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cent from its lowest, finally closed with q gain
Of for the day Pacific Mail was strong also
on the rumors Of increased compensation for
the transportation Of the mails, but it occupied
small place IN the market. There was fair
trading in Missouri Pacific, which after de-
cline OF u in the early dealings, fully recov-
cred. the dealings in the stock possessing no
particular significance Tennessee Coal made
one OF its spurts.
The opening prices were generally un-
changed, though one or two stocks showed
fractional declines. The general list presented
hrm front almost throughout the whole day,
the fluctuations were so small that no charac-
ter was given to the dealings. and in the after
noon the market was as near total stagnation
as 1t is possible to get. The close was dull. but
nnal changes are tor Insignificant fractions.
except in Tennessee Coal, which rose ~
Railroad bonds as usual were more active
than stocks. the business aggregating1 S966OOO
put the market failed to present as strong a
front as usual OF late and weakness was the
principal feature in the forenoon, while bet
ter tone prevailed later in the day. The deal
tngS are without feature of interest and the
final changes are irregular.
The Posts financial article says: There was q
disposition manifested to-day to look for lower
prices for the next week, owing to the con-
tinued closeness of the money market, which
can scarcely be relieved much until after the
hrst OF the year. Call loans in the forenoon
were 8, and per cent, and though these rates
would of themselves not check speculation, the
apprehensions of a temporary pinch before the
interest and dividend disbursements could re-
lieve the money market do have an effect,
which in conjunction with the usual holiday
dullness makes lower prices.
stocks on the New York stock Excnange yester-
day. Corrected daily for THE DISPATCH by
WHITNEY STEPHENsoN. Oldest PittsburR MEM
oers Of New I ork Stock Exchange. 81 Fourth ave
nue.:
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Groceries.

Green coffee is now within &c of the highest
price reached two weeks ago. Options in East
ern markets are in favor of bulls. The general
feeling is that higher prices will be reached
after the holidays. Package coffee is un-
changed. but steady. Sugars are weak. Gen
eral groceries are quiet as is their custom prior
to January settlements.
GREEN CoFFEE-Fancy Rio, 23@24c; choice
Rio. 2l@22c; prime Rio 2O1zc; low gradeRio.
l81S@191sc; old Government Java N@2Sc; Mar
acaibo. 23x@247zc; Mocha, 2S1z02y1zc; Santos
2O1S@24c; Caracas 22024c; peaberry, Rio, 23140
24c: La Guayra, 2317G24c.
ROASTED lin papers(-Standard brands, 24c;
high grades. 2502D15c; old Government Java,
bulk, S11<@33c; Maracaibo, 202Sc; Santos,
241z@2S15e; peaberry, 2811c; choice Rio, 25c;
prime Rio, 2816e; good Rio, 2215c; ordinary, 2lc.
SPICES twhoIe)-Cloves, 19920c; allspice, 10c;
cassia, &c; pepper, l7c; nutmeg, 7O060c-
PETRoLEUM jObbers' prices l-l1Oo test, nc;
Ohio, 12Oo, SIC; headlight, 150o, SIC; water
white, 101zc; gIObe, 14@l414c; elaine, I411c; car
nadine. l71ze; royaline, l4c; globe red oil, l19
l16c.
q gallon; summer, 40@4Sc. Lard oil, zoe.
SYRUPs-COrn syrup, 2S@SOc; choice sugar
syrup, S3@3Sc; prime sugar syrup, 90@SSc;
strictly prime, 33035c; new maple syrup. 90c.
N. o. MoLAssES-Fancy,n new crop, 4S@50c;
choice, Ee: medium: SS@4Sc; mixed, 40942c.
SIC; bi-carb, assorted packages. 5106c; sal
soda IN kegs 1Ac; do granulated, &c.
CANDLEs-Star, full weight, Be; stearine, q
set SIC; Paramne, L1gIzc-
hIcE-Head, Caroilna, o24glc; cnolce, o40
G4c; prime, 53Q6c: Louisiana. og94c;
STARCH-Pearl, z7ze; cornstarcn, ogoc; gloss
starch, 4A97c.
FOREIGN ERUITs-Layer raislns, S2 10; Lon
don layers, 81 30; California London layers,
81 %; Muscateis, 2 4O; California Muscatels,
S2 25 Valencia, I14e; Ondara valencia. .o1zgo11c;
sultana, 2ci currants 619g574ci turkey prunes,
41295c; French prunes 00S7zc; Saionlca
prunes, IN I'd packages; 9z9c; cocoanuts, 100,
So 90; almonds, Lam. y b, Zoe; do. 1v1ca, l9c;
do, shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap; l4gl5c; Sicily
tilberts, l2c: Smyrna hgs, I2glSc; new dates,
69612c; Brazil nuts lOc; pecans; igloc; cit
ron, y d. S0zOe; lemon peel, 1oc Di orange
peel, 17c.
DRIED FRUITs-Apples sliced, per D, &c. ap-
pies, eVaporated, Sc; apr1cots, California, eVap-
grated, 141zQl6c; peaches, eVapOrated, pared,
26Q8c; peaches, California, evaporated. un-
pared, l902lc; cherries, pitted, l319@l41c; cher
ries, unpltted, 5Q6e; raspberries, evaporated,
25L@2615c; blackberries, 77zgSc; c;huckleberries.
10Gl2c.
SUGARs-Cubes, TIC; powdered, TIC; granu-
lated, SIC; confectioners' A, SIC; standard A,
65sc; soft white, 6Q6Hc; yellow, choice, 5A@
SIC; yellow. good. 51595sse; yellow, fair, $50
SIC; yellow, dark, 5Ac; ~
FICKLES-Medium, bbls Q,2OO), SIS 80; medi-
um, half bbls (600l. So %.
SALT-No. !, % Dbl, 95c; No. ex. Dbl, 81 %;
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BUTCHERED IN HER SLEEP.
A Jealous Man Kills His Wife md Then
Attempts Suicide.


Attempts Suicide.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, December ga
most revolving crime was committed this
morning at Ludlow, John Bassette, mill
hand employed by the Ludlow Manufactu:-
ing Company, killing his wife and attempt
ing suicide. Bassette was insanely jealous
of his wife, and so far as known without
reason, and had frequently threatened her
lite, though little attention was paid to it.
He bought revolver two weeks ago with
the avowed purpose of killing her.
At o'clock this morning Bassette called
to his eldest son Horace to come down stairs
and sit with his mother, who was sick, while
he went for the doctor, and then went out,
while the young man came down and sat in
the kitchen. His parents slept in room off
the kitchen. He called his mother several
times, but as she did not answer he supposed
she was sleeping, and did not enter the
room.
Meanwhile Bassette had gone to Officer
Trombley's house and surrendered himself,
saying that he had killed his wife, and
evincing much satisfaction with his crime.
He said he was suffering from wounds she
had inflicted on him, but said he "had
finished her up in good shape" On exam
ination six wounds were found, two stabs
near the heart, two in the left side, and two
deep, Jagged gashes over the stomach, from
which ne has little, if any, chance Of re-
coVerV,
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.
LulI Which Follows Holidays Re-
ported by Produce Men.
SUPPLIES OFPOULTRY CLEAEEDUP
All Cereals Are Steady, Excepting New
Corn, Which is Sick.
COFFEE OPTIONS FIRM--sUGAR WEAK
OFFICE OF PTTTsBURG DISPATCH,
THURSDAY. December rs. 1889. ]
! Prodncs-Jobblng Prices,

Country PFOducB-JObblng Prices.
The usual lulI which follows holiday trade is
here. Everything in the poultry line was
cleaned up at outside prices early yesterday
morning. w. b. MCGOWAN. Liberty street COM
mission merchant. reports growing demand
for unpulled poultry. Said he: I'm New York
any other kind of poultry is forbidden to be
sold by law, and the time is coming when this
will be the law here Poultry with the entrails
in will keep much longer than that with entrails
out, and in season such as this the people
realize the Importance of neglecting nothing
that will help to keep the stock from taint.
Large quantities of poultry were sold in this
marKet the past few days which had passed the
border line Of sweetness and which would have
been all right If the entrails had been let
alone"
BUTTER-Creamery, EIgin. 30@32c; Ohio do,
2S@29c: fresh dairy packed, 25027ci country
BEANs-Navy hand-picked beans, g 2502 30;
medium. 81 l0Q2 20.
BEEswAx-2S0SOc y n for choice; low grade,
lSQ2Oc
CIDER-sand refined, So 5O@7 so; common,
So 5004 00 crab cider IS 00GS so q barrel; cider
vinegar, lOQl2c q gallon
60l7Oc p bushel.
CHEEsE-Ohio, ll@II<c; New York, Ike;
Limburger, 91z@1le; domestic Sweitzer, 11@
1312c; imported SweItzer, 2315.
EGGs-24@25c p dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUITs-Apples. fancy, 81 50@3 90 p barrel;
California pears, So 5064 90 box; cranberries.
sll@OOQI2 90 y barrel; Malaga grapes, large
barrel S. co.
GAME-Squirrels,7 75c@s1 p dozen: quail, 81 rs
p dozen; prairie chickens. 81 50@5 90 p dozen;
pheasants, s. 0045 50 y dozen: rabbit, ,3O0S5c
pair; venison saddle. 1O@l2c q pound; yenison
carcass. 1890 y pound.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese 50@6Oc; No. l,
do 40@45c; mixed lots, 30@35c p D.
PoULTRY-Live chickens, 5OQ65c pair;
dressed, S0yc pound; ducks, 65@75c p pair;
b; dressed turkeys, 16016c y b.
SEEDs-Clover choice 62fbs to busheI. S4 2ON
44G p bushel; clover, large English. 81 Bs 1850
60. clover Alsike. IS 90: clover. white S9 timO-
thy, choice, 45 MS. 81 so; blue grass extra clean,
IA Bs. 81 250l 80; blue grass, fancy, IA Bs 81 30;
orchard grass IA Ms 81 40: red top, IA ms. 81 Is;
millet, SO Bs. 81 90: millet, 60@70c y bushel;
Hungarian grass, so fbs, Csc, lawn grass. mix
TALLow-Country, 4lc; city rendered, ~
csc.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons, common, 50 90
az 25; fancy, s4 O005 90; Florida oranges, s. 90
az 50; Jamaica oranges. So COCA 90 n barrel;
bananas, 81 80 firsts 81 90 good seconds, q
bunch; cocoanuts, s. O0@4 so q hundred; figs.
81549c p b; dates ,5150612c % b; new layer
figs, 1215@l515c; new dates, 711c % d.
observation-disclosures from store, $4,000;
on track, 45@5Oc; cabbages, 81 0008 90 a hum
dred; celery, 40c T9 dozen; Jerseys, 81 00@4 25;
turnips, 81 OO9l so barrel; onions, 81 70 a bar
rel.
BUcKwHEAr FLoUR-2I02ssc y pound.
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Grain, FIour and Feed.

Sales on call at the Grain Exchange, car
sample screenings, $6 . days. elevator; 8 cars of
No white oats. 2Sc, January delivery. Re-
ceipts as bulletined. 40 cars. By Pittsburg, Ft.
Wayne and Chicago, cars of oats, 8 of hay. 4
of flour, of rye, Of barley, OF wheat. By
Pirtsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis, 3 cars of
hay. Of corn. 8 of oats, 1 of rye, l of wheat.
BY Baltimore and Ohio, 3 cars of hay, Of oats,
of corn BY Pittsburg and Lake Erie, car Of
bran, l of -four, 8 of rye. By Pittsburg and
Western, car of hay. All cereals are steady,
with the exception of new corn, which is re-
ported very sick.
Prices below are for carload lots on track.
WHEAT-New No red, S5@S6c; No. 8, s2@
8Sc.
CoRN-No. yellow. ear new. 36@S7c; high
mixed. ear, 4004lc; No. 2 yellow, shelled, old,
A@42c; new. 350S0c; high mixed, shelled, 4O@
4lc.
oArs-No. 2 white. 2s@2s16c; extra, No. 8.
28@2S1zc; mixed, 26Q2z.
RYE-No. Pennsylvania and Ohio, 53@54c;
No. Western. 5l@52c.
BARLEY-Western.4 45065c; Canada barley
70675e.
FLoUR-Jobbing prices-Fancy winter and
spring patents, IS O0@5 50; winter straight,
q 1904 20; clear winter, 81 COCA Isl straight
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Real Estate Moves slowly After the HoII
day-A Few Good Deals.

Real Estate Moves slowly After the HOIi-
dRy-A Few Good Deals.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold large block of
property in the First ward, corner Liberty and
Second avenue; size 6Oxl6O feet. The pur-
chasers were the Union Storage Company. of
Pittsburg, who intend erecting a large cold
storage warehouse covering the entire lot, and
to be six or eight stories high, with the latest
improvements in the line of cold storage The
price approximates $4,000
w. G. Stewart, Ia Fourth avenue sold for
James Steen brick dwelling located on Du-
quesne Heights, to prominent business man,
for S, 500 cash.
Black & Baird, 95 Fourth avenue, sold to j.
Q, Williams lot No. 544 in the original plan of
Homestead, for 81. .000.
Ewing & Byers, % Federal street sold for j.
g. Quigley to George Strayer,a two-story frame
house of four rooms and attic with lot 14x46
feet being No. l79 Rush street. sixth ward,
Allegheny, for 81, 500 cash.
Samuel W. Black & Co., so Fourth avenue,
sold No. 4.block "B. " Denny estate plan, Thirty.
third street, on the north side Of Melwood
avenue, Thirteenth ward; size 25xlOO to an alley,
for S276
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By Telegraph.

New YORK-Beeves-Rece lS7O head
including IS carloads for home trade Slaughter.
5 carloads to be sold; there was no trading in
beef cattle worth noting either yesterday or to-
day; dressed beef had a fair demand at 51Ln7Zc
per pound for sides; exports, $500 quarters Of
beef; to-day's Liverpool cable quotes American
refrigerated beef slow at scant Sc per pound
and American beeves dull at 101H6l2c per
pound for the dressed weight, sinking the offal.
Calves-Receipts, 400; no demand to-day.
and very duh market yesterday; grass.
ers and Western calves nominally quo
ted at 81 OO43 25 per 100 pounds, Feals at
. OOQS OG Sheep-Receipts. 6,2O0 head; sheep
closed dull at a reduction equal TO Nc per
pound; about steady at a like reduction, So 5O6
5 per 100 pounds; lambs at IS 2567 25:
dressed mutton dull at tSqlOc per pound; dressed
lambs quiet at Sqlc; few very choice dressed
lambs going at llA@ll7zc. Hogs-Receipts.
1920 head; all for slaughterers direct: no trad.
ing in live hogs; nominally dun at s. 1894 10
CHICAGO = Cattle - Receipts. 1900 head;
shipments. 1000 head; market slow. closing lOc
lower: beeves, s. S0Q5; stockerS and feeders.
S1Gz 80; COWS, bulls and mixed, 81 2O62 80;
Texas cattle, $2Q2 20 Hogs-Receipts. i, 600
head; shipments, 3OOO'head; market strong and
oc higher; mixed, So 5063 65; heavy So 45G3 20;
light. So 5O95 20; skips. S3@3 35 Sheep-Re,
ceipts. 1000 head; shipments, 1 600 head; mar
ket steady; natives, So 5065 40; Western corn
led, S4@4 80; Texans, S3Q3 rs; lambs. S5@6
ST. LoUIs-Cattle-Receip 200 head; ship
ments. loo; market firm; good to fancy native
steers, 81 30G5 0U faIr to good So 20ED4 IS:
gsockers and feeders. e OO9S Is: range steers
g OOQ3 o. hogs-Receipts, $500 head; ship
lOents, 500; market higher; fair to choice
heavy, IS SOFAS 60; packing grades. So 4063 55
light, fair to best So 4O63 So Sheep-Receipts
none; shipments, none; market strong; fair
to choice, So 4OG4 80; lambs. 81 5OG5 60.
KANSAS CITY-Cattle-Receipts 5000 head:
shipments. 1000 head: market l062Oc low
er; natives. S. 20Q4 40; cows 81 5O02 40:
stOckers and feeders. s. O0@3 co. Hogs
Receipts. 10000 head; shipments, 800 head; mar
ket steady; all grades selling at So 556G3 65:
bulk at s. 577z93 CO. Sheep-Receipts, zoo head;
shipments, 600 head; market steady; good to
choice muttons, S4@4 rs; stoclzers and feeders,
s. 3064 co.
BUFFALo-Cattle steady and unchanged; re-
ceipts 129 loads through 5 for sale. Sheen and
lambs dull and heavy; lower tendency; receipts
loads through, q on sale. Hogs steady; re-
cefpts % loads through. 80 on sale; mediums
and heavy, $ IS; mixed, So 20; Workers. S3 7O6
Is; pigs, s. 7Oa3 70; roughs, So OO@3 %
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sugar-cured hams, large, gzc; sugar-cured
lO7zc; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, Sc; sugar
cured shoulders, SIC; sugar-cured boneless
shoulders, TIC; sugar-cured California hams,
&c; sugar-cured dried beef fats, &c; sugar-cured
dried beef SETS 10c; sugar-cured dried beef
sides, nc; bacon clear bellies, INC; dry salt
shoulders. sc; dry salt clear sides, &c. Mess
pork, heavy, sl1 so; mess pork, family, sl2 co.
Lard-Rehned. In tierces, 534c; half-barrels.
SIC; S-D tia pals SIC: 5b tin pals, &c; 10 D
tin pals, sc; 5-B tin pals. SIC. Smoked
sausage, long, SC: large, SC. Fresh pork links,
&c. Boneless hams, 101<c. Pigs feet, half bar
rel, 81 90; quarter barrel, 81 Is.
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CULVER OFFERED A JOB.

A Boston Dime Museum Man Prefers Hin IN
Wax Figure.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
BOSTON, December 26.-The proprietor of
q dime museum in this city to-day sent the
following telegram to John Culver, the
juror in the 'Cronin murder case who came
near making the jury disagree, and who
resolutely opposed the death penalty.
BOSTON. December 25
TO John Culver, ex-Juror, Cronin murder case.
Evanston, ILL.,;
What salary will you accept to exhibit
yourself in my dime museum2 1 am obliQ-
ed to use wax figures of the convicted murder
ers as they are in jail. have also a wax figure
of YOU hut prefer you personally. for exhibi
fion. VIII guarantee you against violence.
FRANK P. PILLNG,
Proprietor Pilling's Worlds Museum, Boston.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-27

r. ]. SToNEY, JR., has been elected to I'LL a
vacancy in the Board of Directors of the
Anchor Savings Bank.
THE annual meeting of the Standard Under
ground Cable Company will be held at the
Westinghouse building on January 81.
JOHN B. BARBOUR. formerly with ]. s. Nc
Kelvy, has become identified with Rea Bros. &
Co., and yesterday represented that firm at the
call.
AFTER this date the Assistant Treasurer Of
the United States at New York will receive
only United States notes and SILVER certificates
for deposits on account of shipments of cur
rency from Washington. =,
THERE are SO banks in Allegheny county,
representing SOL, 30, 700. These figures do not
of course include the resources Of numerous
private bankers, which would make consid-
erable item; nor do they take into account the
many building and loan associations, which
perform some of the functions of bank.
THE demand for local bonds is most satis-
factory and is daily on the increase. The re-
demption of about S500,0O0 of Allegheny
County 5s the first of the year has started the
holders of these bonds to hunt for equally good
investments, and it is safe to say almost all the
proceeds of these bonds will be reinVested in
local securities.
s. s. PINKERToN has declined the nomina-
tion for Second Vice President of the Pitts
burg Petroleum, Stock and Metal Exchange,
in favor of A. ]. Lawrence, who has expressed
his willingness to serve. Mr.. Pinkerton will
probably be chosen as a director. 1t is ex-
pected there will be some pretty warm work at
the election, which will take place January2
THE deal in the Avery Church property, on
Virgin alley, reported yesterday, was not a cash
sale. It was traded for a lot'10O by 761z feet,
corner Center avenue and Grove street, on
which there are IA houses, owned by E. b.
Mahood, the Liberty street grain merchant.
1t was double deal on the part Of the agents
by which both the railroad and church people
got what they wanted.
THE over-issue of stock by James ]. West
the Chicago editor, has been noticed in The
DISPATCH, together with his sentence to the
penitentiary. If the stock certificates had been
registered, this over-issue could not have oc-
CURED. The Union Transfer and Trust Com
pany, of this city, make speciality of this busi-
ness, to which the attention of managers and
directors of corporations is directed.
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xxx bakers. $ 5O@s 70. Rye aour. ss 500
'475
MILLFEED-Middlings fine white. SIS O00
Is 90 3 ton; brown middlings. So 000l %;
winter wheat brans sl1 25@11 80; chop feed,
SIS 50616 co.
HAY-Baled timothy, No. L s11 50G12 90;
No. do. IS OO@l0 90; loose from wagon, Sll 90
ql1 10 % according to quality: No: prairie hay,
STRAw-Oats. So 7597 90; wheat and rye
straw s. OO66 25
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DULL AND NARROW.
Trading in Railroad Shares Down to Zere
London stock Exchange Closed
-sugnr Bought ON
Rnll Rfnrr.

NEW YORK. December 26.-owing to the clos
ing of the London Stock Exchange to-day and
the extremely slim attendance at the board, the
business done in stocks here was on the same
limited scale as that of Tuesday, and the fuc-
tuations except in half dozen stocks, which
monopolized all the interest IN the speculation,
were made within range of less than half per
cent. The features Of the forenoon's opera
tions were the selling of Lackawanna and
Reading short to a limited extent and the buy
ing of Sugar Refneries in response to the
widely distributing points to buy which were
circulated at the opening Of business The
Coal stocks were sensibly affected by the con
tinued unreasonable weather and reports of
partial cessation of work in the collieries, but
little impression was made upon their prices.
The endeavor IN the afternoon to recoup the
short sales Of the forenoon resulted in an ad-
vance which completely wiped out the losses
of the morning Sugar was bought on a story
that the capital stock was to be reduced by q
cancellation of certificates It made q ma
terial advance in the forenoon, rising per
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-27

Fair Business AT the Banks and Cash q
Little EasLer.
Business at the banks was nothing to brag of
yesterday. but better than expected so soon
after the greatest holiday of the year. There
was a moderate demand for discounts and
checking and depositing were fair. There was
no change in rates. but they were slightly
easier.
Tuesdays business. as reflected in the Clear
ing House statement, was large the exchanges
being 81 6S7 2l5 26 and the balances 1881 S22 %.
Currency was in better supply. but still rather
scarce.
Money on call at New YORK yesterday was
tight ranging from TO Is per cent; last loan 10;
closed offered at Is. Prime mercantile paper.
5s405H. Sterling exchange quiet and weak
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-27
FEATURES OF TRADE.
The Hand-tO-MOuth Policy Pursued
by Retailers of Cheese.
SEEITzER AND LIMBuRGER SLOW.
Light Receipts of Cattle at Liberty, Grade
Below Average.
HoGS PLENTY AND MARKETS WEAK
OFFICE OF PITTsBURe DISPATCH,
THURSDAY. December 26, 1889.

OFFICE OF PTrTsBURe DESPATCH,
THURSDAY. December Is, 1859.
A leading jobber of sweitzer cheese re-
ports that volume of trade is larger than at
this time last year, but prices are lower all
along the line at least 1c per pound. Said
he:
I'VE were looking for our goods to 60 up
but were disappointed. The open weather
has enabled factories to keep running much
longer than their average time. When
markets are weak and prices droop as at
present, retailers pursue the hand-to-mouth
policy and buy only what they need. As a re-
suit jobbers are compelled 20 carry larger
stocks this season than usual. When markets
are weak we have to bear the burden. When
things are moving upward retailers buy more
freely"
As an evidence of the caution OF retailers this
season one leading jobbsr of domestic cheese
said to-day: The amount Of cheese carried by
jobbers here at this time is more than 1900
boxes ABOVE the average at this time Of the
year, taking the past i've years as basis"
Liberty Live Stock.
It viii be seen by the accompanying report
that receipts of cattle for local trade were 500
head less than last week and loo head less
than the previous week. Shippers appreciate
the TACT tnat poultry, game ana ocean prooucts
have the lead IN Christmas times and withhold
stock. Receipts OF cattle. both through and
local, this week are the Iightest of the season
Two weeks ago the number of through cattle
received at Liberty was 6, ,45O ard this week
2400 These figures indicate that other places
besides Pittsburg are consuming much less of
beef these holiday times than usual In this
weeks receipts at East Liberty there were very
few prime cattle. The average was shade be-
low last week.
Few Active Buyers.
Buyers were scareer than usual It is prob
able that many of the regular buyers were
giving attention to Christmas turkeys and
stockings Certain it is that regular buyers
were conspicuously absent
The best price obtained for carload lots was
s. %, drop of lOGl5c from last week. The
grade however, of the best offered this week
was below the best of last weeks offerings.
Handy butcher cattle weighing from LOO to
L3OO pounds were fully I0c better than the same
grade week ago owing to short supplies. The
run of sheep and lambs was light and demand
was light. Last weeks prices were maintained,
but no more. Very choice wethers were firm
on account of their scarcity. Hogs are weak
and slow. The outside price to-day ranges
from IS 1908 S.. At Chicago this morning,
-cording to advices received by one of our lead
ing packers, the outside price for selected
hogs was SS 60.
The Week at Liberty.
Following is report of the past weeks trans
actions at the East Liberty yards:
RECEIPTS.