The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-17
CHICAGO, June 16.
Opening. Closing.

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Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour firm; winter patents s3.65G3.75; do.
straights s3.l5a3.35; do clear 3.15a3.25; spring
specials 1885, hard patents, s34Oa5 80; stralghts
spring =; No. spring 75d77h; No. red
77%d794. Corn-No. 2, 35A. Oats No. 2. goa
Is IL; No. white 20 ID; No.S, white "a i-2a29.
seed-No. /. los. Prime Timothy seed s2.s5. Mess
pork, per bbl., S730aS.20. Lard, per 100 lbs,
sa9Oa5:o2 IL Short rib sides, loose, 4.6Oa4 81;
dry-salted shoulders, boxed, 4ha4. Short clear
sides. boxed. s495s5.00. Whiskey sl.26.
NEW YORK.
New YORK, June I6.-Eiour firm and fiirly
active on spring grades, and steady otherwise
winter straights x3.s5a3.65 do. patents s3.85a
LOS Minnesota patents 4O0a4.20: winter extras
81 6oa3.l0; do. low grades 2.45a2.65. oo
Rye flour steady; choice to fair s3.l0G3.20.
Corn meal steady; yellow western NJ: city -
Rye steady; No. 2, "a 1-2a65; State So.
Barley quiet: feeding 81; mating 4ta46.
Barley malt steady; western 57a63.
Wheat, spot easy; No. red s4k; nptionr,
July s2as; September 80 l-2; December s3%.
~ Corn, spot steady; No. 2, AN; options July
Oats, spot dull; No. 2, 80 2: options dull.
Beef firm; family s9.50610.50; extra mess
So; beef hams s2i.t0a22.50; packet $9.5)ssl0.0o;
city extra India mess S14.00a15.50.
Cut meats steady; picked bellies 41sa5A
picked shoulders Al picked hams sa9z.
Lard easy; western steamed $5.27 IL asked;
city -: refined steady; to the continent $3.50
Pork steady; mess ss.5O09 100; short clear SIC a
l1.75; family si0.5001O75
Butter steady; western creamery 15alS l-2 do
factory III liza 10 Elgins 20; imitation creamery
IL l-2al6; State dairy 10 l-2al7; creamery -.
Cheese, strong; large white IA; do colored
IN.
Eggs firm; State and Pennsylvania IA I-2
"a 10; western fresh Hall 1-2: southern l-2G
ii IL.
Potatoes quiet New York sI.z5al.75; Jer-
seys, sweets, si.00a2.5 so: southern $l00al.75.
Peanuts steady; fancy hand-picked Las;
other domestic aa44.
Cabbages steady; 81 00a2 % per barrel crates
Freights to Liverpool dull; cotton by steam
Taliow easy; city I-2 country Ak.
Cotton seeu oil, quiet, firm; prime crude q l-2;
crude mills Fals; prime sum
mer yellow 26; off summer yellow 2i; butter
grades s0a32; prime winter yellow 30a32; prime
white 90 10.
Petroleum steady: refined New York, $40;
Philadelphia and Baltimore S.l5: do In bulk
a.s5.
Rosin quiet; strained, commonto good s1.30a
1872 1-2.
Turpentine steady at SO l-2a39x.
Rice firm; fair to extra 49sa7; Japan Az.
Molasses firm: New Orleans, open kettle.
Coffee-Options, June $3.50: July s4.60ai.65;
August s4.6jat.T0; September $3.50; October
81 80a4 IS; spot Rio dull and easy; No. z. invoice
5@: No. iohbing ga; mild inactive and barely
.teady; Cordova 8a13.
sugar, raw easier fair refining 4l-l6; CEN
triiuyal 96-test, "a; molasses sugar 4; refined
f,m, active; moulo So: standard So con-
fectioners' oz; cut loaf So crushed 6: pow
dered 5 &; ersnristad I-2; cubes 5ss.
Muskmelons, Florida, per case, Sl.25a3.00.
Watermelons, per car load, Sl6Oa25O; do. per
loo, Sl2a35.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Md, June l6.-Flour quiet and
ttol,a rod fcrVa cum