Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-18

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
In rather slow demand No. 2 spring
wheat. a.15q$l2O; No. spring wheat
corn, 80 3-Sa36 3-ic. No. 2 oats. S9a3O Lie. =,
No. white, 80 1-2m34c.; No. 3 white.
~ -2qS3c. No. rye, Is l-ia6S 1-2c. No. :
barley, 42n53c. No. | fiaXseed, Sl37 I-2Gt
{lSS Prime timothy seed $26Oa$2. IS.
Mess pork, per barrel, 5000. Lard per
100 pounds. $662 -. Short-rib sides Qoose)
$50. Dry-salted shoulders boxed) S.. 25.
Short clear sides (boXed, T.25. Butter
steady; creameries. 12a14c.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, May 1-Flour-Steadv
opening firm, but closed rather easy. with
wheat; rye -four duh. mostly $3.S50StlO.
Cornmeal-Easy; yellow western. zoe.
Rye-Quiet at II l-2Q72c
dull.
Wheat-Spot market steady; No. red.
Woo; options opened steady, and had
good advance on the strength of cables
and foreign buying of July, and light Of
ferings They subsequently turned weak
with corn however. and under realizing
closed lal Csc. lower in all months but
May, which resisted selling exports and
closed l-2c. net higher; No red MAY.
closed sl.57 1-2; July closed s1l6 l-2
Corn-Spot weak; No 2, ~ l-4c.; options
weak all day. In consequence of big
western receipts and local unloading. and
closed 3-iqlc. net lower; May closed
4S l-2c.; July II l-Sc.
Oats-spot steady; No. 2. IS l-2c.; OPP
tons nomnally 1-2c. net higher, but dun
all day; May closed "a 3-4c.
Beef-Eirm.
cut Enthusiastically; picked bellies,
s6.75aN.25; picked shoulders, N75aS5;
picked hams. N75dS.
Lard-Weak; western steamed, 81; Nav.
S.g1 l-2 nominally; refined easy
Pork-t1rm; mess, N175asl2.25: short
clear. Sl2nsl4; family, sl3a$l4
Butter-Steady; western creamery. 1iff
10 lie; do. factory, l2nl3c.: Elgins,
ID l-2c.: imitation creamery. iSf1l4 i,gc.:
state dairy, IL l-2al5 lie; do. creamery,
HAS l-2c.
Cheese--Quiet large white State. 73-4c
Eggs-Steady; State and Pennsylvania.
10 l-2lllc.; western. fresh, 10 l-2c; south
ern. 9Gl0c.
Cottonseed- Oil-Firm; prime crude
~ l-2n2lc.; do. yellow. % 1-2n26c.
PetrOleum-Dull.
ROsin-Steady.
Turpentine-Steady at % 1-263Oc.
Molasses-Firm
Cabbage-Steady; southern. SlMy25
Conee-Options opened steady at I'M
changed prices. ruled inactive and fea-
tureless throughout the session. with
weak undertone. following unsatisfactory
cables, a further 1-sc. decline in spot quo
tations. and entire absence OF specula-
ton: closed quiet. with prices unchanged
10 o points net rover safes, 40 bags. In
GLIDING May. $3.50 spot Rio dull; No. Z.
invoice. 1.37 IL. nominally; mild quiet
Cordoya, SS.50M$l550.
Sugar-Raw strong and tending up |
ward; fair refining. BIC; centrifugal TO- |
degree test, 4l-ic. refined firm.
NEW YORK DRY-GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK, May IA better feeling |
founded on fairly good results In the |
market for export goods, still prevails |
In the dry-goods market. Continued |
strength Is developed by the print-cloth |
market The demand for fall styles. both |
In cotton and woollen goods. Is fairly well |
supported. In staple cottons there are not |
many results In the domestic field. but |
export goods are meeting with consider
able success. White sheetings are strong |
IN some quarters. an advance In at least |
Dne line being reported within the past ]