The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-10
GRAIN. PRovIsIoNs. ETc.

New York, Oct. 9.-Flour, unsettled with
winter wheat low grades, s.. 256i2.G0; do
fair to fancy. 2.8l0340; do patents, $500
S75; Minnesota, clear, S. I56l3.25; patents.
S.53M4.2O; low extras, $2.25H2.69. Southern
flour quiet, steady; common to fair extra
S2.lO02SO; good to choice do, S2.9oI3.a0
Wheat, spot market iirmer; quiet; No. 2
red store and elevator, 665sc; ahoat, 67Mc
options opened dull and steady. advanced
1sc declined &c, jumped sharply on war
rumors and closed steady at &C over yes
terday with a fair trade; No. red, March
69%c; May, 70l5c; October, CSC; December
66Ssc. Corn, spots firm, fairly active; No
2, 37i5c elevator; 3Si2c afioat; options were
moderately active and opened steady, fell
h6fAc, but closed steady at unchanged
prices to sc advance, following wheat
October, 36isc; December, 35c; May, 35c
Oats, spots firm, more active; options
quiet, lsW4c higher; October, 2Sisc; De-
cember, 233sc; May, 25ssc; spot, No. 2
29c; No. white 2iAc: mixed western, ga
25izc. Hay, firm, shipping zoe; good to
choice, S56t90c. Wool firm, quiet; domestic
fleece, 1o022c; pulled, 15G34c. Beef firm,
quiet; family, $9.G0Q1200; extra mess 81. 80
Qs.0O. Beef hams dull, $4,000 lJ.59; tierced
beef, quiet. steady; city extra India mess
$500; cut meats firm, quiet; picked bel
lies, Gags; shoulders, SQ$Ac; hams, 90
SIC; middles nominal. Lard. quiet easier;
western steam closed at else; city $500;
option sales 500 tiorces; May closed 6.15c,
nominal; refined quiet; continent 6.50c;
South American, 6.S5c; compound, 45s05c;
Pork, quiet, steady; mess S9.T5G10.00. But
ter steady fair demand state dairy 12Q25c:
do creamery, 221zQ2Sc; western dairy lea
&c. Elgins. Tallow steady; city, 43sc; coun-
try, 42sd45sc. Cotton seed oil quiet steady;
crude, 23lzc: yellow prime 275Rn28c; do
good, off grades. 26AQ27c. Petroleum
steady; refined New York $40: Phila-
delphia S7.O5; do in bulk, $4.45. Rice steady:
domestic fair to extra, 34M6c; Japan, $50
9Ac Molasses, foreign nominal; New or
leans open kettle good to choice, 26GI32c;
steady. moderate demand. Coffee closed
firm, 15M25 points up: October, Is. 30dl5. 35c;
December, I5.05Q15.l5c; March. 14.650147 5c;
Nov "a "a H. t.. Tr.TT
Sugar raw, firm: fair refining 3A03ssc;
centrifugals, 35sc; refined quiet, steady;
of A. 1864 7-lse; standard a. 9-l6d
4Ac; cut loaf and crushed, 3-l6453sc;
graduated, 9-i6nf7sc. IFreigfts to Liver
pool quiet, nominal; cotton by steam
7-6ld; grain by steam ped.
Chicago, Oct. 9.-The outside trade in
wheat to-day was very light. Scalpers
and local traders transacted the business.
Prices manifested very irregular dis
position. Within the last half hour the
market furnished a surprise in the form
Of brisk rise that was difficult to be
accounted for. There was some informal
ton of a political character from abroad
with war probabilities, remote quantity
which may have tended TO curtail offer
ngs, but the popular belief was that
ing more.
Corn-Prices ruled easy, but not much
lower than yesterday, during the session,
place, they crossed back to closing point
Of that day. May corn opened at Z91sc,
declined to 2Sa4c, rallied and closed at
2Sc, unchanged from yesterday. Cash
corn was I5Gt1c per bushel lower.
Oats-No change Of Importance took
place in oats. Activity was stiH absent
from the market. and the slight varia-
tons in prices occurred as result of the
sympathy existing between this and the
other grains. May oats closed a shade
under yesterday. Cash oats were steady
Provisions-The same slow, dull and
uninteresting market that has been seen
for so long was again to be recorded In
Prices fr1rffldtnH la.
during the day. and on at the close was
the direction decisive. At the end an
easy feeling prevailed, January pork
closing 5Q7lzc lower than yesterday.