Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-19
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
me Cotton Markets.

LIVERPOOL, May 1S-Cotton steady; mid
ding upland SD; middling Orleans SD.
| Sales 1900 bales, American $500 bales;
speculation and export 5000 bales.
NEW YORK, May 1s.-Cott6a dull and
easier; middling upland 1Ssc.; futures
closed steady at decline; sales 2S,S00 bales
as follows: May delivery IL 15-l6c; June
delivery Is I-32a1S 1-16c; July delivery Is
Is 15-32a1Ssc; August delivery 1Sac; Sep
TENDER delivery is 5-16a1SSc; October de-
livery IL 11-16a17sc.
NEW ORLEANS, May 1s-Cotton prices,
irregular; sales / $50 bales; good ordinary to
strict good ordinary I5sa165c; low mid
ding 10 strict low middhng l7al7ac; mid
ding 10 strict middling 17salSs: good mid
ding 1SSalSse; receipts 2,S53 bales; exports
to Great Britain 1904 bales; stock S2,3l0
bales; unsold $500 bales.
MEMPHIS, May 1S.3Cotton quiet and
easier and nominally unchanged; middling
1Sc- Receipts for the past day l,05S bales;
shipments for the past twenty-four hours,
400 bales; stock 29,605 bales.
ST. LOUIS, May 1S.-Cotton- buyers of;
middling held at 1Sc.
LOUISVILLE, May 1S.-Cottou-demand
fair and prices advanced to 17se.
CINCINNATI, May 1s-Cotton quiet and
unchanged at lsc. li&
-U Foreign Markets. sA
LONDON, May IS 5 p. M-Consols for
money 9Ssa9Sk account 93aa93s. United
States SOS of i65, 1914; 1867, 1904;
10-40's 1914; new IS, 104s; New York
Central, 50; Erie, S23; Erie preferred 53.
The rate Of discount in open market for
three months bills lis 11-16 per cent, which
5-26 below the Bank of England rate. The
amount Of bullion gone into the Bank
Of England on balance to-day was f15,-
600.
LIVERPOOL, May 1s.-Breadstufs are
dull.
PARIS, May 1s.-Rentes 59f 47sc.
New York Money Hsrfzet
NEW YORK. May 1S.-Money was active
and loaned up 8 per cent and closed at 2a4
per cent; Prime discount sac per cent.
Sterling Exchange was dull and heavy
at 4S7a4S7. for bankers sixty days, and
490aa491 for sight. The Customs receipts
to-day were SS31,0O0. The Treasury dis
bursements were $4,000. The specie
engaged for shipment tomorrow is $780,
600. Gold opened and closed at 1924, sold
down to l12S, only two prices all day. The
rates paid for carrying ranged from fiat to
2 per cent, closing at a TIE eicaIislgs
to-day were $4,000, 900. State bonds were
firm. Railroad bonds were fairly active
with decline of 1a2 per cent in Erie, New
York Central, Pacific Mail, Union Pacific,
and Chicago aud Northwestern Govern
ment bonds were steady. Stocks opened
at Ia2 per cent below Saturdays prices and
continued to decline with occasional frae-
tiOnal reeOveries until 2:45 p. m, when the
decline reached aa2i per cent from the
point of the day. At the final close the
market became firm and recovered TAI per
cent on the entire list. The leading fea-
lures of the day were Northwestern, st.
Paul, common, Western Union, Union Pa
cific, Wabash, Pacific Mail, and Lake Shore,
The sales at the Stock Exchange between
ten and two o'clock to-day amounted to
10000 shares, of which $500 were West |
ern Union, 24,OO0 Union Pacific, $1,000 |
Pacific Mail, $4,000 Lake Shore, 5000 !
Wabash, 10000 st. Paul, 1900 New
York Central and II, 200 Northwestern.
Sterling Exehange.-Bankers' Bills 1881.
United States coupons of 1881. 1914;
5-20s of 1862, us; do. of 1854, 116s; DO, |
of 1865, 117J; d.. new 1874; 5-20sOf 1867,
1903; United States coupons Of 1868, 1904;
new ives, 115ss; 1O-40s, 114s; currency SKIES, |
116s. Missouri State bonds 96s; Tennessee,
old So; do. new SS44. Stocks-Western |
Union Telegraph 76s; New York Central |
69s; Erie $50; do preferred SOC