Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-01

after opening. at 5 points decline. with snlea ~
5000 bags. The stock at Rio o-day was a1s0oO
bags Quotalious and exchange unchanged.
Receipts, 2i.ooo bags. No purchases Tor he
GOVERNMENTS. STOCKS AND noxns.
NhM YORK. oct. M.-Governments dull aud
Railroad bonds contiuued acfivc.wlth very rooa
Hdcmand for the Investment issues The saiSs az
railroad bonds Tor the current week have
amounted 10 nearly S2s,mOnOO and foy fhc
month closing 10 day over Sins 600 Oon aralnSt
lpss that soOooo,OOO foriScptCmber. There mas
necn Wrought the North ain almost continnnns
but slow advance In the price OF so-reiied elit.
edgcl investment huLds, and moro randi
aevancc accompanied by occasional rcactlona.
pul resulting IN very material net gains m
sone OF more special active Issues
comparing the closing prices this evening
Nun those utyosterday, the stock market To.
uay mas shown decided strength, hut 10 "A sci.
dom that an upward movement has been ne.
/ eompanied by an equal amount OF irreruiarity
nnu ieNerlshnces. There was a strong open.
lng the irst prices In most cases showing a
gain OF lne, and In some Instances the
opening prices were the lowest OF the day
MMhlie IN others there was fractional decline.
Iho lowest prices In some cases were reached
IN the early dealings, while other stocks were
uull and heavy until midday la one OF two
cases also, the lowest prices were established
| IN thc last hour After u O'Clock there was
considerable show of strength in the whole list
| which was more or less pronounced up 10 \
o'clock In the last hour great rrcgularity
prevailed, and during the latter part of the
hour there was very decided weakness In the
stocks which had exhibited the greatest
strength; The declines In the last fifteen
minutes In some cases amounted to to I pcr
cent. The result, however, OF the DAYS opera.
| tions Is an advance for almost everything on
the list, and the majority OF the active stocks
are over per cent. higher than last evening
Taking nine Of the most active stocks. there Is
net average gain of little over II per cent,
.ne greatest advance and the largest
sales Of Which were 'N % 900 sn0re sho 1Se
while INC net gain ie q per cen Western Union
contributed GosOO, Erie 1900 and ST. Paul 80,
! Union advanced II, and lackawana II per
| cent, Heading was the only stock whose sales
exceeded 10000 shares that shows a loss OF per
there was n quick break from ~ TO 92l az
| which the stock closed. One OF the features OF
the day was the decided advance In Wander
| pllts' Lake shore gained q, ms stated,
and New York Central "a. The Gould
stocks were also prominent for the
advance made, as wen as the renewed
Union Pacific II, and Missouri Pacific II PER
cent. The dealings in the Northern Pacihce
and their associates attracted much attention.
Oregon Navigation in the last hour sold as high
as 1905 par. being the price at which the option
was given by the oregon Transcontinental
company, which expired toe day.
In the tnal dealings there was sudden
break without sales from 1904 TO ggi
but quick rally to par and the last
sale was made at 1909, a not gain OF n
per cent Northern Pacific common rose and
preferred ! per cent At the Farmers Loan
and Trust company this evening It was stated
that most of the Northern Pacific. both com.
mon aud preferred, has been called, while ud
vantage was taken of the option on very little
of the oregon Railroad and Navigation. Oregon
Iranscontinenial gained !, The activity III
low priced stocks was n feature Chicago, ST
Louis Pittsburg consoldatCdis up q, the pre-.
icrred !, Comparing the prices this evening
with those of week ago almost
everything IN the active list ia higher
The gains range between small fractions and
u per cent, the latter In Western Union. St
Paul Is up 4, Missouri Pacific and Oregon
Transcontnental each "a, Iackawanna "a
Northwestern y, and others less than ! pci
cent The sales of the week were 2,i17.s0C
shares, against 1896 ZOO shares last week. The
total transactions for the month amounted to
l20,O63,000 shares, the largest business for any
month this year. There Is hardly u stock on
the list that does not show material advance
MONEY.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3l.-Moucy on call easy at
81 per cent, prime mercantile paper, 4d5
Foreign exchange dull and unchanged
STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW ioHK, oct 3l.--Ihc following were The