Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1882 — Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Chicago.

Flour—Quiet and unchanged. Grain—Wheat, moderately active and higher afc the close, $126; No, 8 Chicago spring, $1 14@116; rejected, 85@95. Corn, demand active and prices advanced, 74% @74%. Oata. demand fair aid higher, 68%. Rye! dull and unchanged, 78c. Barley, dull and nominal, cash 90@$1 00 September. Flax-seed, weak and merchantable, $1 38@1 40. Provisions—P6rk, demand fair and higher, $lB 26 cash May; $lB 75® 18T7% June; $lB 95@18 97% July; $1912%@19 16 August; sl9 25@19 September; sl9 17% year. Lard, demand fair and higher, sll 37%@ 11 40 cash,May and June; sll 65 July; sll 65@11 67% August; sll 75@1177% September; sll 25@11 27% year. Bulk meats, fairly active ana shade higher; shoulders $8 00; short rib, $lO 80; clear, sllls. Whiskey—Steady, sllß. Freights—Com to Buffalo, 2c. Butter—Dull and tending downward ; ordinary to fine creamery, 22® 25c; fair to choice dairy, 12@20c. Eggs—Weak, 16c. Call —Wheat in fair demand and irregular ,$1 28% May. Cora lower, 74%e May. Oats quiet and unchanged, 63%@58%c May. Pork lower,slß 72% @lB 75 June; $lB 92% July; sl9 05@ 1910 August. Lard lower, sll 37% June; sll 50@11 62% July; sll 62%@ 11 65 August; sll 70@1175 September. Hogs—Receipts, 24,000; shipments, 6,000; fairly active; prime, strong but low qualities 5c off'; common to good mixed. $6 90@7 45; heavy packing and shipping, $7 50@8 00, including larders and Philadelphias; light, $685 @7 46; skips and culls. $450@6 60. Cattle —Receipts, 4,000; shipments 1,500; slow; best steady; others weak; exports, $7 40@7 75; good to choice shipping, $6 76@7 16; common to fair, 5 to 10c lower, $5 75@6 60; mixed butchers’ steady at $2 65@5 60; Texans, steady and unchanged; $3 85 @5 75, sales mainly at $4 60@510. steady at recent decline; stackers ana feeders, more active, steady at $2 75@ 5 00. Sheep—Receipts, 900; market glutted and badly weakened; prices lower; poor to fair, $3 40@4 25; medium, $3 45@4 40; good to choide, $5 00@6 50; best sheep l%c lower than ten days ago.