Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-01

his room for two weeks
There is little change in Mr.. George W.
Registers condition.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.
NEW YORK, August 3l.-Flour- Re-
ceipts, 42.3ss barrels; exports. Sl,Slo bar
rels: sales. 5000 packages; market dun
and featurelass at OLD prices; winter
patents. S.254S.50; winter suaignts,
81. 5I S.25; rye -four firm.
Cornmeai-Steady; yellow western, TIC.
Rye-Easy; No 2. Sc. car-lots, 456fiSe.
Barley--Easy: feeding, 80 3-iQSlc.; bar
ley malt steady.
Wheat-Spot steady; No 2 red, % 5-Sc.
anOat; No. l northern. 81 l-4c.i options
opened steady; advanced Sharply, easeu
off. and was Irregular all day on conflict
ing cable news. enlarged movement
West heavy clearances. ard light export
demand: closed steady at UNCHANGED
prices TO lac net advance; September,
s;Gs6 3-ic.-closed 81 l-Sc.: November
closed 81 3-Sc.; December, 81 1-SJA lS-l5c-
closed 81 3-Sc.
Corn-Spots steady; No. 2. S6c I'm ele-
vator. 80 3-ic. ahoat; options opened firm
and advanced on dry weather news,
higher cables and lighter receipts. easing
off slightly near the close. under realiz-
ing. and closed l-Sd3-sc. net higher; Janu-
airy, SO Lass l-zc-clos ID 3S l-4c. Scptem-
Der. IS 3-ia36c.-closed IS 3-4c.; December,
81 l-2137 7-sc.-closed 81 1-2c
oats-No z q l-2c: option options IN, iaact nD,
lower September closed % lac.
Hay-Weak.
HOps-Flrm.
Lelther-Ffrm.
Wool-StrOng.
Beef-Firm.
t-Meats-steady: picked bellies
SIP 1-2aSS.5G; picked shoulders, so
S5i2 Ia; picked hams, ss62 Ia
Lard-Steady; western steamed, 8.2Vg
S5.25 refined quiet; Con.inent, S.b; SoLth
American. So; compound. Asl l-2qN:H L.
Pork-Steady; new mess, slOu$lOIo.
Bdtter-Firm: western creamery, l29o
19c. factory, sale; Elgins. lgc imlta-
ton creamery. l00l3c.; State dairy, lOg
lie. do. creamery. i2ul9c.
Checse-Quiet; large white : S-Sc' !:
he; full skins, l-2dic.
Eggs-Flrm; State and Pennsylvania,
19c. western. fresh, Is l-24l1c.
POtatoes-Firm.
bd.
Rosln-Steady; strained, common to
good $1.45G$i50
Turpentine.29 $3.50 LAC.
Rice-Firm
Molasses-F'irm.
TOniatOes-Eer pcN vi NidNc, hNNNihihb
to quality, lJuZtc.
abbage-Long Island ard Jersey, per
hundred. s2G1.50.
Tho metal market. according TO the
Metal Exchange report. closed quiet put
firm for pig-iron warrants. with $500 bid
and $50 asked
Tin-Dull at 60g75c.
Spelter-Quiet at AU3Oc.
I,ead-Firm at II l-2u2Oc.
The firm settling prices calls the Iead
market strong NJ $3.50.
Cottonseed-O il-Quiet but strong on
good demand and scant offerings; prices
higher, prime crude, z. o. b mills, noml-
nal: prime summer yellow. 2inH l-zc.' OH
Summer yellow. 2G021c.; butter gtaCeS,
SGdi3c prime sImmer white &c; prime
winter yellow. 33QSfc.
Coffee-Options opened steady az de-
cline of 5GiO points, ruled generally weak
under enormous receipts at Rio ana san
tos and predicted heavy increase In the
worlds visible supply. some claiming
over 100000 bags; small warehouse de-
lvercs added to the weakness closed
steady at to 10 points net decline;
sales include September. $50; December,
$685.: March $3.50; May. T4No6; spot
cofiee-Rio quiet Cordova, slOJlSio.9O
sales, 1.OO0 bags Rio spot at s6i2 l-2; 80
bags Maracaibo at $50.
Sugar-Raw firm: fair refining, lac;
centrifugal 06-degree test, 3-ic'; re-
fined firm.
NEW YORK DRY-GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK. August 3l.-rhe spot buy
ing is scarcely as pronounced IN any
grade of the dry-goods market as hereto
fore recently. but mail orders are sun
OF fair proportions Woollens ana worsted
goods for mems wear and dress goods are
steady. and in well-sustained request, at
fair prices. Jobbers report fair busl-
ness i'm all departments. In staple cot
tons the demand for domestic use is un-
changed, and IL Is scarcely apat ca IN
either brown or bleached goods. coarse
cottons are firm. Print cloths are again
firm and unchanged The sales OF odd
goods have been OF fair proportions, but
The demand for extras has suffered de-
cline, owing 10 strong prices. frlnl
cloths have not yet been advanced IN any
grade. Nevertheless there Is great
Strength I'M all the staple grades, and the
Impression prevails that speedy Increases
I'm prices are imminent.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET
BALTIMORE, ND. August Sl.-Flour-
Dull and lower; western super. S2.15Ns3.l0;
40. extra. S3.l00s4lO; do. family, $500
s490; winter wheat, patents, soa@o.fV'
spring do. s5.4OlfS5e5; spring wheat.
straight, $5.i5a $3.50; receipts, 1923 Dafrels'
Wheat-Firmer; spot and the MONTH
es3. Gf96 Use: September, S6AMNc.; steam
er. 92atG3 Use; receipts. 2i7 ~ bushels;
stock | 4O0 5O8 bushels, SAFES, Ioj,OV DunH-
els; southern wheat, by sample, so9s'c.
do. on grade, 93n97c
Corn-Steady; spot, "a 7-Sg3Jc.; month,
342tM3f 7-Sc.; September. 81 7-Sfl3J SIC. /;
October. 80 1-S035 3-Sc.; steamer mixed.
30 2-S132i5c. receipts, 2lG,3i2 bushels
sales. 100000 bushels; southern white and
yellow corn, 37N38c.; No. white western
24a25c; No. mixed do. 2luZ2c.; receipts,
2.eS3 bushels; exports. none; stock, zfS'eo
bushels. o.
Rye-Easier; No. near by, 4sHisAc. !;
NO western $40; receipts. 2279i BUSH
els; exports, 17l42 bushels; stock, SS,S62
bushels.
Hay-Steady; choice timothy. sl35)Msli.
Grain Freights- Steady, quiet, and I'M
changed
Sugar Butter, Eggs, and cheese-Firm
and unchanged.
Whiskey-Cnchanged
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. August 3l-The grain and
provision markets gave indications OF re-
coyery and trading was chiehy charic-
terlzed by IT'S dulness. Corn was, perhaps,
the most active OF all the markets. wheat
closed lie higher. corn about unchanged.
oats Use. lower, aud provisions unchahBsd
10 lie. lower.
Leading futures angel as follows:
Opening. Highest Lowest. Closing
WaEkT-NO.2.
September. 9O4 9oA se4 SOL
De- .00hsH 90ls saH 800
IT, IT, 'oIIs 81 81 9ih
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