Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-12

Flour is in fair receipt and unchanged. Wheat
is steady with good milling and shipping de-
mand for high grades, while common lots are easy
There is still n very slack foreign demand with
but little speculative feeling. Futures are
irregular and shade lower. 5000 bushels were
sold on Change this morning at 93a03 l8s94 for
good Fultz. 9Oa92 for ordinary, 7oaS5 for dam
aged and common, 94s95 for mixed aud o4a97
for ordinary to good longberry; no strictly prime
has been offered in this market for several days.
Corn is firm Rye is steady. Oats arc easy
Chickens, Potatoes and other produce arc album
dant and owing to the heavy receipts of melons
and fruit prices lower.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 12.--Va. IS deferred =; con,
solidated =; past due coupons o5al; do new lo
4Os "a y; new IS 5Gas bid to-day. Cotton dull;
middling 1893 Flour steady and firm; Howard
street and Western super SD OOa3 40; do extra
So 5Oa1 %; DO family 81 35a5 25: City Mills
supcr So 21a3 50; do extra SD I5a4 OD: do
Rio Brands a 9Oa5 co. Patapsco family 50 10;
do suuerlstive patent SO CO. Wheat-Southern
firm and active; Western lower and active;
Southern red 97s99; do amber 1OOa1U2; No
Maryland 81 iaa9S; No Western winter rod
spot 93Tsa944l; August 939s bid; September goa
96ls: October 9Sa,a99; November zoos bid.
Corn-Southcrn lower for white; yellow steady;
Western neglected Southern white 5S'aaGO;
do yellow 62aG3 Western mixed August 53
asa; year 46a47Ie. Oats firm Southern 31a
Al: Western white 39a4O; DO mixed 3oa3S;
Penna 37a41. Rye quiet and steady at G1a61.
Hay steady: prime to choice Western $l7a19.
Provisions easier; Mess Pork S11 5OaSll 10.
Rukmeats- shoulders and clear rib sides, packed,
51aa6at Bacon shoulders 6't. ; clear rib sides
10 Hams 1915. Lard. refined, "a. Butter
steady Western packed 10a13; creamery 1Sa21.
Eggs lower at 11a12la. Coffee firm; Rio cargoes
ordinary TO fair Sassy. Sugar firm and active;
Il soft Gas Whiskey steady at 81 GOAL 81.
| CHICAGO, Aug i'll Il. M. Wheat opened
| quict and steady at about yesterdays closing
figures, soon became weak and declined with bnt
| slight fluctuations-3sa;si --now quoted 81 for
| August, $50. for September, and 81 for October.
Corn easy and quiet at 49,, for August, lGi2 for
| September, and l5GI for October. Oats steady
| and unchanged Pork weak; 12iaal5c lower;
50 321, for September and 50 S7l2 for October.
Lard easy and lower; IS 30 for September, and
| Sc 80 for October
| NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-stocka quiet and steady.
| Money easy at 1. Cotton quiet; uplands log;
| Orleans 104s; futures steady. Flour dull and
| easy. Wheat lower. Corn unchanged Pork
dull ut $11aS11 %. Lard easier at 81 90.
ALEXANDRIA CATTLE MARKET, Aug. u, 1885.
Prices ranged rs follows:
Cattle-Very best. ga
| .....
Medium or fair quality ...........-.... 4 y
| Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen andCows 3 y
Calves $1,000
Sheep............... RI,
Lambs ....'............''..''' y "a
] Hogs y d
| Cows and Calves 25a$a5.
The market this week was as for the week pre-
vious poorly supplied with Cattle, but the quality
was only ordinary. and prices asked were un-
| changed Calves in good demand. Good Sheep
| and Lambs scarce and in fair demand. Hogs dull
Cows and Calves in fair supply and slightly lower
| GEORGETOWN CATTLE MARKET August IL
At Drovers' Rest this week 60 Cattle sold at 3l2a
| ) cts per h. Some 60 Sheep and Lambs were
| offered. with sales of Sheep Mt 3a3fl cents, and
Lambs 5f,a6t cts per ID. Some ID Cows and
Calves brought $20a4O per head
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, AUGUST II 1885.
sun rises............ 10 suE sets.... ...... So
ARRIVED.
schr w II Keeney, New York, to W A smoot
s. Co.
schr Alice serrell, Urbana, TO W smoot &
| Co.
Schr G W Anderson, Georgetown, by W smoot
& Co.
schr NJ Brainard, New York, grain, by J I g
! G. Beckham.
| OTOCKHOLpERs MEETING OF THE MID
ID DLEBURG AND PLAINS TURNPIKE COM
PANY, for the purpose of electing President and
new Board of Directors, will convene at Reamers
Hotel, Middleburg. Loudoun county, Va, on SAT
URDAY, the 9th day Of September. next, at 3
o'clock p. m. JAMES PhltoI,
| ;ro1trte President
| TI1sr RECEIVED TODAY a full line of AR
eJ lists MATERIAL, consisting of New Art
Studies, Canvas on stretchers, Windsor & New
toms Tube Paints, Brass Plaques. Panels Acade-
nv Boards, Gold Paint, &c, at