The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-24

EXPORTs OF COTTON.
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

New York, April 23.-Flour weak moder-
ate demand; winter wheat, low grades 81 90
q! 10; patents So 25(l3 90; Minnesota clear
~ 50H2 90; Minnesota patents 50 1901 45,
low extras - 05Q02 10; southern flour dull
and weak; common TO fair extras - OVD
"; good to choice extras % 9OG4 90
Wheat more active, A6lc lower, closing
steady No. cred in store and elevator 6l1aG
6la.c; ahoat G23ic: options opened weak at
IA 3sc decline rail- ed lsG4c, fell &c, closing
weak at sdllsc fellow saturday, trading
fairly active; No. = red April 63aec May
81 nc: June 6'Ac. Corn dull easier No, .,
43%sGJl4c elevator; 44404ese ahoat: ungraded
mixed AZ; steamer mixed 4lAc: options dull
and "a sc lower; April 4S5sci May Sag i5c.
cats dull, options easter; April Sac; May $40;
July 3jc; spot No. red 39HG4Jc; No.
white Ale; mixed western 500 Dlac white
western HQli5c. Hay quiet, steady; shipping
6JI65 goou to choice 75GS5c Beef dull and
steady; family S12 OODsi4 ~; extra mess ~ W
GlS 80. Beef hams firm at sl7 O,Ol7 80.
Tierced beef dull; city extra India mess
SIS 0Oa20 %. Cut meats firm, quiet; picked
rellies 2 &c: picked shoulders 6i4c; picked
hams Zoe; middles nominal Lard quiet and
easy; western steam closed SS 90; ty 81 374a;
options, sales. July "a 81, closing a. SO; April
s. 10; MAY SS 90; refined quiet; continent
S. 40; South American IS 81; Compound IS l2Hi
Q6 2o. Pork moderate demand and steady;
mess S14 0Od IL 50; extra prime SlS OOQl3 50.
Butter IN hanged; state dairy, new l6021e;
state dairy, old 1lQl7c; state creamery, new,
~ S22tsc; western dairy, new, ll%9l5o west
ern creamery, new. l6g2Hc; Elgins 22isc.
kettle. good to choice 3tG38c duh, steady.
Peanuts quiet; fancy hand picked 34@4c.
Gomez options barely steady, 500 points
down: April - S0Dl6 ~: June 10 400 IS 50;
Septem er IA 7,Q1l4 80; December IA 4J spot
kio duh and steady; No. z, l7c. Sugar,
raw quiet and easier; fair refining 29s re-
tined easy and quiet; of A 8 ll-l66nic;
standard A 4 11a0414c; cut loaf 13-i,6 Djc;
crushed l3-i605c; granulated | lGGD458c
Freights to Liverpool quiet ana steady cot
ton steam I'D; grain, steam ED.
Chi ago Ill, April p. -Wheat traders ex-
pc ted a break IN prices to day and they got
It, although PRO ally not enough to meet
their Q cpeetations The nearest approach TO
O. citeln mt took place during the last utteen
minutes OF he session, when a slump OF 70 OF
a cent IN the May price ooourred. 1t was the
result of an increase In the offerings for that
month. July did not suffer quite so badly.
and, as an evidence that considerable wheat
was changed from the former into the latter
month the spread TO day widened 70 2Sc
On saturday it averaged sc. There
was Liquidation OF the May option
all day, and the weakness OF to day
market was directly due 10 tins selling
and TO the mystery which surrounds tne
amount yet held back. May wheat opened
KDKc under Saturdays close, sales rang,n
from 500 to 5SHc, the range was between 5so
anu $50 and the close at The inside net
loss Of &c for the day. July closed lAo
under aturday. Corn iluctuated In the line
with its ranger neiRhDor wheat Arguments
9th for and against the Price were numer-
Gus enough but the disposition 10 trade was