Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-13
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK, March 12-Flour-Dull.
easy, and unchanged; southern flour duh
and unchanged.
Wheat-Spot duh and firm. options
were dull and Irregular. closing firm at a
sale advance: No. 2 red, May and June.
7Oc;; July, 20 Use; September, 70 lac.
COrn-Spots duh and firm; No. >. % 5-sc.,
in elevator; So 5-Sc. afioat. Options were
duh and firm at l-in3-sc. advance; May,
- 5-sc.; July. S6llc.; September, 3lsc.
Oats--Spots firm and moro active. OPP
tons dull and firmer; May, "a 5-Sc.; June,
"a 5-Sc.; July, q 5-Sc.: spot: No. >, "a 5-Sq
25c.;- No. white. 26c.; mixed western.
22a25c.
Hay-Firm; fair demand: shipping, 700
7jc. good 20 choice, SOC. q$l05.
Beef-Dull, steady, and unchanged; beef
hams quiet at $l4.J0msl5; tierced beef Slow
city. extra India mess sl4qSl55O,
cut Meats-Dull and weak; picked bel
les. $3.50; shoulders, SLSqS450; hams,
Lard-ouiet and steady western steam,
Continent sj25: South America, $3.50;
compound, $25dsiJO.
Pork-Quiet. steady, and unchanged.
10I2qllc.: southern, SaSlac.; western.
fresh, 9Ql0isc. do, per case, $lQs2.lO.
Cottonseed- Oil-Quiet and unchanged.
Rosln-Quiet and steady; strained, COM
mon TO good, slSmSl9o.
Turpentine-Dull and easy at 21G27 1-fc.
Rice-Steady; moderate demand: UNI
changed
Moiasses-Firm and unchanged.
Peanuts-Unchanged.
Coffee--Quiet 5dl0 points down; May.
$3.50; July. Sl20J; September Sl1 5OdSil IS.
March, slO.65; spot Rio dull and steady;
Sugar-Raw dull and steady: fair re-
filming, 5-Sc.; refined unchanged; mode
rate demand
Freights to Liverpool-Market quiet and
unchanged.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
NEW YORK, May 12-Strawberries-
North Carolina, quart, l0a20c.; do, Nor
folk, do, l0Mlic.
Beets-Florida, crate. slasl. so; do Florl-
Cucumbers-Florida, crate, $l.JJn850:
do, savannah and Charleston. basket
S3aS
Cabbage-Florida. crate, aan5O; do,
Savannah, do, $l.50a2; do, Charleston
$50; do, Norfolk, barrel. si25Gyi50.
Eggplant-tlOrida. box, $lM$2
characterization, basket, soc nSl; do,
Norfolk, basket, 5Jlp7Jc.
Peas-North Carolina, basket. 5O07Jc.;
do, do, half-barrel. 15c.qSi; do, Charles
ton. basket. 50lt75c.
adishes-Norfolk, barrel, 50c.0Sl.
String Beans-SaYannah basket, $500
$3.50; do. Florida, crate 5Oc.Gs2; do.
Charleston basket, f2MS2O.
Quash-Florida. crate, Jo915c; do, do,
basket. 50lf75c.
lOHldlOts-I lDIlId, GARRETT Sl.-Dffo.
Potatoes-Fl florida, <2ft$6.JO; do, New Or
leans S2G$5.5O: do. Savannah, S2u$j.J0;
do. Charleston, S2HS.JO.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
BALTIMORE, May l2.-Fiour-Dull and
unchanged
wheat-Dull; No. red. spot, 69e.; May.
6Slsc;. bid, July and August. ,G'{46Se.;
southern. by sample, ne. asked; do, on
grade. 6Si2070i2c.
Corn-Quiet; mixed. spot, and May,
3HEq3iAc.; June. Siaq35c; July. 25s@
eouthern white. 35laQ3sc.; do, yellow,
oats-FIrm; No. 2 white western. 25A9
Rye-Quiet and steady at AHi2c. for
near by: safe, for western.
Hay-Flrm at ;l7dSl750.
Grain Freights-Nery dull ard un-
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
declined on a bullish government report.
To-day, in the face OF the government
report, wheat was conceded TO be bearish,
and prices rose higher. These paradoxical
uncertainty and irregularity which exists
in speculation. To-days market was a
somewhat mixed affair, and was one TO
keep traders and operators guessing. July
tween Cli. and 81 l-sc., closing at the
outside-7-sc. higher than yesterday. Cash
wheat was steady, closing Isa,c. higher.
Corn-This market obtained strength
from wheat, and when that grain was de-
clining deprecated with IL. Ii was simply
a case OF sympathy all the way through,
the close presenting a gain for the day.
Ii was dull. however. the amount Of
trading at the different quotations being
OF little consequence, and representing
local transactions solely July corn
opened from 80 TO 60 i-sc.. sold between
- rs and 30 3-Sc., closing AT ~ Ia
80 3-sc.-l-Sii-4c. higher than yesterday.
Cash corn was steady and unchanged.
Oats participated In the Irregularities OF
the other grain markets. but at the same
time exhibited an independent undertone
OF firmness. The exports OF this grain
recently have been quite heavy. and shorts
viewed the fact with some trepidation.
Iuly oats closed 3-Sc higher than yester-
day. Cash oats were steady. closing firm
pToyisions--A surprisingly light run Of
hogs was reported at the yards this morn
ing, accompanied by the news OF an adj
vance, though a small one, In prices. on
this influence product opened firm ana
held steady later. Not much EFFORT 10
advance values was put forth, however,
the sentiment being unfavorable 10 that
course. The close was sis4l0c. higher
than Yesterday for July PORK. TIC higher