Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-03

Flour is quiet and steady. Wheat closes iirm
and strong, and the markets show better tone.
but there is yet light foreign demand and but
little disposition to speculate in futures: only
1900 bushels wero offered OH change this morn
ing and sold at So to sc for fair to good Futz:
81 for mixed SO for longberry: common and
damp lots bring from 60 to 81, as to condition.
Corn is firm; 200 bushels of white brought 20
No yellow Corn, Rye OF Oats were offered. There
is no change in produce.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 3-virginia Gs consolidated
81; past due coupons =; I'D los =:
new IS - bid to-day. Cotton quiet; middling
10. Flour steady: Howard street and West
ern super 50 25a2 6iI: do extra 81 75a:. 90 do
family $3 75a4 10; City Mills super $23Oa2 10:
do extra S:;a:} 80 do Rio Brands 81 Cad -: Pa
tapsco family 50 so: do supcrlative patent ST.
Wheat-Southern steady; Western about steady
and inactive: Southern red SIa9o: do amber 9ia
%; No 1 Maryland 1, bid No = Western
winter red spot S5a,aS5Ts: October S5aS6;
November 81 'saSS December S9s AGO. January
9Ol4a92. Corn-Southcrn lower Western
tilcly nominal; Southern white 90 new :'ia'IS
do yellow 62a61 Oats steady Southern ::i:;sa:;3
Western white 34a35; do mixed 32a;i3; reuna
32a:iJ Rye quiet at 62aG5. Hay firm prime
to choice Pcnna aud Md Sl3a$14. Provisions easier
and quiet; Mess Pork ST. IS. MISUNDERSTANDING
ers and clear rib sides packed 7"4alOA. Bacon
shoulders SA.; clear rib sides II. Hams Is l2a
16ls. Lard Irefned) Oh. Butter firm Western
packed 1Oa2O; creamery 22a2S. Eggs steady
ordinary to fair 9I,a1O's. Sugar steady: 4 soft
6f,. Whiskey steady at 81 1Sal ~.
NEW York October 2.-Stocks dull and lover
Money 1s2. Cotton quiet; uplands 1ol- Orleans
1O3s. Flour steady. Wheat better and quiet.
Corn higher.
RICHMOND MARKET, Oct 2.-There is little if
any change to note in the markets. Flour con.
times quiet Offering Of Wheat to-day reached
$500 bushels, with sales of white at 50: mixed
at SOa92 longbcrry at S:}a91 and shortbcrry ut
S0LS7 Sales Of prime new white Corn 1T Is.
Nothing doing in Rye or Oats.
FREDERICKSBURG MARKET. Oct. 2-Thc mar
ket is very quiet Stocks Of Flour ample Re-
ccipts of Wheat light and quotations from 7oaS5-
Corn GSa70; Rye 52a15 aud Oats 3IalO.
LyNcHRURG MARKET. Oct 2.-Flour continues
dull and slow of sale. Wheat is shade better ut
1Oa90. Corn in demand hut prices unchanged,
viz, G5a12 for yellow and white. Oats in some
demand Rye nominal. Receipts of Tobacco
light primings rather more active; common
filters and dark Tugs sell readily at satisfactory
prices.
Sngars-Thc market for raw Sugars remains
without noticeable change. The feeling seems
to he that when operators really want stock they
will come forward. but that it is useless to at
tempt inducing them to anticipate the future
Holders grumbe little over the market. but as
they find no means to better matters at the mo-
mcnt, they rest content with the preservation Of
fairly steady tone on values. Quotations are l',a
sc for fair to good refining. Grocery grades Of
New Orleans 6a6iac; centrifugal 71aa7al. For
refined Sugars continue quotations rs fol-
lows Cut loaf 7t.c; for crushed ~, for powder
ed ~; for granuated G's; soft Ga yellow
5a6.
Coffee Tho arrivals from Rio in the past week
were - 400 bags. The market is quietand steady,
with moderate Offering of invoices at full prices.
The only sale reported was 900 bags at 81. cts.
The jobbing trade is light and dealers arc partly
supplied from their own importations. We quote
Rio invoices as follows: Ordinary at 54a9i2 cts.
fair at 10Aa1Oia cents. good at 10ta11 cts, and
prime at 11Aa11 y cts.