The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-02-26

NEW YORK. February 24-Evenine are
market is dull sales 361 bales; ordinary uplands and
Alabama at 10 13-16c; do New Orleans and Texas at
10 l5-l6c do stained at 10 716; middng uplands and
Alabama at FAC; do New Orleans and Texas at 12sc
do stained at II &C., delivered contract 800 bales;
futures 3-32 lower, closing easy. Four-receipts H.
l3l bbs; the market is still in buyers favor with
limited export and home trade demand; sales of $500
bbls; No at 4 80 q 5 90; Superfine Western and
State at 8 IS q 6 90; common to good extra Wes-
tern ana STATE at O. 70 e 20; good to choice Wes-
Western extra at Is q 50; Fancy White Wheat
Western extra at 30 q 80; common to good ex-
Louis at 90 q 50; Patent Minnesota extra good
to prime at 90 9 80; choice to double extra at
8 60 g 9 70, including $50 bbs of low grade extra
at 50 q 10; 800 bbs medium extra at 6 10 q rs;
1900 bbls of Minnesota at 25 q rs; 22OO bbls City
Mills extra for West Indies at IS "a I co.; market
closing dull and in buyers favor; Southern flour is
extra at 90 q SIS; good to choice at 80 a so.
Rye flour is without decided change sales 24O bbls at
80 90 per Dbl for superfne C0rnmeal is steady;
sales $50 bbls; Western, Jersey and Penn at us "a
3 10; Baltimore at 49, Brandywine at 5 so. Wheat
receipts 240O bush; the market is dnll and nomnally
unchanged; shippers holdingg off; triffng milling
demand; No 2 Chicago nominal at l 30: No 2 Mil
waukee at 46 q Al sales of 1000 bush; ungraded
Spring 3d. Rye is quiet at 81 q SIC for Western;
80 g eOc tor Jersey, State and Penn; 10000 bush of
Jersey and Pa. for export at 90c 700 bush Western
at SIC Barley dull and declining; No Canada at IS
q ec @o 40 Ra az W o5 5000 bush tworowed
at 10 q 20. Corn-recepts Al ,552 bush the mark
ct for new is q 1c lower only very limited bust
ness for export and home use; old Western Mixed is
dull at 58a q Gle in and afoat sales of 30 600
bush; ISL SOC for New York No g. closing at 5SI SO
9 59ac for steamer Mixed closing sellers at &c., 59Ac
old No Chicago afoat. Oats-receipts Ii, 400 bush
the market is quiet without important changer sales
1900 bush Al g soc for Mixed Western and State;
81 q 57sc for White Western and State. including
New York No White at 4Sc; New York No White
at at 55c; New York extra at SIC; Mixed Western at
q 46c; Mixed State at 5Sk g 55c; White State at
at zoe for shipping: Hop are dull at 8 q Ice for
;yearlings; 10 g Ice for new Eastern and Western;
20 lsc for new New York; Is a 20c for new Califor-
mia. Cofee-Rio is steady with more demand; 5000
bags at p. t.; cargoes quoted at ia q 20ac in gold
"a 22c gold for job lots Sugar is quiet and steady
at 90 9sc for fair to good refining; 81 for prime re-
ned frmer with better inquiry at i1ic for stand
aid A; 1lac for graduated, crushed and powdered.
Molasses quiet, and unchanged. Rice is quiet and
steady. Petroleum is dull and nominal; refined at
15a; crude 10lc; 22c; napha at l2c Tallow is
about steady; 10000 Tbs at u @s. Naval Stores
Rosin lower at IS g % for strained. Turpentine
lower at 4Ce for spirits Eggs are more heavy at IS
@ 15ac for State and Pennsylvania; 1558c for fresh
Weslern lined dull at 10 @ 12c. Coal is dull at %
"a % per ton for Anthracite per cargo. Leather is
quiet; Hemlock sole, Buenos Ayres and Rio Grande,
light, middle and heavy weights at 231 a 26c; Cali,
iornia do " q 25c; common do at % "a 2tc. Pork
Is heavy and lower; $50 bbs of mess at Is IS "a
!6 0O 1000 bbls seller April at 6 4O 1850 bbls seller
for May 70 So Is 65. Beef is dull. Beef hams are
quiet. Tiere &C. Beef is dull Cut Meat-Western is
Western long cear 81 for short clear % boxes city
long clear at 81 Dressed Hogs are tirmer at g. "a I
Ior western. Lard decidedly lower, closing heavy;
l5O ties prime steam at 10 12i g 10 III; 1000 do seller
for March at 10 10 10 15 $3.50 do for April at 10 2I a
10 3O $3.50 do for May 10 40 @ 10 S. closing 10 40
Butter dull at u q &c for Western; Is a 30 for State
Sheese IS firm at 8 q Isle for common to prime.
Seeds-Linseed is quiet Whiskey is lower ;sales $50
Dds at IL, closing 50 bbls sold at 1 II.
DOL Is quiet and steady; Domestic fleece at 80 a
o5c; pulled at 20 q 45c unwashed at II q 3d. Texas
at ID "a CSC.
Freights to Liverpool-the market is dull; Grain
shade easier; Cotton per sail at q sgd; do per
steam at Id; Wheat per steam at 4ad,
CHICAGO, February 24.-Flour market dull and
unchanged. Wheat inactive bnt shade lower; No
Chcaso Spring at 26 cash; 261 for Marcn % for
april; 32s seller May; No 5 Chicago Spring at 1 Is
g 10; rejected at 95 q 96c. Corn is steady with
,r demand at alc cash; 41ac seller Apr 43c seller
May; rejected 36ac. Oats are in good demand and a
shade lower at 35!c cash. $3.50 seller March 3iic for
seller April. Rye is steady and unchanged at CSC,
Barley is easier at 4ec. Pork is in fair demand bnt
lower and heavy at IA 25 cash; II An al "A 80 seller
1or April; 10 20 seller May. Lard is dull weak and
lower at 70 cash; 50 "a S24 Tor April; o. for
May. Bulk Meats easier shoulders at II short nT
rib at So 81; short clear ribs at 50 "a 81 dressed
Hogs dull and lower; choice at 90 % 6 25 Whskev
in good demand and tending upward at O5S 6O & m;
heceipts-4,s00 DDs nour, 800 Uusn wnesS 131
GOO bush corn, 26,OOC bush oats 5000 bush barley.
$500 bush OF rye.
Shipments-5,5OO bbls flour, 4iOO bush wheat. e.
cog bush corn, $4,000 bush OATS. 1900 cush barley
900 bush rye.
changed Wheat hrmer for low grades; No Red
Fall at 46f q 46a bid No do at 400. Corn is
steady and unchanged; No mixed at 3Si % 3Ssc for
cash. 3Ss "a 39c Tor March; 405c for April 425 6 43c
for May. Oats dull and lower to SELL No at 34lc
bid. Rye dull and to sell at Gee bid Whiskey quiet