Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
ON WALL STREET.
The Stock Market was Dull Yesterday
and Prices We're Irregular
Tight Money Retarded Business Considerably
and Fluctuations We're NarrOw-Rail-
road Bonds More Active.
COMMERCIAL RESUME,

COMMERCIAL RESUME,
Special TO the Gazette.
NEW York. Sept. lO.-Money was stringent
at times to day and loaned at one time as high as
20 per cent. The lowest and closing rate was
per cent.
Exchange-Steady; posted rates, 81 s21aa4 &C.
Silver-S1 II.
Sugar-Runs and refined continue quiet and
unchanged.
Wheat-Options were moderately active and
firm, closing I1sG1Ac higher. Spot lots closed
firm.
wool-Dun but steady. Texas lots ranged
Hides-Firm. Buenos Ayres, dry, l5c; dry
Texas, l0Gl3c.
Coiton-spots steady; middling, uplands,
105sc Futures closed weak and 10 to II points
lower.
Coffee-spot lots steady. Fair Rio. cargoes,
2O12c. Futures closed 10 to 10 points higher
Stocks were dull to- day and prices irregular.
The fluctuations were confined within narrow
limits and the market was awaiting. The tight
working of money retarded business. The
changes at the close were only fractional from
those of last night.
Atchison, 423s.
In dry goods there was some trading in a few
departments, but nothing OF moment.
RAILWAY BONDS AND CERTIFICATES.
Bonds dull.
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth certificates,
s7Ib.
Fort Worth and Denver Is 1O4.
4 ),
Atchison incomes, 63IR.
Kansas and Texas rs, III.
General So, 70A.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas general 6's, So.
lis.
st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas rs, s715.
Texas and Pacific rs, 903l.
Texas and Pacific 2's, 1914.
CoTToN-sPoTs AND FUTURES.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Tex, Scot. 10 The spot markets
are about stationary at former quotations. The
vanced l-l6c. Galveston opened firm and closed
easier, while New Orleans opened firm and
closed weak The tone of the remaining mar
kets was quiet, steady and firm. Various
speculations are made by dealers az to the con-
dition of the market, some holding that it will
steadily advance, but others and the majority,
predict that it will steadily decline until the
present stringency in the financial market Is
over and money becomes easier; some holding
that middling will touch &c inside of six weeks.
The future markets closed easy and steady;
while Liverpool advanced l-64d, New York and
New Orleans dropped 10 to Is points on
all deliveries. This was alleged to be
spot markets and financial stringency that pre-
walls in the leading future markets of the world.
Liverpool-Futures opened quiet but steady at
an advance of point, ruled quiet but steady,
and closed firm at the opening advance,
New York-Futures opened steady. at an adj
vance of to points, ruled steady at decline
from opening of 10 to u points on all months,
closed easy, ID to Is points lower than yester-
days close, with sales of ITO, 400 bales.
New Orleans-Futures opened steady, at a
light decline on late months, ruled weak, at @
decline of to IL points from opening, closed
steady. IL TO 10 points lower than last closing,
with sales OF &c, 200 bales.
WOOL, COFFEE AND SUGAR.
Wool-The wool market was firm and un-
changed, with no sales.
Coffee and sugar-Both steady, at former quo
tations,
GOVERNMENTS. STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK, Sept. l0.-The dizziness in the
market has been most marked to-day, although
in few stocks which have been prominent
through attention paid them by the bears in
their efforts to get prices off, were compare
lively active and showed considerable move
ment, while in the general list stagnation was
the order OF the day. The rally of yester-
day was still in progress at the. open
ing Of e. business ness and materially
cases, but confidence in the III ture which has of
late received such o set back was not sufficient
to continue buying until prices had been put
news of a character to have any material infu-
ence upon the course of prices, and after the
firm demand had been satisfied prices settled
back again and dizziness aud stagnation soon
ovsrspread, while the market even leading
stocks. became quiet and motionless, with the
first OF the list. The general list developed no
features of interest throughout the day, and
the close was dull and heavy at close to the
fractional amounts only, and q per cent. limit.
Railroad bonds little more active.
Government bonds dull.
State bonds heavy.
MANCHESTER TRADE REVIEW.
MANCHESTER, ENG, Sept. lO.-The Guardian
in its review of Yesterdays market says: There
was much difficulty in executing orders on &C.
count of the stegdiness of prices. Buyers and
sellers are not satisfied with the progress they
are making. Distributors have heard of the