Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-20

with light demand. Exchange plentiful st
quotation, while there is nothing doing in
securities.
January 10th ,S e1ef 1zs e B b an e,
Thus far this week.;--...1. 2oo,575 es 227.2O6 81
same TING last week....l,I 10 5s5 s. 25e,sss 90
same week last year 6F6,406 "a l63,S49 Sc
Exchange on New York buying at / dis
count, selling at par. Eastern cotton bills
buying I. per cent. discount, selling at par;
and exchange on New Orleans / discount
buying, and par selling.
Bank stocks-Bank of Commerce, 1876;
First National, 102 Q1l0; German National,
20092l0; Manhattan, 160@170; State Ma.
tionai, 122Gl25; Union and Planters. 1874
Railroad stocks-Missi-sippi and Teunes-
see, 60@65; Mobile and Ohio, 27928; Mem
phis and Charleston first mortgage bonds, 7s,
ll2@l16; do. second mortgage bonds, rs
(lSS5), l02(9108; do. consols, 112; Memphis
and Lutte Rock first mort gage bonds, Sc, 100
@l10; Mississippi and Tennessee consols, A,
IVA; do. 3, 1l0@113.
Observation-Disclosures Storage and
Compress Company, loo; Memphis Gas
stock, 5000; do. bonds, 97(910O; Memphis
Water Company, bonds with accrued inter-
est, par; stock, 100; Memphis city bonds,
old, 30; compromise bonds, So; cospons from
old bonds, 30; from compromise bonds, 60;
ledger balances, %; judgments on coupons
and bonds, 30; paving indebtedness, 25;
Shelby county memphis and Ohio railrosd)
g., SO; warrants, 9s@100 bid-none on the
market; Mississippi levee bonds and coupons,
District No. ], 11@I24; do. scrip, 12a123;
Bank OF Tennessee notes, new issue, 35(945;
Crittenden county (Ark.) warrants. 40; do.
Desha county, 81; do. Mississippi county, so.
PARIS, January 19.-Rentes, 79f 723c.
NEW ORLEANS, January l9.-SigLt ex.
change on New York, 81 50 per $1,000
premium. Sterling xchsnge-bankers' bills,
1881.
New YORK, January 19.-Money, 3(g5
per cent, closed offered 2 per cent. Prime
mercantile paper, 54@64 per cent. Sterling
exchapge-baukers' bills dull, 4S2t; de-
mand 4S6i. Government bonds irregular.
R1ilroad bonds fraction lower. State
securities dull. Notwithst snding the re action
Of yesterday afternoon, which wss caused
partly by come realizalions on stocks in
which holders had profit, the stock
market advanced during the irst hour
and quarter Of business, and at
about ii 80 o'clock the general range of
prices on The active list was higher than at
any previous time Ibis year, which shows
the general course of the market for the last
10 days 10 have been upward. At about
1l:30 o'clock prices were from ! to 2! per
cent. above the closing figures OF last night.
Soon after that time there was a reaction in
Vanderbilt stocks and Union Pacific, which
caused fractional decline in all the rest of
the market. With this reaction the market
became dull until in the last hour. Without
notable dealings, prices became frmer, and
the market closed firm. The most active
stocks in the 6nsl dealings were Denver,
| Western Union, Union Pacific and Delaware,
Lack a and Wasfarn In fha
Michigan Central, Canada Southern, Mis-
souri, Pacific, Denver, Oregon Trsnsconti-
mental and Northern Paci6, touched the
highest prices made for them this year, and
many OF the other stocks we're up 10 the
highest previous prices. The decline in the
afternoon leaves the net result Of the day 3
business and range Of prices irregular, as
compared with the close yesterday, but gen.
orally finn. Closing quotations: