The age-herald., 1899-08-08
TaIbott & Palmer's Grain Lettor
orivate Wire from Ware & Leland.

By Private Wire from Ware & Leland.
 Chicago, August 7.-Wheat London and Liverpool closed. Paris wheat unchanged, flour 15c lower. Antwerp unchanged; Ber- lin 1z6DAc lower. Wheat on passage in- creased 9S4, ,000 Worlds shipments T46S, ,G09, including 800 900 for Russia Rainfall in h. dia has been very deficient. Weather in the northwest cloudy and unsettled. snow CTS and thunderstorms indicated for to- night Clearances heavy, nearly 7O0,00D. Talking ten loads for export; we can con- firm five. Visible increased 1,147,000 against 5000 last week. Minneapolis reports milling wheat selling from 21a to cents over Sep tcmber, with a good demand for the small amount that is offered. Today's market is worthy of mention being the dullest of the year, in which scalphng operations pre- dominated. There can hardly be a question but that the northwest crop is going to prove disappointing both as to yield and quality. It is noteworthy that when mar ket has been depressed for a long period to the verge of extreme dullneSs it Is the op- portunity and the chance of wise operators to make purchases which will bring them fine profits when activity again appears, which will be when least expected. Values display a great deal of stubbornness. Peo- pie who are long of wheat display no anx- iety and let all the other fellows do the shouting.
 Corn: Visible decreased 1,1S5,ooO While the prospects are of a most favorable char acter, there is tremendous snort interest, which has grown to be unwieldy, especially so as regards the deferred futures.
 Oats nave held steady. Trading has been light and without feature.
 Provisions Hogs were lower al the yards. Exports last week of lard, 13,622.OOO pounds; bacon, S5,S2i boxes; pork, 3,970 barrels. Very little has been done today, offerings have been small and the market has held up we'll Were it not for the fesr of yell low fever, which makes opera tors timid, we would undoubtedly have a Very lively market. with a higher range. because products of all kinds are going into con sumption at a rapid rate.
 TaIbott X Palmer's stock Letter
 By Private Wire from the New York Sun
 New York. August 7.-The course of prices on the stock exchange was mainly dictated by the professionals and displayed irregularty. The volume of dealings was about up to recent averages. Uncertain ties regarding the money market caused by the bank statement of bank averages on Saturday and absence of many opera tors from the street, together with the fact that the London exchange was closed, re- stricted bull opera tions, although authori- ties on money say that no stringency in money need be apprehended and crop news and industrial prosperity and railroad earn ings are all favorable. The increase of over a million dollars in the gross earnings of the New York Central for July is a strong case in point, serving to indicate this strength of the general business fabric. These earnings have been approached upon only on one occasion in the history of the company, and that was during the worlds fair. The tobacco stocks moved irregu- larly, fiuctuating at one time over three points, The local traction shares rallied after early dealings. Tennessee Coal and Iron and Panhandle daclinpd m tiols. Decided strength was evident in Northern and Union Pacific and Atchisons while good undertone was reflected in the Changers. Louisville and Nashville and St. Louis Southewestern preferred were steady. Extreme dullness detracted from the importance of recessions in some of the Anthracite coalers. The market closed irrepular