Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-31
ON WALL STREET.
Stocks were Moderately Active YeSter-
day at Irregular Prices.
sugar Trusts, Union Pacific, Chicago Gas,
Burlington, AMI Louisville AM Nash
Vile were the Chief Features.
COMMERCIAL RESUME.

COMMERCIAL RESUME.
Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-Money-Closed
easy at 6 per cent. the lowest rate;
the highest was 6.
Exchange closed lower at S4.81@
4.s51a.
Sugar-Raw steady, 96-test, centri-
fugal, 5.9tc; refined easier; but loaf and
crushed, 6.9ic.
silver-Sl- O6,
wheat-Options were dull but firm on
small offerings, and 15@4o higher.
Spot lots closed stsaiy.
Cotton - Spot lots quiet: middings
loo. Futures closed to points higher.
Wool-Dull but steuly at firm prices.
Hides-FIrm. Buenos Ayres, dry, loo;
dry Texas, l0@l3c.
Coffee-Spot lots, quiet; fair Rio car
goes, 2015; futures closed lower.
Stocks were moderately active to-day
and prizes were somewhat irregula {,
closing slightly changed from those OF
yesterday. Sugar trusts, Union Pacific,
Chicago Gas, Burlington, Louisville an
Nashville, were the chief objects of in
terest and recorded the widest fiuctua-
tons.
Atchison. $3.50.
The dry goods market continues fairly
active aud prices are steadily main
tanned. Dealers are firm In their views
and refuse to make even the slightest
concessions
RAILWAY BONDS AND SECURITIES.
Bonds, dull.
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth oertifi-
Gates, 371s.
Fort Worth and Denver g, los.
Atchison general mortgage As, SO.
Atchison general incomes, 5515.
Kansas and Texas IS, 10.
Kansas and Texas 2's, Az.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas 2's, Az.
Missouri, Kansas aud Texas rs. rs.
st Louis Arkansas and Texas l Is, S7T.
Texas Pacific -, 9OA.
Texas aud Pacific 2's, 363I.
COTTON FUTURES AND SPOTS.
Special to the Gazette.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 30.-At-
wood, Violet & Co. say:
Futures-Contrary to our expectations,
prices opened lower. They afterwards
improved points. The closing how
ever. still shows slight loss from yes
teTiay. Shorts do not seem easily
alarmed, as the bearish sentiment is ap-
parently based upon decidedly large crop
views, which the receipts and weather
are doing much to confirm, Our infor-
nation is there was u large liquidation CT
hedges to-day In selling in Liverpool and
buying in New York. A conservative
New York house SAYS: We hardly think
the decline will proceed further.
Int fns,ty in..r usir pnrf
receipts to-day were $4,000, against
81 800 last year.
f. o. b.-The demand to-day was
chiefly for December and January de-
liveries. Little was done for immediate
shipments. The demand is still for strict
middling and above. Prices steady ct
Yesterdays quotations.
Spots-Sales, 5000, of which 1900 are
TO arrive. Offerings show no signs of
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.--The stock mar
ket to-day was again In the main q
one, the principal object OF in
terest being the argument on the suit for
the appointment of receiver for the
sugar trust, aud while there was Il lack
of activity in granger stocks the general
market was dull and featureless. The
market was nothing IN the main but an
effort TO cover shorts but the evidence is
that there was little success attending
the attempts. Our opening was ut from
Is TO y per cent lower than last nights
prices, while Louisville and Nashville
was down 10. Bears ignored the lower
London market, however, and vent into
cover with vigor unknown of late, and
during the continuance of those opera
tlons, which consumed the entire fore
noon, prices in active stocks, which
comprised grangsrs, Union Pacific,
Louisville and Nashville, Atchison,
sugar retinerles and Chi
rago gas. moved up sharply at times.
in the afternoon early gains were
wiped out in most cases. Que of the
features of the day was the mauipula-
ton In Illinois Central upon the issue OF
A report of earnings for the past three
showing loss in net. II was
hammered down to So and consider
ing the limited business done In stock
offerings of seller, slxty-day options
were unusually numerous at about l per
rent. below the market. 1t closed at
%, loss OF q per cent. for the day.
The general market was rather heavy,
but trade Us usual was slight. Changes
this evening of importance, however,
show a majority of losses. Houston and |
Texas FIRST certificates are down 2 at ~.
Government bonds dull.
State bonds steady.
EGYPTIAN COTTON YIELD.
CAIRO, Oct. 3o.-The latest estimate
,f the yield of the Egyptian cotton crop
q 8 800. 600 contars. This increase Is |
iue TO the fine weather that has pre-
vailed this mouth.