Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-21

WEST PHILADELPHIA STOCK YARDS, Jan. lS.-
Cattle, market fais: sales, $500 head rime
5sa .dc.; !; good, dAa5kc.; medium, S%ashc'i
sheen, market dull; srles, II 900 head: prime,
5a5hc; good, 4ha4Ac.; medium, ss'4ac-i COM
Hog, market fair sales, $500 head; prime
NEW YORK, Jan. -Beeves-Receipts, 900
car loads or $500 head, making l3,luu heal Tor
the week; good and prime stock had a fair dc
mand at about former prices, while inferior
aud ordinary cattle ruled dull at Decline Of
about 15c. psr 100 pounds, and 20 car loads
sia6, IS per 100 pounds, q single car load going
for Sc 37S; dry COWS sold at s3.40a4. sheep
Receipts Il car loads, or ID 200 head; sheep fell
on 15c., per 100 pounds, lambs fully 6oc. and
the market closed dull and weak; extremes
were 3Ha5xc per pound for sheep and 6a6Ac.
for lambs, with one car load OF fancy lambs
sold at re. Hogs-Receipts, 100 car loads, or
1890 heal; nominally steady Tor live hogs al
CHICAGO, Jan 1S.-Cattle- Receipts, 6, 700 head;
shipments 1900 head; marketsteady; shipping
steers ss6ea5s5 stockers sna o Ieed en ssva
Hogs-Receipta, $1,000 head shipments, a,ooQ
head strong for heavy and weak Tor nght
grades: rough and mixed, " soasss; pac,k,,ng
and shipping, 95a4. 25 light 81 4oa5so; skips'
So GUa3.56. Sheep-Receipts, 81 % head: SNIP
ments 1000 head stronger; natives, Sz2oao
western, So 50a4; TEXANS, g. 20a3o0 lambs, -
a5.75. The Dropers' journal special cablegram n
from IIyerpnol reports the cattle market
stronger than last week; prices &c. higher: pest
American steers, selling at 1870. per pound.
EAST LIBERTY, Pa, Jan lSLCattiemn ao
2,262 head; shipments, 1,36S head merket SLOW
and fsa9Dc on from last weeks prices; shipments
to New York IS carloads. Hogs = heceipts,
$500 head; shipments, 4.sOO head; MARCY "a, ~
slow Philadelphias, $395a4 workers., sheoa
agO; shipments TO New YORK. % carioaas;
sheep-Receipts, 1000 head shipments, o,SoU
hea /; market very dull al about CSC. lower tnan
last weeks closing prices.
BALTIMORE, Jan. lS.-Beef Catue-MaIkel
slow: offerings in excess Of demand; prices
Kakc lower; best beeves, ba5Hc; nrsl
quality, 4a5c medium, 3Aasc.; ordinary,
JHa3Sc.; most OF the sales were from 20 DC.
receipts, 1,773 head sales, S03 head. swine
Full supply and trade only modera' ely lair re
ceipts f,2l6 head; quotations, 6abAc. the
receipts Of sheep and lambs were 4,6U5 head
quotations; sheep, 2ka5c.; lambs. 2%a5kc.
BUFFALO, N, Y, Jan. 1S.-Cattle-heceipts
1000 head; market dull and weak at the lowes
prices Of the season; ofIerings mainly q poo
quality; extra steers, $4s0a5.2bs goo1 Hnipperf
Of from 1900 to 1890 pounds "A 30a4 70 light e
fair, $S.65a4.16; fat oxen, s87baA 60i mixed
butchers, S3a3.50; old cows 81 soa2 75i feeders
s. 25a3.60 Sheep-Receip ~, O0O neal MARIE
fully 5Oa75c. per hundred weight lower thai
same time last week; common 70 fair, 81 2oas 70
| good to choice, So 90a4.50; few extra hroufh
a. 7Oaa IS. western lambs, 8aa5.75 Canadas, S5.0
| as. Hogs-Receipts, i4,00J head; market openet
steady, but closed dull and &c. lower; WORKERS
\ s3.90a4; light mixed, s3.e5a3 20; good mediums
S4a41o; choice heavy, s4.oeati5.