The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-04-06
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH

MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL.
New York. April S.-Money on call easy
at 1i2Il2. per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per 81; Sterling exchange steady with
actual business in bankers bills at S.S1is
for demand. and at Si.s5a. a si.S6 for sixty
days. Posted rates 81. S6l2uA.SSl2. Com
mercial bills at AS4s.GA.S5. Bar silver
6l7s. Mexican dollars ASS. Government
bonds firm: state bonds dull: railroad
bonds easier; government bonds firm;
new As registered, l237s; coupon, lG7s.
COTTON.
Liverpool, April 3.-l:30 p. m.-Closing:
Cotton, spot quiet: prices hardening;
American middling 4d; sales 5000 bales. of
which 500 were for speculation and eN-
port, and including 800 American; re-
ceipts 5000 bales, including $500 Ameri-
can. Futures opened steady with a mod
crate demand and closed steady at the
advance.
American middling. low middling clause:
April 3 60-64d, 8 61-64d buyers; April and
May 3 60-64d, 3 61-64d sellers; May and
June 3 60-64d, 3 61-64d sellers; June and
July 8 6O-64d, 3 6l-64d sellers; July and
August 3 60-64d, 3 6l-6id sellers: August
and September 3 5S-64d, 3 59-6id sellers;
September and October 3 52-6id, 3 !3-64d
buyers; October and November 3 iS-6id
values; November and December 3 46-6id
buyers; December and January 3 46-6id
sellers; January and February ) 46-64d
sellers.
New York, April 3.-Cotton futures
opened steady: sales $500 bales: January
6.S4; May 7.04; June 7.09; July lib: Au-
gust ia: September go: october 30;
November $50; December 6.S2.
Futures closed steady: sales so, 500 bales:
January 6.92; February 6.95: April 7.02;
May 707; June ZIP; July us; August
7.19; September 6.96; October 6.S5: Novem-
Der $50. December 6.S9.
Spot cotton closed firm: middling up
lands 7$8c; middling gulf 75sc; sales 1,Sl7
bales.
PORT RECEIPTS.
N~orfolk-Firm at : 3-16c.
Baltimore-Dull at 73sc.
Boston-Quiet at I 5-16c; net receipts
Wilmington-Quiet at &c: net receipts 5.
271.
Savannah-Firm at 6 15-16c; net receipts
40.
New Orleans-Firm at Z Lice; net re-
Augusta-Firm at 71sc; net receipts 431.
Charleston-Firm at &c asked; net re-
ceiptS rs.
New York-Firm at 72sc.
GRAIN. PROVISIONS. ETC.
Chicago, April 3.-The leading futures
were as follows: Opening, highest, lowest
Al Wheaf"Aspril 7o7sanc, tic. $3.50. ssa.c:
Vhdy iIISu iI12C, tl4c, lU1Sc, iUtSu iUi2c, july
7o2sl 7o7sc, 7O3sc, 69z4c, 6924c; September
$3.50, $3.50, 6Sd6S1sc, 6Sa6Slsc.
Corn-April 2iAn24asc, 242sc, 237sc. 237sM
2ic; May 24A@241sc. 247sc, 24asc, 24&sn2il2c;
274c, 27Ac, 267sc, 267sc.
Oats-May 113sM171ac, I1asG171ac. 17G11sc.
171sc; July 1S4c, 1SAc, lSc, lSc; September
Close 1S4c.
Pork-May ss.471z, SAT-, $3.50, 1886; July
Iard-May s4.221s, s4221k. s415, a.r71a:
July s4.9o, s43214, S4;25, $4:27l5.
Ribs-May $500, s4.G0. $4.52l2, $i.55; July
$46z12, $4.6212, $4.55, $4.571a.
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
quiet; winter patents $i.9Ons+5o;, winter
spring patents $4.00a$i.lO; straights s.. 4Ou
$40: No: spring wheat, 6934n 7012c; No.
2 red, S612GS912c; No. 2 corn 2i4n242sc;
No. 2 oats, lie; No. 2 white, f. o. b., 2l12n
pc; No. 3 white, f. o. b., 1Sl2I pc; No. 2
rye, 324c; mess pork, per barrel, SS.301
$3.50; lard, per 100 lbs. s4.15; short ribs
sides; Uoose), s%45o4$i75; dry sailed
shoulders, boxed, 5M54c; short clear sides,
boxed, 47sa4Ac; whiskey, distillers' finish
ed goods, per gallon, S1.1S.
New York, April 3.-Flour steadier and
vance in wheat; city mill patents $3.50;
do clears 81 20; Minnesota patents $i.05;
do, bakers 3.65m So. 50; winter patents S4.55
Ms4.15: do, straights $I10d@ %; do extras
southern flour steady; sales 800 ~packings
$4.15G$4.25.
Wheat-spot steady; No. 2, red, f. o. b.
S2asc; No. l, northern S01sc f. 0. b. afioat;
No. 3, hard 1850 f. O. b. afoat. Options
opened strong on a sharp advance at
Liverpool and active covering by shorts,
especially in nearby options; later eased
off under bearish estimates of winter
condition and better weather west, clos
ing at bIAc advance on near months,
and &c decline on late deliveries. No
red, May 772sGU 13-16c, closed U2sc; July
closed .1sc: July 76isn765sc, closed 161sc;
September 732sM7414c, closing 73a4c.
~Corn-Spot: No. ,, 3O4c elevator; 3114c
af1oat. Options opened fairly steady, but
and sympathy with wheat, closing 1snAc
lower. April closed 301sc: May 30I. n3Ossc,
closed a July 31asT317sc. closed 3l5sc;
September $21sa$sc closed s21sc:
cred. 234c; do white, 2tc; No. 3, BIC: dc
white &c: track, mixed western 2242ic;
track, white &G2912c. Options quiet but
! steady, unchanged. May &c; July cIosed
224c.
Cotton Seed Oil-weak: prime crude
2oc; prime f. o. b., mills 16Ml6l2c; prime
summer, yellow 2Zl-n-z4c; off sum
mer, yellow 22l2c.
Conee-Options opened steady at l.
! points lower: receipts at Brazil were again
| large and depressed local and foreign
markets. Trading was moderately active
Later in the session, the market steadied
On local buying and closed steady at net
declines Of ) to - points. sales $50. in
Guiding April $50: May sI.354s14J; July
| $40: December $40 and March $50;
Spot Rio weak and No. :, .7sc;
No. :, jobbing SIC; mild. weak; cordova
1ia15I2c; sales 1,0eJ bags, Rio No. :: spot
at 7-sc.
Sugar-Firrn: fair refining &c: centrifu-
gal IS test 2asc, refined steady: No. 8,
J-16c: No. !. 1 3-16c: No. s, , l5-l6c: No. 2,
3 13-16c; No. 10, csc: No. II. 3lzc: No. L,
3 7-l6c; No Il, 3@sc: No. II, 3zsc; mould a.
SC; standar A, 41sc: confectioners A,
45sc; cut loaf SIC: crushed, SIC: powder
ed, &c: granulated, 4zsc: cubes. &c.
NAVAL STORES.
Charleston-Rosin firm at sl.5; turpen-
tine at 26izc.
Savannah-Spirits steady at 27Hc: sales
al. Resin firm, water white S2.65: window
glass $3.50: y s.. %: NJ goo: X x1.s0: | S.15:
II $40; @ S.e5: F Sl.e0; + SIS; d $50; &