Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-29

Flour has ruled steady during the PAST week
aud is without change. Wheat is strong and firm.
with better demand for milling grades: recents
are growing larser daily. which indicates that tie
country roads are importing; sales were made 10.
day at 1O7a1O9 for Fultz; 10 for mixed and 10
for ordinary longberry Corn is active and wanted
at full figures and sales were made at 65 Rye and
Oats are unchanged since our last report. There
is no material change in produce, the demand is
good for all choice lots at quoted figures. Bacon
and Sugars are firm at quotations.
BALTIMORE, Feb 29.-Va SIS defd =; do con.
solidated 40 do I'd series =; do past due cou.
pons 81 do new 10-40s :; do new IS 537.
BID to-day. Cotton steady: middlinv lO1-
Flour quiet and easy; Howard street
and Western super 81 75a3 so; do extra 81 .5a
IS: do family So OOa5 rs; City Mill- SUPER
go 75a3 so; do extra 81 75a6 % 'lo Rio Brands
So 62a5 80: patapsco family S. so; do super..
tive patent 81 90. Wheat Southern steady aud
quiet; Western easier and fairly active: Soa.A.
ern red HALT: do amber l15al17. No /
Maryland IA L,a114as; No , Western winter .-,i
spot 0Slaa1OS3.: March 1853 ,a109, a pril 11Ol,
alloy May 112lsa1l2L. Corn Southern ira.
er; Western easi.r; Southern white 6oaG2 10
yellow 59a6l: Western mixed spot 6oanlia;
February 59a.aG1: March 59i2a597s; April
6O1eaG1l. May 62ta62&s; steamer Start
Oats dull and easier; Southern 42s45; Western
white 43a45; do mixed 42a44; Pennsylvania
42a45. Rye quiet at 67a69. Hay easier; prime
to choice Pennsylvania and Maryland S14alj
Provisions quiet and steady; mess Pork, old
SIS 90: new S19 0O. Observation-Disclosures and
clear rib sides, packed, Sl,a101a Bacon-should-
ers 8; clear rib sides ia. hams 14a4a15t,
Lard. refined, 10la. Butter dull; Western pack.
ed 1Oa2O; creamery 25a36. Eggs frmer at ia
20. Coffee quiet and easier; Rio calgoes or!i.
nary to fair 11aaa12a.. Sugar quiet and easy
soft 71,. Whiskey frm at 81 19a1 1873
new YoEE, Feb. 29---Stocks firm Money
easy at 1 t,a2 Cotton quiet upands 1O7s: Or
leans lis. Flour unchanged. Wheat Lar
better. Corn 'salac higher.
RICHMOND MARKET, Feb 25-Fiour is quie,
with no change in prices But little Wheat was
offered and sales were made at 112 for Fnltz and
116a11 for longberry. Corn brought 66a6S fof
choice LOIS. No sales of Rye or Oats were re.
ported
FREDERICKSBURG MARKET. Feb 2s-The
marker for Flour is unchanged and sales are at
from So 80 for Extra 10 81 50 for super!ative
patent. Wheat sold at from 105 to lis fol good
to choice lots. Corn brought 55a5S; RE 5SaGO,
and Oats 40a45.
LYScnBugG MARKET. Feb. 2s.-Extra Flour
is in good demand and strong, but there is little
inquiry Cor fancy or superlative: prices range
from s. 50 10 90 rs to quality There is au
upward tendency for Wheat which sold at 1OOa
40. Corn is strong and selling at 62a6S. But
little is doing in Rye o. Oats. The receipts OF
Tobacco continue large. Prices for all grades arc
still very good, bus there is little weakness in
common dark
BALTIC. SUGAR AND COFFEE MARKET. Feb. %
Sugar-Raw Sugars appear generally to find butts
very moderate and Indifferent demand, and the
interest Of buyers seems 10 be slow and difficult to
arouse. The Guotstions are 57sa6c for fair TO
good refining. Grocery grades Of New Orleans
sell for 6a.a1l L cts, and centrifugal SASH. Re-
fined Sugars quiet and steady. Cut-loaf Size
for crushed 81. for powdered 81. for gran
ulated rs; soft 4 : II yelowS Cats cents per
pound.
Cotiee.The market is quiet and closes with an
easier feeling for invoices owing to the decline in
futures, though there is no pressure to sell and
very moderate offering. The jobbing trade has
ruled fair. though in most cases the orders are
small. At the Exchange to-day 900 bags March
sold at $40 90, 1000 April at $40 50, and $50
May at sll 90. We quote Rio invoices nominal.
ly as follows Ordinary at 1112s11a.c, fair at
12laa1 2a.c coed at 13a13l.c, and prime at gig
a133,c. The stock in first hands is - ,7O5 bags
and at all ports 24S, 100 bags.