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Show MONEY AND STOCKS. Quotations of Railroad and Mining? Shares The Produce markets. New Yobk, December 2211 a. m. Stocks dull and weakly, Pacific Mail declining 1, with the remainder of the list' lower. FORENOON QUOTATIONS. Bar Silver, 102 N. Y. Central . . .102 Governments Oregon R.&N.. 107 3's.. 104 Oregon Trans'1..133M 4fB ..112 Pacific Mail.... 64 4's ....124M Panama 98 Pacific 6's 125 St. L. & S. F. . . . 21 Central Pacific. 41 Texas Pacific... 12) G.B.&Q 136 Union Pacific. . . 64 North'n Pacific 27 Wells, Fargo. ... 20 Preferred.... 60 West'n Union... 73 j Northwestern . .107) I Money, 23. rNTEBESTTNQ DAY IN WALL STBEET. New Yobk,. December 22. The absorbing topic of interest in Wall Street to-day has been the advance in the rates of foreign exchange, ex-change, the quotations for demand sterling bills reaching a point at which shipments can be made at a profit of '4.S3 for posted rates and 4.89 for actual business. There was an engagement for $1C0,CC) in gold this afternoon for shipment on Saturday, and it is generally believed that further shipments .will be made. The immediate cause for this advance has been the advance in the Bank of England rate of discount last week. A more direct and potential cause is to be found in the extremely light shipments of grain to Europe, especially wheat, while the visible supply of wheat in this country is far in excess ex-cess of previous years. Merchants who are familiar with the subject also say that a considerable con-siderable quantity of cotton sold last July by planters was deliverable in ninety days, and that when deliveries were made there was considerable advance in the price of spot cotton, which gave considerable dissatisfaction dissat-isfaction to the planters, and led them to hold the stock then on hand for higher prices. " CHICAGO PBODUCE MARKET. Chicago, December 21. Wheat quiet, higher; 94 cash; 4 January; 5 February; Feb-ruary; 91 May. Corn Quiet, steady; 37 cash, year; 6f January; 9 May. Oats Firm; 27 cash, January; 31 May. " Whisky, $1.16. Chicago, Deoember 22. 3 p. m. May wheat declined to 90 cents this afternoon. On publication of the report of the shipment ship-ment of gold from New York the feeling was quite weak. |
