The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-03

C0MMsss'ON MERCm STs.
JOHN b. PHILLIP
AND SON
isuccessors TO John n PbiliS
FORWARDING
Commission Merchants
And Dealers in
HAY, CORN. OATS. FLOUR.
NEAL, BRAN, etc.
Agents for LAFLIN 4 RAND POWr1R co
Corner Taath Street asd Ohio
L0voo.
y ID Maihuss. {.
MATHUSS Il UHL,
FORWARDING
And General
Commission Merchants
Dealers In
FLOUR, GRAIN. HAY AND
I" Co. PRODUCE.

easy, but there are none in market and
demand is good. Choice apples are
scarce and in good demand: choice Ben
| Davis wound SELL readily ~, ~ In round
lots common apples are ovcrstockcd and
dull. Potatoes are In some request, ant
the market is firm. Game Is not wanted
until settled cold weather. Flour is dull
and unchanged hay is plenty and very
dull There is very little corn in mar
ket and no demand at all, except for a
few cars OF white at the mills. Oats are
steady and unchanged meal and bran
rule quiet and dull. Rates of freight by
river have declined and will probably
remain at present quotations: l1l and 30
cents to Wick sburg and New Orleans :;
hay, 81 80 pound ircight- to way points,
20 cents per hundred dry barrels, 10
cents.
| TIE MARKET.
n0cOur friends should bear in mind
that the pr ,es here given are usually for
sales from first hands in round lots. In
filling orders and for broken lots il is nee
essary 10 charge an advance over these
figures. "Ipu
FLOUR.
! Full stocks and no demand. Very few
sales We're reported. Prices are UNI
changed. We note sales Of 200 barrels,
81 50Cs7 90; $50 barrels on orders, 81 j0(I
: 30; 80 barrels city. s. 50a1 80; 200
barrels, 81 oO@6 10.
The market is Overstockcd and very
dull, scarcely any demand at all: none
on speculation. Sale we're ear strictly
choice delivered, Sl7; ] car timothy de-
liyered, Sl4 . cars common mixed, 80;
car mixed delivered, Sll ears mixed
delivered, SO; car choice delivered,
sl5.
CORN.
Receipts are light but there is no de-
mand. There is some inquiry tor choic'
white at mills, and none Offering. Thu
= only sales reported were ! car mixed II
J.. second hand sacks delivered, i5c.
OATS.
, The market rules firm and unchanged
with plenty Offering tor the demand. W.
note sales of 2 cars sample in bulk OF
= track, 30 cents: ear Galeua in bulk OF
track. 20 cents car black in sacks de
livercd. IL cents; 600 sacks mixed 4C@
! 10 cents | ear mixed in bulk on track
: 30 cents !; ear white in sacks delivered
ID cents.
MEAL.
Dull and unchanged. The demand
continues light. City meal is quoted I'm
changed; country meal duh and lower
Sales were 100 pounds country kiln dric
l delivered 81 b :; 100 pounds country Xiii
dried 81 80; 800 pounds steam drie
80 80; | car kiln dried 81 10.
BRAN.
Not much doing; very little in mark'
and only small demand to ill order
3D." We note sales Of ! ear in sacks dcliverc
$50 90.
BUTTER.
Receipts during the week have bee
n unusually heavy, and the market is stocl
r ing up. The demand Is steady and fai
at unchanged prices. Sales were 50
pounds choice roll, 25(12Sc; 300 pound
+ choice Northern packed, 2sCl30c; lC
pounds choice Northern roll, 27c; IL
Y pounds Southern Illinois roll, 25c;
packages Northern roll. choice, 21c;
@ packages extra choice dairy packed, 29c
Al 200 pounds choice northern roll, Use; II
pounds choice northern roll, 21c; 10 pal
= Southern Illinois, 25c; buckets Nortl
r ern, common, 23@24c; , tubs choi'
Northern, Csc.
II EGGS.
The demand is not quite so active, b'
h prices are firm and receipts all takel
leaving the market bare. Sales were
IT 100 dozen, aGc; 300 dozen, 2iGa6c ,,
dozen, 2jc.
al ORANGES
Most OF the receipts are in poor cond
N ton and hard to sell. The demand is
t. tive for choice at good prices. Sales
10 barrels damaged, S5(aS.
POULTRY.
Tho poultry market is ovcrstocked u
weather Is unfavorabc for dressed, ar
We live are neglected.
50 CulcKENs-Sales were dozen dresst
=" hens, So; 10 dozen live, S2(a3; cool
live, S2(y2 80
TuRKEys-Sales were 100 lbs dresse,
* l2c; 10 dozen live, 6tDl2; 2 coops liz
nj gobblcrs, Sl2; 100 lbs dressed, l2ac
coops live sobblers, Sl2.
APPLES.
y Choice apples are scarce and wante
Is common plenty and dull; Sales were
bbls common, S2(oDa 80 80 bDls. choi
-, Wine Saps. 81 30; 30 bbls. Winesap
~, 81 %; 80 bbls. mixed, 50 1902 20 Il
-, bbls. medium, 50 go bbls. choice mike
" Sd 2Ng3 so; % bbls. Genetens, 81 q
30 bbls. Winesaps and Genetiens, 81 40
rs 2 90.
va POTATOES AND ONIONS.
&c So Onions are plenty aud very dull. Pot
We toes are improving, but slowly. Sa
90, were: $50 bushels Peachblow potatoes
ID. 4. al 10