The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-17

and closed quiet and stea1y. with sales as fol-
lows: March delivery opened at 95c and
closed at 91c; April opened at 10 OF and closed
at 10 01c; May opened at 10 09c and closed at
10 O9cS June opened at 10 II and closed at 10 &c.,
July Opened at 10 24c and closed at 10 2Sc; Au-
gust opened at 10 Sic and closed at 10 soc.
500 p Motion closed steady; middling
uplands 10 3-16c middling Orleans 10 7-16c; sales
to-day % bales; net receipts 2,9i2 bales. gross
1858 bales.
Futures Market closed quiet but steady: sales
II 800 bales, follows: March delivery 8 go
CSC, April delivery 10 0l@10 02c, day de-
livery 10 09G10 1oc, Jun9 delivery 10 5000 lie,
July d. sivery 10 e3Q10 e4c August 10 SOC 10 Bic,
September 90Qa9 Ole, October 9 1099 tic,
November 9 60G9 sc. December 9 61@9 CSC.
January 7OQs9 nc.
The Sums cotton review will say: Futures
were depressed by dull foreign advices and
very full port receipts; but the decline was
very small, considering adverse influences at
work, and the comparative steadiness is doubt
less due to small stocks and the reduced visible
supply OF American cotton. Southern markets
were more active, a fact due apparently to more
general acceptance of bids
GALvE sroN, March 16-Cotton steady; mid
ding 103-l6c; net receipts 1897 bales, gross
3,627; sa les 563 bales; stock q, 14S bales.
NORFOLK, March 16.-Cotto1 steady; middling
1Oc; net receipts 81 bales, gross t4i sales 40
bales; st ock 24525 bales; exports, coastwise 20
bales.
BALTIMORE, March I6.-Cotton quiet; mid
ding 10l &c; net receipts As bales, gross 1863;
sales no ne; stock l2,Os4 bales; exports, to the
BosToN. March 16 Cotton quiet: middling
1ossc; not receipts s62 bales, gross 1,226; sales
none; stock none.
wILM1N EroN. March 16-Cotton firm; mid
ding 934c; net receipts 1S4 bales, gross 1884,
sales none ; stock 4,62S bales.
PHILADE LPHIA, March 16.-Cotton firm; mid
ding i02 sc; net receipts 500 bales, gross 7l6;
NEW ORLEANS, March 16-Cotton quiet :;
middlng 93lc; net receipts 1916 bales, gross
5,973; sale gro bales stock 245,740 bales; ex-
tNnta
the contin emit 1881 bales.
MOBILE, March 1G.-Cotton quiet; midding
95sc; net eceipts 400 bales, gross 406 sales 500
bales; sto ok 14,164 bales; exports, coastwise
MEMPHIS. March 16.-Cotton quiet; middling
91Sc; recei PTS S67 bales; shipments l,167 bales;
sales 400 bales; stock so. 4S5 bales.
AUGUSTA March 16.-CotJon firm: middling
10 Lice Ceipts 226 bales; shipments $40 bales;
sales none; stock II .322 bales
CHARLES ron, March 16-Cotton quiet but firm :;
middling D16c net receipts S59 bales, gross $50;
sales 600 bales; stock 20057 bales; exports,
coastwise 1888 bales.
ATLANTA March 16.-Cotton steady; middling
10c; receiI is % bales.
New IOR q, March demonstrated net receipts
for all colt on ports to-day - bales; exports
to France 5,265 bales, to the continent IL, 2S1
bales; stoC TX at all American ports 67S 600 bales.
The totai visible supply Of cotton for the
world is 2 sos SIS bales of which 2.05O,s75 bales
American, against 2,S04,511 and 2,23S, oil
bales. resi- 'ectively, last year. Receipts at all
ceipts from plantations 4929f bales. Crop in
sight $685., ss7 bales.
PROVISIONS. GROCERIES. ETC.
mand poor; holders offer moderately. Corn
easy; demand fair
NEW York, March 16, noon.-Flour dull and
weak. Wheat active and firm. Corn quiet but
firm. Fork quiet but steady at S12 1908 50.
Lard dull and weaker at s. 271S. Freights
steady.
500 p. m Flour, Southern dull Wheat
spot firm r and in fair export demand; No. ?
red 9209314C in elevator; options fairly active,
strong and II i1ssc higher; No. , red, March de-
livery &c; April delivery 9994c, May delivery
elevator; OPT ions dull; March delivery 425kc,
May delivery 2s66l4315c; steamer mixed, April
delivery 42c Oats on spot quiet; options firm
but dull; Mar ;l and April delivery 3O15c, May
delivery 30l5ck No. 2 spot 31@32c. Hops closed
steady, Cohee-options closed steady and
higher; March delivery 10 S5616 9Oc May de-
livery 16 90D17 Coo; spot Rio barely steady-fair
cargoes l9c. Sugar-raw firm; fair refining
5 316G54c. Molasses-New Orleans quiet
Petroleum quiet but steady. Cotton seed oil
firm; crude 'l2c, yellow 4s049c. Tallow quiet.
firm. Wool quiet and easy. PORK more active;
old mess SLz75; new mess S13 So Beef dull
extra mess Sc 70. Beef hams slow at S13 00@
10 so. Tierced beef inactive; city extra India
mess S14 O0Q14 so Cut meats steady. Lard
lower and dull; Western steam 81 25, city ST. SO;
options arch ana April delivery 81 %; May
delivery 81 23S7 %.
CHICAGO, IGarch 16.-A very fair business
was transacted in wheat, and tine feeling was
firmer, with prices ruling about the closing
figures of We sterday. The opening was just a
shade easier, but from the start showed firm
ness, and wit some fluctuations prices for May
were advanced 2ssc. receded 114c, huctuated
slightly, and closed about 11sc higher than yes
terday. June. also had considerable siren tn
advancing 1899 and closing about 114c higher
July ruled steady, advancing lc, closing about
14c higher THAI yesterday. Local influences
again controlled the market, and the firmness
was attributed ma My to free buying of
prominent local trad r, though at the advance
operators found speculative offerings quite
large, which resulted in developing a weaker
feeling. fair trade was reported IN corn early
in the day, after which the pit became very
quiet and inactive The feeling developed was
generally weaker, and transactions were at
lower range of PRICES. The easier tone was at
tributed largely to receipts being considerably
in excess OF expectA lions. The market opened
a shade lower tina the closing price of yester-
day, was steady for a time, then declined sc,
reacted 1G14c, and closed &c lower than yes
terday. Oats we're fairly active but unsettled
The market opened shade lower for May Two
large traders bong ut freely, and it suspected
that the bulls who have taken part in the
market for some time past were again buying.
This reveased the feeling. and caused ad-
vance of 15c on May and 1S04c on deferred
futures. A decline of "a @3sc ON May followed,
and the market closed firm at about the same
prices as yesterday. Trading was fairly active
in mess pork, and the feeling was weak duri z
a grea er portion of the day. Prices declined
1716N,20c, and the market closed quiet az me-
dunn quotations. A quiet and easy feeling pre-
vailed in lard aud trading was light, prices ruled
weak and declined 50p715c, and the market
closed steady at inside figures. Only a mode
rate business was transacted in short ribs. The
feeling was easy, and prices receded 5dl716c,
the market closing steady at medium figures.
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
unchanged. Wheat-No. 2 spring $50 949sc;
No. red 9is6G9495c. Corn-No. 2, 34Ac
Oats-No. =, 2414c.
Leading futures ranged as follows;