Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-11

Weekly Rerie,c of the Wholesale Marke is
OFFICE OF THE GLOBE,
ST. PAUL, Sept. 10.
The past week has been unusual one with the
great business houses of st. Paul AL commercial
interests affected by the State fair more or less
and while retail dealers had their business invariably
incr eased, and some to enormous extent, the
effect on the wholesale trade was not altogether SO
uniform, for while jobbers overwhelmed with
business, commission men were comparatively idle.
SO busy farmers with matters pertaining to
the fair that they had little time or thought to give
to marketing their produce consequently very little
grain of any kind was brought in by road. Wheat
has been inactive during the week, and, while but
little offered, there shown but little DISPOSE
ton the part of dealers to buy Old has fucuated
considerably, dropping down to $1.00 and advancing
to $1,03@1.05 at the mills. The latter prices were
paid to-day. New wheat sells but slowly at from 4Oc
to soc, dealers being very cautious in handling and
very particular about condition and grade Farmers
should bear in mind what has been often urged in
these columns that wheat of any grade, below
grad will sell at price, while that brought to mar
ket in bad condition will not sell at all. There is still
considerable soft and damp wheat brought in and
hauled round town in search of purchaser.
Corn has been inactive. Offerings have been LIBERAL
but there has been really no demand. The same
may be said of oats. Large quantities of the new
crop offered, and prices down &c on both old
and new The demand is very light, which ia caused
to considerable extent by the fact that the Northern
and Northwestern districts have raised abundant
crops of their own and no longer come to this
ket for their supply.
The butter market remains unchanged, and there
Is nothing to record other than said last week.
Mess pork is unsteady and may be either up
down at any hour. During the week it has changed
almost daily and to-day is SOC lower than last weeks
Cattle have only sold in small lots to meet the de-
mand of hone consumption and at very low figures.
The market to-day was considerably off, the highest
price aid for good butchers stock being SC. The
supply is in excess of the demand.
Jobbing houses have done tremendous business
during the past week, keeping the employees busy al
most night and day, and the effect is perceptlbe to
any one who may visit the dry goods houses, in their
depleted stocks, which, however, they filling up
again as rapidly as possible. Eastern markets re-
port all domestics very firm and becoming very
scarce and owing to the scarcity of the raw material
there is upward tendency.
The narket in groceries is little changed from last
week. Sugars Of all grades and syrups are quiet
cofees very firm teas inactive; dried fruits lower:
kerosene oil steady. Like other branches business
has been rushing, land collections improving.
Hardware quotations are unchanged. good
business reported from our large houses with a
strong market
Hides still quiet at old quotations, and wool is
weak and dull with q downward tendency.
Boots and shoes now in the midst of their fall
trade and are doing an unusually good business.
Prices unchanged from last week. and leather and
IuuluSS remain Stoduy dI Olu Prices.
The drug market has healthy tone, with prices
firm and steady. Linseed oils are quoted at an ad-
vance Of &c.
RETAIL VEGETABLES AND PROVISIONS.
SPRING CH1cKENs-5O06Oc per pair.
PRAIRIE CHICKENs-In fair supply at 100000 per
pair.
DucKs-Maard Coo; teal SOC; black duck 40c
EGGs-18@2Oc per doz.
| BUrrER-Scarce fresh 25@3oc per pound.
| FIsH-Pickerel and common fish &c; white fish and
| trout SC.
FRu1r-Plums 81 per bus. peaches 5Oc@S1.25 per
basket; apples, Minnesota, $4,000 per peck pears
81 so per bus; grapes 6l12hc per pound; crabs 75e
0S1 per bus; damsons 81 per peck; melons $4,000
each.
| vEGETARLEs-String beans zoe per peck; turnps
35c per bus beets Acc per bus. carrots 1Oc per doz
caulihower 200D25c each; potatoes 35@40c per bus.
herbs &c per bunch; cabbage 30@35c per doz.; Gu
cumbers 5@1Oc per doz.; tomatoes 10000 per bus.
| summer squash 10c per doz.; butter beans $4,000
per bus; celery a5@4oc per doz. green corn SC pc
doz.; egg plant scarce, 1O@25c each; rhubarb TO-
per doz; colorbia 10c per doz lima beans 10c pc
quart; picking cucumbers 15@25c per 100; hubbard
squash 10@35c each picking onions $1.25 per bus.
dry onions SOC per bus; red peppers 25c per doz.
cayenne peppers 25c per doz; sweet potatoes 25c
pounds.
The following tables carefully revised and col
rected up to date: