Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-20

fair supply, COS per cent discount the rui
ing rate.
Nay 19tn...r--"-..s 1881 : s27,7s2 3:
Total last week..-... 1886 20 i56,5i5 z
Same week last year,. 6A,o52 % 1895 65
Exchange on New York buying ct par,
selling at premium. Eastern cotton bills
buying at / per Cent. discount, selling at par;
and exchange on New Orleans I discount
buying, and par selling.
Bank stocks-Bsnk Of Commerce, 1876;
First National, 118; German National, 1000
10; Manhattan, 1609l70; State National,
l25 bid; Union and Planters, 140Gl425
bid.
Insurance stocks-Home, 67(67O; Bluff
City, 100; People, IS; Plan!ers, lis; Pho.
nix, 90; Memphis City, 100; fernando,
1924; Vanderbilt, l3G15.
Railroad bonds--Chesspeake, Ohio and
Southwestern Fret mortgage, 95 asked; Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee, 5000; Memphis and
Charleston 6rst mortgage bonds, Re, HOO
ia; do. second mortgage bondg, rs Q885J,
102(Gl04; do. ~consols, 104@106; Memphis
and Liule Rock fret mortgage bonds, 81, 95
@1OO; Mississippi and Tennessee consols,
A 124@l26; do. 3 IO8C9II0.
Observation-Disclosures Storage and
Compress Company, new issue, 40 bid, $50
asked-light offerings; Memphis Gas stock,
so; do. bonds, 95@96; Memphis Water Com
pany, bonds with accrued interest, par; do.
stock, 40 bid, $50 asked; Memphis City
boBds, old, 30Q33l; compromise bonds,
65(G68; coupons from old bonds, SO; from
compromise bonds, 20; ledger balances, SO;
judgments on coupons and bonds, SO; paving
Indebtedness, SO; Shelby county (Memphis
aud Ohio railroad) g., 9S@1OO; warrants, 50
@98; Mississippi levee bonds and coupons,
District No. /, 109ll; do. scrip, 109l1;
Bank of Tennessee notes, new issue 70197l;
Critienden county (Ark warrants, 20; De-
sha county, 90; Mississippi county, 20.
NEW oRK BANK STATEMENT.
NBw York, May 19.-Losns, increase,
S2,377, 900; specie, increase, 1886 900; legal
tenders, increase, 81, 900; deposits, in
crease, 50, 1885, 400; circulation, decrease, $751;
300; reserve, increase, S756,S00. The banks
nov hold S5,760,625 in excess Of legal re-
quirements.
BY Telegraph.
NEW YORK. May 19-Money, 2!@3 per
cent, closed offered 3 per cent. Prime mer-
camille paper, 5196 PER cent. Sterling ex-
change-bankers' bills firm, 4S4; demand,
4874.
Bonds-GovernmeBts unchanged. Rail-
roads irregular. Stale securities dull, but
higher.
Stocks-The forepool's business on the
stock market showed a fractional decline in
prices compared with closing quotations
Friday. From noon 10 l o'clock the market
was dull and steady, lower prices followed
for a time. In the last hour The market was
again greatly unsettled, and in the first half
Of the sour there was a decline Of to l per |
cent, the latter Omahs, which declined to
46; Texas Pacific declined 10 35k, and
the rest OF the general list to !. Manitoba
d. clined from 127 to 124, and recovered 10 \
125. The net result Of the days business
was a decline of to 2 per cent namely:
Manitoba 2 per cent, Omaha II, WABASH
preferred II, Northern Pacific preferred II,
common I, Union Pacific !, Texas Pacific l,
and the ret OF the list e. fraction of 1 to I.
In final dealings the market was weak at the
lowest prices. Closing quotations were as