The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-15

LOUISVILLE. ny. October -. smaller
receipts. larger offerings Of burleys and low
grades duh. smaller offerings Of darks and
lower. and frost killing the remainder of
the outstanding crop. were the leading
features this week.
Huficvs.-Miih larger offerings of the
better grades and free buying Of the lead
ing Detroit manufacturer. there was more
animation this week, bat all the lower
grades were still very duh. and red smoking
sorts lower. ON Thursday medium 10 good
filters were one cent higher. but settled down
AGAIN TO where they have been Of late.
with prices of the former somewhat
irregular Yesterday. Fine and select
leaf nominal last week. sold this
week on q par with previous sales AT
lSc. 10 2oc. for fine, and 22l e. 10 Do. iol
select sweet leaf. Medium red fllers were
easy. and common and trash nearer inside
figures Red smokers were 70. lower, and
dull all round. with exceptional sales al
under lc. COlory To bright cutting. from
trash mp 20 good. We're less active. quota
tiOns of which revise. with strictly uni
form bright and sweet scarce. Fine and
select leaf nominal last week sold at poo. 10
22i.c. and - 90. 10 DC. this week. Wrap
pors entirely nominal from scarcity. Re
ioctiOns Of low grades were heavy this
week. All sweet red and cOlOry filters and
bright cutting. from good medium upwards,
are i'm demand and generally firm. with
comparatively few of the higher grades olicr-
ing Ten hhdS. sold privately.
Dark. With fewer offered. bids for low
and medium grades were even lower than
last week. and only an exceptional hoe~head
of GOOD strictly dark heavy leaf to Doe met
with now. and then brought to Sic.
quote AN GRADES &C. lower. with prices more
nominal than otherwise. and reflections were
even heavier than last week. Plug as well
at cigar wrapper leaf are things of the past.
and only 90 Doe hoped for in the lNN crop.
when marketed. Prices Of Italian and
French Rceic STYLES are i'm the hands Of
BUYERS. Notwithstanding the low prices al
which contracts were taken they viii Doe
wound zap with very satisfactory margins
tO contractors. Ofd darks are scarcely io
Dee met with. ~oycniy-iye hoeshcai- -,
and 30 hogshead> lS~l crop sold privately.
Grccn Htrcf FNicrs nIfd cutters. FOR
Grade, with any color there has been more
active demand at auction for New ORR and
| Canada which decided scarcity of cOlOry
either LIGHT or heavy bodied. quote Jugs
| from 20. to 81 &C.. common 90 medium lcdl
&C.. % Jisc.. GOOD leaf &c.. 10 So. and nnc 40
90. 10 llc. depending ON color and uniform
packing. sixty hO-,heads sold privately
for New York.
NOndcScrpfS. Offerings OF both ola ana
new were large. but ~ duh - can h1
| imagined. at nearer inside figures.
Weather ANIL Cr0p. The killing irO-t-
early this week finished all Of the 0utstand-
! ine crop. which did not amount 10 enough
fO cat any figure i'm the supply of amy sort.
while they did good hy killing all the croI
Of suckers which the very favorable wealth
er since the frosts would have brought forth
to the injury of the trade al large. Reports
of damage by frost 10 late cut green tobacco
ON the scaf0lds and in the house have been
industriously circulated. but will fail "a
help the losing game Of unfortunate holders
of all low grades.
ALEXANDER ilAKInlLL.