This is a good year for the tobacco
nist everywhere. The leaf market is
in exceptionally good shape. The
crop news is encouraging. In a ma
jority of the tobacco counties the weed
is very fine indeed, in some counties
the best ever grown. Richmond State.
The tobacco trade of Danville, es
pecially the manufacturers, are much
gratified, in fact, I may say elated, at
the notable increase in the volume of
sales of Danville plug and twist dur
ing the present year compared with
preceding years. Every month this
year there has been a large increase
over the corresponding month of last
year, and the aggregate increase for
the eight months just ended amounts
to I55326 pounds, the total sales
for said eight months being 5,037,178
pounds. Lynchburg Advance.
Jenkins & Lewis, leaf tobacco com
mission merchants, report to the New
York Tobacco Leaf as follows : The
old or '88 crop has been about all sold
by the planters in this section. The
attention of everyone is turned to the
'89 crop, which is coming to market
very rapidly, and selling at very satis
factory prices to the planters. The
first curings, which were leaves pulled
from the plant and cured on wires,
were very white in color and thin and
fair in texture, while the offerings now
of the last curings are not so bright,
though it is much superior in color to
the crop of '88, which has passed from
the planters' hands. The new crop is
estimated lighter in weight than the
'S8 crop, which was short in compar
ison with the 'S7 crop.
