The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-28
LouisyiIIe Leaf Tobaceo Market.

SATURDAY, July 24.-The sales TODAY
as5rcaAtal 20 hosShnals, distributed "
follows:
The Farmers House sold 6 hhds 3
hhds Henry county leafard lugs ut s. 80
8 90 and II 80; hhds Barren county
leaf and lugs at SS 70 and IL 70; HID
Ohio county leaf at so.
The Pickett House sold 20 hhds; 3 hhis
Illinois leaf at Sl3, 10, s 80; ) hhd,
Illinois lugs and frozen at 81 10, : 20
10, rs, 5 50; | hhd Trigg county leaf
at Sl2 10; hhds Trigg county frozen
lugs at S. 50, 10, 5 90, O0, 80; hhd,
Henderson county frozen lugs ut s. %,
10, 3 35; hid Warrick county (lnd.)
lugs at 81 20; ! hid johnson county
Ind leaf at So 80.
The Boone House sold hhdS; > hhds
Logan county lugs at s. %, - 10.
The Louisville House sold } hhdS: >
hhds Brown county Ind) common Leaf
and lugs at $l3 Is, $l2 90, Ss 90, $5 -.
The market has continued firm at the
advance in prices last quoted, and trade
has displayed greater activity. The offer
ings have been off character to test the
demand mainly for low and medium
grades, which have been readily taken AT
full prices compared with last week
though on different days some ir-
Irregularities have been noticeable. Sound
scrvccable leaf has been very scarce,
aud orders for filters are difficult to place
The latter have an improved conSump-
tive demand, in addition to the former
speculative inquiry. Wrappers are also
scarce, and the crop Of 1874 Is turning
out quite n small proportion of uSelc-,
home styles rs the most extreme theorists
predicted. Of the small product of these
styles, moreover, it is apprehendcd that
foreign buyers have taken much large"
share than American manufacturers could
well have afforded TO spare.
The receipts during the week were BIG
hogshcads; last week 89l hogshrad-
The receipts during July aggregate 10"
hogSheadS
The rains have continued without the
intermission of II day, and the situation
is beginning to be viewed with grave
forcbodings. The State can i'll afford to
tail again in 80 important crop so soon
after the disastrous year of 1874, but tue
rains of the last six or eight weeks AT"
proving almost as damaging As pro-
tractcd drouth, and if OF much longer
duration will doubtless prove quite a.
much so. The -ubmersOn Of low land,
which in many sections has worked
great individual injury, is Of les
Importance, Hs We have pre-
viously pointed out, than the prevention
of tillagc throughout the State, in lands
Of all descriptions, the tJick growth OF
grass and weeds which the planter Is uu-
able to check, and the extensive 'french-
ing of the plants. Tho condition. of ia"
present and last season have b"gn dm-
metrically opposite, as 1874 was the dry
est and 1875 has been the wettest season
in the memory of the oldest inhabitant
There Is naturally n disposition to dis
count too literally the results of such
state of things, but we believe il to pc
safe estimate that the yield Of the crop
has been reduced definitely by the excess
sive rains about % per cent, and that, ia.
stead of prospect of the largest crop
ever grown, perhaps, we have proml-"
of II light average yield. This estimate
can not be realized, however unless the
weather soon changes for the better.
1t may be added that the same wealth
er conditions have prevailed in the tobac-
60 regions OF Indiana, Illinois, Tcnn"--
see, and portions of Ohio, the whole seq
tion which produces what is known il
the market of the world rs Kentucky
tobacco. During the last fortnight our
exchanges also report that the Virginia
crop has been injured, and during the
week just closed it is stated that II de-
structlve storm swept over the tate from
the Southern border to the vicinity of
Lynchburg, which has materially inn
paired the quality of the crop if it ha-
not diminished the prospective yield.