The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
GALVESTON MARKETS.

GALVESTON MARKETS.
GALVESTON, January g. = Gold 1920
l03. American silver $4,000. New
York sight = per cent. discount TO
par. New Orleans sight at Il per cent.
discount to a per cent. premium.
Hides strong, with upward tendency;
sailed l3c; kips l515c; wet, sailed, as
they run, &c; selected, 915c; butchers
green 715c.
Wool in fair demand, prices steady;
medium to fine light, free of burs, 22@
25c; coarse l6@18c; coarse Western and
Mexican 13@16c.
Cotton net receipts $50 bales; sales
1926 bales; stock on hand 102, 064 bales;
market easier; middling 1024c; low mid
ding 1016c; good ordinary 93ac.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
New YORK, January e.-Cotton dull;
uplands Ike; Orleans 1850; sales 1862
bales. Futures firmer; January 1910
lilac; February 11.34@11. 36c; March
11.47@l1 55c; April 11.59@11.61c; May
11.72@11.75c.
Stocks firm and higher. Money per
cent. Gold 1929. Exchange : long
4.82; short A 8515. State bonds quiet.
.JEw ORLEANS MARKETS.
NEW ORLEANS, January s. = Gold
1025s@103@. Sight SIG per cent. dis
count Sterling, bank, 4.93@494.
Cotton = market quiet sales $3.50
bales; ordinary SIC; good ordinary
93sc; low middling 1016c; middling
l0afc; good middling 115sc; middling
fair 11Xc. Receipts, net 1891 bales;
gross II, 4S9 bales; exports coastwise
1917 bales; stock on hand 346, 2S0 bales.
Flour-markO& quiet; but somewhat
higher; superfne 81. SO; Xxx $500; xxx
5000; higher grades selling at 500
6.75. Corn in good demand at full
prices; white, SEC; yellow soc, Oats
quiet and steady; st. Louis SEC; choice
Galena SIC. Corn meal quiet and weak,
at g. $500, 40. Hay steady and in fair
demand; ga; prime $16; choice $3.50
Pork dull at $l2 so; Lard in fair de
mand and market firm; refined tierce
SIC; keg SIC. Dry salt meats quiet
and steady shoulders, loose, 4Ac;
packed 41Sc; clear ribs &c; clear sides
6Ac. Bacon 6rmer and nominal, at
| so, 7@71kc- Hams dull, weak and
lower at 1O1l@111kc, as in brand and
size; choice sugar-cured and canvased
1lNDlSI2C uuCdONdScQ llN6ll1 &c.
Whisky quiet; rectified Louisiana 81 OF;
Western 81. 07@1.10l Coffee dull; car
goes Of ordinary TO prime 161z@19c,
gold. Sugar dull; common to good
common 434@5Kc; fair 10 fully fair
5ss@6Slc; prime TO choice 7@75fc;
yellow clarified 6@S1kc. Molasses quiet;
common 1e@20c; fair 22@24c; prime
to choice csc; frosted 15@20c Rice in
! light demand, hut holders firm; ordinary
to choice Louisiana 45s@61zc. Bran
quiet and steady, at S21<c.
To-day being legal holiday, but little
business was done.
ST. LOUIS MARKETS.
ST. LOUIS. January S.-Hogs easier
and only in moderate demand; packing
| IS. S0@405. Cattle in good dtmand (;
prime TO choice native shipping steers
81 75-a1211k corn fed Texans S3@4.
Sheep in fair demand; good heavy NUT
ton especially wanted; good TO choice
s.. 7594d0; common TO fair 81. 75@
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, January S-Noon.-Cot-
ton-moderate inquiry and freely sup
piled; middling uplands sgd; middling
Orleans seized; sales 5000 bales, includ-
ing 1000 for speculation and export; re-
ceipts IL, 800 bales, of which II, 600 were
American. Futures partially l-32d bet
| Yer.