Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-23

Money. a 1-a Per Cent-GOVernmsnts'
Duu-stocks. Feverish-Wheat' Easy
Flour, Lower.
New YoRK. December %. on call
easv at 1al1< per cent; last loan l per
cent; closed at l per cent. Prime mer-
cantlle paper 3Ha4H per cent STERLING
exchange dull at 4S34a4S14.
GovERNMgNTs-Dull.
Fours Registered. ...........,""...1l3
FOurS Coupons
Four-and-a-half Registered ......... 9911
Pacific Skies of '95..,..,............lUS
STATEs-Dull.
RAILROADs-Strong.
SToCKs.-On the Stock Exchange to-day
the speculation was feverish and unsettled,
some heavy declines being recorded in GER
tain Of the specialties, due TO the fact that
they happened 10 be offered for sale on a
weak market rather than by reason OF any
specially u~nfavOrble conditions Of the pro-
perties themselves. The course OF stock
in the davis market was reassuring under
ne prevailing conditions. On the
list opening at unchanged figures,
the shares advanced q per cent
and were fairly well held at a higher level
uutii The afternoon, when the depression
becoming infectious Atchison gave way
u per cent, but quickly rallied %, clos
inc firm at only a loss Of II per cent or the
Jav. New England led in the dealings and
met the attacks of the bears without sus-
tanning serious injury, the decline from last
night being q per cent. The Changers
were among the strongert Of the active
list. Chicago Gas was weakest OF the in
dustrials on selling orders from the West,
closing at the lowest point touched ~ per
cent. below yesterday. The other shares
which showed the heaviest declines from
Yesterdays final figures are Evansville
and Terre Haute s, Cotton Oil preferred D,
National Rubber I, Starch AZ, Pittsburg
Chicago. Cincinnati and st. Louis pre-,
ferred So, Manhattan 20, Wheeling and
Lake Erie preferred l. Sales, 225, 700
shares. Transactions closed bid:
Atchinson, l4SL; Adams Express $50;
American Express, III; Baltimore and
Ohio, 60; Canada Pacific, IN; Central
Pacihc, -; Chesapeake and Ohio, l6A ;
Chicago and Alton, -; Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy, 754; Chicago Gas,
81; Delaware and HUDSON, 1881 ;
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
l5g; Denver aud RIO Grande pre-.
ferred, 500; Distillers and Cattle Feed
ers Co, 24l4; Erie, l41; do. preferred,
81; Fort Wayne, -; Illinois Cen
trail, 500, Lake Shore, 1925; Michigan
Central, 99$5; Missouri Pacific, 2l95;
Norfolk and Western preferred, 1915;
Northern Pacific, 8; do. preferred, 49,;
Northwestern, 995S; do. preferred, 1874;
New York Central, 9SH; New York
and New England. 1915; Pacific Mail,
1871; Peoria, Decatur and Evansville, 81;
Pittsburg, -; Pullman Palace, 1929;
Reading, 1SA; Rock Island, 60; st. Louis
and San Francisco first preferred, -; St.
Paul 5756; do. preferred, l16; Tennessee
Coal and Iron, -; Texas Pacific. z;
Union Pacific, 10; United States Express,
81; Western Union, S2B; Wheeling and
Lake Erie. 1874; do. preferred, 4ST.
Mining Stocks-Band B. Cholor, 30;
Grown Point, 35; Consolidated California
and Virginia, 240; Deadwood 60; Gould
Curry, TO; Hale and Norcross, 65: Home
stake, $50; Independence, -; Mexican,
65; Ontario 500; Ophir, 100; Ply
1850; Union Con-, 20; Yellow Jacket, So;
Iron Silver, 10; Quick Silver, 1907 do
preSATred. 1900; Bulwer %.