Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-22
! MARKET CHANGES.
Northern Pacific Sold Down-Wheat and
Corn Steady, With . Firm Demand for

The Stock Market Weak and Depressed
Northern Pacific Sold Down-Wheat and
Corn Steady, With Firm Demand for
the Former Oats Easier - Pork Dull,
Weak and Lower-Lard Steady.
ST. PAUL, March 81, 1881.
On the board Of trade yesterday prices
and transactions were as follows:
Wheat--No. / hard SIC |; No. .. do. 94c;
No. 1 95e; No. ., Q2c; do May 96c; No. 8, SIC.
Corn--No. 2, lie bid, 49c asked; March and
May SOC. EscrifaeSs Il: 'gfr
Oats No. 9 white S2] &C.; No. 8 do Bic; No.
Q mixed, 311Sc; do May 32Xc; No. 5 mixed,
3Oc. rs 70 ai
Barley--No. .. SOC; No. extra 75c; No. 8,
zoe. s
Rye-No. 2, s0c. Sale one car at SOC.
Ground Feed $1,000.
Corn Meal-$15.00.
Bran-$9.50.
Baled Hay-$10.50.
Hogs-Live, $5.25; dressed, $6.75.
A New York dispatch of last evening says:
Dry goods: Jobbers doing good business in
staple and department goods, but package
trade light and irregular Cotton goods job
bling at irregular prices, but agents quotations
without material change. Fine brown sheet
ings easier, but heavy browns STEADY. Prints
in moderate request. Mems wear ,woolens
quiet. - .I-ys - lo
Eastern and European Markets.
New YORK, March 2l.-Money 506 per
cent. per annum.s Prime mercantile paper
@e per cent Sterling exchange, bankers
bills weak at $4.801. Sight exchange on
New York at $4.S2N.
Governments steady and 7s@Z per cent
higher, except Is, which are unchanged.
Bonds-Railroad bonds in light demand.
State securities inactive. [.se..
Stocks-The stock market was irregular at
opening but in main lower. Oregon Naviga-
ton, however, was 8 per cent. and Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis, 2 per cent. higher.
Speculation became weak and prices declined
1@1% per cent, coal shares and Nashville,
Chattanooga 4 st. Louis leading at first The
board market became steady and an advance of
I@3 per cent. was recorded, the latter in
Nashville, Chattanooga 81 st. Louis. During
the afternoon dealings were extremely light
and were very weak in tone, the greatest
depression being in Northern Pacific, which
fell off ~ per cent. for common and SO per
cent. for preferred, but closed at recovery of
u and e per cent. respectively. The general list
continued weak to close, and final sales were
generally at the lowest figures of the day. The
decline from the highest point ranged from
X@3 per cent, coal shares leading.
The transactions aggregated 1000 shares;
$4,000 Canada Southern; 1900 Cleveland,
Columbus & Indiana Central; 81 600 Delaware,
Lackawanna q Western; 1000 Delaware &
Hudson; 1000 Denver & Bio Grande; 12,000
Erie; 5000 Hannibal & st. Joe; 5000 st. Louis
& Iron Mountain; 5000 Illinois Central; 1890
Missouri, Kansas & Texas; 300 Lake Shore;
1000 Louisville & Nashville; 1000 Michigan
Central; 5000 Manhattan Elevated; 5000
Mobile & Ohio; 5000 Chicago & Northwestern;
o. 600 Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis;
10000 New Jersey Central; $4,000 New York
Central; $4,000 Northern Pacific; 1900 Ohio &
Mississippi; 1000 Ontario & Western; 1900
Ohio Central; 81 900 Pacific Mail; 5000 Phila-
delphia & Reading; Is, 900 Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul; 5000 St. Paul & Omaha; 1900 sutro
Tunnel; 1000 Texas Pacific; 10000 Union
Pacific: 5000 Wabash. st. Louis & Pacific;
mn Woatorn Union TnleOroph