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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
IRON TRADE REVIEW.
No Drop In Prices, But a Cash Buyer
Might Secure Concessions.
WIRE RODS AND NAILS ADVANCE.
Labor Troubles in the Southern Field Have
All Been Settled.
TIE LEADING MARKETS EAST AND WEST

The situation is practically the same as 1t
was a week ago. The customary quietness
of midsummer is here and transactions are
light Many of the mills are closed up for
repairs, and demand is slow. While there
is no drop in prices, there are holders WILL
ing to concede and there is little doubt that
the cash buyer can do better than our quota
tions on all raw irons. This, however, does
not prove any weakening of markets.
Midsummer is always quiet time In the
iron and steel trade, and there are invariably
at such time a few furnacemen who must
needs realize in order to meet current ex-
penses. Bessemer iron shares in the gen.
eral ouietness. One of our leading brokers,
however. refused an offer of SIS IS for 5000
tons of Bessemer yesterday. As an indica-
ton of the strong undertone of confidence
in markets. one of our iron brokers refused
to-day to accept an order for billets at So2
for August and September delivery. For
immediate delivery the price is 81 oO.
Wire rods and wire nails have both ad-
vanced the past week, but nails hold up
well to former prices.
Demand or rails continues good at prices
quoted last week at the Edgar Thomson
works. Orders on the books are sufficient
to absorb the product tor the balance of the
year. The output of steel rails at these
works is now above 300 tons daily, and
when the new furnace is completed, which
will be some time in August, the yield is
expected to reach /, 500 tons. With this in
creased capacity there can be no accumula-
tion of stock this year.
The latest quotations follow:
ea 20c.
and channels, 5. lOc sheared bridge plates steel,
2. .5oc; universal mill plates, iron, 2.S5c; refined
bars. .g5c card.
Barbed wire fencing galvanized, 8 10; plain
wire fencing. galvanized, S 50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
Features of Ye.tsrday's OIL Market.
TO REVIVE THE MARKET.
What Next Mondays Meeting In New York
May Do-staudard scheming.

w nat Next N1On0ay'e NeeL1nR In new Ork
May Do-standard scheming.
NEW YORK, July lS.-The conference Of DEL
egates from the Oil Exchanges of the country,
which has been called to meet in this city next
Monday, to consider the proposed issue of
certificates to represent the petroleum output
of the Lima o., district, naturally directs at
tention to the extraordinary decadence Of
speculation in oil curing the past two or three
years. The records of the New York Consoli-
dated Stock and Petroleum Exchange show
that during the year 1885 the speculation in oil
at this Exchange alone amounted to the enor-
nous total of 1912. 13s 900 barrels. Last year
the speculation amounted to only 4l2 2l2001
barrels, and this year will show a still greater
falling off, The sales during the first six
months of this year aggregated only 102, 7SS 900
barrels against 277 900 during the CORE
1885, amounted TO very nearly as much as the
sales for the entire year of 1889. There are no
signs of recovery from this remarkable decline
in speculation.
The dealers and brokers in the exchanges Of
New FORK and Philadelphia have been trying
ing to devise some plan of reviving oil specula-
tlon, but thus far with no success Whether
the proposed listing of the Buckeye Company
certificates would create q new speculative
market in oil is question. The Buckeye GER
tihcates would represent about 200OO.oOO bar
rels, while the outstanding Pipe Line certifl-
Gates represent only 8, Al, 440 barrels and the
amount is decreasing every month What the
action OF the oil exchanges will be it IS impos-
sible to predict Critics of the Standard Oil
Company assert that the proposed listing of
Buckeye certificates is only q scheme on Its
part to induce the speculative public to bear
the burden of the carrying charges for these
20, 000, 900 barrels of oil, a burden which the
Standard is now compelled to sustain alone.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19

CHIcAGo-The Drover's Journal reports:
Cattle-Receipts, LOCO head; shipments 5000
head; market SLOW, steady; beeves, 81 5oQ4 80;
So 2503 60; cows bulls and mixed, 81 25G3 25:
Texas cattle, 81 s003 25. Hogs-Receipts,
1900 head; shipments, $500 head; market
strong higher, closing easy; mixed. So 7OQS 80;
heavy, S. H@S s5: light So 65@S 95: skips,
So 0O43 go. Sheep-Receipts, 1000 head; ship
ments, 1,500 head; market steady to strong: ma
tt tives, g 5o95 50; Westerns, "a oO@4 6o' Texans,
$3 5O@4 55; lambs, 81 5Og6 25.
NEW YoRK-Beeves-Receip 4,549 head
including % carloads for sale; market steady;
steers, s3 9O@l IS; bulls and cows. So l215Q3 rs;
dressed beef steady at 6AQ714c per H.; ship
ments to-day. l,65l beeves: tomorrow, 334
CalvesLReceipts, 6S5 head: market dull; veais,
IS 00@5 so; buttermik calves, 81 l50@S so.
Sheep and lambs-Recsipts, 7,757 head; mar
ket dull and slow; sheep. 81 5OS5 IS; lambs
per D.; dressed lambs steady at l0Ql2c. Hogs
Receipts, 24 head; nominally dull; "a 00@4 90
KANSAS SCITY-Cattle-Receipts 4, 400 head: !:
shipments. 1.300 head; market steady to strong:
steers, So 25@4 40: cows, 81 z5@3OO; stockers and
range cows. 81 5O@2 90. Hogs-Recelpts. 1O2OO
head: shipments, 5400 head; market 59l0c
higher; bulk, s. 52S all grades, So 5o@s IS s.
head: market Steady; lambs, S. OO@5 50: good
to choice muttons, "a 00g4 4O; stockers and
feeders, 81 1908 25.
BUFFALO-Cattle in fair demand at un-
changed prices: receipts l59 loads through; IL
sale. Sheep and lambs in tair demand for good
receipts, 81 loads through; 5 sale; choice to
extra sheep, S5 25Q5 so; good to choice, S5 O00
20; common to fair, 81 25@4 80; choice to extra
lambs, So 9097 10; gOnd to choice, IS 65Q6 S.;
higher; receipts, 25 loads through; Is sale; me-
dinms. heavy, mixed and Workers, S4 90; pigs.
S3 30.
ST. LOUIS - Cattle-Receipts. 400 head;
shipments, ], 200 head; market stronger; good to
fancy native steers. 81 2O@4 60; fair to good do
S3 9014 35; stockers and feeders, 81 20Q3 40;
Texans and Indians. So 25d3 so. Hogs-Re.
ceipts, $500 head; shipments 5000 head; mar
ket higher; fair to choice heavy, So 6D@3 ~;
packing grades. So 55Q3 IS; light to best.
s. 65G3 70 Sheep-Receipts, 900 head; ship
ments. l,10O head; market steady; fair to
choice, 81 O0G5 TO-
CINCINNATI - Hogs stronger; common and
light, 81 1898 50; packing and butchers, So cog
S0; receipts, sou head: shipments, 1900 head.
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AN ADVANCE OF RATES
For Southern Iron Causes Rejoicing Among
the Northern Mauufa cturers.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

the Northern Manufacturers.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
PHILADELPHIA, July is. - Pennsylvania
manufacturers of pig iron are rejoicing over
the act of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
in advancing freight rates on Southern pig
metal July l. Rates on Southern iron have
been as low as ssc per ton per mile, while the
rates on the product Of Pennsylvania furnaces
have ranged from lc to l3zc. The advance on
Southern iron is from to so per cent at juno
tion points There has, in fact. very little iron
from the Southern furnaces come into
this market. but BUYERS have ALWAYS had in
their favor the possibility of iron from that
source finding its way here. and with this as
CLUB they have at times intimidated Pennsyl-
Tan1a manufacturers. With that menace re-
moved the market on pig metal rules firm on a
basis OF slS per ton for No. l foundry SI7 for
No. and Sl5 for gray forge delivered at uide
Prices on manufaetured iron rule firm: num-
Der of mills which closed down early in the
month have not resumed on account of impend-
ing labor complications. Supplies are limited
on this account, and holders are firR in their
views fully main tanning the advance noted last
week.
Steel rails are firmer at SS2 O0@S2 50 per ton,
and some of light weight are worth $S4 Muck
mill, and buyers are disposed to hold of. Old
rails are nominal at S24 75G25 90 per ton in
Philadelphia Bar iron is steady at 1901 S5c.
Skelp gr0oved is worth L75d l. SOC per pound de-
lvered and sheared 200@2l lOc. Revised quota
tons on plates are 2l56l220c ana 2.30@2 40c for
ship. 2l5Q220c and 235@245c for Iank: 2209
225c and 2409260c for bridge; 240G2.50c aud
260G270c for shell; 300G3. l5c and 2S@3c for
hange; 375c and 375Q4.25c for fire box. In
consumers yards sheared plates are worth 30
G2S0c, angles 22O@2 SOC. and tees 26a27c;
beams and channels &c. The best refined sheet
iron Nos. IA and 20 are worth S00Q2 l0e.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and Northern Lists
lost 21sc at S71c;

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and Northern lists
lost 215c at 8715c.
Government bonds have been entirely neg
lected. Railroad bonds have been dull and
an9 steady. Bar silver closed at 1854.
Ine Post says: A further amount OF S3S0O00
gold was taken for export early this morning,
ana though the rates for exchange were unai-
Tered the market for bills was enough hrmer to
make some expectation Of more gold exports
and higher rates for exchange. A further de-
CINE OF Argentine and Uruguayan securities in
London was also reported which had depress-
ing effect on speculation in all kinds OF securi-
Ties there, and was reflected in fractional lower
prices Tor American securities there before the
opening OF the New York market
>, The presumed loss of near 81. 0o0,oO0 to the
western Union by the fire in its building on
broadway this morning had the effect to make
decline of Nc in Western Union stock to S3a4c
before 2:30 o'clock. So far as concerns the in
corruption of stock exchange business by the
estern Union fire, it was generally believed
tnat 1t was very slight. The market was SO
dull and there have for several days been SO
lew orders from outside the city that very few
could have been interrupted to-day, but had
the fire occurred In a busy time, it would have
made considerable loss OF stock exchange
business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
PIG IRON DEMAND ACTIVE.
The Labor Troubles in the South Have All
Been Arranged.

Been Arranged.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THR DIsPATcH,
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, July 19.-The labor
troubles are all settled, trade has resumed its
normal condition and this week the demand for
pig iron has been quite active. All the furnaces
in the district with the exception of two OF
three are in blast again. The trouble among
the stockholders of the Eureka furnaces has
been settled. and.those furnaces will go into
blast in few days. The output of the district
this week will be nearly as large as at any time
since MAY L Several furnaces were refined
and other repairs made during the shutdown,
caused by the labor troubles, and are now in a
condition for long run without stop.
Prices have advanced slightly since last
month and iron is selling at an average ad-
vance OF so cents per ton over May and June
prices. With the small stocks on hand and the
favorable outlook for the future furnacemen
can afford to hold their iron firm at this ad-
vance. In fact most furnaces in this district
will only sell for July delivery at ruling prices
a further advance of SO cents per ton being
asked for August delivery.
shipment have been received this week from
Western markets and a few from the East. All
orders are being filed as fast as received, and
very little surplus stock is accommodating on the
yards. Furnacemen are confident of better
prices and an active trade during August and
September.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
Groiu. Flour and Feed.

Sales on call at the Grain Exchange, l car
No. 3y 3. corn. 44slc. 10 days; cars No. y. s..
corn, 45c, August delivery; cars No. y. s..
corn, 451zc, August delivery; l car No. w.
oats, S5c. August delivery. Receipts as bull
letined. % cars. By Pittsburg, FIT. Wayne and
Chicago Railway, 8 cars of oats, sacks of feed.
l of straw, of -four. of hay. By Pirtsburg,
Cincinnati and st. Louis, car of bran, OF
oats Of millfeed, 8 of corn. Cereal markets
are strong. all along the line, and oats are
higher Demand has improved very much tne
past few days. as the number Of sales yesterday
and to-day demonstrates. The total sales on
call for the two days were "a carloads.
Prices are for carload lots on track:
WHEAT-New No. red, 9l492c; No. 3, $50
Soc.
CoRN-No. yellow ear. 47113@iSc; high mixed
ear, 461%Q47c; No. 2 yellow. sheiled. 44G441ac;
birh mixed sheiled corn. 431ld44c
OATS-No.2 2 white. 391a(E40c; extra, NO. 3,
3SIsGD3yc; mixed 37@3Sc
RYE-No. Pennsylvania and Ohio. 5SGn59c;
No Western. 55@56c.
Provisioning PrIces-Fancy winter and
spring patents, IS 5O@5 75: winter straight,
SIS O0Gl5 25: clear winter, 81 75Q5 90; straight
xxx bakers, s4 25@4 60 Rye flour, s3 500
375
MnFEED-Middlings. fine white. SIS 5OG
16 90 % ton; brown middlings, Sl3 50G14 10;
winter wheat bran, sl2 5O@i2 75.
HAY-Baled timothy, No. i, $40 00l10 so; No.
2do. 81 50@S 90; loose. from wagon, Sl2 W9
Is 90. according to quality: No. prairie hay,
So 50@z 90; packing do, So 0OG6 50; clover hay,
sTEAw-oat, So 75@7 OO; wheat and rye. 90 90
@6 26
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Vegetable Supply Improving, and
Prices a Shade Weaker.
CHEESE ON THE EVE OF A RISE.
Cereals Are Strong All Along the Line and
Oats Higher.
SUGARS LOWER, AND COFFEES FIRM
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPATCH,l
FRIDAY. July Is, 1890. !

Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
Supply in the line of vegetables is improving,
and prices are not SO strong as they have been
for week or two past. Potatoes are coming
in freely and 81 is the top price for choice stock.
Markets are not firm at this price. Apples are
coming to market in rather poor shape, but
prices are firm. Fancy stock is in good demand
at 81 so per bushel. Supply of berries is not up
to demand. There were very few blackberries
offered to-day. Lemons are higher, and all
tropical fruits are firm. Fresh nearby eggs are
hardly to be had in this market. Cheese is
firmly held at quotations. After July 20 many
producers hold cheese in cold storage until
they can get their price. 1t is highly probable
that our cheese quotations will be advanced by
another week. Creamery butter of choice
grade is steady. Country rolls are still very
dull, and prices are only nominal. Large
quantities of country butter are selling at
grease prices.
ApPLEs-s5 5O@6 so a barrel.
BUTTER-Creamery. Elgin. 1S@1Sc; Ohio do.
l7c; fresh dairy packed, l0gl2c; country rolls.
BERR1Es-Black raspberr1es, 12@13c p quart;
red raspberries. lac; blackberries. l09l2c q
quart, 81 25 bucket; currants, So 90 stand;
huckleberries, lac quart.
BEANS-Navy hand-picked beans, S2 00@2 10.
BEEswAI-S@Soc y ID for choice;loW grade,
GANrALoUrEs-AnnA Arundel, 81 90 % crate;
nutmegs, 50 90 % crate; watermelons. SIS OOQ
80 90 hundred.
CIDER-Sand refined, 81 so; common, So 00@
90: crab cider. 81 SOFAS 90 y barrel; cider vim
egar. l0@l2c p gallon.
CHEEsE-New Ohio cheese. .71159se: New York
cheese &c: Limberger, 10h@1z11c; domes-
tic Swettzer. 13@l81ac; Wisconsin brick
Sweitzer, 1l@l4c; imported Sweitzer, 3Hc.
EGGS 1902 c p dozen for strictly fresh.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese, oOG6Oci No. l,
do, 4O645c; mixed lots S00S5c " b.
MAPLE SYRUP-75@95c a can; maple sugar,
10Ql1c p b.
HoNEY-15c p b.
PoULTRY-Spring chickens, 4O06Oc q pair;
dressed, 1lQl2c pound: ducks, 65075c pair.
TALLow-Country. SIC: city rendered. 4c.
TROPICAL FRUITS = Lemons. choice: S. 50
U6 25; fancy. 81 00g7 81; Rodi oranges, IS 5OQ
6 rs: Sorrento oranges, S. 0005 90; bananas
81 0OG2 so frsts, 81 rs good seconds y bunch;
pineapples,. S709a hundred; California peaches
81 00G2 so q box; California apricots. 81 Esq
2 so.
VKGETABLES-New Southern potatoes, So IS
a. 90 p barrel; homegrown cabbage. 81 00@2 so
% barrel; Florida onions, So 1904 90 a barre;
green onions, 20@25c q dozen; green beans
homegrown. 81 00@1 Is q basket; wax beans,
homegrown, 65@7oc q basket; cucumbers. 81 so
Gl rs p crate; tomatoes. So 90 bushel box.
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hama medium, 1l1kc; sugar-hams, small, l2c;
susar-cured breakfast bacon. SIC; sugar-cured
shoulders, nc; sugar-cured boneless shoul-
SsTs skinned shoulder SCI .ms se:
sugar-cured dried beef flats, &c; sugar-cured
dried beef sets, l0c; sugar-cured dried beef
rounds. l2c; bacon. shoulders &c; bacon, clear
sides, TIC; bacon, clear bellies, 714c: dry salt
shoulders, SIC; dry salt clear sides, 7l4c. Mess
pork, heavy, Sl3 so: mess pork. family. sl3 80
Lard-Rehned, in tierces, SIC; half-barrels, &c;
SIC; 3n tin pals, 611c; 6-b lin pals, 6ssc lob
TIN pals, &c. Smoked sausage, long. 5c;
large, &c. Fresh pork, links. &c. Boneless
hams, 107ac. Pigs feet. half-barrels, 81 10;
quarter barrels 50 Is.
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SLOW M0VEME
mornliz 1fion of the Stock Traders
Looking TO the silver Bill for

Reifef-Few Changes.
NEW YORK, July 1S-The damage to the
Western Union building in this city by fire this
morning destroyed the means of communica-
tion with the outside world to great extent
and brokers this morning found themselves
with no means of getting business except from
those customers who happened TO be in the
city. The smallness of the business done at the
Stock Exchange Is sufficient commentary
upon the character of the trading for the past
month or two. There was no market worthy of
consideration.
The trading was entirely local from the ma
ture of things, and prices were left to their
natural bent to greater extent than for many
a day, with the result that the fluctuations in
most of the list were confined to from II 10 II
per cent. and those stocks IN which there was
movement enough to merit mention may be
counted upon the fingers of one hand
The rumors of a deal between the Hooking
Valley and some other road, supposed to be the
Norfolk and western, sent the former stock up
nearly 1 per cent, and the stock occupied
prominence in the market which 1t seldom at
tains. Even Sugar Refineries was very dull,
but the manipulators saw fit to move it up
sharply in the latter portion of the day, when it
reached point per cent better than its first
prices LacKawanna. Rock Island.and Pacific
Mail we're firm on very light fluctuations. and
the remainder, while displaying a firm under
tone. failed to move more than the slightest
fractions.
The factors which now are of most import
ance to the future course or prices seemingly
had no effect whatever upon values to-day, and
while the meager advIces from the West, in
regard to the railroad situation, and the efforts
to adjust existing difficulties was regarded as
favorable, ,ithere was. no response to them. Ihe
bulls are more and moro convinced that before
September the silver law will have begun 70
Show its influence. and then all kinds OF pusi-
ness will see marked improvements
In the last hour of business the announce
ment was made that the decision denying tne
right of the receiver of the North River sugar
Refinery to pl ploceed against the other proper,
ties of the trust had been handed down anu
Sugar Refineries was lifted 8per cent Will
large increase in the amount of business o9ne'
The rest of the market sympathized to I'm
ited extent and the close was nrm, tnousu
very dull at something better than sne os rsar
ing figures. Sugar closed with gam " 1lS 20 ~.
cent and Hooking Valley with gam % u si;pPSt PS
cent. but all the other changes were iof s'tsA'
fractions only u..,a honas
were equally insignificant as tno5e tn.c u cbenSss
though there were few maiAe1
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Other Oil Markets.

BRADFORD. July 18-Petroleum opened at
SS34c; highest, sec; lowest, SS11e; closed Ssszc.
Clearances, IA 600 barrels.
OIL CITY. july 1S.-Petroeum opened at
SS7Sc; highest, S9s4c; lowest, SS31c; closed at
s915c. Sales, 22,006 barrels; clearances not re-
ported; charters, l36, ,5S7 barrels.
NEW YORK. July 1s.-Petroleum opened
strong at S91ac for spot and August option; the
price advanced to 9Ol1c for spot and 90c for
August in the earlv trading. but afterward spot
declined &c and August &C. and the market
closed steady. New York Stock Exchange
Opening. s915c; highest, 901lc: lowest. s915c;
closing S912c. Consolidated EXchange-OpeD-
ing, S916c; highest, 90c: lowest S9Sssc; closing,
s9ssc. Total sales. 150,00 barrels.
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Mr.. Frank ]. Mason, living on Dearborn
street, Nineteenth ward, and near the Ale
gheny Cemetery, and who is employed ut the
La Belle Steel Works, in Allegheny, has been
permanently cured by the catarrh
had an offensive discharge from his nose
and a dropping of catarrhal mucus into his
throat. which became very tenacious and hard
to raise out His throat became irrltated and
sore and hurt him TO swallow. He had pain in
his forehead and frequent nose bleed. As his
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
A BRIEF HONEYMOON.
A Jealous Husband Kills His Wife After
Three Weeks Married Life,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcHJ
BALTIMORE, July 1S.-Martin Houck shot
and fatally wounded his wife Louise this after
noon, as she was coming out of her bathroom.
They had been married only three weeks, but.
owing to Martins jealousy, could not live in
harmony. The day after her marriage the
bride returned to her sister, where she has since
had had enough of her jealous husband, and
refused to return. About noon to-day he
gained an entrance, and asked her whether
she would like to be single.
If were single again." she said, 81 would
not marry the best man in the world" With
this she was about to turn away when Houck
drew his revolver and fired three times She
ran screaming down stairs and fell in the hall
way. Meanwhile the murderer cooily walked
after her. and stepped over her PROSTATE body
as he made his exit from the house.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
GIFT FROM COLONEL STONE.
A History of the War Presented to the Car
neQie Library.

A History of the War Presented to the Car.
neGie Library.
The following letter was yesterday received
by Chairman G. w. Dahlinger OF the ALLIE
gheny Public Library Committee:
PITTsBURG, July II, 1880
Charles W. Dahlinger, Chairman Carnegie Library
Committee,
DEAR SIR-I desire to present to the Carnegie
Library, through your committee. the official
records of the War of the Rebellion, as pub
nshed under the act OF Congress, approved
August Z, 1883 and which 1 have received
through the courtesy of Senator Mitchell. This
Is the only complete history of the war; have
about lOO volumes, and will deliver the rest to
tine library as fast as they reach me- This work
IS very interesting and important to all soldiers,
and can not think of any better use to make
OF IL Than to place it in the Carnegie Library,
wnefe II Will be accessible to all comrades.
Very truly yours,
THOMAS A. STONE
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
River Nen HE ThemseIves Off to Summer
Resorts 10 Await Higher Water.

Resorts 10 Await Higher Water.
No hopes are entertained for rise In the
near future and everything about the wharf
was dull yesterday on this account. River
men had deserted their boats to go away to
some cool resort to while away the time be-
tween now and August, when the trade will be
opened up with renewed yigor. The only busi-
ness done was by the Monon packets. Some
few barges of coal were brought down and tied
up below to remain there for higher water.
The river showed a material rise yesterday
which can be attributed to local rains and the
raising of the dam five feet SIX inches, showed
on the mark at 5 o'clock. At Davis Island
there was II feet and inches above the dam at
that hour, and 2 feet 8 inches below. This
local as it did not have any effect on the lower
river.