The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-03
50 bid s. asked: Savannah Brew

50 bid So asked Savannah Brewing Com
pany, stock, 81 bid. IS asked
New York. Jan. money on call was
active at 60lO per cent; the last loan was
at 5l2 per cent, and closed offered at
per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4l24J
per cent
Bar silver, 66s4c
Sterling exchange firm. with actual bust
ness in bankers bill, at si.Slsa4S7A for
Posted rates, S4.SSlzGt490. Commercial
bills, Si.S694q46.
Government bonds easy; state bonds
dull; railroad bonds firm.
Silver at the board was neglected.
New York, Jan. 2.-The treasury bal
anees were as follows: Coin, SsS.S46,053;
New York, Jan. >, Noon.-Erie. 49,;
northwestern, 100; do preferred, li5; Lake
:; Western Union, 81; Southern Rail-
way common, 3; Southern Railway pre-
ferred, 2.ss; American Sugar. l0e7s; Balti-
more ana Ohio SO; Canada Southern, ASS;
st. Paul. 69Is; Rock Island. 67is; DeIaware
and Hudson, l2nz; Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western, 100; Manhattan, l02; Michi-
gan Central. 955s; New York Central 81.
New York, Jan. Stocks were quiet to-
day, the transactions amounting to only
l9S,O4 shares, an unusually small total.
The tone of the market was strong dur-
there was a general though moderate
selling movement. The early rise, which
marked in Tobacco, the Changers, Lake
Shore, Jersey Central, Sugar and Chica-
go Gas. Following this rise a period OF
dizziness set in, which lasted until near
the close, when some of the early pur-
chasers, disappointed at the delay in the
matter Of the bond issues. disposed OF
their holdings. In this decline Louisville
and Nashville, Western Union. Sugar, the
Changers, Jersey Central. Manhattan and
Tennessee Coal scored the heaviest losses.
London was a seller of St Paul Louis
vile and Nashville and other stocks, with
an international market hut in the az
gregate the amount of stocks disposed OF
was small. Western Union was weak
throughout the day and fell to S37s from
S5ss. The stock was sold by the room
traders and professional operators, ana
the old rumor, repeatedly denied that
the Baltimore and Ohio intended selling
its holdings of the stock were again put
afioat. Chicago Gas moved up to 665s
at the opening, but later receded to 665s,
when 1T was rumored that the Whitner
litigation will be started again in Phila-
delphia; Speculation closed weak with
prices An1% below Tuesdays final fig
ures. Chicago Gas, Canada Southern
and Lake Shore, however gained ia per
cent. Bonds were firm and higher; sales
The sales to-day of listed stocks aggre-
gated 1855 shares, and of unlisted stocks
2O5S9 shares.
New York Stock List Closing Bids
Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil
81; do preferred. 641b; Sugar Refinery, 1029s
do preferred, 96; American Tobacco, 7S7s
Az; Baltimore and Ohio, 3s; Canada Pa
cifc, 50l2; Chesapeake and Ohio. 15Ik; Chi
cago and Alton, 1853; Chicago, b. and O.,
76A; Chicago Gas, 6515; Delaware. Lack
and West, 100; Dis. Cat. Feed. 1864; Erie
IA; do preferred, 231z; Edison Gen
eral Electric, rs; Illinois Central, 92Is
Lake Erie and Western IS; do preferred
81; Lake Shore, 141i5; Louisville and Nash
vile, Az; Louisville and N A., IA; Man
haitian, 101; Memphis and Charles
ton, 10 asked; Michigan Central, 95
Missouri Pacific, %; Mobile and Ohio, 22
Nashville c. and st. L.. 65; u. S. Cord
age, 54s; do preferred. 10: n. j. Central
99l2; N. Y. Central, 96iA; N. Y. and N. e..
45; Norfolk and Western preferred, s.
Northern Pacific, 2I5; do preferred, y:
Northwestern, SO; do preferred, 145; Pacific
Mail, 257s; Reading, Az; Rock Island. 662t
st. Paul, 6SSs; do preferred, 126; Silver
Certificates, 81; Tennessee Coal and Iron
2A; do do preferred, 100; Texas Pacific
81; Union Pacific, 37s; Wabash, St L.
and p, 69s; do do preferred, 1872; Western
Union S4 Wheeling and L. E., Il; do do
preferred, 35; Southern Railway IS, 81
ex-dividend Southern Railway common
So; Southern Railway preferred, 27A.
State Bonds-Alabama A, Jos ex-divi-
dend; do b, 108 eX-dividend; do c, 80 ex-
dividend; Louisiana stamped As, So ex-
dividend; North Carolina is, 104 eX-divi-
dend asked; North Carolina 6s. 1924; Ten
nessee new set IS, SO eX-dvidend asked;
Virginia 6s preferred, 6; Virginia Trust
Receipts, 8; Virginia Funding Debt 591a
ex-dividend; South Carolina AS 104 eX-
dividend.
Government Bonds-United States Is.
registered 100; United States Is, coupons
109; United States Is, registered So.