The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-19
FINANCIAL And COMMERCIAL
HONEY AND STOCKS.
10 rnrr rtnanrt.i marEes.

xsz YORK EiaAaeisi 1srEss.
NEW YORK. Feb i2-kopey-. GiH per cent;
closed ST X per cent.
Prime Mercantile PsDer--ss95 per cent.
Governments Unchanged. Business quiet.
state securitses-Fl-m and a good business
ported oy dealels.
The course Of the stock market for the past two
days has been sueh as 10 lead many operators in
VAL street 10 believe II is declining into dull
anu listless condition again. Prices al the open
ing Of the board this morning were only slightly
different front e final quotations yesterday, aud
in the frst hslfhour there were fractional de-
clIues in which We tern Union. mon Pacific,
Missouri and L3ekswsnns were mos! prominent
Before L. renewed strength was asSin infused
into dealings. in which New York Central Lake
shore and LackawannG took the NEST prominent
part, and during the noon hour the highest prices
Of the day we're reached. New York Central gam
ing ~ at %. over last evening. and Lake shore
- Ellie 49, - oof1 =, -.
price OF the morning t. per cent 70 y9s4, but had
lest much IN the earlr dealings that IL only
= higher than It closed yesterday. Union Pacific
meantime. which opeued = higher aud declined
= TO AZ only able TO recover its early loss.
while Western Union. Northwestern and s.. Paul
were cOmraratively steady with gains OF small
fractions. Early in the afternoon the strongest
stocks lost considerable portion OF the advances,
ard this continued without material change
until close OF the Board Notable exceptions
were New jersey Central, which was sfrOng all
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which IL steadily rose to 391s. and closed a. 80
gain OF on somewhat larger transactions than
usual for this stock and Lackswanna and North
hfgrest price late IN the afternoon. 10 closed at
2sk. net gain OF s, wi sales OF pass shares The
eIe1gtn and ACTIVITY ii this stock. accOmpaui ed
BY the statement that strong poo! had been
formed to put up price, caused the market to
close steady with Lackswsnna .. lower at $50,
at the same time 1t selling 90 in the regular
Y I Central ss closes, 2: higher "a a 9Is
Manhattan Consolidated x, at ~. The other
changes were for smaller fractions except Central
lacifc which is up "a. at 32ts on limited Dusi-
ness. the total transactions OF the day were over
lCO0 shares less than yesterday trading in Lack
awanna being reduced 21.230 shares, or about one
nfth the sales OF that stock for few days st.
Paul was be most active stock as is shown by the
number OF shares in trade. with sales of 81 .07g
Ihe oullness was attributed IN part to the fs5s
that trading in railroad bonds was confined. with
a few exceptions. to small transactions and 9rin-
cip6lly 10 a few favorite issues. Prices coptinue
strong West Shore firsts rose from S6lS % 81 ia
the morning, but declined later 10 S64 aEd closed
a. %, s, an advance OF q on comparatively light
Erie seconds, new. rose from 50 to57 and later
sold a. Sos rallied 20 81 ana closed = Der cent
ms her at 5614. Northern Pacific rsts were strong
AZ lOssEglOS1a in toe morning, anQweie neglected
later IN the day. On small sales there was en- ad-
vance of per cent. in each OF Tie follow ing issue
Metropolitan Elevated hrsis. 81 lOo,si Lo1isylle,
New Albany and Chicago firs1s, 81 Louisville and
Nashville trust bonds, &; 0,eumws City FAllssnd
- Paul ives. los; New YORK, Lseka"snna aud
Western frsts, 10. 81 Louis and Iron Mountain
frsts, lt2: Lafayette 3 bennington and Muncie
hrsts. 81 NJ. and o. fists, l04 and ST. Paul. n. and
ID, Dakota extengO1, I'll, while SOU thern Pacific
and California frs sold az So Wabash, Chicago
Division frsfR, &c. Rome, WatertoWn and Ogden
burg. ssh. Northwestern sinking fund debenture
SIS 9615; Chesapeake and Ohio first series b at
a and currency 6's 2515. and Lake Shore frsts.
regular. i y each gslned = per cent. LehIgn
and WilkesbarTe eonsols asseDted bonds, sold At
90 an Advance OF -. There was decline IN
Erie rs gold. 70 10 and in Peoria. Dec ttur and
Evansville to %; and New York, SusquehauuR
and Western hrsts are "A per cent lower, st 521a.
Transactions on Stock Exchange aggTega sed
1SS COO shares of which u, 00e were LAckawanna;
$500 Erie 0,c00 Lake Shore: 000) Louisville and
Nashville: COO Northwestern . 900 New Jersey
Central. - 600 New York Central 81 900 ST. Paul:
1900 Union Pacific; 5000 Western Union.
eovERNHgNT SECURITIES.