The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-25
Fluctuations Yesterday in the Nav York
ExChaogs List Of Stocks.
Chs Fssling Of the Market At Different Stages
Of the Days Session.
,codues and Provision Prices in Various
E&rkets Of the Country.
Railroad, State and Government Bonds
Foreign EEchanges-Bar Sfiver-0u
Markets-LIve Stock Quotations.

NEW YORK, January 23.-Money On call easy
at to per cent last loan 8; closed offered at
3. Prime mercantile paper 514S7H. Sterling
exchange dull, but steady at 1857 for sixty
day bills and e. SEA for demand. The total
sales of stocKs to-day were 155.257 shares, In
Guiding Delaware, Iackawana and Western, s.
s22; Louisville and Nashville, 500; Missouri
Pacific, 1868; Northwestern, 1870; Reading,
$500, st. Paul. 1870, Western Union, 1880
The stock market presented very little fea.
ture to-day outside OF the Gould stocks, Read
ing and st. Paul. The market still shows q
waiting mGOd. TIE bears seem to have regained
the control, and the short interest continues
TO increase. There was letter tone to the
dealings for a short time this forenoon, and the
market broke on heavy selling by the bears and
traders, a rUmor that country bank had closed
its doors being used with some effect. The
weak spot was in the Could stocks, Missouri
Pacific, and Western Union being speci.
ally weak. sud later in the day
attention was paid to wabash and Manhattan,
the latter yielding very readily. simultaneously
It. Paul sand Reading were attacked, but the
impress sion made upon them was not OF special
importance Manitoba was q featare 10 the
morning, and shot up four points on the report
that Burlington was seeking control, but later,
when the new issue Of bonds was announced.
most of the gain was lost, though it stands
alone this evening in showing marked gain
for the day, The general list sympathlzsd in
the weakness displayed by the leading stocks,
special significance. The opening was quite
firm, AMI Union Pacific went up - per cent.
but the movements were in butt few cases Of any
Further fractional advances were established
in the frs hour, with Reading and Manitoba
most conspicuous in the rise, but the advan &c
was soon checked, aud everything yielded
-Iowly, the market becoming dull. Toward 2
O'Clock, however, the demand was accelerated,
and the list showed much more animation,
with Missouri Pacific and later Manhat-
tan specially weak. Wabash also dropped
over one per cent The marh ct rallied slightly
from the lowest prices toward the close, but the
close was dull and steady to firm at but little
better than the lowest prices of the day. Al
most everything is lower tonight, and Man
haitian is down SIC. Western UAion and Wa
bash pfd. o1e per cent. each. Manitoba, how
ever, gained PC. Large purchases of invest
ment bonds are reported by banking houses
and the demand for first-class securities stiu
continues, though this is not fully reflected by
the sales at the board, most Of the business be-
ing done OVER the counters OF the iisrger deal
ers. Railroad bonds we're active, though the
heavy increase over the average of last week was
mainly due to the heavy trading In Burlington
and Quincy, Nebraska extension fours, which
furnished si2s,0O0 out of total days business of
s1,797,OC0. Prices were firm to strong through
outand are generally higher tonight, Balti-
more and Ohio fves rose to ITO, Albany and
Susquehsnns 6s 8 to III, and Buffalo and Erie
new % to 1872. Government bonds were dull
and heavy 10 weak. State bonds were dull and
steady.