The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-30

Receipts since Sept. 1, 1898. sos
Same time last year -......-.,.,.....l49,29 US
Same time year before last........l 4S, $40
Exports coastwise, this day.. oo4
Stock on hand this day .............. 66,l6S
Same day Lass year ................,. H,foS
Receipts and stocks at the ports
Receipts this day .................... Asst
This day last year .-................. 81, l62
This day year before last............ 3l,6S5
Receipts past six days .....-...,......Zfo,9 oO
Same days last year 1885, ~
Same days year before last..........2 3l, 2l1
Total receipts since Sept. l, 1898 .62l 3Sl
Same time last year ..,t6S, 1SI
Same time year before last..........940 5SS
Stock at the ports to-day ........... 5lO 6o4
Stock same day last year...........45S,5I SO
Daily movements at other ports
Galveston-Steady; middiing, 4Bc; net
receipts, 12,323; gross, 1888; sales LIZ;
r stock, 16i,946.
New Orleans-Firm; middling, 47sc; net
receipts, HOS; gross, 12,l45; sales, 4'OOV;
stock 1854.
Mobile-steady; middling, 494c; net re-
ceipts 2,OS4, gross, 2.OS4; sales, 900; stock,
$3.50.
Characterization; middllng, 434c; net re-
ceipts 2,S9S; gross, 2,S9S; sales, 400; stock
$1,000.
wilmington middling, 47sc; net re-
ceipts, ana; gross 3,714; stock, 26,169.
Norfolk-Quiet midd4fng, SIC; net re-
ceipts, 1,1S7; gross, S,1S7; sales, 622; stock,
L. 499.
BaltImore-Nominal; middling, 5Ac;
gross, 125; stock 1888.
New York-Quiet and steady; middltng,
53sc; gross, 6,O9S; sales, n; stock, 4,5OS.
Boston-Dull; middHng, 5Ssc; net receipts,
40; gross, SIC.
Philadelphia-Firm; middling, sac; net
receipts, 1885, gross, 1859; stock, 1854.
Daily movements at interior towns
Augusta-Steady; middling, 51-16c; net
receipts, 1,796; gross, I796; sales, l,S4S;
stock, 1898.
Memphis-steady; middling, 47sc; net re
ceipts, 1872; gross 3,143; sales, $500; stock,
30. 800
ST. Louis-steady; middling, SC; net re-
ceipts, 00S; gross, 2,139; sales, 264; stock,
27,156
Cincinnati-Quiet; middMng, SAC; net re-
ceipts, s07; gross 9O7; stock, 1888.
Hous ton-Steady; middling, 47sc; net re-
ceipts, 1859; gross, 1862; sales, 625; stock,
1880
Louisville-Steady; middling, 3 1-16c.
Exports of cotton this day
Mobile-CoastWise, S64
Savannah--Coastwise 554.
Charles -Coastwise, 1499.
Norfolk-Coastwise 2,210.
Total foreign exports from all ports thus
far this week-To Great Britain 29,247; to
the continent, 45,414.
Total foreign exports since Sept. l. 1898
TO Great Britain 129, 293; to France, 49,
$50; to the continent, 10O,16S.
Liverpool, Sept. %, p. n.-Cotton, spot,
good business done; prices hardening;
American middling fair, 17-32d; good
middling, 8 sled; middling, 31sd; low mid
ding, 31-32d; good ordinary, 13-16d; Or
binary, 2ssd. The sales of the day were
12Q0 bales, of which 500 We're for specu-
la, IN and export and included $500 bales
American. Receipts, 11OO0 bales, including
1850 bales American.
Futures opened steady, with a fair de-
mand, and closed quiet; American mid
ding, low middling clause, September,
1929 buyers; September-October, 3.00d3 Old
buyers; October November, Sd sellers; No
Vemher-D December, 2.63d buyers Deem
ber-January, 2.63d buyers; January-Feb-
ruary, 2.6Sd3d sellers; February March,
3Q301d sellers; March-April 3O1G3.02d sell
lers; AprilM May, S02Q3 Odd sellers; May
June, 3.0303.04d; June-July, 3.04d buyers.
New York, Sept. 29.-The general lem
per of to-day's cotton market was bullish,
with covering Of old short accounts a
3 feature Of transactions. Prices advanced
2Gg2 points at the start, on sympathy With
strong set of English cables and on bull
ish weather reports from the cotton belt.
Private cables, TO the effect that yarns
and cloths at Manchester We're hardening
and that spinners were bidding Old prices
freely for large blocks of spot cotton at
Liverpool, added TO the better feeling here
and Increased the apprehension Of the less
COuHutHl btdis. u SNdfp reaction IN Tu-
lures at Liverpool led to realizing late in
the forenoon, and by midday the early
gain had been about wiped out although
a. no time did the market show signs of
particular weakness. Covering set in anew
early in the afternoon. and on demand
prices again rallied with the January and
March deliveries absorbing the bulk of
attention.
investment buying stimulated the bun
crowd to something like old-time agrees
siveness but absence Of strong leadership
seriously handicapped longs. At the close
the. feeling was quiet and steady with
prices net unchanged to / point higher
Orders from the South went chiefly m
the long side, while foreign representa-
yves were cons picuOus as buyers throuo h
cut the.session. Official forecasts were for
further rains in the lower half of the cot
ton belt during the next twentv-fonr
hours This was regarded as an irnnor,-
ant Dull feature. inasmuch as the recer,
rams were said To have already rnateriaI1,,
delayed picking in a number of seot{o,,,
ond injured open cotton TO a greater =,
less extent Sdffcning ideas of dealar, n,
SPOT cotton az many Southern snot rosr-
kets, and increased demand from 80,
ers were among The Influences Itbi.t
sieadied the afternoon market
New York, Sept. 20, noon.-cotton q,
cures opened steady; October. 500. NJ
Nempef 5.26c; December 53lc: Jap,,o,,.
2'o9ei Ftpruary $780, March. 545c. Ami
5'45e; May, 5.55c; June. 5.5Sc: .IuIv eo ~.
August 5.67c. 'i '''-1'
e z. MIXTURES closed quiet and steady.
september. nominal: October 9oc. ~