PRICES OF ACTIVE STOCKS-(Continued).

Atlantic and Pacific Tel.

Adams Express..

American Express.

692.48
40% 40%

69

8+9

604 91% 64% 99% 88% 1004 7 7 +

76
+ 7014 41

114

100

105

91

55 604

1094 98 434 522 46 50

110 100

45

142 25

152

427% 29

55% 692

374 792

32% 94% 4956 5934 108 76%

98% 149% 119 272 821 343%

84% 49% 73

40% 84%

64 10434 7434

94 3 614

2% 79

402

23

5

123 1062 120%

642 77

30% 61% 41

94

43

...

120 92% 1042 98
65% 58% 65 50 67
20 14 291⁄2 172 22
38% 10
22 104 18 34 7
Central of New Jersey... 122 85% 1104 92 115 100 1132 98
1062 85 1092 98 120 1992 109%
Chicago and Northwest'n 94 62 85% 67 912 53 190 66% 85 312 624 34% 48% 33% 454
pref. 1064 73% 92% 804 125 81% 94% 83% 116 53 74% 48 6234 46 67%
Chicago and Rock Island. 133% 1014 1254 101% 126 95% 1174 105 117% 834 109% 92% 109% 100% 111%
Chicago, Mil. and St. Paul 84% 60 75 52% 64% 4834 642 52 624 212 494 314 40% 28% 46%
pref. 96% 74 894 71% 93 714 82% 72% 79% 43% 74% 48 674 51
Col., Chicago and I. C.. 59 19 22% 15% 24% 15% 42% 19% 43% 15% 32% 8
Delaware, Lack. and West. 1202 1044 1122 100% 1114 102% 112% 91 106 791⁄2 112% 99
Erie
482 21
284 204 3434 19 75 30% 694 35% 51 26
Hannibal and St. Joseph. 139 90 1211⁄2 97 106 50% 57% 29 52% 15 344 22 304 15% 22% 10% 15%
1684 123 150 129 135 1172 129% 1072139
188 1272 145 130% 147
1102 754 102 84 116 84% 984 86% 97% 574 84%
71% 55% 108
217% 145 126
901349 67% 80% 514 68% 43% 732 35
114 120 113 111 65 952 682 824 53 65% 34% 744 35% 75 58% 98
90% 1011⁄2 914 106% 77% 105% 95% 107% 100 1172 96 1094 854 115 10334 139
2734 514 41% 49% 21 36 21% 32% 14% 24% 5 11% 22 114
392 102% 53 76% 24 51% 33% 45% 30% 39%
60 54% 601⁄2 271⁄2 48 2934 55 72 16
348 183 175 70 75 49 150 72 130 76
118 101 172 11034 140
152 44 274 5 494 252 462 18 36% 224 35
18 9 32 72 59 30 57 25 48 29 44
61% 42% 71% 484 7934 662 7534 324 554 18% 21%
272 9 37% 111⁄2 42 28% 39% 14% 38% 23 824
56 32 66 334 88% 63 82 4434 73
60 65
424 124 584 35 95 562 86 56 84 692 92
46% 30% 71% 44% 82% 672 94% 43% 83% 68 84%

116
217% 1542 102* 86 103%
39 224 414 23% 55
1234 42 46% 30% 584

26 12

pref..

42%

86
78 482
Wells-Fargo Express..
372 16
Western Union Telegraph 44% 32

*Hudson River Railroad consolidated with New York Central.

164 264 12% 23% 12% 39% 10% 12 122 130

13 2014 102

80 131 112 182

123

36

594 73 614 95 514 44

571

50

411

994 822 1001

9314

102 754 116

8858

† No sales reported.

LOWEST AND HIGHEST PRICES OF COMMODITIES FOR FIFTY-THREE YEARS-1825-1878.

(Compiled from the Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury for 1863 and 1873, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Reports of the N. Y. Chamber of Commerce, and the N. Y. Shipping List and Price Current.)

NOTE. In the American Almanac and Treasury of Facts for 1878, pp. 278-9, appeared a table of prices compiled on the basis of the average price of each article in New York, the 1st of January of each year. Such a table, however useful, fails to give the data which are important in forming a judgment of the whole range of prices for each year. The following table, carefully compiled from the sources indicated, takes the prices of the twelve months in each year, selecting the highest and lowest quotation for each article. It is to be understood, where no mention of quality is made, that the price quoted is for the cheapest grade of each commodity. The prices are those of the New York market.

LOWEST AND HIGHEST PRICES OF COMMODITIES FOR FIFTY-THREE YEARS-1825-1878.

These tables of prices have been compiled upon the basis of selecting the leading articles entering into general consumption, whether as semi-luxuries or the necessaries of life. The prices quoted being those of the New York market, still wider variations would in some cases have been exhibited if other markets, near the centres of production of some leading staples, had been collated with these. The tables exhibit the violent fluctuations of the civil war period in the United States-1861-65-and the years of expansion immediately succeeding, in contrast with the general decline of the past few years, which has not yet reached, however, save in a few articles, the minimum prices which prevailed before

LOWEST AND HIGHEST PRICES OF COMMODITIES FOR FIFTY-THREE YEARS-1825-1878.

(Compiled from the Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury for 1863 and 1873, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Reports of the N. Y. Chamber of Commerce, and the N. Y. Shipping List and Price Current.)

NOTE. In the American Almanac and Treasury of Facts for 1878, pp. 278-9, appeared a table of prices compiled on the basis of the average price of each article in New York, the 1st of January of each year. Such a table, however useful, fails to give the data which are important in forming a judgment of the whole range of prices for each year. The following table, carefully compiled from the sources indicated, takes the prices of the twelve months in each year, selecting the highest and lowest quotation for each article. It is to be understood, where no mention of quality is made, that the price quoted is for the cheapest grade of each commodity.

1831..12 00 1832.. 12 50 1833.. 12 50 1834.. 12 75 1835.. 13 50 1836.. 18 00 1837.. 16 00 1838.16 50 1839.. 14 50 1840.. 13 00 1841.. 8 75 1842.. 6 75 1843.. 7 50 1844.. 8 50 1845.. 9 25 1846.. 9 62 1847.. 10 25 1848.. 9 00 1849.. 9 87 1850.. 10 00 1851.. 12 06 1852. 14 62 1853.. 13 00 1854.. 12 12 1855..12 50 1856.. 16 25 1857.. 16 50 1858.. 15 35 1859. 14 60 1860.. 16 12 1861.. 12 25 1862..11 00 1863.. 11 50 1864.. 19 50 1865.. 19 00 1866.. 21 18 1867.. 18 90 1868. 21 10 1869.. 26 50 1870.. 20 00 1871..12 85 1872.. 12 80 1873.. 13 00 1874.. 13 85 1875.. 18 00 1876.. 15 70 1877.. 11 75 1878.. 8 25

11 87 2 25
15 50 275
19 75
19 75
16 00 4 12
23 00 2 50
21 00 3 62
25 70 3 25
19 00 2 75
18 12 3 00
19 75 3 00
18 00 3 00
14 50 6 62
18 25 3 75
43 25 7 00
31 50 9 75
33 55 11 50
24 10 8 50
29 50 8 25
33 37 7 25
30 005 50
23 00 6 75
16 00 7 50
19 00
24 25
22 75
22 37 5 00
17 37 5 00

2 75

3 37

7 00
675
6 50

13 00 5 50

75 1 10

Comparative Rates of Weekly Wages Paid in Europe and in the United States in 1878.

[Condensed from the Report of the Secretary of State on the State of Labor in Europe, derived from facts reported by the United States Consuls, Washington, 1879.]

Comparative Retail Prices of the Necessaries of Life in Europe and the

United States in 1878.

[Condensed from the Report of the Secretary of State on the State of Labor in Europe, derived from facts reported by the United States Consuls, Washington, 1879.]