Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-28
ON WALL STREET.
The Stock Market was Dull, Heavier
and Generally Lower
Rumors of Extended Labor Troubles Caused
Declines silver Purchases-R ilrOad
Bonds Nore Active.

COMMERCIAL RESUME.
Special TO the Gazette.
NEW York, Aug. 27.-Money - Closed per
cent; highest, per cent, lowest, 3.
Exchange-Closed steady, Sassy CAST.
silver-sl. 1sGi. 1874 per ounce.
Wheat-Closed 2sa1c lower.
Cotfee-Firm and unchanged.
Wcol-Quiet; s ring -=as, lsa23c.
Cotton-spot easy; middling, us. Futures
steady.
Rides-Unchanged.
Sto;ks-The m Irke: was dull, heavy and gem
er hy ever during The afternoon on repor l
extensions the labor trouble. The declines
III prices of sIock were 4G2 per cent. from II
O'Clock figures leaving them at The close l4Gl ia
per ce Mt. lower for the dry.
The amount of silver offered TO the treasury
to-day was 1911, 90 ounces, of which 57S, coo
at sig, u.s. 900 ounces at 81 1914 S2oOOO ounces
at SI.l9I.
Atchison, Ass.
Dry goods-Nothing doing.
RAILWAY BONDS AND CERTIFICATES.
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth certificates,
Fort Worth and Denver rs, I05.
Atchson general mortgage, as, S4ii.
Atchison incomes, 66k.
Kansas and Texas rs, It's.
General SIS, 20.
General 6's, Sli5.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas general SIS, Sl1k-
Missouri, Kansas and Texas consolidated rs,
lilo.
St. Louis. Arkansas and Texas Us, SO.
Texas and Pacific rs, 81.
Texas and Pacific 2's, 39Ik.
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.
srecial TO the Gazette.
BosTor, Mass, Aug. 27.-wool-More de-
mand, but no advance can be obtained. Prices
unchanged.
coTToN-sPors AND FUTURES.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. 27.-The spot market
mington and Baltimore declined I.c, st. Louis
&c. while Mobile, Savannah, Boston and Phila
del phia each dropped &c.
Futures closed steady and firm.
Liverpool futures opened quiet but steady at
slight decline on some months, unchanged on
Others, ruled quiet and closed firm, point
New York futures opened steady, with August
IL points lower, other months a point off, ruled
and to points on other months, closed steady,
3 to points higher than yesterday on all dehv-
cries.
New Orleans futures opened steady with Au-
gust % points lower, other months l to 2 points
off, ruled quiet but steady, August advancing 20
points over opening. other months from TO s
points lower. closed steady, to points higher
than last closing.
wool, COFFEE AND SUGAR.
Wool-In demand and unchanged, sales of A.
00J pounds of unsecured grades.
Coffee and sugar-Steady and unchanged.
GOVERNMENT STOCKS AND BONDS.
New YORK, Aug. 27.-The stock market to-day
was again dull, although there was some activity
in spots, but prices after opening losses of from
u to q per cent, were moved up and down with
in narrow limits in everything except a half
dozen leading stocks, in which there $ i'll re-
manned 8 speculative animation. OF these
Reading and Lackawanna were conspic-
uous for weakness and Union Pa
cifc for strength. The market rallied
slightly from first depression with London's
buying, but the succeeding dizziness again in
vited an attack, and prices shaded off slowly
till well into the afternoon, when q more deter
mined drive made. and sugar, in which
some stop orders were uncovered, Lackawauna,
Reading, Rock Island, and Atchison suffered
severely. Thezcose was fairly active and firm,
but generally at about the lowest prices. The
final 4apges show many material declines, and
LackawanDa is down 2. Canada Southern, Big
-Four, and Louisville and Northern, each per
cent. and the others fractional amounts.
Railroad bonis, while still very dull, fur.
nished considerable of a contrast to stocks in
showing firmer tone than usual, and while
changes were generally insignificant a few i'm
portant changes showed majority of Id
vances.
Government bonds iun and steady to firm.
g.ate bonds dull, -