The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-09
OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton-Market quiet; rates quoted are
per 100 pounds; Boston, per bale, Slips:
New York per bale, $1.0O. Philadelphia
per bale, 800; Baltimore, per bale, SIPS;
to Liverpool via New York, soc; Bremen,
via New York, 53c; Antwerp via New
York, 47c; Havre, via New York SIC; Am
sterdam, via New York, 5Sc; Genoa via
New York, 5Sc; Reval via New York, 6Oc
Hamburg, via New York, SIC. Direct:
Barcelona, CSC; Genoa, 65c.
Lumber-By Sail-Freights are steady
at ruling rates. Foreign business is more
or less nominal The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at $4.25GL
$50 for a range including Baltimore ana
Portland, Me. Railroad ties, base "A feer,
Ice. Timber rates, 50cq$1.00 higher than
lumber rates. To the West Indies and
1900; Buenos Ayres and Montevideo, 5000
d11.00; to Rio Janeiro $14.00 to Spanish
and Mediterranean ports, $1l.30Q11.50; to
United Kingdom for orders, nominal for
lumber, 4-pound IS standard.
BY SteamLTo New York, 100; to Phil
adelphia, 500; to Boston, $500; to Balti-
Naval Stores-By saii-The market is
quiet Large sized, Cork for orders are
Is Cd; Genoa, 2s 3d03s Cd; Adrfatic. Is Cd
g2s Cd: South America, rosin, 65c per bar
rel OF $50 pounds. Coastwise-Steam-To
Boston. lie per 100 pounds on rosin SOC on
spirits; to New York, rosin. SIC per 100
pounds, spirits, S5c to Philadelphia, ros-
In, The per 100 pounds, spirits, so; to Bal
timore. rosln, TIC per 100 pounds, spirits,
zoe.
New York, Sept s.-Flour, quiet and
steady; winter wheat low grades, 81 700
$50; winter wheat. fair to fancy, $1,000
$40; winter wheat, patents, 50. 45G3.75;
Minnesota clear 81. 30612. 20; patents, SO Is
"a 10; low extras, $3.50; southern -four.
dull but steady; common to fair. 5000
go; good to choice, 50. 60d2 80. Wheat,
duh but firm; No. 2 ungraded red, 56@67c;
options opened weak and declined 5s97sc;
foreign houses bought on the Decline and
prices advanced 7s61c, with some local
at the close; May, 6S5sc; September, 63Ac:
October, 63Ac; December, 65ikc Corn,
dull easier; No. 2, 25hc elevator; 26Ac
af1oat; options were dull and weak, at u
4Hc decline; September, 25llc; October,
25slc; December, 271kc; May, 293sc. Oats.
quiet and easier; options, dull; September.
1sMc; October. 19c; December zoe; spot
No. 2, 1910; No. 2 white, 23c; mixed west
ern, 1S0201zc Hay steady; spring, 65d6715c;
good to choice, old, 82tsd90c. Wool steady;
domestic fleece, 16Q23c; pulled, 18431c.
Beef, quiet; family, $700ds 90; extra mess,
IS. B0@6 90; beef hams, firm at $15. SOG16.0O;
tierced beef, quiet; city extra India mess,
.$S. 50a9 80. Cut meats, quiet picked bel
lies, 5d5Ac; shoulders, 3Md4c; hams 81
G9Ac. Lard, steady and quiet western,
3.60c; city, 3,3Oc; September, S.6Oc; refined,
slow; continent, 4c; South American, 435c;
compound, 37sG4c. Pork, steady moderate
demand; mess, S50d8.25. Butter, fancy.
closed steady and fairly active; state
dairy, 10115c; state creamery, 1115f16lkc;
western dairy, SG12c; Elgins. 161sc. Cotton
seed OIL, dull but steady; crude, $4,000;
yellow prime, 23c. Rice, firm, fair de-
mand; domestic 3hQ5ic; Japan, 4ll4Ac.
Molasses, firm at 27d37c. Peanuts, quiet
at 4d4ilc. Coffee. options, quiet and un-
changed to 10 points down; September.
9.2Oq92 Csc; December, s.65ds.7O; March, $50
al. zoe; May, s. 65lIS. zoe; spot Rio, dull and
weak; No. 7, 10Ac. Sugar. raw, fairly
active but steady; fair refining, 13-16c;
refined, moderately active, steady at NC;
cut loaf, sac; crushed, 59sc; graduated,
4Mc. Freights to Liverpool, firm; cotton,
by steam, 5-32d; grain, SD.
Chicago Sept 8.-The final outcome In
the wheat market to-day possessed no
material advantage over that Of Satur-
day for either shorts or longs, but the
general average of prices during the day
was decidedly I'm favor OF the bears. De-
cember wheat opened from 571z TO 57ssc,
sold between 571sd571lc and 5sc, closing az
the outside-a shade over Saturday. Cash
wheat was nc lower, closing hrmer
Corn offered no resistance to the weak
ness conveyed by sympathy with wheat.
Scarcely any interest attached to the pit
operations which were for the most part
local scalping with no large dealings TAX
ing place. May corn opened at Hhc, de-
cllned 10 23slc. closing at 23Mc-Ac under
Saturday. Cash corn was easy and Ne
lower.
Oats drifted in the same channel rs
wheat and corn, trading at times. how
ever, being fairly active in a local way.
Prior TO the close some indie
pendent firmness was noted,
which awaited to cause a more pro-
nounced recovery than in either of the
leading grains May oats closed hNhc
higher than Saturday. Cash oats we're