Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-15

| Dec.........SfS2lS S492b Sfo2h st'bsh
Jan.......... 400 5.02h 400 o.02k
SHORT RrBs--Per 100 lbs.
Oct .s5.32x s5.37H s5.22x $500
Jan ......... 467ta $50 40 ATM
Cash quotations were as follows: No. 2
yellow corn, 307-Sd3lc. Flour strong.
No. spring wheat. GSa64 he; No. red;
66d67c. No. 2 corn, 20 5-SQS0 7-sc. No.
oats. % 3-iq23 lac; No. white, Is l-2c.;
No. 3 white. "a l-2a25 1-2c. No. z rye.
40 lie. No. barley. SlQ4sc. No. flax
seed 80 1-2c. Prime timothy seed. s22ot
22j Mess pork, per barrel. N.sOaS95
Lard. per 100 pounds. ste5QA.@ H. Short,
rib sides. loose, s5.l5u $50; dry -salted
shoulders. boxed. st5Oqs4.e2 IL; short
clear sides, boxed, S5.30us5.i0. Whskey.
distilers' finished goods per gallon. sl.25.
Sugars-Cut-loaf unchanged. Butter nrm;
creamery, l3Q20c.; dairy, l2qlIc. Cheese
steady at sq9 l-2c. Eggs firm; fresh,
IA l-2c.
THE COTTON MARKETS.
| LIVERPOOL, October l4--Cotton-Spot
In fair demand; prices unchanged; Ameri-
can middling. 3 3-32d. The sales of the
day were 1900 bales, of which 800 were
for speculation and export, and included
1860 bales American. Receipts. none
| Futures opened quiet but steady, with
a moderate demand, and closed quiet
American midding. low middling clause,
October 3D., buyers; october and Novem-
Der 263-ei43d sellers; November and De
cember 2 c2-6i6i2 63-6ld.. sellers December
and January, 262-Gtd2 65-6id., sellers Jan
uary and February, 262-6i12 63-6id., value
I February and March. 63-6443d., sellers
March and April. 3D., buyers: April anC
NAV, 31-64d. buyers; May and June
O2-e+d.. sellers; June and July, 32-6iA
3-6id., sellers; July and August S3,6ia
4-6id., sellers; August and September
4-6id.. sellers.
. NEW YORK. October Happening
| xx-fth unchanged l
| higher. the cotton market ruled some
| what irregular to-day, with the genera
| level of prices higher. The gain at th'
utmost was Sg5 points The imp prov. men
| was primarily due TO reports of light fros
| In parts Of Mississippi Alabama, Arkan
sss Tennessee, and even Texas, las
night. Cables were quite as good az
, looked for, particularly as TO the volume
of business in spot, cotton. Lverpoo
stocks were reported TO have increased
] 23CO0 bales during the week, leaving TN
amount I'm store. including all kinds a
| Liverpool $4,000 bales, against 26l,W
| bales a year ago. Later the market ease
off partially, under a disposition to rea
- lie. port receipts pointing to heaV:
y total, against the movement OF last wsel
= and last year and warm wave penn
reported for the Northwest. The marke
> was finally steady, at a net advance OF
!, | points Traders were inclined 10 be eau
. tious on account Of contradictory fros
adyices and accounts regarding the vel
low-feyer situation in the Mississippi Val
ley
Cotton futures opened steady; Novem
Der, SOP; December. s5H; January, s5SZ
!: February. S.35; March, S.39; April, So
I6 MAY, $5.l7; June. $3.50; July, $54; Angus
2 '' Futures closed steady; October. So.
November. S5.23; December, 1913; January
g. * "a. February. $9; March. S4l; Apri
IS $40; May. $3.50; June, 1854; July, 1851; Az
n snot closed dull; middling upland
81 Csc; middling Gulf, 55-sc.; sales.
bales.
= The following are the total net receipt
re of cotton at all ports since september
" 1893: Galveston, 5Ol,2O6 bales; New o.
Br leans 3sl94 bales; Mobile, 1885 bale
"a savannah 2i2.2T bales; Charleston, 94,l
bales: wilmington, ss,66 bales; Norroll
DR. ASS bales; Baltimore. $50 bales: Ne
re- York. A. 408 bales; Boston, 1888 pales; Pm
n. adelphia. 1890 bales; Brunswick. 1871
or bales. Total, 1,4l2,SSS bales
TO NEW ORLEANS, LA, October H.
<. Secretary Hester's statement OF III
IN worlds visible supply OF cotton sho"
ne an increase for the week Just closed {
29f. 7sl bales. against an increase Of D,S
bales last year. The total visible is 2,57S
440 bales. against $40 bales last wee
tte and l,s7S69i bales last year or this u
total of American cotton Is 2,5s5,f4 Dale
against 2O05,649 bales last week, ana
. | all other KINDS, lncluulnS ESypldH' oi'
lillian. Indian. etc, $4,000 bales. again
I7s 600 bales last week. and $4,000 bal
d. last year.
Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleai
Cotton Exchange statement shows an J.
SC. crease In the movement into sight, cor
is nared with the seven days ending IN
IN date last year, of 10000 bales-an ]
81 crease over the same date the year
A., fore last OF So 900 bales. For the fourte'
ed davs of October, the totals show an ]
yer crease over last year OF 10000 bales. +
the fortv-four days OF the season IN
ms have elapsed, the aggregate is anead
re- tho forty-four days last year 500 Dais
-, and behind the same days year Deio
,er last. $1,000 bales. The total movems
for the forty-four days from septemp
ms 10, m date Is 1,9f7, 324 bales. against l'o
2ss bales last year.
ID; rha movement since September
sbows receipts at all United States pol
q. =, ana 7a5 bales, against l,sH17 bal
Lost year. Interior stocks, In excess
.hnsa baId AT the close OF the CONNIE
ga .,,, year 1865 bales. against zs5, lbs ba
ms. iast vear. Southern mill takings, itf'
ate halss against 1905 bales last year. ~
oss., .~rorts for the week have been z,
co. ses hsias against seE bales last yS
ia, The total takings OF american M
North and South. and canaoa, tnus
ing Tor the season. have been Sz''~o pai
Io9 against ~, 49, bales last year.
.. stocks at the seaboard ana the TWEEN
'e' nine leading southern interior cent
,rx haya Increased during the week z's
S. bales. against an increase during the {