Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-15
THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE TUESDAY Is 1881
BUYING AND SELLING.

| And the Prices Established Thereby In
Leading Markets-Stocks Up and Down
Closing Firm-w Wheat and Corn Fairly
Active and a Shade Higher-ProvisiOns
Active, Firm and Higher.
| ST. PAUL, March Is, 1881.
On the board of trade yesterday buyers
prices were as follows:
Wheat-No. hard, 96c bid; No. Q CSC;
No. 1, 9Sc; No. Q, GOO; do. April 92c; do. May,
CSC; No. 8, Sic.
Corn-No. 2, 42c bid, 43c asked; March,
SIC; May SOC bid.
Oats-No. white, 32c; No. 9 do. Bic;
No. Q mixed Sic bid, Sly asked; do May,
sec; No. 8, Soc.
Barley-No. ., soc; No. 5 extra, zoe;
No. s, &c.
Ground Feed-S15.5o.
Corn Meal-S14.50.
Bran-$s.0O.
Baled Hay-$10.50.
| Hogs-Live, S5.25; dressed, S6.75.
| Flour-Is selling from store to the trade at
s.. 90 per barrel for xxx, $3.50 for straight
and s6.75@7.OO for patent brands Rye flour,
1925.
Butter-Selling from store at 12A @17c per
pound for shipping grades and 1s@2Sc for
| good to choice.
Eggs-Selling from store at 1Sc per dozen.
Hides, etc.-Buyers' quotations: Green hides
TIC per pound; green salted SIC; dry sailed
lie; dry flint 14c; green calf 12c; green kip
&c. No. 2 stock two-third prices. Pelts weak
at 3Oc per pound for estimated WOOL
Wool-Nothing doing; very little left in the
country. Buyers nominal quotations: I'm
washed 2O@25c per pound; washed 2S@34c.
q The Hudson Bay Company's London sales Of
furs began yesterday. Less interest than
usual attaches here to the results, because of
the extraordinarily small catch of the season
throughout all the large part of the continent
in which St. Paul buyers operate.
Eastern and European Markets.
NEW YORK, March 14.-Money easy at 4@5
per cent. Prime mercantile paper SOC per cent
Sterling exchange, bankers bills strong at
$3.50. Sight exchange on New York at
s4.s21.
Governments steady and higher.
Bonds-Railroad bonds active but irregular
State securities dull
The stock market opened strong and in early
dealings advanced y to per cent, the latter
in Chicago, st. Louis & New Orleans,
which, however, subsequently reacted 8 per
cent. The general. list also reacted fraction,
Dut during Tue dllcTuOOu spcCuldtlOu dSdlu
became firm and an advance, ranging from a to
3I per cent. was recorded, in which the
Illinois Central, New Jersey Central and st.
Paul were most prominent. In late dealings a
reaction of Is to "a per cent took place, which
was partly recovered in the final sales. Indian
apolis, Bloomington & Western advanced 81
per cent. on to-day's transactions.
The transactions aggregated 331 900 shares;
$1,000 Chicago, Columbus & Indiana Central;
10000 Canada Southern; 5000 Chicago, st.
Louis & New Orleans; 1000 Chesapeake &
Ohio; 81 900 Delaware, Lackawanna q Western;
1,OJO Delaware & Hudson; 5000 Denver & Rio
Grande; 1900 Erie; 1900 Hannibal & St. Joe:
$4,000 St. Louis & Iron Mountain; 24,0U0
Missouri, Kansas & Texas; 5000 Lake Shore;
1000 Louisville & Nashville; 5000 Michigan
Central; 1000 Manhattan Elevated; 1900 Chi
cago & Northwestern; 5000 Nashville, Chat
tanooga & St. Louis; $4,000 New Jersey Gen.
trail; 1000 New York Central; 2,000 Northern
Pacific; 1880 Ohio & Mississippi; 5000 On
tario & Western; 1000 Ohio Central; 1000
Pacific Mail; 1900 Philadelphia & Reading;
As, 600 Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul; 1000
St. Paul s. Omaha; 5000 Texas & Pacific;
$4,000 Union Pacific; 5000 Wabash, St. Louis
& Pacific; $1,000 Western Union Telegraph;
$4,000 Illinois Central.