The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-05
GRAM. PRovIsIONs. ETo.

New York, Jan. 4.-Flour quiet and
steady; winter wheat, low grades, 81 206D
! $3.50; winter wheat, fancy, $3.S5Qi.75 win
ter wheat patents, 81. 90d5.25; Minnesota.
s.. 5004.O 90; patents, $4.25; low extras. s.. 20
$3.50; southern flour dull but
steady; common to fair extra, $500
@3 50; good to choice extras, S35503. IS.
Wheat. spot market dull and irregular,
closing steady; No. 2 f. o. b., 99%c; I'M
graded red, S0cd$10O; options advanced
13sQ15sc, declined 13sd1Ac, closing steady
at &c advance to Nc decline; January,
SIC; March, 9Sl5c; May, S9Ac; July, SEC.
Corn, spots dun but firm; No. 2, 1850 ele-
vator 3O5sc afloat; options were dull and
firm at unchanged prices, with trading
| local; January, 295sc; May 312ic. Oats,
spots firm and fairly active; options were
dull at sc up to &c down. January 22Ac;
February, 227sc; May, 2324c; spot No. 2.
22Ac; No. white, Alac; mixed western. p
@24c. Hay choice, firm; shipping, S5c;
good to choice 70QS0c. Hides, quiet and
firm. Wool, quiet; domestic fleece, 16I23c.
Beef, quiet and firm; family, SO. 250Jl0. 80 ;
extra mess, 81. 2548. IS; beef hams, dull at
| $1S. 0O@1S. so; tierced beef, firm; city extra
India mess, $13.506114. so. Cut meats, steady;
picked bellies, 43sc; picked shoulders, 4c;
picked hams. SAQ9c. Lard, quiet and
easier; western, 4015c; city, 3.6219GG3. zoe /;
| January, 4.Wc; refined, dull; continent,
4.30c; South American, 460c; compound,
42s941ac. Pork, firm and quiet; new mess.
| IS. 25GI8 rs. Butter lower; state dairy, 100
16c state creamery, 14d19c; western dairy
13619c. Cotton seed oil, quiet crude, 20c
yellow prime, 23c. Rice, firm and quiet
demand fair to extra, 3Ac Japan. 4ls9
| 4Jkc. Molasses, quiet New Orleans open
kettle good to choice, new, 2Q34c Pea
nuts, quiet; fancy hand-picked, 34@4c.
Coffee, firm and unchanged G. 25 points
up; January, 9.65Q9. soc; March, 9.S5Q9 9Jc;
n n NJ TIL n In.. -
loose; spot Rio, quiet and firm; No. Z. 1O1s
@1OAc. Sugar, raw dull but firm; refin-
ing, 2 13-16c; refined, firm and quiet; off A,
4d49sc; standard A, 4$sc; cut loaf and
crushed, SC; graduated, 43sc. Freights to
Liverpool, quiet; cotton by steam, 15-25;
grain by steam 3Ad.
Chicago, Jan 4, noon.-Wheat, January,
S11sc; corn, January, 231sM23hc; lard, jan
uary, $3.50; ribs, January, $780,
Chicago, Jan. 4.-Wheat was retrogres-
sive in its action to-day as compared with
Saturday. 1t started the session in a
promising manner, but there were too
many longs" with wheat for sale and
too much adverse news for the strength
to continue. on Saturdays bulge the
crowd had stocked up moderately well,
and, although the Liverpool cables con-
Veyed firmncss, the offerings proved to
be Of too great volume for the market to
hold up. May wheat opened from 5l2c
to soc, declined TO 83sic, closing at 8HuSIc
-7s01c under Saturday. Cash wheat was
easy and 1c lower
Corn opened firm and a trihe higher, aft
erwards weakening and declining, both
actions being in fun accord with the
course pursued by wheat. Trading was of
the slow unattractive sort and was en-
tirely local i'm character. May corn opened
at Csc, declined to and closed al 255sc-i4c
under Saturday. Cash corn sold at steady
prices, but closed nominally easy.
The tone of oats was easy, the sentiment
being guided by that displayed in the
wheat market. Little business was trans
acted and none of any importance was
noted May oats closed nc lower. Cash
oats were steady, but closed nomlnally
easy
Provisions-The run Of hogs at the yards.
owing to the recent storm was light and
prices a. that place were higher. Product
opened under the influence of this fact,
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