The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-03

Cash quotations were as follows
Flour quiet; winter patents So $50 $3.50; do
straights $2.95G320; spring special -; spring
patents $4.25a4.50; bakers $2.30a2.5O. Wheat
No. 2 spring -; No. spring 64a6G l-2; NO.
red 20. Corn--No, 2, 38Zs. .oats-,No. 2, q LA
Rye-No. 2, SO ID. Barley-No. 2, 4la50. Flax
seed-No. ], 49, Prime Timothy seed
S2.2Oa2.25 Mess pork, per bhl., $7.soa7,s5. Lard,
per 100 lbs S495a5.17 12. Short rib sides, loose,
4.50a4 20; dry-sated shoulders, boxed, 4aa496.
Short clear sides, boxed, A.9Oa49o. Whlskey'
S1.26.
NEW YORK.
New YORK, December 2.-Flour fairly active
for spring patents with quiet undertone
winter straights $3.60a370; do. patents S3.65a
800; Minnesota patents S3.75a4.OO; Minnesota
bakers S3.0Ol3.25; winter low grades S2.25a2.45.
Rye flour dull at S2.900335
Buckwheat flour quiet at $500, spot.
Buckwheat firmer at 53a51.
Corn meal steady; yellow western 75a76; city
Rye frmer; No. 2, SO IL; State -.
Barley firm; western choice new mailing
55a60; do. feeding 42a43.
Barley malt firm; western 55a65.
Flax seed quiet at 81 .O6.
Wheat. spot steady; No. 2 red 767Ga77h, OPP
tions. December 1914; March 74%; May IL.
Corn, spot steady; No. 2, 4O1s; options, De-
Oats, spot steady; No. 2, 20; options, dull and
nominal.
Beef dull; family ss.5oa$l1; extra mess $3.50
a900; beef hams S1Sal9.00; packet $9OOaSlO; city
extra India mess S15.O0al6.0O.
Cut meats quiet; picked bellies 55sa7; picked
| shoulders 4a4A picked hams 7a7A.
Lard steady; western steamed closed $40;
city -; December closed $40, nominal re-
Pork firm; mess ss.5O0sOO; short clear
S1075aI250; family $11 .00011.5O.
Butter quiet; western creamery 15a23; do.
factory 12a14 1-2; Elgins 80 imitation creamery
13a17 Ia; State dairy 15023; creamery 15a23. .
Cheese firm; large white 9Aa10; do. small
TX; large colored 90; do. small ~; light
skins 6AG6 1-2; part skins 5Aa5 liz; full skins
2a21s.
western fresh 26; southern 22a25
Potatoes steady; Jerseys S1a1.37 1-2; New York
$1.25a1.5O; Long island S1.2501.75; sweets, Jer-
seys, Sl.OOa200; southern 40aGO.
Tallow dull.
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude II LA
10; prime crude fob mills l3a13 1-2 prime
summer yellow 81 1-2a22; off summer yellow
20 l-2a21; butter grades 25a27; prime winter yell
low 27a23.
Petroleum steady refined, New York, $3.50;
Philadelphia and Baltimore S.25; do in bulk
81 %.
Rosin steady: strained common to good s145.
Turpentine steady at SO l-2a40.
Rice firm; fair to extra Az G6h; Japan bA.
Molasses steady; New Orleans, open KETTLE,
good to choice, 28a33.
Peanuts quiet; fancy hand-picked 5; other
domestic 4a4 IL.
Cabbage dull; Long Island 81 .5Oas 90 per 100.
Freights to Liverpool steady; cotton by steam
Bed; grain by steam -.
Coffee-Options, March $5.75; May 1856; spot
Rio, steady; No 4 invoice 63S; No. jobbing
67S; mild steady; Cordova S015.
Sugar, raw steady at the decline; fair refining
1915; centrifugal, e6-test, 7-l6; molasses SUI
gar 8 1l-16; refined nominal, tending downward;
No. g. 7-16; MOI, IA; No. IL, Al; No. H. lie;
No. Is, 1-16; No. ID, 4; mould IL; granu-
lated ~: cubes 54.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Dec. 2.--Flour steady, un-
changed; western super $2.25G2.60; do. extra
S2.9003.25; do family S3.50a4.00; spring wheat
straight S4.3564.50.
Wheat dull; spot and December 71ssa7124;
January 724a72 IL; May II 1-2 steamer No. 2
red -; Southern wheat by sample eS072A; do.
on grade -.
Corn steady; spot and December 3s25a39;
December, new or old, SO 1-2d3S4; January 38A
a3S IL; February 384 steamer mixed -; South
ern white 80; yellow -, new.
Oats frmer; No. white western, 30 1-2aS4;
No. mixed so 1-2a3l.
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