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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1892
Page
5
New York reports a downbeat cotton market with heavy receipts. Liverpool prices edge up. close barely higher than Friday. Traders await New Orleans arrivals and expect a potential price relief next season amid large port receipts and a dull overall tone.
The Raleigh market reports mixed quotes for February 8 with Middling Upland around 313.164 and sales totaling 10,000 bales. Futures are steady while price listings show several grades like Good Middling and Strict Middling, with a quiet overall market.
Raleigh ledgers show North Carolina 6s at 123 bid and 6s 1914 at 87 bid with 90 asked, plus multiple Raleigh firms and mills quoted. New York money closed 14 percent, currencies steady, with various government bonds and regional securities listed alongside flour and grain price shifts and pork and lard rates.
Wheat and grain futures edged higher on late market news while flour and corn moved in mixed directions. Butter eggs coffee sugar and copper held steady or firm as traders weighed export demand and regional supplies. Spirits turpentine and rosin prices showed regional variation across Wilmington Charleston Savannah and New York reports.
An elderly woman living near Wharton with her son in law endured months of illness. After the son-in-law pretended to be drunk to frighten her a dramatic reaction occurred. The woman overpowered him, and three others assisted, leaving him badly injured.
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