Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-27
Ehess Opened stroos, 7iuc;usted Narrow
IL. aud .laaed n, 60 Advsnc--L,vs
stock transactions Brisk.


. Trade was good With wholesalers tc-
day, with average trade with retailers.
Cotton 1, coming in more freely, and II
good weather CONT lues EeAvJ receipts
are looked for next week.
The imports Of spacis for lsst week
were 1929, sgsins. s3,l9s,073 last
year; exports OF specie were sl75, 100,
sgxinst 1885,, $40 last year, and imports OF
dry goods and general merchandise COM
bioed, SIS, GS4 ,04l, sgainss Sl0,255. SOL in
1887
Hogs continue TO dissppoiut packers
in their m.rke ing price. L IS. week the
number received in Cliczg3 IVES even
smaller By s2S2 head taan the receipts Of
the week preceding, aud the outlook for
81 increase movement in the DeRr future
w,e c. rt4in.y t.r from encouraging. OF
The 60 $50 fecsived lsss week, packers
| boug1t over tHo-thirts. Tney Wera from
| the sEart determined to break prices, and
as they hsc little competition from east
ern slippers, man ed IN force before the
close decline Of $500; per 100 lbs
Tney hammered the Market eteaoil7 aao
made 1t so uncomfortable for receivers
thai still smaller supplies this week would
not be surprising, though $4,000 head ere
promised.
The S.. Luis Dispatch says: The
fiuctuatloLs in corn during the past week
have baen coDfled to narrow range,
and, while prices are comparatively ur-
ichanged for the distant futures and are
slightly lower for nearby options, the uu-
dertone is strong. The relstivs cheapness
OF this grain, which is an excellent suosti-
tute for wheat -four when put into the
shape of grits or cornpaesl, SIS well ss
being the grain that 10 most lsrgely useo
for feeding stock, combined with its viz
tues in being used for 30 many articles OF
home manufacture, is attracting the at
sentiol OF no. Only spectators, but also
T the outside element who know more OF
its merits for manufacturing purposes
than those Of speculation. The advance
in sugar ard the rel.;ive high prices &:
compsred 10 this past few yecr:
ST Jrds larger pro9s5 TO the glucose
works, which use no small amount o.
cora in their establishments. This Ii
caly ere instance wheTGia the values srt
SHOWN that will warrant higher pric7i
than those OF present ruling. TneI
: omes the heavy demand We are hsviri
tor The each at prices or cents h!gle
thsn those ruling for She option, dis'an
only forty Gays. z looks as though
. European countries had a. last swskenet
3 to the merits Of "hoe cake" aud corr
t bresd. They are evidently agur rg CT
!, helping to fill up the holes caused b
3 short crops CT rye and wheat with a.
" article that will snsWer all purposes Q
Y the former e. abo1t one-third the cost.
I The dullress of the current Speculation
t 4 the east is evidenced in the fact this
n the number OF stocks dealt in on the Ns'
, York Seek Exchange last week was onl
IISSFS3, as compared with 2.6ll u
vstssme week last year, decrease OF l,4l4
: $50 shares. There were $3.50, 500 govern
y ment bonds dealt in, end Sc. G93. 800 stat
= and railroad bonds, sn increase Of S545
!, eco std 50. 100000 respectively. On Ii
q Boston ard there were 2S2. All shares
$3.50 $50 bonds and scrip transacted
II sgsinsL 299. $50 stocks ard s9i5.sl5 bond
and scrip same week LOST year,sn increas
OF ~, $50 .nd 1921 .S65 refpec lively.