The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-16

No. 2. 81. 50; No. 3, $500; kits. No. l. $1.25;
No. ., 500, No. 3, Csc Goldfish, 1-pound
bricks, eye; 2-pound bricks, &c. Smoked
herring, per box, 20c; Dutch herring, in
kegs, 81 CO., new muilet, half barrels, $500.
Salt-Demand is fair, and the market
steady; carload lots f. o. b.. Liverpool,
compound sacks 4Sc; Virginia, 125-pound
burlap sacks. &c; ditto, l25-pound cotton,
4Sc; bright, 60a65c; fine fancy, 65QS0c.
Coffee-Steady; Mocha, 2iac Java, 26l9c;
Peaberry. 1T15c; standard No. /, 16c; No. 2,
15c; No. s, lac; No. T. 13c; No 5, 121ac; No.
6, 11hc: No. Z, 1OlAc.
Sugar-Equality Prices-Savannah Quo
tations: Cut loaf, 51Sc; crushed, DISC;
powdered, A. SOC; xxx powdered, 4.93c;
standard graduated, 4.55c; cubes, 4.SOc;
mold A, 4S0c; diamond A, 455c; confec-
toners A, 4.43c; white extra c, 4.24c; ex
ira c, 4.O5c; golden c, S.S7c yellows 3.6Sc.
Tone firm.
Flour-Very strong patents. $3.50;
straights. $5.25: fancy, 500; family, $3.50.
Corn-Market is steady; white corn. job
lots, 45c; carload lots, 42c; mixed corn, job
lots, Hc; carload. Ale; cracked corn, job
lots, S5c sack.
Oats-Carload lots, &c; job lots, SAC.
Bran-Job lots. SOC; carload lots SOC.
Hay-Marketg steady; .westerna job lots,
Size; carload lots, S21ec.
Meal-Pearl, per barrel, $3.50; per sack,
95c; city meal, per sack. S5c; pearl grits.
per barrel $3.50; per sack, $l00; city grits.
per sack, 95c.
Lemons-Market quiet: new crop Mes
sina, per box, $2.50d275.
Oranges-Florida, $3.75@4.OO per box; Mes
sina oranges S2.25q250; Valencias, 1915
Apples s.. 50d2.75 barrel.
Dried Fruit-Apples, evaporated, $40
10c: common, Ease.
Raisns-L. L., $l.75; u box, $1.10; loose,
60-pound boxes, &c pound
Oils-Market steady; demand fair; sig
nal 45G50c; West Virginia. black, 9dl2ci
lard. 5S6D65c; neatsfoot, 60q85c: machinery,
296SOc; linseed, raw, 35c; boiled, &c; kero-
sene, Georgia test, loo; water white, lie;
fire proof, 12c; guardian, lie; deodorized,
stove gasoline, 13c.
Lime, Calcined Plaster and Cement-Ala-
bama and Georgia lime in fair demand
and selling at S5c per barrel, bulk and
carload lots special; calcined plaster. SLIGO
per barrel; hair. i65c; Rosedale cement,
S1.30d4.40; carload lots. special; Portland
cement, retail, $40; carload lots 1910
Cabbage-Barres and barrel crates, $1.75
@2.O0.
Nuts-Almonds, Taragona, Ice; Ivicas.
14c; walnuts, French, lie; Naples, 121Ac;
pecans, 1Oc; Brazils, &c; filberts, 10c; as
sorted nuts, 50-pound and 25-pound boxes,
91kd10c; cocoanuts, 1913 per 100.
Peanuts-Ample stock; fair demand;
market steady; fancy hand-picked, Vir-
ginia, per pound, 4lkc lhand-picked, per
pound, &c; small hand-picked, per pound,
4c.
DEMONSTRATES. S1.25; barrels, $3.50.
Potatoes-Irish, $1.75 BARREL sacks, $150
Seed Potatoes-Virginia second crop.
$500; Houlton Early Rose, 81. so barrel; New
York state, Early Rose, $780,
Shot-Ffrm; drop to b, $120; B to larger,
$145; bulk, $1.45.
Iron-Market very steady: swede, 41ka5c;
refined, $40 base.
Nails-Cut, $3.50 base; wire, S2.15 base.
Advance national list of extras, adopted
Dec /, 1896
40 Is: quarter keg, $1.20 Champion duck
ing. quarter keg, 2.25 Austin, Dupont
and Hazard, smokeless, half kegs, $s.45;
quarter kegs, $40; 3-pound canister, 500;
1-pound canister, 75c. Less 20 to 10 per
cent. off
Lumber-Demand, both foreign and do
nestle, is firm. Ordinary sizes, 81 600
100; difficult sizes, $1S.OO01SOO; flooring,
boards. Sl5.O0622OO; ship stun, s16.5Oq20. 90;
sawn ties. $1,000
Poultry-steady; fair demand; spring
chickens, Csc per pair; half grown to
three-quarters grown, SOC 10 Csc pair; full
grown fowls, soc per pair.
Eggs-Market full supply; candled per
dozen, lie; country. &c less.
Syrup-Market quiet; Georgia and Flor
ida syrup buying at PC; selling at 23a25c
sugar house at ls@32c; Cuba straight
goods, 23a3Oc; sugar house molasses, $50
2Oc.
Tobacco Market quiet and steady;
smoking. domestcs, 22M60c; chewing,
common, sound, 2i927c; fair. 23035c; good,
36c
Hides. wools Etc.-Hides-The market
firm: dry flint. lilzc; dry salt, 91Ac green
sailed 6ikc. Wool-Nominal; prime Geor-
gia, free OF sand burs and black wool, i3c;
blacks, lie; bury Sc. Wax, pc. Tallow,
&c. Deer skins l5c.
Bagging and Tles-rhe market is quiet;
jute bagging. 2h-pound, 61ac; 2-pound. Sc;
1A-pound, SIC; quotations are for job
lots: small lots higher; sea island bagging,
7AaSc; Standard Arrow ties, steel. As
pounds. large lots, 75c; small lots 90c.
Dry Goods-The market is steady; de-
mand brisk; prints. in5c Georgia brown
shirtings. 48sc. X, 4ise; a. brown sheet
ings. SIC: white osnaburge. 7N7izc; checks,
4a5c. brown drlllings. 5G6izc