New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-07
SUNSHINE GREATLY NEEDED.
FLOODS IN THE SOUTH AND WEST CON
TIME.
THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAKES STRONGER
COTTON MARIETTA PHENoMENALLY WET


COTTON MARKET-A PHENoMENALLY WET
SUMNER AND ITS EFFECT ON CROPS
Notwithstanding a decline equivalent 70 points
in the Liverpool cotton market ana spot safes
abroad of only GOO bales cotton quotations In the
New-York market closed yesterday firm a. points
above Fridays figures Speculation Is at low
ebb only 81 bales being sold on the New-York Cot
ton EXCHANGE August closed at 6.s2 October ut
7o2 The strength here In the face OF such DIS
couraglng cable advices was due entirely 10 'he
weather in the cotton belt Instead OF the nuch-
needed sunshine. 1t was still raining over Inc
greater part Of that saturated region. with more
rains indicated. and precipitation reported In the
Southwest. Arkansas. Missouri and Kansas That
fairly staggered the bears In fact excess % ram
fall this season. il is agreed all sides, - phe-
nomeral and unprecedented.
The special reports to the Cotton Exchange FOR
the twenty-tour hours ending al a. m. yesterday
showed rain al Augusta and Savannah. in Georgia,
al Blackville and Charleston. in South Carolina,
Memphis in Tennessee. reported heavy rain. and
f. was raining at Nashville. In Alabama. II was
raining al Birmingham. raining heavily at Euia"
and Jasper. at Livingston IT rained all % Friday.
and heavy rains were reported from Mobile. Tusca
loosa Decatur O.l5 nches) and tnonto"n. nara
rain fell at Meridian. Miss. and It rained at Good
water q 30 inches). Amory Holly Springs and 1n-
uelo Some Of the private ady!ces from the South
read as follows
San Antonio. Tex. July The cotton crop in
fields 1t has been entirely abandoned
snce the above date. Texas has been visited
with tremendous precipitation
Fayetteville y. c. July Cotton crop conditions
are ARD p cdaay xsasSer nshne the
to be more than 30 per cent Of that OF last year.
with good chance for IT'S being Jess. H.. .....
moor Nth prospect Of its being poorer some
farmers have bad stands. some are IN gtass some
s9 1e nnl ooRs as nsf though bad grown W
few days and no fruit on IT, Others c9'npa am, oi
here every day and to-day four times
Since the above date. II has rained almost inces-
sanity in tina, Section with rainfall there Friday
OF three fourihs OF an inch.
IN JEFFERSON .o Tex July Lower Fart q the city
Rrenham, Tex July MANY complaints boil
worm ravages Careful inquiry show ihcse pesi,s
da Wnn'on Nss.-Rain nearly every day for
,,Nn,n Nam farmers forced to abandon their cot
'p ncEbIi Mss-Rs.as every day past week Crops
'esI ema. Aa'NRa,nca nearly every day for month
aud has abou; ruined cotton
or the movement Of the cotton CROP ATWOOD
Vio.ett & Co write as follows;
1.-The Financial Chronicle" shows the worlds
visible supply lost heavily again n,,n r5 in ~srS, 10
date Of this crop 963G577 against atnS', Ias S'lr
While this shows an excess OF 23o,"l baes NOR"
than last year at the same time therc IS az IN.
United states ports and interior points. " e
onor,od only 9s 900 more than year ago furo-
pean Of American and aoa fof rx h1rGh have
bn.n s2, 3,2 against 5.09ll2. or l3iov" NOR
BY dedmcting the OF Enropean STOCKS arrv
a, What European spinners have taken u, 1855
Of same period last year lor from scptempesn 20 10
tnrins,ve, namely. ! OF 900 bales more. \ rnr,htr
Examination shows that while there has come lnto
siah, 81 This crop 3.lstCo0 more than Two yee"Is
sisn' h,, ihe crop was 700Ga there is only l3Vv
more visible supply at United states Tare Ger
and visible points. weekly repo,,eu american spn
. ,aLines and our exports aggregate 3lesWo
halcs more than two years ago