St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-28
e. r. BARDEN,
GRAIN COMMISSION.
Wheat, Corn, Oats, Barley, Baled Hay.
IA Chamber of Commerce, st. Paul.
FINANCIAL.
New York.

NEW YORK, March 27.-ClearlngS to-
day were S11s,6S2, S92; balances, $685.,
41S. Money on call was easy at 205 per
cent; last loan, 2; closed offered at IL.
Prime mercantile paper, 1900. Ster-
ling exchange dull but firm at 81. S52I
for siXty-day bills, and S4.SS$l for de-
mand. The total sales of stocks to-day
were 23S.955 shares. including: Atchi-
son, 41,440; Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western, 1880; Lake Shore. 5,l45:
Louisville & Nashville, S,275; Missouri
Pacific, 4,425; Northwestern, 26,645:
Reading, 100; st. Paul, 26.645; Union
Pacific, 9,770. The stock market started
out this morning with burst of activ-
ity, which, however, soon died away,
and the usual dizziness ensued, with a de-
cline from the highest prices of the
opening. The result Of the days oper-
majority of the list fractionally higher.
with few marked gains. The quota
tions from London this morning were
materially higher, and the foreigners
supplemented that with liberal buying
orders, especially in st. Paul, Lake
Shore, Union Pacific and Louisville d
Nashville. The other reports from the
other side were uniformly favorable.
and here there was less pressure upon
the stocks which have been so weak of
late, and this induced some buying by
the trading element and encouraged
purchases for the long account gem
orally. The liquidation in Atchison
seemed to have come to a pause,
and purchases, aggregating 25,2OO
shares, by an influential house, helped
the stock up, but the bear manipulation
again became conspicuous and the early
tyroC ,oiy ,foi ga
the first sharp demand had been salts
fed. The market settled back into the
usual dizziness, and the pressure upon
Reading, AtchiSOn and Northwestern
was renewed. The narrOwness of the
range of fluctuations, even in the active
shares. was in marked contrast to that
of the previous days, and the list re-
manned without special feature until
the close. The opening prices were
generally from Is to q per cent higher
than last evenings closing figures,
while Lake Shore was up &c and Bur-
lingtOn &c. There were some further
slight advances in the early trading, on
very large business, but the ac-
tivity and strength soon disap-
peared, and prices again were turned
downward, with Missouri Pacific, Read
ing and Atchison showing most weak
ucSo. AllCI tllo uISt HOUR, however, d
firm tone developed right through the
list, and fractional advances were again
secured. Extreme dizziness marked the
trading in the afternoon, with no feat
ure or movement until toward delivery
hour, when Northwestern was again
attacked with little effect, and in the
last hour the strong tone reappeared
and Atchison rose point. and with
Burlington and Rock Island reached the
highest price of the day. The close was
quiet but firm, and generally at close to
the opening figures. Almost the entire
active list is higher tonight, and Bur-
lington rose 11s, Atchison, Rock Island,
and st. Paul l per cent each, aud
others fractions. Railroad bonds
were again fairly active. the sales of
all issues aggregating sl,e5s, 600, out of
which the Denver 6 Rio Grande West