The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-06

was not the first symptom Of excitement,
nor was bear ,.t specplationsat any time
~ from Humiliation of several important
accounts chiefly in the August delivery.
which option displayed relative weakness
throughout the, session Opening events
favored the bull crowd, and, on a furry
of general buying, prices went up 5 to
10 points. This support grew out of a
better class of English news than antici-
pated and reports that rains had again
fallen over a greater portion OF the belt.
The ffrmness was short-lived, however. as
Liverpool rapidly lost its opening i'm
provement, as foreign orders changed
over to the bear side as local demand was
+s,1pplanted by selling pressure. a slight
net decline had been recorded before the
close of the first hour. by noon the loss
had increased to a matter of . to points,
while at the weakest interval of the fore
noon a net decline of 13 to II points was
indicated Southern spot market We're
seenrto be weak. while the weather out
DAYS. The market was finally steady in
tone, but IL to IS points net lower
CoTToN-Futures opened. steady; June,
So: July. S.4S; August. S.26; September,
7.9o: October. 10; November, 1.a: De
cember, 1853: January, go; February,
I.GS: March. 40; April Ill
S.31; August, S.07; September, I!9; Ccto-
Der, 7.63; November. 80; December. I49;
January 80; February, '5S; March,
TOT tADrli, l.DU, May i.S-
Spot cotton closed quiet at 1Sc. lower:
middling upands, SIS; do gulf, US; sales
none.
coTToN-Quiet; middling, SIS: net re
ceipts, 1870 bales; gross, 2,329 bales'
stock, 76.G93 bales.
Total to-day-Net receipts, Bob bales;
exports TO Great Britain, 9o2 bales; 70
the Continent. 1,450 bales; stock, 2l3,iSo
bales.
consoidated-N receipts. 9,3G4 bales;
exports to Great Britain. 1910 bales; TO
the Continent, 1882 bales.
Total since September lst-Net. receipts,
6321, eS5 bales; exports to Great Britain.
lib, 7Gl bales; to France GS6.625 bales;
to the Continent, 2,5I2129 bales.
NEW ORLEANS. June 5.-coTroN-#
Futures closed steadv; June, 81? bid;
July s-4sgs4 40; August. 7;9sl7.99 Sep
TENDER. I.61GlI.G2; October. 1.:'GGrI.SI: No
yember, 7.2t07.2S; December, 1.26@I.2I;
January, 7.2697.2s; February, 7.2sa7.S0;
March, I.3O0I.31
LIVERPOOL. June 81 P. Moot
TON-Spot quiet; prices 3-32d. higher;
American middling, fair ) 1882; good
middiing: is; middling, .; low middiing,
47s; good ordinary AZ; ordinary. 4 9-1G.
The sales of the da-- We're 1000 bales, of
which 800 were for speculation and eX-
port, and included 6,yuu American. Re
ceipts since last report, 14,0OO bales, i'll
Guiding II, 700 American.
Futures opened and closed steady at
the advance; American middling. |. m. c..
June, 45-64, BUYERS; June and July,
sellers; August and September, 44-64,
sellers; September and October, i3-6i.
buyers; October and November, 4 19-64@
A 20-64, sellers; November and Decem-
Der, 4 15-64M4 1864. sellers; December
and January, 4 1864 II I4-64, sellers;
January and February, 4 11-64@4 12-i4,
buyers; February and March, 11-Gi@
4 12-G4, sellers.
NEW YORK PRoDrCF MARKET.
NEW YORK, June 5.-FLoUR-Firm-
RYE FLOUR-Steady.
CORNA1EAL- Firmer; western yellow.
sl 4sy1 city y,a soc: ~ western enc
BNRLEY-Quiet
BARLEY NIALT-Nominal.
WHEAT-Spot firm; NO, red, 7S4c.
Options were steady to firm all day on
the strength in corn, supplemented by
various bullish winter wheat crop re-
ports and a liberal reduction in worlds
stocks; closed firm at sc. net advance.
July closed at 12Ac.; September closed
al 7312c.
CORN-Spot strong; No. ., 44a4c. OPP
ton market ruled very firm again under
outside account, light offers and a good
cash demand; closed steady at Hs@a4c.
net advance. July closed at 433sc.; Sep
TENDER, 44lsc.
neglected but firmly held
BEEE-Steady.
CUT MEATS-Steady.
I.ARD-steady; western steamed, $3.50.
Refined firm.
PORk--Steady.
BUTTER-Barely steady; creameries.
extra, 161aQI20c.; State dairy, 16G13c.
CHEESE-Strong; large white, $3.50
91sc.: large colored, 9A@9asc.
EGGS-F'irmer; State and Pennsyl-
vania, 13G14c.; western, a market, lu12W
12Ec.; western, loss Off, 1212413c.
Enthusiastically; Jersey sweets, So
al 30.
TALLOW-Weak.
TETROLEUM-Easy.
ROSIN-steady; strained, common to
good S1.55.
TURPENTINE-Easy at 461ag49c.
RICE-Steady.
CABBAGE-Quiet; Florida, s1.25@1.75.
COTTON BY STEAM-To Liverpool,
20c.
CoFFEE-Spot Rio firm; No. Z invoice,
Size; mild market steady; Cordova, 9A@
1910. Futures opened steady at I'M
changed prices to 10 points advance. and
soon became very firm, with prices slowly
climbing upward on bulish foreign nsws,
bullish turn of statistics and further bu-
bonic plague spread in Rio: The shorts
and the Investment public were liberal