Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-05
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siARKETs ny TELEgRAPg.
NEW YORK.

! NEW YORK, December 4.-Cotton firm
| sales, ll3 bsles-y esterday, 50 bales; up-
lands qAo.; Orleans, g7-loc.; receipts.
| 3S,373 bales; exports To Great Britain.
| 20 zos bales; 10 France. 1905 bales; 10
the Continent. 1880 bales; stock, 853,.
4l4 bales southern hour fairly active and
| firm. " heat 4ahc. higher and less active
sales, 29,s72OO0 bushels; futures (the
largest ever recorded In the history OF the
grain trade) 2sZ. 0O0 bushels spot; No. 2
red, December. sshase &C.; January, GOA
90Ac. Corn Sd sde higher aud moderately
active: No. 2. december. 4sa4SSc.; Jan.
uary, 49ai9lc. Oats q shade better and
more active: M. 2. December 3iaa34.c ;
fair; No. Rio december, eIl 90asIl .95 :
January, Sll 90asl2. Sugar quiet aud
steady. MOlasses steady and quiet. Rice
firm and quiet. Cotion'seed oil unchanged.
hosin irnI. Turpentine duh. Hides steady
Leather firm. Wool quiet and unchanged.
PorB firm and rather quiet mess, sl0.75s
s11 for two-year Old. Middles dull. Lard
= trifle higher aud fairly active. Freights
steady.
This has been another eventual day at the
Produce Exchange In tue wheat market
and option trading IL simply phenomenal
over 10000 900 bushels changing hands
making total or over 50 600. 900 bushels
for two days, something that has never
been known in the history OF the grain
trade. IL Is thought among brokers on the
floor that speculative Interest ID steadily
tufDluS ifOn IDlcbSO 10 CITY. some
merchants attribute the Increased activity
to the abolition OF trading In puts" and
"calls" ut the West. DurlDg the day q ere
was considerable excitement, though Hue
tustions were within the narrow range OF
LaIc, "hhorts" were heavy buyers, ana
considerable "loDg" wheat was thrown or
the market without having much effect.
Prices were q shade lower OF the close as
compared with the current rates u yester-
day.
BALrIkoks.
BALTIMORE MD. December -Cottoa
quiet: middling, 9l.Ioc. Flour nrm. with
good demand. Wheat-Soutneru higher
and strong; western higher and active
southern red. SOs94c. southern amber ga
csc. No. l Maryland, SOs92c.: No. 2 west
ern winter red, spot s7ksssc.: December,
s7%sesSo. January, s9sss9iS.; February,
S0ha90i,c. Corn southern flrn aud quiet;
western higher; southern white. &7s<sc.
southern yellow, 43e47c. Oats - estern
white. s5s37c.: western mixed. Ssssic.;
Pennsylvania 30ss5c. Rye frm and quiet
1T 6sa60c. Provisions quist aud nomi0sl
sugsI-Copper refined steady At l0hallo.
Wsiskey quiet at si.23ssl.2+. Other srti.
cles unchanged. Freights to Liverpool per
steamer quiet; cotton. I'd; hour 3D.:
grain, 43.s5d.
1T. LOUIS
ST. LOUIE. December +.-Flour active aud
FIRM. Wheat active. excited. and irreyu-
lar: closed easy and &c. lower than on yes
terday; No. q red, czsn. e0hc.: december.
eQhc. bid; January, el'sa621sc. asked
Corn fairly active and easier. closing firm
and nut Lsl4c. lower than yesterday; No
mixed cssh, 3olias8Isc.; Dece nber, 36sa
s6.c.; January, 86ssaS6sc. oats duh bat
MN; No: mixed. casn. 27Sa2ssnc.; De-
tember. 27Ac. bid: May, 3lsc Whiskey
firm at Sis Provisions fairly active and
strong. Pork strong NJ sll. Lard nrn 1T
50 o5st6 10. Buik -meats rr;E boxed lots
long clear. $3.50; short.ribs. $3.50; short
clear s5.75as5 80. Bacon steady; long clear.
so,621f; short-ribA so.7o; short.clear, 81.
CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, December 4.-fiour was nrm
ard unchanged. The leading futures ranged
"a follows: Wheat - December, highest
7etc.; lowest $50. closing, 7essc.; January,
highest, 79tc.: lowest, 7eZc. closing,
1850 May. highest. SIC; lowest, soc.
closing, e6sc. Corn december. highest
seize: lowest. S7.c.: oloaing. s7le.; Jan.
nary. highest, ssssc.; lowest, ss.c.; closin0
ssl.c May. highest, 4Sc.; lowest, 43Hc.s
closing. 4Skc. Oab- December. highest
ATE. lowest, 2s}.c.; closing. a6Jsc.; 1anu.
ary.. highest 27,o lowest. 27.c.; closing.
AXE. May. highest sihc,; lowest, slsc.: