The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-09

Ihls DAY year before last ........... I'-5J
Total receipts since Sept 1, 1855. 5,i0i o.
Same time last year .................1,y5l,S 81
Same time year before last ........ u, 81, SCI
Same time in 1898 ....................5.Ol G,747
Stock at the ports to-day ......... 1859
Stock same day last year ........... 3O,l55
Daily movement at other ports
Galveston-Steady; middling, 7ci net re-
ceipts, 267, all new sales, 80; stock, 6,76i.
New Orleans-Firm; middlng, 7bc; net
1928
Mobile--Quiet; middling, &c; net receipts.
z. q new; stock, S,l93.
Charleston-Firm middling, &c; stock,
1926
wilmington-Quiet; middling. TIC; net
receipts, 2. stock 1922.
Norfolk-Firm: middling nc; net re-
ceipts. ] sales, 5; stock, 2,iS5
Acknowledgement; middllng, Sc; stock,
Bose.
New YOrk-Dull: middling Sc; sales, 1853,
all spinners; stock, 9ll4.
iBoston-Dull; middling. SMc.
Philadelphia-Quiet; middling, sac; stock
Daily movement at interior towns
Augusta-Qulet; middling. 7ihc; net re-
ceipts, l3 q new; sales II; stock, 1892.
Memphis-Steady; middling TIC; net re-
cepts, 25; sales. 1907 stock, l4.009
81. LOuis-Steady; middllng. 79sc; net re-
ceipts, Is, sales. 800; stock 2i.6H
3.7O4
ceipts. l.161, all new; stock, 1910.
Louisville-Firm; middlng. TIC.
Exports Of Cotton This Day.
Galveston-To Great Britain, 1866.
New Orleans-TO Great Britain, 800;
France, 200; coastwise, z.
Charleston-Coastw S16
Total foreign exports from all ports
to-day and thus far this week-To Great
Britain 4.O65; to France, 1900; to the con-
tinent, none.
Total foreign exports since Sept. 1. o.
To Great Britain, 2.2is55l; to France.
464,5l4; to the continent, 1,77S,96i
Liverpool, Aug. s. 1890 p. motion
quiet, firm; American spot grades, 1-l6d
higher; American middiing, 4 5-l6d; Amer
I-16d; middling. 5-16d; low midding,
7-32d; good ordinary, 4 $500; ordinary,
2s-S2d; sales, 1000; American, 400; spec
ulation and export, 1000; receipts. 1900;
American, 1900; futures opened easy. de-
mand good; August, 4.1SaA14d4. 15Q41T0
4.i5d4.l6d; August-Septembe 4.O9 a 411m
40 a All q Alp a 4.13Q41i a 400 n Aid;
observation-disclosures, 400 q 4.05 a 4.06 q
4.OS a 400 a 40 a All a 4O9d4OSd lO5B
406d; October-November 4.04 q 4.O5d4O6d
409 a. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS November
December, 402Q4 03G4 OlQ405d404G4. a
4O7 u 40S q 40Sq4.02dA04; December-Jan-
uary, 4.O6 a 407 a 40S a. 4O7GD4. O604 05GD
4O6 a 4O5N .02n4 o.; January Fe bruary
402 q 4.0S a 40i a 4.O5 a 4.O7 ii 4OSQ4O7GI
4O6 a 4O5G4-0i44. O3G4. O204 0id4.O3 Febru-
ary-March 4.03a404Q4.05Q4O6; March-April
406G4.O7 @AOS6I4 1004 0SGl40G; April-May
4.l0d4.07; May-June, 4.lO. Futures easy
! p. m.-Cotton, American middling
5-l6d; August, 4.l3d4l4d sellers; August
September. 4.11G4l2d sellers; September
October. 4.0704.0sd sellers; October-No-
Vember, 4O4Q405d; November-De December
4.05al4.O6d sellers; Observation-Disclosures A0f1
4.05d sellers; January 4O4a L05d
sellers February-March. 4G4 05d4 cod f;
March-April, 406d4.07d sellers; April May
40q4oSd buyers; May-June. AO9d sellers.
Futures closed barely steady.
New York Aug nom Cation f,
lures opened firm; August, 775c Septem-
Der, 1i6c; October 755c; November, 756c
December, 7.56c; January, 75Sc
New Orleans, Aug S.-Cotton futures
barely steady; sales We're 1880 bales
August 1900; September, 7.20c; October
1.22c; November, 7.23c; December, 72Sc +;
January, 7S4e; February, LSSc; March.
New York. Aug. s.-The total visible sup
ply of cotton for the world is l. Az. 1874 bales
OF which 1864 bales are American,
against 2,6S6,656 bales and 2,S71, 45G bales
respectively last year, The receipts of
cotton for the past week at all interior
towns were LISA bales. The receipts from
me plantation ia 10, We're 1856 bales. Crop in
New York, Aug. S.--Riordan & Co. say Of
cotton to-day: Seldom indeed, in the
memory of the oldest traders has the
cotton market been so excited and wild
as during the past week. To-day the
temper was calmer and the fluctuations
Comparatively slight January opened at
'.p0Ns aSS4Atitu " ts4Gts lnGu rallied ana
closed at 7.540T.55c, with the tone steady
As to the immediate future of prices
II can only be said that the early occur
renee of general and soaking rains
throughout the southwest would break
the market perhaps half a cent a pound
WhMe the continuance at the present
drought with only occasional showers
would gradually lift prices higher and
higher. II il were not for the present
business uncertainty and depression due
10 the silver movement, cotton would
certainly be much higher to-day In
any event, We believe that the danger
OF very low prices for the coming croD
no longer exists and that cotton is far
more likely to advance than 10 decline
Never has the statistical position of cot
Ton oeen so strong. The undoubted fact
tnat the crop viii be earlier this wear
than ever, will, in some degree. helm the
supply curing the next few weeks but
~ II snail appear as the season advances
mat the crop is going TO be short 81
s'OOOOOO bales, there is sure to be n scra,,
ple among the spinners for every hale
mat IS brought TO the market The hears
Stlu thlnk that the crop damage is great
~ exaggerated, but from information We
Set oaty from our correspondents. hardly
JUSTIFY US in indulging in that hone We
are still inclined to favor purchases unoy,
breaks, although the profits or losses &c
Such venture must depend largely rnon
weather conditions during the rest of The
season "a inc
New York, Aug s.-The Sun saws OF cot
Ton: Lo-days features: light rainfall
IN AeAas together with a lower marked in
Liverpool caused a decline in prices after
Mgher opening The total precipitation