Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-16


for money, though rates Of discount remain
at SOS per cent.
May 18th. ll4,09i a s27,265 o.
same day last year........-..- l221l4 Y SIP 70
Exchange on New York and principal East
ern points, at par; discount on three days
and / premium selling; and exchange on
New Orleans discount buying, and par sell
ing. Bank stocks are quoted az follows: Bank
of Commerce, 120; First National, 10; Ger
man National, 200; Manhattan, 160(9lS0;
State \ stional, 100; Union and Planters, 122.
Insurance stocks-Bluf City, SO; fernando,
l009155; Home, so; Memphis City, IS;
Peoples, 9O(G95; Pheuix, 70; Planters, 1000
los. Railroad stocks-Memphis and Charles
ton. 6S(97O; Mississippi and Tennessee,
67C975; Mobile and Ohio, 27(929; Mem
phis and Charleston fret mortgage bonds,
7s, 1l2(9116; do. second mortgage bonds, 7s
(lS85), l02@l0S; do. consols, 1l2; Memphis
and Little Rock Erst mortgage bonds, s.,
I00(91l0; Mississippi and Tennessee consols,
A, l26C9l2S; do. p, 1I9. Miseellaneous-Mer
chants Storage and Com press Company, 125;
Memphis gas stock, 1908; do. bonds, 979
100; Memphis Water Company, 9S9100;
Memphis city bonds, old, 2S(g32; compromise
bonds, 58(065; coupons from old bonds, 80;
from compromise bonds, 70@75; ledger bal
ances, %; judgments on coupons and bonds,
26; paving Indebtedness, 25; Shelby county
memphis and Ohio railroad) 6s, 100@l03;
warrants, 989100 bid, none on the market;
Mississippi levee bonds and coupons, District
No. 1, 10, do. scrip, 10; Bank of Tennessee
notes, new issue, 35@45; Crittenden county
lark ansas) warrants, 20; do. Desha county,
81; do. Mississippi county, so. Building and
Loan Associations, per share Of 5000 each
Bluff City, S73G976; Clerks, S78; German
American, SIS; Memphis Building and
Savings Association, S140(9142.
PARIS, May 15.-Rentes, s3f. 92c.
NEW ORLEANS, May 15.-Sight exchange
on New York, s. per $1,000 premium. Ster-
ling exchange-bankers' bills, 1884.
LONDON, May New 5s, extended, 1034;
illinois Central, 384; Pennsylvania Central,
GOT; New York Central, 13O7; Ecie, 375;
Erie seconds, 50; Reading, 293.
New YoRK, May 15.-Money, 2@4 per
cent. Prime mercantile pepper, 495 per cent.
487; demand, 4S94. Government bonds strong
and / per cent. higher for A, ] per cent.
higher for 4ls, and unchanged for extended
g. and 30. Railroad bonds irregular, but
generally higher. State securities moder-
ateIy active, but irregular. Share specula-
ton opened irregular, but prices in the
main were a fraction lower than at
Saturdays close; Richmond and DAN
vile, however, was l per cent. higher.
In the early business a decline OF s(9l
per cent took place in the general list, while
Hannibal and St. Joseph preferred sold off .
and Richmond and Dsnville l per cent;
after thiz the market, although dull, became
strong, and about noon advanced iG1 per
cent, Denver and Rio Grande, Michigan
Central, Missouri Pacific and Western Union
being prominent In the upward movement.
During the afternoon it wac, if anything,
duller than in the morning, and from noon
prices tell off almost steadily TO the close,
the decline ranging from to l / per cent,
Missouri Pacific, Louisville and Nashville,
Northwestern, Denver and Rio Grande,
Michigan Central and Wabash preferred be-
ing most prominent in the downward move
ment, while Richmond and Danville ad-
vanced per cent. The market closed doll
and weak, and prices generally 5914 per
cent. below the closing figures of Saturday,
the latter Hannibal and ST. Joseph pre-
ferred. Transactions aggregated 10000
shares