The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-13
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL

on call steady at 2s per cent; prime
mercantile paper at 3A@4 per cent. (;
sterling exchange steady with actual
business in bankers business at Nat
business in bankers bills at S4.S4hG
4.84A for demand and at a .S1h "a so
for sixty days; posted rates at 81. SPY
and $4.S5R; commercial bills at s4.SOA ;
silver certificates at 591a @60h bar sill
yer at 59k; Mexican dollars at 461a;
state bonds Inactive; railroad bonds
strong; government bonds steady.
COTTON.
Liverpool, December l0.-Cotton.-
Spot, prices quiet and unchanged:
American middling 3 5-32d. The sales
OF the day were 1000 bales, Of which
500 were for speculation and export
and included $500 bales American: re-
ceipts 1000 bales, including Is, 800 bales
American. Futures opened quiet with
a moderate demand and closed barely
steady.
American middling. low middline
clause: December 3 4-64@3 5-64d sell
ers; December n January 8 5-64d
buyers; January and February 8 4-64Q
8 5-64d sellers; February and March
3 Sad buyers; March and April 3 6-64d
buyers; April and May 3 7-64d sellers:
May and June 8 7-64@3 S-64d buyers;
June and July 3 S-64@3 9-64d sellers;
July and August 3 9-64d buyers; Au-
gust and September 3 9-64G3 10-64d;
September and October 3 9-64d buyers.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New york, December 1O.-Cotton
firm; middling 4 13-16c; net receipts
$40; gross receipts 7,07S.
Total today: Net receipts 1887; ex-
ports to Great Britain $3.50; to the con-
tinent 639; stock 1888, 626.
Consolidated: Net receipts 80. S97; ex-
ports to Great Britainn 6,796; to France
-; to the continent 639.
Total since September 1st: Net re-
ceipts 4,79S, S38; exports to Great Bri-
tain LOS, S96; to France 343, 421; 20 the
continent 1901, 304.
cember $50, January SIS. February
5.55. March 5.56, April SIS, May 5.62,
June 5.63, July SGT, August 5.71, Sep
TENDER 5.67, October $40.
Futures closed steady. December
5.57, January SIS, February 5.55. March
$50, April $50. May 5.s3. June 5.s7,
July $40, August 5.73, September $40.
October 5.72.
Spot cotton closed firm and unchang-
ed on the basis of 5 13-16c for middling
uplands and s Lice for middling gulf;
sales 215 bales, all spinners.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady. No 3 spring wheat, SIX
G63c; No. 2 red, 67hdSshc; Mo- Q corn.
33%Q33%c; No. 2 oats. 2SA @27c; No. 3
white, 27AG2S&c; mess pork. per bbl.,
S8.05GS.10: lard, per 100 lbs, $5.050
5.12k: short ribs sizes. loose, S4.556
SIS; dry sailed shoulders, boxed, A251
4.37kc; short clear sides. boxed, "a. 500
ASS; whiskey, distillers' finished goods,
per gallon. $1.2s.
New York, December 10.-Flour quiet
but frmer. Minnesota patents 1860
1855.
W~heat-Spot frmer: No. 3 red 75zc.
Options opened firm and ADVANCED
strongly OF covering in nearby or-
tons. impelled by bullish Argentine
news, and damage reports from ILL.,
nois: closed &c higher. March closed
at 73sc; May closed at 70Sc.
Corn-Spot firmer; No. 2 red 40Ec.
Options opened steady and sold up
with wheat: closed firm at &C higher.
May closed at 3shc; December closed
at 3sAc.
O~ats-Spot firmer; No. 2 red 3ox T3lc.
Options quiet.
Eggs-Steady: state and Pennsylva>
mia 25G26c: western fresh CSC: south
ern 22G24c.
Cotton Seed Oil-Quiet: prime crude
17zc: do yellow 21G22c: prime crude
TIC: prime summer yellow 2IQ22c;
of summer yellow zoe: butter grades
25G27c: prime winter yellow 27g27hc:
prime white &c.
Coffee-Options opened steady at un-
changed prices; ruled dull. but dis
played firm undertone on less favora-
BILE crop news, increased strength of
spot holders, good warehouse move
and in sympathy with specula-
ton in cotton; closed firm at a net gain