Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-09
ON WALL STREET.
The Stock Market Shows Decrease In
the Volume of Business-Th
General List Lower.
Railway Bonds Irregular - Government =
Heavy and Lower-Cotton Futures
Decline from to Points.
COMMERCIAL RESUME.

COMMERCIAL RESUME,
Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Oct. s.-Railroad bonds
to-day sold as follows: Texas & Pa.
cinc incomes at 57d Rios at 725; termin-
al 6's at CID; Kansas & Texas 6's at 9s5;
Missouri, Kansas & Texas 5's at 81; do
Us at LAT; Galveston, Harrisburg & San
Antonio rs at 1929.
Governments heavier and lower.
Money Coz per cent,
Sterling firm.
Wheat weaker and dull.
Oil closed at 64sc
Cotton declined to points.
Coffee improved.
The ST. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Rail-
way company will widen the gauge In the
next fifteen days on the Missouri and Ar
kansas division about four hundred miles,
and almost Immediately thereafter the
Texas division win be widened.
The first payment of $3.50 per share on
the assessed stock of the Texas & Pacific
becomes due on January 8 next. The
second is due on February 10 following
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK, Oct. S.-Government
bonds dull and heavy.
The stock market again showed q de-
crease in the volume OF business, and the
net result of the trading for the day is
that prices are lower In majority of the
active list. There was again shown this
morning disposition to await events
but, Notwithstanding the food of unfa-
vorable rumors and assertions, which
came chiefly from the West, the general
market was firm throughout the morning
hours. Later when the hope that some.
thing definite would be accomplished
at the meeting at the Grand
Central of New England rail-
road managers was given up, prices de-
clined, and the lowest figures were
reached 10 the last hour. The market
closed firm ona rally. The Reading was
the principal feature In the trading, but 1t
followed the course of the general market
on the announcement that Mr.. Corbln
would enter the Western Union directory,
which was interpreted to mean
that compromise OF some sort
in the telegraph business would ensue
Western Union became especially strong
and closed within l OF the best price
reached. The trunk lines and grangers,
which are principally affected by the
troubles at Chicago, were quiet, and
iluctuated whiting a narrow range. The
opening was irregular, the differences
between last evenings final figures and
the first prices this morning rang
ing from declines Of TO ad-
vances Of like amount. Reading and New
England were the feature OF the early
trading, the latter being especially strong.
The general market was barely firm.
after the fret hour business became
quiet, and In the afternoon prices sagged
of throughout the list, the notable ex-
ceptions being Nickel-Plate stock and
Western Union. The market rallied In
the last half hour and closed firm.
COTTON FUTURES.
NEW YORK, Oct. &c. l.. Greene &
Co.'s report on cotton futures says; The
weaker and lower Liverpool market, the
very large receipts for the week, and the
liberal interior movement kept the mar
ket under decided impression that the
supply exceeded the demand, forcing
decline Of 6@7 points, closing weak at
the lowest prices Of the day.
DRY GOODS.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-Dry goods--The
character of the general demsnd was mod
flied, as the stocks are smaller and the
arrivals more contracted by orders.
Agents have advanced the price Of West
96 inch blesched cottons &c and Farwell
SO inch bleached TO 73c, Clarendon crochet
quilts 73c and Monadnock Merseilles
quilts 10 pence. Printing clothes are very
firm at SIC for Ga squares and SIC for Sc
by 60 clothes.