Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — COTTON. [ARTICLE]

COTTON.

Statistics of the Year. [New Orleans special.] The annual report of the National Cotton Exchange shows the cotton movement of the United States for the year ending August 31 to be as follows: Bales Bales this year. last year. Net port receipts ,4.773,541 4,800,654 Exports to Great 8ritain..2,425,239 2,484,836 Exports to France 403,726 468,996 Exports to the continent and channel 1,090,664 962,749 Total exports 8,919,629 8*916,581 Overland direct to mills... 633,241 _ 691,580 Total crop. ..5,706,165 8,713,200 Gross overland 928,711 989,280 Takings of Northern spinners. 1,436,711 1,537,166 Takings of Southern spin - ners .... 316,414 839,517 Total consumption In the United States 1,753,125 1,876,683 Sea island crop 40,452 25,490 Stock at close of year 129,488 126,721 Shipped to Canada. 28,343 22,052 Fractured Their Skulls. [Eugene City (Oregon) Special.] Mrs. S. M. Yoren, wife of the proprietor of the Register, and Mrs. Thompson, her mother, while out riding to-day, were thrown from their dog-cart. The skulls of both women were fractured. Both are unconscious, and there is no hope of their recovery. •