Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-12

Total, 100000 cases.
Figuring the coming home
consumption for the year
on last years basis, We
deduct. northumberland 10000
Which leaves stock of. =. . .11O, 900 cases.
These 10, 900 we shall have to get rid of
by exporting.
Let the saDguine packers of the 70 crop
take these figures into consideration and
our readers judge whether We have been
justified in our predictions and admOni-
tions.
A manufacturer really and truly bought
about 1000 cases of the 70 Pennsylvania
crop last week. 1t created temporary
stir in the market. and the bulls were
jubilant. AS the greatest portion of the
leaf trade is composed of packers of the
70 stock and consequently belong to the
"bull" fraternity, the small "bear' por-
ton was entirely squelched.
The "bulls" speak of this sale as but
the forerunner of a perfect avalanche of
similar sales in the near future, but at the
hour of writing the market looks distress
ingly quiet.
No other transactions in 70 tobacco took
place.
Those disinterested in the sale of the
1000 cases of 70 Pennsylvania mentioned
above, knew nothing about the price.
Those interested flourish the selling fig
ure at from % to 22a cents,
For old stock good inquiry exists and
rs Pennsylvania and Ohio find buyers
easily.
The sales sum up as follows:
Pennsylvania.-Crop '7S: 200 cases
wrappers, % to 80 cents filters, II cents.
Connecticut.-Cr rs: 212 cases, mostly
low wrappers, at IS to 20 cents. Ohio
Crop '7S 12O cases, running y to II cents.
Havana active. Sales 700 bales. mostly
10 stock. Fine filters in demand. The
Journal Of Commerce of Wednesday last
confirms our reports rs to the poor cOndi-
tion of the 80 crop. 1t has the following :
"Advices from the Vuelta Abajo continue
disheartening, the localities where the
crop amounted to 5000 bales as an aver
age are not expected to produce this year
over 1000 of middling and inferior quality.
The result of the "temprano" or first
cut, which was forcibly effected as the
leaf was drying up from want of water, has
been almost nothing in most districts, and
holders of old leaf are taking advantage to
advance their pretensiOns to such a point
that it is almost impossible to acquire any
parcel of suitable class at any less than it's
weight in gold.
Gans's Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by j.
S. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos. 81 and sc Wall street, New York, for
the week ending April 10, 1880: 100
1879, Pennsylvania, private terms; 400
cases 1878, Pennsylvania, filters 81 to 1Oaac,
assorted 12 to 1Sc; 63 cases 1877, Pennsyl-
vania, wrappers soc; $50 cases 1873, New
England, seconds II to 13, wrappers 10 to
Csc 100 cases 1878, Ohio, to 1Oc; 100
cases 1878, Wisconsin, Q to 1Oc; number
of cases, 1913.
The Local Tobacco Market.
A few crops of 1879 leaf are being pur-
chased by our city packers by sample, or
when the growers bring their cuttings
to town; but tho amount remaining in
growers hands is so small and SO widely
scattered that packers no longer ride the
county in search OF it.
Several packings of 1879 have been
already disposed of to jObbers and mana
facturers, at private terms, but at figures
said to leave handsome profit to the
packers. John Moore has sold $50 or 500
cases to New York house. L. Gershel s.
Bro. have sold GO cases to Sutro s. New
mark, New York Mr.. Rossin, of Mount
vile, has sold some 400 cases to a
New Orleans firm. There are rumors
of other sales during the past week,
but they are not authenticated, buyers and
sellers being alike reticent regarding their
transactions. One thing is certain, how
ever, heavy jobbers and large manufacture
ers have been looking at the packings in
this city with a view of purchasing, and if
there are not some very heavy transactions
before long, it will be because the views of
the buyers and settlers are not in accord.
Two or three hundred cases of 1879 have
been disposed of during the week in small
lots and ON private terms,
The unusually cold weather has injured
the young tobacco plants and deferred
growers from renewing their seed. Ice has
formed on still water almost every night
during the week. This morning the ice being
in exposed places a quarter of an inch
thick. Besides this evidence of "winter
lingering in the lap Of spring" we have
had this morning succession of snow
squalls, accompanied by biting wind.
There is time enough, however, to sow
seed, raise plants and grow the largest crop
ever grown in the county and this will
no doubt be done unless untoward circum-
stances later in the season prevent it.
BEHEADED.
Terrible Accident to q COlOred Man.