The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-25
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY,
-an,, The overland movement to Northern mills
lat month. about which we dhnnot hear for

and the overland movement to Northern mills
last month. about which We cannot near Tor
Turning TO Manchester 1t IL admitted on gil
hspds that nm enormous business has recently
proj,te, that they are largely under contract for
forward deliveries. and that CONSUMPTION was
never perhaps larger IN THE country than at
ni,imn W. pointed out that AZ .hatween The
leading counts Of yarns end MiidlnR Amar'-
can cotton the ma,sln n ,ayer p ee q aas
date last year. Our attention has since been
called to the fact that the margin ts now about
'e, ~ hs . ,san ba was any o mills
which have been stopped for aome months
have recently reaumed work haa siven riae ="
what We aurpoaato be exaggerated estimates ~
are a. hiah AZ a2,ooo u ss,fro hales per week
% nv eraae weight; LIZ our report o. twenty,
Great britain for tho i,reiue months end6ne thir
teth If Haptanher next at ~ sae balee of 400
snt e 's
as given In their annual renott. IL ~ $40 bales,
~ 40 pounds each. for the nine months ending
wards \ o. ID their mnnthir circular, dated
thirty first ultimO cay: The CONSUMPTION ~
Lancashire promises 10 he larger thls year than
most OF the machinery that was standing has
haen got to work. er Will soon be az, and We
would not be SURPRISED " II IL now 81 600 TO So
per week Of 400 pounds"
The merain III favor of epipnera on the fper
counts q yarns 4 row much ,n ,re s ssvora N !"
mulel, For Instance On No. ae.epnn from
Esyptian- the margin is now eaa t9 be az
ssed b. tse et S. ps Tor four
years no portion of the cotton trade has euf-
Tered 40 severely as the eptnoera Of ane
counta. and the result waa an unprecedeptedly
email outturn: hut when the recent revival act
In stocks ever. where were 90 va,v low tha' the
advance has been an extraordinary one not
cotton this aaaaon. The trade have taken thta
week t7,opn bales VI Egyptian. and an average
az far THE year, 1--we weehs' 7pao bales. against
wrote hat we Thought Mafara. Eili-on h DO. In
estimating tha crop q thia saaaan a. e"1 ,o9
placed their aetimaa about hnt 900 bales too low
The receipts at Alexandria 10 date amount ~
psp o." eana1a aga'naii , ea tha ,an sa
az far are rather more than double laat eeaaHn.
After thia date last seaaon there were received
at Alexandria Dis 900 csntara. and allowing for
an increase THE saaaou Of ouly 10 per "ent-
which baa haen about the average for the Last
for,night-the iaonipta for The antlre eaaa"n
pnnn,.a.
H. n," cur h q ea , pss an s
exaggerated repor.s about etrikes have guna
| ont to- America. and thts may to aareat extent
| esrlain the de,lius of twenty -one points In fu
,",ea at New York on the twenty h y neamt.
~ the Nav York Chronicle II ,ta iasue Of The
| twenty fourth ultimn. ~ far there have baan
DIV atrik.a nor ~ We think, ~ explained IL "ur
| report " the twenty -tbrd uttimo. that there
are likely TO be any for acme time to como. A
good deal Ia at rresent bel ng eaid about a
| threatened strike at Oldh am. but we are oon
ndeut the matter will be amieahly adjusted.
| The dinpute haa narrowed itselt down to THE;
The operatives aah an advance In wages of
rer cent THE month, and . further advance Of
t per cent In Iuun NEXT, and agree 70 asa no
4 fun her advance Ns year. The maataLa are
willing To pay the advance asked for. but deaire
the operatives to aak no further advance In
| wagea before March, 1891.
| Engliah pptnnara have taken thta week about
| aG o,0 halaa II, ere than their consumption. aud
| we now make them to- hold 1p2 coo bales. Their
/ ma imum stock laat year did not eSneed about
800 eco halen and for the four preceding yeara
the average ma ximum was about go .oao ha'ea
| We incline to the opinion that aptnnera year ~
4 year are getting more ani more In the way IN
| buying futnlea here M hedge aHalnst their
ccntraota, 1t may thus be, ma many aunpoHe.
that they are now. Ia one way or another. more
largely interested In cotton than for some years
| pnnt.
| The ntock Of cotton now hold hv English spin
nara we now eatimate ut 100000 halee against
| t4s 900 lRat year. and 900 the year before at
came date.