The morning news., 1894-10-21

Erie ......................... 1871
Chicago and Northwestern.......
Norfolk ana Western nrefarre6 "a
klchmond and West Point Terminal. ll44
Western Union. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SIS
Southern Railway common............ 12%4
Southern Railway preferred. ............ 42lz
New York, Oct. 19.-SpeCulation at the
stock exchange was dull to-day and the
course or the market very irregular, op-
orators appeared TO be all at sea regard
ing the future of the market and were
selling Sugar and Chicago, and buying
western Union and a number OF the low
price issues. Chicago Gas was sold down
from l5A to 74% on the reported forma-
ton OF new opposition company. InlS
concern is said to have a capital Of
$la,UVlOOJ but as its tncOrporatoTs are
keeping in the background, the street
paid little attention 10 the matter. Sugar
ran on 70 S6A, recent buyers having been
disposed to turn papers profits into cash.
Cordage and Lead were firm, the first
named on the announcement of the or
ganlZatlQn or an auxiliary company 70
hdnQle the bonding tWine held Tor money
advanced by certain national banks of
this city. How this is to benefit the Cor
dage stock was not explained, but never
theless the common moved up to 159s, and
the preferred to %. Lead rose. to 4OA on
moderate dealings, Pacific Mail and New
England were purchased by brokers, said
to be acting for the friends Of the proper
ties. The first named rose IA to 19, and
the latter IL to S2ls. Purchases to cover
short contracts led to a rise of about a
point on DlStllUng ana tatLle Il eeQlHS.
General Electric ranged between 54!s and
355s and closed at the lowest figure. There
was no news adoat to affect prices, and
the market left off barely steady in tone.
Net Changes show declines of Il to / per
cent, Sugar leading. New England gained
3s per cent Pacific Mail and Whisky 81
Iron development fell to 10. and Norris
and Essex IL to 16O12. Railway and mis-
cellaneous bonds were strong; The sales
of listed stocks. aggregated $1,000 shares,
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The quotations at the closing were as
follows: American Cotton Oil, 30$ do pre-
ferred, 1915; Sugar Refinery S69s; do pre-
ferred, 9l%; American Tobacco, 9812; do
preferred, 1O4; Atchison, T. and S. F., 5A;
Baltimore and Ohio, Co.; Canada Pacific,
65; Chesapeake and Ohio 1885; Chicago and
Chicago Gas, 7424; Delaware, Lack. and
W, 1867 Distillers and Cattle Feeders, 5l2;
East Tennessee, l0A;, dc. preferred. II;
Erie, 1875: do preferred. 2615; Edison Cen
eral Electric, 34A; Illinois Central, 92A;
Lake Erie and w, 161a; do preferred, 69i2
Lake Shore, 1854; Louisville and Nash
vile, 53A, Louisville and n. A, IA Mem
phis and Charleston, 10; Michigan Cen
trail, SO; Missouri Pacific, 2S; Mobile and
Ohio, 1872; Nashville, G. and St L., 6S;
United States Cordage, 123s; do preferred,
%; New Jersey Central 10719; New York
Central, 99A; n. Y. and n. E, 315s; Nor
folk and Western preferred %; Northern
ern, 1O4; do preferred, 49, Pacific Mail
lS9s Reading, 1871 Richmond Terminal
l794 Rock Island. 6Ola; st. Paul, 81; do pre-
nessee Coal and Iron, 179s; do preferred
7215 asked: Texas. Pacific, 9%; Union Pa
cific, 11al; Wabash. S. L. and p, 81; dc
Wheeling and L. E, 12%; do preferred
4O7s: Southern Railway 5s, SS3s; Southern
Railway common, 1223; do preferred, 421a
Alabama A, 102; do B., 104; do c.
92A; Louisiana stamped As. 100; North
Carolina As, 101; North Carolina 6s, 100
Tennessee olds 60; do new set IS -; dc
etnia 6s, preferred, 8h; Virginia Trust
Receipts, s; Virginia Funding Debt, 5S7s
United States As, registered, 114H; United
States Is, coupons, u412; United States 2s
registered, SO; Manhattan, 1917.