The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-04
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
by Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
weekly Financial Review.

| NEW YORK, aug. 3.-lhe week closing to-
| day has been an eventful one in Wall street
or rather at the Stock Exchange. It opened
| with a strong bear speculation in stocks, the
center part Of 8 bull speculation in wheat at
| Milwaukee: Prices Of the leading stocks were
depressed from 3H to Is per cent. There was
at intervals great excitement and many
alarming rumors, but no panic and no fail
ures, although the shrinEage wiped out from
| the market value Of stocks many million dol,
lars. The point of extreme depression was
time to the closing hour to-day there was an
| important recovery in prices and better
feeling characterized the market.
New YORK, Aug 3, II Is 8. m.-Coffee
steady; saIes-58O0 Maracaibo on private
terms; cargoes-tOrdinary 1314@1311lz fair 1G,
sales-1G43 hhds, 3i4 bags. Refined sugar
steady with fair demand. Linseed oil sea
CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-Wheat opened at 921S
sep t. Cor d. q 3 ~ August, a9
at SO 05, now $40 IS September, SO 221a01
10 30 October. Lard-7.52H September.
Later - Wheat-97224 00977s August, 9216 bid
September per Cor,n13 80 August, 39I asked
Lard-770 August or September Dry salt
| meats Shoulders sos, short rib 61O, short
| clear 6.25.
Union Stock Yards Hogs Estimated re-
nents for the week 2G,351 average weight for
July PA b; light grades 81 2504 35; heavy
mixed packing lots dull and weak at So 9OGn
4 30; heavy, shipping 81 25l14 SO. Cattle in
fair dem m G,;,1 rece hhs 1902 oc,> o,,>
9136. September. Corn--39H August, 38zs039
September. Oats 227sM23 August, 225s0a22H
September, 22la seller year. POrk-S1O 12Ia0l
10 Is August SO III September. Lard-7,55
asked August, 1871 asked September, 7.571a
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3-Opening-Wheat-
August, 91I September. Corn-35A August,
36T September.
1$:45 P. m.-Wheat lower; No, red eo1S
to 81 September, 1914 Octob her, 89l089A cash !;
No. red no option sales 86Ls cash Corn
slow; 351a0355s August; 354 cash. Oats
lower; 234 August 2o24 cash. Whisky IN
changed at 81 Cd. Pork higher at SO So.
Cut meats firm; winter cribs 6, clear sides
81. Bacon higher; shoulders 55a, short rib
ca, short clear 6b. Lard nominal
l: Is p. m.-Wheat weak 80 August, 9OI
September. Corn weak; 35A August, 36I
September.
C1Nc1NNATI, Aug. 3.-Mess pork $40 Is bid,
$40 50 asked. Bacon Shoulders 55, clear rib
sides 65s, clear sides 67s. Sugar-cured hams
l0A0l1. Bulk meats-Shoulders. 81, clear
rib sides bid, held at 81, clear sides $685..
kettle III, city do 8. Hogs-Receipts 407;
prices range So 75(l14 10 for common to choice,
Whisky 81 o..
Oats firm but quiet; old white 3O03oL,
mixed 28029, prime to choice 25026 Rye
quiet; prime to choice 51@952. Barley nomi-
nal. Corn steady; mixed ear at A on board,
sheIled at 440145 In elevator Wheat steady;
white 81, amber 930195, red 9O0192 for prime to
choice Whisky steady and active at 81 03.
Foreign.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 3, IL 80 D. m.-Cotton
Exchange closed until Tuesday next
Lard-Prime Western 38s 3D.. Bacon-Long
clear Bis Cd, short clear 33s Sd.
State 26s Cd. Wheat-Arrived cargoes firm
and held higher; Chicago 42s 6d@43s, red
winter 47s Cd, California sos; cargoes to arrive
firm and held higher; Chicago 39s, California
46sG149s; arrivals for orders light. Corn
Arrived cargoes steady, 23s Sd; cargoes to
arrive quiet, 23sM23s Sd.
Weather inclined to be showery.
ocean Freights
New YORK, Aug. 4.-The market for ocean
freights IS steady, although business was less
liberal. To Liverpool, by steam, 5000 bushels
grain at Sd. A Norwegian bark to Cork for
orders, 5000 quarters at IS. An American
bark to Aberdeen, with 1000 quarters, at IS Sd
1000 barrels flour at Is Cd, and 500 tiercns lard
at 25s. An Austrian bark to ConstantinOple.
with 10000 cases refined petroleum, at ISIS.