The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
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COTTON.

Liverpool. September s.? y. M
Cotton.-Spot retail demand prices
1-32d lower; American middling fair 3
23-32d: good middling 3 l5-32d: middling
8 Sled; low middling 3 5-32d; good OF
binary Sd: ordinary , 13-16d. The sale
OF the day were 5000 bales. OF which
800 were for speculation and export and
included $500 bales American. Re
ceipts 1.5O0 bales. all American. Flu
lures opened quite with a moderate de
mand and closed barely steady.
American middling, low middlinE
clause: September 8 l1-64dM3 12-64
buyers; September and October 3 sad
buyers; October and November 3 7-64d
as S-64d sellers; November and HeCem-
Der 8 6-64d@3 7-64d buyers; December
and January 3 6-64dN3 7-63d buyers;
January and February 3 6-64dd3 7-64d
buyers; February and March 3 7-64d0
3 Sid sellers; March and April 3 Std
buyers; April and May 3 9-64d sellers,
May and June 3 9-64dM3 10-64d buy
ers; June and July 3 10-64dM3 Head
sellers.
New York, September 3.-Cotton
quiet and steady; middl.ng 5A net re
ceipts none: gross %: forwarded %;
sales S39: spinners 73S: stock 81 ,657.
Total today; Net receipts 5,457: ex-
ports TO continent 400; stock lis. $50.
Total since September LIST; Net re-
ceipts 16, SOS; exports to Great Britain
II, 1896; to the continent 400.
Spot cotton closed quiet and steady.
Middling gulf 6; middling uplands ga;
Sales S39.
Futures closed quiet. September
SAL; October 5.52: November 5.55: De
cember SIS: ~anuary 5.62; February
5.66; March $40; April 5.74; May SIG;
June $50.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-Steady at s 7-16c; net re-
ceipts 1913.
Norfolk-Dull at 5Nc: net receipts
SAL.
Northumberland at &c; net re-
ceipts -
~Boston-Easy at 5 15-16c; net re
Wilmington-Dun at sac; net re
ceipts AZ.
Philadelphia-HoIiday.
Savannah-Quiet at 5hc; net re-
ceipts 1853.
New Orleans-Quiet at 5%c; net re-
ceipts 270.
Mobile-Quiet at SIC; net receipts 2O3
Memphis-Quiet at 5 Lice: net re-
ceipts 81.
Augusta-Firm at 5 7-16c; net re-
ceipts "a; gross receipts 49l.
Charleston-Quiet at sc; net receipts
100.
Cincinnati-Quiet at SAC; net re-
CtiplS S4d.
Louisville Steady at 8 s-16c; net re-
ceipts -
St. Louis-Dull 5 5-16c; net receipts
43: gross receipts Alb.
Houston-Steady at 5 7-16c; net re-
ceipts 4,501.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Chicago, September 3-The cash
quotations were as follows: Flour
ull; spring specials, $50: hard wheat
patents, 3.70G3.90; soft patents 3.6On
$40; straights 3.10M3.20; bakers 2.2jm
$50; No. 2 spring wheat, 62: No. 3 5slr
60; No. 2 red, 60; No. corn. 30% No. .
oats 20kk No. 2 white 24M25: No. =
white 22023; mess pork, per Dbl, $3.50
$50; lard, per 100 lbs, 4.95I5. 02Ia: sh0rt
ribs sides, Ooose), 5.15d5.40; dry sailed
shoulders, (boxed), 4.50m475: short
clear sides, (boxed), 5.50G5.7O.
New York, September Eggs
steady, state and Pennsylvania lG.
western fresh 1914; cotton seed oil. dull.
do yellow 22G23; rice steady; sugar.
raw strong, fair refining 3 1916; cen
trifugal So test 4Ac; molasses 3 9-lGc.
refine strong.
Note.-All other markets closed.
NAVAL STORES.
New York-Turpentine steady az -
10 3012. Rosin steady, strained COM
mon to good at sI.3O.
Charleston-Turpentlne market firm
at 2bhz; sales none. Rosin firm and un-
changed; sales none.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm
at 2sc; sales 442; receipts 1870. Rosin
firm and unchanged. mo GALES