Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-13

covering, at partially 4c net decline;
December closed at &c; May closed at
$3.50.
Oats-SpOt firm; No. 2, acc. Options
duh
Beef-steady.
Cut eats-Easy: picked bellies. 5ssdsc.
Iard-Firm western steamed, $5.f5; De-
cember, $780, nominally. Refined firm.
POrk-Firm.
Butter-Firm; western creamery. $50
2lc. do factory. l2alilAc.; Elgins, &c;
irritation creamery, ipi7c.; State dairy,
l5Qlsc.
Cheese-Firm; large white. 1Oa1Ohc.
Eggs-Firm; State and Pennsylvania,
25a26c.; western, fresh. &c; southern.
22n24c.
Posatoes-steady; Jerseys. SdN.Fi9;
New York. $i.2JTSl.5O; Long Island. Sl2jlp
$40; sweets, Jersey, SuSL25; southern,
40Q75c.
Cottonseed- Oil-steady; prime crude,
IKE. yellow, 2ln22c.
Petroleum-Steady.
Realistically
Tufpentlne-Steady at 39ikGpc.
Cabbage-Steady' at s1.50ds.
Conee-Options opened steady and I'M
changed to ) points lower, but rallied,
and advanced to net gain OF 5qlO points,
on demand from shorts, following bullish
French cables, and ready response by
Hamburg and Brazilian markets to our
bull furry OF SATURDAY. Ffrmer under
current of market increased by improve
ment in spot department, light Brazilian
receipts. and full warehouse deliveries.
Close steady, with price 15d2O points
higher: sales, $500 bags. including De-
cember, $50: January, S5.55dSj.S0. Spot
Rio quiet and tending upward; No. q,
invoice. SIC. No; Z, Jobbing' &c. Milo
firm. with good demand, at full rates;
Cordova, Sql5c.
lj-lGc.; centrifugal, %-degree test. 7-l6c. (;
molasses sugar. l1-lGc. Refined quiet
and about steady.
NEW YORK DRY-GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK. December 12.-Advances
Of sc. are reported I'm some makes OF
courtyard sheetings standard and three
ward sheetings, and drills in strong posi-
ton. Fine yarn grey cloths advancing
Print-clOths firm, with sales at latest
advance in narrow goods. Prints IN good
demand. Ginghams run firm in all de-
sirable makes Piques, uelts, and other
white goods generally, well sold ana
steady Fair orders Of dyed woollens
for mems wear. Dress goods unchanged
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
BALTIMORE, MD, December r.
FlOur-Dul: western super, $2.i5g$25).
Wheat-Weak; spot and the month,
7Oiz07O5sc: January, 705sudc.; May, zoe.
bid: southern wheat by sample, 6l0
Corn-Easy: spot and the month. S9Ma
39hc: December. new or old, Sslzd3s2sc; !;
January, 3SH3Sisc.; February, 3Sc DID;
southern white corn. 36uBc. -
Oats-Dull and easy; No. white S21eg
3}c.
q western 5H2c.
Sugar-Strong; granulated. S.33.
Butter-Steady; fancy creamery, &c;
store-packed. 13GlJc.
Eggs-Firm fresh, 2lG22c.
Cheese-Steady; fancy, New York, o0c. I;
large. lOiaGl0&c.
Lettuce-S1 .25dH.j0 per bushel box.
Whiskey-S1. EM$l.30 per gallon for mn
ished goods I'm carloads and $l3l4$L52
per gallon for jObbing lots.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO. December 12.-Coarse grains
and provisions We're strong to-day anu
closed higher, while wheat, though start
ing i'm the direction Of higher prices,
turned weak. and closed at a l-4g3-Sc.
decline from Saturdays final figures. The
heavy increase I'm the visible was the club
that knocked the props from under the
market. Corn and oats were strong Tor no
apparent reason. and advanced about 1-4c.
each. Provisions were in better demand,
and closed Z 1-9d15c. higher.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
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