New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-07
COTTON MARKETS RALLY A BIT.

r,,r MONUMENT INTO SIGHT FOR THE WEEK
,oo ooo HAIEs-LIvERPOOLs SHORT SUPPLY
rA a.r,a, sun shone down from a cloudless SKY
-, william and Beaver SITS. yesterday chue'
,,s EARNING rays peace and love TOT Hia"hi"u az"
charity for all welled up and oVerho"eu ." u"
hearts of the cotton brokers' Inc MAJ "'
osnertties that sometimes accompany srea' .i'''
IN nr,css vanished like the Children OF 'he aiis'.
Neither bull nor Dear hdo aug e
words OF everybody -
p;... sven rose The close at night was higher
IN Liverpool, and to points higher on the iocai
market August closed at IA. ana May NJ ''"'
Tn. total sales were 10000 bales interior receipts
we're light Houston got lOSl pales against -''''
last wear. and expects 500 bales to-day. against
1854 last year . cx.
The movement into sight according 70 secre-
tarv Hester for the week was 1oo.sSl bales which
was undoubtedly heavy, being only about IS'""
bales below last year
port receipts for the week fell about 1900 bales
below expectations. being 0sa. against lleooo last
war and $1,000 last week. Nsw.Orleans expects TO-
day 5000 to $780, against 71ss last year interior
s,ocks lost about 5000 bales for the week
Southern spot markets were Arm. but the sales
showed a decline In volume. New-Orleans SOLO
1000 bales yesterday; Memphis. 600; Galveston l.3Z2
Mobile. 300: Norfolk. 49, and New-York. H. The
exports yesterday were llOoo bales. Inc totai ex-
ports for the week approximate DIV" on'e'' A|'e'0
pool sold 10000 bales.
There was good covering by the shorts in the
final trading.
Attention was drawn to the fact that on March
last year the stock Of cotton at Liverpool reached
,ts maximum The stock OF cotton OF all kinds at
LIVERPOOL Is now lI4S0OO bales. being loss Of 1000
for the week In the corresponding week last year
the stock OF all kinds In Liverpool was $4,000
bales being q gain Of 49, 900 bales for the week. the
total stock at that point then being 720CO bales in
excess OF the present supply: TO ard supply IN
Liverpool corresponding to the present stock It -
necessary to 90 back to March ! 1891. when the
stock at Liverpool was 1.lH0o. But on March T.
was SIS cents Yesterday II closed at Z 5-S cents
in the local market
On March last year the stock OF American cot
ton in Liverpool 1.7l3000 bales. or !3l.C bales
in excess Of what It Ia to-day, the gain for that
week being 5000 bales. American cotton In Liver
pool only gained 1000 bales In the last seven days
Secretary Hester's New-Orleans Cotton Exchange
crop statement from September 1885. TO March g.
1885 shows: Port receipts. 4.52S7o3 bales against
SS3i $50 last year. 6250.S7 year before last. and
SssG25 for the same time In 1893: overland to mills
Year before last and 7s. es7 for the same time in
isS3: interior stocks In excess Of September 32S-
a4s against H5,5S0 last year. 2 .29l year before
last and 2c53 for the same time In 1888: Southern
mil takings $50 569 against G90 last year, 49, 800
year before last and 4s5 257 for the same time In
is93: crop brought into sight from September l.
iSS TO date, sl22,GO against 3s5 last year.
sas year before last and 5S3t6o2 for the same
lime in 1885, crop brought into sight for the week.
ioo Oh against 453 last year, 5000 year before
isst' and co 25s for the same time In 1893.