Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-05
Dull Day i'm Wall Street.

New YORK. Sept. 5.-The Posts financial
article GAO pm. editonJ says:-The market for
foreign exchange Is steady for short date and
heavy for long date bills. The money market is
fairly easy. with and per cent the extreme
rates for call loans on stocks. Time loans are
dull and nominal. Prime mercantile paper is 5a
6 per cent. All the markets which center at the
Stock Exchange have been very dull this morn
ing. United States bonds are unchanged. State
bonds are neglected. Railroad bonds are gen
orally firm at rather higher prices. Rome and
Watertown firsts have been exceptionally strong,
the price having advanced to So from Sc The
stock market opened at a decline of l1ai a. then
fell 1sal per cent, but became steady n little af-
ter noon. and prices have advanced az. andas
We write the market is steady. Tie net result
of all the fluctuations is decline of LAS. The
weakest stocks have been the Elevated railroad
stocks and excepting Missouri Pacific the gov
ernment stocks The trunk line aud the coal
shares have been comparatively steady.
The Markets.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 5-virgina os consols.
TX: do. past due coupons. =; do. ten
forties. 42k bid to-day.
ana RALrIs9Ka Iai sPS Flour SGsisSn 5sbST 5 g%et%d e
$50; do. extra. 6.25a7 .oo do. family 725asoo city
family. ,..5as0o: do. Rio brands. 500: Patapsco
family, $50. Wheat, southern quiet and steady;
western about steady and dull-southern red, Is
No. western winter red. spot. l3skal.;Gs, ac-
cording to location: September $50. nj -: Octo-
cernber, Isl Lai.Ss. Corn, southern white steady
and yellow lower western lower and neglected
southern @ & white. g; do yellow; rs n wss'ern
72lsa.2k: November, ,5k. Oats quiet and
steady-southern, 5aa53; western white, 5ol52; do.
i.osal.io. Hay firniNprime to choice Penn
sylvania and Maryland. l6eDal9.eo. Provisions
trm-iness pork ls25 Bulk meats meats-shoaiders
shoulders. 81; clear rib sides. llls. haIns.
l3a4al44 Lard-reiined 12s.. Butter firm-west-
quiet-refned. 7s4a.5s Coffee quiet-Rio cargoes
ordinary TO fair. lollal2h. Sugar firIn-A soft,
per steamer dul-cotton. 3-l6a d: Hour p; per
barrel; grain. 4a44d. Receipts-four. 2.6'z bar
oats 800 bushels: rye. 200 bushels Shipments
wheat .399 bushels corn. 1864 bushels. Sales
wheat a9s loe bushels; corr l@@@ % bushels;
5a6 Exchange-long. 4I9ls: short, tS3i4 Cow
ernments quiet and unchanged.
changed Wheat duh and lower. Corn quiet
LONDON. Sept. 5. I:30 p.m--Consols-for
bonds. As ll9h. Atlantic and Great western
first mortgage trustees certificates. 52A. Erie,
A9. New York Central. las: Illinois Central,
la2K. Pennsylvania Central, 66E. Reading 81.
Milwaukee and st. Paul common, ll9.
NEW YORK MARKETS THIS AFTERNOON.
The following quotations were current in New
York to-day at s30 p.m. as reported 10y HH.
Dodge. of 5ss 18th street. by special wire:-
IssT; Lake Shore, lss Michigan Central
Ga.: New York, Lake Erie and Western.
and Western, l23s New Jersey Central. ass:
Delaware and Hudson. l0.x: Reading. 5sz:
and Pacitie. .z.As; do: preferred. 81;
,,,,, uni9n Pacific, Isos.; NJ X and T., aa's; Ham
Pacific Mail. 4aiE: c. c. and l. c.. 20K: Norfhern
Pacific common. 3sl4a3sss: do. preferred,
.sB; San Francisco common, a; Central
Pacific, s9is; Rock Island l34: Louis
vile and Nashville. 81: Ontario and Western
Illinois Central L.. Canada Southern. SSk:
Chicago. burlington and Quincy. l50l: Denver
and Rio Grande ssis: st. Paul aud Omaha 3oa
39's: do. preferred. lGe: c. C. T.. and l.. e64:
Col. Coal. 5lk; Texas Pacific. 5lk; do. l. G.,
s61asS
Closing Government Eonds-Gs. s0i sza10lss: Sc
rcg- luiaI8iis; sk's reg. l15a1l3k: coupon.
ILSiall3l.. 4s reg. ll51a; coupon. l16ta1lG1<.