Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-16

quiet all day, closing unchanged; De-
cember closed &c; May closed q Csc.
Cut Meats~Dull; picked hams. s1as7.25.
Iard-Ffrm; western steamed. $40: De-
cember. A.cJ, nominally. refined ntm:
Continent, $40: South America, S2S;
compound. Aas412l1.
Pork-Quict.
Butter-Quiet; western creamery. .l5q
23c. do. factory. 12gl7c.; Elgins, &C.; iml-
tation creamery. l3izGhsc.; State dairy,
l3nlc.; do. creamery. l5a2Zc
Cheese-Steady; large white september,
Sh0Si9c.: light skins, 6d6iac.; part 40,
lSa5hc.; full do, 30f4c.
Eggs-Steady; State and Pennsylvania,
2lN26c.: western fresh, 20u2fc.
Potatoes-steadyi New York, s2-l21sQ
$.25; sweets. 81. 25fiSl.50.
-Oil-Quiet.
Petroleum-Dull.
Rosin-Steady.
Turpentine-Firm at 33l35isc.
Rice-Steady.
Molasses-Quiet.
Cabbage-Long Island and Jersey, per
100, $3MM.
Coffee-options opened steady at an ad-
vance of 10G2o points on cables reporting
rumors OF Santos crop damaged by
drought, which made sellers scarce, with
out increasing speculation. Buying
checked by back supplies, and failure OF
Rio and Santos markets to reflect crop
damage. Closed steady at an advance OF
IL to 20 points. Sales, 1920 bags. in
Guiding December. $50; May, S6.0H$.1O.
Spot Coffee--Rio steady; No. Z invoice.
s662ls; No. I jobbing, Tl2z; mild market
dull; Cordova. $s.50dsS.15.
Sugar-Raw strong: fair refined strong.
NEW YORK DRY-GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK. December 15.-The market
for dry-goods shows no Improvement.
Store-trading and shipping are very light,
and Judging from appearances in the dry
goods district the market Is very un-
interesting one. Mail orders do not help
out much in any line. Spring buying mas
not set in yet to any appreciable extent.
Jobbers report an Intermittent call for
actual necessities, and the only depart
ment which shows anything IKE talr
degree OF activity Is that or honday
goods, which are bought with consldera-
bic freedom, although 1t is question
whether they are selling as actively as
has been the case during several years
back.
In staple cottons, at first hands. the fea-
ture has been the reduction OF Hill Al
bleached cottons and half-bleached cot
tons TO . 3-4c. per yard. This is the frst
of the promised reductions in bleached
cottons, and is liable TO be followed in
various quarters by further slumps in
prices.
In print-cloths there has been no move
ment of extras at lac.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
BALTIMORE, December 15.-Flour-Duil
and unchanged.
Wheat-Easier; spot and the month,
sc Lass 1-2c.; January, 9S 5-Sd96 sc.
steamer No. red, 90 3-4ae0 7-sc.; southern
wheat by sample, 9lQ97 Lie. do. on grade.
! 81 3-4lI96 2-4c.
Corn~Steady; spot. SSaS3 lac: month.
80 1-2032 3-ic.; December, new or old'
| 30 1-4dS2 1-2c.; January. 81 1892 1-Sc. Feb
| ruary, 31M3l lie; steamer mixed, 30 La
| &c; southern white and yellow, u l-2g
| 80 1-2c.
Oats-Quiet and steady; No. 2 white,
| % 1-2Q30c.; No. 2 mixed. 27d27 1-2c.
| Rye-Easier; No. 2, nearby, 81 3-4c.; NO.
2 western. q SIC.
Hay-Steady; choice timothy, S13 asked.
| Grain Freights-Quiet; rates barely
steady but unchanged.
| Sugar-Strong; graduated, 500 IL.
| Butter-Quiet and unchanged.
Eggs and Cheese-Steady and un-
| changed.
| Whiskey-Unchanged
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
| CHICAGO, December livery littt
| business was done to-day I'm the Decembel
delivery of wheat, and May did not faI'
| much better The latter NORTH was wei
| sustained as rule. and at the close was
| telling l-2c. higher than the final figure'
| OF Yesterday. Shorts covered freely, lat
| IN the session Corn and oats had lively
| sDurt in the last 10 or 20 INMATES o
| trading. and showed closing advances o
| 5.Sql-2 and 1-Sc.. respectively. Provision
were strong throughout, and advanced
| 7 l-2lI15c. s.,,--....
The leading futures ranged as follows;
| OpentnR hiRne3t. Lowest. Closing.