The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-06-04
NOW AND
YEARS AGO
MARKETS AND PRICES AS THEY ARE
NOW AND WERE THEN.

Ponder OVer-Take 1t and Look at 1t
From All Sides.
When man is able to look before and
after and compare things of 30 years ago
With things of to-day, he finds much to
think about. Yes, it was in the good old
days of 1869, just after the war had left
the country in a butchered condition that
the following prices were quoted on Oc-
tober l1th:
Cotton-On Monday of last week the
market opened at "a to "a IL cents for
middling, and continued quiet during the
week with few Notwithstanding mac
tive on Saturday at "a IA to "a 3.8
cents. Sales for the week 388 bales.
| Corn, old $14O to $1.45; new S12O to
$1.25. Corn Meal 81. so to $155.
Flour $3.50 to S475 per sack. Wheat
None offering.
Oats Is to 80 cents. Peas $1.2O to
S125.
Baltimore Bacon sides from stores %
cents; Country Bacon, hog round. from
wagons, FL 2 to % cents; Lard % l-2
to % cents,
Fresh Butter very scarce at 35 to 40
cents; Chickens 20 to 25 cents; Eggs 20
| cents.
Beeswax 35 to 81 1-2 cents, in de-
| mand.
A Sheetings 16 1-2 to II cents. Yarns
So. 10 per bunch.
Nails 1915 to $6.25 per keg
Molasses IS cents to s1.25 per gallon
by retail.
Bagging % to. 30 cents. Ties 9 to
9 1-2 cents.
North Carolina Corn Whiskey So to
81 so per gallon.
To-day the following is about the cor
rect market:
Cotton 1850 to 7:6O for middling and
quiet.
Corn, 45 TO so cents per bushel.
Flour, $1.85 TO $210 per sack.
Oats, 35 to 40 cents Peas 60 to 20
cents.
Baltimore Bacon sides from stores to
3-9; Country Bacon, hog round g cents.
Fresh butter from II 10 Is cents; Eggs
IL 1-2 cents.
Al sheeting, 5 cents. Nails So 20 to
$3.40 per keg, but last year they were
$1.25 to $500, now a trust is on nails.
Molasses, 25c to Is per gallon by
retail.
Bagging $50 to 6.
North Carolina Corn Whiskey, $3.50
to $500 per gallon.
The following quotations were taken
from and old book found at T. L. Alex-
ander & Co.'S, keptin 1867. The following
articles were charged there:
2 linnen collars 40 cents; now the
On mn oop ha had for IL canfs
l pair gum shoes, $3.50; now SO cents.
yard linnen 75c, now 25.
l dozen buttons, 13c now Sc.
l spool thread 10c, now &c.
fan, 28c now SC; Swiss SOC, now 15c.
per yard.
l parasol. $3.50, now $1.00.
pair hose, 6Oc each, now Is cents.
l pair gloves, 81 so, now IS cents.
l yard of poplin, 35c, now cents, when
it can be found, the name has been
changed.
l yard cambria, 25c, now 10 cents.
l ID. tobacco, 80, now from 25c up.
gallon of oil 90c, now the same can
be had for Is cents.
box blacking 10c, now cents.
| l ward of calico 25c, now sc.
l pair brogan shoes So 25, now 95c
l coarse comb 35c. now 10c.
| l fine comb 4Oc, now cents.
| | fur hat $500, the same now for $500
l bar soap zoe, now cents.
| yard domestic 10c, now 1-2c.
| l card of buttons, 6Oc, now 1Oc.
| l quire paper SOC, now cents.
| 2 papers of pins l5c each, now sc.
| l silk waist Sl5, now from So SO up.
Sugar zoe, now to cents.
| Coffee 33 1-2c, now Is to rs cents.
| l pair kid gloves 1926. now $l.O0
| l rolling pin SOC, now cents,
| l diaper pin SC, now six for cents.
| l pound of soda 25c, now cents.
l sack salt So IS, now IS.
A decade ago and our quinine cost
S. per ounce and to-day it costs so cents.
per ounce There was a mighty howl
that if the tariff was taken off of quinine
the four little factories then in
America, about II years ago, would
90 to the wall. The tariff was
taken off but the mills did not 60
to the wall, instead the United States
has 10 or II quinine mills now. They are
fourishing, too. The plant, cinchona,
from which bark quinine comes, is now
cultivated, this caused the fall in price.
Now look at the Charlotte market in
on Oct. %, 1876.
Cotton continues to como in freely
although the price rules low. On SAT-
urdav the market closed quiet at g. 3-4
for Good Middling, 9 5-8 for Middling,
91-4 for Low Middling and s to fol
. lower grades.
Flour is in better demand, but remains
at obout former quotations-S2,75 te
So. 25 per sack from wagons, and from 5;
to So rs from stores. Wheat $l25 pei
bushel.
Corn in ! ood demand at 65 cents pei
bushel for new and Is cents for old. Mea
scarce at 80 cents per bushel.
e Oats scarse and in demand at IS to 81
per bushel.
Irish Potatoes IS cents per bushel-
demand good.
r Sweet Potatoes dull at 40 to so cent
per bushel-market we'll supplied.
Butter in good demand 25 cents pc