The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-24
GRAM. PROVISIONS. ETC.

New York, March 23.-F'lour quiet bus
steadily held at old prices. Rye flour duh.
Corn meal dull. Rye easier; No. 2, 631sc.
Barley quiet. Barley malt quiet.
Wheat. spot steady; No. 2 red. S0isc:
options weak under bearish English ca
bles, and did not rally much all day, al
though Western crop news was decidedly
bad. from Kansas and Missouri. Local
houses sold wheat for both accounts.
Prices improved slightly near the close on
covering and left Off steady at 3s014c net
decline; March closed S02c; May closed
73Ac; July closed rae.
Corn spot, steady; No. 2, 42isd43%c: OPP
lions opened easy with wheat. but were
fairly steady afterwards on light Offer
ings and small receipts West; closed
steady at We decline; March closed 41sc:
May closed 40bc July closed 4OAc.
oats, spot, steady; No. 2, 33c; options
slow. Beef steady; beef hams, $1S.50G19.O0.
Cut meats quiet. Lard steady; Western
steamed $685.; March,s 5.52; refined steady.
Pork quiet. Butter firm; Western
creamery 17n22c; do factory, 12GI14IAc; Ell
gins, 22c; imitation creamery, 131k@1sisc:
state dairy, 1402lc Cheese steady; large
white, re. Eggs quiet; state and Penn
sylvania. 14c; Western fresh 14c; South
ern, 13lAc Potatoes firm; New York,
sl.50Gt25O; Long Island, s2.O0G2. so; Jersey,
500. Cotton seed oil quiet: prime crude,
GGcs IftiOitull JUL ItiCe lFEl. GdUUdK9
quiet; domestic, $iO00t1000 per 100. Coffee;
options opened steady at unchanged prices
10 points decline; ruled moderately active
with steady undertone, under lower Euro
pean and Rio cables, large receipts at
Rio and Santos and smaller warehouse
deliveries; speculation slack and local:
closed steady unchanged, to points low
er; sales 1850 bags. including June, Bloc:
July, 5.20c; September, 5.4Oc: November.
5.50c; December, 5.65c March $500 $500:
spot Rio dull and easy; No invoice.
1-i6c; No Jobbing. 6 9-l6c; mild quiet;
Cordova, 6al4c. Sugar, raw, steady; fair
refining, SIC; centrifugal, 96-test, 4skc;
molasses sugar, SIC; fair business at quo
tetions; refined steady.
Chicago, March 23.-An UNEXPECTED de-
cline I Liverpool to-day on account OF the
good crop prospect abroad weakened wheat
and May closed with a loss OF sc Corn
declined Nc. Oats, bGpAc; pork improve
ed TIC, and lard and ribs &c each.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat. No. D
May ....69 n69h 69A 6sH 6s5sagga.
July -. .6sAQessz $50 677s IS QssI
Corn, No. p
May ..-.a5H s57s sl%as5 sg4as5x
Sept. -: :ssls ss's as%gse& sss 81:
oats. No. p
May .....26% 269s 8lsd26h 26asQ26ia
July :.2l% 25 2ih 2Hsa24h
May 1886 S9121a 1886 $s07Is-
July 9 1914 go 912lk 925
Lard. per 100 pounds
May 80 5S5 ; 221s 535
July 42h 47k 5 42Ih s Az
Sept. 5 57Ik SEQ 5 57Ih 5 57IL
Short Ribs per 100 pounds
May MAJ, 20 90 ~ ~ 20 20, ts
Sept. 495 500 495 SEQ
Cash quotations were as follows Flour.
steady; No. 2 spring wheat, 67d6slkc; No. 3
spring wheat, 631zGt6Sc; No. red. 70a70ikc;
No 2 corn. 343sc; No. 2 yellow corn 3l5sc;
No. oats. 271s12Sc; No. white, 3Ohn3lc;
No. white, 29IkQ9OAc; No. 2 rye, 51isc
No barley, 38ft47c: No. fax seed, $1.17ls,
n. w, A.2ilz prime timothy seed. g. s2lk;
mess pork, per barrel, ss.95d90O: lard. per
100 pounds. s5.2OQ525; short ribs sides
Coose), $4.45Q4S0; dry sailed shoulders,
(boxed). 4h049sc; short clear sides, box
ed, s4Soa5.0O; whisky. distIllers finished
goods. per gallon, $780, clover, contract
grade, 1886.