inflammation, Ovarian Troubles, and all
Organic Diseases of the Uterus or Womb, and is invaluable to the Change of Life. Dis
solves and expelj Tumors from the Utenn at an early stage, and checis any tendency to
Cancerous Humor. Subdues Faintness, Excitability, Nervous Trostration, Kxhau'tion,
and strengthens and tones the Stomach. Cures Headache, General Dtbility, Indigestion,
etc., and invigorates the whole system. For the cure of Kidney Complaints of cither 6ex,
tbe Compound lm no rival. T
.All Druggists sell it as a utandard article, or sent by mail, in form of Fills or
Lozenges, on receipt of frl.OO. LVDIA E. PIMKHAM MED. CO.. LYNN. MASS.
A CHANCE FOE- IHV2ST0BS.
Stock of tho American Soda Water Com
pany on tho UlarkeL
Messrs. S. V. White A. Co. offer for subscrip
tion the securities pr '' American Soda Foun
tain r-mnanr. r- -1 Tnoratd under thi
laws of the State New Jersey. Tho capitali
zation is 3,750.001, tliu ..! company is formed
for tbe carrying u. o the manufacture and
sale of soda water apparatus and supplies and
bottling macbinery In all its branches. It has
acquired and consolidated the business and
plants ot tho following concerns: John
Matthews, Now York; A. D. Puffer & Sons'
Manufacturing Company, Boston; James W.
Tufts, Boston, and Charles Lipplncott & Co.,
Philadelphia. Tbe capital stock is divided into
12,500 sbares of first preferred cumulative
6 per cent stock; 12.500 sbares of second pre
ferred cumulative 8 per cent stock, and 12,500
sbares of general common stock. One-half of
each of tbese classes of stock is offered for pub
lic subscription at par, the par value of sbares
being $100. There are none of the features of a
"trust," so called, about the new company. Tbe
certiflflQ aggregate sales for the past four vears
have been $10,162,151. or an average ot $2,(38.037
per annum. Tbe net profits for tbe same
period have been $1,677,609, or $119,402 yearly.
Suhscriptton books will bo opened simulta
neously in New York. Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago and San FranciscoQon Marcb 9, and
win ueciosea on March 11, uvi.;
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Condition of Markets at East Liberty Stock
Yards.
Offics or Pittsburg Dispatch, I
8ATURDAT. Feb. 28.
Cattle Receipts. 810 1 head; shipments, 567
head: market nothing doing, all through con
signments; three cars ot cattle shipped to New
York to-day.
Hogs Receipts, 3,000 bead; shipments, 2,850
head; market steady: medium and selected,
$4 004 05; best Yorkors, S3 90Q4 00: common
and fair Yorkers. S3 753 85; pigs, S3 503 70;
three cars of hogs shipped to New York to-day.
Sheep Receipts, 2,200 bead; shipments, L800
head; market slow and unchanged.
By Telegraph.
CHICAGO The Evening Journal reports:
Cattle Receipts. 500 head; shipments, none;
market about steady; steers, prime to extra,
to 00540; others, S3 501 95: cows, SI U0260:
stockers, $2 253 25. Hogs Receipts. 20.000
head; shipments, 10,000 head: market active and
steady to strong: rough and common. $3 35
3 40: mixed and packers. $3 45Q3 50: prime
heaw and bntcber weights, S3 653 65; light,
$3 453 60. Sheep Receipts. 2.000 bead: mar-,
ket strong, with scarcely sufficient sales to
make a market; natives S4 001 75; native
lambs, 85 503 75; Western wethers, $5 40S 05.
OMAHA Cattle Receipts, L30O head; mar
ket active and 510c higher on best grades and
steady to firm on others; feeders slow:
fancy 1.400 to 1,000-pound steers, $4 505 25:
prime i.jju to 1.40-pouna steers. $4 uuu bo:
fair to good 1,050 to L350-pound steers, $2 75
4 15. Hng3 Receipts, 4,650 head; market ac
tive and higher; heavy hogs a shade to 5c
higher; others 3c bleber; all sold: range. 83 15
3 50: bulk. $3 853 45; pigs. $1 502 50; light
lights, S2 503 00; lurht. S3 153 40; heavy,
$3 303 50: mixed, $3 253 45.
ST. LOUIS Cattle Recelnts. 800 head:
market steady for good to fancy natives, steers,
fair to good natives, 33 904 65; stockers
and feeders, $2 503 60: Texans and Indians,
83 004 10. Hogs Receipts, 1.100 head; ship
ments, 3.500; market steadv; fair to choice
heavy, S3 50Q3 65; mixed grades, $3 253 55;
light, fair to best, $3 303 50. Sheen
Receipts, 1,000 head; shipment;, none: market
steady: good to choice, 84 005 35.
KANSAS CITY Cattle Receipts, 1.290 head;
shipments, 620 bead: market strong to 10c
higher; steers, $3 356 35: cowt. $1 D0483 85;
stockers and feeders, $2 553 85. Hoirs Re
ceipts, 2,960 bead; shipments, 2,630 bead: mar
ket steady to higher; bulk, S3 203 55; all
grades, si ousfw w. sneep receipts, i,3UU head;
shipments, 560 bead;" market strong and un
changed. BUFFALO Cattle steady; recelnts, 75 loads
through. 1 sale: Receipts lambs 20 loads sale;
firm and bleber: lambs steady. Sheep Choice
to extra, $5 705 90; good to choice, $5 3oS
5 03. Lambs Choice to extra, $6 S06 75; good
to choice. $6 206 45. Hogs steady and un
changed; receipts. 23 loads throneb, 25 salo;
mediums, heavy and mixed, S3 7503 oU
New York Coffee Market.
New York, Feb. 28. Coffee Options
opened steady and unchanged to 10 points ad
vance, closed firm, 1530 points up; sales, 10.
750 bags, including March. 17.6517.70; April,
17.2017.35; Mav. 17.0017.10; June, 16.6016.75;
Julv. 1G.2016.30; August. 15.75; September,
15.2015.35; December, liOo. Spot Rio steady
and quiet; fair cargoes. 1919&r; No. 7. 18i4c
When baby was sick, we gave her Castorla,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children.sbe gave them Castoria
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BROKERS FINANCIAL.
Whitney & Stephenson,
57 Fourth Avenue.
myl
DFflDT T'fi SAVINGS BANK.
X ElUriiEl O 81 FOURTH AVENUE.
Capital. $300,000. Surplus, 851,670 29. '
D. McK. LLOYD, EDWARD E. DUFF,
4 President, Assr, Sec. Treas.
per cent Interest allowed on time deposits,
ocl5-40-D
Pittsburg, Allegheny and Man
chester Traction Company
40-year 5 per cent bonds, free of
tax, 'for sale at 103 and
interest.
Fidelity Title and Trust Co,,
121 AND 123 FOURTH AVENUE.
felH3-MWF
JOHN M. OAKLEY & CO.,
BANKBHS AMD BROKERS.
Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Petroleum.
Private wlra to New York and Chicago,
16 SIXTH ST PitUburg.
a
CONFIDENCE BEGETS LOVE."
Child. " Gran'ma, kiss ime
good-night. Sister is asieep,but
we so love tohearyou tell of all
the ladies that call you Mother."
Mrs. PiNKnAjr. "Yes, darling,
when you are older perhaps you
may do as I hare done,"
37IDELITY TITLE AND TRUST CO.,
? 121 ami 123 Fourth ate..
Capital $500,000. Full paid.
INSURES TITLES TO REAL ESTATE.
Acts in all fiduciary capacities. Deals in relia
ble investment securities. Rents boxes in its
superior vault from $5 per annum upward.
Receives deposits and loans only on mort
gages and approved coll itcraK
JOHN B. JACKSON. Pres'L
JAMES J. DONNELL. Vice Pres'L
fe84-M C. B. McVAY. Sec'y and Treas.
We mako more porous
plasters than all other
makers in this country
combined, because the
public appreciate the mer
it that exists in our goods.
BENSON'S is the only me
dicinal plaster for house
hold use. all others being
' weak Imitations. Get tho
Genuine.
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3IEDICA1.
DOCTOR
WHITTIER
814 l'ENN AVENUE, PITTSBURG, PA.
As old residents know and back flies of Pitts
burg papers prove. Is the oldest established
and most prominent: physician in tbe city, de
voting special attention to all chronic diseases.
SpTrsCsNOFEEUNTILCURED
MC RVfll Qanl mental diseases, physical
llL.fi V UUO decay; nervous deoility. lack ot
energy, ambition and hope, impaired memory,
disordered sieur, self distrust, bashfnlness,
dizziness, Sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, im
poverished blood, failing powers, organic weak
ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, un
fitting tbe person for business, society and mar
riage, permanently, safely and privately cured.
BLOOD AND SKIN ?&;
blotches, falling hair, bones, pains, glandular,
swellings, ulcerations of tongue, mouth, throat,
ulcers, old sores, are cured for life, and blood
poisons thoroughly eradicated from the system.
IIDIMARV Sidney and bladder derange
U 111 ll rfl I j ments, weak back, gravel, ca
tarrhal discbarges, inflammation and otber
painful symmoms receive searching treatment,
prompt relief an,l real curei.
Dr. Whittler's life-long, extensive experience
insures scientific and reliablo treatment on
common-sense principles. Consultation free.
Patients at a distance as carefully treated as if
here. Office hours. 9 A. 31. to 8 P. it. Sunday.
10 A. M. to 1 P. M. only. 11R. WHITTIER, 811
Penn avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. jaS-19-DSUwk
MANHOOD RESTORED.
"SANATIVO," the
Wonderful Spanish
Remedy. Is sold with a
WrittenGnarantee
to cure all Nervous Dis
eases, such as Weak
Memory, loss 01 uraia
Power, Headache,
Wakefulness, Lost Man
hood, Nervousness, Las
situde, all drains and
loss of power ot the
Generative Organs, la
either sex. caused br
Before & After Use.
Photographed from life.
over-exertion, youthful lndescretlons, or the excessive
nse of tobacco, opium, or stimulants, which ultimately
lead to Infirmity, Consumption and Insanity. Put up
In convenient form to carry in the vest pocket. Price
11 a package, or 6 for 15. "With every $5 order we give
a written guarantee to cure or refand the
money. Sent by mail to any address. Circular tree.
Mention this paper. Address,
MADRID CHEMICAL CO., Branch Office for U. S. A.
417 Jleirhorn Street, CHICAGO. ILL. .
FOR SALE IN PITTSBURGH, PA BY
Jos. Fleming &. Son, 410 Market St.
Duqueone Pharmacy. 518 SmitMeld St.
A. J. Kaercher, S9 Federal St., Allegheny City,
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DOCTORS LAKE
SPECIALISTS in all cases re
quiring scientific aud confiden
tial treatment! Dr. 8. K Lake.
M. R. C P. 8., Is the oldest .and
most experienced specialist In
the city. Consultation free and
strictly confidential. OfHce
boon 9 to 4 nd 7 to 8 p. 3L: sunaays, a 10 k.
jt Consult them personally, or write. Doctor
LAKE, cor. Penn ave. and 4th St., Pittsbur& Pa.
Je3-72-DWk
TO WEAK MEN:
Suffering front
the enecta ox
vouthful errors
early decay, wasting weakness, lost manhood, et&,
I will send a valuable treatise (sealedl containing
full particulars for home cure, FKEU of charge.
A splendid medical work; should be read by every
man who la nrvon and debilitated. Address,
Prof. F. C. FO WLEIt, Mooduo, Conn.
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"Wood's :Pl3.os;p23-OCi i-ne.
THE CHEAT FAOl.ISH REMEDY.
Used for 33 years
br thousands suc
cessfully. Guar
anteed to cure all
forms of Nervous
Weakness. Emis
01 Youmrui roiiy
and the excesses
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Gives immediate
strennth andvia-
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sions, Spermator-
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ttelure Alter.
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Address
in
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A Sou. Diamond and Market sts.
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GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE
CURES
NERVOUS DEBIU TY.
LOST VIGOR.
LOSS OF MEMORY.
full particulars Iu pamphlet
sent free. The genuine liray'l
bpeclss sold br druggists drily In
yellow wrapper. Price, ft per
;wv"?!' ,, pfelnt o( nrlee. dv aUdresj.
tt THF. GHAT MKDICINK CO, Butialo, X. X
Sold lnlMttJbarjr byS. S. HOLtANii. corner
Bmltufleld and Liberty su. mlll7-a-DWt
PChlcheater'a Eacllth Dumoad'Braad.
ENNYR0YAI PILLS
W STW Orffnal mad Only weanlne-
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mond Brand in Ud and Gold muHla
boxes. teald with blue ribbon. Take
oo ther. JUfuMtdonairmu auUtit
rtton and iwtftation. AtDrartitM-aTtnA&A
" In itMDpo tor prttLirt, tertiiaoaids u4
" Rrllef for tdl,w in Utttr, by ntmm
Ml trail Local OnftW a?UladjL.Ftb
U ecu-Miff
S Better than Tea and Coffee for tbe Nerves.S
I Van Houten's GqgoaI
I " Best & Goes Farthest."
SAskyourQrocorforlt.takanoother. 63 r
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
S. V. WHITE & CO.-,
BANKERS,
New York and Chicago,
ARE AUTHORIZED TO OFFER FOR SUB
SCRIPTION THE UNDERMENTIONED SE.
CUR1TIES OF THE
American Soda Fountain Co.,
(Incorporated under ihe laws of tho Stats of
New Jersey.)
CAPITAL STOCK, 83,750,000,
DIVIDED INTO
I2.W0 JiHAKES KH&T 1-KEt'EKltKD
CUMULATIVE 6 PEIt CE.NT. STOCK.
12.5C0 SHAKES SECOND PltEFEKIIED
CUMULATIVE 8 I'hU CENT. STOCK.
13.500 SHAKES GENE1IA1. (COMJtON) STOCK.
PAK VALUE OP ALL SHAKES; 1100.'
Dividends on the first and second preferred
slock will be payabts in February and August
of each year. Dividends on the common stock
will be declared and paid only at the end of
each fiscal year.
a.:xotj:vt ofpeiied.
One-Jiair of cacli ot" tlio nbovo
securities Is ollfercd. for irubxlo.
atzbhorlptlon at par.
Subscriptions will' be payable as follows:
lOPEltCENT. ON APPLICATION.
30 1'Elt CENT. ON ALLOTMENT.
30PEUCENT. MAKClKd. 1891.
30PEKCENT. AIT.11,9, 1S0L
THE SUUSCHIITION LISTS WILL BE
OPENED SIMULTANEOUSLY AT 10 O'CLOCK
A. M. ON 310NOAY. MAItCII a, 1831. AND
WILL CLOSE ON OU BEKOKE 3 O'CLOCK P.
M. ON WEDNESDAY MAKCH 11, hffll, ATTHlS
OFFICES OF ,
S. V. While & Co., 36 Wall St, New York,
and 4 Shorman St, Chicago, III.
Chatham National Bank, Now York City. '
Blackstona National Bank, Bo tor.
Metropolitan National Bank, Boston.
National Bank of the Republic, Phila.
Northwestern National Bank, Phila.
First National Bank,.San Francisco, Cal. .,
John H. Matthews, 333 East 261h St, N. Y.
Janes W. Tofts, Boslon or Now York.
Charles Lippincott, Phila. or Chicago.
Alvin D. Puffer, Boston or New York.
From TThom prospectuses and forms of applies- .
tlon-can he obtained.
All shares Issued will be full-paid stock. Stock
holders will have no personal llabllltr.
mere is nomortirajre on any property of tha
company, and the by-lairs provide that no bond
or mortgage can he created wltbouithe consent
oTnlnetyper cent or the preferred stockholders,
and that this provision cannot be altered except
bv the like afnrmatiTe vote.
This company Is formed to take orer and carry
on the bnslness of manuf.icturlnx soda-water ap.
paratusanAuppiles as hitherto conducted by tho.
following establishments:
Tie Firm of John Mate. N. Y
Established 1832.
A- D. Puffer & Sons' MTs CO.. Boston.
Established 1842.-
James V. Tofls. Boston.
Established 1863.
Cliarles LiupiBcott & Co., Pliila.
Established 1832,.
The business transferred In each case Is takeilg
over from Jan. 1, 1S91. The company has no dabti
or liabilities of any description whatever except
obligations necessarll v Incurred in the conduct or
business since that date. '
Registrar of the Stock.
BOSTON SAFEDEPOSIT& TEUST COMPAUT
BOSTON.
Transfer Agents in New York.
MESSK3. S. Y. WHITE 4 CO.
Auditors. ,
HART BP.OTHEKS.TIBBETTS & CO., LONDOlf
AND NEW YOKK.
Direotors.
JAMES W. TUFTS. President.
ALVIN O. PUFFEK; First Vice President.
ALFKKD H. LIPPINCOTT. Second Vice Freil.
dent. ,
JAMES N. NORTH. Treasurer.
JOHN H. MATTHEWS, of Ihe firm of John Mat,
thews. '
FKANKLlN W. HOPKINS, or the Arm of S. Yr
Whlte & Co.. hankers. 1
WALTER 3. BLANCHAHD, President of t&eV
Metropolitan National Bank, Boston.
The business of the corporation will be man
aged by JAMES W.TDFT3, JAMES N.NOKTH.
ALFItEO H. LIPPLNCOTT. F. HAZAKD HP
P1NCOTT. DANIEL, J. PUFFEK,and LUTHEBl
W. PUFPEK.
Each and everyone of ihe present vendortji
whether employed In the new corporation or
not so employed, have signed a contract not to;
engago or compete in any similar business.
STATBMKNT OF VENDORS.
NATURE OF BUSINESS.-The business of
these concerns consists of tbe manufacture and I
sale of sodawater apparatus and supplies, and
bottling machinery lu all Its branches. In which,
department or Industry they constitute the prln-
clpal establishments In the World.
PI'.OPERTY CONVEYED.-The oroperty con
veyed consists of real estate, free and clear of In
cumbrance: the entire manufacturing plant of
each of the several concerns: their large stocks of
goods, manufactured and In process of manufact
ure: materials, machinery, apollauces of all de
scriptions, letters pateut of the United States to
the number of more than one hundred aud forty,
and the good will or all the old concerns; bllla re
ceivable held by the several vendors are also In
cluded, to theamonnt ot"?JOO,oa. Tbe payment of
each of these Is guaranteed to the company by
the vendor in whose business It originated, and.
working capital will thus be provided equivalent
to S30O. 00O In money.
The property conveyed to the company may be)
thus summarized:
Real Estate $ 147,869 73
Stock on hand at Cost 1,332,130 22
Manufacturing Plant, at much
below cost 200,000 00
Working Capital to be provided
as above 500,000 00
$2,200,000 0O
Tbe above Includes nothlne fortlie patents by
which the (roods manufactured oy the retiring
firms are nrotccted or-lor the Rood will which,
with respect to each concern, represents a contin
uously successful business career, extending, as tor
two or them, for more than fifty years, and. as toj
the other two, for considerable more than a quar
ter of a century.
The books and accounts of each of the vend
ors have been submitted to Messrs. HART
BROTHERS, TIBBEITS & COMPANY, iha
well-known expert accountants, from whoss
certificate, which is aat forth In full in tha.
prospectus, the following is an extract:
"THE AGGREGATE SALES FOR THE"
"PAST FOUR YEARS HAVE BEEN Si0,J'
"152,151.66, EQUAL TO AN AVERAGE OF"
"J2,538,037.9I PER ANNUM. '
"THE NET PROFITS FOR THE SAME'
"PERIOD HAVE BEEN $1,677,609 56, OR"
"AN AVERAGE OF J4I9.40Z39 PER AN."
"NUM."
"The profits for the last twelve months show"
a considerable Increase over those of any'
former year, and the sales have progressed"
steadily, as evidenced by the following state-"
ment covering the period under eiamina-'
"lion:
"1387. .Total Salee $2,427,439.11"'
"1888.. " 2,5I2,329.95'
"1389.. " 2,580.954.11"
"1890.. " 2,831,428.49'''
"$IO.I52.i5L6?
(Signed),
"HART BROS.. TIBBETTS & CO."
It will be seen that the average yearly profit fo
the past four years has been SH3.-KC3D. Taking;
this aa a basis aud deducting
Six per cent, upon $1,250,000.
First preferred stock... $75,000.00
Eight por cent, upon $1,250,000.
Second preferred stock..., 100,000.00
And salaries of
Six former owners, who remain n
Managers .'. 30,000.00
THERE REMAINS APPLICABLE
TO DIVIDENDS UPON THE
COMMON STOCK THE SUM
WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO 17 PER CENT
PR ANNUM.
TUE VEXDOKS JKJKUE TO RETAIX tto
otcnfitMp for fi-ct ieart or more of at leatt 10,000
HJJAliEtl of the aiMfiiiivj't unci, reortienting at
par $1,000,000 ant connstlna of 3,000 stuirei of
Common Muck and 3.000 l hares or SeconaPre
femd Stock. These tecuritiet wilt be placed
thepoesntton of the Boston Safe Deposit and
Trust Company for the period mentioned.
Messrs. S. V. Whits & Co. and Walter S.
Blanehard.Eiq., President of the Metropolitan
National Bank of Boston, have investigated tho
business affairs of the several vendors 'and
recommend the securities offered aa entirely '
worthy of publio confidence.
PROSPECTUSES AND FORMS OF APPLI.
CATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE
VARIOUS OFFICES. WHERE SUBSCRIPT
TIONS WILL BE RECEIVED.
SUBSUKIWIO.V LISTS WILL. CLOaM
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