Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-09

Flour is in fair receipt and the dealing il main.
| ly confined to well.known brands with small
| transactions in very low grades. Wheat continues
easy aud without material change in prices since
our last general report; the offerings fer several
days past have been very light. Corn is steady;
$500 bushels were sold to day at from 60 to %,
as to quality. Rye is active. Oats quiet and
steady. Butter is still very scarce and wanted
Eggs are in more liberal receipt, but at unchanged
figures There is no change in quotations Of
other produce.
BALTIMORE, April 9.-Va 6's defd =; do con.
soidated 4C1s: do I'd series Al; do past due eOu.
pons Al do new 1O-tO's 341o; do new So 81 bid
to-day. Cotton firm middling 11a.. Flour steady
with rather more inquiry; Howard street aud
Western super 50 75a3 25; do extra 50 5Oa4 25;
do family 50 5Oa5 TO City Mills super go 75a395;
do extra 50 5Oa6 90: do Rio Brands SIS 25a5 so;
Patapsco family Sc 25; do superlative patent
| So IS. Wheat-Southern steady with good de-
mand; Western opened higher, declined and
| closed dull Southern red 1O9a112: do amber
112s115; No 1 Maryland 113a113A; No 2
Western winter red spot and April 99a994,; May
99l2a99Ss: June 1O0ha1OO9s; July 1OOs101;
August 99a4a1O1. Corn-Southern easy and tair.
white 55a55; do yellow 52a54; Western mixed
spot 51a52: April 51a51a4; May 52ha52s.
June 544a54Ss; July 56a56k.: steamer SO asked
Oats steady and quiet; Southern 40a43; Western
white 4Oa42: do mixed 39a4O; Penns 40a43
Rye quiet at s7aGe. Hay firm; prime to choice
and quiet; mess Pork. old, SIT 25 new $1s 25.
Bulkmeats shoulders and clear rib Sides packed
| 73ia9d. Bacon-shoulders Sla clear rib sides
1Ola; hams 14kta15la. Lard refined. 9a.a10
Butter steady; Western packed 1Os25: creamery
25a38. Eggs easier and quiet at Halls Coffee
dill 81 g..
Sugar lower and quiet; soft 67s. Whisky
steady at 81 19a1 1915.
NEW YonK, April 9.-stocks steady Money
easy at Lap. Cotton quiet uplands In Or
leans 12 Flour dull. Wheat ssa1 lac better Corn
opened taa 1sc better, but advance lost.
ALEXANDRIA CATTLE MARKET, April 8, 1884
Prices to-day ranged as follows:
eattie-, cry oest..."...... oti o'a
Hooa pa .
Medium or fair quality ............. 6t4 BIZ
Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and Cows 3
nea SaiFes o1h ~
sheep ".................."....6 aoR
LAMBS ~
Hogs ....................... 8 az
Cows and Calves 3Oas5O.
The market this week was very poorly supplied
with all kinds of stock. A few good Cattle were
offered but no sales were made, as prices asked
were higher than buyers were willing to give most
of the buyers prefcrring to go elsewhere rather
than give prices asked here. Calves in good de.
mand with few arrivals. Sheep in fair demand,
with Lambs in some inquiry, but prices asked
being too high for this market. Hogs dull with
limited sales. Cows and Calves in good demand.
GEoRGETowN CATTLE MARKET. April s-sses
were made at Drovers' Rest yesterday as follows
Thirty Cattle at best 6 to 6la; good, 51a to 8;
medium, Az to 5ls common, to 4ae.. One
hundred and eleven Sheep and Lambs at Sheep.
80 to 6la; Lambs, 9lh to 1912. Ten Cows and
Calves at from s25 to S6O Market good.