The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-06
GRAIN. PROVISIONS. ETC.

New York, Dec. 5.-Flour, dull; held
firmly; buyers waiting. Winter wheat,
low grades, s2.05Q2.6O fair to fancy, $500
2.95; patents, $275q3.2O; Minnesota, clear,
$2.30q2.70 patents, $3.40Q3.95; low extras,
$2O5q2.6O; southern flour, dull; steady;
common to fair extra, s2.1O430O; good to
options closing firm; No. 2 red store and
elevator, 60Ac; afoat, 61kG6l%c; options
opened weak and declined Ease, adj
vanced 1249sc, fell lose and closed weak
at unchanged prices to 1ac decline with
trading light. No 2 red December. GOhc;
January Gle; March. 627sc; May,
57&57lkc elevator; 5sG58lzc ahoat; op
tons were dull and firm at 1sDAc adj
vance; December, 541sc; January, $3.50;
May, oS2se. Oats, fairly active; stronger;
S5lsc; May, 3615c; spot No. 2, 34Am34lsc;
mixed western, 34laQ36. Hay, moderate
demand; steady; shipping 5Oq6Oc; good
to choice, 70Q75c. Wool, steady; moderate
demand; domestic fleece 17M22c pulled
iI2 3q Texas, l0q14c. Beef, dull family,
$lOOO4l2W; extra mess $S.OOaS.5O; beef
hams quiet; $17.00Q1750; tierced beef dull:
city extra India mess, $16.00GD17.OO; cut
meats quiet, steady; picked bellies. csc:
shoulders 54sG51Ac; hams S1AQ9l4c; middies
nominal; Lard, quiet, weaker; western
steam closed at $7271z asked; city. S6.Sf0f-
6.Slz2; options, January, $Z25; December
M2o asked; May, $7,45 nominal; refined
$500; compound. s5.50q5.75. Pork moder-
ate; demand steady; mess, $13.50d14. Is;
extra prime, nominal. Butter quiet; fan
cy steady; standard dairy, 13623c; cream
cry 16u24c; western dairy 11616c: cream
cry, l5925c; Elgin, 25c; cotton seed oil fair
" active; about steady; crude, 241kc; vel
New York, $5.15; Philadelphia, $50: ditto
in bulk, $2.60d2.65. N'''0
Rice fairly active; steady domestic
fair to extras, 41s@6c; Japan, 4Km4i5c;
molasses, foreign, nominal; New Orleans
open Kettle, good to choice 2gl73Sc fair
o oeno1 peanuts quiet; coffee, options
higher; closed firm, 25d45 points advspce.
december, 13.95G1415; January. IL 65C5
1852; March, 13.OOqlS.4O; May, L. 656Si2. 95
raw dull, steady; fair refining. &c.. refined
quiet, steady; off A. 53kc: Standard
Z IISS-iIss g.45sc; cut loaf. lS-16Q5c; crushed
cotton, 9-64d; grain, 324ds $780, 'e"uE ;
Shlcago, Dec. 5.-The corn market hold
wheat up during the early part Of The i sesi
sion to-day, but nothing that " co 1iI sg IS
y! urged IN 1aYor of prices served to sustain
II during the last hour. The decline that
ceheck until the lowest price with which
puts sold yesterday. was reached The
buying was not of a very substantial c19a,
acter, consisting mainly of COVERING nv,
chases, but it was evident thai ihss P eII
In@ was participated in by at least tyvo ~
tne local heaVy-weights. The onent,e
oook Weakness s.e from the Liverpool where
quotations were from Y to Id lower Then
a gradual hardening took place vith 81
previously has been stated, corr leadir %
When calls were struck the selling ,lras.
sure began to be felt and all summers ~
wlthdraWn, prices suffering quite a sewers
Dreak. Expectancy regarding the sneciaI
government report on wheat feeding r.
animals, issued to-day, was sornevbs3 ~
restriction to the trade Nav wsbaot
opened from 603s to 60Ac, sold between eosl .
and 59B46Oc, closing at 60l16OISc-iEc I'M ~
Yesterday cash wheat was steady. clos
ing nominally weak SioS-
Corn-Ihe over-confidence of the corn
pears was rudely shocked by the action ~
the cereal to-day. There was an enor-
NOUS number of calls sold last night the
sellers OF those privileges beconninf-
alarmed at the comparatively fneaeer re-
celpts to-day, and deemed il discrefion 10
Duy IN the property lower than n uyouid
probably be called" from them. "Shorts y
TOO, felt a little bit anxious and covered
industriously. Prices moved I'M ra,,i5I,y
but during the closing hour lost mich ~
their vim and dropped back to the posifton
occupied around the opening, which was a
trihe better than at the close yesterdav
May corn opened at 491Ic sold between "a
M501sc and 1850, closing at 495kc--a fracfion
higher than yesterday. Cash corn vyas
strong and nc per bushel higher
Oats-The alternate weakness apd
strength In wheat and corn varied fba
tone of oats to-day, but the business wa
too insignificant to move prices to any an
probable extent. May oats closed IN
changed from yesterday. Cash oats were
firm and nc per bushel higher.