New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-23
SALES FROM GA VCLoCg TO GLOSS 10 ausrNRss a
O'CLOCK y. w. CONTINUED
MONDAY, March 22--P.

MONDAY. March ppm
The stock speculation to-day generally strong
and moderately we'll distributed. A confident ex-
pectati0n of an easy money market was used to in-
1uence prices. and conservative folks were
held at considerable discount in the early
trading Later. however. when money be-
came positively stringent, less confidence
in the market for stocks was exhibited IN decline,
but not one which was sufficient to wipe out the
earlier gains. Rock Island was further advanced
per cent TO 1871 and closed at 177l2. The divi-
dend declared this stock this afternoon was
the usual one Of gig per cent which disposes of
tho rumor of Saturday that it would be
per cent. Alton and Terre Haute common and pre-
ferred stocks, Burlington Cedar Rapids and North
ern Cedar Falls and Minnesota and st. Paul and
Sioux City preferred the other stocks
which made the greatest advances. Such
stocks as Lake Shore Erie and Michigan Central
rose from IL to 1i2 per cent, but before the eng
lost large portion of their gains The granger
stocks were strong, particularly Northwest pre-
ferred but these also yielded in the final business.
Among the elevated road shares Manhattan was
peculiarly erratic, rising from 1893 TO 46l2, and
later selling at 43l043ss. Nashville, Chatta-
pooga and ST. LOUIS Dig per cent to 90
but again, fell off to 96l2, and Ohio and Missis-
sippi, after an advance from 30s4 to 40l2,
in the facility with which Western telegraphic dis
patches dispose of the ohio and Mississippi Rail-
road For nearly two weeks the telegraph has used
this railroad like football day connect
ing il with one railroad and another day
with another which is not within 100
miles of it, The Southwestern shares hardly held
their own as to prices, and Union Pacific declined
TO S919. The trading in the coal stocks was lrregu-
lar; Delaware Lackawanna and Western and Del;<
ware and Huson being strong at the close, and
Reading and New-Jersey Central weak. Telegraph
stocks were dull. Pacific Mail was so active that
the recorded transactions amount TO ~. 300 shares
There was first rally from ISIS to 4G3s, after
which there was steady selling movement down to
42042ls.
Although prices at the close are generally higher
than on Saturday. the market was weak.
The final changes from Saturday are as follows:
Advances-Central Pacific, Morris and Essex. and
New-Jcrsey Central, each ls; Canada Southern, c..
C.. G.. and l., Chesapeake and Ohio, Northwest.
Delaware Lackanna and Western Lake Shore, Erie
preferred aud Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph,
each il; st. Paul preferred, Delaware ana hudson.
Marietta and Cincinnati first preferred, Erie, and
Northern Pacific common and preferrei !, each -
Chicago and Alton, st. Paul, Mobile and Ohio, MIS-
sourj. Kansas and 1exIs, Ohio Central, Rome,
Wotertown and Ogdensburg, and II. Paul and Sioux
CITY. each L.: Michigan Central. 81; Houston ana
Texas. Illinois Central, Oregon Railroad and Nayi-
cation, and Peoria. Decatur aud Evansville each L;
Chicago ST. Louis and New-Oreans, is; Nortn-
west preferred, 1si Alton and Terre Haute pre-
ferred, 9: Alton and Tere Haute and st. Paul and
Sioux CITY preferred each 3 Burlington, Cedar
Ronids and Northern, 81; Cedar Falls and Mime
sofa. 3l2 and Rock Island, per cent Declines
C.. C. and /. c.. ls Manhattan Elevated, Metro
politan Elevated, Reading, and Wabash. each 4;
ST. Louis and san Francisco preferred, l2 Ontario
and Western and Ohio and Mississippi, each g;
Louisville and Nashville, New-YOrk Elevated, and
Union Pacific each / Ohio and Mississippi pre-
ferred. II; and Louisville, New-Albany ands Chi.
cage, . per cent
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