Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-24
FINANCIAL.

Business was again comparatively quiet on Madison
street yesterday. but there was continued INQUIRY
for money, which was supplied az S11O per cent
Exchange IS In sufficient sdpply TO prevent any can
upon tie cas-, for currency Quotes sight on NeS
on New England IL OF, selling al par; on New Or
leans. u discount buying, selling at PAT In STOCKS
for Memphis gas nOnds county scrip is the only
thing In It's line that IS sought after and Is taken al
have elected II. NJ Nicely. Esq, president, ana ex-
Mayor johnson secretary. The New YORK Times re-
on New YORK at the aforementioned cities: 81
yann al. buying at par, selling ls0tA premium;
Charleston scarce 3,l6 discount par; Ne" Orleans
-. Louis, % premium; Chicago STEADY 20 pre-
MUM and Boston 12l2 premium The eli Louisville
market there discount rates 718 per cant. ST. Louis
papers report their rate at Sdl0.
IBY TELEGRAPH.l
NEW ORLEANS, November 23-Gold, IOOI4d
10OI2. New York sight, Is discount Sterling ex-
change bankers bills, 49,.
Central. 33Is; heading. 1873; Erie, 10; Erie pre-
ferred, 80; 5 Dos OF 1867, 10S1s; 1O-40s, 1884;
NEW YORK. November 23.-Money easy, 2ls73
per cent Prime mercantile paper 4ls6 pig per cent
Sterling exchange bankers bills, 482; New York
Government bonds were fiHn; coupons Of
1868 1884; new S. 05 8; new 4I2s l047s new IS,
IOgl4 I0-40s, registered, 1919; l0-40s, coupons,
107ls; currency 6s, l2lI2. Stale bonds steady;
old Tennessee, 31l4; lew tennessee, 2Sl4; old
Virginia, %; new Virginia, 25: Missouri IS. 1853
Railroad securities strong and higher. The stock
market, with the exception Of brief Intervals of
weakness at opening, when Tices declined ls6 la
per cent was strong AID buoyaut throughout the
dag. with an active business In Northwestern, st
Paul, Lake Shore. and Delaware, Lackawana and
Western: toward the close the dealings In st. Paul
were especially large and quotations were the high
est of the week. Investment shares we're all higher
Rock Island sold up to 1915 and Fort Wayns 40 to
par; the market closed strong. Transactions a2gre-
gated 10000 shares, OF which 25,000 Wera Lake
Shore, lS,0l0 Northwestern common aS SmesOQ0
preferred 1000 81. Paul common aIo1ole 900
preferred. $4,000 Lackawanna, 2500a ueestefn
Union. Closing quotatlpns were as FOLLOWS;
yer. 9I2 Quicksilver preferred, 324; Pacific Mail,
1854; Aanpo5a, 34; daripo5a preferred, 213,
Adams express company, los; Wells IL Fargo ex-
press company, 90; american express company,
49, United States express company, 47ll;
New York Central, IL Ia; Erie 1885; Erie preferred,
80; Harlem. l4112; Michigan Central. 1884,; Pana-
ma, 1923; Union Pacific stock, &c; Lake Shore,
burg, o1I4 Northwestern. 44S4; Northwestern pre-.
ferred, n; Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and
Indianapolis 32$4 .'ew jersey Central, 81 Ia; Rock
Island. ] Is; st. Paul, 1875; St. Paul preferred,
$685. Wabash, 215s; Fort Wayne, 997s; Terre Hauts,
2; Terre Haute preferred, 8; Chicago and
Alton 7Sl2- Chicago and Alton preferred, 1O2; Ohio
and Mississippi, ia; Delaware, Lackawa1na and
Missouri Pacific. Hi; Chicago Burlington and
Quincy, lCS8; Hannibal and st: Joe, 1915;
Hannibal aud ST. Joe preferred 3S14; Cen
trail Pacific bonds 7SB; Union Pacific bonds,
1071e; Union Pacific land grants, 1868; Union Pa
cifc sinking funds, 1929.