The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-07
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
OFFICE OF THE EVENING TELRGRAPR. !
Wednesday. November z. 1896.

VSuuSoudl NOFGIuUtI T, AoOO !
The Stock Market was moderately active this
morning, and prices were steady. In Govern
ment bonos there was little doing 5.2Os sold at
llO4QllOS, no change; August 1905 sold at lO8,
slight decline; and lO4s at l003 no change.
1l44 was bid for 6s of 1881; ana 1919 for new
6-2Os. State and City loans were ID fair demand;
Pennsy lvania 5s sold at 96i, and new CITY 6s at
l0250l024, slight advance.
:. RAILROAD shares were the most active on the
list. Reading sold at 5SSS, no change; Northern
Central at 494, decline of /; Norrstowr at 6l4,
no change; Cata WisSa preferred at 282 no
change; Philadelphia and Erie at SO, no change:
CamGen ana Am6oy at 1870, an advance OF L;
and North Pennsylvania at $685. no change; 355
was bid for Lltte SchUylkill; 554 for Pennsyl-
vania; SO for Mlnehill; sc for Lehigh Valley; 20
for Elmira common; and AZ for preferred do.
In City Passenger Railroad shares there was
nothing dong. so was bid for Tenth and
Eleventh; 204 for Thirteenth and Fifteenth; "a
tor Spruce and Pine; 53B for Chestnut and Wal
nut; l54 tor Hestonville; 81 for Green and
Coates; 25 for GIrard College: and AL for Union
Bank shares continue IN good demand for IN
vestment, but we hear OF no sales. 335 was bid
tor Mechanics; Sd for Keusinglon; and 46I for
Consolidation
Navigation sold at 563 an advance of 4: and
Morris Canal common at S4f, an advance OF /;
274 was bid for Schuylkill Navigation common;
S63 ior preferred do; l23 for Morris Canal pre-
terred; l54 for Susquehanna Canal; 81 for Della
ware Division; and 533 for Wyoming Valley
Canal. r
There is no material change to notice in the
Money Market. Loans on call are offered at s
per cent; frst-class commercial paper continues
scarce and ranges at from to per cent. per
annum.
Quotations of Gold-1Ob A. NJ, las; IL A. M.
lazy; ~ M, 1851 P. NJ, l47s.
PHlLADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-DAY
"epor'ed oS DE Hayen Bro, No. 40 S. Third street
,o y FIRST BOARD
$1,000 u S 730s Aug l08 SIO00 war & Fro 10 s3l
9y0V 9gV0 GzOs ,6ScpJuy ll0 $1,000 Leh 6s "a. -. 93
$i6VV $i6VS lO4os CO. 1904 $1,000 Susu Cn bds 63
%dI0V %IIHE = %. 96 $500 q. Am u.s. SO 96
soo00 % 'iUlt Sl0OO N Pa 6s....... SO
tTeSHNU uo''' LOIS lUSt T. 3sE N Cenr. 49s
e96U o a ~; u ~ ~ Il 20 70 sh Lengh nav. 68;
@Syo0 @SgO0 "a % Ap Ism % 70 sh Nor Canal. 80. 84s
e5S00 So o 80 Sl i sh Norristown. 6l4
Si60000 10 iOss. s6B 100 sh Pm & E.. b30 33
@lOoO uo' ''1u IN ~ bOO sh Reading $50 68J
-Messrs. De Haven q Brother, No. 40 South
Third street, report the following rates of ex
change to-day at P. M. ;4American gold 147
@l41s; Silver e and, IS, l4l; Compound Interest
August, 1854, l54; DO, October. 1854 14l: do
December, 1854 l3G; do, NAV, 1865. lIS: do
August, 1866, l0s; do, September, ISskl IN. do
October, 1856, 81. NN'' -0' N0''
The New York Tribune this mornino savs.-
"Money remains unchanged at 4 per cent an
Governments and per cent on misceIIaneons
coiaterals. Some weak houses were frightened
into paving per cent. early in the day. bnt
houses In frst-class standing borrowed ali tbev
wanted at 6 per cent and the market closed
easy at that rate. Sterling exchange rs dull
Prime Dankers' sterling is sold from second
hands at 1904, but IO9a@l09s is the general rate
with drawers. We quote: = London, prime
bankers' so days, 100 S@l0Ss london, prime
bankeTs sight. llOb0ll0s; PARIS. bankers,
long; o.lotCgo tbs; Paris bankers short, 6l2A@
6'll4i Antwerp 6l0t@5il6; Hamburg, bankers,