Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-08
BUYING AND SELLING.
GENERAL MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Money Easy at 4 to 6 Per Cent.-GOyern-
ments firm-fIour Dull and Nom
inal-"h Strong and High
er-Hogs Active.
FINANCE.

Ne" iohA' january I-MONRF-. I2sy
iG6 per cent, closing at per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 5G6 per cent.
Sterling exchange, bankers bills dull
at 1881 demand 1891.
SLvER-At London slid per ounce:
bar silver here III; subsidiary silver
coin i@l per cent. discount.
GovgRNNEYrs-Firm and unchanged
except 4ls, which advanced :. per cent.
=. :. Coupons lSsll
NeW .......... %
New FOurandOne-halis.......
NtN
faclnc Skies OF
RAuROAD BoNDs-The features of the
railroad bond market were Indiana,
Bloomington and Western income,
which advanced 10 ~ from 90
and then ie.l 10 72!, c., e. Il |.
{. income, which advanced B3 from
6l, New Jersey Central income,
which rose TO los from 99,, and
then icl To 81, Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre ,onsols asScnted, which adj
yanced TO l0G from l04, Boston, Hart.
ford and Erie iirs,s to 53I from 81,
Lake Erie and Western irs's TO
Ill! nom 1913, Milwaukee and
st. Paul (La Crosse division) irsts
10 l2i from l23, Erie srrond runsols
to lOl from l00t, Indiana, Bloomington
and Western seconds to 50! from II and
Milwaukee and St Paul lirslS - lONi
from 1911.
STATE BoNDs-MoHrate.y active.
SToCHs-The stock market Nas ,harar.
terizod by strength aud activity tHrouga-
out almost the entire day, amt With th"
exception OF very b.lri period ol de-
preston at the first board. the general
tendency was in the direction ol higher
range of values. The highest prices ul
the day were generally current in the
final sales, and the market closed strong
at an advance a. compared with tie
closing quotations yesterday, ranging
from | tO >, per cent, the latter West
ern Union. The coal shares, Central
Pacific, Hannibal AMI -. Joseph, Union
Pacific, Denver and Rio GTandr and In
diana, Bloomington aud Western were
also prominent in the upward move.
ment. Panama sold up 10 2lgt, ~
against 2l2 the last previous sale. tn"
official earnings oi the Union Pacific
road for 1850 are -, ,iJl 900, an increase
on 1879 of Il ,SSi 900, but this Includes
the accession OF the traffic from the Kan
sas Pacific and Denver Pacific consuli-
dated as part OF the Union Pacific sys-
tenn last summer. The earnings Oi the
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
| Tor the fourth week in December last
- A In H..
| before, a decrease OF Slj,Ol5 The cam
| ings for tie whole month were 500, 3,o65,
agaist s5j3 OIL, a comparative increase
ot Sji9. 1t is said that Erie preferred
will pay dividend Of , per cent. IN
March.
The transactions ON the Stock Tx
change aggregated 10000 shares, of
which 2,iOO were Burlington and Quin-
cy, 1000 &. =. &. Il J., 2,iOO Canada
Southern, 5000 Central Pacific. 1000
Delaware, i.ackawauua and Western,
1900 Delaware and Hudson, 5000
Denver and Rio Grandr, 10000 Erie.
10000 Hannibal and 81 Joseph, 1000
Iron Mountain, 100 Kansas and
Texas, $1,000 Lake Shore, 400 Lake
Erie and Western, 100 Louisville and
Nashville, 5000 Michigan Central,
3,iOO Northwestern, 1900 Nashville and
Chattanooga, 5000 New Jersey Cen
tral, 5000 New York Central, 1900
Northern Pacific, 1000 Ohio aud Mis-
sissippi, 1000 Ontario aud Western,
10000 Pacific Mail, 1000 Reading 9,iUO
~. Paul. 5000 ~. Paul and Omaha,
1900 Union Pacific, 1900 Wabash
Pacific, g., 900 Western Union, 5000 &.
G. 4 /. G. $500 Ohio Central, 5000
Morris and Essex and 1900 1t. LOUIS
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