Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-19

Nothing doing at the banks outside Of
routine business. Money per cent.
May lsth.s C 7ssiT g h 1s.s9s :.
Thus far this week ;---.---- 1852 O5 1875 81
same same Time hns last last yesT 5 70 i43
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. Bs7 stocks are quoted az follows: Bank
of Commerce, 120; First National, 10; Ger
man National, 200; Manhattan, 16091SO;
State National, 120; Union and Planters, I22.
Insurance stocks-Bluf City, 50; fernando,
1009l55; Home, 90; Memphis City, So;
Peoples, 90995; Phoenix, IS; Planters, 1000
los. Railroad stecks-Memphis and Oh aries
ton, 68G970; Mississippi and Tennessee,
67C975, Mobile aud Ohio, 27(929; Mem
phis and Charleston FIRST mortgage bonds
rs, 112@116; do. second mortgage bonds, Is
(lS55l, l02(Dl08; do. consels, liz; Memphis
and Little Rock Grst mortgage bonds, s.,
1009l10; Mississippi and Tennessee consols,
A, l26(Dl28; do. 3, ll9. Miscellaneous-Mer-
chants Storage and Compress Company, 125;
Memphis gas stock, 75(983; do. bonds, 97(1
100; Memphis Water Company, 9S(9100;
Memphis city bonds, old, 28Cd32; compromise
bonds, 58(965; coupons from old bonds, 80;
from compromise bonds, 70@75; ledger bal
ances, %; Judgments on coupons and bonds,
(Memphis and Ohio railroad) 6s, 100(9I03;
warrants, 98@100 bid, none on the market;
Mississippi levee bonds and coupons, District
No. /, 10; do scrip, 10; Bank OF Tennessee
notes, new issue, 35(145; Crittenden county
(Arkansas) warrants, 20; do. Desha county,
90; do. Mississippi county, 80. Building and
Loan Associations, per share Of $500 each
Bluff City, S73t976; Clerks, S78; German
American, $TS; Memphis Building and
Savings Association, SI40(1I42.
LONDON, May 1S.-ConEols, 102 3-16; ac-
count, 10sf; New York Central 1870; Erie,
36li Erie seconds, 90.
NEW ORLEANS, May 1s.-Sight exchange
on New York steady at 81 per $1,000 pre-
MUM. Sterling exchange-bankers' bills,
1881.
New YORK, May 1s.-Money, 2CG9A per
cent. Prime mercantile paper, 44G52 per cent.
Sterling exchange-bankers' bills ste sdy,
1861; demand, 4S95. Government bonds IN
changed, except fer extended 6s, which are ]
per cent. higher. Railroad bonds irregular
State securities inactive. Share speculation |
opened generally weak, and prices in the
main below the closing quotations OF yes;er- |
day. Morning speculation was moder- |
ateiy active, and at the end of the frat hour |
prices recorded decline of sG915 per cent. |
This was succeeded by a recovery of 9G93 |
per cent, tbs latter st. Paul. About |
soon the n arket again fell of s(9E per cent, |
Richmond and D4nville declining. Alter |
this prices became strong and sold up 5(1l |
per cent, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani
Loba, Richmond and Danville, and Nashville
and Chattanooga being prominent in the up
ward turn, while Northwestern preferred ad-
Yanced per cent. Another spell of weak |
ness followed; the market, however, early in
he last hour again became strong, and so
continued to the close, when prices were,
however, as a rule, somewhat below yester-
lays closing. The effort to depress pric,
o-day was only moderately successful.
apgrecated 230 600 shares