Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-10

Exchange on New York buying at dis
count, selling ut par. Eastern cotton bills
buying at per cent. discount, selling at
par; and exchange on New Orleans dis
count buying, and par selling.
Bank Stocks-Bank of Commerce, 1855
bid; First National, lis bid; German
National, 200 bid; Manhattan, 100 bid;
State National, 127 bid; Union and Plan
tiers, las bid.
Insurance stocks-Home, - bid; Bluff
City, 9S bid; Peoples, 5000; Planters,
no bid; Phoenix, 90G93; Memphis City,
105@1l0; Vanderbilt, 23@25.
Railroad Bonds-Memphis City Rail
road bonds, '99@1004; Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern first mortgage, % asked;
Mississippi and Tennessee, so; Mem
phis and Charleston first mortgage
bonds, rs, 10; do. second mortgage bonds,
is (lSS5), 100; do. c~onsols, 104; Memphis
and Little Rock first mortgage bonds; SIS,
95@lO0; Mississippi and Tennessee con-
soils, A 120@124; do. B l04Gl0S.
Miscellaneous-Taxing-Dis District compro-
mise bonds, Ga; Merchants Storage and
Compress Company, new issue, l35; Mem
phis Gas stock, 50; do. bonds. 100;
Memphis Water Company, bonds with ac-
crued interest, par; do. stock, 100 bid;
Memphis City bonds, old, "a; compromise
bonds, 20; coupons from old bonds, "a;
from compromise bonds, 20; ledger bal
ances, So; judgments on coupons and
bonds, "a; paving Indebtedness, 81; Shell
by county memphis and Ohio railroad)
6s, 97Gl00; warrants, 50; Mississippi
levee bonds and coupons, District No. l,
10; do. scrip, 10; Bank of Tennessee notes,
new issue, IS; Crittenden county (Ark.)
warrants, 65; Desha county, 80; Missis-
sippi county, 80.
New York, October 9,-Money easy, at
2G24 per cent, closing at l per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 6G7 per cent
Sterling exchange-bankers' bills firm,
4Sli; demand, 4S44.
Bonds-Governments strong and higher,
except for SIS, which are lower at 1908.
Railways active for West Shore firsts and
lower for Texas Pacific issues. State Sc
curities very quiet; Arkansas rs, Fort
Smith issue, tirmer, % bid.
Stocks-The day opened with a steady
market, and a general, though not
marked advance in prices was recorded,
the features having been Union Pacific,
Northern Pacific, Oregon Transcontinental,
Lake Shore and st. Paul. In a cempara-
lively short time, however, there was a
change in the temper of speculation, ow-
ing 10 renewed attacks on the Willard
stocks, which yielded / to Il per cent. and
on the Gould stocks, which broke Ii to 3
per cent. Missouri Pacific, Texas Pacific
and Kansas and Texas sold at the lowest
point for a long time. From T2:S0 till ,
o'clock the market continued weak,
and some stocks rather firm in the fore
noon were weak, notably Louisville
and Nashville, Erie, Lake Shore and
Northwestern, while on the other hand,
some shares which were depressed in the
forenoon were comparatively firm after l
o'clock. The last hour the market was
stronger, and there was a general adj
vance OF to Il per cent, the latter on
Central Pacific, to 66l also Louisville and
Nashville II, to 4Ss; Union Pacific
II, to S7s; Texas and Pacific II, to
23i; Kansas and Texas II, to %; Ore
gon Transcontinental IL, to Sly; North
western 1t, to 1909; New York Central !,
to ll5l; Northern Pacific preferred /, to
cat; ST. Paul Z, to 99I; Lake Shore !, tc
99S Lackawanna I, to MA; Missouri
Pacific 7, to 9oa, with to on the other
stocks. The changes in the last hour
however, left the market generally to L
per cent. lower than last night, h lattel
on Texas Pacific, with : on Kansas ano
Texas, IL on Oregon ~Transcontinenta
and a fraction on the other stocks. SIEVE
raj stocks, however, closed a Fraction
higher than last night, namely, Burlington
and Quincy, Central Pacific, Lackawanna
Lake Shore, New York Central, Jerse.
Central, Reading, St. Paul and Union Pa
cifc. In the forenoon Western Union wa
iayorably affected by rumors OF the prob