The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-16

cotton. old crop &c hlgheri SAFES I0O
bales.
Savannah receipts. exports and stocks.
Receipts this day. .....---......-....... $50
Receipts this day last year..--.4... none
Receipts this day year before last. y
Receipts this day In 1888. ....--...--. lis
Receipts since Sept l. '95.........-..151.4I1
Same time last year.. ...-.-........s l3, ~
Same time year before last........... 96l, 5l2
same time in 1893. .7S7. 200
Stock on hand this day-......--....-- l,4zZ
Same day last year...........-....... 4,aS'l
Receipts and Stocks at the Ports
Receipts this day ............-...... 5,ylz
This day last week ...-.....-........ 1,zz9
This day last year ...-.............. 10
This day year before lass .......... 45Z
This day in 1888 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. z,l5l
Total receipts since Sept /, 1895 5lSi,245
Same time last year ...........-.....l, s3S, ZlS
Same time year before last ........5 gls,S4l
Same time in 1898 ,OSS, 65S
Stock at the ports to-day ......... lSS,syl
Stock same day last year ......... 6O2,6Io
Daily Movement at Other Ports
Galveston-Firm middling, z 7-i6; net re-
cepts s29 sales, 2i4 stocks, 1921.
New Orleans-Steady; middling, rs: net
receipts. 1852 Q,5s5 new); gross, 1913; sales.
us; stock 2263l.
Mobie-Quiet: middling. rs; net receipts.
80. stock, 3,096.
Charleston-Firm; middling. Z; net re-
cepts. 40 C21 new); stock, 1851.
Wilmington-Firm; middling, rs, net re-
ceipts. 10; stock. 2,l07.
Norfolk-Firm middling. 7ss; net re-
cepts 81; sales, 259; stock, 2,212.
Baltimore-Nominal; middling. SIS;
New York-Dull: middling. S-16; sales,
24S. all spinneTs; stock, 67,495.
Boston-Dull; middling, 3-l6.
Philadelphia-Dull; middling, 8 7-16; net
receipts, 20: gross, 113; stock, 3.S25.
Daily Movement at Interior Towns
Augusta-Quiet; mlddling, III; net re-
ceipts, 223; sales, l6S; stock, 2,7l8.
Memphis-Steady; middling, IA; net re-
sal ST.
St. LOuis-Steady; middling. rs; net re-
oeipts 10; sales, 2S9; stock, $3.50.
Cincinnat-Quiet; middling, rs; net re-
ceipts, IS; stock, 39u.
Houston-Steady: middling. rs; net re-
celpts. 32l5 (all new; sales 90: stock, 7776.
Louisville-Steady; middling. IA.
Exports Of cotton this day
acknowledgements O.
New Orleans-To Great Britain. 400;
coastwise, &c.
Mobfle-Coastwise S.
Charles ton-Coastwise g.
Norfolk-Coastwise 81
Boston-To Great Britain, 2iS6
Total foreign exports from all ports to-
day and thus far this week-To Great
Britain, 1886
Total foreign exports since Sept. l. 1895
To Great Britain 225Z26S: TO France,
464,56S; to the continent. l,74S.S04
Liverpool, Aug. Is, 12SO.-Cotton: De
mand limited; prices steady; American
middling, l3-S2d; sales. 1000 bales; Amer
lean, 800; speculation and export. 500; re-
ceipts. 1000; American. l. 800; futures open
ed with a quiet demand; August, 416FD
4Hq41Sd; August-september, 412G4.13d /;
observation-disclosures, AWd November-De-
cember. 40iQ4.05d; Decepber-January, 4O4
Q4O3Q404@4O6d; JanuarySFebruary, 40iD
4Q6d: February-March, 405d; March-Ap-
I'll, 4.O6; futures steady at decline.
! p. m.-American middling, 13-32d: Au-
gust Aid sellers; August-Septemb ABA
sellers; observation-disclosures .O7G4. 0Sd buy
ers; October-November AO5d406d sellers:
Nanr
January-February, 4.04d405d; February
March. 405d40ed sellers; March-April.
406Q4.Wd sellers; April-May, 4.07d4OSd
sellers; May-June, 4.0Sd4O9d sellers. Flu
lures closed quiet at the decline.
New York, Aug. Is. noon.-Cotton fu-
lures opened steady at a decline; August,
78c; September, S53c: October S.57c; No
vember. 1880; December, 1900; January,
762c.
New York. Aug. Is. p. MIXTURES clos
ed quiet and steady; sales. 1909 bales;
August. 7Slc; September, 7.5Sc; October.
764c; November, Isle; December, 1850;
January. 1890 February. 778c; March
Use; April. 7S2c.
New orleans. Aug. 15.-Cotton futures
steady; sales. 2Ssoo; August. 7:47c; Sep
1850; December, 74Sc; January, 7.49c;
February, I.Sic; March, 1850.
New York, Aug. I5.-The total visible
supply OF cotton for the world is 1886. ia
bales, of which 1,0H.973 bales are Ameri-
can, against 26 $50 bales and 22SS. CSC
bales. respectively, last year. The re-
ceipts of cotton, for the past week. at all
interior towns were %. 204 bales. The re-
ceipts from plantations were 1902. The
crop in sight is 1000, l64 bales.
New York, Aug. 15.-Riordan & co. say
OF cotton to-day: The week has been
one Of frequent and violent fluctuations
in cotton, caused in the first instance by
reports of rain, or its absence, in the vast
parched belt, stretching from the South
Atlantic coast to the Rio Grande. The
6nrNfnE nd a4H H..
alike exaggerated by the unreasonine
haste with which a host of small traders
with no decided views of their own are
prone 20 follow a few leaders in changing
sides. To-day Liverpool was lower and
our opening likewise, was a a slight de-
cline, but ii soon became apparent that
in the face of the unbroken drought there
was little cotton for sale and prices ran
idly improved. January, which soon after
the call sold at 769c, advanced TO 7.73c
In the final trading there was "A recess
son OF a few points on realizing sales
January closing at 1891. zoe with the
tone quiet and steady. The latest re-
ports by wire from the southwest say
that the weather is still dry and very
not. The wires bring US, every day, hun
ufeds OF requests for our opinion as 10
the probable course of the market With
every disposition to give our friends
best information we can. gather it is diff
ncult 70 state the situation in a brief
telegram without danger Of misleading
them. We have decided opinions as 10
how prices viii be Two or three months
hence. There is no longer any possibility
OF Vne monster crop which seemed prob
able SIX weeks ago. We feel sure MAT the
yield will be only very moderate one.
ana that as soon as the trade shall he
satsned OF this fact, quick and material
and lasting advance viii follow b,1t ~
rush Of receipts for the next six weeks
VIII De so unprecedented in volume that
the trade may, for a time, get the i'm
preston that "A record brea king cror is
coming in Tight money business d..
preston and the great uncertainty of the
political and financial future are All now.
eIIul lhnuences against an advance No
man can say how far these Influences -
depress cotton for while, but a short
crop, coming on the heels OF a short Wis.
loie supply, will beat them all in the end
our advice just now is, first don't sai
snort second. buy upon breaks. bur no,
more than you can easily protect: third