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Show V-M-SIfiCZS NEW YORK. March 24. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific opened wide In the stock market today. Twenty-five hundred shares of the former sold at i2 down to S2H. compared with 81T last night, and 30 shares of the lattf-r selling at 4rhH and 4-. compared with 4iH last night. Erie roea . Elsewhere there were small advances ad-vances over last night and the volume of business was moderate. Amalgamated Copper and several other favored stocks that did not share fully in the recent rise made good advances. Large blocks of Amalc-imaled were brought, advancing It IV to 604. Anaconda gained l1. Railroad stocks did not participate to any decided extent in the rise, selling of Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Reading acting as a drag on the general run of standard" stocks. These offering turned -the entire market downward before 11 o'clock. Prices sold off In common with a drop In Northern North-ern Pacific and Great Northern preferred on the curb. Union Pacific receded to K below last night, the preferred a point and Southern Pacific . Other losses were fractional and the strong stocks saved a fraction of their gains. A recovery to near the best in Amalgamated -Copper steadied the market,- but the trading was without animation. . Bonds at noon were steady. The noon rally was short-lived, prices declining again to the lowest. St. Paul and Missouri Pacific were under considerable consid-erable pressure and yielded a point each. Great Northern preferred dropped 7 to 172H. Stocks were offered down rather steadily in spots during the early afternoon, but the Pacifies and St. Paul did not reach lower levels. Selling was more directed against Pennsylvania and Atchison which lost a point each. Rock Island preferred scored a similar decline and Union Pa-ciflo Pa-ciflo preferred and Westlngbouse Electric sagged 2. Lackawanna cdvanced 84i. A rally to 49 by Southern Pacific was of only momentary effect and the market sold orf to the lowest of the day. St. Paul fell 2H, Union Pacific 1 and Wabash preferred, pre-ferred, Illinois Central and several others fell 1 to 1 below last night. The closing was weak at the lowest. " . Stl Louis Wool. ST. LOUI8, March 24. Wool Steady. Territory and Western medium, 1820c; fins medium, 15017c; fine, 14tfl6cv Kansas City Cattle. KANSAS CITY, March 14. Cattle Re-celpts. Re-celpts. SUOO. Market. 6&IO0 higher. Native Na-tive steers, t3&6.25; native cows and heifers, t2.UCj4.bO; stockera and feeders, 33.004.40: bulla. tl6X'3.70: calves. 33.009 4.60; Western steers, 3S.4O0H.W; Western cows, $2.OG(tiS.50. Hogs Receipts, ftX. Market t to 10c higher. Bulk of sales. 34 6 66.30; heavy, 3S.2uu6.3i; packers, S6.106S.25; pigs and light. 34X.&6.10. Sheep Receipts, 2i0. Market 10c higher. Muttons, 34.00 S.JO; lambs, 4.1T.ff5.2i; range weihers, 34.40 64.90; ewes, KU4.60. New York Money. " NEW YORK, March 24.-Close: Prime mercantile paper, 4V(o per cent; Sterling exchange firm, with actual business in bankers' bills at 34.s7.15ii4.87.20 for demand, and at 34.84.404.84.46 for sixty-day bills. Posted rates. 34.85 and 34.88. Commercial bills, 34.84&4.844. Mexican dollars. 444c. Bonds Governments, firm; railroads, irregular. ir-regular. . . . 1 NEW YORK METAL? 50 f- NEW YORK. March IMS-Lead. Steady, 34.ua4.66, . ffl Copper, steadyf 117iigl3c. (St (ST. |