Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-28
UNCERTAIN MARKETS.


Flour Steady Yesterday-Wheat Lower
and Active Corn and Rye Lower-Oats
Steady--Barlsy a Shade Higher-Flax
Seed Up-Provisions Active and Lower.
ST. PAUL, Thursday July 90.
On the board of trade yesterday prices and
transactions were as follows:
Wheat-No. hard, $113 bid; No. 2 do.
$1.lO; No. 8, 95c; No. 4, S5c; rejected, zoe.
Corn-No. 2 offered at 45c; No. at 4Oc.
Oats-No. white 40c bid; 41c asked;
No. 2 mixed 3Sc bid, SOC, asked; No. do.
offered at 37H C; rejected offered at SAC.
Barley-No. Q, 75c, bid; No. 3 extra, Csc; No.
3, 60c. Sales, one car No. 3 at zoe and one
car by sample at Use.
Rye-No. Q, zoe.
Ground Feed-$1S. 90 bid, $500 asked.
Corn Meal-Offered at $3.50.
Bran-Offered at $3.50.
Baled Hays. 90 bid, 5000 asked.
Eastern and European Markets.
NEW YORK, July 27.-Money easy at 2H0
per cent. Prime mercantile paper 1904
per cent. Sterling exchange, bankers bills
weak at $4.S2M. SighG exchange on New
York. $4.s4a4.
Governments strong on moderate volume
of business.
Bonds-Railroad bonds generally firm.
State securities firm.
Stocks-The stock market opened irregular,
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago being 3per
cent. lower, Indiana, Bloomington e. Western
~ per cent, st. Louis & San Francisco pre-
ferred per cent. and Chicago, Rock Island s.
Pacific ID per cent, while the rest of the list
was generally to N per cent. higher and
IN the early dealings advanced \ to X per
cent; but at the first board speculation be-
came weak and decline of x to "a per cent.
was recorded, which was most marked in
Denver & Rio Grande, Chicago. Milwaukee d
vile and New Jersey Central. Toward noon
the market assumed firmer tone and under
covering of short contracts advanced steadily
during the rest of the day, the closing quota
tons showing an advance from the lowest
point of the morning of x to Ak per cent,
the latter in Texas Pacific. Missouri Pacific,
Louisville & Nashville, Mobile & Ohio, Den
yer 81 Rio Grande,. New Jersey Central and
Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis were also
prominent in the Improvement. Among the
low-priced stocks Chicago, Saginaw q Canada
early in the day dropped 10 per cent. from the
last reported sale to Az, but in the late deal
ings the stock sold at As.
The Commercial Bulletin says: The stock
market was irregular and at intervals rather
depressed. The weakness, however. was more
apparent than real, reactions invariably re-
sulting in large purchases and leading to a
higher range of prices. In the afternoon,
when advices from Washington concerning
the condition of the President continued ia
yorable, the buying movement became general
and there was an advance ranging from l TO
Ak per cent. Southwestern shares, Wander.
bits stocks, Union Pacific and Western I'm
ion Telegraph were taken freely and closed at
the highest figures of the day. Some OF the
Western Union Telegraph "fancy stocks" ex-
perienced sharp changes.
The transactions aggregated 457, 900 shares:
Canada Southern $500; Central Pacific $500;
Chicago, Columbus & Indiana Central $500;
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western $4,000;
Delaware & Hudson I 600; Denver y Rio
Grande "a 900; Erie IA, COO; Hannibal & st. Joe
5000; Missouri, Kansas & Texas $4,000; Lake
Shore $4,000; Louisville & Nashville $500;
Lake Erie & Western 1880; Michigan Central
/ I, 900; Memphis 81 Charleston 5000; Missouri
Pacific 5000; Chicago & Northwestern
$1,000; New Jersey Central 10000; New
York Central $4,000; Northern Pacific
q, 900; Ohio & Mississippi 5000; Ontario d
Western 5000; Ohio Central $500; Pacific
Mail 5000; Peoria, Decatur & Evans
vile 5000; Philadelphia & Reading
5000; Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
1000; St. Paul g. Omaha 5000; Texas Pacific
A. 900; Union Pacific $4,000; Wabash, st. Louis
& Pacific $4,000; Western Union Telegraph
$4,000; Central Arizona 1,30O; Nashville, Chat
tanooga & St. Louis 5000; st. Louis & San
Francisco 1880; Colorado Coal 1880.