The Portland daily press., 1878-09-02
Domestic Markets.

NEW YORK, August 31-Evening.-Ashes dull
and sales 81 bes S
points lower and quiet; ordinary uplands at 1OAc
ordinary Alabama at 1oac; ordinary New Orleans
10ic; middling uplands at IL 3-16c; do Alabama at
u 316c; mddling New Orleans at 10 716.; do Texas
ct is steady with moderate export and home trade
demand; sales 1920 bbls; No at 2 30 q 25; Su-
perfne Western and State at 8 80 q 400; com
mon to good extra Western and State at LOS @
80; good to choice Western and State at IS a
5 IS; common to choice White Wheat Western ex
ira at $50 q 80; Fancy White Wheat Western
extra at 30 q DO; common to good extra Ohio
at 90 q Is; common to choice extra st Louis at
400 q 90; Patent Minnesota extra good to prime at
ing 3800bbls City Mills extra at 10 to England, 20
80 to West Indies: $500 bbls low grade extra at
40o q 50; 1900 bbls Winter Wheat extra at 10 q
B 30: 200 bbls Minnesota at 80 q rs, market
closing steady Southern nour unchanged and quiet;
sales 700 bbls; common to fair extra at 475 q Isl
sales 500 bbls at 2 70 q 8 25 for Superfne. Corn
Meal steady; sales - go % bbls Yellow, Western and
Wheat-receipts 175o26 bush market opened shade
frmer and closed with holders more disposed to re-
aize; sales 1029000 bush including 475 900 bush on
No 2do; 1 13 @ l 134 for No do; O9 q / O93 for
steamer No 2; 10 a IA for ungraded Amber 1 IO4
aG ar r No Rs
LIZ g 125 for No do: 19k @ 20 for No co; Is
@ 1 Is for steamer No do; No Spring for septem-
bid, 10 asked; No Winter Red for September II,
closing at III bid, IL asked; do for October at LII
ing o9I bid ii asked; No White for September nS
at 20 81. Rye more active but firm; sales 4O,-
600 bush State at 64c; $4,000 bush do at Gle first 20
is nominal. Barley Malt is steady; sales $4,000
bush No Canada at rs; 1900 bush 6-rowed at 0s.
CornreIceipts SSS $50 bush; quite firm and fairly
spot; ungraded at 454 q Soc; steamer at 4Sa @ 49c
49 q Soc for No q 494c for low Mixed; SOC for Kan
49ac asked; do October at 5A 51ac, closing at 51ac
bid, 51ac asked do November at sac bid, 55c asked
No for September at 50 5ose closing at 5oc BID
asked; do November 52sc bid. 5Sac asked. bats
receipts II ,19o bush; the market is a shade frmer
No 8 at 2e q 2s3c; No White &c; No at Soc; NO.
White at 3O4c; No at SIC: No White at 5sa MIXED
WestsrS S, at !5 = g ss9e White Western at q sSl;
Hay is firm and quiet; shipping at As q SOC. Hops
dull: yearlings 2 q 3; Eastern and Western @ 10;
Santos on pit. Sugar is quiet and firm; sales $50
hdss French Islands 6sc; fair to good refining BIG
g 1a prime at 2; refined quiet and steady Mo,
very quiet. Peiroleuis, quiet and heavy; crude
at 81 refined at 1oa cases 13k g 14a; naptha 70 a
stores-Kosin steady at 40 a As. Potatoes quiet;
Early Rose 62 @ 81; Peerless 25 g so; Sweets
at 70 q 25 Turpentine is firmer at 2S. Eggs are
dull and heavy; State and Penn. II 0 171c; Canada
and Western II @ 17a; ordinary stock at Is q 16c.
Coal is firm and in fair demand. Hides firm;
wet salted orleans selected 45 q rs lbs at 81 @9.
Leather is unchanged; Hemlock sole, Buenos
Ayres and Rio Grande light, middle and heavy
weights at 20 q 21ac; California do at 20 q 2c COM
mon 19k q 21I. Pork frmer and quiet; sales so
bbs spot at 10 25 $50 bbls for October at 10 CO.
Beef is unchanged. Beef Hams quiet. Tierce
lbs picked bellies 6s q 6t 800 picked shoulders at
81; 500 fresh hams at loo; middles are steady Wes-
tern long at G1 city do at 6f sales 800 boxes
long and short clear for December CT. lard firm
er and very dull sales 10 tcs OF prime steam spot
at S7!, closing 40 September quoted at 80; 1850
rs a. 90; refined 70. Butter-prime firm; State
at 10 "a 23c; Western at a %. Cheese unchang-
ed; State at 6 a 8. seeds-Linseed quiet at 90 "a
O5 gold, time. Whislkey at / 12A asked.