The New York herald., 1876-03-08
FINANCIAL and COMMERCIAL.
Incidents Of the Stock Markct-PriceS Un-
settled and Generally Lower.
GOLD Ia SO A ia 3-9.
Money 3 and 1-2 Per Cent-FOreign Exchange
Steady-GOyenment Bonds Steady-In-
vestments Without Material Change.
WALL STREET, |
TUESDAY, March T-6 T. n


TUESDAY, March 7-6P. n
The old nursery couple. that
When the cats away
The mice will play
significant enough to-day's dealings, and opera
tors right when they ascribed the tranquility OF
The market the absence OF Jay Could chief feline,
on trip TO Boston.
So these 'smaIl deer had run of the house with
out fear OF moiestation nibbled at eighths and
quarters undIsturbed by the poetic notion, that
The best laid schemes o mice and men
Gang AFT n-gley-
Our little rodents found better foraging In Lake
Shore than in any other single of tho other fancies
As the stock offered q bounteous meal ranging as 1t
did from the atness OF Go the frugal cheese pangs
pf64 Concluding sales made, however, at 81 u,
which quotation near the opening one and
marked drawn battle between bull and bear
The friends and enemies OF Western Union were still
hanging about to-day they yesterday 'waiting
for the verdict which from the jury Of a full board
they anticipate tomorrow There was scarcely u
per variation made prices during the entire day.
account OF this hesitation though this very stead-
point to the fact that the probability Of
che dividend being passed has already discounted
1t now generally conceded that the usual quarterly
return to stockholders will be omitted and that the
money some 500 OO0 will be devoted to the payment
Of the company's floating debt which, 1t is SAID, will
absorb nearlysthe whole of this Relieved of this
obligation the Western Union Company will be better
enabled to engage the the knife which the At
iantic and Pacific Company have invited, when in the
end terms of consolidation will be effected and the lion
and lamb will lie down together.
The price OF Pacific Mail rotated about 21 ~ like the
revolution of a cyclone about storm centre Proes-
Sor Gould knows the why and wherefore of
well did Professor Maury the OF the other but
the FIRST will you further before he will
plain, and the latter died the victim OF improbable
theories
inent stocks has been the for many days back
the remainder of the list offers little nothing for
mark beyond a reference in the column OF prices 1t
may simply be noted that the short grown
to formidable dimensions within the last days as
Is proved by the fact that such stocks Western
Union, Lake Shore and Pacific Mail readily loan ed
fat with borrowing demand that is not readily re-
sponded TO.
THE SALES TO-DAY
amounted to about 1874, 900 shares which were dis
tributed among active securities as foows:-New York
Central and Hudson, 1,242 Erie 1900; Lake Shore,
6o,7o0; Cleveland ana Pttsburg 26o; Northwestern,
Mail, ~, 700; St. Paul. 5000; do preferred 2,4Oo;
0hios 900; Western Union, 20 297; Wabash 400;
Union Pacific TOO; c.. c. and l. c., 200; Michigan
Central, 5.l1o; Delaware Lackawanna and Western,
i,025; New Jersey Central 1,31O; Consolidation Coal
1900
OPENING, HIGHEST LOWEST PRICES.
The following table shows the opening highest and
lowest prices OF lhe days