St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-10
New York.


NEW YORK. May e.-Money on call was
prime mercantile paper, 3s4@5a4; sterling
exchange dull but steady at $4.97 for
sixty day bills and 81. 1874 for demand. The
total sales of stocks to-day were 1883
shares. including Atchison, 3s,957; Della
ouri Pacific, 5,40O; Northwestern, 6,7Oo;
Oregon Transcontinental, 2636O: Reading,
1O,1O0; St. Paul, %, 375; Union Pacific,
5000; clearings, $l1S,632, 46O; balances,
S., 324, 1875. The stockBmarket continues to
transactions are more and more in the
hands of the room traders and profession
ais. The operations to-day comprised an
attempt TO depress the gen eral market, by
is most interested, but with the exception of
Rock Island, which received less pressure than
any of the stocks and was intensely dull
throughout, the impression made is to be
meas ured by fractions. There were three
stocks only which displayed any marked ami
nation during the day, and In neither of
them was the extreme.fuctuation l per cent;
and the only marked movements of the day
were in q few of the inactive shares. The
opening of the market was made at declines
from last evenings figures in the general
list of from ls to So per cent, while as the
interest centered for the time in Atkinson
and the poor showing of the March earnings
gave the bears point to work upon, that
stock was "A per cent lower. The disposition
among the traders, however, was to await
the outcome of the election to-day, and the
market found considerable support at the
early concessions; and while Atchison
yielded only l2 per cent further, the rest of
the lis. gathered strength for en time and
At eSf There sn WAS SSsso really Gy
ing in st. Paul, and that stock
toward noon became the leader of the mar
ket, though the fluctuations continued upon
Al, sAo1 IL hof@
the stagnation in the list increased but the
attack upon the other Boston favorites was
made, and Burlington and Rock Island
yielded, while Atchison displayed consider
able strength. Oregon TranscontinentaI was
also fairly strong, the presumption being that
next election kept it alive and advancing.
Among the inactive specialties, Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western preferred rose 2 per
cent, but afterward lost the improvements and
East Illinois and Oregon Improvement rose
per cent each and held the advances. There
were also some weak spots in the list, among
which Tennessee Coal was most conspicuous.
A slight rally toward delivery hour was fol
ket finally closed dull and heavy, close
to the lowest prices of the day, which
however were but slightly changed from the
opening figures. The majority of the list
are fractionally lower this evening, but the
U I'll important chauSes are losses oI w III
Tennessee coal and per cent in Rock Isl
and, while Chicago d East Illinois preferred,
Oregon Improvement and Canada Pacific
rose LA per cent each. Railroad bonds
were somewhat irregular, being heavy to
weak i'll the forenoon, but recovered their
tone later in the day, leaving the list but
slightly changed from last evenings figures
The important changes were few in number.
Sales of all issues aggregated S1,719,OOO.
The losses were Denver and Rio Grande
Western assented, 2 to 81; Lou isville q
Nashville trust IS Up to 1O1A, and others
smaller amounts. Government bonds were
dull and barely steady. State bonds dull and
firm