The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-06

LOUISVILLE, Ky, February 2-N0'
BVrilr We had another week of large
offerings. with far the largest proportion
of low grades and i'm softer condition
than during any week this season. F0r
inferior quality. large quantity of green,
hOuse-burn, and other damage the Oilei-
ings This week were probably never
eQualled, with o very general opinion
that exactly such quality will De
largely in excess throughout the year
For home trade common filters such stnl
Is useless. and only the rranulatinr and
cutting machines viii fall heir 20 % IN
turning out The poorest, most mixed,
diseased and unripe stun ever offered t0
smokers hardly deserving the name of
tobacco, what little there is possessing
any preientiOns To- color, being It's only
salvation in bringing prices 90 pay grow
ers II prices have in some cases proved
unsatisfactory, the fault has been due en-
tirely 10 unparalleled inferiority and
meanncss, and only % an unusually early
and large demand for low grades have
prices been So well maintained, which
repeat for all trash and common Tugs, as
unchanged from last week For all
grades Of filters and cutters, the
demand was again active and
prices full, and in the case
of good medium TO fine leaf and selec-
tons, the demand was again ahead Of the
supply, as it has been for weeks past,
with lSl cents paid for Spencer county
(ky) colory leaf-the highest this sea-
sOn-beIng cent higher than last week.
Not a strictly bright hogshead offered
this week, such probably being held back
by owners for later sales. Export styles
were In active demand, and fuller prices
paid for the more cOlOry sorts, while me
dunn to good red filters, rejected ia some
cases last week, brought handsome adj
yances yesterday, such closing strong all
around To-day market unchanged
Old BWley. With larger offerings
than last week al old red and colOry in
good order were freely taken, al fully
our late quotations, with no strictly fine
bright offered Large manufacturers
from Detroit and Missouri lent consider
able animation 10 the market, by their
free bidding and buying OF both old and
new.
HMy In I'D dark there is nothing
new TO report, the same apathy IN bid
ding as before, and disinclinaiion on the
part OF sellers 20 LEI 60 in the face Of the
fearful losses to owners. OF nee, scarce
Is hogshead OF strictly heavy tobacco
offered being something we have yet 90
see. In Green River filters nothing new
NNr Dark The offerings were larger
than last week, bu, consisted Of the same
thin, stingy, One-sucker red and green
and mixed leaf and Tugs we have been
favored with all this season, with word
that not much else need be expected from
a crop that has been very greatly oyeIesti-
mated as to lis good quality. For such
as il IS, the leaf has more length than
ueual, which is The only thing in It's
favor, and for that reason handlers of
such pay from 81 to cents for the best
ofit An offered is light-bodied and none
uniform The Tugs, while leafy and fairly
clean, are detesIably mean in quality
color and greenness.
New trash viii pay growers better 10
use il for manure on their lands, than
ship IL TO be sold at present figures
although all 1t is worth, and nobody
wanting it,
Sales privately consisted Of 3,2 hhds.,
2iO hhds being Green river filters, 10
hhds OF old hurley, 90 hhds. Of old dark
leaf and Tugs, the balance scattering.
The weather OF late has been very cold,
but with little or no snow, stopping
handling in the country for the present.
ALEX HARTHuL.