Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-16
ASSOCIATED PRESS MARKETS.

demand. Wheat higher and closing strong;
No. 2 hard nominal; No. Q 1.31X; December
l.31X; January 1.29H; February 1.2sI;
March 1:s9@l .2sx;, April 1.So; May 80;
weaker; No. Q Gle. Oats weaker; No. Q
4Scc. Rye quiet and unchanged; 96c. Bar
ley lower; No. Q 92Xc. Provisions lower;
mess pork 16 20 cash and December; 16 80
January. Lard, prime steam 1885 cash and
December; II 10 January. Live hogs steady:
in fair demand; 5.sOa6 .25. Receipts, 8.Sl5
barrels -four; 1880 bu hels wheat; Is 500
bushels barley. Shipments, 8,S8S barrels
Of -four; $50 bushels wneas; 1920 bushels
barley.
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-Flour dull and
nominal. Wheat unsettled and e. nerally
lower; No. Q Chicago spring 1890 ~
cash; 1.26N December: 1.27% January; 1.2SX
@1.2sx February; No. 8 Chicago spring
I.12x; rejected SO@86c. Corn fairly active
and shade higher; COX @6lc cash; COY c De-
cember; 61@6lkc January; 61x@6lxc
February; 66X @66Nc May; rejected SOC. Oats
fairly active and shade higher; 4SAS cash
airy; 46x @46xc May. Rye steady and I'M
changed; CSC. Barley steady and unchanged;
l.O2. Flax seed 1.34@135. Pork unsettled
and generally lower; old 1850; new 16.6ax
cash and December; 16.sO@l6.S2X January;
Il. O21< February; 17.25 March. Lard active
and q shade lower; 10.90@1O.95 cash and De-
cember; 11.07X oil. 10 January; 11.22X Feb
ruary; 11.S7x Oil 40 March: Bulk meats
easier; shoulders 6.25; short ribs S.S5; do
SLIT.
Call board-Wheat moderately active and
higher; l.27x December; 1.2SH January;
1.2Sx February; 1.29K March. Corn moder-
ately active and higher; 6lK @6lAc January;
81 4 @61 \ February; 66xc May. Oats firm
err; not quotably higher. Pork moderately
active and higher; advanced 2Xc. Lard fairly
active and a shade highe,; lilo January;
il.25@1l.27X Feb; IL 40 bid March. Receipts
a. 600 barrels Of -four; 1900 bushels of
wheat; 5000 bushels of corn; II 900 bush
els OF oats; 5000 bushels rye; &c. 900 bushels
of barley. Shipments Il, 900 barrels OF -four;
$1,000 bushels of wheat; $4,000 bushels OF
corn; 5000 bushels oats; 5000 bushels Of
rye; 1900 bushels of barley.
CHICAeo. Dec l5.--The Drover's Journal
reports b receipts $4,000; shipments $500;
generally weaker, except choice light bacon,
which sold at 5.9O@6O5; common to good
heavy packing and shipping 6.25@6 Is, in
Guiding Philadelphias and lard hogs; skips
and cuIls 4.OO@525. Cattle, receipts 1000;
shipments s, 100; dull, weak and 10c lower; a
few Christmas offered at nominal quotations;
z .OO07.50; exports 6 COG LES; good to choice
Shipping 5.7506. 90; common to fair 4.OO@
8. 90; mixed butchers steady; poor to good
cows 2. 25@4 %; bulls 25O@4 90; oxen $500
so; Texans nominal; 3.00@4 IS. Sheep,
receipts 1900; shipments SEQ; steady and gen
orally firm; common to medium 2.75@3. so;
good to choice 4.O0@5 90; extra 600.
NEW YORK, Dec. Is Cotton dull; 11T9
| 10 slice; futures steady. Flour firm; receipts
5000 barrels; exports $500 barrels; superfne
state and western 1905. 10; common to
good extra 5.00@6.00; good to choice 6.10@
900; white wheat extra 10000; extra
Ohio 5250S.25; st. Louis 5.lu@9 90; Min
nesota patent process 8UO@9.00. Wheat un'
unsettled; opening about &c lower, but after
wards recovered and advanced X@xc, closing
very firm; receipts $4,000 bushels; exports
a 600 bushels; ungraded spring 1.U@1 81
ungraded red 1.25@1 u; No do 1877; No
do l 403<@1. 49,; steamer No. Q red 1861 @
1.37 mixed winter 137; ungraded white 1.2s
@l.38; No. Q do 1856; No. white sales 5Ot
bushels at 1.39; No. Q red December, salei
II in; January sales s64 GOO bushels at La
I1.4SK closing at 14S11SS; February sales .040,
GOO bushels att 45@1 .46x, closing at l.46h
March sales 16S,0O0 bushels at 1.47Z@
1.4SX, closing at 1.4SA. Corn opened
about &c lower, but afterwards recovered
and closed shade better; receipts 81, 45l
bushels; exports 372 bushels; ungraded 66@
Tic; No. 8 CSC; steamer 69x @70c; No. Q 69A
@70Xc; No. Q December 69@69X c; closing
February 72@72Hc, closing at Ike Ma!
TAX 04xc. Oats &c lower; moderately
active; receipts 1880 bushels; exports A
bushels; mixed western 49@51c; white d.
5005Sc. coffee steady fairly active. Suga
firmer; more active; fair to good refining
quoted at 7x@7Xc. Molasses dull and un
changed: Eggs. western quiet but firm: 29c