Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-25

NEW YORK, August 24.-Stocks heavy and
lower. Money 2(G3s per cent Exchange
long, 81 81; short, 81 So. State bonds dull
Government bonds firm.
COTTON
LIVERPOOL, August 24.-COtton opened
dull and easier; middling uplands sgd; mid
ding Orleans sgd; sales 900 bales; specula-
tion and export 500 bales; receipts 1850 bales
all American.
Futures Uplands, low middling clause.
August and September delivery. 37-64d;
september and October. 35-64d; October anu
November, 4-64d; November and Deem
Der, 33-64G5 32-64d; December and January,
34-64(G5 33-64d; January and February,
36-64d; February and March, > 39-64d; March
and April, 4l-64d; April and May, 4S-64d.
Futures dull
Sales for the week, 49, 900 bales-American.
$4,000 bales; speculation, 1000 bales; exports.
/ $500 bales; actual exports, 1920 bales; i'm =
ports, 5000 bales-American, 1900 bales;
/ stock, $4,000 bales-American, 600 bales
aioat, l25.O0O bales-American, 20, 900 bales.
! 80 p. M Futures: Uplands, low middling
clause, February and March delivery, 3S-64d.
Sales of American 1850 bales.
NEW YORK, August 24.-COttOn opened
| quiet; mlddlng uplands 10 l. l6c, middling Or
| leans 10 5-l6c; sales 939 bales.
Futures: Market steady, with sales as fol-
/ lows: August delivery, Soc; September.
99c; October, 10 O0c; November, 10 lOc: De-
cember, 10 O6c; January, 10 l6c.
PROVISIONS. GROCERIES,. ETC.
LIVERPOOL. August 4.-Lard, ASS Cd.
D. l.
/ stutfs market dull. Wheat, California No. ,,
9s(G9s 3D. Corn, IS "a. Peas, Is Cd.
NEW YORK. August 24.-flour quiet and
unchanged. Wheat dun and a shade lower
Corn fairly active and a shade better. Pork
dull and weak; mess $l4 00Gl4 %. Lard weak
at Soc Freights quiet but steady.
NAVAL STORES.
NEW YORK, August A.-Spirits turpentine,
4l12CG42c. Rosin, 81 521aCGl 6213.
Evening Report.
FINANCIAL.
NEW ORLEANS, August 4.-EXchange-
New York sight 81 80 per 1000 premium
bankers sterling 81 S2(G4 S213.
NEW YORK, August 4.-Excnange, 81 81.
Money l per cent, closed offered at 2. Sub
Treasury balances Com, Sl2, l49. 700: currency,
S7,lO6O00. Government bonds firm; four and
a half per cents 1875; four per cents, 1898
three per cents. 1854 State bonds merely
nominal.
Share speculation opened firm. far
amount of Northern Pacitics, Oregon and
TranscOntinental and Denver were taken,
for Northern Pacific preferred. Before 10 20
a. m. stocks were again lower, the early
strength disappearing entirely. From this
time until p. m. the market was quiet and
lower quotations were the rule, but the
demand then increased, New Jersey
Central Reading, Canada Southern, West
ern Union and Southwestern lead
ing the upward movement The
improvement in prices ranged from to Ia
per cent. Lake Shore was weak throughout
at 1925, 3 : and 40, while Union Pacific was in
demand at SSl4, ST., SS3s. Outside of the
usually active shares Memphis and Charles
ton was the feature. Woving up from 39l5 to A.
on large transactions. The advance was due to
rumOrs that the trouble between the COM
pany and the East Tennessee had been
arranged fayorably to the former
The stock closed at As. As compared with
last nights closing prices are l4(07s per
cent. higher, except for Northwest. Lacka-
wanna, Denver, Lake Shore, Louisville and
Nashville, New York Central, Michigan Cen
trail and Reading, which are 14(d31 per cent
lower. In specialties Alton and Terre Haute
rose per cent. to CO. Pullman Palace de
clined per cent to III. Houston and Texas
, per cent. to IS and Maryland coal and Han
ibal and st. JO preferred per cent. to u and
30 respectively. Northern Pacific lent flat to
1872, Jersey Central fiat to 1-64. and other
stocks Hat to 2 per cent. for carrying
In railway mortgages, the most important
| change was an advance of per cent. in Den
yer and Rio Grande cOnsols to SIMS2I5, and in
Rio Grande Western irsts to Co. The latter.
however, closed at 81 bid Foreign exchange
was steady to firm in the early dealings, but
toward the close buyers demanded concessions.
which were granted in few cases. The
sales of stocks were only 265,000 shares the
smallest days sales since August s, at the fol-
lowing quotations.