The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-25
ANERV0US DAY ON CHANGE.
Quotations Extremely Nervous, Accom-
panied by Excitement in Wheat.
Outside Speculation Falls Off, and Everybody
Appears To Be Waiting for Developments
in the Anglo-Russian Quarrel
MONEY AND STOCKS.
A Duh Day in New York, with Listless and
Featureless Close.

A Duh Day in New York, with Listless and
Featureless Close.
New YORK, April 24.-Money on call con
tinues easy at all per cent, closing at ! per
cent
Prime mercantile paper, 405 per cent
Bar silver, $1.08
Foreign exchange is quiet and steady; actual
business is done at 81 SO and $4S8
The sales of stocks to-day aggregated 129, 1868
shares, including the following: Delaware,
Lackawanna 6 Western. $780, Kansas & Texas,
1900 Lake Shore, 1900; Northwestern, 10000;
Pacific Mail, 5000; st. Paul, 2S,000 Union Pa
eifc, 2l10o
Government bonds have been quiet and strong,
the only change being recovery of the morn
ing loss in the quotations for the fours There
was sale Of coupon fours at 1924.
State bonds have been qniet and quotations
generally steady, with sale of Tennessee com
promise at IS 055s.
The railway bond market has been less active,
and The prices this evening are irregular, but in
many cases lower. The total sales were 81, 030,
100, decrease from yesterday of 100000.
This has been the dullest day at the Stock Elk
change since the early part of the current month,
the total sales amounting TO only 1890 shares,
the smallest number, with the exception referred
70, reported in months past The extreme dull
ness extended throughout the list, the total sales
In no case amounting to as much as 5000 shares,
except the six or seven stocks which have led
the list for sometime past-the transactions in
St Paul, Union Pacific, Lake Shore, North
western, Pacific Mail and Lackawanna exceeding
sixty per cent. of the days bust
ness. With the exception of two OF
three unimportant transactions, the huctu-
tions were within range of less
than per cent, and the closing prices this
evening are from to / per cent lower than yes
terday. The opening quotations showed little
change this morning but the trading was ex-
tremely light. and as the day passed there was
o slight tendency to lower figures, which con-
tinued until late in the afternoon, when moder-
ate rally was followed by comparatively steady
but listless and featureless closing The govern
ing committee of the Stock Exchange has
adopted rules permitting the trading for the
aecountp in any of the securities listed. All
sales and purchases for the account shall run abb
solutey for fifteen days without interest and on
all offers to buy or sell, for an amount equal to
1000 shares, multiples thereof, the commits
sion is to be per cent each way In a word, it
Is proposed to make the unit of transactions ten
shares, instead of 100, if desired.
St Paul was the most active stock the
list to-day, but the sales were only 2S 600 shares,
and the price this evening is lower. Northwest
Is down 3, Lake Shore Land New York Central !.
Among the Gould stocks Western Union is
unchanged, Pacific Mail iss lower, Union Pa
cifc is down /, Missouri Pacific g. and Missouri,
Kansas & Texas per cent Lackawanna is un-
changed.
A story has been in circulation to the effect
that the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany was to be leased jointly by the Union Pa
ciic and Northern Pacific companies, which are
to guarantee per cent on the stock of the Nay
igation company for the first two years and {
per cent. thereafter, on which tho stock rose
from II to rs to-day on sales of 1850 shares,
Official verifcation of the story could not be OBJ
tanned.
The market closed with the following prices
rid.