The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-13
GRAIN. pROvIsIONs. ETC.

New York. Dec. 12-Flour dull; easy;
winter wheat, low grades, $2.2OQ3.S0; 10.
fair to fancy, $S.40d4.75; do. patents $4,000
5.25; Minnesota clear, $35Oa4OO; patents.
%2SdS.oS; low extras. $2.2OCiSSO; southern
flour dull: easy. Wheat, spot market
dull; frmer; ungraded red, S009Siac; No. 1.
northern, S9Ssc; options were dun and firm
at 3sdlc advance; No. > red, January, S79a c
March, &'sc; May, S63sc; July. Slisc; De-
eember, aSsc. Corn, spots, dun; firm; No.
:, 29c, elevator; SOC, afloat: steamer mixed,
Csc; options were duh; firm and unchanged;
December. 29c; May. 3l7sc, oats. spots,
dull; options dull; nominally unchanged ;
December. 22Ac; January, 227sc; February,
2S1ac; No, ?, 22lac; No. white. 25i5c mixed
western, 2202ic Hay quiet; easy: ship
ping 6Oc: good to choice, 75GS0c. Wool
nrm; quiet and unchanged. Beef firm;
better demand: fancy @.OG100O: extra
mess, S50dS.00. Beef hams, $l750d1S 90.
Tierced beef firm; wanted; city extra India
mess, $l3.00Q1400. Cut meats steady;
quiet; picked bellies, &c; shoulders, S&Gl4c ;
hams, S9SAc. Lard quiet; steady; west
ern steam, SAILS; city, 35s6SStc: December
$40, nominal: refined dun; continent
A.4O; South America, A75; compound, AS
q4lac. Pork. moderate demand; steady;
new mess, $S.25aS75. Butter quiet: state
dairy, llQ20c; do creamery, 15G23c; Tcl-
gins, Ac. Cotton seed oil dull: steady;
crude, 2Olsc; yellow prime, 23q2ic. Rice
larry dCllNes uTLls unchanged. MOldSSeS
firm; unchanged. Peanuts quiet; fancy
hand-plcked, 4c. Coffee dull; 1OD15 points
down; December, 9.25c; March, 9.30d9. 35c
spot Rio dun; nominal; No. q 10c. Sugar.
fair refining, csc; refined dull and I'M
changed. Freights to Liverpool quiet
easy; cotton by steamer. 9-64d; grain by
steamer sgd
Chicago, Dec. II, noon.-Wheat, Deem
Der, 1850. Corn, December. 22l5c. Pork
December, S6.S7js. Lard December, SO. 10
Ribs, December, $3.50.
Chicago, Dec. 12-The week came to a
conclusion In the wheat market with prices
firm and higher, and with the talent In
clned to favor the bull side. May wheat
opened from S0Ac to S0lsc, advanced to
SO7sc, closing at S0%@S07sc-1c higher than
yesterday. Cash wheat was firm, and lie
per bushel higher.
Committees of corn did not change
much, but the tone of the market was In
keeping with that exhibited by wheat.
May opened at 26c, sold between 261sc and
2os4Q253sc, closing at 257sc-a shade under
yesterday. Cash corn was steady.
Oats-The oats trade was quiet and was
confined entirely to small local dealings.
The half-holiday had its natural effect
on this as on the other grain markets,
tending to restrict business. May oats
closed &c lower. Cash oats were steady
to Ac per bushel lower.
Provislons-A fair business was trans
acted in product. with values displaying
some firInness in response to an advance
in hog prices. The grain markets like
wise extended assistance. At the close
May pork and ribs were each &c higher
and May lard 21a@5c higher.
Hides were quiet, with steady prices still
quoted The demand was, however,
slow. Prices were as follows Natives,
heavy, &c; light, Sc; native cows, heavy.
sac; light, SAc butt brands heavy, 7k6
TIC; light. 6Aq61ac.
Leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest Lowest Closinp