Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-02-25
MARKETS EY TelEGRAPH.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, February 24-Flolr Dull bu,
steady; southern -four dull; common 70 falr
extra. e. 0ss3 10; good TO choice, 60 15as425
| Wheat dun bat steady; No. 2. red. store ana
sctiye, with trading chiefly local, closing steady
and l4c. under yesterday; No. ,, red. tebruary,
77l4c.; March, 777.c.; Nay. sOi&c. Corn arm
and quiet; No. 2, 52aJ2l4c IN elevator: 90
53I4c. sfost; unsraded mixed. 5Is5sc.;
steamer mixed, 3la0fi4c.: options closed arm
but dun, and ksssc. over yesterday; February,
52i4c.: March, 52Isc. May, 50lsc. Oats fairly
active and nrm; options qniei ard steady at
1Sc.; May, 375sc.; No 2, white. March. 4Oy.a
ale: May. 40atll4c.; spot prices: No. 2, 3ss
lsl.c.; No. = white. 4l5sc. western. 3sa3a,s.;
white DO, f0atJlsc. Beef dun but stesdy:
family si2ssl3a0; extra mers. s9ssa5 80.
Beeihams quiet aud 1rm =, s2i.5O. 1ierced
beef firm and quiet; extra Indian mers, s2O.
salt meats quiet and easy picked belller.
sl1.j0: shoulders, $40; hams, siA. Mtidies
quiet and easy; short-clesr, l0}4c. Lard dun
and lower: western steam closed AZ sis2ga
sl2.sU; city, si2asl2.25; options-sales none:
refined qglet and weak; Continent, sl325;
South American, st3.6O: compound. IOltc.
Pork quiet and lower; old Less, sl9.J0sslp. -:
new mess, e20as20.25; exut prime nominal
Cotton seed oil dull and weak crude, sec. yel.
low 5sc. Petroleum very quiet. Resin quiet sni
itm: strained. common 20 good, sit5aei.5O.
Turpentne dun and easy az 3Ai la34s.c. Rice
Hrm and active. Moasses-f0reigD, new. open
kettle good TO choice. firm aud IN good demand
at 2Sa37c. Peanuts quiet and steady. Coffee
Options opened quiet and unchanged 10 10
points up. aud closed steady, 3 TO 10 points up;
February, $3.50 April, sl6.95asl7.05: May,
sl0.S0as $40: June, sl0.5Oesl69O; July,
$40. 20: september, sl6. 55ssi6.65; Dscember,
si6.3J; spot RIO quie: aud steady; No. :. TIA
49,. sugar-Raw nrm and active fair re-
timing, 81; rehned arm and fairly active;
standard A, 1894 1870. crushed. 5ils7 i-0c.:
cut loaf. So as l-8c.; granulated, 1874 IL tdc
Freights dun ani nominal: cotton, 1-7id.;
gram, i-l0i.
CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. February PA break OF nearly
dollar barrel took place to-day In the price u
porS. From 1910, last nights closing ngnre.
the market fell 20 slh12t9, closing at elS2J.
The speculative branch OF tho trade has been In
the hands OF scalpers for several days. no out
side orders having been received. The blg
piungers took advantage OF this condition OF
things and organized a vicious raid. They
found the markes poorly supported and pressed
their advantage with yigor, bringing OUT lot
OF property on stop-loss orders and precp-
tating violent furry. The closing price marks
\ decline OF 81 barrel 10 pork from the
outside prices made on the recent advance. The
slump was a Boari-of- Trade AFFAIR entirely. tho
hog market at the stock yards feeling the effects
OF the raid only slightly. IL Was hooked upon
BY many as the long-look ed-for beginning OF the
end Of the bull campaign IN proyisions. Com
pared with yesterdays closing prices tho May
deliveries arc zoe. OF for lard AMI ribs tonight.
and l4aSsc. for wheat. Corn WAS supported by
some covering by the shorts and left on t4c.
higher. The wheat trading was OF restricted
character. Prices early in the day declined w.
| below the closing figures OF yesterday, but then
| became stronger. and the decline was recovered,
but the market eased OF ilc. sgsin, closing
steady. There was good trade Ia oats, with
range Of Ac. The market closed steady at about
| the same figures As yesterday.
Cash Quotations: Flour dull and unchanged.
| No. spring wheat. 7;laa1 &c. NO. corn, 4oltc.
| No. oats, 3Oisa3Oiic. Pork, $3.50 Lard,
sI2.05. short-rihs, s9.pjasl00S Dry-saltei
shoulders, saS74asl0. short-clear sides,
| si09OaSi0.9i. Wnskoy, sl.17.
The leading features ranged AZ fOllogs.