Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20
GENERAL NaARKETS. \
Produce and ProyirieHs. !

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. lS.-Flonr-9atas aud
unc hsr ged- Wheat orened al Of frotattie,
close OF last light, and in weak saark ct ciose4
still over. No. red cash 81 80 &c; JanuarN
ci1sing sc; tebr ary SIC nominal; May S4119
size, closing 64-Sc, June S2S~, CIosin2 82I 20
biz. OoTn-Market Vas loV er and weaker;
each 4711a46 Janu ~ c'os'ng 494c. Oats
steaoy at 81 40 WHISKY was steady a. 81 %.
Provisions lower. Pork, nominal sI4 5O9l4 76.
Lard ,a %: Dry SAT- meats, boxed,
Gear ibis 81 62X; short cIesTs
81 70. BacO", boxed, s. 90; Shout ers SC I215
ng clears IS 40; clear r.rs s. so; short clears
s. 625i. Haas steaoy az so 25al2 90. After
moo" board: Wheat firm January sl&c; Feb
Tuary { &c; May size. Corn tesdy; January
47;sc; February 47;sc: May $3.50. Oals arm,
January &c asked; May 2fc.
CHICAGO, ILL., Jan. Zs.-The hands on the
dial or Tue luGic TOT which registers prices
and o ran foot race with esc1 other at the
opening OF the board. The market, witch
osed psnicky yesterday after decline of 60
cents. solo OH 20 cent further on the curb after
The board closed. Fills left May ct St43T4
0hLciaI opening prices this morning was sl4 %,
ana few minutes later II solu TO Sl4 ID d de.
barrel. The first iDod of stop orders had come
on the market and had be n executed There
was SOM buy Ing and the panic v1as stayed
Big sports, VI no engineered the Taic on the mar
ksL on the .h r. afternoon session OF yester-
cay, were buy ers to-day. For the arst rs
-Four of me session ITices m,de q very lively
tee-ed" from : AZ lnefe was an
advance to sl4 32]< Il IS, and decline to
81. - Finally Ihe market sobered
own somewhat around Si4 2IXdl4 30.
The people VINO hav. been shaken ont are
couu;r. holders. Large blocks of stuff also,
came out from Kansas City p so1ie and IL Is be-
lie ed that stuff dumped overheard on step
orders has gone 10 d up shorts, tha position
az the later Is thereby mate iaHy So engthened
Pork cl1,E1ed the greater psrt os attention Of
traders all day. The heaviest market ng of
PORK wss don Ia the frs ho2. bat trade 8as
zig All through the session. A tone of curious
atures, which developed as day advanced,
was csDoelIipg IF buying ORDER,
winch were held by commission
hoUseF. May pork finally closed stsady
az sli 20. Lard and ribs opened to tic under
yesterdays cicse, but gocd buying soon caused
closed at 5! SIX and 81 y Iins at 81 Is. Wheat
at opeaing atsracIed baI lilue attention, but
later IN lac session raid was ate By q
p7oa mont hoase whicA carried May DOWN from
eniEg $50 o S24c, decline being h:ought OFT
bg PHI Of long wheat. The scslping element
aidso the decline, but were bniHsh In st nj
n emf, anu DO ght freely Liter a1oand S3s for
closed at Ssh: Corn opened dull and &c
pressed, with Nav a. SAC, As GAe g. ssioa pro :
eressei large anounS of selling
ofo.rs were exs cuted on account of the
| ferlieg OF eneasisess inspi.et ay the peHk nsr-
kat May broke to 53c, aching later 10 34:e
o. liberal bay ng, and closed a. LATER ggnIe.
/ Leading fG.ures closed as follows: Wheat, No
:. January 76hc: February i6&c: hal Oh 771s d
~ &c.. Corn, NJ. 2, Januar, 4Skc; ftbruasry
zs<c March 4 Nc; May 5Ssc. tiess pork
pc barrel, quoted for febr AIRY st SIS So; Ma,
| SI4 sc. Lard, February 81 81: Marcn 81 SIX
| May, 81 * Short ribs J4euaIy 81 IS; FEB u
Dry, 81 -; MARCH. 81 51k fAays 81 "a. oaah