The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
MARK ETS BY TELEGRAPH.
GALVESTON MARKETS.

GALVESTON, December 3. Cotton
receipts 4674 bales; sales 900 bales; ex-
ports TO Great Britain 1856 bales; to
France 1897 bales; to the Continent 4505
bales; coastwise 1856 bales; stock on
hand 11O.964 bales; market weak; mid
ding sac; low middling SIC; good or
binary 77sc.
Gold 1907. Silver-American par;
Mexican nominal Exchange - New
York sight par; New Orleans sight Il
per cent. premium.
Hides firm; dry selected lac: picked
12c; stack sailed lie; kips 131$c; green
sailed as they run (I0@50 lbs. average)
S@S15c.
Wool-market quiet; Eastern fine to
medium, 1T@19c; Western fine TO me-
dunn l6@lSc; improved Mexican 100
14c.
Salt-stock lighter; coarse $l.2O; fine
$175.
Bagging-market easy; light ice; heavy
12l5@l224c. Tics 50. so.
BALTIMORE MARKETS.
BALTIMORE, December 3. Flour
quiet and steady; Howard street and
Western superfine $275@3.50; extra
So. 75@4. 90; family 81. 25@5. 90; City
mills, superfine, 81. 1898. 90; extra, So. IS
@42j; Rio brands $5.25; Patapsco
family S6.25. Wheat in moderate de-
mand and steady; Western active and
tirmer; Southern red $1.00@1. OF; amber
S1.08@1.10; No. 2 Pennsylvania red
$l0715; Western winter, red, spot, De
cember $1.0415; January, $l.0G15@
1.065s; February $l.09. Southern corn
active and firmer; Western more inquiry
and shade firmer; Southern white 43
@454c; yellow 43@4324c.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
NEW YORK, December 3.-Gold l00L.
Stocks weak. Money 1905 per cent.
Exchange-long 4.Sl; short 1853. State
bonds strong. Governments steady.
Cotton dull; sales 1861 bales; middling
uplands 91fc; middling Orleans 91Sc.
Futures steady; December 9.13c; Janu-
airy 9.2lc; February $3.50; March o 45c;
April 9.5Sc.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, December g. Noon.-
Cotton-marSet flat and irregular, mid
ding uplands Sid; middling Orleans
11-16d; sales 5000 bales, including 1000
for speculation and export; receipts
1880 bales, of which 10, 800 were Amer
lean. Futures easier.
KANSAS CITY MARKETS.
KANSAS CITY, December 3.--Wheat,
No 2, spot, 751Ic bid, 755sc asked; No.
8, spot, car sold at 721sc.
Cattle-Corn-fed Texas steers, 50. G5@
3.25; grass wintered z. 50@3.0O.
: JEW ORLEANS MARKETS.
NEw ORLEANS, December s. Gold
100L@1001S. Sight a discount. Sterling
bank, 4 80. Consols 77A@7715c.
Cotton in good demand; sales $50
bales; ordinary 721c; good ordinary Sc;
low middling 83sc; middling SIC; good
middling 93sc: middling fair 1015c;
receipts, net, 1851 bales; gross 10. 10
bales; exports to Great Britain G544
bales; to the continent G773 bales; stock
on hand 16S, 55S bales.
Flour firmer; superf1ne $300@3 %;
Xxx $500; xxx $4.1215@4.7 rs; higher
grades $5.00@5.50. Corn active and
firm at 44@47c. Oats quiet and firm at
30@31c. Pork frmer; held at $S.25.
Lard quiet and firm; tierce 6@65sc;
keg 7@71Sc. Dry sat meats easier;
new shoulders, loose, $3.25@3. BIZ;
pAShOO Pc'O'/2N1c'ON' lawn Nuii ,
shoulders Sc; clear rib 43s@41Sc; clear
sides 45Sc. Hams dull; choice sugar
cured 10@11c. Whisky steady; Western
rectified $1.05@1.10. Coffee steady and
in fair demand; cargoes of ordinary to
prime at 12@l54c, gold. Sugar, de-
mand fair; common to good common
4I@44c; fair to fully fair 47s@51Sc;
prime to choice 554@G5sc; yellow clari-
fled 615@73sc. Molasses firm; common
20@22c; fair 25c; centrifugal 1926;
prime to choice 2S@33c Rice strong
and higher; ordinary to choice Lou
isiana 51s@61lc Wheat dull and nomi-
nal; quoted, No. 2 red winter Sl.e2.
ST. LOUIS MARKETS.
ST. LOUIS. December 8. - Flour I'M
changed Wheat, No 2 red fall S7Lc;
No. 3 red fall s3salc; No. 2 spring 7415c.
Corn higher, at 2S1l@281kc. Oats dull,
at l9l4@l91Zc. Whisky quiet, at $1.05.
Pork dull; new S7.75 on the levee.
Lard quiet at $500 cash and December.
Bulk meats dull; shoulders g. GOO
2.65; clear rib $3.G0@3.70; clear sides,
So. 70(l3. so.