Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28
ON WALL STREET.
The Stock Market was Dull and Weak
Only Few Shares Changing Hands.
The Close was Dfgher-The Weekly Bank
Statement was Very Favorable, Show
ing Reserves of 1920, 275.
COMMERCIAL RESUME.


Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Money-On call
easy at 4G5 per cent, and closed offered
at4
Excheucs-steady 81 So1a@4 IS.
suger-Raw and refined show no
change; trading quiet.
Cottou-Spot lots steady; middling,
$50. Futures closed to 2 points lower.
Cofee-spot lots steady; far Rio, 200.
Futures closed steady.
whest-Options irregular, closing weak
and 1sc lower. Spot lots quiet.
Wool-Dull without change IN prices;
spring Texas, 20@ 234c.
Hides-Firm; Buenos Ayers, dry,
u &c; dry Texas, 91ac.
stocks-Dull to-day, only 81, 070
shares changing hands. Not Sithstand-
ing the extreme dullness, however,
prices were fair. Union Pacific, Atchi-
son, Louisville and Nashville were the
only stocks showing any declivity. The
bank statement was very favorable,
showing an increase of So .226, 275 in re-
serve. The closing prices were frac-
tionally above those of Yesterday.
Atchison, 272$.
"a Dry good5-Ihe market continues dull |;
gno feature OF interest was developed in
trading to-day. Prices fairly steady
with commission houses, however. The
closing days of the year are busy ones
for merchants, who have many old
orders TO flI, and those dealers conf S
IDENTITY look forward to q revival of trade
almost with the incoming of the new
year. The feeling in the dry goods
trade Is a confident one.
RAILROAD BONDs AND CERTIFICATES.
Bouds-Duil.
Fort Worth and Denver s, 99l5.
Atchison general mortgage AS, 1871.
AtchisOn incomes, 4Gla.
Kansas and Texas rs, 72l5.
Kansas and Texas 2's, 36l5.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas 2's, 3615.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas IS, 7215.
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas rs,
rs.
Texas and Pacific rs, "a.
Texas and Pacific 2's 80.
COTToN-FUTUREs AND SPOTS.
Special TO the Gazette.
NEW ORLEANS. La, Dec. 27.-At-
wood, Violet & Co. say:
Futures-Au improvement in New
York at the opening was followed here
By the same advance. The close, how
ever, was only point higher than yes
terday, while New York was l point
lower. There seems nothing new to say
about the market. Can a bull move
meDt be inaugurated at present in the
face of large port and interior movement
or increasing supply and diminishing de-
maud except for good grades, while the
low grades are only lying by to be ten
dered on contract on any advance? Why
are New York receipts so large, and why
are January contracts here and in New
York so much under middling? We
think the first question Will be answered
Monday in the shape of notices. To-day
was not tender dav here or there, hence
the markets improved, we think, for
that reason. We may be wrong. but the
situation looks besrish to US.
Port receipts As, 900. against &c coo
last year.
The weekly movement reported by this
exchange shows the increase brought
into sight this week over same week last
year SO 900, total increase since the
LIST of September of 343 900. Increase in
stocks at ports and interior over last year
to yesterday 1879 goo.
Our New York friends say su aller re-
ceipts are necessary to sustain the mar
ket.
II. o. b.-Offerng large, but of grades
below middling, and there being no de-
mand for such, the result was only one
sale $50 bales) of stains, middiing to
strict middiing sold TO English exporters.
Spots-OfIerng large and poor style.
The bulk of business done to-day was in
off colors aud stains. Sales $3.50, in
Guiding 500 last evening.
GOVERNMENTS, STOCTs AND BONDS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-ahe situation,
both in Wall street add III mercantile
community, Is improving. In Wall
street the crisis has long been passed,
and affairs have settled down TO an
severy day condition. The stock market,
of course, still retains its holiday char
acrer, but there was most marked dis
position by the short sellers for the early
portion of the week to discount a good
bank statement by covering their shorts,
which of itself gave the market a strong
tone, which lasted from the opening TO
the close. The first sales were made at
small fractional gains over last evenings
figures, and while the narrowness aud
dizziness were most pronounced the ac-
tive stocks, including St. Paul, Atcbi-
son, Union Pacific, Lake Shore, Lacka-
wanna ana sugar all showed considera-
bic strength, and rose further than
small fraction. Union Pacific was the
most sluggish, and failed to make any
material advance. The rest of the list,
however, were most entirely devoid of
sfeature, and the market finally closed
dull, but firm, at about the lowest price
of the day.
Railroad bonds were comparatively
active.
bonds i,1I