New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-27
gsdsy in comparison with the Same week of 1883 and

The cotton speculation was dropping with slight varfa
declines Of from Fl TO 25 points Spot was dull and
heavy and ended with decline Of $40 cent at 10 1915
cents Tor Mddlng Uplands The statistics OF the move
mehts OF three years are as follows:
RECEIPTS AT PORTS
lssq-ss. lsssIs4 1ss4Js5,
Since september SI'f bales; % ASSESSED 4e4Ss10
EXPORTS.
En- tas yssn ss a
The iron interest is st depressed and sales are re-
ported at Si7 90 for No pig Which " SsSDs y the
ia unchanged Stocks have accumulated but next week
WIN be an idle one in output The Reading Company
sell the full quota allotted to regardless Of price 1t
Is reported as making contracts In New-England at ex-
company followed in 1877 ' 'O'
II was dull week at the Stock Exchange Neither the
war news nor.sny other news exerted anything more
than an ephemeral influence upon values. A moderate
business was done in Government bonds at adysncing
although the final changes show advances or per cent
Ior inc ss and a and 4 per cent for the So Inc ous
6s North Carolina special taxes and Consolidated S.
tennessee Compromise bonds and Alabama Us.
The Tennessees were strong, and the bids for
the. Virginia consols were advanced 10 per
cent cent. to 90 upon the decisi:n OF the supreme
in payment for Virginia state The feature Of the
for h of IN
the occasion for this the announcement or settle
however that the settlement inclu6ss that
assehted TO the old foreclosure scheme and he question
mas not yet Dcen answered. III inc neuers OF Tue SOceu
Cowdry stock have undertaken to make delivery OF the
unassented stock In general way the market was as
dull and feaureess 1t has been for long time There
afdrther decline Lake Eric and Western issues
and Chesapeake and Ohio Bs declined 10 09a but re-
covered TO 90 on an announcement that the company
would pay tho May coupons, oneha In cash and one
half in scrip the scrip be secured by deposit OF the
coupons. Canada Southern hrsts developed weakness
and declined per cent, while the Nickel Plate ruled
steady Oregon Short Lines advanced from s59 to ola
90i2 premature report that by means OF lease OF
the Oregon Railway and Navigation the companys con-
neetion with Portland would be made permanent
Except In particular feature last weeks stock
speculation obedent only 80 the wills OF three or
four large operators; values moved up and down
generally within = range exclusively by their
dcum but the intense duness that ruled probably was
not part OF the prearTsnged programme, The total
sales OF all stocks amounted only TO OOj490 shares or
which three stocks contributed $4,000 shares. With
few exceptions the final changes covered bY small
fractions, and OF them declines. The excep-
lions arc ndvances-Mssouri Pacific 2ss Union Pacific
lie, Pacific Mail S. aud Oregon Railway and Nayiga-
tisn gle per cent; declnes-Cenadian Pacific North
western preferred and st. Paul preferred each 2as
Omaha common p and preferred 3 Rock Island and
Delaware aud Hudson y per cent
The suhOned table gives the highest, lowest and maj
prices for the week and the sales OF AZ active or repre-
sentative stocks and the ina prices OF a week ago:
WEEKLY RANGE