The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-19
CHICAGO, August is.
Opening. Closing.

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/ Cash quotations were as follows
Flour firm; winter patents S3.45aS:51;
90 straights S3,00aS.25 do clear 81 8Oa3 ~ spring
specials s4lO; hard spring pat, o.; 3OaS SO; soft
| So 3Oa3.4O; bakers S2.20a2.50. Wheat-No.
spring -; No. spring 6907lA; NO. req
% Ia Corn-No. 2, 8. Oats No. o 2i9
| % Ia, Rye No. 2, 53A. Barley-No: 2, $40
/ SO; No. Flax seed-Eo. l, 10i. Prime Timothy
seed $59a255 "a Mess les Por5k per ooi Short 9Gb ~
sides, loose, S4.95a5.2O; dry-salted shoulders,
boxed, 5%@5a short clear sides, boxed.
S5.5Oa5.e0 Whiskey sl.as.
| NEW YORK
| NEW YORK, Aug. l8.-Flour firmly held but
/ quiet apart from o fair inquiry for standard
brsnds winter patents sS.7Oa8SO; DO. straight
S3.3j@3.50; Minnesota patents 3.'OaS.sO; 40
| bakers S290a3.l0: winter extras SzAuaZ'oU; 40
Rye f fiour firm; good to fair s28OaS1O; choice
! to fancy -.
| Rye easy; NO. 2. western. 5Sl-2; STATE =.
] Barley steady; feeding 271-2a3S: mailing -.
| Barley malt nominal; western 5sa65.
| Wheat, spot firm; No. red rs liz; options,
| September n; December 70 l-2
/ Corn spot firm: No. 2, 30H: options, Aus ust
| 37x; September 57s; December 35@
| Oats, spot steady; No. 2, rs l-2; options slow.
Beef firm; family S9.5U@lL0O; extra mess
| SO; beef hams $27t0a2S.50; packet $s2la$lOOO;
city extra India mess S14.0Oa15.OO.
/ Gut meats quiet; picked bellies 6a1 Ia;
picked shoulders 8; picked hams loalo IL.
S. Is; August s5.h7 12: refined steady to the con-
tinent $3.50; compound 4%a4A.
Pork firm, quiet; mess s815a9.o0; snort clear
sl02jG1I.75; FAMILY SlLOOGl2.O0.
Butter firm; western creamery l7@2l;
| State dairy l4al8 1-2.
Cheese, quiet; large white "a; do colored ga
a91-2.
Eggs firm; State and Pennsylvanis 1701S;
western ungraded l2al5; southern -.
Potatoes quiet; fair to prime Sl.h00l7b;
common 50a75; fancy S2.oOa2.25; southern sweets
Sl.50a2.J0.
Peanuts firm; fancy hand-picked 1-2a6 Ia;
other domestic I-2ab.
Cabbages quiet; Long Island S3aSi per 100.
Freghts to Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
TailoW steady; city =; country sXasX.
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude 2ll-2;
26 10; of summer yellow % IL; butter grades
sOas prime winter yellow SOaS2; prime white
Petroleum firm; refined New York, $3.50;
Philadelphia and Baltimore 1915: do in bulk
r Rosin firm; strained, common to good
SI.30al. 81 IL.
Turpentine steady at 52a52 I-9.
Rice quiet; fair to extra 43sa7 i-2i Japan
4Aa5 l-2.
Coffee1Options, September $40; October
81 a.; November $780, March s5.0o; spot Rio dull
and nominaii No "a, lny Y. aS no. looolns
Sugar, raw firmer far refining -; centrifugal
s6-test, 9-IG; molasses sugar ga; refined firm
with good demand; mould A 81; standard
%; confectionery "; NO. 10, Ii; cut Loaf
81 +: crushed cubes 5M.
Muskmelons, Hackensack, Nutme per bar
rel, 75GSi.u0: Monmouth county, per barr ell,
o0ati0O; do Jennie Lind, 50al25; Hackensack
seed per barrel, 40a75; South Jersey Gem and
jennie Line per crate 5Oa 90; do, average 4O0
so; do Maryland, Rocky Ford Seed, per
crate, inf rior, 25a40; 90 Emerald Gem, per
crate 50a60; do two basket carrier dta5O; do Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, per barre,
Watermelons, per car load, S55al50; per lOc,
SASS.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. IS.-Flour firm; vest
ern super &2.15G225.
Wheat firm; No. red, spot and August
7Iza72: September 72Aa72z6; October 74a74A;
December ,7a774; steamer No. red -;
Southern wheat by sample 65@7jA; do. on
grade -
Corn steady; mixed, spot and August 90 l-20
35&; September and October 3aha31 l-2; No
yember or December, new or old, S2%GS2%;
January 81 l-2a3tA steamer mixed-; Southern
white 40af0 l-2 do yellow
Oats steady; No. white western, old ESQ
26 10; NO. 2 mixed % 1-2a3O.
Qya 6rp1. No " 62a53. No. west