The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-04

Liverpool, March 2.-12:30 p. m.-Cot
ton-Fair business done; prices favor
buyers; American middling 4 13-32d
sales $4,000; American 1900; ~specula-
ton and exports 1000; receipts 40, 600;
| American SO, 500. Futures opened quiet;
demand moderate.
American middling, low middling
J clause-March and April 3 60-64d, 3 So
Cad, 3 6O-64d; April and May 3 61-64d;
May and June 3 61-64d, 3 6O-64d; June
and July, July n August 3 60-64d, 3
61-64d; August and September 3 57-64d;
September and October, October and
November, November and December 3
56-64d, 8 57-64d. Futures quiet.
| 12:45 p. m.-American spot grades
1-32d lower; American fair 4 7-16d; mid
ding 41sd; good middling 4d; low mid
ding 3 13-16d; good ordinary 3 11-16d;
ordinary sgd.
4 p. m.-March, March and April,
April and May 3 5S-64d, 8 6O-64d sellers;
May and June 3 60-64d values; June and
July 3 60-64d buyers; July and August
8 60-64d, 3 61-64d; August and Septem-
Der 8 57-64d, 8 5S-64d; September and
November 3 47-64d sellers; November
and December 8 45-64d, 3 4S-64d buyers;
December and January 8 45-64d, 8 46-
Cad buyers. futures closed quiet.
New York, March 2.-Cotton quiet;
middling 7Ad; net receipts IT'S; gross
IcCelplS 0,fIS, exports TO ITodC Britain
1,176; continent 210; forwarded 2,945;
sales 1920; %spinners $40; stock 261, 563.
Total today: Net receipts 1858; ex-
ports to Great Britain 1886: continent
1894; channel none; stock Ss2, O27.
Total so far this week: Net receipts
1888; exports to Great Britain "a, 1904;
France $3.50; continent 1913.
Total since September LIST: Net re-
ceipts 1894, 623; exports to Great Britain
2.555, 999; France 564, 1888; continent 1884,
1872; channel 5,481.
Cotton futures closed steady: sales
May I'll; June 7.15; July 7.20: August
7.21; September 6.s5; October GA; No
vember SIC; December 6.81; January
6.S3.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-Firm at INC; net receipts
1909.
Norfolk-Quiet at 7 1-1sc; net receipts
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at 7Ac; gross re-
ceipts 357.
Boston-Quiet at 7 7-1ec; net receipts
321: gross receipts 3,113.
Wilmington-Firm at 6Hc; net re-
ceipts 2S5.
Philadelphia-Quiet at 7Ac.
Savannah-Quiet at &c; net receipts
2,723.
New Or.eans-Quiet at Z s-1sc: net re-
ceipts 1898; gross receipts $3.50.
net TecelptS 1,f4i.
Memphis-Steady at Z Lice; net re-
ceipts 2S7; gross receipts 1.159.
Augusta-Steady at TIC; net receipts
us; gross receipts 74S.
Charleston-Steady at &c; net receipts
179.
Cincinnati-Firm at nc; net receipts
1850.
Louisville-Strong at TIC.
st. ~LouiS-Steady at 7hc; net receipts
80: gross receipts 2.192.
Houston-Steady at nc; net receipts
4,552.
GRAINS. PROVISIONS. ETC.
Chicago, March 2.-The leading flu
lures We're as follows: Opening, high
est, lowest and closing.
Wheat-March 74S@74ssc, 75Ac, 74%c,
74Ac; May 75%G75%c, 76Ac, 75%c, 1870
75%c; July 724@72Ho 74Ac, 72Ac, 72A
OPTIC; September Tic, 1850, tic, 711sc.
Corn-March 23c, 23Mc. 22c, 23c: May
24Bc, 24Ac, 24kc. 24hc; July 25A 925%c,
25bc- 25hc, 2514c; September 2sSc,, 26Ac,
26hc, 26k@26Ac.
Oats-March 1850, 15%c, 1886. 15%c;
May TIC 17%c. 17hc. TIC; July 1sKc,
1SAc. 17@17hc, 1S@1Shc.
ss.oS; July ss.aa.as, ss,ssBH, ss.i7 lss.i7&.