St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-18

! spicuously strong, and the skies closed with
an advance of 2 per cent, the fves n and
| the Sevens Il per cent. Prominent among
! the declines were Chesapeake & Ohio skies,
! series b. coupon of, and Indianapolis,
Bloomington L. Western firsts. IL. A very
large percentage of the business in stocks
continues to be confined to q few issues. The
| trading in Missouri, Kansas & Texas to-day
amounted to l22, 900 shares, and there was an
active business in Lake Shore, St. Paul
| Northern Pacific preferred, and Lackawanna.
The total for the five stocks mentioned was
over So per cent. Of the days business,
which amounted to 100000 shares. The
mornings business was extremely active,
but thereafter it was more quiet, although at
no time particularly dull. Opening prices
were irregular, but generally rather lower
than they closed last evening, with excep-
| tional declines in New York Central of "a,
and St. Paul "a. There was considerable
feverishness and irregularity in the early
dealings, followed by an advance, at which
time the highest prices of the day were gen.
orally reached. The gains from the opening
RANGING FROM FRACTIONS
to over l. Prices remained steady to strong
until about O'clock and then became rather
heavy and yielded slowly during the re-
mainder of the day. The losses in a number
of instances at the close amounted to l. Just
at the close the decline was checked, and the
final sales in number of cases were O shade
firm at the decline. The instances of strength
included Missouri, Kansas s. Texas, Michigan
Central, Missouri Pacific, Oregon Navigation,
and, until in the day hour, Pacific Mail. The
aforementioned stock at 2 o'clock was selling
at above last evenings close, but it lost the
advance and closed only q higher. At the
opening Missouri, Kansas s. Texas showed a
loss of 4 at 3314 1t advanced rapidly to 35,
but grew weak and closed at 1873, an advance
OF "a. The Vanderbilts were heavy all day,
and at no time sold above the prices at which
they closed yesterday, and each shows loss
of l. Canada Southern is also down l, St.
Paul 1, and Northwestern l q per cent. The
strength in Northern Pacific securities yes
terday and to-day was the result of reports
that the company had disposed of $4,000
for the property in preferred stock and ru-
mors that another syndicate was negotiating
for several million acres. The common
closed unchanged and the preferred is down
"a. It is believed that the decline OF this
afternoon was due to large realizing by some
parties who were conspicuous in establishing
the advance during Tuesday and Wednesday.
The total sales of stocks to-day were $780,
S92 shares, including Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western, 3S,770; Erie, 22,236; Kansas s.
Texas, 122, sos; Lake Shore, 65, 455: Louisville
& Nashville, 1880; Northwestern, 25, $50;
New York Central, 14,490; Northern Pacific,
S,100; Pacific Mail, 1920; St. Paul, 64,100;
Texas Pacific, l1,062; Union Pacific, 1850;
Western Union, %, 900; Northern Pacific pre-
ferred, 50, 72O: Oregon Tarnscontinental, IT,
TT.
QUOTATIONS OF STOCKS AND BONDS.
Following are the closing prices bid yester-
day and the three preceding business days: