Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-28


Same time last week. 776s60 OF 165,6s1 IS
Same time last year. 322,9O6 "a 6l,699 p
Exchange on New York and principal
Eastern points, at par; discount on
three days, and / premium selling; and
exchange on New Orleans discount buy
ing, and par selling. Bank stocks are
quoted as follows: Bank of Commerce,
10; First National, 120@13O; German
National, 200; Manhattan, l60@1S0; State
National, 40; Union and Planters, 122
Insurance stocks = Bluff City, So; Herman
do, 100@155; Home, so; Memphis City, IS;
Peoples, 90@95; Phoenix, rs; Planters, 100C9
los. Railroad stocks-Memphis and Charles
ton, 6S@70; Mississippi and Tennessee,
67G975, Mobile and Ohio, 27@29; Mem
phis and Charleston first mortgage bonds
7s, 112@116; do. second mortgage bonds, rs
1SS5), 102(910S; do. consols, III; Memphis
and Little Rock 2rst mortgage bonds, Sc,
100@110; Mississippi and Tennessee copsols,
A, 126912S; do. B, 119. Miscellaneous-Mtr-
chants Storage and Compress Company, l25;
Memphis gas stock, 75983; do. bonds, go
100; Memphis Water Company, 989l00;
Memphis city bonds, old, 2s@32; compromise
bonds, 5S965; coupons from old bonds, 80;
from compromise bonds, 70@75; ledger bal
ances, 25; judgments on coupons and bonds,
26; paving indebtedness, 25; Shelby county
memphis and Ohio railroad) 6s, 100@l03;
Mississippi levee bonds and coupons, District
No. l, 10; do. scrip, 10; Bank OF Tennessee
notes, new issue, 35@45; Criuenden county
(Arkansas) warrants, 20; do. Desha county,
81; do. Mississippi county, so. Building and
Loan Associations, per share of 5000 each
Bluff City, S73@76; Clerks SIS; German
American, SIS; Memphis Building and
Savings Association, Sl40@142.
PARIS, April 27.-Rentes, S3f. zoe.
NEW ORLEANS, April 27.-Sight exchange
on New York g per $1,000 premium. Ster-
ling exchange-bankers' bill, 4S7.
LONDON, April 27.-Pennsylvania Central,
163; New York Central, 1898; Erie, 1861;
Erie seconds, 954; Reading, 1898.
New YORK, April 27.-Money, 2@3 per
cent. Prime mercantile paper, 5954 per
cent. Sterling excAange-bankers' bills
steady, 4S7; demand, 1891. Government
bonds weak and ! per cent. lower for As,
per cent. lower for AIS and unchanged for
extended 6s and 5s. Railroad bonds gen.
orally firm on a moderate volume of bust
ness. State securities fairly active but irreg
ular. Share speculation opened irregular,
but prices in the main were s(11 per cent.
higher than Yesterdays closing quotations,
the latter Nashville and Chattanooga, while
Alton and Terre Haute common opened ,
per cent. higher at %. There was an advance
oil s(Il per cent. In early trade, the latter
Alton and Terre Hante preferred, after which
prices declined s@ll per cent, Wabash
preferred, New York Central, Denver and
Rio Grande, New Jersey Central and
Alton and Terre Haute common being prom
inent in the downward movement, while
New York, Chicago and ST. Louis preferred
declined per cent. to So. Alter this spscu-
Iation it became very dull and continued so
the rem ainder Of the day. In the early part
OF the afternoon an advance of s919 per
cent took place, in which New York, Chicago
and St. Louis preferred, and Michigan Cen
trail, Denver and Rio Grande aud Lake Shore
were most conspicuous, while Nashville and
Chattanooga declined l per cent. Succeed
iug this was a fractional reaction in the
Q, neral list aud l per cent. in New York,
Chicago and s.. Louis preferred; but in lAse
trade the market advanced tG1 per cent,
New Jersey Central, Missouri Pacific, Read
ing and Canada Southern being pre- eminent