St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-15

| market closed quite firm.
NEW YORK. Aug. H.-Government bonds
have been duh but firm except a decline OF
! Is in price bid for the As, while the currency
prices have rallied per cent. in the quota
| tions bid State bonds have been dull and
quotations generally firm. The railway bond
market has been unusually active, the sales
of Erie I'd consols alone being 81 654, 600 nearly
an average days business for some time past
| in the whole list. At the same time the bonds
were strong, selling up 10 655s and closing with
= net advance of Ia per cent ut 651s; this
is the highest price at which these bonds
have sold this year and for a long time pre-
! viouS. There were also sales of 500, 600 At
| lantic Pacific Western division incomes,
during which the bonds rose TO 1885 and
closed on a slight reaction ut 1915, a gain of
| IL per cent. The tradingin East Tennessee,
! Virginia & Georgia incomes amounted 70
$4,000, during which the bonds rose 10 16J5
| a gain of y per cent. The sales of West
Shore hrsts were $l.6s0.O0O. the bonds
closing with an advance Of = at 1875. There
was left Sl,2S9, 900 10 be divided among the
other issues traded on. The stock market has
been active and dull by turns. BY issuing
orders 10 their brokers 10 trade in small lots
| nanipulatOrs were able TO give the market
the appearance of much
GREATER ACTIVITY
than it really possessed, and the Official sheet
OF the days transactions is fully as large as
ct any time when more than twice the amount
OF business is done. The sales of the day
were go, 400 shares, q decrease from yester-
day of 1850 shares. The business was.
however, comparatively well distributed. The
sales IN no case exceeded $500 shares. 4
feature OF the market was the continued
activity in number OF the iow-priced
stocks that ordinarily received no uttenticn.
Ia the early trading the market exhibited =
. good deal OF feycrishness and irrcgularity
3 ~ u. ~ nth
but this wa followed later by great attention
- the Whole list. which exhibited considcra-
bile strength. with only very slow advance.
The market continued strong. however, with
only slight reaction throughout the afternoon
and closed at OF within = small fraction OF
the best prices of the DAY. although the low
est prices to-day were only Ease below
closing quotations last evening. The
gains this evening are, with few
exceptions. only fractional. At the
same lime nothirg on the active list Is
lover. Conservative brokers are advising
thelr customers 10 keep hands of the market
III the last hour Lacksvanna developed IN
creased strength, selling up 10 par ana clos
ing = lower. with an advance OF per cent.
! The greatest gIin, however. was made 10y
Louisville y Nashville. which opened 1T the
/ lowest cnd closed within = Of the highest
price OF the day, the movement being stead
lily upward ana resulting in a net gain of , !
per ccrt. The enormous cotton crcp now
nearly
READY FOR HARVEST
and the decision To continue the New Orleans
exposition another year are expected 20
have a decided eject upon the future rcve-
MUGS OF the road. Tke Nanderhilts are up =.
aud also Northern Pacific preferred. North
western ana st. Paul gain 8 and i respect
lively. Western Union is also up * and
/ Onion Pacific =. Missouri Pacific was not
traded ia. Central o. New Jersey gained
only 4. Among the lOw-priccc stocks. Wa
bash common made Il further gain OF = and
the preferred *, while Texas a Pacific
rose l2s. Missouri, Kansas x Topeka is also
mp p. IL was learned at the Office of the
| Missouri. Kansas X T0pcae, however. this
afternoon than the earnings Of tlc company.
which have been gwen TO the public have
not included the operations o. the Internal
tionai Y Great Northern. which Is part the
Missouri Kansas X Topeka property. The
international Il Great Northern has been
running - far behind the fixed chargcs that
u he's absorbed more than all tie surplus
earnings o. the Missouri. Kansas - :. Zoe
ard mas also become indebted 20 the NJ :, o mi
= actc company 10 the extent o. over $4,000
10 mo, pressing demands.
The total sales Of stocks today were 2.o. 39T
shares. including: Delaware. Ldclcawanna &
Western. is.OlO; Erie. COCO; Kansa. & Texas,
1859; Lake shore, -. zoe; Louisville < Nash
vilic. 2+,5oI; Northwestern. 81, $40; New Jersey
Central. ,. sO0; New York Central 9.O6i:
Northern Pacific. !. 100; Northern Pacific pre-
ferred, 1850; Reading. $500: ST. Paul.
LOB; Texas Pacific, 1900; Union PaciIi..
l,2j2; western Union, -, $40; Oregon Trans
continental. l0,CU0.
QUOTATIONS OF STOCKS AND BONDS.
Following are tho closing prices bid yestcr-
d1r and tie three preceding days: