The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-05
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.

R,c,,uoyp. October 4.-OHerIDgs OF to-
baccos a, auction on Change Friday De
tober 4,h. 1850: Total offerings %
packages. principally dark and sun
cured tobaccos. Highest price, ="
Four packages were taken H..
Private sales reported 10 inc rec,e
tary to-day. Wrappers, 10 hogsneaus'
filters, 3 hogsheads. smokers, D nogs'
heads: hurley, 90 hogsheads; dark 81
hogsheads. Total sales report 10 tbe
secretary to-day - hogsheads.
Office Of the tobacco inspector reports
to-day: Inspections. bright. 90 hogs,
heads: dark, 10 hogsheads: Western, u
bogsheads. Reinspectlons: bright, ,
hogsheads: dark. : hogsheads.
Office of the collector Of the United
States internal revenue reports collec-
tions for the city of Richmond to-day
az follows: Tax paiC cigars and cigar
cites. S92s0j; tobacco, s2.2sO W. spe-
cial. "a 20. Total collections for city
TO dav. SS2l317.
Farmers. Wilson's. Shockoe. Cren-
shaw 5. Blanchard's :, Davenport :, Cen
ire Seabrook's, Allegheny. Old Do
minion and Myers warehouses report
one. hundred and seventy four hogs
heads. one tierce and two boxes de'
lvered TO-DAY. ~ =
and brother Of our Nj. 1 Smith lol NJ
7. Smith d Co }. was IN the city To-Day.
Speaking of the Oxford tobacco market
he said: Breaks are heavy every Day
The color has been very fine. but has
fallen of considerably now. The wrap
prrs are thin, and good filters scarce
Tobacco with any body, and mdhogo"y
eells higher in proportion than any
other grade. Good filters are going 10
he very hard to get. There are no red.
air.cured tobaccos.r Mr.. Smith expects
IN ,eturn TO Oxford this evening.
Weextract the following from the
Paris letter to the Western 1Oodcco
Journal Of 30th ult.:
From Virginia. the most conspicuous
disolays are those of Messrs. Vaughan
&, Saryay. and Silas Shelburne. OF Rich-
mond. and Messrs. n. K. Bowman *
Co. Iynchburg, with EXHIBITS also
from Messrs. Thornton, Noble q Davis
II u. Neal. Jr.. j. j. Wilson a. Sons. l..
NJ. Griffin Richmond: II. y. E1monsob =
South Boston. ana p. W. Terrell. Dan
vile. comprising. az whole very
fine assortment Of bright as well as
dark Virginia leaf.
But for the exhibit of Mr. Alex. Hart
hill. of Louisville, the entire West
would not nave been represented at all
and TO his credit be it said, bis display
although the only one from the west.
is a good enc and Is seen TO great ad-
vantage. and. excepting the exhibit
from Baltimore. commands more at
tention than any Of the other dis
plavs. His fifteen samples comprise
a choice variety of the various
kinds OF dark. red, brown and red,
bright. and white hurley tobaccos OF
the West. both in leaf and strips, as
! largely used in Great Britain and Ire
land and other countries. besides va
r,ctv of the beautiful hurley tobacco OF
Kentucky. used so largely IN the United
States as a chewing tobacco. when
commands the attention and admlra-
ZION Of every cOnnOisseur. Mr.. hart
hill g samples are the only ones which
have descriptions on them both IN Eng
l6sh and French. which was a great adj
vantage to the Thousands Ct on-lookers
VINO understood only the French Ian
guage. aud very probably many OF
whom had never seen or heard OF tne
beautiful leaf grown in the West unlIl
they saw them in the Exposition here.
The RichmOl tobacco market was
strong today on wrappers and pUers
with good inquiry for these grades,
{. Mel.