The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-03
rNADE.
The Features of the monsy and Stock
Markets,

The Features of the MOnsy and Stock
Markets.
EIw York, May l.-AIoney on call easy at lka
. percent. PIimG mercantile paper 4a5 norCcHt.
Sterling Exchange dull but steady and unchanged.
GOVERNMENT BONDs-Dull and EteAdy.
4TATE B~ORDS-NOmlnal.
RAILROAD BONDS Quiet; Ssles 81, l67,t0O.
sr0CKs-Were unusually ieyerIsh and ~irrpgulAr
With Al'er1Ate spGSnlH OF aGtlVity and dullneSS.
The Or / prices showed only small changes. aud
business was transacted, trading b ipR accom-.
panied BY small declines. The market was con.
t'Olled wholly by news reIRTdlDg the strike at
Chlcago,An these were nearly all oIRn uniavorable
character.
10th the bulls and bears Concede that II the
country IL to be thrown Into general disorder &C..
Cufltles must go much lower. While news this
morning from 81. Louis and from tots city was "a.
vOrNble, that from the Northwest was the reverse
aud more SerIoust that has been published since the
beginning Of the strike on the Southwest AyStGm.
The lowest prices were reached 1t 80. Although
the market was } mp0'atlvGly dull, the move
menI was decidedly Irregular from that time until
. O'clock,
The result Of the days operation is extremely
Irregular. several prominent stocks showing little
or no change, while Il majority Of the list Is down
from Il To " percent. A few StOCkI are higher, the
most representative. ones being Erie Xpercent,
Louisville y Nashville u and New Jersey Central
aud Texas 4 Pacific u percent each. The exCep.
Quincy ~ percent, Milwaukee, Lake Shore &
Western preferred ~. Lake Shore aud Union Pa,
eide each Y, 81. Paul X and %LackRwaunA 4 per.
cent.
Tie total sales for the day were 31i,9OO shares.
Tho market closed irregular but about steady for a
majority Of the list. Comparing prices this even.
Ing with those ola week inEo everything was lower.
Heaviest declines were New York Consolidated Gas
Gh nerCenti Missouri, Kansas Il TeNAs and Louis.
Vile Il Nashville each ~ percent; Lake Shore aud
Delaware 4 Hudson each 81 percent; Texas &
7 altlc aud Pacific Mail each " percent,
Total sales for the week were i,622, O6S shares.
I~oNDs-CluSeI bid; y, {. Is, lOlN; u =. new Is,
Loltilahms %conSois, nix Missouri d, IiX;' reaacss!
sec Gs old, ok; do, new, SIX; Central Pacific frttS,
ll6; Denver ( Rio Grande ftbb III; Denver &
no Grande Western ilrtS, 78ki Erie seconds, "
etn Pacific lrsts, ll6; Northern Pacific seconds,
g3h; Northwestern colSols, ll3; Northwestern
Debentures, ex.dlvldend, 100; 81. Louis 4 Gan
Francisco general mortgage, lO3;. st. Paul con,
& Pacific Land Grants 85: Texas Pacific r. @,
Shore, iOlE '"''' "''D' H'''' N' "s''
sroCKs-Clcaed bid! Adams Express, l4i; Amer.
loan Express, l0i; Canada Southern, 8GNi Central
iCrred, lgS DO seconds, "; c., O., q 81, l6; Den,
yer 4 Rio Gtande, 1y1; EflO,. 2g1S; do preferred,
81; Fort Wayne, lIg; Kansas 4 Texas 25K; lake
Fri, 4 Western, 10; Lake Shore Tx louisville
Central o.; MISSOURI Pacific, lOg5I Nashville 4
Chattanooga, NJ Now Jersey Central, 41T; North,
sFn pBcilc, 9lS:, do preferred. 6t9SS; Chicago 4
Northwestern, lGH; do preferred, 1856; New Yorl
Central, l0Oat; Ohio Central, lht Ohio & MlSls
tlDpi, 2t7f; do preferred, 90i Pacific Mail, 6l1f,
Pittsburgh, 1907 Reading, .2gHi 81, louis 4 SaI
Francisco, I76i do preferred, sol DO ilFEt preferred
70; G.. N, 4 81, Paul, S3Si do preferred, III;
Texas 4. Pacific, III UnlOd Pacific. 4S9l<; United
BtAteH Express, 61i w, st.. l., Il T., Of do pre-
erred. l5Hi wellS'Fargo Express, i2Oi Western
Union, 6lE.