The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-05
GRAM. PROVISIONS. ETC.

New York, May A. Flour dun. weak;
western white low grades, 81 20u300: do
fair to fancy, S2.S5d3S5; do patents, $500
40; Minnesota clear, S2.50@S15; patents,
$3.43eI435; low extras, S2.20U300; southern
-four dull, easy. S2.40u2S0. Wheat, spots,
dull and easier; closed steady; options
cline; No. red, May, 6S1ac; June. 6S3sc;
July, 6s12c; August 6sAc; September 6S9sc;
dull, steady; No 2 3i34c elevator; 35Ac
afloat; options dull and steady at 3smAc de-
cline; May, 47sc; June, Sac; July, 35Ssc;
August S61kc: September 3651c Oats sp0ts
quiet and steady; options dull and steady;
May. 233sc; July, 2ic; spot, No. 2, 241hc No.
white, 25Aci mixed western, 21la425lsc.
to choice, 97lacG$105 Wool quiet demand
fair and unchanged. Beef Inactive: family
$e0gq4100; extra mess. .SI0JqS.O0;
quiet; CITY extra mess, Sl4 OGGI1550. cut
meats dull and steady; picked bellies 45sG
4%c: short ribs H2mi%c; hams, 9094c.
city, Acc; May, sc; refined slow; continent,
31ac; South American, 534c; compound, 40
43sc. Pork, quiet, steady; old mess, $3.50
$50; new, $1.00. Butter, firm demand;
western dairy, 7G11c; do creamery, Halle;
Elgins, Ice. Cotton seed oil, duh; crude,
M1ac; yellow prime 2512c; do off grade, 25H
G151ac Rice firm. fairly active, demand
fair; extra, SIC; Japanese, 4Q4Hc. MOlass-
es firm, New orleans open Kettle, good 10
choice 27637c Peanuts quiet: fancy hand
picked, $1,000. Coffee barely steady,
points down to up; May 1850; July 1880;
September, 1I55d l1.70c; December, 1880;
March, l075c; spot Rio dun, steady; No. Z,
133s414c. Sugar raw, steady, quiet; fair
refining 334c; centrifugal 96 test 4Ac; re-
fined 1-16c lower; standard A, SIC; cut
loaf and crushed, &c; granulated 53sc.
steady; cotton by steam, 1-l6ds grain do,
1s4@2d.
opened, for wheat, May, 6Qssc. Corn, May.
2S1sc. Pork, July, $50. Lard, July, $3.50.
Cbicago Nav 4-Wheat bears are an
parently content with the success achieV-
ed last week. They. at all events, eVinced
no aggressiveness to-day the slight loss
being due rather TO the pressure Of long
wheat than to selling OF short stuff. A
comparatively steady tone predominated
although there were periods when weak
ness was quite pronounced. The news
had in it nothing to revive the dropping
courage of holders. July wheat opened
from 6l7sd615sc, sold between e2G6l2sc
closing at 615sc, A0ssc under Saturday.
Cash wheat was quiet ana steady.
Corn-No news favorable TO prices early
in the session was received. A very
heavy decrease in the visible supply g 1885,
900 bushels announced later in the session
would, under ordinary circumstances,
have created a better feeling than ex-
listed, but with the knowledge of large
interior supplies, 1t fell nat. The falline
off in stocks was, naturally, due to the
lake movement just begun, and was
therefore, not unexpected. The tone or
in determining values. July corn opened
at 29jsGI295sc, sold at 291sc, closing at 2gssc
&c under Saturday. Cash corn was
shade easier. Prices were quotably re
lower than Saturday.
oats Travelled in the course Of wheat
and corn. No news particularly inter
esting was received, and no feature de-
velOped July oats closed a shade under
Saturday. Cash oats were steady
Provisions-The product market early
presented a contrast to grain the tone
displaying decided strength and vipor
The explanation of the Improvement Law
IN the reports Of a better feeling in the
hog trade. The later morning hours show
ed dizziness and activity with prices fairly
well maintained but before the close
heaviness developed and recessions took