Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-06
BUYING AND SELLING.
GENERAL MARKETS BY TeLeGRAPH.
Money Easy at 4 10 6 Per Cent.-Goyern-
ments-DulI but firm-Flosr Quiet
and Unchanged-Wheat Lower
-4ogs active.
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New York.

We" OEA.
NEw YosE, January ) --NoYs, Easy
4Cd Z per cent, closing at 1 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 5G6 per cent.
Sterling exchange bankers bills weak
at 1888: demandi99i equal TO 4SO(G4S3s
under the old system.
SLvER--At London 81 ii per ounce; ;
bar silver here III; subsidiary silver
coin iGTl per cent. discount.
GovRRsMRSrS-Dull but firm.
[. ;. Coupons N>'. ...................... lUli. .
New FtNcS....,..., lUl.
New FOur-aud one cGEliS.................... me-
New ~
Pacific Siy,.S ~ 81 ......... lls
RAILROAD Bos In this market Iron
Mountain firsts, advanced 10 40 from
llSt; KHnsas and Texas seconds. 10 -
from 76l Mohil" and Osio, second de-
benLures, to 5li from 80; Denver and
Rio Grande. first CoGsoS. 20 ll34 from
ll2i Lake Erie an W,s crn income 10
90! from rs; closing ~ 90! Chesapeakc
ami Ohio, currency skies, 10 81 from
4N, Indiana Bloomington and Weston
iifsts, to 81 from 50: do 5, crnds, 10 7Oi
rom 70i ;and Chattanooga tirsts, to llg
from lis
STATE BoNDs-Dull
STOCKS - tn, stock market
opened strong and in carly deal.
ings prices advanced 10 81
er cent. A. the first board a reaction q,
TO > per cent took place. in which the
Lake shore. Il aiding y. \. Central
"abash Pacific and Michigan Central
Nrrc tie most conspicuous; but before
noon speculation agalr took an upward
turn and an advance OF to ; per cent.
vas recorded. which WAS most marked
in Chicago and Alton, Western Union,
Denv5r and Rio Grande, Union iaCIt.
and Wabash. This MAS followed uy
reaction. AMI ';tcr bv slight recovery,
but in late dealings Western Union Was
heavily pressed tor sale. and fell oil
per cent from the highest point, the
General list selling of al {! 10 >. per
cent, the latter in Reading and Michl.
gan central. The decline ln telegraph
stocks had depressing "ilect on the
general list. The exceptionally strong
stocks were Louisville AM Nashville
on Ontario and Western. The earnings
ui all the railroads continue tn increase
The Louisville aua Nashville gained
so coo inn last week Di December, and
- q96 33l for ,hc last six months Of
1850. The Northern Pacific earnings
increased S71 900 in the fourth week oi
December, anl $3.50 I. - ior SIX months
oi the u,cM ,car. Inr Houston and
rcxa, Central CARED Sl3 900 IN the last
week OF December.
The transactions on the Stock TX
change aggregated 49i 900 shares, OF
when 800 were Burlington and Quin-
cy, 10000 G. &. {. * J., 800 Canada
southern, 200 Central Pacific. 1000
Delaware. Lackawanna aud Western,
1000 Delaware and Hudson, 900 Dcu.
yer and Rio GranGc, 5000 Erie, 300
Hannibal and Il. Joseph, 1900 Iron
Mountain, 5000 Kansas and Texas,
% OOO LAX" Shore, 300 Lake ErIe
and Western, 1900 Louisville and Nash.
vile. i.UOD Michigan Central, : 300
Northwestern, ! 200 Nashville and Chat
tauoo.I. 1900 New Jersey Central,
/. .7rO New Nurn Central, j,OnO Northern
PariGr, G.lu uti0 and Mississippi,
5000 Outar,u ami Western, ~ 600 Pacific
AmI, 2O,OlO Eratiu,, ll,Cro - Paul.
5000 It. Paul and Omaha 81, 900 jniun
Pacific. 22,OuO Wabash pa,Gr, 1900
Western Uaiom, -,I0O Chicago aud Al.
ton. 3 500 Alton auI TER" llautr, and
> 600 chesapeake aGd Ohio