The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-07
REVIEW OF THE MARKETS.
CONTINUED from Seventh Page)


Iegun. until nearly every active
! line of short contracts. In the aggre-
ate those contracts reached an enormous
total and all the bears needed TO make
r9eir campaign success was some I'M
f4vorable development to bring about de-
-noralizatiOn in the bull ranks. The re-
fTsaI of congress to rush ahead with legis-
iariOn against the trusts was disappoint-
,Tent but the first serious blow TO the
homes of the shorts was given yesterday
bv Judge Showalter, who practically
f5rew the Pitt Barrow's case out of court
following the announcement of this de-
cisiOn, there was a wild rush to cover and
i9 their anxiety to get back their con-
rracts brokers bid prices up on them
selves. The stock opened at 671z and 69ls-
5000 shares changing hands almost sim
ultaneously with the dropping of the
chairman's gaVel. A further rise to 6934
f4'iowed, after which some of the more
prudent of the bulls sold a line of stock.
acquired during the recent decline from
Il iown to coz, and the price receded to
57s.. Trading then dropped to normal
Proportions, and the price lowered around
tsG6SlR until near the close, when it
Jumped to 6915, at which the final trans
in hand and marked up 12s to 1862, a de-
cline to 1914 followed, but just at the
close a big buying order was placed in
the room, and the stocks scared to 10l9sM
IG11, Tobacco, after a decline to 76ss,
jumped to 1855. Leather. preferred, after
an early period of weakness and decline
railway list was checked at one time by
the engagement OF S2.5O0.000 gold for eX-
port to Europe tomorrow, but in the
afternoon session better demand pre-
vailed, and on covering of shorts, an ad-
vance of A0l5 per cent. took place, the
Improvement being well distributed. The
closing was strong on the influence in
the squirt in Sugar. Net changes show
gains of 14Q4 per cent. in the railways
and &iG43i per cent in the Industrials
Total sales were 295, 007 shares. of which
were irregular. The sales footed up $543,-
OO0.
23o 1876 shares and of unlisted stocks eJ,0i1
shares.
New York Stock Llst-Closing Bids
Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil,
do preferred, 80: American Tobacco. 74ai
do preferred, loo; Atchison. T. and S. f.
1914; Baltimore and Ohio. 50B; Canada Pa
cage and Alton. 1853; Chicago, b. and G.,
S2,; Chicago Gas, SOS; Delaware. I.acka-
wanna and Western, 166; Distiller and
ferred, %; Edison General Electric. 5Os4
Illinois Central, 961a; Lake Erie and West
ern. pa; do preferred, 1874; Lake Shore,
1j9i2; Louisville and Nashville, 5214; Louis
vile and N A., 9ss; Manhattan. 16i; Mem
PMS and Charleston, Is asked; Michigan
Central, 10l Missouri Pacific, 291s; Mobile
St Louis, 20; United States Cordage, 6k;
40 preferred, 1879; New Jersey Central,
1854; New York Central, 100: New York
and New England, 50 asked Norfolk and
western, preferred 10; Northern Pacific,
4; do preferred, 10; Northwestern, 1857:
do preferred. 149; Pacific Mail, 3lA; Read
ing. lO3s; Rock Island, "A; st. Paul, Is;
10 preferred lzl12; Silver Certificates, 67k;
tennessee Coal and Iron, 325s; do pre-
ferred, 80; Texas Pacific. 81 Union Pacific,
5; Wabash, St. L. and r., rs; do pre-
ferred, 1SA; Western Union, IS: Wheeling
and L. E., 1SA do preferred. Az; South.
ern Railway 5s, So; Southern Railway.
common, los; Southern Railway, pre-
State Bonds-Alabama A. 10: Ala
bama B, 10; Alabama c, 1917; louisiana
stamped As. 100; North Carolina As, lOi:
North Carolina 6s, 124; Tennessee, new
set, 3s 81; Virginia IS, preferred, s; Vir-
ginia Trust Receipts, s; Virginia Funding
DEBT, 81; South Carolina 4ks, 1O7.
Government Bonds-United States IS
registered, 110ls; United States As. cor.
pons, ll1&; United States Is, registered.