The Portland daily press., 1873-07-24
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Review of Portland Markets.
WEEK ENDING July %. 1873.

neVleW Oh FOrTlau0 NHarket6.
WEEK ENDING July 90, 1878.
Our markets present no very peculiar features this
week in the way of traffic. The purchases are made
'frop hand to mouth and are as extensive as usual
at this season of the year, when everybody in the
country towns is engaged in haying. There is eau
ton on the part of both buyers and Sellers There
is degree of firmness in all leading articles and it
is questionable if any reduction of prices can be
made for the fall business. The money market s de-
cidedy easier, and there is difficulty in obtaining
loans good securities. at fair rates of interest
Gold is little higher and the ruling rates have been
1169ll63. Wednesday, 23d, it receded to 115sG116.
Apples are coming along from the South-not very
nice fruit, but selling at high prices. Old fruit is
nearly out of the market. Beans are not so plenty
and prices have advanced. Butter is about the same
last week. Cheese is little lower both for fac
tory and dairy. Coal is unchanged. Coffee is firm
and steady. Cooperage is dull and in very light
stock. Copper is without change. Cordage is steady
Dry goods steady with fair sales for the season.
Jobbers preparing to stock mp for the fall trade
Drugs and dyes without change. Duck is steady
and in good demand. Fish are firm at our quota
tions. The old stock is all out of the market and
much. Mackerel are in good demand and are
taken soon as the fares arrive, and the receipts
have been so light that quite large advance in
prices has been made on No. rs and 2's. Flour is
steady and without change. Fruits are without
change excepting lemons which are lower. Grain is
firm at last weeks prices. Hay is dull-dealers are
not-paying $50 for the best of pressed. The
crop in this State this year will be larger than was
last year and of superior quality. In some other
States the crop has suffered severely from the drou h
Iron is without change, though prices favor pur-
chasers. Lard is little irmer than it has been.
Leather is very steady. Lime is unchanged. Lum-
Der is rather quiet but there is no alteration in
prices. Matches are steady. Molasses is in good
supply and prices are steady and unchanged. Nails
are steady N val stores are quiet. Oils are lower
for Kerosene which we quote at 21de6c-a reduc-
ton Of Sc; linseed is about &c lower. Paints are
without change. Produce is more active; eggs are
selling at 25926c in packages; potatoes (od) SELL
at 81 1901 20, and new at 81 5091 rs per bushel
onions selling at IS 80 per Dbl Provisions are
without change but frmer than they were last week
Salt is steady, with good supply and quite large
demand Sugars have further advanced and We
quote Forest City graduated at 11aaic and coffee
crushed at 1Ot910ie. Eagle sugars selling at
7fa94c, according to the grade Teas steady and
quiet. Tins firm. Wool is without change in
prices, and there are no new features to add this
week.
FREIGHTs.-T There is demand for tonnage for
South America and also for few vessels for Cuba.
The engagements since last report are Bark
Jane Adeline, hence to Sagua and back North Of
Hatteras at 81 rs per hid for sugar and So for mo-
lasses; schr Louisa A. Orr, hence to Buenos Ayres
at S23 and per cent. primage for lumber; bark
James Mccarthy hence to Matanzas and back N
of Hatteras at 81 so per hid and 81 rs per box fol
sugar, and IS for molasses; schr Hattie Ross hence
to Sagaa and back Nortof Hatteras, at S. per hid
for molasses and 81 for sugar; brig George w
Chase, from Bangor to Sagua and back N. of Hat
eras at IS rs per hid for moasses and 62c per 100
lbs sugar; bark Black Eagle hence to Liverpool or
London at loss per standard for deals; schr Carrie
Walker, from Sidney, c. B., to New York at "a 80
for coal.
Coastwise freights are quiet. There is hardly any
thing doing in lumber. Coal freights from Nova
Scotia offering SO so from Pictou to Portland
and 81 so from Sidney, c. B.. to New York. Brig
George Harris was taken from Boothbay to Charles
ton, S. c., at 81 per ton for poge chum and return
to Woods Hole, at S. so for phosphate; schr NJ B.
Mahoney from Windsor, N. s., to Baltimore at 80 rs
for plaster; schr Gertie E. Morrow, from Savannah
to Bath at $15 80 for hard pine; schr Addie Jordan
from the Kennebec to Norfolk, Va, at 81 25 for ice