, 1872-12-26
COMMERCIAL.

COMMERCIAL.
WEDNESDAY, EVENING, Dec. Is
To-day, being Christmas, was very closely OBJ
leryed as holiday in business clrcles-even
more thoroughly than usual The day was es-
pecia1ly quiet by contrast with one year ago,
ehen the need for shelter from the storms OF
winter was too imperative to permit of nsuspeu-
sion Of work On the anniversary Of a Savior's
birth. Chicago was then oheying the Scripture
command, in working out her Own salvation
n1beit no. with fear and trembling. Now the
necessity for that extra e1ertion has passed
AWAY, and the recently burnt~outers Here able
pnce mora to gather around their Christmas
trees, and mutilate their turkeys in peace.
4 few forlorn ones gathered in the halls Of the
Chamber OF Commerce In the morning, and
tried hard to perEuade each other that the re-
cent excitement in wheat IVES q sufficient apol-
ogy for their prosence. But they all evidently
Felt as it the 'swhip Of email cords' would not
have been ont OF place among them, and the
members making sundy calls on tho way home-
ward.
,o5 ssseo IS: n0ss we're nominal at s4z'''*''' p'<
aighwines il we're quoted firm at $3.50 per gal
Pro!.aions we're nominal at the range
Of prices prevailing on Tuesday, as fol-
lows: Mess Pork--Old, s11.25@l1.50; new
PorE, saah OF seller the month, at el1.59@n69
tuary, S11.60@11.65; do seller March, $11.75@
a1o.5o. Lard, cash, Sc: :e5@7.6o for now,
csah Or seller December; doseler January, $500;
$7.27K@7s9. Sweet picned hams, 79l@a9lc,
and green HAMS at 711c for 15-tb averages,
and 7]sc for 16-tb averages. Green shoulders,
P76@sAc; do rough sides, ,455S@4&c; do short
sassd @ %:as qaotabe daef1 at e sIoaders
69So for short ribs, and 5s4c for short clear.
Boxed shoulders, seller December quoted at
3No. English meats for delivery in December and
january, 5Xe for CumberlandB; 5No for ehort
SIC for long cut hams. Mess beef, S850@9.00;
extra mess do, s9.50@10.00; beef ha,ne, $500
g2s.oo;x Ci:y talloT, 7]z@7Nc; grease quota-
Flour Mas Inactive, at s5.75@7.50 for good to
choice spring extras, and 94.25@5.00 for spring
nuperdnes. Bran was quoted ct $11.0o Per ton
On track
Wheat WAS quiet, but strong. Sales were made
OF about sc, 900 bu Coptions) before the "crowd"
adjourned Seller January opened at s1.1976,
and advanced to $1.19115 at the close. Seller
February cold at s1.217x@l.21759, closing at the
outside. No. spring was nominal at the close
Ut S1.24; No. 2 do at S1.19; No. 8 do at 91.051$
@1.06, and rejected do at 9315c.
Corn WAS entirely nominal at S0eac cash;
30Ac seller January; 1890 seller February
B6c seller May; $3.50 seller June and 29c for
rejected.
Oats were nominal at 24s1c cash or seller
January; 25,5@2514c eel]er February; 26Le
eeller April AID 2l@217Go for rejected.
Rye was nominal At 69]zc for No. cash. and
zoe seller January.
Barley was nominal at 65c for No. 2 in ordi-
nsry houses, and 7oc in Armour & Dole's; $50
bcfor No. 8: dc for reiected: aud CSC seller
January.
There WAS some talk this morning about the
doings OF Edward White, a member OF ths
Board Of Trade. who has defranded The Fifth
National Bank. and the National Bank Of Com
3nerce OF this city. out Of some $4,000. by
false biIls of lading for A0 car loads Of wheat
md 10 cars of barley which we're not sent to g.
Robertson 4 Co., and others, Of New York City.
The bills Of ladinr we're m.de out on the Erie l.
Nor+h pbora r ;na and +ha nsnoa ~ Thar1aa 6
T,.a, ~ $780, 80 10 rant ~ ~ +hst f,ht
-apPeA, @lo Sn1teab9 a6Ias - s50s iietSn'
Is suspected that White has returned
20 England whence h6 came few
years ago to Milwaukee, and graduated into the
'Penitentlary for having sold number OF barrels
OF Eawdust and receiving therefor the price OF