The morning news., 1889-03-03

800 p m.-Cotton closed quiet but steady;
middling uplands 10 3-l6c, middling Orleans
IL 7lGc; sales to-day l45 bales, last evening 115;
ne' receipts ,Jea bales; gross S,917.
Futures-Market closed quiet but steady. with
sales OF Ii, 700 bales, as follows; March delivery
63c s3c April delivery 10 Ollle osc Nay dehvery
livery 10 230I10 25c, August 10 90010 Sic, Sep
tember S909 91c, October 6SGb9 70c. Novem-
Der 5s@9 6oc. December 59G9 6lc, January
8 6S09 zoe.
The Sans cotton review says: Futures
are unchanged very litte in fact, there was
hardly market worth reporting. Liverpool
came easier but considerable reduction OF
the crop movement is expected, aud the visible
supply continues smaller than one year ago,
and is now the smallest at this date in many
years. Planting season at the south opens
auspiciously, but il is impossible to foresee how
much political troubles will dsorganze labor
GALVESTON, March 2.-Cotton firm; middling
10c; net receipts 1855 bales, gross 1855 bales;
sales S47 bales; stock 80, ,357 bales exports to
the continent 2270 bales.
NORFOLK, March 2-Cotton firm; midding
1316c; net receipts 444 bales, gross 594; sales
624; bales; stock 40,590 bales; exports, coast
wise 954 bales.
BALTIMORE, March 2.-Cotton firm; mid
ding 10 13;6c; net receipts 654 bales gross 639;
sales 800 bales all spinners; stock 20 l3o bales;
exports, coastwise $50 bales.
Boston, March cotton quiet; mlddling
104c; net receipts 2G2 bales, gross Sl2; sales
none; stock none; exports to Great Britain l,loo
bales
W1LMINeToN, March 2-Cotton firm; mid
ding 93zc; net receipts 154 bales, gross 154;
sales none stock 1887 bales.
PHILADELPHIA March 2.-Cotton firm; mid
ding l0ssc; net receipts 476 bales, gross 4'o;
New ORLEANS, March 2.-Cotton firm but
quiet; middling csc; net receipts 469S bales
gross 5,630; sales $500 bales; stock tcorrected
320,072 bales.
MOBILE, March 2-Cotton quiet; middling
11-16c; net receipts 632 bales, gross 632 bales;
sales 500 bales; stock 3o,234 bales; exports.
coastwise 453 bales.
MEMPHIS, March 2.-Cotton steady; middling
93zc; receipts 2S9 bales; shipments 5,SSS bales;
sales 1000 bales; stock 81, ,234 bales.
AUGUSTA, March 2.-Cotton firm; middling
97sc; receipts 1876 bales; shipments 721 bales;
sales none; stock II, 1888 bales
CHARLESTON, March 2.-Cotton firm; middling
101sc; net receipts 500 bales, gross 693; sales
100 bales; stock 18, 150 bales; exports, to the
continent 1900 bales, coastwise 6F.
ATLANTA, March 2.-Cotton firm; middl1ng
97sc; receipts 50 bales.
New Io oRK, March 2-Consohdated net recelpts
for all cotton ports to-day Is. 1872 bales; exports,
TO Great Britain $50 bales, to the continent
81, no bales, to France -; stock at all Ameri-
can ports 812, 755 bales,
The total visible supply Of cotton for the
world is 6S1 ,433 bales of which 2 1S3 S93 bales
are American, against 2565.063 and 2,324, ,763
bales, respectively, last year Receipts at all
interior towns for the week 60,955 bales. Re
ceipts from plantations 70,02O bales. Crop IN
signt 6,139,513 bales.
PROVISIONS. GROCERIES, ETC.
LIVERPOOL. March 2, noon.-Wheat quiet; de-
mand poor; holders offer moderately Corn
steady; demand fair.
New YORK, March 2, noon.--F1our dull but
steady Wheat active but asy. Corn dull and
easier Pork dull at $l2 00D12 rs. Lard quiet
at 81 1215. Freights steady.
500 p m.-Flour, Southern closed dull and
unchanged. Wheat dull and nominally lac
lower; No 2 red 9616097l5c in elevator; OPP
tions more active but neavy and lower, closed
114G11hc under yesterday-No. red, March de-
livery 9614c, April delivery 9716c, May delivery
98 l1169g9 15-l6c. Corn quiet; No 2, s43a1Q 44c
in elevator; options fairly active, 1sO14c lower,
closing weak; March delivery 1890, April de-
| livery 431aG1 4374c, May delivery 445s@442sc.
Oats dull and unchanged; options dull but
steady; March delivery 30S4c. April 3114c, May
| 31sl0312sc; No. 2 spot 3034@3114c. Hops quiet.
Coffee-options closed steady; March delivery
16 55016 6Oc, May 16 55016 75c; spot Rio firm,
fair cargoes 1S16c. Sugar-raw firm; fair re-
ining 45Sc; centrifugals 95-test, 59sc. Molasses
New Orleans quiet Petroleum quiet but firm
| crude, in barrels, Parkers 81 25. Cotton seed
oil firm; crude 42l944c, yellow 4sc. Eggs weak;
southern 130l1414c Hides quiet but firm wet
salted New Orleans, selected, IS to 80 pounds,
5Q6c; Texas, selected, so to 80 pounds 5@6c.
| Wool closed weak and dull. Pork active: old
| mess SIP: new mess S12 500l2. .75. extra prime
| $l2 O0@,12 %. Beef dull; extra mess 81 Beef
| hams inactive at $12 75G13 90. Beef dull, extra
mess 81. Tierced beef slow Cut meats firm.
but dun; Western steam, 81 l2ll3; options
| March delivery 81 TO- May delivery S. H.
| Freights to Liverpool steady.
| BALTIMORE, March 2.-Flour fairly active and
| steady. Wheat-Southern steady; Fultz 81 000
| / 08: Longberry 81 0271 90; No 2 Southern
| 81 06; Western weak; No. winter red, on spot
| 92Gb93c. Corn-Southern white firmer at 4161
| 43c; yellow nominal at 40041c; Western steady.
| CHICAGO. March "A break of 434c occurred
| in May wheat and sac for July delivery to-day
| No special news was received to cause the de-
| cline and the depression the result of the
lack of support. Speculative offerings. were
| heavy, considerable long wheat coming on
| the market, besides which there may have been
| some shorts selling. Every effort to sell
| brought lower prices, there apparently being
| no opposition to check the decline. ''Short'
| interest evidently had been pretty well covered,
and parties who have been identified with the
| bull" side while not known to have sold
| freely to-day evidently had done the past
| week more. From surface indications it is
| surmiSed that the trade is getting out of May
| deal of uncertainty regarding the market, and
| operators naturally are not too sanguine that
| the May deal has been entirely abandoned.
| There was fair trade in corn early, with a
| quiet feeling later. The market opened at
| about the closing prices of yesterday and was
| firm, advancing 14c due to covering by shorts.
| The demand was soon satisfied, however, and
| prices reacted 31S0i315c influenced by the de-
| cline in wheat and by free selling by one or two
| prominent houses, became steady and closed
| fully 1c lower than yesterday. Trading in oats
| was small and price changes were unimpor
tant. Only limited business was reported in
hog products, but the feeling was moderately
| firm.
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
quiet aud unchanged. Wheat-No. 2 spring
ST 0OlS01 OO34; No. 2 red, 81 0OI691 oO34. Corn
No. 9, 3issc. Oats--No. 2, 2519c. Mess porA
S1t 25@11 60 Lard s6 zoos 72l%. Short ribs
S. sos 95. Shoulders s. 2505 S7l1 Short clear
sides IS 1219@6 25. Whisky 81 o.
e., foIIn