Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1882 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS.

Chicago. Flour—Dull and unchanged; family. $5 60@5 90; fancy, $6 25@7 00. Grain —Wheat, inactive and lower* No 2 Chicago spring, $131)*; No 3 Chicago spriug, $1 Us@l 08; regular. $113%@114% July. Corn,dull,weak and lower, 70%c. Oats, fairly active arid a shade higher; 51%@51%c. Rye steady and unchanged. Barley, dull and nominal. Flax seed, .steady* merchantable, $1 25 @126. Butter —Quiet and weak; creamery, 19@24c; dairies fair to floe, 14@20c. Eggs—Unsettled, 17% @ 18c. Provisions—Pork, fair demand, but lower rates; S2O 75@20 80 cash; S2O 75 June and July; *2O 87% @2O 90 August; $2102%@21 05September; SIB6O @lB 65 year. Lard, moderately active and higher; sll 55 cash; sll 55@ 1157% July; sll 70@11 72% August; sll 80@11 82% September;* sll 55@ 1157% year. Bulk meats easier; shoulders, $9 26; short rib, sl2 15; short clear, sl3 25. Whisky—Steady $1 16. Freights—Com to Buffalo, l%c. Call —Wheat steady and in fair demand; spring unchanged; regular, $114%. Corn, western, irregular and easier but not lower except year, 62c. Oats moderately active and higher, 51%@62c. Pork moderately active and*higher S2O 75 July; S2O 92% August; s2l 00@21 07% September ;$lB 75 @lB 77% year. Lard irregular and active, sllso@ll 55 June;- $1155@ 11 57% July; sll 67%@11 70 August; $1180@1187% September; sll 57%@ 11 60 year. Hogs—Receipts, 19,000; shipments, 5,500; market quiet, weak and lower; mixed, $7 26@8 00; heavy, $8 00@8 50; light, $7 40@8 00. .Cattle —Receipts, 4,200; shipments, 2,100; natives generally very dull and a shade lower; no extra quotations; exports, $7 75@8 25; good to choice shipping, $7 00@7 40; common to fair, $5 60@6 60; mixed butchers steady; cows, $2 40; bulls, $2 65@4 50; veal, $4 50@7 00; stockers and feeders dull, $3 50@5 20; Texans, small supply and strong, receipts, 50 cars, mostly good; medium to good, $8 00@9 50; pounds cattle, $460@5 20; extreme range $3 30 @5 65. Sheep—Receipts, 1,000; shipments, 300; yards overstocked and 10 to 25c lower; shippers to eastern market fairly of good stocks; common butchers and neglected, $2 75@3 50; medium to good muttons, $3 75@4 25; choice, $4 50@4 75.

New York Produce. Flour—Dull and unchanged; superfine state and western, $3 35@ 4 45; common to good extra, $4 50 @5 50; good to choice, $5 60@9 00; white wheat extra, $7 25@9 25; extra Ohio, $4 65@8 00; St. Louis, $4 70@9 00; Minnesota patents, $8 25 @9 50. Grain—Wheat lower and heavy; No 2 spring, $128; ungraded red, $1 21@1 44; No 3 do, $1 37%; No No 2 red, $1 37; f. o. b., $1 30@ 14134 delivered; $142M@142% certificates; No 1 red, $143; mixed western, $1 39>£; ungraded white $1 26 Corn opened a shade lower, but afterwards recovered and advauced%@)£c, closing with less strength; ungraded, No2, 78c in store; 78@79c elevator and delivered; yellow western, 78)£c. Oats, higher and closing steady; mixed western, 60@ 63c; white do, 63@68c. Eggs—Western fresh firm with fair demand, 20@21c. Provisions—Pork higher; new mess, - s2l 00. Cut meats scarce and firm: long clear middles, sl2 50. Lard strong; prime steam, sll9O. Butter—Dull, 13@25c. Cheese —Firm on choice, 7@lo>£c.

Cincinnati. Flour—ln fair demand and firmer; family, $5 65@6 00; fancy, $5 35@7 00. Grain —Wheat firmer, No 2 red, $1 28@133. Corn, fair demand; 74@ Oats strong, 65c. Rye dull, 70@71c. Barley, no transactions. Provisfcms — Pork steady, s2l 50. Lard strong, sll 50. Bulk meats $9 00 @l2 60. Bacon in fair demand and firm; $9 76@13 12)£@13 75. Whisky firmer; highwines $112; combination sales of finished goods, 530 barrels, on a basis of $1 12. Butter—Quiet and unchanged. Hogs —Active and firm; common and light, $6 25@8 00; packing and butchers’, $7 65@8 60. Receipts 710; shipments, 135.

New fork Dry Hoods, In consequence of the strikes of the freight handlers, shipments of goods are very much interrupted. Still, a large quantity is going forward by divers ways. Buyers are very attentive to all offerings of flannels, blankets, doeskins, jeans, dark, fancy and staple prints, and results show a good business. Completed cotton goods continued in request, with many assortments of valuable quantities having succeeded. Choice styles of light ginghams are in renewed request, and satisfactory business; also a fair selection. Zeruckers and other light qualities of woolen goods are in light request. Sast Liberty. Cattle—Receipts. 408 head; market dull; prime, $7 50@7 76; good, $6 25(3! 7 25; oommod, $5 50@6. Hogs—Receipts, 1,000 head: market active; Philadelphias, $8 40@8 60; Baltlmores, $8 15@8 26; Yorkers, $7 20@8 00. Sheep—Receipts, 8,800 head; best, $4 76 @462; good, $4 25@4 50; common, $8 26@8 75. Toledo. Grain —Wheat opened dull and lower: No 2 red spot, $1 25. Corn, dull; No 2,74 Kc.. Closed —Wheat dull; No 2 red, $1 24W. Corn,nominally unchanged. Oats dull; No 2 August, 34 bid.