The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-31

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s. 9sJf; demand 81 soy. ,.---u.
GOVERNMENT BoSDs-strong and generally
shade higher.
United Htatss G. Of 1881,
New Elves
New -Four and hAltl oouponh-
New Four
Paddle @ Of 1885
RAILROAD BoSDs-The features Of the rail
road bond market to-day were Texas 4 Pacific
income land grant sevens, which advanced
to 50 from 10, closing ut SIX; International &
Great Northern seconds income TO 81 from 30 !:
Boston, Hartford & Erie frsts, which declined
to go from 81, and later advanced TO 6lk :;
DeAver, south Park & Pacific firstS, which de-
Cined to l04 from 100, and then advanced 10
l0sH; Ohio Central income, which declined
to OK from SO; Mobile 4 Ohio third deben-
lures to 40 from "A, and O., G. & ]. O. income
to TX from Is, closing at 72A. Southern
Pacific OF California irstS were strong with
sales at l0SJSal0I.
STATE BoNDs-Moderatsly active.
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SroCKs-The market was irregular in the
early dealings but at the first board strong
buying movement was begun, under which
the general list rose rapidly, the upward
movement continued without any important
interruption up to the second board, when
the improvement ranged from Il to l2H per
cent, the latter in Alton Il Terre Haute pre-
ferred, Will e the common rose Il per cent,
Texas Pacific AZ per cent and Metropolitan
Elevated 6per cent Subsequently there was
u reaction Of Y tO6E per cent the latter being
In A t. Ia.
ton became firm again In the final dealings
and the market closed at recovery Of Y to
Il per cent, Oregon navigation, which closed
yesterday at $50 bid, sold up 10 1877 and closed
at l84.
The arrivals Of gold from Europe at the As.
say office for the week ended Friday were
$b2, 600, In foreign coin and bars. The total
arrivals since August I'd were SCI, 4S5, 400
OF which $62600,40O were foreign coin and
bars, and $3.50, 600 American coin. The 70.
tai arrivals for the corresponding period Of 10
and 80 were HS,4l5,lb0. Tbs payments by
the Assay office on this account were $3.50 go
for the week, and 500, 450, S76 since August I'd,
1880. Specie exports for the week were 5000.
l6O and silver imports $l2l,745. Iii esti-
mated In Washington that the public debt for
the current month will show decrease OF be.
tween IS, 0O0, 900 and $40, 100000.
An Express financial writer in the review
OF the week says that Government bonds
were in active demand Notwithstanding the
uusettling influence Of the dispatches from
Washington during the week regarding the
undecided fate OF the House funding bill.
State bonds were fairly active and mostly
steady.
Among the railroad bonds investment
issues were quiet but strong, while the low
bPInpH honda waPa nniIua mud hununnf Nho
advance ranging from to 10 per cent, with
the chief activity and advance in the Texas
Pacific, Boston, Hartford Il Erie, o., o. & |. O.,
Chesapeake & Ohio Peoria, Decatur & Evans.
vile, Ohio Central, Mobile & Ohio, Lake
Erie & Western, Iron Mountain, I4ackawanua,
Lafayette 4 MunCle incomes. Erie and Kan.
sas Il Texas issues were active on narrow
fluctuations. Toward the close there was
less activity and downward tendency In all
but Texas Pacific incomes, which were &c.
tive and buOyant. Among the investment
issues Southern Pacific, California fsts, 81,
Paul and Northwestern and Denver q Rio
Grande bonds were notably prominent and
strong.
Railroad and miscellaneous speculation
early In the week was feverish, ana prices de.
clined Il TO on per cent In nearly the entire
list, but subsequently buoyant feelingset In,
particularly III low priced shares, the rise in
which was quite remarkable In some in.
Stances The buoyancy IN low priced shares
was afterwards communicated 10 some Of The
high priced stock, which also became more
active. The improvement In prices from the
lowest figures touched early In the week
ranged from 10 AIf per cent, the upward
movement being led by the Oregon railroad
navigation, Alton & TerrO Haute, Telegraph
shares, Denver & Rio Grande, Lake Ere &
Western, Ohio Central, Louisiana e. Missouri
and the coal and iron stocks. The other features
Of the market were Northern Pacific, ST. Paul
& Omaha, Ontario & Western and Ohio y Mis-.
sisslppi.
The Elevated railroad shares were strong
almost throughout the week, with a steadily
increasing business. A great advance was
made to-day on the report Of large In.
crease In the traffic Of the Manhattan Com.
pAny. The fact that the New York and Metro.
politan stock were selling so much below the
other 10 per cent stocks has attracted the ut.
tentlon OF capitalists, and steady absorption
OF New York Elevated has left onlya very
small floating supply otstOok on the street.
There will be q LARGER traffic Tor elevated roads
as soon as the extensions beyond Harlem arc
completed, while important reductions In Tie
operating expenses are already being effected.
In final sales there WIS q reaction In active
speculative lavOrites from the extreme buoy.
aney Of the week, The decline from The
highest point ranging from X 10 6N per cent,
. The transactions were 45S,00 shares.
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