New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-05
COMMERCIAL.
SATURDAY EYrrrNe. jam,

SATURDAY EVENING, January 1, 1888
CoFToN-The sales to-day amounted to
1900 bales, at prices showing a fur
! thcT improvement of &c. ia middiing
and the better qualities. We now quote
ordinary at l240lSc., good ordinary at l3f@
| 14c., low middlng at l4lQl5C., middling
at I541l58c., strict middling at l590-c.,
and good middling at lG9-C.
The above figures are in accordance with
the views of large majority of buyers, but
one or two would repeat our yesterdays
quotations without change. Sales were
| reported at both l39 and l4c. for strict good
| ordinary; l4B for low middling, and also
| l4i for strict low middling; I54 for good
style of middling, and l6 for good middling;
but the bulk of the business was at our
amended quotations, and the market really
exhibited less irregularity than has char
RcteriZed it for some weeks past. The
demand was good and the business would
no doubt have been of greater extent had it
not been for the moderate supply and the
stringent pretensions of factors.
| q SUGAR-The receipts this smorning COM
| prise 874 hhds. The market has exhibited
| less activity to-day but prices continued
very firm and the sales embraced 500 hhds.,
pretty much all the supplies ia first hands,
at 746164o. R n. for inferior; 94693c.
for common; l0A@l1e. for good common I;
ll4@l2c. for fair; l2l@l2sc. for good fair;
l30l94c. for fully fair; lSh@l9lc for prime;
4 :
l5Ac. for white. and l23DlS3c. for seconds.
MoLAssEs = The receipts this morning
| comprise 1887 bbls. and IS half bbls. The
demand is active at full prices, and the sales
embrace about all the receipts, at 55c. $9
gallon for common; 650674c. for ferment-
ing; zoe. for good; 7597T4c for prime, aud
| s068S2Ac. for choice. Some rs half bbls sold
at 746a0c. for prime.
q FLoUR-The dealers having been supplied
| for their immediate WAITS yesterday, the
I market has exhibited very little animation
to-day, and the business doing is mostly
in retail way, at 81 so u Dbl. for fine. 50 Is
| for superfne, So rs for single extra, $40 for
double extra, Sll@l3 for treble extra, and
| SIS 6O0l4 so 10 Dbl. for choice extra. Sew
| eral offers were made, and negotiations are
pending, for some considerable lots; but we
have no important sales by the regular
trade to report. By auction, 100 bbs.
choice extra, unmerohantable, sold at $l4 20
% bbl.; and by the regular trade. 40 bbls.
choice extra sold at $lA so, and so treble
extra at Sill rs % Dbl.
CoRN-Y esterday not reported 429 sacks
white. burlaps in poor order, sold at Soc,
and 5000 sacks prime white, yellow, and
mixed at csc. % bushei. The supplies offer
| ing on the landing are now small, sad the
/ sales to-day are confined to 2033 sacks, of
which 1913 green at 9Ic.; 1853 mixed, $50
white mixed, and 1909 white and white
mixed at 95c.; and 200 prime white and yell
i low 81 81 D bushel.
OkTs-The only sale to-day is lot of 1856
sacks prime st. Louis at 7Sc - bushel.
/ BRAN-200 sacks sold at 81 so ID 100 lbs.
a reduction of SC. % 100 ms.
/ HAx-tO0 bales ordinary Ohio river sold
[ to-day at SIS 90; 100 prime at Sz7 per ton,
and 50 bales prairie hay at $40 so.
PoRK-The market Is wei supplied, but II