The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-06

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour quiet; winter patents Sj.50d3.60; do.
straights s3.so@s.4O; spring special $500;
spring patents $3.2oa3.50; straghts S2.Sa8.00.
Wheat-No Q spring b7a6S; No. spring
sla@ss; No red u IT, . eornNo NJ So oats ;to
2sa2sk. Rye No. 2, J4a54 12. Barley-No. 2,
4la5l. Flax seed, No. !, III. Prime Timothy
seed 1928 Mess pork, per Dbl, $3.50 100
sides, loose, s4.75a5.Oo; dry-salted should
ers, boxed 44a4ss. Short clear sides, boxed,
s5.O5a5.l0. Whisky, SLY.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Jauuary 5.-Fiour more active
and firm Tor winter straights but negle cted
otherwise; winter extras s27Oa3.00; winter
nesota PATENTS s3.9Oa4.15 Minnesota bakers
IS 90 1926; winter low grades S22Ga2.45.
Rye tour firmer; fair to good 70. l5a3.S0.
Buckwheat flour easy at 81 .90al9S.
Buckwheat quiet at 54a55.
Corn meal quiet; yellow western Sass;
Rye stronger; No. 2, 81; State SO.
Barley firm; feeding 44ai IS; mating 5305S.
Barley malt firm; western ST. 65
Flax seed steady at Sl.10.
Wheat, spot easy; NO. 2 red y93s, options,
January 1914; March 1873; MAY 74X.
Jorn, spot easy; No. z, 431-2a45X; options
May Az.
Oats, spot dull; No. 2, SO: options, dull.
Beef steady; family Sl0aSll; extr. iuess Ss50a
900; beef hams $3.50; packet $9.sOa$l0; city
extra India mess Sl5G0al6O0
Cut meats quiet; picked bellies 51fa6;
picked shoulders 4; picked hams 6Aa7.
city s.; January closed S5S5 1-2, nominal;
refined quiet.
Pork 1teady; mess SO 75alO.25; short clear
Sl0.50a12.50; family si0.250ll.00.
Butter firm; western creamery 1502l do.
factory 12a14 Ia; Elgins 2i; imitation creamery
l3al7; State dairy 1oalS; creamery l5al9 IL.
Cheese steady: large white IL IL; 90. small
TX; large colored 10 l-2; do. small ~; light
Skins 6A06 l-2; part skins 54a5 ID: full skins
2a21.
Eggs quiet; State and Pennsylvania %;
western fresh II: southern q.
Potatoes steady; Jerseys SLIP 1-2a1.50: New
York Sl.25ai.G2 -; Long Island Sl:75@200;
sweets, Jerseys, 81. 25a2.00 southern 50a76.
Tallow steady; city 9-lG; country l-2a3%.
Cotton seeu oil dull; prime crude IL liza
IS; prime crude o mills l3alS l-2: prime sum-
mer yellow 22a22@; off summer yellow 20; butter
grades 26a27; prime winter yellow 27a28;
prime white 26.
Petroleum steady; refined New York, $3.50;
Philadelphia and Baltimore S.45; 90 in bulk
S4 81.
Rosin quiet strained, comm IN to good y1.40.
TurpenJine firm at 45 1-2af6.
Rice steady; fair to extra 4Z@6A; Japan SKA
1-2.
Molasses firm; New Orleans, open kettle.
good to choice, 2Sa33.
Peanuts quiet; fancy hand-picked 81; other
domestic 4a4 l-2.
Cabbage steady; Long Island 50 00a4 90 per 100.
Pix iron dull southern Sl0.25ail,26; northern
S10,25a11.75.
Freights to Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
-; grain by steam -.
Coffee--Options, January S5.3Ia540; February
$5ij; spot Rio, dull and easy; No. 2. invoice
d IL; No. z jobbing z; mild quiet; Cordova ia
ais.
Sugar, raw abort steady: fair refining 18-lG;
centrifugal 90 test, A 5-l6; Muscovado -; mo-
iasses sugar 3 9-16; refined about steady; mould
So 9ranulated s: cubes r..
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Md, January 5.-Flour dull and
unchanged; western super s2.25G26O.
Wheat firm; spot and January 76zm762s;
February 754a16M; May 76Aa77 steamer No.
;, req =; Southern wheat by sample i2a77; do.
on grade 49,.
Corn easy; mixed spot 41ail%; January 4i0
Az February 4lG4l 4; steamer mixed -;
Southern white and yellow corn 3Sail
Oats frrner; NO. white western, "a l-2a35;
No. 2 mixed 80 l-2.
pue firmnr. Nh 2 near- hu &c. No. q western