The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-23

seed $50. Mess pork, per bbI. S83Oa8.S7 ID.
Lard, per 100 lbs, $5.1505.22 Short rib
Sides loose S472 1-2a4.92 1-2; dry-salted should
ers, boxed, 4ka43S. Short clear sides, boxed,
$.sja4.S71-2. Whiskey, Sl26
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, December 22.-FIour more active
and STRONGER, particularly for spring patents,
winter straights and low grade winters; winter
straights $3.50a3.55; do. patents SS.65a3.S0 MIN
nesota patents $3.70a395; Minnesota bakers
S3.0Oa3.25; winter low grades S2.25a2.45.
Rye -four finn; good to fair S3.20U3.35.
Buckwheat -four easier at Sl.90a2.00,
Buckwheat dull at Die
Corn meal firm; yellow western 77a7S; city
Rye strong; No. 2, 62a63; State
Barley strong: feeding Halls; mailing 52G5S.
Barley malt strong; western 6Oa7O.
Flax seed steady at S1.10.
Wheat, spot ffrmer; No. red 1871, options,
March rs IL; May TAX; December 744.
Corn, spot easier; No. 2, 43 l-2; options, May
Az; December AZ.
bats, spot firmer; No. Q, 322{; options, frmer.
Beef steady; family sl0a$l1; extra mess $S.5oa
800; beef hams $500; packet S9.50aSl0; city
extra India mess S1500al600.
Cut meats quiet; picked bellies Sac; picked
shoulders 3Ia4; picked hams 6Aa7.
Lard firmer; western steamed closed $40;
city -; December closed $545 nominal; re-
fined firm.
Pork firm; mess SO OOa95O; short clear
S1025a1225; family $l0.000ll.00.
Butter firm; western creamery l502l; do.
factory 12a14 1-2; Elgins 81; imitation creamery
l3al7; State dairy 15018; creamery l5a19 IL.
Cheese firms large white 10 1-2;do. small
~; large colored 10A; do small 7A; light
skins 6A06 IL; part skins 54a5 IL; full skins
2a2h.
Eggs firm; State and Pennsylvania 26a27
western fresh q; southern 22a25.
Potatoes steady; Jerseys 81 .25al.50: New York
$1.25a1.62 LIZ; Long Island $1.50G1.S7 l-2; sweets
Jerseys, S1.25a2.50; southern 5Oa75.
TalloW steady; city GIG; country l-2a35B.
Cotton seed oil frazer; prime crude II liza
IS; prime crude o b mills l3a131-2: prime sum
mer yellow 22a2255; off summer yellow 20; butter
grades O25a27; prime kwinter yellow Na28;
Petroleum steady; refined, New York, $3.50;
Philadelphia and Baltimore $745; do in bulk
S455.
Rosin steady: strained. common to good S1.40
Turpentine firm at az 1-2a44.
Rice firm; fair to extra 4%@6A; Japan 6Aa
s Ia.
MoIasses firm; New Orleans, open kettle.
good to choice, 28a33.
Peanuts quiet; fancy hand-picked 5; other
domestic 4a4 1-2.
PIG iron dull; southern Sl0.25al1.25; northern
$10.25a11.75.
Freights to Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
Coffee-Options, December S5.S5; January
$5S5; spot Rio, firm; No. z, invoice z; No. job
bling 10; mild steady; Cordova 7xa15.
Sugar, raw unsettled; fair refining ga; CEN
trifugal, 96-test, AZ; Muscovado 81; molasses
sugar 39s; refined lower; No. 6, 7-16; No. z, AZ;
No. II, Az; No. IL, 1-16; No. ID, lie; No. a.
4; mould A 5-16: granulated 1-l6: cubes 51s.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 22.-Flour duh, un
changed; western super S2.1502.50; do. extra
S2.9003.25; do. family $3.50a4.O0; spring wheat
straight S4.35d4.50.
Wheat firmer; spot and December 73k0731;
January 20 1-2a73X; May -; steamer No. Q, red
=; Southern wheat by sample 6Sa74; do. on
grade -.
Corn strong; spot and December 412041I;
December, new or old, Al Aa413S; January 4lba
413s; February 4lha4l 1-2; steamer mixed -;