Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-25

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supply, COS per cent. discount the ruling rate
Nay 2lth; ;;:..;;......' rs 2s4 g s29'257 4
/ Same time last week. 55l ,S59 q 1888 O.
same week last year. sS7,775 Il 105.548 &
Exchange on New York buying at par
selling at premium. Eastern cotton billl
! buying at I per cent. discount, selling at par
aud exchange on New Orleans discount
buying, and par selling.
Bank stocks--Bank OF Commerce, 1856
First National, 118; German National, 2O0G
2l0; Manhattan, 160(1170; State National
l25 bid; Union and Planters, 1409142!
bid.
Insurance stocks-HomP, 67(d70; Bluff
City, 100; Peoples, s.; Planters, 115; Pho
nix, 80; Memphis City, 100; fernando,
1921; Vanderbilt, l3@15.
Z lilroad bonds-Cneaape2ke, Ohio and
Southwestern frat mortgage, 95 asked; Mis-
sissipp and Tennessee, 45(950; Memphis and
Charleston fret mortgage bonds, 7s, HOG
ia; do. second mortgage bond', 7s 1885l,
1O2(9l04; do. console, 104CG106; Memphis
and Lille Rock first mortgage bOndp, s., 50
(glOO; Misaissippi and Tennessee console,
A 124Gl26; do. 3 l089110.
Miscellaneous Merch ants Storage and
Compress Company, new issue, 140 bid, $50
asked-light offerings; Memphis Gas stock.
80; do. honda, o5S09j Memphis Water Com
psny, b5nds with accrued interest, par; do.
stock, 140 bid, $50 asked; Memphis City
bondp, old, 30@S34; compromise bonds,
65@68; coupons from old bonds, 80; from
compromise bonds, 20; ledger balances, SO;
Judgments on coupons and bonds, SO; paving
indebledness 33; Shelby county (Memphis
and Ohio railroad) g., 98(Gl00; warrants, So
@9S; Mississippi levee bonds and coupons,
District No. l, 10@l1; do. scrip, 10@l1;
Bank Of Tennessee notsS, new issue 70397l;
CritteDden county (Ark.) warrants, 70; De-
sha county, 60; Mississippi county, 20.
By telegraph.
NEW YORK, May 24.-Money, 2493 per
cent. Prime mercantile paper, Sos per cent.
Sterling exchange--bankersp bills Wesk, 4843;
demand, 4874.
Bouks-Goyernments per cent. lower for
AIS coupon, otherwise unchanged. Railroads
quiet and featureless. State securities dull
but firm.
Stocks-There was an advancing market
up to 1880 o'clock, at which hour prices
were generally s9S higher than last night,
the latter Burlington s1d Quincy. Central
Pacific, however, was exceptionally strong
and advanced l per cent. over last nights
closing, 10 75s. Contrary to somewhat gen
ersl expectation the Governing Committee
oeclutu not 70 CLOSE Change curing any part
OF the usual hours; business. on account
Of the general holiday, after 1890 o'clock,
was extremely dull, and about l o'clock
prices began 10 sag from neglect. The market
after 2 o'clock was very dull; in the FIRST half
Of the hour there was all advance Of Holland
in the last half nearly an equal decline. The
only changes Of importance in the last hour
were sn advance in Alton and Terre Hauie
OF in preferred to 941 and per cent. on
common to 70; Metropolitan elevated adj
vanced in last hour to 1871, making the ad
vance 81 for the day. The general list closed
toll per cent. lower than lssiInight, the lat
scr for-rW nbush preferred. Central Pacific,
Northern Pacific. Evansville and st. Paul
were to higher. Closing quotations:
HavERNhRETE