The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-05


Cash quotations were rs fellows:
Flour steady; winter patents $3.40as.50; do
straights s3.00a3.21; do clear $2.sOa3.lO spring
straights ss.sOas.0J, 6aksrs sl.yOa266. Wheat
ted $50 s. ia. corn.,No. p 81 ia: Oats NO. .
70 S-ia24; No 2, white 20; No: white q ss sda
10. Flax seed-No. l. $l.4S. Prime Timothy
seed, $z.35. Mess pork, per bill SO S0a$lf.S0
Lard, per 100 lbs, s5f5a57s7 12; Short rib sioe.
l-2a5 ga, Short clear sides. boxed. IS 8Ja
5.85; whiskeyi on basis OF high wines, sl.23k.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK January 4;-FlouI steady. Min
nesota PATENTS S}.S5a 4.l0; do bakers SzS0a3. 10;
winter patents S3.55a3.75; winter straights
$S.S5a3.i5; winter extras So 55a 29s.
Rye -four firmer fair TO good s3.i5@S.s0;
choice to fancy SIS ooa3.I0.
Buckwheat flour steady at So. l0a2 IS.
Buckwheat NO minal at 60a61.
Corn neal steedy; yellow western 81; city
III Brandywine 1.2t59.36.
Bye st ady. No. z, western 60 81 Z o afloat;
State rye aao7; city of New York car lots.
Barley dull; feeding AZ l-2s44 l-2; mating
48a53.
Barley malt Quiet western 55ae5.
Wheat, spot steady: No; red rs 1=2; options,
March .5t: Nav 10 Ia; July IS 3-S.
CJrn, SPOT steady, No. =, 4O "a; options
May 80 3-s.
Oats, spot steady; No. 2, 90 Ia; No. 2 white
g Ia; No. % IL. Options, quiet; January
80 So; May 80 3-s.
s10.50; beef hams s22.50ao3.00 packet Sll.5Oa
400: city extra India mess S20.00a23.00
Cut meats steady; picked bellies l-4a7 l. Al
picked shoulders ga; picked hams t-4a9.
Lard streng. western steamed $625. city,
1895; December s5.9S, nominal; refined frrher;
to the continent Sc 20; compound $500.
Pork firm; mess S1O.25al0.05i short clear $ll0Ca
l2.00 family Sl2.000a12.50.
Butter firm; western dreamer 2f02s; State
dairy 20a27.
Cheese strong fall made fancy, large, IL 3-4a
Is; la made, small, ~ 3-4al3.
Eggs firm; State and fennsyivania 25sz6;
western, ungraded at mark, l6a25; Western 20,
loss off.
Potatoes steady; New Jerseys Sl.25s1.75: New
York Sl.50al.T l-2; Long land $.eOa2O'
New Jersey sweets SL.50a350; southern sweets
81 .25al.75.
Tallow firm; city 5a5&; country 7-sa5 Ia.
Petroleum steady; renned New Iorx, $3.50;
Philac elpha and baltimcre 1855: Go IN bulk
Rosin ste. dy. straineh common 10 ooc, S1.45.
Turpent1ne firm at 81 l-2a53
Rice quiet; domestic, fair to extra SACK;
Japan A az.
Molasses steady New Orleans, open kettle,
good to choice, 32a4e.
Cabbage steady; Long Island s4OOas6oo per
Freights to Liverpool dull cotton by steam
25; do. grain Q Sd.
Cotfee- Options, January 1915; March $].s'a
$40: spot Rio firm; No z invoice 3-l6; No.
jobbing 1916; mild firm; Cordova Sai2h.
Sugar, raw, steady to firm, fair refining,
3 l3-l6; cenLrllugal yb-test, "A bid; molasses
sugar 9-l6; refined s,eady: standard "A 10 l6;
cut loaf 9-16; crushed y-l6; powdered Ia;
mouIdlA, 7-16; granulated 3-l6; cubes 5-l6.
Cotton seed on active ann strong. Prime
craze barrels 30a3l; prlm. summer yellow 3ta
&c ;off summer We low 35 nominal; butter grades
S7a3s, prime winter We low sSaS3 prime white
37aSS; prime meal sN. Ia25.L0.
BALTIMORE
bALTINoaB, MO-, January 4.-Flour dull
and unchanged; we stern super S2.250235.
VIII at very dull; spot and month 20 7-8; Jan"
uary az a72 la; May IA 3-4a7i 7-6; Southern
wheat ty go nple 67a72.
Corn easier; mixed, spot and month 37kaT1;
February ~ i-2as7 SIS; March 81 3-Ia38; South
ern white, 81 8-sa37 IL.
Oats dull; No. white western. 30 l. ia90 81.
Rye dull; No. nearby Sd; No. western SO
nominal.
Cheese firm; large l3kalS1l; medium l3ka
1917; small lZhal3x
Butter firm; fancy creamery 2sa29; fancy
creamery, imitation, z2a.4; do. ladle tOa2l; do.
good lad.e ia 20; sto packed 16a18; rolls 17a2l.
Eggs firm; fresh "a per dog.
Sugar strong; unchanged. Coarse and fine
graduated IS 81.