The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-11

MS uHy year before last II 20
Receipts past five days ............... AZ 500
Same days last year .................. 25, 495
Same days year before last .......... 25,74S
Total receipts since Sept. 1, 1898 ~ 1863 $40
Same time last year ............... g 1856, PSI
Same time year before last ........6,513.94 l
Stock at the ports to-day ....... 744, 725
Stock same day last year -. ....... 596, 291
Daily Movements at Other Ports
Galveston-Quiet and steady; middling,
1915; net receipts, 440; gross, 40; sales,
166; stock, 5S,44S.
New Orleans-Quiet; middling, 5M; net
receipts, Gall; gross, 6,411; sales, 700; stock,
81, s21
Mobile-Quiet; middling, 11-1s; net re-
ceipts, 500; gross, 500; sales, 100; stock,
1886.
charleston-steady; middling 51a; stock,
14.57S.
wiimington-steady; middling. Sls;
stock, 11,55S.
Norfolk-DuIl middling, 5%; net re-.
ceipts, Lon; gross, 1853; sales, 213; stock,
51967.
Baltimore-Nominal; midding, 81; net
receipts, us; gross. 749; stock, 1856
New York-Quiet; middling, 81 net re-:
ceipts 6S0; gross, $3.50; sales, 74O; stock,
III, 3SS
Boston-Quiet and steady; middling. 6A;
net receipts, 257; gross, 1,455.
Philadelphia-Quet; middling, 81; net
receipts, 100; gross, 100 stock, 6727.
Daily Movement at Interior Towns
Augusta-Steady; middnng 6A; net re-
ceipts, 10; gross, 10; sales, 222; stock, u.s.
65s.
Memphis-Steady middling, 81; net re-
ceipts, 65S; gross, 65S; sales, 900; stock,
126. 49S.
st. Louis-Quiet; middling, 61S-16 net
receipts, 100; gross, 1896; sales, 200; stock,
IS, O96.
Cincinnati-Quiet; middling, SIS; net re-
ceipts, 606; gross, 606; stock, 9749.
Houston-Sieady; middling. 1915; net
receipts, COS; gross, COS; stock, 21,SS5.
Louisville-Quiet; middllng, 6.
Exports of Cotton This Day
New Orleans-to Great Britain, 1856;
France, 5,400.
Mobile-Coastwise 40S.
Savannah-Coastwise, 800.
Norfolk-Coastwise, 1856.
New York--To Great Britain, 1,544;
continent, sos.
Total foreign exports from all ports
this day: To Great Britain, 7131; to
France, 5,4O0; to the continent, 6,406.
Total foreign exports from all ports
thus far this week; To Great Britain,
II 53S; to France, 5,427; to the continent,
1886.
Total foreign exports since Sept /, 1898:
10 Gredt Britain, o,zOo,oUZs TO france, bJl,-
$40; to the continent, 2520,517.
Liverpool, May 1O-Cotton spot, mac
tive demand and a large business done
az firm prices; American middling, 13-16d
The sales of the day were 10000 bales, of
which 2,C09 were for speculation and ex-
port, and included 1920 American; re-
ceiDts nose.
Futures opened steady, with a moderate
demand; closed quiet, but steady; Ameri-
can middling, low middling clause. May,
321d buyers; May-June, 3.21d, buyers;
June-July, S21@3.22d. buyers; July-Au-
gust, S22d, buyers; August-Septembe
3.22d, buyers; Observation-Disclosures, S2l1
3.22d, buyers; October-November, 3.21d,
buyers November December, 3.2Od3. Old;
December-January, 3.20d3. I'D; buyers:
January February, 3.206321d, buyers;
February March, 321Q3.22d, sellers;
March-April, 3.22d, buyers.
New York, May 10.-The cotton market
opened steady at unchanged prices to an
advance of one point showed considerable
weakness under a disposition to hquidate
long contracts, the bulls being afraid to
trust their position in view of a possibly
disappo!nting bureau report. Under this
pressure the market declined 4Gl5 points,
but under the PRONUNCIATION of the report
from Washington, the feeling became
steaGier.
There was some disappointment regard
ing the terms of the bureau report, which
last year stated the probable acreage at
93.4 per cent, this being a decrease of SIS
per cent, as compared with the previous
year But this year the statisticians at
Washington indicated that the acreage
question could not be expressed in figures
until next month, while stating that the
belief of correspondents pointed to a reduc-
ton by states of ) per cent. in Mississippi
and Indian Territory. eight in Alabama,
nine in Texas, ten in Arkansas, eleven in
South Carolina, tweEve in Louisiana, thir-
teen in Georgia, fourteen in North Carolina
and Is 10 Oklahoma.
The trade here argued that the report
was bunish rather than bearish, but that
Il did not amount 20 much either one way
or the other. The market soon after its
publication, became almost stagnant with
a sagging tendency.
The extraordinary sales of spot cotton
in Liverpool (20,O00) which private cables
ascribed to continental demand, tended TO