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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-18
VOLUME XVIII.
THE WAY SHE MADE THE CAKE.

My rale? Why certainly! It's queer
But no one ever eats that cake,
Who doesn't ask me for my rule,
(How much to use-how long to bake-)
I've given it TO scores, and yet,
My knack there's no one seems TO get
take mJ flour-sometimes pint
Though several cakes require quart
And sift it twice, or may be thrice,
Or only once, if time is short,
Three eggs (or four, il under size),
II scarce, two large ones might suffice.
A coffee cup of sugar, then,
With just enough of butter, beat
Or. add more sugar, il you wish,
Should you prefer it very sweet N
With milk, the butter increase,
With cream. use a smaller piece. -essg
Don't let your baking powder make
Your cake too tender or too tough;
Flavor the whole to suit your taste,
And stir it till it's stiff enough;
And now, your work is wasted quite,
Unless your ovens heat is right.
IL you should have good luck, I'm sure
You won't regret the pains you take
But, after all it's judgment, more
Than quantity, that makes the cake;
For scores have had my rule, and yet
My knack there's no one seems to get.
Mrs. George Archibald, in Good House
keeping.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-18

In Wyoming. if a man takes the
caueass of a beef to market, he has to
take along with it the hide which came
off it, so it can be ascertained if it had
his brand, or was stolen. That would
be good way to do where a sharper
steals farmers note. compel him to
take the farmer along to the "innocent
purchaser" to prove it was not stolen,
Iowa State Register.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-18

-''Man's inhumanity to man" gives
the police !Qgce employment Life,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-05-18

--Cholly Gocularly) - "Take that
pencil out of your mouth" Billy
"Say, mister, who owns this mouthP''
Cholly-"A syndicate, probably, judg'
Ing from the size, "-Grip,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
Wool Mnr,rer.

NEW YORK = Wool is steady and quiet:
domestic fleece, 32@3Sc; pulled, NQ38c; Texas,
14@2Sc.
ST LoU1s-Receipts Of wool BAIT pounds;
market steady but quiet
PHILADELPHIA-Fleece wool in improyed
demand Territorial woods quiet; Ohio, Penn
svIvania and West Virginia, Xxx and above
S31z@34c; X3l@33c; medium, 361663Sc; coarse,
36G37c; New York. Michigan, Indiana and
S7c; coarse, 3515@361zc; fine washed delaine
and Xxx, 3{14956c; medium washed combing
and delaine, 3964lc; coarse washed combing
and delaine, 37Q3Sc; Canada washed comb
ing, 33@35c; Logs washed 32@4lc: medium
washed combing and delain, 2S030c: coarse
do, 27@28c; Montana, l6Q25c; Territorial, 151&
@22c.
BosToN-There was quiet market for wool,
the sales for the market being $500 pounds of
all kinds. The largest transactions were of
valley Oregon wool, about 50.O00 pounds being
Csc for No /: all of which were sold to single
manufacturer. In Eastern some sales of choice
were made at 2l@22c, and other sales were
made at l9120c. Territory woods were quiet,
with 60c for secured and outside price for best
fine; medium sold at 50@53c and fine medium
at 55@57c. Texas wool has been selling at 190
Csc for spring. and at l6@2315c as to quality for
fall California, and other unwashed woods are
quiet. Fine washed feeces are firm. Sales of
Ohio Xxx have been made at 3I@35c, K at S20
3211zc and No. at SSQ89c, and Michigan x at 300
Sic. The outside prices were for very choice
wool. Continuation and delaine heeces were
quiet. with small sales of No. combing at 800
4Oc; Ohio fine delaine at 35Q36c and Michigan
fne deIaine at 34035c. Unwashed combing
moves slowly at 28030c. Pulled woods have
been quiet. Foreign woods remain firm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
LANDS AND HOUSES.
They Continue to Move All Along the Line
Latest Deals.

They Continue to Move All Along the Line
Latest Deals.
Ewing & Byers, No. SO Federal street, sold
for Daniel Hendel, executor of the Birming-
ham estate, to ]. G. Witty, a vacant lot. 5Ox
l2O feet on Walnut street, running through to
Spruce street, in Birmingham's plan of lots,
West Bellevue, Pittsburg, Ft Wayne and
Chicago Railroad, being lot No. 9 in said plan,
for $3.50 cash. This sale closes out the Birming-
ham estate, with the exception of one lot
Lashell Rankin sold for Mrs E Rosensteel
to +. g. Schlotter, two lots 25xl60 feet each
Broadway and Second avenue, Coraopolis, for
S425.
E. D. wingenroth, 100 Fourth avenue sold
for Pittsburg party lot No. l76 in Rebecca
Baum's plan, on Yew street. Ben Venue to
George Zeilfelder. for 500 cash.
Black & Baird. 80 Fourth avenue sold to
John Haney ct al. six lots in North Homestead,
being lots Nos 3S to 43 in the North Home
stead plan, for 81 500. The purchaser is Mary
L. Stranahan.
W.. A. Heron & Sons sold lot No. AS in the
Aspenwall Company's plan In size SOx12O feet,
Samuel W. Black & Co., 80 Fourth avenue.
placed a mortgage for S., 900 for three years at
~ per cent, free of State tax on property on
Wylie avenue, near Washington street, Seventh
ward Pittsburg.
James W. Drape Co. sold a collateral in
terest in good residence and grounds in the
East End for $40 900 cash; also sold a house and
lot adjoining Chestnut street for 50 250 cash;
also placed mortgage of $4,000 at per cent
on residence property at Oakland: also placed
a mortgage of s., 500 on farm in Penn town.
ship at per cent; also placed several mortgages
aggregatlng Sl5, 900 at @ per cent in sums from
y, 600 to S6,OOO on properties in and around the
cities and McKeeSport.
Reed B. Coyle q Co., l3l Fourth avenue.
placed 81 600 mortgage on a property in the
East End for three years at 6 per cent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
By TELEGRAPH.

NEW YoRK-Beeves-Recefp 30 carloads
for the market; 30 carloads for export, and q
carloads for city slaughterers direct. there was
a, a,fair demand and a small advance in values,
but no special activity; common to prime
native steers sold at So 6564 so per 100 pounds
few sSsTS soS DO at g 70 and bulls and dry COWS
nearly nominal at 5471&c per pound for com
mon to good veals. and 2Z623lc for Western
calves; few good and extra Westerns to 3931<c.
Sheep-Receipts, 3, 100 head; sheep at former
prices; frmer and 1Ze per pound higher for
good lambs; sheep sold at 314951zc per pound;
lambs at 514977ze- Hogs-Receipts. 1000 head;
none for sale alive: reported steady ar the
nominal range of 50 7O@4 10 per 100 pounds.
KANSAS CrrY-Cattle-Re 34OO head.
shipments, 2SO0 head: market weak TO 10c
lower for steers. others steady; natives. S30
40: cows. 81 5OQ2 40; stockers and feeders.
S213 90 Hogs-Receipts. 100 head. ship
ments, 100 head; market 21SQ5c lower; all grades
selling at s. 5O0G3 5T1<; bulk at So 521&63 55.
Sheep-Receipts, 700 head; shipments, 400
head; market l0@l5c higher; good to choice
muttons, S4@4 70; stoekers and feeders, S30
CHICAGO = Cattle - Receipts. 10000 head:
shipments. $500 head; market slow, but steady;
beeves, 81 S565; stockers and feeders, 81 250
3; COWS, bulls and mixed, 81 4042 80; Texas
head; Shipments, 1000 head; market slow and
&C lower; mixed, So 4063 IS: heavy So 4003 671<;
light g 9S 4O@5 70; skPs sos go Zoo Shesp-Re-
fed, s2@5; Texans, sSG4; lambs, "a sO@6 10
ST. LoUIs-Cattle-Rece 1 $40 head; mar
ket good-Fancy native steers "a 2505 OUs
far to good, So 1904 80; gtockers and
feeders. 81 0003 20; range steers. 81 O063 %
Hogs-Receipts, 1000 head; market firm; fair
to choice heavy, 50 5003 20; packing grades,
So 1898 IS; light, fair to best. So 40G3 80 Sheep
Receipts. 1000 head; market strong; fair 70
choice, So 1904 so; lambs, "a 3065 40.
BUFFALo-Cattle firm and unchanged: re-
ceipts, Al loads through, 3 for sale. Sheep and
lambs firm and unchanged; receipts. loads
through, on sale. Hogs strong and higher;
receipts, loads through. 20 on sale: mediums
and heavy ends, 50 70; Yorkers and pigs, So 50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
SPECULATORS PlNCHED.
Money Elevated to Point Which Made
Wall Street Stnre-A Rally In
SuEar-RaIlroad Bonds
Weak and Fea.

New YORK, December 27.-In the stock mar
ket to-day the transactions actually made in
stocks were Of small moment and the absorb
ing feature was in the money market which as
usual of late upon Fridays. was given a little
squeeze. The rate for call loans ruled all the
first hour at about 500 per cent but soon after
that it began to advance, and from 1t went to
II, and with one stride 20 was bid. The passage
to 80 was quick, but that was the maximum for
the day.
The reaction was almost as sudden, as during
most of the afternoon it ruled at is to 20. but
after all borrowers were accommodated it was
offered down to s. per cent at the close. The
wonder was that with such rate for money
and all the speculative powers enlisted upon
the side of low prices, that there should be no
further decline than was had, but the market
remained fairly steady throughout the greater
portion of the day with q sagginc rendency at
times in the general list.
The high rates for moneyagain brought down
the rates Tor sterling exchange, and the de-
maud rate is now within the gold importing
point which gave rise to rumors of an engage
ment Of gold upon the other side for shipment
to this country. The feeling was that the i'm
portation of gold could not be long delayed,
and this served more than anything else to
buoy up the market for stocks. The only feat
rally in Sugar refneries, after slight decline
in the early trading, which had every appear
ance of covering of shorts, and from 565A the
stock advanced to 5s1< but settled back again
to 581z at the close,
Notwithstanding the bearish feeling upon
the coal stocks on the traders. Lackawanna
was well held, and even showed some strength
in the forenoon. Richmond and West Point
was weak In the early trading. declining nearly
per ceEt, but rallied somewhat later. Union
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
BUSINESS NOTES.

THE annual meeting Of the Arsenal Bank
will be held January&
THE annual meeting of the Columbia Oil
Company will be held January9.
OF n mortgages recorded yesterday the larg-
est was for S6.500 Eight were for purchase
money.
THE Isabella Furnace Company will at once
commence operations ON a new blast furnace
TO be 17x75 feet.
THE Babcock & Wilcox Company. manu-
facturers Of the safety water tube boiler, have
removed their Office to the Lewis building.
THE Hazelwood Oil Company has declared
its fortieth quarterly dividend. The dividend
is IL per cent, and checks will be mailed jan
uary /.
The Westmoreland Specially Company,
manufacturers of tableware and glass special
ties, whose newly.buiI; factory is located at
second week in January.
APPLICATION has been made by Thomas
Brown. Thomas Mellon, John w. Tim, William
H. Denniston and w. F. McCook for the
charter of an intended corporation to be called
the East End Safe Deposit Company.
THERE were some breezy reports of big
movements in realty floating around Fourth
avenue yesterday, but no one seemed to take
much stock in them. Fewer TumOrs and more
facts would be better for the market.
ON Tuesday January %, meeting of the
stockholders of the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company will be held, to take action in regard
to empowering the directors to sell or lease real
estate. The annual meeting will be held the
same day.
THE decision in favor of the Brush Electric
Company in the case against the Fort Wayne
Company, by which all the claims of he'Brush
Company are sustained, will in no way affect
the Westinghouse Electric Company, which
uses the WaterhOuse arc lamp.
A TELEGRAM from Williamsport says: 1.-THE
Consolidated Lumber Company, of this city, j.
Corcoran, President, has made an assignment
to John q. Zellers, their bookkeeper. They
operated two sawmilIs at South Williamsport
and one at the mouth of Lycoming creek"
A MEETING of the stockholders of the La
Noria Company will be held in a few days,
when a statement will be furnished, the pros
poets of the company discussed and the future
course decided on. 1t is limited that more
money would be put up if it should be thought
necessary.
R. H. HUDDEsroN has sold four and half
acres at Laurel station, Kilbuck township,
Fort Wayne road, to company of young men
for 50 600. They bought il on speculation. The
tract is a part Of the old Monitor Grove, over
looking the Ohio river, which from this point is
in view for miles.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
MORE MILL CAPACITY.
The Anticipated Demand Will Require nm
Expansion Of Capacity.

nPEc1AL TELEeRAN TO THE DIsPArcHi
NEW YORK December 2-The railroad
companies, car builders, ship builders and
other large buyers will soon be in the market
for large supplies of merchant bars, plates and
structural iron and the present mill capacity
will scarcely be sufficient to meet the antici-
pated requirements of 1890 Iron and steel
nails are moving freely. Bessemer steel billets
are in exceptionally active demand and prices
are quotably higher than a week ago.
Tho demand for castings. for Bessemer pig, for
soft steel for all purposes, And for material for
working up into shapes for agriculturui re-
Quirements and for barbed wire promises to
he extraordinary. and the iron and steel makers
are hurrying forward their preparations for an
expansion OF capacity in almost every branch
of the iron trade. The upward tendency in
prices will probably continue-at least until il
Is demonstrated that the capacity is abundantly
sufncient TO take care of next years demands.
Dlsquieting rumors gain currency sat many
points of such an advance in prices as will prove
have not yet arranged for supplies. While
there is strong upward tendency, it is not
generally believed that there exist good grounds
for such an apprehension. Much, of course
depends upou the action of the railroad build.
ers, and so far as they have indicated their in
tentiOns the demands for material for railroad
construction purposes will be of moderate di.
mensions
SIS for large lots, and SS7G37 50 in Western
mills Iron and steel prices (at mill or furnace)
December q, 1889 December 20 1889. December
Is, BSS, lowest 1884: Pig iron. anthetal No. ],
per ton, SIS 5000 co. Is 50@20, SIS OO6lS 90.
Steel rails per ton, SS5 co. SS4 OO@35 90. SIS GOA
81 OO, Sc CO. Comparative prices of other metals
Cn stOre): Copper, lake, per pound l41kc, lac,
HSOc, IOzze; lead, common domestic, per
pound 3.S71zc. 39Oc, 390c SIC; tin, straits. per
pound Ic. 2l.l0c, 2l9Oc. l61Sc; spelter, common
domestic, per pound, 490c, 41Sc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
Grnin. FIour md Feed.

Sales on call at the Grain Exchange, car
of bulk mIddlings, S13 50, . days. P. R. R.; car
No. timothy hay, Sll 50, 5 days, P. R. r. Re-
ceipts as bulletined, 40 cars. BY Pittsburg, FL
Wayne and Chicago, 8 cars Of rye, 5 of hay, 4
of middlrngs, of tour, l of oats. By Pittsburg.
Cincinnati and st. Louis 2 cars of rye, OF
corn, Of oats, of barley, OF middlings, Of
hay. BY Baltimore and Ohio, 2 cars Of corn.
By Pittsbnrg and Western. car of corn, Of
-four. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, l car Of
oats, of barley. Of -four. The cereal situa-
tion changes not. Everything is steady, with
the exception Of new corn, which is very
weak.
Prices below are for carload lots on track.
WHEAT-New No. 2 red, S5066c; No. 3, S20
SSc.
CoRN-No. 2 yellow. ear, new. 36@37c: high
mixed. ear, 4064lc; No. yellow, shelled, old,
4l642e; new, 35036c: high mixed, shelled, 400
4lc.
OArs-No. white, 29@291zc; extra, No. &
2S62S1<c; mixed, 26@A.
RYE-No Pennsylvania and Ohio, 5S054c;
No. Western, 5l@52c.
BARLEY-Western, 45665c; CANADA barley,
7O@75c.
FLoUR-Jobbing prices-Fancy winter and
spring patents, S. 0OG5 so; winter straight,
81 564 so; clear winter. 81 0064 Is; straight
xxx bakers. 50 5O6s IS. Rye -four, 50 50@
475
MILLFEED-AIiddlings, fine white, SIS oO@
le % = ton; Blown middlings sl2 o00A %;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
IRON TRADE REVIEW.
No Signs Of a Reaction Beyond the
Usual Holiday Lull.
PROSPECTS FOR HIGHER PRICES.
Desirable Irons Are Reported Very Scarce
at Chicago.
AN EXPANSION OF CAPACITY CERTAIN

There are few changes in the iron and
steel situation since our last Saturdays re-
view. Trade is quiet as is the custom at
this time Of the year. Prices are fairly
maintained and there are NO signs of re-
action to the boom which started since sum-
mer Works are running 20 their full ca
pacity, and while this lasts prices will be
maintained. Orders for Lake Superior ores
are placed for months ahead, thing un-
usual among our iron workers. Manufact-
urers who place their orders in the spring
have this season taken time by the forelock
and ordered in December sufficient material
to keep them working until spring.
Since June mill iron has advanced from
S4 to S4 30 per ton. Bessemer iron has
advanced IS in the same time. The latter sold
as low as SIG ton, with some shading in this
price last summer. Now It is firm at S24 per
ton The advance in steel rails in the same
period is equal to $40 per ton. At the advance
orders are placed with the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works at Braddock sufficient to keep
them running from now till spring.
The amount of Lake Superior ore consumed
by our furnaces the past year exceeds S,O0O,OOO
tons and the orders already placed insure a
much greater amount the coming year:
ONLY A HOLIDAY LULL.
The uuietness of the past two weeks in iron
and steel is due to the facts that this is the
time for repairing and cleaning up, and that
heavy stocks had been laid in with a view to
higher prices. While demand is not up to
what it was two weeks ago, the following prices
are fully maintained:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
A CANDID YANKEE SQUIRE.
His Commission Put Himself and the Cow
ernor i'm a Dilemma,

e1OVs
ernor in Dilemma.
From the Boston Gazette.1
A good story is told of the late Hon. R. B.
Forbes. In 1875 Governor Rice commissioned
him Justice of the Peace, an office he had
never held. Afew weeks later the Commodore
entered the counting room of Messrs, Rice
Kendall Co. and inquired for the Governor.
saying that he had sought his Excellency in
vain at the State House, where he was informed
that he might find him at his store. Colonel
Rice, son of the Governor, told Commodore
Forbes that the Governor was elsewhere en-
gagged, and could not be seen for some hours
and offered to convey TO him any message that
might be intrusted to him. Seating himself
and leaning upon his cane with both hands, the
old gentleman said thoughtfully:
Several weeks since Governor Rice honored
me with commission as Justice of the Peace
have come to ask him to revoke it. The fact
is Ihave troublesome neighbor, whose annoy
ances increase constantly to such an extent
that / have made up my mind to give the fellow
a thrashing. Now, on reading my commission
carefully l find that L cannot thrash the rascal
without breaking my oath 20 preserve the peace
of the Commonwealth. and ! have therefore
come to beg your father to revoke my cpmmis-
sion."
He said this in all soberness and good faith.
Colonel Rice's reply was to the effect that
Commodore Forbes should remember that the
Governor had also taken an oath, not less SOL
emn than his own, to support the laws of the
State. and If he should revoke Commodore
Forbes commission for the purpose of permit
ting him to break willfnlly law his own con-
science would be quite as difficult TO satisfy as
would be Mr. Forbes"
The venerable mariner said that this aspect
of the case had not entered his mind, but he
now saw the force of the reasoning. On retir.
ing from the store, however, the irascible old
Rentlaman mT1rmnTpd n n frr4n hal s-F
and half of sadness: II think must thrash the
chap anyhow"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
TIE KITCHEN MARKET.
Last Weeks Prices MuInraIned-PouItrya and
Flowers Strong Factora,

Flowers Strong Factors.
There are no changes worthy of special men,
ton since last Saturday. Poultry and flowers
are the strong factors of trade, and for these
prices have been shade higher this Christmas
week. Following are the ruling retail prices
of market basket filling as furnished BY lead
ing dealers:
The best cuts Of renderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloIn, best cuts, from Is to Isc;
standing rib roast, from Is to zoe; chuck
toast. 10 to 12c; best rouEd steaks, I5c; boiling
beef, 5 to Sc; sweet breads, 20 to SOC per pair;
beef kidneys 10c apiece; beef liver. Sc pound;
calf livers, 25c apiece; corned beef from to l0c
per pound Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast, IN to l5c; cuSlets, zoe per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, Of prime
mutton, l5c; giblets, sc per pound.
Potatoes. l5c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes. 2oc per half peck cabbage, to 10c;
a Quart; celery, SC bunch; bananas as
l5to 2Oc dozen; carrots, &c a bunch; lemons, rs
to 35c per dozen; oranges, 25 TO 40e; lettuce,
SC per bunch, for 25c; beets for 1Oc;
string beans S5c quarter peck; onions, 20
to S5c half peck; Spanish onions, S to
lOc each; pie pumpkins. 10 to 35c according
to size; Malaga grapes, 20 to 35c per pound;
turnips, 2Oc per half peck; cranberries, l5c
quart; cucumbers, 10 to Csc apiece; mushrooms.
81 pound.
Choice creamery butter, Csc. Good country
butter, S5c: Fancy pound rolls, 40c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 40c
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81
per pair. Turkeys, 20 to Csc per pound Prairie
chickens. 81 90 pair; ducks, 81 90 to 81 25 per
pair; partridges, Sc dozen; squirrels, S5c
pair; rabbits. SOc pair; pheasants, 81 25 pair;
pigeons, Soc pair; geese, 75c to 81 Is apiece
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon I216c; Cali
fornia salmon. 4Oc per pound; white fish,
l27Sc; herring, pounds for &c; red snap
pers, Is to zoe per pound; Spanish mackerel. SOC
to 35c pound; sea salmon, 40c a pound:
blue fish, Is to 30c; perch. l0c; halibut, 26c;
rock bass, 3Oc; black bass 20c: lake trout I21Sc;
HOLSTERS, 25c; green sea turtle, 2Sc; mackerel.
20c small 40c large Oysters: N Y. counts
81 70 per gallon; clans, 81 Is per gallon; scol-
lops Soc a quart; frogs 81 90 per dozen:
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozeni devil crabs, Sc
per dozen.
La France roses, So 90 per dozen; Bride roses.
81 80 per dozen; Perles, 81 so per dozen; De Watt
vile roses, 50 so per dozen: Papa Gontier roses.
81 Is per dozen; Niphetos, 81 so per dozen; Ben
netts, 81 so per dozen; American Beauty $40
per dozen; Mermets, - so per dozen; carna-
uons, 60c dozen; Maiden Hair fern Soc per
dozen fronds; lily of the valley 50 per dozen:
chrysanthemums, 81 to So per dozen; violets,
81 80 to 81 dozen; hyacinths. 81 dozen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
NOTHING IN OIL.
The Market Handicapped by Uncertainty

The Market Handicapped by Uncertainty
and News UnimpOrtnnf.
The oil market was weak at the opening yes
terday, but in short time the local crowd took
hold and bulled it up a little. Oil City fol-
lowed Pittsburg, but Bradford took the opposite
course and sold. The result of the triangular
contest was gradual subsistence Of the up
ward movement, but the strength was not alto
gether lost as the feeling at the close was
rather firm. Trading here was light. probably
10000 barrels. Thursdays clearances were
Is. 900 barrels.
The opening was 1885: highest. 1915; lowest,
1885 closing 1887. News was scarce and un-
important. A broker remarked: Russian oil
seems to be crowding the Pennsylvania product
in the Old, World, while at home it is handi-
capped by the Buckeye output l wouldn't be
surprised to see the latter certificsted before
the end of the coming year. There is so much
doubt and uncertainty surrounding the market
that improvement seems impossible at pres
emit"