Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-11

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August 10Th. ..sl0i,55G & S35,Is5 So
Thus far this week -....--... G92,2G6 = 1871 Y
am I.nif last wesk-'-'-'. al9r 90 ! Ig5 az W
Exchange on New York buying at par,
selling a! I premium. Ezsteyn co:eoa bills
buying st per cent. discount, selling at par;
and exchange Do New Orleans discount
buying, and par selling.
Bank stocks-Bsnk of Commerce, 135 bid,
40 asked; FIRST National, 118; German Ma
tional, 200; Manhattan. l6G9170; State Ma
%tional, Us bid, $50 asked; Union and Plant
err, 40 bid.
Insurance stocka--nonte, 90 offered; Bluff
CITY, tU(; Teoples, S.; Pianier=, 1l5; PDe-
NJ, 30; Memphis City, LOCALES; fernando,
lG5l5ll0; Vanderbilt, l3(1l5.
RIilrOad bonds-CnesaPsake, Ohio and
Southwestern 6r4t mortgage, 95 asked; Mis-
-issippi aud Tennessee, so; Memphis and
CharlgsLon 6rst mortgage bonds, IL, ia;
do. second mortgage bond-, 7s QSS5). 103;
DO. %cousols, l04; Memphis and Little Rock
FIRST mortgage bonds, So, 80; Mississippi and
tennessee Console, A 1873; DO. B 108.
Miscellaneous - TaIing-Ds trict compro-
mise bond, 81; Merchants Storage and
Compress Company, new issue, 135; Mem.
phis Gas stock, S19s3; do. bonds, leo;
Memphis Water Company, bonds with
accrued interest," par; do. stock, $50 bid;
Memphis City bonds, old, 34935; com.
promise bords, 7097l; coupons from
old bonds, 81; from compromise bonds, 70;
ledger balances, 81; judgments on coupons
and bond7, 81; paving Indebtedness, "a; Shell
by county memphis and Onio raiiroad) 81,
100; Wafr.nts, IS; Mississippi levee bonds
aud coupona, District No. l, 10; do. scrip,
10; Back Of Tenneeeee Eotes, new issue, IS;
Crittenden county ark warrants, 65@70;
Desha county, 80; Mississippi county ,00970.
By Telegraph.
New YoRK, August 10.-Money market
easy, 19924 per cent, closed offered 2 per
cent. Prime mercantile paper, 43G6 per
cent. Sterling excha Dge-bankers' bills dull,
1881 demand, 4S7.
Bonds Governments lower for 413. Rail
ways weaker. State securities quiet.
Stocss-The market was weak and fever
ish in the forenoon, and although there was
at no lime anything like a break, there was
a ~sasgiug Of prices gener ally, although divi-
dend payers were comparatively firm, only
declining frsctionllly. The market was less
active after 1880, though there was still a
considerable fIuctuation Of prices, the net
result Of which, up to 2 o'clock, was to leave
the market generally a fraction higher than
4. 1880 O'Clock. 10 the last hour the mar
bet wss weak, and the lowest prices Of the
day made u decline ranging from TO II per
cent, Inc latter for Northwestern and Lscka-
wanna, the other stocks showing declines as
large az l per cent. being jersey Central,
Cln3da Southern, D-nyer, Western Union
and Northern Pacific common Memphis
and Charleston declined % per cent, Alton
and Terre Hauie 2, and Ohio and Missis-
siPpi %. The net result OF the day was a
decline Of to 3 per cent, the lat
ter for Central Pacific and Ohio
and Mississippi, q on Canada South
ern, p on Lsckawanna anl 2 on Erie.
The transactions in Llckswanna were very
large, a2gregating over 100000 shares, OF
which fully 5000 were sold in the last hour.
The Evening Post says: "Llrge operators and
capitalis's who had important interests at
take made a stand to-day in the STOCK mar
ket and prevented any sudden break, though
smaller spectators were all sellers, and there
Ses undoubtedly a good deal OF long stock
thrown upon the market by holders who be-
came uneasy on account Of the increase Of
failures and rumors Of others." Closing quo
tations were as follows: