Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-11

REMARKs-There is muc CHI better feeling IN
the Flour market than for weeks past; Family
brands are in moderate request and choice
brands Extras are particularly sought Tor oy
home consum RS, with an advance in quotations.
Wheat is quiet and steady; receipts are very
light. and all offerings are taken tor store; ar
rivals of new Wheat have been limited, but
larger receipts are expected next week offerings
To-day of but I'll bushels red, with sales at l4l
and lGO for good and strictly prime samples.
Corn is in active demand by millers; receipts
are very light, and prices have steadily advanced
since the opening Of the week, and are quoted at
81 for white, 81 for Mixed and 75aT7 for yellow
offerings to-day Of $50 bushels white and small
lot of mixed, with sales at the above figures.
Rye is quiet at previous quotations. Oats are
steady no offerings reported. Prime Butter is
unchanged in prices, and good article is in de-
msnd. Eggs are active at an advance of &c
since the first of the week. Potatoes are un-
changed; seed Potatoes are in request. Bacon
is very active with an advance of &c on sides
and shoulders; prices are still tending upward.
Plaster and Salt are unchanged. Wool is in
light receipt prices remain at last weeks figures.
ALEXANDRIA CATTLE MARKET. July IL
There were IS Cattle, SEQ Sheep and Lambs 100
Hogs and 20 Cows and Calves offered this week
Sales were made quite freely Of Cattle at .! to
6c Sheep to &c, Lambs 2 to $4 80, Hogs % to
tic, and Cows and Calves 20 to $50. Three hun
drsd Lambs were bought and shipped on Phlla-
pima account The remainder of the stock
Was sent on to the District markets.
BALTIMORE CATTLE, MARKET, July 10, 1873.
Prices to-day for Beef Cattle ranged as fol-
lows: Best Beeves at COAST W; general
ly rated first quality ut l2a$6 W; medium
to good fair quality at l2a$5 II; ordinary thin
and lowest grades of Cattle o0sS0 O0general
average of the market to-day S. 81; extreme
range of prices 75a$7 o. Most Of the sales
were from SIS to Sc 90 per 100 lbs. To-
tai receipts for the week ll6l head, against TIA
tai sales for the week 1ll7 head, against 1922
last week, and 1910 head same time last year.
The market was dull Throughout the week, more
so towards the close than in the beginning when
it became very heavy.
Sheep and Lambs has been large
falling of in the receipts of Sheep this week,
and though the market has been quite slow, yet
it was a shade more active than last week, and
though the prices, as to quality, were unchanged,
transactions were more easily effected The
few good Sheep ar. living. We quote common
to fair at 3is41c, and fair to good Sheep at 43s5c
per ID gross. Stock Sheep 2s$3 per head Lambs
1t 2aS4 so per head. Receipts this week 1858
head
Hogs-The market has been fairly supplied
this week, the arrivals running along about equal
to the demand. Prices have ruled ic lower than
last week. though on Monday shade higher
figure was obtained for neat light Hogs than now,
and this kind is in best demand bringing our
top quotations. and prospects fair for the main
tsInance of present rates for this class Of Hogs,
FOR tha loro fha1y n sol
We quote good corn-fed Hogs ut TOAST, and
common and stil-fed at s 5Oa$6 10 per 100 lbs
net Receipts this week 7lSS head.
GEORGETOWN CATTLE MARKET, July 10
There were 28O Virginia and 20 Ohio Cattle OF,
tcred to-day, 1900 Sheep and Lambs and 30
Cows and Calves. Market fairly active but
lower prices than last week. We quote Cattle
ssttrom 81 to &C, Sheep to &c, Lambs so to
% and Cows and Calves at from 10 to sou.
, CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET, July Cattle
hec,slpts $500; market dull; shippers generally
holding off for decline; q few lots of fair to
,aGTe Steers sold at sass 80 through, and corn
led Texans and Indian sold st 2 50a$4 so: butch
ers Cows 3 6oaS4 s., closing dull, with many
eepts ll,eO; market quiet and declined lOc !;
common to choice 25a$4 SIS, with a couple Of
."s OF extra at 60a$4 IS. closing dull and weak,
S Sllh many unsold shipments yesterday 1900
receipts 52S.
nichMoSD MARKET, July 10.-Very limited
. u.epis OF Grain, and but few sales reported of
,"'an lots of new Wheat at 15Oa170 for common
very good. Small sales of Corn on private
''N's' Nothing doing in Rye and Oats.
ce;n,s sptERRlcKsBURG MARKET, July 10.-Re-
otp IS VI Grsin very light and but two or three
slid I'D, new H Wheat offered the good being taken
eorn 1OaTZ Oats 4Sa50 Rye 7Oa75.
and dn In"S N MARKET, July lO.-Market quiet
m,lons nominal Corn in limited i rece amt and and
- .A.es reported. Rye and Oats unchanged
CANAL COMMERCE.