New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-12

State bonds were dull but firm. Tennessee
8s sold At 80 an advance of per cent. The feature
Of the market. however, was the advanced bids for
the Arkansas rs TO the railroads and small lot OK
Fort Smiths sold at SO seller go days; Arkansas
funded Go sold at 1412615. There were no sales OK
city bank stocks
The market for railroad bonds developed no new
features, except the sympathy shown by the prices
for the speculative classes with the irregular move
ments in the share market. The general tone, now
ever was that Of frmness. Efie second consoiS
sold up q to 93i2. Missouri, Kansas and Iexas
rsts sold mp l. to 1903; the general es were steady
at s1s, and Sc were off 4 at 864. Rome, Water
town and Ogdensburg 5s we're per cent higher ae
20. aud the incomes sold at 3412. Chesapeake and
Ohio firsts series B,were of Il at 100l and the cur
rency 6s were fiuctuating between 81 aud SO with
final sales at 52a-an advance Of q per cent Cam
ada Southern first IS were up L to 0s. West Shore
and Buffalo first IS declined from 544 to $500
1884, Central and Hudson debenture os sod az
1O5ls Northwestern debenture 5s were steady,
and Chicago. Burlington and Quincy debenture os
were Il higher at 953.. East Tennessee, virginia
and Georgia consol IS were firm at 72is. waoasn
general 6s were per cent mp at 60 Texas facIho
incomes rose from 49s TO 507sG 5Ol but inc nrsts,
Rio Grande division were - of ut IT'S Nort1cfh
Pacific firsts were steady at 90s4 eooe.
The today lost on balance nTreecy and
4
$l0,e03 com. The days transactions coveivu.
Receipts, 81 800, O4l payments, $i,5s6,33oi cur
rencv balance, SIS, 2o7, s2s; coin balance, $lls.'
400,394 Il
The money market was undisturbed by the al,
vance in rates for sterling exchange to the gold
shipping point, and 1t continued easy at iI?gl Pci
cent, WITH the business about equally dlylded c Pc
tween the two extreme rates. The New-lork oity
banks might lose S15 900 900 gold tomorrow, ana
still hold larger amount OF cash than tney eyer
held before three weeks ago; and supposlng thas
the loss should be by draft upon the present uo.
posits aud not through new oans still IeP0ro nen n
Saturday surplus reserve exceeding TlO,oVyuVVvi
or nearly 81 600 900 greater surplus than tha' oi
February IL, 1888
The Clearing House statement to-day was a.
follows: Exchanges $40, l4O,274; balances
The United States Treasury at Washington TO-
day received $3.50 National bank notes Tor
redemption The customs receipts we're Sozo'4'7'
and the internal revenue receipts Sl33,oS5. -,
The foreign exchanges were not specially acuvc,
but the scarcity of bills and the difference IN ths
rate for money between the principal EuroPean
sterling to the specie-shipping point; that Is,
bankers cannot draw at rates chat VIII DOT permis
an export Of gold to cover the bills drawn, anu
bankers having remittances TO make on ths,r o V
account if any there are will ship the gold. we
revise quotations for business as follows: Bankers
bills 81 s5s and 81 S9l for long and short sterling
respectively 51S1s and 3. 10 for francs 9ois and
953a for reichmarks: 40 and 40l4 for guilders.
In London British consos af er opening steady
at SATURDAYS quotations. advanced g per cent anu
closed at 100 1915 for money and lol i-lo ZOE
account United States bonds were uncnangea.
American railways Were Irregular anu ~ phe boma
market, and did not hold the full gains that were
made to the end Bar silver was Lilo higher az
8 lad per ounce In Paris French 8 per cents DC.
M to 25 "a francs to the e. The Imperial Bank OF
Germanys weekly statement SHOWS specie gam
of 5,543, 900 marks.