The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-11

Cash quotations were as fOIlOWS:
Flour steady; winter patents S3$S@3.6Oi az
straights 1898 G3.2l; spring special -; sprlnl
patents $i.25a4.50; bakers S230a2.50. Wheat
No. 2 spring =; No. spring 81 Ass 5 N NO {,
Oats-No. 2, 26 q a27; No. white -; No. 3, white
27s4a284. Rye-No. 2, -. Barley-No.
3Sa5u. Flax seed, No. l, l01al06 ,. Prime Tim
othy seed 1925. Mess pork, per Dbl, Sl05aS. 10
Lard, per 100 lbs, S5.O5a1I2 1-2 Short rib sides
loose A.55ai75; dry-salted shoulders, boxed
4ka44s. Short clear sides, boxed, $.SOai.o1
Whiskey, S1.26.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, December 10-Flour quiet but
firmer winter straigats S3.6Oa3.7O; do. pat
ents S365a3.8j; Minnesota patents S.65a3.S)
Minnesota bakers S30Ol3.2); winter low grades
S2.25a2.45.
Rye flour steady; good to fair $2.95@315.
Buckwheat flour quiet at S2.OO.
Buckwheat quiet at "a .
Corn meal firm; yellow western 75a7e; city
! rive steady; No. 2, so I-2; State -.
/ Barley tie tdy; feeding 42a4S.
/ Barley malt teady; western G0a70.
Flax seed eady at $.t0.
Wheat, spot fir er; No. 2 red 75Is, options
December -; March 73B; May 70&.
)orn, spot firm; No. 2, 4O3; options, May
391&; December 394.
Beef quiet; family sOas11; extra mess ss.5oa
900; beef hams $500; packet S9OOa $40; clty
extra India mess S15.00a16.00
picked shoulders 4a4h; picked hams z.
Lard firm; western steamed closed 1880
city -; December closed -; refined steady.
Pork firm; mess $500 $500; short cIeal
S10.7aa1250; family Sl0.50d1l.OO.
/ Butter firm; western creamery IA l-2a2O; 90
factory 12a14 1-2; Elgins 20: imitation creamery
-: State dairy 1o0l8 Ia; creamery -.
Cheese firm: large white TO-; DO small
TX; large colored 81; do. small ~; light
skins 81 06 IL; part skins 5Aa5 IL; full Skins
Egcs steady: state and Pennsylvania 25a26
western fresh Is; southern 22a24.
Potatoes quiet; Jerseys slal.57 IL; New forR
S1.25al50; Long Island I.250l.76; sweets, Jer'
seys, 81 25a2 .25; southern 4Ja60.
Tallow dull.
Cotton seed oil quiet; prime crude II 10
nrime crude fob mills l3al3l-2; prime
summer yellow 2l@ y; off summer yellow
%; butter grades 25a27; prime winter yellow Hs
2 10; prime white 70.
Petroleum quiet; refined, New YORK, Sf.ou'
Philadelphia and Baltimore s7.15; do in bulls
Rosin steady strained. common to good sl.45
Turpentlne steady at 80 l-2a40
Rice firm; fair to extra 4AWoAi Japan ga "a
Molasses firm; New Orleans, open kettle
good to choice, 25a33
Cabbage quiet; Long Island S1.5Oas!OO per 100
] ri iron dull; southern SOFA l,2o; northern
$40 2>alI75.
i Freights to Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
-; gram by steam
| Coffee-Options, Dc ember S5:5Oao.o5; Marcf
] S. la5 80: May $5.Soa55J; Ottobe s6.05; spoi
Rio, firIner; No. 4. invoice IL; No. iobblne
z: nlilt steady; Cordova 8d14.
! Sugar, raw firm; fair refining l5-l6; centrlf'
tugal g6-test, 7-I6; molasses sugar Ills; re-
| fiaed steady; No. 6, 4 ZIG; No. z, Al; No. IL
Az; No IL, 1-l6; No ID, 4l-I6; No. Ia, 4; mould
| A ID: granulated Sd: cubes 81.
BALTIMORE.
| BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 10.-Flour dull, un'
changed; western super S2.l5@25O; 90. extrs
straight S4.3504.50.
Wheat frmer; spot and December 71a7lA
January 7IAa7l IL; May 20 l-2 bid; steamel
| No q red =; Southern wheat by sample 67d
| II IL; do on grade -.
Corn strong; spot and December s9A; De
cember, new or Old, S94 aoz5; January SoAo
| Southern white corn 5000; yellow -, new.
| Oats dull; No. white western, 81 asked
Rye frmer; No. nearby 56A; No. west
| ern 6SM.