The age-herald., 1897-08-06
New York Cottnn Market

NEW ' OfK cotton MnrKeb.
 New York, Aug. 5.-Today's cotton mar ket has been quite featurel=<s in the fal,e of fairly satisfactory Liverpool advices opening steady with prices unchanged to two points lower and then within nar- row variations showing a generally weak undertone during the forenoon under moderate selling pressure in the absence of outside speculative support and a temptation to test the short side of the account little further on the part of local operators. Prices following the first dull declined 2 to 3 points. During the forenoon crop accounts, while con- f1fcting were generally sized up as rather favorable. There were reports of light rains south of Sherman. Tex, and in a few other of ths' Central Texas points. At. .12 o'clock the market showed a net loss of ? and points with sales limited to 32000 bales up to that hour when the selling movement subsided and in the early afternoon the loss of the morning was recovered and the market showed a firm underton9' on latter reports of in- tense hot weather, not only in the gulf states but in the Atiantics as well. The market having eased off late in the day under light realizations declined at a net decline of and points.
 Cotton easy, middling Sc; receipts 120. sales 609, all spinners; stock 56,904.
 Total: Today, ret receipts 451; stock 90,057.
 Consolidated, rlsit receipts 2.S6S; exp -rts to Great Britain 1859; to France 200; to the centiIps mt 4SS.
 Total since September 1 Net receipts G6lB 449; exports to Great Britain 3,OO2,- S47s to France -699 355; to the continent D. 140.55S; to the channel 5.4S1.
 Cotton futures opened steady; sales A. 800 bales. January 7.15; February TIT; March 723; April 7.25; September 7.23; October, l7.i5; November 7.O9; December 7.10. ss f.ss }1atie
 Cotton futures closed steady. Sales 61,000 bales. January 7.13 Nehruary 7.16: March 7.2O; April 7.23; May 7.27; August 752, September 7.27; October 7.13; Move m- bsg GOT; December 7.10
 Spot ,cottonl closed easy, middlng up- lands Sc; middling gulf sAc; sales sos bales. sdj f9 s@f
 Iiverrool Cotton Market
 Liverpool, Aug. 5.-4 D. m.-Co.ton spot good business done, prices hardening. Am7rican middling fair, 11-16d. good middftng 1 7<16d.; American middling, 9-33d.; low mfddlingi 5-32d. good ordi- nary, 41-32d; ordinary, 27-32d.
 The sales of the day were F. 900 bales of which I ,00O were for speculation and export, and included 11,300 American.
 Receirts 1000 bales. 1.200 American.
 Futures opAned steady, with a moderate dsnlarid. and closed quiet, but steady at lhe advance. American middling, L. M O.. August, 4 13d. sellers; August and September, OS@4 O9d, sellers; September and October. 01@4 O2d. sellers: sOc-ober and November. 3 59d. buyers: November and December. 3 56@3 57d. buyers; De- cember and January, 3 55@3 56d, sellers; January and February. 3 55@a 56d, sell ers;. February and March. 56d, ssllers; Is1Ssr,ch and April. 56@3 57d values; April and May. 3 57@3 5Sd. sellers; May and June, 3 5SGD3 59d, sellers.
 lteftg New Orleans
 New Orleans. Aug. 5.-Cotton futures, quiet; sales, $500 bales August, 7.39 bid; September, 6.99@7 %; October, 6S36D6 S5; Npvsmber, 6.8406.S6; Decemb Der, 6.S706 SS; January, 6.90@6.92; February, 6.93@695: March, 695@6.S6.