Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-31
MONDAY EVENING. OCT. 81. les

MONDAY EVENING, OCT. 81. 1881.
THE N. Y. TOBACCO MARKET.
SEED LEAF AND HAVANA.
For the Week Ending Saturday, October 20,
10 A. n.
u. s. Tobacco Journal.
The week was a quiet one small parcels
only changed hands, and it seemed as if
only immediate necessity brought pur-
chasers into the market. The opinion of
the trade is that the booms of the year
1881 are over, and that not before January
next revival of the recent great activity
is to be depended on. Manufacturers
assert there is a decided falling OF in
orders during the last week, and the ex-
pected dull season seems to be at hand at
last. There is no cause, though, for any
body to expect downward course OF prices
of leaf. The rush of business among cigar
manufacturers during the past six months
at least has been of such enormous propor-
tions that it stands to reason that the
stocks of leaf with them must be small,
and that with the advent of new orders
they will have to come into the market
and probably pay still higher prices.
Nevertheless, holders will do we'll not to
insist upon too much Sumatra is arriving
in this port daily in larger quantities, and
apparently this commodity has taken
firm footing in our manufacturing circles.
pointed out the danger that threatens the
cultivation of leaf in this country.
The only limit to prices of seed leaf
;,,% ntrvy &c thn uonnrtl n.
ton Of Sumatra or similar foreign tobacco.
The greater the persistency with which
growers of tobacco try to obtain prices
often far above real value, the more impc
tus is impaired to the importation of
foreign tobaccOS.
The sales of the week are rs follows {:
Connecticut - Crop 80: GOO cases !;
Housatonic running 81 to % cents ; wrap
pers as high as 40 cents.
Pennsylvania-Crop'S 80: 200 cases fine
running, 90 cents medium, IS cents ;
wrapper, 81 to 40 cents; filters, y
cents.
New York State-CrOp 80: 300 cases !;
running 12 to 10 cents.
Ohio-Crop 80: go cases, mostly fill
lers to 1O4 cents.
Havana continues active sales zoo
bales mostly 80; good many transac-
tiOns in 81 by samples arc reported on
private terms the 'S1 is spoken as being
a most excellent tobacco.
Peculiar business.
Tobacco journal,
The suit Of DIR. 1lerZOg, the wcll-knOwI
analytical chemist of HObokcn, N. D..
against p. Lorillard & Co., the New Jersey
tobacco manufacturers, for the recovery
of $50, 900, and which has been in tie
courts for over 4 year, was On the calendar
of the Jersey City court last week, but wa:
again postponed till December, either
that the defendants were not ready or fol
some other equally important reason. Tht
affair which caused the suit is 4 most in
teresting one and if the allegations of th'
complaint arc true, they place the Loril,
lards in a peculiar situation. From the
affidavits in the case it appears that some
time last year some one was mos
anxious to initiate the world renowned
Black wells Durham tobacco. To do thi
the services of DR.. IIerzOg were secured
for the analytical search Of the propertie
in the Blackwell tobacco. A Mr.. Mason
who is the experimenting chemist of TIN
L0rillari factory, then placed tho doctor
in the laboratory Of the factory and befor
him he had to make all the necessary eX
perimcnts and trials, till after some tim
of hard labor the desired secret was faith
omed, much to the joy Of Mr.. Masol
and immense satisfaction of Mr. Scidler
the managing factor Of the firm. Whc
the successful doctor asked for rc
muneration for his services, he alleges MI
Mason promised to pay him So, 600 in
day or two and the balance in install
ments, but he was constantly put off til
"to- o-morrOw and to morrow" and frOr
tomorrow TO the next day and SO forth
till his analytic eye discovered strang
coldness and reserve on the part of tn
above named persOnages and he conclude
to get into court and compel them to han
over their check for s3O,0OO. The sum
not alone t" pay for the discovery O
tho Ingredients of the Durham to
bacco, bat also for a receipt for tlavOrin
tobacco in general given to the Lori
laIds, and of which the doctor claim
to be the sole inventor. On the other sid
it was alleged that the discoveries of ID.
HerzOg were such as had been known
the learned Mr.. Mason long time an
that the plaintiff communicated neithe
to him nor Mr.. Scidlcr, who also is learn
ed and philanthropc Oh general principle
nothing which any commonplace chcmis
laying iOoSC COuNu HoI HdSC wi
them before even taking up a bag Of Black
= wells Durham tobacco, and that, there
fore, the demands Of DIR. HerzOg wei
absolutely preposterous. deserving
severe disapprObation from the judge an
jury, but not cent in money.
Cans Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by .
S. Gaus' Son & Co.. tobacco brokers, N
131 Water street, New York, for wee
ending Oct. 81, 1881: 900 cases 1Ss
New England, wrappers. 1G@4Oc.; u
cases 1880 Pennsylvania, S(d1Sc. 50 cast
1879 Pennsylvania, p. t.; 300 cases 1Ss
state, 10T19c.; 307 cases 1880 Ohio, 40 &c
100 cases 1880 Wisconsin, 3k@10c.; tota
9, 410 cases.
Sales OF Tobacco.
The York Dispatch reports the folio,
ing
John r. Gemmill, Of Brosuevillc, bougl
for J. Gust Zook, Of Lancaster, from Ja
Scott, in Chanccrord, acre at 20, s,
and cents q acres from Daniel BlOus
at 90, 10, 5 and 3; :. from Lydia Shue
at 1G, 8, 5 and 9: from J. Wise at l.
81, S and 3 d; 2 from William Snyder at 2
10, 5 and 8; 3 from E. G. Runke, at 4
8. and 3; u from II. B. Falconer, ;
20, 10, 5 and3.
Can't Preach Good.
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