National Republican., 1883-08-15
BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET.
BALTIMORE. Aug. 14.-Virginia Is, consolidated
81 new 3s, 81 bid to-day.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.

BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET
BALTIMORE Aug. 14.-Cotton steady; middling,
lolsc. Flour quiet and steady Howard To-. arc
extra, 81 O0@4 76 do. family IS 256 90; city mills
superfne. SO 2j@3 10; do extra, 81 00CQ6 SO; Rio
perlatiye patent, 81 So wheat-southern lower
and quiet; western lower, closing dull; southern
red. 81 1591 i6lS do amber, 81 169lg0 No. Mary.
re- SStoSer sI5 i 1901 SSS'sSBs
l 2lH. Corn-Sonthern steady; western dull; south
ern white, 62p68l5c; do. yellow, 62963c; western
mixed spot, 6l3s@62c; October, 6l4@6lAc; No
yember, 5915c bid; steamer, SIG asked Oats
lower and quiet southern. 356Di0c; western white,
4O@142c; do. mixed. 3S@50c; Pennsylvania, 37@JOc.
Rye quiet at 6l@62c. Hay UNCHANGED and finn;
prime to choice Pennsylvania and Maryland. eli 90
@l7 co. Provisions i, adv aud ouie,; mess pork,
SIC 90; bulk meats shoulders, and clear RIB sides.
packed SqsI9c; bacon, shoulders, s2Jc clear nib
Butter dull; western packed, s@Dl6c; creamery, 1s
@23c. Eggs quiet at legl7c Petroleum UNCHANGED;
nary 10 & so Sugar % steady S GaasSSS so % s
Copper refined irm at 141+@li15c. Whisky steady
at 81 lS@l 1871 Freights 10 Liverpool per steamer
5C95lSd Receipts-Flour, 34l3 barrels wheat, 49,
600 bushels corn, 10000 bushels oats, 5000 BUSH
els. rye 500 bushels !s shiIpmentsrGiorn Ina 1900
900 bushels
NEW YORK MARKET.
New YORK, Aug. 14-At the close and after
brokers had supplied their wants for the day,
| money was offered down TO per cent. on cau.
The last loan was at per cent Foreign exchange
GOyernmen s lower for the Is and rs State bone !
| dull. Railway bonds weak. The day opened In
| Wall street with feeling of general distrust,
which was heightened by The announcement by
| the Gold and Stock Telegraph company that the
stock ticker wires had been cut. For a greater
part of tic day majority of the offices with
out quotations In the first hour of business there
was break ofprices OF 3294ks per cent, and as
usual of late, Oregon Transeon:nental led The de-
cline. 1t was reported ABOUT this time tbat lead
ing operate had settled privately large line of
shorts in Northern Pacific and Oregon Transconti-
mental with prominent banking house. As the
operator in question has been instrumental in
causing the sharp break in these stocks II was in
ferred tnat the worst had been seen, and au ad
vance of l 10 PA per cent. took place. When the
market was at The top the failure of George Vim.
Ballou & Co. was announced, and prices yielded
"a to per cent During the day 400 shares of
stock and S44, 900 bonds were closed out for their
account. After 1t became known that no more
suspensions were likely, at least for the day, the
excitement abated and the market became tlrmer
About o'clock, however, Western Union was Sc
vereIy raided breaking to 72s against 1873 in the
early trading. The explanation given ior the
break was that number OF stop orders were in
the market, which the bears discovered. Missouri
Pacific sold down rapidly from 9oA to %, and the
the bear pre- sure was removed the market moved
up again. clearly indicating that the undertone Is
much stronger than generally 1z suPp%9ssd Pgp% MsseEn m
clhc ~ TO 0il2 The former subsequently reacted
to "a. As compsredwith last nights closing, prices
are 4 10 l5s per cent; higher; Central Pacific,
Northwestern, st. Paul, Louisville and Nashyllle,
Missouri Pacific. Kansas aud Texas, New York
Central, Erie, Oregon Transcontinenial, Texas Pa
cifc and Wabash common being prominentin the
improvement. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
New Jersey Central and Western Union are 70
"a per cent. lower. In the specialties Alton and
Terre Haute rose to o., do. preferred 3I TO 30,
Q. @. G. and l. ~ to 6lA, Chicago st. Louis and
Pittsbnrg IL to z, do preferred "a 70 i91s New
York. Chicago and st, Louis preferred IA 10 1874
Manitoba to los, and Colorado Coal IA TO 2315.
Chesapeake and Ohio first preferred declined 10
%, Long Island 8 to 70, Manhattan Beach to l6,
Manhattan Elevated y to bS1a, Minneapolis and
ST. Louis pa to 1917, Oregon Navigation 2 10 1888,
san Francisco preferred lS to Az, and do. hrst
preferred 2 to SS.
list of the stock exchange 576,77O shares broker
who did not leave the room all day estimates them
at lully 100000.
The changes in railway mortgages were more
important than for some time pasi. Iron Noun
Transcontlnental frsts TO 90, Denver and Rio
Grande consolidated 81 TO $50, auu Denver and
Rio Grande western first 10 72
Alter the exchange closed number of the lead
ing bankers expressed themselves as feeling more
confident of the future The lquidatiOnS which
have been going on for some time past have re-
suited in placing the market on healthy basis,
and already there are indications that the invest
ment public both here ana abroad are purchasing.
The reduction in foreign exchange to-day was
due 10 an increased supply Of commercial bills.
Transactions aggregated 576,770 shares, includ--
ing Delaware, Laukawanna and western, S23OOi
Central Pacific. 1900, Denver and Rio Grande, 49,
500; Eric, q, 800 Kansas aud Texas, 9,3LJ Lake
Shore 5000, Louisvllle and Nashville 1880; Mis-
souri, Pacific, 1880, Memphis aud Charleston 500 !
Northwestern, 1850; New Jersey Central, 300
Northern Pacific, 1906 New York Central, 1870;
Reading, H. 1907 st. Paul, $780, Texas Pacitc, 3D.
600; Uaion Pacific, 47l01 Wabash, 1900; Western
Union, 25.600; Oregon ITanscontnental 37lOI
Northern Pacific preferred, 3l70O Wabash pre-
lerred, ll,OOO; Canada Pacific bilOc chicago, Bur
nugtOQ and OuiupV .gDD,