The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-28
MARKETS BY TEL EGKAPH.
GALVESTON MARKETS

GALVESTON, February 26.-Gold 1920
1903. American silver 99@1OO; Mexican
93@95. New York sight 16@% per
cent. premium. New Orleans sight par
@3s per cent premium.
Hides market quiet and steady; dry
selected 15c; light sailed 13c; stack,
sailed, 1016c; kips 1870; wet, sailed,
as they run, &c; selected, SC; butchers
green, 615c.
Wool = market dull and prices nomi-
nally unchanged.
Cotton - receipts GAG bales; exports
to Great Britain 5349 bales; coastwise,
1870 bales; sales $40 bales; stock on hand,
50, 1913 bales; market easier; middling
101ac; low middling 95sc; good ordina.
ry 85sc.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
NEW YORK, February 26. - Stocks
lower. Money per cent. Gold 10lZs.
Exchange - long, 4.83; short, AS.
State bonds steady. Governments bet
ter.
Cotton-market dull; sales 100 bales;
middling uplands 10 15-l6c; middling
Orleans IL Lice. Futures shade easier;
March 10.S7@10.89c; April 1860
1O.97c; May ll.08@11.10c; June 11.20
@l1.22c; July 11.98@l1. SOC.
lew ORLEANS MARKETS.
NEW ORLEANS, February 26.-Gold
101B@1021s. Sight par. Sterling, BANK,
4.921S.
Cotton-market quiet; sales $3.50 bales;
ordinary 77sc; good ordinary S5sc;
low middling 95sc; middling 1O5Se;
good middling Ike; middling fair
1124c; receipts, net, 1896 bales; gross,
5877 bales; exports to the Continent,
300S bales; stock on hand 376, 100 bales.
Flour-market quiet but firm; super
fine $3.50; Xxx $500; xxx $3.50
600; higher grades $60O@675. Corn
firmer, at 47@53c. Oats firmer, at 37@
3Sc. Cornmeal in good demand, at
81. 70@2.75. Hay quiet and firm; or
binary $500; prime $1,000; choice
$l6.50@17.O0. Pork steady and in
fair demand, at $11. 25@115O. Lard
quiet and steady; refined tlerce, ~
@724c; key, S@S4c. Dry salt meats
dull; shoulders, loose. 37sc; packed,
&c; clear ribs 5l4@5ssc; clear sides
5R@55sc. Bacon dull, at 5, 51S,
63s@615c. Hams dull; choice sugar.
cured, 84@91Sc, as in size and brand;
uncanvased S1S@S4c. Whisky steady;
rectified Louisiana, $1.03; Western,
1.05@l.07. Coffee quiet and steady;
cargoes of ordinary to prime 15@1Sc,
gold. Sugar in good demand; COM
mon to good common 54@6c; fair to
fully fair 61S@62{c; prime to choice, z
OSLO; yellow clarified S@S5Sc Mo-
lasses dull; common 1S@20c; fair 22@
25c; prime to choice 30@40c. Rice
in good demand; ordinary TO choice Lou
isiana 54@61zc. Bran quiet at 9Oc.
The Price Current gives the following
stocks on hand: Flour, $3.50 barrels;
cornmeal, 444 barrels. Pork, 4149 barrels
Lard, 1910 tierces, 1857 kegs, 3045 pals.
Bacon, ga casks. Hams, sugar-cured,
1893 tierces. Dry salt meats, equal 10
6S4 casks. The consumption of flour,
for the city and neighboring country, is
estimated at 1000 barrels daily.
ST. LOUIS MARKETS.
ST. LOUIS. February 26.-Flour lower
TO sell, but nOminally unchanged. Wheat
fiat; No. 3 red, fall, offered at $1.1s1k;
No. 4, do, Si.10; No. 9, spring $1.07.
Corn, 43s{@44c- Oats firm, at &c Rye
quiet, at 571<c. Whisky steady, at 81 .04-
Pork quiet, at $l0.65. Dry salt meats
dull and nominal. Bacon quiet, at
43<@6kc, for shoulders, short ribs and
middles. Lard, 7-22c-
Cattle-firm demand. Hogs-market
weak and tending lower, business being
checked by light receipts; packing, 1915
@3-90. Sheep, steady; extra heavy for
shippers, $3.50.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, February 26-Noon.-C
ton = market easier but not quotably
lower; middling uplands Sgd; middling
Orleans sgd; sales 5000 bales, including
1000 for speculation and export; receipts
Is, 900 bales, ali American. Futures I-32d
cheaper.