The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-01
CHICAGO, May 81.
Opening. Closing.

Cash quotations were as follows:
| Flour steady; winter patents S3.6303.75; DO.
straights S335a3.45; do clear SS.1saS23: spring
specials Si35; hard patents S3.40a3S 80; stra1ghts
| s2.80aS20; bakers $2.20a2.6O. Wheat-No. Z
red 79a So Corn--No. 2, 80 1-2. Oats No. 2
"a l-2a25; No. white %; No. 3, white 20 LA
u l-2. Rye No. Q, 58a6V. Barley-No. 2, S6al0.
Flax seed No. 1, l02. Prime Timothy seed 81 q.
Mess pork, per bbl., s7.s5a7S0, Lard, per 100
lbs ST goal go ID. Short rib sides, loose, A.I0a
i6j; dry-salted shoulders, boxed, 436afSs Short
clear sides. boxed, S4.s0A.S5. Whiskey SI.26.
NEW YORK.
|. NEW YORK, May 3l.--FIour active, stronger
at to l5c advance over Saturdays hgures
winter straights S3.t5a3.65: do. patents SS.9Oa
410: Minnesota patents 4.00a4.15; winter extras
s. 60a3 o.; do. low grades 2.43a255.
Rye dour firm choice to fancy sS25a34o.
Corn meal easy; yellow western S3GA;
Rye steady; No. 2, "a LAS; State So.
Barley dull; feeding 4la42; mating 4tal6.
Barley malt dull; western s6as3
Wheat, spot easy; No. 2 red no IL; optlons'
July 80 -; September s2k; December S2A.
Corn, spot quiet; No. q 4O4; options July
Oats. SHOT yD aniet: No. ?, SO: options quiet
| Beef steady; family $9.50G10.50; extca mess
SO; beef hams $l9.0OaI9.5O; packet ss.bOssloOO;
city extra India mess sl4.oGal5;5o. .y.
| Cut meats dull; picked bellies 6a3%
picked shoulders 4Aat>s; picked hams l-2a9
Lard steady; western steamed $5.25; city -;
refined quiet; to the continent $40; COM
PORK steady; mess IS 25a 8 rs; short clear $1,000
a1l.75; family sl05O@ll.O0
Butter steady; western creamery 10 l-2alo;
do factory II l-20 Is; Elgins 20 imitation cream
cry IL l-2at5; State dairy IA l-2aH; creamery
l5alS.
Cheese, steady; large white 1-2as'l; do col
ored 81.
Eggs easy; State and Pennsylvania Is; west
ern fresh i4al9: southern 1lal2 II.
Potatoes quiet; New York S1.00Gl.75 Jer-
seys. sweets, Sl.00al75: southern -.
fV9lInW y.
Peanuts firm; fancy nand-pickeo 4l-2ao;
other domestic 4a4A.
Cabbage steady; sl.50a3.o0 per barrel crates.
Freights to liverpool steady; cotton by steam
IL l-2; do. grain
Cotton seed oil dull; prime crude 20 ID;
crude o mills l7a19; prime summer vel
ow %; of summer yellow 81; butter grades
3Oa32; prime winter yellow oOaSz; prime whl1e
29a30.
Petroleum firm; refined New York, E.20;
Philadelphia and Baltimore s7.l5; do in bulk
1855.
Rosin quiet; strained, common to good STAT
al4Z IL.
Turpentine steady at 43a43 l-2.
Rice steady; fair to extra 42sa7; Japan 4%a5A
Molasses firm: New Orleans, open kettle.
good to choice, 32a36.
september Sl00a5.01: October s5.0>a5 10; No
vember S. To- December S540; spot Rio nominal
No, Z, invoice 90; No. iobblng 63S; mild quiet;
Cordova 8al3.
Sugar, raw steady to firm; fair refining IA
centrifugal 96-test, "A; molssses sugar 4; No, a.
Az; refined firm: mould 5&: standard a
5A confectioneTs' "a; cut loaf So crushed 5B
powdered IL; granulsted 55s cubes 55s.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Md, May 3l.-Flour quiet; west
ern super S2.25 024O.
Wheat strong and higher; No. red, spot and
May i9a791; June 79a79A; July Slash; Au-
gust 80Aa8iA; steamer No. red -; Southern
wheat by ole 70079 l-2 do on grade -.
Corn firmer; spoI, May and June 373saS7 T.;
July 374a37M; steamer mixed -; Southern
white and yellow corn IA asked.
Oats steady; No. white western, 81 Lass;
No. 2 mixed 5la31 I-2.
Rye dull; No. nearby -; No. western Cd
asked.