The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

Liverpool, March 6.-12:3O p. m.-Cot-
ton demand moderate; prices 1-32d
higher; American middling 3 15-16d;
! sales 1000; American $780,; speculation
n exports 500; receipts $4,000; Ameri-
can Il, 900. Futures opened steady; de-
mind moderate.
American middling, low middling
clause-March 3 55-64d, March and April
3 55-64d, 3 54-64d; April n May, May
and June, June and July, July and Au-
gust 8 55-64d; August and September 3
52-64d; September n October 3 47-64d;
October and November 3 42-64d; No
vember and December, December and
January 3 41-64d. Futures steady.
1890 p. m.-Spot cotton prices:
American middling, fair 4&d; good
middling 4 Lied; middling 3 15-l6d; low
middling 3%d; good ordinary 3%d; or
binary 3 7-16d.
1 p. m.-American middling 3 15-16d:
March, March and April, April and May
8 55-64d Sellers; May and uJne 3 55-64d
buyers; June and July, July and Au-
gust 3 55-64d, 8 56-64d sellers; August
and September 3 53-64d sellers; Septem-
Der and October 3 Acid. 3 47-64d buy
ers; October and November 8 42-64d, 3
43-64d sellers; November and December
December and January 3 41-64d buyers.
Futures closed "uiet but steady.
New York, March 6.-Cotton quiet;
middling Z 3-16c: net and gross receipts
NONE, 1OTWdTuou HOUc, safes ooE, Ill
spinners; stock PSI, 210.
Total today: Net receipts IL, 729: ex-
ports to Great Britain 1856: to France
1900; to the continent 1852; to the
channel none; stock S53. 047.
Total since September 1st: Net re-
ain 1851 200; to France 81, 1858; to the
continent 1.544,SS0; to the channe 5.481:
stock lone.
Cotton futures closed steady: sales
sales SO, 700 bales; March 6.84; April 8 81;
May 6.92; June 6.S6; July 7.01; August
vember 6.63; December 6.68; January
6.73.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-ouiet at Z 1-1ec; net re-
Norfolk-Quiet at 7c: net receipts 713.
Observation-Disclosures at Z 3-16c.
Boston-Steady at Z Slice; net re-
ceipts 1862; gross receipts 2,451.
Wilmington-Steady at &c; net re-
ceipts III.
Philadelphia-Quiet at Z 7-1sc: net re-
Savannah-Quiet at SIC; net receipts
1854; gross receipts 1856.
New Orleans-Easy at &c; net receipts
2,713.
Mobile-Quiet at SIC; net receipts s.
545.
Memphis-Steady at s 15-1ec; net re-
ceipts 292.
Augusta-Quiet at TIC; net receipts
571; gross receipts Gas.
Charleston-Quiet at CSC; net re-
ceipts 403.
Cincinnati-Quiet at nc; net receipts
1872. ~
Louisville-Quiet at &c.
st. Louis-Ouie at &c; net receipts
A: gross receipts 764.
Houston-Quiet at &c; net receipts g.
293.
GRAINS. PROVISIONS. ETC.
Chicago, March 6.-The leading flu
lures were as follows: Opening, high
est, lowest and closing.
Wheat-March 75hG75Ac. 75Ac, 75c,
75c; May 76h@76&c, 7Szc, 7sc, 7SG76hc;
July 73A@73kc, 1910, 73Ac, 73Ac; Sep
TENDER INC, nc, 1sc, 71kc.
Corn-March 23Ac, 23@c, 23Hc, 23&c;
May 24kc, 24Ac. 24kc, 24Sc; July 25Mc,
25Nc. 25k@25Sc, 25Ac; September &c,
27hG27Ac, &c, &c.
Oats-March Ice. Ice. 1sc, 1sc; May
17kc, 17A@I7Ac. TIC, 17kc: July 1870
1shc. 1850. 1s&a1shc. 1sSI1skc.
Pork-May 1886. $40. $3.50. 38.37k;
July $s.47h, $3.50. $s.45, sS.47h.
Lard-May s4.20, $4.22k. $4.20, $40;
July 1870. S4.32,a. $427h. $3.50.
Ribs-May s. 20, $4.42h, $4.37h. $40;
July $3.50. g. $3.50, $3.50.
Cash qrot-.-ons were as follows: