The New York herald., 1875-12-31
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The Stock Market Dull and
Weak.
ND STEADY AT ls Is A liz s-4 A LIS.
bney in Active Demand at Per Cent, Gold,
but Closing Easier at Per Cent-ln-
vestment Securities Firm.
WALL STREET,


For the daily commentator on the stock market
ere is about much succulence in Lake shore Sa-
ugh il is the aUis or the daylas there Is IN the
enty- ninth quail to the sanguine gastronome who
wagered to.eat thirty birds in many twentyfour
urs The meal is .aat stale and Improbable, and II
more serious physical phenomena are developed the
lief performer may consider himself lucky As far as
ock matters went to-day 1t simply ringing of
changes upon the bells and the Big Ben OF the
ctave (Which has been chrstened Lake Shore) doomed
ht on the air with the same ulness OF which for
eks past has engroSsed popular attention. In fact It
be observed of the rest OF the market, as was re-
rked by the traveller in peerng down the crater OF
suvius, 'sThere nothing in it,"
While the bulk the stock list lay inert Lake Shore
kttracted almost the sole speculative attention. and
4 Transactions told off by thousands of shares
where other securities numbered them in hundreds
Yet even these thousands were comparatively limited
IN number and were solely the fruit of desperate
ttempt the part of the pool to advance prices with
view to general hilarity. 1t was the old story OF
Dsyphus and the stone-a push prolapsus-a moss
Eatherer or rolling boulder. Whether the field OF
battle resulted to the clique Arabia Felix
Arabia PETRA their purchase and sales books proba
ply tell Sufficient is it to note the fact that Lake
snore opening at 591s after much toll and trbulaon
osed at 59s@-in word, at nearly the best point OF
e day. Deo 0ratiasi
The Union Pacific shop was apparently closed for re-
pairs or on the plea that the proprietor would be
shack in hour" for but single customer knocked
1t the DOORS and he satisfied with 100 shares at
che retail price of "a
Pacific Mail opened at 391 and closed at the same
Iuotaton there being but single q per cent uctua-
ion during the day. 1t evident that operators
jews not directed seaward, and that the ''blue,
fresh, the free' and stocks connected there
lth were quite out OF repute
There Rumor Committee In session and no
nards flying within gunshot, the day passed with
Put event. that the Bank OF England had marked
its price of accommodation noted elsewhere, and
ghat the money market appeared 10 have been nocu-
lated with an attack OF fp-faps possibly from Mr..
erryman, for standing firmly on its feet at midday at
GA and interest ut three O'Clock 1t posed quite
srsstenty on its head at Offering price Of per
ent per annum, with none poor to do 1t honor
So, though huntsmen and hounds early in the
ld there but cold scent lying and the market,
q cover drawn blank.
transactions on the Stock Exchange to-day aggre.
ated $500 shares, which distributed among
rtive securities follows:-New York Central and
dson, AIS; Erie, 1900; Lake shore, 42,1s5 North
Eestern 1ooo do preferred, 100; Rock Island 300
Pacific Mall 1880; st. Paul. 1000; do. preferred,
i,4o0; ohios, 1000; Western Union, 1850; Wabash,
400; Union Pacific 100; Michigan Central, $500;
Missouri Pacific. 200.
ADVANCE AND DECLINE.
The following the changes in closing prices
pared with those OF yesterday
ADvANcE.-Atlantc and Pacific Telegraph, X; Michi-
gan Central, Ia Erie, % Lake Shore, "a Northwest
ern 70; do preferred, u Panama, /; st. Paul. u; do
preferred, y Western Union, u, New Jersey Cen
= ntral, a.
DEcINE.-central and Hudson, u Harlem. y;
Z IL s''5 5.ss iss' Of bonds,
old ~.
STATIONARY Delaware, Lackawanna pnd Western,
annbal and st. Joseph, OHIO and Mississippi and
cifc Mail
OPENING, HIGHEST LOWEST PRICES
be following table shows the opening, highest and
est prices of the day.