The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-23
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.
COTTON.

ton-Spot quiet: prices unchanged.
| American middling 3 3-S2d The sales
of the day were 5000 bales. OF which
1000 were for speculation and export
and included 1900 American. Receipts
| 16, 900 bales including 1900 American
Futures opened quiet with a moderate
| demand and closed steady at the de-
| cline.
American middling. low middling
| clause: December 3 Lad sellers; De-
cember and January 3 1-64d sellers: Jan
| uary and February 3 1-64G3 2-6id buy
| ers; February and March 3 2-64d buy
| ers; March and April 3 3-64d sellers:
| April and May 3 4-64d sellers; May and
June 3 4-64d buyers; June and July 3
5-6463 6-64d; July n August 3 6-64d
| buyers; August and September 3 6-64m
3 7-64d buyers: September and October
3 6-64G3 7-64d buyers: October and
| November 3 6-64d3 7-64 buyers.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New York. December 2l.-Cotton
| quiet; middling 8 13-16c; net receipts
81: gross receipts 2.02S.
Total today; Net receipts 1889; ex-
ports t Great Britain 6s. 743; to the
continent 1894; stock 1,342,264.
Consolidated: Net receipts 25s.054;
| exports to Great Britain 1908: to
France $3.50; to the continent AZ, 1872.
Total since September LIST: Net re-
L 1NipAB
tain 1,945, 0s7; to France ALOE; TO the
continent 1,3l1, $50.
Futures opened steady at the decline.
December 5.3S. January Sal. February
$40, March 5.45. April 5.4s; May 5.5i:
June 5.55, July 5.5s, August SCI. Sep
ternber 5.62, October $50.
Futures closed steady. December
Sal. January SAP. February 5.44. March
5.47, April $50, May F.54, June 5.57, July
$50, August -, September $50. octo-
Der $50.
Spot cotton closed quiet: middling
uplands ; l3-16c middling gulf 6 1-i6c;
sales SIG bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Chicago, December clash quota
tons were as follows: Flour firm: No.
2 yellow corn 36d36h; No. 2 spring
wheat, 641s; No. 3 spring wheat 6lm
64h: No. 2 red 6sM69; No. 2 corn 35&m
So: No. 2 oats 26A; No. 2 white 2sh@
2Sz4; No. 3 white 2sG2sh mess pork
per Dbl ss.15dS.20; lard, per l00lbs $5.05
G5.1o: short ribs sides. Ooose) $4,000
$50: dry sailed shoulders, tboxed) A.25
4.37h; short clear sides, tboxed) 1850
4.S7h; whiskey, distillers' finished
goods. per gallon $1.26.
New York. December 21.-Flour firm
err with business checked by advancing
prices.
wheat-Spot market firm: No. 2 red
TIC. Options opened easy with cables.
For a time holiday dullness and de-
preston prevailed, but on a late bulge
in corn shorts started an excited buy
ing movement that advanced prices
over 1c a bushel Easier Liverpool
cables were Offset by continental
strength and foreign buying here. blu
export trade was light. The close was
. strong at Is to lie net higher. De
cember closed 74tsc; March closed 1915
May closed 72h.
Corn-Spot frmer: No. 2. AN to Am
; Optionsaopened steady and subsequent.
ly developed great strength on in
creased speculative demand. hrn
, cables and big clearances. leading al
other markets. closing 1hc net higher
December closed -; May closed AIN
Oats-Spot firmer; No. 2. 32h. OPP
tons dull but firm.
/ Eggs-Ffrm; state and Pennsylvania
= IS TO q: western fresh 2s: southern 2
: to Is.
Cotton Seed oil-steady: prime crud'
, 17h to Is: prime yellow q 10 22iz.
: Petroleum steady.
Coree-Options opened steady at un
? changed prices. ruled extremely SLOW
without important variations; advanc
\ ing In Brazilian markets Offset by dis
appointing news from European mar
kets. receipts small but counterbaianc
ed by light warehouse movement
selling arrested by continued health
appearance OF spot market uepdrtmsn
Closed steady unchanged to Ave point
c lower. Sales 400 bags including Jan
uary $3.50; March 500. Spot RI
quiet: No. I invoice Z. No. Z. jobbin
d M; Mild market firm: cordova "a
Is: broadening demand all aroun
good business in Brazilian invoice lo'
!. today.
!, Sugar-Raw quiet: fair refining 81
r. centrifugal So test a.: molasses sug;
le g. sales -. refined quiet.
Re NAVAL STORES.
" New York-Rosin steady. Turtle
tine firm.
lg Savannah-Spirits ~turpentine hirm
40Isc sales 656 casks: receipts Az. Ros
firm and unchanged; sales none: r
ceipts 3.973.
Observation-Disclosures firm at IS
NJ saies none. Rosin firm and unchange
no sales.