Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-19
LOCAL MARK ETS.

| FORT WORTH, TEX, feoruhry is, 1881.
The condition of the general market Ia
much the same as shown in our last report
Cotton quotations continue unchanged, and
receipts for yesterday were very light Tn,
dry goods market is Armer and cotton good
OF all grades are very stiff at present quota
lions. Lonsdale bleached cotton IL marked
iIc up and higher prices on other standard
| brands would be no surprise TO dealers. Each
days sales show an Improvement over the
| day preceding and the prospects for a
heavy spring trade grow brighter
| ms the season approaches. The
| increased consumptive capacity of the ter
ritory tributary TO Fort Worth has wonder
| fully increased the business OF wholesale
| dealers az this point, and made "A reputation
| for the city as Wholesale center equal 10
that Of any city in the state.
The grocery market continues In n
healthy condition.
Meats of all kinds, though not quotably
higher, are very firm, and stlll further ad 4.
vance IL anticipated.
Lard is also Arm and -four continues up.
Country produceis but little changed from
last report.
Potatoes, onions and turnips are quoted
without change.
Cabbage are frmer,
Poultry continues In good demand at fall
marB ct rates, and dealers lind considerable
difnculiy in supplying the demands OF the
home market.
Eggs are quoted n little of, and sofse good
sales were made yesterday nj IT1Ic.
SaddIery and harness Is quoted without
material change. Skirtings OF best grade are
firm nj pres, mt rates. Trade In the line of
saddiery and harness Is better than for sew
eral weeks, and "a better grade OF harness Is
In demand among smaller dealers.
pEPnEssIoN OF TRADE IN FRANCE.
The corn miliers ofFrance are complaining
bitterly OF the depression of rade and In a
lengthy petition recently addressed to the
Fren eli minister OF commerce they set forth
tn ounds of thelrgrievances'c emphasizing
of course, the disad vantages which they SUI.
fer under the Frankfort treaty In tracing
with Germany. This, however, does not ex
plain tho falling OF which they admit In
their exports to England, Belgium and swift.
erIand, nor the further admission that Hun
garlan iour IL not only driving them out OF
the countries mentioned, but even out OF
Paris. Under these circumstances, the rem
edy suggested by the memorial VIZ; The es-
tablisbment OF milling schools after the
method OF those In Hungary at Pa ~, Lyons,
Lille, Marseilles and Bordeau x--seems most
reasonable. | may be mentioned that the
corn milling industry supplies employment
TO 90, 900 hands.
THE EG3 IHDUsTEf.
American hens should be ''up and doing
when eggs are selling NJ i0c per dozen, as they
did last week Western farmers should Gull
tivate "hen-fruit' more assiduousiy. Last
year over 2OO,0J0,0O0 eggs were imported into.
this country from Europe, and the Cincln-
natl News-Journal observes: "These came 10
by free trade. our hens are thus reduced 10
compete with the pauper hens Of Europe
which lay an egg day and then scratch
around the rest OF the day for their besgarly
food Even the lays OF the Norwegian hens
are Imported In large numbers--to degrade
our hens 10 the same condition. Why should
our egg-laying Industry, In It's Infancy. he
left 10 struggle agaisst the oldresIablihhed
egg-layers OF Europa"
MINES CLOSED.
A report from Pittsburg states that two
thirds OF the coal miners In the state are out
Of employment. In the anthracite districts
not over hair the men have work, and mat
| ZEN are about the sanls.in Clearheld county
In the Pltisburg district II Is estimated tina
500 men are idle. All the liver mines ar
closed, and those along the railroads are rar
ming hall time. There ~ probability o. SER
Gus disturbance In the central Ohio coal rt
gions from the proposed reduction Of The rat
OF mining from SOC 10 Coo.