Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-20
COMMERCE.
State Ct the Stock and Grain Market
Yesterday.

ST. PAUL, May 20.
There was bnt one notable feature in st.
Paul markets yesterday-that being that the
supply OF eggs was heavily drawn upon, and
commission men advanced heir prices 10 So
SIC. The demand for oats for the North, and
The general trade in grain produce and provi-
sions continue active, ut prices varying but
little from day to day, though somewhat in
fnenccd by he course of Eastern markets IN
lesding articles. Hides, etc, are exceptionally
firm. Wool i unsettled, as both buyers and
manufacturers East are holding of
The downward turn IN Milwaukee and Chi
cago wheat markets, yesterday, which did not
seem 70 Affect the provision market and which
is rot ,xtlftn.blc by yesterdays
condition of eastern aud English markets, APP
pears To be explained by ghe following late dis
patch 10 Wall 4 GigelOw, 81. Paul. The
CLIQUE sold a5,ut 10000 bushels May wheat in
Chicago to-day from Sl.}5A TO Sl.l4-through
brokers. Th.nk II Vss C0Ge to depress the
market, which ii has
dispatcl OF l1s- evening says: The dry
goods business remajas quiet with package
hous-s. Cotton goods IN hight demand at FIRST
hands. Pii1ts duu. Fjue lawns and wide
prints In fan isquost. Ginghams well sold
up. Woolgn GOODS continue quiet ana steady.
The Bulletin SAYS: Fifteen hundred cases of
Brunswick ITtats, lawns and piques were sold
st auction To-Day aud brought very low
prices
According to The Financial Chrogicle of New
York. pic i;on at this time is worth S7.50@S so
more than in July, 1873. Wheat is worth ga &c
more; sGd mess pork 3l.00 more. But pig
iron Is worth - less than IN January last.
Wheat 24c less, and pork SLe00Sl.50 less.
The Shipping LNt Ut New York, notes that
in many departments OF trade in that city,
where there one broker twenty years ago
there is now e least a score. of course, 1t
says. "busiUess has enormously increased dur
ing that period. but 1t has not increased in
proportion 10 the Increase of middle men"
l. is asserted that tie freight paid to ocean
transportation companies the past year for the
export of American cheese amounted to 81 ,00O,
600.
The railways are carrying very little grain to
the seaboard now. Most of it goes by the lakes
and canal-, with an increasingly large move
ment down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
which l. fast gaining upon the leading grain
exporting cities.
Boston Post, Saturday, Tie boot and shoe
business is quiet. In heavy boots there is
something doing. In other departments little
doing beyond Supplying the local retail trade
case or two t even up SssOrtmentS. some
manufacturers have closed up their factories
and are waiting for orders. Others are en-
gtgeu IN making repairs Sd as 60 De ready on
the Openingof the fall for work. What the
future will bring forth none are able TO predict
with certainty. Goods offered by those
holding at low prices, and buyers can do better
than when business is active and everybody
employed"
Ibid Monday: Wool continues unsettled.
There seems to be no speculative movement in
leather aud consequently the market is steady
and quiet. Prices of hides are reported finn,
wilh an upward tendency, but tanners con-
tinue to buy only necessity requires they
honing for prices - rule lower. "