The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-30
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL

New York. October 27.-Money on
call nominal; prime mercantile paper
sos per cent; sterling exchange steady
with actual business in bankers bills
at 4.S3% for demand and at 4.S0A for
sixty days; posted rates 4.S1@4.S1k and
4.S4h@4.S5; commercial bills 4.79h@
4.S0; silver certificates 64kQ65A; bar
silver 64B; Mexican dollars 50Z. Gov
eminent bonds irregular; railroad
bonds IRREGULAR; state bonds irregular.
COTTON
Liverpool, October %. 4 p. m.-Cot-
ton: Spot: quiet; prices firmer; Amer
lean middling fair 5 22-32d. The sales
of the day We're 1000 bales of which
500 were for speculation and export
and including 1900 American. Receipts
&c, 900, all American
Futures opened quiet and closed firm.
American middling l.. NJ. c.: October
5 14-64d@5 15-64d sellers: October and
November 5 4-64dQ5 6-64d buyers;
November and December 4 62-64d buy
ers; December and January 4 60-64d b;
January and February 4 5S-64d@4 59-64d
sellers; February and March 4 57-64d
sellers; March and April 4 55-64d buy
ers; April and May 4 54-64d sellers;
May and June 4 53-64d sellers; June and
July 4 52-64d sellers; July and August
4 50-64d@4 51-64d buyers; August and
September 4 55-64d buyers.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston steady at 8 1916; net re-
ceipts 1850 bales.
Norfolk steady at SC. net receipts q
ZIG bales.
Baltimore nominal at SIC.
Boston quiet at 9 7-16c: net receipts
COG bales.
Wilmington firm at Sc; net receipts
1,661 bales.
Philadelphia firm at SIC; net receipts
II bales.
Savannah steady at SIC; net receipts
New Orleans firm at &c: net receipt
1910 bales.
Mobile nominal at SMc; net receipts
sos bales.
Memphis steady at SIC: net receipts
1866 bales.
Augusta firm at 9hc; net receipts L.
$50 bales.
Charleston quiet at sac; net receipt.
Cincinnati steady at 9kc; net receipts
1877 bales.
Louisville firm at 9Ac.
ST. Louis quiet; let receipts 1885,
bales.
Houston quiet at sac; net receipts
2,835 bales.
THE NEW YORK MARKET
New York, October 27.-Cotton quiet
at s11c; gross receipts 6.922 bales; sales
319 bales; stock 1925 bales.
Total today and Consolidated-Net
receipts 46, S03 bales: exports to Great
Britain 3,153 bales; France 14,452 bales;
continent 20,847 bales: stock 661, 400
bales.
Total since September met re-
ceipts 1854, 791 bales; exports to Great
Britain 679.S21 bales: France 146, s27
bales; continent 443.331 bales.
futures closed very steady; October
January 9.04; February 9.04; March
sos; April sos; May sos: June sos;
July 9.0; August 1856.
Spot cotton closed quiet at 1-16c ad-
vance; middling gulf SIC; middline
upiands SIC: sales 319 bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET
New York, October z7.-FLOUR-
Barely steady; winter patents $3.70Q
100; Minnesota patents $4.0D@4.35.
WHEAT@Spot easy: No. 2 red TIC;
options were barely steady throughout
b morning with trade practically on
a holiday basis. Lower cables, an alb
cation and prospects for bearish VIA
tstics on Monday. all contributed to
b depression. Closed easy h0Ac ne
lower. October closed 75Ac; December
TIC.
CORN-Spot steady; options dull and
easier, because of weak cables, the drop
in wheat and talk about prospective
large receipts. Rallied finally on COW
ering and closed steady nc net advance
to HQhc net lower. October closed
Akc; December 41Ac.
OATS-Spot quiet: Nc. 2 z5hc; 10
tions neglected and easier with corn.
EGGSLEasy; state and Pennsylva-
mia 21@z2c; western regular packing al
market H@19c.