Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-31
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK, March S0-FlOur-About
unchanged and steady; southern flour dun
but steady; common to fair extra, s340Q
$3.50; good to choice, 1880.
Wheat-Spot market dull and easier
with options closing steady; No. red.
store and elevator 79c: afioat, sQl5c. OPP
clined IQl l-Sc.. and closed steady and
UNCHANGED TO Lie. down, with trading
fair; No red, March. 70Ac.; April,
70 5-Sc.; May, zoe; June. 60 5-Sc.; July,
eslsc.: August, sS1sc.; September "'2c.;
Corn~Spots dull but firmer; No. 2, 37ik0
37s4c, In elevator; Csc. afioat. Options
dull. firm, and unchanged; March. Bike.
May, 35l4c.; July, S6l2c.; September,
% oats-spots fairly active and firm. OPP
tlons dull and weaker; March, 2iSlc.; May,
q 1-Sc.; spot, No. 2. white. 70 lie; mixed
Hay-Quiet and easy; shipping, s2ls0
PIKE: good 10 choice, 90n95c.
Wooi-Firm and in moderate demand;
domestic, fleece, l6d22c.; pulled, l5G33c.
mess ess' s7'SSIiss: beef hams. sli5caSi5.
Tierced Beef-Slow; city extra India
mess, $l5GA5J0
Cut Meats-Quiet and steady: picked
bellies. Use; do, shoulders, 4h-c.; hams
Lard-Quiet and weak; western. steam,
S535; city, 1876; May, 500; refined quiet;
Continent, $50; South America, IS; COM
Pork-Lower; demand moderate; mess,
Butter-Weaker; State dairy, 9G2Oc: do.
creamery, l3alsc.; western dairy, l0alic.;
cottonseed- Oil-Qulet: crude. DC. yell
low prime. 2llsc.; do, OF grade % lag
25Ikc.
Rosin-Firm but quiet; strained, COM
Turpentlne-Quiet and steady at 2sq2Slzc.
Rice-In moderate demand; domestic.
fair to extra, Sa69.c.; Japan. S%Mic
Molasses-Firm; New Orleans, open ket-
tie, good TO choice. Nq37c.
Peanuts-QuIet; fancy hand-picked.
coffee-steady; 1Oa15 points up; March.
sl2.e5g$l3; May, sl2 5oqsl2.55; June, sl2@
Sl2.05; September, Sl0s5n 5000: December,
500; February, slo25; spot Rio duh but
Sugar-Raw firm and quiet; fair re-
fining. 3Ac.; refined firm and in fair de-
%anS No IT, cu G and Y eTashsd
SIC; granulated. s i-sc.
Freights to Liverpool-Quiet; cotton, by
steam, 3-S2d. grain, I'D. asked.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
BALTIMORE. March SO.-Flour and
cOrn.unehangsd March. !s l-sat3 , IT, &C.
33lsc.; southern, soc.
oats-Ouiet and firm; No. white west
ern. 26i5I2Tc.; No. mixed do, 2r3M25c
Rye-lnaetive; No. 2, AZ lac. for near by:
i5qi5c for western.
Hay-Very firm at SIG.
Grain Freights--Quiet; steam. to Liver
pool ID. for April; Id. for May;
Cork. for orders, Is. 3D.. for April.
Coffee-Qulet at IL The.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. March 30.-Until most OF
Mondays statistics on wheat were In to-
day. wheat held firm and higher than sat
urday, but when II became patent that
no announcement was TO De derived from
the facts and figures announced. there
was a break, with much haste, on the
part of the longs to sell out May wheat
opened at from 63 1-S46ic., SOLD AZ OF l-s
and 63 i-sds} l-4c., and closed at 81 3-sc.-
" TO 5-Sc under Saturday. Cash wheat
was firm and iac. higher
Corn sustained its reputation Tor mac
ton. prices rejecting the tone OF wheat,
and declining when the inner grain Droke.
When the weakness was at It's greatest,
there was fair trade, but at other times
there was very little dolnS. May corn
opened at 29Ac.. and sold between ~ rs
and 29ikc.
Oats-An ordinary business OF no par
ticular consequence was transacted IN
oats. The feeling sympathized fully with
wheat The decline was simcst as great
as in that market May oats closed &c.
lower than Saturday. Cash oats sold al
steady prices. ,.
slightly lower prices than were recorded
at the, close SATURDAY. This Was due to