The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-03
r. b. SPERRY N CO.,
DEALERS ~
Southern Securities,
ESQ Z. GERMAN ST. BALTIMORE. MD.
Entire issues bought. Advances

bio, lpo asked savannah ana Atlantic 5s
Endorsed, So bid, 80 asked; South Georgia
and Florida first mortgage Is los bid
lOS asked; South Georgia and Florida sec
ond mortgage IS, l01 bid, - asked; Savan-
nah and Western S. trust certificates IN
dorsed By Central railroad. So bid. 81
asked; savannah Americas and Mont
/ gomery 6s, 4Sia bid, ~ asked; Ocean Steam
asked; Columbus and Rome urst. indors-
ed, 6s, bid, 81 asked; Columbus anG
/ Western s per cent. irsts, guaranteed. rs
/ bid. : asked; Augusta and Knoxville rais-
I ROAD Z per cent nrSt MORTGAGE bonds
I us bid, - asked. City and Suburban rail-
/ bid, 81 asked; Electric Railway IS. due 1885
/ p bid, 80 asked; Alabama Midland 5 Der
\ cent, 30 bid, 81 asked; Brunswick ana
/ western Is, tl32 bid, 70 asked.
! Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savaa-
/ nan per cent guaranteed, S3l5 bid 81
asked; Central coms.on, 12ls bid, Is asked |;
/ Georgia common. 167 bid, 10 asked: South
/ western per cent. guaranteed 80 bid
VI asked; Central per cent. certificates,
IS DID, = asked. Atlanta and West Point
/ Railroad stock. 80 bid, 100 asked: Atlanta
ana West Point per cent. certificates, 80
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gaslight stock
! 20 bid, p asked; Electric Light and Pow
| er Company. 80 bid. 62is asked
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank, JOY
/ bid, los asked; Chatham Bank. 4gis Ind
49ss asked; Germania Bank, 1852 bid fO6I5
! asked, Merchants National Rank 1O9s-
bid, lGSA asked; National Bank of Sa-
Eannah, lSS bid, 1874 asked: Oglethorpe
/ Savings and Trust Company. 90 bid. i0dIs
asked; Southern Bank Of the State Of
Se9rgia. l62 bid, l64 asked; savannah Bank
ana Trust Company, 1914 bid. 10S asked;
/ Chatham Real Estete and Improvement
/ company A, o212 bid, 500 asked b. 81 bid.
/ 5l12 asked; Savannah Construction Com
/ pany, - bid, SOl2 asked; Title Guarantee
ana Loan Company, 80 bid 80 asked
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory S.
l0l bid, l03 asked; Sibley Factory IS. 10i
/ bid, lO2 asked; Enterprise Factory Is IO2II
bid, lOSls asked; Eagle and Phoenix Manu-
t IA aa company per cent. bonds, s.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
! Tory 90 bid, 20 asked; Eagle and Phoenix
-nanuI ACQUIRING Company, p bid, % asked !;
| augusta Factory, 70 bid, 76 asked; Gran
iteville Factory, $50 hid, = asked; Langley
FACTORY lN bid, los asked: Enterprise
FACTORY, common, 80 bid SO asked: ]. p.
King Manufacturing Company 100 bid, 103
asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company,
| pany, 81 bid, 81 asked.
! New York, Oct Money on call was a
! l12d2 per cent; the last loan was at 9 per
4 cent and at the closing was offered at 2
per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4%G5A
Bar silver. &c.
Sterling exchange weak with actual bus
mess IN bankers bills at $4.s6laG4.@ for six
/ " days, and &.S71504.S72t for demand
! $4.S5laq4S6I4.
| Government bonds firm. State bonds
were dull; railroad bonds were strong.
! Silver at the board was neglected.
New York. Oct. 2.-The treasury bal
ances were as So, follows: Coin, $91, 4SO 2sS;
New York. Oct 2.-Noon.-Erie. 12s6
! S NSorthw est lo5 do preferred, 49, Lake
ferred, Hls; Western Union. e2Ss Southern
! Railway, common, 243s Southern Rail
way, preferred, 39B; American Sugar, 100;
Baltimore and Ohio, 81; Canada Southern
55h st. Paul, rs; Rock Island 7Si5; Del
/ aware and Hudson, 1891: Delaware
| LackaWanna and Western, 1863: Manhat-
| Central 1913.
New York, Oct. "A further break in
ine posted rates of sterling exchange Of
! &c TO 4S1 and ass, had a Strengthening In
/ nuence on the stock market to-day This
| Dreak settles the question of gold exports
Ior some time to come, especially as cot
| Ton is moving more freely and negotia-
! IONS for the sale of a block of Erie and
! southern railway securities abroad have
Just been completed. The Industrials
| We're by far the most active Sugar figur-
/ ing for $500 shares Chicago Gas for a. =
S0O and Distilling and Cattle Feeding for
| zI,SUO shares, on a grand total of 2l5.S $50
! shares. The activity in these stocks of
| course, was not due to the sharp decline
| IN sterling exchange, although the weak
| ness of this market was not without its
/ influence on the speciaties referred to-
Ihere were other causes at work in the
/ cases OF Sugar and Chicago Gas. The first
/ named jumped from 10S% to 11lh, on re-
| ports that the companys business was
more profitable than for some time past
| Chicago Gas rose from 70h to 7134, on
statements that the Central Trust Com
! pany Will not issue the plan of reorgani-
/ cation this week, the committee having
the matter in charge includes r. p. Flow
| err, A. N. Brady and +. p. Olcott. Dis
! filling and Cattle Feeding ran off a little
| over point on realzations, but later
recovered the loss. The declaration of
the usual dividends on Tobacco, common
/ and preferred, had no influence on the
/ shares. A report that the Illinois Steel
! Company will resume dividends led TO an
| advance in that stock of 4 per cent to
! S01a@S0. Tennessee Coal and Iron jumped
from 421z to IS, on rumors of valuable de-
! proper business was on smaller scale,
! but the tendency of prices was upward
! throughout. The Anthracites We're less
/ prominent. Authorities state that the
| trade is improving steadily, and that
while no further advance in prices is con-
templated at the present time, rates will
provement in the General Railway list
| ranged from "A to "a per cent, the latter
in Manhattan. Speculation closed strong
with prices anywhere from 4 to 312 per
/ cent. higher than on yesterday. Bonds
were strong. Sales footed up $l.4S2, coo
New York Stock List--Closing Bids
| Stocks and Bonds: American Cotton on
2274; do preferred, Il; Sugar Refinery,
III; do preferred. 161A; American Tobacco.
and sante Fe. 227S Baltimore and Ohio,
! 6412; Canada Pacific, g. Chesapeake ana
Ohio. 2O1s; Chicago and Alton, 1853 bid;
s7ls; Chicago Gas, MS; Delaware,
al t1lers Cattle atfsrrad FeedsFs 2s Erie
eral Electric, &c., Illinois Central, 1Ol;
/ Lake Erie Western PAY; do pre-
ferred, IS; Lake Shore, $50; Louis
vile and Nashville, 63A Louisville and
| N. A., 80; Manhattan, 112; Memphis an6
| Charleston. Is; Michigan Central, 1OlH;
Missouri Pacific. 1856; Mobile and Ohio.
! 23i2; Nashville Chattanooga and st. Louis
| 20; United States Cordage, 77s; do pre-
| ferred, Is; New Jersey Central, 114A New
/ York Central, 1912: New York and N. E..
| 81; Norfolk and Western preferred, 10;
Northern Pacific. 81. do nreferred 1855
Northwestern, 1857; do preferred, 147; Pa
cific Mail. 81; Reading; 219s; Rock. Island.
1 79is; st. Paul, IT'S; do preferred 1854;
/ Silver Certificates, STA; Tennessee Coal
anu iron, z+24. 40 preIv.ret4, 50; Iexas Pa
cific, 121s; Union Pacific, 141z; Wabash, Sc
Louis and p. 9; do preferred, 28as: West
| ern Union, 921z; Wheeling and L. E.. 153k;
do preferred, 4SA Southern Railway
| 5s, 965s; Southern Railway, common, 1874;
! Southern Railway, preferred, 1884.
| State Bonds-Alabama A, 109; do B. 10g:
| do c, 80; Louisiana stamped As 100; North
| Carolina AS, 102; North Carolina SIS, 12z;
| Tennessee, new set, 3's IS; Virginia s. s.
| preferred, 6lz; Virginia Trust Receipts
! s.. Virginia Funding Debt, GO; South Car
DINA 4la's los.
Government Bonds-United States As.
registered, 111A; United States as, cou-
pons, ll1A; United States 2s,' registered,