Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-20
ON WALL STREET.
High Money Rates and Strike RumOrs
Lowered the Stock Market.
During the Last Hour Stocks Recovered Ia to
SO Per Cent of Their Early Losses.
Railroad Bonds Very Dull.
COMMERCIAL RES JUNE,

COMMERCIAL RESUME,
Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-Money-Closed 80 pei
cent; highest, 30; lowest, 10 per cent.
Exchange-Quiet, s4.s4G4.ss.
silver-sl.l97s per ounce.
Wheat-Futures 25sa27s higher; spot lots ga
"a higher.
Cofee-Firm and unchanged.
Sugar-Firm and unchanged.
Wool-Dull and UNCHANGED.
Cotton-Easy; middling, II I5-16c.
Hides-Strong and active; Buenos Ayres, dry,
15c; dry Texas, 1OG 13c.
Stocks-Ths whole market went down nearly
point this morning on the threat of an ex-
tended strike and the high money rates. From
o'clock until about 2:30 the market was frmer
owing mai nly to lower rates for money. which
was down to 10 per cent. But, partly because the
rumored railroad strike did not come at Il
O'Clock to-day as predicted, the recovery in
stocks was A05s per cent. market closing fs-
verish.
Atchison, 4i53.
Dry goods dull without change in prices.
RAILWAY BONDS AND CERTIFICATES.
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth certificates
s7I5
Fort Worth and Denver Is lOqL
Atchison general mortgage, AS, SHk.
Atchison incomes, 655s.
Kansas and Texas rs, 1859.
General SIS, %.
General SIS, 81.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas general 6's, 81
Missouri, Kansas and Texas consolidated rs,
1853.
st. Louis. Arkansas and Texas is, $751;.
Texas and Pacific is. 5lix.
Texas and Pacific Us, 40.
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.
specisl 10 the Gazette.
BosroS, MASS, Aug. ls.-wool-Better de-
mandi prices firm.
coTToS-sPors AND FUTURES.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON TRY T,o +,a-xl A. .
spot market is still downward. New Orleans
Savannah, Baltimore, Boston and Memphis
each declined 1sc, while Liverpool, Galveston
and Charlie ton dropped l-i6c, the market as a
rule closing dull, quiet and nominal except
liverpool, which closed weak and inactive and
New YORK and Galveston easy. Augusta quotes
old cotton at l1ssc and new cotton &c lower
Futures closed quiet and steady with declines
in Liverpool and New Orleans and 3 slight adj
vance in New York.
Liverpool futures opened steady and SLIGHTLY
lower; ruled steady, near months l-16c lower
closed steady for near months at a decline of /
points; late months point lower than yester-
day.
New York futures opened steady, with August
at oechne OF points, other months / to 4
OF 70 points. closed steady. August and ep-
TENDER unchanged, other months to points
higher han Yesterdays close.
New orleans futures opened steady at de-
cline OF l to points, ruled steady at an advance
on all months of to points ever opening ex-
eept August, which is points lower than Mon
day close.
WOOL, COFFEE AND SUGAR,
Wool-Ffrm and unchanged, with no trapsac-
tons reported.
Coffee-Stesdy and unchanged.
Sugar-Strong and firm, with an upward tend
ency.
GOVERNMENT STOCKS AND BONDS.
New YORK, Aug. l9.-No material change in
the stock mar ket to-day, bat the bears remsinsd
on top and slow but steady melting 1way ~
quotations throughout the greater portion of The
day resulted in some material decl ines as an
nf " -
ward movement made steady prorress TN
toward p. m. when there was fractional re-
action. The close was dull and weak at some
thing better than lowest prices.
Railroad bonds very dull.
Government DO nos dull and steady.
State bonds entirely neglected.