The morning news., 1891-02-25
The following we're the closing quotations of
e New YORK Stock Exchane-a.

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Northwestern 1854 Texas Pacific ..... 14ss
preferred l35 Tenn. Coal & Iron $50
Della & Lack =. 1871 Union Pacific. 44j4
Erie. .............. 1885 n. j. Central. -. l16
East Tennessee. ~ Missouri Pacific. 6616
Lake Shors.. ....1l1tA Western Union. 605k
L vile q Nash. 74ss Cotton Oil csrti... 22Ss
Memphis q Char. Sc Brunswick w 10
Mobile & Ohio. 36IS Mobile Ohio as. SO
Nash. & Chstt'a.. es Silver certificates. s714
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LIVERPOOL, Feb. "a, noon.-Cotton dull;
pres ges ally in buyers favor; American
middling 45sd; sales 900 bales American Z. 200
bales; speculation and export 500 bales; receipts
$1,000 bales-American q, ZOO
Futures American m ling, low middling
clause, February aud March delivery ID;
March and April delivery 4 53-64GA4 54-64t0
30 64d; April and May delivery 5S-6S614 5064d; (;
May and June delivery o1-64 "a 62-64GD4 o. Cad (;
June and July delivery 5 1-6465 2-64d; July
and August delivery 3-64d, also 5 4 64d, also
5-64d, 464d; August and September delivery
Futures steady.
4:0O .. m Futures: American middling, low
mlddlins clause, February delivery 54-646
55-64d; February aud March delivery 54-64
D4 55-64d; March and April delivery 55-64d,
value; April and May delivery b9-84n
60-64d; May and June delivery 5d, sellers; June
and July delivery 964d. sellers; July and
August delivery 5-64d, sellers; August and
September delivery 5-64d, buyers; September
and October delivery 3-6id, buyers Futures
closed quiet but steady.
NAW IOhk, req. ~, uOO0.-COLCOQ opened
quiet; middling uplands 90; middling Orleans
9 7-i6c: sales - bales.
Futures-The market opened steady, with
sales as follows: February delivery 71c; March
livery 9Oc, June delivery 99c, July delivery
9 06c.
500 p. m.-Cotton market closed quiet
middling uplands &c; middling Orleans 7-16c;
sales to-day 81 bales.
Futures-Market closed firm. with sales of
%, 100. bales, as follows: February delivery
sc sss ssvs5s Sen Nav aelSsrY es c apF de
June delivery 04@19 05c; July delivery
8 1909 13c; August delivery 1909 15c; Sep
tember delivery 1oG9 lie; October delivery
December delivery 3 1000 11c.
The suns cotton review says: Futures
opened 3Qn5 points advance, closing firm at "a
spoints advance from Saturdays closing. There
was an undercurrent of strength to-day, which
was not fully explained No decided activity
or important advance. but a frmer market.
What caused it? 1t was something like a fly in
amber-'NetheF new nor rare, but how the
dickens came it there Liverpool, 1t is true re-
ported slight advance, but this should have
been more than offset by the large movement
of crop. The best prices we're paid in the last
half hour, and il was said that buying orders
had been received by cable from Liverpool.
just at the close phenomenally large receipts
at interior towns checked the buying and
slightly increased the offerings, but without
causing any material decline. Spot cotton was
dull"
GALVESTON, Feb. 24.--Cotton closed easy;
middling Sc; net receipts 1872 bales. gross
1872 bales; sales 399 bales; stock 81 ,Ul8 bales;
exports, to Great Britain 6, l46 bales
NORFOLK, Feb. 2i.-Cotton closed quiet;
. middl1ng 13-l6c; net receipts 728 bales gross
'2s; sales s12 bales; stock So.b4s bales; ex-
ports, coastwise 1919 bales.
BALTIMORE, Feb s4.-Cotton closed nominal;
middling csc; net receipts - bales, gross
2,1o1 sales - bales; stock II, 506 bales ex
ports coastwise 900 bales.
Boston, Feb. 24.-Cotton, nothing doing;
middling 9c; net rec sipts - bales, gross -;
sales none; stock - bales.
WILMINGTON, Feb. A.-Cotton closed quiet;
middling sac; net receipts l,029 bales, gross
/, ,O2y; sales none; stock 19, ,276 bales.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 24.--Cotton quiet; mid
ding 9lac; net receipts So bales gross 66; stock
GAS bales.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb 24-Cotton closed steady;
middling SIC; net receipts 10, 626 bales, gross
1l50O; sales $3.50 bales; stock 1885, 65o bales; ex-
ports, to the continent - bales, to Great Bri-
tain II, 700 bales, ceastwise 67e.
Futures-The market to-day closed barely
steady, with sales of 49, 700 bales as follows:
February delivery SEC, March delivery 49c,
April delivery $50, May delivery o6c. June
delivery 75c. July delivery 8 85c, August de-
livery S5c, September delivery s 75c, October
delivery &c, November delivery 73c, Deem
ber delivery 8 7Sc.
s34c; net receipts go bales gross 627; sales 600
bales; stock 4i,271 bales; exports. coastwse
1891 bales.
MEMPHIS, Feb. A.-Cotton closed steadier;
middling SIC; receipts /, 1872 bales; shipments
1900 bales; sales 1888 bales; stock 106, $40
bales.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 24.-Cotton steady; middling
&c; receipts 1.032 bales; shipments 1,264 bales;
sales $40 bales; stock 31,777 bales.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 2i.-Cotton steady; mid
ding e346S5sc; net receipts 1887 bales, gross
1897; sales 500 bales; stock 42, 925 bales.
ATLANTA, Feb. 24.-CotUon closed steady; mid
ding SZ6c. receiDLS to-day AZ bales
New York, Feb. 24-Consolidated net re-
receipts at all cotton ports to-day "A. 555 bales;
exports, to Great Britain 1925 bales. to
France 11658 bales, to the continent 1o,250
bales; stock at all American ports 7S4, ,654 bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
steady. Wheat active and weak. Corn quiet
and firm. Pork dull and steady at 90 ESQ
II %. Lard quiet and steady at S6 90. Freights
NEW YosK, Feb. "a, 500 p. m.-Flour. south
ern. dull and weak; common to fair, extra,
81 1904 90; good to choice, extra, 81 000
5 50; superf1ne 81 0004 90; buckwheat -four
So 2502 SSc Wheat dull apd weaker; No. 2red.
12Is; No. 5 red, 81 o4I1O1 O4sl; ungraded
red, 81 o71s91 90; options 9s0lc lower, closing
weak; No; 2 red, February delivery p o91s:
81 I't osas; s. june delivery 81 & o5%; July de-
livery 81 0o1s. Corn higher closing firm;
No. 2, cash, 6HR06lSEc in elevator;
huOdU, OOtpO018Cs uuSrdC0u Oo740b
65c; steamer mixed 64065]sc; No. 3,
6s1S064lac; options 1s0Nc up on reports from
the west on Tree buying; February. deliv-
cry, 6424c; March delivery e4c; May delivery
61Ikc; July delivery 60c. Oats active and higher;
No. .. red, 5:055c; options active and stronger;
February delivery 54c March delivery 531f0
6s5sc; May delivery s29sc; No. 2 white, Feb
ruary delivery 5311c; March delivery 53a4c;
May delivery $3.50; spot. No . red. So; mixed
western 5l@54c. Hops quiet and weak; Pacific
coast 29034c. new 43@4sc; state. common
to choice, 99035c. Coffee-Options opened
firm closed steady IS to 50 up; quiet; February
delivery II s5117 rs; March delivery II 45017 so;
April delivery 16 S5116 95: May delivery IS $50
IS 80; June delivery IS 30@lo 30; July de-
livery 15 90016 90; spot Rio higher, firm; fair
demand; fair cargoes 1914 o 1910; No. z, 171kc.
Sugar-raw fair demand; fair refining SIC: cen
trifugals, 96' test 5a4c; refined firm; SIG
@5Ac; extra @ 53s015I5c, white extra G 55A
015 9-16c, yellow 1905 3-l6c; off A t1-160
5E. mould A ?-16cc, standard A 614c. con
fectioners' A 615c. cut loaf 69sc crushed 6ssc
powdered 6}sc, granulated $780, cubes 6Ifc
Molasses-Foreign firm; New Orleans steady,
quiet; common to fancy 27G32c. Petroleum
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