New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-25
CLOSING PRICES OF BOSTON STOCKS.
Roston. 1900.
TREASURY PURCHASES.

70 sell il Government bonds for the Sinking Fund.
The offers accepted included $5356,31O per
cents at 1872 1-2al24, and $4S2, 800 l2 per cents
at lO3 l-lal % "a. The accepted per cents
were principally OF 124. one offer OF S5,OoO,0o0
being at that figure, and it probably Came from
a New-York City National bank The amount
and prices of the offers not accepted have not
reached us at this writing, but we assume that
the Treasury will give the full particulars later
this evening. To know what were the offers re-
ectc is of as great public interest as information
of the amount purchased. The payments Tor TO-
DAVIS purchases will release almost $7,400,0O0
cash.
WHAT WAS DONE IN STOCKS.
There was some improvement in the, amount
of business al the Stock Exchange to-day, put
il was 50 small and so scattered all over the ilSt
that il is hardly worth mentioning, except thai
generally it was sufficient to make some small
gains in figures The business in the general
market amounted 10 So, IS shares, against 6l,6e'
shares yesterday. The market was strong despite
the collapse in that fancy called New ork ana
New England. For three successive days tho
special SPECULATIVE organ Of any one VINO buys IL
has devoted nearly column day to rei2Hlha
nonsense concerning deal IN New-l ork ana New
England stock. The smiles Of officials at Inc
righteousness of the printed statements were
woven into negative affrmations. Well therc Is
use repeating it; all the SPECIAL nul nm
ing Then as the last gun Of romance had Dccn
- shot" of, it was opened up Is per cent az
30 IS by the parties IN interest, ana lHtn Slll
OF finally TO a. IS as smoothly as ever man
ofwar first kissed the water from its birthplace
ON its cradle Of ways. Until to-day the trans
tc;ions in the stock have been as dulI as
any other on the list. But to-day. with
the discovery that powder was being WaStcl
without effect the stock was tipped over al
market figures and 19,400 shares is its record
of the days business. Considering the extreme
thinness Of the fabric which has been spread TO
catch lambs the price in decline of per cent
for that particular stock stood the pressure re-
marlably we'll st. Paul and the GranGcrs gen
orally ruled strong while dull All the coal stocks
were firm with small advances. Big -Four gained
~ little on its Yesterdays advances; but was dull
All Of The Northern Pacific, with oregon ana
Transcontnental leading, added fractions 10 thelI
prices.
The railroads continue 20 report Pnins In earn
incs and now there is hardly room 70 doubt that
q foreign demand for our surplus crops OF gram.
be they small or large. will. before the year Is
ont make the earnings both ways phenomenal
The prices Of wheat and corn are not advancing
hecalise Of a scare about scarcity, but upon me
apparent certainty that Europe will want at fulI
prices all we have 10 sell.
In the unlisted department Sugar certihcatfS
supplied Il 500 shares of the total 5000 trans
actions The prices opened up l per cent at
"a l-2 and then. after a decline OF ? per cent,
fnctuated between ~ l-2 and g 81.
The market closed quiet and firm
THE DAY N THE BOND MARKETS
There was no business done in Government
bonds at the Stock Exchange but the quotations
followed the advance prices paid by the treasury
and are as follows