Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-16
BUYING AND SELLING.
GENERAL MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Money Fairly Active At 4to 6 Per Cent
Govsrp-ments-Quiet and Firm
Flour Steady-wheat Gen
orally Aetive-Hogs
Higher.
FINANCE.


YIMANCE-
New York.
|. NEW YoRK, February l5.-MoSsv--
Fairly active at 4tS6 per cent, closing at
5G6 per cent. Prime mercantile paper
4a5 per cent Sterling exchange hank.
ers' bills strong at 4sSi; demand asst.
SILvYs-At London 81 id per ounce;
bar silver here llll; subsidiary silver
coin 3(9l per cent discount
GovKlNnxNn-Quiet and firm.
Q. s. Coupons lissi
New Fourand one
New .--..-in
Pacific sixes OF -
RAILROAD Boxps In the railroad
bond market to-day the features were
Texas Pacific income land grants, which
rose TO S6} from S4l; Kansas and Texas
second consols to Sii from S3j; Wabash
equipment 70 TO IS from So; kansas and
Pacific first consols to le6 from l0ti; In
diana, BLOOMINGTON and Western Sec
onds 10 7si from 77!; Union Pacific
sinking fund IS to l24l from 1881. Mo-
bile and Ohio second sebentures declin-
ed to 50 from 5Si; Denver and Rio
Grsnds first consols TO 1881 from HAT.
and Houston and Texas main line hrsts
to llO} from llli.
SrArr BoSps-M Moderately active.
SrcCIs-The market opened general.
ly strong and higher. but speculation
Was somewhat irregular in the early
dealings. At the frst board the deal
ings became strong In tone and the
market continued to advance through.
out the afternoon ill after the second
board, the improvement in prices rang.
| ing from tGdl per cent, Texas Pacific,
Nashville and Chattanooga, Denver and
| Rio Graude and Iron Mountain leading
the upward movement. In the late
| transactions there WAS rraction oi lth
| 81 per cent, In which Nashville and
Cnat,anooga, elevated railway shares,
| coal stocks and New York Central were
the most prominent. At the close the
market was somewhat stcadier and
prices showed q fractional recovery.
Oregon Navigation rose 8 per cent. aud
reacted . per cent. A wholesale cuilre
house, in a circular letter 10 the Wall
street bankers, called attention Ia the
hhb wv WIZ
tunities presented for obtaining for con.
sumption choice portion of prime Java
coffee held by the City Bank.
The transactions on the Stock EH-
change aggregated I62, 900 shares dis
tributed as follows: Alton and Terrc
Hsute 1900, C.C,&I g. 1000, Can lia
Southern 300, Central Pacific 700,
Chesapeake and Ohio 1000. Chicago.
81. Louis and New Orleans 1000,
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
1000. Delaware aud Hudson 1900, Eric
1900, Hannibal and 81. Joseph 5000.
Iron Mountain $4,000. Illinois Central
5000, Kansas and Texas 5000, Lake
Shore ~ 900, Lake Erie and Western
5000, Louisville and Nashville 1000,
Michigan Central 5000, Manhattan
Elevated s., 900. Metropolitan Elevated
5000, North western 5000, New Jersey
Central 10000, New York Central TO-.
900, Nashville aud Chattanooga 5000.
Northern Pacific 1000. Ohio and Mis-.
sissippi 1000. Ontario and Western
1900, Ohio Central 1000, Pacific Mail
5000, Peoria, Decatur and Evansville
1900, Reading II 900, 81. Paul $1,000.
ST. Paul and Omaha 1000, Texas
Pacific 1000. Union Pacific 1900, Wa.
bash Pacific 5000, Western Union 1900.
D,nver and Rio Grande q 900. Little
Pittsburgh 5000. Sutro Tunnel 5000.