New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-11

-,..A dosh unon Michigan Central. which drove its
- from s4s. Saturday down to 20. from which
thsra WAS n sharp recovery and the price closed
at eO1a. Central and HadsOn was left 70
tske care of itself, hence IT'S proc slo%U
declined from 1858 to 124os9125 Northwest
and St. Paul common stocks yielded only less
than some of the Others but they closed with only
al, re.ot;ors from tho lowest figures. The coal
cocks were particularly weak with apparently less
effort to make them 80 than was observable in some
other stocks. The whole Southwestern list OF stocks
0aye way with little apparent pressure, excepting
drive made at Hannibal and St Joseph common
inst before the close of business. Such stocks rs
Houston and Texas and the st. Louis and San Fran
disco shares for which there never was much more
than An artificial market of course readily yielded
20 offers to sell only small quantities. For instance
with sales Of only 400 shares Houston and Texas
declined from SO to 80. closing with the nominal
quotation of 51@5e
=. Undoubtedly there were many speculative sales
made late in the day, upon the theory that to-
davis prices will bring, tomorrow m0n-
ing. an unusually large amount OF orders
from the country to close accounts ut
hest urieess And there seems to be no good reason
to suppose the theory erroneous But whether II IS
erroneous OF not, it had material effect upon the
closing prices and helped to make the market weak
and unsettled.
The final defines from the closing prices Saturday
which amount to as much as per cent are as FOL
lows: c.. C.. and l. c.. st. Paul preferred, Ontario
and Western. Oregon Railroad and Navigation, 81.
Paul and Sioux City preferred, ST. Louis and San
E,raneiseo first preferred, American District lele-
graph. and Maryland Coal, each L; Metro
nolitan Elevated, III; Chicago, St. Louis ana
New-Orleans. Northwest preferred. and ONO
and Mississippi preferred. each liz; Man.
haitian Elevated and Atlantic and Pacific
Telegraph. each 81; Central and Hudson,17S; Ches-
sneake and Ohio, Illinois Centrai,and United States
Express, each 2; Hannibal and ST. Joseph pre-
ferred and Mobile and Ohio, eaeh 2ls; Pacific Mall
2ss; Chicago, Darlington and Quincy and Louis
willie and Nashville each gig; Northern Pacific pre-
ferred. 2s. Lake Eric and Western, 27s; st. Paul.
2. Lake Shore, 3ls; Chicago, st. Panl and
Minneapolis. 81 Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
3ao. c.. c., G. aud l., Northwest, Union
Pacific, and New Central Coal, each gig;
Erie ureferred 3Ss; Delaware and Hudson and Erie,
each 37s: Canada Southern, Nashville, Chattanooga
and ST. Louis and st. Louis and San Francisco, each
i Michigan Central Ohio and Mississippi. and
Western Union, each al; st. Lonis and San Fran
cisco preferred, 49l; Wabash preferred, 5;
Reading and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
each 514; New-Jersey Central sig; Wabash, 57s;
Iron Mountain, Gig Rock Island and Houston and
Texas. each 8; and Hannibal and st. Joseph, 0 per
cent.
Government bonds we're dull but steady. The
transactions of the Board covered by sales of
SO 900 coupon DIGS at 1888 and $40 600 registered
at lO8, and $4,000 coupon Is at 1918 and
$4,000 registered at 107A. District of Columbia
S-65s were strong with sales at 943s Annexed are
tho cIosin0 ouotatione: