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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

burg, and Williamsburg, sold six-room house,
with lot 29xl6S, on Holland street, Williamsburg.
for John Cubbage TO George A. Krigger, for
s., 700 cash.
Charles Somers & Co.. 3l3 Wood street, sold
for B. Henry to v. William three lots near
Dallas station, Pennsylvania Railroad, each
having frontage of "a feet and depth of 120
to an alley, for 81, 800.
Reed B. Coyle & Co., 13l Fourth avenue, sold
lots Nos. 80 and 81 in Marion Place plan for $780,
on easy payments.
Samuel W. Black & Co.. 80 Fourth avenue,
sold the four-story brick business block on the
corner of Penn avenue and Fourteenth street,
Nineth ward, lot 55x100 for $4,000; they also
sold No. 201 and part of No. 202 in the Swiss
vale Place plan Of lots, Swissvale, Pennsylva-
mia Railroad, for S4l6 68
Allies & Bailey l84 Fourth avenue, placed
mortgage of 81 600 for three years at per cent
on property in the Sixth ward, Pittsburg.
Black & Baird, No. 95 Fourth avenue, sold
another lot for John r. Mckinley, on Madison
avenue. thirteenth ward. above the Central
Traction Companys car house. The purchaser
was George Gray, who will build at once. The
price paid was 5000 They also placed mort
gage of SIS, 900 for three years on Penn ave-
nue. business property, with the privilege to
pay in small amounts at any time. and on that
account the rate was per cent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
G.. M, II, A,

The Advisory Council will meet at o'clock
this evening at Imperial Hall!
a branch is being organized at Dawson by
Deputy P. J. Harrigan, of Connellsville.
Branch 79 was instituted last Tuesday even
ing in St Mary's parish. Allegheny City, with
IS charter members.
On next Saturday evening Branch IS will be
Instituted in Kittanning Armstrong county, by
Grand Deputy J. W. Sullivan.
Branch 81 was instituted last evening in St
1eo's parish, Allegheny City, by Deputy NJ. H.
HagaT with 26 charter members.
The Board of Chancellors recently appointed
by the Grand President will meet at St.Augus-
tines School Hall at2 O'Clock this afternoon.
Branch Sc. of Butler, will hold an open meet
ing this evening. Addresses will be made by
Deputies ]. W. Sullivan and l.. A. Schott. of
Pittsburg. This is the first anniversary of this
branch,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
Miscellaneous Note.

At the meeting of Duquesne Commander
No. l42 Knights of St. John, Tuesday eyening
next, delegates to the annual convention of tbs
order to be held at Columbus, June "a will he
elected.
The American Mechanics of McKeesnort
will visit Chicago in June in good strenrtb
Enough for two carloads have ALREADY signi.
fed their intention OF going, and two more cars
will probably be filled
General George B, Abbott, of Chicago. Ma.
tional Commander OF the Sons of Veterans
was received into the Order of Knights of ST.
John and Malta at a special convocation held
on March in New York.
Dorena Division No IS. q. R K. of p. First
Regiment of Pennsylvania. installed officers
Thursday L. A. Barr is Sir knight Captain
Ed ]. Dagney conducted the installauon, and
Colonel Alexander Hart and Major SeweIl. of
the staff of General HarEahan, Inspected the
division, making fattering report.
Past Councillor John W. Holt, of Iron Ciry
Council III, Jr. o. L. A. NJ, met with a severe
accident on Tuesday. While at work a piece
or steel pierced his eye. He was removed to
Allegheny General Hospital, where an ocuIist
removed the eye distracted the steel and then
replaced the eye. Brother Holt is doing as
wen Is could be expected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
Closing Bond Quotations.

S6. 43S. 2SS. For the week-Clearings $7ll 6S6 OO0
BOSTON - Clearings, SlS 909. 1855; balances,
81, ,963, 40l. For the week-Clearings S97 433 8O7;
week last year-Clearings, sS5 761, ,436; balances.
$40, ,63l. $50.
PHILADELPHIA - Clearings, SILL ,234; bal
ances Sl,S65.54l. For the week-Clearings, $685..
$40, 433: balances, IS. 8.S29024
BALTIAoRK-Clearings. $685., ,2S9; balances
s43S 332
LoNDoN-The amount of bullion gone into
the Bank Of England on balance to-day is f26,-
600. Bar silver, 4S1sd per ounce.
PARIs-Three per cent rentes, SSf Csc for
the account.
CHICAGo-Clearings Sill 33S 900; for the week.
S67 900 against S62 800 600 for the CORRESPOND
ing week last year. New York exchange steady
at par. Money rates steady at 55696 per cent
on call and 61S@7 on time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
knights of the Golden Eagle,

Anchor Castle No. 1885, the body castle, is
doing great work and will move to IOI Fifth
avenue April l.
Circular No. g. regarding the session of the
Supreme Castle in Pittsburg next May, is out.
The outlook is splendid.
A big delegation is desired to go to Allen
town April l for the session of the Grand
Castle. Special rates may be secured.
A castle of 40 members will be instituted at
Weber's Hall. Southside, next FRIDAY evening
Another out Fifth avenue is about ready.
The Commandery Committee of the Star of
the West No. 50 and Venus No. 29l elected 20
members Thursday, making 40 in all, The
President is Z. I. White NJ. d. The name is
Louis E. Srilz Commandery. The commanderv
will visit Iona Castle of Hazelwood March 26
Lieutenant General Louis E. Sulz will be in
the city next Friday
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
The Golden Chain.

Central lodge will be instituted in Assembly
Hail. corner Center avenue and Erin street this
city, next Saturday evening
Supreme Commander c. c. Biting. of Phila
delphia, has promulgated the amendments to
the laws which were acted on at the late Su.
preme Lodge session.
Allegheny lodge was visited by IA members of
Lincoln lodge Tuesday evening. The lodge will
have a eucbre party and dance for their lady
friends Tuesday evening, March 25
State Commander Samuel l. Osmond, accom-
panied by large delegation from the various
lodges of this city, will make an official visit to
Grafton lodge, at Grafton. Pa, Monday even.
ing, March a
The entertainment given by Fidelity Lodge
in Maginn's Hall, in Allegheny on last Mon
day night was decided success About 300
persons were in attendance. Brother s. s
Robertson, Esq, made stirring address
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
The HeptasopIIs.

Eight of the Allegheny county conclaves de-
sire TO compete for set of officers official
badges
TIES. Griffin, of Elizabeth, Pa, will in
itiate new conclave at Elizabeth on Tuesday
evening.
John l. Jones, District Deputy of District s,
expects to have the district recruited to full
membership by April L This will make five
Supreme Representative Districts in Allie
gheny county.
S. A. Kline District Deputy of District No. Z
has called meeting of the Archons of all con-
claves in his district. The object is to organize
specially to recruit the district to full repre-
sentative district.
James O'Neal, of Zeta Conclave No 6, re-
celved the first gold premium badge. DR..
WATSON Jones, medical examiner of Unity Con-
olave No. lS9 received the second. A member
OF Bridgevllle Conclaye received the first silver
badge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AGAIN.
Results of Superintendent Luckey's lnfes'
tigntiou-Final Examinations.

tigntiou-Final Examinations.
Superintendent Luckey has been correspond
ing with the School Superintendents OF tne
! various cities making inquiries OF them as 10
whether corporal punishment is permitted In
their schools, and whether they favor OF us
approve of it. Superintendent Jasper, Oh NE"
York City, writes as follows:
Discipline in our schools was never better
than at present From personal knowledge OF
the system as it was conducted with corporal
punishment, / am firmly convinced tnat the
difference in order and disclpllne Is vastly In
favor of the present system. corporal punlsn IL
ment is entirely prohibited"
An ordinary river separates New York and
Brooklyn. yet the superintendent OF the schools
of the latter clty fayors tie use of the rod. Su-
perlntendent McAllister, OF fhliaaeipnla,
writes:
~ disapprove of it, and hold that it ought to
be banIshed without delay from the pubic
schools of the country"
The Chicago, Cleveland and Erie superin-
tendents are opposed to corporal punishment.
Columbus Baltimore, Richmond, Va, Toledo
and Washington. D. C., all have corporal pun
ishment in their schools. Esthetic Boston is
yet to be heard from.
The principals of the Pittsburg schools met
yesterday TO discuss resolution brought up
at former meeting that pupils of the primary
and grammar grades be promoted on class rec
ord and not by the test of final examination.
Prof. S. A. Andrews presided, and III. w.
Fisher was secretary. The trend of the discus
sion was that if examination be abolished
the means of determining the fitness of a
pupil in the ward schools the same rule ought
TO apply for admission to the High school.
Superintendent Luckey hoped the time would
come when there would be no examination for
High School, but the way is not clear yet.
Prof. Woods of the High School. was present
and said he hoped the day would come when
final examination would be abolished that
we're drifting that way. The resolution was
adopted by Is in favor and 5 against The res
OlutiOn has no binding effect. but shows the
views of the principals.
Another resolution was brought up that 20
per cent of those members of High School
classes composed of more than five pupils who
had made class record of 80 per cent. be ad-
mitted to High School without examination
provided they be recommended by the princi-
pas 70 be properly Qualified; This resolution,
the most of the principals thought, would not
do justice to the other members of the class, as
it favored the brilliant and not the workers, and
was defeated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
SOLID AT THE BOTTOM,
Close of a Bad Week In Stocks-NenrIy
EverythinR Strong.

Yesterday ended one of the dullest weeks
ever known on the Stock Exchange Sales for
the day were 55 shares, and for the week $50.
There were no material changes either way, but
nearly everything was firm.
The prevailing apathy should not be attrib-
uted to want Of confidence in the securities
but to radical and apparently irreconcilable
difference between buyers and sellers, and both
SO settled in their convictions to be unwilling
to make concessions. That prices remain strong
with SO little doing would convince investors of
the futility Of holding out for more favorable
terms.
There were no surprises during the week.
The decline in Allegheny Heating Company
was only a natural reaction from a too sudden
advance. The sharp rise in Westinghouse Air
brake was the logical result of statements show.
ing the company to be overrun with business
EXCHANGE STOCK
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
The Mystic Chain.

Star of Allentown Castle No. 63, is up and
DONG, having lnltiatory work every meeting
Star of Liberty Castle No. 102, A o. K. of M.
=, VIII confer the forty-second degree Wednes-
day evening" j. J. Davis looking after the cere-
mony Members of sister lodges desiring to
take this degree are invited.
A largely attended meeting of Echo Castle
NO Is, of the Southside, and visitors from
keystone Castle No. Il, Progressive No. 10,
Schiller (German) No Is and Star of Allen
town No: 6S, greeted Supreme Commander
hlcharo thompson upon his visitation to that
castle last wednesday evening. The third de-
catches in mastery manner by an able stafF
o1 o1neers, and interesting speeches were made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
A Junior Order SurprIsed-

entertained by the ladies of Glenfield last
Tuesday evening, The ladies first made eyery.
BODY enthusiastic by rendering America. y
,,4e Inc etar-Spangled Banner" and THE Red.
entertained with defamation. The featnre
OF the evening was the presentation of a very
handsome Bible TO the council. Miss Josie s
Sholes read an original presentation poem M
George M. Gray, on behalf of the ladies' forrn-
ally presented the book, and Mr. r, c, Ivt1e
responded for the council, 1t was an even;n@
long to be remembered, As
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
COrnmissfou 1.S

Mckee & Hagan, of 1oS Fourth avenue.
buy or sell all kinds of stocks and invest
ment securities on margin or for cash. Cor
respondence solicited. Trsn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
Commfaninn Is

Mckee & Hagan, of 108 Fourth ave-. buy
or sell all kinds of stocks and investment
securities on margin or for cash. Corre-
spondence solicited. TTsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

stocks on the New York Stock Excnange yester-
day. Corrected daily for THE DISPATCH by
WHITNEY STEPHENeON. Oldest Pittsburg MEM
bers Of New I ork Stock Exchange. 81 Fourth ave-
nue.;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
Comfortable Money Market, With Lnrg,
Gains Over Last Year.

Comfortable Money Market, With Lnrg,
Gains Over Last Year.
| The local financial situation was comfortable
and encouraging yesterday. Checking showed
an improvement over the previous day, ant
ness demand for discounts and plenty of cast
to supply it. Dlsagreeable weather was the
only thing complained of.
Bank clearings for the week were nearly 81
| SOU COO greater than those for the same time
| last year. If business was good then. as was
| claimed at the time. and with no small degree
| OF pride, it must be better now The gain can
| be explained no other way. Signs of an active
spring trade are multiplying, and preparations
for it are well under way.
The Clearing House report for the day and
week, as prepared by Manager Chaplin is ap-
pended:
Yesterdays exchanges. q 4os, 5o6 10
nesterday's balances. 70 062 5S
Meeks exchanges. .....".... IL W S6O ~
Exchanges week of 1880 ............ H. S7S S44 %
GAIN for wee week oHsE Ul lsTs Sss 81 s Is s s
sproul & Lawrence sold Is shares East End
Electric Light Company at eoH.
Robinson Bros. sold S., 900 Little Rock, Ark. ,
water bonds 6s al par and interest. They are
guaranteed by the American Water Works and
Guarantee Company of this CITY,
Rea Bros. Co. bought 100 shares Peoples
Natural Gas and Pipeage Company at 15A.
81. M. Long bought $50 shares Pleasant
Valley Railway at %, and sold so shares West
inghouse Electric at 49,
c. L. McCutcheon sold so shares Philadel-
phia Company at 80.
Money on call at New York yesterday was
easy with no loans closing at per cent.
Prime mercantile paper. 5%07%. Sterling
exchange quiet at 81 81 for 60-day bills and
$4 S45l for demand.
The total sales of stocks at New York yester-
day were l03.97S shares including Erie,
200; Lake Shore, 200; Louisville and
Nashville, 3,300 Michigan Central, 1,753: Read
ing l50O' st. Paul, 2,32O; Union Pacific, 3,2l0.
The weekly statement of the New York
banks, issued yesterday, shows the following
changes: Reserve, increase, SSS9, $50; loans,
decrease, s.. .54S 000 specie, decrease, LOLA 400;
legal tenders increase 1858, 600; deposits, de-
crease, S352, 200; circulation, increase, S47 00O
The banks now hold 81 l05O 800 in excess of the 25
per cent rule.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
"EX-diYidend.
Boston Stocks.
PHILADELPHIA Stocks.

Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks fur
nished by Whitney Stephenson, brokers. No. 81
Fourth avenue. Members New York Stock Ex-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
Other Oil Markets,

OIL CITY. March 15.-Petroleum opened at
S913c: highest, 909sc: lowest, S99sc; closed at
9O1sc. Sales, 44l,lll bbls,; charters. 8s,O95
bbls.; shipments, 743 bbls.; runs, "a 1856 bbls.
BRADFORD. March 15-Petroleum opened at
S91c; highest, 9Oc; lowest, S91zc; closed at
90c; clearahces, 69e, 900 bbls.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
MOVEMENTS IN REALTY,
The Week Closes With Number of Impor.

tant Transactions.
Ewing d Byers, s3 Federal street. sold for
Mrs. Mary j. Finley, of Williamsburg. to ]. G.
Bruggeman the property No. 3l3 Sandusky
street, Third ward, Allegheny City, being a
two-story brick house of six rooms, hall and
attic, with lot l93x9O feet to ten-foot alley, for
s., 500 cash.
w. E. Hamnett. 4oA smithneld street, Pitts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

All the leading natural gas companies IN the
northern and eastern parts of Indiana, u in
all, have formed trust and have taken in other
companies in the central and southern sections.
The aggregate capital of these companies Is S.
100000 and they control through leases nearly
100000 acres of land in the best gas fields One
of the trusts objects will be to regulate the
price to be paid farmers for land. Some of
these farmers have formed companies and get
their gas from their own fields, but the trust
will soon drive them out Consumers regard
the trust with apprehension.
The unfavorable weather during the greater
part of last week caused a slight falling off in
the volume of general trade. with a correspond
ing weakening in prices. Still there was an
active movement for the season, as shown by
the bank clearings, which were nearly s., O,OOO
greater than for the corresponding time last
year. Any gain over 1889 is gratifying and en-
couraging, but such large one as the figures
above given indicate is surprising. With such
prosperity, Pittsburg can well stand a slight
drop now and then. 1t gives variety and serves
for comparison.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
Features of Yesrerday's Oil Market.

Corrected daily by John NJ. Oakley & Co., As
Sixth street, members of the Pittsburg Petro-
lam Ernhanna
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
CLEANED FROM THE BANKS.

Sales were shares of Switch and Signal at
~, and so Citizens Insurance at SO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

Bid. Asked,
Auegneny Gas co. unum. l,..,........ Il go.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
A Grand Old Apple Tree.

The largest apple tree in New England,
and probably in the world, says the Boston
Journal is in the northwestern part of
Cheshire, Conn, standing in Delos Hotch-
kiss dooryard. Its age can be traced by a
family tradition to 140 years at least, and
it may be twenty-five or thirty years older.
1t is at the present time of symmetrical
shape, the trunk is nearly round, without
a scar or blemish on it; there are eight
large branches five of them have been in
the habit of bearing one year and the re-
manning three the next. Mr. Hotchkiss
has gathered in one year from the FIVE
branches eighty-fve bushels of fruit and
his predecessor had harvested a crop of
10 bushels from the same FIVE branches
By careful measurement, the circumfer
ence of the trunk one foot above the
ground, above all entanglements of the
roots, is Is feet inches The girth of the
largest single limb is feet s inches. The
hight of the tree has been carefully meas
ured and found to be 60 feet, and the
spread of the branches as the apples fall is
100 feet or six rods. The fruit is rather
small, sweet and of moderate excellence.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
A SUMMER MEMORY.

The church was strange to me;
l never worshiped there before,
And it may hap that neyermOre
Mine eyes that city fame will see,
Where, in the twilight, cool and gray,
That closed a sultry summer day.
knelt apart ana prayed for thee.
Ny heart was i'll at ease;
For 10 thought !, may not share
Ny dear ones hour of praise and prayer,
Tine solemn. blessed pause of peace,
That waits for all on hallowed ground
When weekdays care and work-days' round
In Sabbath rest and calmness cease.
Yea, was sore at heart,
But as prayed my prayer for thee,
Beloved, comfort came to me,
Soft healing TO my cruel smart;
Deep peace was borne TO me upon
The strain Of praise that rose anon,
Wherein l, trembling, bore part.
think an angel spake
In the sweet pause that followed song;
Spake soft of love that suffered long,
OF faithful hearts that must not break,
Though life and fate be bleak and hard,
Though joys bright doors be duty barred;
And glad listened for loves sake.
Dear heart, it is denied
To US to walk, as others may,
In winter dusk and summer day,
The worlds wide pathways side by side;
But fate is limited; IL parts
Our lives asunder: but our hearts.
Our souls, it never can divide.
Our voices may not blend
| In singing any earthly strain;
| And in our hearts some touch of pain
May linger, aching, to the end;
But we have work-a help divine
And we have love, / thine, thou mine,
| Love that doth all good comprehend.
So, comtorted, passed
With others through the ancient door;
And though l worship nevermore
In that strange temple, close and fast
! ] hold the peace that came to me
That summer night prayed for thee.
| And hold, love, too, while life shall last.
| Al the Year Round.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-11
BE READS ON THE STREET.

The woman with the parasol is difficult to pass;
The baby buggy's hard to get around;
While the fellow who forever turns toward the
left, alas,
Awskens in US hatred most profound.
But there's another fruitful source of WEAKNESS
and woe
inset,
You're apt to run across him anywhere you
chance to go
The man who reads his paper on the street.
He boldly stalks ahead, the while his eyes are
quite intent
Upon the paper laid before his gaze,
While those who chance by accident TO jostle
him are sent
With thoughts inelegant upon their ways.
If We by fate were called upon TO make sacri-
fee.
The edict we would very gladly meet.
It's safe to say that afterward there'd never
greet your eyes
The man who reads his paper on the street.
CHICAGO Post