The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-28
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
MARKETS BIZ TELEGRAPH.
NEW YORK, April 27.

bags. The market closed firm for com
mon and dull and heavy for medium
and good grades.
GRA1N-Wheat-Du and heavy fol
winter and quiet and firn for spring
Rye-Dull at 81 30a1 32 for western
Oats-Firm at SOC for western in store
Corn-Quiet at 6119aS21c for new mix:
ed western and S3aS5c for old mixed
western in store and at1oat.
| PRoVIsIoNS-Pork- and steady
at $3l 80 for new mess, cash and reR1-
lar. Beef-Steady with moderate de-
Bacon-Dun and heavy. Lard
Heavy at 1SHa1S2sc for fair to prime
steam.
EGGs-Steady at 18a20c.
DRY GOODS MARKET.
There is little or no change to notice
in the features of the market. Trade
is generally dull and prices rule very
low.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
MoSEY-The great excitement and
buOyanCy on stock exchange and the
large advance in prices formed the
principal topic Of conversation in finan-
cial circles, the speculative feeling
running strongly on the Bull side. and
all indications favor higher prices.
Money in more demand but plenty
at per cent on call discounts 7a1o
per cent.
STERLING Firm at 1OS6a1O0 for
prime bankers.
GoLD-Strong, opened at 1881; closed
at I332la1337s; borrowing rates 81 to
Il per cent; while loans until to-mor.
row commanded q per cent. There
are indications of sharp corner
being engineered in cash gold. The
Assistant Treasurer has amended
the official advertisement of gold,
NnnENk kn mn
bids not in the interest of the govern
ment, and also announcing. that not
more than one million will be sold in
August.
GOVERNMENT STGCKs-Stronger and
at one time '67s sold at 1l6, butiat the
close the extreme prices were not
maintained. Purchases chiefly still on
foreign accounts.
Coupons 'SI, 11sIsal1SI; do '62. 12lH
12lI5; do '64, 1171sall7A; do '65, 1l8<a
ll9; do new, 1855 all6; do '67, 1151sa1l6;
do '6S, 1l5Aa116; do 10-40s, 1O63alO624.
SToCKs-Have been active and buoy
ant most of the day. Rumors of large
scrip dividends on Hudson, Harlem
and Fort Wayne are again curreot.
Northwestern common is freely pur-
chased on the belief that the semi-an~
nual per cent dividend will be paid.
After one O'Clock there was reaction,
and New York Central leading, the
market declined to 17SH. Later, prices
rallied, and Central sold at 1148;
Michigan Southern and Lake Shore
were heavily dealt in, the former rising
to lOl%, and tho latter to lOOA. At
$3.50 the market was again lower, sub
seQuently recovering, and closing
firm, though not upon some stocks, to
the highest figures of the day. The ad-
Central and Fort. Wayne was very
marked, with but little reaction.
$50 Prices: Pacific Mail 93Ia94;
Western Union Telegraph 43I<a43Ss;
New York Central 174SalI43s; Erie 33a
33L; Hudson 15531al55A; Harlem 147L
al4774; Reading 96I497; Chicago and
Alton 16la162; Terre Haute 39a40; Wa
bash 73Ta74; st. Paul 771<a777G; Fort
Wayne 138aiss1zi Ohio and Mississippi
33sla333I: Michigan Central 128Hal30;
Michigan Southern 100Aa1Ol; Illinois
Central 144a14424; Pittsburgh 93a931s;
Lake Shore 1OO3S Sa1OOH; Rock Island
1878 5a13751; Northwestern 85Aa95ls ;
Columbus and Indianapolis Central 4S;
st, Joe preferred 112; Cleveland, Colum-
bus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis 20.
EXPRESS SHAREs-Wells, Fargo q Co.
35H1a36; American 4la4lAs; Adams 6l73a
62T; United States 641za66X; Mer-
chants Union 15Ha16.
Cincinnati.
APRIL 27.-FLoUR-Remai dull;
family at SO O0a6 25.
GRAIN-Wheat-Nom uuchang-
ed; No. 9 at 81 SO. Corn-Dull at Goa
&C. Oats-Steady at 67a71c, latter rate
for choice white. Rye-At 81 3Sal 80.
Barley-Nominally unchanged.
CoTToN-Quiet; middlinRs at 21%c.
ToBACCo-Active; sales of 165 hhds at
"a 89a22 rs: latter is the highest price
received this season for new leaf,
Wu1sKY-Quiet at 90c.
PRoVIsIoNs-Quiet but prices un-
changed. Mess Pork-Sold at $3l 25.
Nothing done in Bulk Meats, Bacon or
Lard, but prices are nominally un-
changed.
made Is scarce and brings 3S24Oc, but
all that in roll is very dull.
EaGs-Firm at 15a16c.
SEEDs-TimothY Seed-Lower and
dull, now 50 75a4 90 per bushel. Glover
Seed-Dull at 15Aa16c per pound.
GRoCERIEs-Sugar- and droop-
ing; refined nc lower; New Orleans
scarce and steady at 123a15c. New
Orleans Molasses at 80a85c, and but
little in the market. Coffee-Firm at
2Oa26c.
CATT1E-Beef Cattle-Steady at 81 90
az so; receipts fair.
SHEEP-5Oc lower; whole range 50 75a
6 % per Genital. o-
HoGs-75c lower; now 60 Ooa1V 20
GoLD-1334.
Chicago.
APRIL 27-FLoUR-Quiet at 81 75a7 90
for low grades to choice spring extras.
N-Wheat-More active and un-
settled; No. 81 13a1 IA; No. 2 81 05ha
l OF: closing at 81 O6Na1 O611; sales
since change at 81 OK. Corn-Quiet;
sales of No. at 5SA60; No. 2 Sc; rejected
49a5l; new 5Oa52; closing at 49Aa5lH
for new; nothing doing this afternoon
Oats-More active; sales No. at 57]za
5S15; closing quiet at 5711a57A. Rye
Quiet and lC higher; sales No: at
ST lOa1 II: closing with sellers at 81 IL.
Barley-Dull and nominal, closing at
81 SO for No. 2.
HoGs-Opened quiet and steady and
closed dull and weak; sales at 50 00a
9 S5 for common to choice.
BEEF CATTLE-Quiet and weak at
IS 25a5 IS for COWS and light stockers;
Sc OOa6 OH for good stockers and light
shipping steers; s. 5Oa6 Is for good.
st. Louis.
APRIL 27.-FLoUR-Dull and un-
GR41N-Wheat-Fixm, No. 2 in eieva
ter sold at 81 O6. Corn-Duu and lower
at 6la65c in sacks. Oats-Lower at ga
i64c. Rye-Unchanged at u 23a1 "a.
,Barley-Lower at 81 s0a2 90 for choice
spring.
WH1sKY-Unchanged at $40.
PRovIsIoNs-Very quiet and un'