Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-01-28


Sterling exchange strong at 4Se; sight
exchange on New York 4s4. Produce
exports for the week 81, 5000.
SILvER-At London 50 7-l6d; bar all
yer here 1881; subsidiary silver coin
l6l per cent. discount.
iovERSMENn-Steady for Slsand SIS,
and ! per cent higher for li's, and4 ~.
y. ). Coupons tissiI iotss
New Four-and one halfs ......-.-io.y
New fOun, tVs-s
Pacific Skies oil
RAILROAD BoSDs-Strong and gener-
ally buoyant; Indiana, Bloomington
and Western incomes advanced per
cent: Erie consals, seconds, sold at s9t
690l; do funded SIS rose TO 81 and re
acted to 81: Kansas and Texas tirsts sold
at l04C9l03l and do seconds rose FROM
ca to 80 Chesapeake and Ohio frsis
advanced from 65s to 69i: Denver and
Rio Grande frsts from ~ To l0l Texas
Pacific incomes from S7i to SS; Union
Pacific sinking funds from ll9 TO 10;
Toledo and Wabash consals from l00l TO
1917.
STATE BoSDs-Dull and nominal. er-
cept Louisiana consals, which advanced
from 47i TO l9l and closed at ~.
SroCKs-The market waa buoyant the
greater portion Of the day and
prices advanced & 81 per cent, the
latter, Nashville, Chattanooga and ST.
Louis. Pullman Palace car stock rose 8
per cent. Kansas Texas per cent,
Erie per cent, Ohio per cent,
Wabash I per cent. and preferred !
per cent. During the afternoon Kansas
aud Texas declined Is, Wabash ! pre-.
ferred "A. Erie and preferred per
cent. The remainder Of the list reacted
fraction in sympathy. In the final
sales the market was firm at partial re-
coycry. The Graphic says: II Ia every
day becoming more fully established
that the relations existing between the
central system OF railroads and the Erie
are such IA will enable all these great
properties to be worked to the best nj.
vantage, but the relative position OF the
Lake Shore and Erie ARE such n will
enable them to most profita.
bly, utilize the most harmonious
relations established between their
several managcnents. We are not sur.
priscd To learn, therefore, as We do on
excellent authority, that the realized
earnings oi the Lake Shore are largely
IN excess oi thecstinsted earnings when
the last statement was made. Central
Pacific stock, of which a syndicate oi
wealthy capitalists recently took 60.00O
shares and option on $1,000 sharss more,
advanced from - 10 10 bid. The imam.
cal editor OF the Brooklyn Edgle aays:
10 10 la. stsA
ing that a pooling contract has been
signed between the managers OF the Erie
aud New York Central roads bv which
the former gets an amount equal "
- per cent. Of the business ri the HOOs-
ac Tunnel route. IL In said that VAi .
derbilt was brought 10 terms by Q threat
on the part Of Jewett, that II the sr.
rangcment was not concluded the Offers
Of the capitalists IN Boston would b.
accepted, by which independent elevsi.
ors and stores would be erected. This
explains the recent manipulation oi
Erie stock, which was kept down when
the whole tendency Of the market wS
upward. This movement puzzled out.
siders and many became dingusted with
the stock and sold out. II now appears
that ut that time the clique operators
were buying. and il ]. said that not only
the Keene but the Vanderbilt family
are loaded up with stock and
bonds of the Erie ruai.
In the saine way, Wabash wss
manipulated pending the oonsumuna-
ton Of the scheme for the consolidation
Of the Pacific roads. While the CON.
mittees from the Kansas and Union Pa.
cific were arranging details, q prominent
director in the former positively de-
MED that such plan Was contemplated ;
that he was selling puts" on the stocks.
and at the same time those who wsr.
in the secret were buying literally oi
the shares The break in Wabash and
Missouri, Kansas and Texas near the
close was caused by q dispatch from
Washington that the House Committer
on Territories had refused. by by vote
OF 3 a. !, TO change the political status
OF Indian Territory. Little PittsbuHi,
was strong, rising from "a 10 2si. closing
at 2s.