Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-29

The leading weekly grain circular says:
trade - quiet, and the tendency rather
easier. Prices in the various markets are
barely supported. The demand is inactive.
large number of cargoes have arrived on the
coast. few have been ordered TO their
destination, and others are steadily held. At
to-day's market there was a thin attendance
The tone was weak. There was a limited
business done IN wheat at Id. decline. Flour
was quiet and unchanged. Corn WAS IN mode
rate demand. Fine quality was scarce, and
outside prices were pad. Heated and IN
terlor qualities were neglected and prices
were irregular"
NEW YORK, May Is, noon.--Flour dull and
dropping. Wheat lower. Corn lower. Pork
dun; mess, 50 00dD9 IS. Lard weak at l0c.
Freights steady.
$500 p. m.-FlOur. Southern closed easier;
common 10 fair extra SS 2593 IS. W heat l0
l5ac lower; No. red, ON spot S31sGS39sc,
June delivery S3(oS331c. COrn-spot lots quiet:
No. ,, May delivery 46047s4c, June 45045l &C.
Oats lower and more active; No. Z, 36l 4(13635c.
Hops nominal. Coffee, tair Rio, on spot, firm
at sac. Sugar easier; fair TO good refining
4 lS-l604 l5-l6c, refined steady. Molasses
easier; 80 deg. test l11$c. Cotton seed oil, y
@25c for crude. Hides firm; New Orleans
$50 0c; Texas l00lO1Sc. Wool duh. Pork
steady; mess 80 00(D9 rs. Lard a shade higher:
contract, on spot Zoe. Freights to Liverpool
steady; cotton, per steam n-64d; wheat, per
CHICAGO. May 2s.-Thc price of the specu-
latlVe grade OF wheat in this market, No.
Chicago spring, was quoted ut the lowest
inquire lO-uhy current NJ any previous tllt
since December 1884: at one time during ne
trading the quotation for cash wheat was
~ &C; May touched the same figure, or 3lssc
lower than the highest quotation for the same
option in August OF last wear; sales were
made of wheat during the day for delivery
every month up Co May, 1887; sales of April
were made at 19s4t0SOc; the market opened
steady, with the chef trading IN wheat con
fined to July, starting at 15ls and sold 10
10 3-l6c; but the offerings were very large.
and the price fell quickly TO IA, rallied sew
eral times to 74tsc, but Just before the close OF
the regular session sold of with rush TO IAC,
rallied and closed At 74tc: foreign advices
quoted very duh markets and fine weather;
export clearings were moderate and receipts
continue fair; considerable long wheat is re-
puted to have been thrown on the market
during the day; in the afternoon July rallied
to 1920 on better buying, and closed at that
figure. The feeling of weakness extended to
corn, and a further slight decline followed.
Offerings of oats were very large, and the
market became suddenly depressed: May de-
Clned sc, June &c and July 1910, ana the
market closed tame at the decline. Provisions
joined in the downward movement, mess pork
closing at 7l60l0c under yesterday.
Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat excited,
closing &c under yesterday; regular, May dc
livery 72Is@73c, June 72aS@736c, July 14(0
ais 3 l6c. Corn easter; cash 500, June dehv-
cry 35 3-l6ID35I&c. Oats depressed and lower !;
cash &c, May delivery 2GA@27ssc, June 26S4
@279sc. ProvisIons-Mess pork easier and "a
(@l0c lower; cash IS 30, June delivery ~ Ia
as 25. Lard steady; cash and June delivery
S7I5D5 9Oc, July 92l6Co5 97Hc. Short rib
sides steady; cash 2Oc. Boxed meats duh but
steady; dry salted shoulders 2594 SOC, short
clear 5 60Q5 G5c. Whisky steady at 81 IA.
Sugar easy; standard A &C.
BALTIMORE, May q, noon.-Flour steady;
Howard street and Western superhne 81 80
QD3 90 extra So zoos 49, family 81 000f rs
city mills superfine 81 5000 90, extra 50 %
al 90: city mills Rio brands VI 50C94 10. wheat
Southern nominal and quiet; Western lower
and active, closing dull; southern, red $40
.t...rs No n ftu a "a
ask ed; No. ? w estern winter red, on spot
asked. Corn-SOu,hern steady but quiet;
Western lower but quiet; Southern, white ~
Dfjc, yellow 42,Gi5c.
Wheat weak and 20 lower; No. red, cash 76
(07715c, June delivery 7614976ssc. Corn weak
and lower: No. 2miNed, cash PC, June de
livery 3l5A0132l &c. Oats very duh and weak
No. mixed. cash 2g3z(08l1Sc whisky, 81 10.
Provisions quiet aud generally weak: Pork
about steady at s. 1907 90 Lard weak az . 90
as Zoe. Bulk meats-bOXed lots long clear
soc short rib 45c, short clear Doc. Bacon
long clear 5 S595 9Oc, short rib 921595 95c,
clear 1906 l2l$c.
CINCINNATI. May ~ .-Flour heavy; family
So 5o@3 So. Wheat heavy and lower; No. 2
mixed, ne. Corn-demand light; No. ?
mixed, 3515c. Oats easier and active; No. 2
mixed. 3l@3ll3c. Provlsions-POrk dull;
mess 50 90. Lard quiet, 65c. Bulk meats
quiet but firm; shoulders 4 l2Rc, short rib
30c. Bacon steady and unchanged; shout
ders 75c, short rib 00c, short clear q l5c
whisky firm at 81 10, Sugar steady; New
Orleans $40. Hogs easy; common ana light
So 406Di 10: packing and butchers 50 5000 IL.
LOUISVILLE. May 2S.-Grain closed weak
and lower. Wheat No. red SOC. Corn. No.
white soc. Oats. No. 2 mixed, new 3l15@32c.
Provisions steady: Bulk meats-clear RIB
sides soc, clear sides 15c, shoulders A. Sc.
Bacon-shoulders SOC. Pork, mess $40 %.
Lard. choice leaf 75c
NEW ORLEANS, May 2S.-Co1ee-RiO, COM
mon to prime 7Ol0Hc. Cotton seed oil
prime crude. 2O1z92l1sc; summer yellow 2sl5
0g29c. Sugar duh and nominal. Molasses
dull and unchanged.
NAVAL STORES.
LIVERPOOL, May %, noon.-spirIts turpen-
tine, 25s sd.
NEW YORK. May %. nOOn.-spirits turpen-
tine dull at 3215c. ROsn dull at 81 02l5C0
0715.
500 p. m.-spirits turpentine hrmer, 33l9c.
Resin dull.
CHARLESTON. May 2S.-Spirits turpentine
quiet at 2915c. ROsir nominal.
WILMINGTON, May 2S.-Spirits tHrDentIne
firm at zoe. ROsin dun; strained 1112c,
good strained soc. Tar firm at 81 Is. Crude
turDentIne firm; hard Use, yellow oip 81 90.
RICE.
NEW YORK Nav 23-Rice steady.