St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-20

EVENING REPORT.
Money easy at 1@2 per cent, closed
B. Prime mercantile paper 5h@6A per cent
Sterling exchange, bankers bills steady at
s4.62H; do. ex. demand, S4.S4H.
Produce exports for the week, S7,234,OOO.
Governments Irregular.
Bonds-In Railroad bonds there was general
advance New York, Lake Erie & Western new
second consols rose from 652s to IS and reacted
to 67@67H.
State Securities-Dull.
stocks-The stock market was strong and
buoyant at times and the transactions were on a
larger scale than for some time past. The ac-
tiyity and advance was due to the announcement
that John King, Jr., had accepted the position
of assistant president of the New York, Lake
Erie 81 Western, that the English owners were
gratifed by the change and would advance the
money necessary to liquidate the floating debt,
favorable reports concerning the corn crop and
all official statement that the Union Pacitic's net
earnings for June were 1850, 900, while it re-
CURED only 1850, 900 to pay q per cent divi-
dend on stock, rentals and interest and all
charges, including the sinking fund. Commits
sion houses report an increase in outside orders
The improvement in active shares ranged from
1s@2 per cent, Union Pacific making the latter
advance. In the afternoon speculation was ir-
regular. L. 81 S. n. sold at ia. The
remainder of the list, however, declined less
than per cent. Later OH Union Pacific Canadian
Pacific, Canada Southern, Pacific Mail, Changers
and Lake Shore sold at near the highest prices
Of the day. The market left of strong. Com
pared with last night the closing prices are 40
pa per cent. higher except for Northern Pacific
preferred, which is II per cent lower. Bankers
81 Merchants Telegraph sold up per cent. to
Is, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati IL Indian
Rpolis Z to II Il, Chesapeake " Ohio first pre-
ferred a5 to 1875, Illinois Central to 1919, Long
Island g 10 60, Minneapolis 81 St Louis preferred
to 32%, Oregon improvement 2A to 24H,
Pullman Palace Car to 112, Richmond 6 Dan
vile to 80, st. Paul, Minneapolis d Manitoba
ga to g7A, st. Louis IL San Francisco to 22,
preferred TO 81 and Colorado Coal y to 12A
Stout e Co. have notified the Stock Exchange
that they prepared to pay all indebtedness in
full. The president and receiver Of the Little
Central railway said to-day, in regard to the divi-
dend: ''You can say, on my authority, that the
dividend will be paid when due out Of the COM
pany's earnings No proposition for scaling
down dividends win be entertained a moment.
Mr. Vanderbilt was not asked to advance
money
The transactions aggregated 100000 shares:
Delaware, LackGwanna 4 Western $4,000;
New York, Lake Erie & Western $4,000 !;
LIKE Shore $4,000: Chicago & Northwestern
10000; Chicago Milwaukee Il st. Paul $1,000 {;
Union Pacific $1,000; Western Union Telegraph
$4,000; Oregon Transcontinental $4,000; East
Tennessee, Virginia u Georgia 10000.
MINING STOCKS.
There was fair amount of trading in mining
stocks and prices firm. The sales included
Belle Isle ut 30 seller ten, Little Chief 81, Rap
pahannock 49, Sierra Nevada 175, State Line, Nos
and l. at OS, Consolidated Virginia 40 regular,
30 buyer thirty and SO seller ten, Horn Silver
81. Silver King 5S and Sutro Tunnel 10.
BOSTON RAILROAD ASp MINING.
Following are the closing prices at the Stock