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The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-31

"What is the matter with your eye?" exclaimed Brown, as Fogg made his appearance with his optic in mourning"
 Only mare claussna," replied Fogg with assumed indifference.
 4 mare clduSun?"
 "Yes; a closed see, you know."- Boston Transcript.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-31
No Man'a Land
Exchange.

the edge or the sea which is covered at tide, but Is lett bare at the ebb, has been called "No Mans Land" from an early date. This strip vAriCs in width according to the shelving of the shores. It Is of peculiar character, and the aptness Of its name is evil dent from the following description, furnished by the author of "A Sea- Painters Log"
 There is nearly always one figure to be seen upon No Mans Land, working his way to and fro along the windings of the smaller creeks and over the mud, walking with care ful, measured tread, and never resting long upon either foot. This Is the eel-spearer, who, with mud pattens -or mud d-shoes-frmly laced to his feet, tows behind him box about two feet six inches long, and slightly rounded at the bottom. He works carefully over the ground before him with his spear, like a pointer in stubble.
 This man knows every square yard of the mud for miles. and has earned a living upon 1t, and on nothing else, for the last forty years, his whole stock in trade being his mud -pattens, his spear, and the box that slips after him. When his tide is over, he slings this box, with twenty or thirty pounds of cells In it, upon his spear across his sshoulder,-his pattens hang ing in front, - and 90 trudges to market.
 Like the heron, the eel-spearer Is nearly always alone, and only those who have spent an hour or two upon the mud in pattens, mile or more from real land, can form an idea of how very much alone he is.
 1 have spent many an hour on & boat far out at sea, and know that the smallest boat in such situation Is as & house compared with the eel spearer's two bits Of elm plank four teen inches square. At every step they sink and suck in the mud, and tug at the lashings which secure them to the feet, SO that both the quality of these cords and the way they are made fast become quite important matters
 The pattens are fastened in par ticular manner, which Is seldom deviated from, for the safety of the el-spearer depends too much on his footboards for him to venture on rash experiments with them.
 The special skill, the local know ledge, required to travel safely over these mud lands is not unlike that needed by the mountain guide. There is mud which, though too soft to go upon in winter, will carry we'll enough in summer, when the long sea- grass is tough, and forms 6 sur face coat upon it left spread by the tide. And there are pits, deep and soft, like crevasses hidden by snow, into which you may sink at one step up to the waist or deeper.
 To get out of one of these a man must, by cutting the lanyard or untying the knot that fastens them, first get rid of his pattens, which suck him down: and then, extending himself horizontally, with his spear held across in both hands, as one would extend an oar in water, he may find it possible to draw himself out. But it Is only a chance, and when out, he has but his eel-box and spear left behind him to regain the shore with. Experienced mud walkers, however, by carefully sound ing before them with the spear or an oar, for the most part avoid falling
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-31

r1Ver, ana IS nere 10 ln0uCe Caplta1et to go into the scheme. Captain Boon has acquired the right to fifty thou sand acres of valuable timber land an, has engaged MT. Theo. Dolite, tn surveyor, to go up there and run tn lines. He is negotiating with Captail Briney for the purchase of tug tha will navigate the raging Jogawauk.
 "Well," I said, when l had reat that through, "whst is there wroni about it?"
 "It's all wrong" cried Captaii Boom, "there isn't word of truth il it. l want you to say in to- morrow paper that you entirely mislead ant that there wasn't & word of truth il the item relating to Captain Johl Boom. You have got to do that O stand the consequences"
 "lt can't be all wrong" said "ther must be some foundation of truth il the matter. The reporter has no reason for talsifying things"
 "You can take it any way you like but you have got to retract that thin, or there will be music, now tel you."
 "Csptsin Boom," said the man wh, had come up with him, "is wortl $l0o ,000, and he don't care darl what he spends in order to set himsel right, now l tell you"
 Well, l answered he doesn't need |, spend cent of it. The paper is a anxious to get it right as he is to hay it righted, but let's see where tn wrong is. h the first place, 'Captail John Boom, of Jogawauk, of northern Michigan, is at the Cadillac AT you Captain John Boom?"
 "Yes, sir, ann"
 "Very we'll, then, that much is right Are you from Jogawauk?"
 "Yes, sir, am from Jogawauk."
 "Is Jogawauk in northern Michi gan2"
 "Yes, it is."
 "And are you staying at the Cadi lac?"
 "Yes, am"
 "All right, then, there is nothing wrong with the first of it, is tbere2"
 "No, it isn't that, l."
 "Well, let's take the second sentence Are you interested in some of tn timber limits on that river?"
 "Now, that's just where the troubl is. Of course 1 am interested in tn timber limits on the Jogawauk river but l didn't want that published. didn't see any reporters, and those tha 1 told about that 1 told in confidence and am not going to have it cast broad cast all over the country"
 "Well, what we are after now is tt get this thing right. The timber limit are on the Jogswauk river, and is i true that you wish to interest capital ists in the scheme?"
 "Why, that's what am here for, a I said, but I don't want any publicity about it. We are doing this thing ol quiet. There are other parties tha have claims on those limits, and i they get on to. the racket, why they"
 The person who came up with hin coughed a little and said:
 "Never mind, Captain Boom, that of course, has nothing to do with tn matter"
 "Well, 1t says here that you hay acquired the right to 60000 acres O timber land. Is that true2"
 "Well, yes, it is true. That is t, say, 1t isn't 50,000 acres, it's abou 48000 acres. Oh, yes, and there i 2,000 acres more that, but-yes, that all right. Fifty thousand acres is al right. But it's nobody's business"
 "Well, have you engaged MT. The
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
CATTLE. HOGS. : SHEE.
By Telegraph.

New YORK -Beeves - Receipts, S37 head.
including 46 carloads for expectation and car.
loads for city slaughterers direct: no trading in
beef cattle; quiet for dressed beef at 61z6171lc.
Exports, 6l0 beeves and $50 sheep. Cable ad-
vices from Liverpool quote American refriger-
ator beef dull and weak atSc per pound. Calves
Receipts 1000 head: weak, at 465l<c per
pound for veal, and at 1903 &c for bdttermilk
calves. Sheep-Receipts. 5000 head, including
1000 spring lambs. Clipped sheep sold at SO rs
"a S5 per 100 pounds; clipped yearlings at S. 90
@6 90; spring lambs at s. O0GS 90 per 100
pounds, with few choice at IS 50@D9 co. Hogs
Receipts, $500 head, nearly all for slaugh-
terers direct; small bunch of live hogs changed
hands alive at 81 50 per 100 pounds
ST. UIs-Cattle-Receipts. LOO head: Ship
ments 400 head; market steady; choice heavy
native steers, So 9O94 40 fair to good. S3 2034 co.
stOckeTs and feeders, fair to good, s. 1898 81:
rangers, corn-fed, s. 1908 so; grass-fed. 81 80
az 50. Hogs-Receipts 600 head; shipments
$500 head; market lower; choice, heavy and
butchers selections, S4 1904 40: packing, me-
dium to prime, s. 2O34 30: light grades. ordi-
nary to best, So 1904 40 Sheep-Receipts, 5000
head; shipments, 1000 head; market strong; fair
to choice, s. OOG4 So
Observation-Disclosures. 1900 head: ship
mentS 1000 head; market slow, shade lower:
beeves, 81 1904 IS; steers, So 1904 10; stockers
and feeders. s. 50@3 go; COWS, bulls and
mixed, 81 1908 80; Texas steers, S3 5O63 CO.
Hogs-Receipts. $4,000 head; Shipments 1000
head; market l5c lower; mixed S4 1904 S5:
heavy, 81 O5G4 25 light, 81 2OG4 60: skips,
So 5O@4 Is. SheeD-Receipts, 4OOO head: ship
ments, 1000 head; market steady; natives,
s. 506D4 Is: Western. shorn, So 1904 l5; Texans
S. 0O9S IS; lambs 81 5O@5 So
KANSAS CTTY-Cattle- Receipts, 1,9d head:
no shipments: market slow and weak; good to
choice cornfed, So 1904 O5; common to medium,
So 2593 go; stockers and feeding steers, 81 256
IS; cows, 81 1908 25. Hogs-Receipts, 1888
head; shipments, 5937 head: market dull and
l562Oc lower; good to choice, 81 1904 20; com.
mon to medium, 50 50Q4 so. Sheep-Recelpts,
!, 400 head; no shipments; market steady; good
to choice muttons, So 1904 20; common to
medium, 81 5O63 50.
BUFFALo-Cattle-Dull and lower; receipts
1OO loads through; 6 sale. Sheep and lambs
Receipts, 2 loads through; q sale; market lOc
lower; sheep, good to best, 81 O0G4 10; fair to
good, So 1904 90; lambs, good yearlings IS 250
%; fair to good, S4 75E15 %. Hogs-Receipts
l6 loads through; q sale: market dull and iO6
l5c lower; Workers and mediums 81 80. pigs
81 IS. " O'' P's0'
CINCINNATI-Hogs lower: common and
light, s. 1904 SO; packing and butchers. 81 q
"a 40; receipts, 23OO head; shipments, 1000
head,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
PITTSBURG IRON.
A Better Demand, but Prices Unsatisfactory
The Thomns COMPANY Cut.

The Thomas COMPANY Cut.
There has been an improvement in the de-
mand since week ago, but prices are very pn-
satisfactory, with no prospect of radical i'm
provement before fall. The cut of the Thomas
company possesses far less importance than
has been attributed to it. They were selling at
about 81 so above Pfttsburg prices. and the re-
duction was made to meet the market.
PIG IRON - Neutral Gray forge, Sl4 so;
cash; white and mottled, Sl4 0O@4 90. cash,
all ore mill, Sl5 756l6 CO. cash; No. foundry,
si7 25aI7 50. cash; No. 2 foundry, si6 co. cash;
No. 2 charcoal foundry, 81 00021 So cash:
cold blast charcoal, SIS OO@2S 90. cash; Bessemer
iron, SIG 75@17 90, cash.
FERRo-MANGANEsE-Ei Eighty per cent, $55 90
ass 90; speigel-elsen, S2S OO@S so forAper cent
cash.
DAYS, per cent on,
MUCK BAR-S26 so.
BILLETS-Bessemer steel, 81 90 cash; nail
slabs, S2 75@2S 90; domestic bloom and rail
ends, Sl9 OO@l9 50. %
NAILs-Carlots I'D to 40d, 81 s., 60 days; 2
per cent off for cash.
WROUGHT IRON PIPE-Discounts on steam,
cent, ~ to II inches, 6715; galvanized, H to
1l4-inch, 4715 per cent; IL 70 IL inches, IS per
cent; oilwell casing, go per cent; 5Ssinch cas-
ing, 371a per net foot; 2inch tubing, 1Sc; boiler
tubes, 6215, and oil well casing 60 per cent off
MERCHANT STEEL Tool SIC; crucible
spring, 417c; .crucible machinery. Sc; open
hearth machinery, 23zc.
RAIL LFAsTENNGS-Spike 22Oc per pound,
30 days;splice bars l.S0@1 Sc per pound; square
nut track bolts. 275@285c, and hexagon nut,2 80
@295c, f. o. b. Pittsburg.
OLD RAnS-American tees, S24 0O0A so;
steel do, SIS SO for short SO so for long
STEEL RAILs-Heavy sections, S2S0@ cash,
at works.
SCRAP IRoN-No.l wrought, S2l@N 25p per net
ton; cast scrap, SIS 50@l6; wrought turn1ngs, Sl3
OLA net: cast borings. $l2@l3 gross: car axles,
SIS 006125 so, net; old car wheels Sl9 OOGll9 So
gross; rail ends, S19 5000 90; bloom do, SO 50,
cash.
sKELP IRON - Grooved sizes, 81 65, cash;
sheered, &c.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Eggs Easier---Tennessee Strawber-
ries in Full Supply.
APPLES AND TROPICAL FRUIT UP.
As New Cereal Crop Draws Near, the Old
Drifts Downward.
PACKERS REJOICE OVER HOG DROP
APPLES AND TROPICAL FRUIT UP.
'ACKERS REJOICE OVER HOG DROP
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
THURSDAY. May i6, 1888.


Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
Eggs are off and easier Butter is still on the
down grade, owing to liberal supplies. The best
Elgin creamery is quoted IN New York at 1Sc.
The ducats would, no doubt command the
Eagle brand at the same figure here, though at
this price margins are very narrow. The de-
mand for tropical fruits continues good and the
drift of prices is upward. Apples grow hrmer
as their season approaches its end. Green
onions go very slow. Strawberries are coming
in freely from Tennessee. and demand is good
at range Of 1211 to zoe per quart. In front OF
Liberty street produce houses Sabbatic air
reigns to-day. Produce merchants who take
an optimistic view Of the situation are in
small minority
I7@l8c; fresh dairy packed, 14Q15c; country
rolls l3@l4c; CHARTERS Creamery Co., l9c.
BEANs-SI 75@1 80
BEEswA1-2SGSOc q N for choice; low grade,
1S@20c.
CIDER-sand refined, s6 5O@7 50; common,
So 5O@4 90; crab cider, IS OO@S so p barrel;
cider vinegar. l0@12c p gallon.
CHEEsE-New Ohio cheese, 97a@l0c; New
York, fall make, l2@1211c; Limburger, s@1Oc;
domestic sweitzer cheese, 915@l211c.
DRIED PEAs-sl 25@1 IS q bushel; split do.
EGGS fEseSGs-ffSal5c @ dozen for strictly fresh;
FRI FRUfTsSApples, IT'S s. 5OG4 90 p barrel; evap-
GRATED raspberries, 25c y D.; oranberries, S4@5
p barrel 5Oc@S1 90 y bushel; strawberries 50 90
@3 so a crate; pine apples, 81 1902 25 y dozen.
FEATHERS-Extra live geese, 50@60c; No.
do, 4O045c; mixed lots, 30@35e q b.
HoNEY-NeW crop, 16@17c; buckwheat, l3
@15c.
HoMINY-S2 65@2 rs p barrel.
PoTAToES-35@40c 99 bushel; Bermuda pota-
toes, So 0O@8 so % barrel; new Southern pota-
toes, IS O0@5 so q barrel.
PoULTRY-LiVe chickens, 65@75c per pair;
undrawn chickens 10@12c y b; drawn, 14@
l5c p b: turkeys, 18020c dressed q b; ducks,
live, 60@70c q pair; dressed, 13@14c y b; geese,
live, 81 00@1 Is y pair.
SEEDS-Clover, choice, 81 Ms to bushel, S. 60
p bushel; clover, large English, 81 ms, S6 co.;
clover, Aliske, S8 so; clover, white, SO 90; tim
othy, choice, 45 ms, 81 65; blue grass, extra
clean Il ms, 90c; blue grass, fancy IA ms, 81 00;
orchard grass IA MS, 81 65 red top, IA rs, 81 25;
millet, 50 lbs, 81 90; German millet, so rs,
81 so; Hungarian grass. go ms, 81 90; lawn
grass mixture Of fine grasses, 81 so q bushel Of
IA Ms.
TALLow-Country, 41l@5c; city rendered,
50511c.
TRoPIcAL FRUITs-Lemons, fancy, $5 5O@
6 90 q box; Messina oranges, 81 50@5 so q
box; Valencia oranges, fancy, 81 5O@9 90 q
case; bananas, 81 so, f1rsts; 81 so, good seconds
p bunch: eoeoanuts, "a 00@4 so y hundred;
new figs 5000 y pound; dates. 615@611c y
pound.
VEGETABLEs-Radishes 25@9Oc y dozen;
marrowfat peas, So Is ~ crate; new cabbage,
two.barrel crates, 81 5003 10; Bermuda onions,
81 1901 Is p bushe; string beans, 81 co. tomatoes
So 0003 90 q bushel.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
Grain, Flour and Feed.

Total receipts bulletined at the Grain Ex-
change, 80 cars. By Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago. 6 car of oats, of middlings, Of
flour, 1of wheat, / of feed. By Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati and ST. Louis, 8 cars of hay, of corn.
By Baltimore and Ohio, Bears of hay, of corn.
By Pittsburg and Western, 8 cars Of wheat, i of
malt. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, car of hay,
of oats. There were no sales on call. Cereal
markets are without animation, but prices are
not quotably lower. There is little question,
however, that the cash customer finds the
holder ready to concede on quotations. The
situation grows more favorable to buyers as
the new crop approaches.
WHEAT-Jobbing prices-No. 2 red, 94G95c;
No. 3 red, $685..
CoRN-No. yellow ear, 4z@43c; high mixed
ear, 4004lc; No. yellow, shelled, 4l@42c; No.
yellow, shelled, 40@41c; high mixed, shelled.
3904Oc; mixed, shelfed, 38@39c.
OATS-No. white, 3216033c; extra, No. Q,
3l@3l11c; No. white, 31GSlc; No. 2 mixed, n
@28c.
RYE-No. Western, 7O@75c; No. 2 55Q56c.
BARLEY-No Canada, 95008c; No. Can.
ada. 850SSc; No. 3 Canada, 70@72c; Lake Shore,
78@60c.
FLoUR-Jobbing prices winter patents,
S. 50Q5 IS; spring patents, s. 1906 90: winter
straight, 81 75@5 O0j clear winter, 81 5OQ4 70;
straight xxx bakers n 00@4 q. Rye aour,
~ VVWQ ~
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
per cent. lsss reg.... q. Is.

Currency, per cent, 1898 reg.... ........l3l
Currency, per cent, 1899 reg. ........lS
Sales of 1890 900 coupon As at l2s11, buyer three
days
NEW YORK -Clearings Sl2l, ,5l1, ,54S; balances,
s66l0,l25.
BosToN : Clearings. S14.94499l; balances,
81, $40, 425. Money ~ per cent.
PHIApELPHIA-Clearings, Sll,5s4745; bal
ances, $l.74O.337.
BALTIMoRE-Clearings today sl,S77, $3.50; bal
ances, $266, ,27L
ST. LOUIS -Clearings, s8OsO,4S5; balances.
S6S9, 500.
CH1oAeo-Money unchanged. Bank clear
ings, $40, 100000.
LoNDoN-The bullion in the Bank OF En-
gland increased s946 900 during the past week.
The proportion of the Bank of EnglRnds re-
serve to liability is now S7.S4 per cent.
PARIs-Three per cent rentes. s7f 6oc for
the account. The weekly statement OF tne
Bank of France shows an increase of $1,000
gold and 1895 000f silver.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17

A sharp drop in hogs at Chicago to-day gives
new hope and heart to packers, who have con-
tended all season that hogs have been too high
for the price of provisions
Sugar-cured hams, large, 101zc; sugar-cured
hams, medium, lie; sugar-cured hams, small,
l11<c; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 1O1zc; sugar
cured shoulders, &c; sugar-cured boneless
shoulders, 916c: sugar-cured California hams.
SIC; sugar-cured dried beef fats. SIC; sugar
cured dried beef sets, 91zc; sugar-cured dried
beef rounds 1l1zc; bacon shoulders, T1c; bacon
clear sides. SIC; bacon clear bellies, S11c; dry
salt shoulders, SIC: dry salt clear sides, 734c.
Mess pork. heavy, $14 90; mess pork, family.
Sl4 so. Lard-Refined in tierces, &c; half
barrels. ne; GOD tubs, TIC; 0b pals, 7ssc; 80
tin cans, 71sc; 3-D tin pals, SIC; oh tin pals.
SC; large, Sc. Fresh pork links, &c. Pigs feet,
half barrel, "a 0C; quarter barrel, 81 90
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
DULL AND STRONGER.
Local Securities Show Signs Of Getting Out
of the Rut.

Local securities were generally stronger yes
terday, but dull, only four stocks being traded
in to the extent OF 245 shares. The improve
ment in prices was caused solely by an attempt
to place buying orders, there being no change
in the general situation. Among the stocks
most prominent for strength were Philadelphia
Gas, Electric Pittsburg and Western and
junction Railroad.
Allegheny Heating Company was wanted at
ITO. For Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway
200 was asked. Central Traction sold at 2S1lS;
the others were steady and neglected La Noria
picked up a little on more favorable news from
the mine Indications were favorable for bet
ter demand and stronger market to-day and
tomorrow Bids, offers and sales were:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
Boston Stocks.
Mining Stocks.

new YORK. May 16-Mining quotations
H., 300; Consolidated California and Virginia,
rs; Dunkin, 100; Deadwood T.. 100: Eureka
Consolidated, l75; El Cristo, LIS: Gould q
$50; Horn silver. ITO: Iron Silver, 1856; Mex
lean, 40; Mono, 150 Mutual, lao; Ophir, 4S0;
plymouth, 1000 Savage. 260; Sierra Nevada,
335; Standard, 1l5: Small Hopes, 150; Sullivan,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17

Observation-Disclosures, fine white, SIS O0Q
16 90 q ton; brown middlings. 81 500l2 50i
winter wheat bran, sl3 OO013 so; chop feed,
SIS 00@l6 co.
: HAY-Baled timothy, choice, S14 50Ql5 90;
No. l do, sI3 25@13 50; No. 2 do, Sll 0O@l2 50;
prairie. $40 UO@l0 so; No. 2 $s O0@S so; packing
do, IS 50@6 50.
straw, 81 00@7 50@8 90.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
PHIL DALY'S MIND GONE,
Broken Down by BrOOdinE Over His Ad.
venture With the Badgers.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPArcH.I

NGut1AC huC Ddu&GEss
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPArcBI
NEW YORK, May 16.-Phil DAILY was
taken to Long Branch last week in special
car very much broken down in health His
wife and four children are with him there.
DIR. S. II. Hunt is watching Mr.. Daly's
condition, and acting under his instructions,
Mr.. DAILY takes ride daily. No one is al
lowed to converse with him upon business
matters. and he is not permitted to read the
newspapers. DR.. Hunt thinks Mr.. Dalv
will recover full control of his mental
faculties if he has absolute quiet and is kept
entirely free from business cares.
Mr.. Daly has grown old since his narrow
escape from Addie Stanton's gang of bad
gers. His most intimate friends say his
weakness of mind has been caused by con-
stantly brooding over the published reports
of that adventure. in which his account of
the occurrences was discredited.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
THE BUYER ABROAD.
Real Estate Still wnnted-Reports of the
Latest Deals,

Real Estate Still Wanted-Reports of the
Latest Deals.
Samuel W. Black d Co., 90 Fourth avenue,
sold another of those handsome lots on Adams
street, opposite the residence of George II.
Anderson, Esq, Hazelwood, size 44x1l5 for
s., 200. This vicinity has not yet caught the
boom of high prices, and for that reason is
very attractive to purchasers.
D. Behen Son sold for H. Gulenty to Anna
Lubitz lot 20x94 feet, being 4O72 William street,
with frame house of five rooms, for $4,000.
Ewing & Byers. No. 107 Federal street, placed
mortgage of 81, 900 for five years at per cent
on Boyle street property, Allegheny. They
also sold for William Kennedy to Mrs. Haley a
frame house of four rooms and attic on Terrace
street, Allegheny, for s., $50 cash.
Black & Baird, No. 95 Fourth avenue, sold to
H. K. E. Arnold lot on the east side of Iowa
street, Thirteenth ward, adjoining the one re-
Gently sold to Dodds, 100xl50 feet, for $780,
They report active inquiry for Thirteenth ward
property and many sales nprogress of negotia-
tion.
Thomas McCaffrey, 35Og Butler street, sold
for Joseph Quigley to William Kelly, lot ok
100 on Dauphin street, for $425.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
DECLINES AND RECEIVERS.
An Unusually Interesting Day at tho OIL
Exchnnge-The Outlook.

Exchnnge-The Outlook.
The oil market opened yesterday with the
bears on top. At times during the day there
was an unusual amount Of noise and considera-
Bile excitement as fluctuations favored one side
or the other. The opening price was 803c-Ac
below the close of Wednesday. Under liberal
buying by the shorts, the market sold up to
size, followed by a slump, under persistent
hammering, to S01zc.
From this point it quickly reacted to SIG.
then softened a fraction, and held around that
point until the last hour, when good buying
caused an advance to e211c. 1t then weakened
and closed steady at s21Sc, with carrying fiat,
indicating enough oil to go round. The chances
seemed to favor slightly lower level this
morning, and a rally during the day to SSc, or
in that neighborhood. A bear said: ~ look
for 75-cent oil before the month is out" The re-
suit will show which is the better guesser. The
exchange will settle the question of trading in
futures, SO far as it is concerned, at o'clock
this afternoon.
Union Oil Company's Knox well, Washington
county, was reported doing about 80 barrels an
hour. Snee-Swinderman No. 6. Brush creek,
was making good showing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17

NEW YORK. May 16.-The special movement
in bleached shirtings through temporary re-
duction of prices is about completed, and many
makes of both brown and bleached cottons
have been well cleaned up through sligh.l con-
to sell as little while ago, and there is more
general hrmness to the market. which has an
upward look Wamsutta A bleacheu shirtings
jeans and Victoria satins were advanced Ec q
yard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
Other OIL Markets.

BRADFORD May 16-National transit GER
tifcates opened at SO3c; lowest. sOssc; highest,
S2ssc; closed, SIC.
TTTUSvILLE, May 16-National transit GER
titicates opened at S01c; highest 821Sc; lowest,
SQ3sc; closed, 821Sc.
OIL CITY, May 16.-National transit GER
tihcates opened at S04ci highest. S21Sc; low.
est, SOSc; closed, S21sc.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Petroleum opened
steady at SO1Sc, and declined %c in the trading.
Heavy buying by Western houses then caused
a sharp turn. and the price was advanced to
S2z2c, the market closing firm at S21sc. Sales,
1852 900 barrels.