The Portland daily press., 1881-02-18
Domestic Markets.

NEW YORK. Feb. 17-Evening- FIour-Receipt
22,293 bbls; exports 1881 bbls; without decided
grades and little more doing for tn jobbing trade;
sales IA, 100 bbls; No 2 at 3 OO93 60; Superfne
Western and State at 8 6O94 90; extra Western
and State at 6oae Is; White Wheat western stern
extra at 0096 90; fancy do at 1O@7 90; ex-
ira Ohio at 4096 IS; extra st. Louis at 400
%: patent Minnesota extra good to prime at As
@7 90; choice to double extra at 1O@8 %. in
Guiding 1000 bbls City Mills extra at 90 for L;
100 bbls No at O003 80; 500 bbls Superfne at
8 coat 90; 900 bbls low extra at 1904 5O $500
bbls Winter Wheat extra at 400S 90; 47O0 bbls
Minnesota extra at 3O9S 25 Southern extra at
8O95 30; choice 3096 80; market quiet. Rye
Flour at 1895 65 for Superfne. Corn Meal
dull. Wheat receipts sc, 25O bush: exports 175.-
24S bush; opened Al91ac lower, closing rather
more steady with little better export inquiry at the
close; sales 900 bush, including 259 900 bush
on the spot; rejected Spring at 9699612c; No do
Red os so No 1ea1 II Is Stsie No do at
] 17A 81 10 afoat, TIA al 17s4 in store; No 1
Red 2S@1 2314 Mixed Winter at 6A4@H un-
bush i5 al 49, No Red If for T Eas S
900 bush at l 171A@1 1715; do March, 273, 900
bush at I 1s3s@1 1s4 do April, $50, 1000 bush at
1885. Rye is steady: Canada OF ". Corn ls
duil heavy and A@1ac lower;receipts "a, 176 bush;
sxpo 6 bush sales s 600 bush including
inal at 569561sc: steamer at 56A G57c: No 2 at
56M @571a: No White 62c; New York Yellow at
5a1sc; White Southern 63c; No for February at
561aa 561s C; March at 5514 a553sc April 55ss
@551ac May at 54@54Ae. Onts heavy and "a "a
Zee lower receipts 1884 bush; sales 1877, 900
4412c; do White at 461ac; No White at 471ac;
Mixed Western 429471ac; White do at 44a4S1ac:
enSaa se n White nr Do at azase in
441ac 10000 do March 43s4 G.; 10, OOU do April at
43s4c; $4,000 do May 1885 a43Hac. Sugar dull
prime at 7asc; refined dull; Crushed at 9lsgs5s..
Uoiasses quiet and unchanged. Petroleum is
united 9oAc; Taiiow fairly active and frm;1 1885,
q D~. to- alx@,$ d.
April 10 O5; old mess on spot at 5 OO6l5 80, new
do at 16 OO9l6 %: March Is 9O916 DC; April at
10 80 is 10; May at 16 00916 20 Beef steady.
Lard closed strong and declined recovered: sales
OF $50 prime steam on spot at 10 421s@1O so; 500
for March at 10 371s@1O As; $3.50 for April at
10 409lO 50; COCO to arrive for May at 10 400
continent at 10 IS. Butter is dull and unsettled
Cheese weak and unsettled.
Freights to Liverpool steady.
CHICAGO. Feb. 17.-F1our is Quiet and STEADY.
Wheat dull and shade lower closing firm; No Red
Winter at 98c@I 90; No Chicago Spring 9734 "a
9ss cash; 9sA@ssssc for March; CSC bid April
O21a May; No Chicago Spring $4,000. Corn
steady at S74a@38c for cash; $3.50 for March,
42M@421ac for May. Oats are unsettled and gem
orally lower at 3oA cash; 295sc for March; $685.
Pork unsettled and lower at 15 20 cash; Is 22Is6
GLIB % for March; g 4015 421s for April;15 521s
g16 55 for May. Lard moderately active and high
er at 10 221s@1O % for cash and March: 10 liz
@1O 10 for April; 10 20@1O 201s for May. Bulk
Meats steady; shoulders at 90: short rib at So;
Reeeipts-14, 600 bbls flour Is, 900 bush wheat.
$4,000 bush corn. $4,000 bush oats, 1000 bush,
shipments-9 900 bbis -four, 1000 bush wheat,
rye. 900 bush barley.
At the Afternoon Call of the Board, No 2 Chicago
Spring Wheat closed at 981sc for February; 981sIa
9S5sc for March; 1914 @99Ssc for lApril; O23s01
! O21s for May. Corn at 37s4 bid 374sc asked
a4214c for May. Oats at 295sc bid, 1884 asked
for March; 3oc for April; 1884 for May. Pork at
BID 49 aste fea May SS aP s2
10 221a910 rs April; 10 321s May.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. II. Flour steady and unchanged.
Wheat oponed dull and lower, closing firm and high
March; 1 O41A@l O4M for April; / 05Ssa1 06 for
May; No 8 Red Fall 971ac; No do nominal. Corn
dull and lower at 37Ac cash: 1914 @3S1ac March;
cash. 33c for March; 34@341sc for May Rye firm
asked for cash; Is 20 March; Is spa May. Lard
Receipts-5OOO bbs hour, 1000 bush wheat
% 600 bush corn, 5000 bush oats, 10000 bnsh
rye 5000 push barley.
shipments-O,00O bbls -four, 5000 bush wheat
barley. 5000 bush rye.
DETROIT. Feb. 17.-Wheat easy; No 1 White at
0014; February at 90; March at l OF; April at
bid; No 1 Red 061s.
TOLEDO, Feb. 17.-Wheat inactive: No Red at
05%s bid for March; I O7Ss bid April O9A
nothing doing.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 17.-Wheat-No at 97c cash
and February; 97ssc for March; 9s14c April
New YORK, Feb. 17.-Cotton quiet and firm;
Middling uplands IL 9-l6c.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. IT, Cotton steady; Middling
uplands 1880
SAVANNAH, Feb. 17.-Cotton easier; sIiddling up
lands IL Use.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 17.-Cotton quiet; Middling M
lands at lie
MOBILE, Eel. l7.-Cotton steady; NIiddling uplands
at lie.