The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-06
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.

RICHMOND. August 5.-No sales at auc-
ton on Change to-day. Private sales
on Saturday should have read BOG hogs
heads, not 2OG, as printed. Private sales
TO dav were light.
Tobacco inspectors were very busy
to-day.
Deliveries to. day from Farmers vii
sons. Crenshaw's. Shockoe. Blanch-
ard s, Davcnport's, Seabrook S. and Ola
Dominion warehouses, amounted 10
1873 hogsheads.
Office of the collector Of United
States internal revenue reports collec-
tions today as follows: Cigars and
cigarettes, SSll.1j, tobacco tax paid.
S3.3l0.42. Total for city of Richmond
to-day, S4l2L57.
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange:
b. ID. Core. Northampton county Va
J. l.. Magee. Clarksville. Va.
Letters have been delayed on account
Of railroad connections being broken.
The following extracts show tenor OF
letters received
HENDERSON, y. c., August lac
cOrding to promise, will endeavor to
give a brief description of the crop IN
ours and adjoining counties. | have
been through Dutchville country, and
they are mighty sorry mean a ma
ioritv Of them-althOugh there are some
few fair crops. but upon the whole the
crop is a failure and cannot be other
wise. a. il has been raining every day
and night since was in your city, with
no prospect whatever of fairing oil. Last
night it rained in torrents for two
hours and completely flooded every
thing. washing away all the mill-dam'
for miles around.
II havemet two parties who have trav'
/ elled the counties of the tobacco sec
ton selling patent tobacco sticks, and
| they say wherever they would try e.
make a sale Of their tobacco sticks. the
/ farmers would ask them If they thought
their tobOccO was worth putting on
sticksy And they would invariably
/ have TO answer in the negative. showing
that the crops actually was not worth
cutting and curing. although of course
they found some very fair tobacco.
There is some little He,c on the mar.
ket of fair color. but very light and
D H.
sunshine. we may not look for any O0dl
or ann in tobacco this year. The far
mers will be forced to cut their tobacco
green as it yeliOlcs. before maturing OF
ripening. | want you to hold my to-
bacco for good prices, as | am certain
of higher prices later on, and the same
goods cansot be duplicated at anything
like cost even should the growing croI
take = change for the better.
II have been unable to handle any
Of NV stock since | was in Richmond
ON account Of the weather being st
damp and rainy but if the weather
ever clears of l shall go right 10 wori
and prize and ship at once. The mar
keis are very sca-ce of tobacco. Break
light and prices well up on all grades
We can repeat that the growing crop D
bound to be a failure, and that no
more than one half Of a crop can posi-
Div be made and that of light weigh
and inferior quality, although the colo
may be good Hoping to hear from
YOU very soon. &c.
A letter from an interior market un
der date of 2nd instant. says
There was an appearance OF clear
ing this forenoon, but heavy clouds an'
rain is just passing over, it really be
Gins 10 look very serious as to the fat'
of the crops, it is truly distressing an'
appalling 10 see the flooded and devas
tated condition of the dam. and Slaun
ton river bOttoms-a perfect sea oil
water. the prospec, of good tobacco II
this growth is exc dinghy gloomy.
Another correspondent from Hen
dersOn writes: I'VE nave had. and arr
now having rains all through this sec
ton, and the reports from planters ar
very gloomy: indeed, as to their TO
bacco crop, we do not think over lift,
per cent. Of crop IN quantity VIII O'
made
Letters from Milton, n. c., report th'
Dan river at from two to three fee
higher than ever known, and the de
structiOn of crops as very great.
OXFORD, n. g., August 3.-"ln re-
card to the outlook for good and fine
crop of new tobacco. that is beyond al
hopes now, al the same time you cal
expect a fair proportion Of gOod color
provided everything is favorable TO tn
crop from tins time until 1t IS housed
that is to say. with light CONTINUED
showers of rain. but dry spell settini
i'm with two or three weeks OF hot SUI
would be very disastrous as regard
color.
The following special telegram to tn
TIMES will be of interest to the Trade
LOUISVILLE, Ky August 0.-Ih
Louisville Leaf Tobacco Exchange q
its meeting to-day unanimously agree
81 TO the proposal of the Tobacco MANI
B facturers Association, by which all II
BUYERS will become buyers again IN IN
D market From this day henceiorth, D
2 this action, the shippers names Will d
D placed on the samples Of all tobacco
o. sold in this market.
E lSiqnsd. ALEX HAkTHlLL.
The Richmond tobacco market W.
3 quiet to-day. All grades OF old vi
D einia and North Carolina tlue-cured Il
e baccos are scarcer at this time then WI
S. ever known before. G. Mel.
I,ufLlturr. Nu.