Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-31
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK, August S0.-F'lour- Re-
ceipts %. 400 barrels; exports, $3.50 bar
rels; sales. II, 600 packages; market falrly
steady; rye flour quiet.
Cornmeal-Quiet.
Rye-Easy; No. 2. 81 1-2c.
Barley-Dull barley malt quiet
Wheat-Spot weaker; No. red, 81 Lie.
afloat. No. 1 northern, New York, $l.OZ 81
afloat; options opened steady; SOLD or
under foreign selling and weak Liverpool
news. advanced rapidly on liberal de-
creases i'm the home and English yisibles.
weakened again, upon Disappointing
French cables. and closed steadler, on
covering, at unchanged prices on Dc
cember. which was I'm demand, on switch
ing orders, to a 3-sc. decline on other
months: No. red. August, closed 81 3-Sc. !;
September, 80 5-SnT 1-4c.-closed 30 l-sc !;
December. SO l-2495 1-2c.-closed 81 l-sc
Corn-Spot steady; No. 2, % 5-sc. In eie-
vator. 80 3-Sc afoat; options opened
steady, and advanced on bullish crop re-
ports. reacted under the heavy visible
supply decrease. but closed steadler at
a i-2c. net advance; August closed 80 Csc. !;
September, S5a35 5-Sc.-closed - 5osc. !;
December. 80 3-4d37 1-2c.-closed 81 3-Sc.
Oats-Spot quiet: No. 2 % S-4c.; options
dull and easier at lac. net decline !
August closed % BIC; September, 70 l-2Q
% 3-4c.-closed q lie.
Hay-Weak; shipping, $4,000; good 10
choice. 5JliGJc.
HOps-Quiet.
Hdes-Firm.
Ieather-Firm.
WoOl-Firm.
Coal-Steady.
Beef-Firm; packed. S8bVu&.O; city eA-
ira India mess. sl35OG$l5.
t-Meats-Steady; picked bellies,
s7.25nSs.50; picked shoulders, S4So.H IL;
picked hams. $s;5OasS62 - .. %
Iard-Steady: October closed at S5.2O
nominaly; refined steady; Continent
S.5ONs6: South American. So; compound,
$4.62 1-2ll$I.S7 1-2.
Pork-Dull: new mess, SlO1SlO.S. .
Butter-F1rm western creamery, iZp
l9c.: factory. Sale; Elgins, lsc.; imita-
tion creamery lVnl3c.: state dalry, ~V
lie: do. creamery, 12Ql9c.
Cheese-Steady; State, large white,
Bic; small white, l0c.; large coiored'
3-lc.; small colored, lOc.; part SKINS
1-2d6 lie; full skins, 3 -
Eges-Firm: State and Pennsylvania,
II 1-26l9c western, fresh, 10 1-2nllc.
Potatoes-Quiet; Jerseys, sl.25Q sl50;
Long Island, A.754G; sweets sl.ootg
$l.62 l-2c. 10000.
nOminally; country, 3-eu5 l-Zc, dcColu-
Cottonseed-O il-Firm; prime crude. yell
Petroleum-Quiet and steady; United
Rosin,Steady: strained, common 10
good. s1.45nsl.50.
Turpentine-Firm at 29a3oc.
Molasses-Firmer: New orleans, open
kettle. good TO choice, 25uSlc.
Pic-IrOn-Firm -
Lake Copper-Closed quiet, with s1.l5
bid and ST. asked. .,
Tin-Closed dull at s1S.65QSl3.75.
Spelter-Quiet at N.2Jn4s1.
Lead-Exchange. A.z5q>ioO.
Tomatoes-Per box or crate, s2.50ds2.6O
Cabhaoe-I.ong Island and Jersey, per
hundred s2uS250. :
CofYee-Options opened steady and .
points lower. ruled quiet, with weak uh-
dertone. on continued heavy receipts at
Rio ana santos. and predicted increase
OF product; total. 1900 bags IN "o s.s
visible supply. Selling checked by Tears
that the market had been oVersold. ciose
dull net unchanged, to io-eoi n,e nse,.ne
1915; December. $50; March, NgS;os;
AnriI s7.G: May. $40; spot coffee-Rio
quiet; Cordova, slo.5OQsl6.5o.
Sugar-Raw firm; fair rennlng, l-ic. ;
centrifugal C6-degree resu' SS-fc'' re-
fined firm. -,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. crude nomi-
nally at Sc.
NEW YORK DRY-GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK. August 30.-Dry goods
opened with q firm tone, ana oentiu
both by mail and in store trading OF very
fair nronortfons The market was stun
filled with buyers at jobbing centres, and
first-hand buyers were also in evidence
Cottons and woollens alike are firm ana
active. In the former the market Is sun
OF the kind which makes sellers, anu
wooIlens are steadily working into shape
Stocks are being well taken. and are be-
ginning to become a factor. Cottons are
firm. Print cloths are still very. nrm
Futures are refused NJ 5-sc.. ana tnat
quotation on spots was not met Win Win
much alacrity by manufacturers. ODD
goods are also strong. Prints are very
active. and the price situation Is ifm
one. Staples are In particularly good de-
mand. and are firm In tone.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
BALTIMORE, August s1.-Flour-Quiet
ana unchanged: receipts. Sass barrels; ex-
,,nrtu taS Ia rrels. sale4 4 cs1 barrels