New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-04
THIRD CALL--2:30 P. N.
TUESDAY. Feb. 3-P NJ.

TUESDAY. Feb. 3-P. NJ
The stock speculation to-day was dull and unin-
teresting the total transactions amounting only to
1914 shares, against 290,7OO shares yesterday
and 332, 800 shares Saturday. The most active as
well as the particularly strong stocks OF the day
were Erie with sales OF 80. 500 shares, and Lake
Shore with sales of Il, 800 shares Erie tiuctuated
between 4814 and 467s, closing at 4S34, and Lake
Shore, after declining from 1919 to 1919. rose TO
and ended at 100. There was small speculation In
the Chesapeake and Ohio shares which advanced
their prices from to 81 per cent and from which
the closing reactions did not exceed Il per cent
Canada Southern weak and declined 81 per
cent to 6S1 on the disappointment felt at the results
shown by the annual report of tho company. pub
lished Yesterday. The net earnings OF the company
for the year ended December 81 are stated at
S547.275. Deducting from this 1891 ,452 the ac-
crued interest on the first mortgage bonds,
leaves surplus of 1855, 1913. But the amount of
first mortgage bonds outstanding is reported at
$13,497 311, upon which the interest at per cent
for a whole year amounts to the sum of
SsOi 91o. After the end of the present year the
bonds bear per cent. instead of per cent. whlc
will require net earnings of S674,665, 1927, 800
more than the net earnings OF 1879. Later the
price of the stock rallied to 69l2. The st. Louis
and San Francisco stocks continued weak. and fur
Tier declined from u TO per cent closing at their
lowest figures. Louisville and Nashville and Nash
vile. Chattanooga and ST. Louis also were notably
weak and on only moderate amount Of sales and
Indianapolis. Bloomington and Western and
Pullman Palace Car each declined 212 per
cent The general market was feyerlsh
and huctuated from about l. to / per
cent but at the end the changes either way,
except for the stocks named and the elevated rail-
road aud Oregon Railroad and Navigation shares,
were measured by the small fractions.
The final changes from the closing prices yester-
day are IA follows: Advances-Erie preferred, Ohio
and Mississippi, Wabash, and Pacific Mail each l.
Alton and Terre Haute, st. Paul, Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western, Hannibal ana st. Joseph pre-
feued, Marietta and CINCINNATI, Ohio and Missis-
shore, New-Jersey Central and Western Union, each
81; Hannibal and st. Joseph. Lake Erie
and Western. and Morris and Essex,
each IL, Chesapeake and Ohio first preferred, Union
Pacific, and American Express, each b Chesapeake
and Ohio second preferred lis; Chesapeake and
10 per cent. Observation-Disclosures and Hudson
Missouri Kansas and Texas, and Wabash preferred,
each Is: c., c.. g. and J.. Northwest preferred, ST.
Paul preferred. Manhattan, Northern Pacific COM
mon and preferred, Reading and American District
Telegraph, each Il; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
Cleveland and Ilttsburg keOkuk and Des Moines,
Central and Hudson 81. Paul and Sioux City, IT.
louis and san Francisco preferred, and Wells, Fargo
* Co., each lo; ST. Louis and san Francisco first
preferred, b Marietta and Cincinnati second pre-
icrfed. Metropolitan, Nashville, Chattanooga and
ST. Louis and st. Louis and san Francisco, each
ton each 1l2, Canada Southern aud Louisville
and Nashville, each and Indianapolis, Blooming
ton and Western and Pullman Palace Car, each 2la
per cent. - ...
A.rcported ~ GOld ana s;ses Ts'SraDa SomSany.