New-York tribune., 1879-08-30
THIRD CALL-2l2 O'CLOCK
p. ".
FRIDAY. Aug. 20-P. NJ.

The transactions Of the Sub-Treasury during the
week ending to-day result in gain to its general
cash balance of $1,474,4 ,406, made up by an in
crease of S2,405, 120 coin, less a decrease of
$03O,714 currency. Specie has continued to ar
rive from Europe, and for that reason the Sub
Treasury transactions furnish no indication of
what may be the character of tO-mOrrow's bank
statement. But it is probable that the shipments
of currency to the interior have exceeded the amount
of currency lost by the Sub-Treasury.
The movement of grain toward the seaboard con-
tinucd to be large, exceeding the exports particu-
lary from this port, so tEat there probably have
been considerable additions made to the large
quantity that was In store on last Saturday, the
date Of the last count. On August % the total
amount of grain in store in the port of New-York,
compared with previous years, was as follows:
1870 6O81, ,4s5 bushels; 1878, 1886, ,759 bushels;
1877 2,261, ,143 bushels and the quantity on lake,
canal and railroads, bound to the Atlantic ports,
was greater than at any previous time
In financial circles, aside from the unusual ac-
tiyiy in money and the large receipts of gold from
abroad, the week has been void of any specially
interesting feature. In commercial and mercantile
circles the increasing activity usual to the begin
ming of new seasons business has been plainly
marked and no little confidence is expressed that
the season will prove to be both active and profit
able.
AT the Stock Exchange there was an irregular
market for shares that frequently alterpated be-
tween strength and weakness finally ending, as it
did week ago. with bull boom. Yet major
ity of the stocks in final sales show losses ranging
from Il to 3 per cent. The particularly. active
stocks were Lake Shore Northwest and st. Paul
common shares, Erie. Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, New-Jersey Central, and Western Union.
m ttih mt al sh0rpa
of the total transactions Of 11501fS shares for the
week The dealings in no other stock than those
named amounted to 10000 shares. OF the
active stocks, Lake Shore alone shows
any gain in its price, closing at o7os
this week, against S61s last Friday,
while Michigan Central shows a final loss Of 3ls per
cent. Erie common declined 2l2, recovering per
cent and the preferred stock fell and regained 2
per cent.
The coal shares were held moderately firm through
the first part of the week. but the culmi-
nation of the matter which The TRIBUNE
steadily has predicted must .h result IRON
weakened the prices of the shares very materially,
and they closed at about their lowest figures: The
Reading Company already has met the advance
upon the philadelphia market of the Delaware and
Hudson Company, By areductl on OF Its New-1o 1ork
schedules some go to 50 cents There Is every
prospect that the people will be aP?ie to
least the present over-supply is very much
the week witnessed considerable advance
in prices notably so for Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern, which rose from 55G 53Si to 63. The
sound investment shares were dull, Dut Where
changed prices are trine lower than week ago.
Western Union was extremely feyerish all the way
ont, having fuctuated frequently between 81 and
94le, finally closing with gain OF lS5 per cent;
Taking il all in all, the market has been little
more than a brokers' market. with general ten
dency toward lower values.