The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-17
r. ETAIL MARKET.
REvTLw OF THE WEEK.

The dull term in trade and business still continues-
Provision and grain prices by means settled
The fluctuations mol grest-ihe general tendency
seems still to towards lower figure. The Cincinna.
ii Commercial says:
Heaviness is still be noticed in our Flour marker and
the tendency of prices i downward. Sales at 81 IS
offered freely is q,otably lower.
Oats duh and dropping; receipts larre Corn very
lower whisky steady at 23c
Receipts during twenty four hours:
Flour ...........l $50 Wheat, Bus .........2 s3s
whisky .......-..... AS Oats. "a .........5 SGT
Corn. bus. .....-...l l79 Barley, . so
There annimaiion apparent in the Provision
market. hut Transactions limited and confined to
Bacon and TX Measales of As hhds Bacon Shoulders at
7c so hhds Sides at 914c 600 rieees Buck Shoulders
loose &c, and 20 Lard I0zcwere reported. Mess
Pork is becoming daily more eaden. Reports from
tions at this pon, asking figures noticed
that holders beginning to feel though Profit and
With present tendency Yin in the markets. 'e '''
The transactions OF the day in the Money market have
developed change in It's tenor Discounts continue to
be sought for pretty diligently hy classes of
chants, and Currency is i'll with of tie
>uay pure being well purged of all unworthy trash
and ncon ertibe funds. New Orleans is the only
side stuff that is to be found IL any quautity The de-
supply Dealers have in some instances paid full selling
raes. The reduction made to have been uncalled
Indications favor the that prices must
soon be again advanced.
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET.
4 The Tribune reports:
RULL's HEAD.-There about 5000 head of
ima,s beef cattle yards Forty fourth street.
terdav and there will be small addition todlv and,
the whole, about as sorry lot offered for
the supply of the haefeaters of this city: So far saes
were made YESTERDAY they at lower figure than
last week, and in decidedly duler market that
mates of weight and that the market is by
good as it week The top price Of the market
said the cattebrokers asked for the choice, but
could not find thai dozen sold at 10 cents.
l.nl Errs:a that
SON that the grade stock that would sell for that
in limited number The kind known scallawsgs and
gassoppers. were altogether in too great numbers for
the demand. price; and good many report.
ed sold at street and Bergen, Monday and
Tuesday, at rates only equi, HlenL to 81 97e and
a4c. pound Should the of The market conti
through this day to the closeas opened shall have
with in all the series OF bad markets he down.
ward tendency commenced. The weather Yesterday was
pretty hot ard hut small portion of the city butch
present any time and by o'clock the
brokers had nearly all given the attempt to sei-buy-
ers and sellers both apparently being determined to
await the chances of to-day
PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET.
The offerings OF beef cattle yesterday, at the Drove
Yards reached 1000. The arrynis from Ohio and
head being received from Ohio alone. There also
The demand was brisk and the butchers urht freely
at prices about the last k from to ten
which any sales were made At these rates the price Of
MAJ ket should exPeris"ce corresponding reduce
than any time previous during the prev Gus year.
81 WHEAT IN WESTERN NEW YORK
correspondent of the Rochester Union writing from
Lima Livingston says:-Thr il past and
the WHOLE the event pretty much anticipat-
ed. Straw plenty and bright berry FULL blight rust
nor weav weather favorabl.ffo the successful
shelteg of the entire crop. Many fields npOn which
the happy looked with hope confidently
lii on for from twenty to twenty-five bushels the
Some ftese already threasbed and the astonised
cultivators have been compelled Storage and bags
for thirty where Only twenty bushels had heeR expected
and oi forty where thirty only provided for. Aud
hear that the evil has shown it>e in the crop,
and that the barley also liable similar catastro-
phe.-=
RAVENNA.-Business quiet-westher The
rains OF the past has cheerful aspect
upon ali things. Corn. Potaoes Burkwheat and the
pastures. thriving With the prospect of passa
. BILE yield and good fall feed