Three volumes: Petty Ledger 'D', 1877-1880; "Prices Current" price index, 1889-1890, re cotton futures, pending legislation in Congress, New York Cotton Exchange; and receipt and invoice book, 1885-1887, recording transactions between the News and Courier and Charleston-area merchants, as well as firms located in Baltimore, Cincinnati, New York, and Philadelphia. Petty Ledger 'D'," 1877-1880, records amounts charged to individuals, businesses, churches, militias, and other organizations, in exchange for running advertisements and obituaries; includes accounts with Library Society, Butler Guards, Charleston Light Dragoons, Charleston Female Seminary; and others; final 30 pages list accounts with persons or organizations beyond Charleston, in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Alabama, and elsewhere. Volume, 1889-1890, includes runs of 2 publications pertaining to cotton futures and prices of commodities at various international ports, bound with publications re concerns over pending legislation in Congress; run of "Prices Current" price index, 7 Sept. 1889-30 Aug. 1890; and ca. 0.1 linear feet of mimeographed updates, "Cotton futures, private - for our correspondents only" New York, 3 Sept. 1889-30 Aug. 1890, listing prices in Liverpool, New York, with remainder of page filled with text signed by New York businessman, Henry Hentz; essays discuss prices in various cities, crop conditions, etc. Other publications bound together in "Prices Current" volume, include "Statement of the American Cotton Crop of 1889-1890" from N.Y.C. firm of Henry Hentz, 2 pp., re various statistics, 1887-1890, re cotton trade in various cities from Arizona to Boston, including Savannah and Charleston; lists net receipts at ports, exports to Europe and Mexico; overland movement, consumption of cotton in U.S. and in Southern mills, and statistics re the Sea Island crop. Volume also includes publications opposing [Benjamin] "Butterworth bill," pending legislation re cotton futures, with reprint of H.R. 5353, 20 Jan. 1890, 7 pp., re "defining 'options' and 'futures' and imposing special taxes on dealers therein"; "Argument offered by Committee representing the New York Cotton Exchange in opposition ...," 4 pp., by committee members S. Gruner, Henry Hentz, Chas. D. Miller, and J.O. Bloss; and "Report of meeting held at the New York Cotton Exchange," 15 Apr. 1890, 13 pp.; and editorials, Apr. 1890, in New York Times, condemning Butterworth bill.
