The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-03
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW York. Marcel, Q.

NEW York, March 2.
CoTroN-without decided change
1900 bales sold at 2SXc for middling
uplands.
FLoUR-Closed in buyers favor, with
moderate demand for common grades.
GRAIN.-Wheat-Ste for spring.
with moderate export demand, and dull
and heavy for winter. Itye-Dull and
heavy at 81 40 for western. Oats
Steady mt 75c for western in store. Corn
Firm at 9512a96c for new mixed west
ern, and 81 Olal O3 for old mixed west
ern in store and at1Ont.
PRoVISIoNs.-Pork- and quiet
at S32 25 for mess, cash and regular.
Beef-Dull and heavy. Cut Meats and
BacOn-Nominal.
LARD-Steady at 19a191zc for fair to
prime steam.
EGGs--Firm at 26a2Sc.
DRY GOODS MARKET
Prices are generally we'll maintained,
the most important change being deS
cline in Massachusetts J from 1890 to
13c. In prints there is no particular
change: all first class goods are steady
at 121Sc 10 1870, the latter for select
STYLES of Pacific and Merrimack do; in
worsted therehas been decline in Ris-
tori from So IS to $50; other makes OF
course will fall in the same ratio.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
MoNEY-Active and firm at per cent.
on call, with commission of H per
cent. added after bank hours. Many
banks talked poor, and some bankers
There is no doubt the present tendency
towards a stringency is being accele
rated by artificial means. The great
rise in governments caught many par
ties short at much lower prices, and
they have combined with the bears on
the general stock list to tighten money
and depress bonds and stocks sufficient
ly for them to cover. The furry will
hardly continue thereafter. Prime dis
counts 713a9 per cent.
STERLING-Flrmer;la large business at
109a109T; closing at 109Isa1O9L for
prime bankers. Sight bills l09Hal095s.
Few produce bills offering.
GoLD-Strong; opened at 1925; adj
vanced to 1921; fell to I3l24, and closed
at 1925. The price was affected by
every rumor from Washington con-
cerning Mr.. Schenck's bill. Loans
were made at 3a7 per cent for carrying:
Governments were unsettled during
the morning by reports from Washing
ton unfavOrable TO the Schenck bill,
and prices showed decline of %a1L
per cent as compared with yesterdays
highest sales; from this there was re-
covery of AaH per cent at the noon
board, with continued tirmness at the
2 o'clock call. The later market was
again lower, and closed barely steady.
GOVERNMENT SToCKs-Coupous Isl,
lis; do '62. 1l62sa1l7; do '64. 1l32Sal13sI;
do '65, 1l4Ia1l42s; do new, 112a1l2T; do
'67, 1l21Bl12L; do ;6S, 1l2Lall213;
10 4O's 1O534a1O55s.
STOCKS-At the opening stocks were
heavy and so continued until after the
Lac urFNk
became steady, and a fractional inn
proVement was noticed throughout the
list. There were large dealings at the
l O'Clock board in New York Central.
Michigan Southern, Rock Island and
Northwestern, and big blocks were
pressed for sales at a decline of Aa1 per
cent. Pacific Mail was an exception,
and advanced to 1O1Aa10lH. At the
second board the market was steady,
but after call again became dull and
lower, which was followed by further
decline. AT the last open board New
York Central fell l per cent, Pacific
Mail ~ per cent, Rock Island II per
cent. Northwes tern 1<a2S per cent, and
old Southern Il per cent; heaviness con-
tinued till the close ofto-day.
$50 Prices: Pacific Mail 99Ha99A;
Western Union Telegraph 365a36N;
N. Y. Central 159a159N; Erie 361<a3615;
Hudson 135Aa136; Reading 905sa9O9<;
Terre Haute 371Ia3S1z; Wabash 66La
671z; st. Paul 65a65M; Fort Wayne
Michigan Central 9515e95N; Illinois
Central 14O24; Toledo 1l5a1l53<; Rock
Island 125La1253<; Northwestern SILa
8l1f; Lake Shore LOG.
EXPRESS SHAREs-Wells Fargo & Co..
SOLa292<; American 42Ma423<; Adams
59a595s; Merchants Union 16al61s.
Cincinnati.
MARCH 2.-Nothing new in FLOUR or
GRAIN, demand light; common dull
and prices nominal.
CoTToN-Middlings held at 2Sa28Lc.
ToBAcCo-In good demand at full
prices; sales of14O hhds.
WHIsKY-Dull at Gle.
PROVISIONS Quiet and unchanged,
not much demand, and there was not
enough done to establish quotations.
Mess Pork-Held at $32 so. Bulk Meats
for shoulders, clear rib and clear sides:
sugar cured hams at 18Ha19Xc. Lard
AT 19c.
BUrTER-Scarce and prices 2a3c high
er; the market is bare of prime to
choice.
CHEEsE-Higher and scarce at 2Ia22c
for factory.
sEEDs-Firm and in good demand at
161<a16Hc for clover; and So 35a3 so for
Timothy.
OILs-No change.
CATTLE-Beef Cattie-Dull and Csc
lower.
CANDLEs-Star Candles - Duh and
prices declined to 23c; tallow candles
declined to 141a15c.
SALT--Is Sc lower, and the demand
light; Ohio River 40c per bushel.
GoLD-13lH buying.
Buffalo.
MApCr q -Er0rR-9fao6u
GRA1N77Wheat-Strong, with a down