Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-12
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE WEED.
New York Leaf Market.

The Lamentations of jeremiah are
cheerful reading compared with the ago
nizing wall of the editor Of the 7o1acco
Journal rs he contemplatcs the bankruptcy
and ruin about to Overtake the poor de
luded packers of 1879 tObaccO-a class of
men whom he would if he could have gath
cred under his protecting wing and saved
from the wicked Vaccinations of the Lam
caster newspaper reporters, and the seduc
tive Wills of Lancaster tobacco farmers.
"Week after week. says the truly good
editor of the Journal, d" we exhausted all
means of persuasion in order to cause them
to desist from paying exorbitant prices. 1t
was, however, Of no avail. They pitched
themselves headlOnS among the farmers.
and threw away their money, and at the
| same time their golden chances of making
| great deal out of it. We were denounc-
ed and ridiculed for our efforts. We made
enemies by the score. The Lancaster pa
pers grew b"isterous and extravagant in
their praise of the crop; more and more
the prospective packers became excl ell :;
finally, nearly all scotfed at the pleading
and advice of this paper. and like the army
worm that, when it once has taken posses
sion Of a crop, leaves barely nothing be-
hind, they cleared the state Of Pennsylva-
MIA of its leaf crop in exchange for sums
of money which we predict they will never
have returned to them. =
''FOr the sake of avoiding the imputa-
tiOn of prejudice in Our views, we do not
wish to comment upon this. This much
we will say, though, that of all the tobac-
co crops raised in the United States, the
Pennsylvania crop is the most deccitful
and changeable of ALL
A sad feature of the Journars story is
that majority of the packers of -
Pennsylvania are sojOurninS ut the sum-
mer resorts, while the wicked reporters
and willy tobacco growers are at home
concocting new schemes and laying new
traps to catch and fleece their innocent
and unsuspecting victims with the miser-
able foxy worm eaten crop of 1880.
The Journal reports last weeks New
York market as follows:
Pennsylvania-Crop 10: 800 cases
filters, 1s to 1as cents; running, -; wrap
pers, 80 to 45 cents.
| Connecticut-CrOp 70: 13O cases run
ming, low grades, IL to 1G cents. Crop
| '1S: 60 cases, wrappers, :52 cents.
Ohio-Crop rs: 1O5 cases, Running,
| 10 cents.
| Havana-Market active. Prices remain
| firm.
tians's Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J..
S. Cans Son Il Co., tobacco brokers, 81
and S6 Wall street, New York, for the
week ending July 12:
35Ocases 1879 New England, 1910; 100
cases 1879 do. do. seconds, 1O5c.; 300 eases
1879 Pennsylvania. 1Sd 22c.; so cases 1878
New York, SIC; 100 cases sun,lries, 90p
1Sc. Total, 800 cases.
| The Local Tobacco Trade.
1t is impossible for us to ascertain how
much of the crop of 1879 changed hands
in this city and county last week.
Dealers are very shy as to making known
their operations. The general statement
is that "the market is quiet and it is
not probable that five hundred cases
changed hands during the week, and yet
it SAID by some of the knowing ones that
much more of the 70 crop has been sold
than has thus far been reported. As this
is a matter chiefly concerning buyers and
sellers, if they choose to keep their deal
ing secret they have right to do SO.
The new crop is doing fairly, but is on
the whole not very forward in growth. a
few homegrown patches have been topped,
many crops look very well and will soon be
ready for topping, but many more are as
yet quite backward, and it is impossible
to predict what may be the outcome.
There is plenty of time tC
make splendid crops if the
weather prove propitiOus. If il
should prove otherwise the crop may
prove otherwise. 1t is never safe to count
ones chickens before they are Matched.
Thus far there have been number of i'll
vigorating showers, but like Oliver Twist
the greedy plants are stillcrying for more.
a good soaking rain just now would do Il
world of good.