Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-06
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK, March 5.-Flour-Quiet,
steady, and unchanged; southern hour
quiet and unchanged.
Wheat-Spot market fairly active and
frmer; +. o. b., So 3-8c.; ungraded red, llD
Sc; options fairly active, and closed
strong at ! l-8dl l-4c. advance; No. 2
red, March. 50 BIC; May, 81 S-Sc.; July,
50 l2c. September. n 7-Sc.
Corn-Spots dull but firmer; No. 2, % l-2c.
In elevator. 30 l-2c. ahoat: options dull but
firm at a 1-2ll3-ic. advance; March p l-2c. ;
May, S0c.; July, 81 lie; September, &C..
Oats-Spots dull but strong; options dull
but firmer; May, q Use; spot prices. No.
., 2l S-4c.; No. white. . lie; mixed
Hay-Better grades firm; shipping $50
81 l-2o.; good 10 choice, ~ 1-2GSOc.
Hides-Firm, in moderate demand, and
unchanged.
Beef-Quiet, firm. and unchanged.
Beef Hams-Steady at $3.50.
Tierced Beef-Steady and unchanged.
Cut-Meats-Qulet, firm. and unchanged.
! Lard-Quiet but stronger; western steam
AS5qA@ -; city, SfaAW; Nay M,g.
nominally; refined stronger but quiet
Continent, $40; South American, $3.50;
compound, &.l2 1-2QA.25.
Pork-Quiet, firm, and unchanged.
Butter-Fancy steady and fairly active;
State dairy, 10QlSc.; do. creamery, 100
10 lie; Elgins, lgc. .,...,.,.
Cottonseed-On-Firm; crude, 2O92o lie;
yellow prime, % l2c.
Rosin-Steady and unchanged.
Turpentine-Firm and unchanged.
Rice-Firm, In good demand, and IN
Moiasses-steady and unchanged.
peanuts-Qulet and unchanged.
Flaxseed-Unchanged
CoGee-Steady and unchanged 20 8 points
down; March, 1885; May, &.J4ioso; June,
SS9JGfg: July. S895N$9, September $50
S9O5; December, 50: January, ga Sy@; spot
Rio dull but steady; No. Z, S9JVn5s.oz IL.
Sugar-Raw dull and nominal; fair re-
filming. SIDE; refined quiet and un-
changed.
Freights TO Llverpool-ouiet, steady, and
unchanged
NEW YORK DRY-GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK. March 5.-There has been
but a quiet market in dry-gOods en- the
spot to-day at hrst nands, new pus.i'S 10.
and deliveries on existing contracts De,
ing evidently interfercd with by the pau
weather. There Is stu an absence OF III
terest on the part Of buyers IN staple cOl-
tons for anything but ciose-at-hanq re, re,
ouirements Cotton fabrics IN printed anu
other gpecialties for spring have been III
fair request. The woollen-goods DIVISION
has been quiet.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET
BALTIMORE. MD. March O.-flour-
| Dull and unchanged. o
Wheat-Firmsr; spot, Soc: May, 50 10
81 3-4c.; southern, BY sample. slq9zc.; do''
Cern~Duil; spot and March 26a26 l-4c
APRIL e 3-8ft26 lie; May, Y l-s4-' 5-ec
steamer mixed, "a l-2uZ4 5-se.; sGjtherh
white corn, 70 1-2c.; do. yellow, 70 l-Zc.
Oats-Steady; No. white, - l--9-fc'
No. 2 mixed. 2q22c.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. ILL, March S.--Wheat was
| governed almost exclusively by the EURO
pean war-scare to-day. Early to-day
| decline in English consols and an advance
I'm wheat prices at Liverpool, indlcatlnA
the alarm felt at points nearer The cehtIs
OF trouble, and, later. the press dlspatche q,
giving even a more positive conditlon "
disaulet. kept traders In a nervous sta. 49,
After the first bulge that took place III
was a reaction, but finally the pld peS 5aa,,
excited and prices rose snarpiys Inc No ~
tinental boursss were SAID 10 De III o.
apprehensive mood. that TACT teiiuihs ~ ~
make more pronounced the uhlSst var,
Notwithstanding the war news NV ~, ~
renorte1 that no acceptance or last night
oders had been, received. May whed'
onsned ~ from rs IL 10 ~ lac. sold pc
tresn 7s 5-s and 76 5-sc.. and closed az tns
o,,tside~ifil i-8c. higher than yesterday
Cash wheat was firm and lc. per Ousne'
PORN was affected by the war alarm, py
usbter receipts than had been expected.
aSSj nv the burning OF an elevator az
peoris =, Itaining 5000 bushels OF TINS
grain The house which owned the ere
vafor was good buyer In this marke,,
evidently moving hedges against .ne
burned grain. May corn opened A. - i-i0''