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people laughed at him, but lady interested in
the property insisted that Lavinger's witch
hazel science be given q test. and 10, the prop.
erty was found to be on the belt! SeVerai
other ventures, some of them within few
feet. were found to be off the belt.
A few weeks later man named OBrien be-
gan to drill well, on CHARTERS creek, but as
he was too far east and 'off the belt, know
ing people laughed at him. and his venture was
christened "O'Brien's Folly" He got big well
and no " there are l3 holes being drilled within
half mile of "O'Brien's folly" It's dollars
to dimes that some of these holes will be found
of the belt"
The Young and Depp gushers were off the
Delt a year ago, but they are on 1t with both
feet, now,
As the rock appears to be about the same
thickness where wells are found and where
they are not found, it is suggested that it
might pay developers to pool their issues and
put down two shafts. one where pool is found
and the other where it is not. but where the
rock seems to be the same; go below the lowest
oil bearing stratum known an see, If possible,
what determines prolific and nop-prolific terri
tory. 1t would cost considerable money, but not
more than the boring of 200 dry holes.
At present the witch-hazel locator seems to
know as much about the matter as does the
trained geologist There will be a general
shaking-up within two weeks on the Sc Cuthside.
as there are % or 80 wells well on the way to
the Gordon sand.
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issues traded in. The Kansas and Texas re-
ceipts furnished $4,000; the Texas Pacific
incomes, Sll8UO0; the reading seconds incomes,
S1l7 600 and the Erie seconds. $l03 600 the grand
total. Kansas and Texas issues, the Reading
first and second incomes, in all four marked
gains Other advances of note were made by
Cedar Falls frsts. Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and
Western debentures; st. Paul-LaCrosse 7s
Erie seconds. Lackawanna convert1bles; Gulf
and Santa Fe seconds, Shenandoah Valley
firsts. Government bonds have been dull and
barely steady, State bonds have been dull and
featureless.
The increased activity in the Comstocks were
the result of covering of short contracts and
some buying for long account, based on i'm
proved reports respecting the trade, which.
however are doubtless exaggerated. The re-
ports from the West indicate that the improve
ment in the railroad situation in progress, TO-
gether with the large earnings OF the roads,
had the effect to advance the prices OF the
business of Southern roads caused the ad-
vance In prices of the Southern stocks. Lon
don buying and the easy condition OF the
money market have been important FAC
tors in the advance. the temper of the
speculation continues bullish. There are
SOME who look for lower prices as result of
the expected labor demonstration on Thursday,
but fear on such a score is greater than present
indications warrant. The highest prices of the
day were about l o'clock, at which time
prices were Il to "a per cent. higher than the
closing of Saturday, but during the remainder
of the afternoon tendency to a de-
cline the highest of the day having been Il to
i per cent, the decline having been caused by
realizing of profits and by developments of
bearish character.
stocks on the New York Stock Exchange yester-
day. Corrected daily for THE DISPATCH by
WHITNEY STEPHENSON, Oldest Pittsburg mem-
bers of New York Stock Exchange, 81 Fourth ave-
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Mondays Usual Quietness Reported
by Commission Men.
AN OVERDOSE OF POOR POTATOES.
The Sales at the Grain Exchange the
Largest of the Season.
CORN WEAKER AND WHEAT STRONGER
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, I
MONDAY, April Is, 1890. !


Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
Mondays usual quietness regned at the
produce commission houses. The first new
quantities. but quality was not tempting.
Supply of eggs is not go heavy as for week or
two past, but m arkets are unchanged. Good
potatoes are only steady, while inferior stock,
with which our markets are flooded, is very
dull at nominal prices. The overdose of poor
stock has had depressing effect on the good
In tropical fruit lines choice oranges and
bananas are active and shade frmer.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin. 2l@2l11c;Ohio do.
10000: country rolls, A@l6c.
BEEswAx-25Q2sc q h Tor choice; low grade,
18@20c.
CIDER-sand refined. 81 so; common. 50 0O@
90; crab cider, 81 5OGS 90 q barrel; cider vim
CHEEsE-Ohio lie: New York, 12c; Linn
berger. l474@l5c; domestic Sweitzer, 1813@l7c;
imported Swetzer, 231ac.
EGGs-l2@l213c % dozen for strictly fresh;
duck eggs. 1Sc; goose eggs. S5@4oc;
FRUITs--Apples, fancy, s4 OO@4 so q barrel;
strawberries. 15@25c a box.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese. 50@6Oc; No, l.
do 4O045c; mixed loss, 30@35c % b.
MAPLE SYRUP-New, 9O095c can. Maple
sugar, n@l2c ~ b.
HoNEY-l5c % h.
PoULTRY-Live chickens. 75c@s1 a pair;
dressed, l4@l5c pound; ducks, 75c<ls1 pair;
dressed turkeys, 1S@20c q n.
SEEDs-Clover, choice. 82 rs to bushel. 81 90
p bushe; clover, large English, 81 bs. "a $50
4 80; clover, Alske s. 90; clover. white, SO 90;
timothy. choice, a. Ms. 81 60@l 70: blue grass,
extra clean. IA fs. 81 25@l 80: blue grass, fancy.
IA Bs 81 80; orchard grass IA lbs. 81 40; red top,
IA rs. 81 90; millet so bs. 81 10; Hungarian
grass so Ms, 81 90; lawn grass, mixture of fine
grasses, 81 so p bushel of IA ns.
TALLow-Country, SIC; city rendered, 4Ac.
TROPICAL FRUITS-Lemons, common, So 90
@3 so: fancy, 81 0O@4 so; Florida oranges, 81 so
@5 0O; Valencia, Sc 5O@S 90 for 420 case Jamaica
So 00G8 so a barrel: bananas, 81 75G12 rs tirsts,
81 so good seconds, % bunch; cocoanuts, A 0O@
so y hundred; dates, 81a@7c y lb; layer figs,
1215@l515c; pineapples, S3@4 dozen.
observation-disclosures, from store 65@75c:
on track, 65@85c; Bermuda potatoes, SO 50910
a barrel; new Southern cabbage, So so for
small crates, 81 so for large: Jersey
sweet potatoes. S. 25@5 rs barrel; Ber-
muda onions, 81 4O@2 IS per bushel crate;
green onions, 20@25c a dozen; parsnips, So 90
q barrel; onion sets. SO 50@4 90 p bushel
kale, 81 25@l so u barrel; asparagus. soc y large
bunch; rhubarb. 20@30c q dozen; green beans,
81 5005 90 AZ box,
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ACTIVE AND STRONG.
Henvy Renlizntious Fail to Check the Up
ward Movement In Wall Street.
Good Bank Statement and
Higher Pricea I'm Londan.

NEW YORK, April 2S-The stock market to.
day was very active and the strength of the up.
ward movement was seen in the fact than not
withstanding heavier realizations that have
beer seen at any time since the rise began, to
the influence of which was added some of the
trading element who believe that a reaction is
due to get prices off, the offerings were all alb
sorbed at but slight concessions in the active
stocks, while, when the pressure was removed
full recovery was had and the great majority OF
the list is fractionally higher tonight with
some material gains.
The good bank statement of Saturday had its
influence, and enthusiasm among operators in
the street was still undiminished this morning.
But probably the most potent influence to-day
was the magnitude of buying for foreign ac-
count as London prices were materially higher
this morning, and many commission houses had
received orders to open the market up, the
opening was extremely strong, and the bull
movement of Saturday was seen to have force
still. The days market showed thar outsiders
are a growing factor in the market, and Lon
don shows strong disposition to invest in
American securities.
The purchases Tor the foreigners included
large amounts of st. Paul. Erie Louisville and
Nashville and other favorites There was no
news which indicated any likelihood of an
early termination of the warning Western
roads, and the realizations were most pro-
nounced after the high prices OF the opening
we're established, but the concessions in prices
which followed were in almost all cases con-
fined to small fractions. though Lacawanna.
Missouri Pacific and Chicago Gas were all
prominent in the decline.
The strength shown in Manhattan, Louisville
and Nashville, Canada Pacific, New England,
Wheeling and Lake Erie, Delaware and Hud-
son, together with some of the specialties
further encouraged the bulls and the
decline in prices went no further. The
fluctuations: considering the large business
done, there being fair crowds in all the leading
stocks, we're small. At the first decline there
was gradual hardening of value which
neutralized the losses of the first hour. The
selling movement collapsed toward the close
and prices in the last few minutes improved
materially, the close being active and strong at
close to first prices tor the most OF the list. In
the last rally Northern Pacific preferred became
q decided feature. The final changes Of im-
portance were all advances. and Tennessee
Coal rose ~; st. Paul preferred. 1sss; Northern
Pacific preferred, n; Louisville and Nashville
N; sManhattan, ". There was fair
business in railroad bonds, the sales
aggregating S2,503,000 and the upward
movement continued without interruption,
although the material movements were few in
number in comparison with the number Of
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O'BRIEN SUES THE POLES.
The Guardian of the Helpless Making n
Child Beuter Dance Young Lad
Beaten With a Knotted Rope-An Offer
IN Sell Hin, for 5000.

Child d-Beater Dance A Young Lad
Beaten With Knoited Rope-An Offer
to Sell Him for $500.
Humane Agent O'Brien turned up case
yesterday that he says is more cruel than
any he ever heard of, and certainly the worst
in his experience. He was notified that
9-year-old boy, living at CHARTERS, had been
nearly killed on Saturday night by his
father, who had beaten him with rope. He
repaired to the place at once, and began an
investigation.
A Polish woman named Margaret Lib
kofsky has two children, aged and 9 years
respectively. She keeps four boarders, one
of whom is named Paul Worasky. This man
has assumed the duties OF husband to her
since her righttul lord died seven months
ago. He has also taken on himself the
offices of father to the children, but his at
fection for them is exceeded considerably
by the chastisement he subjects them to-
The older boy is named Willie, and after
being beaten by this man he has habit of
running off and staying out at night to
brood over his sorrows. Last Friday
he absented himself all night, but on
returning home on Saturday night
Worasky took him in hand and admin
istered a sound thrashing. The man
procured clothes line and doubled it,
and taking off the boys trousers, he beat him
about the body to such an extent that there
were cuts on him from the toes all the way
up to his face. Every stroke of the rope
left not a mark, but cut, the loop of the
lash making a clearly defined mark like
that of horseshoe. His legs and thighs
suffered the worst but his arms and back
were also badly cut, and one stroke cut him
across the cheek. The little fellow must
have suffered great pain, as his screams
were heard by all the nelghbors. Agent
O'Brien took the boy yesterday to the Office
of Squire Miles Bryan. Informations
were at once made against Worasky and
Mrs. Libkofsky, as well, as she acknowledged
assisting the man in chastising her child.
Worasky works in Lockhart's mill at Char
tiers. He was arrested. At the hearing he
and the woman were fined $40 and costs each,
which Worasky paid, much to Agent
O'Brien's disgust, as he wanted the man
sent to the workhouse. He then made an
other charge against Worasky for assault |
and battery, on which he will be given |
hearing on Saturday. When Agent O'Brien |
said he was going to take the boy away from |
her, the woman said he could have him for |
5000, and he could also have the other child. |
He did not pay her the amount, however,
but he did take the child, who is now COM |
fortably housed in the Tannehill orphan |
asylum.
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CHOOSING A LOVER,
When a Man First Comes sweethenrtiug
the Girl Should study Him.


the Girl Should study Him.
Choose your sweetheart carefully, wisely
and tenderly, my dear girls, says writer in
the Ladies' Home Journal. Remember he
is to be even more than this to you some day
he is to be your husband, for surely you
are not one of the girls who have a sweet
heart here, and one there, and give little
love to this one and a little to that one,
until when the real one appears the perfect
bloom is gone from the peach and she can
not give him what he offers her.
You girls know very quickly when man
means more than ordinary friendship for
you. You have an instinct that tells you
that this big, good-looking fellow has come
sweethearting, and that that is the time for
you to study him little bit. Think out il
his temper and yours are certain to agree
we'll together; think out if his tastes and
yours are alike, or if they can grow to be so,
Tor you know, little woman, if you want to
be happy in your married life. you must
learn the great and wonderful virtue of
adaptability.
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ON AND OFF THE BELT.
A Lottery That Is More Fascinating Than
the One In Louiaiana-Two Deep
Shafts Suggested ms One Way
IN npfarmtna

It is rather amusing to see the efforts of oil
producers to stand on the line. The line, or
belt. is showing itself to be one of the most un-
reliable things ever known in this section. The
men who trace it know about as much about il
as Virgins and the rest of the prophets do
about the weather. If you hit it you are con-
gfatulated by the smellers. who will tell you
they felt rolerably certain you were on the
belt. If you don't hit you are sneeringly asked
what you expected by getting of the belt
Keep on and get well within a few feet of
your duster and then you will be told this is
treacherous territory, and it's game of haz-
ard and they will talk of faults and fissures,
etc. strike or a miss in the Hundred Foot
can always be explained by the wseacres, who,
to tell the truth, know about as much about 1t
as you do. If you hit you're on the belt; If you
don't you aren't, and Fifth avenue from end to
end might be called straight compared with
the tortuousness Of the oil belt If it be true
that there is such thing. True Science LAYS
her finger on her lips and says she doesn't
know much about it.
When Fred Lavinger said there was oil un.
der the site chosen to drill the Arbuckle No. l.
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DULL BUT STEADY.
OIL Bulls Think They Can Scent Encour-
pgement in the Air.

OIL Bulls Think They Can Scent Encour-
ngement In the Air.
Petroleum was dull but steady yesterday,
most Of the strength being attributed to Oil
City. Underlying this, however, was general
expectation that the next pipe line report
would be more bullish than any for long
time. The strength was also in line with the
improved feeling in speculation in New York
and Chicago. The pivotal fluctuations were:
Opening, S44; highest, S51s; lowest. S4A; clos
ing SiI.
There was very little talk about field news
One operator who has examined most OF the
territory in adjacent counties and around
Pittsburg, said that very few of the wells were
holding out, and that the number OF busters
was increasing.
A notification was received from the Presi-
dent of the Conference Committee of the sew
eral exchanges giving notice that three
fourths vote had been cast in favor of the reso-
luton extending the privilege of dealing in cash
oil to the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum
Exchange of New York The change will 60
into effect on Thursday next, Mayl.
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CITY FINANCES.
A Great Deal Going on and Bankers Corre-
spondingly Elnted.

Business was brisk in local banking circles
yesterday, but there was nothing new in the
way of features. Money was easy. and there
was a good borrowing demand. The rates
were 6Q7 per cent. gilt-edged commercial paper
being readily taken at the inside figure, which
will probably hold throughout the season. as
bankers and capitalists show a disposition to
resist a reduction. Checking and deposIting
were heavy. Saturday was a red-letter day in
trade circles as the bank clearings show. They
were S. 096S49 81; the balances were S4l4 945 81.
1t Is tine subject of general remark among
fnanciers and business men of all classes and
degrees that there has never been time in the
history of the city where its great and manifold
industries were in a healthier condition OF
rested, on a more satisfactory basis than the y
do to-day. The fact that Pittsburg left Balti-
more far behind last week goes to show that
this view Of the situation is not exaggerated.
Money on call at New York Yesterday was
easy, ranging at per cent, lastloan 3.closed
offered at per cent. Prime mercantile paper,
5@7. Sterling exchange quiet and easier at
81 $50 for 6O-day bills and 81 81 for demand.
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Provisions.

Sugar-cured hams. large, SIC: sugar-cured
hams. medium, 10hc; sugar-hams, small, lie:
sugar-cured breakfast bacon, &c; sugar.cured
shoulders, 61Sc; sugar-cured homeless shonl-
ders. Sc: sugar-cured California hams, nc;
sugar-cured dried beef flats, &c; sugar-cured
dried beef sets, 10c; sugar-cured dried beef
rounds. 12c; bacon. shoulders, &c; bacon, clear
shoulders. & SIC dry salt salt clear | sides, Tlc. Mess
pork, heavy, s13 90; mess pork. family, sI3 80.
Lard-Reined. in tierces 5ssc: half.barrels,
5ssc; 60-D tubs, &c; 20-D pals. SIC; 50-D tin
cans, 55sc; 3b TIN pails 656c; 5-f tin pals, 6sc
1O-n tin pals, &c; 5-b tin pals. &c. Smoked
sausage. long. Sc; large. sc. Fresh pork, links,
&c: Boneless hams, 101lc. Pigs feet, half-bar-
rels, u 90; quarter-barrels, 81 Is.
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Other Oil Markets.

on CITT. April 2S.-Petroleum opened at
s41sc; highest S5c; lowest, S41sc: closed At S4s4c.
charters. not reported; shipments. sO,444 bar
rels; runs, II, 1877 barrels.
BRADFORD. April 2S.-Petroleum opened at
S41sc; closed at $3.50; highest, 851sc; lowest,
S41sc. Clearances, 122, 600 barrels.
NEW YORK, April 2s-Petroleum opened
strong at S41sc and S45Ic for May: slight de-
cline occurred in the first hour there which
May option moved up sharply to. at S45sc for
spot and S41sc for May. Stock Excnange:
Opening. S42sc; highest, SAC; lowest s415c;
closing. S45Sc. Consolidated Exchange: Open
ing S4szc; highest, S51lc: lowest, 8434c; closing
S41sc. Total sales, $50, 900 barrels.
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Fidelity T & I

Sales at first call were 10 shares Switch and
Signal at l2Z, 100 Bridgewater at 50s6, 20 Pipe
age at l6. Is Westinghouse Electric at 4211a5, 27
~ and 10 at 42Ss.
second call: Ten shares Pleasant Valley at
278 and 25 Philadelphia Gas at 303I.
Third call: Sixty shares Philadelphia Gas
at 30z, and Is Westinghouse Electric at 42L
John D. Bailey sold $50 shares Allegheny
Suspension Bridge at 80.
The total sales of stocks at New York yester-
day were 460 665 shares including Atchisop.
5000; Canada Southern, 1850; Delaware
Lackawanna and Western, 33, l6S; Denver,
Texas and FIT. Worth, 8, 405; Erie, lI,O95; Lake
Shore, S145: Louisville and Nashville 49, S96:
Missouri Pacific, g. $40: Oregon Transcontinental,
S,200 Reading, 81. $780, Richmond and West Point.
S.695: ST. Paul, 4S.Sz5: Union Pacific, II. $50;
Western Union. ,9l0; Wheeling and Lake Erie.
3I46
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THE MAN WHO NOMINATED BLAINE.
Blind Judge West to Lecture In This City
Next Wednesday.

The annual address at the close of the
present session of the Western Theological
Seminary, subject, ''The Duty of Patriotism
to Christianity, or, the Reciprocal Duty of
the Christian Citizen to the Republic" will
be delivered in the First Presbyterian
Church, Wood street, Wednesday evening
of next week at 7;45 o'clock, by Hon. Will
lam H. West, of Ohio.
Judge West is totally blind, but is one of
the sblest lawyers and also one of the most
popular platform speakers of the present
time, and those who shall be privileged to
hear him have before them a treat of the
highest kind.
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THE DANGEROUS BOOKS
Not Those Which Are Openly Debnsing, bui
Those Which Gild the Evil.

Those Which Gild the Evil.
The greatest danger in literature to-day is
not from what can be truthfully called sim
full books, SAYS Edward W. Box in the
Ladies' Home Journal, SO much as from
what is termed the suggestive" novel, in
which sin is gilded and limited at, which
actually tells nothing, yet suggests the most
debasing vices. The author knows just how
far he can 20 in his neiarious traffic and
keep on the safe side of the law. Close with
him in personal conversation, and he will
grin at his literary cowardice and tell you
that he means nothing. These are the books
which are dangerous, since they rob the
vices which they portray Of their hideous-
ness and make them attractive,
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Grain in Sight.

CHICAGO. April B-The Board of Trade
report on the visible supply Of grain is as fol-
lows: Wheat, 23.98200 bushels: decrease
5Sl, 900 bushels. Corn, 1885, 600 bushels; de-
crease, $3.50. 900 bushels. Oats, 36I30OO bushels;
decrease, 2OS.0Oo bushels. Rye, lO27.OOO bushels;
decrease. 1900 bushels. Barley $4,000 BUSH
els; increase, 5000 bushels.
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Closing Bond Quotations.
NEW YoRK-Clearings. s72.6 ess; balance.

NEW YoRK-Clearings. s72, 621, 66s; balances,
s4l046l5
BOSTON - Clearings. sl7.S57.957; balances,
S. 234, ,565. Money 5@7 per cent
PHILADELPHIA-Clearin S11. LIS. 1856; bal
ances, 81, 1907.
BALTIMoRE-Clearings, 1921 ,4Ss balances,
S26s 3S9.
LoNDoN-The amount of bullion withdrawn
from the Bank of England on balance to-day is
f7S000.
PARIs-Three per cent rentes, S9f 1Oc for
the account
CHIcAGo-Clearings. s12. 900. New York
exchange was at par. Money unchanged at
per cent on call, and Z per cent on time.
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Mining stocks.

Alice, 200: Belcher, 225; Best & Belcher. 80;
Brunswick, ITO; Caledonia B. H, .21o; Con-
solidated California and Virginia, 475: Com
1856; Gould and Curry. 170: Homestake. $50;
Iron Silver $50; Mexican. 300; Mount Diablo,
200; Ontario, 1000: Plymouth. 425 Savage, 1S0;
Sierra Navada, 235; Sutter Creek. 150