The age-herald., 1897-10-12

451a; No barley, nominal; No. f.ob., 2S@4S; No. 4 fob, 271s@S6; No. 1 flax seed, 9S1z@s1O1k; prime Timothy seed, $26O; mess pork, per bbl., s775@$7.80; lard, per 100 lbs. $42715@s4SO; short ribs sides, loose, $4.55@$4.s5; dry salted shoulders, boxed, 47s@5H; short clear sides, boxed, 5M@5A; whisky, distilers' finished goods, per gallon, $1.22; sugars, cut, loaf, s596; granulated, s5S4; No. yellow corn, 271s@27A.
 In Wall Street.
 New York, Oct. 1.-The bear cam paign on the stock exchange today finds dts prototype in that of the illustrious French monarch who led his army up the hill and then led them down again. Only the anterior manouyre on the part of the stock market bears was that of pretended retreat in all the panoply of woe, sounding aloud their lamentations and alarm over the dangers that beset the values of stocks. In their acute apprehension over the prospective de- cline in prices they sold numerous stocks which they did not possess, and induced some few other persons to sell their holdings. But the large part of the selling proved to be confined to the professional reactionists. The failure to induce any large liquidation and the news of widespread rains in the west breaking the long continued drought, admonished the bears to secure stocks with which ito fill selling contracts they had made. Their buying to cover car ried the market back over about the same course it had trayeIed. so that the net changes are very narrow in al- most all cases. This was true even of Chicago Gas, which ranged over more than two points in 8 very cratic man. ner and of large transactions. It was also true of Consolidated Gas, which took one of its characteristic tumbles of four points and then recovered. The marked declines of the morning in the southwe stern stocks and in tAe gran gers was also largely recovered, many stocks, particularly the grangers, ris- ing above Saturdays level. Statements of railroad earnings for ths first week in October received during the day showed continued improvement. Actual rates for sterling exchange fell again to $4S4A for demand and to SASHA for sixty days. nhis is said to be at the gold import point, in spite of the fact that the Bank of England today ad vanced its price for American eagles to 76s 71ad. against 76s 61kd at the time last weeks engagements for import were made. Rates for time money con- tinued easy and there was good demand for commercial paper. which was also in good supply. Notwithstanding the cessation of the bear attack in the mar ket and the subsistence of. the appre- hensions that have recently beset some trades, the buying was as much con- fined, to the bear element as the selling had been, and there was little indication of any resumption of wide and affecting interest in the market.
 Bonds were dull, but generally im- proved toward the close. Total sales, s1,600.000
 Tbe total sales of stocks today were 380,5O0 shares, including Atchison pre- ferred, 9635; Chesapeake and Ohio, 9,630; Burlington, 27,O95; Louisville and Nash vile, 7,SO3; Missouri Pacific, 13,42O; New York Central, 6,S49; Northern Pacific 13- GOO; do preferred, 19,20S; Reading, 9,620; Rock Island, 12495; St. Paul, 26.49S; Wabash preferred, S,450; Bay State Gas. 9,310; Chicago Gas, 70,225: Sugar, 24,395; Chicago Great Western, 10,020.
 Money on call steady at 21k@s per cent.; last loan. 8 per cent. closed at per cent.
 Prdme mercantile paper, 4H@5 per cent.
 Sterling exchange easier, with actual business in bankers bills att s4.&1x6p 4S4h for demand. and at $4S2N@4 s2sl for sixty days.
 Posted rates, s4ss@4, ,ssh and s4s5yk.
 Commercial h1ls, $4.S1.