The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-21


lo5 bid, lol asked; Charlotte. Columbia
and Augusta second mortgage Is. ~ bid.
ll5 asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
new s., 931a bid. s. asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida first mortgage Is. 100 bid,
- asked; South Georgia and Florida sec
ond mortgage Is. l04 bid, asked; Sa-
vannah, Americas and Montgomery 6s,
S. bid, 50 asked: Ocean steamship per
cent. bonds. 1870. 81 bid. 90 asked; City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage
per cent. bonds. 7els bid. 20 asked: Elec-
trio Railway IS. due 1885, p bid, 80 asked;
Alabama Midland per cent. Endorsed, =
bid, 80 asked; Brunswick and Western IS.
- bid. IS asked; South Bound railroad IS,
Is bid, l6is asked; Southern Railway IS.
81 BID. 80 asked.
nah, g bid. s3is asked; Georgia COM
mon, l65 bid, 10 asked; Southwestern, S24
bid, SSA asked; Atlanta and West
Point Railroad stock. 80 bid, lO1 asked;
Atlanta and West Point per cent. GER
tifieates 80 bid, 100 asked savannah Con-
st ras S Company % bid, 56 TASK, asked
p bid, . asked Electric Light and
Power Company. 81 bid. IS asked.
nj bid flS cA asked: CbafbaI B Bank'
49A bid 80 asked; Germania Bank
lO7 bid. Jos asked; Merchants National
I Bank, lO2 bid; loS asked; National Bank of
thorpe Savings and Trust Company. les
/ bid, los asked; Southern Bank of State
nah Bank and Trust Company. los bid
/ 1914 asked; Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company. A. 58i5 bid.
/ Title Guarantee and Loan Company. 92is
/ bid. 1872 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory es
/ 1882 bid, 1O4 asked; Sibley Factory Is, 100
/ bid, 1Ol asked; Enterprise Factory 6s los
/ bid, 1O6 asked; Eagle and PheniX Manu-
/ featuring Company, per cent. bonds. 50
| Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
| tory, 90 bid. 81 asked; Eagle and Phenlx
Manufacturing Company, . bid, q asked;
ne l~a1s f.rarr
/ iteville Factory, l55 bid, las asked; Lang
/ ley Factory, los bid, 10 asked; Enterprise
| J; p. King Manufacturing Company, 10S
bid. 10 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
/ pany, so bid, IS asked; Savannah Brewing
! Company. 81 hid. Sc asked.
London, Feb 20.-Bar silver, Gid. Consols
| lO9 l5-l6 for money and 10 for the ac-
! count. Paris adViceS quote 3 per cent.
rentes, lO2; francs, so centimes for the ac-
New York. Feb 2O.-Money on call was
] easy at 3a4 per cent; the last loan was at
/ per cent, and at the closing was offered
az per cent Prime mercantile papers,
/ 617 per cent Bar silver, 6734c Sterling ex-
/ change dull with actual business in bank
! ers bills al $4.S6l4 6i4S6la for sixty days and
$.S Sl12a4a% for demand. Posted rates,
| St6Q4-&l5. Commercial bulls, $4.S5A "A S.
/ Government bonds were strong; state
/ bonds were steady; railroad bonds higher:
silver at the board was firm.
New York, Feb. 2O.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, 1921, 1S6, 3l4
- 3
New York. Feb. 20. noon.-Erie. 1917;
] NorthWestern. 1O4la do preferred. l45 bid /;
Lake Shore, 1852; Norfolk and Western
| preferred, ~; Western Union, IS; South
ern Railway. common 1875: do preferred
| 523e; American Sugar, 115%; Baltimore and
| Ohio, 81; Canada Southern SOS; St Paul
1ozs; R SSs, Island, lS1s' Delaware and Hud-
son, l2fl2; Delaware. Lackawanna and
/ western, lG212; Manhattan, 1861 Nichi-
gan Central. @l5; New York Central. 9S4
New York, Feb 2O.-Business al the
I Exchange "
I and firm tone characterized the dealings
| from start to finish The greatest actiV-
/ ity was in the bond department however.
| and IT is estimated that the investments
Tor this class of securities was heavier
/ to-day than at any time since the publi-
/ cation of President CleVeland's Venezue-
/ Ian message. Foreign houses were large
buyers and brokers identified with firms
/ that secured blocks of the new tours were
/ also prominent as purchasers. The deal
| ings of railway and miscellaneous bonds
| were on an enormous scale and aggregated
S5S3,O0 The demand ran chiefly to the
Northern Pacific, AtChison, Wabash Den
I yer and Gulf, Kansas and Texas and Fort
1 Worth and Oregon Short Line issues The
Improvement IN prices and the buying for
I both foreign and domestic Investment ac-
count is still due to successful placing of
the new loan; the restoration of the treas
ury, OF gold reserve; the ease with which
/ settlements are being made; the low rates
/ for money, and finally TO the strength
of the new bonds, which to-day sold up
TO llS.' London was a buyer of St Paul
LOUISVILLE anu NdSnNllle ana the low
priced western stocks Louisville and
| Nashville was the leader and rose about
2points, to 531a. St Paul rose to 1855, Bur
/ inston and Quincy to Sl5s, Rock Island
/ TO "A, Northwestern to 1855 Manhattan to
| 1864, Pacific Mail to 29%, Western Union
to e6ss, Cnicn Pacific to Sc and Wabash
| preferred to 1875 and Denver preferred
( to 48A. Northern Pacific was a liLtle more
| active on reports that the various inter-
ests were getting together for the purpose
| of reorganiZing the company. The indus
! relocated
/ changes in them were far less important
than of late Sugar ranged between 1858
( and ll6ss and closed at ll6. Tobacco rose
u TO Sl3s and reacted to S1ls. Speculation
/ closed strong with prices anywhere from
/ 4 to 1ss per cent. higher than yesterday
| final figures. Trading in railway and mis-
cellaneous bonds was heavier than for
months past. good inves tment demand
prevailed throughout the day, and round
amounts were taken for European ac-
count. In fact, dealers say that the Eu-
ropean demand to-day was larger than
/ at any time since the break in December
! last, when the market went to pieces on
! the Venezuela boundary dispute. The
/ sales of listed stocks aggregated 159, S96
shares and of unlisted stocks 1881 shares
! New York Stock List--Closing Bids
/ Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil,
/ l7A; do preferred, IS; Sugar Refinery, rs;
I do preferred, 101; American Tobacco, 81;
do preferred, l0l; Atchison, T. and S. r..
1875; Baltimore and Ohio, SO; Canada Pa
cific, 57i5; Chesapeake and Ohio 177s Chi
cago and Alton, l5i; Chicago, b. and O.,
Western, 1872; Dis. Cat. Feed, 1888 Erie,
1 IFS; do preferred, %; Edison General Elec-
tr.c, 3l1s; Illinois Central, 50; Lake Erie
and Western, M; do preferred. "A; Lake
/ Shore, 1451z; Louisville and Nashville, 531k
Louis. and N. A, 91z; Manhattan, 1857;
Memphis and Charleston, Is asked; Michi-
gan Central 9415; Missouri Pacific, 23l5;
( Mobile and Ohio, 2334 Nash, c. and ST.
l., 50; U. S. Cordage, 81; do preferred, II
n. ]. Central, 1912; n. Y. Central, 9S3s
n Y and N. e, as; Norfolk and Western
preferred. 8; Northern Pacific, 49, do pre-
/ ferred, 49,; Northwestern, 1873; do pre-
ferred, 1i5; Pacific Mail. 294l Reading, iS7s;
ferred, 12915; Silver Certificates, IS; Tenn.
Coal and Iron, 3S5s; do 90 preferred, 100;
| Texas Pacific. S34 Union Pacific, Sh Wa
bash, ST. L. and P, rs; do do preferred,
! 1885, Western Union, S5s; Wheeling and
| L. E., ia; do do preferred, 49,; Southern
/ Railway IS, 80; Southern Railway common,
/ 1917; Southern Railway preferred, 1924.
/ State Bonds-Alabama A, los; do b. I06;
| do C., 100; Louisiana stamped As. 80; North
Carolina As, 1925; North Carolina. Is, 122;
| Tennessee, new set, IS, S715: Virginia SIS.
preferred. 5; Virginia Trust Receipts, 6;
/ Virginia Funding Debt, 611a; South Caro-
/ line 4i2s, 1868.