Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-01
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Condition of the Markets at Lead
ing Points.
Money 3 to 4 Per Cent-Goyenments uh-
changed-Stocks Dull and Irregular
Flour Unchanged-Wheat Inactive
Provisions Unchanged.
MAY SEMI-ANNUAl DIVIDENDS.

May is month of fairly respectable
importance in the line OF interest ana
dividends, although not one ofthe very
heaviest disbursement periods. In the
government bond list interest is paid Tor
the quarter upon the s4Ol ,5OO,OOO hves
extended at g per cent. Many OF these
are held by the Treasury to secure Ma
tional hank circulation, and the banks
consequently receive a good deal OF the
Interest. Cincinnati pays semi-annuai
interest on 81, 974 900 of its seyen-thlrties
and S3,Ol2,000 of its skies. Railroad
bonds pay interest in May as follows:
Substantially, S5,O00,000 Camden and
Amboy skies Of 1882; s6,3S2, 500 Denver
Rio Grande first mortgage sevens;
81, 10000 Eastern and Amboy fives;
Sl,5UO,OOO North Pennsylvania second
mortgage sevens; S6000,0OO Norfolk
and Western general mortgage skies;
81 ,OOO. 900 Sunbury, Hazleton and
Wilkesbarre first mortgage tives, and
81, $50, 900 of the same company's secs
ond mortgage skies, 81 100000 Syracuse,
Geneva and COrning's first mortgage
sevens; quarterly interest by the Lee
high Coal and Navigation Company
on 3, 900, 900 railroad skies Of 1879, anu
semi-annual interest is due from the
Reading on SOS, 900 Schuylkill Naviga-
ton Improvement skies; S756,65O OF
same Company's boat and car skies, and
S62S, 900 on its boat and car sevens.
Semi-annual interest also falls due on
the Jacksonville Passenger railways
100000 first mortgage skies; on the
chattel mortgage tens OF the
Catawissa Railroad Company; three per
cent. on the Northern Pacific railway,
Missouri division loan; on the sevens OF
1928 of Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company; on the mort
gage loan of the Frankfort and South
wark Passenger Railway Company,
three per cent; on the consolidated
sevens of the Oil Creek and Allegheny
River Railway Company; on the mort
gage loan of the Buffalo, Chautauqua
Lake and Plttsburg Railway Company
81 per cent, at the office OF the Buffalo,
Pittsburg and Western Railroad, and on
the loan of the Richmond Granite Com
pany. A feature of the May dividend
list is the large number OF Natlonai
and State banks which make
semi-annual payment of the stock
holders, and which will be mentioned
i'm this column when the official an
nouncements are made. At the head
of the railroad dividend list for May the
Peunsylvania's semi-annual payment
of per cent. may lie placed. 1t will
probably be declared on to-day, payable
at some date later in the month. The
other railroads paying dividends here
are the Catawissa, paying 3! per cent.
semi. annual on both old and new pre-
ferred stocks; the Elmira and Williams
polt, paying =! on the common; North
Pennsylvania, /! per cent. quarterly,
and the Salem Railroad, 8 per cent.
May is also dividend month with
the following corporations: Fidelity
Trust and Safe Deposit Company, Phila-
delphia Warehouse Company, Philadel-
phia Exchange Company, Philadelphia
Trust and Safe Deposit Company, JEFF
ferson Fire Insurance Company, Chel-
tenham and Willow Grove Turnpike
| Company, Delaware County Turnpike
Road Company, Frankfort and Bristol
Turnpike Company, Railway Equip
ment Trust of Pennsylvania, series A;
Car Trust of Pennsylvania, series b;
Car Trust of New York, series b, and
Northwestern Equipment Trust Com
pany.