The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-13

ceipts, 1877; sales, !, PA; shipments, l495;
stock on hand, 81, 297.
The cotton movement shows the receipts
at all the ports to be 81 500, against l0O,S27
the corresponding day last week, a decrease
OF l5,o9S bales. The exports TO Great Brit
ain were 81 go; France 26,77l; continent,
1853; channel ports, 795. The stock on
hand at all the ports was l ,l4o, 29i. against
$50, 29i the corresponding day last wear. an
excess of 2l9,9CO bales.
THE Houston Post says: Probably the
largest sale-in mercantile phraseology-of
single table OF cotton ever made in the
United States was effected yesterday bv
VIM. ID, Cleveland, viz; 8, l25 bales, amount
ihg-to S290,UO. This cotton came to him
In the regular course of business in the
past ten or twelve days, of which portion
was held during the closing HOLIDAYS TO tide
over dull market in the interests of his
friends. Notwithstanding the reported
short crop, Mr.. Cleveland's receipts, thus
lar, have exceeded the same time last wear,
when the seasons receipts reached $4,000
bales. The largest single sale,made bv him
last year was $500 bales. The fortunate
purchaser Of the 5,l25 bales was Major a
kuttkay, heavy buyer on both home and
foreign accounts.
IHE latest mail advices from Bombay in
dictate that the India crop as a whole will
be larger than last year. In some districts
the crop is little earlier than usual and
from all reports satisfactory, and with even
ordinarily favorable weather there is every
prospect of a fine yield of good quality ali
round. The exports from MI India TO Eu.
rope in 1881 down to December %, were
i,5lO,VOo bales, against 1,226,000 bales in
1850 and $4,000 in 1879 There will proba-
bly, be a supply from India this wear of
$4,000 bales, which will be an increase of
nearly five per cent.
1t has been reported that the Egyptian
crop would not be as large as last wear
when the shipments from Alexandria for
the year ending September /, 1881, were
4o'2C5 bales, against 470,4S4 the preceding
year, but since September l, 1881 the shin.
ments up to December 20 were l73 Alb Lales,
against los, Z9O bales during the correspond.
ing Tune IN 1850, so that whatever may be
the llnai outcome of the Egyptian crop the
supply from that source has thus far been
thirteen per cent more than last wear.
ACCORDING to the Financial Chronicles
statistics, the receipts in interior markets
last week amounted to 90, 0S3 bales, against
9S,5q bales in the week ending December
III, l3l 600 bales in the week ending Decem-
Fer "A, and l5l ,555 bales in the week ended
December II. The stocks we're 1853, $50 bales
on January I, against 4GG, $50 bales on De-
cember 81. This shows the first decrease
since the crop began to move, but with n
reduction OF 1900 bales in interior stocks
the port receipts show decrease from the
lRrTheceulng week amounting to 4S,470 bales.
Inc receipts from plantations last week
were If-,9O bales, against 20j,-
2io pales IN the week ended
week ended December "A. and or so7 ba ,aS
IN the week ended December II. The port
receipts last week were therefore oh ia
bales less than in the week ended Deem,
Der IL, and the receipts from plantations
were l2O,s9I bales less than in that week.
Inc latter comparison shows shrinkage
averaging at initial points of the movement
iV"O bales per week, though the average
decrease Is latterly rising rapidly. The re.
ceipts ut the ports in the first three DAYS Of
the current week amount to lO. zoo bales
against 1889 bales in the CORRESPONDING
days last week.
In season in which no impediment in
weather or otherwise has occurred to hinder
the delivery of the crop, with better
'"''9PVi tatloI ldClutleS tnan ever before
possessed, and in which the crop has been
under unusual money pressure. This
positive and steady shrinkage must be re.
garded as significant, and, ii sustained. will
speedily give full credit to extreme short.
crop estimates.
Like all drouth.stricken crops, the cotton
crop OF 1881 was ripened early and gathered
quickly, and under the conditions referred
to has been delivered rapidly. Last wear
the stormy weather in the South Divided
tne picking season into two nearly eoual
DIVISIONS on December 20, utterly stopping
heid work for month in midwinter' the
work IN the second period not being fin.
lshed until April. This year the cron WINS
gathered by December /, >'P was
These differences have produced STRIKING
pecuilarltles in the two crop movements
The Financial Chronicle shows tba,
up to January |, 367l,1I7 bales of
TINS crop had been marketed. against
$500, S62 bales in the correspondinc
period of last year, and that I.CJo Ia baies.
oil me crop had come in sight to that date
against i,lS0,S62 in the correspondent ne.
ROD OF last year. The latter statistics Are
partially estimates. "''
The weight of bales in the first fopr
months OF the current crop averages Az ri
pounds gross, against 1888 pound, crr Tia
crop last,in the corresponding period
ms shortage of ll.72 pounds Nor bol,
amounts on the portion of the crop deliv.
cred US shown in the Chronicles estimate
above, TO about 10000 bales.