The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-20
FINANCIAL AND COMM ERCIAL

FINANCIAL AND COMM ERCIAL
NEW YORK, Oct. l9.- MoSEY-At
2@4 per cent and closing at per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 5ta6 per ce.I
Customs receipts S295, 600 The Assist
ant Treasurer disbursed $4,000. Clear
ings SS4,000Oo0 Sterling heavy at 4sS
@4S5.
GoLD--The market was characterized
by much less excitement than yesterday.
and speculation was weaker in tone
on recovery in prices OF stocks At
London, but subsequently became tirmer
on rumors that consols were down to
93l. and still later was weaker again.
Tue price opened al :, fell of to llO!,
rose 10 iii and re-, TO ll0s. The
carrying rate Was y = cent. and bor-
rowing rates l-64 per diem and per
cent per arnum. Loans st the close
were made fiat.
GovERNMENTs-Flrm
United states 6s OF 1881, coupons...........Il9
Five-twenties, (lSH5) .....................Il4
Five-twenties, (lso5)
flNe-tWentles, klcol
Five-twenties, (IStS)
New .....-.ll5
New Four-and-onehalfs... ll011
Ten Forty Coupons. ..........ll5t
Currency Sixes......--.-..... I'tbs
RAILROAD BoNDs-Strong.
STATE BoNDs-Dull.
SToCKs-The stock market with The
exception of Northwestern, which was
5 higher than at the clsse yesterday,
opened steady. After Il decline O. per
cent. in Delaware X Hudson
Canal, I in Delaware, Lackswsnna and
Western, and ! in Lake Shore. The
whole market began to advance, and be-
fore noon had risen i@G per cent, the
latter Delaware and Hudson Canal.
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western ad-
vanced 4s, New jersey Central q; New
York Centual u, Northwestern pre-
ferred 2, do common IL, ST. Paul pre-
ferred +, do common ! and Lake ShCre
and Erie each Subsequently the Sd-
vance was partially lost and the market
at the close was lees active than early in
the day. Although there was a consdrra.
bic reaction IN the same stocks from the
extreme advance of the morning, vet the
general list closed at higher Srices than
yesterday. The market gains strength
daily and there has been more outside
buying within the past few days than for
q long time past. In final dealings New
York Central was steady at 1922, after
selling at l03 and 1851 Lake Shore
closed at 55s, after selling at 59iG60s
Northwestern n common closed at 39i and
preferred at 633, reaction of sGl per
cent from the highest point. 81. Paul
common left off at 3O5 and preferred ~
81. Rock Island closed at 1921, the ex-
tremes of the day having been l02 and
1929. Erie fell oil TO llS; Michigan
Central to AT; Western Union to 70s,
Pacific Mail to 24s. In coal stocks Del
aware and Hudson recovered from
76b to IA and New Jersey Central
from 37s to 38. Delaware, Lsckswanna
and Western declined to 7Si, after sell
ing up TO Sl5, early in the day. Closing
quotations are ! to per cent higher than
last evening, with few exceptions, the
stocks figuring most conspicuously in
this improvement being Northwestern,
Delaware, Lackawanns and Western,
New York Genital Sex1 Jersey Central
and Delaware and Hudson casaI. The
Erpfess SAYS. Ina. recent improve
ment in general business, the growing
conviction that the railroad war is near
ing its close aud TIE large traffic of the
trunk lines are Undoubtedly increasing
confidence in n future value
of railroad property, and hence
capitalists are more disposed 10 buy
stocks Al Chicago today wheat went
up TO 81 l9,which will no doubt increase
the receipts at the lake ports which arc
now very large. This was not without
its influence on the market Tc-day's
reports from the wet state that the
Northwestern road is crowded with busi.
ness, carrying produce into Chicago, ald
that traffic on the Michigan Central and
Lake Shore roads is in excess Of lat year
The New York Central l. also doing an
erOrmous business, and the other eastern
trunk lines are crowded with freight
from Chicago. transactions were 49,
900 shares, of which 1900 were Pacific
Mail, 1000 Western Union, 10000
Northwestern, 1900 Rock Island. 1900
St. Paul, 1000 Ere, $4,000 Lake Shore,
1000 New York Central, 1000 Ohio's,
1900 Michigan Central. 33, 900 Delaware
Lackawsnns and Western, II. 600 New
Jersey Central, and $500 Delaware and
Hudson CaRsl.