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GENERAL NEWS.
Gen. Butler is now out of office.
A verdict of not guilty was rendered in the Emma Bond case.
St. Petersburg, Russia, is in a panic over recent acts of the Nihilists.
Two wolves have lately been killed in the vicinity of Douglas Park,
Chicago.
Another effort is soon to be made in Congress to reinstate Fitz John
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Brokers in Dubuque have offered $330,000 cash for the B.F. Allen
Homestead.
At Winnipeg on Thursday of last week the mercury was 45 degrees below
zero.
Albert E. Kent, of San Francisco, gives $25,000 for a chemical
laboratory at Yale College.
Judge McCrary, of the Supreme Court, has resigned, and accepted a
position as a railway attorney.
The Government of China has ordered the construction of two more torpedo
boats at the German port of Stettin.
St. Louis had many fires last week. There were nine outbreaks within
forty-eight hours. The firemen were completely worn out.
There were 319 failures in the United States last week--the largest
number yet recorded within the same number of days.
There was strong talk at Hillsboro of lynching the discharged prisoners
in the Emma Bond case, but better counsel prevailed.
Governor Stoneman presided at a meeting in San Francisco, where
arrangements were made to hold a world's exposition in 1887.
The mercury at Charleston, S.C., was 13 degrees below zero January 4th.
Through New England the weather was extremely cold.
Mary, the seventeenth wife of the late Brigham Young, died at Salt Lake
City Saturday from blood poisoning. She has fourteen survivors.
A pie made of tainted meat caused the poisoning of sixteen boarders and
three Sisters at a convent in Montreal. Two of the former are
dangerously ill.
It is announced from Paris that the French government is intending to
sell the railways owned by the Republic. The Rothschilds stand ready to
purchase them.
By a railroad accident near Fort Dodge, on Wednesday last, three persons
were killed and several wounded. Among the killed was Mrs. J.H. South,
of Bureau Co., Ills.
Mrs. Holcomb, daughter of the murdered millionaire Crouch, of Michigan,
has committed suicide. There is some suspicion that she knew something
about the murder.
A nihilist proclamation has been issued threatening the Czar. There is
much anxiety at Gatschina palace. It is now said the Czar's injury in
the shoulder the other day was caused by a bullet.
The United States Consul General at Cairo reports the deaths by the
cholera epidemic at from 65,000 to 70,000. A member of the international
tribunal says there are still from one to three fatal cases each day.
The Gould system of railroads is about to establish a telegraph school
at St. Louis, with a view not only to educating operators, but of
selecting pupils from the acclimated people along the Southwestern
lines.
The Catholic convent at Belleville, Ill., took fire from the furnace
Saturday evening, and in an hour was reduced to ashes. Sixty pupils made
desperate efforts to escape, some of them leaping from the windows.
Twenty-seven lives were lost.
The Secretary of State at Springfield has issued papers of incorporation
to Col. Wood's museum, at Chicago, with a capital stock of $100,000. The
Colonel is said to have secured a lease of his old stand on Randolph
street, and the Olympic Theatre.
Henry Villard closed his business career by handing over to assignees
his mansion on Madison square and other property, with instructions to
dispose of the same, pay a mortgage of $200,000, and discharge any
indebtedness to the Oregon Railway Company, the residue to be given to
his wife.
The directors of the Northern Pacific road held a meeting in New York,
on Friday, of last week. A letter was read from Henry Villard, resigning
the presidency of the company because of nervous prostration and in
deference to the interests of the stockholders. The resignation was
accepted, and a special election was ordered to choose a successor. The
directors voted Mr. Villard $10,000 per annum for his services. Vice
President Oakes reported the line in first-class order except one
hundred miles near the junction west of Helena. It is understood that
the Oregon Navigation company will reduce its dividends to 8 per cent.
The Oregon Transcontinental has raised $3,000,000 in Boston with which
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MARKETS
MARKET REPORTS.
OFFICE OF THE PRAIRIE FARMER,
CHICAGO. Jan 8, 1884.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The extremely cold weather of the past week interfered with business
very generally. In financial circles, as in others, the arctic wave made
matters rather quiet. Early in the present week, however, business at
the banks was active. The arrival of delayed mail trains added to the
volume of business; but while there was much activity, the monetary
situation remained about the same as usual.
In the loan market quotations were 6@7 per cent.
Eastern exchange sold at 70@75c per $1,000 premium.
Government securities are as follows:
4's coupons, 1907 Q. Apr. 123-1/4
4's reg., 1907 Q. Apr. 123-1/4
4-1/2's coupon, 1891 Q. Mar. 114-1/8
4-1/2's registered, 1891 Q. Mar. 114-1/8
3's registered Q. Mar. 100
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
The leading produce markets have been irregular for several days past,
and the tendency, in the main, was downward. Yesterday wheat was
moderately active, but the market was depressed at the close. There was
a drop, also, in corn, oats, mess pork, and lard.
FLOUR was quiet at about the following rates.
Choice to favorite white winters $5 25 @ 5 50
Fair to good brands of white winters 4 75 @ 5 00
Good to choice red winters 5 00 @ 5 50
Prime to choice springs 4 75 @ 5 00
Good to choice export stock, in sacks, extras 4 25 @ 4 50
Good to choice export stock, double extras 4 50 @ 4 65
Fair to good Minnesota springs 4 50 @ 4 75
Choice to fancy Minnesota springs 5 25 @ 5 75
Patent springs 6 00 @ 6 50
Low grades 2 25 @ 3 50
WHEAT.--Red winter, No. 2 96 @ 98c; car lots of spring, No. 2, sold at
93-3/4 @ 95c; No. 3, do. 77-1/2 @ 81c.
CORN.--Moderately active. Car lots No. 2, 57-3/8 @ 57-5/8c; rejected,
46-1/2; new mixed, 48 @ 48-1/4c.
OATS.--No. 2 in store, closed 33-1/2 @ 33-5/8.
RYE.--May, in store 58 @ 58-1/2.
BARLEY.--No. 2, 62 @ 63c; No. 3, 44c.
FLAX.--Closed at $1 41.
TIMOTHY.--$1 25 per bushel. Little doing.
CLOVER.--Quiet at $5 90 @ 6 15 for prime.
PROVISIONS.--Mess pork, February, $14 45 @ 14 47-1/2 per bbl; May,
$15 @ 15 05. Green hams, 8-3/8c, per lb. Short ribs, $7 42-1/2 per cwt.
LARD.--January, $8 75; February, $8 85.
LUMBER.
Lumber unchanged. Quotations for green are as follows:
Short dimension, per M $9 50 @ 10 00
Long dimension, per M 10 00 @ 11 50
Boards and strips, No. 2 11 00 @ 13 00
Boards and strips, medium 13 00 @ 16 00
Boards and strips, No. 1 choice 16 00 @ 20 00
Shingles, standard 2 10 @ 2 20
Shingles, choice 2 25 @ 2 30
Shingles, extra 2 40 @ 2 60
Lath 1 65 @ 1 70
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
NOTE.--The quotations for the articles named in the following list are
generally for commission lots of goods and from first hands. While our
prices are based as near as may be on the landing or wholesale rates,
allowance must be made for selections and the sorting up for store
distribution.
BEANS.--Hand picked mediums $2 00 @ 2 10. Hand picked navies,
$2 15 @ 2 20.
BUTTER.--Dull and without change. Choice to extra creamery, 32 @ 35c per
lb.; fair to good do. 26 @ 30c; fair to choice dairy, 25 @ 30c; common
to choice packing stock fresh and sweet, 20 @ 25c; ladle packed
10 @ 13c; fresh made, streaked butter, 9 @ 11c.
BRAN.--Quoted at $11 87-1/2 @ 13 50 per ton; extra choice $13.
BROOM-CORN.--Good to choice hurl 6-1/2 @ 7-1/2c per lb; green
self-working 5 @ 6c; red-tipped and pale do. 4 @ 5c; inside and covers
3 @ 4c; common short corn 2-1/2 @ 3-1/2c; crooked, and damaged, 2 @ 4c,
according to quality.
CHEESE.--Choice full-cream cheddars 12-1/2 @ 13c per lb; medium quality
do. 9 @ 10c; good to prime full cream flats 13 @ 13-3/4c; skimmed
cheddars 9 @ 10c; good skimmed flats 6 @ 7c; hard-skimmed and common
stock 3 @ 4c.
EGGS.--In a small way the best brands are quotable at 25 @ 26c per
dozen; 20 @ 23c for good ice house stock; 18 @ 19c per pickled.
HAY.--No. 1 timothy $10 @ 10 50 per ton; No. 2 do. $8 @ 9; mixed do.
$7 @ 8; upland prairie $8 00 @ 10 75; No. 1 prairie $6 @ 7; No. 2 do.
$4 50 @ 5 50. Small bales sell at 25 @ 50c per ton more than large bales.
HIDES AND PELTS.--Green-cured light hides 8c per lb; do. heavy cows 8c;
No. 2 damaged green-salted hides 6c; green-salted calf 12 @ 12-1/2
cents; green-salted bull 6 c; dry-salted hides 11 cents; No. 2
two-thirds price; No. 1 dry flint 14 @ 14-1/2c. Sheep pelts salable at
28 @ 32c for the estimated amount of wash wool on each pelt. All branded
and scratched hides are discounted 15 per cent from the price of No. 1.
HOPS.--Prime to choice New York State hops 25 @ 26c per lb; Pacific
coast of 23 @ 26c; fair to good Wisconsin 15 @ 20c.
POULTRY.--Prices for good to choice dry picked and unfrozen lots are:
Turkeys 14 @ 15c per lb; chickens 10 @ 11c; ducks 10 @ 12c; geese
9 @ 11c. Thin, undesirable, and frozen stock 2 @ 3c per lb less than
these figures; live offerings nominal.
POTATOES.--Good to choice 35 @ 40c per bu. on track; common to fair
25 @ 30c. Illinois sweet potatoes range at $3 @ 3 50 per bbl for yellow.
Baltimore stock at $2 25 @ 2 75, and Jerseys at $5. Red are dull and
nominal.
TALLOW AND GREASE.--No. 1 country tallow 7@7-1/4c per lb; No. 2 do.
6-1/4 @ 6-1/2 c. Prime white grease 6 @ 6-1/2 c; yellow 5-1/4 @ 5-3/4c:
brown 4-1/2@5.
VEGETABLES.--Cabbage, $8 @ 12 per 100; celery, 35 @ 40c per doz bunches;
onions, $1 00 @ 1 25 $ bbl for yellow, and $1 for red; turnips,
$1 35@ 1 50 per bbl for rutabagas, and $1 00 for white flat.
WOOL.--from store range as follows for bright wools from Wisconsin,
Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Eastern Iowa--dark Western lots
generally ranging at 1 @ 2c per lb. less.
Coarse and dingy tub 25 @ 30
Good medium tub 31 @ 34
Unwashed bucks' fleeces 14 @ 15
Fine unwashed heavy fleeces 18 @ 22
Fine light unwashed heavy fleeces 22 @ 23
Coarse unwashed fleeces 21 @ 22
Low medium unwashed fleeces 24 @ 25
Fine medium unwashed fleeces 26 @ 27
Fine washed fleeces 32 @ 33
Coarse washed fleeces 26 @ 28
Low medium washed fleeces 30 @ 32
Fine medium washed fleeces 34 @ 35
Colorado and Territory wools range as follows:
Lowest grades 14 @ 16
Low medium 18 @ 22
Medium 22 @ 26
Fine 16 @ 24
Wools from New Mexico:
Lowest grades 14 @ 16
Part improved 16 @ 17
Best improved 19 @ 23
Burry from 2c to 10c off: black 2c to 5c off.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
The total receipts and shipments for last week were as follows:
Received. Shipped.
Cattle 25,594 13,722
Calves 353 166
Hogs 45,376 31,864
Sheep 14,206 8,903
The live stock receipts are increasing, and show a large gain over last
week.
CATTLE.--The receipts for Sunday and Monday were rather large, being
estimated at 6,800 head of cattle, as against 3,700 received in the
corresponding time last week. Shipping grades of cattle were active and
firm yesterday at $5 @ 6 67-1/2, exporters taking a fair number. Common
lots were lower, with sales to dressed-beef buyers as low as $4 25. A
good share of the day's trading was done at $5 70 @ 6 60. Quotations are
as follows:
Fancy fat cattle $ 6 75 @ 7 00
Choice to prime steers 6 05 @ 6 70
Fair to good shipping steers 5 55 @ 6 00
Common to medium steers 4 25 @ 5 50
Butcher's steers 4 50 @ 5 00
Cows and bulls, common to good 3 00 @ 4 25
Inferior cows and bulls 2 00 @ 2 95
Stockers 3 40 @ 4 40
Feeders 4 25 @ 4 75
Milch cows, per head 25 00 @55 00
Veal calves, per 100lbs 4 00 @ 7 25
HOGS.--The receipts Sunday and Monday were estimated at 18,000 hogs,
against only 6,700 received in the corresponding time last week.
Although the receipts have been increasing during the last few days,
supplies are still remarkably small for the first half of January. The
great bulk of the crop has undoubtedly been marketed, but there are
known to be a very good number still unmarketed, and it is believed that
farmers are unwilling to ship freely to this market while packers are so
largely inactive, fearing a decline in prices. Shippers have been taking
most of the hogs lately. Butchers took in the neighborhood of 1,900
hogs, leaving a few thousand still unsold. Sales were made of heavy at
$5 10 @ 6 25; light at $5 10 @ 5 75, and skips and culls at $3 50 @ 5.
Note.--All sales of hogs are made subject to a shrinkage of 40 lbs for
piggy sows and 80 lbs for stags. Dead hogs sell for 1-1/2c per lb for
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SHEEP.--The market opened with a good supply, the receipts for Sunday
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the same time last week. There was an active local and shipping demand
for all desirable offerings, and prices ruled firm at the recent
advance, sales being made of fair to choice at $3 65 @ 5 60.
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