Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-01
ON WALL STREET.
The Unusual Dullness In Stocks sun
Coniinues-Th Closing Prices
Show Fractional Declines.
Pacific the Lending Fenture--fiFmer
Tome in Cotton Futures.


special to the Gazette,
NEW YoRK, Aug. 9l,--Railway bonds
to-day sold as follows; Fort Worth &
Denver City at sls; Texas & Pacific in
comes at 52s; Rios at 67; terminals at
55Ai Houston & Texas Central Us at Ill
Galveston, arrisburg 4 San Antonio rs
OF 1904; Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rs at
l24; Missouri, Kansas 4 Texas SIS at S2i
do. 6's At 9ib
Sterling frm.
Money ut 6@d per cent,
Governments strong.
Wheat strong.
Oh closed at Glec,
Coffee 10 points oigher.
Cotton la points higher,
The receipts at Galveston are free. The
lateness Of the crops along the Atlantic
will PROBABLY result in smaller receipts In
September than was the case last year.
Whether Texas Will make up for Tits or
not Is doubtful. The opinion is that the
receipts next month will DO rather less
than last year at all ports,
GOVERNMENTS, srocRs AND DoNps.
NEw YORK, Aug. Sl.--Government
bonds duh and steady.
| Railroad bonds dull and generally
/ hNhNNs ANAHN iccNAc Shiht w
the front again, the sales OF incomes
amounting TO sleo,oGo Prices were
weak throughout the entire day, lmpor.
tant advances are shown only by few
issues Texas Pacific Incomes lost | 1
at b2R aud tho TERMINALS % at 5bl
There is usually dullness In the stock
marriott, stu the fluctuations continued
within very narrow rauge and little In
terest Is taken in the market on one side
or the other. The money market still
continues to be the great topic OF discus
sion and TO the uncertainty OF its futures
Is ia a great measure due the present de
preston OF business at the stock exchange
The reduction In sterling exchange
caused u better feeling In the afternoon
but It's effect was dissipated before tn
, close. The prices were lower at th'
G opening this m rning. The decline
! RAGGED from 4 70 generally The weak
\ ness continued until about noon, ate
which there was slight reaction, hut u
Q the last hour prices recedtd again and III
o market closed weak at or near the loves
Il figures reached The closing prices a
r most invariably show decline althoug
s for fractional amounts only. Among th
e active list Erie preferred Is down ! an
II and Canadian Pacific shows an advanc
:, OF per cent
d COTTON FUTURES.
n NEW YORK, Aug. 81 &C. l.. Greene
W Co.'s report on cotton futures sayi
'r There was flrmer tone aud recover
rs about equal to yesterdays loss. The q
70 mand was principally TO cover, built upe
81 advices from abroad, which are conetru,
1T as indicating desire of Liverpool TO 70
1t ter and increase purchases somewhat 4
early months. Inquiry, however, WI
~ readily met, and while msking no pos
& tive reaction the feeling was tril
q, easier at the close.
OF H,VANA SUGAR.
he HAVANA, Aug 3i.--Sugar holders nrl
as Eighty i've bags Of centrifugals polar
he ing, ga degrees, for Spain were sold
90, 1924 gold per quintal
FRS DRY GOODS.
"a. NRw YORK, Aug. 8l,--The exports
re- domestic cotton Tor the past week WI
670s packages, making since the expii
ton OF last year a total Of l6s, 1913 pat
ro. ages, compared with 60,3l6 for the sal
m. time last year; Ill ,3ls IN 1884 and II
he GGS In 1883 Al the bbiog hands The
was very good demand, while ofagen
orders for new AMI duplicate selection
In connection with deliveries on old !
gagements, have returned large 10
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