New-York tribune., 1880-02-18
THiPp CALr~-2:30 p. VI.
TUESDAY. Feb. III

TUESDAY Feb. Up NJ
The business done in stocks to-day was about
30 coo shares less than the business OF yesterday
bt the market presented the samo general features.
While most of the specialtlrs were strong ana
higher. n majority of the usually active speculative
stocks either were weak or hardly maintained their
rriccs Among the speciatics Louisville and NASH
vile WAS Der cent lower with a smaller amount of
business than was done in il Yesterday. But Louis
Vile Me- W-Albany and Chicago. with sales of only
rG7 sh ares WAS 81. per cent higher at S2i2.
and So aftcrward was bid. Houston ard Texas
also advanced per cent To So but later sold at 50.
The movement in Ohio and Mississippi was con-
tinucd the common stock selling mp to 5000 35os,
and th e preferred 10 sea 50, and Chicago -. Paul
and Minncapolis advanced from JlA To 5o011.
The general sncculators To be alarmed at these
s,ec,ol and violent movements. and TO fear that
some serious reaction in them will AFFECT tie entire
list hence there is little disposition to make large
contracts for tho future There were i'm
movements of | per cent or more made
for 81 paul and Sioux civ common and preferred
stocks. Alton and Tcrre llaute New York, Ontario
and Western, and Peoria, Decatur and Evansville.
while Ohio Central maintained its advance OF
Yesterday. Bnt the older stocks show moro losses
than gains and the gains only OF small fractions
Western Union was unusually active, 3l,5OO
shares selling from l0Gls to 1O0a l0sl1; Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph remaining steady at
about tho advanced figures of yesterday. These
moyemcpts-tlat in Atlantic and Pacific ycter-
dav ari in Western Union to-day-are ex-
paincd by the expressed expectation among
operators that there will be paid an extra dividend
ON each stock for the current quarter to end March
81. Pacific Mail also was active, and rose from
a1Io 10 IA and closed AT 43os. For this movement
no explanation is offered the report published in
some of the papers to the effect that new contract
bdween the steamship company and the overland
railroad had been made being positively denied in
official quarters. The market closed irregular with
operators puzzled as to what to do.
The final changes from the closing prices yeser-
dav are as follows: Advances-llannibal and ST.
Ioscnb preferred and Union Pacific, each ls: Morris
and Essex, Wabash common and preferred, and
Wells. Fargo d Co., each Il Lake Shore 80; Cen
tral Pacific Chicago and Alton. Marietta and
Cincinnati second preferred. Metropolitan Ele-
waited, American Express, aud Canton, each Il;
Ohio and Mississippi, So; international aud Great
Northern, a. Alton and Terre Haute. PEORIA
Decatur and Evansville, and st. Paul and
Sioux City common and preferred each l; /;
Illinois Central, rs; American District 1ele-
graph, III; Ohio and Mississippi preferred,
1as; Montauk Gas Coal. 1l2; New-York. Ontario
and Western. 1os; Western Union. 17s; Chicago, St
Paul add Minneapolis, 2l Pacific Mail. 2as Ilous-
ton and Texas, 4 and Louisville New-Albany and
Chicago 6i2 per cent. Declnes-C., C. and l. G, st.
Paul. and Northern Pacific, each ls; Northwest pre-
ferred ST. Paul preferred, Central and Hudson Erie
and Reading, each Il Delaware. Lacliawanna and
Western, Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and Northern
Pacific preferred. each 80; Hannibal and ST. Joseph
Manhattan, New-York Elevated, Erie preferred, and
ST. Louis and San Francisco, each l. Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy, and New-Jssy Central each 81;
Lake Erie and Western and Iron Mountain. each
q; Delaware and Hudson, Marietta and Cincinnati
first preferred, st. Louis and San Francisco first