Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-24

The Whole Stock List Up With Large
Sales to Realize-Wheat Active, Firm
and Higher-Coarse Grains Strong and
Higher-Pork and Lard Strong and
Higher.
ST. PAUL, Tuesday, May a.
On the board of trade yesterday prices and
transactions were as follows:
Wheat-No. hard, s1.OO bid; No. Q do, %c;
No. 8, Soc, No. 4, 76c.
Corn-No. Q cash offered at 46c; May Of
fered ut 45c.
Oats-No. Q white, 38c bid; No. do SIC;
No. 2 mixed SIC; No. 8 do 36c. Sales, one car
June No. 2 mixed, at SIC, and two cars No.
cash at S6Xc.
Barley-No. 2 soc bid; No. extra, s5c;
No. 5, Soc.
Rye-No. 2, csc bid.
Ground Feed bid, $500 asked.
Bran-$5.OO bid
Baled Hay-$13.0O bid.
Potatoes--70c bid.
Timothy Seed-$2.25 bid.
Clover Seed-$4.25 bid.
Eastern and European Markets.
NEW YORK, May %. Money easy at 211@4
per cent, closing at 2H@3 per cent. Prime
mercantile paper 315@415 per cent. Sterling
exchange, bankers bills weak at $4.SS. Sight
exchange on New York $4.S5.
Governments n per cent. HIGHER for Is ex-
tended and 1s@A per cent. higher for IS, AZ
and As being unchanged.
State bonds generally dull.
Bonds-Railroad bonds irregular GU mode
rate volume of business.
Stocks-The stock market opened strong
and buoyant and in the early dealings an adj
vance ranging from X to 611 per cent. was
recorded, in which the entire list participated,
the shares most prominent in the upward
movement being Houston & Texas Central,
Western Union Telegraph, Chicago g. North
western, Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, Cen
trail Pacific, New Jersey Central, Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western, Lake Shore and New
York Central. During the afternoon specu-
lation became somewhat unsettled, and in the
late dealings sales to realize profits caused a
reaction of n to 2% per cent, in which Cen
trail Pacific, Houston g. Texas Central, Chi
cago, Columbus & Indiana Central, Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy and New Jersey Central
were most prominent. Memphis & Charleston
was strong in the final sales and closed at an
advance of 8 per cent. Oregon Navigation rose
3ss per cent. on the days transactions. Chi
cago, St. Louis s. New Orleans sold up 51
per cent. and reacted ~ per cent.
The transactions aggregated $4,000 shares:
Alton & Terre Haute 500; Canada Southern
10000; Chesapeake & Ohio $500; Central Pa
cifc 1900; Chicago, Columbus & Indiana
Central 5000; Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern 80, 800; Delaware & Hudson 8, 100; Denver
& Rio Grande $500; Erie Al 200; Hannibal &
St. Joe $500; Houston s. Texas Central
Is, 400; Indiana, Bloomington & Western
1 800; Illinois Central $500; Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas 81 300; Lake Shore 1880; Louis
vile & Nashville $500; Michigan Central
$500; Memphis & Charleston $1,000; Chi
cago & Northwestern $4,000; Nashville, Chat.
tanooga & St. Louis 1900; New Jersey Cen
trail 1890; New York Central 1880; North
ern Pacific 800; Ohio & Mississippi 2,70O;
Ontario & Western $500; Ohio Central $500;
Pacific Mail Il, 100; Peoria, Decatur & Evans
vile 5000; Philadelphia & Reading $500;
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Is 900; Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul 80, 600; st. Paul &
Omaha Il, 800; Texas Pacific $500; Union Pa
cific 22,300; Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific
II, 300; Western Union Telegraph $1,000; st.
Louis & San Francisco $4,000; Chicago, Bur-
lington g. Quincy 5000; Chicago, St. Louis
& New Orleans 1900; Marietta & Cincinnati
first preferred 2,4O0.