The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-26
CONDITION OF THE MARKETS
Wheat Nervousand Unsettled, Fluctuat.
ing Within Very Narrow Range,
And Finally Closing Fractionally Lower than
on Saturday. Weak Feeling in Corn
Provisions Dull and Slightly Easier.
MONEY, BONDS AND STOCKS.
Blocks Doll and Fluctuations Small-Railway
Bonds Unusually Quiet.

Blocks Doll and Fluctuations Small-Railway
Bonds Unusually Quiet.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Money on call was
quiet at to per cent, closing at sac.
Prime mercantile paper, los per cent.
Sterling exchange was quiet but steady at
A80s for sixty-day bills and $4.S31 for demand.
The total sales of stocks to-day were 243. 613
shares, including the following: Canada South
erp, $3.50; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western,
0.780; Erie, 6,4OO; Kansas & Texas, $3.50; Lake
Shore, $780, Louisville & Nashville. II, no; Man
haitian Consolidated. 2,940; Northwestern, 1855;
Jersey Central, So, ESQ; Northern Pacific, IL. 1856;
Reading, 1896 St. Paul. %, ITO; St Paul &
Omaha 30lO Texas Pacific. $500; Union Pa
cifc, 1890; Western Union. 1850; Northern
Pacific preferred, $685. Oregon 6 Transconti-
mental. 1923.
Government bonds were dull and heavy for
the four-and.a-halfs.
State bonds were dull and steady.
Stocks were dull, and fluctuations, as rule,
were confined within narrow range There
were some wide fluctuations however, in Jersey
Central, Canada Southern and Union Pacific.
The general tone was weak, which was almost
entirely due to heavy selling by the room trad
era. There was some excitement in Western
Union in the early part of the day, and Louis
vile & Nashville was conspicuously strong on
buying for foreign account Canada Southern
9p6ks Il per cent in the afternoon, part OF
which was recovered later The Vanderbilts
and the grangers were heavy throughout the
day, st. Paul being the only one which showed
any activity. There was considerable strength
shown by jersey Central up to the last hour.
The general weakness in the market Is attrib
uted to the efforts of the bear" leaders, who have
made scarecrow ont of the possible election of
Henry George as Mayor of New York. the advo-
Gates of higher prices in the meantime doing
little or nothing The opening was generally
urn, first prices showing advances ranging from
1toR The trading was the dullest for the first
hour for many weeks; prices were somewhat ir
regular and in some cases feversh, being left at
noon At about opening figures. The market
then became intensely dull. except for the
movements in Jersey Central and Can
ada Southern. Prices began to yield. and at
she close, which was steady, were
Sales. 243, 6l3 shares Jersey Central, 35 $780, St.
Paul, g. no. followed by Western Union Louis
vile q Nashville. Reading and New England.
Jersey Central is Z higher. Manhattan shows
a lass of II; Nickel.plate preferred and Union
Pacific each, H. and others fractions
Railroad bonds were more quiet; Kansas q
Texas skies furnished $3.50 000 the sevens $l27,-
600, and the Atlantic g. Pacific incomes 1892 900,
out Of total days business of 81, 403, 600 Prices
were irregular. but generally steady, and i'm
portant changes are few. Hannibal e. Central
Missouri firsts rose 3, to lis; Jersey Central con-
Vertibles lost q, at 1914 Houston s. Texas
Western division. coupon off. 81, at $50. and
Mobile g Ohio first debentures, Al, at So Clos
ing quotations were: