The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-17
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.

RICHMOND. VA. Aug. i6.-NO offerings
| OF tObaccos at auction on Change To-Day.
Offerings Of tobaccos at auction on'chanCc
for the week ending August ~, 800. ~
packages. 5000 was the highest price Oh
famed for the week.
Private sales reported 10 the secretary
to-day: Wrappers. hOgshead: iillers, -
hogsheads; dark tobaccOs, hogshcads.
Total. ~ hogsheads.
Private sales reported 10 the secretary
for the week ending Saturday, August 10,
$3.50: Wrappers, 63 hogsheads, illers, III
hogsheads; cutters, g. hogsheads; smokers,
90 hOgshcads: scrap. 3j hogslcnds; dark
tObaccos, 100 hogsheads; burleys, I hogs
heads; cutting Tugs, - hogsheads. Total,
80 h0gsheads.
Office Of the tobacco inspector reports to-
day: InspectIOns-Dark.l Is hOgshoads.
For the week ending saturday. August
10. 1890: Inspections Bright. 1872 hogs
heads dark, 81 hog~heads; Western. ]
hogshead. Reinspections- Bright. y hogs
heads; dark, los hOgshcads, Western ~
hOgsheads.
Farmers. Wilson's, Allegheny. Old Do
miniOn. Crenshaw's, Daycnport's. Planters
and Merchants, Shelburnes', SeabrOOk's
and ShOckOe warehouses report to-day; Re
ceipts. Gi hOgshcads, , tierccs and boxes
Deliveries. 90 hogsheads
Same warehouses, with Virginia and
MYERS. warehouses added. report for the
week ending Saturday. August H.. lS'1:
Receipts. 81 hogshcads, 90 tierCcs and
boxes. Deliveries, Gl2 hogsheads, II tierccs
and boxes.
Office of the collector OF the juitcd states
internal revenue reports collections for the
city of Richmond for to-day rs follows:
Tax paid cigars and cigarettes, SAG -;
do. tonaccos. N.l9l.>4; do. special, Sl9.lj:
do. penalty. $l3.70. Total, 81, lol.jl.
Internal revenue collections for the city Of
Richmond for the week ending Saturday.
August IL. 1890: Tax paid ON cigars ard
cigarettes, $1.2l0.30; do. t0baccoS. S20,3i6;
do. special. 500; do. penalty, $3.50. To-
tai, S27.6l9.7j.
United states War Department Weather
Map. dated SATURDAY. August i6, lNlD.
shows no rainfall at Louisville, ky- Gin
oinnati. o.. or Cairo, Ill.,, for The past TWEEN
ty-lour hours.
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange to-
day. A. IIatchett ESD. llendW son. y. G..
\ letter from MIR. jackson Iurpin. dated
Cincinnati, o., August II. $3.50, says: "Our
sales have been very heavy every day this
week. don't think there Is any indication
of lower prices. Buzzard, are as high a.
ever. We have had a right heavy rain here
to-day"
Colonel "Baldy" Hatchctt editor Of the
"Henderson 'Iomahawk," who has been Ia
Richmond for several days past, visiting
friends. was on Change to-day
The Richmond tobacco market was quiet
to-day, though there we're fair sales for
saturday market. The market for the past
week was active and strong. with good in
quiry. and considerable sales for thi,
period OF the year OF bright wrappers, fllefs,
cutters. smokers, cutting-lugs, bright
scraps, and dark tobacc0s.
Inspections and reinspecti0ns were light
for entire list to-day. Inspections Of both
bright and dark tObaccos were very good
for the week. ReinspectionO for the week
were light for the entire list. Internal
revenue collections were heavy for plug
tobaccos to-day, as they were for the entire
week. I. Mel.