The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-06

small bidders below 10 and a fraction
limit which seems to shut on the issue,
We're still more numerous.
A feature in these offers was that so
many of those of large amount, ranging
in many cases to S1,O00,O00, came from fidu-
ciary institutions which thereby indicated
that they had no better outlet than that
afforded by United States bonds at the
awarded
One of the curious incidents of the day
was the fact that the bids of the Union
Trust Company of New York for S7S0l0,-
UO at ll0.OT5 almost escaped notice in the
monotony of the reading, while the bid
of the Morgan syndicate was received
with applause.
The Hanover National Bank of New
York submitted six separate bids of one
million each, at prices ranging from 1O9
TO 1l0.S75. Lazarad Freres of New York
bid 11075 for S400O,000 and President John
A. Stewart of the Union Trust Company
of New York bid for $1,000. 600, in addi-
ton to the S7S,O00,000 mentioned above, at
lower figure.
The following are some Of the bids from
southern states:
Benning National Bank of Birmingham.
Ala, $4,000 at l09.
Lynchburg National Bank, Lynchburg,
Bank of Charleston. Charleston. s. c..
$4,000, at 110.50.
Citizens National Bank, Knoxville,
Tenn, $4,000, at 111.50.
Germania. Savings Bank. New Orleans.
$4,000, at 1l2.
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First National Bank of Columbus. Miss.
$4,000. at 1i2.
j. I. Allison, StateSVille, n. c., $4,000,
at 112.
First National Bank. Mobile, Ala, sl5.-
Fort Worth National Bank, Texas, $780,
600, at 10.
.Texarkana National Bank. Texas. s25.-
Edisto Savings Bank, orangeburg, s.
L., SEOUtJ, at llU
Bank OF Charleston, IN. b. Al, Charles
ton, S. c., $4,000, at 1l2i2.
New Orleans National Bank, New Or
leans, 100000, at 114.04e6.
Hibernia National Bank. New Orleans,
$4,000, at 1l0.2992.
The following bids were at 100 and un-
der:
John T. Williams & Sons, Richmond,
First National Bank of Flatonia, Tex,
$4,000
Carolina National Bank of Columbia, S.
John s. Armstrong. Wilmington, N. c..
ST00 900.
First National Bank. Chattanooga,
National Bank Of Wilmington, N. c.,
Union and Planters Bank. Memphis,
100000.
Germania Bank of Savannah. Ca, $685.
coo.
First National Bank, Fernandina. Fla.
$4,000.
Commercial National Bank, Houston,
Tex, $780, 600
city National Bank. Selma, Ala.
100000
Peoples National Bank. Winston. n. c.,
500 600.
Steiner Bros, Birmingham, Ala, $3.50 600.
First National Bank, Memphis, Tenn,
100000
First National Bank, vicksburg, Miss,
$63, 300
Vieksburg Bank, vicksburg, Miss,
$50. 600
Richmond National Bank, Richmond,
Va, $4,000 in nine bids of $4,000 each,
ranging from 107.05 to 1115l.
Merchants National Bank Richmond,
Va, $4,000 at Ill and $4,000 at 1850.
Other bids for round amounts were:
First National Bank Of Cincinnati,
81, 200, ,000 at 109O5.
Joseph Pulitzer, New York, S1,OOO,OOO at
ia.
Won Hoffman & Co., New York. $780,
speyer & Co, New York. sS,OOOOOO at
11G.524 to 111.051.
New York Life Insurance Company.
IS, 900, 600, at 110I2, and 100000 at Ill.
Mutual Life Insurance Company Of
New York, 100000 at 10.
August Belmont & Co. of New York,
SO, 500, 600 at 10915
The list of bids from New York en-
braces an endless number of names fa-
miliar in the financial and commercial
world as we'll as of private capitalists
not actively engaged in business.