The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-10

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Augusta factory n bio, 70 asked: Gran
lteVille Factory, 160 bid, 162 asked; Lang
Factory, common, 100 bid. 101 asked; J. p.
King Manufacturing Company, loo bid, los
asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company.
pany. : bid. 81 asked
New York, Dec. 9.-Money on call was
steady at 2q2i2 per cent. the last loan was
at per cent. and at the closing, was Of
fered at per cent Prime mercantile pa
per, 4isM5l2 per cent.
Bar silver, 66i5c.
STERLING exchange, easier with actual
business in bankers bills at 4S524 I4-SS tor
sixty days, and 81 SSS4MAS9 for demand.
Posted rates, $4.S9q4sO. Commercial bills,
Government bonds have been higher
state bonds were quiet. Railroad bonds
were lower.
Silver at the board was dun.
New York, Dec. 9.-The treasury bal
currency. $50 So. asa.
New York, Dec. 9, noon.-Erie, 1872;
Northwestern, 1919; do preferred, 147i5:
Lake Shore, l49; Norfolk and Western.
preferred, 1893; Western Union, S73s;
Southern Railway common, 10ls; do pre-
ferred, 32is; American Sugar, 1851: Balti-
more and Ohio, 81; Canada Southern,
541s; st. Paul, TAX; Rock Island. 1885; Del
aware and Hudson, 129; Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western, 1854; Manhattan,
Central, 100.
New York. Dec. 9.-American Tobacco
practically constituted tO-day's market
at the Stock Exchange. The transactions
in II were 2O2, 900 shares. an enormous
total, even when allowance is made for
the fact that 1t is half the stock, leaving
only 1928 shares for the remainder of
the list OF this Chicago Gas, Sugar and
Leather preferred figured for 10000
shares, so that the sales of the usually
active list dwindled down to insignifi-
cant proportions. Tobacco opened any
where from sc down to SO, and ruled COM
paratively steady around 63d64 until the
afternoon, when it bounded up to y. and
left of at M, against 671s on Saturday
last. 1t developed during the late trad
ing that big short interest had covered
and that insiders were willing to accord
the stock some support. One bear house
returned a block of the stock, which il
had borrowed some time ago, and il was
current gossip that the deal had Melted
its principals several hundred thousand
dollars. The return of this stock thor
oughly frightened the smaller bears who
made frantic efforts to get back their
contracts in the late trading. There was
some buying of the stock for the long
account on the theory that all the bad
public. The stockholders movements
against the directors is making progress
and il is expected that several other
stock exchange housees will join with
Rolston & Kass and Bache & Co. shortly
1t is understood that the president of the
trust company has been offered the chair
the company's affairs and that a def
mite answer will be given in a day or
so. The preferred stock dropped S24 to
80, and rallied to 9S1s and 9S. Leather
preferred followed Tobacco so far as activ-
ity is concerned, and 81, 700 shares changed
hands, The stock first broke to 59A,
and then recovered to 615sd61A, on COW
ering of short sales. Chicago Gas was
weaker on moderate dealings-15, 800
shares-and receded to 672sq6s. holder
Of Fidelity Trust Receipts, who turned
them in under the Olcott-Flow-
er committee agreement, has de-
manded the return of his orig
Central Trust Company have refused to
return them, and suit has been brought
before Judge .Bischoff of this city. Sugar
was firm, and after receding to 1853, rose
TO 1O712q1O624. The railway list was quiet,
but firm, except for Reading, which fell
from 9A to S2d9A. There was a DISPOSE
| ton to get out of the stock before the
20 per cent. assessment is levied. The
weakness of the sterling exchange mar
ket and belief that the gold exports will
be light this week, had a strengthening
erect on the general list. Speculation
closed firm, with prices anywhere from
e 70 4ls per cent. higher on the day, the
latter in Tobacco. Leather preferred and
Chicago Gas lost per cent each Bonds
were lower; sales were 1892 eco. The sales
OF listed stocks aggregated a21O, Sl8 shares
ana OF unlisted stocks, 99,9l5 shares.
New York Stock List, Closing Bids
Stocks and Bonds: American Cotton OIL,
IS; do preferred, g.; Sugar Refinery. 1868
~ american 1ODdCcOs ia
do preferred, s7 Atchison, T. and S. F.,
1917; Baltimore and Ohio, soy; Canada
Pacific, 55; Chesapeake and Ohio, II; CHI
cago and Alton, i5s; Chicago, b. and O.,
sly; Chicago Gas, 67%; Del, Lack and
West, 1854; Dis. Cat. Feed, 10; Erie, 121s
do preferred, %; Edison Gen. Electric
30A; Illinois Central. 9611; Lake Erie and
West. 221s; do preferred, 1871; Lake Shore
1874; Louis and Nash. 52H Louis and n.
A, 81; Manhattan, 101; Memphis and
Charleston, Is asked Michigan Central
100; Missouri Pacific, 29R; Mobile and
Ohio, p; Nash, C. and ST L., 70; U. S.
Cordage, 81; do preferred, IS; N. J. Cen
trail, 1854; N. Y. Central, $685. N. Y. and
n. E.. IS asked; Norf. and West pre-
ferred, 10; Northern Pacific, 4: do prefer
red, 49,. Northwestern l04A ex-dividend;
do preferred, 147ia ex-dividend; Pacific
Mail, Sl1; Reading, 91s; Rock Island "a;
st. Paul, 74h; do preferred, 127%; Silver
Certificates, 6615; Tenn, Coal and Iron,
30; do do preferred, 80; Texas Pacific, 9;
Union Pacific, s; Wabash ST. L. and p
"a; do do preferred 177s; Western Union,
S7ss ex-dividend; Wheeling and l.. E.. 1895
do do preferred, Az; Southern Railway
Southern Railway preferred 3315
State Bonds: Alabama A, no. do B. 10;
do c, 101; Louisiana stamped As, 100; North
Carolina As, 104; North Carolina 6s 1874;
Tennessee new set IS, So; Virginia 6s pre-
ferred 6; Virginia Trust Receipts, G; Vir-
ginia Funding Debt, GO; South Carolina
4i5s, 107.
Government Bonds: United States As.
registered, 110%; United States As, eou-
pons, lips; United States Is, registered,
81.