Year: 1873

a7s n loss of per cent since last night.
Erie started off at 62l Just below the closing price
of Yesterday and had gained rs late as 2 o'clock
and closed at the precise figures of the opening sale,


With c,reat anporent steadness. North Western had
a slight spasIn and then fell TO lower depth than
anv attained recently, showing that although the
patient is sti feeble life is not altogether extinct
With careful nursing under Doctor Could this stock


is expected sooner later to recover part OF lts
fnrmer strength and become as lively as any OF It's
fellows The outside impression is that 1t must
be let down several points before the public
will be disposed TO deal il It, The closing quotation
was 81 bid. For asinge day Rock Island has been
almost without variabeness or shadow OF turning
the vibrations having been within the extremely
narrow limits of single eighth. How the mas
ters of the situation" can be content to let day
mass U+bont reapng their regular modicum of profit
on this stock is a mystery that Will be
solved about the same period of time that
Oakes Ames succeeds in proving the Credit
Mobilier transactions to be perfectly regu-
lar and business-like. Pacific Mail remains
true 70 the unerrng finger pointed at it weeks
ago and continues to yield to its own specific grav-
itv with the superadded weight of the heavy hand
Of the one SOLITARY overmastering mind that lifts


II IN at its will and presses ii down again, as if the
whole concern were but toy ship
in q basin of water. All fear of foreign
interference in its manipulation having
passed away and the people having prudently re-
solved to keep severely out OF contest with such
an athlete in finance as the youthful Commodore Is
admitted to be- the gradual decline of the stock to


point not far from co is deemed but q question OF
time The closing quotation was II, buyer three
days St. Paul and Toledo and Wabash have evil
IDENTIFY taken back seat rs if their managers were,
for te being mere spectators of other mems act
inp Both closed with scarcely perceptible change
from the closing quotations Of last night Western
Union gained in the middle of the day full point


in the last prices of yesterday, without developing
anything new in either the policy or man!pulatlons
of the clioue the Ixion Of the concern having, as
is supposed, left the wheel temporarily to look after
something else 1t remains puzzle to all skirm-
isbers who are growing more and more careful
how they co. either too long OF too short OF It, Inc
ouotation remained at the highest price until
near the close when o sale of a single hund-
red shares was made at 800, a gain of nearly
one per cent on the days transactions. There
was considerable activity in Boston, Hartford and
Erie to-day the stock advancing to %, although
afterward a fraction lower. The basis OF improve
ment is quite puzzle TO the street. for If the mort
gage bonds are not provided for by April IS next the
entire property will pass into the hands of the bond
holders and the stock will vaueless. The mortgage
debt is S3OOOOOOO, and there is floating debt of
about siOO0OO0 which must also be assumed by the
stockholders if they mean TO redeem and hold the
road The gross earnings of the past year were
Ssf, ,S91 q. and the operating expenses $65744 49,
leaving net earnings of S2O9, ,937 2S. To complete
the road, sum Of at least S1O,OOOOOO will be re-
CURED. The following were the opening, highest
1a.,-o,+ or,d .1oeino nripae of stocks.