The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-25
CHICAGO, August "a.
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Cash quotations were AZ follows:
Flour steady; winter patents S3.50a3.6l;
do straights 81 l0a3.30; do clear -; spring
specials A.20; hard spring pat, S3.40a370; soft
81 Soas.lo; bakers S2.20a26O Wheat-No. 2
73kai4. Corn-No. 2, 81 IL. Oats No. 2, 2l7s
a2t&; No. 2, white 23k a25 leg; No. white p 1-2
a28k. Rye No. 2 81 l-2a55. Barley-Eo. 2, "a IL
a39. FLAX seed--No. 1, lax. Prime Timothy seed
$2.4oa2.42I-2. Mess pork per bbl., s7.60a8.35.
Lard, per 100 lbs, s5lJa522 IL. Short rib sides,
loose, SAB aS.25; dry salted shoulders, boxed,
5Ba5A Short clear sides, boxed, so.5Oa6.W.
Whiskey Sl.28.
REV loRK, August 2f.--rIouT steadily held
but quiet winter patents s3.60a3 so; do. straight
S33503.41; Minnesota patents 3r0a8.90; do
bakers Sl.90aS.l0: winter extras S2.40a2.80; do.
low grades S2.80a2,40.
Corn meal steady; yellow western 7la78; city
Rye steady: No 2, western co; State 5j
Barley steady; feeding "a l-2a3s; mailing 4S
ass
Barley malt steady; western 55a63
May -; September 76S December 20 l-2.
Corn, spot firm; No .. 1914; options, Au-
gust S8A; September 57I; December
Oats, spot firm; No.2, 20; options dull, firm.
Beef steady; fam,ly sg.s01vI 90: extra mess
So; beef hams $2Tt0; packet S9.25s$10.00 city
extra india mess S14.6oa15 GO.
Cut meats quiet; picked bellies Gar Ia;
picked shoulders 6; picked hams 10al0 ID.
Lard nominally steady; western steamed S5.55
q 81 I-I; G ty 81 10. August -; refined tteady;
to the continent $3.50; compound 4&a4A.
Pork dull; mess Ss.75a9.50, snorC clear
$I0.2j0lI.75 family Si1 .OUWI2.00.
Tallow strong; city 4HaiA; country AZ.
Butter STACY; western creamery iF@2l;
Cheese. firmer; large white sAa97s; do colored
9Aa9 Ia.
Eggs steady; State and pennsylyanfs I7aIs;
Potatoes dull; fair to prime Si000t.2S;
common 50a75; fancy Sl.hea1,6J; southern sweets
Sl2)al 90.
Peanuts firm; fancy hand-pieked l-2a6 liz;
other domestic 1-2ao.
Cabbages quiet; Long Island s3aSi per 100.
Freights to Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude 2lI-2;
crude o mills l7al8; prime summer yellow 26a
rs l-2; on summer yellow % i-2; butter grades
3Oa3l; prime winter yellow s0G32; prime white
~ I-2.
Petroleum steady; refined New York, $3.50;
Philadelphia and Baltimore H.76: do In bulk
Rosin easy; strained, common to good
Sl.30a 80 IL.
Turpentine weak at 40 I-sa5O.
Rice quiet; fair to extra 47Ss7 LII Japan
4Ma5 l-2.
MoIasses firm: New Orleans, open kettle.
good to choice, S2a36.
CONGREGATIONS. Sept ember 81. gOa4 .s5; Decem-
Der 81 SO: March $500; spot Bio dull and nomi-
nal; No. invoice 5M; No. z jobbing Ga; mild
quiet; Cordova l-2al1.
Sugar, raw about steady but quiet; fair REIN
ing 1916; centrifugal S6-test, IL; molasses
sugar r8- Is; refined quiet but steady: mould A
81; standard A So; confectioners' GA; No. 10,
IL; cut loaf 81; crushed -; graduated
1-2; cubes So.
Muskmelons, Hackensack, Nutmeg per bar
rel, 750Si.00; South Jersey Christina, per bar
REL 40aSl; do jennie Lind, 50a1 90; Hacken-
sack seed 40a60; do Colorado, Rocky Ford
Seed, per case, Sl.5Oa7.b0.
Watermelons, per car load, $75a2oO; per 100,
S6aS2O
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug 24.-Flour quiet; west
ern super S2.150225.
7l&a7lA; september 72ka721; October rs LA
73A; December ~ asked; steamer No. red
-; Southern wheat by sample 6j@7S; do. on
grade.
Corn firmer; mixed, spot and August S70
37A; September and October 36z a36& Novem-
Der or December, new or old, 33033A; Janu-
airy 80 bid; steamer mixed -; Southern white
39a40; do. yellow -.
oats irmer; No. 2 white western, new, 270
~ 1-2; No. mixed 20 l-2a30.
Rye nominal; No. Q nearby So; No. 2 west
ern--.
NAVAL STORES.
WILMINGTON, N. O., August 24.-'r'urpentine
nothing doing at 4Gha46A; receipts lis.
Rosin firm at 90a95; receipts 3l8.
Crude turpentine firm at -, $40 and
1910; receipts 81.
Tar firm at 81. go; receipts 1893 barrels.
CHARLESTON, s. c., August 2l.--Turpentine
nothing doing at 40; sales = casks.
ID. 90; e, 95; f, s1.00; g, $I.05; fl, $1.15; /,
sL.25; K, $3.50; M s16O; N $2.1O; w 6, $3.50; ",
ESQ.
SAVANNAH Ga, August 2I.--Turpentine moth
ing doing at 40; sales =; receipts $3.50.
hosin firm; sales CSC; receipts 1885, Quotes
a.1O; n, $l2O; /, Sis: K, S1.S6; NJ, $1.7o: n,
~ 10: W g, S2.35; W W. $780,