Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-02
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures from
One 10 Two Points Higher Money
Market Easy.
wheat Opened strong, Advanced stsnd,,,
and CLOSED Highor--Live Stock
Transactions Brish.
FORT WORTH mARKErs-DAILx nm.
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wholesale and retail groceries.
Fancy apples for the holidays are now /
10 market at 81 20 per barrel.
The offerings Of turnips, which are
very fine this season, have been 30 heavy
that the price il still lower
TUE STATE or TRADE.
Special kilograms 10 Bradstrect's re.
cord rather less activity In the movement
OF general merchandise, although al chi.
cago there has been an increasing volume
OF sales, particularly OF dry goods, aud In
q less noteworthy degree at 81. Paul, Min.
neapolie, Milwaukee and Burlington. 4 he
aggregate OF sales In staple lines has been
enrtalled, Of course, by nm intervening
holiday The restricted trading has been
more conspicuous At Eastern centers,
owing To the decline In the number OF
mail orders received, aud TO the notable
absence Of interior merchants, This Is
reported from ST. Louis, Cincinnati, Phil.
adelphla, New York and Boston. AZ
New Orleans, also, general trade, while
fairly satisfactory, Is below late expecia.
tlOns. Country merchants trihu.
tary TO that market are not reported
To DO generally az prompt In
payment aB desired. and rennere, unable
To get satisfactory prices for sugar are
storing their products. Al Kansas City
there IL fai ly active movement OF gem
eral merchandise, hut the total volume IL
less than that OF "a fortnight ago. The into
rior domestic money markets, as Tule,
are oot quite as tlrm az last week. ~ Chi
cago there Is less demand for funds for
manufacturing and commercial enter.
pri,os, but n larger demand for
lnFa nf.Na
lures. At Cincinnati funds are
flowing back from the country, ana nt
Milwaukee they continue TO 10 westward,
but In diminished volume, The total
volume Of bank clearngs AT thrty.two
cities Tor the current week, af specially
wired Bradsteeps IL zoos, 072, l0S,
against g. 1903, 1888 207 last week. aud
~ ,088,SGb 0l2 In the fourth week OF No
vembpr, 1885 This shows decdne OF
about sd per cent. five days this year
against six days last week, aud a decline Of
less than "a per cent. for holiday week
this year as compared with similar week
a year ago. Tho decline as compared
with last week is but 60 per cent. of that
called for by the loss Of one entire days
, transactions thereby pointing 10 Il pro-
portlonate Increase In the amounts trans.
, ferred, The speculation In wheat, petro.
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full, while exports and imports Of pro-
duce and manufactures remain OF large
proportions. The New York stock market
IL excited and strong, and under the slim
, ulatiOn OF the settlement OF
! the express war, tho prospect OF
peace between Baltimore n Ohio
aud the Pennsylvania with anticipated
dividends on the Western Vanderbilt
lines, speculation tends toward the trunk
. line stocks, tn ugh here IA still much at
tention paid to the "iaucy" and Southern
, stocks, The transactions III the week
J (lve days. were 2, 500, 40 shares, against
G26 925 shares In no week ending No
vomber 10, 1857 $50 snares In the same
week OF 1896, and ! sac, 1903 shares for tho
same week OF Ss4 Bonds were strong and
advancing, with sales for the week'to the
amount OF l2,7l4, 200, against 8li, III 500
last week and Sl2,l47G00 the preceding
, week. Funds AZ New York are steady IN
spite OF Efforts To manipulate for higher
rates; foreign exchange Is slightly ilrmer.
Al Eastern cuntcrs the movement of dry
goods has been disappointing Prices IN
most lines are sustained, and the outlook
for heavy. weight w0Olena continues
b bright. Prints, however, have declined
c from Sac for cas- after month Of
extreme humnoBs, Slocka have In
4 creased Of late Raw wool Is
quiet, but tends TO favor buyers,
as concessions have been made 10 man
uiacturers wanting large lines. There
Is rather less confidence as to higher
prices Pig iron continues very arm,
with no change IN prices. Steel rails are
more active and more profitable TO max
ors than has generally been made public,
and prices are ~ higher, AZ S85mSd pur
ton Tho special tobacco crop report 10
Badstreet's indicates that the western
leaf crop win aggregate about $4,000
togpheads, against 100000 hogsheads IN
1885; that there has been decline In the
Weld Of about 80 per cent In the bright
Nlrginla aud North Carolina leaf, nnd
" about 10, 0O0, 0oo pounds, or nearly i
per cent, IN the eecd-leaf crop, mainly
through the falling of In Wisconsin,
, against the output Of last year. The
! speculative breadstufs trade IL rcail1-
Ing more fully the long claimed strength
. Of the st0tibilcal position a wheat, but
thus far, In spite OF that fact and con.
tinuod heavy exports, the price OF the
cereal does not advance much.
The total number OF failures IN the United
States reported TO Bradstreets this week
liz 20i, against 227 last week, $40 last
wear, 287 in 1884 and 282 In 1883, decline
as compared with all. Canada had .
against is last week and 20 last year.
, The total failures In the country this year
TO date is 9lG2 against 10000 last year, a
decline of s44, against G7G8 In 1884, 1896
(, in 1888 and G48T In 1882. - Bradstreets.