New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-22
FE1TCRES or THE cHIcAGo H4RKErS.


! Icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-There WAS warm an
wet weather. there were sensational cables concelnn
the French and Chinese and there were ghost storie
about shipments from here and exports FROM NewYork
these were the incidents OF todays produce market bu
the speculative sOryteer has had to reete and repe
these same things every day this week II was tOda
about the wheat pit just 1t yesterday and the da
before The bears gained the advantage in the morn
| inS lost 1t at noon then regained very
| httIe OF the lost ground the curb afte
the close. The news is cutting
great figure now, and in this way declaration of hos
uty would probably send wheat mp 10 cents night
without any reference to the logical effect such wal
ought to have With this peril before them " short y
sellers are excitabe and timid The danger OF great
ADVANCE While 1t is remote than Offsets the chance
although very good, OF a little decline in prices.
AT one time this morning wheat was q cent under the
closing figures of last night The posting Of the large
quantity Of wheat out of condition at New-York had
"bearish" Influence. Sales Of several hundred
thousand bushels by Messrs Poole, Kent & Co..
M about the time this received helped the fig
m t along down Then the recelpts-279 cars-were
lDerdl, very little larger than they Yester
my ~ was reported, too that the first batch OF new
h phg wheat ron the country up beyond Duluth had
Dceh received and that the Minnesota milers having
now 9een ied up great deal Of this grain destined
tIe ''iS tne FINALLY II was part of the gossip that
Increase These were the first influences under which
tended alike to make holders feel SEX and shorts
Juban But along about nOOn Just IA has been the
every DAY this week, along a bit Of news which
cast all Ae others in the shade This was the sensational
cable dispatches concerning the French and Chinese diff
cty printed IN the afternoon papers. Prices sailed up
run cent. On the calf there was good
Geh or realizing. The December option on
ne call closed at 964aas, January at 07sall on
me curD later there was quite a stIr-up and
prices were Il Sc lower. with no rain and no more war
news rom the direction Of TOnqun, wheat will pretty
certainly be lower there have been no charters here for
week. and the receipts have been large The railroad
men are predicting increased receipts, and while their
PopheccS In this direction have been exravagant they
nave Occn correct in the main.
Corn was strong all day long at an advance Of &c.,
not believed here that, long the stocks are so
small, even "a successful raid could be made; but
neither could successful squeeze be engineered with
tlch OF last years grain left in the country The
sentative men still cOuine their advice concerning this
gram 10 this Fifty cents about the proper thing for
corn Mctcorl prominent seller of May corn, and
on me call offered oats IN lots OF 100000 bushels, at
Provisions very strong to-day and higher, although
mere were 10000 hogs received at the yards,
and although prices there were SOLO cents
lower Pork closed tonight 10 centsa barrel higher
thdn twcnty four hours ago. lard aud ribs
closed just they did Yesterday. Provisions tomorrow
VIII probably be lower, Because of the warm weather to-
day. Twenty thousand hogs left over. With high
temperature again Tomorrow hogs will be pretty certain
10 break of 10 - cents and this would make product
temporarily weak. The shipments from this city amount
10 nothing bur thi extraordinary. The packers in
the country are supplying the demand they usually do
at this time.