Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-06
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK, August 5.-Flour-Quiet
and unchanged.
No, red. +. o. b., 6Slsc; options were
moderately active and steady at a &c.
decline; August 63Hc.; September, 64c.
October, SAC; December. 66c.
Corn-Quiet and firm; No. 2, 31hc. in
elevator. 32Lc. afioa options were dull
advance, without special features; Au-
gust, SO7sc.; September, dAc. october.
aAc.
Oats-Dull but firrner: options easier,
August, 23c.; September, 22i5c.; October,
2219c.; spot, No. 2. 23lkc.; No. white,
26lAc.; mixed western, z3G2fsc.
Hay-Quiet ana steady; shipping, GAO
CSC; good to choice, soc4N.
6G22c.; pulled. 16GS3c.; Texas. 7g12c.
Beef-steady and quiet; family, SSQS9;
extra mess, S5fIN.
Beef Hams-Quiet at Nl50df15.
Tlerced Beef-Quiet; city extra India
mess, l1Nsl2.
Meats-Qu,et and steady; picked
bellies. Sab; shoulders, S3.50QS3.75; pick
led hams, $3.50.
Lard-Quiet; western steam. s3.62lk; OPP
tions-Sales none; September closed at
South American, A75; compound, $3.S7szQ
A12i2.
Pork-Quiet and firmer; old mess. $50
$3.50; rev meas, sS.l5uS9.
-
1OG1llkc. do. creamery. 11h4l5c.; east
ern dairy 9Ql2c.; do. creamery, 1lzql5c.;
Elgins l5c.
Eggs-steady and quiet; state and
Pennsylvania, l3alShc.; western, fresh,
uIl2ikc. do. per case, slmS27O.
cottonseed-O il-Steady; crude, 1920;
yellow, 22hQ23c.
Rosln-Dull but steady; strained. COM
mon to good. SEQ
Turpentine-Quiet and easy at 24G2l1kc.
Rics-Steady and quiet; domestic, fair
10 extra. 3N5Ac. Japan. 4uiAc.
Afolasses-Quiet and steady; New Or
leans, open kettle, good TO choice. ease.
Peanuts-Steady; fancy hand-picked,
cofffee-steady; 1890 points up: August.
$40. 5oq$l0.55; October s975Ns9SO; Deem
ber 3d. iOQs9.60; March, $9.30Q9.8; May,
S9S0Gs9.55; spot Rio dull but steady; No.
sugar-Raw firm and fairly active: fair
refining. 3 Lie; refined, &c. higher and
quiet; off A. I 7-lGfl4ssc.; standard A,
&c. cut-loaf and crushed, SIC;
Freights to Liyerpool-Quiet, firm, and
unchanged.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
NEW YORK, August -Huckleberries-
Maryland and Delaware, gate.
Pears-Southern fancy, $l.50qS3.5O
Watcrmelons-Car-loa N25ttsZJO.
Muskmelons-Basket, 75c.Qs2; DO, bar
Peaches and Delaware, 75c.@
81; do. do, basket, 25465c.
Onions--Eastern Shore, basket, 5Oq60c.;
do, do, barrel, $i.124N.25.
Potatoes 50g75c.; do. sweet, Use. GSl.25.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. ILL, August 5.--The wheat
market presented very little of an in
teresting character to-day, and with the
exception OF the opening orders, which
semblance OK activity had disappeared
The heat OF the day and the Indifference
of outsiders were to blame for the ex-
IRENE dullness
er, a slight advance at Liverpool, smaller
receipts In the Northwest, and the buoy
ancy OF the pork market, eaen eontriDu-
ting to tho Improvement when PORK
collapsed wheat lost all its strength, de,
clining below yesterdays closing and
dragging through the remainder OF the
session with very slight variation IN price.
3 solS Wet betwe enhfss 1i and s. isc,
and closed at IS 3-Sc.-1-443-Sc. under yes
terday. Cash wheat was steady at yes
terday's figures,
what was doing In the ether parts OF the
ROOM The heat had a depressing effect
on traders. who, for that reason, dis
played a lack OF energy ana an incllna-
hot winds in the corn-produoing states
caused some anxiety for the safety OF the
crop. and communicated some steadiness
10 pIlcc8 tO-udJ.
September corn opened at from Is $50
% lie, sold between q Ia and &c. ana
closed at 20 i-4ffZ5 3-ec.-l-Sc. higher than
yesterday. Cash corn ruled steady with
no particular change In prices.
The business In oats was principally OF
a local character, shorts being good buy
ers early In the session, out withcIewlng
their support az the first Indication OF
weakness. The tone OF wheat and corn
was the regulating factor. Cash oats were
steady. September closed a shade higher
than yesterday.
Proyisions-Here, as on yesterday was
where the interest centered, and where
action was 20 be seen. II differed from
that which was noted yesterday, In that
the advance met with positive check be-
fore IL had fully found Its speed Shorts
started 10 cover on the tap Of the bell at
The opening. and for the. frst fifteen
minutes It looked as though another rise
OF material proportions was In store,
There were, however. brokers In the pit
with selling orders In profusion, and az
barrel IN pork bad taken place shesa
bic force. carrying the price OF September
down about si.A Lard and ribs adj