The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-19
MONEY AND INVESTMENTS.
Doinls of Day With Wall Street
Operators,
IHREADNEEDLE AND WALL STREETS.
The English Allowed Their ConsoIs 10
Decline, While Americans Boosted
Securities.

New York, December lS-(Special. 1.-THE
gentlemen on Threadneedle street, to show
their patriotism or possibly thinking they
would start In now to help best Uncle
Sammy by the way of his pockets, threw
back on us fat lump OF our securities,
largely st. Paul and Louisville and Nash
vile, and our Wall street neishbcrs got
50 frightened that they let this preciptate
a sharp decline in number of shares
which was essisted very materially by con
siderable pressure on the part of traders
and some selling Of stocks by commission
houses. TIE fall in prices was equal to
y to p. IN kans,s and Texas preferred.
Leather Sugar Missouri Pacific and
others,
Mr. Butts money bags allowed their own
eohsols and ottei securities on their own
market 10 decline. while here We gave
on! own bonds an upward boost.
The carly decline In stocks was attended
WIN lively scenes, as also the quick rally
that followed on covering 10y slorts ana
quite extensive, but In the afternoon It
sdgsed on TO comparative dizziness. Tie
advance N sterling exchange and the pros
poets Of gold shipments on Saturday oper.
ated against the market
Conservative folks and foreign bankers
here don't think there VIII be any war, and
t,at tH' present eNclttineiil VIII nlpW over
Money late in the day loaned at lsD2
which goes to hear this out
Bonds were lower IN sympathy with
stoGksi siNues A,SS, delnana fs9is
Silver &c as, MeNicaus IL.
Cash coffee steai ~, No. I Il 5-S.
cross returns for second week or De
cember show Denver and Rio Grande about
SVvV anead OF last year tort worth Ahl
Pacific about $500 on the Same side OF the
| ieGger. co,,,. nil, \, co,,,,,.,,
John Nj. Duncan IL 9 Uousp r.. b Raer
aud ]. H. Barber. lr have been elected
1IIrect OTIS or NE 'iaiNcS'0h' houston S"u
sol W,,i. e,.r n, ,bo oman.
| my, g we cotton utfttI Whtn we npn VOL,
IN ptir con, ''.it c''hvH nViTu 70 a., ' ,.,i
sIY "sa ne ~, a',, l''i0' iI,uJdltion Wr,,5
Su,t OF Soihe Fulhh uQuiiu t.,Oh ~ ''i'. ;
u"lutINi hut IL WaS s''"l NVl;; 49, W. We
no outSlde lit SSuTv 10 W! au VIZ ~
Were 700 i.snt 70 Waiutn' IN AZ Scs,s
OF any m"teilal de'hne, any 'hr p' ~ :,
| sSclht nus, W'FI iSlt'H 10 r." lu ,
| lhat ule WHJoIltN OF ncttVl pus't' "',N ~
more OF ne 80. , ~, ,,e
snVW91 ulsposltui' 70 voNrl a,la tirT w
| pun SD" dlSconfasei ,he opyr5 ''ouf "i tns
| decllne' ahi we u'n.N'' u uieu qnto' 49, ~
Wv Y nc{,,ts ,,ndo, I,ef night'
'0sS OF ohlH 10 polills ui3ut' nslt ms w
closing prices. on Whole, trautns w, wa
| qutt and lognl' WIN VIC nm r1nt1
sun tnere liz aItvTlI ,3,a KIN 90 VIA,
| uuleu ana steauN, Win Wy pu' ". Wa l
snali business ths,e WIS io lr ~ ~,
at about the opehing ptlccs' nc SHi ~,
| Of the news receiver FROM inc I(utu W
about the same ns heretofore VIII llot .'i.hs
new 10 sum. lIesn ope VIZ ' y,
SIDE. Inc uullncss reg ll,i 70 ,ilNi' ~. ,.,
! attack and promlvul Ifcal unci . - ., ~,
draNored 70 ralu II, nut me- pl wv ~ 1,,
50 many nuVlie olucfs o., WV NJ, 49,, 81, "a
that MS eforts nScNea iu'ile' i"e MAJ ne
| closed quiet ana steauN'
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NEW Nohk sl''NN bN' i'N>Nr''
New York December 1S.--The re-echoei
~ president C,aveland's Venezuela mes
VI - 80, s.t...,. a.,
sage to congress was 'he oo'iiiaUns III
| fuence upon the stock market today
London prices for American securities
| sho yed declines extending to rs per cen
i'm Louisville and Nashville and the inter
| national shares were sold steady with bu
| slight rallies throughout the day, Thi
! class of securities displayed the creates
| weakness Of any on the list, In the frs
fifteen minutes of business the losses II
| the crOun referred to ranged up to ~
per cent in Missouri Kansas and Texas
| preferred The dealings in the interna
tonal shares We're usually active IN tn
about 10000 10 $1,000 shares, some com
meht was eNc'tsl 0n,r a uei arS coin
c,6ent (r,ctionSi advonce in Tinted State
new and old per cent bonds. In th'
general market lower prices were re
corded IN the carry lraulnF, INC u0e ,i..,e
being IN some instances iuliy as bIed
as IN the lnterNaupnalS. H,n9ut wv II
OF the first hOur sunSlanllal IttpN'llr