The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-15

The following were the rates of domestic exchange
on New York at the underneath ned cities to-day -
Savannah. SIG premium selling 3-i6 premium buy
ing; Charleston. buying 1-5. selling a New Or
leans, commercial u 3-l6 premium bank u pre-
MUM; St. Louis. LILO discount; Chicago weak. Ito
discount buying, lilo premium selling, and Boston
Is. premium.
The earnings for the first week in August Of the
Chicago and Alton road show decrease of $500.
and those of the Hannibal and st. Joseph decrease
of $40, 1856.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal. Pennsylvania
Coal and ,Lehigh and wilkesbarre Coal companies
have put up prices OF coal 10 Is cents above the
auction prices of yesterday.
The annual report of the Chicago and North
western Railway Company. showing the condition
of its affairs the 31st of May last, was issued
to-day. The gross earnings for all the lines
given as $14,5so .921 &c., the operating expenses
$6S327 26 charges for interest bonds of
Iowa leased roads and for OF sinking funds
amount to s2.2S7627. leaving the net income
S2,2s7.6 equal to per cent earned on tho pre-
ferred stock and 21-100 per cent on the common.
Compared with the previous year. there a de-
in passenger earnings of sl25.ss2 TO- or "a
100 per cent; decrease in freight earnings OF
$1l6.s00 So or 9-100 per cent and increase the
aggregate of other earnings of S72642 49, IL So
per cent making total decrease in gross earnings
of S170.141 10, or 1910 per cent
In operating expenses there increase of
$780, 534 90. 23-lo0 per cent; decrease in fixed
charges and other items OF $50 1915 49, or 65lOO per
cent. making aggregate decrease of s6.7ls 16 or
5-lOO per cent. The decrease in net earnings
amounted to sl76s5o 49, In reference to the freight
traffic the report says
IL snay be noted that, while the gross earnings
from thissource tell of s1lG.s00 So there ill.,
of 354.676 tons transported during the year.
and the movement per ton per mile was increased
by nearly tenth that of the previous year
The decrease in revenue resulting from the decline
in freight rates is equal to the large of
$50 36 Oh the business OF the last scal year.
During the year 1886 acres of land were sold, at
an average of So 81 per acre. being increase in
the sales of Wisconsin and Michigan lands and
a decrease in the amount sold from the
Minnesota grant compared with the sales OF
the previous year; the decrease in the latter is
explained 10y the fact that the tide of emigration
mas pressed forward as never before to occupy the
rich lands OF the government free to actual settlers
on the western borders of the line aud in Southern
and Eastern Dakota. Nearly two millions of acres
were taken up the three land districts of South
eastern Dakota alone. and large bodies were also
taken at other points in that Territory and In West
ern Minnesota.
The following despatch from the West gives the
movement of grain at the leading points there to-
day Observation-Disclosures of wheat, IL, 100 bush
els; shipments 3ioo dol receipts OF corn, 400 do;
shipments, none. Chicago-Receipts of wheat 76 2sl
bushels; shipments. $1,000 do. receipts OF corn.
2s5. 2o7 do; shipments. 232.274 do.
At the New York Mining stock Exchange business
was again dull anu prices lower. Caledonia b. IL.
declined to 1850 and recovered to ATS Imperial fell
of TO las. Independence to 2.55. Tip Top to l and
Bertha and Edith to below .os. The following we're
the sales:--