Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-25
LOWER PRICES.


The Tendency of the Markets Was That
Way Yesterday-Stocks Weak with Large
Sales-Wheat Shade Off and Dull-The
Pork Market Almost Panicky, But
Closed With Partial Recovery st. Paul
Prices, Etc.
ST. PAUL, Jan. Is, 1881.
On the board of trade yesterday prices and
transactions were as follows:
Wheat-No hard 97c bid No.2 do. 94c;
No. 94c; No. 2, 92c; do May 95c; No. 8, SIC:
Corn-No. Q 42c bid, 4Sc asked; March and
May 39c bid. Sales, two cars at 4Sc, two cars
at 45c and two cars to arrive at 41c.
Oats No Q white 33c bid; No. white 32c
bid, 34c asked; No. mixed, 32c; No. 8 mixed
Bic bid, 31Xc asked. Sales, two cars No. 3
mixed at 31115 and one car No. 3 white, p. {.
Barley--No. Q. S5c; No. 8 extra 75c; No. 3,
Csc. Sales, one car by sample at &c.
Rye-No. Q, Soc.
Ground Feed-$15.50.
Corn Meal-$14.50.
Bran-$900. ~
Baled Hay-$10.50.
Timothy seed-$2.40.
clover SeeQ-S4. OU
Hogs-Live, $5.25; dressed, $500 bid, 1925
asked.
Commission house quotations, selling
prices, are as follows:
Flour-Patents $6.7507OO per barrel;
straights $3.50; xxx $500. Rye -four $2.25
per cwt. e
Shorts--$12.00. sr:
Beans-H. P. navy $40; do mediums 1925.
Onions-$1 .00@1 .25 per bushel.
Potatoes-50@s per bushel.
Poultry-Turkeys 1870 per b; chickens
121Sc. @
BUTTER Common to medium grades 10@12c
per ib; good 14@16c; choice 17@20c. Choice
scarce and in good demand; lower grades in
light demand. afe
Eggs-selling freely at LIZ @12c.
A New York dispatch of last evening says:
Dry goods: Jobbing trade fairly active; but
business continues moderate with package
houses. Cotton goods unsettled, and we'll
known makes of wide sheetings, jeans and
ticks have been slightly reduced by agents.
Prints in moderate demand. Ginghams active.
Mems wear weolens quiet.
Eas tern and European Markets.
NEW YORK, March M.-Money 1906 per
cent. per annum. Prime mercantile paper
sos per cent. Sterling exchange, bankers
bills steady at $4.S04. Sight exchange on
New York at $4.821.
Governments quiet and firm.
Bonds-Railroad bonds in light demand and
generally weak.
State securities strong and active for Ten
nesees.
Stocks-The stock market was strong in the
early dealings for the general list, which re-
corded an advance of n to 2 per cent, the. lat
ter in New Jersey Central, but after the first
board speculation became weak and prices
steadily declined throughout the afternoon.
The late dealings showed decrease of X to
35s per cent, Chicago & Northwestern, Chi
cago, Milwaukee u st. Paul, Union Pacific,
coal shares and trunk line stocks leading in
the downward movement. In the final sales
there was recovery of Il to N per cent, in
which Union Pacific, New Jersey Central and
Chicago & Northwestern were most conspicu.
GUS. Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis was
again quiet, declining from SO to 70, selling ur
to 81, receding to rs and closing at 7611. The
market was fairly steady at the close.
The transactions aggregated 1872 1000 shares;
$4,000 Canada Southern; $4,000 Delaware
Lackawanna & Western; $4,000 Delaware
Hudson; 5000 Denver & Rio Grande; 19,0O(
Erie; 10000 Hannibal & st. Joe: 10000 St
Louis & Iron Mountain; 10000 Illinois Cen
trail; 5000 Missouri, Kansas & Texas; 81 ,00O
Lake Shore; 5000 Louisville & Nashville;
1900 Michigan Central; 5000 Manhattan Ele
vated; 1900 Mobile & Ohio; $4,000 Chicago
& Northwestern; 21,OO0 Nashville, Chatta
nooga & St. Louis; $4,000 New Jersey Cen.
trail; 5000 New York Central; 10000
Northern Pacific; 5000 Ohio & Mis-
sissippi; 1000 Ontario & Western; 5000 Ohio
Central; 10000 Pacific Mail; 5000 Philadel
phia & Reading; 81 200 Chicago, Milwauk 6et
Sutro Tunnel; 1900 Texas Pacific; $4,000 I'm
ion Pacific: Is, 900 Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific
5000 Western Union Telegraph.