Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-23
PRODUCE.
Wheeling.

TUESDAY, August 81.
The market the past week has been
fair to middliug There is a big supply
of everything, and consequently the de-
mand hasn't been 80 sharp. Potatoes are
wanted and the price has gone up slightly.
River water melons are in in large quanti-
ties.
Butter-Creamery 15al6c; country choice
12al3c; good country 10allc; common Ga
l0c. The supply is good and the demand
ia good.
Beans - For hand-picked navy the
demand is good and the supply is very
light. Prices are 81 60a2 rs per bushel
extra fancy 81 so.
Cheese--Prime mild Ohio factory Pa
he; New York 13a14c; Sweitzer 133aa14c
Limberger 9a10c. Market nominal.
Eggs-Strictly fresh stock 12a124c per
dozen. Supply good, demand good
Fsathers-ChOice IN original packages
45a50c; in small lots 4a5c extra.
Potatoes-New So O0a2 % per barrel !;
demand good; supply scarce.
Poultry-Live chickens, 81 50a2 rs
per dozen; spring chickens 81 00a3 90 per
dozen; ducks, live 81 0Oa2 so per dozen.
Rags--Steady at hal &c for white mixed
cotton; la13c for all wool, and 1ialtc for
mixed.
Lard-Country prime, with a fair de-
mand, at 71aSc.
Onions-Demand good; supply fair;
per bushel, 75a9Oc.
Cabbage-75c per barrel; demand slow;
supply good.
Tomstoes-35c per bushel; demand
good; supply heavy.
Cucumbers-Per bushel crate SOC; per
dozen, 10al5c; demand good; large supply.
Apples-Choice 75c to 81 % per barrel
supply light; demand good.
Peaches-Per bushel, 75c to 81 so; sup
ply good; demand equal.
Plums-Per bushel, yellow 81 l0a1 25;
damsons 81 %; supply light with demand
heavy.
Huckleberries-Per pail rs to 90c.
Corn-Green, per barrel 81 GOAL so; de-
msnd good; supply fair.
Csntelopes-Per barrel 81 GOAL so.
Wstermelons-S6 90 to $l4 90 per hun
dred; demand good; supply large.
New York.
New YORK, August % -Flour-Rs-
ceipts %, 947 packages; exports 4, 4S7 bar
rels and 10, 235 sacks; market strong and
unchanged. Wheat Receipts 1850
bushels; exports 24S 6l0 bushels; sales
l, $3.50, 900 bushels futures, aud 142, 900
bushels spot; options excited and higher;
ungraded red 9ls9sc; No. 3 red 92!c; No
4 red sale; No. 2 red August 97fs9Sc,
closing at 97sc; September 96sa97sc, clos
ing at 96sc; October CSC; November 973s
9S3c, closing at 97}c; December 9Ssca$l 60,
closing at oslo; May 81 02!a1 O3}, closing
at 81 02s Corn-Rsceipts 81, 100 bushels;
exports So bushels; sales 2,220, 600
bushels futures, and l35, 900 bushels spot;
options moderately active and generally
steady; ungrsded mixed 52a531c; No. 2
August 53sa54sc, closing at Sale; Sep.em-
her 53i s53ic, closing at 53ic; October 53ta
53sc, closing at 53c3; November 53is53lc,
closing at 53io; December 5Osc; January
4Ssc. 0ats-Receipts III, 400 bushels;
exports 1870, 600 bushels; sales ia, 600 BUSH
els futures, snd $4,000 bushels spot;
market fairly active; mixed western 2Ss
39c; white do 40a4Sc; No. 3 Chicago SOC
Hay and Hops-Steady. Coffee -Options
Is points higher; sales As, 500 bags; Au-
gust II. 2Oal1 SOC; September 10 S5all 00c;
October, November. December, January,
February and May 10. 10s10 35c. Sugar
Firm, quiet and steady. Molasses and
Rice-Dull. Petroleum-Steady; crude
7sc; refined tic; United s6sc. Cotton
Seed Oil-Strouger; crude 42c. Tallow--
Quiet. Resin and Turpentine-Steady.
Esgs-Unsettled at 15al7c Pork-Steady.
Lard-Steady; western steam So 60; Au-
gust SO 20; September 50 10; November
s. 30; January s. 90. Butter-Firm;
western dairy 1lsl4lc; western creamery
l33aaOc, Gheese-Quiet; western Sic.
Pig Iron-Iuactive; American SIG Goa
10 90. Copper-Firmer but quiet; lake
SIC IS Lead-Stesdy; domestic 81 32l.
Tin-Dull; straits PIC.
Jrhissxc.
CHICAGO, August 22.-The greatest in
terest of the day on Change was conferred
around the wheat pit, but taken on the
whole the market was not as active as yes
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