The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-01
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, ETC.

New York. Jan 3l.-Flour, moderately
active, but weak and lower; winter pat
ents. $3S5d4.1O. Rye -four dull. Buckwheat
flour quiet: buckwheat dull Cornmeal
| steady. Rye easier; No. 2 SIC. Barley
dun; barley malt dull.
Wheat. spot, weak; No. red. SSAc; op-
| tons opened weak under bearish cables.
and the government crop report; lqulda-
| ton began early and continued all day
supplemented by local and foreign short
selling, bearish Liverpool. cables and light
/ clearances The cash trade was neglected
by exporters Market closed heavy az 25s
| @27sc net decline; March closed S13sc; May
closed 1850.
Corn, snRt. weaki No. 2, 45Ac; options
opened weak, with wheat, and displayed
further heaviness all day; cables came
lower and weather news also encouraged
| selling; closed weak at &c net decline; May
closed 424c; July closed 427sc.
Oats, spot. easier; No. 2, 3412c; options
| duh.
Beef steady. Cut meats dull Lard
weaker; Western steamed, $3.50; January,
$3.50, nominal, refined easy. Pork steady.
Butter steady; Western creamery. 14Q19c
do factoryAA l2Ql4c; Elgins, 19c; imitation
creamery, 13@l6i5c;s state dairy, l3@17c.
Cheese steady; large white, l0l2c. Eggs
firm; state and Pennsylvania, 1912d20c
Western fresh, 1870: Southern, 1870. Po-
tatoes steady; New York, $l25G1 621a Long
Island, s1.75Q2.00; sweets, Jerseys, a25d
$50 Cotton seed oil firm; prime crude,
1870; do yellow, 24025c. Petroleum dull.
Rice firm. Cabbage dull; $2.O0@400 per
100 Coffee options opened steady and I'M
changed; ruled moderately active; gained
) points on local covering and small in
vestment buying; easier feeling later, fol-
| lowing disappointing final Havre cable and
| failure of market to respond to exception
| ally heavy warehouse deliveries of $4,000
a1n Iara $40 n N 70
5 points lower; sales. 1880 bags. includ-
ing March, 5.60@565c; April 5.70c; spot
| Rio steady; No. 7, invoice, csc; No. z .
jobbiug 71sc; mild steady; Cordova, 71R4
| lie. Sugar. raw, firm; fair refining, S% c.
centrifugal, 96-test 4l4c; molasses sugar,
3 9-16c; refined firm; mould A, sac; gran
uated, SC.
Chicago, Jan. 31-Wheat lost all SEM
blance Of strength to-day and closed limp
| and weak. Toward the close a sem-pan-
| icky feeling set in owing to the heavy liq-
uidation of longs. and May left off at a
decline of 21sd2Ac. Corn lost 19ea9sc, and
oats &C Pork declined TIC; lard, 10c,
and ribs, 71ad10c.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat, No p
May 49,. .76lsG7sA 7s7s 74S@74% 74%G74s4
July .....73sl "A G741s 1875 729s
Corn, No. p
| Jan. .....36 36ls S5l2 351a
May .S7%dSS SSls S7lA S7lk
July. go. 1854 ASS SS1kqSS3s S77s STs
Oats, No. p
May .....& 2slsG2SH 27% 27A@277s
| July .26ib ser 26Ikd265s 26A 261l
Mess Pork per barrel
May $40 40 $40 471a SO So $40 So
Lard. per 100 Lbs
May IS 5S1A $50 $50
July 500 500 s214 1924
Short Ribs, per 100 Lbs
May 10 17la 12la 1914
! July 80. .... ... 525
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
easy; moderate demand No. spring
wheat. 721sq7S1ac; No. spring wheat, g.
| d72l5c; No. 2 red, 7412d75c; No. corn,
&c; No 2 yellow corn, S7Ac; No. oats,
2715d2Sc; No. white. 20aSlc No. white,
| 2994 @3OAc; No. 2 rye 57q5714c: No. 2 bar
! ley, 42Q5l15c; No. l flax seed, $1.14A; prime
timothy seed $2.35; mess pork. per barrel
$l0l0d1o15; lard. per 100 pounds, $4,000 65
! short ribs sides 0oose), "a S5q5.05; dry salt
ed shoulders, boxed, 4hdl1ac; short clear
| sides, (boXed), $515@52O; whisky, distil-
lers' finished goods, per gallon. $1.25