Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-30

Flour is steady and firm and millers do not urge
sales OF high grades account of the scarcity OF
prime lots of wheat among the offerings here as
elsewhere Wheat is easy and shade lower for spot
and near delivery, while November and Decem-
Der futures are selling off about one cent per
bushcl Several "bcarish" reports with slight
increase Of the visible supply used to depress
prices. Corn is strong. Rye and Oats are more
active. Potatoes moro abundant but un-
changed Eutter and other produce is weak with
a tendency to lower figures, owing to warm, un-
favorable weather.
BALTIMORE Sept. 3O.-Va 6s consolidated
"a : bid o.day y. Cotton steady; middling
95.. Flour steady; Howard street and Western
super 50 COa3 40; 10 extra So 5Oa4 %; do
family 81 40a5 90; City Mills super So OOa
3 5O do extra Sd 75a4 % do Rio brands 81 81
a5 co. Patapsco family S. IS; do superative
patent Sc 90. Whcat-s Southern frmer; West
ern easier, closing dull Southern red 96a97 do
amber 1OO4101; No / Maryland 96a97; No
Western winter red October 80 bid S; November
931- aJ3as: December 96a96l4. Corn-Southern
steady; Western easier and active, closing dull !;
Southern white 55a56; do yellow 52a53; West.
ern mixed spot 4Sle bid; October 471aa4SA
wear 45s45k January 44Nsa4S1s. Oats steady;
Southern 30a36: Western white 33a35: do mixed
3Oa31; Penna 30a36 Rye firm at 62a65. Hay
quiet; primo to choice Western S12a13 Provisions
steady with good iobbing demand; Mess Pork
$1OaS1O 80. Bulkmeats, shoulders, and clear
rib sides hacked 4&a6al. Bacon shoulders o4 f;
clear rib sides 71h; hams 112.a12A. Lard
refined ia. Butter steady; Western packed
11a14 creamery 19a2l Eggs quiet at liza
17k. Coffee steady: Rio cargoes, ordinary to
fair SaSai Sugar firm; A soft 7. Whlskey
lower at 81 Hal Is.
cH CAGo, Sept 3O-11:15 a. m.-Wheat open
ed weak this morning, with few sales at st for
November but broke off again to S5as and has
since rallied to S52.as59s. Corn very weak and
Oats weak, 23Ss for September. Pork weak,
50 80 for October. Lard unchanged.
New YORK, Sept 30-stocks dull and strong.
Money easy at l. Cotton steady uplands 1O1-16;
Orleans 10 SIG; futures steady. Flour dull
and heavy. Wheat unsettled and better. Corn
lower. Pork steady at 50 5Oa1O 90. Lard
heavy at So 20.
ALEXANDRIA CATTLE MARKET Sept. 80, 1885.
Prices ranged as follows:
Cattle-Eery best. AS p
Good. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IA
Medium or fair quality ................ ga
Ordinary thin Steers Oxen andCows go
Calves ..."''
Sneep....'.......... ''. f1
Lambs.....
Hogs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
Cows and Calves 2oaSio.
The market this week was fairly supplied with
all kinds of stock Cattle in fair demand at prices
slightly lower than for several weeks. Ihe quail
| ty was very good ard most OF the offerings were
sold Calves in moderate demand at quotations.
Sheep dull and nominal. Lambs in fair request.
Hogs dull. Cows aud Calves in good demand.
| GEORGETOWN CATTLE MARKET Sept. 29-At
Drovers' Eest this week 225 Cattle sold at gao
| cents per h. Some $50 Sheep and Lambs were
offered with sales of Sheep at %. IA y cents, and
| Lambs 3a514, cts per lb. Some few Cows and
Calves sold at S;25a5o per head.
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 30. 1855.
Sun rises........ 5 80 sur sets.... D 40
PASSED UP.
schr Chrome, for Washington.
r ARGE. PLEASANT ROOMS WITH BOARD
| i or board only, can be had by applying to MISS
F.F MASON, No. III Queen street, four dooEs
below Washington. sepao-eo1m-
GALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE IN
ID UPPER FAUQUIER, VA.
To be SOLD at private sale TWO TRACTS OF
| LAND. allotted to D. Z. Bayne and others IN the
division of the real estate of the late Daniel
Kerfoot. These tracts contain about LIS acres
each. and will be sold separately or together, a:
may suit the buyers
| The location is in the heart of the Blue Grass
section of Fauquier county. Va, two miles from
the attractive and flourshing town of Uppcrville
in the best quality of Upper Fauquier land, most
| IL under stone fence, well-watered and In good