The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-04

would be more charity. and the worl,
would be brighter and the sun seen
warmer, and everybody would be han
: pier. Don't you think so?
I CHALLIERE.
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT
RICHMOND TOBACCO EXCHANGE. Angus
: 5.-No sales at auction to-day, it being
, saturday. Private sales reported to the
secretary are as follows. to-wit
Wrappers, 81 hhds.: filters, 1853 hhds.
hurley. 81 hhds.: cutters. 81 hhds.
dark tobaccos. 9 hhds. Total sales
Saturday, August 3. 1889, 2OG hhds.
DELIVERIES reported to- day by the fol-
lowing warehouses. tO-wit: Farmers
Grenshaw's, Shockoe, Blanchard's.
Davenport s, Centre and Seabrook s
warehouses, IS hhds. Same ware
houses report deliveries for week end
ing Saturday, August 81, $50 hhds.
Ofiice OF the toba eco inspector reports
today Inspections, 45 hogsbeads: re-
inspections, 20 hogsheads. Total in
spections to day. II hogsheads.
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange
to-day: Il. NJ. Craddock. j. II. GRAY.
Petersburg, Va; w. Haas, Bremen:
Isaac y. Day. Oxford, y. &.
Office of the collector of the internal
revenue reports to day 5 collections as
follows, to.wit On cigars and cipa-
rsttes. S2,l71.4j; on tobacco. S2.0i4. GA.
Total collections for city to-day, Sf.-
PIG %.
Prominent tobacco commission mer-
chants give the following extract from
their correspondence from Louisa
county.
"Wehave had two weeks of dry wealth
or. Every thing has gone over since that
time very much. 1t has been raining
almost all the time. Things are on the
other extreme-abOut drowned out. /
look to hear of tremendous high water
all around. 1t has been falling i'm tor
rents hereabOuts for eighteen hours
Another cOrresL Ondent writes 1T
has been raining here for thirty-six
hours. and during the last fifteen hours
live inches of water, by measurement.
have fallen. Tobacco already french
ed and wilted, and growing worse
every day. 1t is still cloudy, and am
looking for big rain tonight. Wheat
has not been threshed: is sproutirg
badly. Corn completely gone up.
Things look very blue on the average
G.. Mol.
RICHMOND, August 3.-Ths monoto-
nously dull Saturday to .day was an ex-
ceptiOn 10 this rule, and on no day i'm the |
past three weeks has there been more |
general trading. Taking in some late |
sales yesterday evening and to-day. |
there were sales in round numbers of |
fifty hOgsheads of burleys, sixty hogs.
heads of old smokers. TWENTY-FIVE hog -
heads of new and old wrappers, and
l25 hogsheads of new filters. while
pending trading may very considerably
increase these sales. In darks, doiDgs
are in the dark somewhat. but. no
doubt, from rather brighter faces Of the
sellers. there is something more cheer
ing IN the atmosphere IN this line also.
Surely the situation justifies this
For many years past the
tobacco business has been an uphill
)ne. All signs Of advances seem to have
been annulled 10y one cause or another
The Western markets
advanced phenOmenally.w while Virginia
and North Carolina tobacco remained
1t that time comparatively low. There
vas big surplus stock to contend with
md trade was dull
This year stocks Cf manufacturing ,
nave been greatly reduced and the {
themselves have not !
'een supplying themselves ahead Of
wants, as was their custom years ago.
,ut now with a large home consump-
ion of Virginia and North Carolina to
)accO, with great revival Of trade in -
he interior small plug markets of Vir-
,inia and North Carolina there has beena
teady and large consumption of old to-
'accOs. A large stock of double old
nj filters, a burden upon the market, n
Ound an ultimate outlet to Canada :
he cheap smokers were dispersed and I,
ispensed TO all quarters at low figures. h
nd our present market is i'm a healthy -
onditiOn TO advance and retain the adj 4
ance on the increasingly bad 4,
fter confirmed short crop reports o.
rom Virginia and North Carolina, as d
ell as the West. The Western Pryor .,
,bacco having been put largely with al
rips. there has been an advance IN ,,
lat favOrite filler. and hence Virginia p
'baccO has again chance as a substi- 4,
tie at better prices. @,
The Spanish contract for 1900 hogs :,
sads Western Tugs is another item ~
lat adds to the strength Of the tobacco
tuatiOn. Ii is also a known fact that
bbers have not unduly Oyerstocked
emselves. They buy from any fac
ry on the merit OF the tobacco q,
self, and thus they know that 81
e drummer will be around at -
times. and stock and trade won I a.
fer for want of constant supply: %
nee they are not compelled to stock -
, ahead. The general average now OF 4,
e tobacco trade at large is that The Oc
op West il not over go per cent -
nile that Of Virginia is equally short, ri
d perhaps nearer 30 per cent. short -
day after the week 5 Disaster.
Whatever the growth may be here
er, it cannot be naturally good to-
eco. 1t is true. we hear one say
tn continued rains we will have a 10,
e crop, but the same wise heads said NJ
len we had drouth. that there was on
thing better for tobacco than hot, ca.
y weather all the time. That there is a qu
tier feeling large sales and smaller La
'eipts in this and other markets lately So
nit of no doubt. We propose TO keep Su
thful accounts of events. We give err
iOnal reasons fIom our surround 4.
Is. not expecting all to agree with us
our conclusions. w. +. ID.
Tobacco Ily-kiiler.
he following mixture il recon- Hu
nded and is well known to many cir