Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-03
Grain Steady Wool Receiving a Fair
Share OF Attention The Dry
Goods Trade.
difference Betwoen Eastern and Wcsterr
Cattle in NutsheIi-rhc Pulse Of
the stock Market.



vision coupons, offered 10000 at cot
Houston & Texas Central nrsts, main
lnc coupons, offered $4,000 at 0Db.
Houston & Texas Central seconds, main
line coupons, 10000 8's at 81, 10000
at 500.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas general, G's,
10000 az s9a.
Missouri, Kansas Texas consolidated,
10000 at 1884, 10000 ditto at 1874
Kansas 6 Texas 5's cx-diyidend O., 600
at 7Gl.
Texas & Pacific Rios cx-dlvidend 3d.
900 AZ GO; 10000 ditto S. 6's at 90, 5000
ditto Mt GO, 10000 ditto S, 6's at %.
Texas & Pacific incomes 10000 at 4Gg
Texas q Pacific general mortgage TO-
COO Of 80.
Texas 6 New Orleans, Sabine division,
20, 600 nc 49,.
Texas s ST. Louis, Missouri & Arkansas
division, 5000 at 3D.
Kansas & Texas, general mortgage,
5000 at s9i 5000 ditto at 500 200O ditto
nj 500.
Houston Texas Central seconds, 90 .
900 Mt so; 900 ditto at SOL
Texas q Pacific Rios ex-dlyidend, DO
900 ut 5gi.
Missouri, Kansas Texas consolidated
10000 at 1881.
II is believed that Kansas & Texas will
be put below 80 before there will be an
other decided Abull movement In the
stocks large amount of long stock
was sold In the vicinity OF 30 by
parties who are likely to make
an effort to compel the pool which
bought above that figure 10 unload In.
qulry has been made as To the conditions
under which Kansas 4 Texas first con.
solldation bonds can be bought for nc.
count OF the sinking fund. The terms
are that the sinking fund originally pro-
vldcd for the redemption OF bonds at pnr.
Grain was steady.
OIL opened at $50 and closed at ssf,
highest sol
Cotton was dun and declined to two
points.
Coffee was steady, and advanced 10
points at the opening.
Wool buyers are more cautious There
IN 4 scarcity of fine lecccs. Texas woods
as they come 20 hand secure attention,
ana manufacturers have In one or two
cases Of late shown anxiety TO yet notice
of any real fresh offerings. Pulled wool
Is steady and commands the usual pro-
portion of attention. Carpet woods lind
some demand.
NEW NoRK, Dee. 2.--Government
bonds neglected and unchanged to-day.
Railway bonds sympathized with the
dull tone of the stock market.
stocks quite active ut times aud very
duh at others. The total davis business
shows considerable Improvement over
Mondays transactions In most cases
extreme fluctuations to-day were within
range OF little over per cent. at OPEN
ing.
There was II general advance in almost
all the active list OF 4 to J., and In early
transactions further fractional gains were
made, and II was nt this time that the
highest prices OF the day were reached,
however, and sharp reaction before III
O'Clock was followed 10y comparatively
steady quotation until after midday, when
general decline set in, and resulted In a
net loss for more active stocks of over
per cent. Late In the day there were again
fractional gains, and the market closed
duh and strong ut ! TO I above lowest
figures. In many cases Of the active list
The only changes amounting To over per
cent. are decline IN Western Union OF .
and an advance In Lake Shore and Lackn-
wanua of l, and In Uuon Pacific of &
Tho old active list generally shows a small
gain, while some OF the low-prlced fancles
lost fractions. Weakness In Western
Union immediately succeeded reports of
reaction In press rates by cable, which il
was said would probably be followed by
general reductions In cable rates for
commercial purposes.
riIE my GOODS TRADE,
The season Is not so far advanced that
the law OF supply and demand must ulti.
mutely work out It's own salvation, and
already the signs of an approaching
change for the better are dlsoernlble
SO depleted were stocks at the opening
OF the season, owing to the economical
policy pursued by producers during the
past two or three years, that as soon as
the eonSumptNe request fairly begins
\ steady consumptlye demand should set
In, which Will have an immediate
and lasting effect on trade In FIRST hands
Pendlng this development the interest nf
the situation centers Ia the manner In
which the delivery movement is responded
To by those whose orders for spring and
winter fabrics are now being hlled. and
the prospect thus afforded Tor the reall.
hatlon OF hotter prices, so MS 10 ennblc
manufacturers 10 recover their extra out
lay ON raw material, ncoessitated by the
recent advance In the price OF wool,
shipping operations have been suspended
for some days, Tno actual condition of
the market, so far as this Is Indicated by
transactions, Is unchanged, operations
being practically confined 20 small selec-
tons 20 sort up stocks; and this applies
to ladies' wear and miscellaneous wool
ems, as well as those especially manuiact.
urcd Tor clothing purposes.
CArriE rorICa,
CllCA3o, lLLn Dec. 1.-The receipts
of cattle from the Northern and western
ranges are very light, aud the season h
rapidly closing, The Northern range
cattle are a curious mixture, and very
large per cent, OF the cattle ON the
Northern ranges have been graded up
IRON Texas cows, In 1881 there was a
large drive from Oregon and Washington
Territory, and since that time a good
many young cattle and some cows have
been shipped in from Iowa, Minnesota,