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LIVE-STOCK MARKETS. 
CATTLE.—NEW YORK: Common to ) fair, $10 to $1. 
to prime, $12 to $13. 50; extra, $13.75 to $14.25; 3; holi 
$15.—Average, $11.75 .” Mileh cows, $45 to $90 per head; 
calves, $11 per head ; fat milch veals, 9 to 10 cents r po 
CINCINNATI: Prime to extra shipping grades, $5.25 — 
Toss; prime to extra butcher's stock, $4.50 to $5. 25 ; 
$. 3 iy ‘evior, $2.50 to $3. Receipts light. 
CuHicaco: Extra graded steers, averaging 1,450 pine 
$6. 15 to $6.30 per cental, gross ; choice beeves, fine, fat, wel 
3 to 5 years old and upward, averaging from 1 250 to 1,4 
$5.75 to $6; good beeves, well fattened, finely formed steers, 
from 1,100 to 1,300 pounds, $5 to $5.50 ; medium grades, steers i 
averaging 1, 100 to 1 ,250 pounds, $4.50 to $4.75 ; butcher’s stoc 
$4.50 ; stock cattle, $3 to $4; inferior, $1.75 to $2.50; Te 
northern- fed, $2.75 to $3.50; do., corn-fed, $3.75 to $4. 50. 
 Samnt Louis: Choice native blood steers, $5.50 to $6 per cental 
geoond class do., 1,150 to 1,400 pounds, $4.50 to $5; good third ¢ 
to $4.50; fair butcher's steers, $3.50 to $4; choice corn-fattened ! 
$4 to $4. ‘505; inferior to common do., $1.50 to $1. 75; 5. ate cows, 
$50 per head; veal calves, $6 to $10 per cental. ¥ 8 
SHEEP.—NEw York: Supply limited and market good. Fat l 
$7 to $7.50 per cental; extr a, $8 to $8.25; poor, $4.75 to $5.50; avera, 
$5.56. J 
CINCINNATI: Prime to extra, 34.50 to $5 per cental, gross; common to 4 
good, $3.50 to $4; lambs, $4 to $6. « 
CHICAGO: Common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25. : 
Samnt Louis: Bxtra to choice mutton grades, $4.50 to $5 percental, — 
eross; fair to good, $3.25 to $4.25; common to medium, $2.75 to $3. 
Hocs.—_NEw York: Live ‘ome $4.6245 to $4874 per cental; city- 
dressed, $5.25 to $6.50; western, $5.124 to $5.62. 
CINCINNATI: Good to prime lots, $3.65 to $4 per cental, gross. Re- 
ceipts light. 
_ CuicaGo: Extreme range, $3.55 to $3.90 per cental, gross. 
Samnt Louis: Letra to choice, $3.60 to $3.65 per cental, gross; fair 
to good, $3.30 to $3.50; common ‘to medium, $3.25 to $3.35. 
FOREIGN MARKETS. 
WueEAtT.—The weekly average prices of wheat in London during De- 
eember, 1872, were, respectively, 56s., 55s. 10d., 56s. 3d., 56s. 9d., and 
5dS.” er quarter, the aggregate sales being 252, 555 quarters. "The 
stant tations of the Mark Lane Express during the same time, 
were as follows: British white wheat, 50s. to 67s. per quarter; do. red, 
50s. to 63s.; American, 58s. to 61s. ; German, 59s. to 81s. 5 Russian, ATs. 
to 60s. ; Danish and Holstein red, 60s. to 63s.; California, 65s.; Chilian 
white, 67s.; Australian,’ 64s. to 66s. In Liverpool American white 
ranged, with some fluctuations, between 15s. and 14s. 6d. percental; do. 
red winter and southern, steady between 11s. 8d. and 12s. 2d.; do. No. 1 
spring, 11s. 6d. to 12s. 2d; do. No. 2 spring, lls. 3d. to 11s. 8d.; 
€alifornia white, 12s, to 13s. 8d.; Canadian white 138s. to 14s. 6d. ; 
