Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-12-24
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The actual number killed up TO last night IS
o1s 500. which is an increase of fully 25OO0 over
fine entire receipts of last season. mtsSrs. JACK
son. Owsley & Co., at then mammoth PORK nou use
killed and hung up 1900 hogs Saturday, ana 2.ovO
yesterday. and they expect 70 DAch IUV ~ H EL,
during the season, which VIII CLOSE aUou1 '"e HA''
Prices Of hogs, and lheir product continue high
with sales Saturday of 400 hogs from the hooks
at 64c and 1000 at 6tc. Salesoi 2,SuO DaItes OF
TnesS nork at ST. and 400 barrels of rnmpS at IA.
Sales of 23,6OO pieces of shoulders and hams from
the block al 6ia6c for the former, and 5taS4 foI
the latter. also sale Of 200 terces prime lard at
10 cents, and for larger lot io4c was refused.
The market at CnelnnAu continues nlln, any
prices full with falling of in the receipts ut that
point, as compared with former years. ana we no
ice daily shipments of choice hams in casks nom
this CITY on the mail boats to Stagg q Seay proVis
ion doaleTs. oRthe Telegraph yesterday some ~
casks were shipped.
quote sales of 900 bbls mess pork at $500 and
the market dull. ~, -
The total number of hogs received at Madison
IN 10 Saturday night; as we learn by the Conrlet'
was II 1923, which is gain OF 34,42I. W mte,
Cunnineham & Co., report sales of 800 hhds. OF
sides out of salt at &c.; 200 hhds. shoulders at &C.;
packages furnished; 800 kegs and in tin cans OF
lard at lO3c, 1000 bbs. mess pork, short lnspec=
ton guaranteed, ST.; 300 bbls: rump porS: ga.
These sales and the sales otthls house al Clhclh-
natl, since Friday, amount to 100000.
The packing season will close about the last OF
this month; last year it did not close until the LIST
of February. -
There will be no hogs packed this year on the
line Of the Madison railroad, and we have intorma-
ton which is reliable, thatthe number packed at
Indianapolis, will be about the same as last year,
26, 600. The falling off in the weight OF the hogs
killed up to this time is fully 10 per cent from the
average oflast year.
publican, we learn that o00 hogs will be slough-
tered at Terre Haute this season. .--,
1t has generally been thought that here would DC
moderate in crease in the number OF hogs over
last year, along the Wabash valley.
All Maysville, KY, about $4,000 hogs VIII be
slaue entered this season, which is gain OF on per
cent over last season.
In relation to the packing on the upper Mississip-
pi, we copT from the St. Louis News:-Indlca
lions are against more than than 5000 or 9OOo be-
ing packed at Hannibal, but at LOUISIANA ClarKs-
vile and PalmYTa, there will be an increase over
last seasons operations. IS is the current puce al
PALMYRA and Louisiana, and S5a6,25 at Clarks-
Vile, At Quincy, dealers have contracted for To-
600 head. At that point $4,000 to $4,000 head
| will be slaughtered this season. heokuk, Canton'
Lagrange, and one or two other points between
that CITY and the Rapids, have as many II moi
more than last year, nevertheless the aggregate or
the whole river is thought will fall IRON lu,UO!
to 90, 600 head short of the entire number PACKED
last season. Including this city and Alton there
were 100 600 to 10000 head last season at all the
points below the Rapids. The number this sea
son will not exceed 100000 .... .,, .,