The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-25

In the diSpatcn Cunuhy morning from
New York nails were quoted at $40 rates
1t should have read 1910.
Retail merchants were doing nothing.
Who,esale houses had some healthy orders
{ rom the country and made respectable show
ofbasiness in their fronts.
Corn was rather slow, and concessions of /
cent we're made upon round lots. The mar
kst a. a whole is not quotably lower, though
the grades are lower to sell in large quanti-
ties. The stock in town is small.
The supply of meat was not equal to the
demand this merning, and some orders are
held until tomorrow, when ii is hoped there
will be moro in town. 1t is very firm at 81
for short clear bacon sides. There is moth
ing new reported from hams and lard, save
thst they are held at outside fractions. The
Chicago provision market ran thus on the
2lst: Shoulders-Sales 400 boxes dry
sslted, cash, at 81 Is; $4,000 lbs seller June,
loose, at 81 10. Snort ribs--Sales 100000
lbs, June, at So 20; 10000 lbs do, at So 22l;
10000 lbs do at Sc 25; 10000 lbs, seller
July, at Sc 25 100000 lbs do at So 27k !;
100000 lbs do at So 30; $4,000 lbs, seller
August, ut So 30, all loose. Long and short
clear-Sales $50 boxes, seller June, at S. So;
500 boxes, cash, at So 30.
Hay, oats and bran were purely nominal.
We heard of no sales except bran, 1000 lbs
of which went of at % cents
Coffee is quiet and has downward look.
The New York Grocer says although the
visible supply of Rios is $4,000 bags, against
269 900 last year, and the distribution from
warehouse continues light, prices are higher
than last year. The stock is chiefly in the
hands of strong holders. who sustain quota
tinns, thinking, no doubt, that they will sell
NJ nsuch coffee NJ present figures ms at lower
prrsaes. The country dealers, however, do
not believe in present prices and are buying
sphrngly. Any chang previous to the ar-
rival of new crop goods will probably be
towrard lower prices. Mild goods are in full
mRply, with moderate demand There is
li'lile doing in Maracaibos aside from the reg.
uhGr demand from roNsters In Java coilees
the demand ID for the best brown Padangs to
be had. Inferior qualities are neglected"
Wool is quiet and if anything weaker
There has been no rally in Eastern markets
81 far as reported, Producers in Texas arc
holding for better rates. Spectators are
doing the same thing with the limited amount
tiey are purchasing Mt present prices. There
is the strongest sort of conviction that the
pgice will 60 up, bu, of that Il IS not for Il,
a. SAY.
tSides are in fresh demand and firm at n,
fds dry flint.
flour was dead slow in large lots. TIL,
6ssst customers were but nibbers at stock
t&,we enough to require heavy bites. 1t wa
mo tower, though weaker.
old wheat has declined to 30 cents. At th
nloment "a p. M that first bushel of new
al - orrixra1 fVhnpn ustn IA, 'n. Of; -,
tha market before the close Of the week. TIT
ffevaers sent their first bushel 10 mill and ar,
eating it themselves. Sensible
Butter and eggs and other country produc,
are unchanged. A few dozen eggs sold thi
morning at 10 cents. Butter goes begging II
12I-
Iron is still going down. The Northern
markets are in the worst possible con
dtion for holders and furnace men, and the,
wuUla gladly exchange the present for ante
boom days. A New York paper says
"Prices on all grades have declined fifty pc
ceot in the past three months, and the gen
ersl opinion, so far as can be ascertained
appears to be that bottom has no. yet beef
touched. The market is overstocked will
faceign iron, and furnaces are blowing GU
both here and at the other side. While tn,
rlsh lasted everything went ahead, and bus
iness which could easily have been EXTENDED
over an entire year with advantage wa
crowded into the comparatively short spac
Of three months. A great deal of this for
eigu pig iron was bought on speculation b,
parties who had neither sufficient capital O
backing. 10 many cases when the commodit
arrived here, they were unable to pay tn
duties or carry the stock, and it was thu
vivtually hypothetical. The iron was the
soh on the best terms that could be had, an
the prices bid generally ranged from two I
lures dollars a ton below the minimum rate
for store lots hell in strong hands. 4.