Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-27
RICHMOND MARKETS

NOVEMBER 81 1883.
-FLnrn-The receipts for the Inst few day
have been larger and the demand rot altogethe
so active. We quote Superfine at $500 to $40:
per barrel: Extra, los TO 10 per barrel
WIEAT-But vPrv little arriving-sales Q
small lots at SID to SIG per bushel.
TOBACCO Great demand for manufactured
| B. J. johnson Guntrs prices as follows: Black
hplf pounds. ~ E0a2 10; black tens, M.
quality 81 25G2 30 :, inferior grades ditto, 81 .;
to 81 10. Superior black sweet pounds. 81 30 t
s32. Superior pounds, (brght.) 81 t0a3 80 -
Sioc! in the market very much reduced Smok.
ing tobacco scarce and upward tendency.
ArrLEs-Si5 to $50 per barrel.
BicoS.-Firm at 81 rs to So per pound hog
round
BuTTER-F at So to ; 80 per pound.
| BEEswAx -S3a3b per pound.
BEANs-Sl5 for tlacI, $50 for white.
CuEHSE-S3 30 10 s. per pound.
CGrrEE-S9 to $40 per pound
Consist to $I5 per bushsl, and scarcc.
CoRN MEAL-SI5 TO SIG per bushel.
HAY.-Scarce.at sig per 100 pounds.
ONIONS S30a33 per bushcl.
POTATnES.-Swcct, $l2 70 SIG per bushel.-
Irish sc to $40 per bushel.
LIME-Sl5 per barrel.
LaRD-2 60 to2 10 per pound for small lots.
L!ounRs-Whisk"y, $50 to $50 per gallon
apple brandy, So to $50.
MoTASSES-Sl5 to SIG per gallon; Sorghum
$40 to Sl2.
NAILs-Sll0 to $3.50 per kegs factory price
$50: bat orders cannot be filed, owing to the
scarcity of iron.
SrGaR-Brown, SO to 8 % per pound; Crushed
81 TO So per pound.
SALTS 10 40 cents per pound.
SEEDS-Clover seed scarce, $50 per bushe
Timothy STEALS. Grass So to Sc. F'a1seed 81
to 81.
TAR-S25 per barrel
FINANCIAL.
GaLD-s11 so to SI2 So
slLvER-S9 50 to $40 so. The demand Is s4l
active.
Messrs Lancaster & Cas- weekly auction sale
of bonds and stocks took pace on Wednesday
The results show that for State aad city bonds
and hank stocks very high prices were oh
taned. We subon a classified report Of the
sale;
CONFEDERATE BoNps-Eight per cent. bonds
from 1868 to 1879, S10gi to $lI3 and interest
nm advance on the shorter date; eight per cent
bones. 1865 Sl04 and interest; eight per cent.
bonds, 1864, Sl0Gk to Sl0l and interest eight
per cent convcrtibles, SJI2A and interest (only
81 900 sold y $3.50 of Is million loau, coupon
SI2G|and interest The last sales of seven per
cant. coupon bonds were at SOB and interest
Cotton loan bonds are still quotablc at $3.50 and
interest.
STATE BoNDs-Virginis registered bonds sold
Mt irregular prices, viz $500, due 1890 .a $3.50
500. due 1873, a. S243; 81 600, duo 1887, at
500 $1,000 due 1858, as 1857, and $3.50, due
lc12 and lcU, at $s257-aii with interest added
to day of sale Bonds past dus brought S2l3 to
S2i1-sn advance of $50 TO SO since this week:
Virginia coupon bonds. $4l6 to .Si45s North
Carolina bonds. new, $3.50 md interest; North
Ca;o;na c;ghts, S26l and interest sold last
week ut S25:s 10 S255. No sales Of old skies.
CITY AND COUNTY BoNDs.-City of Richmond
bonds. 1887, $27l and interest-an advance Of
S25; Bedford county bonds, 1856 Sl57 and in,
,erest Last week. city of Lynchburg bonds
brought $S2lG and interest
RAILROAD Bonds. Richmond and Ior!;
River Railroad bonds, Fights, first mortgage,
STA and interest; Manassas Gap Railroad cou-
pom bonds, first mortgage, $i42 and INTEREST,"
Orange and Alexandria Railroad bonds, seconl
mortgage, $2:i5 and interest-each in tho SUN
of $1,000
The quotations or other railroad bonds, from
last weeks sales, IRE Richmond and Danvic
Railroad bonds S2lS ard interest: Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad bonds, second mortgage
s.242 and interest; Virginia Central Rairosd
bonds second mortgage, $2!5 and interest
Virginia Central Railroad six per GEN.. dividend
bonds. $40 and interest.
TIE SHARE Elsr.-Orauge aud Alexandra
Railroad stock. ST.; Virginia Central Railroad
stock, (par $50,) $780, Bank of Commonwealth
Sl66; Traders Bank, Sis to 1870; Bank Of Vir-
ginia Si22 to I23; Richmond emporting ana
Exporting Company S3s5; Richmond and Pc
tesburg Importing and Exporting Company
$685. Old Dominion Trading Company, p
James River Packet Company, Si2l; Richmond
Female Institute, preferred stock, (par S90.
SlS2.-
Confederate $50 Treasury notes were SOLD a
$lG03; coupons of the fifteen million loan bond
at Sl6I; 800 in gold was RIM up 10 BIZ for one
and draft on Baltimore for $3.50 brought 81 ,o2O