Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-27

Same time last year ---.-..--- ZJi5oo % 49, =
Exchange on New York and principal
Eastern points, at par; ] discount on
three days, and I premium selling; and
| exchange on New Orleans 1 discount buy
| ing, and par selling. Bank stocks are
| quoted as follows: Bank of Commerce,
| i2O; First National, 120@130; German
! National, 300; Manhattan, 160(1lS0; State
| National, I2O; Union and Planters, 122.
Insurance stocks = Bluff City, So; Herman
do, IO0@I55; Home, so; Memphis City, 50;
Peoples 9O995; Phoenix, 49, Planters, lO0ts1
los. Railroad stocks-Memphis and Charles
ton. 6SGy70; Mississippi and Tennessee,
6767j, Mobile and OHIO, 27929; Mem
phis and Charleston first mortgage bonds,
r. I12GII6; do. second mortgage bonds, ~
IS85l, 102(dsI08; do. consols, liz; Memphis
and Little Rock Erst mortgage bonds, IS,
10O@I10; Mississippi and Tennessee consols,
A, I26GI28; do. 3, Il9. Misceilaneous-Me
chants Storage and Compress Company -;
Memphis gas stock, 1908; do. bonds, 91(9
100; Memphis Water Company, 9o(9lOO;
Memphis city bonds, old, 28932; compromise
bonds 58(G65; coupons from old bonds, 30;
from compromise bonds, 7O975; ledger bal
ances. 25: judgments on coupons and bonds,
26; paving Indebtedness, 25; Shelby county
(Memphis and Ohio railrosd) Is, 1OO(alO3;
warrants, 986100 bid, none on the market;
Mississippi levee bonds and coupons, District
" l.,
notes, new issue, 35945; Crittenden county
(Arkansas) warrants, 20; do. Desha county,
81; do Mississippi county, 80. Building and
Loan Associations, per share ottS2OO each
Bluff City, S73G76; Clerks, SIS; German
American, SIS; Memphis Building and
Savings Association, Sl4O(9l42.
New York, April 26.-Money, 2@3 per
cent. Prime mercantile paper, 5@53 per
cent. Sterling exchange-bankers' bills
steady, 4S7; demand, 1891 Government
bonds unchanged, except extended 81, which
advanced per cent Railroad bonds irregu-
lar on a moderate volume of business. State
securities without feature except for Tennes-
see mixed, Which were per cent. higher.
Share speculation opened weak, and prices
showed decline from yesterdays closing
quotations OF / to / per cent, the latter
general advance OF ] to J per cent,
the market sold off TO II
per cent, Lake Shore, Denver and Rio
GranGe and Louisville and Nashville being
conspicuous in the downward movement.
speculation became dull, but
at about 1890 O'clock an advance Of }91s
per cent. took place, in which Lake Shore,
New Jersey Central, Denver and Rio Grande,
Michigan Central and Missouri Pacific were
prominent Cleveland, Columbus, Cincin-
natl and Indianapolis sold up q per cent |
TO 49, During the afternoon speculation |
continued dull and prices sold off almost |
steadily to the close, the decline ranging |
from to L per cent, Cleveland, Columbus, |
Cincinnati and Indianapolis, Lake Shore, |
and St. Louis and San Francisco preferred |
being prominent therein, while Alton and |
Terre Hau,e preferred sold up per cent. TO
66, and common % per cent. to "a but the |
latter reacted } per cent. at the close. The |
market closed somewhat irregular, but in
The main weak. As compared with yester-
days closing quotations prices are irregular
with but fractional changes, except for Alton
and Terre Haute preferred, which is Al, and
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and In
which is Is per cent. higher.
aggregated 245,0OO shares.