Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-01
UNCERTAINTY.

Inc ctOck Market Unsettled and Tending
Downward---A Break in. Terre Haute
and st. Paul Shares---The Wheat Market
Strong and Highcr---Pork Rising and Ex-
hibiting COrnerish Indications.
ST PAUL, Jan. 81, 1881.
On the board OF trade yesterday prices ana
transactions were as follows:
Wheat-No. / hard, 94c bid; No. 2 hard Ole;
No. 9Oc; No. 2 Sic; No. 8, re; No. March
Ssc; May 94c. A
Corn-No. 2, 35c bid; SOC asked; sale one
car at 36c; February SAC; March 35S c; May
3Sc.
Oats-No. white SOC bid; No. 8 do, 2sc;
bid, 29c asked; No. mixed, 2Skc; bid,
29c asked March SOC; May 32xc; No. 8
Mixed 26Xc bid, CSC asked.
Barley-No. g. sOc; No. extra CSC; No.
3,'5Sc
Rye-No. 2, re.
Baled Hay-One car sold at S11.00.
Hogs-Sale of one car live hogs at s4.65;
| dressed, IS. 50 bid.
Commission dealers are greatly embarrass-
| ed by the Interruptions of railroad
| traffic on account Of the heavy SHOWS and fire.
quent drifting winds. They have an abun-
| dance of orders to fill, and would be free buy
| ers. OF produce if there were any offerings at
|
and is worked Off through the retail trade at
high prices.
At the commission houses ground feed is
quoted, buying prices, at $15.00@15.25; corn
meal, S13.5O@l4. so and bran $7@6.
FlOur-Patents, $6.50@7.00; straights $500
@5.25; clear s4.60@4.75; rye -four S.; buck
wheat flour, $3.50.
| Pork-S14. 25 per Dbl.
| Lard-Pails 10Xc; kegs 10c; barrels and
tierces exc.
Beef-St. Paul mess IS.
| A New York dispatch of last evening says:
| The dry goods business continues fair with
cotton goods and commission houses, and
prices are firm. White goods and quilts active.
| Medium prints in fair demand and dress goods
fairly active. Ginghams in brisk request and
| light supply. Mems wear woolens quiet and
steady. Foreign goods in light demand.
Eastern and European Markets.
NEW YoEK, Jan. Sl.-Money fairly active
| at 5@6 per cent. Prime mercantile paper ~
| @51s per cent. Sterling exchange, bankers
bills, so days, strong at o11s. Sight exchange
on New York on demand at $1,000
Governments weak and lower.
Bonds-In the railroad bond market the
| features were Texas & Pacific income land
grant seyens, which advanced to S315 from
S1aas, then declined to s1A; Missouri, Kansas
IL Texas second consols, which advanced to
S21s from 70, then fell to 81 u, recovered to 81
and again declined to ST. Chicago, Columbus
& Indiana Central income, which advanced to
| 75115 from 7214, then fell to Il and later adj
ranced to TAX; Ohio Central income, which
fell to 655155 from 671S, then recovered to 81 and
declined to 651a, and st. Louis & Iron Noun.
tain second preferred income, which declined
| to IS from 81.
State securities dull.
] Stocks-The stock market was irregular and
and unsettled throughout the entire day, and
in the main weak and tending downward. In
the early dealings Elevated railroad shares were
active and buoyant, Metropolitan Elevated
selling up 81 per cent, Manhattan Elevated
~ per cent, and New York Elevated ~ per
cent, but subsequently these shares became
weak and at the close had lost almost the en-
tire improvement. The general list opened
weak and under free sales prices began to de.
cline, the downward movement continuing
throughout the afternoon, and the lowest
| figures of the day were generally current in the
final sales. The decline IN prices from the
highest point ranged from 1SS@6 per cent, the
latter in Alton & Terre Haute preferred, the
common. selling off 81 per cent, Western
Union Telegraph 4aaS per cent, Texas Pacific
31s per cent, Denver g. Rio Grande 81 pei
cent, St Louis & Iron Mountain SIS per cent,
and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 5 per cent
Oregon Navigation rose 4 per cent, fell of
s14 per cent and rallied Sa35 per cent.
The transactions aggregated 475,OOO shares,
of which 1000 were Chicago, Burlington d
Quincy; II, 900 Chicago, Columbus g. Indiana
Central; 5000 Canada Southern; 1900 Cen
trail Pacific; 1900 Delaware, Lackawanna d
Western; 5000 Delaware & Hudson; 5000
Denver & Rio Grande; $4,000 Erie; 1900 st.
Louis & Iron Mountain; 1900 Missouri,
Kansas & Texas; 10000 Lake Shore; 1000 Lake
Erie & Western; $500 Michigan Central 1 200
Mobile & Ohio; 5000 Nashville, Chattanooga
& st. Louis; 5000 Chicago & Northwestern;
5000 New Jersey Central; 14,00) New York
Central; 1900 Northern Pacific; So 600 Ohio
& Mississippi; S,700 Ontario & WESTERN 7,4OC
Ohio Central; 1000 Pacific Mail; 2,40O Chi
| cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul; $500 St. Paul
d Omaha; $4,000 Texas Pacific; $1,000 Union
Pacific; $4,000 Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific;
$4,000 Western Union Telegraph; 1O,O,O Han
niba1 & st. Joe; 1000 Alton & Terre Haute:
1000 Philadelphia & Reading and 200 Illinois
| Central.