New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-24

The market for foreign exchange was I'M
changed at Yesterdays quotations Little busl-
ness was doing. Gold exports for tomorrow
show a falling off from the amount estimated
early in the week but 81, 900 being contracted
for, of which $685.. 900 was taken from the Sub
Treasury Hoskier. Wood & Co. will ship $500 900,
sl50.Oo0 and Hard & Rard s25o.Ooo. Besides
these amounts Heidelbach. Ickelheimer d Co
will forward to Europe sl.000.000 gold recently
brought here from Cuba. The rates at wnicn
business was actually done were as follows:
Gables Long bus Short PTS ~
francs ...........-.... oioos ~.
Reichsmarks a,.s 10 l.: .o 10
Gullders .................. 4o% R's
at the places named: Charleston. buying par.
selling lsc. premium New-Orleans. commercial
Is discount. bank $50 premium; Savannah buy
ing par selling y premium up to $4,000. lilo FOR
$4,000 and over: San Francisco. sight par tele-
graph sc. per 500 premium; Chicago. 6Oc dis
count Boston. PFC. to Sc. discount
Bank cearngs follows at the places
named New.York-Exchanges ssSl7l.lSS: bal
ances $685.. 3s5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, s1.s3s.-
OH; balances. 1856. Isl. Observation-Disclosures
Changes s. slss7ss2s; balances. M.7so.i7s
The price of commercial bar silver in this mar
ket 66tsc. nominal, per ounce. Mexican dol
bar silver was unchanged at SOs. The Etruria,
sailing tomorrow, will take out 600 ounces
Of silver.
Money call in London was Y per cent. The
for short and 11-16 per cent for three
months bills The amount o. bullion which
went into the Bank OF England on balance to-
day was f420, 900. British consols were 107ss for
money and 107 11-l6 for account. American
stocks were Irregular with unmportant changes.
French rentes were quoted at 1O2 francs 80
centimes. Paris exchange on London. % francs
27la confines: Berlin exchange on London. 20
marks 45ia pfennings.
"Dun's Review" for this week has this to say
of the situation:
The volume of business shrinks. is natural
In August. and the shrinkage seems rather larger
than usual because transactions In July were
somewhat inflated for that month. Some In
dustries doing more than ever before In
August. and the prospect for fail trade is good
in others although much depends on the crops.
and the outcome Is less clear than spectators
on either side are disposed 10 admit Industrial
troubles have not entirely ceased but during the
past week have become much less threa tening.
In the Marquette region the closing OF mines
seems certain. The settlement Of wages In the
window glass works foreshadows higher prices,
and the carpet workers about Philadelphia. by
proposing TO accept higher wages after Septem-
Der 16 broke the ranks OF employers so that near
~ all consented to an advance OF ~ per cent on
Thursday. The strikes Of clothing workers pro-
gress every day toward better wages for the en-
poyed"
Messrs Redmond, Kerr e. Co. offer 5000 shares
OF Oswego and Syracuse per cent stock. guar
anteed by the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
err Railroad Company In perpetuity. They state
that this Is one of the oldest OF the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western guaranteed and II Is
rarely offered for sale. this being the first lot OF
any size that has been offered in many years.