The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
CHICAGO, August rs.

Cash quotations were as follows:
flour firm; winter patents SS.5Oa5;boi
specials S42o; hard spring pat, SS4Oaso9; SOFT
" 80a320; bakers SJ.90a280. Wheat-No.
spring =; No. 8 spring 70A07lk: No. red
20 ~. Corn-No. 2, 81 I-2a32M. Oats mo. y,
81 1-2a2l%; No. 2, white %; No. white ~ |. "a
D. Rye--No. Q, 54a55 1-2. Barley-No. g.. Flax
seed--No. 1. 1l7@1l7 l-2. Prime Timothy seed
per 100 lbs S5O7 1-2a5.2. Short rib sides, loose,
81 95a525; dry -saIted shoulders, boxed, 5sS@
5A. Short clear sides, boxed. s5.5oa5.6O' Whfskey
s1.25.
NEW IoEK, August 26.--Flour inactive ana
nominaly 5a10c lower t. sell; winter patents
SS.B0a3 80; do. straight s3.3503.4';, Minnesota
patents 3.s0a3 so; do bakers S2.9Oa3.l0: winter
extras 81. 4Oa2sO; do. low grades S2.30a2.40.
Rye -four firm; good to prime s2.s5as.l5; choice
to fancy -.
Rye steady; No. Q, western 81 1-2; state -.
4sa55.
Barley malt dull; western 55a63
Wheat. spot weak; No. red 761; options,
May -; September 7516; December iS
Corn, spot weak: No. O. S9x: options, Msy
81 August 3s%; September ss; December =.
Oats, spot dull; No. 2, .6k; options dull.
Beef quie5; family $500 o1l.00i exLra mess
So; beef hams $27aS2s; packet S92jaSl0.0O; city
extra India mess S14.50a15.00.
Cut meats quiet; picked bellies 6s7 Id !;
picked shoulders 6a6&; picked hams l04l0 IL.
Lard nominal; western steamed S5.15; city
SIS Is; August -: refined steady; to the continent
$3.50; compound 4ssa4M.
Pork dull; mess SS.55a9.5O; snort clear
N0.2JG1l.75; family SI0.00O1l.00.
Tallow firm; city 4%a4A country 45s.
!, Butter steady; western creamery I"@zi;
Cheese, dr1ner; large white sxa91s; do coll
ored 9Ia9 1-2.
Eggs steady; State and Pennsylvania l70ls;
western, ungraded I2al5; southern
Potatoes quiet; fair to prime Sl.000l.21;
rommon 60a75; fancy $lheal.65; southern sweets
Sl.DUa12j.
Peanuts firm; fancy hand-picked 1-2as Ia;
Cabbages quiet; Long Island s3aSi per TO-
Freights to Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
so; do grain
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude 2ll-2;
crude Q b mills 17al8; prime summer yellow
20; OF summer yellow % IL; butter grades
S0a31; prime winter yellow sOaS2; prime white
20 IL.
Petroleum firm; refined New York, $3.50;
Philadelphia and Baltimore S.75: do in bulk
S5.25.
Rosin qu.et, easy; strained, common to good
Turpentine easy at 4s I-eais.
Rice dull; fair to extra 47sa7 la Japan
4Ma5}f.
Molssscs dull: New Orleans, open kettle.
Coffee-Opt1ons, September Sass; October
81 40 spot Rio dull and nominal; No. invoice
5M; No. jobbing Ga; mild dull but steady;
Cordova l-2all.
Sugar, raw quiet and unchanged; fair refn-
ing 1916; centrifugal 96-test, l~2; molasses
sugar 1916; refined quiet; mould a 5M stand
ard A Ills granulated 5-i6.
Muskmelons, Colorado, per case, Sl.b0a2.t0;
South Jersey. per barrel, 50aSl.2i; do half barr
rel. 2sa75.
watermelons, Maryland, per car load, Sl25a
200; do jersey S75alO0; do Maryland, per 400,
$l5a20. 90; do Jersey and Virginia S7aSl2.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE Nd, Aug. .6.-Flour quiet; west
ern super S21502.25.
Wheat weak: No Q red, spot and August
~ IT,; December 74A a742s steamer No. -;
Southern wneat by sample 6Sd72; do. on
grade.
Corn easier; Mixed spot and August S7fG
81 l-8; September and October 80 a36 p; NO
Vembsr or December, new or old, S30334
January 3ga3s16; steamer mixed -; Southern
white 59ai0; do. yellow.
Oats firm; No. white western, new, z1CG
q IL; No. mixed 20 l-2aS0.
Rye dull; No. 2 nearby So: No. 2 western =.
NAVAL STORES.
WILMINGTON, N. O., August &c JI'nrpentine
nothing doing at 46ka48N; receipts 155.
Rosin firm at 90a9o; receipts 40l.
Crude turpentine firm ct -, s2.7O and
$40; receipts 81.
Tar steady at S1.30; receipts 866 barrels,
CHARLESTON, s. O., August 26.--furpentine
nothing doing at 46; sales casks.
Rosii firm; sales barrels. Quote: Il, @
ID. 30: e. IS; r, Sl.00; q, $l.05; Fl, N.l5; l.
sl.25; X, Sl.30; NJ, S1.60; N s2.1O; W g, $780, W.
$50.
SAVANNAH, Ga, August 26-Turpentine moth.
Kosin Tirm: sales 1881; receipts 1884,. Quote
A, B, Q, So; d, IS; b, %; =, $500; 9
s.10; IA, Sl.20; L, Sl.25; K, $3.50; hi, $1.65; N
So 90: W &. S2.35; W W. $40.