The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-15
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
GATUESTnN NARRErS


GALVESTON, August 13.-Gold 101. Sill.
ver-American, par; Mexican, 92c.
Exchange-New York sight IS per cent.
premium: New Orleans sight Il per cent
| premium.
Hides-market strong; dry selected
&c; picked lac; stack sailed 12c; kips
l4c; wet salted 716@S1sc; butchers
green 614@624c.
Wool fine Eastern spring 20@25c;
fine Western 17@l9c; improved Mexican
l2@15c. Market quiet and firm.
Bagging active; light 1294c; heavy
1870. Ties active at So 80.
Cotton-market quiet; sales 81 bales;
middling Ike; low middling 1O24c;
good ordinary 101Sc; receipts 1919 bales;
STOCK on hand 751 bales; no exports.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
New YORK, August 13.-Gold opened
1OO72. Stocks generally strong. Money
2 per cent. Gold 1001S. Exchange
long 4.S44; short ASH. State bonds
quiet. Governments steady.
Cotton dull and easier; sales 800 bales;
middling uplands 12c; middling Or
leans 124c. Futures weak; August
11.79c; September II. 4Sc; October II .25c;
November ll.07c; December II. Csc.
BALTIMORE MARKETS.
BALTIMORE, August 13.-Flour steady
and unchanged; Howard street and
Western supertine 1908; Extra, So. 25@
AS; Family, $450@5.25. Southern
active, strong and higher; W estern fairly
active and easier; Southern red, prime
81 02@1.07; amber $1.O6@l 10; No.
3 Western winter red, spot, S1.07Zs;
August Sl.08; September $10715. South
ern corn steady; Western and Southern
white 55c; yellow SIC.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, August 13-Noon.-Cot-
ton dull and easier; middling uplands
g 9-16d; middling Orleans q l1-16d;
sales 5000 bales, including 500 bales for
speculation and export; receipts 1900
bales, 400 of which were American.
Futures-sellers at 1-32d decline.
KANSAS CITY MARKETS.
KANSAS CITY, August 13.-Grass win
tered Texas steers $4,000. 40; corn-fed
$2.75@3.25.
BacOn-clear sides Sc; clear ribs 77sc;
long 75sc. Wheat, No. 2, spot, cars
sold at 7Sc; No. 3, spot, car sold at 75c
-SEW Oh4EANS MARKETS.
NEW ORLEANS, August 13.-Gold
1003s@1003s. Sight Il premium. Ster-
ling, bank, 4S6. Consols 7l1&@72c.
Flour quiet but firm; superfine
$500; Xxx $3.50; xxx So. 1904. so;
higher grades "a. 75@5.50. Corn steady;
mixed Soc; yellow sac; white soc. Oats
steady at 35038c. Pork strong and high
er, quoted at 1908. Lard tierce SIS
@9; keg $S50@9.50. Dry salt meat
firmer; shoulders 64@6%. Bacon
higher; shoulders 624c; clear rib 40
Sc; clear sides sic. Hams supply ex-
hausted. Whisky steady at 81. 07@1 .OS.
Coffee dull; jobbing, ordinary to prime
1415@164c, gold. Sugar quiet; job
bling, good common, TIC; good fair to
fully fair 724@814c; primo SIC; yellow
clarified 915@94c Molasses dull and
nominal, Rice, quiet; fair to prime
61s@63sc. Wheat quiet. No. ? winter
Cotton nominal; sales 500 bales; ordi-
nary 95sc; good ordinary 1O3sc;
low middling 1OHc; middling 113Sc;
good middling l21Sc; receipts, net So
bales, gross SO bales; no exports; stock
ON hand 2913 bales.
ST. LOUIS MARKETS.
ST. LOUIS, August 13.-Flour quiet,
firm and unchanged. Wheat closed &C
tive and higher; No. 2 red fall 93@94c;
No. 3 red fall SS@90c. Corn-No. 9
mixed 355s@354c. Oats easier; No. 2
214c. Whisky steady at $l.05. Pork
$1L.3715@11.70. Lard quiet. Bulk
meats strong but slow; summer clear rib
64c. Bacon higher, at 81, ia, 74@
re for shoulders, clear ribs and clear
sides.