Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-25

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The Cotton Markets.
LIVERPOOL, April 24.- Cotton quiet;
middling uplands 81; middling Orleans
Ssd- Sales 1900 bales; American l.
500 bales; speculation and export 1000
bales Sales fer the week 100000 bales;
exports 10000 bales; speculation 1900;
stock $4,000 bales; stock American 40
900 bales; receipts II, bales; American
1900 bales; actual exports 1000 bales,
stock ahoat $4,000 bales; American 256,-
900 bales.
NEW YORK, April 24-Cotton dull and
easier; middling uplsnds 175c.; futures
closed steady; sales of "a, bales as fol-
lows: April delivery IS 13-16c; May de-
livery 165a16 29-32c; June delivery II 13-
32c; July delivery 175c- The comparative
cotton statement forthe week ending to-day
is as follows: Net receipts at all United
States ports during the week 1924
bales; for the same week last year,
66,633 bales; total receipts to date
3.524,141; same time last year, 3.201 ,607
bales. Exports for the week 64,670 bales;
same week last year 652, 100 bales. Total
expOrtstodate 1927, i'll bales;same timelast
year 2,O15, T32 bales. Stock at all United
States ports 465,0S5 bales; same time last
year 454.S46 bales Stock at all interior
towns 1857 bales; same time last year
$3.50 bales. Stock at Liverpool TS7,OOG
bales; same time last year 692,000 bales.
Stock Of American aflOat for Great Britain
256,000 bales; same time last year 100000
bales.
NEW ORLEANS, April 24-Cotton-
demand limited; sales 800 bales; higher
grades steady; low grades easier; good or
Iiuarufa afria4lv mod ,rffpa-v Tt1ar-a..
low middling to strict low middling lGia
1870; middling to strict middling l7kaIT5c;
good middling 17sc; receipts 1854 bales;
exports to continent 4675 bales; coastwise
Cos bales; to Great Britain 1,2I2 bales;
stock 152,975 bales; unsold IS, 100 bales.
Weekly sales 10000 bales; net receipts g.
3S1 bales; gross receipts 6,932 bales; ex-
ports 10 continent 1889 bales; coastwise
1873 bales; to Great Britain l0,631 bales.
MEMPHIS, April 24-Cotton dull, lower,
and easier, good ordinary 153c; low mid
ding 163a16sc; middling 16sal7. Receipts
for the past day 2J5 bales; shipments for
the past twenty-four hours 1912 bales;
stock 1890 bales; receipts for the past
week 3,149 bales; shipments for the past
week 5,O95 bales; sales $500 bales.
ST. LOUIS, Ap,il 24.-COtton buyers
and sellers apart and little doing; middliHg
nominally 1916
LOUISVILLE, April "a Cotton quiet
and unchanged at 1870.
CINCINNATI, April 24-Cotton-market
quiet and unchanged at 16sal7c.
Foreign Market
LONDON, April "A, 5 p. M-Consols for
money 92ia92S; account 9zsal3- United
States 5-20s of '65, 1903; 1857, lOS5;
1O-40's 1045s; new 5s, 103s; New York
Central, IS; Erie, 31k; preferred 80. The
amount of bullion gone into the Bank
of England on balance to-day was f23,-
600.
LIVERPOOL, April 24.-Breadstnfs are
quiet and unchanged.
PARIS, April 24-Rentes 59f 6T5c.
FRANKFORT, April 24-520s of 1862
9s8.
New York Money Market
NEW YORK. April "a. = Money was
4a5 per cent. Sterling Exchange was firm
er at 1864 for 90 days and 1891 for sight.
Gold iuctuated between 111a and 1924
closing at the latter price. The rates paid
for carrying rangedfrom 4 TO 8 per cent and
finally closed at 2 per cent. The total i'm
ports for dry goods for the week ending
to-day amounted to S~1,S40,321. The Gus
toms receipts were $4,000. The Treasury
disburse mCnts were ST., 500. The clearings
to-day were S~11,000,O0O. Government bonds
were steady. State bonds were quiet.
Stoks opened strong and advanced, but
afterwards hesitated a little and a little
later gradually improved up and after the
second call when prices showed an advance
of 1 to AZ per cent, Northwestern common
leading the upward movement, next came
Western Union, Pacific Mail, Union Pacific,
Lake Shore, st. Paul and Wabash. A
shOr time after the second board the market
reacted from ! to l per cent, but in the
final dealings the decline was recovered and
the market closed with a decided improve
ment, in tone and in many cases at the
highest point of the day.
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two O'Clock to-day amounted 10
$4,000 shares of which were $1,000 West
ern Union, 10000 Pacific Mail, 1900 New
York Central, 5000 Union Pacific, A.
100 Lake Shore, $4,000 Northwestern COM
mon, 5000 Rock Island, 5000 Erie, 49,
600 Wabash. 5000 OhiOs, 1900 st. Paul,
and 1900 Columbus, Chicago and Indiana
Central.
Sterling Excnange.-Bankers Bills 1861:
United Ststes coupons Of 1881, 1901,
sos of 1852, lis; do. of 1854, 119s; do,
of 1855, 1904; do. new 119a; 5-20s Of 1867,
1893 United States coupons of 1868, 119;
new fves, 1155; 10-40s, 114t; currency SKIES.
116. Missouri State bonds 9411; Tennessee,
old 81; do. new 81. Stocks - Western
Union Telegraph 71t; New York Central
9Ss; Erie 355; do preferred Sc.
New York Dry Goods Market
New YORK. April 24.-There was a
steady demand for cotton goods; market
firm in first hands, j0bbers are more active
ly improved and prices are well sustained.
Bleached shirtings are fairly active. Prints
and printed shirtings are in good demand.
Percales are selling well at 15ac. Wooden
goods are quiet. Shawls are moving slow
". The Daily Bulletin says Pacific,
COchran's, Simpsons and Arnoid's border
ed prints are increasing in favor.
New York General Market.
NEW YORK, April 24-FlOur was dull
and lower; superfine Western and State
$. 75a6.00; common to good S~6.05a6.45;
good to choice S9.50a6. Is; white wheat ex-
ira $~6.25a7.25; extra Ohio S~6.35a7.55; St.
Louis S6.30a11.00. Corn meal steady;
western s. .90a4.j0. Rye -four quiet and
firm at S490a6.O0. Wheat-market dull
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