The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-24

pentine, machine, 261hc; irregular, 26c:
crude turpentine, hard, $40; soft, $15O;
New York, Dec. S.-Rosiil dull. steady:
strained, common to good, $1.7edl. 70 Tur-
pentine quiet; 2SQ2912c.
FINANCIAL.
London, Dec. ga disp; Ltch from Paris
says per cent. rentes CLOSED 2615 centimes
New York, Dec. 2.-Mo,ney on call was
active at 3q75 per cent; the last loan
was at per cent, and closing offered at
? per cent. Prime mercap tile paper, 41k6I5l2
per cent.
Bar silver, 661kc
Sterling exchange firm, with actual busi-
ness in bankers bills, at $4S7%d4SS for
sixty days and S4.s9A@H.S9ls for demand.
Posted rates, S4.SS1sq 4.9O1s; commercial
Government bonds were weak; state
bonds were quiet; railroad bonds firmer.
Silver Slaye y at the board Z, was steady.
currency, S1OOS11,9O7.
New York, Dec. %, noon.-Erie IA;
Northwestern, 81; do preferred. az: Lake
| Shore, 142; Norfolk and Western prefer
red, Z; Western Union. IS; Southern Rail-
way common, SA Southern Railway pre-
ferred, 2434; Ameri can Sugar 951h; Baiti-
more and Ohio, BE; Canada Southern,
462l; St. Paul, 644; Rock Island, 631s; Del
wanna and Western 100; Manhattan 80;
Michigan Central SO; New York Central,
New York Stock List-Closing Bids
Stocks and Bon ds-American Cotton OIL
Is; do preferred, 81; Sugar Refinery, $685.
do preferred, Va; American Tobacco. 7214 !;
do preferred, 9t1a; Atchison, T. and s. F.,
1884; Baltimore and Ohio, AZ; Canada Pa
cific, 40; Ches ipeake and Ohio 14s4; Chi
cago and Alton, $50; Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy, 747s; Chicago Gas, 631z; Della
ware, LackaVVanna and Western, 161; Dis.
Cat. Feed, 1fA; Erie, 141s; do preferred p /;
trail, 81; Lake Erie and Western, IS; do
preferred, 6l; Lake Shore, l42; Louisville
and Nashville, 49,; Louisville and N A.,
Charleston Is asked; Michigan Central, 90;
Missouri Pacific, q; Mobile and Ohio. IS;
Nashville, G. and st. L., Is; United States
sey Central, 80; New York Central, So;
New York and New England, SIS asked I;
ern Paei nc, 97s; do preferred. 1215 North
WESTERN 961R; do preferred, 40; Pacific
Mail 252s; Reading, 65s; Rock Island, Ga;
St; Paul, 64% do preferred, 125; Silver Ger
tificatefi 66ss; Tennessee Coal and Iron,
257s; do do preferred, 100; Texas Pacific,
rs; Urlion Pacific, 81; Wabash, st. L. and
| Union. SSH; Wheeling and l.. E., 1915; do do
prefer red, 331a; Southern Railway 5s, 81;
South ern Railway common, S1s; Southern
| Railway preferred, 25ss.
State Bonds.-Alabama A, 109; do B,
| 109 fio G, 81; Louisiana stamped As, 100;
| North Carolina As, 1O6 asked; North Car
olinfs 6s, 124 Tennessee, new set, IS, 30
ask ID; Virginia 6s, preferred, 6; Virginia
| TrU st Receipts, 6; Virginia Funding Debt,
/ OJs fSOuIn NdfOUDd, 4l2S, lUb.
Government Bonds.2United States As.
res istered, 1O9; United States As. coupons,
! llO; United States Is, registered, So
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, ETC.
New York, Dec 2S.-Flour dull easy;
winter wheat, low grades, $2.29d2.65; do
| 5.atr to fancy $2.65@33O; do, g. 45q3.75;
| Minnesota clear, $275G3.1O patents, 50. Is
/ flour dull, easy; common to fair extra,
! 81. 10d2.SO; good to choice do, 81. 90Q3. co.
No. 2 red store and elevator, CSC; afoat,
| 691sc; options were moderately active and
firm at 2s@5sc; No. 2, red, January, 64ssc;
64i2sc. Corn dull. firm; No. 2 33AqS4c,
dull, firmer; options dull, firmer;;- Decem-
Der, &c; January. 3Ac; March, 2Sssc {;
May, 241sc spot prices No. 2. 23Ac; No. 2.
demand; Shipping. 7Oa75c; good to choice.
iS@5se pulled i598lG Beef q I9s i family
India mess. $16.5Oa17.O6. Meats dull,
e4%c; hams, SaS13c; middIes, nominal.
Lard quiet, firm; western steam. 5.50c
asked city. 5.1Oc; December, 5.5Oc asked /;
lea, 6.3Oc; compound 49sq5c. Pork more ac-
tive, steady; mess, $S75Q9.25c. Butter
dg large TeePf SMselc w stste dairy d
4 steady quiet; crude 2412c; yellow prime,
R Riee fair S demand a. Pm domestic far to
extra, 3d5%c; Japan 4Aq4c. Molasses
fairly active and firm; Pea nuts quiet
tive, unchanged to points; December,
13S5c; January, bose; February. 1850 /;
March. 1S45alES5OeN; 10 May a, 1l2s0giSc spot
fined steady off A, 4 3-16q4ssc; standard
A. 45sc; cut loaf and crushed, sac gran
uiated, 5000. Freights to Liverpool;
room scarce. cotton by steam, Esd; grain
by steam, 31ad asked
Chicago, Dec. 2S.-Trading in grain and
provisions to-day partook of a holiday
Character entirely There was no dispo-
sition to open new accounts in anything
and orders were mostly for the purpose
of evening old ones. In wheat, there was
a return of confidence, the apprehension
which was felt toward the end of last
week having vanished The opening was
firm the motive for strength coming from
an advance in stocks at New York and
London When the visible supply in
crease of 2564O00 business became public.
prices moved lower and for time were
scarcely steady at the decline, but before
the close they traVersed the entire pre-
Vious range, and llnal quotations were at
almost the outside. May wheat opened
at 5se sold between 5sl4c and 57Ac. clos
ing AT 5Sikc-3H1ac higher than Saturday.
| Cash wheat was steady and unchanged.
Corn-As far as IL was possible within
an eighth OF a cent range on the princi-
pal speculative option, May corn exhibited
the beneficial results OF improvement in
Wall street and in wheat. The nearby
options nuctuated more than May, but
1 they are AT present more or less affect
al bv the greatness or smallness OF the
Immediate arrivals and by the prospects
~ heavy or light movement May corn
| opened al 2Sisc sold az 2sc, closing az the
latter-unchanged from SATURDAY Cash
| corn was steady
Oats-The dlslnclination 10 DO business
/ was as notable in oats as DOB anything else.
| The tone was steady. thereby agreeing
| with the feeling ~ wheat and corn. May
| oats closed unchanged. Cash oats were
] easy ana iic per tushfl lower