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Show Chicago strain aad I'ork Market. Mar-ket. Chicago, 20. The grain trade on 'change has developed no very striking strik-ing or uniform features. Wheat has I ruled lower and exhibits a declining i tendency, none the lees because of the accumulating evidences of a heavy crop in the country and the disinclination of Engliub buyers to take heavy quantities or bid high to secure it. Prices declined pretty heavily throughout the week. Corn has been very steady, with scarcely I enough variation to admit of specula-lion; specula-lion; yet there is a general interest io tlie trade that betokens some movement move-ment in the near future. Cits have ruled dull, with a range of prices that dcarcely differ from day to day. In the pork trade there are evidences of weakening en the part of heavy dealers, who hold tbe entire stock of old pork now here, and preparations are making on all hands for a heavy i packing business this season, and a replenishing of the meagre stores on iidDd. Lard follows pork: and records declining prices. The sales were: November wheat, $1.0-1 fVy $107; corn, 42J 43 centr; nais, 23J 23. Year pork sold S12.30 12 75; year lard, $8.10 '(aj 8.27J. The closing cath prices were: Wheat, $1.09, corn, 43J (t cents; oats, 23 cents; rye, 53 cents; barley, 59 59 cents; porlc, $14i; Urd, S.4o. |