Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-20
ON WALL STREET.
The Stock Market Was Extremely Dull
Yesterday, at Irregular Prices
There Were But Few Features, and Little News
In CireuIa tion-The Decline Ranged
from 1-8 to l per cent.

SpSclhl 10 the GaZetle.
COMMERCIAL SUN
NEW YORK, Dec. l9.-Money-Loaned
at easy rates to-day; the highest was 6,
the lowest 8, and closing at 8.
Exchange-Firmer; 81 slI@4 s59.
silver-1O64.
Sugar-Raw and refined, quiet at pre-
vIous prices.
Wheat-Options moderately active and
strong, closing g and l11sc higher. Spot
lots closed frmer.
Wool-Dull. Business very limited in
both domestic and foreign grades.
Cotton-spot lots steady: middling-
uplands 93ac. Futures closed firm, i
to 5 points higher.
Hi6es-Firm. Buenos Ayres, dry,
l212c; dry Texas, size.
Coffee-Spoi lots steady: fair Rio car
goes, zoe. Futures closed steady.
Stocks-Extremely duh to-day, prices
irregular; the changes were slight, but
as q rule in a downward direction.
There was 10 eatures developed. and
hardly any news in circulation. Clos
lug prices were near the lowest of the
day. The declined ranged from "a to /
per cent.
Atchison. 2S3s.
Dry goods were q trIfle more active
to-day, but on the whole business was
confined to small lots. Buyers are only
supplying their immediate wants.
RAILROAD AND CERTIFICATES.
Bonds, dull.
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth certia-
Gates, 81.
Fort Worth and Denver rs, 80.
Atchison general mortgage AS, S018
Atchison incomes, so.
Kansas and Texas rs, 73.
Kansas and Texas 2's. 81.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas rs, 70.
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas l's,
TI
Texas and Pacific l's, 81.
Texas aud Pacific 2's, 3OL.
ATWOOD, VIOLET s. co.'s STATEMENT.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. l9.-At-
wood, Violet s. Co say:
Futurss-The principal feature of the
market to-day has been the publication
of Bradstreet' g crop estimate of $780,
900. The bulls don't believe it and the
bears do, hat about Expresses the situa-
ton. An unofficial large crop esti-
mate may not encourage selling,
but it will not certainly
Cltouia sc Dufihs. oit lCttlptS tO-uhJ
81 600, against 40, 900, and for the week,
265, 500, against PSI 500 last year. In
terror receipts, los $50, and interior
stocks. 45l AS, against 162 ,376 and
344 $40 last year. We close 8, and
Liverpool l lower. A permanent mill
firm at Providence, R. L., with S. ,G00,-
600 capital, assigned yesterday.
F. o. b.-Good demand for grades above
middling. Good color also for strict
middling to good middling tinges, pre-
MUM being paid for good color and sta
pie. Sales. POO.
Spots-The offerings, though large,
are very undesirable, the general run of
offerings selling under quotation, spe-
lots of good color and staple COM
handing a premium. Sales, $500 bales.
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS ANT BONDS
NEW YORK, Dec. l9.-Wull street to-
day presented almost a holiday appear
ance, as far as a desire to dc business is
concerned. and transactions for the day
fell awav to proportions of a quiet Sat-
urdey, while in most of the list tuctua-
tons were scarcely peroeptible, and dull
ness and stagnation were the only
marked features of the dav. Prices
were lower, Is to = per cent being taken
from last nights prices. A steady pres
sure was brought upon one or two stocks,
among which Louisville and Nashville
was the most prominent.
Tn downward movement, however,
lasted only for a half hour ct first, and
further slight fractions being lost the
market rallied to about a level of open-
ing figures, but became insufferablv
dull, and a long period of stagnation in
prices followed. Lake Shore was one of
.he strongest one of to-day's spots, and
Paul and Union Pacific were we'll
held, while Silver certificates, after
opening down, retired l per cent far
In the last hour there was some
weakness, and Louisville lost another
The final changes are all
in the direction OF lower figures,
but only Louisville and Nashville with q
loss of ia any material changes. |
Railroad bonds we're more active.
Government bonds dull and steady.
State bonds featureless.