The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-24
FINANCE AND COMMERCE
Now York stook Marho..

mas the decision arrived st by the
clearing house committee at q meeting
on Sunday, at which the house of Pres.
loens Tappin, OF the Gallitan National
bank osoled Its minister in london TO
recommend that an issue of clearing
mouse loan certificates be made at once
II necessary. There is excellent author.
ity Tor the belief that this action turned
the sentiment in London to the bull
size OF our securities and incidentally
ssemmed the tide here. The days oper-
ahons exhibited decided and whole
some contrast to the panic Of FRIDAY
ana Saturday. The main interest at
opening was logic lily concentrated in
the London prices for our securities.
me market again took decided turn
upward, feature being the execution
OF an unusually large amount of small
Investment orders for cash purchasers.
closing stocks were as follows:
Asehison, 1871; Adams Express, las;
Baltimore and Ohio, AZ; Chesapeake
and Ohio, lax; Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, 74H; Chicago Gas, 63}<; o. O. c.
and st. Louiu, "a; Del, Lackawsnna
and Western, 16l; Distillers and Cat
tie Feeders Co.. lax; Erie, 14H; Erie
preferred, 81; Great Northern pre-.
ferred, Ito; Lake Shore, 142; Lead
Trust, 80; Louisville and Nashville,
n
Cordaae preferred, OK; N. ]. Central,
90; Norfolk and Western preferred,
z; Northern Pacific preferred. 12N;
Northwestern, 90; Northwestern pre-
ferred, lao; N. Y. Central, GO; N. Y,
and New England, 40; Pacific Mail,
25X; Pullman Palace, 156; Reading,
6ss; Rock Island, g.; ST. Paul, 64%;
st. Paul and Omaha, 341; Southern
Pacific, 10; Sugar Refinery, 9esS;
Union Pacific, 5A; Western Union,
s5H; General Electric, 25; Southern,
s<; Southern preferred, 25S Tobacco,
7Sh; Tobacco preferred, 94M.
New York Money Market.
New YORK. Deo. 23.-Money on call
at per cent, last loan 3.per cent,
closed par cent; prime mercantile
paper 4K@5K psr cent; sterling
exchange firm with actual business in
bankers bills at 4ss@4SsA for
demand, and 4.soh for sixty days.
Posted rates SsH@4.S9 and 4 aO@
49ok. Commercial bills, 4.9s Silver
certificates 66H@67. Bar silver, 66%.
Government bonds weak. 1@1x per
cent. lower, owing to belief in new
government loan. State bonds quiet.
Railroad bonds strong.
Chicago Market.
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-The wheat mar
ket WAS in ftful mood to day and had
two radical changes in its temper. I:
| opened strong, then became very weak,
but wound up by getting in o more
pronouncedly strong state of feeling
than it started with. Corn, oats and
provisions all showed resistance to any
further decline, principally because OF
. confident expectation that Congress
! would take prompt action to insure re-
lief to the unsatisfactory condition OF
| the currency.
The leading futures ranged to-day as
| follows.
Wheat, No. 2-December, opening,
| 55S, closing, 54H; January. opening,
5s%, closing, SIS; May. opening, SIS.
closing, 5sB.
Corn, No. s-December. opening. s5s6,
closing. ASK; January, opening, 25X;
closing, 25&; May. opening, 2sA,
| 2s%@29.
Oats No. 2-December, opening, 16%,
closing, 16%; May, opening, 1875,
closing, 10.
Mess pork. per bbl.-Decemb Der,
opening, 7.47K, closing, 1865; Jam
uary, opening. s.47N, closing sax;
May, opening, SIS, closing, S7%.
Lard, per 100 lbs.-December open
ing, -. closing, $50; January,
opening, 525, closing s7h; May,
opening, 5.471S, closing, 5.47}6.
| Short ribs, per 100 .-Decomber,
opening, -, closing, 4.s2N; January,
opening, 22]6, closing, AJAX; May,
opening. 4.4716, closing, 4 4716.
| Cash quotations. were as follows:
Flour quiet and steady; patents,
3.15@5.4o; soft. 3.1O@3.3o. No. spring
wheat. 545s@55; No spring wheat,
| 54@54E; No 2 red 6O@60L, No. corn.
25A@25%; No. 2 yellow. 26; No oats,
II; No: . white, 5000; No. 8 white,
Tx; No. rye. 80; No. Q barley,
nominal; No. 8, 25h@ 80; No. 4. 21E@
"a; No. faxseed. 92A; prime timothy
seed, 45@35o; mess pork per bbl..
1868 CO.; lard per 100 lbs, $3.50
| 5.271s; short ribs sides (loose) 425@
A.a0; dry sailed shoulders. (boxed) 4%@
Az; short clear sides (boxed), 4s6@4%;
whiskey, distillers' finished goods, per
gallon, Leg; sugars. cut loaf, 5.45;
granulated, 40; standard A.4.57.
| Cincinnati Produce Market.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. Dec. e3.-Flour
quiet; family, ASSOC 80; fancy. 5000
315 Wheat dull; No. Q red, Ga;
receipts. 1900; shipments. $500. Corn
quiet; No. mixed, 81. Oats moderate
demand; No. mixed. 20M. Rye dull;
No. Q, 40. Lsrd quiet SIS. Bulk
meats. steady. 4.37x. Bacon steady,
5 3SM. Whiskey. quiet; sales 500 bar
rels at l.22. Butter steady. Elglu
creamery. IS; Ohio, 20@24; dairy. LOG
II Sugar steady; hard refined. 3X@5E.
| Eggs eaey 1917 Oheaae eteadu. oood