Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Cimdmmm*! Marko*. Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat fair demand; No 2 red, 1 14; choice red, 115. Corn dull at Oats firmer; No 2 mixed, 85. Rye strong at 86. Barley scarce and flrm; extra No 8 fall held at 98. Pork firmer at 10 25. Lard steady and fair demand at 6 85@6 90. Bulk meats quiet at 4 00@6 25. Bacon scarce and firm at. 4 75@6 87W. Whisky steady and good demand at 1 06. Butter weak and lower; choice western reserve 18;do Central Ohio, ls@l6. Linseed oil steady at 80. Hogs steady; common, 825 @8 90; light, 4 10@4 85; packing, 4 00@ @4 85; butcher’s, 4 85@4 45. Receipts, 2,509; shipments, 949. Baltlsmmre Marks*. Flour higher, very strong and active; western superfine, 8 50@4 Off-do extra,4 26 @5 25; extra to family, 5 50@6 25. Wheat; western, excited and higher, closing firm; No 2 western winter and red spot, 1 82: May, 1 80; June, 1 24@1 J®ffy. 1 13J4@1 13J<. Corn; western, firm and higher for spot and May futures; tej«!ted western mixed spot. 51@52; Oats higher and firm; western white, 46 ; do mixed, 44@45; Pennsylvania,

Mew Ysrk Market. Flour lower, quiet and unchanged. Wheat in fair demand; No 2 Chicago 125J<; No 2 red 1 80@1 31W; mixed winter 127@128; No 1 white 1 24 V @ 127. Oom heavy; No 8, 51@51%steamer No 2, 52W@52W; low mixed 52U; yellow western 55 W. ° emand ; mixed western 42

Dry Gaefis Mark**, Business continue* quiet in all branches of trade. Cotton goods in light demand but quotations unchanged and leading makes steadily held. Prints dull and Eddystone Simpsons, Hamilton and Knickerbocker prints are reduced by agents. Pacific P m tß 2 X !L d^el^.t<^ nto ’ andthat I* loß , Philadelphia Market. Floursteady; Minnesota extra medium 5 25; good 5 50@5 choice 5 75; Ohl ° «*«««). Wheat edited and unsettled; Mo 2 red. May 112U@113U ufcd high mfiatrecklO; steamer track 50@ 51; sail mixed 50 Ml, 11 asked. Oats 1 whlte ; No 2do 44; No Petroluem steady; standard white, 110 degree teat, 7 Emaciation, dropsy, «d phyetosl weakness arrested by Malt BiStere.