The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-30
COTTON.

TnE receipts Of cotton to-day In this city were
over thirty hales. all by wagon. Prices
are firm, but without change, The markets all
over the country are reported dull and quiet
and yet the sales were fair aud fully up TO an
average. IN New York there was n decline of a
sixteenth, the only change in quotations report.
ed. The receipts at all the ports were larger
than ON the corresponding day last year. which
may, in measure. account for the tone OF the
markets to-day, for there are many who
think there may DO larger quantities
In the hands of planters than are
calculated In the estimates made of what Is vel
TO come In, The market In Liverpool was
steady, but quist.
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Mllulllg ihr OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, III y
In Liverpool the market was reported quiet
but steady, middlings O.; Orleans q 1916. The
receipts were IT, 500 OF which 1850 werp Ameri.
can. The sales were 10000 OF which I, 100 weru
American and . 600 for expectation.
The New York markctopcned quiet and nomi
nally unchanged, was reported dull during the
dey, aud closed quiet, sixteenth lower, mid
dlings la't; sales, 735 bales.
There were no reports received from Calves
bales
s. Louis closed quiet middlnes, II rs re.
hand, ASO0i bales,
The net receipts ut all the ports were 81, iel
against h2,sls the corresponding day last year
= deficiency OF l5iS bales. The exports e
Great Britain were 4i,S1 continent 7,7si
France and channel ports none. The ttock on
hand NJ all the ports was S1sS60, against sOi.el.
the first day VI April last year, an excess OF y.
al bales showing All increase to-day over N,
receipts The same day last year OF 1901 bales
TnE Chicago Times says English spinncrs mr.,
making loud complaints about the condition IN
which American cotton reaches them They
claim that the evidences OF wilful .adul,cratioi
hundred pounds of sand has been found In ono
bale, aud that In one bale there
and half pounds OF course Il cannot he s INV,
posed that such substances In such quantitc,
find their way into bales OF cotton by accident
Inc cases referred 10 are extreme but no, isola'
,ei. A stockport spinner says that he found ons
lotof hundred bales charged with ane rcd
sand toan extent varying from TO 70 per cent
ut It's weight Warrington firm say they flnd
mat w per cent OF the weight OF New Orlean,
and Texas cotton IN sand. Besides sand, watc,
said 10 be found IN cotton, drying heat NJ.
uucing some bales from 10 10 II per cent IN
MINISTER Lowell visits the sot,on.s pinulnr
uisvicts for the purpose Of asccrtaining HOW
much there IL In these statements Hut Il IA no,
clear That any great good can result from hi.
lnNesugauon, system OF government In,
specuon might possibly be established Ii he
dhnd matters as theyhave been represented
W ur though that seems Improbable In view
specuon % exported American meats Hut wha,
wanted IL inspection under the supervision OF
.nose VINO are Immediately interested IN rpttIpv
unadslernted cotton. The spinner and The
cossnn exchanges should provide system Of In.
'Peeuon' IT'S their province, and not that Of