Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-23
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C,fie Lower-Liys stock Transac-
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Daily Review,

The weather to-day has been rather
cold and indications Of rain hsys beer
prevalent during business hours, SO tina,
trade has been rather hampered. Sill
retailers have been fairly busy, and
wholesalers h.ye nsd their usual activity
Very little cotton or other products OF
the farm are being marketed now. Cotton
is ruling at yesterdays quotations, while
wheat is little of, 81 &C being
the average price paid during to-day.
Buyers are not assured Of the stability OF
tie latter quotation.
Produce is not plentiful, tu! Their
seems no prospect OF an immediate in.
crease OF the prices paid during the fore
psrt Of this week ns quoted.
The actual lnsncitl condition o; the
Panama Canal Company is shown By the
desperate attempts Of NJ. de Lasseps TO
raise money For weeks has been tray
cling through the rural districts and
small towns Of France begging for contri
buttons. o. the 1900. 900 bonds issued
On the lottery plan With the sanction Of
the govern ment, OILY 5000 we're sold.
His CANVASS appears to have been unsuc.
cessful.
The worlds total production CT raw
silk in 1887, according to ststist re-
Gently published in Lyons, FRI ca, WAS
lilo 900 ki!os, equal to abou; %. 762, 900
pounds, sgainst 20, 1856, 600 Pounds in
1856 20, 497. 400 pou, DIS In 1885, and 81,
SS7, 200 pounds in 1884.
Two Thousand nine hundred az seven.
ty-six bs es Of cotton were received at
IA fha % nh >I
The largest receipts ever recorded in
Augus,s.
NJ. Dubus Bonnet Of Lille, France, has
invented q process Of spinning and
weaving glass Into cloth. The warp is
composed Of silk, forming the body ana
groundwork, on which the pattern in
glass appesrs, as Effected by tbs welt
The requisite fexi0llity OF glass thresd
for snufacturipg purpoees is to be
nscr:bed to Ks extreme fnsaess, as NOT
less tasn forty 10 sixty s'Isucs OF tie
original are required to form one thread
Of the wef.. The process is siow, f3r 70
more than yard 4 CLOTH can be pro-
duced IL twelve hours. TIE wcEE, how.
ever, is extremely besutiiui aud cUmpsr-
ativelY chesp A French paper com
melting upon the discovery says: "Wnen
, We tSncy ourselves al apartment GecUfa>
ted with cloth Of glass ard respondent
with lights, We must be convinced thai
vii equal in briiliGACY eli ih&t toe imsgi-
nation csn conceive sad Iealiza; in a
Ford, the wonders OF the enchented
palaces mentioned in the Arabian tales "
4 sui' brought. By the attorney ger erel
in behsiilof the people Of the stste Of
NsW York against the North River Sugar
R: hQing Company TO dissolve that cor
poEation on the ground that it had ex,
cee5ed the privileges granted it by its
charter, on becoming ore Of the members
of the great sugSr trust On O:tober l,
1887, and other sugar companies. wss
brought to trial recently In the supreme
court.
The scioQ is one OF the results OF the
senste Investigation committee OF last
winter, which for the frsE time brought
to light deed OF trust under which the
different sugar companies hsva formed 8
combination. It WAS substantially sereed
at the outset By the council that thsre
would be no controyerted question Of
TACT fer the court to pass upor, but IL
would merely be question of Law.