Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-18
GENERAL MARKETS.
NEW YORK PROT

NEW YORK, June 2-Flour-Dull and
barely steady; winter extras. $2.6GqS3.l0;
winter low grades. S2.45d$ s.. So.
Rye FlOur-Quet good to fair, $1,000
1925; choice to fancy, S3.31aS}.50
Cornmeal-Steady.
Rye-Steady.
Barley-Quiet; feeding, H2Ok.
Barley Malt-Quiet; western. 57q63c.
Options opened weak, under big primary
receipts and bearish cable news. Fair
offerings by local and foreign houses
maintained depression all day. and the
close was weak and hn%c. net lower;
July closed SOlsc.; September. Soc; De-
CornLspot steady; No. 2, 4O5sc Options
opened weak, with wheat, and on easier
cables. but rallied slightly on covering,
and closed easy. b@hc. net lower; July
closed $3.50; September, 1890.
Oats-Spot easy; No. 2, 3lc. Options
BeefNsieady; family, so5Oaao1O; beef
hams 500. 5GQs23; packet. s9.50QSl0.
cut Meats-Frm; picked bellies 47s@
&C.; do. shoulders, 4Aa4lAc.; do. hams,
Lard-steady: western, s5.25 asked; re-
fined steady; compound, H.l2EaASIA.
Pork-Steady.
| 6lS2ic.: State dairy. 81a4l7c.
| Cheese-Steady; large white, sac.
Eggs-Firm; state and Pennsylvania,
150l5lkc.; western fresh, 1ll2@l5c.; SOUTH
! ern, sale.
Tallow-Steady.
Petroleum-Steady; refined, New York,
| $50: Philadelphia and Baltimore. S.55.
Rosin-Quiet; strained, common to good'
Turpentine-steady at S9aS9hc.
Rice-Firm; fair to extra. 43sq7c.; ia
Molasses1Firm; New Orleans, open
kettle good to choice. 32d3Gc.
aJ-n STEADY
| on light offerings; prime crude, &c. DO,
/ f. o. b. mills, H0lSc.; butter grades SUI
Coffee-Options opened steady and UNI
changed. ruled spirtless In view of con-
ficting foreign market news unimportant
| statistical changes, and lack OF interest IN
| outside speculative circles. Close barely
| steady and unchanged TO points loWe 81
| October. $780, November, N.95; Decem-
| Der. $3.50: January, s5.35. Spot cofee, kio
| dull and easy; No. Z, invoice, - no 9
| fobblng $50; mild quiet; COrdoVa, -.
SuQar-Raw. fair refining, &c; centri-
| fugal 90 degrees test. Az; moiasses SUI
| gar. &c; refined steady; standard A, 2esc'
| cCnfectioners' A. $50; cut Ioaf, osc;
crushed. &C.; powdered, 52sc.; grahuiateu'
| 5I2c; cubes, 5'sc.
| POtatOes-Steady.
Cabbage-Steady.
THE GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK, June 2t-The week closes
with a duh demand on the spot for all
| lines OF cotton. Dark fancy colicos are
! not in as full demand as previously TINS
! week but are very we'll situated and hrin
! I'm tone. Brown cottons unchanseu,
| Bleached dull. but firm In medium ano
| fat. grades Denims Irregular Joopihs
] trade here dull. but special cleaning w
| sales next week expected TO make mat
| tiers much more lively. American cotton
warns dull and barely steady. Worsted
| warns firm and in good request
NEW YORK MELON MARKET
| NEW YORK, June 4-Muskmelons IT.
regular; fancy steady; under grades press.
| ed for sale Watermelons show ABOUT
| the same range. but the average Is
| shade lower. MuskmelOns, Florida, per
| case. Oc0$225; do, Charleston, per pas
| ket. $gA.JO watermelons, CARLOADS, Slz'
| QS2OO do, per 100, $lOuS21.
| CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
| CHICAGO. June A.-Wheat to-day solo
| at the lowest point 1t has touched fol
| several weeks. and closed al a decline o.
| lac. from yesterday. Continued enormous
| primary receipts and evidence OF large
! visible Increase discouraged even Inc
most sanguine bull. Corn and oats were
| heavy in sympathy, and closed Ac. loWel
| and 1t42sc. lower, respectively. FRO
visions were in better demand, and al
yanced 2iapjc. ..,,.
The leading futures ranged as follows
| Opening Highest. Lowest. CLOSING