The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-22
GRAIN. PROVISIONS. ENC.

New York, March 2l-Flour quiet,
steady; unchanged; southern dull.
steady. common to fair extra, $l.9Oa275;
good choice, $2s0d3.25 Wheat dun, weak,
&c lower; No. red, store and elevator,
59l2c; ahoat, 6l96lAc; options opened at
1sdhc advance closed weak at 9sM84c UNI
der yesterday, a moderate trade; No. 2.
red, March, 59Isc; May. 6OBc; June. and
July, 6OAc; August, 60s4c; September,
6024c; December, CSC. Corn dun, higher,
afioat steamer mixed, 5lAq251ac; options
dull and weak at Ease decline; May
51Ac; July, 5O1zc; September, 5OAc. Oats
dull, easier: options more active, lower;
May and April 33Ac; May 33hc; No.
white, March, 36S4c; April, 36sse; spot No;
2 SSl9453%c; No. 2, white, S6AQ37c; mixed
western, 34m35ihc. Hay steady; unchang-
ed. Wool fair demand; domestic fleece, lisa
19c; pulled, 12d33c. Beef firm; family S9.750
300; extra mess, 7.50US.25: beef hams,
firm; $3.50. Tierced beef quiet; strong:
city extra India mess, $lS.OOQl5O0. Cut
meats firm; picked bellies, sac bid; Shout
ders, &c; hams, SAQ9c; middles quiet, firm;
short clear nominal Lard, quiet, firmer;
lose, nominal; May, 7.15c; refined quiet;
continent, 740c; South America, 7.75c;
mess, SlSOOG1S.5O. Butter, fair demand:
choice, firm; state dairy, 9dlSc; do cream
cry, old 10d15c; western dairy, Sl13c; do
creamery, new, lq2Oc; DO old, Sl2qi4c;
ter demand. Crude, &c; yellow prime, 26c;
petroleum nominal Rice firm; unchang-
ed. Molasses firm, fair demand, un-
changed to 20 points up. March. 5000
15.35c; May, 14.S5dl495c; September, 1860
14.75c; December, 1.50G14.55. Spot Rio firm,
quiet; No: T. 16%c. Sugar. raw firm, quiet;
&c; refined quiet, firm, unchanged.
Freights to Liverpool steady; grain fairly
active, cotton sd asked; grain. I'd.
Chicago, March 21-The market opened
with wheat; May at 55Ac Corn. May.
47c; July, 46asc;. September, 1890. Pork;
May, Sn;9O; July; a2O5. Lard, May,
RIBS, May, $5.s21a; July, s6,O5; September.
$500
Chicago. March 2.-Each day brings
wheat nearer to where it was before the
government issued it's startling, but doubt
full figures on the farm reserves To-day
&c was taken from the price and there are
numerous prophets to be found who are
by no means uncertain in their predictions
of a lower standard than has yet been
reached on the crop. The morning hours
were not noted for the briskness of trade,
commission men and brokers lamenting
the dullness, but from noon until the close
was a fair amount of activity and much
weakness
May wheat opened from 557kc to J5st0
557sc sold between 557sc and 54a4c. closing
at 54s4a547sc, with the loss already stated.
Cash wheat was lzc per bushel lower.
astray. The buyers Of the past day or two
sold out to-day, the turn for the worse in
wheat overpowering anything inclined to
influence corn for the better. The open
ing was comparatively steady, but holders
were a trife uneasy and willing to accept
the current quotations for. their property.
May corn opened at 47lsc; sold between
that and 4634c, closing at 461ks-5sc under
yesterday. Cash corn sold at 14M1sc I'M
der yesterdays prices.
Oats-Traders in oats made. considera-
BILE hustle about the little business they
transacted. sellers being largely in the
majority and taking their incentive from
wheat and corn Receipts were 159 cars
and there was nothing taken from store.
The close was at a decline OF Hnkc from
yesterdays final figures for May Cash
oats were quotably &c to &c per bushel
lower. a
Provisions-Product showed fair bus
mess for the day. The manipulative char
acter of the trading was missing, opera
tions being based principally on the adj
vices from the stock yards, where hogs
were higher, with an advancing trend
The grain markets did not affect provis-
ions, the advance not suffering from their
decline. At the close May pork was 25c
higher than yesterday. May lard 7Iz0
10c higher and May ribs 171zd20c higher
Domestic markets We're quiet and firm
Liverpool was steady
Leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.