Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-11
ON WALL STREET.
st,ot Dealings were of Little Import
ance Outside Of Reading.
Tie Pears Raidsd in the Last Hour and Wiped
Out Early Gains-RailrOad Bonds
More Active.
COMMERCIAL Z

rreeial 10 the Gazette.
w YORK. March 1O.-Money was easy
a-,rrbout the day, and the highest rate
,,,cre55 per cent. The lowest was 4 per cent.
ssferinr-Rcmains unchanged.
Hides-Fim; Buenos Ayres, dry, 1896 dry
45 a~Aa-fssetS96t. closed firm at PC for fair Rio
ser~0ay Futures closed firm.
garar-Raw, dull but steady; refined, firm
stuachanged figures.
C-ortog-Spot strong; middling, uplands,
nc. Futures closed firm 4 TO Z points higher.
Wbeat-Options were fairly active and irregl-
lar. closing firm at gaze advance. Spot lots
WooI-Coatiuues dull and prices are without
material change.
Stocks were more active to-day than for a long
time past, the sales amounting to APO, 945 shares.
Reading was the feature and the shorts were
subjected to q severe squeeze. Its price at the
highest point showed an advance of3I4 per cent,
and ]. finally closed at rs per cent. advance.
The other stocks closed irregular and slightly
changed.
Fort Worth. 1914.
Inthed dry goods district to-day complete stag
nation prevailed; there was nothing doing in any
ofthe departments.
RAILWAY BONDS AND CERTIFICATES.
Bonds were dull.
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth certificates,
b..
Fort Worth and Denver Is, 1888.
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rs, 116h.
Gold 6's, 1854.
Kansas and Texas rs, u42s.
General 8, a..
General 6's. 64l5.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas general 6's, "a.
Kansas consolidated rs. 1l43s.
st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas rs, IS.
Texas and Pacific rs, 9l34,
Texas and Pacific rs, 80.
COFFEE ADVANCING.
New YORK. March lO.-Noon.-There is con-
siderable excitement at the coffee exchange, and
shorts are covering easily since the opening.
Prices have advanced from so to 65 points.
Twenty-fourt thousand bags were sold on the first
cal. The situation in Brazil is the cause Of the
excitement.
COTTON SPOTS n FUTURES.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON. Tex, March 1O.-Spot-Au the
Ieading spot markets advanced to-day. Liver
pool is up lied, New York, New Orleans and
Wilmington advanced &c, while Mobile, SaVan-
nah, Norfolk and Augusta are up 1-16c.
Almarkets closed steady and firm.
Futures also advanced. .
Liverpool futures opened steady at a Sigh
advance, ruled steady, and closed quiet, 1 point
higher than SATURDAYS close.
New York futures opened firm, at an advance
oo points over Saturdays close, ruled barely
seaay al second call, steady at third call at q
SS~l!'hlgheT advance. and closed steady, 9 points
higher on all deliveries.
New Orleans futures opened firm at an ad-
vance OF points, ruled steady at a further adj
EaAce and closed steady at 10 to II points higher
man saturdays close.
WOOL, COFFEE AND SUGAR.
Wool-Washed and unwashed, steady and IN
changed, with no transactions.
,Cofee-Firm and excited with an advance of
tcoAal grades, with a strong upward ten
Sugar-Very firm at present quotations with
SuetIded tendency to higher prices.
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BONDS.
New YORK, March lO.-There was little of the
stock market to-day outside of dealings in Read
Ing, though a few stocks, in sympathy with that
STOCK, showed strength at times Fear of the
eonsequences Of completion of the deal, how
t'eE, kept the general list in a feverish and gen.
oaty unsettled condition throughout the day,
i ha The Sor raid by the bears in the the
Pressure on shorts in Reading resulted
aNlplng out most of the early gains in the rest
inc list. Beyond the movement mentioned,
~ was little IN tO-day's market, and dizziness
WIN a good tone marked the trading.
,n-liFoad bonds were slightly more active, but
Issue OF Reading As, which after opening up
n n, al Improvement, there was little feature to
SSovenment bonds dull and steady.
S's'e bonds dull and featureless.
BRITISH GRAIN TRADE.
LONDON, March l0.-The Mark Lane Express
PIs weekly review of the British grain trade
s'ys; English wheat is held frmer. Sales of Eng
|n Eheats during the past week were 7s,OI9
quarters at z9s I'D, against 81. 3s5 quarters at
Ia D.. IL during the corresponding week
year. There IS a fair demand
len. Foreign wheats are weak, Spring
81 W lRNnna 40 1A.-a ~ $500