The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-21

january. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. A 30 ol2
Cash quotations we're as follows
Flour firm; spring, special 40 4ooa4;lO; hard
straights $3.1OG32O. wheat-No 2. spring 670
68; No. spring 65a67 ID; No. red 6S 1-2a70.
Corn-No. 2, 80 I-2. Oats-No. 2, 81; No. 2 white
2sa27; No J, white 25@26. Rye-No. 2, 4s 10.
Barley-No. 2, 32a45. Flax see6-No. l, GLASS.
Prime Timothy, seed $2S5. Mess pork, per bbl;,
sides, loose, $5.2Oa5.45; dry sailed shoulders,
boxed, 41ka4A Short clear sides, boxed, $5.30a
$40 Whiskey, 81 25.
NEw YORK.
New YORK, October 2O.-Flour strong and
higher, but rather quiet, as buyers were I'M
straights S350a3.60; do. patents S3.75d410; Min
nesota patents S3.90a440; Minnesota bakers $3.15
aS;So; winter low grades S225a2.45.
Rye flour strong at S300d3.30.
Buckwheat flour steady at Sl.40aI.55.
Buckwheat steadier at IL IL.
Corn meal firmer; yellow western rs; city rs.
Rye strong; No. 2 SO; State So.
Barley strong; western choice new mailing
47a92; do. feeding 81 l-2a38 ID
Barley malt firm; western 55a65.
Flax seed firm at 9S1.
Wheat, spot steady; No. 2 red 1915, options,
January -; March 1879; May 1919; December
7616.
Corn, spot steady; No. Q, 392{; options, March
-; May 4O5 November -; December 30 IL. 4
Oats, spot irmer; No. 2, 20; options quiet
and nominal
Beef steady; family s9.50a1O.5O extra mess
$3.50; beef hams $18.50a1900 packet S9a950; city
extra India mess S14.00a15.00.
Cut meats 6rmer; picked bellies 54a7 IL;
Lard firm; western steamed closed S5.42 IL;
city -; October closed S5.45, nominal; refined
firmer.
1900; family $12.5001300
Butter steady; western creamery 15022 IL;
do. factory II 1-2a14 IL; Egins % IL; imitation
creamery l3a17; State dairy 14G19.
Cheese quiet; large white 81; do. small
TX; large colored SO; do small ~; light
Skins 614G6 IL; part skins 5Aa5 IL; full skins
2a255.
Eggs firm; State and Pennsylvania 81; west
ern fresh 20.
Potatoes steady; Jerseys SLIP 1-2a1.50; New
York $1.25a1.75; Long Island S1.50G2O0; sweets,
Jerseys, $I00a2.00; southern 70a87 IL.
Cotton seed oil firm; prime crude Is; prime
summer yellow % 1-2 bid; butter grades 26a27;
prime winter yellow 27a28.
Petroleum strong; refined, New York, %.4O;
Philadelphia and Baltimore S7.35; do in bulk
$4.s5.
Rosin firm; strained, common to good,
Turpentine firmer at "a LASS.
Rice steady; fair to extra 4605; Japan 5.
Molasses steady; New Orleans, open kettle,
Peanuts firm; fancy hand-picked s; other
domestic 4a4 1-2.
Cabbage quiet; Long Island s1.5Oa3.OO per 100.
Freights to Liverpool steady; cotton by steam
Coffee-Options, October S5.25; December
Sc. As; spot Rio, dull and featureless; No. Z, in
voice 656; NO. lobblng so; mild qu1eti Cor
dova 8015
Sugar, raw firm with upward tendency; fair
refining 80; centrifugal, y6-test, Al; molasses
sugar IL; refined firm, with upward tendency;
No. 6, 716; No z, AZ; No. ii, Az No IL, Lie;
No. 10, 1-16; No. IA 4; mould 50; granu-
lated 5.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Md, October 20.-Flour firmer;
western super S2.3502.70; do. extra $2.9003.25;
do. family $3.50a400; spring wheat straight
S43504.50.
Wheat strong and higher; spot and October
rs 1-2a765s; steamer No. 2 red -; Southern
wheat by sample 71a77 1-2; do. on grade -.
Corn strong and higher; spot and October
374a37Is; November 3756G3724; new or old, No
375S; February 81 1-2 bid; steamer mixed -;
Southern white corn 81 1-2a3S; yellow
Oats firmer; No. white western, % 1-2040;
No. mixed 26 1-2a27.
Rye strong and higher; No. nearby 81; No.
western So.