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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Drinwood.

| CAPTAIN JOHN MoREN and W. J. " ood are al
| Cincinnati.
THE Sam Brown left Cincinnati yesterday with
| empties for Pittsburg.
WITH about two more inches the water will be
over the sunken Nixon cabin.
THE Ironsides left Cairo last night with three
barges Of rails for st. Louis.
The Lizzie Bay left Cincinnati last night for
the kanawha and Pittsburg.
CAPTAIN GEORGE JOHNSTON of this city. left
Cincinnati last night Tor Chicago.
THE Andes has been started up to make her
first trip for two months from here Monday.
THE new Cincinnati and Memphis packet oeing
built at Madison, will be called the Speed,
THE Alpha is now plying between Elizabeth
town and Cave in Rock, on the Mississippi.
The Enterprise passed Cincinnati on the yay
home from Louisville with empties for O'Neil &
MEMPHIS and Cincinnati boatmen are experi-
encing the same trouble that local rivermen had
In securing deck hands.
The Mat F. Allan left for Wheeling and Park
ersburg yesternoon. The Courier and Bedford
Will run to the same points to-day.
EXTENSIVE repairs will be made on the Twi-
light for the winter season. She has laid up at the
wharf and work Will be commenced at once.
The Mayfower and City OF Plttsburg will run
excursions on the I'd of next month to the boat
race to be held at East Liverpool on that date.
The John A. Wood passed Memphis yesterday
with only part of her tow, leaving half of 1t at
Island Forty. She will 20 co miles below Memphis
and return for the rest.
THOMAS FAwcETT g Co. figured up on sending
some coal down yesterday, but the swift current
made 1t little dangerous, and the Maggie's trip
was postponed a result.
The United States snagboat Woodruff has been
ordereo into commission. and left Cincinnati last
night for this city. She will work her way back
again; removing distractions at Three Sister
Islands and other places.
CAPTAIN CHARLES R. PURCELL, who was en-
gagged In the river business for some time at Gin
cinnati, but has lately devoted his attention to
raising cattle at Big Sulphur Springs, Ariz.,
arrived In the city yesterday, and will spend
few tMs weeks With relatives in Allexneny Captain
the cattle business,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
IN THE USUAL WAY.

Peunsylvania Oil steady but Dull - The
Buckeye Product still Neglected.
Pennsylvania oil was steady yesterday, but
trading was light. The closing price was the
highest. Of outside exchanges New FORK was
the most active, buying at the bottom and
selling at the top The range OF fluctuations
Slssc; close, $3.50. Clearings were 4O 600 bar
rels. Refined was higher at New York and
lower at Antwerp
AS usual, nothing was done in Buckeye. 1t
seems to be just where the Standard wants it
and where traders and outsiders don't want it.
So long as there are no fluctuations it will be
dead horse in the pit
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Features of Yesterdays Oil Market.
Oiher OIL Markets.

BRADFORD, September l2-Petroleum opened
at Slssc; closed, S27sc; highest, S25sc; lowest,
Sl1sc. Clearances, l1200O barrels.
OIL CITY. September 12-Petroleum opened
at size; highest, 8234c; lowest, SI1sc; closed
$3.50 Sales, l6S0 0O1 barrels: clearances. not re-
ported; charters SS.51l barrels; shipments,
rs, 4O6 barrels; runs. T,S5S barrels.
NEW YORK, September 1.-THE petroleum
market opened steady. but after the first sales
the market became strong and advanced stead
lily until the last hour, when the market sagged
Opening, SOAc; highest, size; lowest, sOzc; clos.
ing. Sl15c; October option: Opening size;
highest SSzsc; lowest. size; closing. S2ssc
Lima Oil: Opening, 34c: highest, 34c; lowest,
34c; closing, 34c. Total sales, I47. 900 barrels
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
LIVE STOCK MARKETS
The Condition of Business at the East Liberty
Stock Ynrds.

OFFICE OF THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH
FRIDAY. September II 1890
Cattle-Receipts, l.5l2 head; shipments, 6S2
head. Market nothing doing. all through con-
signments. No cattle shipped to New York to-
day.
Hogs-Receipts $500 head: shipments, 225O
head; market fairly active: Phlladelphias 81 70
"a so: choice selected, 81 S5; best corn-fed
Workers, 81 50@4 go; grassers, stubblers and
common Workers, IS S0Q4 80; pigs, So 00@3 so;
rOughs, So OOQS %. Five cars of hogs shipped
to New York to-day
Sheep-Receipts, 200 head; shipments, LOO
head. Nothing on sale; no demand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

There are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
"just as good as the Ivory"
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits,
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities of
the genuine,
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon havino t.
'Tis sold everywhere.
no3lol.Mws
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ON A LOWER PEG.
A Fair Movement in stocks, With More
Losses Than Gains.

a FaIf Movcment IN StockF, WITH Mors
Losses Than Gains.
Stock trading was not bad yesterday, consid
ering the general depression caused by tight
money. Sales were 292 shares, besides consid
erable Electric scrip.
Ccriously enough, coal stocks-or some OF
them at least-grow stronger as evidences of q
good supply of natural gas multiplies. New
York and Cleveland gas coal sold up to 36, and
closed firm at 35T.
Closing prices as compared with those of the
previous day, showed slight declines in Phlla'
delphia Gas, Pleasant Valley Railway Electric
and Switch and Signal. By the same compari-
son Luster was a small fraction better. The
fractions offered nothing new in conditions or
quotations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Closing Bond Quotations.
bid.
NEW YoRK-clearings, sl15, $50, ,4O7: balances,

NEW YoRK-Clearings, sl15, 566, ,4O7; balances,
IS, ,7499 1856.
BosToN = Clearings. sl3,275265: balances,
g. ,376S16. Money per cent.
BALTIMoRE-Clearings, 50, 412, ,403 balances,
$293,704 Money, per cent.
PHILADELPHIA-Clearin S12 3S7 42l; bal
ances, S1,675.7 .77S Rate of interest. per cent.
LoNDoN-The amount Of bullion Withdrawn
from the Bank of England Oh balance to-day is
10000
PARrs-Threa per cent rentes. 96f 25c for
the account.
CHIoAGo-Money was close at 6@7 per cent
for call loans. Clearings, Sla,617, ,OO9. New York
exchange was 90c discount.
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Mining Stocks.

NEW YORK. september 12-Mining quota
tions: Adams q, lSO: Bodie. LIS; Caledonia, B.
H.. l75; Eureka, 400: Gould aud Curry, 2lO;
Hale and Norcross. 90: Homestake, 1000;
Horn Silver, 300; Occidental, 125; Mexican,
3l0; Ontario, 4le0: Ophir, $500; Sierra Nevada
27O: Savage. $50; Phoenix, Arz, los; Sutter
Creek, 15O; North Commonwealth, 225.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

Sales at first CALL 157 shares Philadelphia
Gas at 30155, and 1894 Electric scrip at IS. At
second cali, Sl40 Electric scrip at rs. At third
call so New York and Cleveland Gas Coal at 38.
5Philadelphia Gas at 30ss, 20 Luster at "a, and
% Phonograph at G.
The total sales of stocks at New York yester-
day were 31l ,0S6 shares. including Atchison
16, 500; Delaware. Lackawanna & Western, $500;
$3.50; North American. 1886: Northern Pacific
preferred, 500; Reading. $500; Richmond &
West Point S,3l0: st. Paul, Loco; Union
Pacific, 3,920
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Permits for New RuiIdIuRs.

Eight permits for nine buildings were taken
out yesterday-all but one being for dwellings,
the most costly being for $1,000. The list fol-
lows:
John A. Grayer, frame two-story and attic
dwelling, 2SxS0 feet, on Bellefonte street,
Twentieth ward. Cost, s., 500.
John A. Graver. two brick two-story DWELL
ings, lSx32 feet each. on Walnut street, Twen-
tieth ward. Cost, 81, 900 for both.
Henry Fletcher, frame two-story dwelling, 20
xS2 feet. on Keelan street. Fourteen h ward.
Cost, $500.
John c. Gray. frame addition two-story
dwelling, feet inches by 49 feet inches, on
Lyman street, Twenty-second ward. Cost.
81, 600
John Forster frame one-story stable, 32xS2
feet. on Greenleaf street. Thirty fifth ward
Cost. $3.50.
D. c. Huffman, brick two-story and attic
dwelling, 30x7 feet on Highland avenue,
Twentieth ward. Cost, $1,000
William l. Unverzagt, frame addition two
story dwelling. 11x1s feet, on Forty-first street.
Seventeenth ward. Cost, $50.
Charles Guenther, frame addition. two-story
store and dwelling. l4x16 feet, on Greenleaf
street, Thirty-ftth ward. Cost, $3.50
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DEVOID OF NEW FEATURES.
Tie u. Louis Market Does n Fair Business
in SmH ii Lots.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l
ST. LOUIS, September I2-Rogers. Brown
Meacham say: Our market is practically
devoid OF any new feature since last
week, while no large sales have been made
We can register fair aggregate of business
composed of small and medium lots. A good
many inquiries keep floating around. but thew
mostly fail to mAteriaIze. Southern furnaces
claim that their position continues TO be strong
both with regard to stocks and to the run of
orders. They are receiving charcoal irons and
OHIO sotteners meet quiet sale at UNCHANGED
values. Arrivals of coke from ConuellsyIlle Are
seriously diminished through scarcity of cars,
while the demand by consumers is active and
increased perhaps by rumors OF strikes in the
East. We quote for cash f. o. b. ST. Louis:
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GOOD VOLUME OF BUSINESS.
Tie Orders for Immediate Shipment Nearly
Covering the american Product

Covering the american Product.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, September 12-The
iron trade of the birmingham district is with
out special features this week There is a good
volume Of business, the orders for immediate
shipment probably reaching 80 per cent of the
regular output of the furnaces. There have
been no big contracts made or orders of special
magnitude received. In prices there has been
no change since last quotations The new fur
mace at Fort Payne went into blast Monday
and Is working nicely. The capacity of this
furnace Is 100 tons daily
Colonel Enoch Ensley, principal owner of
the furnaces at Sheffield, is building LOCO new
coke ovens at the Horse creek coal mines 40
miles west OF this city. The Henderson Steel
Company will appoint committee to go to
New YORK and interest capital in steel making
in this section, the success of the Henderso5
process having been established by the report
81 a committee of experts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Too Much Water Prevents the Shipment of
CoaI TO Lover Ports.

The rivers are on the rampage, and are rising
steadily, so that the probabilities are that some
damage may yet result. AS it is, it Is considered
dangerous TO ship coal down the Monongahela,
and no shipments will be made until the storm
subsidies and the rivers are down to their nor
NAL state. The Monongahela yesterday showed
a rise of three feet inches, summing up ID feet
and inches of water. The Allegheny took
rise of feet during the "a hours. The rise will
probably be greater to-day and tomorrow.
Some of the river stations report an unprece-
dented amount of rainfall for this time Of the
year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Business News and Gossip.

The Peoples Natural Gas Company has
adopted new plan for selling the fuel. Con-
sumers are required to pay monthly in ad-
vonce.
There is a hitch in Penn avenue improve
ment, Williamsburg. The Street Committee of
Council recommended that work cease for the
present. Members of the committee were SO
confident Council would indorse this view that
they dismissed the contractor. But Council
ordered the work to be resumed The con-
tractor says his dismissal annulled his contract
and relieved him from all penalties, and init
mates that he Will resume operations whenever
it suits him. He was hard run for stone and
the action of the committee relieved him of
considerable apprehension and possible loss
The tangle will no doubt be Strengthened, as
the avenue cannot be left in its present condi-
ton.
A gentleman connected with the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad said yesterday that within five
years all Wall accommodation trains would be
run by electricity.
There is some talk of the Duquesne Traction
Company crossing the railroad at Williamsburg
on bridge at Penn avenue. They refuse to
be responsible for all damages that might ac-
crue from tunneling at Wood street.
The $4,000 McKeesport ~ per cent school
bonds advertised for sale in these columns
few days ago by William NJ. Bell were taken by
local capitalist at good premium. The city
is now about issuing sS5 900 funding bonds,
which no doubt will find ready sale.
Sixteen of 35 mortgages on the list yesterday
we're for purchase money. The largest was for
SIS. 5UO
Chicago is to have what. it is claimed, will be
the largest building in the world in the new de-
partment store to be erected at State, Adams
and Dearborn streets. The building will have
front of 100 feet on State street, $50 on Adams
and 100 on Dearborn, will be 16 stories high,
and will cost S. 900 900.
John s. Morrison, Joseph K. Cass. Richard
Beaston- John g. Anderson and Oliver L.
Etnier have applied for a charter for the Nor
rison & Cass Paper Company.
No time for meeting of the Sixth street
bridge directors to decide on the bridge has
been fixed Some necessary arrangements
with Colonel Merrill as to the new piers will
first have to be made.
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WHOLESALE = HOUSE
JOSEPH HORNE & CO,

Embroidery and White Goods Departments
direct fmportation-from the best nanufac-
turers Of St GALL IN Swiss and Cambria Edg-
ings, Flouncings Skirt Widths and Allovers,
Hemstitched Edgings and FlouncingS Buyers
will tnd these goods attractive both in price
and novelties Of design. Full lines of New
PARTMENT-Best makes Window Shades In
dado and plain or spring fixtures, Lace Cur
tains, Portieres Chenille Curtains, Poles and
Cloths in best makes, lowest prices for quality
WASH DRESS FABRICS
The lsrgest variety from which to select
Toll Du Nords, Chalon Cloths, Bath Seersuck.
ers, Imperial Suitings, Heather & RenfreW
Dress Ginghams. Fine Zephyr GinghamS
Wholesale Exclusively.
fal3D
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

LOOK FOR the Exposition Topical Bal.
lots and the Big Prize Essny offer to be au-
nounced In To- morrow's DISPATCH.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Movements In Real Estate.

Three or four important transactions IL
realty were closed yesterday. Two are noted
8. A. Dickey & Co. sold a block of 40 lots or
Bennett street. in the Murtland plan, Twenty
first ward. to a syndicate of business men who
will improve the property. The consideration
was about S35, ,OO0.
Widmeyer sold his 2O-acre farm in the Nine.
proximating S2S 900. G. H. Love. mentioned as
managing the deal, was asked for information.
but beyond saying that the sale had been made
refused to talk. 1t was learned elsewhere that
the property will be subdivided and put on the
market, which will be a great benefit to the
ward by attracting home-seekers and giving an
impetus to needed improvements. The Nine
teenth ward is looking up.
JB. Larkin & Co. sold for ]. c. Schaffer a
twostory brick house and mansard, No. 1902
Bates street. Fourteenth ward, for S5. $40 or
thereabouts.
Thomas McCaffrey sold for c. E. Andrews to
l.. Finchs a lot 20xl0O feet, on Hatfield
street, near Forty-seventh, for 81, 900; also for
Miss Kate Forbes to A. Schlercher, a lot 2OxlOO
feet on Liberty avenue, near Thirty-ninth street,
the property. 43l2 Penn avenue. lot 2OxlOO feet,
with a two story frame house, for 81, 300.
Charles Somers & Co. sold to H. w. Tomb
for John McDavitt, modern frame dwelling
of eight rooms, reception hall, etc, lot 5lxl22
feet on Kelley street, Williamsburg, for IS. 500
They also sold for J. F. Young to II. II. Davis,
the property No. $50 Romewood avenue, E. E,
consisting of lot 24xl0O. with two-story frame
building containing store room and five dwell
ling rooms. Consideration, s., 400.
Magaw & Gotf, Linn. sold in the Oak station
plan, Pittsburg and Castle Shannon Railroad,
lots Nos. Ito and Ill to S. s. Smith for S225, lots
Nos II and 70 to James and Eva MacMorris
for s265. lots Nos AZ and As to Mrs. Huber for
$3.50, and lots Nos 46 and 49 to ]. H. Miller for
s2S5
Black Baird sold through the agency of
Samuel w. Black & Co., for ]. s. McCVrd to
Augusta Koch, a lot on the north side of Will
mont street, oakland, near Sylvan avenue. 2Sx
100 feet, for $3.50.
George Schmidt sold to g. ]. Fleming two
story frame dwelling. with lot 60xlo0 feet. on
Cypress street, Shadyside, for $500; also for
Charles Naatz to F. s. Jelly a. twostory brick
dwelling of six rooms. lot 22x100 feet, on Lom-
bard street. for S. 150 cash: also for i. ]. Flem-
ing brick dwelling with storeroom, in Sandy
Creek, for $1,000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
tEX-diYidend,
Boston Stocks.
PHILADELPHIA Stocks.

Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks fur
nlshed bv Whitney & Stephenson, brokers, No. 81
Fourth avenue Members New YORK Stock Ex-
change:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

ST. LoUIs-Lead-Strong offerings; light at
81 20 Iron ties, 81 3OGl IS.
NEW YoRK-Pig ironI uu and steady. Cop
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

oAOh -Carter's Little Liver Pills
eIOA ADI-Carter's Little Liver Pills.
slOh ACKNOWLEDGMENT Little Liver Pills.
SICK HEADACHE-c.rt.r,,L Little 1,y.r pm.
sols-s7.TTssu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Booming the Wrong Way.

Kansas City, after booming for several years.
is experiencing the throes of boomerang.
Pap" Kennedy, the veteran conductor on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. who was out there a
short time ago, said yesterday: "Three years
of bad crops have taken the snap out of Kan
sas City. There are blocks upon blocks Of
empty business houses, many of them as fine as
any in Pittsburg. Buildings that cost $50, 900 to
100000 are offered upon almost any terms.
Agriculture being the mainstay of the place, a
succession of crop failures left large element
of the community nothing to do but move
away. Their are also a great many empty
dwellings there. A gentleman told me that at
least 10000 people had left the city. 1t may re-
cover from the depression. but not for some
years. Farming is too uncertain and there are
not works enough to attract and hold people
who earn their living by the sweat of their
brow"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

Price of Bar Silver.
NEW YORK, September 12-Bar Silver-Lon.
don. SD per ounce; New York, 81 49,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
THE IDEA GROWING.
A Citizen of East Liberty Puts in a
Plea for a Market House.
KANSAS CITY'S GREAT BOOMERANG
Two Transactions in Realty Involving
Over Sixty Thousand Dollars.
THE NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE CITY

EAST Ender" writes: "I think the sug-
gestion for market house in this part of
the city is in the right direction. We have
long felt the need of one. have often won
dered why some of our capitalists couldn't t
see that there was money in such venture.
There is no doubt that it would be well
patronized by both sellers and buyers. 1t
would bring supplies within easy reach of
the people at a saving of considerable time
and money. 1t wouldn't hurt the Pittsburg
market. for it has more business than it can
well handle. As public or private enter
prise know of nothing that is so urgently
needed, or that would be more profitable in
Vestment 1 hope the subject will not be per-
mitted to drop out of sight"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Provision

sugar-cursd hams, large. Lie: sugar.eur.d
St. Landry democrat., 1890-08-16
Bows. Improve Your Time

There are q certain class of boys about
every town and city who apparently do
nothing but loaf, smoke cigars and cigar
cites, and are neither help to their pa.
rents nor an ornament to society. Nine
tenths Of the convicts in the penitentiary
were street loafers when they were boys,
and preferred to get q living in some other
way than by honest labor and the sweat
of their brow. Too many boys are grow
ing up in idleness and are letting golden
opportunities pass by unheeded. Your
boyhood days are rapidly passing by. and
you will soon be called upon to take up
the cares and responsibilities of manhood.
A good education is offered to You in our
public schools, and ONE that will fit you
for all active duties of life, but you are
letting this precious gem slip through
your fingers, and instead of embracing this
opportunity OF securing good education,
as your parents wish you to do. you are
seen ON the street corner, stunning your
mental and moral powers by the use OF
narcotics. Boys, there is future before
you. Ii life is worth living, 1t is worth
living right. Get an education, learn q
trade and try and make man of yourself,
and let the world he better by your having
lived in it.--Mt. Ayr Record.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-08-16
Chickens That Grow Fur.

Ravenswosd has pair of fowls which
grow fur. as it is cabled, instead of feath-
ers. They are the property OF Arthur
Ritter, bird and dog fancier of that place.
They are a cock and hen, with plack skin
and comb and pure white plumage. Mr..
Ritter says he got them from an influential
friend who has connections in Japan. They
cost him S64 A dozen of them were sent
for that price, but ten died on the voyage.
Nothing like them, he says, were ever seen
in this country before. They are rather
small, but very pretty birds, but the eggs
the hen has laid are larger than those Of
any otler species.
Mr.. Ritter has sold the eggs at 81 apiece.
The two chickens weigh together about
seven pounds The hair or plumage with
which they are covered is long and silky.
A plume pulled from the breast is seen to
be made up on the plan of feather. The
topknot ana wig and tail feathers are like
small ostrich plumes, and ditfcr entirely
from the straight hair on other parts OF
their bodies. Among those who have
called to see them was James A. Ba'ly, OF
Barnum & Baily's circus company, who
asked for q price on them, but Mr.. Ritter
refused to sell.
According to their owner who, however,
declines to vouch for the story, the ovolu-
ton of the new species was attended with
tragic consequence. He says the birds
came from the palace of the Mikado. The
original discoverer of the breed was com
manded by his emperor to give up the
stock to the crown. He refused and lost
his head. His sons, out of spite, deeapi-
tated all the honoways, or silky chickens
as they are called, on their deceased par
| ent's estate. They. too, were arrested. bu
they avoided the fate of their father only
by accepting the place of chicken breeders
to the king. They bred pure white ma
tive fowl with guinea hen, and from he
brood one chick developed into silky. 1
took six years more to get mate to thu
first silky, and even now the eggs of pur'
silkies sometimes hatch out plain guines
chickens. Journal.