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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
TRADE OF THE WEEK.
Nothing New In the Local Situation, But
Everybody Hopeful.

Nothing New In the Local Situation, But
Everybody Hopeful.
Business the past week may be described
in general way as dull and inactive. The
occurrence of a holiday materially affected
the volume of transactions, and had bear
ish aspect upon the speculative markets.
Petroleum developed considerable strength,
the close showing gain of 11sc from the
previous Saturday. There were no special
features in stocks, which finished dull and
bullish. The demand for bank shares for
investment was unprecedented in the his
tory of the Exchange. This indicates a
large amount of idle capital. Business at
the banks was featureless. Money was
abundant at 596 per cent, according to the
collateral. Pig iron was a trife steadier,
but other descriptions were unchanged.
Real estate was active, the demand being
largely for unimproved lots and small
houses. There was fair inquiry for West
END and Southside properties. The retail
trade was of the usual large proportions
The movement in local monetary circles Sat
urday was characterized byl considerable &C.
tivity. This was due mainly to the holiday. re-
sulting in a doubling up of checking and de-
posting The same cause worked an improve
ment in the Clearing House report. Only a
limited amount of paper was offered for dis
count and it was accepted at per cent. A
few of the banks were willing to make a con-
cession on prime collateral The Clearing
House report for the day and week, with COM
parisons, shows the following changes:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Zero Weather Brings a Quiet Close to
a Slow Weeks Trade.
NO SIGN OF REVIVAL In PRODUCE.
Weeks Receipts of Grain and Hay Heavy
and Sales Light.
10 SIGN OF REVIVAL In PRODUCE.
GREEN COFFEE UP, ROASTED FIRM
OFFICE OF THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH, !
SATURDAY, February q, 1889. !

OFFICE OF THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH
SATURDAY, February q, 1882
Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
With the mercury close to zero, on one of the
uniformly quiet days of the week, little is to be
reported in produce lines. The week has fur
nished no indications of the long looked for re.
vival of trade. Eggs are of 1c from prices OF
last week. Large quantities have been coming
in from the Southwest. At st. Louis, carload
lots are sold for 10c. While not up to the
standard of nearby eggs. large receipts from
the far West have brought a drop. The
stock of cheese is reported light at all
commercial centers at home and abroad, but
demand continues light, contrary to uniform
experience before the Lenten season. But.
ter remains as it was a week ago. with in
creasing firmness of a choice article from the
country. The butterine fight has served to
strengthen prices OF country butter.
BUTTER Creamery, Elgin, SS@S4c; Ohio do,
26G2Sc: fresh dairy packed, 20@23c; country
rolls 1S@22c; Charters Creamery Co. butter,
S2@34c.
BEANs.Choice medium, 81 OO@2 10; choice
p BEEswAx-2S@5c q for choice; low grade,
CnER.sand refined, g 5o@7 50; common,
cider vinegar, 1O@l2c q gallon.
CHEEsE-Ohio cheese, fall make. 12@l2113c;
New York, fall make, l214@l9c; Limburger,
ll15@121%c: domestic Sweitzer cheese, 13@13115c
DRIED PEAs-sl 45@l 50 y bushel; split do.
EGSsof5c q dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUITs-Apples, 81 0O@S1 so p barrel; evap-
Grated raspDerries, Csc q b; cranberries, IS 90
q barrel; 81 4O@s2 80 per bushel.
FEATHERS-EXtra live geese 50@60c; No.
do. 4O@45c; mixed lots, SO@S5c q h.
HoMINY-S2 65@2 75 y barrel.
HoNEY-New Crop. 16917c; buckwheat, 100
l5c.
PoTAToEs-Potatoes. S5@4Oc p bushel; 81 50
a. rs for Southern sweets; s. 2593 50 for Jer-
sey sweets.
PoULTRY-Live chickens. 65@75c p pair;
dressed chickens, l3@l5c p pound; turkeys, ID
@l5c dressed q pound; ducks, live. S0@S5c p
pair; dressed, 13@l4c q pound; geese, l0@llc
per pound.
SEEDs-Clover, choice, 81 rs to bushel, s6 -
bushel; clover, large English, 81 fs, $6 Is;
thy. choice IS % S.; blue grass grass extra e. cieaD i
IA bs, 81 90: blue grass, fancy Il MS 81 20;
orchard grass IA MS, 81 00 red top, IA lbs, 81 90;
millet so lbs 81 %; German millet, 50 MS, 50 90;
Hungarian grass, As lbs, 81 90; lawn grass mix
ture of fine grasses, Csc per n.
TALIow-Country, 4S@5c; city rendered,
5@51Sc.
TROPICAL FRUITS = Lemons. fancy, s. 90
a 90 e box; common lemons, S2'75 y
box; Messina oranges, 81 50@3 so p box;
Florida oranges. s. OO@S 50 q box; Jamaica
oranges, fancy. S. 00@5 so p case; Malaga
grapes, IS 5O17 90 q keg; bananas, 81 50
cocoanuts, 81 oo@4 50 p hundred; new " figs, | iSS
lac y pound; dates 515@61Sc p pound.
VEGETABLEs~Celery O@50c doz. lunches;
cabbages, S900Q4 90 p 100; onions, Soc y bushel;
Spanish onions, 75@90c y crate; turnips, 500
4Oc per bushel.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
Grain, Flour ard Feed.


Total receipts as bulletined at the Grain Ex-
change, % cars. By Pittsburg Fort Wayne
and Chicago. car of wheat, 5 of hay, of oats,
2 of corn, 8 of barley, of middlings, of flour.
By Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis, 2 cars
of e. corn, of flour. of oats, l of bran.
Sales on call, car sample W. W. bran, Sl4 rs
spot regular; car upland prairie hay 50 30, B.
& O. The long continued dullness of oats
has eliminated in drop as will be
seen by our quotations The signs of
strength in cereal markets are very few.
Supplies of everything appear to be far be-
yond demands For the week, receipts were
2l6 cars against 1914 last week 1872 and S5for the
two previous weeks.
WHEAT-Jobbing prices-No. 2red, 81 os@
! CO., No. red, 98cGSl o.
CoRN-No. 2 yellow. ear, 3S@S9c; high mixed
ear, 3615@37c; No. yellow, shelled, 39@40c
No. 2 yellow, shelled, G13@SSc; high mixed,
shelled 36@37c; mixed, shelled. 35@36c:
OATs-No.2 white. 32332115c; extra No. 8, BOZ
oslo; No. white, 2s1a@30c; No. mixed, S@
&c.
RYE-No Western. 6O@6lc; No. 2, 55@56c.
BARLEY-No. ] Canada, 90@95c; No. Canada,
s3@S5c; No. Canada, E@S0c; No. Western,
75@7sc; No. Western, 65g70c Lake Shore, IS
@80c.
FLouR-Jobbing prices. winter patents s. 50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

Carlyle's Life of Frederick the Great con-
cerning Westphalia. as it was a couple of CEN
turies ago. Carlyle quotes from an old-time
book of travels:
mo inns there except of the naturally saw
age sort. A man is very happy if he finds
clean straw to sleep on. He must be content
TO have the COWS, swine and poultry for his
acknowledges, and to go in at the same pas
sage that the smoke comes out at for there's
no other vent for it but the door, which makes
foreigners commonly say that the people of
Westphalia enter their houses by the chimney.
This is the reason why their beef and hams are
so finely prepared and ripened, for the fire.
place being backward, the smoke must spread
over all the house before it gets to the door,
which makes everything within of russell or
sable color, not excepting the hands and faces
of the meaner sort"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

yet discouraged, "but must say that the En-
glish railway porter is far in advance of the
French one. On a foreign line you are treated
as a vagabond, on the English as guest"
Still he said nothing The lady cast an almost
appealing glance at him. She had travelled a
long way for great many hours and was weary
of her own company. She longed for little
conversation.
II cannot read in the train," she said plain
| lively, sit makes me giddy. and-I started yes
terday from home"
Indeed" said he in dislocated syIlables. He
quite understood that a hint had been con-
veyed to him, but he was an armadillo against
hints
The pretty young lady had not opened the
conversation, if that can be called conversation
which is only one-sided, without having oo-
served the young mans face and satisfied her
self that there was no more improperly in her
talking to one of so staid an air than if he had
been clergyman.
"What bear this man is" she thought.
He on his side said to himself, "a forward
missiei 1 wish were in a smoking carriage,
though detest the smell of tobacco"
Pretty-uncommonly pretty the little lady
was, with perfectly made clothes. The fit of
the gown and the style of the bonnet proclaimed
French make. She had lovely golden-red hair.
large brown eyes, and a face of transparent
clearness. with two somewhat hectic fire spots
in her cheeks. Her charming little mouth was
now quivering with pitiful vexation.
A quarter of an hour elapsed without another
word being spoken, and the gentleman was sat
isfied that his companion had accepted the re-
buff he had administered, when she broke forth
again with a remark
"Oh, sir! excuse my seeming rudeness, but
you have been reading the newspaper, and I
am on pins and needles to hear the news from
France. 1t is true that have just crossed the
Channel from that dear and suffering-but
heroic country am, however, very ignorant
of the news. Unfortunately our journals are
not implicitly to be relied on. The French are
such a patriotic people that they cannot bring
themselves to write and print word that tells
of humiliation and loss to their country. 1t is
very natural, very nob1e-but inconvenient
That superb Faidherbe-I DO trust he has sue
ceeded in crushing the enemy"
He has been utterly routed"
"Oh, dearl Oh, dearl" the little lady was
plunged into real distress. ''This news was
kept from me. That was why 1 was hurried
away. wanted to bring my nieces with me,
the Demoiselles Labarte, but they clung to
their mother and would not leave her. It was
magnificent" Then, after a sigh, Now,
surely England will intervene"
The gentleman shook his head
1T is cruel. Surely one sister should fly to
the assistance of the other"
"The English nation is sister to the German"
"Oh, how can you say so? William the
Conqueror came from France"
From Normandy, which was not at the
time and for long after considered a part of
France"
Then the gentleman, feeling he had been in
veigled into saying more than he intended
looked out of the window.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
PrnYisinns.

sugar-cured hams. large, 1OAc; sugar-cured
hams, medium, lGAc; sugar-cured hams, small,
lie; sugar-cured breakfast bacon. 1Oc; sugar
cured shoulders. SIC: sugar-cured homeless
shoulders, 934c; sugar-cured California hams,
SIC; sugar.cured dried beef fats, &c: sugar
cured dried beef sets, &c; sugar-cured dried beef
rounds, lie: bacon shoulders, TIC; bacon clear
sides. SIC; bacon clear bellies. SIC: dry salt
shoulders. &c: dry salt clear sides, re. Mess
pork, heavy, Sl4 90; mess pork. family, s14 So;
cob tubs, 72sc; 2O-B pals. nc: 50-b tin cans,
Zee; 3-b tin pals, nc; 5-D tin pals, 75sc;
lob tin pals, nc. Smoked sausage, long, Sc;
large, SC. Fresh pork links. &c. Pigs feet half
barrels, So IS; quarter barrels, 81 rs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

as 75; spring patents So 1907 90; fancy straight,
w1nter and spring. % 1896 90; clear winter,
s 5@5 50. straight xxx bakers, IS OO@5 25.
Rye -four, 81 90.
MISUNDERSTANDING, fine white, s18 0O@
20 90 q ton; brown middlings, Sl4 5O@l5 00;
winter wheat bran, $l4 75@15 25; chop feed.
SIS OO618 90
HAY-Baled timothy, choice, SIS OO@15 25;
No. do. Sl4 259l4 so; No. do, S12 0OgI3 90;
loose from wagon, SIS 0O@20 90: No. upland
prairie. SO 75@l0 90; No. 2, s. 0O9S so; packing
do, s6 5O@7 90.
sTRAw-Oats. sS 0O@S Is; wheat and rye
straw, 81 O0Gl7 25.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

Green coffee has advanced ssc in New York
the past two days. As it has for some time
been relatively higher than package coffee an
advance in the latter cannot be far away
GREEN COFFEE - Fancy Rio, 2O&@N1<c;
choice Rio, la@2Oc; prime Rio, l9c: fair Rio
I71z@lS15c: old Government Java, 261&c; Mara
caibo, 2lH@221zc; Mocha, 9O@3lc; Santos. ls11SS
@22c; Caracas coffee, 191S@2lc; peaberry, Rio,
2O@2l15c; Laguayra, 2019@2l19c.
ROASTED Tin papers)-Standard brands, ,221xc;
high grades. 2ES@2615c; old Government Java,
bulk bulk SleoS2; MaraeaiDo: a zSGNe; Santos, 2l1@
Rio, 211zc; good Rio, 2lc; ordinary, 20c.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
Mining Stocks.

NEW YORK, February 2S.-Mining stocks
closed: Amador. l50: Belcher. $40; Best 4
Belcher. 4s5; Bodie, $50; Caledonia, B. H, 275;
Crown Point. 500; Consolidated California and
Virginia. SIP; Deadwood, r.. $50: Eureka Con-
seiidated, 200: FL Cristo, l50 Gould Curry
2S5: Hale & Norcross. 400; Homestake, 100;
Iron Silver, 325; Mutual las: Ophir, SIS; Sierra
Nevada. 800; Silver King, los; Santiago, S25;
Small Hopes, los; Sullivan, 140; Union Consoli-
dated, S25; Yellow Jacket, 40.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
Dryeoods Market.

NEW YORK. February @.-There was fair
trade with the jobbing houses to-day and an
improved business with agents orders by mail
and through personal selections, taking more
prints, ginghams and staple cottons than for
some time past. A decidedly more confident
tone pervaded the market and an era of &C
tivity is felt to be near. Good sales Of wooden
goods were made to local buyers. Prices in all
directions were steady to firm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
Drnaaad Menf

Armour & Co. furnish the following prices on
dressed meats: Beef carcasses, 450 to $50 Bs,
5@51Sc; 600 to $50 Bs, 6@615c; 700 to $50 ms, 6%@
&c. Sheep, &c q b. Lambs, SIC q B.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria
When she was Child, she cried for Castoris,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

Movements of Specie.
NEW YORK, February 23.-The exports Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
The PENNYCOMEQUICKS
BARINC-COULD,
svNops,s OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
itten for THE DISPATCH by.
"t'THE GAvERoCKs, "ETC

H .""CoURI ROYAL, "'tJoHN HERRING. ''s'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

In connection with this new article Of com
merce, we append characteristic note from
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-13
TEACHERS MEETING.
An Interesting Programme Of Exercise
at Clay school

An Interesting Programme Of Exercises
at CLAY School.
TIE third general meeting Of Wheeling
teachers, for the school year of ls8s-S9,
was held in the Third ward grammar room,
yesterday afternoon. The Little Fisher
maiden" was acceptAbly rendered by the
pupils of the grammar grade, after which
the meeting WAS led in prayer by Prof.
Jones Gay Little DandeliOn" was the
title of another cong well sung by the
same pupils, and then the regular eIer-
cises of the afternoon began with descrip
ton of a summers visit and residence in
Boston, by Miss Meholin, Of Clay school,
who spent last vacation in the Hub, pursu-
ing her studies in elocution. Her talk was
exceedingly interesting, az it called ia
mind many historical "reminiscences con.
nected with persons and places that have
become famous in our cOuntry's annals.
Miss Emma Anderson, grammar teacher
of Union school, read an interesting papel
on 'Some of the Perplexities of Teach
era" Most of these perplexities and diff
culties Miss Anderson disposed Of very sat
isfactorily. Her paper was we'll writer
and showed deep thought on the subject
chosen.
Mr.. c. R. Bill, OF Massachusetts,, the OBJ
ject OF whose visit to our city is to explair
and introduce into the public schools thu
study of music az lately adopted by thu
Board of Education, addressed the teach
ers on this subject. After preliminary
discussion of the place music occupies in
our educational system and its importance
as a disciplinary study, Mr.. Bill formed a
class of the hundred pedagogues present
and showed in an entertaining way the
manner in which the principles of the
study are taught. DR.. Jepson and Mr.. j.
W. White, members OF the Board, were in
terested spectators.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-13
A STREET CAR RIOT.
PRUITLBSS ATTEMPT 10 MOVE THB CARS IN
MINNEAPOLIS.
Express Wagons Filled With Strikers and Their
Sympathizsrs Blockade The Tracks-Eggs and
Stones are Thrown - Several Arrests
Mads-POlice Club Numerically.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 12-The street
car company made its first formal attempt
to raise the strike shortly after l o'clock
this afternoon. The move was made at
the Fourth avenue car barns. A special
detail of policemen was on hand to ride in
the car and see that order was kept. Pres
ident Lowry and Manager Goodrich drove
TO the spot in O carriage to see the first
wheel move.
The Car proceeded on its way, but had
not gone twenty feet before it was stopped
by the men, the horses unhitched and the
car showed back in the barn. The car
carried Sergeant Helm ard several police
men, but they made ~ attempt to arrest
anyone.
A few minutes before o'clock this after
noon there was serious disturbance on
Washington avenue, near West avenue,
south. A Fourth avenue car bad, with
great difficulty, made its way to the turn
table and was on its way back. II was
surrounded by huge excited crowd who
hurled abuse of oil sorts at its occupants.
Finally some one set the brake on the rear
platform and stopped it. At this juncture
II squsd of mounted policemen dashed out
of the alley from the central police station
and rushed at full speed into the crowd
with clubs drawn. Once in the centre OF
the crowd they arrested three men and re-
treated
The crowd was constantly sugmentiDg,
and wss getting very violent. To make
matters worse, number of express wagons
filled with strikers drove in front of the
cara. and succeeded in filing up the street
so as TO make a complete blockade. The
driver of the car fually unlocked his horses
and went off amid this cheers of the crowd,
leaving the Car standing on the track.
At 4:29 another Car made it's appearance
on Washington avenue rom the barn. The
mounted police made Fsy for it through
the crowd, and it inslly reached the
turn table. On its way back the car was
blOckaded by two wood carte. The crowd
hoOtei and yelled, and then the car stuck.
Finally the driver became disgusted and
unhitching his horses drove of. By this
time there was two ''stalled cas- on the
avenue and huge crowd The situation
was getting serious, the police arrested
another man and took him off to the sta
tion.
There had been a great deal OF rotten
egg and one thrO wing, and excitement
ran at fever heat Three mounted police
men lost their heads and charged upon the
crowd, throwing down several people snd
ipiuring number. Several arrests were
made at this time and one man was un-
mercifully dubbed by six or seven police
men. After this the crowd became lees
demonstrat've and gradually thinned ont
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-13
CAUGHT IN THE BIG STORM
A British Steamers Long Struggle Wit
the Wind and Waves

the Wind and Waves.
NORFOLK, VA, April 12.-The British
steamer Wylo. which arrived in Hampton
Roads yesterday, was greatly damaged in
the late storm. The WylO was bound frOm
Philadelphia to Havana, with q cargo of
coal, and passed out of the breakwater at
11:3O on the 9th inst, with moderate
breeze. At $3.50 p. IN. the wind, which
had been gradually increasing, blew gale,
continuing with terrible force during the
night. The vessels head was brought to
the wind, and the engines were slowed
down.
Early Sunday morning, 7th inst, the
wheel chains parted and the vessel fell off
into the trough of the sea, taking water
fore and aft end rolling fearfully. The
screw steering apparatus aft was "a soon rs
possible put Oh, the heavy seas that broke
on board making this task very difficult
one. The vessel was then brought to the
wind as before. She continued in this
way for & few hours, when she dipped her
stern and took heavy sea which washed
away one of the men at the wheel and
broke the wheel into pieces. The man
and the wreck of the wheel were cent
against the after part skylight with great
force, breaking the whole of the middle
port. Water then poured into the cabin
in torrents. aud holes had TO be bored In
the cabin floor to let the water run into the
hold. The captains books, instruments,
furniture and the ships stores were ruined.
When the wheel broke the hands were
called out, but before relieving tackles
could be put on the remaining part Of the
wheel was broken off, and the rudder
thrashed across from side to side, with
heavy blows, breaking off both Of the rud-
der's guards on the stern post and breaking
the screw steering gear to pieces. While
securing the latter three able-bOdied sea
men were struck down by the sea and go
Injured as to be OF TO further service.
Throughout the day the wind Coatinued to
increase until $50 p. 80, when 1t blew with
the force Of hurricane. At 5:45 heavy
sea struck the port life boat and demolished
it
During Sunday night the wind contin-
ned to blow with uDabated violence, and
the vessel was almost smOthered by heavy
seas, which made clean breach over her,
sweeping off everything movable from the
decks Mondays experience was much
tie same as that of Sunday. The wind
did not lull until o'clock Tuesdsy morn
ing. when the vessel steered for Chesapeake
Bay, arriving at Hampton Roads yester-
day morning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-13
SHORT QUITE A SUN.
New LIsbon's Treasurer Defaulter for
$4,000

New LIsbon's Treasurer Defauiter foT
$4,000.
The East Liverpool Crisis has the follow
ing special concerning Treasurer Abe
Lodges defalcation:
NEW LISBON, April 11.-For twenty
years Abel Lodge, banker and treasurer oi
this town and township, has been regard
ed as the soul of honor, leading citizen
superintendent of Sunday school and &C
tive in politics, and was well and favor
ably known. To-day he is a defaulter,
and the wealth entrusted in his care by the
town and township is gone.
The first intimation Of the defalcation
was had when an order for money was
presented him. He asked that payment
he not demanded for few days, rs an ac-
commodation. This did not prove satis-
factory, and an investigation followed.
AZ result it Was asce-tsined that about
S6 600 Of the town and 81, 800 Of the town
ships money was missing, and that the
treasury was completely bankrupt. Mr..
Lodge claimed he would maze good the
amount, but ss he hss no visible means OF
doing so. il is doubtful If such can be done.
He is still at home.
His boDdsmen for the township are Eli
Lewton and II. + Frost; for the city, b.
W. Bough and II. Z. Frost. They are In
demniaed to the extent of about $4,000 oi
real estate security.