The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-21
GRAIN. PROVISIONS. ETC.

New York, March 20-Flour quiet,
steady; winter wheat, low grades. $1,000
ents, $2900300; Minnesota clear, $2.25D
260. Wheat more active for export and
milling prices &c lower, closing steady;
No. red. store and elevator, 60G60Ac;
affoat, &c; options advanced %G1zc, fell
ssQs4c rallied 1sc, and closed firm at I'M
changed prices to 1sc decline, with a mod
June, 6O7sc; July, Gle; August, 60Ac; Sep
TENDER, 611kc; December, 635sc. Corn
scarce, firm, dull; No. 52Ac, elevator;
54Ac afoat; strained. 5lA@52%c; options
ing AQ1zc, declining AQAc, closing steady
and unchanged; May, 5l%c; July. 507sc;
options dull, steady; March-April, 3SAc;
May, 3Sssc; July, 3SBc; spot, NO. 2, $40
S4c; mixed western 34435c. Hay steady;
moderately active; shipping, 50q5oc; good
domestic fleece, l5G19c; pulled. 12q3Sc.
Beef quiet, firm; family. $9.75ul2.00; extra
mess, S.50Q8.25; beef hams firmer, $3.50;
tierced beef strong; city extra India
mess, Sl3. O0G1500; cut meats fairly active;
firmer; picked bellies, GAG bid; shoulders,
sc; middles, firm, quiet; short clear. nom
steam. 6g71kc; city 75sc; March, 695c,
nominal; May 705c, nominal; refined dun;
continent. 7.4Oc; South American, 7;75c;
SiS. O6aiS. SO. Butter, better grades, firm;
fair demand state dairy, 9@l8c; cream
cry old, 1OQl5c; western dairy, SQ121Re;
gins, zoe Cotton seed oil quiet. steady;
crude &c; yellow prime, 26c; petroleum
nominal Washington, barrels. CNew
York price, $500; do in bulk. $3.50; refined
do in bulk, $490d4.S5. Rice. fair demand;
fair domestic, fair to extra. 4A@6c; Japan.
4 Moa a5sn ketti Gre good to ehoiee
2sG3Sc; fairly active, nrm' Peanuts
steady. Coffee unchanged to 10 points;
March, 15.S5; April, 15-o5: May u. sOql4.s5;
i450G14. so: October 14.559146O; Decem-
Der. 1435; spot Rio. dun. steady; No. Z
16z4c. Sugar, raw, hrm, quiet fair rem
ing, 1l-l6c; refined, quiet, firm; off A..
35sd37kc; standard A.. 15-16d41sc;. cut
loaf and crushed, 4 9-16qfAc; granulated,
8 15-l6a41z; freights to Liverpool, quiet,
Chicago. March 20, noon--The market
opened for wheat, May, Soc. Corn, May.
47llc Pork, May, Sl1.65. Lard, May, $6.75.
'Cshicago March 20. - The buying of
heavy line of calls last night gave rise to
a certain amount of conjecture as to who
the principal might be and what the exact
significance was and to that wheat mar
ket was indebted for a firm opening, with
succeeding strength this morning. The
buying of wheat began with the tap or the
he'll All 30 a. M and because the houses
who generally do business for New York
people were the active traders, the as
sumption followed that the seaboard was
covering short property. There was like
wise buying that appeared to be forced
and probably closing up some short deals.
When this demand was fully satisfied the
support became weak and prices inse-
cure. May wheat opened from Soc to 56lsc,
sold between 55ssc and 56ll 0l56ssc, closing
at 55%M55Ac-1sNAc under yesterday.
Cash wheat was steady and unchanged.
Corn-Pardrdge and other local pro-
fessionals were the leading operators in
corn during the morning. They were buy
ing and working for higher prices, in
which they were partially successful, but
when the wheat turned downward il car
rsed corn along with It. The cash corn
market was still strong. Shippers had or
ders from New York and New England
but we're obliged to compete with the