The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-10
Financial and Commercial.
Money 5 Per ut@eOYsruusnts Strong
and Hluhsr-stocks Active. sr;s
Flour Dull=Wheat Unsettled and High.
er-ProviSions Weak and Lower.
now 1orl, nensr ana stoens.

NEW YoRk. February 9.-uMosEy-6ae per
cent closing OF 8. Prime mercantile, paper 9
a6H per cent. Sterling exchange steady at
n Sax; sight exchange "a SAX.
: GoyERsMEsT Bosps-S Strong, and 1sazS per
cent higher new fours making the greatest
advance by reason Of orders from savings
banks and other institutions. The former are
buying In expectation OF the passage Of the
act by The Legislature requiring savings banks
TO keep fifty per cent Of their deposits In gov
ernment bonds. va ~
United States 60 Of 1881, coupons
New Four and halls coupons
fours coupons.
factnc W o. .l5
RAILROAD BoSps-Generally lower, but
without important change. 1sltl ~
STATE SEcuRIrIEs-Dull. tas
esSse virginia sSa ii s:"....::..:. y
Missouri IS ...l07 Do ~
Tennessee 6s....,.. 81 Deferred. sx
srocEs- Market generally higher early In
the day, the advance ranging from Y 10 2H
per cent, the latter In Canada Southern. Dur.
ing the afternoon the market was weak and
prices declined Na2H per cent, coal shares,
Q. Q. q L O., Kansas and Texas, and Northern
Pacific leading the downward movement The
break in coal shares was based on reports that
the companies had reduced prices for coal.
Reports from IS western roads show gross
earnings OF 5000 1893 for January, against
$6,246, 0Sl same month last year, q gain OF
8, s19,3l4, or nearly 30per cent. Every road
with the exception OF three shows gain in
traffic. The lines showing the most improve
ment were; .Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
SOS, 76S, Chicago and Alton $l6S ,54s, 6t. Paul
Sill ,825, Northwestern $i28,679, Louisville
and Nashville Sl400Ss. Missouri, Kansas and
Texas $l72,s74, Iron Mountain s2ls, 81.
Louis and San Francisco Sn6297, Union
The, earnipgsof the illinois Central decreased
sos, 900 Tor January. ,,t,,........
The New York Stock Clearing House was
opened to-day and the experiment Of clear.
ing stocks was tried. About one hundred
brokers consented to clear through II for a !
week, and much interest was manifested. |
Where brokers made ont their statements |
correctly the clearings were made In q short |
time and 10, the entire satisfaction OF all, but
In some cases brokers did not send in state. |
tnents promptly, and this, OF course, inter.
fered with business II Is expected matters
will work smoothly ina few days Mr.. Hunt
manager OF Central Arizona. left for that ter
itory with letter Of credit for $3.50 900, TO
% USED tOr tue purpose 70 brlng water 70 tue
mine and Increasing the number OF stamps 10
100. The Deadwood Mining Company de-
,lared its second dividend Of Is cents per
hare for January, payable on the 10th.
transfers close on the 18th. lt.
I, An extra session Of the North Carolina
Is TO be called on March 10, for
he purpose of considering the proposition
or the purchase o.. the interest OF the State in
he Western North Carolina road.
The transactions aggregated 2S1, 900 shares,
u which 1900 were Canada Southern. 1900
Chesapeake and Ohio, 5,500. C. @. d l. O..
200 Central Arizons, $1,000 Delaware and /
Iackawanna, 5000 IropI Mountain, 5000 St.
Joseph, 1900 Kansas and Texas, $500 Lake
srie and Western $500 Lake Shore, 1000
Central, 1900 Marietta and Cincin-
lati ifrsts preferred, $500 Northwestern,
1000 Nashville, Chattanooga and 81. Louis,
900 New Jersey Central, {, 900 New York Cen
raj, 700 Ohio and Mississippi, $500 Pacifc'l
Nail, 2,400 Reading, 3,4O0 ST. Paul, /, 100 St
PAUL and Sioux City, 1900 Wabash and Pa
life, 1,500aW Union, l. 200 Quicksilver,
200 Erie, 1880 Little Pittsburgh and $3.50
Northern Pacific. Marietta and Cincinnati
irsts preferred closed at 1871, and Nashville,
and ST. Louis at S7H. Ia,