The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-26

NEW YORK, Aug. 25-Evenng.---Cotton closes
barely steady with quotations unchanged sales 2o13
bales; Middling uplands at l6sc forward deliveries
advanced q 5-16c, most of which has since been
lost. Flour-receipts IL 1888 bbls; market dull heavy
and 5@ loo lower; sales o400 bbls; Western and
State at 80 q so; White Wheat Western extra
at so a 30; extra Ohio at 5 O5 q 75; extra st
Louis dull at 40 @ 90; Southern flour dull and de-
Ginning at 25 90. Wheat-receipts 1922 bush;
the market is a &c lower nth moderate business
doing export at the decline; sales $4,000 bush; u
@ Is for No2 Chicago; II q Is for Mo- Mil
waukee; and small lots do at 10 q 20; IL for No
North Western; ungraded Iowa and Minnesota
Spring 10 q q; No Spring at 20 az 23A; 2zt
for No Port Washington in store: II a Is for
Old Winter Red Western; Is q y for new Winter
Red western; % g 26 tor new Amber do; 20 q
sc for White Western. Corn-receipts 35 O95 bush;
the market is with fair export and home trade de-
mand aid prices without material change; sales 1885,
900 bush at soc for Western Mixed in store S14 "a
S2Ac for common to prime do aloat, chiefly at 81 a
S23c; S2a Sg S3c tor high Mixed and Western Yellow;
~95cfor White Western. Oats-receipts IS, $50 bush;
the market is scarcely so firm; sales $1,000 bush at
AS q 534c tor new Mixed Western; 30 q Soc for new
White do the latter for choice. Coffee is quiet and
unchanged; Rio at 16s a l9sc in gold; mild grades
quiet and unchanged. Sugar is dull and unchanged
tar TO good refining at q ST. ssc for prime; sales of
1888 hhds molasses Sugar at 7sc; 1866 boxes of Cen
trifugal at &c. Molasses unchanged. Rice unchang-
60: Petroleum quiet; crude at &c on spot ana Aug;
refined at l15 g ne on spot cases quoted at 16a q
Naval Stores-Rosn firm at % for strained Spr
its Turpentine steady at So q 35ac. Pork is dnll
and heavy; sales of 60 bbls at 90 90 cash;
Lard heavy; sales of 800 bbls prime steam at IA 916c
cash. 1000 ties seller Sept at 14lc: 250 ties buyers OPP
ton Sept at 14sc; 800 do sellers option balance year
at l1sc Butter firm at % a $50 ior Western; q q
3Sc. for State. Whiskey is shade easier and less
active at 024.i
kreignts to Liverpool heavy and lower; Corn per
sail 3d. do steam at SD; Wheat per sail SID; do do
steam at GID.
WATERTowN, Aug. 25-Cattle Market.-Receipts of
Beef Cattle 2208 head; the market well supplied
with stock much in excess Of any other week for
year, and comprising all qualities Prices ON best
grades ran nearly as high as at last weeks market
and sales were quite active We quote sales of choice
at 10 so; extra at ESQ 10 50; first quality 90 q
20; second quality at 500 q T5O; third quality at
800 "a 5 30.
Sheep and Lambs-receipts s772 head; the market
for Sheep depressed the arrivals being large and
Prices were reduced from to lc Y b: We quote sales
Spring Lamb at q &c per lib.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-Flour is dull and unchanged.
Wheat dull and unchanged; No Spring at 965 q
SIC; No Spring at 81 19 49, closing 92ac cash and
Corn steady; 66lc for No Mixed cash. &C for seller
Aug; 655c seller Sept high Mixed 674c rejected at
Nc cash; 375c seller Sept; rejected IS q 3sBe. Rye is
m fair demand and firm IA q 744c for No2. Barley
opened duh and closed active at So q 90 for No 2
Spring. Provisions-Pork dull, unsettled and lower
at22 625 % IS cash. % so a % 10 seller Sept; ST.
q II 90 do all the year. Lard dull and unsettled at
AT g lac on spot; lie all the year. Bulk meats are
steady shoulders at 8sc loose; short rib middes at
12h "a l21c: short clear do at 13s @ 49, Whiskcy
steady at &c.
Lake FrelgntS are quiet am unchanged; Corn TO
Rocepts-6,OOO bbls four, 2s2 900 bush wheat 16l :,
900 bush corn $1,000 bush oats 5000 bush rye, 900
Shipments 1000 bbs -four, 81 goo bush wheat, 81,
900 ousL corn, 600 bush oats, $1,000 bush rye, 0,OOO
bush barley.
UINoINNATI. Aug. 25.-Provisions-Pork is firme1
at % 90 at % 25 Lard is quiet and unchanged at 14
tor summer. Bulk Meats are firm; shoulders at SIC
clear rib sides 12i a 2ac clear sides at 124 q 12sc
Bacon is firm shoulders at 9sc; clear rib sides at
| 12lc. clear sides a Whiskpv fitrna tQ
Toledo. Aug. 25.-flour is dull and unchanged
| Wheat declined a &c closing firm; No White Wa
bash Is: 40 do III; No Michigan at III; ex-
ira do 16; Amber Michigan 1 05a cash; seller Sept
| 06; do Oct 90; No Red 10; No2 do cash ant
seller Sept 05; do Oct 90; No do 90. Corn il
steady: high Mixed at 69ac cash. 6s4c seller Sept 6S
do Oct; low do CSC; White TIC. Oats duh and de-
Ginning; No at 45c; No2 at 434c cash; 42lc seller
| Aug; Michigan 42lc; White 45c.
lake Freghts dull and unchanged-To Buffalo 2;
/ q 3; to OswegO at 81 @6.
keceipts-0,OOo bbls hour, $4,000 bush wheat q Ovt
| bush corn, 5000 bush oats.
Shipments-0000 600 bbls tour, 3S 900 bush wheat, 49,
| 900 bush corn, 10000 bush oats.
| MILWAUKEE, Aug, 25-Flour quiet and unehang
| ed, Wheat is quiet and unchanged; No Milwau
kee at 97l; No at 92lc cash; seller Aug 904c sell
er Sept at 92c. Oats dull and declining; No at 39kc
| Corn lower; No Aixed at 66c. Rye is firmer; No
at 7ssc. Barley is active and lower; No Spring a
s lake Freights-wheat to Buffalo Sc; do to osweg
Recei ,ts-4,sOO bbls flour, 1872. 900 bush wheat.
| shipments 3,oUu Dds hour. lo,uUo pusn WheaI'
| DETROIT. Aug. 25.-Wheat dull and declining; ex
| ira 191 q 201; No at IA a 1i4; Amber Mich
gan at o. Corn is steady at 43c. Oats are in goo
| demand at 49,
Receipts-2,OOO bbs -four; $4,000 bush wheat, O,OO
| bush corn, $1,000 bush oats.s
Shipments 900 bbls four, 3s 900 bush wheat, 900
| bush corn, 90, 600 bush oats
CHARLESTON. Aug. 25.-Cotton quiet; Middlin
| uplands - 15ac.
SAVANNAH. Aug. 25.-Cotton weak and unchang
| ed low Middlng &c.,
MOBILE, Aug. 25.-Cotton unchanged; Mid lin
uplands at 16c.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 25.-Cotton is unchanged
Midalng upiands at 165c.