The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-23
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.


New York, March 21.-MOney on call
steady at 8 to 5 per cent; last loan at
3 per cent; prime mercantile paper at
5@5k per cent; sterling exchange weak
with actual business in anker bills
at SASSY for demand and at $4.82 for
sixty days; posted rates at A-83@4.83h
and $4.86h@4.S7; commercial bills at
$4.S1A@4.82; silver certificates at 6ON0
61A; bar silver 60; Mexican dollars at
47A; government bonds Irregular; rail-
road bonds irregular; state bonds
steady.
COTTON.
Liverpool, March 21.-Cotton.-Spot,
in fair demand, prices 1-32d higher.
American middling air 5 1850; good
middling 5kd; middling 5 9-16d; low
middling 5 7-16d; good ordinary SID;
ordinary 5 1-16d. The sales of the day
were 10, 900 bales, of which 500 were for
speculation and export and included
1900 bales American; receipts 1000
bales, no American. Futures opened
and closed quiet at the decline.
American middlirg. low middling
clause: March 5 26-64@5 27-64d sellers:
March and April S A-64d sellers; April
and May 5 20-64@5 Glad sellers: May
and June 5 17-64@5 1S-64d sellers: June
and July 5 15-64d sellers; July and Au-
gust 5 12-64@5 13-64d sellers; August
and September 5 2-64@5 3-64d sellers;
September and October 4 41-64@4 42-64d
sellers; October and November 4 31-s4d
sellers; November and December
4 25-64d sellers; December and January
4 23-64d sellers; January and Febru-
airy 4 21-64@4 22-64d buyers.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-Steady at CSC; net re-
ceipts 1875 bales.
Norfolk-Nominal at 9 13-16c; net re-
ceipts 944 bales.
Northumberland at 9 15-1Sc; net
receipts 2,109 bales.
Boston-Steady at SIC; net receipts
713 bales.
Wilmington-Steady at 9hc; net re-
ceipts $50 bales.
Philadelphia-Quiet at 10hc; net re-
ceipts SO bales.
Savannah-Quiet at 9kc; net receipts
$500 bales.
New O~rleans-Quiet at csc: net re-
ceipts 1924 bales.
Mobile-Nominal at 9hc; net receipts
s bales.
Memphis-Steady at 9 7-1Sc: net re-
ceipts 225 bales.
Alphabetically at 9 11-16c: net re-
ceipts 457 bales.
Charleston-Firm at SIC: net receipts
2S4 bales.
Cincinnati-Strong at $50: net re-
ceipts 635 bales.
Louisville-Firm at sac.
ST. Louis-Quiet at 9 7-1sc; net re-
ceipts 81 bales.
Houston-Dull at CSC; net receipts
405 bales.
. THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, March N.-Cotton quiet
and steady: middling SIC; net receipts
S37; gross receipts 1854: sales 2.l6S:
stock lac. 524; exports to Great Britain
725; to the continent 3,089; to France
LOAF.
Total today: Net receipts z31Is; ex-
ports to Great Britain IL, 36s: to France
1.A7; to the continent $685.; stock $685.
651.
Consolidated: Net receipts g, e8S: ex-
ports to Great Britain 1851: to France
De. 769; to the continent 3,77e.
Total since September LIST: Net re-
ceipts $500, 962: exports to Great Bn-
tain 1,786,112; to France SIS. 369: to the
continent 1885, 81
Futures closed steady. March Ia.
April s.41, May $40. June $50. July s.32,
Angus $50, September 8-37, October
sos, November, December. January
and February 1874
Spot cotton closed quiet and steady:
1O1sc; sales 2. 16S bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Chicago, March 2L-The leading flu
lures ranged as follows:
Open. High. Low. Clos
Wheat
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