1 . THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH,, ' SU2CDAY, MATOH - ?fc& Oil 1 1 8 1 Contributions for this department should roach Tde Drtsrvrcu officeby noon Saturday. These columns are open to all secret organ ization, lint news, and newt only, will bo printed. Spce is too valuable to be given np to tho discipline oi delinquent members, notice of meetings, praise of individual lodges, advertisement of orders or mere personal puff. I. o. o. Montiflorc Lodge So. 791 will confer tho 111 st degree on two candidates next Jlonday night. Next Saturday night Mechanics Lodge No. P. will coiner the first 'degree, alter which the nomination of officers will take place. Next Friday evening the degree staff of Titttburg Lodge So. "336. will confer the fiit degree, after which the nomination of officers will take place. Canton Allegheny, So. 32, Patriarchs Militant will meet next Tuesday night, March 9. for woik. The chevaliers are earnestly requested to be present as Canton rittsburg So. 18, T. JL, will be in attend ance. At a regular meeting of R. A. Lmberton Encampment last Tncdav night, the follow ing officers ner elected Jor the ensuing term: C. P.. William Mack; H. P., L. H. Springer: S. W., C. C Means, and J. W., fcamuel Poole. Pittsburg Encampment So. 2. met at its hall Ian Tuesday night, and alter conferring the patriarchal UcaiPe on two candidates the following officer were elected: C P., Fred William-: It. P A. S. Dick: S. W., Alex Seanor, and J. VT., W P. Orr. The next viit of the D. D. G. M's and D. D. G. P's w ill be Friday evening next to Na trona Lodge. It is honed that the brothers nfiturn out and accompany the district offlceis to tins lodge Saturday evening, March li They will visit the lodge at Ir win, Wc-tmoreland county. The Ctievalicr of Canton Allegheny So. 32. Patriarchs Militant, arc requested to meet at the hall. So. 23 Federal street, next Tuesday night, for the purpoo of making two chevalier. The officers and members of Canton Pittsburg So. IS are earnestly re quested to be present on this occasion. A new lodge is beinjr organized in Bloom field with cood prospects. The parties h.iudling it have a large number on their list andnew applicants are coming in every day. The lir-t meeting of this organization will be held next "Wednesday evening at the corner Wincbiddle and Penn avenues. Pittsburg Lodge Xo. 335, confcired the Initiation degree last Friday night, at which time there was a very large turnout. The woik was performed in their usual excellent manner. It will confer the first degree rext Friday night, at which time there will b? present many visiting brothel's from throughout the state. The new lodge in East Liberty is still in croaMiirr. It i now almost a certainty that ' tin- will he the largest lodge ever instituted in this Mate, if not in the United States, The promoters will meet Monday evening next for the purpose of completing their list, after which it will be lorwarded y the Grand Lodge asking lor a charter. Parties' wishing to be auiong the petitioners of this loigewill do well to be present at the next meeting: also those that have signed the li-t. The panic- who have tho new lodge at Oakland in charge are working hard to have it ready lor institution bv the second or thild week in Apnl. At the next meeting ofHenr Lambert Lodge 475, 20 candidates will be proposed lor membership i:i that lodge for the purpose of being applicants forachailer lor the new Oakland lodge. There will be another meeting held at the new hall. Filth avenue. Oakland. Wednes day eiening next. It is expected by that time the number will be increased to from 125 to ISO. A. O. K-ofM. C. moky City Castle So. 16 is rapidly adding to its membership. There weicthreecandidatcsforthe second degree last meeting night at Kevstone Castle So. 14. George Washington Castle No. 82 is having interesting meetings and taking in members eiei v meeting night. Key-tone Invincible, Compf.ny A, First Begiment, First Brigade, admitted nine new member- at its la-t meeting. The waihorse of Smoky City, W. Tummin, and Brothel Blown, have no use for the litual-. a- thev perform their work without. Oldei Castles must look out for their laurels.- Sir Knight II. Vcber and others paid a fra ternal vi-it to Americans Castlcla-t meeting nteht. ougs and speeches were the feat ures of the evening. Sir Knight Reed makes it interes ing tor visitors. Monumental Castle S'o. 53, A. O. K. of M. C, hopes to -ee a large attendance of the bmtlieis at the church parade to-dav. Mem beis will meet at the hall, corner "of Park wav and Federal street, Allegheny, at 7 r. x. The team of Keystone Castle So. 14, C. Mjcis, Tillman, Kyce. Stevenson, Sickholds, Krd. under supervision of Select Com inar.dei Kieh Muse, conferred the three ranks on six candidates of Union Castle So. 110, Etna, last Thursday evening. Select Commander R. Muse and his degree stalf are doing excellent duty. last week thC3- instituted one new castle on the South side, and jvuil, fraternal visits to Castles Nos. 15. 102 ami 110. In Union Castle So. 110 the fir-t, second and third degrees were con ferred on three applicants in an excellent manner. The lleception Committee has con cl ided to tender a b.mquct to the supreme ofilCKisduimg their visit to Pittsburg next June. I. O. G. T. Willowciove Lods gave 'a leap year box socul at Wilkimsburg : last Thursday night. The lleception and Entertainment Committee- lorGrand Lodge will holdamcetilig in the parlors ot the Home Hptel, Duquesne way, March 17. .Last Tuesday night Hazelwood Lodge gave cotfee and cake to their members,which it does once every month. This is a good waj to retain members. Brother.- John Morgan, G. Edward Span ner, istcrs !-antli Colbert and Zenie Ed-inon-tou. ot Anchor Lodge, visited Hazel wood Lodge last Tuesday night; Friendship Lodge w ill move into its new hall, coinei Penn avenue and Main street, Annl L Friendship Lodge is doing gooa work in that pan ot the community. Anchor Lodge, which was instituted Feb m.irv 20, is making great preparations for its entertainment and basket social in its hall, 81 Fourth avenue, March 19. All sister lodges should give this new lodge a lift. Select Knichts or America. Comrade David Zugsm'.th, of So. 1, Is re pot ted unproved. Pittsburg Legion So. 1 is having quite a revival or late, receiving new members at every meeting. Pittsburg Legion So. lis in a flourishing condition, and maKing every effort to excel in the use of the unwritten work and in conferring of the degrees. Pride ot the West Legion So. 4 is com posed el some excellent ioung material, and although but about two months old, is keep ing some of the older legions stirring. Uuqucsne Legion So. 10 is making quite a hustle for supremacy in membership and rendering every assistance to G. C Todd that he may make an exes'dent record. A meeting of the officers or the First Regi ment will be held at the Hotel Buidette, So. 4 Federal ttreet. Wednesday evening next. Ttio Colonel requests that every officer who can will attend, us business of impoitance n ill be considered. The Golden Eagles. Omega Castle received four propositions last Monday evening. All brothers arc re quested to be preset! t next Monday eveing.as the Committee oil Eutertainmen: will hrtiid lu its final report. .Avalo.i Castle 212 has at last got to work with something like Its old-time vigor, hav ing already live piopi-sitions in for the month ot March aud a surety of Tour more this ncsk, with .-ight or ten more to fullow beioio the month is o'dt. Friday evening, Merck 11, the lodge purposes setting up u tree lunch, to which all uieir.bcrs of the order arc cordially invited. Jr. O. I J. A. 2L All.'quippa Council S'o. c7, of McKe's ltw-, will ccicbnteitsiCveuthannIveisTy to-morrow evening with a banquet in Enter-. prise Hall. " General J. B. Sweitzer Council So. 294 will transact business of considerable import ance at its meeting ,to-moErow night. The attendance of all its members is strongly urged. William T. Kerr, chief marshal or the late parade, occupied the pnlpit of the Butler Street M. E. Church, of Lawrenceville, last Sunday evening, making an extended ad dress on "Immigration." The church was ciowdcd to its rapacity. The address was made in response to an invitation Irom the pastor. Rev. W. F. Oldham. The Ileptasophs. Tittsburg Conclave So. 89 has- once more started a boom. Eighteen applications were presented at its last meeting. S. L Osmond has been laid up sick for the past week and his many liiends la the order hope he may soon recover to assist in the boom. The district deputies generally are work ing hard and should have in some instances a better suppoit by the conclaves; as greater results would be more encouraging.. The Sipreme Archon says the average age of the members is somewhat less now than eight years ago. This is the best evidence oi the piosperous condition of the order. The Sorthside Conclave of Improved Or der of Ileptasophs will have a banquet to morrow evening at its hall, 175 Federal street. Two candidates will be initiated with a unioue and interesting ceremony, and all members of-other conclaves are in vited. The contest between J. K. Moorehead Con clave. Xo. 82 and McKeesport Conclave So. 82. resulted in favor ol the latter. Thursday evening J. K. Moorehead Conclave ban queted the McKeesport Conclave at McKees port. The Sew Turner Hall, was selected as about the only available place large enough to accommodate the two conclaves, The home conclave met their guests with a band. A procession was lormed and the principal streets taken in by a 'short parade. The members of the home conclave oarried torches of red fire, and tho citizens gener ally were plentifully supplied with fire works and rockets. Nearly every dwelling along the route contained a member, and red fire in abundance was burned. Never in the history of the town, except during a. heated political campaign, was there such a turnout of people on the Streets to witness the paiade. At the auditorium of SewTurner Hall, an address of welcome was delivered by Brother Adolph Schmidt. District Deputy, and a response bv Brother Martin Scliroeder, District Deputy. The Supreme Archon and Dr. E. A. Hall," of McKcesporr, also delivered addresses on the contest. Ele gant music was interspersed in the p' gramme. All then repaired to the gymna sium hall, where at least 400 of the two con claves sat down, to the banquet. Several ap firopriate toast's were responded to by Dr. litzrot. Dr. E. A. Hall and E. A. Keller, of McKeesport. the Supreme Archon and L. K. Logue, of Pittsburg. The festivities were closed at 2 p. n, and the visitors repaired to the hotels selected for their accommoda tions. Thus ended one of the most .useful and beneficial contests to the conclaves and order ever instituted. McKee-port Con clave lar exceeded its best anticipations, and the success attained has led it to a strike for the leading and largest conclave in Western Pennsylvania. THE CASH MAEKET. A Good Week at the Banks riled Tip Wealth. Ease and moderate activity were the feat tuies of the local money maiket duringlhe week. With about $30,000,000 lying jdlo in the Sew York banks, there does not ; paper to be any legitimate reason for any alarm over the export of a lew millions of gold. The time is approachihg when more activity can be reasonably expected, and funds are not likclv to be a drug much longer. The week was not a bad one at the banks, as shown by the Clearing House statement:' Satnrdav"s exchanges Saturdav'h balances , Exchange- for week , lialances for the week Pre lou- wreVs exchanges.. Exchanges sirat week 1891 .. 'I otal exchanges lf92 to date.. Exchanges same time 1331. . The important items bank statement were a ?-075,fiMfi3 385.39: S3 I4.1GS.413 3.! 2.6-JI.Ki VI 13.a13.cn 53 13,111.3)5 4 131.1V.575 76 1I9,4D3,&23 in the Sew York large increase in loans, showing a better demand for money, aud an increase in deposits, reflecting a bet ter mot cment in trade. With over $20 000030 ot surplus, the decrease of nearly $6,000,000 in the reserve was regarded as favorable to better rates. Changes from the previous week are: Iteserve. decrease, $5,o77,47j; loans, increase. S7.793.300: specie. decrea-e. $3,S34,500; legal tendcis. decrease, $1,933,000; deposits, increase, $1,639,900,' circulation, in crease, $132 400: amount above legal require ment, $M,2s2S13. At Sew Yoik yesterday money on call was ca-y, with no loans; closed offered at 2. -J Prime mercantile paner, 45 per cent. Sterling exchange rjuiet but Meadv at $t S5 for 60-day bills and $4 S7J for demand. Closing Bond Quotations. U. P. 4s rrg IT. s. 4s coup.... U. S. Vis reg.. ...lie ...117 .. K51 M.. K. AT. Gen. 5s. 4!)i Mutual UnluuSs I0S N.J. C Int. Cert.. .112 Northern Pac. 1st.. 117 Northern Pac. 2ds..H5 Northwestern eons.. 13 Nurthw'n d'hrs 5s.. 10 U. . 4'scoiip Paciiicis of "95 ion LotlUalM stamp. 4s.. S2 Ml-suuri 6- Tenu. mwsct. Os.,,.107 Tenn. new set. s.... its Trail, new set. 3s.... TO1 Oregon Trans. 6s.... M. I.. & I. M. Gen. 5s W t-t.L.AanK.GcnM..10: Canada n.;ds 1021! C'cn. PaciflV 1st.... Jdh St. Paul Consols 1KC st IV r1. .t- 1 !fif. iir " ..H7ilTcx.p.L.G. Tr.Kcts 81 iron, tz ic. ir. isis... .ij, Den. A K. G. 4s 61 ' Tn. I IT ,1 Tf !fa Den. ,t I!. G. Westls Ene2ds 107U il.. K. 1 . Gen. bs. M) Union 1'ac. lsts 107; WtstShore 103S Bank Clearing. Sew Orleans Clearings, $1,551,333. Ex change coiinneiei.il 50c per $1,(C0 premium. Bank. $1 50 per $1,000 premium. Chicago Money easv at iyiQO per cent. Sew York exchange, COc discount. st. Louis Clearings, $3,685,724; balances, $474,361. Clearings this week, $23,153,400: balances, $2,830,285. Clearings last week, $20, 512.S57; balances, $2,3U5,9S7. Clearings tor thn correspondine week last year. $21,478,612; balances, $l,S94.3Si Money, 607 per cent. Exchange on Sew York, par. MEMrms Sew York exchange selling at par. Clearing, $904 481; balances. $367,300. Srw York Clearings. $143,915,380: balances, U 107 678. For the w eek Clearings, $770,624, 206: balances, $37,064,327. TiosTox Clearings, $13,439,178; balances, $1,318,214. Money, 1J2 per cent. Exchange on Sew York 12Ki3c discount. Clearings for the week, $94,516,963; balances, $11,322. 164: lor the same week lat year, clearings, $9J, 765,214: balances, $10,18S,937. PuiLABELniiA Clearings. $12,027,922:. bal ances, $1,836,683. Clearings for the week end ing to-day were, $78,344,l'S9; balances, $12,0S0, 275. Money, 3X per cent. Bltijioiie Clearings. $2,420,232: balances. $288,166. Rate, 6 per cent. NO 'MORE BULL FAKES. Every Item or Sews Favors the Bear Party In the Wheat Pit Everybody Turns to the Selling Side Corn Quiet Oats Holds ltn Own. CHIC - GO There was a decidedly bear ish feeling in wheat during most of tho session and lower prices ruled. The news presented a sharp contrast with that which was given out so freely yesterday morning. The leading futures ranged as follows, as correct ed by John M. Oaklcr t o.. 45 Mxtli street, mem bers ot the Chicago Board of Trade: Open- High- Low- CIos- Articles. ing. " est. est. ing. Wheat, no. 2. March 5 SS5 8SX I 87! $ S!H Mav Wn W'A 89H 89 - Corn-, So. 2. March 41', 4ir 41S 4IH Mav 42i ii 42H 42'i June 41'j 4m 41H s, OATS. NO. 2. March 34 3J 3)' !, Mav 305( 3o; aH 30 Mess Pork. March 10 95 10 97U 10 S7K 10 2i Mav 11 15 11 17i 11 07J 11 12 Lard. . March 6 57 H G 40 C S7K 8 40 Mav 6 47)i 6 50 6 47)4 6 50 MIORT UIBS. Ma'ch 5 80 5 82W 5 77K 5 82 Slay 5 87y 5 90 5 85 5W Cash Quotations were ns follows: Flour steady and unchanced; So. 2 spring wheat, 87c: So. 3 spring wheat. 83c; So. 2 red, 92c; So. 2 corn, 4Hc: So. 2 oats, 29Jc; So. 2 white, f. o. b., 32$33c: So. 3 white uo, 30c: So. 2 rye, SO;- .a 2 barlev, 36c: So. 3. f. o. b.,- 4C55c:So. 4,-f. o. b 32Q44c: So. 1 flaxseed, $1 ul; prime timothy seed, $1 24 1 31; mess pork, per bbl, $10 92j; lard, per liO Its, $6 37K6 "!; "short ribs s.ides, loose, $5 80 S3 82W; diy salted shoulders, boxed, $4 75 5 30: snort clear sides, boxed, $6 25; whisky, distillers' finished good, per gallon, $1 14. Sugars unchanged. So. 3 corn, 39'iQ0c. On the Produce , Exchange, to-day, the butter market was unchanged. Eggs, 14 When Baby wassick, we gave her Castorta. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castorifc:.' When the had Children, she gave them Castorta TRADE OF THE WEEK.- Ko Unfavorable Influences Developed to Encourage Croakers. A .REACTION. IN- SPECULATION. Interesting-. Events in. Realty Shwing; the Market Is in Good' Shape, OFFICE ASD STREET NEWS AND GOSSIP I It was reported on the street yesterday that "William Bakewell, Esq., bad sold his summer place at Arnold station, on the Al legheny Valley Railroad, to the Burrell Improvement Company at a price close to $75,000 cash. It consists of between 30 and 40 acres of land and several good buildings. Business or the Week. Bad weather during the week was detri mental to general trade, but transactions were large in the aggregate, exceeding those for the same time last year. The commer cial demand for money was more urgent, showing that merchants" are extending their lines. Speculation fell off somewhat and values reacted, bnt there were no bad breaks. The decline ws merely a protest against the almost unprecedented bulge of the previous few weeks. There are not enough speculators in Pittsburg to maintain a rapid gait for any great length of time." This week is more likely to witness an advance than a further break. There was a good inquiry for realty, and a large number of sales were consum mated, but none of special importance. Iron was the' only weak, spot in the situa tion. The 'condition and outlook of this market 'was tully discussed in this paper yisterday. , An East End Deal. . One of the most important transactions in realty during the .week was the sale-bv Lig gett Bros, for Thomas Liggett of 16J147& 'leet on 'Walnut street,-East End, with two brickdwellings, for ?2J,500. The purchaser, a business man, was looking around lor an investment, and thought this a good oppor tunity to place his money to advantage. Looking for a bite. A committee of ladies having .in charge the interests of an aged people's home, have been devoting considerable time the past weekor two to the selection of a site lor new and more commodious quarters. After viewing several Allegheny citv prop erties, among them one on Calitotnia avenue, without finding just what they wanted, they made a tour of the East End, and were so favorably impressed with that quarter of the city that it is almost certain the institution will be" located there. It is understood the ladies have been promised, in the event of securing the right kind of a site, all the financial backing- they may need for the building and other necessary improvements.. Improvement of Irwin Avenue. Owners of property fronting on Irwin avenue, Squirrel Hill, m at a meeting yester day, decided to let a contract at once lor the grading and paving of that avenue from il'orbes street to Wliiteman. One of the owners. Mr. William Bigge, has had plans prepared ana win commence not later tnan April 1 the erection of three high-class dwellings. They will be of the Colonial style ofarchitccture. Another Largo Warehouse. Two more of the Cherry alley mysteries have changed ownership. Black & Baird sold during the week 145 Cherry alley and Xo. 28 Montour wav to the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company for ?11,7.')0 cah. The purchasers will ' about April 1 begin demolishingj the existing buildings preparatory to the erection utf a large warehouse. Tenants have been noti fied to move out. A Sale Falls Through. The Armstrong -property, consisting of nine acres located at the northeast corner'of Shady lane aud Forbes street, was, sold a sho'rt time ago to a STew York man for f 32,500, but on account of one of the heirs not be ing in a position to give a title the sale was yesterday declared oft A part of this estate was sold a few months ago to a prom inent Pittsburg official. Funding the Debt. Now that the consolidation of the Edison General and the Thomson-Houston compan ies ls'an accomplished, fact, the management is considering plans for taking care of a big funding-debt which is assumed by the new corporation. One scheme is said to be the issue of 10,000,000 of new stock, the same to be accompanied with a bonus of the securities held by the Edison and Thomson Houston companies. Another plan, and one that seems to meet with the most favor, is to fund the debt with an issue of new 5 per cent bonds. Business Sews and Gostlp. Iliad weather is holding back the spring trade and saving tho fruit crop. Citizens of Etna will, on April 12, vote 'on the proposition to increase tho borough debt $23,000 to establish an electric light plant. A bill has been introduced in the Ohio Senate providing for the sale of the Cincin nati Southern Kailroad. The road is owned by the city of Cincinnati, bonds for$18,C00,000 having been issued by the city for the con struction of the line. Baxter, Thompson A Co. say that, notwith standing had weather, renters were out in full lorce last week. The pressure for small houses is as great as it was last year. Dividends paid by the mining companies dnrjng Febmary amounted to $,364,920. Dividends paid since January 1 amount to S-2, 168,370. Sorthern Pacific earninss for the month ot February amount to $1,557,982, an increase of over $88,000. On Thursday next, March 10, a meeting of stockholders of the Exchange will be held to vote for. or against the sale of the build ing. A circular has been issued urging a lull attendance. Henry -M.- Long yesterday sold $10,000 Pleasant Valley lateral road bonds at a price approximating par. A tin and steel plate company has been formed m Sew Castle, Pa., ol which George Greer is President. The capital is $150,000. It Is stated that Mr. Wcstingbouse has se cured enough proxies to give him control of the Switch and Signal Company meeting next Tuesday. The Paiker estate has sold to D. M. Kier a house and lot, 60x120, on Allequippa street, Braddock, lor $5 000. Thirty permits were issued last week for 36 improvements, aggregating $35,186. In Sew York $13.000 Pittsburg and Western 4s sold at 83963 and 300 shares preferred stock at 20.- Movementsln Realty. Baxter. Thompson & Co. sold for Mr. A. W. Mellon a residence property on Meridim street,'Thirty-flfth ward, lot 75x140 feet to 20 foot alley, for $6,300. John K. Ewin & Co. sold for the Bay heirs to -Dr. C B. Bratt, the well-known Arch street dentist, - a three-story brick house of eight rooms, Jiall, bath" and attic, lot 20x75,' being the property So. 83 Arch street, comer of Sorth Diamond street," Second ward, Allegheny, for $11,000 cash. Heed B. Coyle & Col sold a property on the corner ol Lyile and Tecumsen streets, Hazel wood, consisting of a double frame dwelling ot four rooms each, with lot 60x100 feet, for $4,500. . - .J. Glosser.A Co.vsold an acre of property on Boggs ntenue tor $2,100, and two lots, '24x100 teet each, for $300 each. Peter Shields sold, two lots, Sos. 213 arid 214, each 30x90 feet, located on Santasket street, in the Greenfield avenue plan, Twenty-third ward, lor $900. Y. E. Hamnett & Co. sold a lot on East End avenue, WHkinsburg, 52x120, forSLWW. Alles Bros. & Co. sold lor T. D. Buriey to Mr. King, Ho. 231 Car-on street, a two story brick dwelling, for $4,800 cash: also,' for U. Jones to Mr. Jenkins, a six-room brick dwelling, So. 35 Eleventh street, tor $2,300. They also closed tne preliminary details ior the purchase of a tract or improved subur ban property, embracing several hundred acres, which the purchaser will improve and iilacc in the market. The names are witb icld for the pi esent: D. Betien & Son sold for Jennie C. Dick to James JUes tor $5,000 large lot and frame house ou corner O'Hara and Alder streets," Twentiethwardralso, (or-J.M. Wissmann, to.Gcorge Kieler house and lot on Ella street, Sixteenth ward, far $1,585. and for Peter See miller to L. Bichter leasehold on Penn ave nuenear Twenty-Re vent h street, with four frame houses,. for $2 000. " Charles Somers sold the farm ot James JI. Stewart, situated in Richland township. Al legheny county,- containing 50 acres, more or less, with improvements, for $5,000. John H. Miller, Soutbstde, city, was the pur chaser. J. E. Glass sold for. C. H. Watkins a new Queen Anne dwelling of 12 rooms, lot 30x100, situate 5748 Parker street, East End, for $7,000. Tho Burrell Improvement Company re- Jort the following sale of lots at Kensington: oseph Kuksyt, Pittaburg.lot 134, block 2, for $330; twalt Ddglen, Pittsburg, north halt lot 20, block 8 tor $375: Michael Welsh. Pitts .bnrg.lot 13, block 1. lor $600; John Kausch, Pittsburg; lot 11, block 12, for $595; Samuel S. Strasser, Parnassus, Pa., lot 8, block 15, for $525; Edwin F. Kiddle, Burgettstown, Pa.? lot 81, block 31, lor $637 50: M. H. Tonng, Parnas sus, Pa lot 2, block i, for $600; Peter Kruv zeieneski, Rankin station, Ta., lot 140, block 3, for $650: Mary B. Jacobs, Pittsburg, lots 17, 75 and 110, block 4, for $2,512 50; Mary B. Ja cobs, Pittsburg, lot 61, block 5,for $S2o; James A. Lewi, West Elizabeth, Pa., lot 69, block 2, for $600; Henry Malov, Sharpsburg, Pa., sonth half of lots and north half ot lot 4, block 8, for $618 75; Jacob 'and'Victoria Kro retz. United Postoflice, Westmoreland coun ty. Pa., lot 140, block 7, for $325: Peter Schu man, Kensington, Pa., lot 28, block 9, for $722 50. M. F. Hippie Co. sold to Miss Mary V. Harrison, for M. F. Hippie, house and lot corner Ivy and Elmer street. Twentieth ward; lot 26x105 for the price ot "$4,250; also sold to Michael Tuchnowski lot So. 5," situ ates on Downing' street. Thirteenth ward, in the M. S. Dickson plan of lots, for $430 cash. H0JIE SECURITIES. HIGHEST PRICES NOT MAISTATSED. BtT SO BAD BREAKS. The Reaction Thought to Have Run Its 'Course, and a Recovery Expected Most of the Specialties Finish Better Than a Week Ago. Business on the Stock Exchange was active during the week, but some of the specialties submitted to concessions from the best prices, though gains over the flual quotations of the week before were in the majority. Sone of the changes possessed any special significance, the slumps and rallies being incident to the fluctuations in demand. Closing prices of the active properties as compared with those of the pievious Satur day show these changes: Pipeage advanced , Philadelphia Gas I, Citizens' Traction Pittsburg Traction 2, Pleasant Valley i. Airbrake 2, Underground Cable 1. Central Traction lost and' Electric 1. The rest of the regular list undeiwent little change. The unlisted tractions finished the week as lollows: nnqupsne, 24JJ bid, no offers; Birmingham, 23 hid. offered at 25JJ; Man chester, offered at 39 no bids. These fig ures aie higRcr for Jjirmingham and Man chester than a week ago, but lower for Man chester. " Sales vesterdav were 165 shares 13 Elec tric at 1. 20 Philadelphia Gas at 17, 20at 17 33Biimingham at 2 75 Pleasant Val ley at 24J4- Sales for the week were 8,640 shares and $13,000 bonds. Final bids and offers were: EXCHANGE STOCK. nid. Aiked. Pittsburg Pet. Stock and Metal Ex. . ..500 550 BANK STOCKS. Bid. Asked. Freehold 90 Liberty National Bank 101'i Second National Bank 243 .... Sale Deposit Company :... 65 Ileal Estate Loan and Trust Co ,S0 .... NATURAL GAS'STOCKS. aid. Asked. People's Natural Gas and P.-Co 94 10 Philadelphia Co n 17W Wheeling Gas Co ni ,,',' IXCLIXE FLAXES. Bid. Asked. Ft. Pitt Incline Tlanc Co 20 FASSEMCXR RAILWAY STOCKS. Bid. Asked. Central Traction...! 23'i Citizens' Traction M 62 rittsburg Traction M Pleasant Valley 24i .... RAILROAD STOCKS. Bid. Asked, ntts., Cinn., Chi. St. L. R. R. pref 63 66 BRIDGE STOCKS. Bid. Asked. Point 12 MIKIXG STOCKS. Bid. Asked. Laster Mining Co 9 (,' Red Cloud..... .... 2 ELECTRIC LIGHT STOCKS. Bid. Westhnrhonso... 15 XISCZLIAXIOUS STOCKE. Asked. 15J4 Jionontrahela Navigation Co Union Switch and SlirnaICo Westinghonse AlrhrakeCo Standard TJndersrround Cable Co. , G9 19X 110 .108 . 70 SHARES DOWN LIKE A STICK AFTER SHOOTING TJP MKE A KOCKET ON MANIPULATION. The Canard Abont Jay Gonld's Death Has a Momentary EfTeot The Bank Statement Shows a Large Decrease in the Cash Unserve TConds Active. New York. Jarch 5. The stock market arnin save evidence that the moving power hehind the fluctuations is only manipulation, and while the strength of the whole'list was very decided in tho first hour, a complete and demoralizing change occurred at 11 o'clock, and the most positive weakness marked the trading on the Exchange for the last hour on tho session. There wero two principal causes advanced for this sudden chanjre in temper, one being the old rumor revived of the death of Sir. Gould, and the other was the appointment of aieceiver for the Georgia Central Rail-, way. Tlie former, however, was quickly de nied, while the latter was known before the opening of the session and seemed - to have no weight during the first hour. There was, besides, a hank, statement which showed a large decrease in cash, despite a .moderate increase in deposits and a heavy expansion which caused a reduction in the surplus re serve of over $5,000,000. This, undoubtedly. had some influence, but the downward movement was In full swing long before the issue of the statement. , i Tho market opened with a firm temper, and the whole list, except Richmond and West Point securities and New England, scored further Improvement In the first hour there being up to that time no inter ruption to tho aduance. The Vanderbilts were still the strong features, and Lake snore rose rapiaiy iiom iaoj to wsy 311cm gan central more than keeping pace with it, with a rtserom 11 to 19 on a much smaller business. All the other stocks of this group felt the stimulus, and Northwestern and New York Central mado material gains, selling up to the hignest points for the neek. Up to thi9 time the concessions in every thing but the Richmond and West Points were insignificant, but that stock opened down and retired 1 per cent further, while the preferred, after opening down 3i atCS, further dropped to 61. In the lace oi the weakness in the ret of the list it rallied to 6T. but closed at 65. TJie general list quickly ran oil' in tlm last hour, and realiza tions and heavy short selling, together with the execution of some stop orders, acceler ated the decline. Like Shore, dropped from Uoyi to 135, Northwestern rroin 111 to 119, Reudinz ti om 58k; to 55. Lackawanna from 163Jf to hVA, and Delaware and Hudson from iuog hj iti iynt niiu icii,nio aim UUU5UU irmn IViW to 137&whilc the en tire list wasbrousrht down below the level of the opening figures. The early advances were lost in all cases, and in-many additional fractions. The on slaught was kept up to the close, and the matket finished weak at the lowest price of the day. Michigan Central was -the only stock which held on to any' port!on'jf its advance, and it i fft per cent higher to night at 119, though the bid for it at the close was mateiially below that figure. The lasses, however, include Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson, each 3 per cent; Richmond and West Point, 2; the preferred, 6: Reading, 1, and New England and Missouri Pacific, each 1. The total sales or. stocks to-day were 390, 000 shares, including: Atchison, 8,095; Can ada Southern, 14,068; Delaware Lackawanna and Western, 4.912; Erie,-17,110; Lake Shore, 20,657: Louisville and Nashville, 5,000; Michi gan Central, 5 540: .Missouri Pacific. -5,705; Northwestern, 30,!fc6: New York Central, 8,982; NewEnsland. 30.340: Ueadinsr. 47.950: Rich mond and West. Point, 27,4.!8; St. Paul. 47,600; 1 st. raui ana umana, e,aiu, western Union, Railway bonds wero also fairly-actlve, but there wan no excitementas in stocks, though the Reading issues and those ot the Rich mond and West Point system-were specialty active and weak. The rest of the list, how ever, displayed a Ann temper until the break came, when prices receded in sym pathy. The total was $1,-127,000, or wlilch Richmond and West Point 5a furnished $296, 000. Reading Sds $129,000 and the deferreds $115,000. Thc'adrancos are tew, but Syracuse, Blnghamtan and New York lsts rose 2K to 131 Louisville and Nashville 5i 2 to 10S aud anu Missoui 1 Pacific 2nds 2 to 107. " A Bearish Prediction. John M. Oakley A Co. .received these pointers: "Richmond affairs.were the sub-J Jcct of much uneasiness in stock circles be fore the opening, and there was a general rush to sell on the announcement" that the Georgia Central, -the best company In the Richmond, system, had been suddenly thrown into the hands of a receiver. The rumor was that this had been done in the in- terestof tlio Reorganization Committee, as they-found Georgia Central stockholders in tractable. "Lake Shore and the Vanderbilts were bid up. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rising about 3 points in quick order. The other Vanderbilts, including Sorthwestern and a few Grangers shares, spch as St. Paul and Rock Island, wero rushed up, and big blocks of these stocks were handled abemt by traders. Thejnibllc were long of Richmond and others of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern,' and it was a marked fact that dur ing the Vanderbilt jubilee that Erie did not touch yesterday's closing. "The risein the high-priced Vanderbilts was a sudden and brilliant bull exploit, and if James B. Keen was not the author of it his ear must have -been appropriated by some other Richmond. The market a little before. 11:30 started down like a toboggan slide. Sext week will be Interesting, aud, in our opinion, the market will go down." Future Values in Doubr. Henry Clews & Co.-Say: ' "The' stock mar ket is flooded with mysteries, and rumors of gigantic railroad-deals upon an unpreceden ted scale as being' either in progress or already accomplished., Details of these have filled the daily press for weeks past, but only such operators as are within the charmed circles appear to know the true In-wardness'of'-maTiy'of "them. As' a conse quence, Judgment passes, for little in esti mating the future value of many securities, for the maruet is almost Wholly under the controljOf'c'omparatfvely fewpersons, whose operations, must . inevitably influence'the value of thousands of millions of stocks and bonds. - -, VS'everiii the history of Wall street was tho value of snph an enormous aggregation of securities so absolutely under tne control of so small a'cltcle as at this time. Sucha state of affairs cannot be considered satisfactory; because not only is speculation likely to bo unhealthily stimulated, hut the future of these combinations gives birth to a variety of -uncertainties which.'-while thev may ele vate prices, wm certainly not arm to tneir stability;-There is little question but that ln'tho end some of these: combinations will work for the best Interests of all concerncdt but in proportion as their result "means in creased profits to capital without correspond ing benefits to the masses, and so far as their sfldrt it' to'restrict competition we may, sooner or-later, expect the awakening of active public hostility." . The Finish in Stocks. The following table shows the prices of active stock? on tlie Sew Tork Stock Exchange yesterday. Corrected dallv for THE Dispatch by Whit.vky So Stepiiexsox. . oldest Pittsburg- members of the Sew York Stock Exih.iugc, 57 Fourth avenue: Clos ing buT. Open iug. High est. Low i est. Am. Cotton Oil. 36M 70' 8b,'8 "39 X "si" 141 31 Jili ' 'iiU 35( ires s-.y si S 0334 3Sj 8 isi'4 31 Am. Cotton Oh ii. nfd.. 70 . 86W "till "ejsi 13.11. 21 KUr'4 Am- MiiarRefl nning Co.. ; Am.SufwrKefiiilnrCo..pfcl Aicii.. .lop-, i&n. r. Canadian Pnclflc CaHada Southern Central ol Sew- Jcrsev Central Pacjlic .'. Chesapeake Jt Ohio C. SO., lstnftl., C. JtO. 2dpfd.. Chicago tIaXriist C, Bur. 4 Quiiicy C. Mil. A St. Paul C. Mil. &$t. Paul. prd.... C. Rock LAP C, St. P. 31. til CSt. P. M. A O.. pfd.... Ci Jr. Sorthwestern C. A Northwestern, pfd.. C. C. C. A I ('.. C. C. A I., pfd Col. Coal A Iron . Col, A Hocking Val Del.. Lack. 'A-V est Del. AiIuilsou lien. A Klo Graudc Den. A Hlo tiraude, pld... E. T., Va.A Uj Illinois Central I.jke Eric A Western Lake Erie A Western, pfd. l.akefehorc A-1I. S.. ........ Louisville A Nashville Michigan Central , Mobile A Ohio 38S IS) 31 26 4J14 77 105'4 n "89)i 49 111! 119H "raj 98 Sbii 31!S 159 138'm. Ml 52H 6HJ 106 25S," 7t nS 74 114V a hO'i 94 105 19 t 117J, 77H! 764 IMJli 7aH 107'i sov 8P, 1281 lS'S 12S W'2i JV- S3H 40 503 117S 12I VJ 116 119 H4.' 724 "3" 31S 1S' 137S 18'4 52 1C6,'4 23i. 76'n 1R5,'2 116 1I1S H.i 727, "JSV 1 73 .11 '4 103H 14:) 10 5.U 7 107S 26 76y 140'. 163', HO 1HV 53' ( (, lOrt 25 7(54 13614 74S 75" 74 117 I 112 40 my, 63lj 60 K 95 VT.'A 105 "l'i 'fl7'i 2Ia 20'1 79j 78 43 S. 42 3!, 31 77U 76'$ 52( 50 21,'j W)i "Hx "J5's "zr'h "s6:i 19V, 191 58,'. 55'4 "ik" "is" S3 64 44!4 44 10'4 104 1I3H 113 10 10 "30?ii "Z 88H 87 .Ifi'J 3.il, 76 76J4. 46?i 46 lVMi 40 3 93 Missouri Pacific. Satlonal Cordage Co. National Conlaec Co., National Lead Trust. . pfd. 107J4 New York -Central 118'4 79 4Vi N, Y.. C. A St. L N. Y.. C. Afct. L.,lst pfd, N. Y.. C. A St. L., M pfd, N. Y., L. E. A W J... N. Y.. L. E. A . pfd .. N. Y. AN.'E J N. Y. AO. W-. Norfolk A Western , Norfolk Jfc Western. prd.. North American Co Northern I'jctfle , Northern Pacific. pfd ; Ohio A Mississippi Pacific Jiail Peo., Dee. A Evans Philadelphia- A Reading. .. P.. C. C. A St. L ..... 20X. 77 42 33 76 5014 204 14 491f 16 !! 67,'i 21 36 11" 56X 26 66 188 12V 44 104 113 10 46V 12V 29V 871 33V 7614 g 82 .M4 77 5:'4i 21 K'A 57tf P.. C, C. ASt.L.. pfd h..7.. Pullman Palace Car ;..-..'..'. .:: iiicnmotia , v, 1. T Richmond A W. P. T., pfd 13 68 -I at. i am a ljuiulii St. Paul A Dulnth.pfd.. St. Paul. Minn. A Jlan HI4 1044 113 10 Texas I'actne. Union Pacific. Wabash. ..'j.... (l. nfi WeslerifUnlon WhccllngA L. E Wheeling. L. E.. pfd... Mis. A Cattle Fd. Trust... National Lead Co National Lead Co., pfd... Ex-div. " ' 881J 3G' 7RS 40 ' Boston Stocks Closing Prices. Atch. A .Topeka 38' Boston A Albany.... 205 do. JIalne 167 hl.. Bur. A Oulncv.lOf Boston A Mont. , 3i 260 , 12! , 12'4 -275 Calumet A Hecla... FranUlin Kearsarge Osceola FltchburzK. K. sSH r mil oc i ere ;u....... A FIlntAPereM.prd.. 80 Mass. Central.- 16V Mex. Central, com.. 19V Santa. Fe Copper Tamarack Boston Land Co.. ..15R S banDlero Landlto . 16 N. Y. AN. England. .Ki est r.nu L.aua uo.. in Bell Telephone 209 Lamson More S 13U uo vs r.Ti Old Colony 17u Rutland common.... 4 Rutland pfd 65 Wis. Central, com.. 18'5 do pfd 41 Alloner M." C. (new). 1 Atlantic on Water Power 33 Cent. Mining 11 I. .. X' bz B. A B. Conner. 1IW Thomson--Houston.. S9X Philadelphia Stocks. Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks, fur- niMiea uy n miney k siennenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. members of New York Stock Ex- change. Bld. Asked, . IS 55i . 23 1-15 28'4 :$ ?. . 2 23V . 67 67! . 53)i 5')'), , 39 39 Pennsylvania Railroad.. Reading Railroad..-. Bun-Hlo.'N.Y. A Phlla... Lehigh VaTley". , Northern Pacific .Northern Pacific, pref... Lehigh Navigation , Philadelphia A Erie Boston Electric. Stocks. 'BOSTOX. March 5.-tSpnrfjM The latest electric stock quotations to-day were: Bid. ....105 .... 58V .... 2SV .... 124' .... 14V .... 12 Asked. Ill 59 29 12f 15 12 Boston Electric Light Co.. T. H. E?Co-.: Uo preferred , Ft. W. E. Co W..E.CO..-. European W:Co...i Detroit Electric Works..., Bar Stiver Quotations. NewYotik, March 5.4-8pectol. Bar silver in London 41 7-16d per ax. New York dealers' price tor silr, 90i9Oe per oz.- LIVE STOCK-MARKETS. Receipts, Shipments,, and Prices at East Liberty and All Other Stock Yards. 1 ' Office of The -Dispatch, i Pittsbubo,, bATUBDAT, March 5. Cattle Receipts, 567 head: shipments. 693 , head; market nothing doing all through consignments. Nine cars cattle shipped to New York to-day. - i Hogs Receipts, 2,900 head; shipments, 4.100 head: market firm on tops, slow on Yorkers; all grades, $4 905 25. Seven cars of hogs snipped to New iorKo-day. SHKEr Receipts, 600; shipments, 600; mar ket strong at unchanged prices. Denver's Corrupt Ex-Offlclals. i Denver, March 5. George KaymondV ex-deputy city auditor, 'anil James P. Had: ley, deputy treasurer, will go to the peni tentiary. . The jury in their case brought in a verdict of guiltv last night. The men wer accused of raisins; a check of 3 30 to $303 50. and one of S6 to $600. "Warrants .were' forged, falsely sworn to and the money paid. The city, was defrauded out of hun dreds of thousands of dollars in the last two years of the administration of .municipal affairs. J A Preacher Makes War on White Caps, Vincennes, Ind., March 5. Kev. Jonah Abel, preacher of the Decker Circuital. E. Church,- is the only .man whd has openly defied theWhite Caps and invited them to do their worst. He has' accomplished the arrest of the. ringleaders of the order, who have sent.him threatening letters.. 8ICK HEAD ACHECarter,s Lm(e Uyer pmj SICK HEADACHE. '-Carter's Little Liver Pills. - SICK. HEADACHE VCarter's LlttleHver PU1. BICK. HEADACHECirter,iIJttle Liver PiUv f i . . -"JeMO-imTsa TOOL DRESSER DEAD. Fatal Boiler Explosion at Laurel rHiil. Yesterday Morning. OIL WORKERS HAVE BEEN LUCKY. One Light Fifth Sander "Was Drilled i 1 ' - Northeast of Oakdale. DEYELOPirEKTS ARE EXPXCTED SOON Conrad Dougherty was killed at 3 o'clock yesterday morning by the explosion of a boiler, at Laurel Hill. He was employed as a tool dresser at Greenlee k Forst's No. 4 on the Miller farm. Laurel Hill' is about half a mile east of McDonald. Dr. Spahr was the contractor. Daugherty was about 40 years of age and married. He resided in Mansfield, but had no children. John W. Riddle was the driller on tour when Dough erty was killed. He said yesterday that they expeoted to reach the Gordon sand within the next 12 hours after- the explosion oc curred. Just before the disaster Dougherty was in the denick. They had run the bailer three times, put on a fresh bit, bitched on, and 'had not made a dozen revolutions before the unfortunate man met his death. Al ter they hitched on Dougherty started to go to the boiler, and Riddle stated that he could not more than have reae.bed the boiler before the explosion came. They were using gas for fuel. Riddle says that the force of the explosion whirled him around four or five times, and that he then fell . to the derrick floor in a semi-unconscious state. When he got up people were coming from their houses in the vicinity. Dougherty was iuunu lying on nis Dace oesiue tne engine house fully 125 feet from the boiler. He was dead when found. His head and lace were terribly cut upjby cinders and he hadn-gaping gash over the right eye and one under the lert. He was also cut consid erably about the trunk and nearly every bone in his body was broken. Doors and Windows Shattered. Every pane of gloss In half a dozen miners' houses in the vicinity were broken. Tli door and windows in the house of John Burns were blown out, and a portion of tne boiler went through the bed and room where his children Imvebeen sleeping every night until two days azo. The concussion following the explosion was heard all, through McDonald, and a butcher at Midway, three miles west, claims that he also heard it. Dougherty has been working on oil wells for the lat 17 years, and belongs in Venango county. His remains were taken to Cook's undertaking establishment in McDonald yesterday morning, and were taken to Mans field later in the day. The boiler was one of tho best made, and it went all to pieces. Usually when boilers explode irom an over pressure of steam they break in two part, but yesterday morning this one flew in 50 different direc tions. This leads to the belief that the ex plosion was caused by a shortage of water lu the boiler. Drillers ntid tool dressers in the McDonald field have been remarkably lucky In regard to boiler explosions. The water in this ter ritory has ruined twice the -number of boil ers which wduld be ordinarily used, and on some wells as many as four boilers have been used. Considering their condition, tlie workmen have been fortunate in having so few explosions. . A' Will Be Practically Dry. Got'diuer & Co.'s No. 2 on the Kennedy farm, a mile north and east or Oaktlale, which has been closely watched as liable to define new territory, wns over 20 feet in the fifth sand yesterday, and showing very light. Practically ic is no good. The Forest Oil Company was drilling in the top of tho filth in its No. 2 Agnes Kemp yesterday. This well is located only 75 ieet irom Gordiner's well. Fitzgibbons & Co.'s well on the Kennedy, which is located only a few hundred feet from the above wells; is down 1,400 feet. Rend & Robbins were drilling in the top of the Goidon sand yesterday at their No. 1 on the Robbins property east of Willow Grove. They expected to get the pay late last even ing. Shcfller 4 Co. are drilling on top of the Gordon in tlie eastern part of Willow Grove. Murphy-Bros. & Co. are down 800 leet in their well at the Robbins trestle between Noblestown and Willow Grove. J. M. Guttey & Co.'s No. 3 on the Mary Spurgeon property near the Willow Grove pump station is making 350 barrels a day Irom the' Gordon sand. They have started to spud in their No. 4 on this property. Greenlee Forst's No, 2 on the Wade farm, south of McDonald station, is due to reach the Gordon sand Monday or Tuesday. Their No. 4, on the Miller farm at Laurel Hill, will be drilled into the Gordon sand as soon as they can rig up a boiler to take the place of the one which exploded yesterday morning. Scott Well Said to Have Improved. The well of Knox Bros., Apple and Elyea on the Scott farm, 2 miles south of Mc Donald, wa3 reported to have been agitated yesterday and to be making from eight to ten barrels an hour. The Wheeling Gas Company's well, on the Kelso iarm, Is reported to be making a tank of oil every 18 hours, or about 13 barrels an hour, from the fifth sand. Storey & Co. expect to reach tne fifth sand to-morrow or Tuesday on the brickyard lot west of Willow Grove. Millison A Fried are drilling two wells on the Henrv Shaffer Iarm in tlie western SIc Curdy field, located between the McGarr iarm well and the Forest Oil Company's No. 1 M. Wright. Phillips & Co.'s well on the Schieb farm, in southern McCurdy, is down 800 feet. Personal. S. D. Karns, familiarly known ns "Dune," was in Pittsburg yesterday. He returned recently from a six years' sojourn in Col orado. "Dune" was at one time the most widely known man In the oil regions of Pennsylvania. Karns City was named for him, he built tlie Karns City and Butler Railroad, owned a bank, and had a bigger production than any man in the United States. Yesterday afternoon he stood in tiont of the Oil Exchange on Fourth avenue and held an informallevee, as his oldi time friends passed along and were greeted by a cordial shake or the hand. He has grown somewhat thinner since his trip to tne west, Dut is apparently Just the same wiry little man that he was in the days when his name was an open sesame on a note, draft or check. The McDonald Gnages. The production of the field was 26,000 yes terday,tho same as the day before. The hour ly gauges were as follows: Jennings, .Guf fey 4 Co.'s No.3 Matthews, 40: Herron Jfo.4, 30; Guffey and Queen's No. 1 Samuel Wetmore. SO: Devonian Oil Company's No. 1 and 2 lioyce, 40: Oakdale Oil Company's No. 2 Mor gan heirs, 20; Nos. 2 and 3 Baldwin, 45; Nos. 1 and 2 Wallace, 25; Forest Oil Company's No. 1 M. Wright, 50; Guffey, Murphy & Cos Nos. 1 and 2 Sam Sturgeon, 25: Oakdale Oil Com pany's No. 2 John Wetmore, 25; Brown Bros. Rob'ison & Co.'s No. 1 McMurray, 25; produc tion, 20,000; stock in the field, 56,500. The l-unsof the Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Lino Company from McDonald Fri day were 25,(75; outside of 3IcDonald,10,567. The National Transit runs were 35,470; ship ments, 18 006. Buckeye runs. 32 364: ship ments, 55,786. Southern Pipe Line inns, 11, 56S. New York Transit runs. 31,297. Macks burg runs, 1,813. Eureka shipments, 2,126. THE WEEK IK OIL. Business Light, bat the Price Picks Tip a tittle. Tnero was no features toattract general nN tention. " Production was shifted a little, manifesting a downward tendency, encour aging certificate' holders to maintain a wait- I mgattituae, anu tui3 tney seemed uisposed tq do. Fluctuations are shown in the follow ing table: Open- Ulgh- Low- lug. t. est. -lose- Monday. 64 S8H' 57 IS Tuesday MH MH sni 69'-4 Wednesday.'. H3'4 59!i .a'Hj 59), Thursday 59 58, 5 59 Friday 59!i S95J 59, 59J. Saturday &)fr 59h 59X 59.S Refined finished the week as follows: New- York, 6.10c; London, 5d;. Antwerp, 1S& Talk among the broKers indicated expecta tions of better prices this week. A change of some kind Is thought to bo Impending. - OilCity, .March 5. National Transit certifi cates opened at 59Jc; hishest. 69-Jic: lowest; 69c: closed, S9c; sales, 30,000 barrels: clear ances, 78,000 barrels: shipments, '67,004 bar rels: runs,-76,449 barrels. Bradfokd, March 5. National Transit cer tificates ooened at 69c; closed at 58c; highest, 59$c; lowest, &c; clearances, 4u,u00 barrels. New York, march" 5. Petroleum opened firm.advanced Vfc.then declined K on a few sales. Pennsylvania, oil Spot Miles none. April, option opened 59e: highest, 59c: lowest, 759Jc: closing at 99c. Lima on No sales. Total sales, 10,000 barrels. Union Veteran Ij;ion. Cotosix H. P. Callow, i. still suffering1 from his old wound. - No. 6 h(l two new applications for mem bership at the lastmeeting. Coloxei. SamitklM. Dn-VALtpresided-over No. 1 last Monday evening in an able man ner. L"iXDgipr CuitRiE, late of the Seventvv-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, was mustered at the last meeting or No. 6. Cojtrade W. B. BRADBunv, or 'No. 6 was chosen a school director for the Eleventh ward, Allegheny, at the late election. Abkaoexzxts are already being made to take a large delegation to the National En campment at Indianapolis next October. A mcmbzb of local musicians are talking of organizing a military brass band, to be known as the Union Veteran Legion Band. Comrade H. F. Oliveie, of, No. 6, now a resi dent of Tacoma, sent a communication to the encampment whicn was read at the last meeting. Escampxeht No. 1 received a number of new applications last Monday night. It is thought the list will go up to 1,500 before the end of the year. - , CoLoim, I. K. Campbeli, has returned from an extended Southern trip, and at themeet ing to-morrow night will give an account of Southern life, as he found it. Comrade Hugh Morrison, of No. 6, has trong convictions in changing the eligibility clause of the U. V. L. so as to admit a very meritorious class of soliders now lnelligible. The celebration of the anniversary of Ap pomattox will take place' in tho Auditorium on Saturday, April 9. The committee will meet in the lihrarv room of No. I to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. Coloxil S. C Baeh is having a fine portrait of his old. Commander, Admiral Farragut, painted for No. L Several others are talk ing of having pictures of their corps Com mander painted for the legion. General Pearson's new offices on Fifth avenue were besieged by old soldiers last weekwho desired admittance to soldiers' homes. As all the homes are full, he has hard work in arranging tor their care and comfort. A history or the gallant old One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment will be read by Colonel Levi Bird Daft before No. I soon and Judge Siagle promises to follow with a history of the One Hundred and For tieth Pennsylvania Volunteers. The following lucky applicants for pen sion are reported by J. H. Stevenson & Co. for the past week: Jacob M. Snyder, WH kinsburg; Morris Carlisle, Redman's; James Purvis. Etna: Charles Reitz. Pittsbnr!" Rob. Lert- Robs, Coal Valley; Mrs. Nancy Small, Aiiegneny; il,rs. Christian Honck, Pittsburg; Mrs. Maggie Heasley, Allegheny. BROKERS FINANCIAL. Whitney 6t stephensou 57 Fourth Avenue: ap30-3J FAHNESTOCK & CO., 2 VVall Street, New York, Snpply selected investment bonds for cash or in exchange for marketable securities. Execute commission orders for investors at the Stock Exchange or in the open mar ket. Furnish information respecting bonds. ja7-ll-TTsn HOW TO SPECULATE. CONSOLIDATED STOCK. AND PP.ODTJCE CO., CAPITAL STOCK, SS0.000 00, full paid. SO NEW and S3 BROAD STS., N. T., Rooms A, 8, 9, 10 and 11, executes orders in lots of 10 shares and np on 2 percent margin. Daily and weekly stock letter and book how to speculate, mailed. free. (Special terms to out-of-town brokers.) Direct wires to all exchanges. mh(W! ESTABLISHED 1884. John M. Oakley & Co., BANKERS AND BROKERS: 45 SIXTH ST. Direct private wire to New York and Chi cago. Member New York, Chicago and Pitts burg Exchanges. Only Pittsburg member Chicago Board of Trade. Local securities bought and sold for cash or carried on liberal margins. In-stments made at onr discretion and dividends paid quarterly. Interest paid on balance (since 1885). Money to loan on call. Information books on all markets mailed on application. feT WE OFFER FOR SALE Sloo3ooo Fall Paid Non-Assessable 6 Per Cent Prefer ential Stock of the MOUNDSViLLE Mining and Manufacturing Co., MOUNDSVILLE, W. VA.f AT PAK AND ACCRUED DIVIDEND. The dividends for THREE YEARS GUARANTEED and payable at the office of FIDELITY TITLE AND TRUST GO., PITTSBURG, PA. The Directors of the Company are: CHAS. A. WEAVER, of tho Weaver, Bardell, Humphrey Manufacturing; Co., Mounds ville. President. ALFRED PAULL, Secretarv of the Under writers' Insurance Co., 'Wheeling, VIco President. CHAS. C. McCOLGAN, President Chas. C JUcColgan Co , Baltimore, 3Id., Vice Presi dent. J. GLENN COOK, of J. Glenn Cook A Co., R. E. Brokers, Baltimore, Aid., Secretary and General Manager. HON. WM. G.WORLEY, State Senator, King wood, W. Va. J. N. VANCE, President of the Exchange Bank, also of the Riverside Iron works. Wheeling, W. Va. LOUIS C. STIEEL, Proprietor or the Wheel ing Calico Works, Wheeling, W. Va. M. V. RICHARDS, Land and Immigration Agent, B. O. R. R.. Baltimore, Md. J. B.' HICKS. ex-Sheriff of Marshall county, Moundsville. H. W. HUNTER, Cashier Marshall County Bank, Monndsville. W. W. SMITH. Merchant, Monndsville. M.N. WILLETS, Planter, Mlddletown, Del. GEO. H. P. SCHMIDT, of George E. Stlfel 4 Co., Wheeling, W. Va. Treasurer. GIBSON LAMB, President of the "Bank or Wheeling," Wheeling, W. Va. Circulars containing fnll details and all in formation' relating to the company and the stock will be furnished on application, by mail or in person, to the SPECIAL AGENTS. A. J. LAWRENCE & CO., Brokers, No. 84 Fourth av., Pltt-sbnrjr, Ta. mh6-sn ONE CENT A DOSE. - Nohov likes being sick yet many are willing to he rather than face a heavy doc tor's bill. Bnt what's the use of suffering at all when relief and cure maybe purcnasedaf the rate of one cent a. dose, by using Bur dock Blood Bitters a medcine that is guar anteed to enre or relieve all diseases ot the stomach, liver and bowels. Two great sources of disease are Dyspepsia and Con stipation. They cause Headache, Billions, ness. Dizziness, Palpitation and lpmpure Blood, which in turn causes pimples, boils, blotches tumors, scrofula and similar dis eases, thus affectinc the entire system. We -ruarantee Burdock .Blood Bitters, if faith fully used according to directions, to cure Dyspepsia and Constipation and all diseases springing from them, and '-will refund he money to any .person -not satisfied attar using tie whole or part of the first bottle. FOSTER. H1LBUKN CO., fetrt-TTMu Buffalo. N. T. SCROFULA eczema, tetter, boils, f ulcers, sores, rheumatism, and catarrh, cured by 'taking AYER'S Sarsapariila it purifies, vitalizes, invigorates, and enriches the blood. Has Cured Others will cure you. MEDICAL. DOCTOR WHITTIER 814 PJSSN AVKNUE, PITToBURG, PA. As old residents know and hack Hies oT Pittsburg papers prove, Is the oldest estab lished and most prominent physician in tha citv.devoting special attention toall chronics ETS.N0 FEE'UNTIL CURED sponsible. Mrpni Q and mental dis persons INLM VUUo eases, physical de cay, nervous debility, lack of energy, ambi tion and hope, impaired memory, disordered sight, self distrust, bashfulness, dizzines sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, impover ished blood Hilling powers, organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, nnfltting the person for business, society and marriage, perraanentl v, safely and privately icnnroad.iBL00D AND SKINJKS? eruptions, blotches.falling hair,bones,pain glandular swellings, ulcerations of tha tongue, mouth, throat, ulcers, old sores, are cured for life, and blood poisons thoroughly eradicated froml 1DIM A DV kldnev and the system. UnmAn I ibladder de rangements, weak hack, gravel, catarrhal discharges, inflammation and other painful symptoms receive searching treament, nronipt relief and real cures. ' Dr. iVhittier's life-long extensive experi ence insures scientific. and reliable treat ment on common sense principles. Consulta tion free. Patients at a distance as carefully treated as If "here. Office hours, 9 a. jr. to t r.tt. Sunday, 10a. v. to 1 p. jf. only. DR. 1TH1TT1EK, 81 Penn avenuo, Pittsbnrg, Pa. JatWS-Dsnwk 1 COTTON-fUuT COMPOUND A recent discovery by an mt physician, bnceessfullv iik1 monthly by thonsands of ladles. Js the only perfectly safe and reliable medicine discovered. JJeware of unprincipled drug gists who offer Inferior medi cines In Dlaee of this. Ast for COOK'S cotton Rot Compound, ta&e no substi tute, or inclose SI and cents in postage 1" letter, and we will send, sealed, bv return jnnil. Full ealed particulars-In plain envelope, to ladles only. 2tump5. Address lrOXD LILY COMl'ANV. -No.3jrisner uiock, ueiroic. Mien. Sold In HttsbnrR by Jos. F Liming & bo.v. 111 Market street. del7-ol-eodwfc ureimSTREnsTii Thoroughly, Rapidly, Permanently. Rtstorid.- ' Tf 7011 are saTfrtov from KeTVOUsneU, DetdlnrLost OT Falling If anhnod, Impotency. Stoated Development of any ol the parts. WeakneM of Body and Iflnrt, Worry Zrroro ot Toutn or Idler Bxceatf, DO NOT DESPAIR. THere is Hon; lor all. Xmz, MMe kill an! oilStn. Tnnrsistw or tiik hoist cash m to tiiidi:d to oca EXltCSITI X1TII0DS or IinXE TKZATJIEVr. If OST SCIENTIFIC nd SUCCESS7UL.EVZK SHOWS Absolutely Unrailmg-. Endorsed b the lekdlng Medical Fraternity. I3J VBSTKiATE. Book, explanation!, testis aiala and endorsements mailed (sealed FBEE. TEX A1IBIL03 JUDICAL mSTHTIS CO- Cuia, S Ja7-57-eod DR. E. C. WEST'S NERVE & BRAIN Treatment, a Ruaranteert specific for Urstertit, Dizziness. Convulsions. Fits. .Nervous Xearalffla. Headache. Nervous Trostration caused by the u4 of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness. Mental De pression, Softenlnjc of the Brain resulting In In sanltv. decay and death. rrematureOM Ajre. Loi of Tower in either sex. Involuntary Losses anl Spermatorrhrea caused by over-exertion of tha bnin. self-abuse or over-indulgence. Each box contain? one month's treatment, fl.00 a box. oc six for $5.00, by malU WE GUARANTEE SIX 'BOXES To cure any case. With each order received frjp six boxes we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to refund the money If the treatment oes not cure. Guarantees Issued only br EMU G. STUCKY. PrujTSjist. Sole Arent. Noi. 3401 and 170t Penn avenue.-corner Wylie avenne and Fulton street, Pittsburg. Pa. Use Stu cry's Diarrhos 5s Cramp Cure. 25 and 50 cts. ja-182-eoda VIGOR OF MEN Easily, Quickly. Permanently TCESTOKEO, WEAKNESS, NERVOUSNESS. DEBILITT. and all the train or evils, the results of over work, sickness worry, etc Full streficth. development, and tons guaranteed, in all cases. Simple, natural methods. Immeai ate improvement seen. Failure impossible. 2,000 references. Book, explanations and proofs mailed (sealed) free. Address EKfK MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO. N. T. JelO-H COTE Til UCM Wehare a polt!v enro for the effects or Mlf-atm arlTElcs,Eml10DS.NerTOCsDcblUtv.La8SofSexnaI Power, Impotency Ac. So ffwt is oar faith in our apeein we will arnd one fall month's medicine and macJ$ valuable information FREE. AddreM --6. JI. Co.. asS Broadway, .Yew York. mvll-243n , TO WEAK MEN rS ewlT decay, wasting weakness, lost maahood, etc 1 will send avalaable treatse fietued) estaliilna full particulars for home core, FREE of charge. A splendid medical work; aoould be read by every xnaa who Is nrroas and debilitated. Address. a?ro. F. C. ro WXEB, Hao-miia, Cobb delU-D3awk r ABOOIfrDRTHEMIUIOH FR&"t OME TREATMENT iaitm kirn i r il ri rrTBirn-vr' Ter sll CHS0TTKL OEOA1TI0 til nZEYOUS DISEASIS in both sszcsT Bar ao Bait till Tan read tala hk- kAArmm PERU CHEMICAL CO.. HIlWASUt. WIS ! mm U - HafTeruuT t f hBI M M Power. Nerroaa Ue- lffaHllVa. HlakalTJ lllty,Iat)laahoea. Ere. We will send yoa a valuable book (sealed) free) of chan-e, containing fall partl cnlars for a speedy and permanent care. Address: SAN MATEO MED. CO.. iOt OUT street. St. Lonls. Mo. DR. SAXDEX'S ELECTRIC BELT With Electro-Magnetic Suspensory ! Latest Patents! Best Improvements! Will cure without medicine all Weakness resulting from over-taxation of brain, nerve forces, ex cesses' or Indiscretion, as exhaustion, nervons'de ollity. tleeplcssueas. languor, rheumatism, kid ney. Ilverand bladder complaints, lame back, lum bago, sciatica, general Ill-health, etc. This Elec tric Belt contains wonderlnl Improvements over all others, and gives a current that Is Instantly felt by wearer or we forfeit S3.0CO. and will cure an of the above diseases or no pay. Thousands have been cured by this marvelous Invention -'after all other remedies failed, and we give hundred of testimonials In this ami every otlierState. onr l'owertnl IMPROVED ELECTRIC SUS PENSORY, the greatest boon ever offered weak men, FREEwith AL1. BETTS. Health and vigor ous strength GU AK AXTtED in 60 to 90 days. Send for Illustrated pamphlets, mailed, sealed, free. Address. iSASUM fcLECTBIC CO I feH-IK-TTSSd No: 819 Broadway, New Tori I I WFi THE aBBlrWIrzn3BSsBBKBaBBKBaBP 1 A ' ). I " . ' ' ' '..''" '
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