The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-20
REVIEW OF THE MARKETS.
(Continued from seventh Paee)


GRAIN, PROVISIONS. ETC.
New York. April 19-Flour firm. mod
erately active some grades held higher;
winter wheat, low grades. $500 30: fair
TO fancy, S2.55Q290; patents. 500. "a.
Minnesota clear, SZ-40Q290; patents s.; ga
40; low extras, Sl-go02.30: southern flour
"a; good 10 choice do, S2.S0a325 Wheat
dull, mrmi No red, store and elevator,
t5l4 465l2ci amoat, 81 aQ6i44c: options act
ave, excited and very irregular, declining
1sH4c, advancing 1Urtc. declining fTlisc
closing steady at sc below yesterday. 10
1sc advance; No. , red, May 63isc; July,
% SCI august, bA1sc. Corn dun, hrmer;
NO. ?. 54lsc, elevator; 552ac aloat: steamer
mixed, JOQ5l@sc; options We're very quiet
and prices irregular. closing steady. al
unchanged prices, TO lsc advance; May
dulli nrmer; options quiet, steady; April
ol'sci May, &c July, &c; spot, NO. p
5Z452lsc; mixed western, 32U33lac. Wool
moderate demand, firm; domestic fleece
15Qlyc; pulled, 12Q33c. Beef firm: family
Sl00Q 100; extra mess, .SS.OgGS 60: beef
hams strong, $3.50; tierced beef nrm: citv
quiet, steady; picked bellies 6atG4c.
shoulders, &C; hams, 9itQ9stc; middles.
duil, steady short clear. nominal Lard
quiet, nrm; western steam, 7.l5c; city,
btad6ssc; Mag, l.2Oc, nominal, April, 7l7c
nominal; refined, dull; continent 1900;
South American, 7.90e; compound 5zsG
Sl55Oql4.00. Butter, light receipts, STEADY;
state dairy, SqlSc; creamery, new, poe;
MESltlh QdAINs So 1920 creamery, new.
l2q2Oc; old, 9ql5c; Elgins, zoe. cotton
seed oil quiet steady; crude, 2342ic; yell
low prime, z632q2lc; petroleum nominal;
refined; New YORK, A9.95i philadelphia,
domestic fair to extra, 4A66c Japan
4A045c. Molasses, foreign, nominal;
New orleans, open kettle, good 10 choice,
2SQSSc, firm. Peanuts steady. Coffee
barely steady, 500 points down; April,
Sl435q14.4O; June, Sl4@Gl410; September,
Sl42O; December, Sl4l5Ql420; March. SlAOO;
ST ErT Ia.
sugar raw, firm, fairly active; fair re
inning, 1l-l6c; refined quiet, steady, I'M
changed; treights, Liverpool. duh. easy;
cotton, 7-64d; grain, I'D nominal
Chicago April 19.-Noon.-The market
opened firm. Wheat, May, 593sc Corn
May, 46c; Pork. May, S12.35c. Lard, May
S6.Rl2 bid. Ribs, May, $500
Chicago, April lathe sensational cpl
sOde in the wheat market to-day was the
covering OF a tremendous line of shorts,
variously estimated from 100000 to 3,00O-
600 bushels by Partridge. The leaps taken
thy prices were so uncommon, when COM
pared with the heretofore lifeless condi-
zion of that market that the buying was
shown to be of an unusual character.
All this week the temper of trade has
been intensely bullish and the unconcealed
object, the forcing of Partridge to buy in
his wheat. 1t was remarked to-day that
the plunger. while covering May was al
the same time selling July quite freely,
so that at the close 1t was believed he
still stood in much the same position as
regards the latter delivery as he pre-
Viously did in the May. Prices were ir-
regular and rapid in their fluctuations
and the efforts Of scalpers and room trad
ers TO keep in touch with them were in
most cases disastrous. Extreme strength
was shown one minute, while the next
would present the maximum weakness.
After selling more than 1l5c higher during
the session, the close was at the lowest
point of the day and quotations were prac-
tically the same as at the close yesterday.
News counted for little. May wheat
opened from 5Sc 10 5SMc, changed ire
quently between that and 595sc closing at
b6lsc-a shade under yesterday. cash
what averaged 1c per bushel higher.
Corn was not in particularly bullish
mood and gave only half hearted allegi-
ance to wheat. Attention was distracted
by the quick and nervous action in the
neighboring pit local scalpers, who were
me best traders, not putting any vim into
their operations. The opening was weak,
but later a better feeling was evinced.
May corn opened at 455sc sold between
45l2G453sc and 46Isc, closing at 457sc-a
was Ia per bushel higher
Oats-The market for oats opened weak
on the discovery that 100000 bushels OF that
grain were afioat in the river here that
had been entirely lost sight of in the re-
cent calculations of stocks. The feeling
so caused lasted for a long while, but was
eventually overcome by the excitement
incident to the rise in wheat Near the
close values lost their enhancement, also
through sympathy. May closed 11sc high
er than yesterday. Cash oats were Ac per
bushel higher.
ProvisiOns-The hog market being weak,
impaired a like feeling to products at the
Opening. Trade was small about that
time, but upon the Armour brokers APP
pearing as buyers, when wheat was on
the upward course no serious obstruction
to an advance in provisions was offered.
Until the close the tone remained strong,
May pork gaining 12l9c for the day, May
lard 215c and May ribs sc. Domestic and
foreign markets were firm.
Leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.