, 1881-11-12
ON THE: BOURSE.


Gossip from the Board OF Trade Alleys
| A. weather. market made affairs On Chang
decidedly dull yesterday. There was no excite
I nef1t, and sales, receipts, and shipments wcr
light it is predicted by the knowing ones tfa
! il the weather continues bad tho wheat narke
| will udvunce, aud If it improves that the markc
| will break There WIS considerable truding ont
| side Of the regular business yesterday, and rhls
! method Of turning ever grain and produce and
| taking chances on making IN honest dollar /:
| notice,tbly on the increase. Yesterdays marke,
| for December and January wheat opened u
| notch Or t:vo higher and cosetl hrn at $I.3l4@
| 1.3lss December TO $l..2ss January. Corn also
opened stronger and closed ut NOS better.
F! Predictions on wheat are uncertain. 1t Is ru-
mored that there is money enough under the
| market to send it up to S150 before Christmas
| unless IN extremely powerful combination Is
formed to break 1t down. Sumo OF the Cncin-
nuti spectators who escaped damaged iu tho
lust Squeeze are sAid to be again tnkihg II hand
IN Chleago deals 1'rutnan Handy, the only nun
who preserved IL whole skin lii the recent wholu-
snle laying OF Cincinnati uoyiccs. is tho heaviest
Duyefup 10 date.
tho wind came up toward evening tie market
nuctuatcd and BECAME unsafe.
Tho movement looking toward tho pavement
OF Calhoun place with Medina stone will receive
nn impetus from yesterday y's storm. Tho entire
uliey Was Hooded with water, and bulttheaed
operator. who Is II regular attendant upon spec
tlonei. proposed to 4 bevy OF friends on the Call
Hoard that the brokers organize Il Con
do!n Club and that the bulls" be
down the alley. The order of the Council re-
Huesttny Ill estimate OF the cost Of Iavin.; Cui-
houn plAce with hstone is now in the hands Of
tho Acting Commissioner OF Public Works, May
or Harrison
Some of Cutler Stiles trmest hackers on the
Call BoNrd Aru, that he diu not leave because
of his inability to SECURE $5,0uD n yenr salary
but because hls services were needed in tho sot-
1lins up Of his fathers estate ut Dixon. They
expect TO hear the sonorous tones Of Mr. Stiles
voice reverberatlng through the alley again
after Dec. l..
THE ST. LOUIS MEN !
who have been dipping into Chicago grain on
erttions, to thoir material disadvantage and
mental disgust. have taken their sorrowiul way
back across tho long bridge Much sympathy IS
expressed for George ketchuu, un ambitious
young :spccula,or, VINO came to Chicago with
several car-l0Au5 Of cattle from farm ucur
Kansas City. He invested S5y through II small
This was four weeks ago. In the course Of ten
days he SO 0uo al4e,ll OF the deal, bur since
Nov. he has sunk the S200tN nud also $6.5D
Of his cattle. air. ketchum started back for bis |
Missouri farm with money borrowed from a |
friend yesterday, and will probably be sutistel |
heucetArth with the slower but safer speculation /
Of catte-rais1ng.
great many Of the heaviest operators and |
tusastic ovcr lie Mcnnepn 'fc Caal a:ts sceme
They see in it u possible chance of getting even !
with their ancient enemies, the r.4iiroud cor
whuse combinations on freight
rates TO Eastern Ports have for years
made wide inroAtis upon their profits from
grain-buyiug. The heaviest shippers have for
IL long time been anxious to see Il good water
route to the East opened. up through the lakes
hnd the st. Lawrence River; bur they will DC
equally well satisfied il the gre4t grain- fields OF
the Northwest can be drained through the Hem
ncptn Canal, the Mississippi, and the gulf
outlet !
;. Parties who look after the interests of the
Western Union Telegraph Company on the |
Board Of Trade are confident that the new Mu-
tual Cnou line Will not hurt the business Of tile
oltier monopoly to any upprecable extent. The |
lew Office of the Mutual Union, OH Dearborn |
street, will be too fur away from the cummer-
:lnl centre to divert much of the heavy und
profitable Board of Trade telegraph patronage.
The Mutual Union managers, recognizing tho
act, arc ing negotiations for quarters in
Exchange place which to open Il branch othcc, /
D bo in Charge of HI efficient manager and u |
'orp5 Of experienced commercial operators.