The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05

a7a4s1sc: mailing. 55lsG61c Barley quiet;
Western 6Od70c.
Wheat-Spot dun; No. red, Sc, f. o. b. !;
options duh and weak all the morning. Be
sides liquidation prompted by weak cables,
short wheat was put out on prospective
bearish statistics for Monday; closed weak
at 12c net decline; March closed S23tc; May
closed ne; July. 75Ssc.
Corn-Spot steady; No. 2, 45izc; options
opened easy with wheat, and was gener-
ally weak all day, influenced by lower ca
bles and unloading; closed weak at hd9sc
decline; March closed, 1850; May closed
4l1sc; July closed 41Ikc.
Oats-Spot quiet; No. 2. S4Isc: options
duh. Beef steady; family, $40 OOql2. 90: beef
hams, $ls. O0G19,5O. Cut meats steady; pick
led bellies 5.00d5%c picked shoulders, aga
4Ac picked hams 624@7lac. Lard weak
western steamed, 5.55c; March, 5.S0c; re-
fined weak. Pork steady; mess, 50. O0Od9. 70.
Butter steady; Western creamery, 10000;
do factory, 1SG14lac; Elgins, zoe imitation
creamery. 1Sl9G1Sc; state dairy. 1Sd2Oc.
Cheese firm; large white, 11q1lAc. Eggs
steady; state and Pennsylvania, CSC;
Western fresh, 2Sc; Southern, 271aGl2Sc. Po-
tatoes quiet New York, 81. 25@2 90; Long
Island, $l5Od2. IS; sweets, Jersey, 81 75G
2.I5. Petroleum duR; refined New York.
%.S5; Philadelphia and Baltimore 81 80; do
in bulk, $3.50. Rice firm; domestic fair to
extra, 415Gp7c; Japan, 595hc. Cabbage
steady, $S.00q9,O0 per 100. Cotton seed oil,
prime crude, PIC. Butter grades 29dS2c
Coffee options opened steady al points
advance, following higher Havre and Ham,
burg markets. smaller receipts at Rio and
Santos, and continued large warehouse de-
liveries in the United States. Speculation
was small and local; some covering; closed
steady, unchanged to points higher; sales
1850 bags, including March. 5.25c; April,
5.Sc; spot Rio quiet but steady; No. In
voice. 61c; No. jobblng, 6s4c; mild steady
Cordova, Sale. Sugar raw firm; but not
quotably higher; fair refining, 37kc; centrla
fugals, 96-test, 4ssc. MoIasses sugar,
ulated sc.
Chicago, March 4.-The failure of the
predicted cold wave TO materialize to-day,
together with large shipments TO Europe
during the week, weakened wheat and
oats 1s4Ac. Pork declined 121kc, lard 7lk6
10c, and ribs, 5d7Izc.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest Lowest. Closing.
Wheat. No. p
May .....7214@79N 72N 72as 72%
July I'll @7l% IN O% II G711s
May .....86Aaasss ss% ssAaas% ssA@asqs
Sept. ....S71b S7h 37A S7h
Oats, No. p
May .....28 % d2sIk 27z 27%a2s
July .....26 26 0261k 257a 26
Mess Pork, per barrel
May .....s9 S71A 50 40 $50 80 321b
July see. 8 50 $50 947h $50
Lard, per 100 pounds
May ..... 40 $40 535 S75h
July ..... 5 80 521s 5471h $50
Sept. 80. 621s 565 $50 s 60
Short Ribs, per 100 pounds
May ..... TIA $50 AS 4T1h
July ..... 80 40 4S71A S712
Sept. .... 500 500 500 800
Cash quotations We're as follows: Flour
quiet; winter patents, $3.7Od3s0; straights,
$S.4Od3.60 clears. $3.2OGl330 spring special,
$40; patents, $S4OqS.7O; straights, $1,000
800; bakers, $S.2OG3.6O; No. spring wheat,
6SQ7lc; No. spring wheat, 64d7oc; No. 2
red, 73c; No. corn, S51al35%c; No. 2 yell
low corn. S51sd36c; No. oats, CSC; No. q
white, 30AQ31Ac; No. white, 3OG30lc
No rye, SIC; No. barley, 42d50c No l
flax seed, $1.151ad1 1872; prime timothy
seed, $40; mess pork. per barrel, $915d
9.2O; lard, per 100 pounds, $5.221aG5.25; short
rib sides Qoose), $A50a47O; dry sailed
shoulders (boxed), 4Aq49sc; short clear
sides (boxeD, A.90d5.00; whisky, distillers'
finished goods, per gallon $1.26: sugars,
cut loaf, 47Oc; graduated, 5.20c; clover,
contract grade. 500.