Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-12
BUYING AND SELLING.
GENERAL MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Money Easy at 5 TO 6 Per Csnt.-Goven.
ments Steady and Higher-fIour
Generally Easier - Wheat
Steady-hogs Active.
ANCE
New York.

| 5 per cent. Prime mercantile paper 5
| (G59 per cent. Sterllng exchange, bank
ers' bills strong al 49Si: demand 1891;
produce exports for the week G,77l,0OO.
SILvER-At London Slid per ounce;
bar silver here III; subsidiary silver
coin S(dl per cent. discount.
GovsRNMRNTs-Stead for ia and IS
and tat per cent. higher ior 1 ls and 4.
U. s. Coupons uSsll -.
New iCL
New ll2
New ............llM
Pacific Skies OF
RAILROAD BoNDs-In the railroad
bond market the special feature was the
| C., Z * |. {. income, which advanced TO
| II! from 80. The other prominent issues
were the Chesapeake and Ohio tirsts,
series b, which advanced 10 SO frorl S3t.
then fell TO So and later recovered 10
| ST, Peoria, Decatur and Evansville in
| come, which advanced To - from 73l,
Alton and Terrr llaute second income
to lO3! from 1929, Indiana. Blooming.
ton and Western frSIs io Sil form SO
and Ohio Central tirsts to log from lO4y;
| the Jersey Central income declined to
l02 from 1881, Indiana. Bloomington
and Western income To II and 73 snl
then recovered 10 II and Lyhigh aud
Wilkesbdrre TO s.! from 50.
STATE BoNDs-Dull
STOCKS The market speculation IT,
day was on a scale Of magnitude seldom
| ,qualleh, and M times the market wa1
considerably excited. The prlncIr |
hatuTes OF the dealings were the tclr.
laph shares, Western Union selling up
from 9S tO lU3. returning tn 9S. recover.
Ing To l02 aud closing NJ lOl: white the
American Union rose from ~ tp 50, It
acted 10 Sil and closed at So. The cary
rise IN the telegraph stocks was due TO
the report that II consolidation lad NC
tully been agreed on ard That the
Western Union Has 10 30 /" al iOj and
the American Union al 30 TT" sub
seQuant reaction WAS CAUSED by the ru.
NOR that the negoiiitiuus had not yet
., en- concluded aud there Wa' a hitch.
In the general list prices advanced 10
I; per cent, ". b .sh Pacific, preferred,
leading the upward movement. This
MAS followed va reaction OF ! 10 . per
cent, in which th" Reading was most
prominent, but during tie afternoon II
again took the upward turn, and rise
oi / To ; per cent took pa which
was m,st marte n ie lea ing,
Louisville. and New A,uauy. \ ,asn Pa
clir. prrft RI Il, a,d Houston aud T. xU.
Chicago, Burlington Tnd Quury de-
rlIntG er ,eui., Chicago aud Alton !,
Michigan Central |, and Canada south
rrn ptr cent IN me dan = tTansdCtl' NJ.
| Panama sold at 30 and closed at 2i6
| bd. Ata meeting ui tie uuard oi dirrC-
orS Ot the WABASH. 81 Louis aud Pd,i.
| he id in dav q dividend o. ] ! per
cent qlatprly va, declared on thr pre-.
| erred ties, AMI Nrr President II T.
| S'ns * given aS aulno'Iiy tor tie
| statement that a." increase oi
mess 4 the 'old vii Justify the
pay mrut h,rrait"r 81 u pen cent per
uum. whirr viii b. made psyAuln
qua 'crl,. III, sharp Use in G. &, 4 |.
. bonds Was dGr T." lhr revival once
u,rr ut the rrppr's nl cpnIrpmisr with
he Pennsylvania company. The
Grdy,hic saw: There are large orders
coming over rol-im'lv 10y cable irpm
Pnis. LpuIun nj Frankfort for The
purchase @, - l. .ii, and San Francisco
railroad stocks. The chruIr g oi tho
central Iowa road increased SO OJl Tor
Drcrmb.r - Louis 2mi IAN FrlncIsco
guupd Si2 UOO the lirt Vrck ol Jauusry,
NmthSn Pari" 50 coo, Chicago aud
Omaha SIS .ODO. North western SIG 0OO.
and II. Paul tNO,t0l.
The transactions on tie Stock EN-
chang. aggregated 5gS eco shares, Il
when 1000 were \. d T. Telegraph,
3OOC {. { d |, IuUDC &. &. ~ ]. C.,
: UGO Canada southern, 1000 Central
Pacific. 1900 Drlawau, lackaHanna
and Western. i. 500 Delaware and lIud.
son, 79ra Dr.yrr and Rio Gnndc,
lD6 600 Egio. 2lCrG Hannibal and 81.
Joseph, 5000 Iron Mountain, $500
Kansas and Texas, IS Geo Lake Shore,
> coo Louisville aud Nashville, $500
Michigan Central, 1000 Northwestern,
1900 Nashville and Chattanooga, 1900
New jersey Central, $500 New York
Central, 80 hoItH"tn Pacific, . 900
Ohio and Mississippi, 1890 ODUno
ami Western, - Oa0 Pacific Mail, i.iJO
Peoria, Decatur and Evausvrl, 10000
Reading, 1900 II Paul. 5000 ~ Paul
and omaha $1,000 Union Pacific, 1900
Wabash parf'. 10000 Western Union,
g.4OO - LvuIs and SAN Francisco. and
1000 Chicago, ~ Louis and New Or.
leans.
Ccnlrul Pacific. ll4lt Lake Erc&wotcn ioi.
g. ~ A. 80