The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-13
TOBACCO NEWS.
Home and Foreign, 81 81
IIoME AfARKET.


Sales for the past week aggregate
267 hhds. without any material change
in prices, lugs being IN demand and
somewhat animated. While leaf OF
every description exhibited weakness
The remarkable feature of the market
is the large amount flugs and COIN
mon leaf offered from week to week,
aud tho almost entire absence of the
better grades which usually make
their appearance before this period nf
the season. The crop not only bids
fair to be a very mean one but much
shorter In this district than formerly
anticipated. The "bug," cry comes
up from every neighborhood, and
there is no doubt that sad havoc
has been committed and ifihe present
cold dry spell continues many days
longer, the first sowing will be en-
tirely swept from the beds. Planters
are becoming daily more dependent
over gloomy plant prospects, bad con-
ditipn of tobacco lnnds from heavy
rain fall and the present very low
range Of prices. All, however. are
expectant aud hopeful ofbeitcr prices
soon, but wemsiclf question whether
amy calamity to 1.-THE Young plants
would arouse The trade In dark to-
bacco from its Rip Van Wrinkle slum-
her until stocks in the open markets
become lighter.
Sales by Alternately n Co. April 7
1880 OF 80 hbds tobacco as follows.
20 hhds. good 70 common leaf from
$500 TO $500. Es
u hhds. low leaf from $3.50 10 $500
s hlIds. Tugs from $300t $3.50.
Sales By j. K. Cant & Sons, April
7,h. Of 80 hhds. as follows: +
3 hhds. Of good aud fine leaf from
II to 10 SO.
II hhds. Of medium leaf from 50 so
TO G so.
IT hhds. Of common leaf from "a so
TO 3 so.
10 hhds. lugs FROM 3 so to 4 Is.
Market q shade lower on leaf.
Sales By Buckner g. Woodbridge,
April 7fh and 9Th, OF l0l IIhds. as
foliows:
"a hhds. medium to good leaf, $3.50
to $500.
80 hhds. common TO low leaf $3.50
to $G,75aafo. qa as . r,r
" hhds. good to fine fugs, s4.oo to
500. r, ~
I rs hide. oommou and trashy Tugs,
$685. 70 1915. e t+'' . = ~
Market firm and higher on COM
mon to good lugs and common and
low leaf. .;tn0'j4 "a corts
CT. Barnard, OF Liberty church
neighburhood, sold his 1879 crop OF
tobacco tod ohm q, Riley, and has de-
livcred II, and received $3.50 40 in
full for Il. He raised enough beside
OF everything else to live on and sOlil
245 bushels Of corn.-Haryord Her.
aid.
Tho Maysriile city manufacturers
accepted the scale o: prices adopted
by the cigar makors' union, and all
tile hands IN the. city are at work
again. They had been on a STRIFE
for some time. i- 3tA
The obacco market is dull. There
isvery little Offering. Several. house
have stopped work on account of the
scarcity- Of the weed. -0wensboro u
and E. ,dha
| q ef western Tobacco Jeurnal'l X r
Asiatic tobacco is much milder thar
that grown Ia America, 50
Tobacco was first cultivated by thu
Spaniards for the beauty OF tho
flowers.
Chas. Miller, Cigar Manufacturer,
New Orleans, was convicted and sen.
fenced March 10Th, to three month";
confinement aud 10 pay u fine Of 800
aud costs for having made cigar
without giving bond in accordanc,
| with the internal Revenue laws. &
One l,ogshead Of medium brigh
wrappers from ,Neakiey county
Tepn,,g wasr, sold in Nashville last
weekfor SIS co. The color was 10
clear or well defined or il would
have brought more. ,t,,.,s-,
Tho product Of six acres Of tobac
CO was sold IN Durham, N. c.. fol
acqQ 60 N ofhar In ~ MO nnuu1.
for 1913 40, being an average Of $40.
9lper hundred. II was grown II
Chatham county, North Corolina. =
The cigar makers IN Lebanon, Pa.
recenily hada cigar making contes
with the following result: In 81,
days' working eleven hours per day
II. h. Ramsey made 5000, e. Cell
4lO0 and Henry zellers3.900. Il I