Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-31
Mean temperature. ................
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

| market today was, in the main, buoyant,
with a material increase in the volume or
| business and a general and sharp ad-
| vance in prices. Further large purchases
| for the European trade and considerable
| demand from local operators led TO rise
| OF 1-2G3 IL per cent in the active list ana
| 2d9 per cent i'm the specialties. Among
| the latter American Tobacco, Consolidat-
| ed gas, United States Rubber. Pullman
| Palace Car, Manhattan, Illinois Central,
| American Cotton Oil preferred, Lead pre-
| ferred, Jersey Central, United States ExN
| press and Nickle Plate were the most
| prominent. The dealings. taken all to-
| gether, was better distributed than for
| some time and characterized by much
| apparent confidence in the future course
| Of prices.
/ The recent action of the House on the
| silver bill is still the dominant factor in
| the Wall street markets, having revived
| the investment demand for securities and
| started renewed activity among the pro-
| fessional operators The easier feeling In
| the money market and the resumption OF
| business by banks and firms which sus-
! pended a short time on account or the
severe strlngency in money have AFFORDED
material aid In the restoration of conn-
| dence.
The Improvement I'm stocks has natur-
ally been stimulated by the substantial
recoyeries In bonds of all descriptions.
| During the afternoon prices reacted la
| IL per cent, American sugar leading
| as II did on the previous advance. Nhen
| the bears found that holders were dls-
| posed TO take profits, they hammered the
| list and were assisted by exaggerated re-
ports from Chicago as to the alleged rlots
| in that city. The final transactions were
at fractional recovery and the market
,lC CT Ia
g97 900 shares including 5000 unlisted.
Treasury balances: Coin, S5l, 10000;
currency, Ss75,0O0 -.,
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.
NEW YORK, August 5O.-Flour steady
and more active. Winter wheat, low
| grades. $l9502.45 fair to fancy, &.45@
| 3.45: do patents, S34OG40O; Minnesota clear
| s. 5OGt3O0 patents, S.9OaiO; Southern
| Flour quiet and steady common TO fair
extra, S210a3lO; good to choice do. %3.lo
M425. Wheat-Spot market duh and low
| or: No . red store and elevator. 5SHbS
| I DC. afuat 6SdGS 1-4c.. Options mOder-
atelv active, weak and 3-SGlc lower. Au-
| gust. CS 1-sc; September, 6S l-Sc. October
| 70 CSC. Corn dull and 1-2c. lower, closing
| steady: No. 2, A 3-Sq44 l2c in elevator;
45 l-Sd45 Csc afioat. Options fairly ac-
| tive. closing weak. at 1-2G5-Sc decline; Au-
gust A $50; September, A 3-Sc., Oclo-
| steady and quiet; August, 50 1-Sc.; Sep
tenber. 30 1-Sc.: October, 30 5-sc.; No.
| white September. 32 5-Sd32 3-4c.; No. 2,
soc: No. . white, SIC; mixed western.
| SOd32c.; white do, 33439c Woolsteady'
| but dull; domestic fleece, 20Q2sc.; pulled,
| lease Beef quiet and steady; family
| lOd12c; extra mes, $500 500; beer mans.
quiet and steady, at $3.50. Tlerced beer
quiet: city extra India mess, l50lc. CUT
meats firm and quiet: picked bellies. re;
shoulders, 6 l-2a6 BIC; hams, lOpllc.;
middles, nominal Lard dull and easier;
western steam closed at SS3j, nominal;
city. Z 3-4dSc Option sales none; refined
easier; continent, 500 South American,
| 50 Is: compound. 5-S17 Sic. Pork quiet;
new mess, Sl6OOdl7OO Cottonseed oil duh
but steady; crude, 33Q3ic.: yellow, 3Sd4Vc.
Petroleum, steady ana quiet. Rostn quiet
and steady; strained, common to good,
gOd95c Turpentine, quiet and hrmer at
| u 1-2d2Sc. Rice in fair demand ana Hrm;
domestic fair 10 extra, 1870 l-Zc; Japan
4 1-S44 lie. Molasses-Foreign nominal;
New Orleans, open kettle, good to choice,
| 3O03Sc.: market quiet and steady. Pea
nuts quiet CofIee-Options opened firm,
and closed steady, 15u30 points up; Sep
| tember. SIS 40al5.J0; November. $l5.45nl5.5 %;
January. $l5. 40lJl550; March. Sl5.25d15.SO.
| Spot Rio frmer but quiet; No. I. 10 5-Sc.
| Sugar-Raw nominal; fair rennin@ &C.;
| centrifugals, lie; refined hrm and In
| fair demand; off a, 4 1850 l-Sc.; stand
ard a, S-1Ga5 3-Sc.; cut loaf. 5-Sq5
lS-l6c.; granuated. 13-16G5 l-2c. Freights
| TO Liverpool dun and weak; cotton, per
steam, 1-Sd.; grain, per steam, 2 3-ic BID.
ADD NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
money on call has been easy ranging
| from to 4: last loan at 2, and closing
offered at 2. Prime mercantile papers
| TO Y Der cent.
Sterling exchange steady with actual
business in bankers bills at $iS2QSiS2 IL
| for 60 day, and $4S5 3-iGjfSG IA for demand
| Posted rates SlS2 1-2qi4. Commercial
| bills $3.50 1-2G4S5.
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